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Submitted at 11/23/2010 6:35:11 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Washington today…
U.S. vows unified response to
North Korea, eyes restraint
The U.S. urged restraint
following a North Korea n
artillery attack on South Korea
and vowed to forge a “measured
and unified” response with major
powers including China.
For more of this story by Phil
Stewart and Andrew Quinn, read
here.
N.Korea pulls U.S. back to a
“land of lousy options”
North Korea’s artillery attack on
South Korea poses the second test
in three days of Washington’s
vow that it will not reward what it
deems bad behavior with
diplomatic gestures, and
underscores that options are
limited without serious help from
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Inside Jay-Z's Launch of "Decoded" With Droga5, Bing

Tyler Gray (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 12:17:44 PM

For the launch of his

autobiography, hip hop's premiere
entrepreneur turned marketing
into interactive art and a
scavenger hunt that rewarded his
die-hard fans. Here's an exclusive
peek inside Jay's bag of tricks.
On Kanye West's new song, "So
Appalled," Jay-Z raps, "I'm so
appalled, I might buy the mall,
just to show [...] how much more I
have in store."
As Jay's protégé's album dropped
this week (and leaked much
earlier on the Web), Jay himself
was revealing what he'd long had
in store for the publishing world:
a game-changing marketing plan
for his autobiography, Decoded,
itself a groundbreaking book.
Beyond a mere collection of
stories--which many readers
would find plenty tantilizing--
Decoded is also a rap Rosetta
Stone. Listeners can literally
decode Jay's lyrics on 11 studio
albums to unlock new details conceived, created, implemented, hunt. code located on the physical page) lawyer, who more or less hired a
about the 40-year-old's personal produced, and delivered the Fans could log on to bing.com/ was entered to win that page team of six or seven people who
history. The marketing for the campaign with the help of jay-z between Oct. 18 and Nov. signed by Jay-Z or tickets to a Jay all scouted through the clues,"
book took the idea further, Microsoft search engine Bing. 20--last Saturday--and follow -Z/Coldplay New Year's Eve Bing General Manager Eric
mashing up old-school billboard Droga5 slapped all 320 pages of clues to Bing Maps locations and concert in Las Vegas. Hadley tells Fast Company.
advertising, new-school social Decoded in various blown-up real life places where text from Then, at the very last minute, The average time it took to
media, mobile apps, and more for sizes on some unexpected the book was blown up bigger Bing and Droga5 decided that one decode the online clues was a
an interactive game that let surfaces: a rooftop in New than life or layered onto a guitar, lucky person who'd decoded all little more than five minutes, he
players unlock pages of the book Orleans, a pool bottom in Miami onto records in jukeboxes, or onto 200 clues using Bing Maps would says. But it was the repeat visits
and enter to win concert tickets (above), cheeseburger wrappers in a 1980s Cadillac parked in front get The Jay-Z Lifetime Pass, a that Hadley says were such a boon
and memorabilia. Jay's corporate New York City, a pool table in of a Run-DMC mural in Queens. golden ticket of sorts, good for to Bing.
partners, meanwhile, scored a Jay's 40/40 Club, and many more. The most dedicated followers admission for two to any Jay-Z To get the whole book, "you had
fortune in buzz. [ Check out 32 images of the not- could read the whole book for free concert anywhere on the planet to go into Bing Maps and interact
Jay initially hooked up with the so-hidden pages around the weeks before it came out. Plus, for life. with Bing up to three times a
creative agency Droga5, who country here.] anyone who unlocked a page "We heard a story through our INSIDE page 4
Reading became a scavenger online or in person (by texting a Facebook page of a woman, a
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Why Are the Rich So Good at the Internet?
David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:42:10 AM
Pew Internet has released a report
finding that income is the
strongest predictor of whether,
how often, and in what ways
Americans use the web. The
report adds nuance--and a few
surprises--to existing research on
America's digital divide. It even
suggests the existence of a tipping
point, where Internet use takes off
at a certain income level.
A lot of this makes intuitive
sense. After all, laptops and
broadband cost money. But the
Pew report finds that even among
groups that own the necessary
technology, less wealth equates to
less (and less varied) Internet
usage.
"Many of these households are
not impoverished," the report's
author, Jim Jansen, tells Fast
Company. "Many do have the
technology, but for variety of
reasons do not engage in certain
activities as frequently." It's
predominantly the wealthy who
take advantage of the benefits
offered by the web--even though
it's the less wealthy who could use
them more.
The report, an umbrella analysis
of three Pew surveys conducted in
2009 and 2010, compares Internet
use among American households
in four different income brackets:
less than $30,000 a year; $30,000-
50,000; $50,000-75,000; and
greater than $75,000.
Respondents--more than 3,000
people participated--were asked a
variety of questions about how
often they used the Internet, and
what sorts of services they took
advantage of (such as email,
online news, booking travel
online, or health research).
As might be expected, the
wealthier used the Internet more.
But the degree of the spread was a
surprise, says Jansen. Almost 90%
of the wealthiest respondents
reported broadband access at
home. Of those in the under-
$30,000 households, that figure
was only 40%. "I would expect
some type of correlation," says
Jansen. "But we controlled for
community type--urban, rural,
suburban--educational attainment,
race, ethnicity, gender, and age."
None was nearly so strongly
correlated as income.
Age did have some effect, and
rural regions were a good deal
less wired than their urban peers.
Jansen guesses that has to do,
simply, with broadband
infrastructure; his own family
lives "in the sticks of Missouri,"
and still rely on dial-up access.
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a tipping point somewhere in the
$30,000-$50,000 range. Consider,
for instance, the data on those
who researched products online.
Only 67% of lowest-income
Internet users research products
online. Make it over the hump
into the $30,000-$50,000 bracket,
though, and all of a sudden 81%
of internet users do so--a jump of
14 points. But then as you climb
the income ladder, the change in
behavior begins to level out, just
climbing a few percentage points
with each bracket. It was a pattern
noted in several other realms of
Internet behavior.
"It would be interesting to look at
what is going on at that particular
income level," says Jansen,
suggesting a potential tack for
further research, "that seems to
indicate a fairly robust use of
technology and interest."
Jansen, like any careful
researcher, cautions against
"But even with those--age, confusing correlation with
community type--the practical causation. It may be that people
effects very minor," he says. are using the web to make their
The relationship between money fortunes, and not using their
and Internet use is a real puzzle. fortunes to surf the web. But his
Once a modestly middle-class report, which can be found on
family buys a computer and Pew Internet's site, shows the
Internet access, why is it that they correlation clearer than anything
spend less time researching yet. "We're talking about double-
p r o d u c t s o n l i n e t h a n t h e i r digit differences in some of these
wealthier counterparts, given that activities. I found that very
they have a tighter budget than the striking," says Jansen.
ultra-wealthy?
Jansen notes that for many
questions Pew asked about
Internet use, there appeared to be
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Coming Soon to NYC: The Country's Largest Bike-

Sharing Program? Analyst Calls: AGU,
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) more. And there are a lot of folks
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:48:04 AM who go short distances...The city BODY, CPB, DYN, HRL,
doesn’t have the money to invest ITRI, POT, ROVI,
Denver, Minneapolis, and in bike-share programs and if a SNDA, SWS ...
Washington, D.C. all have bike- commercial operator could
sharing programs. San Francisco produce one where the bikes are Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks)
is set to get one next year. But the safe and secure and clean, then Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:45:00 AM

biggest bike-sharing program in [DOT commissioner Janette Sadik

the country may soon pop up in -Khan] is interested in getting the Filed under: Analyst Reports,
New York City. The New York proposal," he said. Analyst Upgrades and
City Department of The city is moving fast, with a Downgrades, Campbell Soup
Transportation is issuing a request goal of having a fully-functional (CPB), Hormel Foods (HRL),
for proposals on Wednesday. system by April 2012. A two- Analyst Initiations, Potash Corp.
According to Transportation month test with 30 bike stations of Saskatchewan (POT)
Nation, New York is aiming to could begin as soon as next Analyst Upgrades
have a 24-hour network of summer. And if NYC can get a • Dynegy ( DYN) was upgraded
approximately 10,000 GPS and cost above their subscription fee. right to approve rates. massive bike-sharing system in to buy from neutral at Pritchard.
wireless-equipped bikes, as well Longer trips will incur a small The reason? NYC just doesn't place in under two years, there's • Itron ( ITRI) was upgraded to
as up to 600 solar-powered bike charge. have the cash to pay for its own no reason that smaller cities neutral from underperform at
stations located on streets and The entire program will be paid bike-sharing system, explained across the country can't do the Macquarie.
sidewalks every few blocks. for by the private sector during an Stephen Goldsmith, NYC deputy same. • Goldman upgraded Ameren (
Paying members will be allowed initial five-year period, with the mayor, on The Brian Lehrer Ariel Schwartz can be reached on AEE) to sell from conviction sell.
to take an unlimited number of city sharing the revenue stream. Show. "We’ve created bike lanes, Twitter or by email. • Signet Jewelers ( SIG) was
half hour trips each day at no The DOT will also reserve the and the bike lanes could be used upgraded to buy from hold at
Societe Generale.
INSIDE • JPMorgan upgraded Synopsys (
continued from page 2
SNPS) to overweight from
day," Hadley says, adding that the aligned with Bing's users. People population. pork in this establishment." neutral.
behavior helped visitors "break ages 18 to 24 consume 61% more Jay, himself, remained intimately (Answer below the picture of the
the habit" of using other search search pages online than the involved in the clues, too, Droga5 pages on plates in that place.) Continue reading Analyst Calls:
engines. average Web user. African- CEO Andrew Essex tells Fast Answer: The Spotted Pig AGU, BODY, CPB, DYN, HRL,
Jay-Z was a natural match for the American Web surfers view 29% Company. "He was actively Slideshow: Jay-Z "Decoded": 32 ITRI, POT, ROVI, SNDA, SWS
so-called "decision engine," more search pages. Affluent involved in writing and vetting Pages Revealed ...
Hadley says: "We've had a pretty African-Americans are more the clues. Alarmingly so." He'd [Images: Droga5] Analyst Calls: AGU, BODY,
long history with Jay-Z. He was likely to use Bing as their primary suggest more or less specificity at CPB, DYN, HRL, ITRI, POT,
the focus of a conference we did search than Google, Hadley says. times or recommend references to ROVI, SNDA, SWS ... originally
at Microsoft. We introduced him And users who listen to hip-hop at different places or events. appeared on BloggingStocks on
to Bill Gates a while ago." least once a week consume 19% At least one clue came solely Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:45:00 EST.
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Were The Good Initial

Jobless Claims A Sham
Because Of Seasonal
Adjustments?
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:14:45 AM

There's chatter this morning that

the initial jobless claims report,
which was the best in a long time,
deserves a fat-old asterisk,
because of the seasonal
adjustments.
Without the adjustments there
would have been a big, weekly
jump.
So, cancel it out and ignore? No,
seasonality is real.

Office Parties: Breeding Grounds for Bad Behavior, Matt Busigin points us to this
chart of non-seasonally adjusted
claims over the years. Notice
Flings, and Unemployment anything?
Join the conversation about this
Austin Carr (Fast Company) reputation is ruined. reprimanded for their actions. Just 3% of respondents said they story »
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:06:30 AM According to a study by HR Pink slips are almost as frequent had had a fling with a colleague at
solutions firm Adecco, this kind as red faces. More than 1 in 10 a work holiday party. It may be The Charnel Continent
Ah, the holiday office party. A of unsavory behavior at office Americans say they know the kind of thing people don't own
time for employees to wind down, parties is far more common than someone who has been fired for up to--or it may be that being Istvan Deak (The New Republic
- All Feed)
loosen their ties, drink some you might expect. Published this their inappropriate behavior at a inebriated hurts your chances as
bubbly, and enjoy a night of much week, the survey of more than a holiday party. This behavior may much as it helps. Submitted at 12/1/2010 11:00:00 PM

-earned revelry with co-workers. thousand American adults found include saying something So be careful this holiday season.
That is, until they wake up that about 40% of workers say inappropriate to a colleague (7%) Try not to drink too much, sleep Bloodlands: Europe Between
hungover and half-naked on top t h e y ' v e e i t h e r e m b a r r a s s e d or boss (4%), or drinking too with your co-worker, insult your Hitler And Stalin
of the copy machine, covered in themselves or know someone who much (20%). boss, or get fired. It's not worth it. By Timothy Snyder
Post-it notes and crumpled Four has at a work holiday party. And a Hookups happen, of course, but [Photo by Michael Wade] (Basic Books, 524 pp., $29.95)
Loko cans, and realize their shocking 23%--1 in 4!--have been not as often as you might expect.
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Google Is Losing Its Fight With The True Religion Could
Music Labels On A Streaming Service Offer Big Returns
(GOOG)
Jay Yarow (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:10:37 AM
Google's music service is being
derailed by music labels who
aren't comfortable with its plan to
offer music in a web-based
"locker," the New York Post
reports.
Google wants to give users a
"digital locker" where they would
keep all of their music. From this
locker they could stream music to
any device they own -- their
computer, mobile phone, or
whatever Google cooks up.
The music industry is worried the
digital locker will be filled with
pirated music as well as legitimate
files that users have paid for. The
labels argue that streaming music
from this digital locker constitutes
a new use of the music, therefore
it should be paid again, says Peter
Kafka of All Things D.
Google wanted to have its music
service up and running for the
fourth quarter. It would be a nice
National 9/11 Memorial and Museum Gets New Video Wall
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:50:52 AM
VIDEO COUNTDOWN: Mayor
Bloomberg welcomed Sharp
Electronics CEO Kozo Takahashi
(L) to Lower Manhattan on
selling point for Android as it
battles Apple and Microsoft in the
smartphone wars. But, thanks to
negotiations with the labels it
hasn't happened yet and it might
not happen until Q1 2011.
The bottom line is music labels
want more money and don't want
to provide anymore incentives for
people to not buy new music.
Join the conversation about this
Tuesday to reveal a new video
installation for the Sept. 11
National Memorial and Museum.
The display will feature animated
renderings of the memorial and
museum, and also includes a daily center on Sept. 11, 2011. (The
countdown to the opening of the
story »
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• How Google Plans To Turn
Apps Into Its Next Big Business
• 10 Questions About Ping,
Apple's Social Network For
Music
• Google Music launching in the
fall along with Android 3.0
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:00:00 AM
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initiated a Buy rating on shares of
retailer True Religion Apparel (
continue its ascent Wednesday.
TRLG). The stock soared more Money is clearly pouring into this
than 6% on the bullish outlook. It
name and the retail sector as a
closed at $22.07 Tuesday. Given whole is heating up.
Standpoint's $33 price target -- a
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2011 Is Looking Grim -- Here Are 10
Ways Your Business Can Prepare
Rosalind Resnick (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:12:12 AM
Economists say the Great
Recession--the longest and
deepest since World War II--
ended 18 months ago and that the
U.S. economy is, in fact, growing
again. But growth is relative.
Even the rosiest economic
forecasts for 2011 come in well
under 3 percent growth.
Unemployment is still high, and
consumer spending is still
sluggish.
"However optimistic you may be
about your business, you need to
let the overall economy temper
your expectations," says Scott
Shane, an economics professor at
Case Western Reserve University
and author of The Illusions of
Entrepreneurship: The Costly
Myths that Entrepreneurs,
Investors and Policy Makers Live
Obama Insists He Doesn't "Think About Sarah Palin" In 2012
Ujala Sehgal (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:24:46 AM
In an interview with the White
House, Barbara Walters asked
President Obama the question on
every media pundit's mind: does
he think he could beat Sarah Palin
in 2012.
The president told Walters, "I
don't think about Sarah Palin,"
By. "You need to assume that the
recovery is going to be tepid and
plan accordingly."
That doesn't mean sit and wait for
things to improve. Rather, retool
for the economy that exists today,
and will be lingering for many
tomorrows. Here are 10 places to
start. Check out 10 ways to get
your business ready for 2011 >
ABC News reports.
Obviously Sarah Palin has a
strong base of support in the
Republican Party and I respect
those skills... But I spend most of
my time right now on how I can
be the best possible president.
And my attitude has always been,
from the day I started this job that people the politics will take care
if I do a good job and if I'm of itself.
delivering for the American
Join the conversation about this
story »
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Has Changed Spending Habits
• Why A Bad Economy Is Good
For Entrepreneurs
• 5 Tips For Raising Funds In A
Really Crappy Economy
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China MediaExpress
(CCME): The Real Thing
in the Ad Market?
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:15:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, China, Newsletters,
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"China MediaExpress Holdings (
CCME) is a bet on what might be
the most profitable company in travel through some of China's
the in the world's fastest-growing most populous regions.
media market," says international Continue reading China
investing expert Nicholas Vardy. MediaExpress (CCME): The Real
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Holocaust survivors deal with purported $42M fraud (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:35:44 AM
NEW YORK – Walk along the
boardwalk on a late autumn day,
and Brighton Beach can seem like
an old-age home by the sea,
where stooped ladies wear rouge
like armor and almost everyone
lives in the shadow of a difficult
past.
Along this Brooklyn outpost's
ocean edge — the heart of much
community life here — locals are
talking about the betrayal they
feel after the arrest of 17 people,
mostly Brighton Beach residents,
on charges that they faked stories
of Holocaust survival to profit
from money meant for survivors
of Nazi persecution.
"I cannot imagine that someone
would lie like that; it's a terrible
crime," says Klara Rakhlin, 72,
her bright makeup stark against
her black, coiffed hair as she
speaks in Russian. "I lost my
family in a concentration camp,
and it's disgusting that people
would get compensation although
they haven't suffered."
Rakhlin was little more than a
toddler in 1941, when she entered
the Pechora concentration camp in
what is now Ukraine's Vinnitsa
region. By the time she left in
1944, she was school-aged.
The arrests don't close the books
on the purported scheme. The
organization in charge of
awarding the money continues to
weed through hundreds more case
files to see how much further any
deception may have spread.
Federal prosecutors say they have
already uncovered more than
5,500 fraudulent claims, many of
them containing altered birth
dates and faked stories of
suffering.
Some people — overwhelmingly
residents of this neighborhood and
elsewhere in Brooklyn — have
received letters informing them
that they must either appeal or
repay tens of thousands of dollars
that the nonprofit group, the
Conference on the Jewish
Material Claims Against
Germany, now believes were
wrongly awarded.
Already, more than 90 people
have told the Claims Conference,
as it is commonly known, that
they intend to appeal cancellation
of their benefits. At least 35 more
have returned the money or
agreed to repay it on an
installment plan.
Still other recipients are getting
letters telling them their quarterly
payments will be rationed out by
the month, while the Claims
Conference asks them to again
detail their stories of persecution
and re-evaluates their eligibility.
Conference employees will work
to find records that confirm each
qualifying story, says Greg
Schneider, the organization's
executive vice president.
"Ninety-nine percent of the cases
are clear cases, and there's no
issue, and we won't be distracted
from the fact that helping
survivors is our core mission,"
Schneider said of the thousands of
applications the group receives
each year.
Some community leaders worry
that requesting more information
from some recipients will again
turn survivors into victims.
"They are making survivors suffer
even more. Why make them prove
their status when they've gone
through so much already?" asks
Pavel Vishnevetsky, director of
the Council of Jewish Immigrant
Community Organizations.
But Schneider contends that
asking survivors to pen a
description of their ordeal is not
too onerous a task. And the Nazis,
he says, were meticulous record-
keepers — often making it
possible to find a paper trail. If
someone was on a train transport
to a concentration camp, it was
recorded. Those trapped in
ghettos or who disappeared into
hiding can be harder to track
down — but if nothing else,
records involving someone who
witnessed their suffering can
usually be found, he said.
Any money claimed wrongly
would not have come out of a
finite fund for survivors but
instead would have come more or
less directly from the German
government, Schneider said.
Lawyers for those accused did not
comment. Four of the 17 arrested
in the case have pleaded guilty.
For those caught on the other side
of the language and cultural
divide, the Russian community
here can seem closed off.
There are the fairly recent
immigrants from the former
Soviet Union, who after decades
under Communism are often
unwilling to talk to outsiders.
There are the aging Jews, like
Raisa Volokh, who would rather
pull a photograph from her wallet
to show off her great-
grandchildren than speak of her
years of starvation in a Ukraine
ghetto, the boy who would
become her husband suffering the
same indignities alongside her.
"The community of Russians,
they stay to themselves," says 96-
year-old Lillian Block, who was
one of many American-born Jews
living here when she moved in in
1941. Now, she says of her
neighbors, "they still have the
feeling of when they were in the
Soviet Union, when everything
was so secretive. ... It's very
lonely."
That perception of concealment
has led some, in the aftermath of
the fraud accusations, to look on
this neighborhood with suspicion.
Several residents spoke of hearing
talk over the years of small-time
scams and believing that such
behavior could flourish here.
But Schneider warns against
passing judgment on this
community. While he believes
most or all of the 5,500 allegedly
fraudulent claims were made on
behalf of real people, he says
large numbers of applicants may
have been unknowingly involved
by unscrupulous middlemen.
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new claims for payments. Many
of those are recent immigrants
from former Eastern Bloc
countries who are not permitted to
claim funds until they leave those
nations, Schneider said.
And for Volokh, the roughly
$411 per month she receives as
reparation for the four years of
hunger, of watching people die of
starvation and frostbite, can never
repay her.
Her children have asked her not
to talk too much about those days,
fearing that she can't handle the
stress after a pacemaker
operation. Sometimes it is too
difficult to speak of her memories,
she says quietly, a tightness in her
throat closing around the words.
"My heart: It cannot," she says.
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Herschaft, Ula Ilnytzky and
Verena Dobnik in New York
contributed to this report, in
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For disabled, airport security hassles are old hat
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NEWARK, N.J. – For air
passengers already fed up with
being hauled off to the side of the
security line for a pat-down or
facing aggressive questions about
bulky clothing or odd items in
their luggage, advocates for the
disabled have this to say:
Welcome to our lives.
For the disabled and infirmed —
many forced to go through
security lines in wheelchairs with
ample hiding places for
contraband, wearing prosthetic
limbs that could harbor drugs or
explosives or lugging oxygen
tanks that could really contain god
-knows-what — the added
discomfort and inconvenience that
many travelers are now
experiencing is something they've
put up with for years.
"I didn't mind; it wasn't really that
bad," 89-year-old Marquerite
Aswad, who uses a wheelchair,
said Tuesday after arriving at
Newark Liberty International
Airport from Fort Myers, Fla. "It
was a lady, and she didn't pat me
very hard. She said, 'You look like
a nice woman; I don't think you're
hiding anything in there.'"
Since the new airport security
screening procedures began Nov.
1, stories of travelers with
disabilities or medical conditions
being humiliated, perhaps
inadvertently, by Transportation
Security Administration agents
have made headlines: A bladder
cancer survivor from Michigan
had to board a plane covered in
urine after agents tore open his
urostomy bag during a pat-down;
a flight attendant and breast
cancer survivor in North Carolina
said she was ordered to expose
her prosthetic breast to two TSA
staffers.
Those highly publicized
confrontations appear to be the
exception, not the rule, and
advocates say they have not heard
an outcry from disabled travelers,
who are used to intrusions and in
fact view the new rules as a
teachable moment.
"It's just one more thing for
people with disabilities to think
about when they're flying," said
Phyllis Guinivan, of Wilmington,
Del., whose 23-year-old son has
cerebral palsy and uses a
wheelchair. "The fact that the
general public is going through
this may help their understanding
of the kind of barriers people with
disabilities face every day."
Matthew Albuquerque, vice
president of Next Step Orthotics
and Prosthetics in Manchester,
N.H., said that even before the
new procedures, his clients often
were asked to remove their
prosthetic limbs. He said he has
been hearing horror stories since
security was increased after the
Sept. 11 attacks.
"Imagine being forced to take part
of your body off and put it off to
the side and hop over to someone
to be patted down. This has been
going on in the disabled
community for a long time," he
said. "If there's anything I'm glad
about with the current
circumstances, it's that it's brought
a light and awareness to the whole
thing."
Screeners have never been told to
ask travelers to remove a
prosthesis, but travelers
sometimes do so without being
asked because they think it's
required, TSA spokeswoman Ann
Davis said.
According to security protocols
listed on its website, the TSA
assures travelers its agents "will
not ask nor require you to remove
your prosthetic device, cast, or
support brace."
Screeners are authorized to
conduct an explosive trace
sampling on a prosthesis that
could require a traveler to lift or
raise some clothing; travelers can
request a private screening, which
TSA says it "will make every
effort" to have conducted by two
agents of the same sex as the
traveler.
For Guinivan, speaking to The
Associated Press by phone from
her home, the concern for her son
goes beyond pat-downs to worries
that his wheelchair may get
damaged or that he will have
trouble sitting between two
passengers on the flight.
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"Our expectation when we fly is
to be prepared for uncomfortable
situations," she said. "A lot of the
things people with disabilities
experience every day, the general
public is now having to deal
with."
Eric Lipp, a partial paraplegic,
said he had no problems when he
recently took four flights over two
days, though he definitely noticed
the pat-down he received was
more aggressive.
Lipp, executive director of the
Open Doors Organization, a
Chicago-based nonprofit group
that focuses on accessibility in
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Thanksgiving travelers face new US airport security

(Reuters: Top News) attempted attacks on airliners. said. health conditions. After having Okay, I get that naked searches
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:16:08 AM Last month, authorities thwarted PLANE VS TRAIN been radioactive for about a week against person’s will is kind of
the bombing of U.S.-bound air Airlines expect 24 million people from a thyroid treatment, I fascists, but do we seriously have
A Transportation Security cargo flights and on Christmas to travel over the Thanksgiving certainly am not keen on exposing to listen to more Nazi
Administration (TSA) worker (R) Day 2009, a passenger tried to set holiday period. U.S. families myself to unnecesary radiation. comparisons? Comments like that
rubs a passenger's leg as another off explosives in his underwear on come together for Thanksgiving, Radiation exposure is cumulative. make the speaker look extremist
TSA worker (L) looks on during a a flight to Detroit. marking the European Pilgrim Not fair to slow down persons that (i.e. like Glen Beck). You don’t
patdown search after having The Yemen-based group al settlers' first successful harvest in opt to avoid it. The government have to be extremist to support the
undergone through a scanner at Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 1621 shared with Native just needs to be reasonable and Constitution. Lots of very
Denver International Airport in claimed responsibility for both Americans. understanding. ordinary, professional, low-key,
Denver November 23, 2010. plots. The Transportation Security Nov 24, 2010 11:12am EST Americans donate and support
Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking "If we didn't have these patdowns Administration estimates that How can the Democratic Party be civil liberties groups. For years, I
By Michelle Nichols and Bernd and scans and a terror attack fewer than 2 percent of the 2 so clueless? The Full scan body have been listening to
Debusmann Jr. happened, we'd wonder why we million passengers screened daily, machines are new as well as the Republicans and Tea Partiers
NEW YORK| Wed Nov 24, 2010 didn't have them. I'll take the or 40,000, are given the patdowns. latest procedures designated to literally rant and rave and it is the
12:29pm EST patdown," financial consultant "The patdown looked like it denigrate the voters. The voter biggest turn off ever.
NEW YORK(Reuters) - Millions G e o r g e D u n n , 4 8 , s a i d a t would make me really will remember this and will never *We welcome comments that
of Americans took to the skies on L a G u a r d i a . uncomfortable, even if it was a vote for the Democratic Party advance the story directly or with
Wednesday for the start of the But some people upset with the girl that would do it," said student again. What are the Party relevant tangential information.
Thanksgiving holiday amid screening procedures have waged Claire Henry, 18, from Boston, members worry about? Some We try to block comments that
protests by some travelers about an Internet campaign urging who was in New York City for stupid position rather than stop use offensive language or appear
h e i g h t e n e d , m o r e i n v a s i v e travelers to refuse to use the Thanksgiving. the TSA and the molestation of to be spam and review comments
security procedures. scanners on Wednesday, one of Nov 24, 2010 11:02am EST the flying population. We had a frequently to ensure they meet our
The enhanced screening methods the busiest U.S. travel days, which I support the National Opt Out great opportunity by having standards. If you see a comment
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in Congress involve revealing full By early Wednesday afternoon, about expressing one’s objection Democrats in this last election? our editors by using the report
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Harvey Dunn: Western Visionary

(Epoch Times | All headlines) imaginations for short stories, his work.
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:27:55 AM novels, and accounts of war. The Over time I contemplated some
Spanish American War saw the of his best paintings over coffee
FRONTIER: Harvey Dunn was likes of Frederic Remington in with Teddy Hustead, proprietor of
born and raised in the Dakota Cuba, then in the West during the the Wall Drug Store in Wall, S.D.
Territory in 1884. This oil Indian campaigns. Dunn opened Teddy is third generation in this
painting 'Argument with Sheep his own studio in Delaware, close remarkable place just off the
Man,' highlights the land disputes to his friend and mentor Pyle. highway in the Badlands. Wall
a s N a t i v e A m e r i c a n s w e r e When Pyle died in 1911, Dunn Drug is remarkable not only for
removed, and the ranchers came moved to Leonia, N.J., to be the hundreds of road signs that
in and fought with settlers for closer to New York City and the invite visitors for a free glass of
g r a z i n g p a s t u r e . ( P h o t o b y editorial offices of the many great ice water—Teddy’s granddad’s
Myriam Moran) Harvey Dunn magazines of the day. He met original ploy to lure business off
was born in a sod house out on the N.C. Wyeth at the Pyle school; the Interstate—but for almost
prairie near Manchester in what Wyeth was best man at Dunn’s everything in creation.
was then the Dakota Territory. It wedding in 1908. Illustrator Frank Little known is the world-class
was considered the frontier in Schoonover was also a classmate $3 million collection of original
1884. Indians had been pushed a t t h e P y l e s c h o o l . P y l e ’ s art on display at Wall Drug. There
onto reservations, but tensions influence in Dunn’s work never is an uncommon work by Wyeth
still flared as more and more flagged. found in plain view across from
homesteaders moved west. Dunn’s own school in Leonia On a visit to South Dakota in other times reflective and calm. the ice cream counter. Nine Dunn
Immigrants opted for free land in a t t r a c t e d a r t i s t s l i k e D e a n 1950, the DeSmet Masonic Lodge His illustrations fit the bill for oils form part of the Wall Drug
a desolate place that couldn’t Cornwell. Cornwell went on to held a showing of his paintings. action short stories, fodder for the collection.
support farming. Harvey Dunn become an American icon doing Dunn gave the paintings to the great magazines of the day. “Slugging It Out” is one that
was a solidly built farm boy. He magazine covers and illustrations, people of South Dakota. They are The frontier was wild and brutal; draws interest from many angles.
grew to 6 feet 6 inches tall and did famous in his own right. With the part of the permanent collection Westerns were being churned out It is brutal but magical, depicting
all the chores on the family farm outbreak of World War I and of South Dakota State University, to satisfy what seemed to be an the rough frontier as it was
before attending a one-room America’s eventual entry in 1917, displayed at the Art Museum in unending demand for action described in a novel. Another in
schoolhouse. 33-year-old Dunn was Brookings. stories. Like Remington before the dining room depicts a soft
When he was 17, Dunn went to commissioned as one of eight ' L A D Y O N S O F A ' : A n o i l him, Dunn seemed to mellow scene in a park. Dunn was a
Brookings, S.D., to attend battlefield artists with an painting with a unique pallette of away from illustration toward visionary in black and white.
A g r i c u l t u r a l C o l l e g e . A d a Expeditionary Force sent over to c o l o r s a n d H a r v e y D u n n ' s contemplative work that captured Illustrations didn’t have to be in
Caldwell, one of his teachers, fight in Europe. He chronicled the signature heavy brush strokes. the beauty of the place and people color in the early days.
recognized his ability in art and war and sent back dramatic (Photo by Myriam Moran) Harvey in innocent infancy. America and Continued on the next page...
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sometimes gathering flowers, at New York. I took an interest in
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Train Fares Due to Rise 6 per cent in New Year
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:38:37 AM
By Simon Veazey
Epoch Times staff Created: Nov
24, 2010 Last Updated: Nov 24,
2010
Train fares are due to rise by an
average of just over 6 per cent in
the New Year, according to
industry figures announced on
Tuesday.
The announcement by the
Association of Train Operating
Companies (ATOC) was met with
criticism by travel watchdogs,
who say that flies in the face of
the austerity cuts being made by
the government, and that the fare
hikes in some regions will be
much higher than 6.2 per cent.
Michael Roberts, chief executive
of ATOC, said in a statement:
“We know times are tough for
many people but next year’s fare
increases will ensure that Britain
can continue investing in its
make up the difference. The
government is sticking with the
previous administration’s policy
to cut the taxpayers’ contribution
to the overall cost of running the
railways.
“Money invested through fares
has helped to bring about the
record levels of customer
satisfaction and punctuality on the
railways today.“But, in the longer
term we need reform which drives
down the cost of the railways by
relying more heavily on the
innovation and resources of the
private sector to give passengers a
better service and taxpayers better
value for money.”
The announcement was criticised
by travel watchdogs.
London TravelWatch
characterised the price hike as
“huge”, saying in a statement:
"The huge fare rises will hit
passengers particularly hard in
what is a very difficult time for
many people. We are alarmed that
"We have not yet seen the detailed
rises, and we expect to see
staggering increases on some
individual journeys. It is time for
a wholesale root-and-branch
review of how fares are
structured: they must be
simplified to give passengers a
chance to get the best value for
money."
Passengers will regard that as a
sick joke seeing as we have the
most expensive and overcrowded
railway in Europe. Gerry Doherty,
leader of the TSSA rail union,
said in statement: "It is simply
outrageous that hard pressed
commuters are being forced to
pay fare hikes of up to 10 per cent
when they are themselves facing
pay freezes and job cuts.
"Ministers claim this is to pay for
a better railway. Passengers will
regard that as a sick joke seeing as
we have the most expensive and
overcrowded railway in Europe.
"It is scandalous that taxpayers
"These profiteers are the robber
barons of the 21st century and
they have been handed a licence
to print money by the coalition."
Andrew Gwynne, Labour's rail
spokesman, said, "Clearly this
will mean that the burden will
shift even more onto the
passenger," according to The
Telegraph.
ATOC is trying to steer public
perception away from the notion
that train fares represent a large
profit for train operators. It points
out that only 3 per cent of every
fare represents profit; 48 per cent
goes to Network rail and 4 per
cent goes on fuel.
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Portugal unions strike over austerity measures

(Reuters: Top News) Dublin and before it Athens to The CGTP union said all ports teacher at a private school, who
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:29:15 AM seek rescues. A Reuters poll were shut, and check-in counters was forced to take a taxi to work.
showed a majority of economists at Lisbon's main airport were "The Portuguese have to
Union members block the expect Portugal to seek a bailout. empty. National airline TAP has understand that there is no money
entrance of a Volkswagen car As the country's two biggest canceled most flights. No mass and if there is no money people
factory during a general strike in unions stopped trains and buses, protests were expected. have to work to get it."
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Sling Releases SlingPlayer For iPad

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Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:11:40 AM
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U.S. aircraft carrier heads for Korean waters

(Reuters: Top News) carries 75 warplanes and has a March in the same area, killing 46 Beijing will not be pleased by the
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:20:45 AM crew of over 6,000, left a naval sailors. deployment of the aircraft carrier
base south of Tokyo and would Defense Minister Kim Tae-young and will not respond to such Weapon-Wielding
A local resident looks around join exercises with South Korea was grilled by lawmakers who pressure, said Xu Guangyu, a Whippersnappers - Uri
damaged houses on Yeonpyeong from Sunday to the following said the government should have retired major-general in the
Island November 24, 2010 after Wednesday, U.S. officials in taken quicker and stronger People's Liberation Army who Korn Captures
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How to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:16:41 AM
On Monday, Apple shipped its
long-awaited iOS 4.2.1 update for
the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch,
which was the first major upgrade
for the iPad since its launch
earlier this year. Finally, iPad
users have access to features like
multitasking, app folders,
threaded messaging and a Unified
Inbox, thanks to this update. It
also delivered new features called
AirPrint and AirPlay to all iOS
devices, the former for printing
from mobile devices and the latter
for streaming between mobile
devices and Apple TV or other
AirPlay-enabled hardware.
But for iPhone jailbreakers,
there's only one question that
comes to mind when a new
upgrade is released: can you
jailbreak it?
Sponsor
The answer this time is yes you
can- and there's no waiting to do
so! However, iPhone users may
want to hold off on this one.
Here's why:
Although the 4.2.1 software can
be jailbroken using the iPhone
Dev Team's redsn0w hacking
tool, this time around it's what's
known as a "tethered" jailbreak, at
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least on newer Apple devices.
What that means is that if your
phone ever loses power or you
need to reboot your device, you
have to connect it to your
computer (i.e. "tether" it) in order
to keep the device jailbroken.
Failure to do so will result in the
device resetting to an un-
jailbroken state. If, for some
reason, you aren't able to reboot
the device while tethered, you can
still recover your jailbreak by
connecting it again to your
computer and then booting it
using redsn0w.
Simply put, it's a huge pain.
So unless you really need 4.2.1's
AirPlay or AirPrint features, we
would suggest iPhone users hold
off on this one, as an untethered
(read: "normal") jailbreak is in the
works now. Being "tethered" is
less of a hassle on iPod Touch and
iPad, however, as maintaining a
jailbreak isn't as mission-critical
on these devices. Nor are these
devices as likely to be completely
drained of battery juice like the
iPhone is, especially if you make
a lot of phone calls. In other
words, it's update to you on this
one - jailbreak if you must or wait
to upgrade.
The good news is that you can
still upgrade your iPad to iOS
yesterday's slide. The situation in
Korea has calmed, for now, and
Ireland seems to be taking steps
towards its bailout.
Technology/ Economy/ 15
• Install the iOS 4.2.1 firmware combination of key presses, that
via iTunes as usual. are as follows: Hold the Power
• Run the redsn0w software button for 1 second, then without
executable. releasing it, hold the Home button
• Redsn0w will ask you to select for 10 seconds. Finally, release
your IPSW file for your current Power but keep holding Home for
firmware. Point it to one of the 15 seconds.
following, depending on your OS: • One in DFU mode, the jailbreak
• Mac OS X: /~/Library/iTunes/ will proceed automatically.
iPad Software Updates (or iPhone
/iPod Software Updates, as the Compatibility notes: This
case may be) jailbreak works on all devices. On
4.2.1 to take advantage of all the • Windows 7 or Vista: iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3 and 4,
new features but not have to C:\[username]\AppData\Roaming\ iPad and iPod Touch 2 (MC
install the same software on your Apple Computer\iTunes\iPad model) it will be tethered. On
iPhone. iTunes will prompt you Software Updates (or iPhone/iPod iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS (older
when you connect an iPad to your Software Updates) bootroom), and iPod Touch 2
computer to upgrade and you can • Windows XP: C:\Documents (older model) it's not tethered.
proceed normally. When you a n d iPhone unlockers should NOT
connect your iPhone, you can just Settings\[username]\Application jailbreak!
say "no" to the same prompt with D a t a \ A p p l e As always, please proceed with
no harm done. You can continue Computer\iTunes\iPad Software jailbreaking at your own risk.
using your iPhone as usual, Updates (or iPhone/iPod Software Although relatively easy, it is a
syncing files, etc., while still Updates) form of hacking and things can go
maintaining the jailbreak you wrong, break, crash or just not
already have. • Redsn0w should now say that work at all. Back up your iOS
However, if you're determined to the IPSW file was successfully device before jailbreaking in case
proceed with the jailbreak, despite identified. On the following you need to restore and make sure
our warnings, here's how you do screen, check "Install Cydia" then that critical data (contacts, notes,
it: click "Next." etc.) is also safely stored
• D o w n l o a d t h e r e d s n 0 w • With the iOS device powered elsewhere than on your PC.
software: Mac or Windows o f f a n d p l u g g e d i n t o t h e Discuss
version (more mirrors are listed computer, click "Next" again.
on the Dev Team blog) • Redsn0w will now provide
• Upgrade to iTunes 10.1 if you instructions on how to put your
haven't already. device into DFU mode. This is a
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Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Uploads

Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:05:06 AM
Google just announced it's
extending the drag-and-drop
functionality in its online office
suite, Google Docs. A few weeks
ago, it introduced an image
uploader for docs that worked the
same way as the new feature does
- you simply drag a file from your
computer's and it will
immediately upload to "the
cloud," (the cloud, in this case
being the Google Docs online
service). Today's upgrade now
brings drag-and-drop to the file
upload page, where it serves as an
easier way to move your off your
PC's hard drive and into Google
Docs.
Sponsor
The file uploader isn't really a
ground-breaking new feature -
after all, plenty of sites today are
offering drag-and-drop uploads -
if anything, it's a long overdue
upgrade for the Google Docs
service. However, it comes at an
important time for Google as it
continues to compete with
Microsoft Office, one of
service called "Google Cloud
Connect" that allows people still
using Office to take advantage of
Google Docs' Web-based
collaboration features within
Office. The product arose from
Google's acquisition of DocVerse
from earlier this year. With Cloud
Connect, files created in
Microsoft Office are synced to
Google's "cloud" but can still be
used in Office for editing
purposes.
The goal, of course, is not to
improve life for Office users,
necessarily, but to make the
transition from the desktop to the
cloud easier and less
cumbersome.
Microsoft's biggest cash cows to services, are actually two of the advertising business, but could Drag-and-drop is just another
this day. biggest rivals in the Internet become people's default search example of this ongoing push to
Microsoft arrived late to the Web industry today. Facebook has portal, too. Meanwhile, Facebook get people to leave Office behind.
Office game, introducing its own b e e n p o a c h i n g t o p G o o g l e has partnered with Microsoft's Google also announced another
online suite in July. Microsoft is engineers left-and-right and is Bing search engine, which is minor feature today which allows
also deeply integrating its Office attempting to "out-Google" integrated with Facebook's search. you to hide the title bar above the
Web Apps into Facebook, we Google by organizing the Internet (Microsoft's $240 million 2007 document editor by choosing
discovered last week, and it will through social relationships and investment in Facebook doesn't either View -> Compact controls
also be integrated with Facebook's "likes" instead of algorithms and look so crazy now, does it?) or pressing Ctrl Shift F (Cmd
newly announced messaging analyzing links, as Google does. Two days ago, Google unveiled a Shift F on Macs). Discuss
platform. Facebook and Google, If successful, Facebook could not counterattack against Microsoft's
although seemingly dissimilar only cut deeply into Google's stalwart suite. It launched a

Once Again It's Clear That China Is What Matters

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:56:13 AM
Just a quick heads up, because it's
a point we've been banging on a
lot... what's happening in China
and Hong Kong is what's been
setting the tone for each day.
You can't point to Ireland today
for the rise, because bond yields
are blowing out and confidence is
waning. And the market was up
pre-the macro data.
But China and Hong Kong
gained, and the big industrial
commodities are up too. That
continues to be the big determine
of the market.
Join the conversation about this
story »
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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad released

Chris Davies (SlashGear) Mobile for iPad internet connection. They never
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:26:51 AM App Transforms iPad into a TV have to miss another show or
Foster City, Calif. — November game, no matter where they are.
Sling Media has released the new 24, 2010—Sling Media, Inc., a Pricing and Availability
S l i n g P l a y e r M o b i l e f o r wholly-owned subsidiary of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad is
iPad[iTunes link] app, offering EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: available now for U.S. $29.99,
full-screen control and viewing of SATS), today announced the UK GBP £17.99, and Euro €23.99
s t r e a m e d v i d e o f r o m y o u r availability of the SlingPlayer from the App Store on the iPad or
Slingbox. Promised all the way Mobile™ player for the Apple at http://itunes.com/apps/
back in March, the new app works iPad. Available for purchase on slingplayermobile. SlingPlayer
with Sling’s Slingbox SOLO and the iTunes App Store, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad can be purchased
PRO-HD models and supports Mobile software for iPad lets from the iTunes Store,
higher resolution video than the Slingbox® owners extend their downloaded, and installed in
regular iPhone app. living room TV experience to minutes.
Meanwhile the SlingPlayer their iPad and takes advantage of The SlingPlayer Mobile
Mobile application for iPhone will the iPad’s high-resolution, 9.7- application for iPhone will
c o n t i n u e t o w o r k i n inch LED-backlit display for great continue to work in
“Compatibility Mode” on the video quality. The revamped “Compatibility Mode” on the iPad
iPad, though without the higher program guide uses the iPad’s at no extra charge. The iPhone
resolution video support. The new intuitive native interface, and a “When combined with the new SOLO or PRO-HD, the award- version of the app streams from
app is priced at $29.99, £17.99 or recent channels feature puts a SlingPlayer Mobile app, now winning SlingPlayer Mobile all Slingboxes, but not at the
€23.99, depending on location. viewer’s recent channels at his anyone with an iPad can enjoy a software makes it easy to watch higher quality resolutions required
Obviously a Slingbox is sold fingertips. beautiful, personalized TV your home TV on your iPad. Now for the iPad.
separately. “A Slingbox is the perfect experience anywhere in the Slingbox owners with iPads can
Press Release: accessory to an iPad,” said John world.” change channels, control their
S l i n g M e d i a A n n o u n c e s M. Paul, executive vice president How it Works DVRs and watch their favorite
Availability of SlingPlayer of products at Sling Media. When connected to a Slingbox shows anywhere they have an

BlackBerry's UberTwitter Arrives on the iPhone

Mike Melanson latest addition - UberTwitter - Holding your phone upright and iterations". Users in the app's
(ReadWriteWeb) attempts to stand out. tapping on a Tweet gives a full- review section complained of ads,
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:05:00 AM UberTwitter, the mobile Twitter screen, text-only preview of the though we didn't find them all that
client popular with BlackBerry link in that Tweet. Double- intrusive. We found the app a bit
I have three Twitter apps on my users, distinguishes itself with a tapping on that preview will open unintuitive, but it could be worth
iPhone that I use for different feature it calls "UberView". the full page within the app. If it. If BlackBerry users like
things - TweetDeck for its Sponsor you hold the phone sideways, you UberTwitter enough to create
continuously awesome list UberTwitter has all of the can see a preview pane that shows more than 10 million Tweets per
support, Twitter for its push standard features you'd expect a quick preview of the link in day, however, why not give it a
notifications, and Echofon for its with a Twitter client - it handles each Tweet. shot? Discuss
ability to search through my lists, mentions and all of the As Endgadget points out, it
friends and followers. None, standards. It doesn't appear to Echofon is for. What it does have, "looks a pretty slick idea, but
however, are all that great for offer notifications, but again, however, is a link preview there are still some early issues to
viewing links and that's where the that's what Boxcar, Twitter or feature. be ironed out -- as with all beta
18 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 24 2010

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:56:23 AM

Products galore! it’s a morning of

some large amount of
announcements of product
releases and/or sales – this you
can expect for, well, probably the
next month or so. Especially since
we’re nearing the epic BLACK
FRIDAY. Are you one of those
people who gets really pumped up
for Black Friday and stands in line
for hours and punches people in
the face to get a deal? Well you’re
going to LOVE the Black Friday
Guide we’re putting out later
today. There’s a couple of teasers
in today’s SlashGear Morning Android[BLACKNESS] Back to the Future Delorean gets 2.3 Gingerbread on Dec 6? PocketBook Mirasol ereader due
Wrap-up – and oh my goodness! Motorola Defy coming to Telstra the Flash Rods treatment[LOVE Stern unveils limited edition Q3 2011; IQ701 touchscreen
That’s where you are right now! in Australia THE WHITE-WALLS] version of Avatar pinball tablet tipped
Hooray and joy! FlightView Elite now available in Acer outs first 3D notebook in game[WANT] $89 Kindle 2 for Amazon’s Black
R3 Media Network Android Market for $3.99 Japan GoSmart Clip hangs your Friday sale[MORE BLACK
Android Community OpenFeint brings 8 new titles to Movea turns your iPhone 4 into smartphone on the steering FRIDAY DEALS COMING
Droid Incredible Free From Dell, Android an Air Mouse for HTPC use wheel[WORST IDEA] YOUR WAY IN A BIG FAT
Shipping, Activation, and a Gift SlashGear iPad waterproof case called ColorWare add new MacBook POST TODAY]
Card Included HTC PB92300 hits FCC: new Drycase unveiled[IPAD Air to line-up[SHINY] To see more wrap-up posts,
Yelp adds check-in offers for video calling Aria? WIERDNESS] iOS 4.3 due Dec 13 with News follow the following tags:[The
Android Sony 3D pro camcorder gets new FreeOneHand iPad holder and Corp “Daily” recurring Daily Slash] or[SlashGear
Laptop Magazine reviews video demo stand is odd[IPAD WIERDNESS] subscription APIs? Morning Wrap-up]
Viewsonic ViewPad 7 tablet LG HDTV NetCast update adds Android data theft exploit to be Chinese gamer reportedly pays
PC World runs down the best BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Twitter plugged in Gingerbread [Video] $677 per minute for IMAX-style
apps for Black Friday on & more Andy Rubin to release Android big screen play[AWESOME]

Morning Links - John Travolta and Kelly Preston Welcome a Son

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:15:00 AM
• John and Kelly welcome son
Benjamin- LilSugar
• Jeremy Renner's taking over the
Mission Impossible franchise-
Huffington Post
• Jennifer Jason Leigh files for
divorce from director Noah
Baumbach- People
• Laura Dern and Ben Harper
move ahead with their divorce-
TMZ
• Rachel Weisz keeps working
amid Daniel Craig rumors- Lainey
Gossip
• Does Angelina Jolie not like the
idea of Thanksgiving?- PopEater
• Guess who had the time of her
life winning Dancing With the
Stars?- BuzzSugar
• Rihanna could be pregnant this
time next year- Us Weekly The Good Wife- Lifeline Live
• Adrian Brody's legal victory- • Stella McCartney also rumored
Wonderwall to have given birth- I'm Not
• Emmy Rossum and Adam Obsessed
Duritz are over- Celebitchy
• How much does Demi's skin
care cost?- Hollywood Life
• Michael J. Fox will return to
E-reader News Edition Technology/ Culture/ 19

Bing updates its movie search Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From
(CNET News.com) Facebook, Twitter, and other can submit it here. However, Schmidt, Murdoch, Dorsey, And
social networks. because our editors and writers
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:12:56 AM
Bing now combines a variety of receive hundreds of requests, we Super-Artsy Angels
Those of you planning to catch a reviews on each film from both cannot tell you when you may Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
film this holiday weekend may the critics and other users, giving receive a response.
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:23:31 AM
want to check out the latest you one page where you can Lance Whitney wears a few
changes at Bing Movies. decide if the movie is worth your different technology hats-- New York City art world startup
The search engine's movie site hard-earned dough. journalist, Web developer, and Art.sy, which launched at our first
has updated its lineup with some Finally, the Bing Movie home software trainer. He's a TechCrunch Disrupt and won the
new features to help you decide page ties all the new features contributing editor for Microsoft Rookie Award, is raising $1.25 Cleveland is also scrapping a lot
what you want to see. together nicely, providing a single TechNet Magazine and writes for million from a very impressive of the original features originally
Users can now more easily see all spot where you can view trailers, other computer publications and group of super angels on both targeted at a younger audience,
the local theaters showing a read a synopsis, and check out Web sites. Lance is a member of coasts. and instead trying to make it more
particular picture rather than local show times. the CNET Blog Network, and he The investors include Google of an art discovery tool for
bouncing from one venue's site to Bing's revamped movie page is is not an employee of CNET. CEO Eric Schmidt, Wendi wealthy, older collectors. The
another. Just search for or click on now similar to the one offered by This entry passed through the Murdoch (wife of News Corp. new capital will go towards hiring
a title like the latest Harry Potter Google. Searching for a movie at Full-Text RSS service — if this is founder Rupert Murdoch), Jack engineers to help build out the
movie, and Bing lists all the Google also shows you local your content and you're reading it Dorsey (Twitter, Square), VC Jim startup’s “Art Genome”
theaters in your area where it's show times, links to reviews, and on someone else's site, please read Breyer, art “czarina” Dasha algorithm, which is modeled on
p l a y i n g a l o n g w i t h t h e i r a video of the movie's trailer all in our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Zhukova, Founder Collective, Pandora’s Music Genome, except
showtimes and driving distances. one spot. But Bing offers a greater content-only/faq.php Keith Rabois (Square, Slide, for fine art. The Art Genome
A new trailers page provides a variety and number of reviews Five Filters featured article: PayPal), David Tisch, Charlei algorithm breaks down artworks
host of clips, previews, and and a wider selection of trailers Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- Cheever (Quora, Facebook), Dave and artists into 170 different
interviews on new movies. You and other clips. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Morin (Path, Facebook), and dimensions, and combines them
can watch each video full screen If you have a question or Catastrophe. David Kidder (Clickable). The into resultant vectors to help
and share it with other people via comment for Lance Whitney, you round was led by Josh Kushner people find clusters of art similar
through Thrive Capital. Some of to other works they might like.
Katie Holmes Swaps the Set For these names were reported earlier
by Business Insider, but not the
The core technology is about
making better art
recommendations and making it
Shopping at Stella amount.
Art.sy previously raised about
$160,000 in seed funding. After
easier to discover art.
It is an ambitious project with
Lauren Turner (PopSugar) with Barneys New York! The time for Thanksgiving, though many moving parts, but the art
launching at Disrupt, 24-year-old
Submitted at 11/24/2010 7:45:00 AM actress indulged in some retail we'll have to wait and see if Tom world definitely needs help
founder Carter Cleveland decided
therapy after returning from Cruise can wrap up filming becoming more Web-friendly.
Katie Holmes browsed the racks to take the site completely private
Florida, where she worked on overseas for the holiday. Art.sy is now planning open up
at a Stella McCartney store in LA again while he shifted focus from
Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler. publicly in the spring of 2011.
yesterday with her cream Valextra a general-interest art-buying site
Katie had her daughter Suri for CrunchBase Information Art.sy
bag in hand - YumSugar's giving to one more focussed on high-end
company aboard the Allure of the To see more Katie shopping, just Thrive Capital Founder Collective
away an almost identical pricey art dealers and collectors. He
Seas cruise ship in Ft. Lauderdale, read more. Eric Schmidt Jack Dorsey
purse from the brand and it could signed up powerful New York
and they stuck together for the View 10 Photos › Information provided by
be yours when you enter to win city art dealer Larry Gagosian as
private plane ride home. The girls CrunchBase
their Ultimate Foodie Giveaway an advisor and is negotiating with
are back on the West Coast just in
other world-class galleries to
highlight their artists on Art.sy.
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SpaceX scores first FAA license for re- ZipList Raises $2 Million,
entry Helps You Manage Shopping
(CNET News.com) mission along with related flights
by Russia spacecraft, are
Lists, Search Recipes
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:41:01 AM
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
scheduled to go into retirement
The Dragon spacecraft from early next year. Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:15:43 AM

SpaceX.(Credit: SpaceX) "NASA wishes SpaceX every

SpaceX has won the first-ever ZipList, which lets you manage
success with the launch," NASA
license from the Federal Aviation and share your grocery lists online doing the shopping at the store.
Administrator Charlie Bolden said
Administration allowing a private and on the go, has raised a little An admirable goal.
in a statement.
-sector spacecraft to re-enter over$2 million in funding, a SEC ZipList was founded by CEO
The Dragon spacecraft will lift
Earth's atmosphere. filing reveals. Geoff Allen, who previously
off atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
The California company says that ZipList combines a robust recipe founded digital media production
It will be the first flight under
next month it plans to launch its search engine with a free solutions provider
NASA's Commercial Orbital
unmanned Dragon spacecraft into shopping list management service Anystream(formerly Grab
Transportation Services program,
Earth orbit, where it will be that allows users to easily create Networks), which was acquired
and SpaceX expects to make at
traveling at speeds of greater than and manage grocery lists and by Telestream last September.
least 12 flights to carry cargo to
17,000 miles per hour. With the reentering from low-Earth orbit." and from the ISS as part of a efficiently share them with others. I’ve contacted the company to
one-year FAA license in hand, It has only been performed by the resupply services contract. Family members can add items to learn who the investors are, and
SpaceX will also be able to bring U.S., Russia, China, Japan, India, This entry passed through the the list by email, IM, text what the startup plans to do with
the spacecraft back home a few and the European Space Agency, Full-Text RSS service — if this is message, on the Web, from a the capital, but a spokesperson
hours later and have it splash SpaceX said. your content and you're reading it
mobile web browser, or from an said she couldn’t immediately
down in the Pacific Ocean, where The unmanned SpaceX mission, on someone else's site, please read iPhone or Android application. answer my questions.
it will be recovered. set for December 7, is a precursor Any changes to shopping lists get Update: just got word that this
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
The event will mark the first to coordinated NASA and SpaceX content-only/faq.php synchronized in real time, which round brings ZipList’s total raised
commercial launch paired with an efforts to eventually provide Five Filters featured article: guarantees users that they are to $4.5 million. Investors include
officially sanctioned re-entry. The c o m m e r c i a l t r i p s t o t h e Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- always up-to-date, no matter how Softbank Capital, Martha Stewart
company said in its announcement International Space Station with Reporting of Falluja's Cancer they’re accessed. Living Omnimedia and unnamed
yesterday that it will also be "the cargo and crew, according to the Catastrophe. Essentially, the tool wants to help angel investors.
first attempt by a commercial FAA. NASA's space shuttles, you cut down the time you spend CrunchBase Information ZipList
company to recover a spacecraft which have been performing that creating your grocery lists, Information provided by
planning meals, and actually CrunchBase

Reese Witherspoon Has Another Rough Day on Set

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:15:00 AM
Reese Witherspoon spent
yesterday afternoon in Vancouver
filming This Means War with
Tom Hardy and Chris Pine. It was
just Reese and Chris once the sun
went down, though, and the duo
got down to business shooting a seems to be included by
kissing scene. Reese was also handsome men wherever she goes To see more of Reese and her
spotted on the movie's set - she had the good fortune to work men, just read more.
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The actress was up in Canada year, and there are new images
following a weekend in LA with out of him and Reese in their
Jim Toth, Ava, and Deacon, and home to prep for a family-filled period costumes.
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Microsoft drop Drive Extender from Windows Single-Again Kate

Winslet Cuddles
Home Server refresh Up With Her Kids
Chris Davies (SlashGear) users, who argue that Drive Lindsay Miller (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:46:30 AM Extender remains one of the most Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:45:00 AM
effective parts of the system. It
Microsoft has confirmed that it is particularly benefits home users Kate Winslet picked up her
dropping Drive Extender unfamiliar with upgrading daughter Mia and son Joe from
functionality from the upcoming hardware, as they can simply plug school in NYC yesterday. The
Windows Home Server code in a new drive when storage is actress has apparently split from
name “Vail”, arguing that the getting low, and allow WHS to Louis Dowler, the British model
ready availability of reasonably automatically add that to the she began dating after her March
affordable 1TB and 2TB drives overall capacity. breakup from Joe's dad, director
means the functionality is now Microsoft now seems to be Sam Mendes. Kate and Louis
relatively defunct. Drive Extender pushing RAID style setups in were serious enough to take their
pooled the combined storage of manufacturer WHS boxes, though romance public and travel the
multiple smaller internal and these are invariably less user- globe during their months
external drives into one large friendly than Drive Extender. The together, but the actress
array, initially intended to allow decision will also affect Windows reportedly initiated the breakup in
small businesses and home users Small Business Server 2011 order to stay focused on her kids.
to use up any existing drives they as other software solutions. This delivering core features such as Essentials and Windows Storage She's been spending lots of time
may have on hand. will provide customers greater automated Server and PC backup, Server 2008 R2 Essentials. “Vail” with Joe and Mia this Fall, taking
“While this removes the choice as well as a seamless easy sharing of folders and files, is apparently on track for the first them trick-or-treating and to and
integrated ability for storage experience that will meet their R e m o t e W e b A c c e s s a n d half of 2011, with a new, Drive from school. Kate also has plenty
pooling of multiple hard drives storage needs. Customers will simplified management without Extender-free beta planned for of other new beginnings to look
and automated data duplication, also have access to the in-built any expected changes.” Microsoft early in the new year. forward to in 2011, with her
we are continuing to work closely storage solutions Windows Server The news has been met with [ via istartedsomething] miniseries Mildred Pierce airing
with our OEM partners to 2008 R2 provides for data anger and disappointment by in the Spring, and a starring role
implement storage management protection. We are also still existing Windows Home Server in Roman Polanksi's upcoming
and protection solutions, as well project.
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:15:00 AM
If you're the owner of a second
generation Apple TV, but you've
not had the chance to install the
latest software update (or, indeed,
you're just curious to know what
the new update brings to the
Apple TV), make sure you check
out our own "hands on" take on
the Apple TV update, and in
particular, the new AirPlay
features.
Once you've done that, and if
you're still hungry for Apple TV
news and opinion, iLounge have
put together a comprehensive
review and look at the new
features of iOS 4.1 for the Apple
TV.
The review covers the installation
process, AirPlay for music and
video, streaming content from
iOS devices and iTunes, the new
accessibility VoiceOver feature as
well as a section on playing
videos in photo albums (not
present in the previous software).
There's also a look at some of the
more minor fixes and features that
will make a big difference to the
everyday use of the Apple TV.
For instance, there's now better
integration with your iTunes
library. Playlists will appear as
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they do on your Mac, other
sorting issues have been resolved
and playback status is updated in
iTunes after playing media on the
Apple TV, to name a few.
One glaring omission, mentioned
in the review, is the absence of
support for iTunes LP and iTunes
Extra. Both of which were
available on the first generation
Apple TV and anticipated in this
release.
If you're an Apple TV fan boy or
girl and you're wanting a bit more
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Rumor: iOS 4.3 Will
Bring In-App
Subscriptions
Mike Melanson
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:35:11 AM
Just days after Apple released
iOS 4.2, the rumors about the next
incarnation of Apple's mobile
operating system have begun.
According to Mac-centric blog
Mac Stories, iOS 4.3 is barely a
month away and this time the OS
will come with the standard set of
bug fixes and a feature that pulls
Apple closer to Google-rival
Rupert Murdoch.
The big news, however, might be
Apple TV update, we highly that iOS 4.3 will support in-app
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play," writes Mac Stories'
Frederico Viticci. "Apple isn't
building an 'iNewstand': instead,
it's a brand new recurring
subscription for App Store apps.
The Daily will likely be the first
app to support it, and this should
be announced with a media
event."
According to The Guardian, "the
central innovation, developed
with assistance from Apple
engineers, will be to dispatch the
publication automatically to an
iPad or any of the growing
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Apple I sells for $210K at Christie's
auction in London
Matt Tinsley (TUAW)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:45:00 AM
One of the first Apple computers
ever made, the Apple I, has been
sold at a Christie's auction in
London on Tuesday. The Apple I,
one of only 200 of its kind to have
been made, was won by the
Italian businessman and private
collector Marco Boglione for
$210,000.
The Apple I was released in 1976
and originally sold for $666.66.
The computer came with its
original packaging, a signed sales
letter from co-founder and current
CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, as well
as an autographed letter by Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak, who
was present at the auction.
Wozniak said of the Apple I, "It
really was an important step,
[even though] I didn't feel that
way when I designed it." Wozniak
added, "I'm very delighted for the
gentleman who purchased it."
According to Christies, the Apple
I was the first personal computer
to come with an assembled
How to Triple Boot Your Hackintosh
with Windows and Linux [How-to]
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
We've walked through how to
triple-boot your Mac with
Windows and Linux, but if you're
motherboard that worked out of
the box. However, users still
needed to provide their own
keyboard, display and power
supply. However, according to the
BBC, the Apple I's processor
works 1,000 times slower than the
processor found in today's iPad.
Francesco Boglione, the brother
of the winning bidder (who was
present at the auction), said that
the Apple I would likely be
restored to working order before
joining a collection of other Apple
computers owned by Marco
using a shiny new Hackintosh, the
process is a bit more complicated.
Boglione who "...loves
computers."
A detailed picture of the Apple I
can be viewed on Christies
website here.
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Toshiba REGZA SD-P96DT
& SD-P76S keep the portable
DVD player lights burning
Chris Davies (SlashGear) battery life: 3hrs, versus the 6hrs
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:32:35 AM of the SD-P96DT. Each has an
SD/SDHC memory card slot, and
Toshiba has outed a new pair of
can play DivX video, MP3/WMA
portable DVD players, the 9-inch
music files and JPEG images
REGZA SD-P96DT and 7-inch
from either a card or a DVD.
REGZA SD-P76S, though they’ve
Toshiba will throw in a 12V
at least slotted a TV tuner into the
adapter for in-car use, an A/V
larger model to give it at least a
output cable and a remote control,
vague air of modernism. The SD-
while the larger version gets
P96DT runs at 800 x 480
external antennas for the tuners.
resolution and has both 1-Seg
No word on pricing at this stage,
digital and analog tuners, while
but the REGZA SD-P96DT is
the SD-P76S makes do with a 480 expected to drop in Japan in early
x 234 display and no tuners at all.
Still, you can get the smaller
model in a variety of colors –
December, while the REGZA SD-
P76S will follow on midway
through the month.
white, pink, blue and green –
though you only get half the
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Photofast AP1000 brings AirPlay
audio streaming to your car
Sam Abuelsamid (TUAW)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:30:00 AM
Now that iOS 4.2 and AirPlay are
officially available for our Apple
portable devices, we're starting to
see third-party devices that can
take advantage of the new
capability. Among the first of
those is the AP1000 from Japan's
PhotoFast. The AP1000 is a Wi-Fi
host that gets wired into a car
audio system to receive AirPlay
streams.
The little box supports 802.11b/g/
n Wi-Fi signals, and once it's
connected to 12 volt power and an
input on the audio system, it
should appear in the AirPlay
connection screen on the iOS
device. It's probably just as well
that there doesn't appear to be any
in-vehicle video streaming
support with the AP1000,
although it could be handy if you
have a rear-seat entertainment
system for the kids.
For many new vehicles that
already have built-in support for
Bluetooth audio streaming, the
Art Collector's Paradise
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 11/23/2010 4:00:01 PM
Candia Fisher is a serious art
collector but then again, she
learned from the best. Her
AP1000 doesn't really seem to
provide any additional
functionality, although the audio
fidelity may be somewhat
improved. PhotoFast is currently
seeking a distributor outside of
Japan, so we have no idea when
the AP1000 will be available in
the U.S. or how much it will cost.
Check out the video of a sample
installation in the second part of
the story.
mother, Emily Fisher Landeau is a
serious collector of modern art as
well as, a trustee of of the
Whitney Museum of American
Art. Candia's duplex apartment
was designed by Aman & Carson
and highlights the fabulous art
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Let's Give Thanks for the TSA
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Submitted at 11/23/2010 5:00:00 PM
In the coming days, millions of
Americans will travel to celebrate
the Thanksgiving holiday with
family and friends. May I pose a
novel idea? As we go through the
airport screening line, let's stop
and say "thanks" to the men and
women of the TSA who give up
time with their families during the
holidays to keep us safe from
terror.
In the past few weeks, these
patriots have been compared with
Big Brother and accused of sexual
assault. They've suffered the same
kinds of public indignities the
Left has heaped on the men and
women of the CIA--being accused
of engaging un-American and
unlawful behavior for doing the
difficult and unpleasant work of
protecting the country. They
deserve better.
Can any of us imagine the debate
we've had in recent weeks
unfolding in the days immediately
following Sept. 11, 2001? Would
any of us have objected to the
deployment of millimeter-wave
scanners had the technology been
available then? The current uproar
could happen only in a country
that has begun to forget the horror
of 9/11. Indeed, it appears many
in the country have forgotten. A
new Washington Post–ABC News
poll found that 66 percent of
Americans say that "the risk of
terrorism on airplanes is not that
great." Sixty-six percent.
This just four years after al-
Qaeda nearly succeeded in
blowing up seven transatlantic
flights departing London's
Heathrow Airport--with more
than 1,500 passengers on board--
headed for New York,
Washington, Chicago, Montreal,
Toronto, and San Francisco. This
just eleven months after an al-
Qaeda operative succeeded in
sneaking a bomb onto a plane in
his underwear and nearly blew it
up over the city of Detroit. This
just weeks after al-Qaeda
succeeded in getting two package
bombs on board aircraft--
including passenger planes--that
were designed to blow up over the
Eastern seaboard of the United
States. If we have learned
anything about al-Qaeda in the
years since 9/11, it is that they are
obsessively focused on destroying
planes.
Remember the outrage we all felt
last Christmas that a terrorist
managed to get through airport
security with a bomb in his
underwear? Well, imagine the
outrage we would feel if it
happened again because the TSA
failed to deploy readily available
technology that had a high
likelihood of uncovering such a
bomb--especially if the terrorist
succeeded in blowing up the plane
this time.
If a passenger who is supposed to
be seated near us on our next
flight has a bomb in his
underwear, I suspect most of us
would prefer that the explosive be
uncovered when he tries to get
through airport security--not when
a Dutch tourist sees the passenger
in the row ahead of him try to set
it off and dives across the plane to
stop him, as happened on a flight
to Detroit last Christmas.
In the last two weeks, I have been
through TSA screening eight
times--and not once was I asked
to go through the millimeter-wave
machine, or undergo an enhanced
pat-down. Odds are that most of
the 2.2 million passengers who
will go through airport security
each day during this holiday
weekend will have a similar
experience. On the last leg of my
trip, I finally asked to go through
both procedures to see what all
the fuss was about. No one
touched my junk.
Some critics have argued that the
terrorists are more likely to attack
us in other ways that can't be
stopped by the new screening
procedures. That is the same
argument the Left uses against
Ballistic Missile Defense. They
say our enemies more likely to
attack us with suitcase nuke that
has no fingerprints than with a
ballistic missile that has a return
address. Well, just because we
face the danger of suitcase bombs
does not mean that we should not
defend against the danger of
ballistic-missile attacks. If a
burglar wants to break into our
homes, we all know he can bust
through the window--but that does
not mean we leave our front doors
unlocked when we go to bed at
night.
The same logic applies to airport
screening. Yes, the terrorists can
try to sneak explosives on board
in other ways (such as hiding
them in body cavities). But if we
stop screening for the methods
they have attempted to use in the
past--shoe bombs, liquid
explosives hidden in sports
drinks, and, yes, underwear
bombs--we would be inviting
them to use those methods again.
Remember the outrage we all felt
last Christmas that a terrorist
managed to get through airport
security with a bomb in his
underwear? Well, imagine the
outrage we would feel if it
happened again because the TSA
failed to deploy readily available
technology that had a high
likelihood of uncovering such a
bomb--especially if the terrorist
succeeded in blowing up the plane
this time.
Some say it is ridiculous to apply
screening procedures to children
and the elderly. But we know that
the terrorists have strapped bombs
onto children and used them to get
past our security in places like
Iraq. Think they would hesitate to
do the same here in America? If
we announce that children and
older travelers are exempt from
screening, the terrorists will use
children and older travelers to get
bombs onto planes.
Some argue that the enhanced
screening is a violation of our
Fourth Amendment rights. No, it
is not. Unlike buying health
insurance, buying a plane ticket is
still a purely voluntary activity in
this country. We all agree to
submit to screening when we
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decide to travel by plane. If we
don't want to go through the
electronic screening, we can
choose to have a pat-down
instead. And if we prefer neither,
we can drive, take a bus, or travel
train. No American is forced
through the enhanced screening
procedures against his or her will.
Some say we should use profiling
instead. Profiling should
absolutely be a key part of our
layered defenses against terrorist
attack. But profiling alone is
insufficient, and is not as easy as
it may seem. Just as the terrorists
adapt their tactics to get around
our screening procedures, they
will adapt to get around profiling.
We know this because Khalid
Shiekh Mohammed told us so. As
I recount in my book, Courting
Disaster, after KSM was captured
and questioned by the CIA, he
told the agency that after the 9/11
attacks he assumed we would be
profiling for Arab men--so he
recruited a cell of Southeast Asian
terrorists to carry out the "second
wave" of attacks. This cell--
known as the Ghuraba cell--
included trained pilots and suicide
operatives who had met with
Osama bin Laden and pledged to
carry out martyrdom missions for
him. They were captured hiding
out in Karachi, Pakistan, awaiting
instructions from the al-Qaeda
leadership. Their mission was to
fly an airplane into the Library
Tower in Los Angeles.
When al-Qaeda deployed an
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In 2010 Sweep, Even the Finns Voted Republican
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 11/23/2010 5:00:00 PM
Some reflections on the
revolution of 2010, based on
extended examination of the
election returns.
Gentry liberals: The tsunami
swept from the George
Washington Bridge to the Donner
Pass, but didn't wash away
affluent liberals to the east and
west of these geographic markers.
Also surviving were the cannibals
--the public employee unions that
are threatening to bankrupt states
like California and New York, a
prospect that doesn't faze the left-
leaning gentry. In these areas
Republicans picked up one House
seat anchored in Staten Island,
two in New Hampshire and one in
Washington state, and they came
close in two California districts
wholly or partly in the Central
Valley. Gentry liberal territory
stayed staunchly Democratic.
Jacksonians: In 2008 Barack
Obama ran weakly in lands settled
by the Scots-Irish from the
Appalachians southwest to Texas.
In 2010 Democrats did even
worse there. In Andrew Jackson's
home state of Tennessee,
Republicans captured two open
seats where they didn't even field
candidates in 2008; ditto in Bill
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Clinton's home state of Arkansas.
In southwest Virginia a 28-year
veteran Democrat was beaten
after voting for Henry Waxman's
cap-and-trade bill. West Virginia
Democrat Joe Manchin held
Robert Byrd's Senate seat by
running an ad showing him
shooting a rifle bullet through a
copy of the bill.
Around 100 years ago Finnish
immigrants flocked to the mines
and woods of the country around
Lake Superior, where the
topography and weather must
have seemed familiar. They've
been a mostly Democratic,
sometimes even radical voting
bloc ever since. No more, it
seems.
Germano-Scandinavian America:
The Upper Midwest, settled
largely by German and
Scandinavian immigrants, has
long been the most pacifist,
isolationist and dovish part of the
United States. That's one reason
Obama did well in caucuses and
primaries and in the general
election in 2008 in Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa. He even
made it a close race in the
Dakotas.
But that appeal seems to have
vanished this year. Perhaps dovish
voters, dismayed that he kept
troops in Iraq, sent more troops to
Black Friday targets or wondering
if that perfect gift is cheaper
somewhere else, an Android
phone is a great weapon to have
Afghanistan and failed to close
Guantanamo, decided to vote on
other issues on which they did not
agree with Democrats.
Republicans won up and down the
line in Wisconsin, won big
majorities in the Minnesota
legislature, unseated two formerly
popular congressmen-at-large in
the Dakotas and recaptured the
Iowa governorship after a dozen
years. The industrial heartland.
The long-standing rule in
American politics is that in times
of economic distress, the
industrial heartland--the Rust Belt
--trends toward the Democrats.
Voters evidently see more
government spending as a
solution.
Not this year. Republicans won
Senate or governor races or both
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan. They
captured five House seats in
Pennsylvania, five in Ohio, two in
Indiana, four in Illinois and two in
Michigan. You might want to add
the five they captured in upstate
New York. That's 23 of the 39
seats they needed for a House
majority.
Republican gains in state
legislatures were even more
impressive. They will control the
redistricting process in four of the
five states in this region. The
in your shopping arsenal. Here are
exception is Illinois, where Rod
Blagojevich's successor as
governor, Pat Quinn, held on by a
few thousand votes--helped
perhaps by the refusal of some
Democratic county clerks not to
send out military ballots in the
time required by federal law.
They did manage to send
unrequested ballots to inmates of
the Cook County Jail, though.
But the dominant message here is
that government spending is the
problem, not the solution. Blacks
and Hispanics. Black voters
remained almost unanimously
Democratic this year. Not so
Hispanics, who voted Republican
in Florida and only mildly
Democratic in Texas, where
Republicans captured two
Hispanic-majority House seats on
the Mexican border. And
Republicans Brian Sandoval and
Susana Martinez were elected
governor in Nevada and New
Mexico.
The Finnish vote: Around 100
years ago Finnish immigrants
flocked to the mines and woods of
the country around Lake Superior,
where the topography and weather
must have seemed familiar.
They've been a mostly
Democratic, sometimes even
radical voting bloc ever since. No
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election, the three most Finnish
districts, Michigan 1, Wisconsin 7
and Minnesota 8, all fronting on
Lake Superior, were represented
by two Democratic committee
chairmen and the chairman of an
Energy and Commerce
subcommittee, with a total of 95
years of seniority.
Wisconsin's David Obey and
Michigan's Bart Stupak both
chose to retire, and were replaced
by Republicans who had started
running before their
announcements. Minnesota's
James Oberstar was upset by
retired Northwest pilot and stay-at
-home dad Chip Cravaack.
So here's a new rule for the
political scientists: As go the
Finns, so goes America.
Michael Barone is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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Ireland's Problems Should
Concern the U.S.
In 2007, Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke spent
most of the year reassuring
markets that the U.S. sub-prime
mortgage loan problem would be
contained. In an all too similar a
manner, ECB President Jean-
Claude Trichet now keeps
asserting that Europe's sovereign
debt crisis does not pose a
significant threat to the overall
European economy let alone to
the global economy. U.S.
policymakers would do well to
disregard Mr. Trichet's sanguine
remarks and brace themselves
instead for a European economic
tsunami that is all too likely to
seriously derail the fragile U.S.
economic recovery.
The essence of Greece, Ireland,
Portugal, and Spain's present
economic predicament is that
these countries have run up very
large internal and external
imbalances within the most fixed
of all fixed exchange rate regimes.
Stuck within the Euro-zone
straightjacket, these countries
cannot devalue their currencies to
boost exports as a cushion to
offset the highly negative impact
on their economies from major
IMF-style fiscal retrenchment. As
a result, these countries are all too
likely to be mired in the deepest
of economic recessions for many
years to come. And as we are
presently witnessing in Ireland,
such grim economic prospects
will severely test these countries'
social and political fabrics.
Mr. Trichet downplays the
systemic importance of the
European periphery's sovereign
debt crisis by emphasizing that
the periphery constitutes only a
relatively small part of the overall
European economy. In particular,
he keeps reminding us that both
Greece and Ireland constitute less
than 2 percent of the overall
European economy while, even
including Spain, the periphery
accounts for less than 15 percent
of the overall region's GDP. The
crucial point over which Mr.
Trichet disingenuously glosses is
that, while Europe's peripheral
economies might be relatively
small, their governments are
extraordinarily highly indebted.
Indeed, Greece's sovereign debt
alone amounts to over US$420
billion while that of Ireland is
around US$200 billion.
Of yet very much greater
concern, by provoking a European
banking crisis, it would threaten
to contaminate the rest of the
global financial system in much
the same way as did the Lehman
fiasco in 2008.
A Greek or Irish debt default
must be expected to accentuate
the sovereign debt difficulties in
Portugal and Spain. This could
bring into serious question the
serviceability of around US$2
trillion of European sovereign
debt, a magnitude that one would
think should not be lightly
dismissed for its potential impact
on Europe's overall economy.
A further inconvenient truth that
Mr. Trichet chooses to downplay
is that the major part of the
periphery's debt is held by the
European banking system. This
implies that a wave of sovereign
debt defaults in the periphery
would deal a serious body blow to
the European banking system at
the very time that the European
banks are yet to fully recover
from their 2008-2009 loan losses.
The potential severity of this
problem is underlined by the
disturbingly high exposure of a
number of individual countries to
the European debt crisis.
According to data from the Bank
for International Settlements, the
European banking system's
exposure to Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Portugal, and Spain exceeds 20
percent of Europe's GDP, while
that of the Dutch and French
banks exceeds 33 percent of their
respective GDPs.
The most likely trigger for the
Euro's eventual unraveling will be
in the periphery itself. The Greek,
Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish
governments already all have the
most tenuous holds on political
power. A deepening in their
economic and financial crises
could very well result in the
ascendancy of more populist
governments, which might be less
willing to hew to the hair-shirt
austerity programs being dictated
by the IMF. Ireland's present
political unraveling would suggest
that this could very well happen
as soon as in 2011.
An escalation of the European
debt crisis would pose a real
threat to the U.S. economic
recovery. By weakening the Euro,
it would seriously dent U.S.
export prospects. Of yet very
much greater concern, by
provoking a European banking
crisis, it would threaten to
contaminate the rest of the global
financial system in much the same
way as did the Lehman fiasco in
2008. With the darkest of
economic storm clouds gathering
in Europe, this is no time for U.S.
policymakers to be thinking of
cutting back on policy support to
the U.S. economy.
Desmond Lachman is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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kids are about to jump off a high-
rise building. Look a little bit
closer and you'll notice that it's all
an illusion! This extremely clever
ad campaign promotes
"Maximum Ride," a series of
books by award-winning
American writer James Patterson.
“Maximum Ride is a series about
a group of children who can fly,"
says New Zealand-based ad
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operative to blow up a plane over
Detroit, they did not send an Arab
man--they sent a Nigerian. The
terror ground al-Shabab--al-
Qaeda's new affiliate in East
Africa--has recruited more than
20 American citizens as foreign
fighters. Most are of Somali
descent. One--Zachary Adam
Chesser--is a white kid from
Oakton, Va., who converted to
Islam and is now serving a prison
sentence for trying to join al-
Shabab as a foreign fighter. Al-
Qaeda recruits suicide bombers
from all over the world--including
right here in the U.S. It is not a
simple matter to profile against
such a diverse array of threats.
Profiling is essential, but it is not
a replacement for effective airport
security.
We need to be crystal clear: As
Here Are The Banks That Will Get Whacked In An Ireland
Collapse
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:59:36 AM
We're re-running this post, in the
wake of the Irish budget
announcement. Check out why we
think that will be a failure, here >
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German banks are " uneasy" over
the current Irish crisis, and their
rivals in other countries are
concerned too.
Der Spiegel reports that the
exposure of Germany's banks
amounts to $138 billion, with
we gather with our families to
carve the Thanksgiving turkey,
the terrorists are gathering as well
--in caves in Waziristan, Yemen,
East Africa, and other fronts in
the War on Terror--to plan the
next attack. The tenth anniversary
of the 9/11 attacks is less than a
year away. Al-Qaeda planned to
mark the fifth anniversary by
blowing up seven planes headed
to North America (which is why
liquids in carry-on luggage are
now required to be in containers
no bigger than 3.4 ounces). They
may very well be planning
something equally spectacular for
the tenth anniversary. So when we
stop to give thanks for all our
blessings this weekend, let's give
thanks for the people who spend
their days and nights working to
stop the terrorists from succeeding
Hypo Real Estate leading the way
with €10.3 billion in debt.
British banks are also exposed to
the crisis, holding $150 billion in
Irish debt.
Morgan Stanley ( via
hedgeanalyst) were a bit more
specific on potential problem
banks in a report last week. They
suggested Danske, KBC, Lloyds,
and RBS had something to be
concerned about in the Irish 3% as government debt, and 41%
situation.
• Danske Bank: 3% of the bank's
total credit exposure, with only
--including the men and women
of the TSA.
If you travel by plane this holiday
weekend, you'll have a chance to
do so in person.
Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
fellow at AEI.
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£11.7 billion in impaired loans.
• RBS: "Significant" exposure,
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including £51.9 billion in loans.
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Avoid PMI;Fed Report shows Mortgage Borrowers Deleverage;
Mortgage Spreads Highest in Year
noreply@blogger.com (Michael affected unless they put 25 percent in January.
Shedlock) (Mish's Global percent down, up from the 20 Consumers have been able to
Economic Trend Analysis) percent that has long been the deleverage by reducing both the
Submitted at 11/24/2010 3:05:00 AM minimum equity needed to escape amount of debt and the term to
Congratulations to anyone who the need for mortgage insurance. maturity of their mortgage debt.
refinanced last month. That may If a lender applies a 0.25 point Loan-to-value ratios have steadily
have been the bottom in mortgage fee to an interest rate, it would declined since they peaked,
rates. add less than $10 to the monthly falling 680 basis points for
15 and 30-year fixed mortgage payment on a 5 percent, 30-year existing homes and 520 basis
rates have climbed by about a loan of $200,000, it estimated. points for new homes. Moreover,
quarter of a point from a month Mortgage Rates consumers have reduced their
ago, and rates will climb another Mortgage rate table courtesy of exposure to mortgage debt by
quarter of a point for many Bloomberg. borrowing costs may cause the r a t i o , w h i c h m e a s u r e s t h e reducing the debt’s term to
borrowers. In addition, Freddie Mortgage Bond Spreads Relative lowest-coupon debt to prepay outstanding value of mortgage maturity. In June, 2007, the term
Mac will now require 25% down to Treasuries Climb more slowly than investors payments as a percentage of to maturity of all loans closed was
for borrowers to avoid Private Please consider Low-Coupon expected by reducing consumer disposable income, grew from 8.6 29.5 years; however, as of
Mortgage Insurance (PMI). Mortgage Bond Yield Spreads refinancing and home sales. That percent to 11.3 percent. However, September of the term to maturity
Expect Fannie Mae to follow. If Climb to Highest in Year would delay the time it takes for since the peak of the last business of all loans closed was 27.6 years.
so, the wave of refinancings we Yields on Fannie Mae and bondholders to recoup their cycle in 2007, consumers have Borrowers have responded to the
saw this year, may be about over. Freddie Mac mortgage securities principal. begun to deleverage their balance recent recession by reducing their
The 25% needed to avoid PMI is that guide home-loan rates rose to “That is a big concern,” said sheets. This trend is evident in the exposure to mortgage debt. Since
the kicker. the highest in more than a year Karlis Ulmanis, an investment housing market where consumers the recession began in 2007, the
Please consider Freddie Mac says relative to 10-year Treasuries. manager at Wilmington, Delaware have been reducing their exposure mortgage financial obligation
to hike fees on some mortgages Fannie Mae’s current-coupon 30- -based DuPont Capital to mortgage debt by financing ratio has declined 97 basis points,
Freddie Mac, the second-largest year fixed-rate mortgage bonds Management, which oversees more home purchases with cash from 11.3 percent to 10.3 percent.
provider of funding for U.S. home climbed about 0.01 percentage about $20 billion of assets. “If and reducing both the loan-to- While mortgages remain a much
mortgages, will raise some fees on point to about 0.95 percentage rates move higher, the lower- value ratios and the term to larger proportion of homeowners’
loans it finances, a sign it sees point more than 10-year U.S. coupons are going to extend maturity of their mortgage debt. debt today than in 2000, if
greater risks even for borrowers government debt as of 5 p.m. in considerably.” Mortgage For the month of September, cash borrowers continue to deleverage,
making regular payments. New York, the widest spread Borrowers Deleverage was the number one source of they will be able to obtain more
Among changes, Freddie Mac since October 2009, according to The Cleveland Fed reports financing for home purchases. manageable levels of debt in the
will generally raise fees by 0.25 data compiled by Bloomberg. The Mortgage Borrowers Deleverage According to the November 9 future. Deleveraging attitudes are
of a percentage point to 0.75 gap was 0.76 percentage point on The housing bubble that preceded edition of Inside Mortgage making Bernanke's life miserable.
percentage point on mortgages Oct. 29. the last recession left many Finance, which includes the most D e b t p a y b a c k i s n o t w h a t
with a combination of high loan- Prices for the securities tumbled borrowers overleveraged once the recent Campbell/Inside Mortgage Bernanke wants even though it is
to-value ratios and/or lower credit this month relative to Treasuries recession struck. According to the Finance Monthly Survey of Real the best thing for the economy
scores. even as those of so-called agency Board of Governors, from March Estate Market Conditions, 30.5 long-term.
H o w e v e r , e v e n t h e m o s t mortgage bonds backed by higher of 2000 to September of 2007, the percent of home purchases were
creditworthy borrowers would be - r a t e l o a n s s o a r e d . R i s i n g FREDDIE page 32
homeowner mortgage obligation financed with cash, up from 24.4
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'Low-Doc' Home Owners Hit by Rising Rates; US vs. Australia
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the amazing stupidity of those modestly affected Australian lending is yielding the best
who say "It's Different Here". prime mortgage performance in vintage performance in years.
Please consider'Low-doc' home t h e t h i r d q u a r t e r o f 2 0 1 0 .
borrowers hit by rising rates Households have demonstrated The housing rot in OZ has just
A new report shows a sharp some stability in spite of the started and it's a long way to the
increase in the number of 'low- higher mortgage payments," he core. But it will get there.
doc' borrowers struggling to keep said. Australia can look forward to
u p w i t h t h e i r m o r t g a g e The very worst performance in similar stats in years to come.
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Spending (SKS, RL, COH)
Jake Lynch (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:34:00 AM
The U.S.-based luxury purveyors
have rebounded surprisingly
quickly from the Great
Recession. Spendthrift Americans
are back with vigor, and
emerging-market demand for
esteemed U.S. brands is stronger
than analysts have anticipated.
In a recovery defined by weak
consumer spending and 9.6%
unemployment, upper-echelon
retailers are performing well, both
as companies and as investments.
Barclays Capital expects this
trend to continue. Its 2010
Holiday Outlook has a well-
articulated investment thesis:
overweight luxury. Barclays is
predicting stronger-than-expected
industry performance, forecasting
a 3.4% November increase in its
Broadlines and Department Stores
Monthly Same-Store Sales Index.
However, it is predicting a modest
decrease in profit margins due to
rising costs.
Bullishness abounds for the
luxury segment. Barclays expects
Saks(SKS), owner of Saks Fifth
Avenue, to deliver fourth-quarter
comparable sales growth of 5.5%.
It predicts a 5% gain for both
Coach and Polo Ralph
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Lauren(RL). Although Barclays
is only forecasting a 2% gain for
Tiffany, it still ranks the jewelry
specialist's stock "overweight"
and boosted its price target to $64
on Monday. Tiffany will report
fiscal third-quarter results before
the open today. Barclays is
conceding that its earnings per
share forecast may prove too
conservative. Tiffany has
exceeded the sell-side consensus
earnings target in nine of the past
10 quarters.
Barclays' $64 target suggests that
Tiffany's stock has 11% of upside.
Shares sold off yesterday, falling
2.7% as the S&P 500 dropped
1.5%. For those looking to buy on
the cheap, now is the time to pay
attention. Analysts are bullish on
Tiffany, with roughly 67% of
researchers ranking its stock a
"buy." The only sell-side firm
with a higher target than Barclays
is Jefferies, which expects the
stock to tag $65. Coach is the
other consensus luxury buy. It
receives favorable ratings from
77% of analysts. It offers more
upside than Tiffany does.
Tiffany's stock has already
passed analysts' median price
target. Coach, on the other hand,
is still 4% below the median 12-
month estimate. Barclays predicts
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has beaten researchers' profit
consensus in nine of the past 10
quarters and exceeded revenue
expectations in eight of those
quarters.
On Oct. 26, Coach reported fiscal
first-quarter results. Net income
rose 34% to $189 million.
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to $63 cents, boosted by a smaller
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and equivalents, converting to a
quick ratio of 1.5, and just $25
million of debt. Direct-to-
consumer sales jumped 19%
during the quarter while U.S.
comparable-store sales climbed
8.5%. China comps remained in
double-digit territory. Eight new
China stores opened during the
quarter, bringing the country total
to 49. Although Coach is hyping
its men's initiative, China and
other emerging markets represent
the most lucrative growth venues.
Escalating economic growth and
a burgeoning middle class are
tailwinds in developing markets.
Coach declared a quarterly cash
dividend of 15 cents, converting
to an annual yield of 1.1% and a
decreased from 319 million to
payout ratio of 24%. Tiffany pays
296 million as the company
a dividend of 25 cents, translating
repurchased and retired roughly
to an annual yield of 1.7%.
$137 million worth of equity.
TheStreet's stock model, which
About $422 million remains under
uses a quantitative methodology
the existing repurchase program.
to evaluate equities, rates both
Quarterly sales grew 20% to $912
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Goldman's Bond Forecast
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Submitted at 11/23/2010 3:53:00 PM
Investors are starting to balk at
buying more long-term corporate
debt at record-low yields.
Bloomberg reports Microsoft
Record-Low Coupon Punishes
Investors. Investors that helped
companies from Microsoft Corp.
to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sell bonds
at record-low borrowing costs are
being punished on concern
Federal Reserve efforts to stave
off deflation will drive up yields.
“You kind of have come up to a
buyers’ strike or buyers’
sensitivity,” in terms of low-
coupon debt, said Thomas Chow,
a money manager at Philadelphia-
based Delaware Investments,
which oversees $120 billion of
fixed-income assets. “Higher
yield and higher coupons offer
some protection from rising
rates.”
Debt from Wal-Mart, Microsoft
and Coca-Cola Co. sold in the
past two months with relative
yields as low as 25 basis points is
trailing investment-grade credit
that pays an average spread of 175
basis points.
Redmond, Washington-based
Microsoft’s $1 billion of 10-year,
3 percent notes have fallen 1.95
cents on the dollar from their
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"The World At Night (TWAN) is
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of some of the best night sky
photographers around the world.
Their collection is presented in an
international traveling exhibition
and in a virtual exhibition on the
TWAN website. One very
talented photographer who is a
part of this project is Laurent
Laveder, a man who you might
remember as the one behind the
charming moon photos I wrote
about here.
After NPR wrote about Laveder's
moon photos and his book
Quartier Libre (and we picked up
the story), Laveder sold 25 copies
of the book, which doesn't seem
like a lot until you realize that it's
written completely in French and
they were sold to English
speaking Americans. Of course,
this just goes to show that
beautiful photos can transcend
any sort of language barrier.
I got in touch with Laveder, after
the post, and was able to ask him
some questions. Read that
interview, below, and if you've
joined us recently, make sure to
check out the first post for some
context.
When did you first start taking
pictures of the moon and why did
you start the series?
I'm an amateur astronomer using
photography to capture the things
I can see. For years I've been
interested in landscape
astrophotography, taking original
astronomy pictures, as my
colleagues of The World AT
Night (TWAN) are doing. Five
years ago, after talking with my
girlfriend Sabine about the
relative originality of my moon
pictures, we decided to try to
make more original photos. This
is how our Moon Games project
began. Before each series, we go
through a brainstorming session
together and create little drawings
to represent the way the character
will play with the Moon.
Which is your favorite shot and
why?
We made two kinds of Moon
Games: Dreamlike (or poetic)
photos and science-based pictures.
For the first category, I like this
photo because of its soft look and
the global photographic
composition. But I also really like
this one for its visual impact. For
the science photo, it's the one
where the hoop is materializing
Culture/ 33
explain them. This was the aim of
my first book.
Usually, astrophotographers use
telescopes to isolate the Moon,
planets, nebulae or galaxies. They
produce abstract views of the sky.
My pictures are exactly the
opposite because I always frame
the sky with the landscape,
making more concrete views.
People think they are more real
because these pictures look
familiar.
For our Moon Games, being an
astronomy journalist has almost
no influence.
What are some photography tips
you can give to others who want
to take their own moon photos?
It's important to plan this project
because once in front of the
Moon, it's rising quickly. You
also need a good reflex camera to
allow low-light photography (up
to 1600 or 3200 ISO) because to
increase the depth of field, you
need to stop down strongly the
telelens diaphragm. But it's often
not sufficient with a 200 or
300mm telelens, so I had to
the diameter of the Earth shadow only my Moon mannequin, but decide which subject will be in
during a partial Moon eclipse. also the co-designer). For one focus: the character or the Moon.
Where were these taken and who series, we asked professional Once these two conditions are
are the people in them? b a s k e t b a l l p l a y e r M a t h i e u met, have fun! The lens quality
We took them on the Tréguennec Tensorer to make the orange, isn't a real problem. This is
beach (north-western France, 20 rising Moon his ball. sensitive photography, not
km from his home). This beach is How does being an astronomy s c i e n t i f i c o n e !
large and long, so it's easy to shift j o u r n a l i s t i n f l u e n c e y o u r Thanks for the interview,
with my camera in order to make p h o t o g r a p h y ? Laurent. We can't wait to try this
Sabine interact with the Moon. I like to use nice pictures of the out ourselves.
Usually, Sabine is the character sky to reveal astronomy or Laurent Laveder
playing with the Moon (she's not physics phenomenons and to
34 Culture/ TV/ Finance/ E-reader News Edition

Secret Insignias From the 'Black Ops'

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Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top ups. "I heard that one commander workings of foreign military
Stories) started a little witch hunt to find arsenals from hundreds of miles
Submitted at 11/24/2010 6:00:00 AM out who'd leaked a space-related into space.
patch to me," Paglen says. "None This patch, from National
W h a t e v e r i m p u l s e d r i v e s of these patches are 'classified' per Reconnaissance Office Launch
soldiers, sailors, airmen and se, but some were produced with
marines to commemorate their an informal understanding that
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military patches to new heights of S c a r e c r o w , S u n d o w n e r , o r family, many of which the United Filed under: Reality-Free,
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glory with his 2007 book I Could something that says Invisus cum States uses to spy on Russian Recaps['Stargate Universe' -
of gifts to buy, holiday shopping
Tell You But Then You Would libertas et iustitia omnibus? "If nukes. Launch 49 of the KH-11 'Visitation']
can be a lot of work. Here are our
Have to Be Destroyed by Me. It's you have one of these," Paglen series supposedly used spare parts top picks for iPhone shopping This week's episode of'Stargate
a collection of more than 100 says, "I'd love to trade something from Future Imagery Architecture Universe' left us with more
apps to help you weed through the
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military units. The following are scan." Until he puts out yet Image: Courtesy Trevor Paglen shopping. More » Caine (Tygh Runyan) and friends
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That didn't always thrill higher- O f f i c e , w h o p e e r i n t o t h e $1,000 for a top-of-the line flat- here? Why can't they remember
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Blue Monday Norm MacDonald Gets

Habitually Chic (Habitually
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:30:05 AM
Megan Walsh-Boyle
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
While researching another story,
I came across this beautiful Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:02:00 AM

apartment in Paris designed by

Chahan Minassian. It was also Norm Macdonald
published in the September 2010 Guess who's coming to dinner?
issue of French Architectural Norm MacDonald joins the Hecks
Digest. From what I could glean at their Thanksgiving feast,
from the article without pulling bringing a little snark to the table
out the French/English dictionary, as Mike's tent-dwelling brother,
the pied-a-terre was designed for Rusty. The wonderfully deadpan
a couple who's primary residence Saturday Night Live vet gives us a
is in Beverly Hills, CA. There is little taste of what to expect from
an Italian fantasy theme full of tonight's episode of The Middle.
mercury mirrors and pale blues, TV Guide Magazine: You and
grays, and greens. There is Neil Flynn, who plays Mike,
something about this apartment really do look like brothers!
that reminds me of a more ornate designed rug from The Rug glow when lit by candles for MacDonald: I know — it's kind
version of a David Collins design. Company. dinner. of weird. It was like looking into a in October. But these are all
Chahan Minassian is not only an Beautiful objet d'art on the Another view of the dining room. fun house mirror that made all my things that I learned studying
interior designer but also a gallerymantle. I think this might be the dressing features more handsome. under [famed acting teacher] Mr.
owner and antiques dealer in Paris Another view of the salon. I love room. TV Guide Magazine: In the Sanford Meisner.
at 7 rue de Lille. Wish I had the contrast of the abstract While the apartment is decorated episode, Frankie tries to get the The Middle airs Wednesdays at 8
known this when I was in Paris painting and the antique furniture. in pale colors, it is full of subtle stoic Heck men to express their /7c on ABC
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36 Culture/ TV/
Shocking Google Street View Photos (20 total)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 11/23/2010 11:00:00 PM
Google Street View has been
grabbing headlines these days
because Google recently admitted
that their cars had inadvertently
collected personal data from
unprotected Wi-Fi networks.The
FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief
even said that these cars
"collected passwords, e-mails and
other personal information."
While Google has now announced
that they're deleting this data, the
images these cars capture will still
live on.
Street View photography became
the project of one man, Jon
Rafman, back in 2009. The
Montreal, Canada-based artist saw
the nine cameras mounted on
Google cars as a window into our
modern world. He called his
series Nine Eyes of Google Street
E-reader News Edition
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In-Depth: 'Desperate
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Submitted at 11/24/2010 6:05:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free,
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View. artist and the curator of the on some of the more popular
"The world captured by Google images can assist in constructing shows on the air.
appears to be more truthful and or deciphering." This week, we discuss spoilers
more transparent because of the This photos are an interesting f o r u p c o m i n g e p i s o d e s o f
weight accorded to external w a y o f l o o k i n g a t w h a t ' s ABC's'Desperate Housewives' and
reality, the perception of a neutral, happening all around us, a more specifically an important
unbiased recording, and even the collection of experiences, if you scoop about creepy neighbor Paul
vastness of the project. At the will. It speaks to our search for Young.
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structured and structuring space Jon Rafman
whose codes and meaning the
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'Ellen' Celebrates
'Pranksgiving' With
Favorite Hidden Camera
Gags (VIDEO)
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Ellen DeGeneres celebrates
"Pranksgiving" with a montage of
her favorite hidden camera gags
on'The Ellen DeGeneres
Show'(weekdays, syndicated).
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holiday more than celebrities and
regular people behaving bizarrely.
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Pic of the Day: The Frozen Moment
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My A rowan tree at the bottom of berries. His biggest challenge to get a great image," Gill says.
Modern Metropolis) Fergus's garden in Perthshire (other than the cold itself) was to "My thoughts on photography are
Submitted at 11/24/2010 4:30:00 PM became a magnet for thrushes - isolate a fieldfare against a clear that you don't need to go to far
five of the six British species - background, and the only way to flung, exotic locations to win
Scotland-based Fergus Gill is the song thrushes, mistle thrushes, get the angle was to stand on his Wildlife Photographer of the
2010 winner of the Young blackbirds, redwings and a flock frozen pond. Risking a high ISO Year. If you really work an area,
Wildlife Photographer award at o f a b o u t 1 5 f i e l d f a r e s , a l l setting as well as the ice, he even if it's your own back garden
the Natural History Museum's frantically picking the berries. caught both the moment and the or a surrounding urban landscape,
Waterhouse Gallery in London. Fergus wanted to capture the delicacy of colour he was after." you can really take good
The story behind this shot: freezing feel of the day while Nikon D300 + 500mm f4 lens; 1/ photographers."
"On Boxing Day 2009, it was so s h o w i n g t h e c h a r a c t e r o f 500 sec at f4; ISO 800; Manfrotto Fergus Gill
cold in Scotland (-17°C /1°F) that fieldfares in action, some of 680B monopod + 293 tripod head. via [ NHM]
the birds were desperate for food. which were hovering to pluck "You don't have to travel too far
38 Politics-Left/ E-reader News Edition

The PICTURE: Rigors

Jed Perl (The New Republic - worry, however, that too often
All Feed) these lesser-known artists are
Submitted at 11/23/2010 11:00:00 PM treated a little like flea market
“finds”—as curiosities, as oddball
Is a rigorous eclecticism stuff. What is marketed as a
possible? Can you admire, rigorous eclecticism—as a
simultaneously, works of art that swaggering, independent
reflect widely and even wildly taste—can degenerate into a sugar
differing styles and sensibilities? I -coated version of William Carlos
want the answer to be, “Yes.” I Williams’s great plea for
believe the answer must be, particularity. In place of
“Yes.” Only a heterogeneous Williams’s “No ideas but in
sensibility can match the things,” we have something more
heterogeneity of our experience. like “No ideas but in funky,
But I know that nothing is more curious, odd, off-beat, amusing
difficult to maintain than a things.” In recent weeks a good
rigorous eclecticism. The trouble deal of excitement has been
is that knowledge is constantly generated by the retrospective at
being confused with knowingness. the Whitney Museum of
You are always in danger of American Art devoted to Paul
losing the sense that fuels the Thek, who died in 1988. Thek’s
sensibility. work is certainly eclectic, ranging
In our postmodern times, from mixed-media renderings of
everybody has their personal pieces of raw meat, to castings of
artistic pets. Artists who for one his own body, to performances, to
reason or another have been roughhewn paintings of seascapes
regarded as marginal are suddenly and figures. In spirit and
given a little attention. This can sensibility he suggests a
be cause for celebration. I am also marginalized Bruce Nauman. Is
sometimes left wondering if the enthusiasm for his work based
certain artists are only seen as on what is actually there in the
interesting because they are seen galleries? Or is this enthusiasm a
as marginal. I am an admirer of function of our personality driven
that funky mystic, the Bay Area period? Has the marginality of the
painter and collagist Jess Collins. artist’s reputation, whatever its
I am interested in Frederick causes, been mistaken for a new
Hammersley, whose abstract form of artistic originality? Is this
paintings, simultaneously purist nothing but the latest version of
and intimist, have long been Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame,
associated with a classicizing with everybody now granted 15
impulse in mid-century Los minutes of fashion-forward
Angeles. And I think there are marginality?
considerable virtues in the
casually romantic landscapes of Seymour Remenick, currently the subject of a retrospective at the Lancaster Museum of Art. I PICTURE: page 40
E-reader News Edition Politics-Left/ 39

Obama Nukes
Henry Sokolski (The New administration proudly pass but not Jordan, Obama would announced its intent to export cooperation agreements. A
Republic - All Feed) proclaimed this arrangement as risk validating Jordanian and NSG-controlled nuclear reactors bipartisan group in Congress is
Submitted at 11/23/2010 11:00:00 PM the international nonproliferation Muslim complaints that the to Pakistan even though the NSG also pushing back: The House
"gold standard." United States is using double prohibits the latter from receiving Committee on Foreign Affairs has
President Obama is currently Now, there are signs that the standards. On the other hand, such goods. These are all signs made it clear that whatever the
engrossed in a battle over the administration's commitment to backing off of Jordan's that NSG’s ability to block president decides, the committee
ratification of his New START the “gold standard” may be requirements would nix any dangerous nuclear exports is is likely to table legislation that
treaty with Russia—along with slipping. This summer, word chance that the United States can failing, and Washington should be would require both Houses to
the urgent news that North leaked out that State Department secure stringent nonproliferation strengthening its nonproliferation approve any proposed nuclear
K o r e a ’ s p r e v i o u s l y c o v e r t officials are hoping to delete the conditions with any other country rules in order to take up the slack. cooperative agreement that does
uranium enrichment program is nonproliferation conditions from in the Middle East. Even the And, fortunately, this is also a not meet the UAE conditions.
up and running, and now affords p r o p o s e d c i v i l i a n n u c l e a r original UAE agreement would be time when the United States has The House understands that if the
it something else scary to export. cooperation deals with Vietnam in jeopardy, because a key more leverage to get other key United States fails to convince
Yet, there is another related issue and Jordan. According to the State provision of the U.S.-UAE nuclear supplier states to follow nations everywhere to forswear
that Mr. Obama must decide officials, the UAE agreement’s nuclear deal stipulates that if the its lead. The French want to making nuclear fuel, little will
upon, which could easily do as nonproliferation conditions were United States reaches a nuclear expand their civilian nuclear stop them from being able to
much damage to his drive toward now just “a standard” to be agreement with another Middle business in the United States by make bombs of their own. Both
zero nuclear weapons: How will applied when possible, rather than Eastern state which is more building nuclear reactors and fuel Republican and Democratic
America handle the overt spread “the standard” to be applied to all generous in its conditions, the making plants with U.S. taxpayer members of the committee
of civilian nuclear technologies future U.S. civilian nuclear UAE would have the right to help—i.e., with billions of dollars understand that that would dash
which other countries might divert cooperative agreements. demand renegotiation to secure in U.S. Department of Energy any hopes of getting anywhere
to make bombs? Will the United States insist on similar terms. contracts and federal nuclear loan close to zero nuclear weapons,
Last year, President Obama t h e U A E n o n p r o l i f e r a t i o n This would weaken the guarantees. The Russians, who and it could easily catalyze North
finalized a nuclear cooperation standards in the case of Jordan nonproliferation regime at a time want to build a large commercial Korean efforts to expand its
agreement with the United Arab and Vietnam? The National when it is already coming apart: uranium enrichment plant in the nuclear export market. The only
Emirates (UAE). The deal would Security Council has passed the Earlier this month, President United States, will be asking for question now is what the
allow the United States to provide decision to President Obama's Obama caved to Indian pressures the same. president will decide to do.
technology to help the UAE inbox. If the president blinks on to back its membership in an A backlash to the State Henry Sokolski is the executive
generate nuclear energy, but only this issue, it would set an international nuclear control cartel Department's proposal is already director of the Nonproliferation
if the UAE meets a new set of extremely dangerous precedent: known as the Nuclear Suppliers brewing. In a bipartisan letter to Policy Education Center in
nonproliferation conditions. First, While neither Vietnam nor Jordan Group (NSG). This effectively President Obama that was Arlington, Virginia and is editor
the UAE must forego making is that likely to develop a nuclear would allow India, which published last week, 17 of the of Nuclear Power’s Global
nuclear fuel. Second, it must open weapons option, holding either of flagrantly broke NSG rules for nation’s leading nuclear Expansion: Weighing the Costs
i t s n u c l e a r f a c i l i t i e s u p t o them to a lower bar would set off decades illicitly importing nonproliferation experts asked the and Risks(U.S. Army War
intrusive nuclear inspections a chain reaction, which would controlled nuclear goods for its president to deny loan guarantees College Strategic Studies
established by the International virtually ensure that no future nuclear weapons program, to to French nuclear companies Institute, forthcoming).
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear cooperation agreement is become a full member in good unless they adopt the higher U.S.-
under a set of rules known as the subject to the UAE conditions. standing. Meanwhile, another UAE nonproliferation standards
A d d i t i o n a l P r o t o c o l . T h e If he decides to give Vietnam a NSG member, China, has when signing their nuclear
40 Sports/
PICTURE:
continued from page 38
"Untitled (Hand with Ring)," Paul
Thek, 1967.
A rigorous eclecticism must be
grounded in a rejection of all the
old, exclusionary ideologies about
art. But where does that rigor
come from if not from a deep
familiarity with the old
orthodoxies? Edwin Denby, that
most unpolemical and delicately
intuitive writer about the dance,
once observed of his friendship
with de Kooning in the 1930s that
what was interesting in the Leftist
talk of those times was “the
preemptoriness and the paranoia
of Marxism as a ferment or
method of rhetoric.” It took me
years to realize that it was the
ferment and rhetorical method of
Marxist analysis that accounted,
deep down, for the incisive free-
spiritedness of Denby’s own
criticism. And it took me years to
fully understand a heated
exchange that occurred in the
winter of 1974 at the Figurative
Alliance, a gathering of painters
on the Lower East Side to which I
sometimes went with friends. One
night there was a panel that
included the painter Leland Bell,
whose ideas meant a great deal to
E. Gordon Gee, OSU President: TCU, Boise Don't Deserve BCS Title Game
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Main)
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Filed under: Boise State, Ohio
State, TCU TCU and Boise State
are undefeated and ranked higher
me and still do. Alice Neel,
nowhere near as famous as she is
today, was in the audience, sitting
right up front. And during the
question-and-answer period, Neel
raised her hand and said of the
Mexican muralist Siqueiros, who
had recently died, that his long
life should be acknowledged by
the artists gathered that evening.
Neither I nor the friends I was
with have ever forgotten how Lee
Bell stood up from his chair,
walked to the edge of the stage,
and, with his eyes bulging,
pointed a finger at Alice Neel and
shouted: “Alice! I won’t talk
about Siqueiros! Youth! Age! It
means nothing! The only thing
that matters is the quality of the
work!” We hardly knew what it
was all about. But now I do.
Bell’s rigorous but utterly
personal and idiosyncratic
formalism—his fascination with
the interplay between nature and
artifice in the work of Giacometti
and Derain and Dufy—had been
forged in opposition to all the
mechanistic views of the history
of art. And so Siqueiros’s belief
that the quality of a work of art
depended on its social relevance
than one-loss Ohio State in the
BCS and AP Top 25. But if you
ask E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State's
president, even an undefeated
season for those two schools
wouldn't be enough to make them
worthy of playing in the BCS
was abhorrent, something to be
rejected in no uncertain terms.
Eclecticism, if seriously
maintained, is the idea that a
variety of creative expressions,
many inherently or at least
apparently irreconcilable, can be
valued simultaneously. Back in
1988, after some days going to the
galleries, I wrote that “the entire
history of art is now an Arabian
bazaar …and our only defense
against the dishonest and the
second-rate is our freedom to
choose.” This still strikes me as
true. And yet as I turn these words
over in my mind today, I am
bothered by the analogy to the
bazaar, with its suggestion that we
are all shoppers. The postmodern
mentality had turned the
gallerygoer’s essential experience,
which had once involved judging,
into something closer to the take-
it-or-leave-it experience of
shopping, and I was responding to
that mentality when I wrote nearly
a quarter of a century ago. The
real question, then as now, is how
we choose. Our choices, although
they can be idiosyncratic, must be
fueled by pressures and
preoccupations that have nothing
Championship Game.
"Well, I don't know enough about
the Xs and Os of college
football," said Gee. "I do know,
having been both a Southeastern
Conference president and a Big
Ten president, that it's like
in common with the choices we
make when we decide whether to
buy the black socks or the
patterned socks—or end up
buying both. Too often now, there
seems to be something a little
weightless about the interest in
Jess or Hammersley or Remenick
or Thek. To admire an artist for
his own sake, although certainly a
compliment, can also be a way of
suggesting that he has no place in
the larger scheme of things. When
it comes to the development of a
rigorous eclecticism, our freedom
to choose is not so much a choice
as it is a necessity. And the
necessity of eclecticism must be
grounded, deep down, in an idea
about the unity of the arts, about
the braided-togetherness of all
experience. Which brings us back
to the old orthodoxies. There are
lessons to be derived from their
rigor, even from their
pigheadedness.
Jed Perl is The New Republic's
art critic.
murderer's row every week for
these schools. We do not play the
Little Sisters of the Poor. We
play very fine schools on any
given day.
"So I think until a university runs
through that gauntlet that there's
E-reader News Edition
NBA Power
Rankings:
Surging Spurs
Brett Pollakoff (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:50:00 AM
Filed under: Bulls, Celtics,
Hornets, Jazz, Lakers, Magic,
Mavericks, Nuggets, Spurs, NBA
Power Rankings, Thunder
The Spurs are the hottest team in
the league, winners of 11 straight.
The Thunder have won five in a
row, including one on the road
over the Celtics with Kevin
Durant in street clothes. But it's
the Lakers who find themselves
back at the top of this week's
rankings, based on their own five-
game winning streak, along with a
return to playing at a level of
dominance we have yet to see
from any other team this season.
some reason to believe that they
not be the best teams to [be] in the
big ballgame."
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Beyoncé Previews Her Thanksgiving
Concert Special
TV Guide Magazine News
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:02:00 AM
Beyonce
The cranberry sauce won't be the
only thing shaking this
Thanksgiving. For the second
straight year, ABC is airing a
concert special by Beyoncé to
funk up your Turkey Day.
I Am...World Tour documents an
11-month tour that saw Mrs. Jay-
Z perform in 32 countries to over
a million fans. "It's an honor to be
able to come into people's homes
on such a big holiday," says
Beyoncé.
The opening moments of the
show — with audience members
across the globe crying and
passing out — establish the scale
of the extravaganza that follows.
Over the years, Beyoncé has
racked up a boatload of hits, and I
Am... covers everything from her
early smashes with Destiny's
Child to her version of Etta James'
"At Last," best known as the first
dance at the Obama inauguration
dinner.
Through rapid, cross-continental
The Gran Turismo 5 launch trailer is here
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:40:00 AM
In case you have yet to see the
retail boxes at your local brick-
cuts, "Irreplaceable" becomes a
global sing-along, and the staging
of "Single Ladies" features
hilarious clips of fans performing
the video's signature dance steps. I
Am... also includes rehearsal
footage: "This isn't just a cut-
down version of the concert film,"
says Beyoncé. "We wanted to
make the special and the DVD
two different experiences for the
fans to enjoy."
I Am... World Tour airs Thursday
at 9:30/8:30c on ABC
and-mortar, Gran Turismo 5 is,
like, totally out. Further proof?
Sony's released the game's launch
trailer. So it must be out!
Seriously! Oh, right, we also reviewed it, so there's that too, ya
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Adult Swim Teams With Paul
Scheer for Procedural Parody, Jenny
Gago Joins 'Southland' and More
Chris Harnick (TV Squad)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 5:15:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Get ready
for even more crime dramas -- but
this new one has an edge: It's on
Adult Swim.
According to Deadline
Hollywood, Paul Scheer's 'NTSF:
SD: SUV' has been picked up for
12 episodes. The procedural
parody started out as a faux
commercial on 'Children's
Hospital' but has been spun off,
with Scheer writing, starring and
producing.
Rob Riggle, Brandon Johnson o. Jenny Gago has joined the cast
and and June Raphael appeared in of 'Southland.' Gago will recur
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine the original spoof, some are Detective Josie Ochoa as the
now! expected to appear in the series, partner of Regina King's
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Better With You's JoAnna Garcia Brand New Day: Woot

Talks Babies and Marriage Weads The Wire
TV Guide Magazine News (Woot! - One Day, One Deal) released Tuesday also indicate
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 11/24/2010 12:00:00 AM nearly half of those polled say
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:53:00 AM they think enhanced patdowns go
Every week in this space, we’ll too far.
Joanna Garcia take a look at the news and offer Meaning roughly one-sixth of
JoAnna Garcia knows plenty o u r o w n i n c i s i v e b l e n d o f Americans are really pretty
about rocking a chic baby bump. commentary, analysis, and poop confused at all times.
After all, she donned a preggie jokes. The news you need, from a HANFORD, Wash. ( UPI) --
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spirited Mia, who's pregnant and Benedict XVI, in a book to be the capture of a radioactive rabbit.
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But there's still one thing making acceptable to prevent the spread angry fans try to report him.
the 31-year-old actress of disease. BOCA RATON, Fla. ( UPI) --
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Point/Otherpoint: Walking On Escalators

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) hustlers squander more time every jail cell. This escalator's a public body mass) and the left-hand side
Submitted at 11/23/2010 4:00:00 PM day vacillating over the choice place, and that dude's got as much is for normal escalator use. That
between venti or grande. But as right to my space as I have to is, walking. All we're really
Welcome to another in our long as they're not getting on barge into his stall in the arguing about is how to deal with
occasional series of debates about anybody's nerves, no big whoop. restroom. But on second thought, people too oblivious or too selfish
the least significant issues of our What really makes me want to maybe I would let him pass - after to know about it or care to heed it.
time. Today Jason Toon and clip their Achilles tendons is all, it would get that uptight ninny Apparently, you regard it as
Matthew Norman debate whether when they have the gall to tap out of my company a few seconds somehow rude for decent citizens
escalators should always be someone's shoulder, or squeeze sooner. And apparently a few to interrupt these idiots' ignorant
w a l k e d , a n d w h e t h e r i t ' s around them, or ask them to get seconds makes all the difference. reveries by tapping them on the
permissible to confront those who out of the way. It's obviously, Get Out Of The Way by Matthew shoulder and asserting our right to
block the way... again, not about the delay. By the Norman freely pass.
What's Your Hurry? by Jason time the rider has figured out what Jason, you're astonishingly Dude. DUDE.
Toon this pushy, self-important jerk is obtuse. When someone has to tell you
It's a type that anyone who's ever so worked up about, both walker First, what kind of person, in this you're blocking the way -- on an
worked in a high-rise office will and rider have usually reached the smug superiority. age of epidemic obesity, wastes escalator, in traffic, or at the front
recognize: the hustling go-getter top of the escalator anyway. So Anyway, what's wrong with synaptic firings defending flabby, of the line at a deli where you've
who's just gotta get to the top of what's the point? It's the principle! taking a brief breather after hiking slothful slobs' right to stand still somehow arrived before giving
that escalator three seconds before And that principle is: the walker to the building from your bus on moving stairways? A little any thought to what you might
everybody else. This antisocial wants you to know that she's stop? Here in Seattle, nobody walking up stairs would be just order -- that person's not being
stair-climber doesn't live in a superior to slothful, inconsiderate, lacks opportunities to walk up the thing for this once-great-in-the rude. He's letting you know that
world of autonomous human insignificant you. She understands inclines. Showing up at work -sense-of-being-excellent, now- YOU are. And he's doing you a
beings. To him, other people are how this works and she's got sweaty and disheveled may be great-in-the-sense-of-being- favor.
merely obstacles between him and important things to do so you your idea of fun, but forgive the physically-large nation. Escalator Offering that kind of negative
his transcendently important should be thanking her for rest of us for not sharing your standers are what's wrong with feedback is not only acceptable;
destination. Ken Lay and Ivan educating you about your faults. bizarre masochistic fetish. America. it's ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL
Boesky would approve. Most people understand that you Escalators were invented for a But let's set aside the problem of to enforce the social customs by
And woe betide the ignoramuses stand on the right and walk on the reason, and I, for one, take the our gross national fitness. (And I which civilization is governed.
who offend her sense of self- left. The rule is so ubiquitously side of scientific advancement. do mean gross.) Let's just say that, If no one's gonna give me a hard
i m p o r t a n c e b y , y o u k n o w , followed that the rare violators are Insisting that escalators must for some perverse reason, your time about it, why don't I cut in
standing there minding their own clearly just unfamiliar with this always be walked is a denial of vision for the future of America is line at the bank? Or take cell
business. "One side, slowpoke! milieu. They haven't had occasion rationality, humanism, and the that we should all adopt the phone calls at the movies? Or
I've got vital work to do! Those to ride escalators in office entire Enlightenment tradition. I Huttese ideal of beauty, and double-dip in community
expense reports aren't gonna file buildings much and they probably doubt any of these neo-cavemen regard our bodies as nothing more hummus? Or -- yeah, that's right -
themselves!" won't be doing it a lot in the forego modern dentistry or than support systems for the - block the walking lane by
There's nothing wrong with future. Whether you say anything plumbing. But when it comes to thumbs we need to play Nintendo. standing still on an escalator?
walking up an escalator per se. I to them or not, chances are they're escalators, evidently humans must Even then, I think we can all Flouting the unwritten
do it myself sometimes. When the never going to block your path on supplicate themselves before the a g r e e t h a t i t i s , i n f a c t , a prohibitions on such behavior
escalator is empty, or when this escalator ever again, so tyranny of altitude. longstanding convention of betrays a deeply selfish attitude --
everyone is occupying the correct "educating" them about it is a I'm happy to report that I myself escalator etiquette that the right- an attitude that one's personal
side (standers to the right), there's pointless instance of social have never been asked to step hand side is for standers (e.g. the convenience trumps any
no harm in trotting up a few steps. friction. aside by an aggressive escalator elderly, the handicapped, and consideration of the needs of
The time-saving benefit is a total Unless the point is to spike your climber. Because if I had, it's persons carrying oversized loads
illusion, of course - I'm sure these morning coffee with a jolt of possible I'd be writing this from a of any kind, be they luggage or POINT/OTHERPOINT: page 45
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Medications and driving don’t always
mix
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(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:28:02 AM
Medications and driving don’t
always mix
When it comes to drinking
alcohol and driving, most people
are pretty clear: you don’t do it,
unless you have a reckless attitude
to car wrecks. But what about
when you’ve taken some
painkillers, or a cold remedy?
What about the medications
prescribed by your doctor?
We tend to assume that these
won’t make a difference—and if
they do, that our doctor would
have told us so. Yet a study in
France found that about 3 in 100
car wrecks may be caused by
people taking prescription drugs.
The study was quite ingenious,
comparing drivers who were
responsible for an accident with
drivers who were in an accident,
but were not responsible for it.
And the database was big, at more
than 72,000 drivers. However, it’s
hard to disentangle whether the
accidents were caused by the
medications, or by the conditions
that the people were taking them
for. For example, people taking
treatments for epilepsy were at a
4 creative ways to re-invent your Thanksgiving leftovers
nospam@example.com (The
Editors of EatingWell Magazine)
(Financiallyfit on Shine)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 2:58:31 AM
I’m looking forward to roasting a
higher risk, but maybe that’s
because of the risk of a seizure,
and not the side effects of their
medication.
The researchers did some work to
account for this, by comparing a
day when people were taking their
medication with a day when they
weren’t. However, we can’t rule it
out the fact that some of the
accidents could have been caused
by an illness, not by medications.
The laws about driving and
illnesses such as epilepsy vary
from state to state.
The types of drugs most likely to
increase risk of a car accident
were treatments for diabetes that
lower your blood sugar,
treatments for epilepsy or
Parkinson disease, calming drugs
such as tranquillizers, stimulants,
antidepressants, and drugs that
affect the nervous system, such as
strong painkillers, antipsychotics,
turkey for Thanksgiving, but the
real excitement for me lies in
what’s for dinner on the days that
follow. When I think of cooking
for the holidays, I immediately
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continued from page 43
others. This is the mindset of confronted.
irredeemable narcissists. It is the
attitude of sociopaths. It is the
Photos (top to bottom):
Eeyore on the Escalator by Flickr
and beta-blockers. attitude of children. It is user Annie Mole
What you need to know. Not all imperative that we call out these Kiss by Flickr user pedrosimoes7
medications affect your driving, cretins wherever we see them, and Parliament Station Escalator by
b u t q u i t e a f e w d o . S o m e condition them to understand that Flickr user AdamSelwood
medications can also interact with the rules apply to everyone. Used under a Creative Commons
alcohol, making drinking and For the future of human society, license
driving more dangerous, even if and also because COME ON,
you’d had less to drink than the SOME OF US HAVE PLACES
legal alcohol limit. TO GO, left-side escalator
Medications also affect people l o i t e r e r s s i m p l y M U S T b e
differently. If you find a particular
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sure whether it’s safe to drive
after taking a particular and Motrin Junior Strength Caplets
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Black Friday: Samsung cuts prices on New York Giants to start

large appliances
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:17:39 AM
Black Friday: Samsung cuts
prices on large appliances
Samsung is singing about its
deals on televisions, laptops and
home theater systems but tucked
in its Black Friday circular are
some discounts on ranges,
microwaves, and washer and
dryer combos. The 25 percent
discount on refrigerators ends
today and there are no rainchecks
but the rest of the appliance deals
are good until Saturday.
Microwaves(CR's Buying guide
and Ratings)
The SMH9187B over-the-counter
microwave, the top performer in
our tests, is selling for $189.99 at
Best Buy and $189.00 at Lowe’s.
If you order one online, free
shipping is included. Four other
Samsung models we tested are
also being discounted.
Ranges( Buying guide and
Ratings)
The FTQ307NWGX freestanding
induction range, which did well in
our tests, is marked down to
$1,599 with free shipping if you
order online from Best Buy. At
least four other vendors are
offering the same model for under
$1,600, according to
PriceGrabber.
Washers and dryers(Buying
guides and Ratings of washers
and dryers)
The WF419AU Steam Washer
and DV419AEU Steam
Dryer($1,119 a pair) or
WF448AAW Steam Washer and
DV448GW Steam Gas
Dryer($1,499 for both) are selling
for about $100 less than the usual
price of the washer alone. All
were good all-around performers
in our tests, and the washers got
excellent scores in our anti-
vibration tests.
You may want to skip the
WF20AMNW and DV220EV
washer-dryer duo despite the $899
price because the washer tested
only fair for vibration.
Discounts, rebates and other
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Brandon Jacobs over
fumbling Ahmad Bradshaw
Ohm Youngmisuk (ESPN.com) other day, there are plenty of
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:43:34 AM carries to go around," Coughlin
said. "The number one
Updated: November 24, 2010, consideration is to try and stop
1 1 : 4 3 A M E T B y O h m beating yourself. It is very
Youngmisuk frustrating."
ESPNNewYork.com Coughlin said both running backs
Archive will still share carries and third
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- running back D.J. Ware will see
Frustrated with the fumbles and some carries as well.
turnovers, Tom Coughlin said When asked if Jacobs will remain
Brandon Jacobs will start ahead of the starter, Coughlin replied, "We
Ahmad Bradshaw against the are going to play this game."
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NFL Power Rankings Week 12 Roundup

FanHouse Staff (FanHouse no one's surprise, the Patriots are as did a number of other Power the Falcons to top anyone's Power everyone's Power Rankings after a
Main) still the consensus No. 1 in the Rankings across the internet. Rankings in Week 13. The string of impressive
Submitted at 11/24/2010 6:34:00 AM NFL after beating the Colts in But not everyone is convinced. Patriots have a Thanksgiving Day performances.
their annual marquee matchup. ESPN and CBS Sports have the game against the powderpuff
Filed under: Eagles, Atlanta Not only did the Patriots top own Falcons atop the pile after a Lions, while the Falcons have a
Falcons, Jets, Packers, Patriots, our Power Rankings, you also relatively easy win over the tough showdown against the
Ravens, NFL Power Rankings To voted them the league's best team, upstart Rams. But it'll be hard for Packers, who are on the rise in
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Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee: TCU, Boise
State not worthy of BCS title shot
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:02:23 AM
Updated: November 24, 2010,
12:02 PM ET
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Even if
TCU and Boise State run the
table, they still don't deserve to be
in the Bowl Championship Series
title game, Ohio State president E.
Gordon Gee said Wednesday.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, the president at
the university with the largest
athletic program in the country
said that TCU and Boise State do
not face a difficult enough
schedule to play in the national
championship game.
“ said, 'What are you going to do
I do know, having been both a
Southeastern Conference
president and a Big Ten president,
that it's like murderer's row every
week for these schools. We do not
play the Little Sisters of the Poor.
We play very fine schools on any
given day.”-- Ohio State president
E. Gordon Gee
"Well, I don't know enough about
the Xs and Os of college
football," said Gee, formerly the
president at West Virginia,
Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt
universities. "I do know, having
been both a Southeastern
Conference president and a Big
Ten president, that it's like
murderer's row every week for
these schools. We do not play the
Little Sisters of the Poor. We play
very fine schools on any given
day.
"So I think until a university runs
through that gantlet that there's
some reason to believe that they
not be the best teams to [be] in the
big ballgame."
Gee, long an admirer of the BCS
and the current bowl system, said
he was against a playoff in the
Football Bowl Subdivision.
"If you put a gun to my head and
about a playoff system [if] the
BCS system as it now exists goes
away?' I would vote immediately
to go back to the bowl system," he
said.
He said the current system is
better for the student-athletes.
"It's not about this incessant drive
to have a national championship
because I think that's a slippery
slope to professionalism," he said.
"I'm a fan of the bowl system and
I think that by and large it's
worked very, very well."
He cited Ohio State's presence in
the 2007 national title game as an
example.
The Buckeyes won their first 10
games that season to rise to No. 1
before losing 26-21 at home to
unranked Illinois. They fell all the
way to No. 8 in the BCS
standings.
A series of upsets over the final
weeks of the regular season and in
other team's conference
championship games led to the
Buckeyes climbing all the way
back to the No. 1 spot in the final
BCS standings. They were
matched against an LSU team
with two losses.
Ohio State led 10-0 early only to
have LSU come back and score
the next 31 points in a 38-24
victory at the Louisiana
Superdome.
"You know, it's a mystery," Gee
said. "We were No. 1, then No.
11, then No. 7 and we ended up
playing for the national
championship. I think I kind of
like that mixed-up mystery."
While he was at Vanderbilt, Gee
abolished the athletic department
since it was underwritten by the
university's general fund anyway.
He said he has no problem with
an Ohio State program that fields
36 intercollegiate varsity teams
and has an annual budget
exceeding $120 million.
"Here, athletics pays for itself and
also pays for academic programs
at the institution," he said. "The
other thing, of course, that I take a
look at and see how well we are
doing in terms of that notion of
balance, which is what I was all
about at Vanderbilt, which I am
all about here."
He said Ohio State's eighth-
ranked football team, which plays
rival Michigan on Saturday, is in
the top 10 in the nation not only
on the field but also in terms of
academic progress.
"That's the kind of balance I want
to have," he said.
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Washington Redskins'
Clinton Portis to miss
rest of season
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:18:04 AM
Updated: November 24, 2010,
12:18 PM ET
ASHBURN, Va. -- Clinton
Portis' season has come to an
early end for the second year in a
row.
Teammates said Wednesday that
the Washington Redskins running
back was being placed on injured
reserve. Coach Mike Shanahan
was expected to discuss the move
following the team's practice.
Portis missed five games with a
torn left groin, then aggravated
the injury after just five carries in
Sunday's win over Tennessee.
Last year, he missed the last eight
games of the season with a severe
concussion.
The move could bring an end to
Portis' career with the Redskins
after seven seasons. The 29-year-
old back is 77 yards short of
10,000 for his career and 648
yards shy of John Riggins'
franchise record.
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Clinton Portis Will Be Placed
on Injured Reserve; Keiland
Williams Likely Starter
David Elfin (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:14:00 AM
Filed under: Redskins, NFC East,
NFL Injuries Clinton Portis' 2010
season and his seven-year career
as Washington's No. 1 running
back could be over. Portis will be
placed on injured reserve by the
Redskins after re-injuring the
groin last Sunday at Tennessee
that had sidelined him during the
previous five games.
By the end of the year, Portis will
have missed 19 of Washington's
last 32 games with a concussion
(the final eight games of 2009)
and the groin. He'll be 30 before
the start of the 2011 season and
hasn't really produced like a No. 1
back since Week 12 of 2008.
Portis ran for 1,206 yards and
seven touchdowns on 244 carries
in the first 11 games of that year.
In his 18 games since, he
produced just 1,002 yards and five
touchdowns in 276 carries. He's
due to earn $8.25 million in 2011.
During his weekly radio
appearance yesterday, Portis was
optimistic about getting back on
the field soon, saying that an MRI
taken since the Tennessee game
had only shown some swelling
and not a further tear like the one
he suffered in Week 4 against
Philadelphia.
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Rock Band Weekly:
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad
Company, .38 Special
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 12:25:00 PM
Castle Crashers featured So, next week's Rock Band DLC
will include a Lynyrd Skynyrd
in Japan's PSN 'Western track pack. Now, fun fact: Every
time Lynyrd Skynyrd was typed
in this post, I had to look up how
Game Buyer Selection' it was spelled, out of some
paranoid compulsion that I'd
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Thor for ¥500. The screenshots
spelled it wrong. I wonder if
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:55:00 AM sent out by Sony include no "Lynyrd Skynyrd" is the music
Japanese text, so it's likely these
writer's version of the game
The American PSN recently got a w i l l b e d r o p p e d o n P S N
industry's classic spell-anoia
storefront for imported Japanese untranslated, like the PSOne
name: EA CEO John R-I-C-C-I-T
games, but it's limited entirely to Imports in North America. We
-I-E-L-L-O.
PSOne downloads. Sony is hope for Japan's sake that Sony is
Accompanying the "Sweet Home
launching an import selection for as diligent about populating this
Alabama" band, who apparently
the Japanese PSN as well, which service as MonkeyPaw Games is
formed in Florida, are singles
i n c l u d e s m o r e r e c e n t here.
from .38 Special and Bad
downloadables from the west. Castle Crashers featured in
Company. The full DLC track
The inaugural offerings on the Japan's PSN 'Western Game
details are posted after the break.
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Obama Invites God to the
Thanksgiving Table This Year
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Although presidential pardons of
turkeys at the White House
always get more than their share
of media attention — and this
year was no exception —
President Barack Obama’s formal
Tron: Evolution to have Thanksgiving proclamation isn’t
receiving the negative buzz it did
last year from some quarters.
free, day-one multiplayer That’s when he ran into a buzz
saw of criticism for what some
considered a theological snub
DLC because he mentioned God only
indirectly. Oddly enough, this
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) skin modeled after the new film's
year’s declaration genuflects
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:25:00 AM protagonist, Sam Flynn. twice to the deity, which even
Check out some of the some of those who lambasted him
Okay, of all the video game c o m p l i m e n t a r y m u l t i p l a y e r
last year are thanking the Lord
franchises out there that could accoutrements in the gallery
for.
p o s s i b l y h a v e d a y - o n e posted below.
The Christian Post acknowledges
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that Obama’s message this year
Tron is, by far, the most Multiplayer DLC Screens
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appropriate. After all, whilst in Continue reading Tron: Evolution
“continuing the tradition of
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previous presidential
Evolution, you yourself are DLC
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downloadable content. It's almost Tron: Evolution to have free, day
blessings to God.”
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year and look to the promise of
the next, we lift up our hearts in
gratitude to God for our many
blessings, for one another, and for
our Nation. This Thanksgiving
Day, we remember that the
freedoms and security we enjoy as
Americans are protected by the
brave men and women of the
United States Armed Forces.
These patriots are willing to lay
down their lives in our defense,
and they and their families
deserve our profound gratitude for
their service and sacrifice.”
Later in the proclamation, the
president cites God’s gifts and
exhorts people to face their
challenges as their predecessors
did: “As Americans gather for the
time-honored Thanksgiving Day
meal, let us rejoice in the
abundance that graces our tables,
in the simple gifts that mark our
days, in the loved ones who
enrich our lives, and in the gifts of
a gracious God. Let us recall that
our forebears met their challenges
with hope and an unfailing spirit,
and let us resolve to do the same.”
The full text of his declaration,
and those of other presidents, is
available at the Pilgrim Hall
Museum website, which provides
a chronicle of all declarations
dating back to the country’s
beginning. Pilgrim Hall
acknowledges that such
proclamations are as much a part
of the nation’s fabric as green
Gaming/ Politics/ 49
bean casserole, although the
actual declaration of the day as a
holiday came from President
Abraham Lincoln during the Civil
War.
For the record, Obama pardoned
two 21-week-old, 45-pound
turkeys this morning in the 63rd
annual ceremony: Apple and its
alternate Cider. The names were
chosen from over 200
submissions from California
school children who participated
in The Golden State’s Agriculture
in the Classroom program where
they learned about how the
National Thanksgiving Turkey
was raised.
After the pardoning festivities in
the Rose Garden, Apple and Cider
are being driven to George
Washington’s Mount Vernon
Estate and Gardens for display
during “Christmas at Mount
Vernon” through Jan. 6. After the
holidays, they will live in a
custom-made enclosure at Mount
Vernon’s nationally recognized
livestock facility.
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Democrats and
Obama Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey: 'Good to Republicans: Quit That
Cryin' or I'll Give You
Stop One Shellacking This November' Somethin' to Cry About
Alex Wagner (Politics Daily) Iraq and Afghanistan. Robert and Donna Trussell
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:04:00 AM Echoing sentiments made (Politics Daily)
yesterday at a Chrysler plant in Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:34:00 AM
White House Correspondent Indiana, where he intoned, " Don't
With faint echoes of gobbling in bet against America," the In an effort to encourage the
the crisp autumn air at the Rose president enthused that same level of civil dialogue
Garden, President Obama took "Americans don't give up. We among Politics Daily’s readers
part Wednesday in the annual pitch in, we give what we can." that we expect of our writers – a
presidential pardoning of a He ended his remarks by thanking “civilogue,” to use the term
Thanksgiving turkey -- though those serving in the armed coined by PD’s Jeffrey Weiss– we
this year there were two birds, services and wishing everyone a are requiring commenters to use
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daughters Malia and Sasha -- the Cider, who -- perhaps in return -- reading all comments before
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throughout his opening remarks, they made a thank-you noise," (on writers, other readers, Nancy
saying it felt "good to stop one He noted that the Apple and proposed that "being thankful for Pelosi, George W. Bush, or
Obama said before addressing the
shellacking this November," a Cider, both 21-week old, 45- what we have, and generous to anyone at all) and comments that
two large, white birds: "Have a
reference to his party's significant pound turkeys, had spent recent those who have less" are are not productive additions to the
good life."
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His Mind
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:19:00 AM
Correspondent President Obama
says he respects Sarah Palin's
political skills but isn't spending
time thinking about a possible
challenge from her in the 2012
national election. The politics, he
says, should "take care of itself."
"Obviously Sarah Palin has a
strong base of support in the
Republican Party and I respect
those skills," Obama told
ABC's Barbara Walters in an
interview that will air Friday. "But
I spend most of my time right
now on how I can be the best
possible president. And my
Obama White House No Camelot
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 4:56:20 AM
Wednesday, 24 Nov 2010 10:56
AM
First lady Michelle Obama has
been a very public presence
during her husband’s time in
office. But as his approval rating
shrinks, she has narrowed her
inner circle of advisors, just as the
president has, Politico reports.
Michelle Obama relies on cohorts
from her Chicago days, just as
Barack Obama does. “There has
$600
attitude has always been, from the
day I started this job, that if I do a
good job and if I'm delivering for
the American people, the politics
will take care of itself."
"I don't think about Sarah Palin,"
he said when asked directly if he
thought he could beat her in 2012.
A post-election Qunnipiac
University poll had Obama ahead
of Palin in a hypothetical match-
up, but in a dead heat with former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney. Palin, the 2008 GOP
vice presidential candidate,
recently told Walters she thinks
she can defeat Obama if she
decides to run two years from
now.
been no attempt to reach out to
people they don’t see as their
people,” says the wife of a senior
administration official who
doesn’t have Chicago ties. “They
don’t reach out even to people in
the administration who aren’t
from their inner circle. “It’s
extremely businesslike. It’s not
Camelot,” she says, referring to
the halcyon early days of the
Kennedy administration.
"Because of the campaign, people
expected Obama and the first lady
to revitalize some of the glamour
Obama didn't take the bait. "If I
falter and the American people
are dissatisfied, then I'll have a
problem," he said.
Watch parts of the interview as
Obama talks about the Korean
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EARMARK
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A majority of Republicans in moratorium to pass. Republicans

Congress favor banning earmarks.
But supporters of a three-year ban
in the Senate acknowledge they
don’t have the votes to implement
it when Congress takes up the
issue next week, The Hill reports.
“We got a long road here,” a
Senate GOP aide who supports
the measure tells the news service.
“We are 70 yards from the goal
line, but I think momentum is on
our side.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid(pictured) has made the task
difficult by getting Senate
Republican leaders to agree to a
requirement of 67 votes for the
accepted the high threshold
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way to bring the issue to a vote.
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Colossians 2:6-7 (11-24-

10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 2:00:00 AM
Just as you received Christ Jesus
as Lord, continue to live in him,
rooted and built up in him,
strengthened in the faith as you
were taught, and overflowing with
thankfulness.
— Colossians 2:6-7(NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
Some things you don't change,
swap, or update. In an age when
computer processors make major
leaps every few months and
software companies release new
upgrades every year, we get
programmed into looking for the
new and improved version of
everything. The simple but
profound truth is that Jesus is
Lord. No update needed. No rival
worthy. No change necessary. In
fact, if we stray from this as the
basis of our life, we put all we
hold dear at risk. But if we
continue, if we grow, if we root
ourselves in this truth and make it
the undergirding reality of our
lives, then our future is secure and
our victory assured! My Prayer...
Holy God, I thank you for the
simple, challenging and enduring
truth of Jesus' Lordship. Through
you Spirit, I pray that you will
conform my life to more closely
reflect his lordship in my work,
my family, and daily influence. In
the name of the Lord Jesus I pray.
Amen.
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could now take on any cineplex, on the 50-inch screen refreshes -D-ready. This one has set the
thanks to this 3-D TV. While 120 times a second-for clean benchmark.
other TV makers entered the third pixels every time, with no
dimension with upgraded LCDs, "ghosts" left over, as happens
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How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Feast
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:05:10 AM
Tasty Turkey JIll Chen Thanks to
biotechnology and widespread
genetic modification, the meal
you'll enjoy tomorrow certainly
isn't your grandma's feast
Since they were introduced 15
years ago, genetically modified
foods have taken astonishing hold
in North America. This time of
year, the result is a Thanksgiving
menu that may, on the surface,
look much the same as the one
your grandma cooked 20 years
ago. But at the genetic level, it is
very different, and it's a far cry
from the fabled feast shared by
the pilgrims and American
Indians in the 17th century. In
celebration of Thanksgiving, the
most food-focused day of the
year, here's a look at how
biotechnology is changing the
way we eat.
Before it reached the grocery
store - even before it reached the
farm - your turkey, turducken or
tofurkey likely started out in a lab,
with scientists in white coats
peering at PCR data and tinkering
with plant genomes to produce
traits that nature never intended.
Launch the gallery to see how
genetically modified foods are
changing your Thanksgiving
Let's start with your morning
coffee. Unless you buy organic,
your milk and half-and-half most
likely comes from cows that have
been administered synthetic
hormones. The hormones rBST
and rBGH let cows grow bigger
faster, and allow them to produce
more milk. Do you use soy milk
instead? It's probably from GMO
soybeans. How about sweetener?
Fully 95 percent of the U.S. sugar
beet crop is genetically modified,
and half the nation's sugar supply
comes from beets. What about
high fructose corn syrup? Of
course. About 85 percent of
American corn is genetically
modified. Even sugarcane is
genetically altered.
Starting with breakfast and
ending with dessert, if you live in
North America, you most likely
eat transgenic foods every day.
Genetically modified crops
usually contain genes from other
plants to produce unique traits. In
most cases, splices of bacterial
genes are used to insert the new
traits, like pest or disease
resistance. Companies such as
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healthy diet. They say genetically
altered crops have not been
sufficiently studied, and they
worry that their effects on the
environment and human health
are unknown. Several court cases
are progressing that seek to
prevent future plantings of
genetically modified crops, or at
least subject them to stricter
federal review.
Some groups maintain lists of
non-GMO food sources; the
Institute for Responsible
Technology even has a non-GMO
shopping guide iPhone app, or
you can download the printable
shopping list.
The easiest way to avoid
genetically modified food is to
buy organic - foods labeled
organic cannot intentionally have
biotech ingredients. But note the
word intentionally. Seeds blow in
Monsanto and Bayer alter plants the wind, so even fields used for
to resist their proprietary blends organic farming may contain
of weed killer, while other crops genetically altered crops. In a
are modified to resist pests, fungi study this summer, GM canola
or bacteria; produce higher yields; was found growing in the wild
o r s u r v i v e e n v i r o n m e n t a l throughout South Dakota.
conditions like drought or salty Despite opposition, the vast
soil. GM food advocates say it's majority of North American row
essentially no different than crops are now grown from
selective breeding to obtain genetically modified seeds.
desirable qualities. See our gallery of your fully
Consumer groups and natural- engineered Thanksgiving meal.
food advocates, on the other hand,
say bacteria-enabled
"Frankenfood" has no place in a
54 Science/
Archive Gallery: Thrilling Trains of the Future
Denise Ngo (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:57:27 AM
July 1934 If only our
Thanksgiving travel plans
included rides on cross-country
high-speed rails, propeller-
powered monorails, and the
mythical Long Island bullet train
Nothing makes you wish for a
high-speed rail, a flying car, or a
teleportation device like having to
travel over Thanksgiving.
Apparently, the future of chaos-
free commuting is in Europe,
Japan and China, where
passengers enjoy the luxury of
trains that glide along at 200 miles
per hour. Meanwhile, those of us
living in America get to choose
between radioactive scanners,
enhanced pat-downs, and the joy
of holiday highway congestion.
Injustice! Suffice to say, our
maglev train envy is making the
spirit of Thanksgiving a little
harder to grasp this year.
Click to launch the photo gallery.
Alas, high-speed rails may not
arrive on our fair shores until the
year 2040. Lord knows we've
hankered after them for a good
138 years now. Even people
traveling by steam engine knew
that the future of American train
travel needed to break 200 miles
per hour.
If there's one thing Popular
Science has taught me about
retrofuturism, it's that even the
most improbable ideas never die.
They crop up, go dormant for
twenty years, and reappear once a
new generation of visionaries
grows tired of the status quo.
Take, for example, the super
speedy, aero transit monorail. In
1919, a French inventor proposed
combining an airship, a fuselage,
and a train to create a propeller-
driven monorail with wings. We
were interested, but skeptical that
it could actually reach 150 miles
per hour without using wheels.
Eleven years later, a Scottish
inventor built a similar train, but
with an overhanging rail instead
of wings. We were excited for
E-reader News Edition
Video: Scurrying
Rideable Robot Platform
Lets You Surf on 12 Legs
Lizzie Schiffman (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:01:32 AM
The Land Crawler eXtreme
Photo courtesy of Vagabond
Works
Maybe our growing interest in
perfecting robotic bipeds is
overrated; two legs may be a
prerequisite for aspiring pop star
awhile, but got distracted by as long as we have a traffic bots, but when it comes to smooth
magnetic levitation. In 1972, long problem, our hearts won't give up movement, six pairs may be better
a f t e r J a p a n u n v e i l e d i t s on a New York - California than one.
Shinkansen trains, we began to Maglev train. The Japanese roboticist behind
suspect that it'd be decades before While waiting for the turkey to Vagabond Works debuted video
w e c o u l d i m p l e m e n t t h a t finish roasting, click through our of his Land Crawler eXtreme in
t e c h n o l o g y . S o w e b e g a n gallery to read about the Soviet action, a 12-legged mobile
dreaming of hanging trains again, Union's amphibian rail, the Long platform that can transport up to
but this time, minus the propeller. Island/New Jersey bullet train, 175 pounds. While the robot,
More than likely, it will be and more concept vehicles from designed at the request of its
awhile before America gets its the future past. Believe it or not, creator's son, isn't going to give
own high-speed rail. Perhaps by nine out of 10 of these railway the Segway a run for its solo-
then, flying cars and teleportation systems were designed to beat transport money any time soon, its
d e v i c e s w i l l h a v e g o n e 150 miles per hour. fluid propulsion is reminiscent of
commercial, thus eliminating the Theo Jansen's organically-moving
need for high-speed rails. One Strandbeests and looks eerily
thing's for sure though--until high- natural.
speed rails become obsolete, and [via Singularity Hub]
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LaMarr Woodley
(Mensfitness.com) improve when you started If the offense gives us three points
Submitted at 11/24/2010 3:00:00 AM training? or six points and it's enough to
I wanted to build some speed and win the game, it's up to us to go
by Mike Olson| Print Article| improve my flexibility. This off- out there and shut down the
Email to Friend season I went up to Athletic opposing team.
In the closing seconds of Super R e p u b l i c i n A u b u r n H i l l s , With all the penalties called
Bowl XLIII, Kurt Warner and the Michigan, and I did this super against the Steelers, a lot of
Arizona Cardinals were marching treadmill workout that was about people think the refs have it out
down the field, one touchdown opening up my stride. It was a for you. Agree or disagree?
away from a come-from-behind killer, man. It was like running up There's nothing you can really do
victory. That is, until Steelers a hill at full speed, but the thing about it. The referee's going to
linebacker LaMarr Woodley about this hill is that if you stop call the call and it's up to us to go
whipped around the end and strip- running you fall down! out there and play. But we're not
sacked Warner, ending the game Have you considered adding any going to allow the referees to
and earning the Steelers their kind of alternative training, like dictate how we play. Pittsburgh
sixth championship. Two years yoga, to your regimen? has always been a physical team
l a t e r , t h e 6 - 2 , 2 4 5 - p o u n d I haven't tried that, but this off- and we're going to stay a physical,
Michigan native has one thing on season I'm definitely going to get hard-hitting team. And sometimes
his mind: getting back to the big involved with the MMA stuff. I when you hit too hard it comes
game. We caught up with LaMarr feel like it's tied in to what we do Wednesday and do a quick six, girlfriend has been taking out the with a penalty. Related articles:
to find out how he gets—and in football as far as hand speed, which consists of bench press, cookbook, so I avoid the fast-food Michael Vick's Rise to the Top
stays—on top of his game. opening up your hips, quick feet biceps and triceps curls, pull restaurants. I love the smell of Get Ben Roethlisberger's Mental
In terms of training, how long did and flexibility. downs, something for the back Burger King when I ride past, but Toughness
you take off between last season How many hours will you put in and the neck. And then you come sometimes I have to avoid it. It's Marques Colston: The New
and this season?? at the gym during a typical off- back and hit it again on Friday tough in a city like Pittsburgh. Orleans Saints wide receiver is on
Being that we didn't make the season day? with a 16-machine workout. That That town knows how to eat. a tear
playoffs and I felt like I had a lot I feel like you can get a decent will consist of different things, but How do you think the Steelers fit [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
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sleep and not worrying about I usually try to life three times a resist? quite a hit.
training. week. On Monday I come in and [Laughs] Yeah, I've been slowing Being a defensive player, I don't
Was there one aspect of your get in a full body workout, and down on that this year. My worry about the offense too much.
game that you were looking to t h e n I c o m e b a c k i n o n
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5 Ways to Fight Fat This Thanksgiving

(Mensfitness.com) say, "No thank you—the food was
Submitted at 11/24/2010 4:00:00 AM delicious but I'm so full." He or
she won't be able to argue with
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5. Just say no to
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The focus of Thanksgiving
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Holiday
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Israel’s Fight is Our Fight
Frontpagemag.com (FrontPage
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Submitted at 11/23/2010 10:45:59 PM
[Editors' Note: Below is a speech
given by Pastor John C. Hagee at
the Restoration Weekend event
hosted this past weekend by the
David Horowitz Freedom Center
in Palm Beach, Florida.]
Introduction by Dr. Bob: Thank
you, Andrew, and good evening,
everyone.
John C. Hagee is a remarkable
man, with many talents. He is a
pastor, a philanthropist, an author,
and an inspirational speaker, as
you will hear.
As a young pastor, he founded
Cornerstone Church in San
Antonio, Texas — a
nondenominational evangelical
church which has grown under his
leadership to more than 19,000
active members. But in addition
to those 19,000 members, he
reaches millions of people in 235
countries around the world,
through his international
television ministry.
As a philanthropist, his focus has
been on helping the people of
Israel. Over the years, John
Hagee Ministries has raised more
than $70 million to help
humanitarian causes in Israel.
And to further his support for
Israel in 2006, Dr. Hagee founded
Christians United for Israel, or
CUFI. CUFI is a grassroots
international organization that has
grown in four short years to over
500,000 members.
CUFI provides a platform
through which every pro-Israel
Christian in America can speak
out and act in support of Israel.
Each month, CUFI holds 40 pro-
Israel events, including events
such as Nights to Honor Israel, in
cities across America. And in
addition, it holds an annual
summit in Washington, D.C.,
where CUFI delegates meet face-
to-face with members of Congress
to lobby and support [of] Israel,
the promised land.
And with all that, he still finds
time to write. He is the author of
28 books, including two that
were on the New York Times
Best Sellers List. His most recent
book, “ Can America Survive?”
was published just a few months
ago by Simon & Schuster.
I first heard Dr. Hagee in 2007 at
the AIPAC Conference in
Washington, D.C. Even there,
among highly regarded public
speakers, he stood out. He was
without a doubt the most
charismatic and dynamic speaker
at the conference. He mesmerized
the audience with both the content
and the energy of his presentation
and received thunderous applause
and numerous standing ovations.
I am truly honored tonight to
introduce to you this evening a
very special man, a man with an
important mission, which includes
supporting our traditional
American values, supporting the
Constitution of the United States,
and supporting the Jewish State of
Israel. Ladies and gentlemen,
Pastor John C. Hagee.
John C. Hagee: Thank you for the
privilege and pleasure of speaking
at this important gathering
tonight.
I’d like to begin by thanking
David Horowitz and the David
Horowitz Freedom Center for all
that they have done for the
freedom of America, especially
on our college campuses.
We all know how hard it is to
stand up for truth on America’s
college campuses these days,
when pro-Israel speakers are
being shouted down and pro-
Israel students are being publicly
ridiculed by professors,
unbelievably. This is why I’m so
very grateful to have friends like
David Horowitz and the David
Horowitz Freedom Center,
providing invaluable information,
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Americans, we must snap out of
this politically correct fog and
admit that we are at war with
radical Islam.
This is a war of survival. This is
a war of good versus evil. This is
a war of light versus darkness.
This is a war between those who
love life and those who worship
death. It’s an easy choice. But
that’s the reality. And the reality
is, like it or not, you and your
children and your grandchildren
are in this war. There will be a
winner, and there will be a loser.
And to the winner goes our
children and our grandchildren.
And tonight, we must commit
ourselves to absolute victory over
radical Islam. No exception.
Today, the Jewish people are still
our canary in the coalmine. It is
the Jewish State in particular that
training and support for those serves as the West’s warning
brave students who are willing to system. America must wake up to
confront the lies and the religious the understanding that Iran fully
hatred of radical Islam. intends to destroy the United
We meet tonight at a difficult and S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a . W h e n
dangerous juncture for America someone threatens to kill you, you
and for the cause of freedom should take it seriously.
around the world. Like many of We must recognize those who
y o u h e r e t o n i g h t , I h a v e threaten Israel have the United
subscribed to the concept that the States in their sights. To anyone
Jewish people are the West’s with eyes to see and ears that
canary in the coalmine. History hear, it is clear that Israel is in the
has repeatedly demonstrated that greatest danger it has faced since
when the Jewish people are six Arab armies tried to strangle
singled out for persecution, the the Jewish State in the birth canal
freedom of all citizens is at risk. in 1948.
Therefore, when the Jewish I know that during difficult days
people are being attacked, all such as these, when it seems that
Americans should stand up and the whole world is against Israel,
wake up, and express their
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outrage because we are next. As
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On North Korea, a Bipartisan Failure
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:00:28 AM
The Bush administration got it
wrong, too.
T he revelation earlier this week
that North Korea appears to have
developed an indigenous uranium
-enrichment capability has
bewildered North Korea watchers
and the media establishment alike.
The question on everyone’s mind:
Why didn’t the United States do
more to prevent the progress of
North Korea’s uranium-
enrichment program?
Regrettably, the answer to this
question is even more
disconcerting than the disclosure
itself. Intelligence amassed over
the course of nearly two decades
on North Korea’s uranium-
enrichment program has been an
inconvenient truth for most U.S.
officials involved in North Korea
policy through consecutive U.S.
political administrations -- but
nowhere was this delusion in
more abundance than in the latter
years of the George W. Bush
administration, in which I served
as the director for
counterproliferation strategy,
covering North Korea’s nuclear
program on the National Security
Council staff in 2006 and 2007.
#ad#U.S. officials charged with
North Korea policy downplayed
or simply ignored intelligence
information on uranium-
enrichment activities. And this
cavalier approach extended
beyond the usual State
Department negotiators to more
senior members of the Bush
administration national-security
team. Thus it is somewhat
surprising to see comments from
former senior-level Bush-
administration officials in recent
days asserting that North Korea’s
uranium-enrichment program was
a serious concern in the waning
years of that administration. The
policy pursued by the Bush
administration during this time
simply does not match this
rhetoric.
I visited the Yongbyon nuclear
facility in September 2007 as part
of an official U.S. delegation to
survey and negotiate disablement
activities. I was struck
immediately by the decrepit and
decaying facilities. The reactor
operator expressed what seemed
to be genuine dismay that he
would be unable to restart the
reactor following any lengthy
shutdown. Undoubtedly, North
Korea could muster the technical
know-how and manual labor to
restart this facility. But the reactor
operator’s demeanor suggested
that he knew the writing was on
the wall: His pride and joy had
been relegated to the dustbin of
history. I reported this to my
colleagues upon returning to
Washington. But I didn’t need to
travel to Yongbyon to reach this
conclusion because it had been
clear for some time to me and my
colleagues, both at the White
House and in the interagency
nonproliferation community, that
the future of North Korea’s
nuclear program rested with its
uranium-enrichment capability.
That’s why, in memos and senior
-level national-security meetings
on North Korea policy, we raised
repeatedly the issue of North
Korea’s continued uranium-
enrichment activities and
acquisition efforts. But over and
over again our efforts to draw
attention to these growing
concerns were rebuffed. For a
short time, we even deluded
ourselves into believing that U.S.
insistence on “a full and complete
declaration” of North Korea’s
nuclear activities would include
its uranium-enrichment program
as well as its nuclear weapons.
But we realized quickly that this
“condition” was merely a staid
talking point -- one among many
on a list that was routinely
delivered to North Korean
officials. The decision by the
Bush administration in early 2007
to focus North Korea policy
exclusively on the decrepit and
aging plutonium-production
reactor at Yongbyon as the
linchpin of denuclearization of the
Korean peninsula was misguided
and simply foolish.
#page#In pursuit of this erroneous
strategy, the Bush administration
squandered several opportunities
to squeeze North Korea’s uranium
-enrichment-related activities. For
example, my colleagues and I
raised over and over again the
proliferation activities of
Namchongang Trading
Corporation. At the time, NCG
was well-known in
nonproliferation and intelligence
circles as one of North Korea’s
principal nuclear trading entities.
And NCG was instrumental in
North Korea’s acquisition of
aluminum tubes -- essential
components of a uranium-
enrichment program. But
intelligence officials balked
repeatedly at our efforts to discuss
the possibility of sanctioning
NCG, citing the need to protect
sources and methods.
Policymakers declined to “rock
the boat” by pushing forward with
sanctions on NCG. Nearly three
years later, the Obama
administration, at last, sanctioned
NCG in June 2009. President
Obama actually sanctioned NCG
for proliferation activities under
an executive order issued by
President Bush in 2005 to target
weapons-of-mass-destruction
proliferators. But this sanctioning
was a little too late.
#ad#For years, significant gaps
have existed in U.S. intelligence
information on North Korea’s
nuclear program, including its
uranium-enrichment program.
And it is reasonable to assume
that U.S. intelligence information
remains incomplete regarding the
breadth and scope of the North
Korean nuclear program. To date,
the Obama administration has not
commented on what, if any,
intelligence it possesses
specifically on the uranium-
enrichment facility at Yongbyon
other than what has been gleaned
from Siegfried Hecker’s recent
visit to North Korea. But the
speed with which the U.S. special
envoy to North Korea, Stephen
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Bosworth, and his team were
dispatched to brief Asian capitals
in the wake of this disclosure
suggests the Obama
administration may have been
caught off-guard by Hecker’s
description of the sophistication
of the uranium facility at
Yongbyon. Yet the nearly
constant U.S. satellite surveillance
of the Yongbyon facility suggests
that U.S. intelligence officials had
at least an inkling of the uranium-
enrichment-related activity being
conducted there.
Obama-administration officials
apparently chose not to act. But
such willful blindness would be
entirely consistent with nearly two
decades of U.S. policy toward
North Korea that has disregarded
this growing threat. And President
Obama deserves credit for thus far
not capitulating to North Korea’s
demand for Six-Party Talks. But it
is worth noting that the Bush
administration’s decision to
pursue a Yongbyon-centric
strategy focused on North Korea’s
plutonium program was endorsed
by several arms-control and Asia
experts now serving in the Obama
administration; and that such a
strategy underpinned the Clinton
administration’s 1994 Agreed
Framework. And the
abandonment of this Yongbyon-
centric strategy in the early years
of the Bush administration --
when U.S. officials first raised
concerns over North Korea’s
uranium-enrichment activities --
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Will ObamaCare Collapse?

Tait Trussell (FrontPage subsidies to help pay for the reason for the distinction,”
Magazine » FrontPage) health care. But Republicans may according to the association’s
Submitted at 11/23/2010 10:35:31 PM block the establishment of analysis. (Other than the fact that
exchanges, according to a Nov. 10 union money backs the Obama
Large employers who spend $80 story in Vital Signs. people).
billion a year to insure millions of When ObamaCare was being Not only Health and Human
employees and their families say carelessly knitted together in Service is replete with regulatory
ObamaCare is headed for Congress last spring, the mandates, but apparently much of
“collapse.” Human resource Congressional Budget Office the federal government is getting
executives see the law as pushing (CBO) projected that about 3 into the act. The Labor and
e m p l o y e r s t o d r o p h e a l t h million people, a relatively small Treasury Departments have issued
coverage. A 28-page analysis by slice, would lose their employer- guidance with “very specific
the Association of Chief Human sponsored health plans as a result requirements that would “create
Resource Officers (ACHRO) of the legislation. It now is clear significant administrative
finds a majority believe the law that was a gross underestimation. burdens…costly and difficult to
must be repealed or overhauled. Employers may well “find it more implement” making it harder for
ObamaCare requires employers profitable to eliminate health “employers to offer efficient,
to offer health insurance to their benefits altogether,” said an Oct. effective, and affordable health
employees. If they don’t, they 29 WSWS.org story. care coverage to employees, their
would have to pay a penalty Large employers “want their dependents, and retirees.”
beginning in 2014. But when employees and retirees to have ObamaCare also “requires all
McDonald’s and some other access to affordable, high-quality of the Deloitte Center for Health comply to tear out their hair in health plans to phase out annual
employers warned it would be too health care. However, on the Solutions, was quoted as saying, frustration. Union favoritism and dollar limits on essential benefits
expensive to ensure their large whole, large employers believe “I don’t think you are going to pickiness as to the number of by 2014 and on lifetime dollar
ranks of employees, the Secretary PPACA (the initials for what is hear anybody publicly say, pages and print font size required limits on essential benefits that
of Health and Human Services f a l s e l y n a m e d t h e P a t i e n t ‘We’ve made a decision to drop f o r d o c u m e n t s p r o v i d e d t o m a y h a v e t a k e n e f f e c t b y
(HHS) issued waivers, taking Protection and Affordable Care insurance.’ What we are hearing employees, unmasked the politics September 23, 2010. But the Feds
dozens of companies off the hook, Act) broadens access while failing at our meetings is, ‘We don’t and nonsense embodied in the have not defined “essential
The New York Times and other to make any meaningful change in want to be the first one to drop law’s rules. benefits.” Careless confusion
publications reported. Preferential the way health care is delivered,” benefits, but we would be the fast The law encourages employers reigns.
treatment for some companies is OCHRO declared. second.’ We are hearing that a “who offer very generous benefits Employers must extend
sure to cause resentment. Many employers see “the system lot.” to discontinue offering those dependent coverage to children up
The ACHRO report said its created by the law eventually Republicans in Congress are b e n e f i t s . ” B u s i n e s s e s a r e to age 26 (a benefit much-touted
members believe “with each collapsing, an event which will leaning on at-risk or moderate concerned about the 40 percent by the Democrats). But it is little
passing year” ObamaCare “will force Congress to draft the next Democrats to help them strip out excise tax on so-called Cadillac known that this mandate applies
encourage more employers to version of health care reform.” As “the bad parts of ObamaCare,” Plans for any health benefit in even if the adult child has “access
drop employer provided care and the human resources executive’s according to a Nov. 12 story in excess of $10,200 for individuals t o o t h e r e m p l o y e r - b a s e d
prompt their employees to seek association notes, “The vast Newser. a n d $ 2 7 , 5 0 0 f o r f a m i l y coverage,” the analysis pointed
coverage through exchanges” to majority of Americans receive The analysis by the human coverage—except for union plans. out.
be set up in every state to sell health insurance through the resource executives uncovered The $10,200 threshold does not The highly praised wellness
i n s u r a n c e . T h e e x c h a n g e s employer-based system,” a system almost unbelievable regulatory exist for unions and the 40 percent programs in the law are pleasing
s u p p o s e d l y w o u l d a l l o w that has worked well until the duplication, confusion, and excise tax is triggered only if to the Association. But its analysis
individuals to shop to see if they bureaucrats muddied the water. infinitely needless paperwork coverge exceeds $27,500. “There
are eligible for government Paul Keckley, executive director sufficient to drive those forced to is simply no legitimate policy WILL page 67
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The Misguided Ireland Bailout
Submitted at 11/24/2010 3:00:58 AM
The EU wants to sacrifice a low-
tax state to pay for the Euro-
dream.
T he Irish government is teetering
on the brink of collapse.
In a humiliating about-face, the
Irish Taoiseach (prime minister),
Brian Cowen, yesterday accepted
a European Union bailout package
that he had claimed Ireland
neither wanted nor needed.
Protesters immediately decried
the “shameful” stitch-up between
Irish bankers, politicians, and the
EU, and attempted to storm the
parliament. The Green party
walked out of the ruling coalition,
the opposition party demanded an
immediate election, and members
of the prime minister’s party are
considering a no-confidence
motion. All of this controversy
has horrified the European Union,
which assumed the Irish would
simply accept the over–$100
billion deal as a fait accompli.
#ad#It seems as though Cowen’s
countrymen have failed to see the
need for the tax-increasing bailout
that’s being pushed on the country
by eurozone big boys primarily to
protect profligate Mediterranean
states. European leaders
intervened because they feared
that “crisis contagion” from
Ireland would drive up bond
yields in weaker eurozone
members like Portugal, Spain, and
(whisper it) Italy -- the euro
domino theory. Since the EU
can’t bail out the entire Iberian
Peninsula, let alone Italy, such
contagion could lead to the
dramatic disintegration of the
euro.
Moreover, it’s an opportunity for
high-tax European states to level
the playing field. Throughout the
go-go late ’90s, the Celtic Tiger
grew by 6 percent or more each
year as low taxes -- including a
12.5 percent corporate tax rate,
which is among the lowest in
Europe-- attracted over 1,000
multinational companies,
including Intel, Pfizer, Microsoft,
and Google. (Wasteful EU
subsidies to Ireland, meanwhile,
mostly went into the shrinking
agriculture sector, though some
also went to building
infrastructure in the rural west.)
For decades, these successful low
-tax policies infuriated continental
Europe, where politicians attacked
Ireland’s “unfair competition.”
Now, under the conditions of the
bailout, middle-class Irish
families will lose their tax credits
and low-paid workers will be
taxed. Also, as a French official
has ominously remarked, the
corporate tax “leaves room for
progress.” France’s president,
Nicolas Sarkozy was more direct:
“Our Irish friends#...#have more
room for maneuver than others,
their taxes being lower than all the
others.”
But unlike Greece, Ireland didn’t
come to the EU begging for a
bailout. Thanks to sharp fiscal
consolidation over the last year,
Ireland won’t actually need to sell
bonds until the middle of next
year -- the government is fully
funded for the immediate future.
Since the economic crisis, Ireland
has tackled its problems head-on,
cutting spending and forcing
banks to come clean about their
losses. Irish officials provided
state backing for the banks’ bad
debts, causing the country’s much
-ballyhooed 32 percent budget
deficit. Guaranteeing these debts
may have been a mistake -- it is
unclear how much havoc would
have been wreaked by an up-front
haircut -- but until recently, EU
officials were praising Ireland as a
“role model” and calling on other
countries to “face up to their
problems” in a similar fashion.
Ireland’s fatal mistake -- the
reason it finds itself in this
ignominious position -- was to
adopt the euro. Joining the
eurozone encouraged foreign
investment, but left the Irish
economy subject to interest rates
set by the European Central Bank
to suit the large German and
French economies. Trapped in
this euro-straitjacket, Ireland
couldn’t raise interest rates to cool
its overheating economy, and
Irish banks piled into a real-estate
bubble that has left them
insolvent.
Of course, not all of Ireland’s
troubles can be blamed on the
euro. Better regulation could have
reined in the reckless Irish banks,
for example, and generous
welfare provisions left the Irish
budget dangerously dependent on
property taxes. But the country’s
bond yields have spiked because
of the banks’ insolvency -- not
because of a Greek-style fiscal
meltdown -- and it’s hard to
imagine that Irish monetary
officials would have let the
property bubble inflate to such
dangerous proportions.
The EU bailout, if it sticks,
promises to bring temporary relief
to Ireland, but where will the buck
stop? Bond-market vigilantes
have already turned on Portugal
and Spain: The spread between
German and Spanish ten-year
bonds -- a measure of the relative
riskiness of the governments’ debt
-- hit record highs Tuesday, and
the spread between German and
Portuguese bonds also rose. Also,
Greek yields are higher now than
they were before the Irish bailout.
As Mohamed A. El-Erian, the
CEO of PIMCO (an investment-
management firm), said, “you
cannot fix a solvency problem by
putting new debt on top of old
debt.”
#page#Unfortunately, that has
been the EU’s strategy since the
Greek crisis exposed deep fault
lines in the eurozone. Bailouts are
the path of least resistance --
buying time -- but they don’t
solve the underlying problem: the
non-alignment of eurozone states’
economies. Vastly different
countries such as Ireland,
Germany, and Greece have been
yoked together under a common
currency as part of a European-
unification project. Until EU
E-reader News Edition
leaders reconcile these political
ambitions with economic reality,
the eurozone will lurch from crisis
to crisis and, sooner or later, run
out of solvent states willing or
able to bail out the insolvent ones.
Even in the best-case scenario,
struggling euro-periphery
countries will have to undergo
years of painful austerity to make
the eurozone functional.
#ad#Alternatively, Ireland and
other struggling periphery
members could make a clean
break from the euro. This would
bring immediate pain: Given
Ireland's struggling economy, a
revived pound would probably
plummet against the euro, driving
up euro-denominated debts. But if
the eurozone is fatally flawed, it
would be better to lance the euro-
boil now than build up even
bigger problems for later.
Instead, EU leaders have imposed
a bailout upon Ireland -- costing
the Irish their hard-won
independence and undermining
their low-tax system -- in an
attempt to preserve the eurozone,
which itself was a key cause of
Ireland’s downfall. Only time will
tell whether the Irish sacrifice -- if
the bailout doesn’t fall apart in the
coming days -- has done anything
but delay the inevitable.
— Piotr Brzezinski is COO of the
Big Society Network and a former
policy adviser to the Conservative
-party leadership at the
Conservative Research
Department. Piotr Brzezinski
E-reader News Edition
ISRAEL’S
continued from page 57
many friends of Israel such as
yourselves nervously scan the
horizon for friends. You look
toward the United Nations, which
Dore Gold calls the Tower of
Babel. And I agree. You look at
Europe, where the ghost of Hitler
is again walking across the stage
of human history.
You open your newspapers and
read about America’s universities,
where Israel is being viciously
vilified by students taught by
American — taught by professors
whose Middle Eastern chairs are
sponsored by Saudi Arabia,
whose fees are paid with petrol
dollars that went through our gas
tank. You look to America’s
mainline churches and their
initiatives to divest from Israel.
You go to the bookstore, and you
see slanderous titles from a
former US President, and you feel
very much alone.
I came here tonight to speak
about Christians United for Israel,
and the millions of evangelicals in
America who have a deep, faith-
based belief, to love Israel, to
speak up for Israel, to stand up for
Israel; to stand up enough to, once
a year, annually, charge up
Capitol Hill with 5,000-plus
delegates from every state in the
Union, visiting as much as 87
percent of the US Congress,
saying, Stop pressuring Israel to
give land to terrorists who will not
recognize Israel’s right to exist.
I came here tonight to deliver a
message from those 50 million of
— for those 50 million
evangelicals. And I want to say
this very clearly. Tonight, Israel
is not alone. Your fight is our
fight; your enemies are our
enemies. We’re in this together to
the end.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a new
day in America. The sleeping
giant of Christian Zionism has
awakened. Christians are joining
Jews in speaking out against
militant Islam. As you know,
Ahmadinejad poses a threat to the
State of Israel that promises
nothing less than a nuclear
holocaust.
I have been saying on national
television, in churches and
auditoriums across America, it’s
1938 all over again. Iran is
Germany, and Ahmadinejad is the
new Hitler of the Middle East.
We must stop Iran’s nuclear
threat. And candidly toothless,
limp-wristed sanctions from
Washington is simply not going to
get it done.
The only way to win a nuclear
war is to make certain it never
starts. Iran’s president has not
limited his maniacal threats to
Israel; he’s also asked fellow
Iranians to imagine a world
without America. That’s pretty
clear. It’s a clear threat to destroy
the United States of America.
I have something to say to the
president of Iran. Mr.
Ahmadinejad, do not threaten the
United States of America. Do not
threaten the State of Israel. Do
not threaten the State of Israel,
saying, “They will pass in a
sudden storm.” In the Bible,
whenever Pharaoh threatened the
Jews of Egypt, he became fish
food in the Red Sea. Whenever
Haman threatened the Jews in
Persia, which is modern-day Iran,
he and his sons hung on the very
gallows he built for the Jewish
people.
Our message, Mr. Ahmadinejad
— that threats against Israel have
a way of becoming a self-
fulfilling prophecy. You may be
well speaking about your own
demise when you say, “Israel will
pass away with a sudden storm.”
But you are not talking about
Israel’s demise. The God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is
watching you. King David writes,
“The God that keepeth Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
Christians believe there’s a spy in
the sky, and he’s Jewish.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, the Christians
of America will not sit by in
silence and watch you plan and
plot a nuclear holocaust. There
will never be another holocaust,
not on our watch, not ever.
Beyond the threat from Iran,
there’s another, more subtle threat
that concerns me. I am concerned
that in the coming months yet
another attempt will be made to
parcel out parts of Israel in a futile
attempt to appease Israel’s
enemies in the Middle East. I
believe that the misguided souls
in Europe, the political brothel
that is the United Nations, and
sadly our own administration will
once again try to turn Israel into
what Churchill called crocodile
food. Winston Churchill, one of
my favorite statesmen of all time,
said — and I quote — “An
appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile in the futile hope that it
will eat him last.”
In 1938, Czechoslovakia’s
Sudetenland was turned into
crocodile food for the Nazi
German beast. The Nazi beast
smelled the weakness in the
appeasers, ate the food, and then
marched on to devour most of
Europe and systematically
slaughter six million people. Six
million Jewish people.
We are again hearing calls to
appease the enemies of Israel.
Once again, those who would
appease seek to do so at the
expense of Israel. Israel is always
the one called upon to sacrifice.
They tell us that if we want the
Sunnis and the Shiites to stop
massacring each other in Iraq,
then Israel must give up land.
And if we want the Syrians and
Hezbollah to stop murdering the
leaders of Lebanon, then Israel
must give up land. And if we
want the Saudis to permit women
to drive or vote, the obvious
answer is that Israel should give
up more land.
And if we want the sun to rise in
the east and set in the west, the
obvious answer is Israel should
give up some more land.
61
Let me be very clear about this
— Israel is not the problem here.
Scapegoating Israel is not going
to solve the problem. The
problem is Arab rejection of
Israel’s right to exist.
The problem is Israel does not
have a legitimate partner for
peace. The problem is radical
Islam’s bloodthirsty embrace of a
theocratic dictatorship that
believes they have a mandate
from God to kill Christians and
Jews. The problem is the failure
of moderates in the Arab and
Muslim world to stand up and rein
in these Islamic terrorists.
If the moderate Arabs believe
that murdering Christians and
Jews is wrong, then stand up and
speak up. Your silence is
deafening. Appeasement, my
friends, is not the answer. To
quote the great evangelical
abolitionist [William] Wilberforce
— he said, “Appeasement is
nothing more than surrender on
the installment plan.”
America should not pressure
Israel to give up more land. And
America must never pressure
Israel to divide the city of
Jerusalem.
What the Jewish people do with
the city of Jerusalem is the
business of the Jewish people, not
the United States of America.
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Redeclaring Our Solidarity
Submitted at 11/24/2010 9:00:09 AM
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dated February 4, 2004, was sent
to the friends of National Review,
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[H]ere we are at NR, as we have
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Our total loss for the year was
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California Squirms with CIRM: The Embryonic Stem Cell

Boondoggle
Chuck Donovan (The Foundry: campaign, deployed powerful remains locked into a 10-year
Conservative Policy News.) images promising miracle cures spending commitment. Now, the
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:00:47 AM from these lines of research. Vice prime sponsor of the 2004
Presidential candidate John initiative, Bob Klein, who has
Posted November 24th, 2010 at Edwards captured public attention become a $150,000-a-year
12:00pm in Family and Religion in October of that year speaking employee of CIRM, has
Print This Post just after the death of the actor announced that he will seek
Centrally planned job creation Christopher Reeve, who had another voter-approved infusion
and scientific research pose many suffered severe injury in an of $3 billion in 2014. Even the
o f t h e s a m e p r o b l e m s : equestrian accident. Edwards Los Angeles Times seems
extraordinary expense, a pattern famously said, “If we do the work skeptical.
of politically shaped insider that we can do in this country, the Advocates of such initiatives, not
t r a n s a c t i o n s , a n d l e s s t h a n work that we will do when John to mention less intrinsically
promising results. This occurs for Kerry is president, people like controversial ideas like wind
substantially the same reason: Christopher Reeve are going to farms and ethanol, have a basic
government attempts to pick walk again. Get up out of that conundrum to overcome: If an
winners and losers in developing wheelchair and walk again.” industry or research project is as
fields ignore the discipline of the Claims like these, also repeated remotely revolutionary and cost-
marketplace and the wisdom of in the heavily funded campaign effective as they say it is, isn’t it
personal investment. for Prop 71, proved hard to resist the kind of enterprise most likely
Consider the story of the in California and Missouri, which to draw major venture capital and
C a l i f o r n i a I n s t i t u t e f o r approved a similar ballot measure not compromise the public trust?
Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). in 2006. And isn’t the wisdom of the
C a l i f o r n i a v o t e r s a p p r o v e d As the funds began to flow under marketplace, not the proximity of
Proposition 71 in 2004, which Prop 71, a series of problems certain participants to political
authorized the creation of the began to emerge. In addition to figures and the public treasury,
institute and permitted it to raise California’s burgeoning budget the best way to separate the truth
up to $3 billion in bond funding woes, the CIRM found itself from fiction, the phenomenal
for grants over a 10-year period to embroiled in headlines in the was the lack of progress in terms adult stem cell research, whose from the merely fanciful?
pursue the promise of embryonic state’s major papers about its of safe and effective human derivation does not depend on the This entry passed through the
stem cell research (ESCR) and extraordinarily high salaries, therapies resulting from CIRM’s destruction of human embryos. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
human cloning. At the time of the pattern of approving grants to work. In fact, by 2009 the failure Over time voters began to your content and you're reading it
vote, federal funds for ESCR were universities that were represented to produce human therapeutic perceive that the promise of on someone else's site, please read
l i m i t e d u n d e r a B u s h on the governing body making benefits using the embryonic overnight miracles was, to say the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Administration policy issued in funding determinations, and cells, whose derivation is ethically least, exaggerated. In 2007 New content-only/faq.php
August 2001, and no federal funds employment of former state controversial, led CIRM to Jersey voters rejected then- Five Filters featured article:
at all were available for research political leaders as liaisons with redeploy the majority of its Governor Jon Corzine’s proposal Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
involving human clones. the legislative bodies they had funding to the ethically to spend $450 million in taxpayer Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
The campaign for Prop 71, as once served. uncontroversial alternative of dollars on ESCR. But California Catastrophe.
well as the 2004 presidential The biggest problem, however,
64 Politics-Right/ Finance/ E-reader News Edition

On Welfare, an Unlikely Voice of Reason

Submitted at 11/24/2010 3:00:53 AM
states to use local funds to Yvette Alexander, represents a councilman who opposes the bill
continue to provide benefits after nearly equally impoverished area. and expects to block it in
Even Marion Barry can see what recipients hit the federal limit. They have seen firsthand the committee, admitted his
is wrong with our welfare system. The District of Columbia was one failures of welfare. frustration that “we have
I t was largely lost amid the glut of the few jurisdictions that chose After all we’ve been throwing generational poverty, and people
of post-election news, but last to do so. It is estimated that as money at poverty ever since seem to subsist on these services
week an important political figure many as 40 percent of D.C. Lyndon Johnson first declared and we are not able to get them
called for a major cutback in residents who receive welfare do war on poverty in 1965 -- more off.”
social-welfare benefits. In doing so for longer than five years,
so, he denounced welfare as a nearly a third for more than eight
program that created “a cycle of years. The bill would cut off not
than $13 trillion so far, with state
and local governments laying out
another couple of trillion. This
The real ways to fight poverty are
not a secret. It’s not about giving
people money in a vain attempt to
Brink of
generational poverty, government just cash payments under the
d e p e n d e n c y , a n d e c o n o m i c Temporary Assistance to Needy
year alone, federal welfare
spending will exceed $600 billion,
make poverty more comfortable --
it’s about creating conditions on War
disparity.” Families (TANF) program, but to fund 122 separate anti-poverty the ground that enable people to Matt Gurney (FrontPage
It was not a newly elected also child care, housing subsidies, programs. During his first two take control of their own lives, to Magazine » FrontPage)
Republican or a leader of the Tea and other benefits paid for with years in office, President Obama enable them to rise above poverty Submitted at 11/23/2010 10:40:05 PM
Party movement, nor was it a city funds. has already hiked welfare and to become self-sufficient.
conservative talk-radio host or a As many as 8,000 D.C. residents spending by more than $120 President Obama and the Early Tuesday morning, local
Fox News commentator. It didn’t would immediately lose benefits billion. And that comes on top of Democrats in Congress never tire time, South Korean military
even come from analysts at the if the council were to approve the an $80 billion increase under of telling us how much they care forces were conducting a military
Cato Institute. Instead that legislation. President Bush. about the poor. If so, perhaps they exercise from a Marine base on
p r o n o u n c e m e n t , a n d t h e It is important to note that Barry But all those programs and all should listen to Marion Barry. the island of Yeonpyeong. The
legislation to back it up, came represents the city’s poorest that money has done little to raise -- Michael Tanner is a senior exercise involved firing artillery
from former Washington mayor neighborhoods. His city-council people out of poverty. Instead, as fellow at the Cato Institute and from the base, out over the
Marion Barry, currently a city ward is 93 percent African- Barry pointed out, welfare author of Leviathan on the Right: Yellow Sea, to the south of the
councilman, who has introduced a American, unemployment is over “enslave[s] residents in How Big-Government island — and away from North
bill to impose a strict five-year 25 percent, and more than one in joblessness and dependency on Conservatism Brought Down the Korean territory. North Korea
time limit on welfare benefits in three residents live in poverty. the government rather than lifting Republican Revolution. Michael contacted the South during the
the District of Columbia. Two-thirds of families in his ward them up and giving them an Tanner exercise and demanded that the
#ad#The 1998 federal welfare- are unmarried women with opportunity to achieve self- South cease fire. When the South
reform law imposed such a time children. And Barry’s co-sponsor sufficiency.” refused to comply with the
limit nationwide. But it allows on the legislation, councilwoman Tommy Wells, a Washington city North’s demand, North Korea
opened fire on Yeonpyeong
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Spread the Word, Not the Wealth

Julia Shaw (The Foundry: transformation, Bradford
Conservative Policy News.) concluded that communism was
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:00:23 AM incompatible with human nature.
It is vain to advocate that “taking
Posted November 24th, 2010 at away of property and bringing in
11:00am in First Principles Print community into a commonwealth
This Post
Communism, it is often said, will
would make [men] happy and
flourishing. For this community Mexico’s War
work under the proper conditions. (so far as it was) was found to
Though it might fail in a big
country with millions of
breed much confusion and
discontent and retard much
on America’s
disconnected individuals, it
should work in a small
employment that would have been
to their benefit and comfort.”
Border
community of relatively close- Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
It only took Plymouth Colony Magazine » FrontPage)
knit comrades, who would thrive three years (and several bouts of
under a system of shared burden starvation) to clarify that pilgrim Submitted at 11/23/2010 10:38:00 PM

and harvest. socialism was a failure. Equality

If you think that successful is not desirable when it means Texas Governor Rick Perry
communism is small communism, his journal. As he explains, there introduced a system of private equally starving to death. This caused a stir last week when he
the experience of America’s first was little harvest and much property in agriculture. He Thanksgiving, as we celebrate suggested that the deployment of
s e t t l e r s s h o u l d d i s p e l a n y dissatisfaction. Young men assigned “to every family a parcel family, and friends, and the U.S. troops into Mexican territory
romantic notions you may harbor objected to working for the o f l a n d , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e blessings of this life, let us also may be necessary, pointing out
on the subject. that five of his state’s citizens
benefit of other men’s wives and proportion of their number, for recall our other inheritance from
Plymouth Colony, a small children. The strong objected that that end, only for present use (but the Pilgrims—that of private died in the past two weeks. The
community of settlers struggling they received the same amount of made no division for inheritance) property. fight against the barbaric drug
to survive in a new land, learned food and clothing as the weak. and ranged all boys and youth This entry passed through the cartels has escalated each year
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goods and products were held in a performing household chores for women, and children no longer our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ war worthy of attention, but Perry
“common stock.” All were to men other than their husbands, thought labor to be tyrannical and content-only/faq.php seems to be the only major
contribute equally and share deeming it “a kind of slavery.” oppressive, and instead became Five Filters featured article: politician sounding the alarm.
equally in the community’s In response to the dearth of crops, industrious stewards of their Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- “I think you have the same
bounty—or lack thereof. The starvation, and overall miserable individual plots of land, resulting Reporting of Falluja's Cancer situation as you had in
governor of Plymouth Colony, condition that communal living in bountiful harvests. Catastrophe. Colombia,” Perry accurately said.
William Bradford, recorded the h a d p r o d u c e d , B r a d f o r d About 31,000 people have been
From Plymouth Colony’s
experiment of communal living in killed in the Mexican drug war
since December 2006 — more
than five times the number of
American soldiers killed in
Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
And it is getting worse. There has
been a 53 percent increase in
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Morning Bell: Stop Treating Everyone continued from page 65

murders since last year, with American territory. Sheriff Paul

As An Equal Threat 10,000 murders so far this year.
Last week, four people in Tijuana
Babeu of Pinal County says that
local law enforcement has been
Conn Carroll (The Foundry: attendants. The solution is ending about whom either nothing is were murdered in one day, with overpowered by the cartels and
Conservative Policy News.) t h e b l a n k e t b o d y s c a n n e r k n o w n o r t h e r e i s s p e c i f i c two having their corpses hung that the “Mexican drug cartels
Submitted at 11/24/2010 8:17:03 AM requirement altogether. Homeland n e g a t i v e i n f o r m a t i o n . from a bridge and one being literally do control parts of
S e c u r i t y S e c r e t a r y J a n e t The best security is intelligence decapitated. Almost the entire Arizona.”
Posted November 24th, 2010 at Napolitano says the TSA is taking and law enforcement that finds population of 6,000 of Ciudad “They literally have scouts on the
9:17am in Protect America Print a “risk-based, layered security and stops the bad people before Mier near the Texan border has high points in the mountains and
This Post a p p r o a c h . ” B u t t h e T S A ’ s t h e y g e t n e a r t h e p l a n e . fled. A Pentecostal minister who in the hills and they literally
The Associated Press reported continued policy of pat-downs or Pretending that everyone is a risk, fled said,“We have no mayor, no control movement. They have
y e s t e r d a y t h a t “ c a b i n e t body scans for all suggests as the TSA does now, is a weak police, no transit system. We have radios, they have optics, they have
secretaries, top congressional otherwise. substitute for intelligence. Most of been left to fend for ourselves.” night-vision goggles as good as
leaders and an exclusive group of Our nation does still face a real this physical screening going on The drug cartels are so strong anything law enforcement has,”
senior U.S. officials are exempt threat from terrorists intent on now has no place in primary that the authorities fighting them Sheriff Babeu said.
from toughened new airport attacking passenger air travel. But inspection lines. There should be must be genuinely concerned for There are strong indications that
screening procedures when they that threat simply does not justify some common-sense screening at t h e i r l i v e s . I n O c t o b e r , a n terrorist groups are aware of the
f l y c o m m e r c i a l l y w i t h the indiscriminate use of body t h e a i r p o r t , b u t l e t ’ s s t o p American tourist was shot while opportunity open to them in
government-approved federal scanners for primary screening. pretending that that is the best line riding a jet ski near Ciudad Mier. Mexico and are taking advantage
security details.” The article goes The TSA should not be targeting of defense. The TSA must back The investigator assigned by the of it. In July, a Hezbollah-like car
on to report that while the rest of all passengers equally. Instead, off forcing all travelers to go Mexican authorities was killed bomb killed four people in Ciudad
the public is still subject to either t h e T S A s h o u l d b e through body scanners. only days later with his head Juarez. This came shortly after
a body scanner or “an intimate practicing“focused security” that Quick Hits: found in a suitcase in front of Rep. Sue Myrick reported that a
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e x e m p t i o n f o r g o v e r n m e n t focus the lion’s share of its Catastrophe. government has placed signs Mexican nationals with Lebanese
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danger in the area. This is over
100 miles north of the Mexican
border and less than 50 miles
south of Phoenix, well into
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continued from page 64
approximately 100 artillery shells,
hit the base on Yeonpyeong,
killing two South Korean Marines
and wounding 15 others. The
North also shelled several civilian
villages around the base. It is not
known whether or not the civilian
areas were intentionally targeted
or were hit due to failures in
North Korean targeting, but
multiple (reports range from
several to several dozen) private
homes and buildings were
destroyed. The island’s civilian
population quickly sought shelter
underground, but three civilians
were still wounded in the attack.
South Korea was not long in
responding. It immediately
returned fire with its own
artillery; while the North has of
course not revealed its own losses,
the South Korean military is a
modern, well-equipped fighting
force, and it’s near certain that
they hit what they were aiming at.
North Korean casualties are
likely. The South also scrambled
F-16 fighter jets to the area, but
there are no reports yet as to
whether or not they engaged any
targets in North Korea. The South
Korean military, while holding off
on any further reaction to the
North’s attack, is now at its
maximum state of alert.
It is difficult to overstate the
gravity of Tuesday’s attack. The
two Koreas are both heavily
armed nations, locked in a
permanent state of war since a
truce ended the Korean War in
1953. The two armies face off
against each other across the
Demilitarized Zone, where the
modern military of South Korea,
some 600,000 strong, is opposite
a larger North Korean military, of
an estimated one million troops,
armed with mid-20 th century
weapons.
The North’s technological
backwardness should not cause
anyone to underestimate it.
Quantity has a quality on its own,
and in a final battle between the
larger Cold War-era force and the
modern, mobile South Koreans,
while the South would likely win,
it would not do so cheaply. Its
capital city, Seoul, is within
artillery range of North Korean
positions, and as the North has
shown today, it is now willing to
use its artillery against South
Korean soil. Any war between the
two would be devastating in both
lives and property and would send
shockwaves through the fragile
global economy.
This is not the first time that the
South has been provoked by
North Korea. Indeed, it was only
eight months ago, in March, that
the North Korean Navy launched
an unprovoked attack upon the
South. The South Korean warship
Cheonan was torpedoed as it
sailed the waters near
Yeonpyeong Island. The torpedo
explosion, which struck with no
warning, blew the Cheonan in
half. She went down quickly,
taking 46 men with her. Another
man, a South Korean rescue diver,
would later die during search and
recovery efforts to the Cheonan’s
hulk.
WILL
continued from page 59
points out that final regulations
prohibit employers from offering
any benefit to individuals for
participating in wellness programs
that ask about family medical
history—“something that is a
critical element of any wellness
program. So, regulations are
“hampering employer efforts to
use and expand these programs.”
The law creates utter confusion
as to who is a full-time employee
and a part-time employee.
Employers are “very concerned”
that regulations being considered
by the IRS and Labor Department
“may inappropriately categorize
many part-time employees as full-
time workers.” This would mean
having to cover them with
insurance even if they only
worked, say, 10 hours a week
most of the year, but long hours
during a holiday. And maybe even
their dependents and retirees.
Just to satisfy their insatiable
hunger for more rules, the health
law also “requires employers
providing ‘minimum essential
coverage’ to any individual to file
IRS returns certifying the name
and identification of covered
individuals, dates of coverage
during the calendar year, whether
67
the coverage is through a
qualified plan offered through an
exchange, the amount of any
advance cost-sharing or premium
tax credit received by the
individual, the identity of the
employer maintaining the plan,
and the portion of the premium
paid by the employer.”
The reporting employer must
then send a written statement to
each individual who was included
on the return, providing each
individual with the information
which was reported to the IRS.
Much of the same information
must also be reported to the
relevant exchange by the offering
employers.
The analysis sums it up best:
“With each new administrative
burden, each new direct and
indirect tax, each new mandate,
and with each piece of added
complexity, employers are nudged
in the direction of dropping
coverage altogether.” No wonder
collapse is inevitable.
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continued from page 58
prompted many of these same
officials to criticize Bush-
administration officials, such as
John Bolton and Bob Joseph, for
hyping intelligence regarding
North Korea’s capabilities.
There is plenty of blame to go
around for the current sorry state
of affairs regarding North Korea’s
nuclear program. But moving
forward necessitates that the
Obama administration once and
for all abandon the longstanding
myth that the Kim regime can be
persuaded to relinquish North
Korea’s nuclear weapons in
exchange for the appropriate
package of incentives. This will
not come easily to an
administration predisposed to
“negotiations.” Moreover, such
truthfulness will require the
accompanying political will on
the part of the United States to
undertake the risks associated
with refusing to acquiesce to
Pyongyang’s provocations. This is
a decision that no U.S. political
administration has been thus far
willing to undertake to thwart
North Korea’s nuclear program.
It is unclear whether the Obama
administration is prepared to
undertake such a challenge. But
the time is long overdue for the
U.S. to stop making the mistakes
that have dictated North Korea
policy for the past two decades.
The moment of truth has arrived,
again.
— Carolyn Leddy served at the
State Department and on the
National Security Council staff
during the Bush administration,
from 2003 to 2007. Carolyn
Leddy
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Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) warmth into my life. Pebble provide a counterpoint to all this
Submitted at 11/24/2010 10:05:34 AM Ridge, Westward Ho!, North nauseating New England sports
Devon love… I’m thankful for the New
So cometh that day of thanks, Amy-Mae Elliott: I love living by York Yankees and all 27 of their
when we all ruminate on the the seaside and go to the beach World Championships. There’s
events of the year past, and then every day, rain or shine. I’m no video from the first one (1923)
lapse into the inevitable food thankful for the North Atlantic and going through all of them
coma. Ocean as seen in one of its many would take too long, so here’s Ol’
Being reflective folk over here at moods in this clip of my local Blue Eyes singing “New York,
Mashable, we have decided to beach. Boy Meets Ice Pond
take a brief break from gazing at Erica Swallow: I’m thankful that
New York,” instead. Jay-Z, Alicia
Keys, “Empire State of Mind”
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our glowing screens to gaze into even as we grow up, my friends
our souls, shifting through the and I are still amused by the little
Brenna Ehrlich: And while we’re
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much Mashable has grown this
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The Musical a Thanksgiving
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killer” any time soon (dude,

eradicate all those FB phishing
scams and then we’ll talk), the
fact that Facebook would take
such a step got us thinking.
Every day, 4 billion messages are
shot off via Facebook, and next to
those 4 billion messages is
something that could make or
break the legitimacy of your
missive — or, at the very least,
amuse or horrify your friends:
your profile picture.
This is your calling card, your
public face. So why do so many
of you contort it into that of a
duck?
Read on for five common types
of Facebook photos that make
your friends want to block you,
potential employers take pause
and future suitors weep with
frustration at the state of the
human race.
And so begins my Netiquette
column — which I write with my
Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger,
UberTwitter Now Available for iPhone Andrea Bartz— this week over at
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How Your View of Client Eastwood Can Help You Pick the Right
Investments
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Submitted at 11/23/2010 7:19:07 PM the big upsides of getting older is Start Early and Keep the Ball 401(k) match, if available, is a no- of the woodwork - and all of them
gaining the wisdom and Rolling brainer). If you can’t manage to have the best investment for your
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Eastwood Can Help You Pick the any other way. much of a secret at all - start early your means. fees, highest return, lowest risk
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Age-Based Portfolio Strategy waistlines, we actually want our your money has to grow. Ideally, within your means, regularly pad!
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Everything changes as you get taking an age-based strategy with income, you should try to reserve and you’ve accumulated a couple especially coming from anyone
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And contrary to what the experts
will tell you, you can manage
your portfolio yourself. One of the
easiest ways to do so is by taking
an age-based portfolio approach.
Simply put, this strategy
associates your age bracket with a
target asset allocation (proportion
of stocks, bonds and cash). Let’s
take a closer look.
I’m a 20-Something, Where Do I
Put My Money?
For those of you who don’t wear
watches, who prefer texting to
email and who think of Clint
Eastwood as a kindly old movie
director, you’re probably a 20-
something and stocks should
make up the majority of your
portfolio. Stocks are considered
(especially in the short-term with
market ups and downs) higher
risk investments than bonds or
cash equivalents (like savings
accounts, CDs and 30-day
Treasury bills). Over the long-
term, though, stocks have
historically outperformed all other
investments. So if you’re in your
20s, a portfolio made up of mostly
domestic stocks is a good place to
start.
One warning: keep your stock
investments diversified by buying
into mutual funds or exchange-
traded funds (where the price
reflects a large basket of stocks)
instead of just picking individual
stocks to invest in. Unless you’re
looking into a career as a
stockbroker, I’m guessing you
don’t want to spend most of your
free time analyzing balance
sheets, price-earnings ratios and
future outlooks of dozens of
companies.
I’m in My 30s, What About Me?
If you wear a watch as an
accessory, you don’t like to text
as much as you used to and you’re
vaguely aware Clint Eastwood
used to be an actor, you should
begin to move your portfolio
toward a mix of stocks, bonds and
cash equivalents - especially as
you near the big 4-0. Always
remember that the closer you get
to retirement, the less short-term
risk your portfolio should have.
And since bonds and cash
equivalents are less risky
investments, as the years pass, the
bond + cash proportion of your
portfolio should grow over time.
That said, though, in your 30s the
majority of your portfolio should
still be in stocks.
For the Over-40 Crowd
If you actually use a watch as a
timekeeping device, you accept
texting as an unfortunate part of
life and you can remember when
Clint Eastwood was Dirty Harry,
most likely you’re in your 40s.
Bonds and cash equivalents
should now become a larger part
of your portfolio, anywhere from
15 percent to 20 percent,
depending on how much risk you
want to take on.
Mid-Life and Retirement
If you feel naked without your
watch, you think texting is a
waste of time and you remember
when Clint Eastwood was a
hunky TV star on Rawhide, then
retirement is probably just around
the corner. Many investment
advisors recommend a 50/50
portfolio rule of thumb - meaning,
by the time you reach retirement
age, stocks should be about 50
percent of your portfolio with
bonds and cash making up the
other half.
The Caveats – One Size Does
Not Fit All
Below is a table summarizing an
age-based investment portfolio
approach. Years to Retirement
Stocks Bonds + Cash 25 years or
more 90% 10% 20 years 85%
15% 15 years 75% 25% 10 years
65% 35% 5 years 60% 40% At
retirement age 50% 50% 5 years
after retirement 35% 65% 10
years after retirement 30% 70%
A few things to keep in mind
about taking an age-based
approach to investing:
• Everyone’s risk tolerance is
different. If the short-term swings
of the market make you queasy,
you may prefer to have a higher
proportion of safer investments
(bonds and cash equivalents) in
your portfolio. The tradeoff is a
potentially lower return over the
long-term.
• It’s a long-term strategy. An age
-based approach assumes you
don’t jump in and out of
investments like a day trader. It
works best when you save and
invest on a regular basis and re-
balance your portfolio only when
you need to adjust your asset mix
to meet your target allocation.
• Diversification. We’ve
discussed a very basic, boiled-
down version of a portfolio, using
broad references to stocks and
bonds and cash equivalents. In
reality, there are countless stock
and bond investing options out
there. Do your homework and
make sure your investments
maintain a good level of
diversification, including stocks
of all capitalization levels (small,
mid and large) and a variety of
bonds (short-, mid- and long-
term). And stay away from any
bonds or bond funds below
investment grade (let the
speculators roll the dice with the
junk bonds).
There are few things as important
to you and your family’s well-
being as the active care and
maintenance of your investment
portfolio. And with regular,
consistent saving and investing,
an age-based strategy offers a
simple, practical way to manage
your money over the long haul.
For more tips and tools to help
you make the most of your
money, visit Quizzle.com and
follow Quizzle on Facebook.
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Google-branded
Chromebook could still
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It's almost time to eat turkey and
then jet out to Best Buy to be
trampled by mad shoppers. Oh
yes, the holiday season is just
about here, which according to a
few posts we've written in the last
year means that the Chrome OS
netbooks should be as well. Well,
it turns out that the Google OS-
powered laptops aren't going to
arrive this year, or at least not in
the way we thought they would.
That doesn't mean Chrome OS
isn't going to see a bit of an unveil
this year, but major
manufacturers, including Acer
and HP, won't have its own
Chromebooks ready before 2011.
How do we know? Acer's Jim
Wong told us during the
company's global press
conference that Acer will be
launching its netbook based on
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the browser operating system
during the "consumer launch" of
the OS next year, while Google
has its own agenda and will be
doing something "in December."
We didn't get to ask if that Acer
netbook is in fact the"ZGA"
netbook we've seen popping up in
bug reports, but our guess is that it
will be something quite similar.
So, what does Google have
brewing? You remember the
Google-branded Chrome OS
netbook that we heard about?
Well, according to a few of our
very own sources, that's exactly
what's going to happen. We don't
have exact timing details, but we
have been told by a few that
Google will launch its own
Chrome-book a la the Nexus One
for "friends and family." As the
operating system is still in a beta
or preview form, the netbook
would be aimed at the
development / early adopter
community. Specs-wise we don't
know all that much, but we've
heard that it will be powered by
an Intel Atom Pine Trail
processor and, just as Digitimes
reported, that 75,000 units are
being manufactured by Taiwan
ODM Inventec. We should
mention that the aforementioned
Acer "ZGA" was said to be used
internally as a "dogfood device" at
Google, but we believe this
Google-branded device to be
entirely different. Inventec, Intel,
and Google wouldn't comment on
the hardware rumor, but Google
did tell us that it would"have more
details to share later this year." By
our count, that leaves 'em with
just about 37 days to spill the
beans!
Note: The picture above is just
our creative interpretation of what
a Chromebook may look like --
don't come crying to us when the
actual device looks a lot prettier.
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Black Friday 2010 deals roundup: ultimate mega edition (updated

regularly)
Laura June (Engadget) where making a competitive sport Black Friday 2010 deals
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for your loved ones is only better (updated regularly) originally
Hey guys, did you hear that the in reality than it would be on appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24
day after Thanksgiving everybody reality television (producers, you Nov 2010 12:22:00 EDT. Please
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SlingPlayer Mobile app

hits the iPad
Paul Miller (Engadget) UI and other iPad-friendly
Submitted at 11/24/2010 11:34:00 AM tweaks. Check out that video
preview after the break to learn
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPad was more, or just hit up your local
looking pretty slick when we saw App Store and start downloading
a preview a couple weeks ago, (it's rolling out in typical App
and now, just like that, it's arrived Store fashion, which means it
at the App Store. Folks who might take a few minutes to pop
already invested in the iPhone app up in your particular iTunes).
might be a bit disappointed to find Continue reading SlingPlayer
they need to fork out another $30 Mobile app hits the iPad
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