House Votes to End Government Shutdown: What the Pundits Are Saying

The government shutdown is close to ending.

The House voted to end the government shutdown 284 to 144 Wednesday night. Earlier, the Senate voted to end the shutdown 81-18. The bill will now go to President Obama, who said in a televised speech that he will sign the bill if and that the government will reopen immediately after.

The bill contained none of the major changes to President Obama's budget that the Republicans had pushed for, which led pundits on the cable networks to question if the shutdown would damage the politicians who made it happen.

Anderson Cooper anchored coverage for CNN, where colleague David Gergen predicted Republicans would likely use similar tactics in the future.

"I am not at all convinced that the Tea Party learned their lesson out of this," Gergen said. He said Republicans will believe they did fight hard enough.

"Don't you imagine Democrats will come out of this feeling like they won? Their muscles are bigger, and [they] will be less willing to compromise," Gergen predicted

CNN's John King said the next round of elections will be make or break for the Tea Party candidates, and signal whether they have been hurt politically by the shutdown.

Fox News Channel's Bret Baier anchored a special report and spoke with White House correspondent Ed Henry. Henry said many people will be skeptical that a similar situation will not arise in the future. He speculated observers will think Republicans and Democrats have simply "kicked the can down the road," putting off their problems for another day.

On MSNBC, Chris Hayes speculated the Democrats learned to stand united during the shutdown by observing how the Republican party had acted in the past. Ben Domenech, from the right-leaning The Heartland Institute, looked back to the shutdown of the mid-1990s, noting Republicans had been united then because they had just won a resounding midterm election in 1994.

"In the 1990s shutdown, you had a united front because Newt Gingrich had led the Republican party out of the wilderness," Domenech said.

Hayes noted this was not the case with the current shutdown, because Republicans lost the 2012 presidential election.

Said Hayes: "That's what's so remarkable about this fool's errand. We just had an election which the Republicans demonstratively and very clearly lost." 

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'Community' Star to Guest on NBC's 'Welcome to the Family' (Exclusive)

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A Community star is teeing up against Mike O'Malley.

Yvette Nicole Brown has joined freshman comedy Welcome to the Family in an adversarial role, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

Appearing in the sixth episode titled "Junior Takes a Stand," Brown will play Mrs. Peck, the Yoder family's annoyingly overbearing and strong next-door neighbor. Constantly bickering with Dan (O'Malley) about everything going on at the Yoder house, Mrs. Peck is well-versed in local laws and city ordinances. Her current annoyance is the "eye-sore" RV parked in the Yoders' driveway.

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Brown films her episode this week.

She joins fellow guest star Eva Longoria, who reunites with former Desperate Housewives co-star Ricardo A. Chavira in the Oct. 17 episode. Both Community and Welcome to the Family hail from Sony Pictures Television.

Brown is repped by KMR Talent.

Welcome to the Family airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. on NBC. Community does not have an official return date set.

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Miley Cyrus Appears Nude In Body Paint for Future’s “Real & True” Video

Miley Cyrus is becoming known for being naked as much as she is for her music career.

The 20-year-old singer appears as an alien being in rapper Future’s latest music video, where she appears nude except for silver body paint.

Miley is seen wearing nothing but paint as she is shown lying down on chaise.

In another scene, the pair look as if they are about to make out.

Future, whose nickname is Astronaut Kid, and Mr. Hudson are shown dressed as astronauts, with Miley in an olive green mechanic’s suit.

The rapper also features on Miley’s new album Bangerz, on the track “My Darlin”.

Future said of Miley Cyrus, “We got a lot of great records, and it all came from conversation and having a nice vibe. Whenever she allowed me in her personal life through conversation, I tried to take that vibe and go to the booth. I told her, ‘You’ve gotta embrace your fears. If something’s bothering you, you’ve gotta run toward it. If you’re crying about it, you need to cry till you can’t cry anymore. If you try to hold it back, then it’s gonna eat you up. But if you embrace [it], the music moves’.

“The songs I did with her [are] very touching. Certain days it’s about money, partying and vibing and some days [it's about needing] somebody to stand by you and hold you down. Certain days you wanna know if the love that you’re with is really true, and one song we got is basically around all those subject matters.”

Miley Cyrus is also featured on the remix for her pal French Montana’s track called “Ain’t Worried About Nothin”.

Cyrus raps on the remix, spitting lines about the “three thick girls” in her video and a time when she “popped a molly” (Esctasy).

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Review: 3 PhoneGap toolkits tame mobile app development

October 16, 2013

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The very first road to the various app stores from Apple and Google was paved with native code. If you wanted to write for iOS, you learned Objective-C. If you wanted to tackle Android, Java was the only way. Similar issues popped up with all the other smaller players in the smartphone market.

Then some clever developers came to a realization: All the smartphones offered a nice option for displaying HTML in a rectangle on the screen. You have to write a bit of native code that pops up this rectangle in the native language, but everything inside the rectangle is controlled by the same languages that control the browser.

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Many developers immediately recognized the beauty of this. They wrote a generic native app with one big rectangle that took over the screen, then they handed off control to the JavaScript team. The result could run on all smartphones with only a few minor changes. Not only that, but the developers could use their JavaScript and HTML chops without learning too many details of the various platforms.

The early years weren't kind to this vision. Apple reacted harshly and banned some HTML apps from the App Store. Developers quickly found they couldn't get too creative with the JavaScript or the HTML before the phone started hiccuping and coughing. The HTML-based apps were often rougher and less polished than their native cousins.

That started changing several years ago. Apple relented and recognized that HTML was not dangerous. Then the hardware got faster, smoothing over many glitches. Today, some of the HTML-based apps I've been writing perform just as well as native apps -- and they're much easier to port.

Now these toolkits are being combined with cloud-based services that add cross-platform builds and app distribution to the mix. The leader of the movement, a once open source project named PhoneGap, is running strong and attracting competition from AppGyver, a startup that wants to make it all even easier. In the meantime, Telerik Icenium is evolving along a parallel path and offering a strong collection of development tools and UI widgets sewn together with JavaScript and HTML. All these tools open up the world of apps to developers who already are skilled in building Web applications.

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Ride Faster and Smarter With This Self-Charging Electric Bike Wheel

Riding bikes is awesome. The wind in your hair, the sun on your face, the city in the distance—it's a fun thing to do. But don't you sometimes think, "This would be a lot more fun if I had a robot's help." Some spoke-savvy Brooklynites think that too—and now they've built a solution.

Meet the FlyKly Smart Wheel. This new device—which comes in eight different colors—looks like any other rear wheel, except that it has a monster-sized hub stuffed full of electronics. Those guts include a small engine that can zoom you along at a top speed of 20-miles-per-hour for up to 30 miles without pedaling using energy harvested from the turning of your wheels. They also include a small computer with GPS capabilities that tracks your ride and can offer suggestions for better routes with the help of a smartphone app (for either iOS or Android). That app is easily accessible with the accompanying Smart Light, a light that serves as a mount for your phone as well as a charger.

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That's a lot to take in, I realize, but the FlyKly Smart Wheel is effortless to operate. You just replace the rear wheel on your bike with the nine-pound Smart Wheel and start pedaling. Then, from your handlebar-mounted smartphone, you set a desired speed—and the Smart Wheel takes care of the rest. Continuing to pedal will charge the Smart Wheel, though you can also charge it by plugging the wheel into the wall. It will also probably surprise you at first, since you'll be going faster than normal thanks to some extra help from the motor. You sort of feel like a superbiker.

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What separates a bike equipped with the FlyKly Smart Wheel and a regular electric bike are the little computer's big capabilities. Again, the accompanying smartphone app can track your ride, not only telling you where you went but also how fast you went and how long it took you to reach your destination. It'll also suggest new routes and track your progress in the long-term. You can also lock the back wheel using the app—and if someone picks it up and walks away, the app will alert you right away. FlyKly is also launching an Open API and SDK so that others can develop more features using FlyKly data. So far, Pebble has already launched an app that allows users to control FlyKly with their smartwatches.

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All of these features don't come cheap. The whole kit—which includes both the Smart Wheel and the Smart Light—costs $590. (You can also buy just the Smart Light for $59.) This includes a year-long warranty. If the wheel ever breaks or malfunctions, you can just send it back, and FlyKly will replace the whole thing. In the meantime, you can always just stick your old wheel back on your bike and ride it like normal.

You can reserve your FlyKly Smart Wheel kit now by backing the just-launched Kickstarter. It will go on sale to the general public in early 2014.

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Did Hillary Clinton tip her hand on 2016 presidential run?

Hillary Clinton may have tipped her hand on Tuesday about her plans for a 2016 presidential run.

Speaking in Atlanta at a convention that was closed to the media, Clinton spent 25 minutes talking about the 2011 raid on the Osama bin Laden compound, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The crux of that discussion: that she was for the 2011 raid in which al Qaida leader bin Laden was killed ― and Vice President Joe Biden did not support the military action.

State Representative Tom Taylor, a Republican, told the AJC that Clinton went to great lengths to paint herself and former CIA director Leon Panetta as the raid's fiercest advocates, while at the same time highlighting Biden's opposition.

"Without turning the knife too deeply, she put it to Biden," Taylor told the AJC.

Why take a shot at Biden?

Because if Clinton chooses to run for president in 2016, Vice President Biden would likely be her No. 1 opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination, and contrasting her position with Biden's on the bin Laden raid presumably casts her in a more presidential light.

Biden's opposition to the raid isn't necessarily a revelation. The vice president has acknowledged he thought the raid was a risk. And according to "The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden," author Mark Bowden reports that Biden was the only one of President Obama's senior council to oppose the raid.

"It was widely reported in the weeks and months after the raid that most, or at least many, of the president's top advisers opposed the raid," Bowden wrote in a Vanity Fair article. "That is not true. Nearly everyone present favored it. The only major dissenters were Biden and [then Defense Secretary Robert] Gates, and before the raid Gates would change his mind."

This isn't the first time Clinton has contrasted her position on the raid with Biden's. According to Politico, Clinton said the same thing during a recent speech on Long Island.

While there is much speculation about Clinton's future, the former secretary of state has not publicly revealed her plans.

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Timeline: Congress' path to federal shutdown

A timeline of Congress' battle over the partial government shutdown and expiring federal borrowing authority:

Sept. 20: Republican-run House ignores White House veto threat, votes to keep government open through Dec. 15 if President Barack Obama agrees to cut off money for his 2010 health care law.

Sept. 24-25: Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other conservatives speak on Senate floor for more than 21 consecutive hours about using shutdown bill to weaken health care law.

Sept. 27: Democratic-led Senate votes to remove House-approved provision defunding health care law, sends bill keeping agencies open through Nov. 15 back to House.

Sept. 29: House shifts demands on health care law, votes to delay implementation for a year and repeal tax on medical devices. Separately, House votes to pay troops in case of shutdown. Senate approves bill next day, Obama signs it into law.

Sept. 30: Senate rejects latest House provisions curbing health care law. House reworks shutdown bill again, delaying for a year health care law requirement that individuals buy health insurance and requiring members of Congress and staff to pay full expense of health insurance, without government paying part of costs. Senate kills latest House health care provisions.

Oct. 1: Government's new fiscal year begins, partial federal shutdown starts. House stands by language delaying required individual health coverage and blocking federal health insurance subsidies for Congress, requests formal negotiations with Senate. Senate quickly rejects House effort for formal bargaining.

Oct. 2: Embarking on strategy of voting to restart popular programs, Republicans push bills through House reopening national parks and National Institutes of Health and letting the District of Columbia municipal government spend money. Over the next two weeks, they pass more than a dozen similar bills reviving veterans, disaster aid, Head Start and other programs. Democrats mostly vote "no," saying entire government must reopen, and Senate ignores the measures. Obama discusses impasse with congressional leaders at White House, no progress reported.

Oct. 4: Republicans increasingly tie shutdown fight to need for Congress to renew federal borrowing authority by Oct. 17 or risk economy-rattling government default. GOP leaders increasingly shift their conditions for passage of the shutdown and debt limit bills to deficit reduction.

Oct. 5: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he is bringing most of his department's 350,000 furloughed workers back to work immediately.

Oct. 6: House Speaker John Boehner says House won't pass bills ending shutdown or raising debt limit without negotiations on GOP demands.

Oct. 8: Obama and Boehner suggest they might consider short-term bills ending the shutdown and extending the debt limit to give them time to negotiate.

Oct. 10: Boehner proposes six-week debt limit extension, conditioned on Obama bargaining over spending cuts and reopening government. House GOP leaders discuss standoff with Obama at White House, no deal but both sides cite progress. Congress gives final approval to bill providing death benefits for slain troops and Obama signs it.

Oct. 11: White House, congressional Republicans continue bargaining. A bipartisan Senate group works on a measure that would reopen the government and prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its bills.

Oct. 12: Boehner tells House Republicans that negotiations with White House have stalled. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., begin talks. Senate derails Democratic effort to extend debt limit through 2014.

Oct. 14: Reid and McConnell say they've made progress toward a deal described as extending debt limit to Feb. 7, reopening government until Jan. 15, other provisions.

Oct. 15: Boehner prepares House alternative but it collapses for lack of votes. His proposal would have extended debt limit to Feb. 7, fully reopened government until Dec. 15, ended federal health insurance subsidies for president, members of Congress, other government officials.

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