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Could Obama’s re-election plan be to devalue thedollar?James Peth okoukis ( Front Row Washington  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:02:25 AM

Will President Obama get re-

elected in 2012 if his party suffersa crushing midterm defeat? Hispolitical team likes to point to theexample of Ronald Reagan.Congressional Republicans werecrushed in the 1982 midterms, butthe Gipper cruised to victory twoyears later.Of course, the “Morning in

America II” scenario depends ona fas t economic recovery .Unemployment fell from 10.8percent in November 1982 to 7.2percent in November 1984. GDPgrowth was 4.5 percent in 1983and 7.2 percent in 1984.But most economic forecasts

don’t anticipate such a boom inAmerica’s near future. Morelikely is trend growth — about 3

p e r c e n t o r s o — w i t hunemployment still over 8 percentby the end of 2012. At best, thosenumbers suggest a very closepresidential contest. And current

polls show the president will havea tough time again winning suchelectoral-vote rich states as Ohio,Michigan, Florida, Indiana,Pennsylvania, Wisconsin andNorth Carolina.Obama could try to emulate

Reagan by proposing a massivetax cut, but that seems unlikelygiven the administration’s belief that America is under-taxed rightnow.

But there is another way,although it is amazingly risky. ABl o o mb erg s t o ry , u s i n g asimulation run by MacroeconomicAdvisers predicts a 10 percentdecline in the dollar in the first sixmonths of next year would do thefollowing:

1. Gross domestic product wouldrise 1.1 percentage points morethan the St. Louis-based firm’sbaseline forecast for next year, to4.8 percent.

2. In 2012, growth of 5.7 percentwould exceed the basel ineforecast by 1.3 percentage points.3. Unemployment would fall to 7

percent by the end of 2012, 1.4points lower than the firm’sbaseline forecast.

There you go, Morning inAmerica II, thanks to the weak dollar — unless of course thedollar starts plunging out of control, boosting inflation and

creating a panic.Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner says he supports a strongdollar — although he wants it toweaken vs. the yuan — but doesthe White House political teamshare that view? And what aboutBen Bernanke? Here i s an

interesting bit from a recentReuters story:While U.S. Treasury Secretary

Timothy Geithner reiterated thatthe United States supports a

strong dollar at the G20 meeting,there were few takers for that.“Itis one thing for the Treasury tosay that, but then the Fed holds allthe ammunition and when it is setto print more money, the dollarw i l l r e m a i n a w e a k e n e dcurrency,” said Jane Foley, seniorcurrency strategist at Rabobank.This entry passed through the

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Chasing Value: AngloAmerican, Gold orSomething ElseSheldon Liber ( BloggingStocks  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:00 PM

Filed under: Rants and Raves,M a r k e t M a t t e r s , C h a s i n gValue[TM], Anglo American(AAUKY) In recent discussionswith some friends, one had boughtAnglo American ADR ( AAUKY)when I recommended it years ago,and the other thinking about whatthe current opportunity might be.It seemed time for an update.I'm into Anglo for $9.80 a share

and a spot check has it trading at$23.00 per share in morningtrading; a nice 135% return. Itwas much easier to recommend

the stock before. Now thatAAUKY is hovering around it's52-week high of $23.55, it's atough call. It certainly is not avalue play now. Continue reading Chasing Value:An g l o Amer i can , Go l d o rS o met h i n g E l se Chasing Value: Anglo American,Gold or Something Else originallyappeared on BloggingStocks onThu, 28 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EST.Please see our terms for use of 

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Palin for President? Someone’s gotta do itTabassum Z akaria ( Front Row Washington  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:42:46 AM

It’s a tough job, but someone’sgot to do it. And if no one elsewants to do it, Sarah Palin saysshe would step in.The former Republican vice

presidential candidate, who hasbeen stirring the pot this year withher backing for Tea Par tycandidates for the midtermelections, has beenhard to pindown on whether she plans to runfor president in 2012. Well, untilnow.

In an exclusive interview withEntertainment Tonight, to airtonight, Palin let the moose out of the bag.

ET’s Mary Hart asked herbluntly: “Are you going to run forpresident?”Palin began herresponse with

what would be expected at thisstage of the political cycle: “Youknow I have not decided what I’mgoing to do in 2012. I don’t think any of the potential candidates

have. I think that still it is tooearly for anybody to get out theredeclaring what their intentionsare.”Then she added some caveats andconditions to provide a glimpse of her thought process on THE

QUESTION, saying her decisionwouldentail a family discussionand “a real close look at the lay of the landand to consider whetherthere are those with that commonse nse , c onse rva t ive , p ro -

Constitution passion, whetherthere are already candidates outthere who can do the job, andI”ll get to be their biggestsupporter, andtheir biggesthelpmate,if they will have me. Orwhether there is nobody willing to

do it, to make the tough choicesand not care what the critics aregoing to say about you, just goingforward according to what Ibelievethe priorities should be.”And then came Palin’sbig finale:

“If there’s nobody else to do it,then of course I would believethatwe should do this.”

It may come down to thedefinition of “nobody,” becausethere is expected tobe a robustfield of Republican candidates for

the next presidential race vying totake on Democrat Barack Obama.And someRepublicans will

havereservations aboutPalin’s

suitabilityforthe White House.For instance, Karl Rove, a formeradviser to President George W.Bush and Republican strategist,said the public had high standardsfor the presidency and required“a certain level of gravitas,”according to an interview withThe Daily Telegraph.“With all due candour, appearingon your own reality show on theDiscovery Channel, I am notcertain how that fits in the

American calculus of ‘that helpsme se e you in the O va lOffice’,”Rove told the Britishnewspaper.

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Twitter Used toGather Questions forWhite House BriefingMarshall Kirkpat rick ( ReadWriteWeb  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:10:44 PM

White House Press SecretaryRobert Gibbs took questions fromTwitter users this morning andanswered a select few in a videoon YouTube." S o m e t h i n g n e w , " G i b b sTweeted,"You take first crack.Use#1q in a q & I'll answer 1 onvid before today's briefing. Whatdo you want to know?" Giventhat this is a public forum, userscan see all the questions asked of Gibbs, in addition to the ones hechose to answer. His video reply

below.Sponsor

A s t r a n s p a r e n t p u b l i cengagement goes, this lookspretty good. If such a campaignwere to spread far and wide, somekind of systematic analysis wouldprobably be good in order to makeit scalable. Text analysis of themost common words used inquestions, for example, could helpsurface issues emergent interest. Discuss

Gold!Joe Weisenthal ( Money Game  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:48:36 PM

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Schwarzenegger sours on politics; eyes memoirs,movies?JoAnne Alle n ( Front Row Washington  )

Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:19:37 PM

Memoirs, maybe movies, but nopolitical office.That’s what the immediate future

holds for California GovernorArnold Schwarzenegger, who’sleaving office in January.After seven years running the

most populous state the incountry, Schwarzenegger seemsto have soured on politics andpartisanship.“Politics destroys everybody,” hesaid in an “ABC World News”interview on Wednesday. “Themore you can take the politics outof things, the more you canaccomplish. Because otherwise, itbecomes kind of l ike, ‘I’mrepresenting my party. My partyis not happy with this. We’redoing it this way.’”

S c h w a r z e n e g g e r c a l l e dp o l i t i c i a n s i n Wa sh in g to n

“wimps” for not tackling energyand environment policy and hespoke against Proposition 23.  Here’s a video clip from theinterview.If approved, the measure on next

Tuesday’s California ballot wouldscuttle many of the governor’sclean energy and environmental

policies. Specifically Proposition23 would suspend California’slandmark climate change law untilthe state unemployment rate dropsto 5.5 percent or lower for one

year.Schwarzenegger says that when

his term is up, he’ll continue towork on environmental issues andpolitical reform, but plans to stayout of office.He also plans to write a memoir.

“I have a real story to tell about

going from bodybuilding, goinginto business, going to the moviebusiness, then the political arenaand all this,” Schwarzenegger toldABC.

And the man who went from the“Terminator” to the “governator”could go back to making movies.In a “Tweetcast” last week,

Schwarzenegger said he recentlymet director James Cameron(of “Terminator” and “Avatar” fame)and would make some sort of an

announcement soon.I n t h e A B C i n t e r v i e w ,

Schwarzenegger laid out whatcould entice him to go Hollywoodagain.“I f  James Cameron or IvanReitman or someone that I trust… they come with a great script,great idea where I look at thingsand say, ‘That’s me. I can playthat,’ it could be something likethat,” the governor said. “But it’snot like I’m out there saying I’mlooking for an acting job because

I have plenty of money. I neverhave to work again.”Photo Credit: REUTERS/Mario

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"Officer and aGentleman" actress LisaBlount dies (Reuters)( Yahoo! News: Most Viewed  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:44:59 AM

LOS ANGELES (HollywoodReporter) – Lisa Blount, anac t ress and Oscar-winningfilmmaker, was found dead in herhome in Little Rock, Ark., onWednesday by her mother. Shewas 53.According to Pulaski County

Coroner Garland Camper, Blountlikely died Monday. He said therewere no signs of foul play.Blount, as producer, and her

husband Roy McKinnon, asdirector and star, won AcademyAwards in 2002 when "TheAccountant" was named best live-action short film.Blount received a Golden Globe

nomination for her supportingturn as the best friend of DebraWinger's character in "An Officerand a Gentleman." Her othercredits included "Prince of Darkness" and "Great Balls of Fire!"

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President Obama on the Daily Show with Jon StewartEugene (Featured Blog Posts - My Modern Metropolis  )

President Obama took theopportunity to answer a fewquestions from "America's most

trusted newscaster." Among myfavorite questions: "Are we thepeople we were waiting for?"

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INSTANT MBA: The Telephone Is One Of The Best BrandingDevices EverEunju Lie ( Business Insider  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:54:00 PM

Today's lesson comes from TonyHsieh, CEO of Zappos and authorof Delivering Happiness, a book a b o u t h i s e n t r e p re n e u r i a le n d e a v o r s ."We put our 1-800 number at thetop of every single page of ourwebsite because we actually wantto talk to our customers, and that'show we develop that personalemotional connection with them.The telephone is actually one of the best branding devices outthere because you have thecustomer's undivided attention forfive to ten minutes, and whatwe've found is that if you get theinteraction right, customers willremember that for a very longtime and tell their friends andfamily about it. So we don't havescripts. We don't measure calltimes trying to get customers off the phone. We don't try to upsale.

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How Social Media Powerhouse Digital Royalty Helps Shaq WinEndorsement DealsAustin Carr ( Fast Company  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:40 PM

Shaquille O'Neal posed as astatue in Harvard Square foralmost an hour last week, mobbedby adoring fans amazed thebasketball superstar would pullsuch a stunt. Soon, the news wentv i ral , shoot ing across theblogosphere and landing onESPN, Yahoo, and in The BostonGlobe. How did it all begin? Witha simple tweet.The stunt was part of a project

c a l l e d " R a n d o m A c t s o f  S h a q n e s s , " d e v e l o p e d i npartnership with social mediastrategy firm Digital Royalty.Started in 2009, the Phoenix-based company has aimed tomake an art of going viral ,working with sports teams andbrands such as Double Tree, theU F C , a n d t h e C l e v e l a n dC a v a l i e r s ."Whether they be individuals or

corporate brands, we help thembuild their influence online,measure it, and monetize it," saysAmy Martin, CEO of DigitalRo y a l t y . "We d o n ' t b u i l dwebsites, we don't build mobileapps--it's building a universe

around their brand through socialmedia."For example, to promote a UFC

match, president Dana White andDigital Royalty decided to tweethis phone number to some 4million followers on Twitter,asking fans to give their picks onthat event's winners. Soon, thecell was ringing off the hook withrabid fans from around thecountry eager to talk shop withWhite.

[youtube sajz_WWorWs]Or for the Indianapolis Pacers,

Digital Royalty sent out messagesto fans offering free tickets to thefirst to arrive at a certain location.Within three minutes, more than70 people showed up. Or for theL A K i n g s , t h e c o m p a n yimplemented a "Hashtag Battle,"where fans o f LA and theColorado Avalanche could tweet#GoKings or #GoAvs during theg ame i n a o n l i n e h o ck ey

showdown. The teams donated $1for each hashtag tweeted toChildren's Hospital Los Angeles.By the game's end, the NHL hadraised over $43,000."It's all about providing value,"says Martin, "to entertain, toprovide information, to providevalue when, where, and how fanswant to receive it." Thoughvarious social media platformsfrom Twitter to Facebook areinherently non-exlusive, the trick 

i s to make them feel l ikeexclusive clubs, where fans have

direct access to news, deals, orinsight from brands or celebrities.The value is obvious for fans--butis it actually valuable to engagethem through social media? Forthe UFC, Martin says, measuringsocial media chatter helps predictPay-Per-View orders. For othersports, tweeting and puttingvideos on YouTube may act as a"tipping point" for potential ticketsales. And Shaq?" T h e r e i s v a l u e - - w i t hendorsement deals--it's made hisbrand much more attractive,"explains Martin, ticking off majorcorporations like Oreo that havesigned on in the past few months."Every endorsement deal for Shaqis now asking for social media tobe a part of the deal."For now, it appears Martin's

strategy and knack for going viralis paying off. One day last week,for ins tance, 9 o f the 10

worldwide trending topics onTwitter were all clients of DigitalRoyalty.

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The Facebook Election: Can the Social Network Predict Winners

in the 2010 Midterms?E.B. Boyd ( Fast Company  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:22:22 PM

In some races, there are largegaps in the number of friendsvarious competitors have. Is thatan indicator of how they'll do atthe polls?

I n N e v a d a , R e p u b l i c a nchallenger Sharron Angle is notonly leading Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid in the polls,she’s also far ahead on the socialnets. When we started writing thisstory, Angle’s Facebook page had104,059 fans vs. a mere 14,348for Reid. Angle is also leadingwhen it comes to voter sentiment--by four points, according to thelatest Rasmussen poll . AndFacebook's public policy teamsays that Angle is piling on newsupporters at a faster rate thanReid. In the last two weeks,Angle’s Facebook fan base grewby 10,500, vs. just 921 for Reid.So does that mean Angle will

knock Reid out of the Senate onelection day next Tuesday? It’sanyone’s guess . We askedFacebook, and as far as theyknow, no one’s taken a hard look at the correlation between activityon Facebook and victory at thepolls. But based on some of theprimary races they looked at, Reidmight want to start harvesting

Farmville for friends. “Manycandidates who won their primaryraces had more Facebook fansthan their opponents and activelyposted campaign updates on theirFacebook Pages,” Facebook’sman ag er o f p u b l i c p o l i cycommunications Andrew Noyestells Fast Company in an email.Take everyone’s favorite state

this election season: Delaware.On the primary day, not-a-witchRepublican Senate contenderChristine O’Donnell’s Facebook page had four times as many fansas opponent Rep. Mike Castle. Onthe day of Washington, D.C.'sp r imary , Vince Gray , whounseated Mayor Adrian Fenty,had twice as many fans as his

r i v a l . An d i n New Yo rk ,R e p u b l i c a n g u b e r n a t o r i a l

candidate Carl Paladino had 20%more fans when he beat his betterknown opponent Rick Lazio.A more rigorous analysis of the

correlation between Facebook activity and political outcomesneeds to be undertaken before anydefinitive conclusions can bedrawn. But for any candidatewho’s trailing their competitor onthe social network, it probablywouldn’t hurt to try to recruitsome new fans. (And yes, we’relooking at you Florida GovernorCharlie Crist(101,127 fewer fansthan his Republican rival MarcoRubio), Kentucky congressionalcontender Jack Conway(74,285fewer fans than Republican RandP a u l ) , a n d C a l i f o r n i acongressional challenger CarlyFiorina (half as many fans asDemocratic incumbent Rep.Barbara Boxer).

OfficeMax Not Dead YetBrent Archer ( BloggingStocks  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:30:00 PM

Filed under: Major Movement,Earnings Reports, Good news,A m a z o n . c o m ( A M Z N ) ,OfficeMax Inc (OMX), StaplesInc (SPLS), Options, TechnicalAnalysis OfficeMax ( OM X-option chain) shares are rising

today after the company reported

Q3 earnings this morning, postinga profit of $19.96 million, or 23cents per share, on revenue of $1.81 bil l ion. Analysts hadforecast a profit of 12 cents pershare on revenue of $1.82 billion.This company has been strugglingto deal with increased competitionfrom Internet retailers l ikeAmazon.com ( AMZN) and big-

box stores like Staples ( SPLS),

but today's earnings show someencouraging signs. If you think that the stock won't fall by toomuch in the coming months, thennow could be a good time to look at a bullish hedged trade on

OMX.

OMX opened this morning at$16.52. So far today the stock hashit a low of $16.34 and a high of $17.40. As of 12:10, OMX istrading at $16.93 up $2.08(14.0%). The chart for OMXlooks bearish and S&P givesOMX a negative 2 STARS (out of 5) sell ranking. Continue reading OfficeMax Not

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A Look At How The Housing Crisis Is Still Crushing LaborMobility And The Job RecoveryCalcul ated Risk ( Business Insider  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:50:00 PM

From Source: Challenger, Gray& Ch r i s tm a s : Jo b Se e k e rRelocation Drops to Record LowThe percentage of unemployed

m a n a g e r s a n d e x e c u t i v e srelocating for a new position fellto a record low in the third quarterof 2010, as a slightly improved  j o b m a r k e t a n d g r e a t l yd e p r e c i a t e d h o m e v a l u e scombined to eliminate this optionfor most job seekers.Just 6.9 percent of job seekers

who found employment in thethird quarter relocated for the newposition. That was down from arelocation rate of 13.4 percent inthe same quarter a year ago ...

“Continued weakness in thehousing market is undoubtedly the

biggest fac tor suppressingrelocation. Job seekers who own ahome – even if they are open torelocating for a new job – arebasically stuck where they are if they are unable or unwilling tosell their homes without incurringa significant loss,” said John A.Challenger, chief executiveofficer of Challenger, Gray &Christmas. Click through for a larger version>Here is the quarterly data from

Challenger, Gray. Mobility hasbeen trending down for sometime, but really declined over thelast year.It is tough to move when you

can't sell your home. Sometimes

the new employer will pick up theshort fall for key executives andmanagers, but it is probably tooexpensive in many cases now.This is no surprise. Here is what Iwrote in 2007:

Less worker mobility [due tonegative equity] is kind of likearteriosclerosis of the economy. Itlowers the overa l l g rowthpotent ia l .Perhaps as many as 15 to 20

million households will besaddled with negative equity by

2009. Even if most of thesehomeowners don't "walk away",there might still be a negativeimpact on the economy due to lessworker mobility.One of the strengths of the U.S.

labor marke t has been theflexibility associated with laborm o b i l i t y a t a l l l e v e l s o f  employment - households couldeasily move from one region toanother for better employment.The sharp decline in house prices,l e a v in g h o m e o wn e rs wi thsignificant negative equity,appears to be l imiting thisflexibili ty. Join the conversation about thisstory »

Official Spill Investigation: Halliburton Ignored Well Flaws TooAustin Carr ( Fast Company  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:44:31 PM

BP isn't the only culprit in theGulf o i l sp i l l - -Hal l ibur tondeserves much of the blame too,according to the first officialinvestigation into the matter. Thepresidential commission probingthe spill said Thursday that bothBP and Halliburton knew thecement mixture sealing the wellmight not hold, but disregarded itsflaws.The New York Times reports that

after three laboratory tests of the

cement mixture, Halliburtondetermined it fell short of industry

standards. One test which wasshared with BP on March 8--morethan a month before the spill--revealed the mixture to beunstable. Two subsequent testsshowed similar results, but werenot delivered to BP.While the commission did not

explicitly name the mixture as thecentral cause of the blowout,which killed 11 workers andcaused one of the largest oil spillsi n h i s t o r y , a n i n t e r n a l

investigation by BP identified the

cement's instability as a leadingfactor of the accident. But there'san obvious bias to that story: BPtried to blame Halliburton for the

cement job.

Halliburton denied wrongdoingafter BP's report. “The well owneris responsible for designing thewell program and any testing

related to the well,” Halliburton

officials said in a recent newsrelease. “Contractors do not

specify well design or makedecisions regarding testingprocedures, as that responsibilitylies with the well owner.” Thecompany plans to respond to theofficial investigation's findingstoday. We'll see what excusesthey come up with this time.[Ph o to b y t h e C a l i f o r n i aDepartment Fish and Game]

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Why Oakley Is Getting Into the 3-D GameAriel Schwartz ( Fast Company  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:19:07 PM

Oakley is known for peddlingluxury eyewear, apparel, andaccessories. So why is the iconicbrand getting into the 3-D glassesbusiness--a market that up untilnow has been decidedly unsexy?Think of the 3-D glasses you've

seen passed out in movie theatersand advertised for use with 3-DTV's. The movie theater glassesare flimsy and disposable; theliquid crystal shutter glasses(aka"active shutter glasses") sold byelectronics makers are clunky and

need to be charged to work. Evenworse, they are only compatiblewith specific devices--a pair of Sony active glasses will onlywork with Sony TVs, and so on.Oakley aims to change all of theabove by offering attractive, high-quality, passive 3-D glasses thatwork in theaters, with 3-D videogames, and with any passive 3-DTV set (regardless of brand).

When the company decided to

get involved in the 3-D markettwo years ago, it chose passiveglasses for one simple reason:flexibility. "In most cases, activeglasses are slaves to [brands like]JVC, Sony, Pioneer," explainsOakley CEO Col in Baden ."They're specific to a set, and itdoesn't get you into a theater.There's an open platform inpassive glasses."

Of course, Oakley has tweaked

i ts g lasses to near op t icalperfection--the company claimsthat it has developed the firstoptically correct 3-D eyewear inthe world, as well as the first 3-Dlenses ever made with high-wrapcurvature (that means a largerfield of vision).

First up for Oakley 's 3-Dtechnology: special edition Tron-themed glasses, which will retail

for $150 when they debut in

November. Baden is confidentthat consumers will be impressedwith the glasses. "We like it betterthan anything out there," he says.At the very least, Oakley's glasseslook a lot less dorky than otherproducts we've seen pop up inrecent months.Ariel Schwartz can be reached on

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Here's Why Your New Baseball Stadium Should Seat 40,000Adam Fusfeld ( Business Insider  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:46:00 PM

Long before decid ing onconcessions, building the teamstore, or sodding the infield grass,teams constructing new stadiumshave an important decision tomake: how many fans should thestadium hold?

On the one hand, team executiveswant as many fans filling theirbal lpark and buying thei rconcessions as possible. At thesame time, there's something to besaid for scarcity and demand (andthe horror of thousands of emptyseats on TV) during the never-ending 162-game season.How do teams reconcile the two?CNBC's Darren Rovell posed that

very question to Larry Baer, COOof the San Francisco Giants. Baer

said he thinks the number liessomewhere in the low 40,000s.Not coincidentally, AT&T Park 

holds 41,915 people. It also usesdynamic pricing – which altersthe cost of seats based on demand– to facilitate sales.Check out the short video below

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U.S.: North Korean leadershiptransition in early stages (Reuters)( Yahoo! News: Most Viewed  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:13:20 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – TheWhite House said on Thursdaythat North Korea's leadershiptransition appeared to be in theearly stages and it would takesome time to discern the finaloutcome.Jeff Bader, President Barack 

Obama's Asia adviser, made clear,however, that Washington wasclosely monitoring the politicals i t ua t ion in t he se c re t ive

Communist state after NorthKorean leader Kim Jong-il's son,J o n g - u n , g a i n e d g r e a t e rprominence in recent weeks as hisfather's likely successor."They are clearly in the process of a transition, somewhat early in it,"Bader told reporters in a previewof Obama's Asia tour next monthfor a Group of 20 summit. Thetrip will include a visit to SouthKorea, a close U.S. ally.

"I don't think that the finaloutlines of what it (the leadershipchange) looks like are completelyclear or will be clear for sometime," he added.

Bader declined to speculate abouthow a leadership shift might

affect U.S.-led efforts to pressurePyongyang to curb its nuclearambitions. North Korea hasremained defiant in the face of international sanctions."One can argue that ... beforethere's a transition, there areopportunities (or) argue that therewould be better opportunities,after a transition," he said. "And Idon't think we take a position onthat.""We are making proposals. We'relooking to do things. And if theydo them before the transitionoccurs, because the current leaderis looking for a legacy, that wouldbe great. But I don't think we canpin a policy on an assumption thatthat would be the case," he said.

Separa te ly , the Canadiangovernment said it would tightenexisting economic sanctionsagainst North Korea to ban allimports and exports and prohibit

new investment in North Koreaby Canadians and people inCanada.Official bilateral contacts will be

limited to regional security

concerns, the human rights andhumanitarian situation in North

Korea, inter-Korean relations andconsular issues, Foreign MinisterLawrence Cannon said.The Korean leader's son became

his second-in-command on theruling Workers' Party's powerfulCentral Military Commission inSeptember, positioning to succeedhis ailing father.Kim Jong-un, who was also

given his first public title as anarmy general, was made a CentralCommittee member at the firstparty conference in 30 years.(Additional reporting by AlisterBull and David Ljunggren;Writing by Matt Spetalnick;Editing by Stacey Joyce)This entry passed through the

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Jobless claims fall to three-month low( Reuters: Top News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:29:52 AM

People fill out job applicationforms at a job fair in Los Angeles,California, October 13, 2010.Credit: Reuters/Lucy NicholsonBy Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON| Thu Oct 28,

2010 12:29pm EDTWASHINGTON(Reuters) - New

claims for unemployment benefitsunexpectedly fell last week to at h r e e - m o n t h l o w b u t t h eunderlying trend still points tolabor market stagnation.

I n i t i a l c l a i m s f o r s t a t e

unemployment aid d ropped21,000 to a seasonally adjusted434,000, the Labor Departmentsaid.Economists had forecast they

would edge up to 453,000. Theprior week's figure was revised upto 455,000 from 452,000.Thursday's data, however, will

likely carry little weight at theFederal Reserve's policy meetingon Tuesday and Wednesday,where further monetary stimulus

for the sluggish economy isexpected to be announced.The weak recovery is hanging

over congressional Democrats,who appear likely to lose theirmajority in the U.S. House of Representatives in elections onTuesday. Their Senate majority isalso seen at risk. For more see.Some analysts said difficulties

adjusting the data, which followedthe Columbus Day holiday, forseasonal factors may have skewedthe numbers but others disagreed.

Claims tend to rise in the week after a public holiday and adepartment official noted that therise in applications had not beenas large as the model used tosmooth the data had expected,leading to a decline."My sense is today's number wasorganic, there weren't any weirdquirks in it," said Neil Dutta, aneconomist at Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch in New York.The four-week average of new

 jobless claims, considered a bettermeasure of underlying labormarket trends, fell 5,500 to453,250, but remained in the

range seen for much of this year."That's consistent with a labormarket that is fundamentallystagnant. Anecdotally there ishuge uncertainty hanging in themarket right now, there really isno impetus for a leg up in jobgrowth," said Dutta.U.S. financial markets remained

focused on the Fed's November 2-3 meeting, with traders on WallStreet shying away from takingbig bets. Stocks were also hurt by

diversified manufacturer 3M Co,which trimmed its full-yearforecast, citing costs related to arecent buying spree.Prices for U.S. government debt

traded higher, while the dollar fellagainst the euro and yen.The U.S. economy's painfully

slow recovery from the worstr ecess i o n s i n ce t h e Grea tDepression has left the laborm a r k e t s u b d u e d a n d t h eunemployment rate at 9.6 percent.TARGET INTEREST RATES

The U.S. central bank cutovernight interest rates to nearzero in December 2008 and hasbought about $1.7 trillion worthof Treasury and mortgage-relateddebt since then in an effort tostimulate the sluggish economyby making money cheaper.Oct 28, 20109:07am EDTOver my many years toiling in

the capital markets, I’ve found jobless claims to be an excellentindicator of labour market health.Timely, to the point and easy tounderstand, it is much better thanthe monthly employment statswh i ch co n fu se mo re t h an

en l i g h t en .Today’s lower-than-expectednumber is reaching the low end of the recent range (425K – 475K)and if, next week, it can break through that lower end and hold itinto mid-November, then thegame may have changed, and forthe better!Oct 28, 20109:35am EDTDoes anybody else think that

maybe this might just be peoplew h o h a v e r u n o u t o f  

unemployment benefits? If youconsider that the big crash wasaround this time in 2008, withnormal and then extended benefitsrunning out. If I am out of benefits, I can no longer make aclaim (in RI at least). As a smallbusiness owner, I am certainlydon’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.Oct 28, 20109:50am EDTGott – I hope you are right, but

where will all of the new jobscome from? What industries do

you see booming and providingmillions of jobs? Technology,construction, manufacturing,professional services, retail?Tell me where these jobs will

come f rom so I can be asconfident as you. I keep readingabout the consumer being tappedout, falling housing prices, fallingconsumer demand for Christmasspending, and so on and so forth,and wonder where the demand forthis growth will come from.Oct 28, 20109:50am EDTdoes these figures count all the

people that who ran out of unemployment???/ 

Oct 28, 20109:56am EDTGood grief! Can’t anyone comeup with a simple spin proof reporting system???How many people were laid

off…how many people wereh i r e d … h o w m a y p e o p l eexhausted benefits…how manypeople exhausted hope and pulledthe trigger.Oct 28, 20109:57am EDTTrends are never smooth lines.

Upward trends have down tics

and downward trends have uptics. The rolloing four-week average has remained above450,000 per WEEK since thebeginning of the year. Before that,it was higher.To try to squeeze something

positive out of this latest numberis naive (lipstick on a pig comesquickly to mind)The reason people file first-time

claims for unemployment benefitsis almost always because 450,000people got LAID OFF. That’s an

average of just under 2,000,000people per MONTH.Thre are significant num,bers of 

p e o p l e w h o h a v e b e e nunemployed for well over a yearand many are beginning to roll off of unemployment after their 99weeks are up. Those people areleft with nothing.When you have a situation where

450,000 people are rolling OFF of unemployment every week, youwill have a really serious problem.

Watch 450,000 homes getforeclosed on EVERY WEEK.Watch 450,000 families become

homeless EVERY WEEK.

If republicans (always known tosupport unemployment benefitsfor the masses) gain control of theHouse and or the senate, watchthe situation grow even worsewhen they try to dismantle SocialSecurity and Medicare andMedicaid.

T h e r e a r e 3 7 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0unemployed people in Americabut, only half of them collectunemployment. Almost ALL of them are VOTERS. Many of them

USED TO BE republicans. TheyKNOW who created this situationand they have an axe to grind.Oct 28, 201010:17am EDTMadMyk & pjgatorjg: This is

 jobless claims, not unemploymentstats. The claims number issimply the total of workers whohave been recently laid off and, inthe reporting week, are makingtheir initial claim for benefits.garrisongold: My view is based

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A Reading of 'Of Old Sat Freedom' by Tennyson( Epoch Times | All headlines  )

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Liza Voronin/The Epoch TimesOf Old Sat Freedom

Of old sat Freedom on theheights,The thunders breaking at her feet:Above her shook the starry lights:She heard the torrents meet.There in her place she did rejoice,Self-gathered in her prophet-

mind,But fragments of her mighty

voiceCame rolling on the wind.Then stepped she down thro’

town and fieldTo mingle with the human race,And part by part to men revealedThe fullness of her face—Grave mother of majestic works,From her isle-altar gazing down,Who, God-like, grasps the triple

forks,And, King-like, wears the crown:Her open eyes desire the truth.The wisdom of a thousand yearsIs in them. May perpetual youthKeep dry their light from tears;

That her fair form may stand andshineMake bright our days and light

our dreams,Turning to scorn with lips divineThe falsehood of extremes!How should we picture freedom?

How should we embody, put aface, to this most inspirational andyet blurry of ideas?In this poem, Tennyson imagines

freedom as a goddess. The firstthing to note is her age. She is old,ancient—timeless even. As a vital

part of human existence, shecannot become obsolete or bereinvented. She is beyond beinge i t h e r “ r e a c t i o n a r y ” o r“ p r o g r e s s i v e . ”Her confident, reclining posture

“on the heights” combines powerwith majestic calm. She is exaltedand glorious—yet she is notproud. She is the best within us.Below her the “thunders” break,

and above, the stars shake in theirtracks as if universal chaos wereabout to triumph over all. Yet shehears the two “torrents meet.” Inthat reconciliation, there is a senseof peace, and behind that peace,

an essential order.Outside the storm may rage buts h e i s u n t o u c h e d i n h e rsa n c tu a ry —u n to u c h e d a n dtriumphant. Freedom is nothing if not joyful. “Self-gathered in herprophet-mind” she combines faithand reason in one burning instant.She is one against the many, thebrave soul who stands againsttyranny, the breath that topplesprisons and palaces.Freedom reveals herself slowly in

h is tory , “par t by par t ,” astheocracy and monarchy giveaway to the plural, scrappypresent. Born only two decadesafter the French Revolution,Tennyson was aware of how therush to create a better societycould lead to bloodshed. Heexpresses a more pragmatic viewof change: grave, gradual, lasting.Not that Freedom lacks teeth. She

grips a trident, its “triple forks”like lightning wrought in iron.“God-like” she rules over nature.

“King-like” she rules the idealstate.With her “open eyes,” Freedom

has democratic vision. Her mindis open too, because she knowsnothing and no one should be judged before the facts are known.

She knows that truth derives from

experience, not theory.Th e p o e m e v o k e s m a n y

formidable female archetypes.Freedom combines the wisdom of Socrates’ teacher Diotima, whotaught him the nature of love,with the force of Athena, goddess

of art and technology.

It is also impossible to picture herwithout thinking of the Statue of Liberty standing on her “isle-altar”—an uncanny prophecy, forLady Liberty’s lamp would not belit for 50 years.In the final stanzas, the tense

shifts from the past to the present,and then to the future. ForFreedom to remain on earth, hersecret must be unveiled. This is“the falsehood of extremes.”Notice how this message isreinforced throughout the poemby the yoking toge ther of  opposites: age and youth, townand field, mother and king.

What does it mean to scorn “thef a l s e h o o d o f e x t r e m e s ” ?Tennyson can’t be saying thatgood and evil are the same, or thatthere is no distinction betweenfreedom and slavery. I take hiswords as a warning againsta r ro g a n c e , t h e a b se n c e o f  philosophic doubt that wouldrecognize the worth of a differentv i e w. Fo r i n s t a n c e , wh i l eskepticism and optimism areopposites, they do not cancel each

other out. Both, in their way, arenoble virtues. Take them further,however , and they becomedeadly, in the form of cynicismthat believes the worst of anyoneand Utopianism that sacrificespeople to a rigid system of imposed perfection. Both arehappy to dehumanize and destroy.I will leave the last words to G K

Chesterton, who sums up thepoem brilliantly. He says that

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Man arrested in DC plot trained for Afghanistan( Reuters: Top News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:34:14 PM

By David MorganWASHINGTON| Thu Oct 28,

2010 2:34pm EDTWASHINGTON(Reuters) - A

Pakistani-born man, who believedhe was part of an al Qaeda plot tobomb the Washington subwaysystem, was also training to fightU.S. forces in Afghanistan,according to an FBI affidavitreleased on Thursday.Farooque Ahmed, a 34-year-old

naturalized U.S. citizen who wasarrested in a sting operation on

Wednesday, told undercoveragents that he had trained himself in firearms and hand-to-handcombat while preparing to travelto the Pakistan-Afghanistanregion as early as January, thedocument said."Ahmed is using his firearms totrain for his ultimate goal of traveling to Afghanistan to fightand kill Americans," FBI agentCharles Dayoub said in theaffidavit filed in federal court as

p a r t o f a sea rch war r an tap p l i ca t i o n .

The FBI bel ieves Ahmedintended to become a martyr inAfghanistan after joining the Hajpilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, aonce-in-a-lifetime requirement for

able-bodied Muslims that Ahmedexpected to undertake next month.

FBI off icials decl ined tocomment on the contents of theaff idav i t . Author i t ies haveemphasized the public was neverin danger because the suspect wasbeing closely monitored.

Ahmed's arrest came amidheightened concern about attacksin Europe and the United States.U.S. authorities have warned thatal Qaeda is seeking to recruit U.S.cit izens for attacks that aresmaller in scale and more difficultto detect than the September 11attacks, which killed about 3,000

people in New York, Washingtonand Pennsylvania.Ahmed, who moved to the

United States in 1993 and lived inAshburn, Virginia, was chargedthis week with trying to providematerial support to a designatedterrorist organization, collectinginformation to assist in planningan attack and attempting toprovide material support to helpcarry out multiple bombings tocause mass casualties.

But the al Qaeda operatives hebelieved he was working withwere federal agents.

From April to October 25,Ahmed allegedly conducteds u r v e i l l a n c e , v i d e o t a p e d ,photographed, and drew diagrams

of the Arlington Cemetery,Courthouse, Crystal City andPentagon City Metrorail stationsand offered suggestions aboutwhere to place explosives to killpeople in simultaneous attacksplanned for 2011, the indictmentsaid.He allegedly told an agent posing

as an al Qaeda operative that anattack executed between 4 p.m.and 5 p.m. on the WashingtonMetro would cause the mostcasualties.The FBI affidavit describes

Ahmed as being accompanied atthe rail stations by an "associate"

who was also with him when hetried to contact al Qaeda. FBIofficials had no comment andthere was no indication authoritieswere seeking a second suspect.The FBI affidavit said Ahmed

told undercover agents that he hadpracticed firing rifles and ashotgun on a shooting range, hadstudied martial arts for four yearsand had learned how to use aknife and to disarm an opponent.He also tried to purchase firearms

in May 2008 and February 2009.The affidavit did not mentionwhether the attempted purchasessucceeded. But it said Ahmedlater offered to buy guns for alQaeda, help train its members andprovide $10,000 in donations for

the Islamist militant network."Ahmed stated that he wanted tokill as many military personnel aspossible," the affidavit said.FBI officials sought the search

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Tennyson gives “poetic characterto the conception of LiberalConservat i sm, o f sp lend idcompromise. … Tennyson feltthat lyrical enthusiasm could be

devoted to established customs, toindefensible and ineradicablenational constitutions, to thedignity of time and the empire of unutterable common sense…”These are words to heed at a timewhen “liberal” and “conservative”are used as terms of vitriolicab u se , p r ev en t i n g mu t u a lu n d er s t an d i n g .

A l f r e d L o r d T e n n y s o n(1809–1892) was an English poet.He is best known for such works

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Indonesia disaster toll hits 377 as volcano eruptsagain( Reuters: Top News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:07:59 AM

Mount Merapi is seen emittingsmoke from Sidorejo village, inKlaten, Central Java October 28,2010, two days after its eruption.Credit: Reuters/Andry PrasetyoBy Renjani Puspo SariJAKARTA| Thu Oct 28, 2010

11:07am EDTJAKARTA(Reuters) - Indonesia'sMo u n t Me ra p i e ru p t e d o nThursday for the second time in aweek, blasting vast plumes of ash

into the sky, as the death toll fromthe initial eruption and a tsunamithat hit remote western islandsreached 377.There were no immediate reports

of new casualties after Merapi'ssecond eruption. More than40,000 people had fled or beenevacuated from Merapi's slopesearlier in the week, but manystarted to return after the volcanoappeared to become calmer.Officials said the death toll from

a tsunami that hit the remotewestern Mentawai islands onMonday had reached at least 343.

The tsunami was triggered onMonday by a 7.5 magnitude

quake. A day later, Mount Merapion the outskirts of Yogyakartacity on Java island erupted, killingat least 34.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono, who had been due totake part in a summit of Asianleaders in Hanoi from Thursday toSaturday, flew back to Indonesiaafter the twin disasters."The president was very movedwhen he met the victims of thet su n a m i a n d e a r th q u a k e , "

Yudhoyono's spokesman, JulianPasha, told Reuters, adding thatthe president planned to return toHanoi before Saturday."He has issued instructions for allaid to continue to flow in withoutdisruption."Parts of an early warning system

installed after a huge 2004tsunami killed more than 226,000people had been stolen but overallthe system still worked, said the

head of the meteorologicalagency, Sri Woro Harijono."Yes, some of our sensorsdisappear because they are stolen,

such as seismographs and solarcells," she said. "But it is just one

or three sensors out of 100. Thesystem works fine."Local media reported that parts of the tsunami early warning systemhad not worked properly becausethey had been vandalized orremoved, whi le Metro TVbroadcast footage of villagersquestioning the effectiveness of the warning system."This has also been reported to theAgency for the Assessment andApplication of Technology but we

also need to make sure thisinformation is verified properly,"said Pasha."We know that when the quakehappened, within 10 minutes thisenormous tsunami came. Somaybe the speed with which itcame meant that the early warningsystem didn't work."Indonesia sits on the Pacific

"Ring of Fire" and is prone toe a r th q u a k e s a n d v o l c a n i c

eruptions. Mount Merapi killed1,300 people in 1930.In December 2004, a tsunami

caused by an earthquake of more

than 9 magnitude off Sumatrakilled more than 226,000 people.

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friends with one of the people andhave permission to view bothpeople’s profiles.The brainchild of Facebook 

engineer Wayne Kao, FriendshipPages aren’t designed for all of your friends. It’s purposed ismainly for the friends who youinteract with most on the network,via wall posts, events, photos andmore.The new feature certainly adds a

little more personalization toFacebook, but not everyone willwant to make these pages publicto the world. On the other hand, Ican imagine the network takingthe feature and making centralizedpages for families or romanticre l a t i o n sh ip s . Cru n c h Ba seI n f o r m a t i o n   F a c e b o o k  I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b yC r u n c h B a s e

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Halliburton cement job played role inBP Macondo blowout: panel( Reuters: Top News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:44:24 PM

Fire boat response crews battlethe blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon,off Louisiana, April 21, 2010.Credit: Reuters/U.S. Coast Guard

 /HandoutBy Chris BaltimoreHOUSTON| Thu Oct 28, 2010

2:44pm EDTHOUSTON(Reuters) - The foam

cement that Halliburton Co. usedto seal BP Plc's doomed Macondo

well was unstable and may havecontributed to the blowout that ledto the worst offshore oil spill inU.S. history, a presidentialcommission said on Thursday.Both Halliburton and BP were

aware of flaws in the cementmixture used to seal the well asearly as March 8, weeks beforethe blowout occurred on April 20,according to the National Oil SpillCommission's chief counsel, FredBartlit.

Shares of Halliburton fell sharplyafter the report's release. The

stock tumbled as much as much as16 percent before recoveringsome losses. Halliburton shareswere off 11 percent, or $3.66 at$30.76 in afternoon trade on theNew York Stock Exchange.Tests conducted by industry

cement experts show that "thefoam cement used at Macondowas unstable," Bartlit wrote in aletter to co-chairs Bob Grahamand Bill Reilly. "Halliburton (andp erh ap s BP ) sh o u l d h av e

considered redesigning the foamslurry before pumping it at theMacondo well."

In an emai led s tatement ,Halliburton said it is reviewingthe report and will publish aresponse later on Thursday. A BPspokesman had no immediatereaction.(Additional reporting by AnnaDriver in Houston and BradenReddall in San Francisco)(Reporting by Chris Baltimore;

Editing by Doina Chiacu)Comments

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Chaplin Time TravelerSpotted in 1928 Film(Video)( Epoch Times | All headlines  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:53:24 AM

By Jack PhillipsEpoch Times Staff Created: Oct

28, 2010 Last Updated: Oct 28,2010Chaplin time traveler video.An Irish filmmaker has spotted a

woman who appears to be using acellular phone in a 1928 vintageCh ar l i e Ch ap l i n f i l m an d

uploaded the clip and an analysisto Youtube.Belfast resident George Clarke

put the clip up from Chaplin’sThe Circus on the popular video-sharing site and in just a few days,the video has received more than1.5 million views.“I’ve screened this to about 100people at the film festival that Irun here in Belfast and nobodycan give me an explanation for[the clip],” Clarke said, adding

that he’s watched it for more thana year.Clarke found the footage while

viewing achival footage that wasrecently released during themaking of the film.The clip shows an elderly woman

who appears to be holdingsomething to her ear with her lipsmoving. Most of the "device" is

obscured by her hands but it lookseerily like she is talking on a cellphone.“The only conclusion that I cancome to, which sounds absolutelyridiculous I’m sure to somepeople, but it’s a time traveler,”he said.“A woman ... on a mobilephone," Clarke added. "It’s kindastrange. You just can’t explain it.”There are no visible wires or no

antennas coming out of the

device, he noted.One of the top comments on theYoutube video noted that the "cellphone" could be a 1924 SiemensHearing aid rather than a phone.Early hearing aids generally

required the user to place thedevice up to one's ear. On theSiemens website, a man is holdingup one of the early hearing aidsand looks quite similar to acellular phone.This entry passed through the

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Adjustable Wooden Furniture - BeyondStandards 'Coffee Bench' Customizesto Your Sitting Style (GALLERY)(TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:44:01 PM

The Beyond Standards 'CoffeeBench' is a smart design that

combines a bench and table intoan adjustable unit that customizesto your seating preference. Thespaced-out wooden parts of theunit can be…

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Mortgage Rates Inch Up for SecondWeek in a Row( Epoch Times | All headlines  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:27:10 PM

A sold sign is posted in front of ah o m e i n a n e w h o u s i n gdevelopment May 4, 2009 inSouth San Francisco, California.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Mortgage rates for 15-year and 30-year fixed-rate loans edged upfor the second straight week, butwere still low enough to prompta n u p t i c k i n r e f i n a n c in g ,according to reports released byFreddie Mac and the Mortgage

Bankers Association this week.Conventional 30-year fixed-rate

mortgages rose from 4.21 percentlast week to 4.23 percent, and 15-year fixed-rate loans climbed to3.66 percent, up from last week’s3.64 percent, Freddie Mac said onWednesday.But rates are still hovering near

record lows set weeks ago, andhomeowners pounced on theopportunity to refinance. For theweek ending Oct . 22 , theMortgage Bankers Association’sRefinance Index, measuringmortgage refinancing activity,increased three percent from theweek before, while the PurchaseIndex, measuring mortgageapplications for single-family

homes, rose 3.9 percent.As the housing market prepares

to rebound, low mortgage rateshave done their part to enticepotential homeowners into buyingnew homes, but they have stayedaway due to low consumerconfidence and poor laborc o n d i t i o n s . “ C o n s u m e rconfidence , whi le s l igh t lyimproved from September levels,

is still hovering at historically lowlevels,” Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board ConsumerResearch Cente r sa id in as t a t e m e n t . “ C o n s u m e r s ’assessment of the current state of t h e e c o n o m y i s r e l a t i v e lyunchanged, primarily because

labor market conditions have yetto significantly improve.”

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on a technical interpretation of achart showing Jobless Claimsover the past several months.Where the jobs will emerge Ihaven’t a clue – nobody does –

but I will say one thing: don’tbelieve everything you read orhear in the mass media, especiallyone as leftish as Reuters. Themedia is heavily invested in thegloom and doom trade and won’tlet go without a fight. Scepticism,especially of ‘experts’, is a usefultool. And have faith too: theeconomy has always recovered inthe past, usually when least-expected, and this time will be nodifferent.

Oct 28, 201010:31am EDTThis information changes all the

time. Now following this, we wills e e a n a r t i c l e w i t h d i r eunemployment numbers soon..itcan no longer be trustedOct 28, 201010:32am EDTThese stats are bunk – adjusted

and manipulated.The real results will occur when

we see new job markets open upand the laid off workers actuallyare rehired.

Looking at a lower number of 

  jobless claims is like stating thedamn has a leak but it’s a slowone.*We welcome comments thatadvance the story directly or with

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Is Candy Evil or Are We Just Too Obsessed with Sugar? [Video]Adam Dachis ( Lifehacker  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:30:00 AM

It's hard to vilify something sosweet and wonderful as candy, but

it certainly has its dark side. Is candy an inherently evil creation

or are we just unable to controlour desire for sugar? More »

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Lisa Blount, Actress and Oscar-Winning Producer, Dies at 53( Epoch Times | All headlines  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:30:24 PM

By Alex JohnstonEpoch Times Staff Created: Oct

28, 2010 Last Updated: Oct 28,2010Actress Lisa Blount at the 25th

Film Independent Spirit Awardsheld at the Nokia Theatre onMarch 5, 2010 in Los Angeles.Blount died Wednesday at the ageof 53. (Jordan Strauss/GettyImages) Lisa Blount, an actressand Academy Award-winning

producer who most famouslystarred in the film An Officer anda Gentleman, was found dead onWednesday in her Little Rock,Arkansas home, according to theArkansas Democrat Gazette. Shewas 53.The New York Daily News

reports that Blount died onMonday after spending the past

17 years battling a disease similarto multiple sclerosis.Police said that a friend of hers

received a phone call on Mondayafternoon from Blount, who saidshe wasn’t feeling well. Her

husband Ray McKinnon, who isalso an actor and recently starred

in The Blind Side, was away fromtheir home. Blount was nominatedfor a Golden Globe for BestSupporting Actress in An Officerand a Gentleman. In 2001, shewon an Oscar for Best LiveAction Shot as a producer for TheAccountant. Blount and herhusband co-starred in the movie.Police told the Democrat Gazette

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Chicken manure to helppower U.K. homes( CNET News.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:09:14 PM

The picturesque Cotswolds of England will soon be using thoselovely animals dotting its hillsidesto provide power to some of itshomes.A turnkey biogas station made by

A l f a g y p l a n s t o c o n v e r tagricultural waste, including bothfeedstock and manure, intoelectricity.The plant, which is scheduled to

open November 1, is located on

th e so u th e rn o u t sk i r t s o f  Cirencester, an ancient Cotswoldstown famous for being a thrivingmercantile city during the RomanEmpire. But Alfagy says thestation could reduce at least twoof the area's current imports byusing what its people have onhand.While there have been several

projects over the years looking atcow manure as an energy source,this Alfagy plant will use themanure of smaller farm animals,as well as agricultural feedstock.Participating farmers will deliver

corn, wheat, agricultural-plantwaste, chicken litter, and pigmanure to the station. The farmerswill be paid for the biomass andalso receive heat for their animalbarns, grain-drying bins, andhomes.

The agr icu l tura l waste i sconverted into biogas in an

anaerobic digester. The stationwill use a combined heat and

power (CHP) system in which one260-kilowatt CHP unit canperform a t a 42 .9 percentelectrical efficiency, according toAlfagy.

The station is expected toproduce about 1 megawatt of electricity per year, enough topower about 350 Cotswoldshomes (Cirencester's population isabout 19,000). The station willalso create digestate fertilizer."This 'digestate' is a powerful

ferti l izer that decreases theaverage fertilizer costs by up to100 percent, which is a major costto farmers and the environment.Normal fertilizer production useslarge amounts of fossil fuel [andemits] significant quantities of carbon dioxide, and the finishedproduct is transported over greatdistances to farmers. Whereas [if]the fertilizer is produced locally atthe power plant, there is nonecessity in importing it from theU.S.," Alfagy said in a statement.This entry passed through the

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Demi Joins Gentlemen Ashton, Chace,and Nick For GQ's BallLauren Turner ( PopSugar  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:30:00 PM

Demi Moore was in Balmain yetagain to attend GQ's Gentleman'sBall in NYC yesterday with herhusband Ashton Kutcher, whowas one of the event's cohosts.The couple apparently indulged in

plenty of PDA for the cameras,though earlier in the week it was

Na ta l i e Po r tm a n wh o h a dAshton's affection on the set of their movie No Strings. Themagazine's big night also broughtout Chace Crawford, who's in themiddle of  filming Gossip Girl,and a fresh from the ONEXONEfundraiser David Arquette. Nick Cannon joined in on the fun, and

he had multiple reasons to raise aglass since he and wife Mariah

Carey just confirmed that they'reexpecting their first child!

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Facebook Launching Friendship Pages; You'll LoveIt, Except for When You Don'tMarshall Kirkpat rick ( ReadWriteWeb  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:20:23 PM

Facebook   announced th ismorning that it is launching a newfeature, the Friendship Page. TheFriendship Page will displaypublic Wall posts and commentsbetween two friends, photos inwhich both are tagged, Eventsthey RSVP'd for together andother information. You'll be ableto see Friendship pages betweenyourself and a friend, or between

any two other people in whichyou have permission to view bothpeoples' profiles. In other words:you'll now have a special pagethat displays all the things you'vedone with each particular friend.This feature is a great example of 

the kinds of things that arepossible when rich social graphand user activity data is crossreferenced and analyzed forpatterns. There are countlessdifferent ways this could be done- but Friendship Pages aim right atthe heart of why people useFacebook, for the connections itfacilitates between family andfriends. As with other changesmade to Facebook, though, it'slogical to ask: will this surfacefriends' activities that were alwayspublicly available but becomecontroversial once they are

centralized in one convenientplace?

SponsorFriendship Pages will probablybe rolled out throughout the day,not all users are able to see themyet. They will be linked-to underthe main profile photo on afriend's profile pages and in then e w s f e e d n e x t t o i t e m sannouncing new connections andactivities shared by friends youknow both of. The Man Behindthe FeatureFriendship Pages is a very smart

feature, something many of Facebook 's users wi l l f indpleasing in a viscerally socialway. The feature was developedunder the leadership of Facebook engineer Wayne Kao, who madet h e an n o u n cemen t o n t h eF aceb o o k b l o g t o d ay .Kao is an interesting character

("devastating and spiffy" is howhe describes himself on hisp r i v a t e T w i t t e r p r o f i l e ) .According to LinkedIn, he wasthe lead engineer at people searchengine Spock.com for three yearsthrough the Summer of 2009.Spock was an ambitious searchengine for people that burnedthrough millions of dollars andthen sold itself  to the legally-challenged paid-search firmIntelius a month before Kao left.Prior to that, Kao describes

himself as the main PowerPointcoder on PowerPoint 2007 atMicrosoft, a co-developer of theWorld Atlas at Encarta.com andthe man who brought the world

Dawsons.Creek.com, a 3 yearlong high-profile fan site of t een ag e sch l o ck TV sh o wDawso n ' s Creek .

Now Kao 's bu i l t the newFacebook Friendship pages. Itsounds like the coolest thing onhis resume. The Downside of Friendship Pages?Every time Facebook creates a

new feature that surfaces alreadypublic information, but in a newlyconvenient way - some peopledon't like it. When the very firstFacebook Newsfeed took changesto already-visible profiles andcentralized them in one highlyvisible place, people called it aprivacy violation. (It's now thefoundation of the site.) How manycovert romantic relationships,secret workplace alliances and

other close relationships that arevisible but not emphasized will be

made very explicit using this newfeature? Similarly, how manycovert romantic relationships,secret workplace alliances andother close relationships that arevisible but not emphasized will bemade very explicit using this newfeature?Maybe that's not a big concern,

but the unconsidered degree of closeness between many mutualfriends is about to be splashed upon its own Facebook page for

millions of people.If you aren't doing anything

wrong, of course, perhaps yoursocial life has nothing to hide.Meanwhile, the rest of us are

going to have trips down memorylane made all the easier. If you'resomeone who uses Facebook tokeep up with old college friends,friends you knew before there wasFacebook, imagine how muchmore fun this will be for today'scollege kids. If they don't deletetheir profiles and start over upongraduation, these Friendshippages could prove to be one of themost emotionally meaningfulparts of the site. And a whole lotof fun.What cross-sections of the data

on Facebook will be exposednext? Discuss

Custom LegoCreations for Charity2010 Starts NOW!Chris Burns ( SlashGear  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:55:40 PM

Today opens the gates of Creations for Charity 2010, a saleof custom LEGO creations madeand donated by people around theworld, all of the proceeds going tounderprivileged children in theform of – you guessed it – moreLEGO! This sale goes untilDecember, but each of thesecreations is one of a kind, so getthe good ones now, for cripessakes! Or, if you’re a LEGOenthusiast and would like toparticipate by donating your owncreation, you can do that too!If you are the sort of person who

rocks at creating LEGO sculptures

and want to donate, or if you’d just like to donate to this causewithout purchasing something,that’s alright too. For either formof donation over $50 USD, youget an engraved Creations forCharity 2010 assembled and gluedb y L E G O c e l e b r i t y S e a nKenney(certified professional),topped with a really real gold-plated brick from ChromeBricks.Weird! Awesome! Get over to thestore and buy up a bag o bricks!

[ Via The Brothers Brick]

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Sprint Mobile Wallet Offers Developers New Way to MonetizeAppsSarah Perez ( ReadWriteWeb  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM

At th is week 's deve loperconference, Sprint CEO DanHesse announced a new servicefor Sprint customers: a mobilepayment solution called SprintMobile Wallet. The system willcome pre-loaded on new Sprinthandsets and will be madeavailable for download from"Sprint Zone," a pre-installed appfeaturing news, tips, tricks and acurated collection of Sprint's

favorite apps.What's unique about the Mobile

Wallet solution is that it willallow customers to pay for bothdigital and physical goods usingtheir phones. And for developers,noted Hesse, the app provides anew way to monetize mobileapplications.SponsorDetails on Sprint Mobile WalletTo use Sprint Mobile Wallet,

customers will create a universalPIN which will be associated withtheir existing Visa, MasterCard orAmazon Payments accounts.There was mention of "otherpayment methods" as well inSprint's press release, but nonames were given beyond thesethree. However, in an earlieri n t e r v i e w w i t hFierceMobileContent, Sprint'sDirector of Open EnablementKevin McGinnis said that "...the

PayPals, Google Checkouts andAmazons of the world will have

their financial instruments andprepaid account capabilities in

there..." In researching thisfurther, it appears that PayPal andGoogle Wallet are supported, asare eBillMe, Bill Me Later,MyECheck, NACHA SecureVault Payments (SVP), Ukash,e L a y a w a y , E b a t e s a n dR e v o l u t i o n C a r d .When making a purchase, the

customer's encrypted PIN is sentt o S p r i n t p a r t n e rCardinalCommerce, which willhost the secure transactions

between the customer and the

m e r c h a n t . T h o u s a n d s o f  merchants a l ready support

CardinalCommerce, said Hesse,including SkyMall, Gameloft andNamco, the big-name merchantswho have announced they are onboard with Sprint Mobile Walletat launch.

Sp r in t c u s tome rs on i t sEverything Data Plan can use themobile wallet at no additionalcharge. How to Get Started

For developers and mobileapplication publishers, the SprintMobile Wallet (SWM) is also

meant to provide a means of 

monetizing apps outside of the"controlled walls of an app store,"

says Sprint.The company has now published

a number of tools on i t sDevelopers Center for SMW,including the following:• Merchant Integration Guide forSprint Mobile Payment Services(SMW)• Sample SMW TransactionSequence Chart• Sample Client Wallet App• Sample Merchant App

I t ha s a l so pos t e d some

screenshots of the applicationitself  here.

When integrated into a mobileapplication, the Mobile Walletpromises to offer a "friendlier userexperience" than redirecting usersto a WAP site or Web purchasepage. Instead, the experience isthat of a "one-click" paymentoption on the mobile phone.The sample application provided

by Cardinal gives you an idea of how this will look to the end user.Not only can standalone mobile

apps be monetized in this way,

Sprint's ID Packs can be as well.I D P a c k s , w h i c h a r edownloadable collections of themed or branded content forAndroid phones, allow users toeasily customize their device withapps, ringtones, wallpaper andother content, without having tod o w n l o a d a p p l i c a t i o n sindividually from the AndroidMarket. In addition to currentpartners like E!, Disney, ESPN,Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, EA andMTV, Sprint also announced newpartners AOL, UPS, Canvas, IHGand BodyMedia at this week'sevent.The company is now enabling

publishers to create paid versionof these ID packs, as a way tocharge for premium content.Discuss

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Facebook launches quirky 'friendshippages'( CNET News.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:25:11 PM

On Thursday, Facebook launcheda feature called "FriendshipPages," which lets users load upt h e i n t e r a c t i o n s b e t w e e nthemselves and individual friends,or between any two friends, onthe social network. You'll seetheir posts on one another's walls,events to which both RSVP'd,photos in which both are tagged,and other interactions that youwould otherwise be able to access

on either friend's profile (i.e.nothing that wouldn't otherwise bepublic).Friendship Pages are live as of 

Th u r sd ay b u t a r e n o t y e taccessib le to al l members .It's another feature, like the

redesigned Facebook Groups, thathighlights the intimacy of real-world connections projectedthrough Facebook, something thathas been obscured as the massivesocial network has grown far

beyond 500 million users aroundthe world and has become a hubfor everything from FarmVillecrop-tending to "Which HogwartsHouse Do You Belong In?" quizresults. I'm a Ravenclaw, by theway.

This is the brainchild of a singleFacebook engineer, Wayne Kao,

who built the feature at one of thecompany's all-night "hackathons"along with a designer. "One of myfavorite Facebook moments isbrowsing photos from friends inthe News Feed after they've beguna new relat ionsh ip , go t tenengaged or gotten married," Kaowrote in a blog post. "It gives mea fun and meaningful glimpse of the friendship between two peopleI know. I realized that a similarlymagical experience was possible

if all of the photos and postsbetween two friends were broughttogether."It's cute, if a little creepy that I

can now dive into the digital(albei t pub l ic) in teract ionsbetween two individuals to findout when they started dating,whose Halloween keggers theyattended together, or whetherthere is a chance that theirFacebook posts to one anotherhint that they are in cahoots in anefarious plan to gang up on me.Then there's the fact that, well,

ideally our most meaningfulfriendships will at least have somememorable moments that happenoutside of Facebook's reach,however eye-of-Sauron its scope

may be at this point.The real utility of Facebook 

friendship pages for me, rather,will be to chart and catalog thelong history of insults and snark that my younger brother and Ifl ing at one another on ourFacebook walls. This week hepointed me to the results of asurvey that suggest being ayounger sibling may make youshorter than you would beotherwise, and used my Facebook wall to sarcastically thank me forshaving inches off his height. Me:

"You're already tall enough. If you got those extra 3-4 inchesyou'd have trouble buying pantsa n d a s i g n i f i c a n t l y m o r eemb ar r as s i n g p o r t fo l i o o f  n i ck n ames . "See? Magical.This entry passed through the

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The Benefits of BugBountiesAudrey Watters ( ReadWriteWeb  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:50 PM

12-year-old Alex Miller hasreceived a $3000 check fromMozilla for finding a major bug inthe Firefox browser. The SanJose Mercury News, reporting onAlex's reward, noted that Mozillarecently upped its bounty from$500 to $3000 to make it moreworthwhile for people to spendtheir time looking for bugs.Alex apparently found something

in an initial search, but it wasn'tthe right sort of bug to quality forthe cash reward. So he keptpursuing things, spending about90 minutes a day for about 10days until he spotted a memoryflaw.SponsorMany open source communities,

not just Mozilla, use these sorts of rewards to get people to addresskey software bugs. As BrandonSterne, security program manager

at Mozilla, told the San JoseMercury News, "The space of 

people that are contributing in thisarea is pretty small. This is a veryniche technical area." And whileopen source projects rely on theircommunities' contributions, theseprojects help focus efforts on

particular development needs.Of course, it may not be money

that necessarily motivates peopleto work on these open sourceprojects, but bug bounties can beways to encourage developers -even as young as 12 apparently -to innovate and to de-bug.Have you had any experiences

with bug bounties?Photo credits: Flickr user Mark 

Rain and San Jose Mercury News'

Elissa Miller Discuss

Video: Matt Damon Breaks From Baby Stella Dad DutyMolly Goodson ( PopSugar  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:15:00 PM

  Matt Damon takes a night off 

from caring for newborn babyStella to rally celebrities at aONEXONE fundraiser in New

York. Check it out on PopSugar

Rush!

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3D body scanner can identify your fat zones( CNET News.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:13:37 PM

S t r i p p e d d o w n t o t h eundergarments, the patient steps

into a 7-foot booth to be scannedby 16 sensors and 32 camerassection by section.(Credit: BodyVolume Index)3D is finally getting some love in

the health segment--specificallythe love handle segment. A 3Dbody scanner in development for10 years and out this month fromU.K. company Select Research,can not only tell how obese youa re in r e l a t io n to w h a t ' srecommended, but exactly wherethose numerous high-tea buffetshave distributed themselves.Ouch.Say hello to BVI, or body volumeindex, and goodbye to BMI, orbody mass index, which uses astandard international formula tocalculate body weight.The more detailed BVI system is

a 7-foot-tall booth that scans apatient, stripped down to his orher undergarments, using 16

sensors and 32 cameras. In awhopping six seconds, more than200 linear data measurements of the patient's body are gatheredand sent to a secure server to beaccessed and ana lyzed byauthorized doctors. An exact"virtual" image of a person'sshape is also created. The BVIscanner uses white light but noradiation.

The system, developed inc o n j u n c t i o n w i t h A s t o n

Universi ty in Birmingham,

En g la n d ; H e a r t l a n d s N H SHospital, also in Birmingham; andthe Mayo Clinic, scanned over2,000 test subjects across theUnited Kingdom, United States,and Europe to fine-tune the norms

for fat deposition in various partsof the body according to age,gender, body shape, and bodycomposition. As developedcountries face increasingly obesepopulations, it's hoped that thedevice will be able to alert doctorsto the potential for heart disease,stroke, or diabetes."Most people in the world realizethat carrying extra weight aroundthe stomach means that they dohave a greater health risk,

commonly known in healthcare ascentral obesity," Select Research'sDr. Richard Barnes said. "WhatBVI now offers the world is abrand new way of measuring theabdominal area which BMI

simply cannot do."Speaking to the Daily Mail,

Barnes added that "BMI wasnever meant to be used as anindividual assessment for obesityand we believe that after nearly200 years, each patient deservesto be measured in a way that takestheir own body shape and lifestylefactors into account."Now, all that's left is to hope that

when this comes around to ourlocal doctor's office, we won't get

hit with a fat consultation fee.The body volume index could

make BMI outdated as the formerreveals how two people withsimilar BMIs could have fatdistributed differently.(Credit:

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First Wind Retreats, Shelves IPO PlansEvelyn Rusli ( TechCrunch  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:52:36 AM

Facing a dubious IPO anddownward pricing pressure, First

Wind announced on Thursday thatit will put its plans to go public onhold.

The wind energy company,which first signaled its intentionto go public way back in 2008,was expected to IPO this week butseveral analysts and media reportsquestioned investor demand,citing a heavy debt load, a lack of p r o f i t a b i l i t y a n d b r o a d e rc h a l l e n g e s i n t h e s e c t o r .

Amid growing concern, the

company dropped its pricingforecast to $18 to $20 onWednesday— a 25% cut from itsprevious range of $24 to $26.N o w , a f t e r s h a v i n g i t sexpectations, First Wind ispressing pause on the entire IPOand has not indicated when it willresume plans to go public.“The terms that the IPO marketwas seeking at this time were notattractive to the company,” the

company’s CEO Paul Gaynor saidin a statement, according toreports.The cleantech IPO market has

been pretty choppy this year,especially for companies that areseen as heavily dependent ong o v ern men t su b s i d i es . OnThursday, Enel, a major Europeanutility company, lowered its price

range for the upcoming IPO of itsgreen unit (Enel Green Power) ina bid to attract larger, institutionalinvestors. The new range is nowat €1.60 to €2.10 euros from  €1.80 to €2.20. This is Enel’ssecond price drop.First Wind, which owns and

operates wind farms in the U.S.,was hoping to raise cash in theIPO to ease its large debt load. Asoutlined in a recent S-1 filing, thecompany still has $582.2 millionin outstanding debt. Moreover,since its inception the companyhas racked up $233.0 million in

losses. Cognizant of its debt andongoing losses, the companywarned investors that “oursubstantial indebtedness [could]make it difficult for us to satisfyour obligations with respect to ourindebtedness, and failure tocomply with these obligationscould result in an event of defaultunder those agreements, whichcould be difficult to cure, or resultin our bankruptcy.” CrunchBaseI n f o r m a t i o n  F i r s t W i n dI n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b yC r u n c h B a s e

Vermont Energy Co. Raises$260,000 For SustainableGas-And-Convenience StoresLora Kolodny ( TechCrunch  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:12:24 PM

The Vermont Energy Companyat t racted a $260 ,000 seedinvestment a new SEC filingr e v e a l e d t o g r o w t h e i renvironmental-minded gas stationand convenience store business.Currently, the company operates

a flagship store and four-pumpgas s tat ion in Bur l ing ton ,Vermo n t . Acco rd i n g t o acompany spokesperson, they hopeto become a leading supplier of alternative fuels over time, ands t o c k t h e i r s h e l v e s w i t hsustainable items alongside select,traditional packaged goods.The concept is simple— offer a

sustainable alternative to 7-elevenor Mobil and other leading gasstation and coveninece stores. Thegas and convenience s to reindustry in the U.S. is highlyfragmented, but according to

Hoovers research, reaches $200billion in annual sales mainlyselling gasoline.The Vermont Energy Company,

if it takes off massively, couldbecome the go-to, roadside brandfor drivers seeking grease diesel,or other advanced and clean fuels.The Vermont Energy Company

currently offers drivers of fuel-efficient cars a discount on plainold gasoline. Run under the nameThe Good Carma program, thediscount is based on the miles-per

-gallon ratings of customers’vehciles. Such programs, if theybecame available nationally,could help encourage consumersto upgrade their rides to more fuel-efficient, if not zero emissions,electric vehicles.

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Report: iPad infiltrating enterprise ITMatt Tinsley ( TUAW  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM

By now, we all know that theiPad has been a runaway success

story, but it seems the iPad is alsomaking waves in the businessworld, too. According to theApple Blog, Ted Schadler, fromForrester, has written a report onthe impact of the iPad (primarilyon the enterprise market, sinceJanuary 2010). Speaking withmore than 200 companies ,Schadler's report points out threemajor ways that the iPad ischanging IT in the enterprise.Firstly, the iPad is reportedly

displacing the traditional laptop,especially in the case of thosewho would use their laptopprimarily for email and othert y p e s o f W e b - b a s e dcommunication, though, at thisstage, only in scenarios where it ismore appropriate.Secondly, the iPad is replacing

paper. Wherever people wouldusually carry around stacks of 

paper or files, particularly in

medical and pharmaceuticalindustries, the iPad is now thepreferred choice. Clearly, the iPadhas more functionality than a wadof paper, and it's a lot easier tocarry around, too.Finally, Schadler says that the

iPad is allowing companies to doth ings more ef f ic ien t ly byproviding immediate connectionto further resources and data.

Schadler uses the example of asalesman being able to customizean order for a customer on thespot by using the iPad.However, Schadler says there are

still some pretty significanthurdles for the iPad to jumpthrough. For one, the iPad hasminimal support for MicrosoftOffice, and the Redmond basedcompany doesn't have any officialsolutions in the near future torectify this. This, in part, limitswhere you can and can't use aniPad in a Microsoft Officedominated enterprise world.The Apple Blog has further

details on Schadler's report here,or if your a Forrester subscriber,you can read the full story here.  Rep o r t : i P ad i n f i l t r a t i n genterprise IT originally appearedon TUAW on Thu, 28 Oct 201013:00:00 EST. Please see ourterms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink | Email this|Comments

Gucci 3D GlassesUnveiled, Due This

Holiday SeasonEvan Selleck ( SlashGear  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:23:13 PM

It looks like Oakley isn’t the onlyglasses manufacturer in the worldthat want to take a stab at the 3Dmarket. Of course, with the brandname tagged along the side, theprices are sure to follow, andthere’s no exception for the brand

new Gucci 3D glasses that thecompany has just unveiled. Muchlike the Oakley-branded versionof 3D glasses we showed you, theglasses offer plenty of technologyand features, hoping to make theprice tag make sense.The Gucci 3D glasses feature

“optically-correct” 6-base curvedlenses, which should decrease or“virtually eliminate” the crosstalk from the screen to your eyes,making your movie as clear and

enjoyable as possible. The glassesare also optimized for the use inReal D 3D theaters, which is usedin over half the theaters across theUnited States. Interestinglyenough, the glasses also feature a“multi-layer mirrored coating” onthe lenses, which means you’ll beable to look at yourself in themirror, without seeing any

distortion.The glasses will be made

available exclusively at Gucciboutiques by this holiday season.The price? $225. Considering theprice for the standard Gucciglasses out there, perhaps thisisn’t all that expensive. Thatwould be up to you, and whetheror not you’re ready to make sucha commitment to 3D.[ via Luxist]

Diane Kruger Heads Off on Her NextAdventureAllie Merriam ( PopSugar  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM

Diane Kruger kept her Chanel ona short leash as she caught a flightout of LAX yesterday. The starwas on the go again after a recentstint shooting in Tajikistan, but

she spent the last week in

California making appearancesfor her gritty drama, Inhale, andattending special events as theface of  Calvin Klein's Beautyfragrance. She's also front andcenter in the just-released trailerfor Unknown, in which Dianestars opposite Liam Neeson and

January Jones. That movie doesn't

hit theaters until February,meaning Diane has plenty of timeto spend with her hardworkingboyfriend Josh Jackson before hernext round of promotional duties. View 5 Photos ›

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White iPhone 4 Removed From Apple WebsiteEvan Selleck ( SlashGear  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:48:38 PM

The white iPhone 4 is a sneakydevice. Apple, having shown itoff at the beginning of the yearand making a countless number of people excited for its release, hasrepeatedly delayed the iDevicesince its announcement. And, withthis latest delay under thec ompa ny’s w ings , t he re ’ sspeculation that the device not bemaking it to the market at all.Ever. Of course, there’s plenty of 

reasons why: manufacturers can’tget the shades of white to match.

Or, the white color causes crazythings to happen when taking apicture. Either way, Apple’ssuggestion that the white model of t h e i P h o n e 4 i s h a r d t omanufacture looks to be true. Andnow, sadly, the white device ismissing from Apple’s online storealtogether.As you probably already knew,

Apple’s online iPhone shoppreviously showcased not only theblack version, which you can buy

right now, but also the whiteversion. While you could stare at

it all day long, Apple was quick tonote that you couldn’t order itonline, nor could you pick it up inany store locations. But, at least itwas there, working as a smallglimmer of hope that the iDevicewould pop up sooner than later.But, all hope has been apparentlylost, as the company has pulledthe white iPhone 4 from thewebsite. Is the white iPhone 4 cancelled?Or is it  just delayed until 2011?

That’s the million dollar questionat this point, and it doesn’t look 

like anyone but those embeddedin the Cupertino-based officesknows the real answer. Withrumors still flying around that thewhite iPhone 4 will be the officialdevice for Verizon when thehandset launches next year, thespeculation is still keeping thedevice alive and well — eve if Apple seems to be trying to makeeveryone forget about it.[ via Macworld]

Kellan Breaks FromHis Twilight DutiesFor a Trip Back HomeAllie Merriam ( PopSugar  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:30:00 PM

Kellan Lutz smiled for the

cameras yesterday when hearrived back at LAX. He's homeagain fol lowing a s t in t inLouisiana, where he and hisBreaking Dawn cast mates havebeen hard at work. His costarsKristen Stewart and RobertPattinson were among thosespotted relaxing on set in BatonRouge, but others from the film,like the werewolves, apparentlywill be based in Vancouver. Thenext installment of the Twilight

series promises to be the raciestyet , but Kellan finds himself involved in lots of drama in hisother new project Meskada. Thatfilm, which screened at Tribecathis year, has a just-releasedtrailer out in which Kellan stars asa rural guy caught up in the midstof a murder mystery. View 3 Photos ›

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The Scoop on Microsoft’s 2010 Professional DeveloperConferenceChris Burns ( SlashGear  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:35:41 PM

W e l c o m e t o t h e 2 0 1 0P r o f e s s i o n a l D e v e l o p e rConference, aka PDC, fromwhens we’ve got a few bits of info on Windows Phone 7 foryou. PDC2010 was kicked off with a keynote speech by SteveBallmer and Scott Guthrie thatsaid some very nice things aboutWindows Phone 7s investment int h e W P 7 d e v e l o p m e n tcommunity. They know that these

developers can make or break the

whole project, so they’ve done afew things to help them finish uptheir first round of WP7 apps:hint: free stuff.First, all paid PDC conference

attendees will get a free WindowsPhone 7 device (because it’salways good to have the deviceyou’re designing for lying aroundto test with.) Then, they gave afew notes on how big theWindows Phone Deve lopercommunity currently is: 12,000deve lopers reg is te red wi thMarketplace, up 40% from last

month, with more than 100 adding

every day.Then noted that on November

3rd, developers may submit theirapplications “with the self serve

capabilities of Marketplace for

developers.” A tiny but importantnote to add to this is that there’veb e e n s o m r e v i s i o n s t oMarketplace policies which

everyone should check out here.

Then, presenters! A giant list(which you can see here) of PDCp r e s e n t e r s s h a r e t i p s o noptimization and testing and allthat fun stuff developers love tohear for hours on end. To see thepresentations as they happen, yesLIVE STREAMS, take a peek over at the Microsoft PDC siteand get out your popcorn and pensand pads and peel your eyeballskins up for great talks.[ Via Microsoft]

Apple exploring new scratch-proof coatingSteven Sande ( TUAW  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:30:00 PM

If a new patent application fromApple is any indication, thecompany is getting obsessiveabout making sure that futureproducts are highly scratch-resistant.The U.S. Patent and Trademark 

O f f i c e p u b l i s h e d A p p l e ' sapplication this week ti t led"Nitriding Stainless Steel forConsumer Electronic Products,"outlining methods for depositing avery thin layer (just over 15microns thick) of nitride to

stainless steel to provide scratchand impact resistance. Nitridecoatings are unique in that theyallow the natural feel and look of the stainless steel to showthrough, while creating a toughscratch-proof surface.In the patent filing, Apple notes

that stainless steel is a highlydesirable material for consumerelectronics since it is non-magnetic and doesn't hinderBluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellularsignals as much as other metals.However, as some iPhone 4owners have noticed, the materialis relatively easy to scratch.

Apple also entered into anagreement with LiquidmetalTechnologies earlier in 2010 toexplore using the company's

amorphous metal technology infu ture sc ra tch-proof Appleproducts. Liquidmetal materialsare twice as strong as titanium,but as easy as plastic to process.[via AppleInsider]  Apple exploring new scratch-proof coating originally appearedon TUAW on Thu, 28 Oct 201014:30:00 EST. Please see ourterms for use of feeds.  Source| Permalink | Email this|Comments

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The secret to stashing dough issimple: Spend less. But what fun

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RealVNC adds "iPodOut" so cars can display

iOS device screen dataSam Abuelsamid ( TUAW  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:00 PM

 RealVNC, the company behindth e o r ig in a l VNC re m o te

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computing protocol, has addediOS to the list of devices that aresupported by its VNC MobileSolution for Automotive. Ingeneral, VNC (virtual network computing) allows users to see the

display output from anothercomputer over a network. It'scommonly used to manage serversthat are running without anattached monitor.While a number of automakers

have integrated iPod/iPhonecontrol functionality, many of them have implemented ratherclunky user interfaces. VNCMobile will allow the actual iOSinterface, including Cover Flow

or even Google Maps, to bedisplayed directly on the larger in-dash touchscreen in the car. Thisway, a user could just use thelarger display to manage whatthey are listening to without

fumbling with the iPod or iPhone.The new version uses the "iPodOut" feature that Apple has builtinto the latest versions of iOS toprovide this capability. Check outthe video in the second half of the

post.[Via Macnn] Continue reading RealVNC adds"iPod Out" so cars can displayiOS device screen data  RealVNC adds "iPod Out" socars can display iOS devicescreen data originally appeared onTUAW on Thu, 28 Oct 201014:00:00 EST. Please see ourterms for use of feeds.  Source| Permalink | Email this|

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Former Yahoo SVP David KuJoins Microsoft As CorporateVP Of New InitiativesJason Kincaid ( TechCrunch  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:55:46 PM

Last month, Yahoo SVP DavidKu, who headed the company’sadvertising products group, leftthe company. Yahoo has beenhemorrhaging talent lately —including some high rankingexecutives — and Ku was anespecially big loss because he’sbeen with the company since2002. Now we’ve confirmedKu’s next move: he’s joining

Microsoft as Corporate VicePresident , Onl ine Serv icesDivision New Initiatives, effectiveOctober 29th, 2010.We initially heard that Ku would

be working directly on Bing(which is part of Microsoft’s’Online Services Division) but aMicrosoft spokesperson tell usthat he’ll be involved with a rangeof initiatives across the division.

In addition to advertising

experience, Ku has quite a bit of 

product experience as well: hewas Yahoo’s VP Engineering,Search from April 2002 untilDecember 2005. According to hisLinkedIn profile, this includedrunning Yahoo’s core search,social search, vertical search(images, video, shopping), Flickr,and more. CrunchBase Information DavidKu Microsoft Yahoo! Informationprovided by CrunchBase

Dell Venue hits the FCC: is this the Thunder's new name?Chris Ziegler ( Engadget  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:27:00 PM

Yes, that's right, just "Venue,"no t Venue Pro-- and from aglance, it looks to us like thismight be the new name for theThunder Android phone weplayed with a little while ago

 judging by this FCC filing that  just crossed the wires. As far aswe can tell, this thing is basicallya carbon copy of the Venue Pro,except i t 's running Androidinstead of Windows Phone 7 anddrops the sliding portrait keyboardin favor of a full-touch setup.Notably, the curved glass 4.1-inch

AMOLED display carries over, so

that should make the design nerdsin the audience swoon a bit.Additionally, turns out there's aBluetooth SIG certification underthe same model name -- V03B --that confirms the display's specsa n d t h e f a c t t h a t i t ' s a"smartphone" (whew!). Staytuned on this one -- something

tells us we won't be waitingterribly long for an announce. Dell Venue hits the FCC: is thisth e Th u n d e r ' s n e w n a m e ?originally appeared on Engadgeton Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:27:00EDT. Please see our terms for useof feeds. Permalink | BluetoothSIG, FCC| Email this| Comments

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:56 PM

Reaching the top ten or even thetop 40 on the music charts issomething that most bands onlydream of achieving after years of hard work. But the bands on thislist didn't have to agonize overthat because they weren't realbands in the first place. Check outthese fictional hit makers, but beprepared to get at least one songstuck in your head.

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Nook Color processorrevealed: ARM CortexA8-based TI OMAP3621Donald Melanson ( Engadget  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:03:00 PM

Barnes & Noble provided most of the specs for the Nook Color

when it launched the device onTuesday, but notably absent wasany word on the processor thatpowers the e-reader. Thankfully,Texas Instruments has now comeout confirmed that the Nook Color uses its ARM Cortex A8-b a s e d , 4 5 n m O M A P 3 6 2 1processor (still no word on thesp e e d ) . Wh a t ' s m o re , t h eprocessor is actually part of TI'seBook Development Platform,which the Nook Color also relieson. That's particularly interesting

considering that the processor andplatform support a few featuresthat the Nook Color does not, notth e l e a s t o f wh ic h i s 3 Gconnectivity. Of course, that

doesn't necessarily mean we'll seea future Nook Color that takesadvantage of those features, but atleast we know it's not too much of a stretch for Barnes & Noble toadd them. Nook Color processor revealed:ARM Cortex A8-based TIOMAP3621 originally appearedon Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 201014:03:00 EDT. Please see ourterms for use of feeds. Permalink |Texas Instruments| Email this|Comments

TSA: 11.6-inch MacBookAir is checkpoint-safeDave Caolo ( TUAW  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:45:00 PM

The US Transportation SecurityAdministration, or TSA, hasofficially stated that travelerspassing through US airportsecurity with the 11.6-inchMacBook Air will not have toremove the little laptop from theirb a g s f o r i n s p e c t i o n .Unfortunately, that's not the casewith the 13-inch model.Size is the differentiating factor.

According to the TSA blog, any

electronic device considered to beof a "standard laptop" size orlarger must go through the x-raymachine solo. Apparently, thecutoff point is at or very nearthirteen inches. The iPad, Kindle,Nook and other small devices,i n c l u d i n g t h e e n t r y - l e v e lMacBook Air , may remain

stowed away during screening.As if travelers needed another

reason to lust after the thing.

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The Charming Mr. BlahnikHabitu ally Chic ( Habitually 

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:46:40 AM

I love when I'm looking for onething and I find something evenbetter in the process. In this case,it was photographs of ManoloBlahnik at his beautiful Georgianhouse in Bath, England by IvanTerestchecnko. He shares thishouse with his collection of booksand about 10,000 pairs of shoes

that bear his name. He most

enjoys spending time in hisgarden and one has to wonder if that is what inspires his morefanciful designs. I especially love

the classic English colors of therooms and the slightly clutteredlook that is quintessentiallyEnglish. Most of the woman whobuy his shoes tell him that theymake them happy but I have afeeling that Mr. Blahnik wouldsay that his home is what makeshim happy.Photos by Ivan Terestchenko via

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Chrome: We've shown you manyways to avoid the less appealing

folk on the internet, but if youfind some communities are justtoo troll-infested, CommentBlocker will hide all comments ona specific site with a quick shortcut. More »

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BlackBerry Torch coming to AT&T intwo fresh colors next monthChris Ziegler ( Engadget  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:50:00 PM

Allow us to clarify, the colors are"fresh" as in "new," not as in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."Don't get us wrong, though: whitealmost always looks fresh (in theFresh Prince sense) on a phone,and the Torch seems to be noexception -- partly thanks to thematching white keyboard. Both

red and white will be available onNovember 7 (a day before theHTC Surround an d SamsungFocus, interestingly) at the sametime as a sweet new promotionthat'll allow folks to buy any twoaccessories from AT&T and get athird one of equal or lesser valuefor free. Don't violate any firecodes stuffing yourselves intoyour local stores, alright? Followthe break for the press release.

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5 Things to Do BeforeBuying an HDTV( HowStuffWorks Daily Feed  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:56 PM

So, you're thinking about  jumping into the vivid world of high definition, huh? Well, getready for visual bliss. Thedifference between high definitionand standard definition is nightan d d ay . No t s i n ce P e t e rGoldmark in t roduced co lortelevision in 1946 has there beensuch a s ign i f ican t sh i f t intechnology. Sure, remote controls,big screen TVs and satellite

broadcasting have hit the scene,but the quality of the picture hasremained fairly constant.

When HDTVs first hit themarket, they were limited toactually receiving an HD signal.That took a bit longer to arriveand the result was a soft HDTVmarket for the first few years. Infact, most early owners didn'treally reap the benefits of highdefinition. Around 2004, whenTexas Instruments' Digital Light

Processing (DLP) made its debut,HDTVs became much moreaffordable. With more HDTVs inconsumers' homes, programmers

caught on and offered moreprogramming. Since then, HDTVshave become the standard.Now it's your turn. If you're

reading this, chances are you'redoing your research. That's thebest approach. You shouldn't haveto spend more money than youabsolutely need to. This articleaims to provide you with the toolsfor making the best decisionsbefore shelling out your hard-earned cash for your HDTV.Dropping $1,000 or more on atelevision is probably out of many

people's comfort zones. Thefollowing five tips should giveyou a pretty good idea of what tolook for and what you need to dobefore you purchase and bringyour HDTV home.This entry passed through the

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"Straight Talk" with Economic Bloggersnoreply@bl ogger.com (M ichael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:12:00 AM

Chris Martenson asked his

readers which bloggers theywould like to learn more about,and what questions the readershad for those bloggers. I was oneof the bloggers on Martenson'slist.The questions (in red below)

range from who I learned from(the answer is a mile long), topeak oil, risk management, gold,China, hyperinflation, and prettymuch all the hot topics of the day.I would like to share the Q&A

with my readers as well.Here is a repeat of Straight Talk 

with Mike Shedlock (aka "Mish")a s a p p e a r s o nChrisMartenson.com, with slightdifferences in formatting butotherwise the exact content.1. You’ve gone from mainframe

computer programming analyst(in 2005) to being one of themost widely-read econobloggersin the world today. To whatextent do you attribute yourcompetitive advantage to holdinga non-traditional background vs.the more ‘classically’ trainedanalysts and commentators?Mish: It certainly helps not

h a v in g a b a c k g ro u n d ineconomics as taught by academiatoday . Near ly everyone inacademia is a Keynesian orMonetarist .It is safe to say that Krugman is

the high priest of the Keynesians.

In current academia, Greg

Mankiw is arguably the highpriest of the Monetarists. If weinc lude the Fed , then theMonetarist high priest is withouta doubt Ben Bernanke, whose

background just happens to beacademia, as opposed to any realworld experience.I find it amusing to see the battles

between the two camps when theyare both wrong about theirproposed solutions. The onlything they are ever right about iswhen they attack each other.In contrast, I had some very good

teachers with non-academicbackgrounds in self-taughtAustrian economics. One of them

is a friend for going on 10 years.I refer to him on my blog by hisinitials "HB". He has done acouple guest blogs on my siteunder the name "Trotsky".Those posts are Misconceptions

about Gold and Why does fiatmoney seemingly work?"HB" now has his own blog underyet another pen name, PaterTenebrarum. The Blog is calledActing Man, with a perspectiveof Austrian economics.

I also need to thank BarryRitholtz at the Big Picture Blogfor early on promoting my work,Todd Harrison at Minyanville,and of course Calculated Risk who actually created the firsttemplate for my blog.Interestingly, Barry, CR, and I

have been 1-2-3 (in variousorders) in terms of page countsaccording to Traffic Rankings fori n d i v i d u a l , n o n - c o r p o r a t e

s p o n s o r e d b l o g s .

Marc Faber has influenced me alot and I consider his book Tomorrow's Gold to be requiredreading. Marc is also a friendeven though we disagree on the

inflation/deflation debate.There are two other must-read

books and the electronic versionscome at the great deflationaryprice of zero.• The Case Against the Fed• What Has Government Done toOur Money?

Both of those are by MurrayRothbard, with thanks also to theMises Institute for making themavailable at no cost.

In addition, I have certainlylearned a lot from John Hussmanwho writes a great column everyweek, and more recently fromDavid Rosenberg who writes agreat column nearly every day.Certainly Bloomberg is a great

source of information and to pick a single Bloomberg author itwould be Caroline Baum. Baum'smentor happens to be economistPaul Kasriel who also has taughtme a lot. So has Australianeconomist Steve Keen.Thanks go to an Austrian-mindedfriend who simply prefers to beknown as "BC".I also need to thank Krugman andothers I violently disagree with. Ithelps clarify my thinking debatingthose I disagree with, even if theynever respond.Finally, I get a lot of interesting

stories and commentary from myreaders. Those readers are real

people, doctors, business owners,

sc ien t is ts , and technologywizards, most of whom operate inthe real world, and thus havemore street smarts and commonsense than anyone on the Fed.

Looking at my answer now that Ihave typed it out, my competitiveedge is to do one hell of a lot of reading, thinking, and typing, dayin and day out, even weekends. Ientertain all points of view, evenif it seems like I don't in myfinished posts.2. Many of our readers have

subscribed to Chris' position thatthe economy must be increasinglyinterpreted through two otherl e n s e s ; e n e r g y a n d o t h e r

environmental resources. Canyou comment on the Three E's?Mish: I am a firm believer in

peak oil. I don't know howanyone can deny it. Given peak oil, and given the demand fromC h i n a f o r o i l a n d o t h e rcommodities, the world is on acrash course of demand thatcannot be filled.China is growing at 8-10% a year

(assuming you believe the stats).Can China keep growing at thatrate forever? For even 10 moreyears? What about India? Brazil?

Either we get some seriousenergy breakthroughs, Chinaslows, or the standard of livingdrops in the US, UK, and Europe.Well China does not want toslow, and the US and Europe arefighting hard to maintain astandard of living that is notsustainable.Historically these situations end

u p wi th wa r . Th a t i s a n

observation, not a prediction.Something has to give, perhaps

many things, but all of the peoplewho think China will soon be thenumber one economy in the world

and that China's growth issustainable, better start thinkingabout the implications of what I just typed above.

3. You’re a vocal deflationist.What do you see as the mostconvincing data points (the top 1-3) for your position and why?Mish: Before we can discuss

inflation and deflation it isimperative to define the terms.Not everyone will agree with mydefinitions, not even those who

claim to be followers of Austriane c o n o m ic t h e o ry . Ye t m ydefinitions have a solid theoreticaland practical foundation.

I n f l a t i o n a n d D e f l a t i o nD e f i n i t i o n sInflation is an expansion of 

money and credit, with creditmarked to market. Deflation is acontraction of money supply andcredit with credit marked tomarket.The "marked to market" bit is myown addition. I use it because itexplains a lot of things that arehappening. Indeed, the entiredefinition is predictive of thingsthat will happen. For example, if credit contracts and there isdemand to hold money, treasuryrates are going to drop.Contrast that with a definition

that says rising prices constituteinflation. What will treasury rates

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do?It was easy to see the housing

bubble would collapse and in turncredit would plunge and writeoffswould soar. That was the basis formy prediction that interest rates

across the entire yield curvewould make all-time lows.When I made that call, oil was

near $140, and nearly everyonethought I was nuts. But i thappened. Recently we made newlows in 2- and 5-year treasuriesand credit continues to contract.

Bernanke and various Fedmembers talk about preventingdeflation, but that talk is alwaysin terms of the CPI.However, it is impossible to

measure prices of consumer goodsaccurately enough, housingprices are not in the CPI (I think they should be), but mostimportantly, we are in a fiat credit-based economy.In a credit-based system, where

credit dwarfs money supply, it isfoolish to look at inflation throughthe myopic eyes of either prices ormonetary inflation alone. Sure,the Fed can print, but if there is no

demand for credit, what does $1Tor even $10T of excess reservesdo? The answer is nothing otherthan to make the Fed's exitproblem down the road anightmare.Money Multiplier Theory is

WrongIt is important to understand that

widely believed money multipliertheory (the Fed prints and themoney makes its way into theeconomy 10 times over) is

wrong.

The reality is credit expansioncomes f i rs t , reserves comesecond. I discussed this at length,using some charts from SteveK e e n , i n F i a t W o r l dM a t h e m a t i c a l M o d e l

Yet, talk is all the rage "just waitt i l l al l those reserves comepouring into the economy, it willcause hyperinflation". I have tolaugh because the thinking is assbackwards.What Really Happened?• Greenspan lowered interestrates fueling housing speculationand a credit bubble.• The housing/credit bubble burst.• Credit plunged as did creditmarked to market.• In the wake of plunging creditthe Fed stepped in to providereserves for banks.• Consumer psychology changedand there is no demand for creditso it sits there as so called"excess reserves", earning slightinterest for banks to help themcover losses still to come fromforeclosures, credit card losses,and commercial real estate losses.

Looked at in this fashion thereare not really excess reserves atall.Please see Fictional Reserve

Lending And The Myth Of Excess Reserves for furtherrebuttal to the notion thatmonetary printing will soon havethe inflation genie flying out of the bottle.2009 RecoveryCredit continued to contract in

2009 but the stock market soared.

This happened because the

corporate bond market freed up,which in turn gave a new lease onlife to hundreds of corporationotherwise headed for bankruptcy.

In response, value of debt"marked to market" on the

balance sheets of banks wentfrom pennies on the dollar to fullvalue. Credit did not expand butcredit marked-to-market sure did,even if it is impossible to sayprecisely how much.Thus my model suggests 2007 to

February 2009 were periods of deflation, March 2009 to May2010 were periods of inflation,and now we are likely back indeflation but it is hard to saygiven institutions do not mark assets to market. Extend andpretend is massive.

Looking ahead, my modelsuggests we go in and out of deflation for a number of years,  just as Japan did, without theeconomy ever picking up anysteam.4. Your position has called for a

deflation first but then a probabletransition over to inflation at somepoint. We won’t hold you to this,

but what triggers do you see forthis shift and, again with greatlatitude, when might this happen?Mish: With fiat currencies, the

p r o b a b i l i t y o f i n f l a t i o napproaches 100% given a longenough timeframe. However, weneed to fix numerous structuralissues, write off enough baddebts, and get to the bottom inhousing before there is a seriouschance of sustained inflation.I am not calling for consumer

prices to collapse (except in

unneeded junk), but that couldconceivably happen. By the way,because energy and food priceshave been sticky compared tohousing, we hear the statementall the time, "we have inflation in

things we need and deflation inthings we want."No we don't. The statement is

inaccurate because it definesinflation in terms of prices. Witha proper definition one does nothave inflation and deflation at thesame time.Critical Player is Congress, Not

the FedThe longer the Fed and Congress

fight deflation, the longer it willtake to play out. It could take 2years or 10. The attitude of thenext Congress, and the Congressand President after that will becrucial.I believe the next congress will

throw around fewer stimuli thanthe current one. I could be wrong.But 2 years will not seal the fate.There will be a presidentialelection in another two years.Will we get a Chris Christie or

another Obama? That is an

undecided factor very much inplay.The crit ical point of this

d i s c u s s i o n i s e v e r y o n e ' smisguided focus on the Fed. TheFed arguably has a role, butCongress is a far bigger playerthan the Fed in determining thelength of the path we take.

Interestingly, Bernanke, aMonetarist, recently chastisedCongress over budget issues.This likely has Krugman going

bananas.

5. In your own or in others’forecasts of how the future willplay out, do you think that thedifficult-to-predict Human CrowdP s y c h o l o g y f a c t o r i sunderrepresented? If so, what

c o u l d b e d o n e t o b e t t e ri n c o r p o r a t e i t .

Mish: Few understand thedeflationary impacts of the entiregamut of trends that is playingout, or the stress those trendsplace on families.It is futile to fight changing socialtrends, but that has not stoppedthe Fed with reckless proposals ontop of reckless proposals. Pleasesee Inflation Targeting Proposalan Exercise in Blazing Stupidity;Fed Fools Itself for details.

Demographic Pendulum inMotionAs I stated in June of 2008, we

are now on the back side of peak consumption and Peak Credit.Regardless of what Bernanke of the Fed does, the demographicpendulum is in motion. There isno going back.That the Fed cannot change

attitudes is at the very heart of the

d ef l a t i o n a rg u men t . J ap ancer tain ly t r ied and fai led ,Bernanke will fail as well.The Fed can provide liquidity butit cannot not determine where itgoes, or if it goes anywhere at all.The important point here is the

pendulum has just barely movedfrom peak risk taking to risk aversions. With that in mind, andgiven the Fed and Congressionalpropensity to fight a battle that

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cannot be won, it will be yearsbefore the pendulum gets to theother side.Asymmetric PendulumI have not mentioned this before

but the pendulum is actually

asymmetric, at least in terms of time, not necessarily price orattitude.We spend far more time in

inflation and risk taking thandeflation and risk avoidance.Moreover the cycle swing takesso long time wise from one endto the other, that by the time weget to peak risk taking, most donot even think deflation ispossible.Everyone thinks deflation is

impossible, much the same wayeveryone thought housing priceswould rise forever. There werewrong about housing and they arewrong about deflation.6. How the heck do you find the

time to write so much? Ourmembers are amazed by theoutput on your blog and by thefact that they’ve receivedpersonal answers to questionsthey’ve emailed you.

Mish: I certainly love what I amdoing. I also believe I am helpingpeople. I have stacks of emails toprove that point, mainly inregards to getting people out of housing, out of the stock marketon time, into gold, and notbetting against treasuries.To be sure, I get some hate mail,

mostly in regards to my stance onpublic unions, but that volume issmall compared to everythingelse. I can get as many as 300

emails a day, and I try to answer

any pleas for help. I have spent aslong as 2 hours answering callsfor help, even when I cannotpossibly get anything out of it.If someone sends me a link to an

article I use, they may only get a

one word response of "thanks". If I get a question, I try to answer. Icertainly appreciate when somethoughtful people send me a link or a comment and say "noresponse needed".Many days I am reading and

writing for 15 hours. I can spend 3hours just answering emails fromreaders and clients. On weekends,in the summer, I can spend aslittle as 2-4 hours, but 3 minimumis more like it.I am often laughing my head off 

over things I write. So I amhaving fun.Bear in mind my role at Sitka

Pacific is advisory, client services,and general manager typefunctions. Those are part of the15 hours mentioned. I do nottrade. Fortunately I have afantastic partner who shares thesame risk management andcustomer first attitudes. We have

grown from about $15 millionassets under management toa b o u t $ 7 5 m i l l i o n u n d e rmanagement in the last few years.That is small by Wall Street

standards, but I expect to doubleor triple that in a few years, theright way, by putting clientinterests first.7. Which assets do you see as

being the being the ‘most hated bythe most people’? Which are‘most beloved’? In your opinion,

are these perceptions well-

deserved and i f no t , whatopportunities do they represent?Mish: Certainly US treasuries are

universally despised. People wereshorting 10 year notes at 4%.Yikes!

However, after this rally it is hardto be super-bullish on them now.Bullish yes, super-bullish, no. Iwould advise not shorting them.I do not think the gold story is

fully understood yet. It may notbe hated, but it is not loved liketechnology or housing was. Thus Ithink more will come from goldbut it will not necessarily be fromhere. We can easily have a sharpcorrection first.The one thing not despised but

universally ignored is Japaneseequities. For a long-term holdperspective, I like Japan. Apathyis a great setup. Otherwise, thereis precious little to like aboutanything.This market, including corporate

bonds, i s way over- loved .Sentiment is extreme, andearnings expectations will nothappen. The market can keepgoing up, but the risk-reward

setup is horrendous.8 . I f you knew that thepurchasing power of your existingassets and income woulddisappear one year from today,what would you invest in duringthe coming year to prepare?Mish: The question left out a

critical aspect of "how" assetswould "disappear". For example,equity and housing assets mightcrash because of deflation, ortheoretically the dollar could fall

to zero in hyperinflation. How

one would best profit would bequite different.In regards to hyperinflation, the

odds are minuscule. First we needto define the term.Hyperinflation is a complete loss

of faith in currency. Some think this will happen out of the blue,others think the Fed will print andprint and print. Let's look at a fewexamples.Zimbabwe HyperinflationIn the case of Zimbabwe, a loss

of faith in currency occurredbefore the printing occurred. TheWeimar Republic is a differentstory.

In Zimbabwe, the Mugabegovernment initiated a "landreform" program intended tocorrect the inequitable landdistribution created by colonialru le . Ul t imately , Mugabe 'sattempt to bail out the poor at theexpense of the wealthy is whattriggered capital flight and loss of faith of the currency.His reforms not only caused a

flight of capital and human capital(the wealthy), they also led tosanctions by the US and Europe.

In response, Mugabe turned onthe printing presses but the loss of faith in the currency had alreadyoccurred.Weimar HyperinflationIn Weimar Germany, printing for

war reparat ions k icked off  hyper in f lat ion .War reparations were a political

event. So was the invasion of Germany to enforce payment of those reparations.Argentina Hyperinflation

Argentina based its currency on

the US dollar, a political mistake.When Argentina could no longerho ld the peg , i t s currencycol lapsed .Hyperinflation is a Political

Event

The commonality betweenZ i m b a b w e , W e i m a r , a n dArgentina is they are bothpolitical events. In Zimbabwe apolitical event triggered capitalflight, in Weimar a political eventstarted massive printing, and inArgentina everything collapsedwhen a foolish peg could not besustained.In each case, a collapse of faith incurrency (hyperinflation) ledgovernments to massive printingcampaigns, not the other wayaround.US ComparisonThe US compares to Zimbabwe

how?The US compares to Argentina

how?Is anyone going to force the US

into war reparations?The idea that we are going to

wake up one day and suddenly outof the blue face hyperinflation

may be theoretically possible butit is extremely unlikely inpractice.Moreover, and it is important to

keep coming back to this point,we are in credit-based system.The Fed is not going to causehyperinflation by printing.Besides, the Fed cannot give

money away. And as I havepointed out, Bernanke is evenchastising Congress about fiscal

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How Not To Votenoreply@bl ogger.com (M ichael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 4:30:00 AM

All you need to know to

determine your vote in Novemberis that a vote for any candidateendorsed by unions is a vote forhigher taxes.I am pleased to report that UAW

2865 Los Angeles has provided aperfect list of who NOT to votefor with this endorsement DearUAW 2865 members,The November 2nd election is

  just around the corner. Thiselection will decide the future of our state for many years to come.

As educators, students, and publicemployees, we have a lot at stakein the election of Jerry Brown asGovernor. Brown has been ac h a m p io n o f b o th h ig h e reducation and labor rights,signing the first legislation thata l lowed publ ic employees,teachers, and farm workers toorganize and bargain collectively.Brown oversaw the expansion of the UC and CSU systems. Theseare difficult times for our stateand for the Universi ty of  California. Much of this difficultyis from a lack of leadership inSacramento and the refusal of Republican lawmakers to vote forfair tax policies that reinvest inthe public sector.We need to make our voices

heard at the ballot box. Belowyou’l l f ind the candida tesendorsed by UAW as well as ourlocal’s recommendations on the

propositions.

STATEWIDEGovernor: Jerry Brown(D)United States Senator: Barbara

Boxer(D)Lieutenant Governor: Gavin

Newsom(D)Attorney General: KamalaHarris(D)

Secre ta ry of Sta te : DebraBowen(D)Treasurer: Bill Lockyer(D)Controller: John Chiang(D)Super in tendent of Publ ic

Instruction: Tom Torlakson(D)Insurance Commissioner: Dave

Jones(D)Board of EqualizationDistrict 1: Betty Yee(D)

District 2: Chris Parker(D)District 3: No EndorsementDistrict 4: Jerome Horton(D)Proposition 19: YESLegalizes, taxes Marijuana: Prop

19 would generate millions of dollars in tax revenue, whileaddressing many of the corecauses of the explosive growth of California's prison population.Proposition 20: NOExpands Unelected Redistricting

Commission: Backed by bigbusiness, this initiative woulde x t e n d th e e x p e n s iv e a n dunwieldy new system of drawingstate legislative boundaries to theUS Congressional districts. Itwould require that lines be drawnalong "economic in te rest" ,dividing the state into "rich" and"poor" districts. Opposed by laborand environmental organizations.Proposition 21: YESKeeps State Parks Open: Prop 21

establishes a modest vehicle

licensing fee to fund state parks,making them independent of thegeneral fund and insuring theystay open even during budgetcrises.

Proposition 22: NOBallot Box Budgeting: Thisinitiative prohibits use of localredevelopment agencies andtransportation funding by theState. While we support adequatefunding for both these sectors, theCalifornia budget process isalready overburdened by complexrestrictions and protections. Weneed more, not less, flexibility inour budget process. Opposed byeducation unions, health care

providers and firefighters.Proposition 23: NOSuspends Air Pollution Control

Laws (AB 32): Proposition 23 is avery dangerous initiative, fundedb y o u t o f s t a t e O i l a n dPetrochemical corporations thatwould overturn landmark climatechange legislation. In addition, if passed, many environmentalprotections would be suspended if state unemployment dips below5.5% for four consecut iveq u a r t e r s . O p p o s e d b yenvironmentalists, labor, andpolit icians, including JerryBrown, Meg Whitman, andArnold Schwarzenegger.Proposition 24: YES

R e p e a l s C o r p o r a t e T a xLoopholes: Sponsored by theCalifornia Teachers Association,Proposition 24 would repeal aseries of tax loopholes formultistate corporations that were

crafted behind closed doors as

part of recent budget negotiations.Supported by labor, educationadvocates and the CaliforniaLeague of Women Voters.Proposition 25: YES

Majority Vote Budget: Simplyput, this is the most importantinitiative on the ballot for stateemployees and higher education.Proposition 24 would establish asimple majority threshold forenacting a budget in California,eliminating the 2/3 requirementfor budgets and the tyranny of theminority which has rendered thestate dysfunctional over the pastseveral decades.Proposition 26: NO

More 2/3 Restrictions: Anothercorporate-sponsored initiative,Prop 26 would actually -extend-the 2/3ds requirement for raisingfees or levies at both the state andlocal levels. Currently, extendingexisting fees, if they are overallrevenue neutral, require only asimple majority. This would endeven this small bit of majority-rule from our broken budgetsystem. Opposed by health carea d v o c a t e s , l a b o r ,e n v i ro n m e n ta l i s t s a n d t h eCalifornia League of Cities.Proposition 27: YESRestores Democratic Control of 

R e d i s t r i c t i n g : I n 2 0 0 8 ,Californians adopted a newsystem that took control overre d i s t r i c t i n g f ro m e l e c t e drepresentatives and created anu n e l e c t e d " i n d e p e n d e n t "c o m m iss io n t o d ra w n e wboundaries. Proposition 27 would

bring this process back to elected

off ic ia ls who can be he ldaccountable. It also gives voters afinal say on the map created bythe state legislature.REGIONAL

U.S. Representatives in CongressD i s t r i c t 2 5 : J a c q u e s eC o n a w a y ( D )District 26: Russ Warner(D)District 27: Brad Sherman(D)District 28: Howard Berman(D)District 29: Adam Schiff(D)District 30: Henry Waxman(D)District 31: Xavier Becerra(D)District 32: Judy Chu(D)District 33: Karen Bass(D)District 34: Lucille Roybal-

Allard(D)

District 35: Maxine Waters(D)District 36: Jane Harmon(D)District 37: Laura Richardson(D)District 38: Grace Napolitano(D)District 39: Linda Sanchez(D)California State SenateDistrict 20: Alex Padilla(D)District 22: Kevin De Leon(D)District 24: Ed Hernandez(D)District 26: Curren Price(D)District 28: Jenny Oropeza(D)District 30: Ron Calderon(D)California AssemblyDistrict 36: Dual Endorsement

Shawntrice Watkins (D) andLinda Jones(D)District 38: Diana Shaw(D)District 39: Felipe Fuentes(D)District 40: Bob Blumenfield(D)District 41: Julia Brownley(D)District 42: Mike Feuer(D)District 43: Mike Gatto(D)

D i s t r i c t 4 4 : A n t h o n yP o r t a n t i n o ( D )

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Some Thoughts Ahead Of Tomorrow's Big GDP ReportDoug Short ( Money Game  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:23:02 PM

Guest contribution by IlargiOctober 28, 2010

This is a guest post by Ilargi,editor-in-chief for The AutomaticEarth.In anticipation of tomorrow's

announcement of Q3 GDP by theBEA, here's a comparison of theBEA numbers with a series of other data.Let's start with a bit of "history".

I first published on the ConsumerMetrics Institute's CMI growthIndices in August '10, after seeingDoug Short's graphs in which he

combined the CMI 91-day indexwith BEA's GDP numbers and theS&P 500.While the comparison is inviting,

as is obvious to anyone who seesit, it's not perfect. So I began totinker with Doug's work. The firststep was to move the CMI 91-daydata forward vs GDP by roughlyone quarter. Not only does thisline up peaks and troughs withremarkable accuracy, it alsoaddresses the fact that the 91-day

index is a leading indicator,something that's easy to see whenyou realize that it's updated daily,while this week's Q3 GDPnumbers are published a full 4months after Q3 began. It lookslike this:I then also shifted the S&P data,

something that's a bit harder toexplain as both an act in itself andas a phenomenon. What I can sayis that the S&P is highly volatile

and follows the GDP numbers

with, again, remarkable accuracy,only it does so with about a one

quarter delay. Now, most of uswill feel that the markets have aleading role in the economy, andthey do, but it's not the only rolethey play. They are very muchfollowers too, something I'mconvinced we'll see confirmedwhen in Q4, our present point intime, economic numbers willdeteriorate. The result is:The problem of course remains

the same: we won't be allowed toknow what happened in the past

4 weeks until 3 months from now.At least not by the BEA.

However, if we can build asufficiently solid case for CMIdata as a leading indicator for"official" GDP numbers, perhapswe won't have to wait that long.We won't be able to offer 100%certainty, since we have nocrystal ball, but we might yet beable to make you give this someserious thought.Friday's Q3 GDP numbers are notall that important. As Doug haspreviously noted, the "real" data

won't be known until well afterthe November 3 mid- te rm

e le c t i o n s , wh e n th e BEApublishes its first revision. Notethat the Q2 numbers only recentlywent through a second revision,which was down 33% from thefirst one, lowering GDP growthfrom 2.4% to 1.6%. That is, morethan 5 months after the start of Q2, the BEA still needed to reviseits data by a third.Back to CMI. The 91-day growth

index is not the only index theypublish, and in fact I find it gets a

bit too much attention comparedto the others. Which are the 183-day and the 365-day index. SinceI had never seen these in a graph,I contacted RIck Davis at CMI in

September, and he provided one,saying that they'd never done thisgraph before, and that it doesindeed look interesting. Here's thegraph that Doug made whichadds these two indices, both withthe same one-quarter shift as the91-day:I first contacted Doug last week,

and I think that was the first timehe saw my versions of his owng r a p h s . H e c a l l e d t h e m"fascinating" and asked me for

the post you're reading. Thereason I wrote to him, as well asto Rick Davis at CMI, was aquestion Doug fielded from adhort.com reader, who wonderedhow it was possible that the USCensus Bureau reported a +7.3%y-o-y rise in retail sales inSeptember '10, while the CMI 91-day index is tumbling.Earlier, I had seen a Gallup

report on consumer spending thatshowed a drop of -10.6% overthat same period.These are the kinds of things that

make me itchy. All partiesinvolved, Gallup, Census Bureau,BEA a n d CMI , m a y h a v edifferent survey methods, andthey may measure somewhatdifferent areas of spending. Butan 18% difference in findings iss imply too much, i t lackscredib i l i ty .

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spending. The Fed would notgive away money even if it could!

Sure, the Fed can provideliquidity, but it cannot forcebusinesses or consumers toborrow. Yet people tell me the

Fed will cause hyperinflation. Itdoes not add up.Congress can give money away,

but the next Congress will look alot different than this Congress. Idiscussed the political and someeconomic consequences of thatreality in Obamacare CareerEnding Votes; Republican Chanceto Win Senate; Expect HouseBlowout; Stimulus AppetiteGreatly DiminishedHere is one more point about

hyperinflation. If the US dollargoes, every fiat currency on theplanet will follow. The idea thathyperinflation will hit the USalone is preposterous. The Euro,the Yen, the Pound would all goup in flames at the same time.The way to protect against that

situation is to have gold. Holdinggold also works against the otherextreme, deflation, on the basisthat gold is money.

Gold does not do well in allcircumstances, however. Gold didvery poorly from 1980 to 2000, aperiod of ordinary inflation. Thereis no guaranteed play anywhere.9. What's the question we should

have asked, but didn't? What'syour answer?Mish: I guess it would be: "Does

your crystal ball have a forecastfor the stock market? For Gold?The US Dollar?"Let's start with gold. I see articles

everyday by some prominentpeople saying things like "I know

gold is going to ... whatever".The thing is, they don't know and

neither do I. Only a charlatan or afool can make such a claim. Of course the fools and charlatansmay be right, but it is not becausethey "know" anything.One thing I do know is that I

don't know things of that nature.That puts me ahead of all thosew h o c l a i m t o k n o w t h eu n k n o w a b l e .ProbabilitiesI prefer to look at things in terms

of probabilities. It is highly likelythe Fed embarks on QuantitativeEasing. That should be good forgold, but short term that QE mayeasily be priced in.Moreover, the Fed may go slower

than what the market thinks.Thus, there could be a huge "sell

the news" event in both gold andthe stock market on the QEannouncement, no matter what

that announcement is.Should that happen, given thatgold is in a long-term bull market,and given that Bernanke willlikely go back to the QE well, Iexpect buying the next big dip ing o l d w o u l d b e a h i g h e rprobability event than buying a10% correction in the stock 

market.There is a lot going for gold, but

it is by no means a "sure thing".Is the Equities Bottom In?Many people claim the "Bottom

is In"?

Is it? How can they know? I amnot even sure if the bottom islikely in. Look at the half-dozen50% or greater rallies in theNikkei over the course of twodecades, all taken back and thensome.How many "knew" that would

not happen. How many in the US"knew" that housing prices couldnot possibly collapse.I am quite sure that stocks are

richly priced, but that sure doesnot mean stocks cannot rallyfurther from here.We are in a credit bust scenario

with enormous deflationarypressures, even if outrightdeflation is not sustained. Assuch, the risk in equities is a lothigher than most think.Faith BubbleThere is a lot of confidence in theFed's ability to produce inflation.Indeed, I think there is a bubble of 

confidence in the Fed's ability toproduce inflation.Should that bubble burst, equities

can collapse far faster than mostthink possible.Risk ManagementHyperinflation is theoretically

possible, but highly unlikely inpractice for reasons stated above.

But what if Prechter is right?Actually I think the grand-supercycle collapse he is callingfor is also highly unlikely,although it too is certainlypossible.

Is worry over such extremes orattempts to profit from suchextremes at this stage a waste of energy? I think so.Unless you are a day-trader, it is

important to be aware of suchpossibilities, while focusing onthe more likely probabilities.The bottom may be in, but a test

of 850 or even the 700-800 areaof the S&P sure seems likelyenough. How many are preparedfor that?Anti-dollar sentiment is once

again extreme. It is quite similarto the ex t reme ant i -Eurosentiment a few months back.Look at what happened. Are wesetup for another reversal?How many are prepared for the

market to go sideways for 5 yearsor longer, as earnings catch upwith valuations. This happened inthe 70's and there is absolutely noreason it cannot happen again.

Sadly, most aren't prepared forthose scenarios, just as they wereunprepared for the collapse wesaw in housing and the collapsewe saw in global equities.Some questions to ponder are: Doyou really want to be long afterthis runup? How long? What area p p ro p r i a t e h e d g e s? Wh a t

happens if the dollar rises? Is itpossible, if not likely to get areasonably strong move up in theUS dollar here?

The important point is notwhether or not you agree with my

probabilities; the key point is tob e t h i n k i n g a b o u t r i s k  management and opportunities. Itis far easier to make up for lostopportunities than lost cash. Mike"Mish" Shedlock 

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So who's right? At a certain pointit comes down to one's own trustin the various methods. I did ask Gallup for their thoughts on thegap between their data and theg o v e rn m e n t ' s , b u t t h e y 'v e

unfortunately failed to respond todate. Which is a shame, sinceeven with a bucketful of caveats,the Census Bureau seems to makeGallup look grossly incompetent.And not only Gallup, CMI too.It would be interesting if Doug

can, for a future post, obtain thecomplete Gallup and CensusBureau files, and incorporatethem in a graph. For now,though, we still have to interpretthe possible CMI indices. This is

no easy matter. As I said, wehave no crystal ball. However, wecan't deny that the CMI 91-dayindex, when shifted, has that eerycompliance with the BEA GDPnumbers. Still, when we look atthe 183 and 365-day graphs, wesee a much smoother "motion".They take away much of thevolatility that's inherent in the 91-day.We need to recognize that this

also means that the 365-day canshift us away, whether up or

down, from more recent events,in that it averages out an entireyear. And there lies a big clue asto why it is much smoother thanthe BEA GDP numbers, whichmeasure only 91-day increments.

This means that the 365-day thenbecomes a very solid and reliableindex, potentially much more sothan the GDP, even if, as I said, itcan miss out on very real, moreextreme moves.The expectation among "experts"

is that the initial report on Q3GDP will come in around +2%.Remember, this can undergostrong revisions later on. If welook at the 365-day index in thegraph above, we can make a

p r e l i m i n a r y " p r e d i c t i o n "(remember, no crystal ball) forGDP going forward.As the graph is right now, that is

with the 3-month shift forward,Q3 GDP according to the CMI365-day index comes at around+1.25%. And if I can be bold for amoment, I would say chances arethat no matter what number ispublished tomorrow, the BEA Q3GDP will be very close to that

after all revisions have beendone. Sadly, we won't know until

say, Christmas. If we look at whatthe 365-day would appear to sayabout Q4, I would say we come toabout -0.5% (average the graphover the 3-month window).While it's still all too close to

crystal ball territory for (my)complete comfort, I am convincedthat this is a far more solid way of interpretation of the data then the"bare" comparison of BEA andthe CMI 91-day index, becauseboth, on account of their limitedtimeframes, are subject to highvolatility.NOTE: it is for instance entirely

possible that we will decide atsome point that the 365-day needsto be shifted forward a little

more, which would move the fallin GDP also further into thefuture. But that is not the mostimportant thing here: we're notaiming for details, but fortrendlines. And the CMI 365-dayindex, which as of this morningstands at -2.86% (even as the 91-day shows signs of "recovery"),looks like a solid indicator forsuch a trendline, far too solid toignore. Also, seeing that in the

most pronounced part of the lastdownturn, Q4 2008, the 365-day

never went below -2%, whileBEA GDP scraped -7%, we maywell have something worse than -2.86% ahead of us.Lastly, I remain curious about the

discrepancy found in the Gallup

and CMI vs the "official" data.And I'm not ashamed to state thatI, like many others, have strongdoubts about just about anynumber the US governmentpublishes these days, whether it'sGDP or unemployment.In the latter case, we have a

"second opinion" available in U6vs U3 data, which indicate a USunemployment rate of 17.1%instead of 9.6%. What we try todo with the CMI data is seeking

to find a similar "second opinion",this time for GDP and consumerspending.To be continued, no doubt.----------------- This post previously appeared atDShort.com > Join the conversation about thisstory »

Modern Architecture: The Upside Dome (12 photos)Eugene (Featured Blog Posts - My Modern Metropolis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 AM

If buildings had feelings, the St.Michiel Church in Belgian wouldbe depressed because all its

neighbors have big, elaboratedomes. Luckily for this church,two artists have come to itsrescue...Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van

Vaerenbergh created the "UpsideDome," a real-size scale model

comprised of hundreds of metersof chain. The installation is

literally and figuratively thecounterpart of the unfinisheddome, and according to the artists,it "casts light on the architectureof one of the most prestigiousbaroque churches of the LowCountries from a contemporary

perspective." Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

Unfriend Finder HelpsYou Discover Who HasUnfriended You onFacebook [Facebook]

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:30:00 AM

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requires a lot of upkeep andthought. Let Unfriend Finder helpyou out by keeping track of thepeople who ditch you as a friendon Facebook. More »

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G-20 Currency Agreement to Agree CollapsesAlreadynoreply@bl ogger.com (M ichael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  )

Submitted at 10/27/2010 9:06:00 PM

So much for the G20's agreementto agree on currencies. SouthKorea, Indonesia, Columbia,Thailand, Brazil and now Europeand South Africa are all bitchingabout the strength of theircurrencies.Every Man for Himself Bloomberg says it's‘Every Man

for Himself’ on Currencies AfterG-20 Finance chiefs from SouthKorea to South Africa signaledthey may act to slow gains intheir currencies, just four daysafter the Group of 20 vowed tosoothe trade tensions in the $4trillion-a-day foreign-exchangemarket.Asian currencies fell to a one-

week low after Bank of KoreaGovernor Kim Choong Soo saidtoday that measures to mitigatecapital flows could be “useful.”Hours later, the rand dropped as

South African Finance MinisterP r a v i n G o r d h a n s a i d h i sgovernment will use part of 

higher-than-expected tax revenueto build foreign reserves as itattempts to weaken the currency.

The shifts suggest G-20 memberswill keep trying to defend theireconomies from the slide of thedollar and capital inflows evenafter the group promised Oct. 23to refrain from “competitivedevaluation” and to increasinglyembrace market- determinedcurrencies.Bank Indonesia will “guard” the

rupiah at its “fundamental” levelof 8,900 to 9,300 against thedollar and buy foreign currenciesto limit volatility, GovernorDarmin Nasution said today.Bank Negara Malaysia GovernorZeti Akhtar Aziz told BloombergTelevision yesterday she favors agradual strengthening of theringgit.More currency measures may be

on the way. President JuanM an u e l S an t o s h as sa i dColombia may take additionalsteps this week to ease the peso’s

rally and Chilean PresidentSebastian Pinera said Oct. 25 thathis government plans to increase

foreign investment limits forinstitutions.Having already removed a 15

percen t tax exempt ion fo rforeigners on income fromdomestic bonds, Thailand FinanceMinister Korn Chatikavanijwarned on Oct. 25 that regulatorsa r e “k eep i n g an ey e” o nsp ecu l a t i v e i n f l o ws .While he didn’t advocate action

by European governments ,Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs thegroup of euro-area financeministers, also said today thedollar is “undervalued” againstthe euro.“Europe is the victim” of globalcurrency policies, Juncker said ata conference in Frankfurt .Everyone a VictimIt would be easy to mock Junckerbut truth be known, everyone is avictim of Bernanke's misguidedQuantitative Easing strategy andinterest rate policies.It's an international currency war

says Brazil’s finance minister asnoted in Pied Piper Politics;Krugman and Candle Makers

Complain about the Sun; GlobalTrade Wars

For more on compet i t ive

currency debasement includingcapital controls, please seeEmerging Market EconomiesTurn to Capital Controls; ForexMarket in State of Disarray;Gold's Message; Life Imitates Art.Mike "Mish" Shedlock 

h t t p : / /  globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com  C l i c k H e r e T o S c r o l lThru My Recent Post List Mike"Mish" Shedlock is a registeredinvestment advisor representativef o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a lManagement. Sitka Pacific is anasset management firm whosegoal is strong performance andlow volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m /  account_management.html tol e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t hm a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a lpreservation strategies of Sitka

Pacific.

Take Advantage of Vertical Space and Depth forEfficient Coat Closet Storage [Storage]Jason Fitzpatrick ( Lifehacker  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:00:00 AM

Most people under-utilize the

vertical space and the depth of their closets. Make some minoradjustments to your closet tobetter use the space you have.

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Photo Gallery: Vampiresvs. Werewolves! WhoseSide Are You On?

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:03:00 PM

True BloodWhen vampires and werewolves

turn up in the same movie or TV

show, a clash is inevitable.But if you had to pick a creature

of the night to have your back,would it be True Blood's vampiresheriff Eric or sexy (furry) beastAlcide? Buffy's Angel or Oz?Twilight's Edward or Jacob?  Click here to see the pics andvote for your favorites.This entry passed through the

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District 45: Gilbert Cedillo(D)District 46: John Perez(D)District 47: Holly Mitchell(D)District 48: Mike Davis(D)District 49: Mike Eng(D)District 50: Richard Lara(D)

District 51: Steven Bradford(D)District 52: Isadore Hall(D)District 53: Betsy Butler(D)District 54: Bonnie Lowenthal(D)District 55: Warren Furutani(D)District 56: Tony Mendoza(D)District 57: Roger Hernandez(D)District 58: Charles Calderon(D)Los Angeles County Assessor:

John NoguezSanta Monica City Council:

Terry O’Day The above Emailwas sent to me by reader "Chris

who writes ...Dear MishUAW Local 2865 is a public

employees union. It representsteaching assistants at UCLA. Iwas a member last year, and stillget their emails. Funny to beginwith that grad students arerepresented by the auto workersunion, but I was blown away bythe last sentence of the introparagraph to the "voting guide,"

which warns us to vote thestraight Democratic t icketbecause o f " the refusal o f  

Republican lawmakers to vote forfair tax policiesthat reinvest inthe public sector."We pay 9.75 percent sales tax in

Los Angeles County, and the 9.55percent state income tax bracket

starts somewhere around $48,000.We pay the highest gasoline taxin the nation. Add property taxes,ten percent transient occupancytaxes on hotel rooms, vehiclelicensing fees, business licensefees, and on and on -- and ourunion concludes that the problemis not enough taxes.How much would be enough?

There's no such thing. I 'mabsolutely certain that at 20percent sales tax, AFSCME and

ATLA and the UAW Local 2865would still be blasting outmessages condemning the state'sfailure to levy sufficient taxes.Oh, if only we had politicians

who were willing to tax us!Chris Prop 25Note that the one thing most

wanted by UAW 2865 was a votefor Proposition 25. That meansthe very last thing you want to seehappen is a vote for Proposition

25.It is very nice of UAW 2865 toprovide this valuable service.

Moreover, they have made it easyby endorsing only Democrats.That means all you really need toknow in the upcoming election if you live in California is to votestraight Republican with a "NO"

vote on proposition 25.Mike "Mish" Shedlock 

h t t p : / /  globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com  C l i c k H e r e T o S c r o l lThru My Recent Post List Mike"Mish" Shedlock is a registeredinvestment advisor representativef o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a lManagement. Sitka Pacific is anasset management firm whosegoal is strong performance and

low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m /  account_management.html tol e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t hm a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a lpreservation strategies of SitkaPacific.

The King's SpeechHabitu ally Chic ( Habitually Chic®  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:11:06 PM

I'm a sucker for period movies,especially those with Englishaccents and even more so, thosestaring Colin Firth. So whathappens when an English accentof character played by Firth in a

period film is accompanied by astammer? That is the story of TheKing's Speech which opensNovember 26th. Prince George,The Duke of York was second inline to the throne behind hisbrother so his stammer wouldn'treally have been as big of aproblem had his brother notabdicated the throne to marryWallis Simpson. (Madonna ismaking a film about that story.)After his brother abdicates,

George ('Bertie') reluctantlyassumes the throne as KingGeorge VI. Because his stutter hascalled into question his ability torule, he and Elizabeth I engagethe help of an unorthodox speechtherapist named Lionel Logue."Through a set of unexpectedtechniques, and as a result of anunlikely friendship, Bertie is able

to find his voice and boldly leadthe country through war." GeorgeVI and Elizabeth I are the parentsof reigning Queen Elizabeth IIand it will be interesting to see herchildhood during the war. Thereare already rumors that this filmwill earn Colin Firth an Oscar justas The Queen earned HelenMirren her statue. I think it's safeto say that The Academy is also asucker for an English accent.

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Cash-In Closings: 33% OfHomeowners Who Refinanced In 3QCut Principalnoreply@bl ogger.com (M ichael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:44:00 PM

C o n s u m e r d e l e v e r a g i n gcontinues in the housing market,and no t a l l o f that i s v iaforeclosure or default. FreddieMac reports 33% Of HomeownersWho Refinanced In 3Q CutP r i n c i p a l O n e - t h i r d o f  homeowners who refinanced theirmortgage terms in the third

quarter lowered their principalbalance through so-called cash-inat closing, according to FreddieMac (FMCC).It was the second-highest total

since Freddie began keepingrecords of refinance patterns in1985. The revised cash-in rate inthe second quarter was 23%.Rates on 30-year fixed mortgagesdropped during the third quarterto levels not seen since the early1950s, accord ing to Frank  

N o t h a f t , F r e d d i e ' s c h i e f  e c o n o m i s t .

Th e med i an i n t e r es t - r a t er e d u c t i o n w a s a b o u t o n epercentage point, or at least 18%.

During the first year of there f i n an ce l o an l i f e , t h o seborrowers will save over $1,400in principal and interest paymentson a $200,000 loan.Cash-out borrowers, or those that

increased their loan balance by atleast 5%, represented 18% of allrefinanced loans -- the lowestsince Freddie began tracking.Freddie said $7.4 billion in nethome equity was cashed outduring the quarter, down from

$9.4 billion in the second quarterand less than 10% of the peak volume that was seen in thesecond quarter of 2006. Cash-InTrendMichael Becker, a mortgage

banker, sent me this note just a bitago ...I can confirm that "cash-in"

refinancing is a new trend. I havemany borrowers who are bringingmoney to the closing table inorder to be able qualify for arefinance at today's low rates.Isn't this another example of how

the US consumer is deleveraging?Thanks. A few years back cash-

out refinancing was used to buy

cars, boats, granite countertops,and take vacations. This newtrend shows a market now turned180 degrees from consumptionand risk to frugality and risk avoidance.This is a good thing, but foolish

central bankers do not see it thatway.Mike "Mish" Shedlock 

h t t p : / /  globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

  C l i c k H e r e T o S c r o l lThru My Recent Post List Mike"Mish" Shedlock is a registeredinvestment advisor representativef o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a lManagement. Sitka Pacific is anasset management firm whosegoal is strong performance andlow volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m /  account_management.html tol e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t hm a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a lpreservation strategies of SitkaPacific.

Beautiful WatercolorLandscapes (12 pieces)Eugene (Featured Blog Posts - My Modern Metropolis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 4:29:04 PM

Growing up in Shanghai, Z.L.Feng began painting at age seven.After experimenting with all kindsof different mediums, he finallysettled on a favorite - watercolor.The artist always revered themedium because of its level of difficulty. “With watercolor youcannot cover your mistakes, soyou must know what you aredoing,” he says.One of Feng's favorite places to

f i n d i n sp i r a t i o n i s i n t h ecountryside of Virginia's New

River Valley. “Usually I goaround - to the river, the forest,the lake – to try and findinteresting compositions.” Onecan only imagine the beautifullandscapes he must see during thefall season, when the leaveschange colors.Before coming to the U.S. in

1986, Feng received his BFAdegree from Shanghai Teacher’sUniversity and taught in its artdepartment for four years. Hecompleted the MFA degree atRadford University in 1989 wherehe is currently a Professor of Art.' Z.L. Feng

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A Look At How The Housing Crisis Is Still Crushing LaborMobility And The Job RecoveryCalculated Risk ( Money Game  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:50:00 PM

From Source: Challenger, Gray& Ch r i s tm a s : Jo b Se e k e rRelocation Drops to Record LowThe percentage of unemployed

m a n a g e r s a n d e x e c u t i v e srelocating for a new position fellto a record low in the third quarterof 2010, as a slightly improved  j o b m a r k e t a n d g r e a t l yd e p r e c i a t e d h o m e v a l u e scombined to eliminate this optionfor most job seekers.Just 6.9 percent of job seekers

who found employment in thethird quarter relocated for the newposition. That was down from arelocation rate of 13.4 percent inthe same quarter a year ago ...“Continued weakness in the

housing market is undoubtedly thebiggest fac tor suppressingrelocation. Job seekers who own a

home – even if they are open torelocating for a new job – arebasically stuck where they are if they are unable or unwilling tosell their homes without incurringa significant loss,” said John A.Challenger, chief executiveofficer of Challenger, Gray &Christmas. Click through for a larger version>Here is the quarterly data from

Challenger, Gray. Mobility hasbeen trending down for sometime, but really declined over thelast year.It is tough to move when you

can't sell your home. Sometimesthe new employer will pick up the

short fall for key executives andmanagers, but it is probably tooexpensive in many cases now.This is no surprise. Here is what Iwrote in 2007:Less worker mobility [due to

negative equity] is kind of likearteriosclerosis of the economy. Itlowers the overa l l g rowthpotent ia l .Perhaps as many as 15 to 20

million households will be

saddled with negative equity by2009. Even if most of thesehomeowners don't "walk away",

there might still be a negativeimpact on the economy due to lessworker mobility.One of the strengths of the U.S.

labor marke t has been theflexibility associated with laborm o b i l i t y a t a l l l e v e l s o f  employment - households couldeasily move from one region toanother for better employment.The sharp decline in house prices,l e a v in g h o m e o wn e rs wi thsignificant negative equity,appears to be l imiting thisflexibili ty. Join the conversation about thisstory »

Adobe Shows Off Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion ToolScott G ilbertson ( Wired Top Stories  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:00:00 PM

Even though its Flash technologyis used as a punching bag by web-standards fans, Adobe has beenbuilding tools that embraceHTML5. The company recentlyreleased its own HTML5 videoplayer, and Adobe Illustrator andDreamweaver CS5 now contain anumber of new HTML5 exporttools.Now it seems Flash might be

  joining the party. At Adobe’s

MAX conference this week,Adobe engineer Rik Cabaniershowed of a demo of tool that

converts Flash animations toHTML5. (Well, technically itlooks like a combination of HTML5, CSS and images.)The video below, while not the

best quality, shows the tool inaction:Adobe Flash has taken a beating

the last couple of years. FirstApple attacked Flash for poorperformance, then open tools likeHTML5, CSS 3 and JavaScriptbegan stealing much of i ts

thunder, offering video, audio andanimation — traditional Flashstrongholds — without the need

for the free plug-in.While rumors of Flash’s demise

have been greatly exaggerated,there’s no question that, wereFlash to remain what it is today, itwould eventually be replaced byHTML5 tools.Keep in mind this is just a demo,

not something that’s scheduled forrelease any time soon. It’s alsoworth noting that, despite theclaims of “HTML5,” the pagegenerated appears to be using the

XHTML 1.0 doctype. Clearly thisis a work in progress.Still, even if the final project

generated the kind of messymarkup you see in the video, justthe ab i l i ty to export youranimations out of Flash, even if the f ina l code needs somecleanup, would be godsend fordevelopers who want to movet h e i r c o m p l i c a t e d F l a s hanimations to web standards thatplay on devices where Flash can’trun.[Via Adobe's John Nack ]This article originally appeared

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Electric Airplanes, Coming Soon to a Flight School Near YouJason Paur ( Wired Top Stories  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:00:00 AM

Range. It seems to be the wordthat is in the middle of any debateabout electric vehicles. As wediscovered in our short flight inthe E-Spyder, electric airplaneswon’t be crossing the country anytime soon on battery power. Butthere is already plenty of interestfrom pilots who look forward tothe quiet, smooth flight, even if the early electric aircraft won’tprovide anything close to therange of t rad i t ional smal lai rp lanes .But flight schools are showing a

strong interest, liking the low costand simplicity of electric flight.Flight times for two-seat electric

aircraft in development alreadyexceed 90 minutes. That mightnot be enough for a long cross-country flight, but it’s longer thanthe typical flight lesson lasts. Andthis is what has caught theattention of fl ight schools.The commercial side of electric

airplanes may be less about goingplaces, and more about teaching

student pilots how to fly. And thefirst electric student pilot hasalready flown solo, learning thebasics entirely in a battery-powered airplane.The history of electric aircraft is

a relatively short one. At least thelist of aircraft is short. Sure, theTissandier brothers flew anairship flying under electric powerin the 1880s. But it wasn’t untilthe late 1970s that electricairplanes started to take flight, and

it was far from commonplace.Many of those early electric

airplanes flew on solar power,such as Larry Mauro’s SolarRiser, Paul MacReady’s SolarChallenger and Eric Raymond’sSunseeker, which he flew acrossthe United States in a series of 121 flights during the summer of 1990.

B u t t h e s e a i r c r a f t w e r ep i o n e e r i n g , e x p e r i m e n t a lairplanes, not the kind of airplanean average pilot could hop intoand take off for an easy flight.The short history of electric

aircraft aimed at pilots who couldbuy one and fly only started in2007 when Randall Fishman first

flew his battery-powered trike

hang glider and unveiled it to theworld at Airventure Oshkosh.Randall Fishman's ElectraFlyer-

XSince 2007, Fishman has gone onto build and fly an single-seatelectric airplane based on a motorglider design and is currentlyf i n i s h i n g t h e d e s i g n a n dconstruction of a two-placecomposite airplane he believeswill compete with similarly sizedlight sport aircraft.And Fishman isn’t alone. EADS,

the parent company of Airbus, hasconverted the tiny Cri-Cri toelectric power. And an Italianteam flew the electric SkySpark atmore than 150 miles per hour in

2009.

Airplanes closer to productioninclude the E-Spyder ultralight wedescribed yesterday and its bigbrother, Yuneec’s E430.With a serious commitment of 

funds, China’s Yuneec appearspoised to be the first company tosell an electric powered airplaneto the public. Five of the two-seatE430s undergoing flight testingalready include a pair here in theUnited States.The company recently opened a

270,000-square-foot factory nearShanghai dedicated to electricaircraft manufacturing and willadd another 200,000 square feetthis spring.Yuneec’s managing director

Clive Coote says after first

unveiling the E430 in Oshkoshlast year, they received a lot of interest from pilots and flightschools. The company listened tothe feedback and made severalchanges to the design.The updated E430 includes easilyremovable wing tips that allow itto be stored in standard aircrafthangars, and the batteries caneasily be swapped in less thanfour minutes. Coote says severalflight schools were impressed bythe design and, perhaps moreimportantly, the operating costshe says will be less than $10/hour.“I think the flight school side inthe states is going to be very, very

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big for electric.”Coote says the two-seat E430

will sell for just under $90,000,tens of thousands of dollars lessthan many t rad i t ional gas-powered light sport aircraft. He

says Yuneec is set to beginproduction next year and deliverthe first models to customers inearly 2012. With the swappablebattery, Coote believes a flightschool can operate the airplane allday with just two batteries. Aboost charger can refi l l theelectrons in less than 90 minutesand he adds the batteries can bebalance-charged every night toincrease longevity.With more than 1500 cycles per

battery, each battery pack shouldlast between 2,000 to 3,000 flighthours, more than the typicalgasoline engine the electric-powersystem replaces. An additionalbattery pack isn’t cheap though,they cost around $20,000 each.

T h e F e d e r a l A v i a t i o nAdministration currently does nothave any rules in place for electricaircraft. The FAA says beforeregulators could recognize electricp r o p u l s i o n s y s t e m s f o rcertification, several standardsi n c l u d i n g p e r f o r m a n c e ,

installation and maintenancewould have to be developed inorder to certify an electricairplane.

AS TM In t e rn a t i o n a l , t h estandards organization that

oversees the light-sport-aircraftindustry is in the process of drafting documents for electriclight-sport aircraft that it willpresent to the FAA. Thesestandards could cover aircraftsuch as Randal l F ishman’sElectraFlyer-X and Yuneec’sE430.The E-Spyder is able to fly under

the regulations outlined forultralight aircraft weighing lessthan 254 pounds empty that have

been in place since the ultralightboom of the 1980s. And the smallairplane has already served as thelearning platform for the firststudent pilot flying electric.Tom Peghiny who has been

flying ultralights for more than 25years began carefully instructingone of his employees in the E-Spyder during the past month.Mathew Fortin is an experiencedpilot of remote-controlled aircraftand competes at the national levelin r/c aerobatics.Before his first taxiing lessons

down the runway in the E-Spyder,Fortin had only flown a few timesin small aircraft with no formalinstruction.“This is my first real experiencewith takeoffs and landings,” he

said of flying the E-Spyder.Student pilot Mathew Fortinlearning to fly in the E-SpyderWith Peghiny’s instruction and

supervision, Fortin made severaltrips up and down the runwaybefore making his first small hopsoff the ground. In the end, heestimates he made around 25 tripsup and down the runway withoutflying more than just a few feetabove the runway.With this experience under his

belt, Fortin made his first flight toaltitude last Thursday and says itwas an incredible feeling to pilotan aircraft for the first time. Andhe does think the electric motormakes learning to fly moreenjoyable.“It was less intimidating havingthe electric motor, not some loudclanky gas engine” Fortin says. “Itreally makes it easy to focus onflying.”There are still no electric airlinerson the drawing boards, or even anairplane capable of a long cross-

country flight. So, until the muchdreamed of super batteries aredeveloped, student pilots learningto fly in an electric airplane willof course need some transitiontraining to fly normal gas-

powered aircraft .But in the near term, there couldbe a generation of pilots who notonly learn to fly, but learn toe n j o y t h e p l e a s u r e , a n dchallenges, of flying with only theflow of electrons powering theirflight.Photos: Yuneec International,

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HBO Says 'Big Love' Will End After Season 5Jean Bentley ( TV Squad  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Reality-Free, TVNews HBO announced today thatthe fifth season of 'Big Love,'

which is set to premiere on Jan.16, will be the show's last.According to a statement from

series creators Mark V. Olsen andWill Scheffer, "We had a strongconception of the journey the

Henrickson family would make

over the course of the series, of the story we had to tell. While wewere in the writers' room this yearshaping our fifth season, wed i s c o v e r e d t h a t w e w e r eapproaching the culmination of 

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Entrepreneurs andPirates: NBA AgentsLament State of IndustrySam Amick ( FanHouse Main  )

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Filed under: Kings, Sports

Business and Media In the NewJersey office of longtime NBAagent Keith Glass, there is a signthat says everything about the dog-eat-dog world in which he works."It's from Mark Twain, and it(reads), 'I 'll always do right,which will surprise some peopleand astonish the rest,' " Glass said,"It's as simple as that."If only he were right.The agent business has never

been a simple one, and some of 

the league's longest-tenuredprofessionals say it has becomeincreasingly more complicated inrecent years.And even dirtier than usual.

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Intel Gets Into the 'News' BusinessJon Stokes ( Wired Top Stories  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:52:00 PM

Intel has launched what looks tobe the semiconductor industry’sanswer to the venerable in-flightmagazine: Free Press, a “news”site hosted and published by Intel.It’s sort of l ike Delta Skymagazine, but with a more directand pervasive focus on Intel. Thenew site hosts byline-less articleson topics that range from Moore’sLaw, to the retirement of a recenttop Intel engineer, to a spa nearIntel’s Ireland fab.But lest you think that Intel won’tuse Free Press as a platform for

aggressive ly pushing (andpushing back against) specificstories, the lead story on the siteWe dne sda y g ive s a so l idindication of the kind of heavy PRlifting that the company will dowith the new outlet. Specifically,the article takes a solid whack directly at the “tablets arecannibalizing netbooks” idea thathas become the tech topic du jour.And when we say “solid whack,”

the writer actually went out and

did a lot of bona fide reportingonthe topic. There are the obligatoryquotes from analysts at Gartnerand ABI Research, along withdata from analyst reports. But thewriter also quotes conferencepanel sessions, which he or shepresumably attended, and usesmaterial from on-the-recordinterviews with writers at anumber of other press outlets.

Intel went beyond dressing up apress release or a set of talkingpoints in news drag.The fact that Intel is apparently

using real journalists for this siteprobably answers the question of why there are no bylines on thearticles. PRish work of this sort is

very lucrative for reporters, butit’s the kiss of death for a serious journalism career. Once you sellyour soul like that, it’s hard to getregular work again. (But if you’regood at flacking, the pay ismassively better.) So it’s probablyeasier for Intel to get talent towrite for the site if they don’thave to put their name on it.Free Press’s commitment to

doing work that looks and smellslike journalism goes beyond theaforement ioned reportor ia ldiligence, and it has driven theoutlet to adopt some journalistictropes and tics that can seemcomically out-of-place. Forinstance, the opening line of an

article on the retirement of Intel’sKevin Kahn reads, “TechnologistKevin Kahn has made countlessfriends within Intel Corporationand the industry over the courseof a 34-year career that is comingto a close, Intel Free Press haslearned.”“Has learned”? Really?If Free Press continues to do real

(if agenda-driven) reporting on

current tech topics, it raises thequestion of how tech news outletsshould treat it. Should Free Pressbe ignored, even if it does goodwork? Is it fair to always flag thesite with a construction like “theIntel-owned Free Press”—whatabout “the GE-owned NBC

News”? Right now, the answer tothe latter question is a little easier,because Intel itself specificallybrands the site as a PR entity. Butwho knows where things could gonext? Some say that corporate-sponsored PR is the future of   journalism. Others say it’s thepresent reality, and that Intel isonly being up-front about it. Wereport, you decide.

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Magical Webs Found in the Forest (12 pics)alice (Featured Blog Posts - My Modern Metropolis  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:30:00 PM

What would you do if you cameacross these beautiful webs in the

forest? Would you wonder whocould have left you such a sweetsurprise...these magical websplaced where there's no one insight?Based on the idea of lines, Seb

Preschoux has created th isincredible string art. What beganas paintings and then drawingssoon turned into amazing artinstallations. Preschoux wanted tomake something in a natural

environment so he chose forestsin Paris as his setting. Easy toreach and a perfect place with lotsof space, Preschoux liked "thecontrast between nature and thegeometrical shapes produced bythe installations and their light

and colors."Called 9 Colors, the rainbow

installation took a half a day toprepare and more than 20 hours toweave. As he tells us, "you needto go fast, because the forest is alive environment, trees move withthe wind and the string can bebroken." Surprisingly, 9 Colorswas still one of the simplest andfastest to realize as some of hisinstallations can take him severaldays to create. It can found in theAuvers sur Oise forest in the northof Paris.My other favorite of his is called

Nocturnes. I asked Preschoux totell us the background story to this

installation and here's what heshared."The Nocturne series is the nextstep in these installations, they aremore complex, more difficult torealize, they take me more time.The fixation points are strong and

very fragile. If a point breaks all

the installation must be redone. Icame up with it when I wastalking with Ludovic Le Couster(my friend photographer who isshooting all the installations). Wethought, together, that it could be

very interesting to shoot the

installations by night, it was a realchallenge for us. Because Ludovicworks with a traditional camera(not digital or numeric), thatmeans he had to place the cameraduring the day. Then, when the

installation was done, we gave itsome light, used long exposure,and he shot twenty pictures. Wegot back home and several dayslater we had the results. It wasreally exciting!"Finally, just how much work 

goes into these before-hand?"There is no pre-work," he says."All the work is made directly inthe natural environment. I try toprepare them, but nature changes,you have to compose with it, andthat's what I like about theseinstallations. When I draw, I'mused to doing some pre-work, butin nature I'm like a kid in a schoolyard...I play!"

Thanks fo r the in terv iew,Preschoux! Your artwork isstunning. Seb Preschoux

Poll: How Long Should CBS Continue to Stand Behind CharlieSheen?Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com: Breaking News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:03:00 PM

Charlie SheenThe recent — and continued —

reports of Charlie Sheen's erraticbehavior made us wonder: Howlong should CBS stand behind theTwo and a Half Men star?Earlier this week, Sheen landed

in the hospital for what his repsays was an "adverse allergic

reaction to some medication." Hereportedly caused more than$7,000 in damages to his hotelsuite before police intervened. Photos: Charlie Sheen's TrashedPlaza Hotel Room

In August, the 45-year-oldavoided jail time after pleadingguilty to third-degree domesticviolence stemming from a disputein Aspen, Colo., with his wifeBrooke Mueller. Who are TV's top earners?

Sheen is currently the highestpaid actor on television, receivinga reported $1.25 million perepisode. According to Forbes, the

show, currently in i ts eightseason, netted the network $155.1million in ad revenue last seasonand is the most watched comedy

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Making The Walking Dead'sGruesome ZombiesHugh Hart ( Wired Top Stories  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM

Gore maestro Greg Notero'szombie makeup works to chillingeffect in The Walking Dead,giving the highly anticipatedtelevision show's lumberingparade of reanimated corpses ahideously haunting look. Theseries debut, which airs Sundayon AMC, proves long on pokeyexposition and short on surprises,but delivers the gruesome goodsevery time the zombie actionlurches into high gear.

The Walking Dead's post-apocalyptic landscape shinest h a n k s t o m o v i e - q u a l i t ycinematography, especially whenthe camera pulls back to revealcar-littered freeways reminiscentof  The Road. And although thenear-catatonic state of shock exhibited by lead character Rick Grimes (played by AndrewLin c o ln) we a r s t h in , n e wcharacters introduced in the pilot's

third act suggest the show couldgain momentum as it delvesdeeper into the source material

provided by Robert Kirkman'sgraphic novel series.Here's a behind-the-scenes look 

at the zombie stars of  Th eWalking Dead, which a i rsSundays at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Centralon AMC.( Spoiler alert: Minor plot pointsfollow.)Above: Zombie Close-UpThis zombie features makeup by

special effects artist Greg Notero,consulting producer on The

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James MacArthur,Original 'Hawaii Five-0'Danno, Dead at 72Bob Sassone ( TV Squad  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Features, TV NewsJames MacArthur, who playedDanno in the original 'HawaiiFive-0'-- the role now played byScott Caan on the CBS remake --died this morning. He was 72. Nocause of death was given.MacArthur was the adopted son

of actress Helen Hayes and writerCharles MacArthur. Besides his

r o l e o n ' H a w a i i F i v e - 0 , 'MacArthur was also known forhis role in the 1960 version of 'Swiss Family Robinson.' Heappeared in several other movieso v e r t h e y e a r s , i n c lu d in g'Kidnapped,' 'Battle of the Bulge,''The Bedford Incident,' and 'Hang'Em High.'He guest starred on many TV

shows too, including 'The LoveBoat,' 'Murder, She Wrote,' 'TheAdventures of Superboy,' 'Vegas,'

'Fantasy Island, ' 'Bonanza, '

'Tarzan,' 'Gunsmoke,' 'The AlfredHitchcock Hour,' and 'Climax!',his first role.His last role was in the 1998 TV

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Big Love's Fifth Season Will Be Its LastGina DiNunno (TVGuide.com: Breaking News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:22:00 PM

Big Love Big Love has been picked up fora fifth and final season, HBOannounced Thursday, which will

debut on Jan. 16.

 Watch Big Love clips"When we created Big Love in2002, we had a strong conceptionof the journey the Henricksonfamily would make over thecourse of the series, of the storywe had to te l l ," execut iveproducers Mark V. Olsen and

Will Scheffer said in a statement.

"While we were in the writers'room this year shaping our fifth

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Four Myths About the Tea PartiesJohn B. Judis (The New Republic - All Feed  )

Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM

On the eve of the Novemberelections, we are suddenly awash

i n b o o k s , a r t i c l e s , a n dmonographs about the TeaParties. Some of these—I wouldsingle out Sean Wilen tz ’shistorical piece in The NewY o r k e r — d e e p e n o u runderstanding, but most of themdon’t get it right. They are tooquick either to dismiss or tostigmatize the Tea Parties. Andthe mistakes they make are not just academic; they contribute to a

misunderstanding of what it willtake for liberals and the left—nott o m e n t i o n t h e O b a m aadministration—to turn aroundA m e r i c a n p o l i t i c s a f t e rN o v e m b e r .

Here are some of the mostcommon misconceptions:

1) “The Tea Party is not amovement.” In a front page storyin last Sunday’s Washington Post,Amy Gardner wrote that the TeaParties are “not so much a

movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings thatdo surprisingly little to engage inth e p o l i t i c a l p ro c e ss . ” Asevidence, Gardner cites the lack of a common platform, the lack of a common national candidate, andthe absence of a single dominantnational organization. The TeaParties, the author suggests, are am u c h w e a k e r b r e w t h a nc o m m o n l y t h o u g h t .But many powerful movements

lack one or more of these features.In their first years, the Populists(aka Farmers Alliance, etc.)lacked all these of these features.In 1892, they came togethera round a candida te and a

platform, but that didn’t last. Thepopulist movement of the 1880sand 1890s was basically a highlydecentralized and fractiousmovement. Or consider the NewLeft of the 1960s, of which I canspeak personally. There was amultiplicity of organizations:student, black, Chicano, feminist.And some of the organizationsthat claimed to have thousandsand thousands of members were

themselves disorganized anddecentralized. I belonged to anSDS chapter in California, but wen e v e r — a n d I m e a nnever—consulted the nationaloffice in Chicago. When somewould-be Leninists tried toconsolidate SDS into a cadreorganization in 1969, it splinteredand eventually dissolved.The conservative movement that

began in the mid-’50s also lackeda common platform and dominant

na t iona l organiza t ion . TheAmerican Conservative Unionwa s a n d r e m a in s a p a p e ro rg a n i z a t i o n t h a t p u t s o nconferences. Conserva t ivescoalesced around national leadersin 1964 and 1980, but in betweenthese t imes, they were notcommitted to a single leader. It iseasy to forget that in the 1980election, some new right leadersbacked John Connally againstRonald Reagan! And by Reagan’s

second term, conservatives werefeuding again. In other words,American politics has almosta l w a y s h a d d i s o r g a n i z e d ,decentralized movements like theTea Parties—and they have had a

significant impact.I don’t want to read too much

into Gardner’s analysis, but what Isuspect in these cases is that thewriter is imposing a continentalEuropean model of a politicalm o v e m e n t o n to Am e r i c a npolitics. In Europe’s multipartysystems, movements cohere moreeasily into parties, but in America,the two-party system discouragesthe transition from movement to

party except when the movementtakes over one of the two parties.2) “The Tea Party is a fascist

movement.” Several authors haveclaimed that the Tea Party, farfrom being incoherent in itsviews, is really an American“ fa sc i s t ” m o v e m e n t . Sa raRobinson from the Campaign forAmerica’s Future c i tes th edefinition of fascism from a book,The Anatomy of Fascism:...a form of political behavior

m a r k e d b y o b s e s s i v epreoccupation with communityd e c l i n e , h u m i l i a t i o n o rvictimhood and by compensatorycults of unity, energy and purity,in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants,working in uneasy but effectivecollaboration with traditionaleli tes, abandons democraticl ibe r t ies and pursues wi thredemptive violence and withoutethical or legal restraints goals of 

internal cleansing and externalexpansion.“Sound familiar?” she asks. Notto me. The Tea Party isn’t a party,has not yet abandoned democraticliberties, and has not pursued

“redemptive violence.” A fewfights here or there, maybe, butnot Brown Shirt violence.The problem here is very similar

to that of denying that the TeaParty is a “movement.” In bothcases, the author is imposingabstract definitions that are rootedin European, not American,history. What I would say aboutthe Tea Party is that like theEuropean fascism between the

world wars , i t i s a deeplyreactionary movement. Peopleo f t e n l o o k b a c k wa rd s fo rso lu t ions when faced wi thadversity. In continental Europe,that meant looking back to anauthoritarian past—in the case of Italy, all the way to the days of the Roman Empire. In the U.S. ithas meant looking back to an anti-statist past, when liberty wasd e f i n e d i n o p p o s i t i o n t ogovernment. That’s how the Tea

Party movement sees it. It’s ourAmerican version of politicalbackwardness, not of fascism.3)“The Tea Party is racist.” I

dealt with this argument at somelength before, and I am not goingto repeat what I wrote. But anextensive new study put out bythe NAACP and the Institute forResearch and Education onHuman Rights has appeared, andit requires a response. There issome new information about the

Tea Parties in this study, but thebasic thrust of it is to stigmatizethe movement as incurably racistby associating it with people likeDavid Duke. Now, I am notdenying that there are “anti-

Semites, racists, and bigots” in theTea Party movement. Nor would Ideny that there were people in theanti-Iraq War left who thoughtthat the U.S. had it coming onSeptember 11. But it is a mistaketo reduce the Tea Party to a racistmovement—the way one could justifiably reduce something likethe White Citizens’ Councils of the 1950s (which claimed only tobe for “states’ rights”) to a racist

movement.The Tea Party is an accretion of various movements of the pastdecades, including the Christianright and, as Wilentz shows, theolder anti-Communist Right. Buti t f i t s a b o v e a l l i n to t h ef r a m e w o r k o f A m e r i c a npopulism, which has always hadright-wing and left-wing variants,and which is rooted in a middleclass cri de coeur—that we whodo the work and play by the rules

are being exploited by parasiticbankers and speculators and/or byshiftless, idle white trash, negroes,illegal immigrants, fill in theblank here. What’s important isthat these movements, whichgather strength in the face of adversity, can go either right orleft. During the 1930s, theytended left rather than right.During Obama’s first term, they

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The Female FactorNeera Tanden (The New Republic - All Feed  )

Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM

Last week, as Democraticcandidates across the country

reached out to female voters in thefinal swing before Election Day,the White House released a reporton how the president’s economicagenda helps women. The reporth i g h l i g h t s t h e O b a m a ’ sadministration’s efforts andaccomplishments on behalf of w o m e n ’ s e c o n o m i cs u c c e s s — s m a l l b u s i n e s sexpansion that helps femalebusiness owners, jobs tax credits

that will help women (and men)find jobs, and laws to enforceequal pay for equal work, amongother initiatives. Yet the reportpassed with little fanfare and evenless media attention—like somany o ther aspects o f thepresident’s remarkably pro-woman policy agenda.It’s almost tragic how this agendahas fallen under the radar duringObama’s first two years in office.We h ear t o o o f t en ab o u t

abortion’s controversial role in they e a r - l o n g h e a l t h c a r enegotiations—but not enoughabout other women-centeredissues that, after being promotedby activists for years, have finallymade it into legislation. These gobeyond the Lilly Ledbetter FairP a y A c t . T h e A m e r i c a nReinvestment and Recovery Actdramatically expanded child care

provisions and Head Start. Thehealth care bill contained over $1billion to support nurses visitingnew and expectant mothers athome, a program that women’sgroups and economists alike have

c h a m p i o n e d a s a s m a r tinvestment. An even biggervictory is the CLASS Act, alsopart of the health care bill, whichprovides a basic cash benefit topeople (often women) who aretaking care of the elderly at home.Yet I can probably count on my

hand the number of people,including women, who actuallyknow about these new laws. Amidthe din of bad news about the

economy and misinformationabout health care reform, thesepolicies don’t stand a chance,sadly, of getting much mediacoverage. It doesn’t help that theDemocrats haven’t done enoughto shine a public spotlight onthem.But they could soon be lost in an

even deeper abyss: The rampantindividualism and free-marketfundamentalism supported by theRepublican Party, which seems on

the precipice of controlling theHouse and possibly the Senate,could undo these initiativesentirely. What’s more, the newRepublican wave could mute thevoice of women and their mostimportant advocates on thenational stage.

The Tea Parties, fueled bywealthy multimillionaires, arer u n n i n g e x t r e m e

candidates—including womenlike Sharron Angle and ChristineO’Donnell—who want to get ridof policies that help women themost. If the health care bill getsrepealed, for instance, the new

provisions for long-term carewould go out the window, makingdecades worth of advocacy work moot.But the Tea Parties threaten

women in other ways, too. If theRepublicans take back the House,the Democratic Party will loseone of its most powerful women:Speaker Nancy Pelosi , whocurrently has more clout than anywoman on the other side of the

aisle. Meanwhile, Republicanslike Sarah Palin and Nikki Haleyw i l l o n l y g a i n p o l i t i c a lpower—and, with that power,attract more attention to theire x t r e m e v i e w s . I f t h e s eRepublicans become the nation’sloudest voices of seeminglystrong women, that could portendfor a sh i f t among youngerwomen’s allegiances toward theRepublican Party and its platform.

Already, despite the stark 

realities about what Republicanswill likely take away from womenonce they are in power, we areseeing rumbling of such a change:After forming the backbone of Democratic majorities for years,wo rk i n g -c l as s wo men a r ewobbling in their support for theObama administration. Accordingto a Wall Street Journal poll fromlast week, while female college

graduates favor Democratic overRepublican control (56 percent to36 percent), women with onlysome college or a vocationaleducation are running almost even(45 percent to 44 percent).

Perhaps, in their growingeconomic anxiety, this group of women wants to throw outincumbents they perceive havenot sufficiently focused on theireconomic progress. But, of course, if the media paid moreattention to Obama’s pro-womanagenda—and both advocates andp o l i cy mak er s d i d mo re t obroadcast it—these key voterswould know that the Democrats,

n o t R e p u b l i c a n s , a r e t h epol i t ic ians who have thei rin teres ts in mind .

Demo cra t s can ’ t l e t t h i scon t inue—they can’ t a l lowRepublicans to brand themselvesas the party of strong femaleleaders, or allow women togradually become a constituencyof the right. That’s why it’scritical to have standout women inthe party. If Pelosi loses, is there apowerful enough Democratic

woman to compete with theseRepublicans in the nationalspotlight? There’s Hillary Clintonwho, as Secretary of State, hassent a powerful signal to thecountry and the world about theimportance of female leadershipin the Obama administration. But,as a technically non-partisaninternational figure, Hillary won’tbe able to do public battle with

the rising right.Perhaps a Governor Sink—if she

wins—in Florida could be amonga new class of strong femaleD e m o c r a t s . T h e O b a m aadministration would also do well

to elevate women in the executivebranch and turn public attention tothose who are already there.In addition to presenting women

as t h e f ace o f t h e p a r t y ,Democrats must focus on issueslike long-term care, child care,and equal pay, all of which couldrise to the legislative fore in thecoming months. Republicans willlikely directly attack or cut back investments in these initiatives.

When this happens, the WhiteHouse (and Democrats morebroadly) would be wise to explainwhat it will mean for women if these initiatives are gutted orlost—and to fight tooth and nail tomake sure that doesn’t happen.If it doesn’t take these steps, the

Democratic Party could lose itsgrasp on a critical, even centralpart of its coalition. And women,in the long run, would sufferunder conservative laws that

parrot family values, but donothing to value families.

Neera Tanden is the chief operating officer of the Center forAmerican Progress. She served int h e O b a m a a n d C l i n t o na d m i n i s t r a t i o n s .

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Sock It ToomeyE.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Republic - All Feed  )

Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- If there isone candidate who truly wishes

that Christine O'Donnell had notwon the Republican senatorialnomination in Delaware, it is theRepublican Senate candidate inPennsylvania, Pat Toomey.Toomey, a former congressman,

became a hero to the right forpushing Sen. Arlen Specter out of the GOP. For much of thesummer, Toomey ran safely aheadof the man who went on to knock out Specter in the DemocraticSenate primary, Rep. Joe Sestak.Then came O'Donnell's defeat of 

Rep. Mike Castle in one of the teaparty's most celebrated victories.Northern Delaware happens to bepart of the Philadelphia mediamarket and the attention lavishedon O'Donnell, her sometimesexotic views and her "I'm not awitch" TV spot spilled over statelines.Sestak, who won his primary in

the face of President Obama's

support for Specter, has taken fulladvantage, arguing that Toomeymay be stylistically different fromthe colorful candidate across theriver, but is substantively quitesimilar. Toomey was president of the conservative Club for Growth,a group that targeted moderateRepublicans in primaries, andSestak says his opponent andO'Donnell both want to drivemiddle-of-the-roaders out of theGOP.

You might also imagine, from allthe times he cites it, that Sestak'sfavorite book is Toomey's 2009supply-side manifesto, "The Roadto Prosperity," which endorsesprivate accounts for Social

Security and a moratorium on allcorporate taxes."Congressman Toomey is not awitch," Sestak loves to say, "buthis book is very scary."All this has allowed Sestak to

close the gap with Toomey andmove momentum to his side.Toomey's campaign argues thatSestak has simply brought someDemocrats home and can point tosome recent polling favorable to

the Republican. But Toomeytacitly acknowledges the damageO'Donnell has done him becausehe now carefully delineates hisdifferences with her.And the O'Donnell effect has

larger implications. Republicangains next week are inevitable.But if Senate candidates on theright end of Republican politicslose here and in most of the othersta tes they a re contest ing(Colorado, Wisconsin, Alaska,

K e n t u c k y , a n d N e v a d a ) ,conservatives will have troubleclaiming this election as anideological mandate and a signthat the country had moved wellto the right of where it was twoyears ago.So far, being righter-than-right

has been anything but helpful.O'Donnell's nomination virtuallysealed a victory for DemocratChris Coons. In Colorado,Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet,

after spending the summer underassault from anonymously fundedconservative groups, has beenclosing in on tea party favoriteKen Buck. In Wisconsin, Sen.Russ Feingold has narrowed

Republican Ron Johnson's oncesubstantial lead.In Alaska, the tea party's Joe

Miller faces a formidable write-inc ha l l e nge f rom Se n . L i saMurkowski, whom he defeated inthe Republican primary, even asDemocrat Scott McAdams battlesto sneak through on the GOPsplit.Republican Rand Paul has clung

to a lead over Democrat Jack 

Conway in Kentucky, a very redstate where a Republican shouldnot be having so much trouble. Asfor Nevada, nobody knows if Senate Majority Leader HarryReid will prevail over marqueetea party candidate SharronAngle, but Angle's bizarre brandof conservatism is the one thinggiving Reid a fighting chance.A Sestak victory would be an

especially powerful tonic forprogressives because the former

admiral has been brave ins u p p o r t i n g t r i a l s f o r t h eGuantanamo detainees and a banon assault weapons.

H e h a s a l s o b e e nuna ba she d— a nd fa r moree n t e r t a i n i n g t h a n m o s tDemocrats—in defending hisvotes for the stimulus, health carereform and the Wall Street rescue.In one ad, he likens voting for thefinancial bailout to cleaning upafter his adorable puppy Belle.

The analogy is between thepuppy's mess and the one createdby the economic policies of Toomey and former PresidentGeorge W. Bush.What comes across when you

talk with Sestak is an utter lack of defensiveness. Democrats, hesays, "should be proud of whatthey've done." But he's impatientthat leaders of his party (hedoesn't mention names) havefailed to convince voters thatWashington fully understandst h e i r s t r u g g l e s a n d t h e i ra s p i r a t i o n s .Naturally, he makes the point

with a Navy idiom. "You don't

run a ship from the bridge," hesays. "You run it from the boilerroom." Leaders, he says, need topersuade voters "that we knowwho they are."A Sestak victory would certainly

be a major defeat for tea party-style conservatism. But it wouldalso offer progressives lessons inhow to develop a down-to-earthoutside game of their own.E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of 

the recently published Souled

Out: Reclaiming Faith andPolitics After the Religious Right.H e i s a Wa sh ing ton Pos tcolumnist, a senior fellow at theBrookings Institution, and ap r o f e s s o r a t G e o r g e t o w nU n i v e r s i t y .(c) 2010, Washington PostWriters Group

Nike's 'Rise' Ad: LeBronJames Plays Tubbs toDon Johnson's Crockett

Jane Murphy ( TV Squad  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:35:00 AM

Filed under: TV News"Whatshould I do?" asks basketballsuperstar LeBron James, in a newNike ad that reviews the last fewmonths of his turbulent movefrom the Cleveland Cavaliers tothe Miami Heat. The 90-secondad, 'Rise', came to light Mondayvia Twitter, when King Jamesd i re c t e d h i s fo l low e rs t oY ouTube .Arguably, the highlight of the ad,

which had its TV premiereTuesday during TNT's broadcastof the Heat vs. Celtics game, isthe appearance of Miami's formerking. Decked out in his baby bluev-neck and white linen suit, it'snone other than Don Johnson. Permalink | Email this| LinkingBlogs| Comments

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have gone primarily to the right.There are many reasons for this,but at least one has to do withhow the White House has blamedMain Street and Wall Streetequally for the financial crisis.

4 ) “ Th e Te a Pa r ty i s aconventional Republican groupfunded by big business.” Myformer colleague Michael Lindargues that the Tea Party is reallya Republican offshoot. “Itsadherents are angry for the samereason that Democrats were angrybetween 2001 and 2007: theirparty is out of power,” he writes.But I think that is too simple, asare the assertions that the TeaParty is a tool of big business.

There are groups like Tea PartyExpress that were founded byRepublican consultants and thathave the apparent purpose of getting the Republicans back inpower—but as The Washington

Post study shows, many of thosewho identify with and are activein the Tea Party are new topolitics and are moved by specificgrievances rather than by anallegiance to the Republican

Party. That was also true of Perotvoters, from whom the TeaPartiers partly descend. Theyleaned Democratic in 1992 andRepublican in 1994, but overalltheir primary allegiance was notto party.

There a re a lso Tea Par tysponsoring organizations likeAmericans for Prosperity that arefunded primarily by big business.But again, as The WashingtonPost survey shows, most of the

local groups are improvident;they’re not George W. Bush andh i s “ p i o n e e r s . ” W h a t ’ sundeniable, though, is that thosemost likely to benefit from right-wing middle class insurgencies

are not the embattled middleclasses, but the business interestsand the wealthy associated withthe Republican Party. That wascertainly true of the “ReaganRevolution,” which put an end to

the movement toward incomeequality that had begun in the1930s. So who benefits from thesemovements is not the same aswho controls them on a day-to-day basis. That is l ikely tobecome apparent after thisNovember’s election.John B. Judis is a senior editor of 

The New Republic.For more TNR, become a fan on

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Paula Abdul's New Dance Show and'American Idol' to Face Off: Who Will

Win?Jean Bentley ( TV Squad  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:45:00 AM

F i l e d u n d e r : T V N e w sWhen'American Idol' returns inJanuary for its tenth season, it'llhave some major t ime slotcompetition from a very familiarface. Paula Abdul's new CBS reality

series 'Live to Dance' will godirec t ly aga inst the newlyrevamped 'Idol' on Wednesdays

from 8 to 9PM, Deadline reports.The new show will premiere onTue., Jan 4 from 8 to 10PMbefore settling into its regularWednesday time slot, filling thegap between cycles of 'Survivor.' Permalink | Email this| LinkingBlogs| Comments

Nissan announces third-largestrecall in company history--2.14 million SUVs and trucksCons umer Reports Shop ping Blog ( Consumer Reports  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:18:40 AM

Nissan announces third-largestrecall in company history--2.14million SUVs and trucksNissan has announced its third

largest recall in company history,affecting 2.14 million light trucksand SUVs worldwide, accordingto Automotive News. The recallinvolves a potentil ly faultyignition relay that could lead toengine problems on NissanPathfinder, Armada and XterraSUVs, Titan and Frontier pickuptrucks, and Infiniti QX56 SUVs.The majority of the vehiclesaffected are Japanese marketunits, but the recall does include738,276 vehicles sold in theUnited States, and 23,252 sold inCanada.The carmaker says no accidents

have resulted from the defectiveparts. Vehicles affected were built

in Japan, the United States,Britain, Spain, China, and Taiwan

between August 2003 and July2006. A company spokespersoncited by Automotive News did notgive the name of the supplierresponsible for the parts, but said

that company made all the partsinvolved in the recall worldwide.The fix involves replacing the

ignition relay, a process Nissansays should take less than 25minutes.— Jim Travers Subscribe now!

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AMC Brings Zombies to Primetime with the Harrowing andGrisly The Walking DeadSteve Gutierrez ( TVGuide.com: Breaking News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:15:00 PM

The Walking DeadWith its putrid zombie hoard,

The Walking Dead is the ultimateHalloween gift for fans of gore:There are splattered heads,swarming flies and enoughtattered, rotting flesh to makemost watch through splayedfingers. But peel back just a thinlayer of the decaying skin andyou'll find the heart of AMC'snewest drama is entirely human

— racing 90 beats a minute,pumping furiously to stay alive."There's us and the dead. Wesurvive this by pulling together,not apart," says deputy sheriff Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln)."It's a story that anyone can relateto," explains Robert Kirkman,author of the acclaimed comic-book series on which the show isb a s e d . " T h e z o m b i e s a r erepresentative of disaster, but thefocus i s on the people —everything they go through."Rick Grimes is an Everyman witheverything: a wife, a son and bestfriend Shane ( Jon Bernthal), whogives him marital advice overburgers. Just a normal guy in anormal world — until a shootoutlands him in a coma. When hewakes, it's all gone, and onlyempty buildings and rows of bodies remain. "We enter thisworld through his eyes and follow

him as he rea l izes wha t 'shappened ," says execut iveproducer Gale Ann Hurd( The

Terminator, Aliens). Slashing andshooting his way through thec a rn iv o ro u s c o rp se s , R ic k  searches for his loved ones. "Theonly thing I am now is a manlooking for his family," he says."Anyone who gets in the way of that is gonna lose." "This is thestory of human survival — in anykind of apocalypse," Hurd says."What is human nature wheneverything's been stripped awayand there's nothing left?"

Except, of course, for the undead— slowly shambling, disturbingcollections of gray flesh and ragsdesigned by makeup guru andc o n su l t i n g p ro d u c e r G r e gNicotero, whose credits includet h e 2 0 0 5 r e m a k e o f T h eAmityville Horror, The HillsHave Eyes and HBO's ThePacific, for which he recently wonan Emmy.After castings in Atlanta, where

the show is filmed, Nicotero andhis crew applied contact lenses,dentures, prosthetics and drieddark blood — using as many as150 extras in a day. The zombieseven got their own backstories."We decided how that persondied. Were they bitten and turned?Or did they get shot and comeback?" Nicotero says. They eventrained the extras at "zombieschool." "It was a blast!" Hurdsays. "'Professor' Nicotero put

together footage and we showedwhat we were looking for: notsprinters and not funny. We takeit seriously."

As d o e s AMC, wh ic h i sbecoming the home for intensedramas with Breaking Bad andMad Men. "AMC hasn't ever said,'Can you do that off screen?' Thisisn't an 'off screen' series," says agrateful Hurd. "They haven't

given us one note to make thingsless graphic." In fact, she saysthey were open to the project fromthe beginning. "I called them andthey already knew about it!" Thatwas good news for creator anddirector Frank Darabont( TheShawshank Re demption, TheGreen Mile), a longtime fan of thesource material. "I walked into thecomic-book store and saw thebook five years ago," he says. "I

was expecting something facile,and instead I got somethingdeep."And he's bringing all the depth

and complexity to the screen."You get an unflinching look atall that is good and all that is badin humanity," says Lincoln. Thequestion is, how much good isleft? Probably not a ton: "Thehumans can be more frightening

than the zombies," Hurd notes.Of those scary humans, there's

Andrea ( Laurie Holden), a civilrights attorney who almost shootsRick at first sight for endangeringher group; Morgan ( LennieJames), who, to protect his son,holds a knife to Rick's throat; andShane, who's willing to let friendsdie rather than risk a rescue. It'se v e ry m a n fo r h im se l f i nzombieville, and all are desperate,

including Rick's wife, Lori ( SarahWayne Callies). Thinking herhusband is dead, Mrs. Grimes

clings to his best friend. "There's aneed to affirm humanity, and thenthere's the fallout," says Callies —as if the end of the world wasn'tenough drama without a lovetriangle.It's not all bleak, however, even

with a brutal body count. There'sRick's courage, Andrea's passionand Morgan's paternal love. "Thisisn't a successful survival story,but it is an impassioned survivalstory," Callies says. Even Lori

and Shane's adultery makesperfect sense in the show'sapocalyptic context — it's anatural yearning, that irresistibleneed for warmth and comfort andsex. What could be more humanthan that?The Walking Dead premieres

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Motorola DECT 6.0 Digital Cordless 4 Handset Phone &Answering System( Woot! - One Day, One Deal  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:00:01 AM

Attention, everyone currentlyembroiled in scandal.Make apologies easier with four

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Profitt, Charlie Sheen, and anyoneelse currently feeling some heatfor doing incredibly dumb thingsthey shouldn’t have done. Youneed this Motorola DECT 6.0Digital Cordless 4 Handset Phone& Answering System to make itall better. We know what you’re

thinking, “Why would I need thisthing? I already have a cellphone!” Well for starters, that’spart of the problem that got youhere, Brett, but hear us out.See, you’re probably going to be

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Hands on with the Nikon Coolpix P7000 at 2010PDN PhotoPlus ExpoTerry S ullivan ( Consumer Reports  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:13:58 AM

Hands on with the Nikon CoolpixP7000 at 2010 PDN PhotoPlusExpo The Nikon Coolpix P7000Photo: Terry SullivanWhile most consumers seem to

want smaller subcompacts withfewer buttons and dials, a selectgroup of prosumer shooters yearnfor the days when cameras hadlots of buttons, knobs, switchesand dials. And it appears Nikonhas recognized this group and

produced a camera for them: TheNikon Coolpix P7000.This Coolpix ($500) is a 10-

megapixel advanced point-and-shoot with a 3-inch LCD, top ISOsetting of 6400, and hot shoe foran external flash. It also cancapture RAW files. But as youcan see from the product shot inmy post for the Nikon CoolpixP7000 camera announcement,what catches your eye is that thecamera body is covered with lots

of dials and buttons. And forsomeone like me, who loves toplay with different compositions,lighting, and effects, this camerais quite attractive.In playing with the P7000 on the

PhotoPlus Expo show floor, Iliked one dial in particular that letme quickly change a number of 

settings, including ISO, whiteb a l a n c e , a n d e x p o s u r ecompensation. But my favoritesetting on this dial was thebracketing setting. Bracketing is the ability to fires e v e r a l s h o t s o f f w h i l esimultaneously changing just oneexposure setting. For example,you could take three shots inwhich all settings remain constantexcept for the shutter speed. If you took five shots, you might

shoot them at 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/ 125, and 1/250 of a second. If your subject was moving, you'dnotice blur in the first shot, butyou would have frozen the actionin the last. The last shot wouldprobably be the darkest.Like most digital cameras, the

P 7 0 0 0 b r a c k e t sautomatically—meaning you don'thave to manually change theexposure setting. You can set thebracketing for shutter speed, butalso for aperture, ISO, and whitebalance. The feature lets youshoot either three or five photos atthree various increments. Closerincrements show more subtlec h a n g e s w h i l e a g r e a t e r

incremental change per shot willproduce more obvious differencebetween shots.

There are some other nicefeatures available on the dials. Forexample, the camera has threeuser settings. So if you shoot only

black-and-white photos, you canset the camera to one of these, butif you want to shoot color, youuse another user setting or switchto another mode.Another practical feature I like is

the optical viewfinder, which canbe helpful in bright light when theLCD is washed out.

I d id no t ice a few minorshortcomings with the NikonCoolpix P7000. First, unlike someadvanced point-and-shoots, theP7000 doesn't have a swivelingdisplay, which can be helpful forself-portraits or hard-to-reachshots. And the burst mode couldbe faster. Also, I did not see a

"question mark" button to accesshelp screens, which is found onmany other past Nikon point-and-

shoots and SLRs.We hope to have this camera inour labs and listed in our digitalcamera Ratings(available tosubscribers) shortly. Stay tuned.What features would you like to

see on an advanced point-and-shoot camera? Let us know incomments, below.—Terry Sullivan Next Steps• Digital Camera Buying Advice:• Types of Digital Cameras|• Digital Camera Features|

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Said TheSpider ToThe Pie( Woot! - One Day, One Deal  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:30:00 AM

Good morning, Wooters. Herewe are at another fine Thursday.How are you this morning? Me?Oh, I'm just peachy. I've had mymorning cereal, taken some timeto reflect on my goals for the dayand how to achieve them, and I'mlooking forward to the shorterlines at the grocery later todayknowing many of my fellowTexans committed seppuku in

night after the Rangers Game 1loss to the Giants.And you know what? I thought of you this morning, too, WootPeoples. That's right, I did! Ithought to myself, 'Gosh, thoseguys are so rad. Like, totally.They really deserve somethingspecial this morning."So here is a video featuring a tinycatapult hurling tiny pies atinsects and spiders.There you go, my favorite little

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Daily Dispatch: Mint Data gives viewinto spending habits; Google PlaceSearch streamlines local searchDirk Klin gner ( Consumer 

Reports  )Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:05:36 AM

Daily Dispatch: Mint Data givesview into spending habits; GooglePlace Search streamlines localsearchIn today's Digital Dispatch:Mint Data Delivers A View Into

The Spending Habits Of Its 4Million Users( TechCrunch). . . M i n t D a t a a g g r e g a t e sanonymous spending data fromMint’s users to give you realtimeinsight on what people arespending on across the country.For example, the platform lists themost popular restaurants in SanFrancisco (by visits), the topshopping spots in New York City(by highest average spend), andthe highest spending cities in theU.S.Apple making custom, built-in

SIM for future iPhone?( TiPb)

. . .Sources inside Europeancarriers have reported that Applehas been working with SIM-cardmanufacturer Gemalto to create aspecial SIM card that would allowconsumers in Europe to buy aphone via the web or at the AppleStore and get the phones workingusing Apple’s App Store.Connect Your Car to the Web

With AutoBot( ReadWriteWeb)

...Features include locking andunlocking doors, controllingwindow settings, locating your carif you forget where you parked orit gets stolen, doing diagnosticc h e c k s o n y o u r c a r , a n dmessaging friends and familywhen the driver has been in anaccident.Place Search: a faster, easier way

to find local information( OfficialGoogle Blog)

... Today we’re introducing PlaceSearch, a new kind of local searchresult that organizes the world’sinformation around places. We’veclustered search results aroundspecific locations so you can moreeasily make comparisons anddecide where to go.Time-travelling alien? Mystery

woman in Chaplin movie clip(The Star)...The clip is from the six-minutesequence of the opening of 

Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus atGrauman’s Chinese Theatre inHollywood. A stocky woman in ahat and coat walks into the frame,talking into what looks like acellphone.Jacksonville mom shakes baby

for interrupting FarmVille, pleadsguilty to murder( Florida Times-Union)

...She told investigators she

became angry because the babywas crying while she was playinga c o m p u t e r g a m e c a l l e dFarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.This Movie Was Shot Using a

Mobile Phone( digital inspiration).. .The groundbreaking film,d i r e c t e d b y t h e Mc He n ryBrothers, was shot in just fourdays with the Nokia N8 using noback up cameras, with the streets

of London and St Albansproviding the backdrop to Nokia’sstory about one commuter’seventful journey to work.About Digital Dirk's DispatchesDirk Klingner, our technology-

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FanHouse Roundtable:Are the Vikings BetterOff Without Brett Favre?FanH ouse Staff ( FanHouse 

Main  )Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:12:00 PM

Filed under: Broncos, Browns,Cowboys, Eagles, Jets, Giants,Packers, Saints, Vikings, NFLInjuries, NFL Coaching, NFLReferees, NFL Rumors, NFLQuarterbacks, NFL Predictions,NFL Analysis Brett Favre threw33 touchdown passes last season -- his most since 1997 -- and justseven interceptions -- his fewestfull-season total ever -- in leadingthe Vikings to a 12-4 record and atrip to the NFC championshipgame.It was a remarkable season --

especially from a 40-year-oldquarterback who was playing hisfirst season with a new team.But last year seems like a long,

long time ago right now. Thereeling Vikings are 2-4 -- and arecoming off a loss to the arch-rival

Packers that coach Brad Childressessent ia l ly b lamed on h isq u a r t e rb a c k .Favre has just seven touchdowns

this season and has alreadythrown 10 interceptions. He hastwo fractures in his left ankle andhas looked every one of his 41years.

And then there's the entire JennSterger  /sexting embarrassmentthat has turned the certain first-ballot Hall of Famer into late-night television monologuefodder.So, is it time for the Vikings to

admit that bringing Favre back foran encore season at the age of 40 -- now 41 -- was a colossal mistakeand move forward with Tarvaris

Jackson?Previous Roundtables: How to

Fix the Cowboys| Breaking DownCowboys-Vikings  The NFL at the Quarter Pole|Breaking Down the Randy MossTrade

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:44:59 AM

Test Complete: 2011 Ford FiestaOne of my colleagues did a great

  job of succinctly summing upFord’s new subcompact in theFiesta’s logbook: “A great one-person car.”The Fiesta does a lot of things

really well. It gets impressive fueleconomy, especially given that itisn’t a diesel or a hybrid, and thehandling is nimble and fun. OurSES hatchback with a manualtransmission fondly reminded meof strafing country roads in our2006 Ford Focus ZX3 tester, back before Ford neutered the car’shandling and got rid of thehatchback. (We have high hopesfor the new Focus.)Interior noise levels and ride

co mfo r t i n t h e F i es t a a r ereminiscent of a larger car; it’s alot more pleasant to take on a longtrip than a Honda Fit. That is, if you’re in the front seat. Even for asmall car, the Fiesta is really tightin back. The Fit and Nissan Versa

seem like Doctor Who’s Tardis bycomparison. (Incidentally, theVersa more or less matches theFiesta in ride comfort and noisesuppression.)There are other shortcomings,

too. Acceleration is leisurely; ittakes a lot of shifting to keep theFiesta up to speed. In manualtransmission form, both the Fitand Versa are over one secondquicker from 0-60 mph than theFiesta. (All three cars have nearlyidentical 0-60 mph times inautomatic form.) The automatictranny is really an automatedmanual transmission; it shiftsquickly when underway, but isn’tsmooth at very low speeds. OurFiesta SE sedan had long stoppingdistances. Plus, some of theFiesta’s Euro-inspired controls areoverly complicated, especiallythose for the stereo.While the Fiesta brings a new

level of sophisticated dynamics tothe subcompact segment, it alsobrings a premium price. Our SEsedan wasn’t too out of line at$16,595, but our well-equippedSES hatchback stickered for

$17,795-–and most buyers willa d d a $ 1 , 0 7 0 a u t o m a t i ctransmission. While early salesreports show that loaded Fiestasare selling well, and the up-levelFit Sport is certainly no bargain

either, you can get bigger, morewell-rounded cars for the price of a Fiesta SES.See our full Ford Fiesta road test

and Ratings.— Tom Mutchler Next Steps• Small Car Buying Advice:• Types of Small Cars|• Small Car Features|• Small Car Brands

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Ratings Tumble From '09Milton Kent ( FanHouse Main  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:27:00 PM

Filed under: Giants, Rangers,W o r l d S e r i e s C l i f f L e e ' sperformance wasn't the only thingto take a slide from one Game 1of the World Series to the next, asFOX's ratings for the Fall Classicopener Wednesday night dippedas well.The network scored a 10.4 rating

and 17 share in Nielsen overnightratings of the nation's top marketsfor Wednesday's San Francisco-Texas Game 1, down 25 percent

from the 13.8/22 pulled in 2009for the Philadelphia-New York Yankees Game 1. The network points out that the 2010 numbersare up a percent from the 10.3/17for the Phillies-Tampa Bay openerin 2008.The rating is the percentage of all

households tuned in to a program,while the share measures thepercentage of television sets thatare on at a given time.

It's worth noting, in FOX's

behalf, that it is airing this year'sSeries without the presence of theYankees, one of baseball's provenratings grabbers. It's also worthnoting that even if the Yankees orthe Phillies, for that matter, werein the Series, the New York andPhiladelphia markets would be of little value in a ratings sense, asthe network's signal is not airingin homes that subscribe toCablevision, which is locked in atwo-week long carriage disputewith FOX.

My fairy friend( Scripting News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 7:14:08 AM

I am blessed with friends wholove me, and who I love. Each forwho they are, never trying toimpose an ideal of mine on them.Like a lot of people, I did thatwhen I was younger. Learned the

lessons. Learned to appreciatepeople on their own terms. NakedJen is one of those people.She calls herself a fairy. It fits.Once, on a trip to NY, we rode toStaten Island on a boat, for free.We stood at the front of the boatwatching its intricate dockingprocedure. When we landed

NakedJen was the first fairy off the ferry. This became our mantrafor the day. First fairy off theferry. First fairy off the ferry. Firstfairy off the ferry. First fairy off the ferry.Anyway...

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:33:55 PM

Updated: October 28, 2010, 2:33PM ET By Ohm Youngmisuk ESPNNewYork.com

 ArchiveNEW YORK -- The Giants will

place defensive end MathiasKiwanuka on injured reserve witha herniated disk in his neck, theteam announced on Thursday.Not only is Kiwanuka's season

over, his Giants' career could bef in ished . The team's mostversatile defensive player is in thefinal year of his contract and itremains to be seen whetherKiwanuka will be able to continue

playing and if he will return to theGiants.The defensive end was optimistic

that his injury would subside withtime and that he could resumeplaying again this season, butKiwanuka will now be placed onthe IR for the second time in fourseasons. Kiwanuka, who has 23.5sacks in five seasons, did not playin the Super Bowl after he brokehis leg after playing in 10 games

that 2007 season. Mike & Mike inthe MorningESPN NFL ana lyst Mark  

Schlereth talks about why theNew York Giants are playing sowell. Plus, Schlereth discusses theissues with the Minnesota Vikingsand plays a round of "True/False"with Mike Golic."We held out hope as long as wecould," coach Tom Coughlin saidin a statement. "Finally, byconsensus, the doctors came to

this decision. You have to makethe right choice and the decisionwas made that he could not playagain this season. My concern isfor Mathias. He loves the game,he loves to play, he's proven his

versatility this year beyond anyquestion. He's given great effortand he has proven that he is ateam player. I feel badly forMathias because I know howimportant playing the game of football is to him. Let's get himhealthy, back on the field, playingfor the New York Giants."Though he thought he could

return this season, Kiwanukaunderstood the move."Like I said before, I felt like,given enough time, I could'vemade it back this season, but it'sthe nature of the business,"Kiwanuka said. "The Giants hadto move on, and I had to be OKwith it . Regardless of whathappens to me as an individual,I'm definitely still going to work with the Giants organizationthroughout the term of mycontract [which expires after thisseason]. I know this team is going

be successful, so I'm excited towatch it."The Kiwanuka move, which was

first reported by the Newark StarLedger, allowed the Giants to signkick returner Will Blackmon."Blackmon had a very goodworkout for us and showed that hehas recovered nicely from aserious knee injury [2009],"Giants general manager JerryReese said. "We expect him to getinto the mix quickly on special

teams. He has experience andproduction as a return specialistand cover specialist. He also hasplayed both safety and corner,which gives us some flexibilitythere as well."

I t seemed inevi tab le tha tKiwa n u k a ' s se a so n wo u ldeventually end on IR. Kiwanukahasn't played since the team's lossto Tennessee in the third week of the season."We had some major injuriesbecause Kiwi is a ... whew ...that's a big loss," safety DeonGrant said on Wednesday beforehe knew of the Kiwanukadecision when asked aboutovercoming injuries this season."But we got the depth this year,with the injuries that we have had,to continue to move forward."Kiwanuka led the team in sacks

through the first three games withfour while thriving in PerryFewell's new system at bothdefensive end and linebacker. Butdays before the Giants' win overCh ic a g o , h e wa s i n i t i a l l ydiagnosed with a bulging disk inhis neck, a similar injury that

ended Antonio Pierce's season andultimately his career.Kiwanuka spent much of this pastmonth seeing various doctors andhe said his injury wasn't as seriousas Pierce's. It was after a recentvisit to spine specialist RobertWatkins that Kiwanuka wasdiagnosed with a herniated disk,instead of a bulging disk, meaningthat it had ruptured."It's a very important part of mybody and I wanted to make sure

that I covered all of my bases,"K i w a n u k a s a i d o f s e e i n gspecialists. "If somebody says thatthis person is the best in this area,by all means I'm going to go inthere and see them. That was my

approach, and the Giants werebehind me 100 percent with that.That 's why I went and saweverybody."But Kiwanuka said doctors told

him his disk will heal on its ownwithout surgery due to the slightdegree of the herniation and thealignment of his spine. It justrequires time."I want to avoid surgery," he said."The consensus is that if I take theproper amount of time off, there isa very good chance that it'll healon its own. That's what the goal isright now. If it doesn't happen,we'll cross that bridge when weget to it. Regardless of whether ornot it requires surgery, I'll still beback by the opening of trainingcamp." Giants blogLooking for more information on

Big Blue? ESPNNewYork.comhas you covered. BlogNow the Giants move on without

their 2006 first-round pick, whowas a valuable chess piece inFewell's schemes. Osi Umenyiorawill have to continue his torridpace. Since Kiwanuka has beenout, Umenyiora has seven sacksand six forced fumbles."We had to change a little bitwhen Kiwi went out," Fewell saidon Wednesday when asked abouthow much he had to changeschematically without Kiwanuka."Kiwi is a special kind of guy, so

we looked a round and wesearched for some guys to takeover those roles, and we havesome guys that can assume thatrole, but not play it like Kiwiplays it, so that's a special little

deal."The Giants have used three

safeties on the field quite a bit,and Grant sometimes lines up atlinebacker. Keith Bulluck 's recentreturn from a toe injury helps, andFewell will need first-round pick Jason Pierre-Paul, who wasdrafted as a luxury, to continuehis progress. Pierre-Paul doesn'thave a sack yet but he hasimpressed coaches with his playon defense and special teams. "Heis making progress for us, and wewant to get him more involvedand he wi l l become moreinvolved," Fewell said. "It justdepends on how much more hecan handle and execute. So themore he can take on and execute,the more we'll give him. It's up tohim."Blackmon, who played the past

four seasons for the Packers, willcome in and immediately compete

for the kick and punt-returningduties. Darius Reynaud, who wasacquired in the Sage Rosenfelspreseason trade from Minnesota,has been a disappointment.Reynaud is averaging 18.4 yardsper kick return and just 5.9 yardsper punt return."He has return experience andsecondary experience," Coughlinsaid. "He's a veteran coming back 

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student videographer deathESPN.com news services ( ESPN.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:48:30 PM

Updated: October 28, 2010, 1:48PM ETSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Indiana's

workplace safety agency isinvestigating the death of a NotreDame student after the tower fromwhich he was filming footballpractice fell over. Mike & Mike inthe MorningMike Golic shares his thoughts

on the tragedy at Notre Dame,where a 20-year-old student died

filming football practice when thetower he was on collapsed.Declan Sullivan of Long Grove,

I l l . , d ied a t a hospi ta l onWednesday after the scissor liftthe 20-year-old student was intoppled amid winds gusting over50 mph.Indiana Occupational Safety and

Health Administration spokesmanMarc Lotter said Thursday theagency had an investigator on thescene in South Bend. He said it

was too early to say when theagency, which has the authority tolevee fines, might release a report.The university did not return callsseeking comment on Wednesday,and i t was not c lea r whoauthorized Sullivan to go up in thes c i s s o r l i f t t o v i d e o t a p eWednesday's practice. It also wasnot clear who made the scissorlift. But one manufacturer of scissor lifts, HHS Wire, said on itswebsite that the device should not

be used in winds above 25 mph.Notre Dame planned to hold a

media briefing on the accident at

2 p.m. ET on Thursday, withuniversity president Rev. JohnJenkins and athletic director Jack Swarbrick expected to attend.Sullivan's parents were meeting

with Notre Dame officials onThursday, and the family hadmany questions about his death,his uncle Mike Miley told theChicago Tribune."We're still digesting the newsourse lves ," Miley to ld theTribune .

The student, who also wrote forthe student newspaper, reportedlyposted messages on his Facebook page just before the tower fell,expressing his concerns withbeing on the lift with high winds.His uncle told the newspaper thatthe family has decided to keep hisFacebook page open so friendscan post messages."I was satisfied to learn that hewas going into a media-relatedfield. I could just see that he was

having so much fun takingpictures and filming," Miley toldthe Tribune.Matt Gamber, editor in chief of 

The Observer, the independents tudent newspaper for theUniversity of Notre Dame andSain t Mary 's Col lege , sa idSu l l i v a n wa s m a jo r in g i nmarketing and film and hadw r i t t e n a b o u t a r t s a n dentertainment events for the

newspaper over two years.

"He was an extremely enthusiasticand a really driven kid, and thatreally showed through for us inhis writing. He had a lot of excitement and energy for theevents and subjects he covered,"Gamber said."Those who know him the bestdescribe him as an enthusiastic,really fun guy to be around,"Gamber said.

The newspaper reported about200 people attended a memorialMass for Sullivan on Wednesdaynight in the chape l of h isdormitory. Afterward, attendeesprocessed to a campus shrine,where about 150 students recitedpart of the rosary.[+] EnlargeAP Photo/Joe Raymond Notre

Dame emergency personnelexamine the location where atower used to tape the team'sfootball practice fell over, leading

to the death of student DeclanSullivan."Our thoughts and prayers go outto Declan's family and friends,"coach Brian Kelly said in arelease. "Declan was a diligentstudent worker in our videodepartment and had a tremendouspersonality and great sense of humor. He brightened the days forall that had the privilege to work 

with him, and the Notre Damefootball family will dearly misshim."Winds in the area were gusting to

51 mph at the time, according tothe National Weather Service, andthe team prac t iced indoorsTuesday because of the blusteryconditions.Sullivan indicated via his Twitter

a c c o u n t t h a t h e wa s i n ad a n g e r o u s p r e d i c a m e n t .According to a media reports,

Sullivan posted the followingtweet at 3:22 p.m. ET, just aspractice was beginning: "Gusts of 

wind up to 60 mph. Well todaywill be fun at work. I guess I'velived long enough."Then, at 4:06 p.m. according to

the station, Sullivan postedanother tweet: "Holy [blank].Holy [blank]. This is terrifying."The accident occured at 4:50 p.m.ET, according to media reports.The lift, which was positioned in

the north end zone of one of threefields at the LaBar practicecomplex, broke through the

practice facility fence when it felland came to rest in the middle of astreet.Sullivan was taken to Memorial

Hospital in South Bend, where helater died, according to reports.Notre Dame was making grief 

counselors available for students,and Jenkins will preside over aspec ia l Mass in Sul l ivan 'smemory on Thursday at 10 p.m.ET at Basilica of the SacredHeart.

"We are deeply saddened by thistragic loss," Jenkins said. "Ourhearts go out to the student'sfamily and friends and our prayersand profound sympathies are withthem during this incrediblydif f icu l t t ime . The loss of  someone so young is a terribleshock and a great sadness. Ourentire community shares in thefamily's grief."

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Yankees agree on new contractWallace Matthews ( ESPN.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:45:58 PM

Updated: October 28, 2010, 1:45PM ET By Wallace MatthewsESPNNewYork.com ArchiveThe New York Yankees and

manager Joe Girardi have reachedagreement on a three-year, $9million contract with incentivesthat could add another $500,000for winning the World Series,according to two sources familiarwith the negotiations.

According to both sources,

agreement was reached "rightaway" between the club andGirardi, with many of the detailsagreed to at the first meetingbetween Girardi and generalmanager Brian Cashman onTuesday afternoon. Picking UpThe PinstripesThe Yankees need to retool after

an ALCS defeat. Tell us whichones you'd keep -- and which onesyou'd cut. Vote: Take 'Em or Trash 'Em?

"This was no major negotiationhere," one of the sources said."The Yankees knew they wantedhim back, and he knew he wanted

to come back. It was a pretty cut-and-dried thing."

According to both sources,Girardi's deal calls for $3 millionin salary per year, a figure thatputs him among the top fivehighest-paid managers in thegame. Also included is a bonusclause that escalates with eachlevel of achievement, fromwinning the AL East to winningthe World Series, and tops out at$500,000. His previous deal --three years for $7 million --included a similar bonus deal thattopped out at $450,000.

"The only managers that aremaking more than him now arethe guys who have been aroundforever," one source said. "Guyslike [Mike] Scioscia, [Tony] LaRussa, [Jim] Leyland. That's it."Girardi's record in three seasons

as Yankee manager is 287-199(.591), with the 2009 worldchampionship and a trip to the2010 ALCS, where the Yankeeslost in six games to the TexasRangers, to his credit. Previously,

he had won the manager of theyear award as a rookie manager of the Florida Marlins, a tenure thatended stormily after a public

dispute with ownership.Earlier this season, rumors

abounded that the Chicago Cubswould pursue Girardi to replacethe retiring Lou Piniella, a belief that seemed to have somelegitimacy since Girardi is anative of the area and playedseven seasons in two stints withthe Cubs.But that story died when the

Cubs hired Mike Quade as theirmanager earlier this month, andone of the sources said the Cubs job was never a real option."Joe told Cashman back in August

that he had no interest in the Cubs job," the source said. "He had toomany good things going in NewYork to be interested in that."Wallace Matthews covers the

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off a [knee] injury. He's been anoutstanding returner in thisleague, and he's been a contributoron special teams as well as ondefense."Blackmon is excited to join the

team.

"It's awesome," Blackmon said. "Iwas hoping I could finally getback on the field and make thingshappen. This opportunity openedup and I'm excited and my wife isexcited. My knee is doing verywell. I wouldn't be out there if Icouldn't perform. I wasn't going tocome here and give the Giants 80percent of me. I'm feeling good."Kiwanuka and Blackmon were

teammates at Boston College.

"It's tough, because we were acouple of weeks away fromp l a y i n g t o g e t h e r a g a i n , "Kiwanuka said. "He got hispapers from Green Bay, I wasexcited and heard there was achance that he might come here,so I've been talking him up around

the locker room. Man, he's a greatplayer. I told everybody he'sdefinitely the most talented andgifted athlete that I ever playedfootball with, hands down. Hemade the switch from DB to widereceiver [in college] and didn't

miss a beat, and obviously he is avery talented return guy, too. Hecan do it all."Ohm Youngmisuk covers the

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The Fighting Irish, who hostTulsa on Saturday, canceled post-practice interviews after theaccident."In the midst of a season whereyou are disappointed with the

outcomes ... you can lose sight of what's most important. Sad day atpractice," senior linebacker BrianSmith posted on his Twitter page."I will never forget today."Information from The Associated

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Favre sheds walking boot,hasn't ruled out playingAssociated Press ( ESPN.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:35:43 PM

Updated: October 28, 2010, 2:35PM ETEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Brett

Favre is walking around theMinnesota Vikings practicefacility without the oversized bootthat has been protecting hisinjured left ankle.Favre limped through the locker

room Thursday before practicewith just a wrap on his ankle. He

suffered two fractures around theankle in the game against GreenBay on Sunday night, putting hisleague-record 291-straight startsstreak in jeopardy.The 41-year-old quarterback was

not on the practice field during thepor t ion open to the media

Thursday. When asked if he

thought he could play, Favre said,"I wouldn't put anything past me,to be honest with you."The Vikings (2-4) play at New

England (5-1) on Sunday. If Favrecannot play, Tarvaris Jacksonwould step in.

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Rules Responsible for 'MyLeast Productive Game'FanH ouse Staff ( FanHouse 

Main  )Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:57:00 PM

Filed under: Steelers JamesHarrison has been at the forefrontof one of the NFL illegal hit saga.Even though the story has dieddown with a clean week of gamesplayed immediately after anincreased emphasis was put onillegal hits, Harrison has broughtit back into headlines."That was my least productive

game this year," Harrison said inan interview with "Inside theNFL." "We can still play thegame, but it's not the same."When discussing instances duringthe Steelers' most recent gameagainst the Dolphins in which itseemed Harrison laid off oncertain hits, Harrison againreferred to the new rules."If I shot in there I would haveprobably hit helmet to helmet, andI've already got one offense, so Icould probably be looking at a

possible suspension."  Harrison was originally fined$75,000 for a hit on Brownsreceiver Mohamed Massaquoi,one of the initial hits that sparkedthe rule changes. After the game,he explained that he tries to hurtp l ay er s , n o t i n j u re t h em ,explaining the difference. Whenthe league approved suspensionsas discipline for illegal hits,Harrison threatened retirementand missed practice, only to

return.

Angle Sends Flowers to 'The View's' Behar( Newsmax - Inside Cover  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:17:48 AM

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 01:17 PMSenate candidate Sharron Angle

has sent flowers and a thank-younote to “The View” host JoyBehar after Behar launched into a

nasty diatribe against the NevadaRepublican that even co-hostB a r b a r a W a l t e r s c a l l e d“offensive.” The note read: “Joy,raised $150,000 online yesterday.Thanks for your help.”Behar on Tuesday called Angle a

“moron” and a “bitch” for running

an ad slamming her Democraticopponent, Majority Leader HarryReid, over his immigrationpolicies. The ad juxtaposesimages of thug-like men crossingthe border with white childrensitting in a classroom, Fox Newsreports.

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A Chinese version of barbecue,this moist, flavorful roast pairs

well with rice and stir-friedvegetables such as snow peas,baby corn, and water chestnuts.It's made with a Boston butt pork roast and a flavorful marinade thatreduces into a rich sauce."This was the best recipe I've triedfrom Cooking Light yet (25+recipes so far)," said a readerFrom Virginia Beach. View Recipe: Slow Cooker CharS i u P o r k R o a s t N e x tMediterranean Roast TurkeyThis entry passed through the

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Fan-made Twisted Metaltrailer makes a slasher out

of Sweet ToothLudwig Kietzmann ( Joystiq  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:00:00 PM

Back in June, Twisted Metaldesigner David Jaffe shared theidea of a movie based partially onhis game's automotive carnage,but focused on one of its mosticonic characters, Sweet Tooth(real name: Needles Kane). "Iwant us to make an honest togoodness, low-budget slashermovie and se l l i t on PSNexclusive," he told his Twitterfollowers and fans.While it's unknown whether the

concept has gotten the green lightsince then, a handful of fans havecreated a free trailer based onJaffe's initial pitch. "TwistedMetal: Home Sweet Home" seesthe psychotic clown offing

obligatory, oblivious youngpeople one by one and driving hisdecidedly unsavory ice creamtruck.If the violence makes you feel

uncomfortable, just remindyourself that Sweet Tooth'svictims are probably those peoplewho think it's still cute and quirkyto tell everyone how scared theyare of clowns. They deserve it.  Continue reading  Fan-madeTwisted Metal trailer makes aslasher out of Sweet Tooth Fan-made Twisted Metal trailermakes a slasher out of SweetTooth originally appeared onJoystiq on Thu, 28 Oct 201015:00:00 EST. Please see ourterms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this| Comments

Power Gig: Rise of theSixString review: God

took rock 'n' roll from youGriffin McElroy ( Joystiq  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:20:00 PM

There's something you need toknow up front about Power Gig:Rise of the SixString-- somethingI wish I had known before I firstgot my hands on it: It will not,cannot teach you to play guitar.At its heart, it is a Guitar Hero orRock Band clone; or, to be more

precise, a Guitar Hero or Rock Band homunculus, as every singlee l e m e n t o f P o w e r G i g - -gameplay , contro l , v isua ls ,progression - - i s mere ly ashoddily reproduced feature of itsrhythm gaming predecessors.I want to be completely clear

about what I mean when I say thatPower Gig: Rise of the SixStringis half-baked. I literally mean that

it's built upon a fragment of aconcept, as if, while pitching thetitle, Seven 45 Studios was cut off mid-sentence, and forced to createan entire game based on a fractionof a clause:"So, you play the game with a realguitar, and --"Gallery: Power Gig: Rise of the

SixString  Continue reading  Power Gig:

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More Conservative( Newsmax - Inside Cover  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:30:23 AM

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 01:30 PM

If Republicans win back controlof the House next Tuesday, asexpected, a new generation of leaders will assert themselves. Anoverwhelming majority of the 24commit tee cha i rmen wouldoccupy that position for the firsttime, Politico reports.This new, younger generation is

generally more conservative.“In broad terms, the Republicanc h a i r m e n w i l l b e p o l i c yconservatives but not bomb-

throwing ideologues,” Politicowrites. “Many of them arelegislators who know how to cut adeal. And above all, the newchairmen will be loyalists toSpeaker-in-waiting John Boehnerof Ohio. In a bid to reformCongress, Boehner has promisedto devolve power back to thesechairmen to give them morefreedom and more legislativelegroom.”

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The Sly Collection dropsinto retail November 9Alexander Sliwinski ( Joystiq  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:40:00 PM

  The Sly Collection will beavailable for five-finger discountbeginning November 9. If you'rein the mood to actually pay for thethievius raccoonus bundle, whichincludes Sly Cooper, Sly 2: Bandof Thieves and Sly 3: HonorAmong Thieves, that'll cost you$40.The bundle will also include four

new minigames for use with thePlayStation Move controller (orDualShock controller), eachfocusing on Sly, Bentley, Murrayor Carmelita. According to GlenEgan of Sanzaru Games, whichhandled the port of the PS2classics, each minigame captures

"an aspect of the character andpresents it in a way that's great

fun to play."Beyond all that, the games are

presented in widescreen withs t e r eo sco p i c t h r eeeeeeeee-deeeeeeee. We would have typed"3D" there, but then it just lookslike our keyboard broke. See:3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 -D D D D D D D D D D D D .  Continue reading  The SlyCollection drops into retailNovember 9

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Enslaved DLC adds 3D,has Pigsy looking for

loveAlexander Sliwinski ( Joystiq  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:00 PM

Th e critically well-receivedaction adventure Enslaved's firstpiece of premium DLC willinclude "Pigsy's Perfect 10," aplayable side-story, and addTriOviz 3D support to the game.Namco Bandai announced todaythat the $10 (800 MicrosoftPoints) DLC will be available

"later this year" on PlayStationNetwork and Xbox 360.Pigsy, the zaftig companion of 

svel te Enslaved charactersMonkey and Trip, will encounteran adventure focused on "stealthand sharp-shooting." As long as

there are no long stairways ornarrow columns, we figure he'llbe just fine. The quest willinvolve Pigsy assembling parts tocreate the "perfect woman."The DLC will add 3D to both the

new side story and the originalgame. So, be sure to save up yourdirty clothes, because onceMonkey's in 3D you'll be able todo your laundry on thosewashboard abs .

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Bars( Cooking Light: Editor's Picks  )

Spreading a little peanut butter onapple slices may be a healthierway to snack, but nothing beats anenergy or p ro tein bar fo rconvenience. Trouble is, there aret o o man y ch o i ces . S o wemunched and crunched numbersto find the best bars, ones thatdelivered on both taste andnutrition. It's a tricky businesssince a bar might offer lots of fiber (really good) and thennegate things with trans fats(really bad). And sugars, even

dried fruit, do add up. Here areour top picks for when you’reready to grab-and-go.We set the “bar” high. Our

criteria for healthy bars: Protein:more than 3 grams; Fiber: morethan 3 grams; Fat: mostly heart-healthy fats; Carbs: mostly wholegrains with 10-20 grams sugar Watch the Video: Our FavoriteEnergy Bars Next Most Versatile:Luna BarsThis entry passed through the

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 6:37:10 AM

This is how it goes with me andnew Apple products.First I go to the page on the

Apple Store, and I go through allthe configuration options. I get tothe last screen where I have to sayGo Fo r I t , a n d b a c k o u t .Invariably it's the lack of instantgratification that does me in.Then, if I'm really interested, I goto an Apple Store and check itout. That's where guilt comes in. Ireally don't need this. I alreadyhave too many xxx's where xxxcould be mouse, keyboard, router,phone, laptop, desktop.

Then I go to the Amazon page forthe product and that's where myresistance meets its match. I go tothe page one time and stare. Readthe reviews. Think about it. Think 

some more. Leave. Then a day (orhour) later I'm back, staring at the1-click button at the top of thescreen. If I just click the button, itwill be here tomorrow. If I justclick the button. If I just click the

button. Yadda yadda.Then the thought metamorphizes.

You know you're going to give inat some point and click the button.If you click it right now you canenjoy the product tomorrow!Turns out that's just the rightamount of instant gratification.Not so much that I have to feel theguilt now, that gets postponed afew hours. And by the time ita r r ives , the gui l t has beenreplaced by acceptance .

This thing is going to be part of my repetoire now. Part of mychorus. My supporting cast. Oneof my fellow team members.Posse. If it's a computer or a

router I'm thinking about its name.I'm thinking about what I'm goingto do with the old version of whatever it is I'm buying. I'mgetting good at mothballing thesesuckas.

Anyway, I write all this todaybecause yesterday I went throughthe last two stages of the ritual onthe new MacBook Air. I boughtan 11-inch laptop (still not readyto call it a netbook), with 128GBof disk. I'm thinking of giving itan ironic name like Hooterville orGreen Acres, because it's such abig city computer, so slick, mightas well make light and give it thename of a bumpkin. Maybe MrHaney or Arnold The Pig?

Ohhhh they've so got me trainedto give them money.

It's a wrap( Scripting News  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:58:10 AM

 On gulker.com, a headline we've

been anticipating.Chris has died, and it's covered,on his personal blog.A natural-born-blogger, to the

end.Reminds me of a story...I was at Dean HQ in Burlington,

on the night of the Iowa primaryand The Scream. I had the keys, Icould post to the home page of theDean blog, thanks to Nicco who Ihad just met who thought it was afun idea to have me in the room,

blogging for Dean on the bignight. It felt hugely powerful. Itmight have been the most-watched place in the blogosphere

that night.They're projecting Larry King ona screen in the office where we allcan see. The Candidate is on andh e s a y s i s c l e a r l y a n dunambiguously. We lost Iowa.But we're still in it. On to NewHampshire!So I open a new post and enter a

t i t l e : W e L o s t I o w a ( o rsomesuch). The body of the postquotes Governor Dean as I heardhim on TV. Short and sweet. I

posted it to the home page andkicked back with a satisfiedfeeling of a blogger who got thescoop.

As people in the office refreshthe home page , a mee t ingconvenes in a private office withthe door shut, where it's decidedthat the post will come down. Weonly run positive news, it seems.But Dean, using his instinct forputting out the real story as soonas possible, to be the source of thebad news so people know we'rest i l l he re , the re wi l l be atomorrow, he understood that theblog should just acknowledge it.

So like it or not, it makes perfectsense for gulker.com report theend of Gulker. And like it or not,though we lost Chris, we're still

here, there will be a tomorrow.My two cents...People play different roles in

your life.In mine, Chris Gulker was a

teacher.He taught me about web content

management at a time when that'swhat I most needed to learn.He's still teaching meThanks man!PS: I'll seeya soon enough.

From 'Shove It' Remark( Newsmax - Inside Cover  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:37:14 AM

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 01:37 PM

Perhaps telling President Barack Obama to go shove it would work for Republicans. But it’s nott u r n i n g o u t s o w e l l f o rDe m o c ra t i c Rh o d e I s l a n dgubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, Politico reports. A newpoll from NBC10 and QuestResearch shows the Democratwith only 25 percent support,putting him in third place. In thelast poll earlier this month, Caprio

scored 37 percent putting him infirst place.In the latest poll, independent

Lincoln Chafee claims 35 percent,followed by Republican John

Robitaille with 28 percent.A f t e r t h e W h i t e H o u s e

announced Obama wouldn’t makean endorsement in the race —Chafee backed Obama in the 2008presidential race — Caprio told aRhode Is land rad io s ta t ionMonday, “He can take h isendorsement and really shove it.”© Newsmax. All rights reserved.This entry passed through the

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Latest Round-Up of Pollsin Key Races: WhereGovernorships MayChange Hands

Bruce Drake ( Politics Daily  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:16:00 PM

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Co lo ra d o , F lo r id a , Ma in e ,Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio.Right now, most of the new polls

have a focus on the governorshipsin play. Republicans are lookingto make big pick-ups this year,

something that would be of extraimportance given the impendingbattles over redistricting that willshape the landscape for the 2012elections.The latest forecast by polling

a n a l y s t N a t e S i l v e r o f  FiveThir tyEight .com is forRepublicans to emerge from theelections with about 30 seats,leaving Democrats with about 19.Currently, Democrats have theadvantage with 26 seats to theGOP's 23, with one held by anindependent.One governor's contest where

trends are running against theGOP tide is in Minnesota, whereDemocrats have a good chance towin the seat for the first time inmore than two decades.Mark Dayton, who served one

term as senator between 2001 and2007, has a 12 point lead overR e p u b l i c a n T o m E m m e r ,

according to the latest poll.(Dayton did not seek a secondte rm in t h e Se n a t e . T im eMagazine, in a 2006 issue ratingthe best and worst senators,named him as one of the fiveworst).

But, the forces at work inMinnesota seem to favor him. TheM i n n e s o t a P u b l i c R a d i o /  Humphrey Institute poll says:Although Republicans around thecountry appear far more inclined

dispirited Democrats, the story isquite different in Minnesota.Among those who are extremelyor very enthusiastic about theelection, Democrats are matchingRepublicans, (50 percent of those

who say they are extremely orvery enthusiastic about theelection are Democrats and 46percent are Republicans). It alsolooks like Democrat Jerry Brownis poised to take back theCalifornia's governorship nowheld by Republican ArnoldSchwarzenegger. The latest pollindicating that is the prestigiousField Poll.

But two other polls issuedThursday point to Republicanpickups of governorships nowheld by Democrats: Paul LePagein Maine and newcomer Rick Snyder in Michigan are sittingatop of formidable leads.

Two other governor racessurveyed in polls today may comedown to the finish line. Thetightest one is between DemocratAlex Sink and Republican Rick Scott in Florida, and Democraticincumbent Ted Strickland still

appears to be in the contest inOhio against Republican JohnKasich.You can find all the details and

links to the polls under the stateheadings below.

Check back here for moreupdates throughout the day.AlaskaPOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:Incumbent Lisa Murkowski is

tied with Joe Miller, who beat herfor the GOP senate nomination, at

Scott McAdams at 23 percent,with 2 percent undecided. ( CNN/ Time/Opinion Research, Oct. 15-19).ArizonaRepublican incumbent Jan

Brewer is leading Democrat TerryGoddard, the state's attorneygeneral, in the governor's race by52 percent to 44 percent ,according to a Daily Kos/PublicPolicy Polling survey conductedOct. 23-24.The same poll shows Sen. John

Mc Ca in l e a d in g De m o c ra tRodney Glassman by 56 percentto 38 percent, with 6 percentundecided.Arkansas

P O L L S R E L E A S E DW E D N E S D A Y :Republican John Boozman is

leading Democratic incumbentBlanche Lincoln in the Senaterace by 48 percent to 36 percentwith 16 percent undecided,according to a University of Arkansas poll conducted Oct. 8-20. Poll director Janine Parry said,"This election, as always inArkansas, lies in the hands of 

people not closely aligned witheither major party. Both partiesare losing loyalists in a rougheconomy, meaning the percentageof unaffiliated respondents hasswelled to the largest proportionwe've recorded."

Forty-four percent of thoseid e n t i fy in g t h e m se lv e s a sindependents felt closer to theRepublican party and, when itcomes to those who are likelyvoters, the number rises to 50

independents and 16 percent of very likely independent votersfavored the Democratic Party,according to the poll.CaliforniaPOLLS FROM THURSDAY:

Democrat Jerry Brown leadsRepublican Meg Whitman by 49percent to 39 percent with 12percent undecided or preferringother candidates, according to aField Poll conducted Oct. 14-26.The margin of error is 3.2 points.Field says Brown is shoring up hissupport among women, non-partisans and Latinos.POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Brown leads Whitman in the

governor's race by 51 percent to44 percent with 2 percent likingneither and 2 percent undecided,accord ing to a CNN/Time/  Opinion Research poll conductedOct. 20-26. The margin of error is3.5 points.Brown leads Whitman by 46

percent to 38 percent with 8percent pre fe rr ing anotherc a n d i d a t e a n d 8 p e r c e n tundec ided , accord ing to aSurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.

21-25. The margin of error is 4.1points. Brown is leading Whitmanamong woman voters by 12 pointsand among Latino voters by 23points.In the Senate race, SurveyUSA

has Boxer ahead of Fiorina by 45percent to 40 percent with 7percent pre fe rr ing anotherc a n d i d a t e a n d 8 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of errorfor this race is also 4.1 points.

T h e C N N / T i m e / O p i n i o n

Fiorina by 50 percent to 45percent with 4 percent in the"neither/other" category and 3percent undecided.POLLS FROM TUESDAY:A Public Policy Polling survey

conducted Oct. 21-23 has Brownrunning ahead of Whitman in thegovernor's race by 53 percent to42 percent wi th 5 percentundecided, and Boxer ahead of Fiorina in the Senate race by 52percent to 43 percent, with 5percent undecided. The margin of error is 3.9 points. PPP says, "Theb i g g e s t r e a s o n B o x e r i smaintaining her margin andBrown is expanding his is thatboth have now unified their partymore than the Republicans havetheirs...Meg Whitman and CarlyFiorina never showed the kind of appeal to Democrats they wouldhave needed to win in California."A Suffo lk Universi ty pol lconducted Oct. 21-24 showsBrown holding a 50 percent to 42percent lead over Whitman, with5 percent support ing o therc a n d id a t e s a n d 3 p e rc e n tu n d e c id e d .

The same poll shows Boxerleading Fiorina by 52 percent to43 percent with 4 percent forother candidates and 2 percentundecided. The margin of errorfor both polls is 4 points.

A Fox News/Pulse OpinionResearch poll conducted Oct. 23had Brown leading Whitman by50 percent to 41 percent in thegovernor's race with 6 percent

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and 3 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 3 points. Lastweek, Brown's lead was 48percent to 43 percent. Most votersin the survey see both Brown andW h i t m a n n e g a t i v e l y , b u t

Whitman more so. Fifty-fourpercent have an unfavorably viewof her compared to 39 percentwho view her favorably with therest undecided or saying theynever heard of her. Fifty-percentsee Brown unfavorably while 46percent see him favorably with 5percent not sure.In the Senate race, Fox has Boxerahead of Fiorina by 48 percent to44 percent wi th 5 percentpreferring someone else and 3percent undecided. The margin of error is 3 points. Last week, Boxerled by 48 percent to 44 percent.Seven percent of Boxer supporterssay they could change their mindscompared to 4 percent for Fiorina.Fifty percent disapprove of the  job Boxer is doing as senatorcompared to 41 percent whoa p p r o v e , w i t h 9 p e r c e n tu n d e c i d e d .Colorado

POLLS FROM THURSDAY:Republican Ken Buck leads

Democratic incumbent MichaelBennet in the Senate race by 48percent to 44 percent with 3percent preferring some otherc a n d i d a t e a n d 6 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of error is4 points. In an Oct. 14 poll, Buck had led 47 percent to 45 percent. (Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 25).POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Buck and Bennet are in a

47 percent to 46 percent with 4percent in the "other/neither"category and 3 percent undecided.The margin of error is 3.5 points.In a September poll, Buck had ledby 49 percent to 44 percent. (

CNN/Time/Opinion Research,Oct. 20-26).Unlike some other recent polls,

CNN/Time has Democrat JohnHickenlooper still with a big leadover American Constitution Partycandidate Tom Tancredo runningahead of him by 51 percent to 37percent, with 10 percent forRepublican Dan Maes and 3percent undecided or in the "other /neither" category.

POLLS FROM MONDAY:Hickenlooper is hanging on to a47 percent to 44 percent lead overTancredo, with Maes at 5 percentand 4 percent undecided. Thecollapse of party support for theGOP nominee has meant thatTancredo, a former Republicancongressman, has been able tog a rn e r 7 3 p e rc e n t o f t h eRepublican vote, effectivelyturning what started as a three-way race into a two-way match-

up that is more competitive. (Public Policy Polling, Oct. 21-23).Democrat Michael Bennet and

Republican Ken Buck are tied at47 percent each in the Senaterace, with 6 percent undecided.The margin of error is 3.4 points.( Public Policy Polling, Oct. 21-23).POLLS FROM SUNDAY:Bennet and Buck are tied at 47

percent each in the Senate race.

candidate and 1 percent isundecided. In the last poll, Buck had led 48 percent to 43 percent. (SurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.19-21).

I n t h e g o v e r n o r ' s r a c e ,

Hickenlooper leads Tancredo by49 percent to 39 percent withRepublican Dan Maes at 9percent. He is taking 65 percent of the Republican vote in this poll. (SurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.19-21).ConnecticutPOLLS FROM TUESDAY:Democrat Richard Blumenthal is

holding on to a comfortable leadover Republican Linda McMahonin their race to fill the Senate seatleft open by the retirement of Christopher Dodd, but DemocratDan Malloy is in a much closercontest in his gubernatorial bidagainst Republican Tom Foley,accord ing to a Quinnip iacUniversity poll conducted Oct. 18-24. Blumenthal, the state 'sattorney general, leads McMahon,the former head of WorldWrestling Entertainment, by 54percent to 42 percent with 3

percent undecided. The margin of error is 3.7 points. That's aboutthe same margin Blumenthal hadtwo weeks ago. Only 6 percent of voters in each camp say they mayyet change their minds. As hasbeen the case in most every pollon this race, Blumenthal is seenfavorably by a wide margin, whileMcMahon is viewed unfavorablyby a majority of voters -- whichsome have seen as a backlashagainst her well-funded campaign

mail."Linda McMahon has tried toraise Attorney General RichardBlumenthal's negatives over thelast several weeks, but she hasn'tb e e n s u c c e s s f u l , " s a i d

Quinnipiac's Douglas Schwartz."He r e m a in s p o p u la r , b u tMcMahon's own negatives haverisen above 50 percent. One has towonder if over the last few weeksMcMahon would have been betteroff spending more of her millionson positive ads."In the governor's race, Malloy,

the mayor of Stamford, leadsFoley, a businessman and formerambassador to Ireland, by 48percent to 43 percent with 7p e rc e n t u n d e c id e d i n t h eQuinnipiac poll. The margin of error is 3.7 points. In mid-October, Malloy had led by 49percent to 42 percent, and in lateSeptember by 45 percent to 42percent. There's room for a shiftin this race because 12 percent of Malloy voters say they couldchange their minds and the sameis the case for 10 percent of Foleybackers.

A Fox News/Pulse OpinionResearch poll conducted Oct. 23has Blumenthal out in front by 53percent to 42 percent with 2percent for some other candidateand 3 percent undecided.

A Rasmussen Reports pollconducted Oct. 24 has Malloyleading by a smaller margin, 49percent to 46 percent with 2percent preferring some otherc a n d i d a t e a n d 4 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of error is

The Oct. 23 Fox News poll putMalloy ahead of Foley by astatistically insignificant 47percent to 43 percent with 3percent preferring some otherc a n d i d a t e a n d 6 p e r c e n t

undecided. The margin of error is3 points.POLLS FROM MONDAY:Blumenthal leads McMahon by

56 percent to 43 percent in theSenate race with 2 percentundecided or preferring someother candidate. ( RasmussenReports, Oct. 24)FloridaPOLLS FROM THURSDAY:Democrat Alex Sink has a slight

lead over Republican Rick Scottin Florida's close contest forgovernor, while independentChar l ie Cris t has cu t in toRepublican Marco Rubio's lead inthe state's Senate race but notenough challenge Rubio's statusas the favorite, according to aQuinnip iac Universi ty pol lconducted Oct. 18-24. Sink, thestate's chief financial officer,leads Scott, the wealthy formerhealth care executive, by 45

percent to 41 percent with 11percent undecided. Rubio leadsCrist by 42 percent to 35 percentwith 15 percent for DemocratKendrick Meek and 7 percentundecided. The margin of error is3.5 points. ( See full article).  Rasmussen Reports, in a pollconducted Oct. 27, has Scottahead by 48 percent to 45 percentwith 3 percent for some other

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undecided. The margin of error is4 points. Scott had led by 50p ercen t t o 4 4 p e rcen t i nRasmussen 's Oct . 18 po l l .POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:POLLS FROM SUNDAY:

Rubio appears to be steamingtowards victory in the FloridaSenate race, leading Crist by 41percent to 26 percent with 20percent for Meek. Julia Clark, apollster for Ipsos which conductedthe survey, said "There doesn'tseem to be much doubt in ourminds that Rubio will take theelection." ( St. Petersburg Times/ Miami Herald /Bay News 9poll ,Oct . 15-19) .GeorgiaPOLLS FROM TUESDAY:Republican Nathan Deal leads

Democrat Roy Barnes 49 percentto 39 percent with 5 percent forLibertarian John Monds, 5 percentfor some other candidate and 1percent undecided, according to aR a s m u s s e n R e p o r t s p o l lconducted Oct. 24. The margin of error is 4 points. Deal slippedbacked from the 50 percent mark he had hit in an Oct. 6 poll. If the

winner doesn't notch 50 percent, itforces a run-off. Deal is seenunfavorably by 49 percent andfavorably by 48 percent, with 6percent undecided. Barnes is seenunfavorably 53 percent comparedto 40 percent who see himfavorably, with 6 percent not sure.Deal has a double-digit leadamong unaffiliated voters.A WSB-TV/InsiderAdvantage

poll conducted Oct. 24 has Dealleading Barnes by 47 percent to

Monds and 7 percent undecided.The margin of error is 2 points.POLLS FROM MONDAY:Deal leads Barnes in the

governor's race by 49 percent to39 percent with 8 percent for

Monds, with 3 percent undecided.Both Deal, unti l recently acongressman, and Barnes, aformer one-term governor, get thesame high level of support fromt h e i r r e s p e c t i v e p a r t i e s(Republicans are weighted at 42percen t o f the sample andDemocrats at 34 percent), butDeal leads among independents(20 percent of the sample) by 44percent to 27 percent with Mondsgetting 25 percent with 4 percentundecided. Deal needs to hit 50percent to avoid a runoff. Themargin of error is 4.1 points. (SurveyUSA, Oct. 21-24).HawaiiPOLLS FROM MONDAY:Democrat Neil Abercrombie is

leading Republican James "Duke"Aiona in the governor's race by 51percent to 43 percent. The marginof error is 4 points. The outgoinggovernor is Republican Linda

L i n g l e . ( H o n o l u l u S t a rA d v e r t i s e r , O c t . 1 2 - 1 9 ) .IllinoisPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Republican Mark Kirk leads

Democrat Alexi Giannoulias by46 percent to 42 percent with 5percent for Green Party candidateLeAlan Jones, 5 percent for someother candidate and 2 percentundecided. The margin of error is4 points. A week ago, Kirk led by44 percent to 40 percent. The two

than 4 points since the Labor Daystart of the campaign season.Voters view both candidatesu n fav o rab l y . ( Rasmu ssenRep o r t s, Oc t . 2 6 ) .POLLS FROM TUESDAY:

Republican Bill Brady leadsDemocratic incumbent Pat Quinnin the race for governor by 43percent to 39 percent with 5percent for independent Scott LeeCohen, 4 percent for Green Partycandidate Rich Whi tney , 2percent for Libertarian Lex Greenan d 6 p e rcen t u n d ec i d ed ,according to a Chicago Tribune/ WGN poll conducted Oct. 18-22.The margin of error is 3.7 points.In the last poll about a month ago,Quinn had 39 percent to Brady's38 percent.The Tribune reports, "Much of 

Brady's advance may be due to aheavy dose of negative TVadvertising against Quinn, largelyfunded through donations by theR e p u b l i c a n G o v e r n o r sAssociation. Quinn has also airedhis share of attack ads at Brady,but is outmatched in the moneygame."

One question is the impact of Cohen's small but noticeableamount of support in the race.Cohen had won the nomination torun as the Democrat's lieutenantgovernor candidate but droppedout after a series of damagingdisclosures. He has spent almost$6 million of his own money onthe race, the Tribune reports.Almost a third of voters don't

know enough about Brady to havean opinion of him. But if that's a

the fact that 41 percent see himunfavorably compared to 34percent who see him favorably.Quinn, of course, is the man whotook over the governorship 21months ago after the ignominious

exist of Rod Blagojevich, whowas impeached.

A Fox News/Pulse OpinionResearch poll conducted Oct. 23has Brady ahead by 43 percent to39 percent with Cohen at 6percent, Whitney at 4 percent and6 percent undecided. The marginof error is 3 points. In last week'spoll, Brady led by 46 percent to36 percent. Quinn's unfavorablenumber is high in this poll as well-- 52 percent view him negatively.In the equally close Senate race,Republican Mark Kirk leadsDemocrat Alexi Giannoulias by43 percent to 41 percent withGreen Party candidate LeAlanJones at 7 percent and 9 percentundecided, according to The Foxpoll. The margin of error is 3points. Kirk led last week by twop o i n t s . B o t h K i r k a n dGiannoulias, each of whom hashad to deal with damaging stories

about their backgrounds, areregarded negatively by voters.POLLS FROM SUNDAY:Kirk leads Giannoulias in the

Senate race by 44 percent to 41percent with 7 percent undecided.The margin of error is 3.7 points.The poll said that while the race isstill within the margin of error,the trend seems favorable to Kirk as independents, suburban votersand Republicans are all movingtoward him. Four weeks ago,

percent to 36 percent with 17percent undecided. One in fivevoters say they trust neithercandidate, both of whom have hadto con tend wi th damagingdisclosures about them during the

campaign. ( Chicago Tribune/ WGN , Oct. 18-22).IndianaPOLLS FROM MONDAY:Former Republican Sen. Dan

Coats looks like a cinch to returnto the Senate from Indiana, with anew poll showing him ahead of Democrat Brad Ellsworth by 53percent to 35 percent, withLibertarian Rebecca Sink Burrisat 5 percent and the remainderundecided. This is the seat beinggiven up by Democrat Evan Bayh.( EPIC-MRA, Oct. 19-21).

A Rasmussen Reports pollconducted Oct. 20 had Coatsahead by 52 percent to 34 percentwith 5 percent for some otherc a n d i d a t e a n d 9 p e r c e n tu n d e c i d e d .KentuckyPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Republican Rand Paul has hit the

50 percent mark in his race

against Democrat Jack Conwaywho is attracting 43 percent of thevote, with 3 percent liking neitherand 4 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 3.5 points. Paulis leading among independents by63 percent to 26 percent. ( CNN/ Time/Opinion Research, Oct. 20-26).POLLS FROM TUESDAY: Paul

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percent lead over Conway in theSenate race with 7 percent

Oct. 12 poll, LePage had ledMitchell by only 35 percent to 32

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Senate race, with 7 percentundecided, according to a PublicPolicy Polling survey conductedOct. 21-24. PPP is now callingPaul the "likely victor" in the raceand says the reason is the

b a c k l a s h f r o m C o n w a y ' scampaign ad saying that Paul,d u r i n g h i s c o l l e g e d a y s ,worshipped a false god named"Aqua Buddha." Politics Dailycorrespondent Walter Shapirowrote about same trend during hisreporting travels in Kentucky. (See the full story on this poll).Paul leads Conway 50 percent to

43 percent wi th 2 percentpreferring some other candidatea n d 5 p e rc e n t u n d e c id e d ,according to a Fox News/PulseOpinion Research poll conductedOct. 23. The margin of error is 3points. Ten percent of voters ineach candidate's camps say theycould yet changed their minds.Paul is seen favorably by a 48percent to 41 percent margin, with11 percent undecided or sayingthey haven't heard of him. Fifty-o n e p e r c e n t s e e C o n w a yunfavorably, while 38 percent

regard him favorably, with 11percent undecided or saying theyhaven't heard of him.MainePOLLS FROM THURSDAY:Republican Paul LePage now is

ahead in the three-way race forgovernor with 40 percent, whileDemocrat Libby Mitchell andindependent Eliot Cutler are tiedat 26 percent each, with 4 percentpreferring some other candidateand 5 percent undecided. In an

Mitchell by only 35 percent to 32percent, with 21 percent forCutler. While LePage gets 81percent support from fellowRepublicans, Mitchell is down to4 8 p e r c e n t b a c k i n g f r o m

Democrats, with Cutler taking 37percent of the Democratic votes.In the last poll, Mitchell still had65 percent of the Democratscompared to 18 percent for Cutler.Cutler 's background is as aDemocrat, having served in theCarter administration and as anaide to the late Sen. EdmundMuskie. A LePage victory wouldmean a Republican pickup sincethe job is currently held byDemocra t John Baldacc i . (Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 26).MarylandPOLLS FROM MONDAY

Democrat Martin O'Malley leadsRepublican Bob Ehrlich by 54percent to 40 percent with 3percent preferring another choiceand 4 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 2.5 points. In aSept. 26 poll, O'Malley had led by49 percent to 35 percent. Sevenpercent of Ehrlich supports and 6

percent of O'Malley backers saythere is a good chance they mightchange their minds. O'Malleybeats Ehrlich on the question of who "understands the problems of people like you" by 51 percent to36 percent with the remainderundecided or in the "both/neither"column. ( Washington Post, Oct.19-22).  Rasmussen Reports, in a pollconducted Oct. 24, has O'Malleyahead 52 percent to 42 percent

c a n d i d a t e a n d 5 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of error is4 points.MassachusettsPOLLS FROM SUNDAY:Democratic incumbent Deval

Patrick leads Republican CharlieBaker in the governor's race by aslim 43 percent to 39 percent withindependent Tim Cahill at 8percent and Green Party candidateJill Stein at 2 percent. The marginof error is 4.3 points. Althoughthat lead is within the margin of error, the poll called it "ane n c o u ra g in g s ig n fo r t h eincumbent heading into the finalfull week of campaigning" giventhat its survey last month showedPatrick ahead of Baker by only 35percent to 34 percent. ( BostonGlobe poll conducted Oct. 17-22).MichiganPOLLS FROM THURSDAY:Republican newcomer Rick 

Snyder leads Democrat VirgBernero in the governor's race by53 percent to 38 percent with 8percent undecided. PollsterRichard Czuba said, "There is aRepublican tide in Michigan" that

is also extending to down-ticketraces. A Snyder victory wouldrepresent a GOP pickup of agovernor's seat since the job isnow held by Democrat JenniferGranholm. ( Detroit News/WDIV,Oct. 25-26).MinnesotaPOLLS FROM THURSDAY:Democrat Mark Dayton, a formerone-term senator, is leadingRepublic Tom Emmer, a memberof the state House, by 41 percent

independent Tom Horner and 20percent undecided, according to aM i n n e s o t a P u b l i c R a d i o /  H u m p h r e y I n s t i t u t e p o l lconducted Oct. 21-25. In itsSeptember poll, Dayton had led

Emmer by 38 percent to 27percent, with Horner getting 16percent.MPR/Humphrey says one reason

for Dayton's success compared toother states where there is a risingGOP tide is that when it comes tothe engagement of voters, "thestory i s qu i te d i f fe ren t inMinnesota" where Democrats arematching Republicans as far asenthusiasm in this election. This isa chance for Democrats to make agubernatorial pickup since the jobis currently help by the GOP'sTim Pawlenty. Democrats havebeen shut out of the job sinceRudy Perpich finished his twoterms in 1991.POLLS FROM SUNDAY:Dayton leads Emmer by 41

percent to 34 percent followed byH o r n e r , w i t h 1 3 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of error is3 .9 poin ts . ( S ta r Tr ibune

Minnesota Poll, Oct. 18-21).MissouriPOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:Republican Roy Blunt is leading

Democrat Robin Carnahan in theSenate race by 49 percent to 40percent with 3 percent for otherc a n d id a t e s a n d 8 p e rc e n tundecided. The margin of error is4 points. ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch, KMOV, Oct. 18-20).Blunt leads Carnahan by 52

percent to 43 percent, with 2

and 3 percent undecided. Lastweek, Blunt led by about the samemargin. The margin of error is 4points. ( Rasmussen Reports, Oct.19).Blunt leads Carnahan 49 percent

to 43 percent with 3 percentpreferring some other candidateand 5 percent undecided. Sevenpercent of those supporting eachcandidate say they could changetheir minds. The margin of erroris 3 points. ( Fox News/PulseOpinion Research, Oct. 16).NevadaPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:It's been clear for months now

that Republican Brian Sandoval, aformer state attorney general andfederal judge, had the race forgovernor well in hand, and thela test po l l i s just anotherconfirmation of that. Sandovalleads Rory Reid, son of Harry, by58 percent to 35 percent with 5percent for some other candidatea n d 2 p e rc e n t u n d e c id e d ,according to a Rasmussen Reportspoll conducted Oct. 25. Sandovalhas held double-digit leads overReid in 16 matchups done by

Rasmussen da t ing back toFebruary .Republican Sharron Angle leads

Democrat Harry Reid by 49percent to 45 percent in the Senaterace with 2 percent for ScottAshjian, who is running as a TeaParty candidate and 3 percent whodon't like any of the choices. WithAshjian out of the race, Anglewould be leading by 51 percent to

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45 percent. The margin of error is3 5 points ( CNN/Time/Opinion

Martinez and Denish was aboutthe same in two prev ious

SurveyUSA, demonstrates thatagain showing Burr ahead of her

of error is 3.7 points. Kasich hadled by 10 points in mid-October

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3.5 points. ( CNN/Time/OpinionResearch, Oct. 20-26).

POLLS FROM TUESDAY:Angle leads Reid by 49 percent to45 percen t wi th 4 percen tpreferring some other candidate

an d 2 p e rcen t u n d ec i d ed ,according to a Rasmussen Reportspoll conducted Oct. 25. Themargin of error is 4 points. Aweek ago, Angle had led by 3points and, the week before thatby 1 point. Both have highnegatives with the voters. Reid isseen unfavorably by 56 percent(with 51 percent saying they seehim "very" unfavorably") while43 percent see him favorably.Angle is seen unfavorably by 52percent (with 43 percent seeingher "very" unfavorably) comparedto 46 percent who see herfavorably.New HampshirePOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:Democratic incumbent John

Lynch leads Republican JohnStephen in the governor's race 51percent to 38 percent with 3percent for other candidates and 9percent undecided. Last month,

Lynch had led 51 percent to 34p e r c e n t w i t h 1 4 p e r c e n tundecided. ( WMUR/Universityof New Hampshire, Oct. 7-12).New Mexico Republican Susan

Martinez leads Democrat DianeDenish by 52 percent to 42percent with 2 percent preferringsome other candidate and 4percent undecided, according to aR a s m u s s e n R e p o r t s p o l lconducted Oct. 24. The margin of error is 4 points. The gap between

the same in two prev iousRasmussen polls, putting theRepublicans in a position toretake a governorship that is nowh e l d b y D e m o c r a t B i l lRichardson. Martinez is a district

attorney and the first Hispanicwoman to win a major partynomination for governor. Denishis lieutenant government, andRichardson's current unpopularityin the s tate - - 57 percen tdisapprove of the job he is doingas governor -- has been a drag onher.New York POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:There's never been much doubt

that, barring surprises, theDemocrats in blue New York were going to withstand theRepublican tide, and a QuinnipiacUniversity poll conducted Oct. 18-24 underlines the point, showingDemocrat Andrew Cuomo aheadof Republican Carl Paladino by55 percent to 34 percent with 7p ercen t u n d ec i d ed i n t h egovernor's race, and first-termSen. Kirsten Gillibrand leadingRepublican Joe DioGuardi by 57

percent to 34 percent with 7percent undecided in her bid for re-election.North CarolinaDemocrat Elaine Marshall just

hasn't been able to gain anytraction in her challenge to firstterm Republican Sen. RichardBurr, even though several pollshave shown him with lackluster  job approval and favorabilitynumbers with voters. The latestpoll, conducted Oct. 22-25 by

again, showing Burr ahead of herby 43 percent to 38 percent with 5percent for Libertarian MichaelBeitler and 3 percent undecided.OhioPOLLS FROM THURSDAY:

Republican John Kasich leadsDemocrat ic incumbent TedStrickland in the governor's raceby 48 percent to 44 percent with 3percent for some other candidateand 4 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 4 points. In theprevious poll, Kasich led by 48p e r c e n t t o 4 5 p e r c e n t . (Rasmussen Reports, Oct.26).A SurveyUSA poll, conducted

Oct. 22-26, has Kasich ahead by49 percent to 44 percent with 4percent for other candidates and 4percent undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. Kasich is leadingamong independents (22 percentof the sample) by 17 points.In the Senate race, SurveyUSA

says Republican Rob Portmanleads Democrat Lee Fisher by 52percent to 37 percent with 6percent for other candidates and 4percent undecided.POLLS FROM TUESDAY:

While Fisher appears hopelesslybehind Portman in the race to fillthe Senate seat of the GOP'sGeorge Voinovich, Strickland stillhas a fighting chance againstformer Kasich in his bid to win re-election as governor, althoughtime may be running out on him.Kasich leads Strickland by 49

percent to 43 percent with 7percent undecided, according to aQuinn ip iac Univers i ty po l lconducted Oct. 18-24. The margin

led by 10 points in mid-Octoberand by as many as 17 in mid-September. Nine percent of thosebacking each candidate say theystill could change their minds byelection day, not leaving a lot of 

room for Strickland to pick upmore ground.

A Fox News/Pulse OpinionResearch poll conducted Oct. 23has Kasich ahead by 47 percent to43 percent with 4 percent forsome other candidate and 6percent undecided. The margin of error is 3 points. Last week, thispoll had Kasich leading by 49percent to 43 percent. Eightpercent of Kasich supporters and9 percent of Strickland backerssay they could changer theirminds.In the Senate race, Fox says

Portman leads Fisher by 53percent to 36 percent with 9percent undecided.POLLS FROM SUNDAY:Kasich leads Strickland by 49

percent to 47 percent in thegovernor's race with 5 percentundecided or backing anothercandidate. The margin of error is

3.3 points. Kasich had led by 4points the last time this poll wasconducted in late September. Theoutcome is likely to be all aboutwhich party does a better jobturning out i ts voters. EricRademacher of the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policyresearch, which conducted thep o l l , t o l d O h i o n e w sorganizations, "It's a close race,but the dynamics, especially theadvantage the Republicans have

Ohio Newspaper poll, Oct. 14-18).Portman leads Fisher in the

Senate race by 58 percent to 39percent. ( Ohio Newspaperpoll ,Oct. 14-18).

OregonPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Two new pol ls show the

g o v e r n o r ' s r a c e b e t w e e nRepublican newcomer ChrisDudley and Democrat JohnKitzhaber to be a dead heat.A poll by Davis, Hibbits &

Migdall reported by the PortlandTribune conducted Oct. 24-25 hasDudley ahead of Kitzhaber by 46percent to 43 percent with 2percent for other candidates and10 percent undecided. The marginof error is 4.4 points. The Tribunesaid, "In effect, Oregon votershaven't budged much since theMay primary, despite more than$12 million in campaign spendingby both sides."

A Rasmussen Reports pollconducted Oct. 25 has Dudleyleading Kitzhaber by 49 percentto 46 percent with 3 percentpreferring some other candidate

and 3 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 4 points. In anOct. 10 poll, Kitzhaber had led by48 percent to 46 percent. Votersare divided at 42 percent eachabout whether they favor ac a n d i d a t e w i t h p o l i t i c a lexperience (Kitzhaber is a formertwo-term governor) or a candidatewho has never held office,(Dudley is a former pro basketball

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player who went into financialconsulting). Both candidates are

The margin of error is 3.5 points.The poll has Corbett leading

to 30 percent, with 22 percent forRobitaille. ( Rasmussen Reports,

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consulting). Both candidates areseen favorably by voters. Dudleyis doing better than Kitzhaber asfar as the level of support fromtheir respective parties, and has amodest lead among unaffiliated

voters.PennsylvaniaPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Republican Pat Toomey is

leading Democrat Joe Sestak inthe Senate race by 48 percent to40 percent with 12 percentundecided among likely voters,with "leaners" for each candidateincluded, according to a Franklin& M a r s h a l l C o l l e g e p o l lconducted Oct. 18-24. In thegovernor's race, Republican Tom

Corbett leads Democrat DanOnorato by 51 percent to 35p e r c e n t w i t h 1 1 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of errorfor both polls is 4.4 points.

Franklin & Marshall says,"Democrats are at a decideddisadvantage when it comes tovoter motivation. Only 36 percentof Democrats fall into the mostlikely to vote category comparedto 49 percent of Republicans ...

Another example of the gap inpartisan enthusiasm is that onlyone in three (33 percent) of thosewho voted for Obama in 2008 arein the most likely to vote categoryversus half (52 percent) of McCain voters."A CNN/Time/Opinion Research

poll conducted Oct. 20-26 hasToomey leading Sestak by 49percent to 45 percent with 3percent in the "other/neither"column and 3 percent undecided.

The poll has Corbett leadingOnorato in the governor's race by52 percent to 45 percent with 1percent described as "other/ neither" and 2 percent undecided.Both these sets of results were not

much different than this pollshowed in mid-September.The latest Muhlenberg College/ 

Allentown Morning Call trackingpoll has Toomey ahead by asmaller 46 percent to 41 percentmargin with 12 percent undecidedand Corbett leading in thegovernor's race by 52 percent to38 percent with 10 percentundecided. The margin of error is5 points. Muhlenberg's totals alsoinclude leaners.

POLLS FROM TUESDAY:Toomey is tied with Sestak in the

Senate race at 46 percent eachwith 2 percent preferring someoneelse and 6 percent undecided,according to a Reuters/Ipsos pollconducted Oct. 22-24. The marginof error is 4.9 points.The same poll says Corbett leads

Onorato in the governor's race by49 percent to 43 percent with 8percent undecided.

Rhode IslandPOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:Republican-turned-independent

Lincoln Chafee leads DemocratFrank Caprio 35 percent to 28percent in the race for governorwith 25 percent for RepublicanJohn Robitaille. Six percent back Moderate Party candidate KenB l o c k a n d 6 p e r c e n t a r eundecided. The margin of error is4 points. In an Oct. 4 poll, Chafeehad led Caprio by only 33 percent

Robitaille. ( Rasmussen Reports,Oct. 21).South CarolinaPOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:

Republican Nikki Haley leadsDemocrat Vincent Sheheen by 51

percent to 37 percent with 3percent for some other candidateand 9 percent undecided. (InsiderAdvantage, Oct. 19)Haley is leading Sheheen by 47

percent to 38 percent in the raceto succeed GOP Gov. Mark Sanford, with 4 percent preferringsome other candidate and 11percent undecided. The margin of error is 4.5 points. In a Sept. 22poll, Haley had held a 50 percentt o 3 3 p e r c e n t m a r g i n . (

Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 19). Seerelated story.TexasPOLLS FROM MONDAY:Republican incumbent Rick Perryleads Democrat Bill White in thegovernor's race by 50 percent to40 percent with 8 percent forLibertarian Kathie Glass and 2percent for Green Party candidateDeb Shafto. Perry is in the leadeven though he does not have

great job approval numbers, with45 percent approving of hisp e r f o r m a n c e , 3 7 p e r c e n tdisapproving, 13 percent neitherapproving or disapproving and 5p e rc e n t u n d e c id e d . Th a t ' sreflected in the fact that a modest53 percent of Perry backersdescribe their support as "strong."Seventy-two percent of Whitebackers say they are strongsupporters. ( University of Texas/ Texas Tribune, Oct. 11-18).

Republican incumbent Rick Perryleads Democrat Bill White in thegovernor's race by 51 percent to43 percent wi th 2 percentpreferring some other candidateand 5 percent undecided. Perry

had led 53 percent to 42 percentin an Oct. 6 poll. ( RasmussenReports, Oct. 21).WashingtonPOLLS FROM LAST WEEK:Democratic incumbent Patty

Murray is leading RepublicanDino Rossi by 49 percent to 47percent with 4 percent undecided.The margin of error is 2.3 points.( Public Policy Polling, Oct. 14-16).West Virginia

POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Democrat Joe Manchin leads

Republican John Raese by 49percent to 46 percent with 2percent favoring some otherc a n d i d a t e a n d 4 p e r c e n tundecided. The margin of error is4 points. Last week, Raese led by50 percent to 43 percent. (Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 26).POLLS FROM TUESDAY:Republican John Raese has a

statistically insignificant 48percent to 46 percent lead overDemocrat Joe Manchin in theirrace to fill the Senate seat of thelate Robert Byrd, according to aF o x N e w s / P u l s e O p i n i o nResearch poll conducted Oct. 23.The margin of error is 3 points.This outcome is at odds with aPublic Policy Polling survey fromMonday indicating that Manchinwas getting traction in the race.Nine percent of Raese supports

say they could yet change theirminds. As close as the race is,Manchin remains hugely popularwith 69 percent approving of the job he is doing as governor. Butasked whether a desire to keep

him in that job was a factor indeciding their Senate vote, 62percent said it was not.There is a strong anti-Democrat

and anti-President Obama tiderunning in the state, and 54percent say that Manchin sidestoo often with Obama on policyissues -- an impression he hasbeen trying to dispel, evendeclining the other day to saywhether he would support Obamafor a second term, or, if elected to

the Senate, support Harry Reid formajority leader.

Raese's baggage is that 50percent of voters believe he is outof touch with West Virginiafamil ies , whi le 39 percentd i sa g re e , wi th 1 1 p e rc e n tundecided. Raese's wife and twochildren live in Palm Beach, Fla.Democrats have been trying toportray him as a rich, out-of-stateopportunist and have run an ad

saying "John Raese thinks we'rehicks" and notes that Raese's wifeis registered to vote in Florida.POLLS FROM MONDAY:Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin

has notched up his lead overRepublican John Raese in theSenate race, running ahead of himby 50 percent to 44 percent, with6 percent undecided. The marginof error is 2.8 points. Two weeks

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Choice CandidatesDavid Gibson ( Politics Daily  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:22:00 PM

Just ahead of Election Day, one

of the most influential Americanchurchmen in the Vat ican ,Cardinal-designate Raymond L.Burke, has warned Catholic votersin the United States that they maynever vote for politicians whosupport abortion rights or same-sex marriage, position usuallyassociated with Democraticcandidates.Burke, an outspoken conservativeand the former archbishop of St.Louis who will be made a cardinalby Pope Benedict XVI nextmonth, made his remarks in avideotaped interview in Romewith Thomas J. McKenna, head of Catholic Action for Faith andFamily, a conservative lobbyinggroup based in San Diego.In the interview, which Catholic

Action taped on Oct. 20 andstarted promoting Thursday onYouTube, McKenna asks Burke,"Is it ever licit for a Catholic to

vote for a pro-abortion candidate,a candidate who either in aplatform or who has voted, hasshown himself to support that. Isit ever valid?""No," Burke answers. "You cannever vote for someone whofavors absolutely the right tochoice of a woman to destroy ahuman life in her womb or theright to a procured abortion."He adds that voters "may in somecircumstances, where you don't

have any candidate who isproposing to e l imina te a l labortion, choose the candidatewho will most limit this grave evil

in our country. But you couldnever just i fy vot ing for acandidate who not only does notwant to limit abortion but believesthat it should be available toeveryone."

Burke also cited same-sexmarriage as the other great threatto American society that Catholicvoters, like Catholic politicians,are bound by their faith to oppose.And he rejected the charge thatsuch a position discriminatesagainst gays and lesbians just aslaws once discriminated againstAfrican-Americans." W h e r e t h e r e i s u n j u s tdiscrimination -- for instance,where you say that a fellowhuman being, because of the colorof his skin, is not a part of thesame race as someone, say, who isa Caucasian -- that is a kind of discrimination which is unjust andimmoral," Burke said.

"But there is a discriminationwhich is perfectly just and good,and that is the discriminationbetween what is right and what iswrong -- be tween what i saccording to our human natureand what is contrary to our humannature. So the Catholic Church, inteaching that sexual acts betweenpersons of the same sex areintrinsically evil, are againstnature itself, is simply announcingthe truth, helping people to

discriminate right from wrong interms of their own activities."Since 2008, Burke has been the

top judge on the Vatican's

supreme court and serves on thepowerful Vatican committee thatmakes recommendations on theappointment of bishops to thepope. When he is formally made acardinal in November, the 62-year-old Burke will also have a vote inthe conclave that will eventuallyelect a successor to the 83-year-old Benedict.Burke's interview comes at a

politically volatile moment and ata time when conservative Catholiclobbies and bloggers in the UnitedStates are more active than ever intrying to make their voices andviews the dominant ones withinthe church and in Catholicpolitical circles.Burke has often been at odds

with some of his brother bishopsin the United States, whom hesees as too lenient in speaking outagainst abortion rights and same-sex marriage and in denying

c o m m u n i o n t o C a t h o l i cpoliticians who take positionscontrary to those of the bishops.The cardinal-designate's latest

comments on Catholic voters alsoseem to diverge somewhat fromthe current policy of the U.S.hierarchy, as developed in 2004,and based in part on advice fromthen-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,the Vatican's chief doctrinalofficer who a year later waselected pope on the death of John

Paul II.In a letter to the American

bishops meeting in 2004 toformulate their policy of Catholics

in public life, Ratzinger noted thata Catholic voter would be unfit toreceive communion "if he were todeliberately vote for a candidatep re c i se ly b e c a u se o f t h ecandidate's permissive stand onabortion and/or euthanasia."

Ratzinger added: "When aCathol ic does not share acandidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, butvotes for that candidate for otherreasons, it is considered remotematerial cooperation, which canbe permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons."

Burke 's la test s ta tements ,however, seemed to take a harderline on Catholic voters."No matter what good I'm tryingto achieve by voting for acandidate who favors that good,but at the same time favors theintrinsic evil, the grave evil of abortion, they can never justify

that, voting for that candidate," hetold McKenna.McKenna said he thinks the

statements by Burke -- one of twobishops advising his organization-- are not partisan but make theelectoral choices crystal clear forCatholic voters."Millions of Catholics have noidea i t ' s a s in to vote forcandidates who favor these graveevils, which attack the veryfoundations of society," he said.

"This matter-of-fact, pointedinterview granted to me byArchbishop Raymond Burke inRome last week makes it very

clear what the responsibility of every American Catholic will benext Tuesday."In the interview, Burke said he

also rejects the common criticismthat highlighting opposition toabortion rights and gay marriageeffectively endorses Republicancandidates."Sadly, in the society in which welive, it is oftentimes difficult forbishops to carry out their officebecause they are accused of beingpartisan or other accusations aremade against them," Burke said."But what a bishop should simplydo is say to himself, 'What doesthe Catholic faith teach about thismatter and how can I bestannounce it to the people, to alertthem so that they do what in theirconsciences they are obliged todo?'"Burke's arguments may be moot,

as Catholic voters already seemed

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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — RuralMarathon County has only 2percent of Wisconsin's population,but it provides a glimpse of whyU.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, one of the Senate's most prominentliberal Democrats, still findshimself in an uphill battle to winre-election next week.The county, the state's largest at

 just under 1 million acres, is hometo dairy farmers who help makeWisconsin the nation's No. 2 milk producer and ginseng farmerswho lead the world in productionof the bitter root. Many residents

work at factories producing paperproducts.Conservative voters here might

not be the likeliest allies for aHarvard-educated lawyer fromnear the state capital, but theyhave backed Feingold even whilesupporting Republican George W.Bush for president.This year, however, a darker

mood has settled in, and the latestpolls show Feingold either trailingh i s Rep u b l i can o p p o n en t ,

businessman Ron Johnson, orwith the race too close to call.

The race provides a vividillustration of two key factors

enters its final days — disgruntledv o t e r s eag er t o sh ak e u pgovernment as the nation 'seconomic woes drag on, ande x t r a o r d i n a r y s a t u r a t i o n

advertising by independentpolitical groups attempting tosway public opinion.A recent study found that more

advertising, much of it negative,had been broadcast about theSenate race in Wisconsin duringone recent period than in anyother Senate campaign in thecountry.Marathon County has been a

prime target because it's also thesite of a fierce House campaign.

Outside interest groups havepoured $2.8 million into the racebetween Democratic state Sen.Julie Lassa and Republican SeanDuffy, a former district attorney,as they vie to replace longtimeDemocratic U.S. Rep. DavidObey.

But the p r imary focus i sFeingold. Every day a broadcastbarrage portrays him either as acareer politician embedded in anoversize government or a feisty

maverick who can fix what'sbroken.

Feingold and Johnson areh ammer i n g away a t t h e i r

week. "What I'm telling people is,I have been very devoted to thetop issues: jobs, the economy andthe def ici t ," Feingold saidMonday. Says Johnson in a new

TV ad released Tuesday, "Wehave to s top Washing ton 'sovertaxing and overspending. It'skilling our jobs."Some voters are reevaluating

their longtime senator, who wasfirst elected in 1992.Gloria Nelson of Wausau said

she previously supported him butwon't this time because of thefederal bailout of Wall Street.When told that Feingold actuallyvoted against the bailout, the

grocery-store worker in her mid-50s hesitated and said, "Well, I'mstill not voting for him. He spendstoo much."Like unhappy voters elsewhere

th is year , many here haveconcluded that government isn'tworking well and something mustbe done.Johnson, a first-time candidate

and tea party favorite who owns aplastics company, has based hiscampaign on scaling back. He

says he'll repeal the health carereform law and work to create jobs, and offers no apologies forhaving no plan for either. The

running on "who I am, what mybackground is."That Johnson has been running

ahead even though he wasunknown before the race began

speaks volumes about Feingold'schallenge.In Marathon County, Johnson

doesn't have to convince peoplethat life could be better.The state's economic woes have

hit hard in a place where dairycows outnumbered people asrecently as a few decades ago.Local companies that makewindows and prefabricated homeshave struggled in the housingdownturn.

Feingold has responded bycalling upon his greatest politicalstrength — his face to facecampaign ing . He has beenholding his trademark listeningsessions and touting his maverick credentials — for example, hewas the only Democrat to opposeWall Street reform because itwasn't tough enough, and abipartisan negotiator on campaign-finance reform.But it's not hard to find one-time

Feingold supporters who arehaving second thoughts. Wausaudairy farmer Don Voelker, 64,says he thinks Feingold's OK.

change."Some voters say Feingold is

getting an unfair rap for problemsthat aren't his fault. Brad Karger,Marathon County's administrator,

said Feingold has a certain magicwhen he's dealing with people oneon one. However, "He might nothave that magic this year," Kargersaid. "There's a lot of fear outthere."___Online:

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Capitol Hill Bureau Chief Rep.

Heath Shuler, a conservativeDemocrat from North Carolina,said Wednesday that he would runagainst Nancy Pelosi to bespeaker of the House if no otherDemocrat steps forward --presuming, of course, that hisparty retains control of the Housein the midterm elections.His comments came in a WWNC

radio debate with his Republicanopponent, Jeff Miller, and werefirst reported by the AshevilleCitizen-Times.During the debate, Shuler said,

"If there is no viable alternative[to Pelosi], I will be running forspeaker of the house."

Later , Mil le r pressed thecongressman for details. "You'resaying you would not vote forNancy Pelosi for speaker?" Millersaid."If that's the alternative, I will bevoting for myself," Shuler

answered."If she's there, you wouldn't votefor her? You'd vote for yourself?"Miller clarified. Shuler replied, "Idon't know how I can be anyclearer. I can do as good a job asanybody in the U.S. Congress,because I can actually bringpeople together."Despite Shuler's best efforts,

Pelosi has been a central theme of 

his campaign to defend his Houseseat. Miller, along with theNRCC, ran an ad against Shulertying him to Pelosi and accusinghim of "giving the arsonist a book of matches." Shuler respondedwith his own commercial, saying,"I'm not Nancy Pelosi."

S h u l e r , a f o r m e r N F Lq u a r t e rb a c k w h o c a me toCongress in the Democratic waveof 2006, is one of severalconservative members of the

Democratic caucus who havedistanced themselves from Pelosiin the last year and IS among thedozen or so who would notcommit to backing Pelosi. He alsovoted against the health carereform bill and the Wall Streetbailout legislation.

A s e l e c t i o n d a y n e a r s ,

speculation is rampant about

Pelosi's fate atop the Democraticcaucus should her party lose theHouse or maintain a narrow edgeover the Republicans. HouseMajority Leader Steny Hoyer isconsidered Pe losi ' s logica lsuccessor, but has said he will notmount a direct challenge to thespeaker. Shuler is the firstDemocrat to say he wouldchallenge Pelosi directly.This entry passed through the

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Palin Reality Show:Where's the 'Gravitas'?Tom Diemer ( Politics Daily  )

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Correspondent Karl Rove, theRepublican guru who is helping toraise tens of millions dollars forRepublican candidates this year,questioned Thursday whetherSarah Palin's new reality show onDiscovery will help or hurt herpolitical ambitions in 2012."With all due candor, appearingon your own reality show on theDiscovery Channel, I am not

certain how that fits in theAmerican calculus of 'that helpsme see you in the Oval Office,' "Rove said in an interview with theU.K. Daily Telegraph. The storya p p e a r e d o n t h e B r i t i s hnewspaper's website under theheadline: "Karl Rove questionsSarah Palin's suitability forpresident."Americans have high standards

for the person occupying theWhite House, said the man who

was President George W. Bush'stop political adviser. "Theyrequire a certain level of gravitas,and they want to look at thecandidate and say, 'That candidateis doing things that gives meconfidence that they are up to themost demanding job in the world.'"Rove singled out as potentially

hurtful to her political future a

promotional clip for the new show

-- " Sarah Palin's Alaska." In it,the mother of five, enjoying thegreat outdoors, says "I wouldrather be doing this than in somestuffy old political office. I'drather be out here, being free."Palin did a "terrific job" as John

McCain's running mate two yearsago, Rove told the Telegraph. But"being the vice-presidentialnominee on the ticket is differentfrom saying, 'I want to be theperson on the top of the ticket:' "

Palin has not said whether shewill seek the presidency in twoyears. But she is the darling of theGOP's right wing and is widelybelieved to be considering acampaign for the Republicannomination.Back in the USA, Rove took heat

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ago, this poll had him ahead byonly 3 points. Manchin's personal

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support from fellow Republicanswhile Barrett has 83 percent

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percent and unfavorably by 48percent, with 3 percent not sure.J h i l d i

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popularity remains high, but hehas been struggling against a tideof an t i -Democra t ic fee l ingreflected by the 65 percent of voters who disapprove of the job

that President Obama is doing. (Public Policy Polling, Oct. 23-24)WisconsinPOLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:Republican Scott Walker, the

Milwaukee county executive, isleading Democrat Tom Barrett,the Milwaukee mayor, by 52percent to 42 percent in the racefor governor, with 2 percentpreferring some other candidateand 3 percent undecided. Themargin of error is 4 points. This is

the third poll since Sept. 29 whereWalker has been at the crucial 50percent mark or above. Walkerbenefits by getting 96 percent

support from Democrats. Walkerhas a big advantage amongunaffiliated voters. ( RasmussenReports, Oct. 25)POLLS FROM TUESDAY:

Republican newcomer RonJo h n so n l e a d s De m o c ra t i cincumbent Russ Feingold in theSenate race by 53 percent to 46percent with 1 percent undecided,according to a Rasmussen Reportspoll conducted Oct. 25. Themargin of error is 4 points. That'snot much change from two weeksago, when Johnson led by 52percent to 45 percent. Johnson hasnow been above 50 percent infour straight Rasmussen polls.

Johnson is seen favorably by 58percent and unfavorably by 41percent, with 2 percent not sure.Feingold is seen favorably by 49

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Flu-Fighting Foods( Cooking Light: Editor's Picks  )

Food alone can't protect againstthe common cold or flu, and thescience isn't yet clear on which

nutrients may bolster immunity toreduce your risk of getting sick.But experts agree that a diet richin a variety of produce, wholegrains, lean proteins, and low-fatdairy productsalong with adequatesleep, moderate exercise, andminimal stresscontributes to awell-functioning immune systemand may promote a faste rrecovery if you do come down

with a cold or flu. Here are somekey nutrients and tips that willhelp increase the likelihood thatyou'll fly through the wintermonths in good health. Next Eat

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When the temperature starts tosoar, a cool crisp salad seems likethe ideal meal. But if you think you’re getting a light, healthybowl of greens when you're eating

out at favorite restaurants likeRo m a n o ' s Ma c a ro n i Gr i l l ,California Pizza Kitchen, orApplebee's, you may want to takea closer look. While manyrestaurant salads are low incalories and loaded with healthyingredients, others are dietdisasters packed with calorific

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A Tribute to Sexy HalloweenCostumes( Mensfitness.com  )

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| Print Article| Email to FriendThere are many reasons to love

Hal loween. Candy. Par t ies .Women using it as an excuse towear next to nothing in public fora night. This is a tribute to thelatter.Check out our galleries of sexy

Halloween costumes:Want to know what her costume

means?Check out MF's Costume

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fat in areas that you haven't beenable to hit through diet and

1 Peter 1:24-25 (10-28-10)(V f h D )

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by Karen Asp| Print Article|Email to FriendThere are numerous surgical

options out there for people whoneed to lose lots of weight, suchas gastric bypass or Lap-Band.But if you're just looking for a nipor tuck, there are other ways toget it. Here are four of the newest.

V A S E R H I - D E FL I P O S C U L P T U R EHow it's done: Doctors use a

variation of the same ultrasoundtechnology pregnant women useto see their baby, but it's tweakedto dissolve the fat surrounding

specific muscle groups (your bodygradually absorbs and passes the"melted" fat). "We use yourmuscle structure as a template tosculpt your new shape," says JohnA. Millard, M.D., a Denver plasticsurgeon and founder of theAd v an ced Bo d y S cu l p t i n gInstitute. The torso takes aboutfour hours, arms or legs will onlytake about two hours.Cost:$2,500-$5,000 for arms or

legs, $7,500-$15,000 for the core.

Recovery time: Two to threedays, but you'll generally be outof the gym for two to three weeks,minimum. Bruising and pain areminor, though. In fact, Millardsays the discomfort is no morethan what you might experiencefollowing an intense workout.VELASHAPEHow it's done: A combination of 

radio waves and infrared lightbeams shrink fat cells and tighten

the skin. "Most people say it feelslike a warm massage," says Yan

Trokel, M.D., a New York Citycosmetic surgeon and founder of the YAN Center for Correctiveand Cosmetic Surgery. You maysee resu l t s af ter on ly fourt reatments , says Trokel .Cost:$500 per session per body

areaRecovery time: NoneCARBOXYTHERAPYHow it's done: Your skin is

injected with CO2, triggering thebody's production of collagen,which aids in removing thecellulite. Trokel recommendsbetween four and 12 treatments,each one 20 to 60 minutes long.Cost:$200 per session per body

area.Recovery time: NoneZELTIQHow it's done: Fat cells are

ch i l led wi th a special izedtransducer and subsequently die

from the cold. Over time, thebody flushes them out through

normal metabolic processes. Theprocedure generally takes aboutan hour and one treatment.Cost:$500-$700 per body area.Recovery time: Less than a day.

"Most patients are in and out withminimal downtime," says JasonPozner, M.D., medical director of the Sanctuary Medical AestheticCenter in Boca Raton, Fla.Wondering if these procedures

are right for you? We askedRichard A. Baxter, M.D., aspokesperson for the AmericanSociety of Plastic Surgeons, whatyou should keep in mind beforesigning up.PROS:

• With the exception of VASERHi-Def, most procedures areminimally invasive.• Relatively quick recovery.• Treatments may help you lose

able to hit through diet andexercise.

CONS:

• Some of the procedures areexperimental and haven't beenwell tested.• Results may not be permanent.• There's a risk for side effects,includ ing every th ing f romtemporary nerve damage withZeltiq to skin burns with VASERHi-Def. And if your doctor isn'th igh ly sk i l led , p roceduresinvolving any type of sculptingmay not look entirely lifelike.

Interesting fact: Americans spent$10 billion on plastic surgery lastyear, down 3% from 2008.Related articles: 101 Ways to Lose Your Gut Three Easy Tricks to Tame YourAppetite Diet Screwups: How to bounceback from overindulging[on Facebook, Digg, Reddit andmore]This entry passed through the

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All men are like grass, and alltheir glory is like the flowers of 

the field; the grass withers and theflowers fall, but the word of theLord stands forever.— 1 P e t e r 1 : 2 4 - 2 5 ( N I V )Thoughts on Today's Verse... Asthe seasons change, the leavesfall, and the grass dies, we arereminded once again of how shortour lives are. Despite the rapidadvancements of technology, ourdeepest needs are addressed onlyby the eternal and proven will of God in Scripture. Whether you getyour Scripture off the Bible ondisk or from an old family Bible,access it today. Don't you need adose of the eternal today? MyPrayer... As I age, I am constantlyr emi n d ed , O Go d , o f mytransitory stay on earth and youreternal reign in heaven. Give me asense of my place before you as Iseek your will in your Word. InJesus' name I pray. Amen.

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( Mensfitness.com  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 4:00:00 AM

by Lisa Freedman| Print Article|

Email to FriendPharmaceutical companies and

scientists have been working fordecades to find a magic pill tomake us feel more satisfied andeat less. Fortunately, researchersat the University of Campinas inBrazil may have found a link tomaking us feel full—without theuse of drugs.

S o m e o f o u r e a t i n ghabits—particularly if theyinvolve a lot of fatty foods like

fries and pizza—may cause us tolose the ability to know whenwe're full. Some research suggeststhat eating excessive amount of fat creates failures in the brain'ssignals that control satiety in thehypothalamus (the area of thebrain that manages hunger). Thesefailures can lead to uncontrollablefood intake and, thus, obesity.Brazilian researchers, led by JoseBarreto C. Carvalheira, set out to

determine if exercising obeserodents could restore satiety anddecreased food intake.The set-up: The researchers

studied a group of rats—half of which were of normal weight,whi le the o ther ha l f wereconsidered obese. Both groupswere put under physical exercises

such as swimming and running ona treadmill. Their eating habitswere also closely monitoredbefore and after the exerciseroutines.

The results: The obese rats thatused to eat a lot before they weresubjected to regular exercisestarted eating less after engagingin physical activity."In obese animals, exerciseincreased protein levels in theh y p o t h a l a m u s , a n d t h e s emolecules were crucial forincreasing the sensitivity of themost important hormones, insulinand lept in , which contro l

appetite," Carvalheira explained.Obviously, physical activityincreases energy expenditure andburns calories, but this studyfound that exercise also adjuststhe signals of satiety and reducesfood intake.This chemical change suggests

that physical activity "could help

to reorganize the set point of nutritional balance and, therefore,aid in counteracting the energyi m b a l a n c e i n d u c e d b yovernutrition-related obesity,"

Carvalheira noted in the study.However, the study did not find

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Email to FriendHALF-MOONHow: Hang forward with your

left hand on the floor (or on abasketball) about 12 inches aheadof your right foot. Lift your legparallel to the floor, keeping yourhips even. Twist to the right,reaching your right arm to thesky. Face the floor until you areready to look up. Hold for twominutes.

W h y : D e v e l o p s y o u r

concentration, stretches thehamstrings, opens the hips, andstrengthens the back muscles.DOWN DOGHow: Keeping your feet hip-

width apart, bend down and placeyour hands shoulder-width apart.Step your feet away from yourhands to form an upside-down V.Lengthen through the shoulders.Hold for at least one minute.Repeat five times.

Why : H e lps s t r e t c h thehamstrings, back, and shouldermuscles, while also buildingupper-body strength.EXTENDED SIDE ANGLEHow: With your feet wide apart,

turn your left foot out 90 degrees.Bend the left knee until it's overthe ankle. Place your left hand onthe floor and extend your rightarm overhead. Rotate your chestout. Hold for one minute. Repeaton the opposite side.

Why: Opens up your hips,helping work the adductor andabductor muscles while alsoworking your core and stretchingthe lower and upper back. Relatedarticles: Bikram Yoga Pilates For Meatheads Best No-Weight Workout Ever

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Voices of faith: Beck, Colbert & Leibowitztmatt ( GetReligion  )

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and zaydes at the 92nd Street Y.Young Jews ident i fy wi th

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This morning, I received myannual email from The JewishDaily Forward, announcing the“Forward 50,” the newspaper’slist of the year’s 50 women andm e n w h o h a v e m a d e a“significant impact on the Jewishstory in the past year.”Sure enough, there was the

smiling face of the man of thehour here in the desperate city of Washington, D.C., a city in whichthe ruling Democrats are cryingout for a symbol of sanity, humor,hope and chutzpah, a man who isbrave enough to serve as a voice

of moderation, which, of course,means crit icizing PresidentBarack Obama from the culturaland political left.That man, of course, is Jonathan

Stewart Leibowitz.To tell you the truth, I was

stunned that he was not listed inthe Forward Top 5, overall. HisForward 50 biography states thecase this way:A Democrat in the White House

has hardly tempered the irreverent

and distinctly Jewish voice of theliberal-leaning fake news anchorJon Stewart. The 47-year-oldfunnyman has entered his 11thyear as host of Comedy Central’s“The Daily Show,” which hasgrown into a popular nightlyplatform to skewer politics andgovernment. …Stewart is quick to play the

Jewish card, drop a Zabar’sreference or cozy up to bubbes

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (hisgiven name) and admired his tactafter former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez made an t i -Semit iccomments about him and thenwas fired. Stewart recently cameout with a new book, “Earth: AVisitor’s Guide to the HumanRace,” which is fi l led withsquishy science and funny one-liners. …The problem, of course, can we

stated in a simple, yet eternal,question: What does the word“Jewish” mean?

This i s an importan t , ye tultimately almost meaningless

question, in this postmodern age.As the Hollywood Jew weblogputs it:For some Jews it’s perplexing

that Jon Stewart, an AmericanJewish icon, isn’t religious. Howcould the Jew who makes Jewish“cool” be so indifferent toJudaism?Buried beneath the laughter from

his jokes — that he rituallydelights in Big Macs with baconon Yom Kippur or mocks Israel’s

leaders for skipping a U.N.meeting on Sukkot “you mean,the holiday with the huts?” — is adeep and hidden disappointmentthat he isn’t really doing whatwe’re doing.Earlier this week, The Berman

Jewish Policy Archive, a researchand analysis outfit at NYU,offered their findings on the stateof Jewish journalism in theaftermath of a controversy at The

Carroll, expressed a wish “that journalists would move beyondtheir serial habit of assessing the‘Jewishness’ of various publicfigures.”However, in this case, journalists

really do not need to pull back from asking some variation onthat question as they trek to theNational Mall to cover ournation’s latest festival of semi-political hero worship.However, that is exactly what the

principalities and powers at theWashington Post did the other dayin the massive Style section look at Stewart and that thing that he

keeps doing. This is the openingsalvo of “ Just who does JonStewart think he is?”, whichcaptures the spirit of the whole:These days, he can claim to be

many things: political satirist,pseudo-anchorman, media critic,author, successful businessman,philanthropist, Emmy Awardmagnet. On Monday he arrives inWashington in a new, self-anointed role: as our nationalvoice of reason, moderation and

rationality — a uniter, you mightsay, not a divider.Jon Stewart’s Saturday afternoon

“Rally to Restore Sanity” (mergedwith partner-in-satire StephenColbert’s concurrent “March toKeep Fear Alive”) may becomethe largest “nonpartisan” event tohit the national Mall since …well, since a couple of months

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say they have bullied someone inthe past year, with nearly as many

i h h b h i i

I began to feel so worthless andashamed and unloved that I began

hi k b ki lif ”

What is the overall studentpopulation? How do suicides inhi di i i h i l

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Just after 7 a.m. today, I foundmyself driving a minivan full of middle-school students. This still-d a rk -o u t s id e c a rp o o l d u ty

frustrated me for two reasons.First, I was up late last nightwatching my suddenly vintageTexas Rangers throw battingpractice to the San FranciscoGiants. Second, a school bus thatmy children could ride for freestops just down the street from myhouse.“Why not let your kids ride thebus?” a logical person might ask.In fact, a logical person (at least I

consider myself logical) asked hiswife that very question. Thelogical person’s wife assured himthat the carpool is the bestsolution to the foul-mouthedbullies who were harassing our 13-year-old son on the bus. She’dtried calling the bus driver andtransportation director. Thatdidn’t really fix the problem. Iproposed that I might make asingle visit to the bus and employa baseball bat. For some reason,

the logical person’s wife didn’tthink that was the best idea,either.So here we are.So, if you ask me, “Are bullies a

problem at school?” I’d answeryes. If you ask me, “Are schoolsdoing all they can to prevent thisproblem?” I’d answer no. I’m notat all surprised to see this CNNreport this week:Half of all high school students

saying they have been the victimsof bullying, according to a newstudy released this week.But if you ask me to tie school

bullying to religion, I’d be moreh a r d - p r e s s e d t o a n s w e rdefinitively. My son’s bulliescertainly don’t use any kind of language that I’ve ever heardfrom the pulpit.Yet the national media narrative

on bullying keeps focusing onwhat NPR this week described as“growing concern that there maybe a religious undercurrent to theharassment of teens who are seenas gay.” Surely the flood of 

headlines making that case hasnothing to do with the “growingconcern.”Actually, NPR religion reporter

Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s reportis pretty good — much better thanmost that I have read on thissubject.For one thing, she uses real-life

examples rather than vaguegeneralit ies:Consider Justin Anderson, who

graduated from Blaine High

School outside Minneapolis lastyear. He says his teenage yearswere a living hell. From sixthgrade on, he heard the sametaunts.“People say things like, ‘Fagsshould just disappear so we don’thave to deal with them anymore’;and, ‘Fags are disgusting andsinful,’ ” he told the Anoka-Hennepin School Board. “Andstill, there was no one intervening.

to think about taking my life.”Anderson told his story at a

public hearing last month — ahearing convened because in thepast year, the district has seen aspate of student suicides. Four of those suicides have been linked toanti-gay bullying.Justin Anderson survived. Justin

Aaberg did not. Aaberg, 15, lovedthe cello, both playing andc o m p o s i n g n u m b e r s l i k e“Incinerate,” which he posted onYouTube. Justin was openly gay.He had plenty of friends, but hewas repeatedly bullied in hisschool. In July, his mother,

Tammy, found her teenage sonhanging from his bed frame.“They were calling him, ‘Faggot,you’re gay,’ ” she recalls. ” ‘TheBible says that you’re going toburn hell.’ ‘God doesn’t loveyou.’ Things like that.”“Fags are disgusting and sinful.”“God doesn’t love you.” Suchtaunts certainly legitimize thequestion of religion’s role.But the anonymous they nature of the bullies makes it impossible to

really know what role religionplayed in these specific cases.Therein lies the rub. If you seeany media reports that interviewactual bullies, I’d love to heartheir perspective on how theirfaith influences them to callclassmates “faggots” and tell themto burn in hell. I am only half- joking.

Concern ing the “spa te of  suicides”: How many is a spate?

this district compare with nationalaverages? Are suicides up in thisdistrict? If so, why?More from the NPR report:Tammy Aaberg says the school

never called her, even after herson was physically assaulted. Shewas furious at first, but thenbegan to understand why.“A lot of teachers do care and dowant to do something, but they’reafraid to lose their job if they stepin and they’re not neutral,” shesays.Aaberg says teachers felt they

couldn’t get involved — evenwhen her son was bullied —

because of the school district’s“neutra l i ty pol icy ,” whichprohibits employees from takingsides on matters regarding sexualorientation. The district says thepolicy is meant to apply to thecurriculum. But teachers say it’sso broadly written that they’reloath to intervene even when theyhear anti-gay slurs.

Look up cop-out in yourdictionary. That’s my reaction toany teacher or school official who

would refuse to deal with aphysical assault because of a“neutrality policy.” Give me abreak.

Of course, the story reliesentirely on the mother’s versionof events. There’s no responsefrom a teacher or school official.I’d love to hear firsthand from ateacher, “Yes, we knew that thischild had been attacked on theplayground, but the neutrality

change school policy to allow usto keep bullies from beating upstudents at our school.”The report quotes officials from

the Minnesota Family Council,“an evangelical group,” as well asthe Family Research Council, alsoidentified as “evangelical.” Inb o th c a se s , m o re d e t a i l e ddescr ip t ions of the groupsinvolved would be helpful, asevangelical can mean so manydifferent things.Likewise, the story features the

“Christian” mother of an 11-year-old boy who committed suicide.Again, more detailed information

o n th e f a m i ly ’ s r e l i g io u sbackground — and their specificfa i th group’s teachings onhomosexuality — would behelpful.Hagerty ends her piece this way:And yet, despite the shifting

views and alliances, there is anongoing dilemma: How doparents and schools protectvulnerable kids without turningschools into a battleground for theculture wars?

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occasion of this same Daycelebrated in 2001, emphasizedthat “[the ni er al common

message, which, admittedly, maybe a new emphasis, hasn’t been

ell co ered The Pope think

began:Pope Benedict has called on

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We’ve had an in te rest ingdiscussion in a post yesterdayabout an article on a group thatmonitors Muslim extremism. One

of the last commenters, Irenicum,had a few interesting parts, suchas noting how often “we’re stuck in a false dichotomy of ‘everyMuslim is a potential terrorist’ to‘there is no radical Islam.’” Hislast line, though, made me think of another news story:As an aside, at what point does a

legitimate concern for preservinga cultural “tradition/norm” asmany non-Muslim Americans

want to do become a xenophobicimpulse tha t i s po ten t ia l lydangerous? A good deal of thecontroversy I see seems to comeabout from this very dividing line.A n d s i n c e t h i s i s a b o u t  journalism, who is writing in apublic venue about this in anuanced way?I thought it was interesting

because I’d only moments beforefinished reading the Pope’sMessage for World Migrant and

Refugee Day. Why was I doingthis? I don’t know. Anyway, Idecided to look at the mediacoverage of this message becausethe message itself was so, well,nuanced. For instance, note thispassage:Venerable John Paul II, on the

that “[the universal commongood] includes the whole familyo f p e o p le s , b e y o n d e v e rynationalistic egoism. The right toemigrate must be considered inth i s c o n t e x t . Th e Ch u rc hrecognizes this right in everyhuman person, in its dual aspectof the possibility to leave one’scountry and the possibility toenter another country to look forbetter conditions of life.”At the same time, States have the

right to regulate migration flowsand to defend their own frontiers,always guaranteeing the respectdue to the dignity of each and

every human person. Immigrants,moreover, have the duty tointegrate into the host Country,respecting its laws and its nationalidentity. “The challenge is tocombine the welcome due toevery human being, especiallywhen in need, with a reckoning of what is necessary for both thelocal inhabitants and the newarrivals to live a dignified andpeaceful life.”It’s not that the church’s views

— at least those presented in thefirst paragraph above — haven’tbeen well documented in thepress. I think the media actuallyhas done a generally good job of reporting on the Catholic church’sposition that refugees are to bewelcomed. But the second

well covered. The Pope thinksthat countries have the right toregulate their borders and thatmigrants need to integrate intothe i r host country? Tha t’sin te rest ing s tuff .I figured that in this election year

when border regulation is havinga serious impact, this would getsome noteworthy coverage. But itappears that it hasn’t, at least yet.The Associated Press issued afour paragraph piece. Reuters hadseven graphs. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal mention wasonly a few dozen words. TheCatholic press did more thorough

coverage. Here’s Catholic NewsServ ice’s p iece and here ’sCatholic Culture, which said thatthe message sounded severalfamiliar themes about treating allrefugees with dignity while beingmore explicit about the right todefend borders and the need formigrants to assimilate.But in general, this nuanced

message was too nuanced tore c e iv e s ig n i f i c a n t m e d iacoverage. It really is a shame

when only the loudest or mostextreme voices in contentiousfights are heard.One exception was a brief but

notable BBC report, which didn’t just highlight Benedict’s remarksbut used them as a hook to discussimmigration issues in Europe. It

immigrants to respect the lawsand national identity of their hostcountries.He said that every country had

the right to regulate the flow of migration and immigrants had aduty to integrate.The Pope’s comments are likely

to add to the Europe-wide debateabout integration of foreigners.

The Vat ican t rad i t iona l lyidentifies with migrants andrefugees and recently criticisedFrance for deporting 1,000 Roma(gypsies) to Romania andBu lg a r i a .This is a hot-button topic in

Europe. It is here, too. I reallywish that more reporters wouldavail themselves the opportunityto discuss the topic with morelight than heat. Does it have aneffect on policy and discoursewhen the only times we discussissues is when more extreme newsevents provoke it? Written by:Mollie on October 28, 2010.This entry passed through the

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ago, when another basic-cable TVstar, Glenn Beck, hosted his“Restoring Honor” rally on thesteps of the Lincoln Memorial.Beck claimed his event wasnonpartisan, too.With less than a week to go, it’s

still not exactly clear how Stewartwill be using this new platform.No guests or musical acts havebeen announced, Stewart has doneonly a couple media interviews,

and he’s offered few details aboutthe rally on his nightly program.Nevertheless, the similarities to

Beck’s rally are just the sort of thing Stewart himself wouldsatirize on his show if, of course,it weren’t his rally and his TVshow in the first place. In his fewpre-rally comments, Stewart hasreached for some of the broadvalues and high-minded themesthat Beck’s did — civili ty,decency, making America better

— though admittedly with fewerreligious allusions andmore comic panache.And, of course, he has chosen to

w o r k w i t h t h o s e n o t a b l emoderates Arianna Huffingtonand Oprah Winfrey. There are nopolitical, or religious, overtones inthe work of that dynamic duo.Nope.

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Thus, I think it is very strangethat if one reads the rest of theStyle piece, one finds absolutely

seriously. He tries to show respectfor Catholicism, in other words.It’s his faith and it is the faith that

The key word? That would be“fewer.” After all, his worldview— whatever it is — is shaping his

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zero references to how thereligious or not-so religiousworldview of this Leibowitzfellow — OK, Stewart — affects

his work or how he views wordssuch as “reason,” “civility,”“ m o d e r a t i o n ” a n d e v e n“patriotism.” On this front thearticle is completely silent or, onemight even say, haunted.Yet do the following equation in

your mind.Be c k e q u a l s , wh a t ? Th e

mainstream media coveragestressed that he is a Mormon, yetwith a large (and most journalistsincorrec t ly assume uni ted)

conservative Christian base. Thatwas part of the story, no wayaround it.Colbert equals, what? The media

is beginning to catch on ( RNShere, my Scripps piece here) thathe is a Catholic who is quiteprogressive on basic politicalissues, yet has done a good job of offering a mixture of statementson social issues that take thedoctrines of his church quite

he is teaching to his children andto others. That is part of theColbert story, no way around it.

Le ibowitz ( tha t would be

Stewart) equals, what? Is he acultural-secular Jew, a worldviewthat would shape how he views awid e v a r i e ty o f r e l i g io u straditionalists, from OrthodoxJews to orthodox (small “o”)Christians to who knows who? Acultural-vaguely religious Jew,not secular, but with dashes of postmodern “spirituality” thatblends with all of those snickersand smirks? A secret religiousJew who is pretending to be a

secular Jew?None of this matters, as long as

he’s funny?Yet, that Style piece accurately

noted that, “Stewart has reachedfor some of the broad values andhigh-minded themes that Beck’sdid — civility, decency, makingAm e r i c a b e t t e r — th o u g hadmittedly with fewer religiousa l lusions and more comicp a n a c h e .”

humor on issues that are clearlytouched by debates about religion,culture, ethics and morality.The faith element should be in

the story, since it is in Stewart’shumor and his public image. Ontop of that, religion was a majorpart of the Beck rally that Stewartwill be dissecting, if not mocking.That is part of the Leibowitz (thatwould be Stewart) story, no wayaround it. Written by: tmatt onOctober 28, 2010.This entry passed through the

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Twitter has just announced an

official mobile app for WindowsPhone. It’s available immediatelyfor all Windows Phone 7 devices.Ever since Twitter’s acquisition

of Tweetie earlier this year, thecompany has been hard at work on developing official mobileapps for various platforms.Twitter for iPhone came to theApp Store in May, and Twitter forAndroid rolled out in April, as didTwitter for BlackBerry.While some of the apps aren’t as

full-featured as their third-partycompetitors, they do featureexcellent graphics and the Twitterseal of approval, of course.Twitter also says this app is

particularly fast and brings users“all of the features that you’dexpect from Twitter.”Twitter mobile product manager

Leland Rechis wrote on theTwitter blog that the UI for thisplatform is called Metro; theplatform provides Pivots, whichhe says “are sort of like pages of the app.”“Pivots allow you to swipe left orright to view different categoriesor types of information within asingle application. For example,in Twitter for Windows Phone,you can swipe left or right to

move from your timeline tomentions to direct messages,” hesays.In developing this app, Twitter’s

engineers and their partners madesome improvements to an opensource REST API library, TweetSharp; those improvements willalso be released as open sourcesoftware.

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70’s. Having helped orchestratethe Vietnam crusade for both JohnF Kennedy and Lyndon B

across the nation, fully half thetotal-$22 million-goes to justtwo: WGBH in Boston and

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Visit Commentary Magazine.Edi to r’s no te: Wri t ing in

C o m m e n t a r y m a g a z i n e i n

December 1991, David Horowitzpenned a detailed critique of PBS,in which he showed how publictelevision promoted left-wingpolit ics under the guise of balanced journal i sm whi leescaping accountability from thetaxpayers who subsidized itspolitically skewed programming.The piece, reprinted below,remains timely today, as therecent firing of Juan Williams

over seemingly innocuousremarks has once has againrevealed the gulf between thepolitics of public broadcasting andthe public it allegedly represents.

C r e a t e d b y t h e P u b l i cBroadcasting Act of 1967, thep resen t sy s t em o f p u b l i c television is by now one of thelast E1l Dorados of the GreatSociety. From relatively modestbeginnings it has grown into a$1.2-billion leviathan which is

virtually free of accountability tothe taxpayers who shell out anannual $250 million to pay for thesystem while also enabling it toget matching grants from privateindividuals, foundations, andcorporations.Of these private benefactors, the

most important historically wasthe Ford Foundation, especiallyunder the leadership of McGeorgeBundy in the late 60’s and early

F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.Johnson, Bundy became one of alarge crowd of liberals to leavethe sinking ship of the policy theyhad charted. In 1966 he found

refuge in the presidency of theFord Foundation. Upon takingthis new job, Bundy told intimatesthat he intended to make publictelevision one of the specialobjects of his attention, and hethen went on to do so.To be sure, he had something to

build on. Before his arrival, Fordhad already funded many of thehundred or more educationalstations around the country, to the

tune of $150 million-a prodigioussum for that period-and had donemuch to establish the rudiments of a fourth national network.Before Ford entered the picture,

educational stations had beendistinctly homegrown, do-it-yourself, garden variety incharacter. Operating on anaverage of only eight hours a dayand mainly associated withuniversities and schools, theydevoted themselves to no-frills

instructional fare, tailored to theirrespective locales. Shakespearein the Classroom, Today’s Farm,Parents and Dr. Spock, Industryon Parade, were typical titles of the programs that were often“bicycled” from one station to thenext, because there was no“interconnection” link at thetime. The unifying factor in allthese educational productions, andthe one that distinguished them

most clearly from commercialTV, was their low budgets. It was

this factor that Ford’s interventiontransformed.So great was the change that

there is no organic relationb e t w e e n t h e h i g h - t e c h p ro fes s i o n a l i sm o f p u b l i ctelevision as we now know it andthe modest ef fo r ts o f thepioneers in the field. An hour of MacNeil/Lehrer (perhaps the bestproduct of the post-Bundysystem) costs $96,000, while asimilar segment of a series like

Cosmos or Masterpiece Theatermight cost three or four times thatmuch. These figures are certainlymuch lower than those forcomparable commercial shows(partly because of special discountarrangements with unions andtalent), but they are still out of thereach of any un ivers i ty o rcommunity group. ESPITE thischange from the early Days,e x e c u t i v e s o f t h e P u b l i c

Broadcasting Service (PBS) stillportray their network as if it were

a decentralized service to diversepublics, the very incarnation of America’s democratic spirit. Atypical statement reads:PBS is owned and directed by its

memb er p u b l i c t e l ev i s i o n stations, which in turn areaccountab le to thei r localcommunities. This grassrootsnetwork is comprised of stationsoperated by colleges, universities,state and municipal authorities,school boards, and community

organizations across the nation.Y e t n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g

organizational complexities of Rube Goldberg dimensions, andthe lack of a single programmingauthority, the truth is thatcentralized power dominatespublic television and creates itscharacteristic voice. Of the 44million taxpayer dollars annuallyavailable for programs to the 341separately-owned PBS stations

two: WGBH in Boston andWNET in New York. (Another$10 million goes to a group of producers affiliated with WNET,to three other stations, and to PBS

i t s e l f , w h i c h b r i n g s t h ecentralized total to 77 percent of the funds.) This money is thenleveraged against grants fromprivate foundations and othersources by a factor as great astwo, three, or even five times theoriginal amount.The result is that most major

public-television series-MacNeil/ Lehrer, American Playhouse,Frontline, NOVA, Sesame Street,

Great Performances, MasterpieceTheater, and Bill Moyers’subiquitous offerings-are producedor “presented” by WNET andWGBH. Others are produced bya group of stations known as the“G-7 (after the tag given to themajor industrial powers), oftenwith WNET and WGBH as thedominant partners. *In creating the new system in

the late 60’s, its architectsattempted to square the circle

o f a g o v ern men t - fu n d ed inst i tu t ion that would beindependent o f po l i t ical influence. The result was asolution in the form of aproblem: a private body-theC o r p o r a t i o n f o r P u b l i c Broadcasting (CPB)-that woulddistribute the government funds.Compromise was the order of the

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day. The Carnegie Commission(whose report had led to the1 9 6 7 A c t ) w a n t e d t h e governing board of CPB to be

interconnection, which beganoperations in 1970 as the PublicBroadcasting Service.

To m e e t c o n g re ss io n a l

his intellectual odyssey to theLeft. It was in this period,too, that the Ford Foundationannounced the creation of a

hands with the center to fightthe common foe.Having humbled the President,

the Democratic Congress now

singled out by the Nixonadministration as polit icalantagonists. But the program helaunched on WNET in 1975 in

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governing board of CPB to becomposed of eminent culturalfigures; Lyndon Johnson wanted(and got) political appointees.

Carnegie wanted a permanentfunding base in the form of anexcise tax on television sets;Congress said no. But as a sopto the broadcasters, emphasiswas placed on the private natureof CPB as a “heat shield” toinsulate the system fromgovernmental influence.Congress also limited CPB’s

mandate, insisting that it beestablished on the “bedrock of localism.” (The idea of an elite

network financed by the taxpayerwould have been pol i t ica lanathema.) To prevent CPBfrom creating a centralized“fourth network,” Congressbarred i t f rom produc ingprograms, operating stations, ormanaging the “interconnection”between them. In addition toinsisting on the safeguards of adecentralized system, Congressinserted a clause requiring“fairness, objectivity, and

balance” in all programming of a controversial nature.Such was the plan; the product

p r o v e d o t h e r w i s e . W i t h Congress having agreed toprovide a fund to finance thestations, Bundy recruited DavidDavis of WGBH for the task of connecting them into a nationalvoice. Together with WardChamberlin of CPB, Davise n g i n e e r e d t h e n e w

To m e e t c o n g re ss io n a l concerns about preservinglo c a l i sm , t h e n e w Pu b l i cBroadcasting Service was to be

contro l led by a board of  d i r e c to r s e l e c t e d b y t h e “ g ra ss ro o t s” su b sc r ib in g stations. But Ford ensured thatthey, in turn, would bedominated by the powerfulinner circle of metropolitanstations it favored. The new PBSpresident was Hartford Gunn, themanager of WGBH.While this process was working

itself out, political events weremoving in ways that would

fatefully shape its future. Until1968, the disaffected liberalswho had a share in creatingpublic television had beenengaged in a family quarrelwith their fellow Democrats.The Vietnam war had castthem unexpec ted ly in anadversarial posture toward theanti-Communist liberals whoremained committed to theVietnam policy they themselveshad once supported. But in

1968, the presidency fell intounfriendly Republican handsand, worse still, into the handsof the man who, since the trialof Alger Hiss, had been theirmost hated political antagonist.Now, with Richard Nixon inthe White House, the Vietnamnightmare no longer belongedmainly to the liberals.It was in this period that Bill

Moyers joined WNET to begin

announced the creation of anews center in Washington,which would be staffed byprominent luminaries from the

media fraternity, several ofwhom the Nixon White Househad identified as politicalenemies. Among them wereElizabeth Drew, Robert MacNeil,and Sander Vanocur.The loading of these cannons

was duly noted by the WhiteHouse, and in June 1972,Nixon retaliated by vetoing theCPB funding b i l l . CPB’spresident and several Johnson-a p p o in t e d b o a rd m e m b e rs

resigned, and were immediatelyreplaced with Nixon nominees.For all the good it did him, Nixonmight have saved himself thetrouble. Two weeks earlier, fivemen had been arrested whilebreaking into the Watergatea p a r t m e n t c o m p l e x i nWashington. By the end of theyear, the most watched show onpublic-television stations wasthe congressional hearing todecide whether to impeach the

President. True to its promise tooffer fare that the commercialchannels would not or couldnot provide, PBS featured thehearings on prime time when thenetworks had turned to otherentertainments. The result wasa groundswell of support fromnew members and contributors.Even the more conservativestations, which had been atloggerheads with PBS, joined

the Democratic Congress nowrushed eagerly to aid its ally inthe Waterga te t rava i ls . Asignificant increase in funds for

public television was authorizedand, more importantly, committedthree years in advance. Congressalso acted to tie CPB’s unreliablehands. Fifty percent of its non-discretionary program grantswere now earmarked for thestations as “general support”-apercentage that would rise evenhigher in the following decade.The stations, in turn, kicked back a portion of their grants into anewly created program fund,

further depriving CPB ofinfluence over the systemproduct.When the dust had settled,

CPB, which Nixon had tried tomake a conservative redoubt,was discredited and crippled,while the Ford Foundation’sprotege, PBS, emerged as thenewly dominant power at thecenter of the system.Vietnam and Watergate: public

television’s birth by fire in the

crucible of these events created its political

culture, which today often seemsfrozen in 60’s amber. The onea re a o f i t s c u r re n t - a f f a i r sprogramming which managed toescape this fate, ironically, is theone where the battle with theNixon White House wasmost directly joined.Robert MacNeil, as noted, was

among the liberal journalists

launched on WNET in 1975, incollaboration with Jim Lehrer,turned out to be reasonably fairand ba lanced . Orig ina l ly

devoted to a single subject perevening, The MacNeil/LehrerReport p rovided in -depth analysis that network sound-bites could not duplicate, andit went on to prosper morethan any other public-televisionshow besides Sesame Street.But MacNeil/Lehrer-along with

a few other “talking heads”shows, most notably TonyBrown’s Journal and William F.Buckley’s Firing Line-proved to

be the exception. In other cruciala r e a s o f c u r r e n t - a f f a i r sprogramming, a different standardwas set. Especially in filmdocumentaries, where subjectswere treated in a magazine-likesetting that made it possible totell a story whole and with aneditorial thrust, the politicalpersonality of the system soonshowed another, more radicalface.In fact, the protest culture,

which everywhere else hadwithered at the end of the60’s when its fantasies of revolution collapsed, discovereda new base of operations inpublic television. A cottagei n d u s t r y o f a c t i v i s t documentarians had sprung upduring the 60’s to makepromotional films for the Black

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A Blue Dog and a Republican

replaced them,” he said. “It’s notsurprising, then, that they getbitter, they cling to guns or

County in the north, toward Erie.In between are narrow highways,shadowed by the Allegheny

l iberal .” Accord ing to theWashington Post, Altmire hasvoted with a majority of his

wh i p E r i c Can t o r , Ho u seRepublican Conference chairmanMike Pence, Steve Forbes, and

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fight for a region that’s fed upwith Washington.Glenshaw, Pa.-- Joe Laus wants

to win a gun. A job would be

better, but for now, one of theshiny rifles lying on a plastic tableat the front of Moose Lodge #46is within reach, and he’s preparedto sit here all afternoon, hoping.As the minutes pass, Laus,huddled in the back with hisfriend Len Gebert, tufts of grayhair poking out from under anorange hunting cap, thumps hisknee as the raffle numbers of others are called.“I’ve been unemployed for over ayear and a half,” Laus tells me asfellow lodgers, most clad inSteelers jerseys, line up forsausage and beer. “Nobody wantsto hire anybody over the age of 61. Most of my friends who areover 50 can’t find a job.”#ad#Laus, who worked for yearsin the maintenance business,blames both parties for therecession. “They’re all a bunch of crooks,” he says.

Gebert nods. “Nancy Pelosipasses these bills without readingthem,” he sighs. “It’s sad.”Two years ago, President Obama,

sp eak i n g a t a Demo cra t i cfundraiser, famously complainedabout the frustrations of suchmen. “You go into some of thesesmall towns in Pennsylvania, andlike a lot of small towns in theMidwest, the jobs have been gonenow for 25 years and nothing’s

, y g greligion or antipathy to peoplewho aren’t like them.”Laus scowls at the mention of 

Obama. The stimulus and the

health-care bill, he says, havedone little for Pennsylvania’s steelcountry. “I don’t like the GOP,but I really don’t like what theDemo cra t s a r e d o i n g ,” h eexplains, his rough hands clasped.Even though his congressman,t wo - t e rm Demo cra t J aso nAltmire, voted against Obamacareand has voiced his opposition toHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi,Laus wants to “throw him out.”

He wants to elect somebody,anybody, who’s going to “repealthat bill” and cut taxes.That’s music to the ears of Keith

Rothfus, Altmire’s Republicanchallenger, who hopes to ride theregion’s simmering discontent toan upset victory on Tuesday. Ashe sits on a supporter’s patio afew miles away, stink bugs andfirefl ies dancing under theo v e r h e a d l i g h t s , R o t h f u sacknowledges that he faces an

uphill climb. A Susquehanna pollreleased last week shows Altmireup by twelve points, 47 percent to35 percent. Rothfus shrugs off thenumbers. The poll, he notes, alsoshows that 18 percent of likelyvoters remain undecided.Altmire’s congressional district,

Pennsylvania’s 4th, stretches fromPittsburgh’s affluent suburbs, withtowns such as Fox Chapel, dottedwith McMansions, to Mercer

y g yMountains -- and also by batteredwheat silos and shuttered mills,the dusty relics of glories past.John McCain won the district

with 55 percent of the vote in2008, President Bush with 54percent in 2004.Thanks to Altmire’s maneuveringon the health-care vote, mostpundits predict that he will holdonto his seat. Charlie Cook andStuart Rothenberg rate the contestas leaning toward the Democrat.Altmire, a former health-carelobbyist, has weathered toughraces before: He narrowly toppled

three-term Republican MelissaHart in 2006, and kept her fromretaking the seat in 2008.

Rothfus, an attorney who’srunning h is f i rs t po l i t icalcampaign, knows that Altmire’snay vote on Obamacare may bethe sandbag that stop the GOPwave from carrying him tovictory. But he says that hisclosing strategy could upendAltmire’s tack to the right. In adshitting the airwaves this week,

Rothfus highlights a video inwhich Altmire says that repealingObamacare is “not a viableoption.” Pointing out that Altmireis less than committed to repeal,h e s a y s , “ s w i n g s v o t e s , ”according to his internal polls.#page#“Altmire has painted apicture that’s simply not true,”Rothfus says. “When you votewith Nancy Pelosi almost 90percent of the time, you’re a true

j yDemocratic colleagues 88.8percent of the time during thecurrent Congress. “Cash forClunkers, bailing out the auto

companies, bailing out Fannie andFreddie, sponsoring card check:Altmire is more liberal thanGeorge McGovern.”It’s unclear whether Rothfus’s

charges will stick. Even beyondO b a m a c a r e , A l t m i r e h a spositioned himself as a moderate,Blue Dog Midwestern Democrat.He voted against the Wall Streetbailout and against cap-and-trade.“He’s not doing a horrible job,”

says Joe Wall, a “middle-of-the-road Republican” who is leaningagainst the back wall of MooseLodge #46. “But he’s a Democratin a largely Republican district.That he continues to survive kindof shocks me.”#ad#“He’s had an election-yearconvers ion ,” Rothfus says ,swatting away my mention of Altmire’s position on the Bush taxcuts. I had pointed out that at arecent debate, Altmire argued that

he was “one of only 31 Democratsto urge the speaker not to hold avote unless it included all of thetax cuts,” and that “this is thewrong time to be raising taxes onany individuals or on smallbusinesses.” Altmire also pickedup the endorsement o f theNational Rifle Association anddescribes himself as pro-life.In recent weeks, House GOP

leader John Boehner, House GOP

, ,others have traveled to westernPennsy lvan ia to s tump forRothfus, who has struggled toraise coin. According to Stephanie

Miller, Rothfus’s campaignmanager , Al tmire has over$500,000 cash on hand, whilethere’s only about $135,000 inRothfus’s coffers.Nevertheless, Rothfus believes

his ground game could win himthe seat. Earlier this year, he wona contested primary by a two-to-one margin, thanks to Tea Partysupport , against Mary BethBuchanan, a prominent former

U.S. attorney who is well liked byWashington Republicans. Sincethen, he tells me, his ranks haveswelled, and he now has over 700volunteers working on his behalf.His campaign has made over100,000 calls to voters.Rothfus, who has struggled to

generate name recognition, mayalso be boosted by the candidatesat the top of the ticket. TomCorbett, the state’s Republicanattorney general, who is now the

frontrunner in the gubernatorialrace, hails from the district andhas galloped to a large lead in thepolls. Pat Toomey, the GOPcandidate for U.S. Senate, alsopolls well in the region.But it’s the national mood that

Rothfus is counting on. “This is adistrict that swings late and fast,”Rothfus says. “That’s what

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F riends, welcome to the fourth

young American woman isspeaking. She is saying that, when9/11 occurred, she had to know

when there are tornado-like gales.#*#I meet a Frenchman whosename is Patrick. There are many

soirées -- a big Moroccan bash,with all the bells and whistles. Wewalk down a long, long red carpet

given what has come before?#page##*#The next morning,there is a session on Iraq, and it

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installment of these jottings fromMorocco, where I’m attending“Davos in the Desert” -- moreformally, the World Economic

Forum on the Middle East andNorth Africa. Here are links to thepreceding parts: I, II, and III.

There is a session called“Meeting Expectations in U.S.-Muslim Relations.” Hard to knowwhat that means. The panelists aremainly American, and theyinclude two representatives of theObama administration. It quicklybecomes clear that there arecertain assumptions in thissession:The burden is on the United

States to prove that it is nothostile to Muslims. Americansociety is teeming with racismand intolerance. Opposition to the“Ground Zero Mosque” is simplyhateful, bigoted, and wrong.There could be no good reason tooppose the construction of thatmosque. It is simply anti-Muslimbias. The ongoing wars inAfghanistan and Iraq are an

affront to Muslims everywhere.Does anyone say that the

overthrow of the Taliban and theoverthrow of Saddam Husseinwere righteous acts? Does anyonesay that we are in Afghanistan andIraq in order to prevent the returnof monstrous rulers -- and that thisis of some benefit to manyMuslim people? Not that I hear,no.#ad#A video is shown, and a

what “led to the violence.” Shehad to get to the “root of thesetragedies.” The tone is clear, atleast as I perceive it: What did

America do to deserve it? (Youremember that man, that SanFrancisco politician, who spoke ata ceremony in that city, a fewdays after 9/11? “Oh, America,what did you do?”)Repeated mention is made of that

one kooky pastor who threatenedto burn the Koran. Obama did agreat and glorious thing, we aretold, by making clear that this wasunacceptable. Does anyone saythat, in free countries, peoplesometimes do reprehensiblethings, but that freedom is goodfor all, and that the Muslim worldcould definitely use a strongerdose of freedom? Not that I hear,no.I do hear something I have never

heard before: America must domore than “securi t ize therelationship” -- “securitize” therelationship between the UnitedStates and Muslims around the

world. We have to “get away”f r o m “ s e c u r i t i z i n g ” t h i sr e l a t i o n s h i p , y o u s e e ?“Securi t iz ing”? You mean,preventing people from beingblown to bits? You know, peoplewho are threatened with physicalv io l e nc e c a n u se a l i t t l e“ se c u r i t i z a t ion .”I think you have heard enough

about this particular session. Youknow which way the wind blows

French Patricks -- an Irish name,bestowed on many French boys. Ibring up Jack Lang, the notoriousFrench culture minister from the

1980s (I think). He was the onewho made war on the introductionof English words into French. Alot of people thought it was funnythat his name was Jack -- not“Jacques,” but “Jack.”

The F re nc hma n he re inMarrakech says, “Oh, yes. And hepronounced his name in theEnglish way” -- with the English“J,” not a “zh” sound.The man says to me, “Does the

United States have a ministry of culture?” He says this with a bitof a twinkle -- a bit of mischief --if I have read him right. I say, “No-- there is a National Endowmentfor the Arts. But Americansgenerally think that culture shouldbe left to people and their variouso rga n iz a t ions , no t t o t hegove rnme n t .”An American interjects that this

is not true: that this is merely aRepublican view, not the view of 

liberals and Democrats. I guessso. But would Americans reallygo for a ministry of culture?Would they stand for a cultureminister? Wouldn’t most peoplethink of a culture minister and aministry of culture as . . . not veryAmerican?Anyway, perhaps Gallup or

someone could give us theanswer.#*#There is a soirée to end all

-- I don’t know about you, but Idon’t do that every day. AtNational Review, we just comethrough the door. On either side

of the red carpet, there are scores -- more like hundreds -- of candles.Candles in glasses. And there is ahell of a spectacle, with a hell of aracket.Dancers are dancing, singers are

singing, blowers are blowing,flame-throwers are throwing -- arethey also swallowing? I don’tthink I see that. Men sit erect onwhite horses. It is sheer Arabianfantasy, all Disneyesque.I feel we have been invited to

Malcolm Forbes’s 70th birthdayor something. Where is ElizabethTaylor?Inside the vast tent, a bona fide

feast is served. There is a fishbastilla -- or p’stilla, if you preferthat transliteration -- to die for.And then comes a lamb -- it lookspractically like a whole one,served on a very large silverplatter. You know the cliché“succulent lamb”? (“Arrant

pedantry,” “grievous error,”“voracious reader,” “succulentlamb”?) This was one -- asucculent lamb to end a l lsucculent lambs.Before dessert, the belly dancers

come out, shimmying like mad.You don’t have to dream of Jeannie, she is right here. Thedessert is not so good -- not asgood as the belly dancers. Butthat’s okay. Who can complain,

features Barham Salih, the primeminister of Kurdistan, a famouslyurbane and capable man. I havelong wished that Americans from

coast to coast could hear him. Ithink they, we, would understandthings a lot better. I will get toSalih in the next installment of this journal.Here, I would like to tell you

something about a young Iranian-American man, who is also aspeaker in this session. He isbilled as an expert on Iran, and onIranian-American relations. He iswith the Carnegie Endowment.Say no more? (Oh, the uses of thatgreat man’s money!) No, say alittle more.#ad#He says, “Iran is to theMiddle East what the Tea Party isto the United States.” Theaudience thinks this is terriblyclever and true. It is beyonddisgusting, of course -- a moralobscenity. But perfectly par forthe course.Bear in mind that, apart from

everything else, the Iranian

regime is one that stones girls todeath for the crime of having beengang-raped.Our Carnegie guy also refers to

the time, a few years ago, “whenIsrael was bombing Lebanon.”When Israe l was bombingLebanon. Is that the way youwould put it, my friends? Howabout “when Israel was pursuing

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Panther party, the WeatherUn d e rg ro u n d , a n d o th e r domestic radical groups, and forCommunist countries like Cuba

PBS described as “the kind ofprogramming that we enjoypresenting [and] hope tocontinue to present.”

Marzani, a fact that theprogram neglected to mention.In 1978, to mark the 25th

anniversary of the execution of

his claims: the failure of thegovernment to make its caseagainst Ethel, the injustice ofthe sentence. Whereas our book

of those former radicals whohad changed their minds inorder to defend their countryand its freedom-Max Eastman,

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and Vietnam. This group nowbegan its own “long marchthrough the institutions” bytaking its political enthusiasms,its film-making skills, and itsnetwork of sympathetic left-wing foundations into the PBSorbit.

The integration of theseradicals into the liberal PBScommunity was made easierby the convergence of politicalagendas at the end of theVietnam war, when supportersof the Communist conquerorswere able to celebrate victory

over a common domestic foewith liberals who had onlydesired an American withdrawal.Another convergence occurredaround the post-60’s romancebetween New Left survivorsa n d t h e “ O l d L e f t ”Communists , whom co ld warriors like Richard Nixon hadmade their targets. Most liberalsshared the radicals’ antipathyfor the anti-Communist Right,along with their sense that any

political target of the anti-Communists was by definitiona n i n n o c e n t v i c t i m o f  p e r s e c u t i o n .A Prime Expression of this

liberal-Left convergence was TheUnquiet Death of Julius and EthelRosenberg (1974), a two-hourspecial which attempted toexonerate the most famous“ m a r t y r s ” o f t h e a n t i -Communist 50’s, and which

pWhat was striking about the

film was not just that it castdoubt on the verdict of theRosenbergs’ trial; or that it didso even as massive FBI filesre leased under the newFreedom of Information Actwere confirming their guilt; oreven that it went beyond theairing of questions about the caseto imply that there had been agovernment frame-up and thatthe verdict represented anindictment of American justice.What was most disturbing (andprophetic in terms of future

PBS productions) was that thefi lm also amounted to a p o l i t i c a l b r i e f f o r t h e Communist Left to which theRosenbergs had belonged.Thus, the narration introduced

the Rosenbergs:With millions of others they

question an economic andpolitical system that lays wasteto human lives. Capitalism hasfailed. A new system might bebetter. Socialism is its name. For

many the vehicle for change is theCommunist party.

The fi lm then cut to anauthor i ty expla in ing tha tCommunists were people who“believed that you couldn’thave polit ical democracywithout economic democracy….Being a Communist meant simplyto fight for the rights of thepeople….” The authority wasthe longtime Stalinist Carl

ythe Rosenbergs, PBS ran thefour-year-old documentaryagain, adding a half-hourupdate. The update confirmed  j u s t h o w d e t e r m i n e d l y ideological some regions ofPBS had become.The original two-hour program

had been based on the standardargument for the Rosenbergs’innocence developed in a well-known book by Walter andMiriam Schneir. In the interim,The Rosenberg File by RonaldRadosh and Joyce Milton hadappeared, based on the new FBI

materials and on originalinterviews with principals inthe case. While concluding thatJulius Rosenberg had been guiltyas charged, the authors-one ofthem a former member of theRosenberg Defense Committee-were critical of the deathpenalty and of the prosecutionof Ethel Rosenberg, againstwhom they be l ieved no credible case had been made.Because The Rosenberg File had

been so widely praised as a“definitive” account, PBSexecutives asked the producerof the documentary, AlvinGoldstein, to interview Radoshas part of the “update.” SaidRadosh later:I couldn’t believe the final

product when I saw it. He cut oute v e r y t h i n g I s a i d t h a tcontradicted his film, and leftonly the parts that supported

totally demolished the argumentof his film, viewers watching itwould think I endorsed hisclaims. Moscow televisioncouldn’t have done better. It wasoutrageous.Far from being an isolated

example, the PBS treatment ofthe Rosenbergs proved typical.Individual Communists whowere later admiringly profiledon PBS specials included PaulRo b e so n , An g e la Da v i s , Dashiell Hammett, BertoltBrecht, and Anna LouiseStrong. These were amplified

by the collective portrait SeeingRed (1986) , a 90-minute ce lebra t ion of American Communists as progressiveidealists, and The Good Fight(1988), a nostalgic tribute tot h e C o m m u n i s t s w h ovolunteered to fight in theSpanish Civil War.In a clear violation of PBS’s

enabling legislation, thisopening to the discredited pro-Soviet Left was never balanced

by any reasonably truthfulp o r t r a i t o f A m e r i c a n Co m m u n i sm ; n o r wa s i tmatched by any provision ofequal time to anti-Communists,whether of the Left or Right.Thus, a l though there werespecials on the personal trials of American radicals who haddevoted their lives to a politicalillusion and enemy power, therewas nothing on the tribulations

,J a y L o v e s t o n e , J a m e s Burnham, Whittaker Chambers,Bayard Rustin, Sidney Hook.While PBS searched for silver

linings in the dark clouds of theCommunist Left , i t foundmainly negative forces at workin those American institutionscharged wi th f igh t ing the Communist threat, in particularthe Central Intelligence Agency(CIA), which became a PBSsymbol of American evil. In1980, PBS aired a three-hourseries called On CompanyBusiness, which its producers

described as “the story of 30years of CIA subversion,murder, bribery, and torture ast o l d b y a n i n s i d e r a n ddocumented with newsreel filmof actual events.”The CIA “insider” on whom the

PBS film relied for editorialguidance was Philip Agee,who in a 1975 Esquire articlehad written: “I aspire to be aC o m m u n i s t a n d arevolutionary.” The same year a

Swiss magazine asked Agee’sopinion of U.S. and Sovietintelligence agencies. He replied:The CIA is plainly on the

wrong s ide , tha t i s the capitalistic side. I approveKGB activities, Communistactivities in general, when theyare to the advantage of theoppressed. In fact, the KGB is

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A metaphorical war has imposedsome very real costs

-adjusted, in the retail price of cannabis throughout the UnitedStates.# d#Th l i bi

discourage cannabis use andtraffic.

E x t e n s i v e U . S . f e d e r a l -t h i di t

#page#The argument that marijuana is

“the gateway drug” that leads tod d d t

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some very real costs.I t is indicative of the failure of 

the current election to deal withreal issues, apart from unease

about deficits and curiosity aboutthe endless military effort in theNear East, that, once again,almost nothing is asked or utteredabout the proverbial War onDrugs, even as the virtual civilwar it has caused in Mexico isamp l y p u b l i c i zed . A l mo s teveryone agrees that hard drugsare a criminal problem, even if there is disagreement about howto fight them and dissatisfactionwith the progress to date in doingso. But marijuana, cannabis, is anastonishing story of the hideouslyexpensive and protracted failureof official policy.There was an increase of 600

percent in the federal drug-controlbudget, from $1.5 billion to $18billion, between 1981 and 2002,and it is almost certainly now over$25 billion, and yet cannabis as anindustry is an almost perfectillustration of the unstoppable

force of supply-side economics.Between 1990 and 2007, therewas a 420 percent increase incannabis seizures by drug-controlauthorities, to about 140,000 tons;a 150 percent increase in annualcannabis-related arrests, to about900,000 people; a 145 percentincrease in average potency of se i zed can n ab i s (d e l t a -9 -tetrahydrocannabinol content);and a 58 percent decline, inflation

#ad#The laws governing cannabisgrowth, sale, and use, thoughunder review in California, whereit is the state’s largest cash crop,

have not been proposed forserious amendment, although 42p e r c e n t o f A m e r i c a n sacknowledge that they have usedcannabis at one time or another.Despite the drug war’s officialcosts of over $2.5 trillion overabout 40 years, comprehensiveresearch by the authoritativeInternational Centre for Science inDrug Policy (ICSDP), a Canadianorganization, but with widein ternat ional exper t i se andcol laborat ion , reveals thatcannabis is almost universallyaccessible to twelfth-graders in allparts of the U.S., and thatcannabis use by American twelfth-graders has increased from 27percent to 32 percent between1990 and 2008; and, furthermore,that among al l Americansbetween the ages of 19 and 28,use increased in the same periodfrom 26 percent to 29 percent.

The argument has been made thatgrowth of cannabis use wouldhave been greater without thedrug-war assault on it. But it ishard to credit that officialdiscouragement is very closelyrelated to drug use at all, since900,000 annual arrests, about half leading to custodial sentences,and with very heavy sentences, of up to 40 years for large-scaleproduction and sale, have failed to

government research indicatesthat the $1.4 billion NationalY o u t h A n t i - D r u g M e d i aCampaign has been completely

ineffective and may even haveincited increased drug use byneedlessly publicizing it. Giventhe abundant evidence of theineffectuality of efforts to restrictand reduce cannabis use, it isastonishing that there has been solittle public discussion in the U.S.of alternative policy courses. TheN e t h e r l a n d s , w h i c h h a seffectively legalized cannabis use,has roughly half the incidence of per capita use as the U.S. And theU.S. has approximately four timesthe per capita level of cocaine useof a broad selection of countries,including France, Germany, Italy,Ukraine, Spain, Israel, Lebanon,South Africa, China, Japan,Mexico, and Colombia. Differingr e g i m e s o f c a n n a b i sdecriminalization have beeninstituted by Mexico, Peru, Brazil,P a rag u ay , Arg en t i n a , an dPortugal, which latter country,

e v e n n i n e y e a r s a f t e rdecriminalization, has among thelowest cannabis-use levels in theEuropean Union. There is a greatrange of policy options available,and observable in other countries,including restricting places of use,r eg i s t e r i n g an d r a t i o n i n g ,increasing emphasis on treatmentmethods, and separating medical(use) from criminal (distributionoutside official channels) aspects.

more dangerous drugs and musttherefore be evaluated for itsconsequences as well as its directeffects may have some validity.

But the ICSDP judges that from76 to 83 percent of the world’s155 million to 250 million annualdrug users use cannabis, whichmay make it a gateway, but alsomakes it by far the greatestenforcement p rob lem, eventhough two-thirds to four-fifths of cannabis users do not use it as agateway into hard drugs. A UnitedKingdom medical and scientificpanel, using a nine-categorymeasurement o f social andphysical harm, rates cannabis lessdamaging and dangerous tosociety than alcohol or tobacco.Those who start on cannabis earlyand continue intensive use overlong periods can suffer a range of psychological problems andmotor impai rment , becomevulnerable to respiratory ailments,and become accident-prone,especially if driving motorvehicles or other sophisticated

machinery. But this does notmake up as great a risk of societaldamage, or as high a challenge toindividual health, as legal butcontrolled substances.#ad#There are also profoundso c i a l an d fo re i g n -p o l i cyq u es t i o n s i n v o l v ed . I t i sfundamentally inconceivable thatif the U.S. were absolutelydetermined to reduce drug usesubstantially, it could not do a

originated drugs into, the U.S.The greatest military power in thew o r l d , w i t h , b y m o s tmeasurements, greater military

strength than all other countries inthe world combined, could seal itsown borders to drugs (as to illegalimmigration), without disturbinglegitimate commerce and tourism.And the public-policy decisionhas been informally concerted toleave middle-class, prosperousAmerican secondary-school anduniversity youth alone with atleast their soft drugs, whiletrolling relentlessly through poorAfrican-American areas roundingup dealers and users , andimprisoning them en masse.For blacks, the chances of being

ar r es t ed an d ch arg ed an dconvicted for cannabis offensesare 300 percent greater than forwhites. Sending nearly half amillion cannabis offenders toprison each year inflicts a $40,000annual charge per prisoner, notcounting the processing costs of the mass-convict-production U.S.

l a w - e n f o r c e m e n t s y s t e m .Do mes t i c co n su mp t i o n o f  cannabis is an approximately$140 billion industry in the U.S.,which, despite large domesticproduct ion , requ i res largeimports, especially from Mexico,Canada, and Colombia. InMexico, 20,000 metric tons of cannabis are shipped annually to

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Republican John Loughlin justmight take another seat from the

p o l i t i c a l c l i m a t e t o g i v ethemselves a chance to win inliberal northeastern states. Browntrailed his opponent by 15 points

a sanctuary city -- a city thatrefuses to enforce laws related toillegal immigration -- is out of sync with the 70 percent of Rhode

from Tiverton, Loughlin spent tenyears as a helicopter pilot in theRhode Island National Guard. Helater joined NASA as a public

government program away fromsalvation. He’s already come outwith his own $2 billion stimulusplan ”

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might take another seat from theKennedys.Lincoln, R.I. -- It’s the week 

before a momentous election, and

John Loughlin is shaking hands ata strip mall. He’s feeling betterabout his prospects than you’dexpect the Republican candidatei n R h o d e I s l a n d ’ s 1 s tcongressional district to be. LastFriday, the National RepublicanC o n g r e s s i o n a l C o m m i t t e ereleased a poll in which Loughlintied his Democratic adversary,David Cicilline, at 41 percentamong likely voters. Among themost likely voters, Loughlin led,albeit barely: 45 to 41 percent,which is within the margin of error.Every shaken hand could be the

deciding vote, but Loughlin iscalmness incarnate. He strollsthrough the Lincoln ShoppingCenter in his burgundy loafers,seemingly unperturbed -- just likethe man walking next to him, Sen.Scott Brown (R., Mass.). “Thisrace reminds me a lot of my race,”

Brown tells a pack of reporters.Loughlin and Brown do havemuch in common -- both areunassuming Republicans whohave harnessed the current

trailed his opponent by 15 pointsnine days before he won anunexpected victory in January of this year; Loughlin may be a

surprise champ for the GOP onNovember 2.#ad#Extending across RhodeIsland’s northeastern arc, the 1stcongressional district has beenrepresented by Rep. Patrick Kennedy since 1995. The son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy,the incumbent won 69 percent of the vote in 2008, outperformingPresident Obama by four points.D e m o c r a t s o u t n u m b e rRepublicans in the Ocean State byfour to one. This district is so bluethat the Cook Partisan VotingIndex gives Democrats a 13-pointadvantage here.But two factors attenuate the

Democrats’ advantage this year.First, Kennedy isn’t running. InF e b r u a r y , t h e i n c u m b e n tannounced that his life was“taking a new direction” and thathe would retire from Congress.Second, Cicilline, the mayor of 

Providence, is not particularlypopular. In an August poll, theDemocrat posted an approvalrating of only 40 percent. Hissupport of Providence’s status as

sync with the 70 percent of RhodeI s l a n d e r s w h o s u p p o r tg o v e r n m e n t s a n c t i o n s o nemployers of illegal immigrants.

And las t month , Cici l l inea d m i t t e d t o m i s t a k e n l ytaking$20,000 in extra pay overfour years. Loughlin’s campaignsays Cicilline is paying back themoney only because he gotcaught.The warning signs for Cicilline

have been appearing for manymonths. In March 2009, theFeldman Group conducted focusg ro u p s fo r t h e may o r i nanticipation of a run for higheroffice. The summary memo,obtained by Loughlin’s advisersand shared with National ReviewOnline, reads like Cicilline’spolitical obituary. “Voters nolonger v iew Cici l l ine as areformer,” it says. “They believehis brother’s writing of a badcheck and the firing of the city’stax collector shows that he is nodifferent than other politicianswho give their family and friends

favors at taxpayer expense.”In other words, Republicans havean opening, and Loughlin is readyto take advantage of it.A 51-year-old state representative

later joined NASA as a public-affairs officer. He served inBosnia-Herzegovina in 1995–96and helped train soldiers headed

to Iraq at Fort Bragg, N.C., in2003. In December 2004, heretired as a lieutenant colonel inthe U.S. Army reserve -- ending a26-year career in the military --and opened Media-Rite LLC, afilm- and television-productionagency.On the campaign trail, Loughlin

wears his green U.S. Army jacketto remind voters of his service.But when he speaks, he’s allissues, no biography. “We want tokeep promoting our message of fiscal conservatism,” he tellsNRO. “We need to repeal andreplace the health-care bill andsend any unused stimulus funds tothe Treasury. The CBO puts out alist of budget options each year.In 2009, it identified $140 billionin savings. I think we should takea look at that.”#page#He’s not afraid to throw apunch. “My opponent’s first vote

would be for Nancy Pelosi asspeaker of the House,” he says.“And his second vote would be toraise taxes.” Loughlin warns of Cicilline, “He thinks we are one

plan.Loughlin says “there’s a lot to

like” about the GOP’s “Pledge toA m e r i c a , ” b u t h e w a r n s ,

“Whenever I’m asked about thepledge or the Contract withAmerica, I say we already have acontract with America,” pulling apocket Constitution of his coat. “Ido support the pledge’s goal toput an enumerated-powers clausein all legislation,” he adds.#ad#And he’s happy to becompared to Scott Brown, whosecome-from-behind victory hehopes to repeat. With virtually noassistance from the national party,Loughlin is marching his way --slowly, deliberately -- closer tovictory. For his part, Brown ishappy to oblige, remindingreporters that the 1st district is notthe Kennedys’ seat but thepeople’s seat.

But when a repor ter asksLoughlin if he sees himself as thenext Scott Brown, the candidate,steady as ever, replies: “I seem y s e l f a s t h e f i r s t J o h n

Lo u g h l i n . ”-- Brian Bolduc is a William F.Buckley Jr. Fellow at the NationalReview Institute. Brian Bolduc

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conveniently overlook the factthat the presence of chemicalweapons is concrete proof thatSaddam’s regime failed to comply

Operation Desert Fox, four daysof air strikes against Iraqi targets,in December 1998. Many criticswho charge tha t the Bush

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Buried in the WikiLeaksavalanche of documents related tothe war in Iraq are various reports

about the discovery of chemicalw e a p o n s c a c h e s i n s i d eIraq—reports which contradict therevisionist narrative about thegenesis of the war. Scatteredthroughout the roughly 392,000documents illegally published byWikiLeaks are accounts of U.S.,coa l i t ion and I raq i forcesrecovering chemical munitionsleft behind by Saddam Hussein’soverthrown regime.While the chemical munitions

re c o v e re d a p p e a re d t o b emanufactured before the 1991Gulf War, after which Iraqi forceswere required to surrender anddestroy their illegal chemicalweapons, the leaked documentsare a reminder that SaddamHussein’s regime could not betrusted to fulfill its disarmamentobligations and fully cooperatewith U.N. weapons inspectors, asthe Bush Administration correctly

argued before the 2003 war.Some commenta tors havedownplayed the finding of chemical weapons, saying thatthese were not the massivequantities for which the BushAdministration claimed it waslooking. But these commentators

Saddam s regime failed to complywith its legal obligations todestroy all weapons of massdestruction, as required by the

cease-fire agreement that endedthe 1991 Gulf War and more thana dozen subsequent U.N. SecurityCo u n c i l r e so lu t i o n s . Th i sadditional evidence of Iraqin o n c o m p l i a n c e f u r n i s h e sconvincing proof, if any is stillneeded, that refutes the revisionistn a r r a t i v e t h a t t h e B u s hAdministration fought an “illegal”war in Iraq.The revisionist narrative holds

that the failure to find massivequantities of weapons of massdestruction (WMD) after the ward i s c r e d i t e d t h e B u s hAdministration’s decision to go towar in the first place. But in fact,the real rationale for going to warwas that Saddam’s regime wasnot coopera t ing wi th U.N.weapons inspectors and thereforethe United States and its allieswere fully justified in undertakingmilitary operations to make sure

that Iraq did not have the WMDstockpiles and the programs tobui ld WMD, tha t the U.N.in sp e c to r s p re v io u s ly h a dconfirmed that it had. Iraq alreadyhad used prohibited chemicalweapons against Iran in the1980–1988 Iran-Iraq war and

against Iraqi Kurds who hadrebelled against the regime.

The burden of proof was onIraq’s non-compliant regime, noton the “coalition of the willing,”which was enforc ing U.N.Security Council resolutions. U.N.Security Council Resolution 687,which set the terms of the cease-fire that ended the 1991 war thatexpelled Iraqi forces that hadinvaded Kuwait, required that:Iraq shall unconditionally accept

the destruction, removal, or

r e n d e r in g h a rm le ss , u n d e rinternational supervision, of:• (a) All chemical and biologicalweapons and all stocks of agentsand all related subsystems andcomponents and all research,d e v e lo p m e n t , su p p o r t a n dm a n u fa c tu r in g f a c i l i t i e s ;

• (b) All ballistic missiles with arange greater than 150 kilometres

and related major parts, and repairand production facilities;

N o t o n l y w a s I r a q n o tcooperating with inspectors indestroying its WMD stockpilesand facilities, but it also wasfound to have missiles thatexceeded the 150-kilometer rangelimits. These are clear violationsof the 1991 cease-fire thattechnically put Iraq back into a

state of war with the UnitedStates. The Bush Administrationwas not alone in finding that Iraqinoncompliance on WMD issuesmerited a military response. TheClinton Administration also citedI r a q ’ s n o n c o m p l i a n c e a s  just i f ica t ion for launching

who charge tha t the BushAdministration conjured up IraqiWMD as a false justification forwar against Iraq conveniently

ignore the fact that the ClintonAdministration based its militaryattacks on the same premise.The WikiLeaks document dump

is a disturbing and recklesspolitically motivated attack thathas passed potentially valuableinformation to hostile forces andincreased the risks to U.S.,coalition and Iraqi troops andcivilians who continue to fight tobuild a stable democracy in Iraq.The selective morality and self-r igh teous a rrogance of theWikiLeaks crew is breathtaking.But if anything positive comes outof their dangerous and misguidedactions, it is a reminder that,contrary to popular wisdom, Iraqdid in fac t possess i l lega lchemical weapons that it failed todestroy before the 2003 war.This entry passed through the

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of the tax credit paid by federaltaxpayers (all else being equal).According to the Families USAreport, the total cost of the tax

becomes ineligible for anysubsidies. The high marginal taxrate at 400 percent of FPL willdiscourage work as income

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happened to Melissa Hart in 2006,and it’s happening to Altmirenow. He was able to tie Hart toBush, and we’ve been able toshow how Altmire is tied to

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Posted October 28th, 2010 at12:00pm in Health Care  PrintThis Post

Families USA is out with a newreport, Lower Taxes, LowerPremiums: The New HealthInsurance Tax Credit, which laudsthe health insurance tax credits(subsidies) in Obamacare. But thereport tells only half of the story.It is true that the tax credits will

reduce the effective premium thatmany households will face forheal th insurance coverage.However, the key question from apolicy perspective is whether the

benefits of the Obamacare taxcredits outweigh their costs. Sincethe Families USA report failed tolist any of the costs or concerns of the Obamacare tax cred i t s ,Heritage will f i l l the void.First, the tax credits are going to

be enormously expensive. TheCongressional Budget Office(CBO) estimated that the averagesubsidy per subsidized enrolleewill be between $5,200 and

$6,000. Subsidies have to be paidfor with revenue generatedthrough taxes. So the gross benefitis exactly offset by the gross cost

report, the total cost of the taxcredits will be $110 billion in2014 alone. All else is not equal,however. The tax credits will be

financed not only by higher taxespaid by many mi l l ions o f  households but also throughsubstantial Medicare cuts and netrevenue from the CLASS Actscheme.Second, the tax credits can be

used only to purchase government-approved health plans. Since theinsurance packages offeredthrough the state exchanges havesignificant limits on cost-sharing,the demand for health careservices will increase. Theincreased demand will put upwardpressure on prices, and as a resulthealth insurance premiums willprobably rise.Third, the tax credits produce

e n o r m o u s i n e q u i t i e s i ncompensation depending onwhether the worker has employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) .Former CBO Director DouglasHoltz-Eakin has shown that

individuals under 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL)who receive health insurancethrough work are at a substantial

disadvantage relative to otherwiseidentical individuals who wouldqualify for subsidies through theexchange. This is because anemployer who does not offer

health coverage will be able toincrease the wages o f h isworkforce with his employeesreceiving favorable tax treatmentto purchase insurance in theexchanges. On net, therefore,individuals below 250 percent of FPL will receive greater netcompensation if not offered ESIand instead purchase heavilysubsidized coverage in theexchange.

Fourth, the tax credits create anenormous “cliff” effect at 400percent of FPL. Once a householdearns above 400 percent FPL, it

discourage work as incomeapproaches the upper limit as onegrows o lder , incen t iv izingindividuals to retire early or to

change the way they reportincome. This particular subsidystructure further penalizes upwardincome mobility for middle-classindividuals.The tax treatment of health care

a n d h e a l t h i n s u r a n c e i scomplicated, but the new law doesnot get it right. The Obamacaresubsidies increase taxes for thosenot receiving the subsidies,r e q u i r e t h e p u r c h a s e o f  government-approved plans,create new inequities in the taxcode, and penalize work.This entry passed through the

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show how Altmire is tied toPresident Obama and NancyPelosi.”Rothfus, who began his career as

a systems programmer at IBMbefore heading off to Notre DameLaw School, is not your typicalmad-as-hell tea-party candidate.His voice is quiet , and hisbespectacled, low-key look is theopposite of that of Altmire, astrapping former college-footballplayer. But behind Rothfus’spolite demeanor, he promises, is atough, conservative spine.#page#In 2006, Rothfus was

diagnosed with cancer of theappendix. “December 1, 2006,”he recalls, just one month beforehis sixth child was due. At thetime, his family was living inWashington, D.C., where Rothfus,a Catholic who cites Pope JohnPaul II as one of his heroes, wasworking for the Department of Homeland Security, coordinatingfa i t h -b ased g ro u p s i n t h eaftermath of Hurricane Katrina.After 18 months filled with

chemotherapy, surgery, andworrying about whether he’d beatthe cancer -- which was advanced-- Rothfus recovered. Soon after,he ran his first marathon.Rothfus says his “work hard,

keep your head down” style iswinning votes. In this economy,he says, no one wants to elect aposturing politician. Growing up

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The Pakistan ConundrumRick Moran (FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage  )

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horse they are backing. Fore x a m p l e , t h e P a k i s t a n iintelligence service, the ISI,apparently not only knew about

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Pakistan is a country that appearsto echo Winston Churchill’sdescription of Russia: a riddle,

wrapped in a mystery, inside anenigma. Even though it acts likean enemy at times, strategicnecessity dictates that it must betreated as an ally. And despite theanimus directed toward the UnitedStates by the majority of thepopulace and several factions inthe government, both nationsmust pretend that all is peachesand cream and that the nearly $7billion in aid the US is doling outover the next 5 years has a chance

to alter the fact that much of thecountry wants to see the USdefeated in Afghanistan.

A delegation headed up byPakistani Foreign Minister ShahM ah mo o d Qu resh i v i s i t edWashington last week to hob nobwith American officials on aidpackages, military cooperation inthe war on terror, and other bi-lateral concerns. But in manyrespects , i t i s what wasn’ t

discussed that reveals more aboutthe current state of our relationswith Pakistan than anything else. Foreign Policy’s David Rothkopf describes our relations with

Pakistan as “making love to acactus.” He writes:

The con t ras t between themeetings and the report reveal thecore conundrum the Obamaadministration faces with regardto Pakistan. No country is hometo more urgent risks. While nearthe top of the list of those risks arethe presence and day-to-dayviolent agenda of al Qaeda,Lashkar-e-Taiba and other suchmilitant organizations, at the verytop is that the rational elements in

the Pakistani government mightlose control of some or all of thecountry’s nuclear arsenal. TheUnited States seeks to shore up

those rational elements — led in apractical sense more by [ArmyCIC General] Kayani than civilianofficials — and collaborate withthem in addressing the threats thatPresident Obama himself hasfamously likened to a “cancer.”But in so doing, the United Statesmust embrace a government thatis fractured — divided in andagainst itself (within every sub-unit it seems, you find anothersplit).The catch is to figure out who’s

on our side and who isn’t — atask made all the more difficultbecause for some of the players inPakistan, it depends on which

pp y ythe Mumbai attack before ithappened, but was also in onsome of the planning according to

th is ar t ic le in the Br i t i shGuardian . So the ISI is ourenemy, right?Not exactly. The intelligence

agency has also been verygenerous in sharing informationon the location of Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders hiding in themountainous regions of Pakistanwhich has facilitated drone strikesthat have killed many terrorists.And if that doesn’t confuse you,the fact that this same ISI assiststhe Afghanistan Taliban inplanning operations that killAmericans will almost surelyhave your head spinning.This is a conundrum without an

easy solution. Pakistan is vital toour efforts in Afghanistan. It is anuclear power at loggerheads withanother ally and nuclear powerIndia. It is on the frontline of thebattle against terrorists, whileengaging those terrorists at times

to serve its own interests.

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ChiefRich Trzupek (FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage  )

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“I don’t want to pit Red Americaagainst Blue America; I want tobe the President of the UnitedStates of America.” That was of 

course one of Barack Obama’ssignature lines when he was onthe campaign trail in 2008. Thosewords succinctly expressed adream that has always appealed tothe electorate: finding a leaderwho would put an end to partisanb i c k e r i n g a n d p o l i t i c a lp r o p a g a n d a . A m e r i c a n sdesperately wanted to believe thatBarack Obama was just such aman, but of course he never was.Soon after he took the oath of office, it became apparent that theGreat Uniter was going to be aspolarizing a president as thenation has seen for quite sometime. Indeed, another couple of sentences from the president’s2008 stump speech come to mind.Obama used them to attack theBush administration, but they

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Barack Obama onto the scene,c o u p l e d w i t h u n c h e c k e dDemocratic power, inflamed thesituation with a mix of tax and

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Despite the Republican Party’scurrent optimism over its politicalchances in the upcoming midterm

election, the recent release by theTreasury Department of the latestnational debt figures may portendunforeseen problems for theparty’s future electoral prospects.While Democrats may be heldacco u n t ab l e b y v o t e r s i nN o v e m b e r f o r o u r f i s c a lnightmare, Republicans mayactually be the ones to suffer thelonger-term effects.

The Treasury Department’sreport shows the national debt has

increased by $3 trillion over thet w o y e a r s o f t h e O b a m apresidency, raising the nation’snew overall debt total to $13.655trillion. At the current rate of s p e n d i n g , t h e t o t a l d e b taccumulated by the end of Obama’s first term will be $5.9trillion, compared to the $4.9trillion accumulated over theentire eight years of the Bushadministration.

While it can certainly be arguedthat both political parties share adegree of blame in this economiccalamity, their level of complicity

is highly different.The Busha d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d i t sc o n g r e s s i o n a l R e p u b l i c a ncounterparts were certainlyprofligate spenders, greatlyincreasing expenditures on suchthings as education and anti-poverty programs, as well asenacting a huge Medicare drugentitlement, with nary a nodtoward balancing a budget.Republicans, of course, paid aheavy political price for thesereckless spending habits, losingcontrol of both the House and

Senate in 2006.However, the collapse of the

financial markets at the end of 2008 saw the Bush administrationand a Democratically-controlledCongress join hands and produceboth a series of bailouts and astimulus package that totaled inexcess of $1.25 trillion, explodingthe federal deficit from $565billion in fiscal year 2008 to $1.41trillion in 2009. In the process, thenational debt rose to $10 trillion.While the debt issue was no

doubt severe, the entrance of 

spend policies, beginning with asecond $700 billion stimulusprogram in early 2009 and ending

with a $1 trillion healthcarereform entitlement in 2010. Theresult of these and other measuresbrought budget deficits of $1.56trillion in 2010; $1.27 trillion in2011; and a projected 2012national debt of $16.5 trillion.The problem for Democrats is

that until 2008, concerns overbudget deficits and the nationaldebt were generally reserved forfiscal hawks, not for the generalpopulace. These were issues

whose consequences could bemasked in good economic timesand easily kicked down the roadfor future generations to handle.Concerns about runaway federal

spending, however, now have therapt attention of the publicbecause the tab for these policieshas come due amidst a severeeconomic downturn, heighteningvoter unease about the effects thatmassive public debt will have on

both their immediate and futurefinancial prospects.

Robust EconomyNeeds AffordableEnergyDavid Kreutzer (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. )

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Posted October 28th, 2010 at1 : 0 0 p m i n E n e r g y a n dEnvironment  Print This PostProposition 23 seeks to put some

of California’s more egregiousenergy regulations on hold—atleast until the California economyrecovers. Current law will forceconsumers to switch to energysources that can be four or moret i m e s a s e x p e n s i v e a sconventional energy, drivingenergy prices up, employers out,and consumers crazy. The currentrules make especially little sensei n t h e c u r r e n t e c o n o m i c

e n v i r o n m e n t .In addition to the standardenvironmental groups, thosefinancing the opposit ion toProposi t ion 23 are main lyfinanciers who stand to gain fromrestrictions on conventionalenergy and billionaires who arefar removed from worries overmonthly energy bills and losing a

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Hezbollah, which would not stopkilling innocents”? That is notsomething you would be likely tohear, in this setting.But this fellow does say a couple

need more executions. It needs tomove on.” But these matters areproperly dealt with by the courts,and politicians should stay out of them.

Not me, though. I swore neveragain. Of course, I have brokenthat pledge. After the camel at thePyramids, I said, No, never again.And I went and did it again: in

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resonate all the more stronglytoday: “We were promised auniter, and we got a president whocould not even lead the half of thecountry that voted for him,”

re c e n t ly im p l i e d t h a t t h eRepublican Party is the enemy of t h e La t in o c o m m u n i ty i nAmerica. The president said: “If Latinos sit out the election instead

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y pof things that make me smile. Hesays, “In the Middle East, thereare too many rulers and too few

leaders.” A tad trite, maybe, butnice: and true. He also says (and Iparaphrase), “They have a sayingin the State Department: There areonly two countries in which youdon’t get clientitis. Only twocountries in which an Americandiplomat doesn’t become overlysympathetic to the government.Only two countries in which, themore you are exposed to thegovernment, the less sympathetic

you become to it. And thosecountries are Russia and Iran.”I’m going to give you a lot of 

Salih in the next installment, butlet me relate just one thing now.He is asked about the impendingexecution of Tariq Aziz. He says,“I’m personally opposed to capitalpunishment, and Iraq does not

I wonder whether he opposed theexecution of Saddam Hussein. Forconsistency’s sake and all . . .

#*#When I was a kid, and firstwent to Buckingham Palace, Iwondered how the guards couldstand it: How could they juststand there and stare for all thattime, until finally relieved by achanging of the guard? What didthey think about? I knew that Icouldn’t handle it for one minute.I have a similar thought here.

Along the main road, outside thecompound where our conference

is being held, there are soldiersstanding sentry, keeping a watch:a lone soldier every 125 yards orso. What do they think about?What would I think about? (Ish u d d e r t o t h in k . ) A r e a ldiscipline must be involved.#*#There are lots of camels about,and plenty of people riding them.

gIndia, because friends were goingfor a ride, and because of theprinciple “When in Rome . . .”

There was that terrible momentwhen, atop that Indian camel, Ichecked my BlackBerry: Then Iknew I had a problem: a problemwith my BlackBerry. But myrationalization and consolation isthis: I was just trying to distractmyself from the ordeal of thecamel and the pest i fe rous,conniving young man leading it.The object of a camel ride, for thedriver, is to extract from you as

much money as possible.Is that capitalism? I don’t think so, but it is something. Anyway,gotta go -- though not on a camel.See you for Part V? I’ve got stuff.#JAYBOOK# Jay Nordlinger

y ,Obama said. “We were promiseda more ethical and more efficientgovernment, and instead we have

a town called Washington that ismore corrupt and more wastefulthan it was before.”Today, the president’s centrist

façade – one that fooled evensome erstwhile conservatives –has been completely strippedaway. We don’t have a post-racial, post-partisan president whois going to nurture compromiseand understanding. We ratherhave a president who highlights

and exploits racial and ideologicaldivisions for political purposes.We have a president whose ideaof compromise is that anyone whodisagrees with his policies oughtto change their mind or shut up.All of these unseemly tactics – thev e r y t a c t i c s t h a t O b a m acondemned two short years ago –are on full display as Election Day2010 draws near. Desperate tosalvage a Democratic majority inat least one house of Congress,

the president is using the politicsof fear and division like asledgehammer, hoping to carveout just enough voting blocs tosave the day.Channeling Harry Reid, Obama

of saying, ‘We’re gonna punishour enemies and we’re gonnareward our friends who stand with

us on issues that are important tous’ … then I think it’s gonna beharder.” He’s not even botheringto try to be subtle anymore. Theidea that politicians of either partyshould do what’s best for allAmericans, regardless of race, hasbeen tossed out the window inname of political expediency.Campaigning in Rhode Island,

the president once again draggedout his tired “car in the ditch”

metaphor, but with an unfortunatet w i s t . D e s c r i b i n g h i sadministration’s soon to besuccessful (any day now – justyou wait and see) efforts to getthe economy back on track,Obama said the car would soon bemoving again. However: “Wecan’t have special interests sittingshotgun,” he declared. “We gottahave middle class families up infront . We don’t mind theRepublicans joining us. They can

come for the ride, but they gottasit in back.”

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not doing enough in this regardbecause the USSR dependsupon the people to f reet h emse l v es . Be t ween t h eoverdone activities that the CIA

subverting American policy.The wilder shores of this kindof conspiracy thesis weresubsequently explored in twoFrontline programs, Murder on

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Posted October 28th, 2010 at11:00am in Protect America PrintThis PostYesterday, the FBI announced

the arrest of a Virginia man,Farooque Ahmed, on charges of “providing material support tot e r r o r i s t s a n d c o l l e c t i n ginformation for a terrorist attack.”Ahmed is suspected of plotting tobomb several locations around theD.C. area, including severalstations in the Metro rail system.

This arrest will have quite a fewcommuters on edge. Yet, this is agood example of the right way tostop terrorist plots against theUnited States—early on andbefore a plan of attack can everget off the ground. In fact, the FBIh as emp h as i zed t h a t t h eyinfiltrated the plot so early in theprocess that the public was neverin any danger.Too often, rail security rhetoric

from Congress and the White

H o u s e h a s f o c u s e d o ndifferentiating rail threats fromother forms of terrorism (i.e.,airplanes, car bombs, etc.). Themessage seems to be that railrequires more money and moreaggressive regulation in order forriders to be secure. For example,in the first few months of theObama Administration, the WhiteHouse publ ished a surfacetransportation assessment, placing

this threat at the top of i tsdomestic security priorit ies.Millions in taxpayer dollars wereshoved into the stimulus bill forrail/subway (ex. $6.6 million forChicago alone for subway andcommuter rail security).However, this plot demonstrates

that rail threats are not unique andcan be prevented in the same

exact way as o ther ter ro rplots—through robust informationsharing and quality intelligencegathering.Congress and DHS must be

careful to resist knee-jerk securitymeasures aimed at the D.C. Metrosystem or other rail systems in theUni ted S tates . One of thestupidest ideas proposed in recentyears was a proposal that railtrains be re-routed around urban

centers in order to make them lesso f a t a rg e t f o r t e r ro r i s t s .Attempting to child proof theWashington D.C. transportationsystem by throwing more dollarsat physical security measures orsilly regulations is the wrong wayto stop terrorism—making it moredifficult for everyone to get towork, wasting more taxpayer

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initiates and the more modestactivities of the KGB there isabsolutely no comparison.

Agee had been expelled fromthe Netherlands, France, andEngland because of his contactsw i t h S o v i e t a n d C u b a nintelligence agents, but the PBSspecial identified him only bythe caption “CIA: 1959-1969.” W h e n R e e d I r v i n e o f Accuracy in Media (AIM) andother critics objected to theprogram’s “disinformation,”they were dismissed out of hand

by Barry Chase, the PBS vicepresident for News and PublicAffairs. Chase even sent amemo to all PBS stationsdescribing On Company Businessas “a h igh ly responsib le overview of the CIA’s historyand a major contribution to theongoing debate on the CIA’spast, present, and future.”PBS’s next summary view of 

American intelligence was a BillMoyers special called The

Secret Government (1987),which insinuated what nocongressional investigation hadever established: that the CIAwas a rogue ins t i tu t ion

p gthe Rio San Juan (1988) andGuns, Drugs, and the CIA(1988), which leaned heavily

on the fantasies of the far-LeftChristic Institute. The SecretGovernment was followed by afour-part series called SecretIntelligence (1988), which, likeall three of its predecessors,rehearsed the standard litany of left-wing complaints-Iran,Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs,Chile-and culminated in a one-sided view of the Iran-contraaffair as an anti-constitutional

plot.All these programs judged theCIA to be more of a threat toAmerican institutions than aguardian of American security.A n d w h i l e P B S o f f i c i a l scontinued to pay lip service tothe idea of “balance,” nosympathetic portrait of theCIA’s cold war activities wasever aired, no equally partisanacco u n t o f i t s r o l e i n supporting the anti-Communist

rebels in Afghanistan or Angola.

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in a middle-class home in Buffalo,N.Y., Rothfus saw firsthand howformer industrial towns strugglewith a changing economy, andwhat kind of person is needed to

w o n o v e r , h e s a y s . I nWe s tm o re l a n d a n d Be a v e rcounties, Rothfus sees ampleopportunity to peel off “ReaganDemocrats,” who, like Joe Laus,

fighting to save the country.We’re giving it all we’ve got. It’llbe a nail-biter.”If Republicans hope to gain an

ample majority in the House,

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the U.S., and the U.S. is in theposition of telling foreign nationsto cease production, while it willnot impose the same solution onitself nor even make an all-out

policy, but there is no possibledispute that the present course hasbeen such an unmitigated failurethat it has aggravated the societalproblem, strained relations with

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help lead them out of the dark.One such hero was his localcongressman, the late Jack Kemp.

Same with Ronald Reagan: “Iturned 18 in 1980,” he laughs.“The die was cast.”#ad#Rothfus moved to the districtin 1997 with his wife, who grewup a few streets away from wherewe sit. “It’s the same people upth e re , t h e sa m e ty p e s o f  businesses,” he says. “Buffalo, Ithink, fell harder than Pittsburgh.Both are fighting to come back.”As the campaign hurtles toward

i ts f ina l weekend, Rothfusremains upbeat. ConservativeDemocrats, Altmire’s base, can be

remain angry about the Obamaagenda. “I am staying focused,”Rothfus says. “It’s about jobs, the

debt, and stopping the big-government agenda. We’ve beenvery effective in trying to bringthat message home, talking aboutthose three points.”“We’re up in no-man’s land rightnow,” Rothfus continues, as hissupporters munch on homemadecasserole and brownies inside.“We climbed up out of thetrenches last week, and I figuredthat two weeks out, we’re going

for the machine-gunner’s nest onthe other side of the fence. They’llfire bullets at me, but we’re

Pennsylvania’s 4th is a districtthey’ll need to win. Rothfus, forhis part, knows the stakes, but

he’s not letting the pressure show.“If we win the election, great,”Rothfus tells me as he heads homeafter a long day on the trail. “If we don’t, I’ll be at home readingbooks to my kids. But I see what’sunfolding across the country, andI think we’re going to win this.”-- Robert Costa is a politicalreporter for National Review.Robert Costa

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 job. The problem for the other 37million Californians is that theydo worry about how they can payhigher energy bills and aboutgetting and keeping a job.The notion that restricting access

to affordable energy will make us

world leaders in the production of alternative technology doesn’t jibe with past experience. We areworld leaders in the consumptionof televisions, cell phones, andvirtually all other consumerelectronics, yet we import theoverwhelming majority of thesegoods. Mandating consumption isd i f fe ren t f rom st imula t ing

domestic production.As Californians contemplate the

energy-regulations-create-jobstheory, they might want to talk toworkers in a Winchester, Virginia,light-bulb factory. In anticipationof the regulatory phase-out of 

conventional light bulbs, GE shutd o w n t h e f a c t o r y d o w n .Retrofitting the factory to makethe new bulbs was too expensive,so the replacements will comemostly from China.Of course, there may be some

alternative sources of energy thatwill be cost effective in the future.Just as cars replaced horse-drawn

carriages and electric l ightsreplaced kerosene lamps (whichreplaced whale-oil lamps) and jetliners replaced passenger steamships, it is likely that some newforms of energy will out-competeth e o ld fo rm s . I f so , t h e

developers won’t need mandatesto get consumers to use them.Legislation outlawing ships, oil

lamps, and buggies wasn’ tr e q u i r e d t o d e v e l o p t h ere p l a c e m e n t s . I t c e r t a in lywouldn’t have helped to outlawt h o s e g o o d s b e f o r e t h e i rr e p l a c e m e n t s we re r e a d y .  Cro ss -p o s t e d a t Na t io n a l

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effort to discourage imports. Theresult is a virtual civil war inMexico, where 28,000 people

have died in drug-related violencein the last four years, five timesthe number of Americans whohave died in Iraq and Afghanistanin the last nine years. Thebeneficiaries of official Americanpolicy are the drug cartels, whomake billions on it annually, andmaintain private paramilitaryforces including armored vehicles,submersible drug-transport ships,and a range of aircraft.

There is room for legitimateargument about what course theU.S. should follow in drug-control

friendly foreign countries anddestabilized some, and, as MiltonF r i e d m a n s a i d i n 1 9 9 1 ,

const i tu ted a pro tec t ion is tbonanza for the most virulent andsociopathic elements of organizedcrime. In comparison, Prohibition,which handed the liquor businessto Al Capone and his analogues,was a howling success, and it wasrepealed after 14 years. Surely,we can do better than this. But aswith most other urgent issues, weare completing a pyrotechnicmidterm-election campaign with

scarcely a peep being raised on a

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subject that affects almost half thepopulation of the United States.– Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt:Champion of Freedom andRichard M. Nixon: A Life in Full.H e c a n b e r e a c h e d a t

cbletters@gmail.com. ConradBlack 

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Cloud storage and collaborationp lat fo rm Box.net h as j u s tannounced some major storageupgrades for its business andpersonal plans.In the past, Box.net offered its

free personal account users 1GBof storage. That cap has now beenmoved up to 5GB, which is one of the most generous free offeringsfrom any cloud-based sharingservice. Business accounts, which

previously had incremental sizeson a per-user basis will now startout at 500GB for the sharedworkspace.For Box.net enterprise customers,

Box.net will also now offerunlimited cloud storage fordocuments and fi les.We spoke to Box.net co-founder

and CEO Aaron Levie about thenew storage tiers and Box’soverreaching goals for making thecloud more infinite.

Box.net started in 2005 and atthat time, Levie pointed out,400GB was the size of yourtypical, large capacity hard drive.Five years later, for the sameprice as what a 400GB drive costin 2005, you can get a 2TB drivetoday.

Levie said that just as this growthin storage capacities has had an

impact on consumers, it has alsohad an impact on data centers. It’snow possible for data centers tooffer more storage for the sameprice. That’s why Box.net decidedthat now would be a good time toupgrade its offerings.Box.net was originally started as

a cloud storage platform —similar in some ways to whatDropbox is today. However, overthe past five years, the platformhas evolved significantly. It’s less

about indiscriminate storage andmore about becoming a contentmanagement and collaborationplatform. It’s more similar toso met h i n g l i k e M i cro so f tSharePoint both in its featuresetand its scope.Box.net shared this comparison

between its new cloud offerings,as compared to those of itscompet i to rs in the con ten tmanagement and collaborationspace:

We should point out that you canactually hook Box.net up toSalesforce.com and Google Docsand Google Apps. Other CloudUpgradesIn addition to bumping up its

storage offerings, Box.net has alsoupgraded its cloud. Box.net just

achieved SAS 70 II certification,offers 256-bit encryption and nowhas dual-data centers with 99.98%uptime.Box has also been working on

making its search faster, adding toits mobile offerings and updatingsome of its workflow tools.Box.net wants to be a location-

agnostic cloud server so thatbusinesses large and small canaccess their documents fromanywhere. After all, that is thepromise of the cloud; rather thanneeding your own servers and

intranets for document storageand collaboration, the data can bestored in the cloud, making itpossible to access from moretypes of devices and from morelocations. PricingBox.net’s pricing is as follows:• Personal accounts— These are

free and now have a data limit of 5GB. The maximum file size is

25MB unless you upgrade to oneof the greater storage plans for$10 or $20 a month.• Business accounts— This startsat $15 a month per user (three-user minimum) and offers 500GBof total storage and file sizes of upto 2GB.• Enterprise accounts— Theseplans are $35 per user per month(call Box.net to set this up) andthere is an unlimited amount of storage space. Like the business

plan, maximum file sizes are 2GBper file.

Do you use something likeBox.net or SharePoint to sharedocuments in your business? Letus know. Reviews: Dropbox,Google DocsMore About: box.net, cloud

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What the FutureHolds for B2B SocialMedia MarketingBen Parr ( Mashable!  )

Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:17:59 PM

T h e B 2 B S o c i a l M e d i aMarketing Series is supported byIDG Enterprise. Understand howIT decision-makers are accessinginformation and how you canengage them with successful multi-channel programs. Learn more.Promoting a brand through social

media is no longer unique ornovel — it’s simply the norm.From Starbucks to taco trucks, theuse of social tools like Facebook and Twitter to spread awarenessabout a business to customers is

widespread because that’s wherebrands find prospective customersand engage with existing patrons.But what about the use of socialmedia between businesses?

Business-to-business (B2B)social media is a different animal.B2B and enterprise companiesaren’t trying to convert millionsof individual consumers into

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customers — they’re trying toconvince a smaller group of companies with bigger budgets tobuy their products or services.Social media’s power to spread amessage across the eb isn’t as

7 5 % o f B 2 B c o m p a n i e sparticipated in Twitter (comparedto 49% for B2C), 74% hosted ablog (compared to 55% for B2C),and 66% engaged in onlinedisc ssions (compared to 43% of

that Twitter is often their tool of choice.Still, as social media strategist of 

the PayPal X Platform SudhaJamthe told me in an interview,tho ght leadership and c stomer

mobile and engagement. Sheseemed especially excited byvideo’s potential to tell a storyand spur new engagement. Wewouldn’t expect anything lessfrom her tho gh; Cisco is the

so c i a l m e d ia a c c o u n t s t ocommunicate with developers,which has resulted in innovationssuch as PayPal Apps and itsMicropayments for Digital Goodsprod ct

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message across the web isn’t asrelevant.That doesn’t mean social media

doesn’t have a place in the B2Bworld, though. On the contrary, alot of these companies have foundsocial media to be extremelyusefu l in genera t ing leads,performing market research andestab l ish ing themse lves asthought leaders .We’ve already written about

ways to use social media for theenterprise, but now we want toexplore a different topic: howB2B companies will use socialmedia in the future. To do thatthough, we need to explore thecurrent state of social media in theenterprise. What B2B MarketersUse Social Media ForWhile you might assume that

B2B companies are less engagedin social media than their B2Ccounterparts, you’d actually bewrong. In a study of social mediause conducted by Business.comlast year, it was revealed that

North American B2B companiesare more likely to be using socialmedia tools when compared toB2C companies.Here are some examples:• 81% of B2B companies werelikely to maintain company-re l a t e d p ro f i l e s o n so c i a lnetworks, compared to 67% of B2C companies.• That gap stayed true for a widerange of social media activities;

discussions (compared to 43% of B2C companies).• B2C and B2B companies were

  just as likely to be monitoringuser reviews (B2B: 49%, B2C:51%) and manage a communitydedicated to customers (B2B:49%, B2C: 51%).• One of the only areas whereB2C was more active than B2B insocial media was advertising onsocial networks (B2B: 42%, B2C:54%).• In terms of the tools B2Bc o m p a n ie s u se , 7 7 % u se dFacebook (compared to 83% forB2C) and 73% utilized Twitter(compared to a shockingly smaller45% for B2C companies).

Why are so many B2B marketersusing social media, though?According to a study analyzed byeMarketer, the majority of B2Bmarketers (60%) said they usesocial media to provide “thoughtleadership” for their brand.Another 49% said they used

social networks to generate leads,46% for customer feedback, 35%for advertising and 29% formarket research.The inescapable conclusion is

that the use of social media in aB2B setting is more popular thanmost people would expec t .Businesses are mostly using it todevelop thought leadership andcustomer service. Because of that, we’re not surprised to find

thought leadership and customerservice are “low-hanging fruit”for B2B marketers. Social media

is capable of so much more. WhatTools Will B2B Marketers Use?B2B social media marketing is

still very much in its infancy.Facebook, Twitter, YouTube andmost of the social tools we usetoday are just a few years old.Companies are just starting toreally discover the power of socialand what i t can do for acompany’s bot tom l ine .In other words, there’s a lot of 

room for growth. So what’s nextfor B2B social media marketing?To find out, I consulted some of the best minds in the B2B socialmarketing space.  Autumn Truong, manager of social media and corporatecommunications at Cisco, saysthat she sees social as one of thek e y c h a n n e l s t o r e a c h in gi n f l u e n c e r s a n d b u i l d i n gawareness about B2B initiatives.She specifically pointed to the

social media efforts of Cisco’sexecutives (a big example: CTOPadmasree Warrior, who hasnearly 1.4 million followers).Really though, it boils down to

one thing Truong said during ourinterview: “How can we mobilizea captivated audience to dosomething on our behalf?”Truong believes the future of 

B2B social media marketing willfocus on three key areas: video,

from her, though; Cisco is theowner of the Flip camcorder, afterall. Social Media Shaping the

ProductPayPal’s Sudha Jamthe believes

we’ve only seen the tip of theiceberg when it comes to B2Bsocial media. While social mediam a y b e u se d fo r t h o u g h tleadership and customer servicetoday, she thinks its real power isin real-time feedback. PayPal is utilized by millions of consumers worldwide, but it alsohas countless merchants ascustomers and developers andsmall businesses as partners, all of which it wants to reach via socialmedia. Sudha believes that a lotof B2B marketers are using itsimply as a broadcast platform,when its real value is in makingcustomers your partner.Her example was the PayPal

Developer platform. She says thatPayPal simply can’t know all of the potential APIs and featurerequests its developer community

wants and needs in order for themto build applications and productson its platform. The company hastwo primary options for gettingfeedback from them: marketresearch or social media. Theproblem with market researchthough is its drastically high costs.Social media, on the other hand,

can be a direct channel forcustomers to express what theyreally want. PayPal has used its

product.Jamthe believes that the future of 

B2B social media marketing is in

companies’ ability to use socialfeedback to adapt their productsbased off criticism and comments.She also stresses though thatsocial is going to become moreintegrated in not only B2Bmarketing campaigns, but inactual products. This will providean even more direct way to solicitfeedback and innovate based off of that.“In B2C, there are a lot of toolsthat measure the conversation,”s h e s a i d . “ H o w m a n yconversations, what was the reachof my campaign? It doesn’t meananything in a B2B setting.Talking to vendors, so what? Itshould be different for B2B, and itneeds to be about real ROI. Ittranslates to cost saving.”The ROI of B2B social media

depends not only on trackingengagement, but on figuring outwhere it saves a company money.

Jamthe argues that social media’scost savings come in its ability toget market feedback and evennew product ideas at a fraction of the cost. Three TakeawaysThere’s a lot to be excited about

if you’re a B2B social mediamarketer, because we’re juststarting to realize how powerfulsocial media can really be for

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enterprise organizations. Whiletoday it may be about the socialtools we use to spread ourmessage, tomorrow it will beabout the platforms utilized toengage in constructive and

will we be using? Where is thetrue ROI in social media? It’syour turn to chime in. SeriesSupported by IDG Enterprise

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Lessons for B2B Marketers fromthe Masters- 10 Essential Social Media Tipsfor B2B MarketersImages courtesy of iStockphoto,

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engage in constructive andeffective conversations.With that said, here are my three

key points to remember about thefuture of social media for B2Bcompanies:• B2B social media will be lessabout marketing and more aboutt h o u g h t l e a d e r s h i p a n dc r o w d s o u r c e d f e e d b a c k .• Twitter and Facebook may behuge now, but video and mobileare the new frontiers.• The true ROI of social media inB 2 B d o e s n ’ t c o m e f r o mbroadcasting your message, butthe engagement companies get inreturn.

How do you think B2B socialmedia will evolve? What tools

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information and how you canengage them with successful multi-channel programs. To learnmore, download our white paperor listen to our webcast as ITmarketers discuss the challengesof reaching customers in thecurrent media environment andbest practice frameworks fordeveloping successful multi-channel programs. More B2BMarket ing Resources f romMashable:- 10 Essential Social Media Toolsfor B2B Marketers- 4 Tips for B2B Marketing onFacebook - 13 Essential Social Media

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Here’s something spooky just intime for Halloween: a YouTubevideo created by Irish filmmakerGeorge Clarke has gone viral thisweek, as it purports to show acellphone-toting “time traveler”attending the 1928 premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus.Take a look at the video above to

hear Clarke wax philosophicalabout the clip — and to see itreplayed over and over and overagain — which comes from aDVD extra from the film andshows a woman ambling byGrauman’s Chinese Theatre, handto ear, chattering away.For some reason, Clarke seems

convinced that the figure is a man.Maybe he knows something we

don’t about the predilection of 

different genders for time travel?Oh man, this is just like the time

Amy Smart foretold the comingof the iPad on an episode of F e l i c i t y … Y o u k n o w , acoincidence. Reviews: YouTubeMore About: charlie-chaplin,

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10 Easy Ways to Save $250 in 30 Days( Financiallyfit on Shine  )

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The secret to stashing dough issimple: Spend less. But what funis that? A lot, actually, if you cashin on these effortless tips.Save $14: Take a "vacation" fromNetflix, and borrow DVDs frompals for nada.Related: Take This Movie Genre

Couples Quiz!Save $21 to $31: Lots of brand-

name birth-control pills have

generic versions that are waycheaper. Ask your gyno if your

designer Rx has a generic twin.Related: 5 Health Issues That Hit

Young WomenSave $40: Drinking dinner? Bad

idea. Getting a free meal whileyou drink? Awesome. Many barsnow serve apps on the house tolure in crowds.Related: Easy, Sexy Feasts from

Katie LeeSave $15 to $20: Little-known

fact: The price of your cut

includes a fee for drying. So if you ask to leave it wet, your

stylist will usually bump down thecost.

Re l a t ed : 1 0 Qu i ck EasyHai r s t y l esSave $10: Unlock your iTunes

library — go to preferences andclick share — and have friendsand coworkers do the same. Withso much music at your fingertips,you're less likely to buy a so-soCD.

S av e $ 5 t o $ 1 0 : A t t h e

supermarket, skip things likesliced veggies and precut fruit,

and opt for unpackaged produce.DIY slicing and dicing takes a bitmore time, but you'll save a ton.Related: 13 Healthy Foods That

Can Make You FatSave $55 to $60: Take your old

heels to a repair shop, and let thecobblers do their thing. Resolingstilettos will run you $15 to $20— cheaper than a new pair.Save $20 to $25: Many health-

insurance plans will reimburse

part of your gym membership.They figure shelling out $250 or

$300 a year will save them fromhaving to pay the bills you'd rack up while you're sick.Save $60: Take turns hosting

dinner parties once a week withfriends. The cost of ingredients isless than dinner out. When it'syour turn to host, executive chef Lon Symensma, of BuddakanNYC, recommends serving a stir-

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