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Calls growing for Congress to investigate Fort Hood gunman
By JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 9:58:19 PM
Amid the growing calls for
congressional investigations into
the Fort Hood rampage, House
Armed Services Committee
Chairman Ike Skelton is
advocating a different approach
— wait and see how
investigations by the Army and
the FBI progress.
“It is important that we get to the
bottom of this incident, but we
must be careful to proceed in a
deliberate, studied manner that
will not interfere with the
ongoing criminal investigation by
the FBI and the Army’s criminal
investigative service, Skelton, a
Missouri Democrat, said on
Tuesday. “Right now, we need to
avoid jumping to any conclusions
and give the Army and the FBI a
chance to do their jobs.”
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By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:20:44 AM
Calls for lawmakers to find
answers came almost
immediately
after 13 people were killed in a
shooting rampage at the Army
post last week.
The alleged shooter, an
American-born Muslim Army
psychiatrist, is said to have been
in contact with an Islamist
sympathetic to al Qaeda.
Another call came on Tuesday,
this one from Rep. Howard
McKeon, the senior Republican
on the House Armed Services
Committee. The California
representative requested a
thorough congressional
investigation conducted in a way
that would not compromise the
FBI and Army probes.
U.S. government officials have
declined to speculate about a
possible motive and the suspect
isn’t talking.
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families, to better understand
how and why the tragic incident
took place; whether this was a
terrorist incident; and whether
there was sufficient actionable
information available to Army
and government authorities to
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have prevented this tragedy,”
McKeon said in a statement.
Senate Homeland Security
Chairman Joe Lieberman says his
panel will open an investigation
next week.
“The committee will be
conducting an investigation into
what Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s
motives were, whether the
government missed warning
signs that should have led to
expulsion, and what lessons we
can learn to prevent such future
attacks,” Lieberman, a
Connecticut independent said in a
statement on Monday
announcing the probe.
The House Intelligence
Committee, led by Texas
Democrat Silvestre Reyes, said it
plans to question national
intelligence director Dennis Blair
— possibly as soon as next week.
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Those left behind: The legacy of Arlington’s Section 60
By Larry Downing (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:50:37 AM
Larry Downing is a Reuters
senior staff photographer
assigned to the White House. He
shares that duty with three other
staff photographers. He has lived
in Washington since 1977 and
has been assigned to cover the
White House, since 1978.
President Barack Obama is the
sixth president Larry has
photographed.
“People sleep peacefully in their
beds at night only because rough
men stand ready to do violence
on their behalf.” George Orwell
Veteran’s Day is a time to
remember “All gave
some....Some gave all.”
Before reaching the new
gravestones in Arlington
National Cemetery’s ‘Section 60’
it’s easy to recognize why a
simple, quilted, patch of green
grass and white stones buried
alongside the quiet banks of the
Potomac River troubles the heart.
Names etched into fresh marble
tell the sad tale of early
death...Travis L. Youngblood....
Justin Ray Davis....Andy D.
Anderson....Thomas J. Barbieri
Jr..... Kenneth E. Zeigler
II....James R. McIlvaine ....
America’s varsity players
benched early in the game.
‘Section 60’ is America’s
promise to honor its warriors for
first serving, and then dying, in
the strange dusts on foreign soil.
Its 22211 zip code is the final
address for roughly ten-percent
of America’s dead from combat
action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 570 service members
from “Operation Enduring
Freedom” and “Operation Iraqi
Freedom,” are “interred, inurned
or memorialized with honor
inside the cemetery.”
Spend time in the section and
you can’t help but breathe the
restless cloud of uneasiness that
hangs over the calm symmetry of
the graves. Your eyes lie; you
actually “see” the pieces of
shattered hearts and lost
ambitions scattered across the
manicured grounds.
You “feel” why this is
America’s field of broken
dreams.
Fathers, mothers, widows and
children are all lost as they chase
the ghost of vanished love inside
the shadows of a sinister fog.
Watch an abandoned friend or
family member alone in anguish
softly whispering to the dead and
you’ll realize the devil deals
mean cards.
Cards that have forced a grieving
mother to stare at the letters of
her baby’s name chiseled onto a
gravestone not long after those
same letters were neatly printed
on a new birth certificate.
No woman deserves to lose her
child in war and then tragically
continue her life driving a car
with the unwanted license plate
reading “Gold Star Family.”
No wife should ask God “why”
the only man who ever promised
to protect her is gone.
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Black, white, brown, or yellow
skins are equal. There is no racial
prejudice after death.
Republicans and Democrats
agree...In silence.
Gays are finally treated with
respect. No one asks...no one
tells...
Passages recited from the Koran
are as beautiful as those recited
from the Bible.
The impact of two distant wars
became personal once the
“knocks on the door” delivered
the horrifying news and haunted
a house forever. Prayers that the
Pentagon “got it wrong”
vanished when asked if they
wanted an ‘Arlington’ funeral.
‘Arlington’ is an idyllic hillside
cemetery and is easily seen while
driving on the Arlington
And no child should ever cry out M e m o r i a l B r i d g e t o w a r d s
to mommy “where’s my daddy?” Virginia. It’s the last stop straight
An ‘Arlington’ funeral means a ahead.
father will never experience the It’s also the last stop for those
joy of giving his daughter’s hand sons and daughters who were
away in marriage. killed after announcing to their
Television got it right when they family they wanted to be “Army
called ‘Section 60’ “the saddest S t r o n g ” o r p a r t o f “ T h e
acre in America.” Few...The Proud” and then
Robert E. Drawl Jr...... Kevin D. fearlessly joined the deadliest
Grieco.... Charles E. Wyckoff... profession.
Michael Ross Stahlman.... They volunteered; even while
Death is the greatest equalizer; never reading the frightening
only after a funeral does the draft notice of their father’s
phrase: “...all men are created generation. One sent on behalf of
equal” written in the nation’s the President of the United States
‘Declaration of Independence’ d u r i n g t h e V i e t n a m W a r
take life. beginning with the terrifying,
Generals lie buried the same “Greeting....You are hereby
depth underground as the men ordered for induction into the
and women they commanded in
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Armed Forces of the United
States....”
Both the draft and that war
ended in the 1970’s.
The names of 58,261 brave
Americans are etched into the
“wall” inside the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial at the other
end of that same bridge.
About the time energetic
eighteen year-old college
freshmen are searching for an
“awesome” campus tailgate
party, America’s young soldiers,
sailors, marines, and airmen are
finishing their individual combat
specialty schools and boarding
the express bus to the front lines.
Thoughts of joining sororities
and fraternities are long gone.
Learning the dangers of the “kill
radius” of an Improvised
Explosive Device (IED) and
recognizing the “signs and
symptoms of hypovolemic
shock” are more important. A
severed femoral artery is quick to
kill in the field.
Today’s military volunteer
swears to an oath to do “whatever
it takes” to hold the protective
umbrella over the nation during
the storms in violent times.
Doubts of joining the military
were erased after witnessing an
attack on their nation September
11, 2001.
Things became clear for them in
the dawn’s morning light.
‘Section 60’ is one of
approximately 70 sections inside
the 624 fenced acres of
‘Arlington’ where more than
320,000 heros are honored. The
first military burial took place in
1864 during the American Civil
War when the cemetery opened.
The U.S. Army’s 3rd U.S.
Infantry Regiment (The Old
Guard) maintains a sentry inside
the cemetery on duty every
second of every day.
The ceremonial guards from
each branch of service provide
military honors during the
somber burial of one of their
own.
Temporary paper markers are
placed in the dirt above the grave
after a funeral while waiting for
the permanent marble stones.
Ryan Patrick Baumann....Eric
W. Hall....Colby J.
Umbrell....James C. Edge....
A triangular folded American
flag is all that remains to hold for
the devastated family members
during a funeral in ‘Section 60.’
“Gold Star” mother Lyvonne
Lightfoot hugs the flag that
draped her 20 year-old son’s
casket on August 4, 2009.
Anthony M. Lightfoot died in
Afghanistan, July 2009, while
supporting Operation Enduring
Freedom.
Rebecca Baldeosingh holds the
flag from her husband’s casket at
his funeral on August 4, 2009,
after he was killed last June in
Iraq.
The Iraq war made Laura
Youngblood an early widow in
2005 while pregnant with her
second child. Husband Travis
Youngblood was a U.S. Navy
medic who died from wounds
suffered from an IED during
combat operations with the U.S.
Marines in Hit, Iraq.
She visited her husband in May
2009 during the Memorial Day
weekend.
After touching his gravestone,
she stood up, gently kissed the
top of the marble and said, “See
you tomorrow, honey.” And then
left....
“Gold Star” mother Patty Davis
thought she was an “Army of
One” when raising her only
child, Justin, alone for eighteen
years before turning him over to
the U.S. Army. He had just
graduated from high school
weeks earlier and he had no fear
of serving in wartime.
Justin was spirited and was
strong. “A million dollar smile,”
Mrs. Davis proudly boasts. Proof
is seen in a large photograph
moments after entering her home
in Maryland. “He wanted to be in
Kung Fu movies...the next Jet
Li.”
And he loved the idea of joining
the Army so much that the night
before he reported for his first
day of duty he made his mother
stay up with him and watch two
war movies, “Saving Private
Ryan,” and “Black Hawk Down.”
Hours later they drove to the
U.S. Army recruiting office. Mrs.
Davis was now alone for the first
time in nearly two decades. “I
drove a few blocks down the
street, stopped, and just cried....”
One year later she cried
again...only harder. Justin was
finally coming home from the
war and “did she want him
buried at Arlington?”
The entire time he was gone she
thought “Afghanistan was a safer
war,” she said.
For two months after his funeral
Mrs. Davis slept inside his bed;
“I still go and sit on his bed for
comfort.”
Justin’s room is exactly as it was
the day he joined the army in
2005. The four cardboard boxes
containing his belongings from
Afghanistan are still unopened on
the floor of his room.
Justin’s first pair of baby’s shoes
hangs from the door knob to the
room.
Mrs. Davis drives to ‘Section
60’ after church every Sunday,
“rain or shine,” to honor him. “If
I don’t, who will?” “This is our
Vietnam Memorial,” she said.
She then explained, “The burden
of two wars falls on a select
few....Most Americans are not
asked to sacrifice. Our leaders
should find every means possible
to not go to war...”
Justin died shortly after turning
19 years-old. “He would have
been a great father.....now I’ll
miss that,” said Mrs. Davis.
Mrs. Davis and “Gold Star”
mother Xiomara Mena
(Anderson) are best friends now
after meeting in ‘Section 60.’
Their boys are buried within
steps of each other. Mrs.
Anderson is also a “Blue Star”
mother; she has two other
children serving in combat
overseas.
Mrs. Anderson patiently uses her
household scissors to trim the
grass around the gravestone of
her son, Andy D. Anderson, who
died in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom in June 2006.
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“Arlington takes good care of my
son...” she said, “but I like to
keep him neat.”
Mrs. Anderson’s motherly
instinct is still alive after three
years since Andy’s funeral.
Watching her carefully clip the
grass around her son’s grave
seems as natural as watching a
loving mother making up her
son’s bed in the morning.
“Gold Star” mother Vicki Zeigler
deserves her own medal for the
unwavering devotion to her son,
Kenneth E. Zeigler II; driving
EVERY weekend to visit
‘Arlington’ from Dillsburg,
Pennsylvania. Kenneth died
while serving with the U.S. Army
in Baghdad, Iraq, in May 2005.
Mrs. Zeigler arrives early and
unfolds a beach chair before
spending the entire day serenely
staring at the name of her baby
boy while recalling the day he
was born after “6 hours of hard
labor” in 1983.
Kenneth loved “God, mom,
family, ‘Metallica’ and the New
York Yankees...and in that
order,” says Mrs. Zeigler.
“He was a momma’s boy until
the end,” she proudly said. As he
was lying on the ground and
fighting for his life while
wounded his sergeant leaned
down and whispered “we’ll take
care of mom,” she explained.
Kenneth then relaxed and slipped
away after knowing his mom was
in strong hands.
Mrs. Zeigler drives in a car
devoted to the memory of her
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hero.
All three women expressed
concerns for American’s who
have loved ones in harm’s way
and may be forced in the future
to sit in the “green chairs” for
family members during an
‘Arlington’ funeral.
Theodore Uland
Church....Garrett T.
Lawton....Darryl Demetrial
Booker.... Deforest Lee Talbert...
Photojournalists assigned to
military funerals are tough and
rarely flinch. Cameras make
great walls to hide behind when
emotions become powerful.
Tears have always dripped down
from behind mine during an
“Arlington’ funeral.
Watching a sobbing widow hug
a cold casket for the last time is
unnerving.
Rebecca Baldeosingh and her
daughters attended the funeral of
her husband and their father,
Juan C. Baldeosingh, who was
killed last June in Iraq. He was
buried in Section 60 with honor
on August 4, 2009.
The most horrifying funeral I’ve
attended was by accident at the
end of the first Persian Gulf War
in 1991 along the Iraq-Kuwait
border. It still haunts me today.
Photojournalist Mike Nelson and
I stumbled upon an eerie scene in
the desert that belonged in “The
Twilight Zone.”
Over 100 Iraqi soldiers were
fleeing north from Kuwait at the
end of the war when allied
warplanes launched rockets
stopping the head of the snaking
convoy.
The attacking aircraft then
dropped exploding gas bombs
high over the remaining vehicles
in the convoy. The explosion
created huge clouds of fire above
the troops and burned all the
breathable oxygen without
scorching anyone below.
In short, the explosion sucked
the air out of the lungs of every
man.
Each corpse looked alive as we
approached and they were still
holding their rifles while seated
inside their vehicles.
The memory of that sharp,
biting, warm stench of death
remains with my lungs today.
The British army arrived and
carved a mass grave using
bulldozers. Soldiers respectfully
dragged the scores of dead bodies
across the warm sands to their
final grave before prayers were
offered over the fallen.
Nearly 19 years have passed
since that day and Iraqi mothers
are still wondering where their
sons are buried.
The Americans stationed inside
the secure air base in Da Nang
during the Vietnam War were
easy targets for the Viet Cong
who were hiding in the
surrounding mountains east of
the base. The VC used seven-foot
long, deadly 122mm Russian-
made rockets launched
inaccurately from bamboo bipods
to terrorize the troops below.
Chalk was used to tally “the
count” on a wall inside the
perimeter and over 650 rockets
were launched from those
mountains between September
1972 and September 1973.
A lethal game of Russian
roulette played against the grim
reaper during the year of living
dangerously.
“If you heard a rocket explode or
heard the siren, you had one
goal...grab your helmet, flak
jacket and haul ass to the nearest
sandbag bunker scattered around
our compound,” said a friend of
mine, a U.S. Air Force security
policeman who survived that
year.
During one night’s rocket attack
that same airman raced into the
thick, wet muck in the “binjo
ditch” that was used to drain
latrine water away from the
barracks. Both of his feet slide in
different directions when they hit
the sewage and then stopped
abruptly. His forward motion
continued and both ankles were
brutally twisted as he fell hard.
The memories of the “pop and a
blinding pain” around his ankles
are linked with the intense fear of
dying during that rocket attack.
The injuries were so severe that
at “20 years old, I would never
be able to run, jump or even walk
normally for the rest of my life,”
he writes in an email. “They
would’ve healed if they both
broke,” said the doctors.
September 1973 arrived and he
hobbled aboard the “freedom
bird” leaving Da Nang. Vietnam
and the war were now in his rear
view mirror...or so he thought.
In the years before he arrived “in
country” the air base had
supported “Operation Ranch
Hand;” an Air Force program
involving the spraying of
millions of gallons of a harsh
herbicide “Agent Orange” over
the jungles of Southeast Asia.
The deadly chemical was used to
kill the thick vegetation hiding
the enemy. “Agent Orange” was
sprayed over the rivers, fields,
and jungles of Vietnam altering
the normal life cycle of all living
plants, animals and humans on
the ground.
Air Force Security Policemen
patrolled the areas on the base
where splashed “Agent Orange”
had dripped onto the ground
leaving a contaminated residue.
My friend spent a year kicking
up and inhaling that dust.
36 years have passed since he
left Vietnam and he will never be
able to enjoy the simple,
pleasurable, act of walking a dog.
The permanent damage to his
ankles combined with the
exposure to “Agent Orange”
leaves him 100% disabled.
His days begin, then end, sitting
in a motorized wheelchair. It’s a
painful “hell;” his crippling
souvenir for bravely volunteering
for a year in Vietnam.
“There were dark, dark periods of
unmentionable anger, fear, even
desperation a time or two,” he
said. He admits he is now “a
controlled drug addict” relying
on powerful prescription drugs to
ease the sharp pain he wakes up
to each morning.
He was my hero when we were
Air Force Security Policemen
stationed together on an island in
the Mediterranean and he is my
super-hero today. (I’ve omitted
his name at his request).
Jeremy A. Chandler....Deveran
L. Owen....Adam Leigh Cann....
Steven R. Koch....
Combat veterans find the search
for “closure” a lonely battle after
losing a friend in war.
Veterans’ motorcycle club
“Patriots Pride” rode from
Charleston, West Virginia, to
visit the grave of soldier
DeForest Lee Talbert who is
buried at ‘Arlington.’ Each rider
served in combat with Talbert
before he died in July 2004.
Talbot’s son, Deontae James
Hamlet, stands proudly with the
men who knew his father.
Susan Blankenship traveled to
‘Arlington’ to “rub” the
gravestone of Steven A. Davis
for her son who served with
Davis in Iraq. Mrs.
Blankenship’s son could not
make the trip to ‘Arlington’ but
he wanted the rubbing for
“closure.” Davis died in 2007.
“Gold Star” mother Carolann
Barbieri sits alone as she writes a
private letter to her son on July 4,
2009. Barbieri died in 2006 while
in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
Visitors to ‘Section 60’ leave
small stones or personalized
mementos on top of a grave to
honor those buried below. Some
are unique but most follow the
simple Jewish tradition of leaving
a single pebble per visit on the
gravestone of a loved one.
Veteran’s Day is celebrated on
November 11th in the United
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Republican senators call for ending era of

‘permanent politicians’ Surfing the Road On
an iPhone-Controlled
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Row Washington) Constitution. Oldsmobile [IPhone]
Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:03:07 PM
To become law, the proposed By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
amendment would have to clear a
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:20:00 AM
Don’t expect the U.S. Congress high bar in what has become an
— packed with old men and increasingly divided Congress. A Remember that smart German
women who have been in office two-thirds majority vote would iPhone-controlled car that used
for decades — to embrace a be needed by both the House and cameras, GPS, and lasers to
proposal to term limit Senate, and then the measure perfectly run through the streets
themselves. would have to be approved by of Berlin? Well, screw German
Republican senators Jim three-fourths of the 50 states. efficient engineering. That's not
DeMint, Tom Coburn, Kay Interestingly enough, DeMint how we do things in America.
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politicians,” DeMint said. amendment that would limit Calls for congressional term public payroll, however. They
strip out the doors for fun. And
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Correction | Michael Tomasky

By Michael Tomasky (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:34:02 AM
My friend Sarah Posner, who
does an excellent job on
the religion beat for The
American Prospect and other
publications, tells me that the US
Conference of Catholic Bishops
does have a legal lobbying arm.
It has a government relations
department that is allowed to
lobby, as long as it doesn't
exceed a certain percentage of
time and money. I regret the
error.
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The First Draft: should Obama embrace new
structural reforms?
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:40:37 AM
Sen. Christopher Dodd of
Connecticut and Columbia
University economist Jeffrey
Sachs are two guys who think
President Barack Obama better
embrace new structural reforms if
he wants a growing economy that
isn’t hard-wired to go bust.
Dodd, a Democrat fighting for
his political life at home,
proposed sweeping regulatory
legislation this week that would
curb the Federal Reserve’s bank
oversight powers, strengthen
consumer protection and keep a
sharp eye out for systemic
problems like housing or stock
market bubbles.
The 1,136-page measure reflects
Obama’s policies in some ways
— for example, it supports the
White House call for a Consumer
Financial Protection Agency —
but it also charts new regulatory
waters.
“What we have (now) is a
hodgepodge that has grown over
the last 80 years, some of it
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dating to the 19th century and
early 20th century regulatory
structures,” Dodd told MSNBC.
“These agencies basically have
provided a forum for financial
institutions that look for a weak
charter, in a sense. They shop
around and get it. So we need to
eliminate or change that
fundamentally.”
“I think you’re really on the right
"The complexity of curves and
required thinness could not be
duplicated in any other material
stimulus policies are not well
targeted. The Republican
alternatives are even worse. Both
sides are missing the key fact: the
U.S. economy needs structural
change,” Sachs writes in an op-ed
column in today’s Financial
Times.
Sachs, who now focuses on
sustainable development as
director of Columbia’s Earth
Institute, says the president is
bent on restoring American
consumer spending.
Instead, he says, the United
States needs dollar depreciation,
greater support for exports, a
massive expansion in education
spending and a robust conversion
to a low-carbon economy.
“Move now, Mr. President,”
track,” Sachs told Dodd in the Sachs says in the FT, “or we will
same broadcast. spend our time digging out of the
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fiber, I imagine that monotonous, utility.
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[Bad Ideas]
By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:33:59 AM
This seems dangerous: a crazy
person is taking an old OutRun
cabinet and turning it into an
actual working car that renders
on screen what's actually in front
of you.
A project of Garnet Hertz of the
Pasadena Art Center College of
Design, this is a classic OutRun
arcade cabinet that's been placed
on an EVT America Electric
Trike with electric motors that
can go up to a whopping 20MPH.
Check out the below video to see
a bit more about how this thing
will work.
[ ConceptLab via Jalopnik]
as a ribbon of light.[
Contemporist via cribcandy]
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Clinton hopes for success where his
effort failed
By Donna Smith (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 2:00:24 PM
Former President Bill Clinton is
clearly hoping that Congress
succeeds this time around where
his administration failed 15 years
ago.
And perfection is not required
— just get healthcare reform
done. That was Clinton’s
message to Senate Democrats
who are now behind the steering
wheel in trying to move
legislation forward.
Clinton’s own effort to overhaul
the healthcare system in 1994
fizzled long before reaching this
far — the House of
Representatives approved its
version of a bill last weekend.
Clinton told Democratic senators
at their weekly lunch that
healthcare reform was an
economic imperative and they
should not let this latest
opportunity slip away.
“It is not important to be perfect
here, it is important to get it
passed,” Clinton told reporters
after the meeting. ”The worst
thing to do is nothing — that was
my message today.”
President Barack Obama wants
Video: Obama's Eulogy at Fort Hood
(Little Green Footballs)
healthcare legislation passed by
the end of this year. Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid is
hoping the Senate can do that,
but time is running short as he
awaits an official cost estimate
from the Congressional Budget
Office.
Reid faces a tough task of
stitching together one bill from
separate bills passed by two
Senate committees that will
garner the 60 votes needed to
move it in the 100-member
chamber.
Senators said the pep talk by
Clinton helped.
“People trust him,” said Senate
[Video]
Finance Committee Chairman
Max Baucus, who is playing a
major role in writing the Senate
bill. “He has excellent political
and policy judgments and he
believes it is far better to pass
healthcare legislation than not.”
“He’s the former president of the
United States he’s got a lot of
sway, he’s a big man.” Baucus
said.
For more Reuters political
coverage click here
Photo credit: Reuters/Las Vegas
Sun/Steve Marcus (Former
President Clinton and Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid in
August 2009)
Top News/ Gadgets/ Politics/
THOSE
continued from page 4
States.
It’s a national day of honor
recognizing veterans for
“throwing their hat in the ring” to
protect those who couldn’t
protect themselves.
Look for a veteran in November
and buy him a cup of coffee, or a
sandwich, and give thanks for
their service.
Travel to Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington
D.C. and volunteer to help the
“wounded warriors” who are
fighting for their dignity with less
than whole bodies.
U.S. Army Sgt. Joey Bozik (L)
talks to Vietnam veteran Army
Col. Oliver Mahatha Sr. (R) in
the physical therapy room at
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center in 2005. Bozik lost two
legs and one arm from an
explosion in Iraq.
Samsung Dumping
Symbian [Cellphones]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:32:53 AM
So this is why Samsung
announced bada. That new OS
will replace Symbian starting in
2010, according to Samsung's
senior VP, Don Joo Lee. (No
worries, Samsung will continue
to sell Windows Mobile and
7
Wounded Army Sgt. John
Daniel Shannon wears the Purple
Heart with pride on his eye patch
while testifying before Congress
in 2007.
Or, walk the extra mile to
‘Section 60’ inside ‘Arlington’
and place a small pebble on the
grave of an American hero....It’s
their day.
U.S. Marine SSgt. William C.
Rapier, of Quantico, Virginia,
shows his son around Arlington
National Cemetery in 2006.
Greg Lamonte Sutton.... Jamie
D. Wilson.... Charles E.
Wyckoff... Philip Andrew
Johnson Jr.....
Android handsets.) But as for
Symbian, the OS will certainly
take a hit without a piece of
Samsung's 200 million or so
phones shipping yearly (a figure
based upon their expected 2009
numbers). Ouch. [ DigiTimes via
techblips UberGizmo]
8 Top News/ World/ Tech/
FBI latest computer overhaul has
more glitches
By James Vicini (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:07:36 AM
The FBI’s trouble-plagued, long-
running effort to put in place a
new computer system has hit a
few more glitches.
An audit report Tuesday by the
Justice Department’s inspector
general said the latest phase of
the project for a fully electronic
case management system will
take three months longer than last
expected and will cost $155
million — $18 million more than
what had been budgeted.
It identified several new areas of
concern with the overall progress
of the so-called Sentinel project
and with implementation of the
project’s second phase.
There have been problems with
the FBI’s computer systems
dating back more than a decade
and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks led
FBI Director Robert Mueller to
try to accelerate efforts for a
massive upgrade.
In 2006, the FBI awarded a
contract to Lockheed Martin to
develop the system in four
phases. The FBI came up with
the project after problems caused
it to scrap an earlier system.
Smartphone users, keep complaining
By Jessica Dolcourt
(Webware.com)
The FBI’s estimate of Sentinel’s
overall cost has not increased
from about $450 million since
the last inspector general audit
nearly a year ago.
But the overall project
completion date has been pushed
back to September of 2010, three
months later than what the FBI
previously estimated and nine
months later than what was
originally planned, according to
the audit.
The audit also said FBI
employees have expressed
concerns about the system’s
current operation, complaining
Want great software for your
mobile phone? Keep up the
complaints. That was the
about its slow response time to
requests for information.
An upgrade of the FBI’s aging
computer network, planned to be
done by December, should make
the system faster.
The FBI said in a statement that
it “appreciates the inspector
general’s review of the FBI’s
Sentinel Program progress and
recognition of the FBI’s efforts to
resolve concerns identified in
previous Sentinel audits.”
Click here for more Reuters
political coverage.
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message at a Tuesday session
aimed at developers at the
BlackBerry Developer
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1989 and all that |
Andrew Brown
By Andrew Brown (World they who had the courage and
news and comment from the self-discipline to act and to bring
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) in a society where neither was
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:38:05 AM valued as they valued it. The fall
of the wall was not just a great
Anniversary fatigue may be liberation.
widespread, but there's much This week, we've chosen as our
food for thought in 1989 question "Was 1989 a good year
A little more than 20 years ago I for humanity?" At first we feared
met the bravest and most there'd be no one to answer in the
inspiring Christians of my career: negative; in fact, today, Hugh
thin, middle-aged, rather drab O'Shaughnessy does just that. On
women a church in East Berlin. Monday, Charlotte Methuen, a
Each one of them was about half theology student in West
the size of the lounging Stasi Germany at the time, remembers
thugs on the porch, who wore, what it was like to hear a young
instead of the black jackboots woman in her train compartment
you might expect, shiny white exclaim "Ich bin so froh! Ich bin
trainers. The women inside were so froh!" on learning that she had
on hungerstrike, like their sisters permission to stay in the Federal
in Leipzig. Their cause seemed Republic.
utterly hopeless, yet within a Later in the week we'll have
week the wall had come down. Ulrich Duchrow of Heidelberg
I often wonder what they made University, and marxist historian
of it all, because they were not Peter Thompson.
only Christians, but socialists. • Religion
What they wanted was not • Germany
capitalism, and certainly not the • Berlin Wall
leering vulgarity of West Berlin,
but a purified more human form Andrew Brown
of socialism. Of course they and guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
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Conference in San Francisco.
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Latest book on Obama’s reading list: Disney to report earnings
Life of Pi
By Caren Bohan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 1:00:54 PM
Presidential reading lists have a
tendency to set Washington
abuzz.
Last month, when the Wall
Street Journal reported that
President Barack Obama was
reading Gordon Goldstein’s
“Lessons in Disaster,” pundits
wondered if the book about the
mistakes of the Vietnam War
might hold clues to the
president’s thinking on his
Afghanistan strategy.
Yesterday, during a Reuters
interview, when Obama asked
what I was reading with my 12-
year-old son (”Great
Expectations”), he revealed that
he was reading the best-selling
fantasy-adventure book “Life of
Pi.”
His 11-year-old daughter, Malia,
is reading it on her own and
Obama, who read the Harry
Potter series to her when she was
younger, finds it compelling too.
Is Mozilla's contributions program working?
By Josh Lowensohn
(Webware.com)
Thursday: Should
investors be excited?
“It’s a wonderful book,” Obama
said of the prize-winning novel
by Yann Martel about an Indian
boy cast adrift in a lifeboat with a
tiger, a hyena, a zebra and an
orangutan.
“There are whole…chapters that
really have to do with talking
about Hinduism and Christianity
and comparing it … there’s a lot
of philosophical stuff in there,”
Obama said. “But for some
reason she’s hanging in there.”
A few months ago Mozilla gave
add-on developers a tip jar as a
way for them to get paid for their
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By Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Earnings reports,
Forecasts, General Electric (GE),
Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom
(VIA), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS),
News Corp'B' (NWS), Marvel
Entertainment (MVL)
Disney ( DIS), a media business
that competes with Viacom(
VIA), CBS( CBS), News Corp.(
NWS), and General Electric's (
Without revealing the ending, GE) NBC Universal, will be management at least come in at
Obama may be in for a nasty talking up its fourth-quarter the estimate, of course, but I'll be
surprise… (if you want a hint numbers on Thursday after the more interested in the conference
click here.) bell. Are you a shareholder? If
call. Way more interested this
Click here for more Reuters so, are you excited? Well, don't time around, in fact.
political coverage get too excited, because we might
Continue reading Disney to
Photo credit: Reuters/Peter not be getting any growth, even if report earnings Thursday: Should
MacDiarmid (Author Yann the Mouse beats on the bottom investors be excited?
Martel after winning Booker line. According to Earnings.com, Disney to report earnings
Prize for Fiction 2002 for “Life the call is for 40 cents per share Thursday: Should investors be
of Pi”) versus the 43 cents per share
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First remembrance service observed without first

world war generation
By Stephen Bates (World abbey's grave of the unknown instructed to stand when the lord continent, our commonwealth
news and comment from the warrior, the unidentified corpse mayor of Westminster walked in. through a terrible century. May
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) brought from France in 1920 to Perhaps in the two minutes' we learn the lessons they learned;
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:44:26 AM stand for all the dead. Gold- silence the prime minister might and God save us from learning
braided generals and admirals have reflected that his them in the way they had to."
Country marks 11th hour as mingled with morning-suited predecessor Herbert Asquith Across the country, work
Queen attends Westminster veterans, chests full of medals could never have written notes to stopped for two minutes in GM chairman
service to commemorate passing from later conflicts, and their
of last three survivors left in wives and with young soldiers
relatives of all the dead of the
first world war: on average
schools, offices and shops. There
were acts of remembrance at the
claims company can
Britain fresh from Afghanistan and Iraq. nearly 600 a day, every day for armed forces memorial in pay back U.S. loans
In pictures: Remembrance Day Among them stood Lance more than four years, compared Staffordshire and in Trafalgar By Zac Bissonnette
ceremonies Corporal Johnson Beharry, who with the 232 lost so far in Square. In Helmand too, soldiers (BloggingStocks)
A profound silence, to remember won the Victoria Cross in Iraq, Afghanistan in nearly twice as at British operational
once more the dead of Britain's and Trooper Mark Donaldson of long. The relatives of those killed headquarters bowed their heads. Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:00:00 AM

wars of the last century, fell the Australian army, whose VC in Flanders and France had to After the abbey service, relatives Filed under: General Motors
across the country today at 11am, was awarded last year for await the dreaded telegram and a of Stone and Allingham (GM)
in annual commemoration of the protecting wounded colleagues pro-forma letter from the king. pronounced themselves pleased. Speaking at Texas Lutheran
moment that the guns of the first from the Taliban. The red of their Asquith himself, oppressed by Ronald Cator, Allingham's University, General Motors (
world war stopped firing 91 years medal ribbons shone vividly in the war and the death of his nephew, said: "It was very GRM) chairman Edward E.
ago. But today's silence was the the autumn light. They were eldest son on the Somme, would moving. Henry would have Whitacre Jr. said that the
first unobserved by anyone who charged with carrying a huge retire to the Athenaeum library in thought it very fitting." company would be able to pay
fought in that great war. wreath of poppies for the Queen the afternoons for some Harry Patch might not have back all of its government loans--
To mark the passing of the last to lay on the unknown warrior's improving reading, a luxury not agreed. After last year's soon!
three survivors in Britain – Bill grave at the end of the service. available to Brown. remembrance service he told "There is a sense of urgency at
Stone, Harry Patch and Henry Above the tomb hung a union In the abbey, Rowan Williams, reporters: "It's too much fuss G.M. to repay the money we owe
Allingham, who last year laid flag, used to cover the bodies of the archbishop of Canterbury, about nothing. I did my duty. I as soon as possible," Whitacre
wreaths at the Cenotaph but have the dead and on makeshift altars spoke of the routine intensity of was thinking of my three mates said. "Can G.M. pay back its
each since died – the great and on the western front. loss during the first world war that I lost. They were just like loans? You bet. I can't tell you
good, led by the Queen, attended In the choir stalls sat former and its effect on the national me, civilians." when but it won't be very long
a commemoration at Westminster prime ministers Lady Thatcher spirit: "An automatic belief in • Remembrance Day and it's sooner than you think."
Abbey. Only one British survivor and Sir John Major and behind national righteousness, • First world war Continue reading GM chairman
is thought to be still alive: former them Gordon Brown, glowering, governmental wisdom, the • Second world war claims company can pay back
seaman Claude Choules, living in as if acutely conscious that the trustworthiness of official • Military U.S. loans
Australia, aged 108. Allingham m e r e s t t w i t c h w o u l d b e communication and popular GM chairman claims company
was briefly the oldest person in misinterpreted. Even the abbey media alike – all these were Stephen Bates can pay back U.S. loans
the world before he died at the seemed to have got in on the shaken, apparently beyond repair. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News originally appeared on
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Tariq Ramadan in North America | Sheldon Chad

By Sheldon Chad (World The government alleged that foreign scholars because of their the University of Toronto.
news and comment from the from 1998 to 2002, Ramadan political views or on the basis of "My contribution is questioning
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) contributed around $1,300 to a protectoral arguments like the modernism and ideologies and ...
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:39:17 AM Swiss-based charity, the government has made in this coming with a new narrative,"
Association de Secours case," says Jameel Jaffer, said Ramadan. He argued that
But it's Canada, not the US, that P a l e s t i n i e n , w h i c h t h e U S Ramadan's ACLU lawyer. reform in Islam was not, for him,
allowed the controversial thinker claimed was allied with Hamas. The US Justice Department and "adapting to the world as it is"
in to address the American Ramadan, who is a visiting the ACLU lawyers are now but making the world "as it
Academy of Religion fellow at St Antony's College involved in informal discussions should be". Logitech zooms
At the weekend, Tariq Ramadan Oxford, said that he had donated
addressed the annual meeting of the money a year before the US
on the government possibly using
its "discretionary authority."
Outside the Palais des Congrès,
Ramadan's presence in Montreal
on a $405 million
t h e A m e r i c a n A c a d e m y o f blacklisted the charity, yet the US
Religion(AAR) for the first time authorities expected him to have
"They are going to consider
admitting him or reconsidering
excited considerable public
interest, with about 800 people
deal for LifeSize
in five years in circumvention of been in full knowledge of its his case by the end of the turning up to hear him speak on By Tom Taulli
a ban on him entering the US. activities. month," says Jaffer. the theme of "spiritual quest". (BloggingStocks)
That exclusion could be lifted "It's just simply remarkable that The fact that this year's AAR But there have also been Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:30:00 AM
within weeks. such a distinguished scholar is meeting was in Montreal, outside detractors. Tarek Fatah, of the
Ramadan managed to speak to not allowed access to academic the US for only the second time Toronto-based Muslim Canadian Filed under: Competitive
the AAR – the largest association communities and conferences in 100 years, was a "happy Congress who took out an advert strategy, Cisco Systems (CSCO),
of religious scholars in the world like this in the US," says Mark coincidence" for Ramadan and in the French language Le Devoir Technology
– because it was holding its Juergensmeyer, a University of 4700 largely American character denouncing him, said: "Tariq Back in 1981, Logitech ( LOGI)
100th annual meeting not in the C a l i f o r n i a , S a n t a B a r b a r a witnesses. Ramadan brands himself as a began selling computer mice. It
US but in Montreal, Canada. He professor and the president of the "What makes this particularly reformer and the messiah and was excellent timing. Now, the
opened his first speech to the AAR. fitting is that our (AAR) Martin Luther. [But] he is sent by company is the dominant player
delegates attending by saying: Since 2006, the AAR has been president chose as his theme for the pope to act like Martin in the market for peripherals.
"I'm very happy to be here. The one of the plaintiffs to a lawsuit this year 'the globalisation of the Luther." But to continue the growth,
last five years I haven't been able filed by the American Civil study of religion'," said Jack • Religion Logitech has been expanding into
to be with you at the AAR for Liberties Union against the State Fitzmier, the academy's • Islam new categories. One of the
some specific reasons." Department and the Department executive director. "Tariq • Canada biggest is video conferencing. In
He was referring to the decision o f H o m e l a n d S e c u r i t y t o Ramadan was a perfect fit for • United States fact, Logitech has announced that
b y t h e U S i m m i g r a t i o n challenge the visa ban on that sort of theme." it will pay $405 million for
authorities to withhold him a visa Ramadan. In July of this year the The AAR decided Professor Sheldon Chad LifeSize Communications, which
allowing entry into the country. ACLU prevailed against the Ramadan would be the only guardian.co.uk© Guardian News is a major player in the market.
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position after it became clear that the danger to academic inquiry western Muslim who is also an million deal for LifeSize
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Enke 'feared losing second daughter'
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:32:36 AM
• Germany goalkeeper took his
own life on Tuesday night
• Kept depression secret for fear
of losing adopted daughter
Robert Enke, the Germany
goalkeeper who took his own life
yesterday, had been hiding his
battle against depression, his
widow has revealed. The 32-year
-old Hannover player was hit by
a train at a crossing in Neustadt
am Rubenberge and died at the
scene.
Germany have since called off
their friendly with Chile in
Cologne on Saturday.
Enke's widow Teresa and his
psychologist Dr Valentin
Markser appeared at a press
conference at Hannover's AWD-
Arena today to explain the
background to his death.• Police
confirm goalkeeper left farewell
note
• In video: German fans pay
respect to Enke
• Gallery: Messages and tributes
pour in
• More news and comment on
our European football site
Google cuts Picasa photo storage prices
By Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:30:00 AM
His widow said Enke, who was
first treated for depression in
2003 during his time at
Barcelona, feared that their
adopted baby daughter Leila
would be taken away if his illness
became public knowledge.
They lost their biological
daughter Lara in 2006 when she
died of a rare heart condition at
the age of two. Enke apologised
in a suicide note for hiding the
condition of his mental state,
which, said Markser, was
"necessary in order to carry out
the suicide plan".
Teresa Enke, dressed in black
and struggling to hold back tears,
said: "It is crazy because now it
is coming out anyway. We
thought we could do everything
and we could do it with love but
you can't always do it."
She added: "It is the fear of what
people will think when you have
a child and the father suffers
from depression. I always said to
him that that is not a problem.
"Robert cared for Leila with love
- until the end. After Lara's death
everything drew us closer
together ... I tried to tell him that
there is always a solution. I drove
to training with him. I wanted to
help him to get through it. But he
The annual cost to store 20GB of
photos at Picasa Web Albums
now eight times cheaper, making
it more interesting as an online
didn't want to accept help any
more."
German football federation
president Theo Zwanziger,
confirming that the Chile game
would not take place, said at a
separate news conference in
Bonn: "German football will use
all its capabilities to find an
answer to the question of how a
young athlete celebrated by so
many as an idol could land in
such a situation.
"We need time to come to terms
with everything and not
superficially," Zwanziger said.
Germany coach Joachim Loew
said the team could not simply go
back to business as usual.
"We lost a friend, we deeply
mourn Robert Enke," Loew said.
"I feel completely empty. He was
a great guy. He had incredible
respect for others. We will miss
him, as a top-class sportsman and
an extraordinary man."
Hundreds of Hannover fans paid
tribute to Enke at the stadium on
Wednesday. Hannover set up a
condolence book outside the
AWD Arena, and some
supporters lit candles and left
scarves and shirts in tribute to the
goalkeeper.
A service was scheduled in the
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Originally posted at Deep Tech
evening, to be followed by a
silent march to the stadium.
Zwanziger, Loew and Ballack
planned to attend the service,
among others.
Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a
"very personal" note to Enke's
widow to convey her
"consternation and compassion,"
government spokesman
Christoph Steegmans said.
Thomas Bach, president of the
German Olympic committee,
called Enke's death "really
tragic."
"When you see how many blows
of destiny he had to overcome in
the past years, how he always
carried on and stood up, that
shows his human qualities. That's
why it's that much more tragic
that he saw no way out any
longer," Bach said.
• Hannover
• Germany
• Bundesliga
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Walmart offering $100
gift card with any
BlackBerry purchase
(but only next week)
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:42:00 AM
We're onto you, Wally World.
Granted, you already confessed
that you'd be dishing out a deal a
week until sometime in the
future, but hey, we'll feign
surprise without thinking twice.
Next week's bargain is a good
one for those in the market for
one of RIM's handsets, as
Walmart shoppers will be given a
$100 gift card (to Walmart,
obviously) if they purchase
practically any BlackBerry phone
on a 2-year contract from AT&T,
Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon
Wireless. The offer begins at
8AM local time this Saturday and
runs through November 20th, and
if you're looking to see exactly
which handsets are included in
the deal, have a look past the
break.
Continue reading Walmart
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Oxford scholarship in protester's Tesla Roadster sets a

name angers Iran record -- travels 313
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
The college said today that a
letter it receieved from the
Iranian embassy in London said
The first holder of the
scholarship, Arianne Shahvisi, is
studying for a master's degree in
miles on a single charge
Agha-Soltan's death had been the philosophy of physics. In a By Connie Madon
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:41:00 AM (BloggingStocks)
staged by enemies of the regime. statement on the college's
Iranian embassy criticises The letter accused the university website, she said: "It is a great Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:30:00 AM

Queen's College for naming o f j o i n i n g a " p o l i t i c a l l y honour to be the first student to

philosophy scholarship after motivated" campaign in creating receive the scholarship in the Filed under: Products and
student killed in Tehran protests the scholarship. memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, services, Launches, Competitive
Iran has criticised an Oxford Queen's replied that donors are which is particularly meaningful strategy, Entrepreneurs,
University college for setting up allowed to decide what to call to me, being a young woman of Technology
a scholarship in the name of a any scholarship they fund. The Iranian descent also studying Here's a stunning
student killed during protests in name of the donor of this philosophy. accomplishment. The Tesla now holds the world's record,
Tehran over the presidential scholarship has not been made "In accepting the scholarship, I Roadster set a record by traveling having beaten the previous record
election. public. extend my sincere condolences to 313 miles on one electric charge. of 241 miles set in April at
Queen's College announced the Professor Paul Madden, provost the Agha-Soltan family, and hope The new record was set at the Rallye Monte Carlo of Energies
graduate scholarship in memory of college, said: "The college is that in succeeding in my studies 2009 Global Green Challenge in Alternatives.
of Neda Agha-Soltan who died in keen to support graduate students at Oxford, I can do justice to the Australia. Continue reading Tesla Roadster
June at the age of 27. and this scholarship will help name of their brave and gifted The competition was over an sets a record -- travels 313 miles
H e r f i n a l m o m e n t s w e r e Iranian students to study at daughter." 1,800 mile course. The Tesla on a single charge
captured on a mobile phone and Oxford, regardless of their • University of Oxford Roadster reportedly had three Tesla Roadster sets a record --
broadcast round the world, financial background. • International education news miles worth of charge to spare. travels 313 miles on a single
making her a symbol of Iranian " D o n o r s m a k e t h e i r o w n • Higher education This was well above the average charge originally appeared on
resistance. decisions, within reason, on how • Students 244 miles per charge it mentions BloggingStocks on Wed, 11 Nov
A donor contacted Queen's to name scholarships that they • Iran in its specs. 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see
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Queen's. college."

Family Guy’s “Something Something Something Dark Side”

trailer
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:00:54 AM
Everyone agrees that the first
Family Guy Star Wars parody, second one on DVD on the damn thing. If the trailer is maybe even me.
Blue Harvest, was TV at its December 22 before airing it on any indication of the episode’s
finest, right? It was such a big hit TV with the hope fans will awesomeness, some people might
that Fox is going to release the actually spend money and buy actually do just that. Who knows,
14 World/ Finance/ Gadgets/ E-reader Newspaper

It's Catholic day, I guess | Michael Tyson Foods

Tomasky downgraded by
By Michael Tomasky (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
healthcare reform legislation.
"Although I wouldn't chose those
particular words, when someone
brother in Christ, to enter into a
sincere process of discernment,
conversion and repentance. It's
JPMorgan
rejects the teachings of the not too late to repair your By Mark Fightmaster
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:41:01 AM (BloggingStocks)
Church, especially on a grave relationship with the church,
I went to the Corner looking for matter, a life-and-death issue like redeem your public image and Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:00:00 AM

representative attacks on Obama abortion, it certainly does emerge as an authentic 'profile in

for failing to call Hasan a d i m i n i s h t h e i r e c c l e s i a l courage,' especially by defending Filed under: Analyst upgrades
terrorist yesterday, but instead I c o m m u n i o n , " t h e b i s h o p the sanctity of human life for all and downgrades, Tyson Foods'A'
tripped across one poster declared. people, including unborn (TSN) Bright and early on this
crowing over a rather harsh "Your rejection of the Church's children." fine Wednesday morning, are currently ascending through
public rebuke from a Rhode teaching on abortion falls into a Fair enough. That's the bishop's JPMorgan downgraded Tyson the upper $12 region. The $14
I s l a n d b i s h o p t o P a t r i c k different category [than recurrant right. But is he, is the church, Foods ( TSN) to Neutral from level spurned the shares earlier
Kennedy, congressman, son of common sins] — it's a deliberate really prepared to come down Overweight. The brokerage gave this year, sending them into a
Ted, abortion rights supporter. and obstinate act of the will, a like this on roughly 40% of the four reasons for the downgrade: steady decline back to support at
Kennedy has said somewhere conscious decision that you've flock? valuation, recent rises in corn and the $11 region.
that disagreeing with the church reaffirmed on many occasions. • US Congress hog prices, a looming supply Continue reading Tyson Foods
"on some issues" didn't make him "Sorry, you can't chalk it up to • US healthcare increase from competitor downgraded by JPMorgan
any less of a Catholic. The 'an imperfect humanity.' Your • Catholicism Sanderson Farms ( SAFM), and Tyson Foods downgraded by
bishop rejoined: position is unacceptable to the • United States uncertainty from Pilgrim's Pride. JPMorgan originally appeared on
"Well, in fact, Congressman, in a Church and scandalous to many All of these reasons are perfectly BloggingStocks on Wed, 11 Nov
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attempted to block tough new is now a matter of public record Terms & Conditions| More Feeds resistance in the $14 region,
restrictions on abortion that were and it needs to be challenged. which is significant as the shares
added Saturday to the House's I invite you, as your bishop and

SmartPill evaluates, evacuates your GI tract

By Joseph L. Flatley drugs-- and now you can add the what happens to the pill itself, Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
(Engadget) "evaluation of constipation" to we'll let you use your SmartPill evaluates, evacuates
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:04:00 AM
the list! SmartPill is designed to imagination. This one should be your GI tract originally appeared
cruise the GI tract, where it available for shipment in January on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov
We've seen a number of medical measures temperature and pH, 2010. PR after the break. And 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please see
manufacturers with a common p r o v i d e s t e m p o r a l - s p a c i a l please: keep the comments our terms for use of feeds. Read|
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microprocessor-filled horse pills between normal and abnormal [Via MedGadget]
for things like cauterizing small, transit times -- you know, "the transmitted to a receiver for later Continue reading SmartPill
internal wounds and dispensing usual." The data from the pill is analysis by your doctor. As for evaluates, evacuates your GI tract
E-reader Newspaper Finance/ Gadgets/ 15

Cramer on BloggingStocks: China's Tell-tale stat: Broadest

industrial focus helps lots of U.S.
names
By Jim Cramer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: China, Market
matters, Caterpillar (CAT),
Schlumberger Limited (SLB),
Bank of America (BAC), U.S.
Steel (X), Nucor Corp (NUE),
Toll Brothers (TOL), BHP
Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Freep't
McMoRan Copper (FCX), Wells
Fargo (WFC), Stocks to Buy,
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
(BNI), Cramer on
BloggingStocks From
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• UPS Sees Improved Holiday
Demand
• Bank of America's Lewis Stays
Positive
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer
says at least one country is
getting it right when it comes to
economic stimulus.
How in the heck can you get
Cramer's Take), the giant
construction company, when
asked if it could quantify the
value of stimulus dollars
currently in backlog, said
"Really, the only stimulus
funding we have seen directly
has been the award that we got at
Savannah River for some nuclear
soil remediation. And, it was, I
would say, we're less than $0.5
billion."
Continue reading Cramer on
BloggingStocks: China's
industrial focus helps lots of U.S.
names
Cramer on BloggingStocks:
16% industrial growth and lower-
China's industrial focus helps lots
than-expected consumer price
of U.S. names originally
inflation? How is that possible?
appeared on BloggingStocks on
Yet that's what we saw from
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:00
China last night, and that's a tonic
EST. Please see our terms for
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kick in.
And we need it.
On Monday, Fluor ( FLR) (
U.S. unemployment rate
hit 17.5% in October
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:30:00 AM
Filed under: Forecasts, Bad
news, Employees, Economic data
We can now say that the current
recession has sunk to a level even
worse than the horrible early
1980s recession, as measured by
one indicator: The broadest
measure of U.S. unemployment -
- which includes unemployed and in October 2008.
underemployed Americans, as Continue reading Tell-tale stat:
well as discouraged workers -- Broadest U.S. unemployment
rose to 17.5% in October, rate hit 17.5% in October
according to data compiled by Tell-tale stat: Broadest U.S.
the U.S. Labor Department. The
unemployment rate hit 17.5% in
previous high was 17.1% in October originally appeared on
December 1982, The New York BloggingStocks on Wed, 11 Nov
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"U-6," totaled 17.0% in
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September and 16.8% in August;
that's up from 12.0% a year ago,

Kohjinsha PA series gets unboxed, looks kind of hardcore

By Darren Murph (Engadget) and while we were able to spend it looks. Hit the read link to see if on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:00
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:23:00 AM
a few brief moments with it at you agree -- it's cool if you don't, EST. Please see our terms for
CEATEC, the crew over at you're only hurting feelings. use of feeds. Read| Permalink|
It's sort of difficult for us to say Pocketables was able to snag a Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet Email this| Comments
what exactly the Kohjinsha PA shipping unit to unbox. They PCs
is. Part UMPC, part MID and begin by noting that this thing is Kohjinsha PA series gets
part tablet PC, this mishmash has far from stylish, and while the t h e r e ' s s o m e t h i n g s u b t l y unboxed, looks kind of hardcore
captivated us for quite some time, hinge is almost laughably large, satisfying about just how chunky originally appeared on Engadget
16 Gadgets/ E-reader Newspaper

Staples Black Friday ad

By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:29:24 AM

Staples’ Black Friday ad has

finally made its way to the
outside world. Stores open at
6AM on Black Friday, which
almost seems late considering a
bunch of other retailers will be
opening two hours earlier.
Hooray for (sort of) sleeping in!
Here’s a list of the electronics
items being offered. Doorbusters
are marked with an asterisk and
will be available from 6AM to
10AM on Black Friday:
Blank Media
Sony CD-R Media 100/Pack –
$16.98
Sony CD-R Media 50/Pack –
$9.98
Staples CD/DVD Jewel Cases
50/Pack – $4.99
Staples CD-R 100/Pack – $4.98
*
Cell Phones
Motorola H710 Bluetooth
Headset – $39.99
Computer Accessories
Altec Lansing VS2621 PC
Speakers– $19.99
Any Business Case, Sleeve, or
Backpack– 40% Off
APC 450VA Battery Backup –
$19.99
Belkin 6-Outlet Surge Protector
w/Left Extension Cord Combo–
$5.99
HP Wireless Mouse (Black) –
$9.99
Logitech C600 Webcam –
$39.99 – $29.99 Notebook Mouse – $14.99 Keyboard/Mouse Set – $29.99 *
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard Logitech V450 Wireless Laser STAPLES page 17
Microsoft 4000 Wireless Laser Microsoft VX-3000 Webcam –
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$9.99
Targus 208-CD/DVD Album –
$9.98
Targus Notebook Fan – $9.99
Computers
Dell Desktop PC w/AMD
Athlon X2 215 Processor, 4GB
RAM, 640GB Hard Drive, 20-
inch LCD Monitor– $499.98
Dell Studio 15.6 Laptop w/Intel
Core 2 Duo T6600 Processor,
4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive–
$599.98
HP 15.6 Laptop w/Intel Celeron
Processor 900, 3GB RAM,
160GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 –
$299.98 *
HP 15.6 Laptop w/Intel Pentium
Processor T4300, 4GB RAM,
250GB Hard Drive, Windows 7 –
$399.98 *
HP 17.3 Laptop w/Intel Core 2
Duo T6600 Processor, 4GB
RAM, 320GB Hard Drive –
$599.98
Sony 15.5 Laptop w/Intel Core 2
Duo T6600 Processor, 4GB
RAM, 320GB Hard Drive –
$649.98
Digital Cameras
Canon PowerShot A1100 12.1
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/4x
Optical Zoom, 2.5 LCD (Silver)–
$129.99 *
Flip Ultra Camcorder w/2 LCD
– $129.99
Free Canon Photo Printer With
Purchase Of Any Digital Camera
(After Rebate) – $0.00 *
Kodak 10.0 MegaPixel Digital
Camera w/Memory Card And
Bag – $79.99 *
Kodak EasyShare M340 10.2
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/3x
Optical Zoom, 2.7 LCD –
$109.99 *
Nikon Coolpix L100 10.0
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/15x
Optical Zoom, 3 LCD (Black) –
$199.99 *
Nikon Coolpix L20 10.0
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/3x
Optical Zoom, 3 LCD – $99.99 *
Nikon Coolpix S570 12.0
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/5x
Optical Zoom, 2.7 LCD –
$149.99 *
Nikon D3000 10.0 MegaPixel
Digital Camera – $499.99 *
Olympus Stylus FE4000 12.1
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/4x
Optical Zoom – $99.99 *
Sony Cyber-Shot W220 12.1
MegaPixel Digital Camera w/4x
Optical Zoom – $129.99 *
Digital Media Cards
SanDisk 4GB Memory Stick
PRO Duo – $12.99 *
SanDisk 4GB SDHC Memory
Card – $9.99 *
SanDisk 4GB Ultra II CF Card –
$12.99 *
SanDisk 4GB Ultra SDHC Card
– $12.99 *
SanDisk 8GB Memory Stick
PRO Duo – $24.99 *
SanDisk 8GB microSD Memory
Card – $14.99 *
SanDisk 8GB Netbook SDHC
Memory Card – $14.99 *
SanDisk 8GB SDHC Memory
Card – $14.99 *
SanDisk 8GB Ultra II CF Card –
$24.99 *
DVD Players
Coby 7 Portable DVD Player–
$49.99
Electronics
4-Device Universal Remote –
Free After Rebate
AT&T DECT 6.0 Cordless
Phone With Digital Answering
System– $49.99 *
Coby 7 Portable Digital TV –
$99.99
HP 10 Digital Picture Frame
512MB Memory – $139.99
HP 8 Digital Picture Frame
512MB Memory – $109.99
Maxell Noise-Canceling
Headphones – $20.00
Memorex iPod Clock Radio –
$25.00
Midland LXT360VP3 2-Way
Radios – $24.99
Motorola H390 Bluetooth
Headset – $9.99 *
Omnitech 12 Digital Picture
Frame – $69.99 *
Omnitech Bluetooth
Speakerphone – $20.00
Omnitech Digital Photo
Ornament – $10.00
Omnitech Mini-Speaker – $9.99
Panasonic DECT 6.0
Expandable Cordless Phone
w/Digital Answering Machine –
$49.99
Sharp Handheld Calculator –
Free After Rebate
Skull Candy Ink’d Earbuds –
$9.99
Sony Reader Pocket Edition And
Cover With Light Combo –
$214.98
Sony Reader Pocket Edition
Cover With Light – $54.99
Sony Reader Pocket Edition
With 5 Display – $199.99
Sony Reader Touch Edition And
Cover With Light Combo –
$319.98
Sony Reader Touch Edition
Cover With Light – $59.99
Sony Reader Touch Edition
With 6 Screen – $299.99
Sungale 7 Digital Picture Frame
– $29.99 *
Uniden DECT 6.0 Cordless
Phone w/Digital Answering
Machine – $59.99
GPS Navigation Systems
Garmin Nuvi 255W Portable
GPS– $119.99 *
Magellan RoadMate 1700
Portable GPS– $199.99
TomTom Go 830 Portable GPS
– $169.99
TomTom XL 330 Portable GPS–
$99.99 *
TomTom XXL 530S GPS–
$149.99
Hard Drives
Seagate 1.5TB External Hard
Drive – $139.99
Seagate 1TB External Desktop
Hard Drive – $69.99 *
Western Digital My Passport
Essential 500 GB Portable Hard
Drive – $69.99 *
Memory
PNY 1GB DDR PC3200
Desktop Memory – $49.99
PNY 2GB DDR PC5300
Desktop Memory Kit – $49.99
Monitors
Acer 23 Widescreen LCD
Monitor– $139.98
eMachines 21.5 Widescreen
LCD Monitor – $89.98 *
Samsung 23 TV/Monitor Combo
– $249.98
MP3 Players
Coby 2GB MP3 Player – $14.99
Trio V418 4GB MP3 Player –
$29.99
Networking
Linksys Dual Band Wireless-N
Gigabit Router– $89.99
Netgear WNR1000 RangeMax
17
150 Wireless Router– $34.99
Portable USB Storage
HP 16GB USB Flash Drive –
$29.99 *
HP 4GB USB Flash Drive –
$7.99 *
HP 8GB Portable Flash Drive –
$12.99 *
PNY 4GB USB Flash Drive –
$11.99
Printers
Brother HL2170W Laser
Printer– $89.98
Brother HL3040CN Color Laser
Printer– $179.98
Brother MFC-295CN All-in-One
Printer– $59.98
Brother MFC-7340 Laser Multi-
Function Printer– $99.98
Caanon imageCLASS MF4350d
Laser Multifunction Printer–
$149.99
Canon Pixma MP560 Wireless
Photo All-in-One Printer– $99.98
Canon Pixma MP640 Wireless
Photo All-in-One Printer– $49.98
Epson Stylus 1400 Wide-Format
Photo Printer– $89.98
Epson Stylus NX415 All-in-One
Printer– $49.98
Free HP Inkjet Printer
w/Purchase of Any PC or Laptop
(After Rebate) – $0.00
HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni
Printer– $199.98
HP Deskjet F4280 All-in-0ne
Printer– $39.99 *
HP LaserJet P1005 Printer–
$49.98
HP LaserJet P1006 Printer–
$89.98
HP OfficeJet 6000 Wireless
Inkjet Printer– $59.98
STAPLES page 19
18 Gadgets/ E-reader Newspaper

Target Black Friday ad

By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:51:00 AM

Well, well, well. If it isn’t

Target’s Black Friday ad? Let’s
see what’s inside, shall we? Oh
my, hello there 32-inch HDTV
for $246. How do you do?
Stores open at 5AM on Black
Friday. Doorbusters are marked
with an asterisk and are good
“while supplies last,” according
to the circular.
Digital Cameras
Kodak ZD15 Digital Camera –
$129.00
Nikon CoolPix S203 Digital
Camera – $88.00
Polaroid V130 2 Color LCD
Camcorder – $39.00
Digital Media Cards
Lexar Media 4GB microSDHC
Card With 50 Free Song
Downloads – $10.00 *
Lexar Media 4GB SDHC Card
With 50 Free Song Downloads –
$10.00 *
DVD Players
Memorex Compact DVD Player
With Progressive Scan – $19.99
RCA 7 Inch Dual Screen
Portable DVD Player With Car
Adapter – $88.00
RCA 7 Inch Portable DVD
Player – $47.00
Sony Blu-Ray Player With Free
$20 Gift Card – $149.99
Electronics First Act Electronic Drum Set – GPS Systems Western Digital Elements 1TB $10 Gift Card With Any $100 In
Casio Keyboard With Stand And $35.00 Garmin Nuvi 1350T GPS Desktop Hard Drive – $59.98 Store Purchase – $0.00 *
Song Book – $49.99 GE 6 Foot HDMI Cable – $9.99 System – $179.00 Western Digital Elements 3-Slot Charging Station – $14.99
Digital Decor Color LCD Key * TomTom XL340S GPS With 500GB Portable Hard Drive – MP3 Players
Chain Holds 48 Pictures – $10.00 Memorex Home Audio System Case – $97.00 $59.98
* For iPod – $49.99 Hard Drives Miscellaneous TARGET page 19
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TARGET
continued from page 18
$15 Gift Card With Any Apple
8GB iPod Nano Purchase – $0.00
$30 Gift Card With Any Apple
32GB iPod Touch Purchase –
$0.00
Apple 32GB iPod Touch With
Free $30 Gift Card – $295.00
Apple 8GB iPod Nano With
Free $15 Gift Card – $145.00
Photos
Digital Decor 7 Inch Digital
Photo Frame – $29.00
Portable USB Storage
Lexar Media 4GB Twist And
Turn USB Drive With 50 Free
Song Downloads – $10.00 *
Televisions
Apex 40 Full HD LCD TV –
$449.00 *
Haier 7 Inch Portable Digital TV
– $79.99
Westinghouse 32 LCD HDTV –
$246.00
Video Games
$10 Gift Card With Select Video
Game Purchases – $0.00
$20 Gift Card With Any DSi
System Purchase – $0.00 *
$50 Gift Card With Any Call Of
Duty Super Elite XBOX 360
System Bundle – $0.00
$50 Gift Card With Any XBOX
STAPLES
continued from page 17
HP OfficeJet J4680 All-In-One
Printer– $64.98
HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 All-In-
One Printer– $149.98
HP Photosmart C6380 All-in-
One Printer– $79.98 *
HP Photosmart Plus All-In-One
Printer – $74.98
HP Photosmart Premium All-In-
One Printer – $99.98
360 120GB Elite Game System
Bundle Purchase – $0.00
Animal Crossing Wii Video
Game – $27.00
Assassins Creed II PS3 Video
Game With $10 Gift Card –
$59.99
Assassins Creed II XBOX 360
Video Game With $10 Gift Card
– $59.99
Batman PS3 Video Game –
$37.00
Batman XBOX 360 Video Game
– $37.00
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare
PS3 Video Game With $10 Gift
Card – $59.99
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare
XBOX 360 Video Game With
$10 Gift Card – $59.99
Call Of Duty Super Elite XBOX
360 System Bundle With $50
Gift Card – $399.99
Call Of Duty Wii Video Game –
$27.00
Cooking Mama DSi Video
Game – $17.00
DSi Game System With Free
$20 Gift Card – $169.99 *
Guitar Hero 5 Wii Video Game
– $37.00
Halo 3 ODST XBOX 360 Video
Lexmark E260dn Laser Printer–
$124.98
Software
Adobe Photoshop Elements–
$49.99
Microsoft Office Home &
Student 2007 – $69.99
Norton 360 With PC Purchase
Or Staples Rewards Members –
$9.99 *
Game – $37.00
Hannah Montana DSi Video
Game – $17.00
iCarly DSi Video Game –
$17.00
Littlest Pet Shop DSi Video
Game – $17.00
Need For Speed Nitro Wii Video
Game – $27.00
Personal Trainer Cooking Game
For DSi Video Game – $7.00
PS3 Black DualShock Controller
– $39.00 *
Rock Band PS3 Video Game –
$7.00
Shaun White PS3 Video Game –
$7.00
Shaun White XBOX 360 Video
Game – $7.00
Shift PS3 Video Game – $37.00
Shift XBOX 360 Video Game –
$37.00
Sim Animals Wii Video Game –
$27.00
Star Wars Clone Wars PS3
Video Game – $37.00
Star Wars Clone Wars XBOX
360 Video Game – $37.00
Super Squad DSi Video Game –
$17.00
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Wii Video Game – $27.00
Norton AntiVirus 2010 – $9.99
Peachtree Pro Accounting 2010
(After Rebate) – $0.00
Staples Black Friday
Ad[BlackFriday.info]
More Black Friday deals…
Ultimate Alliance 2 PS3 Video
Game – $37.00
Ultimate Alliance 2 Wii Video
Game – $37.00
Ultimate Alliance 2 XBOX 360
Video Game – $37.00
Video Rocker Extreme 2 Chair –
$29.98
Wii Mario And Sonic Olympics
Video Game With $10 Gift Card
– $59.99
Wii Music Wii Video Game –
$27.00
Wii Nerf Video Game With $10
Gift Card – $59.99
Wii Play Remote Bundle –
$39.00 *
Wii Sports Resort Video Game
With $10 Gift Card – $59.99
XBOX 360 120GB Elite Game
System Bundle With $50 Gift
Card – $299.99
XBOX 360 Black Controller –
$39.00 *
Target Black Friday
Ad[BlackFriday.info]
More Black Friday deals…
Google launches Maps tool
for finding flu vaccine
By Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:27:32 AM
Search giant partners with the
Gadgets/ Tech/ 19
Target's Black Friday Ad
Is Yet Another Black
Friday Letdown [Black
Friday]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:10:30 AM
Maybe it's good there are so few
decent Black Friday sales going
on since no one has money to
spend anyway. Or maybe not.
Either way, Target's Black Friday
ad has leaked. And while you
could do worst than a $450 40-
inch Apex LCD, you probably
could do a lot better, too. (OK,
fine, the $250 32-inch
Westinghouse is a tad more
tempting, as is a $50 gift card
with the purchase of an Xbox
360 Elite.) [ BlackFriday]
U.S. government and state and
local health agencies to give
users the ability to search for and
find vaccine available in their
area.
20 Gadgets/ Tech/ Twitter Trend/
Wait, Microsoft’s Project Natal will be $80? That
can’t be right
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:30:36 AM
There is a rumor swirling around
the tubes this morning that
Microsoft’s motion controller
Project Natal will be $80 when it
comes out next November. First
off, there is no way that the Wii-
killer be $80 based
on precedents set by the current
crop of Xbox add-ons. But
more importantly, if the
controller system is only $80, it
will suck.
Project Natal won E3 this past
year. It came out of nowhere and
surprised everyone. What was
most shocking is how far along
the system was developed. It
looked almost ready for prime
time, but yet the release date is
seemingly far away. That’s fine
but as time passes, the Wii gets a
bit more stale and expectations
rise.
The system has so much
potential. Think about how it
could change sports games, FPS,
and general puzzle games.
Suddenly you’re actually in the
game as never before. It’s almost
like Nintendo opened the door
for next-gen gaming, but
Microsoft could bust down the
damn wall with Natal.
But not if the system is only
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Ask TUAW: Auto-
tagging music, iPhone
VoIP apps, replacing a
hard drive and more
By Mat Lu (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features,
Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
Welcome back to Ask TUAW,
our weekly troubleshooting Q&A
column. This week we've got
questions about VOIP apps on
the iPhone, auto-tagging music,
Boot Camp, replacing a hard
drive and more.
As always, your suggestions and
questions are welcome. Leave
between $50-$80 and 14 games At $80, I expect Project Natal to games, you can bet that, they are your questions for next week in
are included like the rumor states. be like the PowerPad: a fine simple Wii Sport-ish games, the comments section at the end
That’s right at the impulse accessory with a few good which were cool about 3 years of this post. When asking a
buy price point - which is what games, but not a must-have add- ago. question, please include which
MS is reportedly targeting – but on. Now if the system were, say, Let’s hope that Microsoft machine you're using and what
also where all the novelty add- $150 or more, I would have more believes enough in the system to version of Mac OS X is installed
ons live. That price range shows faith in the system. The higher price it above the impulse buy on it(we'll assume you're running
that Microsoft wants to sell a price shows that Microsoft stands price point. Let’s hope that the Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if
crapton of Natals to the Wii behind the years of research and system lives up to its potential you don't specify). And now, on
crowd, but also doesn’t view the development and believes that and not forced into parlor tricks to the questions.
controller as a game changer. the system is a worthy add-on to but rather utilized for serious Continue reading Ask TUAW:
It might have some sweet games the Xbox 360. gaming too. Auto-tagging music, iPhone
that will give the Wii a run for At that price point Microsoft Also, don’t forget the prices of VoIP apps, replacing a hard drive
it’s money, but unless Microsoft would have no chance in hell t h e X b o x 3 6 0 ’ s c u r r e n t and more
is taking a huge loss on each selling it unless there was at least accessories. It costs $100 for a TUAW Ask TUAW: Auto-
Natal sold, it’s probably nothing one killer, mainstream game. The wireless adapter, $50 for a tagging music, iPhone VoIP
special. I’m not saying that an add-on would need the support of wireless controller, and $160 for apps, replacing a hard drive and
item has to expensive to be 3 r d p a r t y c o m p a n i e s a n d a 120GB hard drive. I’m just more originally appeared on The
successful, but an $80 price tag developers to get going, which saying, $80 doesn’t fit the U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
on a controller that supposed to would result in a wider variety of pattern. (TUAW) on Wed, 11 Nov 2009
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Amazing 400ft Tall Spherical

"Cloud" Structure Proposed for
London Skyline [Architecture]
By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) London's Mayor, and has been
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:50:00 AM
called "a sculptural spectacle, and
a celebration of technology" by
Project Natal launching in November A n i n t e r n a t i o n a l t e a m o f the senior curator of
architects and designers has architecture and design at the
created this stunning center-piece Museum of Modern Art in New
2010, priced for 'impulse buy'? for London's 2012 summer York.
Olympics village. Dubbed The The designers intend to build
By Paul Miller (Engadget) USD), while others say as low as which we expect will be a decent Cloud, three 400ft towers would The Cloud using micro-donations
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:21:00 AM
£30, about $50 USD. Apparently ways down the road if they can't be joined by giant plastic spheres from millions of people. One of
Microsoft is aiming for "impulse even confirm a silly WiFi adapter that serve as both observation the architects, who's from MIT,
A supposed leak from closed- buy" territory, and it makes sense for the holidays without months decks and projection screens. told the BBC: "We can build our
door Microsoft meetings in the to subsidize the unit and make of hand-wringing. The giant bubbles would be Cloud with £5m or £50m. The
UK has made its way to MCV, that money back in games sales, [Via Gizmodo] structural, decorative, and be flexibility of the structural system
who has all sorts of new details like a regular console launch Filed under: Gaming used to project weather info, will allow us to tune the size of
on Project Natal's launch next (which Microsoft sort of sees it Project Natal launching in spectator numbers, and race the Cloud to the level of funding
year. Rumor is that the device as, in many ways). There are November 2010, priced for results. They'd be constructed that is reached."
will be released worldwide in supposed to be 14 games readied ' i m p u l s e b u y ' ? o r i g i n a l l y from of a type of plastic called I hope they get all the cash they
November 2010 (we've heard for launch, but no specifics on appeared on Engadget on Wed, Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene need, because that design is
"late next year" before), with 5 which developers that've signed 11 Nov 2009 09:21:00 EST. (ETFE), the same stuff used to straight out of my Sci Fi dreams.
million camera units ready for up for Natal work will be among Please see our terms for use of build the Beijing Aquatic Centre. [ The Cloud via BBC] Thanks
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varies on the price, with some w o n ' t k n o w f o r s u r e u n t i l
saying "under £50" (about $84 Microsoft goes into tell-all mode,
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Netbook Hackintosh 10.6.2 Fix Coming
In "A Few Weeks," Fallen Netbooks
Can Be Revived Now [Hackintosh]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:06:14 AM
When Apple killed Atom
processor support in the Snow
Leopard 10.6.2 update, it was
one of the first times they'd
actively tried to stop hobbyist
hackintoshing. It was also sort of
a dick move! Luckily, it's not
going to stick.
The(main) man behind the
NetbookInstaller software, which
takes care of enough of the under
-the-hood tweaks to make
netbook hackintoshing
approachable, heard the plaintive
cries of his flock, and handed
down a decree from on high:
The kernel will be fixed. It'll just
take a few weeks.
This certainty, combined with
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Blockbuster kiosks to offer
movies on SD cards, you
some candy as you checkout Google Cuts Prices of
By Darren Murph (Engadget) Cloud Storage, Increases
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:44:00 AM Cap to 16 Terabytes
Blockbuster's been trying all By Stan Schroeder
sorts of, um, innovative things to (Mashable!)
get more foot traffic in its stores, Submitted at 11/11/2009 1:40:48 AM
but thanks to a dastardly
invention known only as " Prices? What prices? Doesn’t
Netflix," that very task has Google give out everything for
proven exceptionally difficult. free, one may ask?
Now, it seems the flagging movie Relax. We’re talking about extra
rental company is giving one storage; for example if free
more far-flung idea a whirl: storage that comes with Picasa
movies on SD cards. Around six Web Albums or Gmail isn’t
Blockbuster and Hollywood enough for you, you can
purchase extra storage space for a
Video stores will soon begin
t h e f l i p - f l o p p i n g A t o m offering titles on SD cards, price.
compatibility in earlier 10.6.2 though the included DRM only Today, Google is dramatically
builds, points to the breakage as allows customers 30 days from slashing that price. You can now
an intentional choice, not just the purchase date to view it, and buy 20 GB for $5 a year, which
some incidental bug. Update: once it's fired up, you've just 48 is pretty darned cheap compared
Actually, there's an interesting h o u r s b e f o r e i t v a n i s h e s to the old price: 10 GB for 20
case to be made the 10.6.2 killed completely. Each rental will cost Filed under: Home
bucks per year.
Atom in all builds of the update. $1.99, and while we definitely Entertainment, Portable Video
Furthermore, Google has
Interesting.—Thanks, Eduardo! s e e t h e b e n e f i t o f r e n t i n g Blockbuster kiosks to offer
increased the amount of storage
Even better, for anyone who something that you don't have to movies on SD cards, you some
you can purchase. If you have a
dove straight into the 10.6.2 return, we're still skeptical that candy as you checkout originally
lot (we really mean a lot) of
update only to find themselves folks will be more willing to appeared on Engadget on Wed,
family photos, you can store
very suddenly without a working make even one trek for a card 11 Nov 2009 09:44:00 EST.
them all at Google’s servers in
netbook, there's a quick fix: when Netflix brings it all to one's Please see our terms for use of
the clouds, as the cap is now 16
Downgrade your kernel! Using mailbox (and PC, etc.) for just feeds. Read| Permalink| Email
terabytes.
the same instruction set you can $8.99 per month. this| Comments
Extra storage will act as an
do a partial (excluding the [Via FastCompany] overflow for the free storage,
kernel) upgrade to 10.6.2, but meaning it only starts being used
you're probably just best off when you reach the limit of free
waiting until everything is storage. If you already have an
patched up right and proper. [ extra storage plan, it will be
Meklort, MyDellMini] automatically upgraded.
Tags: cloud, Google, storage
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Samsung SyncMaster P2770HD has built-in TV
tuner, sex appeal
By Vladislav Savov
(Engadget)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:58:00 AM
Remember the Samsung
P2370HD monitor? Well, this is
it at 27 inches. How's that for
concision? Oh, you want more --
well, Samsung must've expected
you to, because it's also added a
TV tuner and a HDMI input to its
latest Full HD display, to go
along with a 5ms response time
and a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast
ratio. There's also a pair of 3 watt
stereo speakers that can simulate
5.1 channel sound -- good for
Concept Enterprises reveals first
Mobile DTV car tuner
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:26:00 AM
The Advanced Television
System Committee just approved
the Mobile DTV standard last
month, and already Concept
Enterprises is dishing out what
looks to be the planet's first in-
car tuner to support that very
format. 'Course, only time will
tell if this thing will actually be
loved in the market; we've
already seen AT&T halt its
CruiseCast installations after
only a few months of being
emergencies or if you just can't
stand speakers cluttering up your
desktop. Filling out the goodie
bag are Picture In Picture and
Picture By Picture modes, which
should make good use of the
ignored. At any rate, the
minuscule box is engineered to
work with any after-market /
OEM monitor with conventional
RCA outputs, and it only requires
a 1-inch roof-mount antenna base
along with a 6-inch antenna wire.
extra real estate on the screen by
combining, for example, your
desktop with a TV source. The
price is set at 549,000 Won (or
about $473) for Korea, though
global availability looks
There's no word on when the
$499 box is expected to hit the
market, but until your DMA
becomes one of the markets
where testing is going on, you're
probably better off just not
thinking about it.
Concept Enterprises reveals first
Mobile DTV car tuner originally
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11 Nov 2009 11:26:00 EST.
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Two new remote
imminent so don't rush to import Webcams: Mole
it just yet.
Read- Samsung Korea press and Vue
release By Rafe Needleman
Read- Product page (Webware.com)
Filed under: Displays
Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:56:00 PM
Samsung SyncMaster P2770HD
has built-in TV tuner, sex appeal One is small and simple but fails
originally appeared on Engadget as a security camera; the other is
on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:00 big and ugly but does it all.
EST. Please see our terms for Originally posted at Rafe's Radar
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MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off
Free Muni-WiFi Over Single
Unauthorized Movie Download
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) town over a single individual's
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:13:36 AM
usage, the MPAA couldn't resist
the opportunity to complain
Dan alerts us to the news that the about the evils of movie piracy
free muni-WiFi system used again. The MPAA doesn't seem
around the Coshocton’s County concerned at all about the
Courthouse in Northern Ohio collateral damage, and just thinks
was shut down over a complaint that it's a good opportunity to
by the MPAA over a single push ahead with its misguided
unauthorized movie download. complaint against file sharing.
Amazingly, rather than admit that Permalink| Comments| Email
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far in punishing everyone in that
24 Gadgets/
Sanyo rolls out “eneloop Stick
Booster” for charging mobile devices
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:46 AM
I know this thing looks like a
…curling iron, but it’s not. The
so-called Stick Booster[press
release in English] is Sanyo’s
newest addition to it’s ever-
growing series of
green,“eneloop”-branded
products. You can use it to
battery-charge your mobile
devices.
The stick can house two AA-
sized batteries and is being
marketed as a “handy power
source” for gaming handhelds,
portable media players and cell
phones in particular. It has a USB
port, a charge output time of 90
minutes and can also be used for
the iPhone as Sanyo itself
emphasizes. Sized at 18
(diameter) x 148 (length) mm
and sporting an aluminum body,
the stick weigs 76g (including the
batteries).
The batteries (that come
packaged with the stick) can be
recharged about 1,500 times. The
device will hit Japanese stores at
the beginning of next month and
hasn’t been announced for
international markets yet, but you
can already pre-order it over
Geek Stuff 4 U for$34.72 plus
shipping.
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Disney Princess Web
Cam
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) high school at a special vampire
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:30:47 AM
school in England. I KNOW!
And there won’t be ANY sex in
First, I doubt this is an officially it.
l i c e n s e d D i s n e y p r o d u c t . From the product page.
Something tells me Brando Disney Princess USB Web Cam
doesn’t have that kind of pull. is not only a Mirror, but also a
Second, this thing is $52. I’m web camera. Now, you can
pretty sure you can buy a cheap always look beautiful when you
webcam and put a mirror next to are videoconferencing with your
it for the same price. Third, friend. The mirror contains 7
wouldn’t this look great next to LED lights surrounding. When it
my Beanie Babies? Like totally! I gets the connection, the LED
could put Weenie and Tiny on lights and sound will be turned
both side of it, like protective on. It can also be used as a spy
lions! OMG are you doing web cam since it looks like a
NaNoWriMo? I am totally doing f u n n y g a d g e t m o r e t h a n a
it and I’m doing a vampire story w e b c a m .
but about kid vampires who go to
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Google cuts Picasa photo storage prices

(CNET News.com) option to pay for extra storage in least among its "pro" subscribers Paying Google $256 per year for
2007, it cost $20 a year for 6GB. who pays $25 a year. 1TB of Picasa storage space is
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:30:00 AM
The move is the latest to indicate Another interesting comparison getting in the vicinity of the $100
Convicted German
Google has cut the price to store that Picasa, although not a high- is Facebook, with an price or so a 1TB external hard Murderer Wants His
photos at its Picasa Web Albums priority Google project like extraordinary 2 billion photos drive costs. Of course you only Conviction Erased From
site by a factor of eight. Chrome or search, does have a uploads each month and a well- have to pay once for the hard
The photo-sharing site offers pulse. Last year, it added face used system to identify who's in a drive, and even a slow USB hard
Wikipedia
1GB of photo and video storage recognition to the Web site and photo that Flickr only just began drive is faster to access than By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
for free, but now going beyond followed suit this year with the offering. While Facebook has a photos on the Net, but Google's Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:45:00 AM
that limit costs less. The options f r e e P i c a s a p h o t o e d i t i n g strong social angle, though, it price includes backup and some
now range from $5 a year for software the company offers. cuts down photos to a lower assurance that you'll still have EFF has the bizarre story of a
20GB to $4,096 a year for a And in March, Google started resolution and really is more a your photos if someone steals convicted murderer in Germany
whopping 16 terabytes. adding advertisements to the place for sharing snapshots than your laptop or your hard drive who is demanding that Wikipedia
" T o d a y w e ' r e d r a m a t i c a l l y Picasa site. for digging into the world of fails. Plus, of course, you get to censor all mentions of the guy's
lowering our prices to make extra Picasa is gradually getting more photography. share your photos. name. Apparently, he (and his
storage even more affordable. sophisticated, but as far as I can Picasa's price cut raises an A big gap here is support for raw lawyers) are using a part of
You can now buy 20GB for only tell it has yet to dethrone Yahoo's interesting prospect for files, something that SmugMug German law that allows for the
$5 a year--that's twice as much Flickr as a preferred hub of at the photography enthusiasts, though. offers in its Amazon Web protection of "names and
storage for a quarter of the old center of a lot of photography If it's going to set its prices to try Services-based SmugVault. But likenesses of private persons
price, and enough space for more activity on the Web. Picasa is to match some portion of the that costs 22 cents per gigabyte from unwanted publicity."
than 10,000 full resolution fine for sharing snapshots with dropping prices of hard drives-- per month, a price that rapidly However, as the EFF points out,
pictures taken with a five the family, but it's not really the not just this week, but regularly-- gets steep when you consider he's not a private person. He
megapixel camera. Since most place to join groups, chat on it'll gradually become a more how fast a modern SLR can fill became a very public person
people have less than 10GB of forums, and discover what the appealing place to back up up a 4GB flash memory card. when he was tried and convicted
photos, chances are you can now photography world is up to. photos in the cloud. Of course, SmugMug, a subscription-only (along with his half-brother) for
save all your memories online for Picasa's more modest scope isn't like Flickr, it's chiefly for JPEG site, caters to the serious set, killing Bavarian actor Walter
a year for the cost of a triple a problem--plenty of people just files, not the larger and more though. Sedlmayr. Apparently, his
mocha," programmer Elvin Lee want to share some photos, after awkward raw files serious This content has passed through lawyers are going after multiple
said in a blog post Tuesday. all, and Google generally tries to photographers often use. But fivefilters.org. service providers, trying to get
A lot of us have well over 5 offer services with broad rather even a JPEG backup is useful, the guy's name taken off the
megapixels per shot to contend than specific appeal--but Flickr especially with synchronization internet. The EFF points out that
with, but it's still interesting. has more vitality in this more tools built into the Picasa the press has published the two
When Google introduced the social era of photography--at software. convicted murderers' names for
Sedlmayr's death: Wolfgang
Why Should You Have To Pay A Fee To Paint A Werle and his half-brother
Manfred Lauber, and that this
appears to be nothing more than
Picture Of A Building? an attempt to censor history
across multiple borders.
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) wanted to write up. Sent in by Texas Tower. While the the painter have to pay a fee at Permalink| Comments| Email
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:40:00 PM
johnjac, apparently the Freakonomics post delves into all? This Story
University of Texas charges a whether this should be a flat fee Permalink| Comments| Email
This one's a bit old, but I'm local painter a fee for selling or a percentage, shouldn't the This Story
cleaning out some older posts I paintings of its main building, the actual question be why should
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N.J. utility ups solar loans to $248 million
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:20:25 AM
New Jersey regulators on
Tuesday approved a proposal
from utility Public Service
Electric and Gas to expand its
solar loan program by $143
million and 51 megawatts.
The program expansion means a
total of $248 million in loans,
translating into an estimated 81
megawatts worth of solar
systems available to interested
homeowners, businesses, and
municipalities across the state.
Public Service Electric and Gas
already has a program to install
200,000 solar panels from Petra
Solar on N.J. utility poles and
street lamps.(Credit: Petra Solar)
Since Public Service Electric
and Gas' (PSE&G's) first loan
program for installing
photovoltaic panels was
approved in April 2008, about
$105 million in loans, totaling 30
megawatts worth of solar
systems, have been applied for
by its customers, according to
company statistics. While its seen
as an expansion, the next round
of funding is technically a
completely new program
approved by the N.J. Board of
Public Utilities (BUP) with
specific regulations.
The Solar Loan II Program will
run on a first-come, first-served
basis for the next two years, or
until 51 megawatts in solar
systems have been installed.
The loans should cover half the
cost of a solar system installation,
according to BUP estimates.
They will be offered as 10-year
loans for residential homeowners,
and 15-year loans for commercial
or municipal customers, which
can be repaid in cash or via
earned Solar Renewable Energy
Certificates (SREC). One SREC
is earned for every megawatt
hour of solar energy created,
according to PSE&G. The BUP
also set preliminary monetary
rates for SREC credits.
"Initially, the SREC floor price
for residential systems is $450;
for nonresidential systems up to
150 kw the price is $410; and for
systems larger than 150 kw up to
500 kw it is $380. The floor
prices offered for SRECs for new
loan applications will be reduced
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projects in the 550-megawatt
range underway, New Jersey is a Modern Warfare
leading state for solar
installations, as well as clean- Game Modder
tech projects in general. DMCA's Infinity Ward
The greater New York By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
metropolitan area, which includes
a large portion of N.J., was Submitted at 11/11/2009 2:13:47 AM
recently ranked No. 3 in the Reader Cameron Boykin alerts
country for most clean-tech job us to the news that a game
activity in the U.S. by a recent modder appears to have filed a
report, with the solar sector DMCA claim against Infinity
leading the clean-tech job market Ward for its video of a certain
overall. It was only lagging part of Modern Warfare 2,
behind the greater metropolitan claiming that the element in the
areas of San Francisco and Los game was influenced by a mod
Angeles in California,
by about 3 to 6 percent every 6 he had created. While this may
respectively. New Jersey was
months," according to a seem amusing to the folks who
also ranked 7th by another recent
statement from the BUP. are pissed off at Infinity Ward for
report listing U.S. states doing
For the other half of installation various consumer-unfriendly
the most to wean its residents off
costs, the BUP is recommending positions, it still appears to be an
foreign oil.
solar system owners apply for abuse of the DMCA. It doesn't
In addition to its solar loan
New Jersey Clean Energy sound like Infinity Ward flat out
program, PSE&G was approved
Program rebates and federal tax took this guy's code or anything -
in July for a partnership with
credits. - and having similar gameplay
Petra Solar to install over
"There's no question that elements is unlikely to be
200,000 photovoltaic panels on
providing a source of stable, copyright infringement at all.
N.J. utility poles and street lights
secure capital--especially in our While it may have just been a
to tie into the state's electrical
tough economy--has helped boost joke or a "protest" sort of move,
grid. It was also approved to
the number of solar energy filing a bogus DMCA takedown
install 5 megawatts worth of
systems in New Jersey," Ralph is bad news no matter how you
solar equipment in New Jersey
LaRossa, president and COO of look at it, and can get the filer
urban enterprise zones, and an
PSE&G, said in a statement. into a lot of legal hot water pretty
another 10 megawatts to be
"We're pleased to do our part to quickly.
installed on the properties of
make New Jersey a leader in Permalink| Comments| Email
interested third parties.
solar energy installations, second This Story
This content has passed through
only to California," he said.
fivefilters.org.
LaRossa is justified in his
assertion. While it can't compare
to California, which has huge
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Former RIAA chief tries to save Qtrax image
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:06:00 AM
Qtrax missed another deadline.
The would-be ad-supported
music service once again failed
to meet a self-imposed launch
date. The company had said
barely two weeks ago that it
would roll out in Australia and
New Zealand on Nov. 5. For
most start-up services, launch
delays are embarrassing but not
unexpected. For Qtrax, this is
only the latest installment in a
year-long run of embarrassing
misfires, lawsuits, unpaid bills
and broken promises.
A copy of the most recent
judgment against Qtrax, which
was accused of defaulting on a
debt.(Credit: Greg
Sandoval/CNET Networks )
Within the halls of the top
recording companies, Qtrax's
setbacks have begun to take a
heavy toll on the company's
already battered reputation. To
make matters worse, the ad-
supported model has already lost
a lot of credibility in the music
industry after the collapse of
Ruckus and SpiralFrog. In
addition, several of the other top
competitors in the sector,
including Spotify, iMeem and
iLike have begun gravitating
Jon Stewart Busts Fox News
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:52:14 AM
Jon Stewart catches Fox News
towards other revenue sources.
"Qtrax is an absolute disaster,"
said one music industry executive
who asked to remain anonymous.
"It's an embarrassment."
What's noteworthy about the
most recent Qtrax setback is that
typically Allan Klepfisz, the
company's founder, will do
damage control with the media.
This time, however, a music-
sector heavyweight is out in
front.
"It's a difficult environment to
get capital in this industry," Jay
Berman, a Qtrax adviser and
former chairman of the
Recording Industry Association
of America told the Financial
Times this week. Referring to
Qtrax's claim that the company
hopes to raise $50 million and is
attempting to do a deal with
Baidu, one of China's top search
engines, Berman said: "Is it
and Sean Hannity red-handed in
their coverage of Michele
Bachmann’s “house call” rally,
slipping in footage from the
ambitious? Yes, it is. Is it doable?
Yes."
Neither Klepfisz nor Berman
were available for comment.
Berman was once the recording
industry's top lobbyist and
according to my music source he
used his clout to help Qtrax
secure licensing deals with the
top labels. A year ago, New York
-based Qtrax announced that
Berman, who has offered
consulting services to several
digital music companies
including Project Playlist, was
added to the Qtrax advisory
board.
"Every time something happens
with Qtrax, Jay has to get on the
phone and calm everybody (at
the labels) down," said the music
exec.
But the source said that Qtrax, at
this point anyways, is in no
danger of losing its access to the
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Bachmann’s rally look bigger:
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labels' music. He said they have
paid and the labels will most
certainly accept Qtrax's money.
"Why wouldn't they?" he asked.
"But they haven't exactly created
a lot of good will in the business
or enthusiasm for their product.
"Qtrax hasn't instilled a sense of
confidence that they can actually
make something of what they
have," the exec continued. "The
only reason the (recording)
companies have given content to
them is because of Jay. If Jay
didn't get on the phone, Qtrax
wouldn't have its deals."
What the exec is referring to
specifically are things like
Qtrax's history of failing to pay
vendors. Oracle filed suit against
the company earlier this year and
several companies have won
judgments in New York courts
against Qtrax. The latest came
two weeks ago when Monarch
Capital Fund won an award of
$133,000 against the company.
According to court documents,
Qtrax agreed in March to pay off
a $200,000 debt in installments.
Monarch told the court that after
paying $70,000, Qtrax stopped
making payments in May.
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Anita Dunn
to Step
Down
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 9:50:43 AM
White House Communications
Director Anita Dunn, who’s been
leading the Obama
administration’s charge against
Fox News (and was promptly
smeared as a commie
sympathizer by Glenn Beck), will
be stepping down at the end of
the month.
This move has nothing to do
with the Fox News issues,
however — she was planning to
leave from the beginning.
White House communications
director Anita Dunn will step
down from her post at the end of
the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her
deputy, will take over, according
to sources familiar with the
move.
Dunn, a longtime Democratic
media consultant, took over the
job on an interim basis earlier
this year when Ellen Moran
abruptly left the post to take a job
at the Commerce Department.
Dunn will return to Squier Knapp
Dunn, the consulting firm where
she is a partner, but will remain
as a consultant to the White
House on the communications
and strategic matters.
28 Tech/
Cloud to suck money out of market,
report says
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:20:00 AM
A recent survey suggests that
CIOs are loosening the purse
strings on IT spending. IT
vendors may want to hold off
their celebrations, though,
because much of the spending
appears to be headed for
deflationary forces like cloud
computing, virtualization, and
their kissing cousin, open source.
An economic rebound never
looked so dire.
That's unless you're an IT buyer,
of course, suggests a new report
from Goldman Sachs. In this
week's report, titled "A Paradigm
Shift for IT: The Cloud,"
Goldman Sachs said it expects
that pent-up IT dollars will flow
in the short term to building out
next-generation data centers (e.g.,
cloud computing). But in the
long term, less money is expected
to find its way into fewer wallets:
After the initial build-out, Cloud
Computing could drive some
headwinds for the IT industry, as
a result of two factors. First, we
see virtualization as a
deflationary technology. Second,
we see IT spending consolidating
in the hands of fewer buyers--the
Cloud providers, hosting
vendors, and large enterprises.
These factors will likely dampen
IT spending growth due to
greater utilization and buyer
pricing power.
Even short-term build-outs may
prove disappointing, however, as
Goldman Sachs expects large
enterprises to grow existing
virtualization and automation
technology adoption in the
rollout of private clouds, shifting
slowly to an embrace of public
clouds over time. The chart
below gives some idea as to
when cloud computing will hit its
stride:
Who wins in this scenario?
According to the report, Red Hat
stands to benefit from the cloud-
computing craze. ("Red Hat is
well positioned for the emerging
Cloud Computing ecosystem,
largely due to its open source
background and current
ubiquitous deployments in data
centers, including enterprises, as
well as in Cloud providers such
as Amazon," the report states.)
But the real beneficiaries will
be...the same old crew. "[K]ey
suppliers for internal Clouds are
likely to be those that have the
most complete portfolio of
hardware, software, and
services," including IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems,
EMC, and Oracle.
New boss...same as the old boss.
The other beneficiaries are the
start-ups that provide critical
components of cloud computing,
with an emphasis on management
tools. Here we may see open-
source companies benefit,
including Reductive Labs(Puppet
project), Cloudera, and the two
rising private cloud companies,
VMOps and Eucalyptus, among
others.
While open source doesn't factor
heavily into this particular
Goldman Sachs analysis, the firm
has before called out open
source's role in wringing more
value out of fewer IT dollars.
Open source is a primary driver
of the global reset in IT spending
expectations.
With less money flowing into
the pockets of fewer vendors, we
can expect to see both increased
consolidation and fierce
competition for the IT spending
that remains. Those vendors that
can help CIOs do more with less
stand to benefit from this shift to
low-cost, high-value computing.
And those that can't? Well, let's
just say they may pine for the
good old days of the global
recession.
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E-reader Newspaper
Good News/Bad News In Brazil:
Effort To Legalize Mashups... But
Google Liable For User Actions
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) On to the good news. Carl alerts
us to the news that Brazil is
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:14:25 AM
considering a new copyright law
These two submissions came in that would legalize mashups and
one after the other, both having private copies. It would also
to do with Brazil, so I decided to allow the reproduction of out of
just mix them together into a print works. Of course, this is
single post. Of course, it's a bit just the proposed bill, and you
of a good news/bad news sorta can expect that the entertainment
thing. Let's start with the "bad industry is about to send in the
news." Reader Stuart Waterman lobbyist army to fix things up
alerts us to the news that Google, quickly. On the whole, though,
owner of Orkut (the social Brazil has been quite good about
n e t w o r k t h a t i s a m a z i n g l y recognizing the downsides to
popular in Brazil for reasons still overaggressive copyright law. In
unclear) has been ordered to pay fact, Gilberto Gil, a grammy-
F o r m u l a 1 r a c e r R u b e n s award winning musician and
Barrichello $500,000 because Brazil's former minister of
there were fake profiles of him culture, released his music under
on Orkut. If this were the US, a Creative Commons license, and
the case would have been tossed has regularly spoken out against
out on Section 230 grounds abuses of intellectual property
(noting that the service provider law. And, of course, we've seen
is not liable for the actions of stories about how forms of
users -- even though the users Brazilian music have thrived by
may be liable). But the Brazilian taking advantage of the easy
court apparently said that Google promotion and distribution
is, in fact, liable because it allowed by file sharing. It would
manages the site. If you're a be nice if the country's laws were
service provider in Brazil, you updated to reflect that.
just got a reason to lock down Now, if only they could also
any sort of user-generated change the laws to stop blaming
offering. Of course, this has service providers for the actions
happened before to some extent. of users, then Brazil would get it
Remember that a Brazilian court all right this time.
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Graphite Offers Simple Weight Loss More Independent Film

and Exercise Monitoring Tools Makers Embrace News Of
By Christina Warren
(Mashable!)
track dietary changes, Graphite is
a great option.
Their Film Being Pirated
Submitted at 11/10/2009 7:50:35 PM
Do you track your diet and By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) This all started as a result of the
energy regimes? What tools do Submitted at 11/10/2009 7:36:00 PM
completely underground buzz
This post is part of Mashable’s you use? Let us know in the that you've each helped us create.
Spark of Genius series, which comments. Spark of Genius Alan Gerow was the first of a We've had no distributor, no real
highlights a unique feature of Series Sponsored by Microsoft few folks to send in the news that advertising and yet the word of
startups. If you would like to BizSpark some independent filmmakers mouth that you've generated has
have your startup considered for BizSpark is a startup program not only discovered that their made the film blow up as soon as
inclusion, please see the details aren’t lots of options or buttons; that gives you three-year access film, Ink, had ended up being it became available worldwide.
here. The series is made possible you just have access to you t o t h e l a t e s t M i c r o s o f t widely available via Bittorrent, So many of you came to see the
by Microsoft BizSpark. information and your dietary development tools, as well as but that they were quite happy movie multiple times, bringing
Name: Graphite goals. You can enter in what you connecting you to a nationwide about the exposure. Alan sends friends and family and many of
Quick Pitch: Graphite is an easy- eat and Graphite’s library of food n e t w o r k o f i n v e s t o r s a n d o v e r t h e e m a i l t h a t t h e you have bought the DVD and
to-use web-based application that sources will pull up results in real incubators. There are no upfront filmmakers sent out: Dear Fans Blu-ray from us. All of this built
allows individuals to calculate time that you can add to keep costs, so if your business is and Friends, up and built up and suddenly it
calorie intake and expenditures. track of your calorie counts. privately owned, less than three Over the weekend something exploded.
Genius Idea: Keeping track of Likewise, you can add in your years old, and generates less than pretty extraordinary happened. We don't know exactly where
what you eat and how many exercise regimes to track the U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, Ink got ripped off. Someone bit this will all lead, but the exposure
calories you burn is the key to calories you are burning. you can sign up today. torrented the movie (we knew is unquestionably a positive
losing or maintaining weight. Graphite comes with tools that Entrepreneurs can take this would happen) and they thing.
G r a p h i t e t a k e s a f a s t , n o - tell you what your daily caloric advantage of the Azure Services posted it on every pirate site out Ink hits Netflix, Blockbuster,
nonsense approach to logging baseline is for maintaining your platform for their website hosting there. What we didn't expect was i T u n e s a n d m a n y m o r e
and graphing your caloric and current weight. You can then set and storage needs. Microsoft that within 24 hours Ink would tomorrow! Remember to get your
exercise information. goals for how much weight you recently announced the“new blow up. Ink became the number signed copies, t-shirts and posters
Graphite is a caloric tracking want to lose and see your caloric CloudApp()” contest– use the 1 most downloaded movie on at the Ink Store.
tool that makes it extremely easy numbers change accordingly. Azure Services Platform for several sites having been Thank you so much for the
to record and keep track of what You have access to graphs that hosting your .NET or PHP app, downloaded somewhere between constant love and support.
you are eating, how many chart your weight, exercise and and you could be the lucky 150,000 to 200,000 times as far Jamin and Kiowa
calories you are burning (based caloric intake over time and you winner of a USD 5000* ( please as we can tell. Knowing there's Double Edge Films" Again,
on your daily activities) and what can see how you are progressing see website for official rules and absolutely nothing we can do we've seen this with other films
your different caloric and fitness towards your goals. guidelines).” Reviews: PHP about it, we've embraced the as well, but it's always nice to see
goals need to be in order to You can sign up for a 30-day Tags: diet tools, graphite, health, piracy and are just happy Ink is filmmakers who realize it doesn't
achieve a certain weight. free trial of Graphite but after weight loss getting unprecedented exposure. make sense to freak out, but to
What we like about Graphite is that, the service is $5 a month or As a result, Ink is now ranked look for ways to take advantage
that the interface is very, very $50 a year to use. For users who #16 on IMDb's movie meter and o f t h i s a s a p r o m o t i o n a l
clean and easy to use. There want an easy, cruft-free way to is currently one of the top 20 o p p o r t u n i t y .
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Students pitch green businesses for greenbacks
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:51:00 AM
If you wanted to start a business
and help save the world, what
would you do?
The Ignite Clean Energy(ICE)
competition on Wednesday,
announced the winners of a
business plan competition that
offers a peek into how university
students are approaching
environmental problems through
business. There is a wide range
of technologies being pursued--
everything from ocean power to
providing off-grid power systems
to developing countries.
A conceptual design of a
microbial fuel cell where
microorganisms reacting with
organic material create a
chemical reaction that induces an
electrical current.(Credit: IntAct
Labs)
The awards were decided on
Tuesday afternoon after student
teams pitched their business
plans to a panel of judges at the
Massachusetts State House.
Winners are eligible for cash and
in-kind services, ranging from
$50,000 to $12,500 in total with
DC Sniper Executed
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 6:40:25 PM
The DC sniper was executed
tonight.
Jarratt, VIRGINIA (Reuters) -
John Allen Muhammad was
executed on Tuesday for
a sizable portion coming in the
form of legal advice.
The first-place winner for this
year's competition was IntAct
Labs, which is working on a
range of bio-energy technologies.
The company is developing
microbial fuel cells that make
electricity from wastewater,
sensors made of proteins, and
photoactive proteins that could
masterminding and carrying out
with his teenage accomplice the
2002 sniper shootings that killed
10 people and terrified the
Washington, D.C. region a year
after the September 11 and the
deadly anthrax attacks.
The 48-year-old Muhammad
act as solar cells.
New Jersey-based InnoSepra
won second place for a
technology it says reduces the
cost of separating carbon dioxide
from coal-fired power plants. It is
using a "microporous" material
for capturing CO2 and
demonstrated its feasiblity at
bench scale, according to the
company.
was put to death by lethal
injection at the Greensville
Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Virginia, said Virginia
Department of Corrections
spokesman Larry Traylor.
“Death was pronounced at 9:11
pm. There were no
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Energy, which has a business By Chuck Cage (Wired Top
mission of bringing affordable Stories)
electricity to people in poor
countries. Its team last summer Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:00:00 PM
traveled to Tanzania to test out
Samsung's 46-inch 7000
how its battery and electric light
television sets the bar for slim
combination work as an
and bright, plus it draws less
alternative to kerosene lighting.
power because the usual
Among the "people's choice"
fluorescent backlight has been
awards in the competition were
subbed out for LEDs along the
Velkless, which is developing
panel's edges. Almost as nice:
flywheels for energy storage, and
Yahoo Widgets deliver sports
HydroCoal, which is working on
scores, photos, and more.
a coal gasification process to
make a substitute for natural gas.
For business plan summaries of
all the participants, see here.
Verizon Turns a
The Ignite Clean Energy
competition is one of many
3G Cellular
cropping up around the country Signal Into Wi-Fi
to fund entrepreneurs working in
By Steven Leckart (Wired Top
green technology. The event at Stories)
the Massachusetts State House is
part of a "clean energy week," Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:00:00 PM
which also includes a showcase
The tiny MiFi 2000 Portable Hot
of ongoing energy research on
Spot sucks up 3G signals and
Wednesday and the Fifth Annual
creates a wireless bubble for up
Clean Energy Conference
to five devices (yes, five!).
starting on Thursday.
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complications. Mr. Muhammad
was asked if he wished to make a
last statement. He did not
acknowledge us or make any
statement whatsoever,” Traylor
told reporters.
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Apple's 13-Inch Pro
Google Latitude Now Tracks Location History, Now Every Bit as
Impressive as Its Big
Alerts You to Nearby Friends Bros
By Ben Parr (Mashable!) inroads, we believe that it needs By Christopher Null (Wired
an iPhone app. There is a Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:07:04 PM
complete difference to the user Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:00:00 PM
One of the hottest trends right when they download an app
now is the rise of location-based versus opening it up in the Apple's 13-Inch MacBook Pro
services(LBS), which helps mobile web. It could even may be the smallest of the bunch,
friends network and find each automatically send your location but that only makes its sturdy
other based on their location. utilizing the same method that construction and dazzling
Foursquare and Loopt are prime Loopt is testing. Google could performance that much more
examples of these growing turn into an even stronger impressive.
networks. competitor in the LBS space. Alt Text: Clever
Google has its own LBS service Whether Apple would cave into
as well: Google Latitude. Today, Google pressure is, of course, Murdoch Turns News
the search giant announced some another matter. They’ve told Into Hip Underground
major additions to Latitude that Google that they didn’t want a Club
bring it in line with its fast-rising Latitude app, and the search giant
competitors. Primarily, Google The other feature is Google again. Google Needs to Push complied. Things have changed By Lore Sjöberg (Wired
Latitude has added location Location Alerts, which sends you Apple for a Latitude App though, especially in the Top Stories)
history and location-based alerts. notifications when your friends Both features are good additions relationship between the two Submitted at 11/10/2009 4:15:00 PM
Location history is fairly are nearby via email or SMS. To to Latitude, but we can’t help but companies. Thus we wonder if
straightforward: Google will make sure you don’t get a text feel that Google’s coming short Google should now try to force The wily News Corp. chief
store all of your past locations every time you go to work and i n t h e L B S s p a c e . W h i l e Apple’s hand, especially in light cooks up a plan to make money
and will use that information to see your Google Latitude-using Latitude has an Android app, it of the Google Voice debacle. on the internet by keeping that
create visual histories of your co-workers, Latitude utilizes your d o e s n ’ t h a v e a n i P h o n e Reviews: Android, Foursquare, horrible Google at bay. Genius
trips and adventures via Google location history to eliminate equivalent, just a mobile site. Google, Google Maps alert!
Maps. If you take a bike ride notifications when you’re in a This leaves Latitude without the Tags: Google, lbs, Location
across Indiana for example, you location you regularly visit. It ability to send push notifications, Google Latitude, location-based
can track the route you took even incorporates time, so if a major reason why Foursquare service Geeky Podcasting
along with the times in which you’re at work but at 3 AM, has been a red-hot product. Mike Avidly
you arrived. you’ll get notifications once For Latitude to make deeper

Nov. 11, 1936: Einstein Gets Ice
Cold
By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 9:00:00 PM
Some say the world will end in
Fall Gear 2009: Wired Rates the Absorbs Audio
By Mario Aguilar (Wired Top
Year's Best Tech Stories)
fire; some say in ice ... chests. By Product Reviews Team that attempt to raise the bar. Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:00:00 PM
Two pioneering physicists delve (Wired Top Stories) Some succeed, some fall flat on The Yeti is a big but very
from the highly theoretical down Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:00:00 PM their LCDs. Here are the most adaptable USB microphone that
to the mundane world of innovative products, tested and combines features of many
refrigerators. This year, we look for gadgets rated, of 2009. different mikes, making it a great
general-purpose recording tool.
32 Tech/ Entertainment/ E-reader Newspaper

YouTube Bets on Skippable Pre-Roll NEW: TweetDeck for

Ads iPhone Adds Facebook,
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!) Landscape, and Video form of engagement.” According
to him, the length of the pre-roll
can be much shorter on YouTube
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:58:33 AM
than on TV. “On television you By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
When it comes to YouTube ads, might need 30 seconds to make Submitted at 11/10/2009 7:53:38 PM

you can’t say that Google isn’t sure people know the Web site iPhone 3Gs, you can now record
trying. You’ve got overlay ads, and phone number, and tell them Back in June, popular Twitter and send out 12 second videos
post-roll ads, huge banners, and the offer three times. Online, you desktop app TweetDeck made a through your Twitter and
yes, you’ve got pre-roll ads, can run a much shorter industry splash when it launched its Facebook accounts. The ability to
which didn’t work out very well fact, pre-roll advertisements are ad, and use the companion ad iPhone app. It was significant, as see trending topics has also been
because the users were unwilling prevalent on many other video space for the call to action.” it was the first Twitter iPhone added, as well as Bit.ly support
to watch a pre-roll video before a sites, such as Hulu. Google, Will all this experimenting be app to integrate with a desktop and the ability to save drafts.
video that’s also very short – in however, aims to develop a new enough to bring significant ad version and it provided a very Finally, for those who really hate
some cases, even shorter than the advertising model based on the revenue to YouTube? It’s tough real challenger to the Tweetie typing on the shortened iPhone
actual ad they were forced to see. user’s behavior. When Google to say, as the users of the site iPhone app. keyboard, TweetDeck now
Now, Google has decided that first started testing pre-roll ads, h a v e s o f a r r e a c t e d v e r y Since then, there have not been includes landscape support. Yes,
it’s time to try out pre-roll ads in abandonment rates were as high negatively to any form of major updates to the app, while thee have a been a ton of
skippable form once again. as 70%. But it worked much advertising. On the other hand, Tweetie got a whole new version. additions, and they’re all very
Put all these ads in one video, better when users were watching you can’t say Google isn’t Now TweetDeck is fighting back nice.
and you get a mess. Fortunately, longer (15 – 20 minute long) methodical about YouTube ads: with its first major update (v. When Tweetie 2 launched, it
these new skippable pre-roll ads clips, with completion rates being they’re trying out every avenue, 1.1.1), one that includes full took a giant leap ahead of
will be just another experiment, up to 85%. hoping one day they’ll strike the integration with Facebook. TweetDeck for iPhone in terms
visible on videos from content Furthermore, simply clicking p e r f e c t b a l a n c e b e t w e e n This Update is Chock Full of of features and support. That is
providers who opted in for the that “No, thank you” link counts a n n o y i n g a n d e n g a g i n g . New Features no longer the case. In fact,
test. for something. Phil Farhi, R e v i e w s : G o o g l e , H u l u , Let’s start with the biggest TweetDeck’s Facebook
But what is it that Google is product manager at Google’s Y o u T u b e addition to TweetDeck for integration is a major
testing? From the users’ YouTube says: “we see the Tags: ads, youtube iPhone: Facebook integration. differentiation point from the
perspective, this isn’t new; in ability to skip ads as another Just like the desktop app, you can Tweetie 2 app. The debate over
create Facebook columns, read which Twitter iPhone app is best
status updates, write on walls,
On the Set with Tom Cruise & add comments, and update your
Facebook status. By all
has been reopened.
If you want to learn more about
TweetDeck for iPhone’s new
Cameron Diaz accounts, it is a major addition
that seamlessly integrates Twitter
and Facebook into one iPhone
features, the company has
included a useful demo video,
(ETonline - Breaking News) 'Knight & Day' -- and we have a As for the overall feel of the embedded below:
sneak peek at their sit-down! film, she clarifies, "It's not like a app. Reviews: Facebook, TweetDeck,
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:05:00 AM
After letting loose in last year's wacky comedy; the situations are That’s not the only new thing Twitter, tweetie
Tonight, only ET's Mary Hart is 'Tropic Thunder,' Tom shows off kind of absurd." about this app, though. It also Tags: iphone, trending,
with Tom Cruise and Cameron more of his comedic chops in boasts integration with tweetdeck, twitter
Diaz on the top-secret Boston set 'Knight & Day,' and Cameron 12seconds.tv. For those with the
of their new action-comedy, reports, "He's so funny!"
E-reader Newspaper Tech/ Politics/ 33

Hey! Lego my Apple!! EA to lay off 1500

By Michael Jones (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
and interesting. Plus, it looks like
they've just recently started up, as
their Etsy store opened in
workers, close some
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:00:00 AM

Filed under: Mods, Macbook

October, and some of their
designs haven't shown up on the
store yet, so I hope this means we
facilities
By Casey Johnston (The
Pro, MacBook No, I'm not will be seeing more from them in Unofficial Apple Weblog
talking about any of these Lego the near future. (TUAW))
Mac mods, A relatively new All in all, these stickers would
Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:00:00 PM
startup called MacSlaps brings us make a great stocking stuffer for
some personalization goodness in your favorite Mac geek. Not to Filed under: Gaming, Software
the form of custom vinyl stickers sheet of vinyl, ranging from mention, if you're picking up a Large-scale layoffs have been
for your MacBook and MacBook about 4 to 8 inches, so most of new MacBook for the Holidays, hitting everywhere in the past
Pro. them will even fit on the 13-inch they are a great way to add a year, and Electronic Arts is now
Using stickers (or even laser MacBook. I know they say these personal touch, especially with no different: according to
engraving) to customize your are custom made for MacBooks, the custom design offer. Gamasutra, the game publisher
MacBook is nothing new, but but I'm tempted to order one and [via iPhoneSavior] announced today that it will lay
what I think sets MacSlaps apart try it on the back of my 24-inch TUAW Hey! Lego my Apple!! off 1,500 workers by April 2010, and comes with only 20 songs,
from some of the others I have a l u m i n u m i M a c , s i n c e I ' m originally appeared on The after posting a year-to-year and charges 50 cents for each
seen is the designs are simple and guessing the effect would be U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g decrease in revenue and a net loss additional song. Still, Rock Band
creative. In addition to the Lego about the same. They also offer (TUAW) on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 of $391 million. ended up selling well, so maybe
design pictured here, their site custom designs, so if you've got a 10:00:00 EST. Please see our About 1,300 of the freshly we'll be seeing more of EA in the
showcases a few other interesting crazy idea in mind, they can terms for use of feeds. unemployed individuals will App Store in the coming fiscal
d e s i g n s , s u c h a s M a r i o , probably help you get it onto Read| Permalink| Email this| result from the full closure of quarters.
PacMacMan, and my favorite, your Mac. Comments some of EA's facilities. This will EA also announced today its
Tic-Mac-Toe. Although the selection is pretty cost EA money at the outset, but acquisition of Playfish, whose
The stickers come on a square sparse, their designs are original they estimate that by dropping primary business is Facebook
the facilities they stand to save games, for $300 million.
DC Sniper to Die Tonight about $100 million annually.
According to EA CEO John
Hopefully out of the layoff ashes
rises some brutally addictive
(Little Green Footballs) Gov. Kaine Denies Clemency. after John Allen Muhammadwas Riccitello, the cuts are happening social-based game for the iPhone.
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:28:27 AM
Paul LaRuffa wants to know sentenced to death in 2003, was in "targeted areas," so the TUAW EA to lay off 1500
justice will be carried out tonight whether he planned to attend his company can focus up on its workers, close some facilities
D C s n i p e r J o h n A l l e n at 9 p.m. in the “Death Chamber” assailant’s execution. bigger, more lucrative games. originally appeared on The
Muhammad is scheduled to die at the Greensville Correctional “I’ve given every day of the past EA has kept up well with the Unofficial Apple Weblog
by lethal injection tonight at 9 pm Center in Jarratt, Va. – he just seven years to thinking about iPhone platform and has released (TUAW) on Tue, 10 Nov 2009
in Virginia. ABC News’ Russell doesn’t want to see it. what he did to me. I don’t need to some of its most popular titles to 17:00:00 EST. Please see our
Goldman interviewed one of LaRuffa, who, by most accounts, give up another day for him. It’s the App Store, such as The Sims terms for use of feeds.
Muhammad’s (and teenage was the first victim of the D.C. enough to know justice is being 3, Rock Band, and Spore. Read| Permalink| Email this|
accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo’s) snipers, who carried out a weeks- done,” he said of his decision not Consumers still pay a premium Comments
victims, Paul LaRuffa, who long rampage of terror and to attend Tuesday’s planned price for them, however. For
amazingly survived five gunshots m u r d e r i n a n d a r o u n d execution of Muhammad. example, Rock Band costs $9.99
at close range: Survivor of Washington, D.C., in 2002, says
Beltway Sniper Wants Justice, the first question he was asked
34 Tech/ Entertainment/ E-reader Newspaper

PR Response Via
Adwords?
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) keywords in running his ads. I
Submitted at 11/10/2009 9:30:00 PM
could see how that might
intimidate the journalists (if
I vaguely recall a similar story a they're particularly thin-skinned)
couple years ago, though now I but it's not really clear how that
can't find it, but the Nieman actually helps get the "other side"
Journalism Lab has an article out.
Paul Kent gives TUAW the latest about how PR folks are starting What was potentially more
to use targeted Google AdWords interesting is that the NY Times

news about Macworld 2010 buys to respond to negative press (unlike many other newspaper
coverage. It doesn't seem like websites) actually linked to the
this sort of thing would really be Council's website within the
By Steven Sande (The Jobs as the "star," it just wouldn't platforms exist. Yesterday, I
Unofficial Apple Weblog all that effective, but the article story, and the Council changed
be the same. My reason for going talked with Paul Kent, General discusses a PR guy who bought the page that clickers ended up
(TUAW)) to Macworld has always been the Manager, Macworld 2010 and up AdWords on a variety of on to a rebuttal to the NY Times
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:00 AM same; to see great new software Vice President of IDG World related keywords for the New story, whereas before it had just
or hardware made to work with Expo, about Macworld 2010 and Z e a l a n d S e a f o o d I n d u s t r y been a page about the type of fish
Filed under: Macworld, Odds Apple products, meet with how preparations are coming Council, after the NY Times in question. That seems like a
and ends, TUAW Interview As a manufacturers and developers, along for the show. came out with a negative story smart move by the Fish Council,
Mac-head who has attended the and to enjoy the camaraderie of Continue reading Paul Kent about overfishing. Of course, it though it makes you realize why
Macworld Expo and Conference the large group of buddies I've gives TUAW the latest news looks like the guy also went over some publications might be
on and off since the late 1980s, I made at Macworld Expo in the about Macworld 2010 the line, claiming in one ad that skeptical about linking out,
met the announcement last past. TUAW Paul Kent gives TUAW the NY Times "apologizes for e s p e c i a l l y w h e n w h o e v e r
December that Apple would no So, when I saw that registration the latest news about Macworld story," when the truth is that it operates the site being linked to
longer attend the event with a for Macworld 2010 had opened, I 2010 originally appeared on The just apologized for its use of a has the opportunity to change the
b i g , j a w - b r e a k i n g y a w n . immediately jumped on the Unofficial Apple Weblog photograph it didn't have the site.
Personally, I never attended website and signed up. To me, (TUAW) on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 rights to -- not the story itself. Permalink| Comments| Email
Macworld for the Apple display, it's a no-brainer to attend the 08:00:00 EST. Please see our Amusingly, the guy also buys the This Story
which was overcrowded and original and only US conference terms for use of feeds. reporters' own names as
staffed by Apple employees who that is all about Apple. Macworld Read| Permalink| Email this|
usually knew less about the new Expo has been around for 25 Comments
products than I did. The keynotes years, and all indications are that
were usually a highlight, but hard it will continue for as long as the
to get into, and without Steve Macintosh and other Apple

Cute Pet Pics: Celebs and Their Precious Pups!

(ETonline - Breaking News) Feast your peepers on your fave out of ET's puptastic gallery!
Submitted at 11/11/2009 3:00:00 AM
stars and their adorable four- Keep clicking to see dozens of
legged companions! Take a bite furry friends!
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Found Footage: TweetDeck for Aaron Carter Sheds Tears

iPhone gets a major makeover Following ‘Dancing with
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
squirt of goodness, with these
new features added to the mix:
can show a different feed, direct
messages, or mentions for the Stars’ Elimination
• Video tweeting via integration multiple accounts. Be sure to (ETonline - Breaking News) even wrote a song in dedication
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:00:00 AM with 12seconds(record video and watch the video above, and if Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:20:00 AM
to his pro. Aaron said it is hard to
send to Twitter or Facebook you're still looking for an iPhone comprehend that their journey
Filed under: Freeware, Found using 12seconds platform) Twitter client, give this fun V i s i b l y u p s e t a b o u t h i s has ended because they are going
Footage, iPhone, App Store, iPod • Facebook integration (updates, freebie a try. elimination from "Dancing with from "work, work, work to an
touch FB columns, wall posts, etc.) TUAW Found Footage: the Stars," Aaron Carter let the abrupt ending."
The press release I received • Landscape composing (for TweetDeck for iPhone gets a w a t e r w o r k s f l o w a s h e Kelly Osbourne came over to
tonight said it all: " TweetDeck those with stumbly thumbs) major makeover originally reminisced about his experience console the distraught Aaron,
for iPhone-- now with added • Trending Topics to see what's appeared on The Unofficial on the show. embracing him in a hug. Now it
awesome." I use TweetDeck on happening RIGHT NOW Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, Grateful for the guidance and is time for Kelly to jet set to New
my Macs, but had used another • Save Draft for later 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST. friendship of partner Karina York to get a hug of her own
competing app for tweeting from • Bit.ly support Please see our terms for use of Smirnoff, the pop star said, from mum Sharon Osbourne. She
my iPhone. After this update, • And some additional goodies... feeds. "Hopefully this isn’t the end of can't wait to have lunch with her
which is the first major upgrade Read| Permalink| Email this| u s d o i n g d a n c e r o u t i n e s "and give her a great big hug
to this free Twitter client, I may As with the Mac and Windows Comments together." He asked Karina to because I need one."
have to reconsider! versions, the TweetDeck for continue partnering him and he
The features in TweetDeck 1.1.1 iPhone user interface makes great
[ iTunes Link] have been given a use of columns, each of which Popular SC first lady
endorses governor
Nokia’s Vision of the Future: Lots of Gadgets candidate (AP)
With Virtual Keyboards [Video] (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:15:15 AM

By Stan Schroeder You can see the video below, something to be terribly excited
(Mashable!) 1WhoCares buzzed up: Could
courtesy of Slashgear, but here’s about. Yes, there’s also a dual-
FBI Have Stopped Nidal Hasan,
a short rundown: first, we see a screen laptop/netbook thingy
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:55:34 AM Fort Hood Shooter?
bunch of keyboardless gadgets there, but we’ve seen a fair share
3 seconds ago 2009-11-
When a tech giant gives you that reminds us of the iPhone. of those already.
11T08:56:24-08:00
their vision of the future, you Then, we see various services on Still, it’s a nice video, if only for
This content has passed through
expect to be impressed. However, one such gadgets: location-based the sleek visuals and the warm,
fivefilters.org.
the video Nokia had shown at services, web browsing, stock comfortable feeling that we’re
their The Way We Live Next 3.0 information, GPS, augmented already living in the future.
event, which is supposed to reality… devices of today. Sans a Reviews: Android
showcase the company’s plans Now, forgive us for ruining the projection keyboard presented in Tags: future, Nokia
for tech-imbued living in 2015, party, but all of this is already the other part of the video,
doesn’t bring many things we available on iPhone, Android, there’s nothing new here, and
don’t already have. Symbian, and other mobile even that keyboard isn’t
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C64 emulator back on
the App Store
By Mike Schramm (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 11/10/2009 10:30:00 PM
Filed under: Gaming, Apple,
Developer, iPhone, App Store,
iPod touch The C64 emulator
that was pulled from the App
Store by Apple for leaving a
BASIC interpreter intact has now
returned, though we presume it's
minus the Apple-offending code.
But while it will no longer run
your own code, it will run some
old-school C64 games, including
eight for free with the app, and
more coming with in-app
purchases. It's got everything
you'd expect from an emulator,
including original sound and
graphics, an auto-save, and the
option to play in fullscreen
portrait or landscape.
In fact, the only thing it doesn't
have is an interpreter, but of
course you know why that is by
now: Apple doesn't want anyone
running code on their devices
that they haven't approved
through the App Store. The app
sells for $4.99 right now, and
Nokia’s Vision of the Future: Lots
of Gadgets With Virtual Keyboards
By twitter:@mashable
(TweetMeme)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:55:44 AM
Nokia’s Vision of the Future: m a s h a b l e . c o m
E-reader Newspaper
Crews search next
Adobe layoffs strike door to Ohio home
home, 680 to lose jobs with 11 bodies (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
By Megan Lavey (The Adobe will total between $65 and
Unofficial Apple Weblog $71 million, the TechCrunch Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:10:33 AM
(TUAW)) article says.
Abd buzzed up: Large Hadron
The layoffs come just after
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:30:00 PM Collider: Damaged by a Time-
Adobe announced that Flash
Traveling Bird?
F i l e d u n d e r : S o f t w a r e Professional CS5 will be able to 6 seconds ago 2009-11-
TechCrunch, among other news turn Flash projects into iPhone
11T08:51:51-08:00
outlets, reports that Adobe is apps. The company has also
This content has passed through
cutting 680 employees as part of recently released a version of its
fivefilters.org.
a restructuring plan. This is Photoshop.com Mobile app for
r o u g h l y 9 p e r c e n t o f t h e the iPhone [ iTunes link].
company's workforce. The news TUAW Adobe layoffs strike
comes on the heels of Electronic home, 680 to lose jobs originally
Arts' decision to layoff 1,500 appeared on The Unofficial
workers and a reduction of 600 Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue,
from Adobe back in December. 10 Nov 2009 23:30:00 EST.
Adobe had purchased Omniture Please see our terms for use of
in September and reduced its feeds.
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time. Comments
purchases sometime this
The cost of restructuring for
December, with no price
announced yet.
TUAW C64 emulator back on
the App Store originally appeared
Who is the Highest Earning Man in
on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Tue, 10 Nov 2009
22:30:00 EST. Please see our
Primetime?
(ETonline - Breaking News) out "The Apprentice" host Meanwhile, Trump lends his
terms for use of feeds. Donald Trump who made $50 name and face to a number of
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:11:00 AM
Read| Permalink| Email this| million, while Cowell's coworker products and receives checks for
Comments From "American Idol" judge Ryan Seacrest was No. 3 on the his speeches and books. When
Simon Cowell to "Two and a list, grossing $38 million, based he's not hosting "Idol," Seacrest
Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, on a pre-tax estimate from June is known for his numerous jobs
ET knows who topped the 1, 2008-June 1, 2009. that include: radio talk show host,
Forbes.com list of prime time's So how did these men make celebrity TV host and executive
top earning males. their millions? In addition to producer of the hit reality show
Lots of Gadgets With Virtual Forbes reveals that Cowell is the Cowell's "Idol" duties, he has his "Keeping Up with the
Keyboards [Video] - highest paid man in TV, pulling own record label, which has Kardashians."
h t t p : / / b i t . l y / 2 U 0 v d o in $75 million in a year. The signed breakout stars Leona
0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : controversial "Idol" judge beat L e w i s a n d S u s a n B o y l e .
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DiggTV Gathers All American Family Association

Digg Video Shows in
One Place
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 3:11:29 AM
Popular social media destination
Digg is no stranger to video
production. In fact, they have
five different video shows that go
out mostly on a weekly basis,
best known of which is
Diggnation, where Digg founder
Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht
discuss the most popular stories
on Digg.
Now, at DiggTV, you can follow
all five shows at one place. It’s
nothing groundbreaking, but for
Digg fans it’s a nice one-stop
shop for all their Digg video
needs.
Besides Diggnation, the shows
include the Digg Reel, in which
Andrew Bancroft covers top
Advocates Banning Muslims from
Military
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 12:59:55 PM
Donald Wildmon’s American
Family Association has a blog,
and on that blog they’re
advocating: No More Muslims in
the U.S. Military.
The author, Bryan Fischer,
videos on the web, Diggcetera, AFA’s “Director of Issues
which is a mashup of various Analysis,” seems to believe he’s
Digg videos, Digg Townhall, in in a religious war between
which Kevin Rose and Digg Christianity and Islam. To
C E O J a y A d e l s o n a n s w e r Fischer, all Muslims are enemies,
q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e D i g g and that’s how he thinks the
community. Finally, perhaps the military should treat them.
most interesting show is Digg It it[sic] is time, I suggest, to
D i a l o g g , w h i c h f e a t u r e s stop the practice of allowing
interviews with stars such as Muslims to serve in the U.S.
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor military. The reason is simple:
and Tony Hawk. Reviews: Digg the more devout a Muslim is, the
Tags: digg, Digg.tv more of a threat he is to national
security. Devout Muslims, who
accept the teachings of the
Prophet as divinely inspired,
believe it is their duty to kill
infidels. Yesterday’s massacre is
living proof. And yesterday’s
incident is not the first fragging
incident involving a Muslim
taking out his fellow U.S.
soldiers.
Of course, most U.S. Muslims
don’t shoot up their fellow
soldiers. Fine. As soon as
Muslims give us a foolproof way
to identify their jihadis from their
moderates, we’ll go back to
allowing them to serve. You tell
us who the ones are that we have
to worry about, prove you’re
right, and Muslims can once
again serve. Until that day
comes, we simply cannot afford
the risk. You invent a jihadi-
detector that works every time
it’s used, and we’ll welcome you
back with open arms.
This is not Islamophobia, it is
Islamo-realism.
And don’t give us reassurances
about the oaths that Muslim
soldiers take to protect and
defend the Constitution from all
enemies, foreign and domestic.
Hasan took that oath, and it
proved meaningless. In fact, the
more devout a Muslim is, the
more likely he is to lie to you
through his teeth, since lying to
the infidel to advance the cause
of Islam is commended, not just
permitted, in the Koran.
This incredibly stupid article is a
grievous insult to the thousands
of Muslims who serve with great
valor in the US military, side by
side with their comrades of
different faiths. And it’s a
profoundly un-American point of
view to promote.
Shame on the American Family
Association, who make a great
show of standing for decency and
family values, then turn around
and advocate irrational bigotry
and collective punishment.

Underground Toys materializes TV sci-fi swag for the holidays

By John Scott Lewinski (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:03:00 AM
Do Daleks wear jingle bells?
Probably not. But the creator of
Doctor Who's deadliest enemies
is in stateside toy stores to
celebrate the holiday season with
the human species he's tried to over for a visit. Though he's a bit for the holidays
kill off more than once. of a grump -- the 12" high, radio Filed under: Doctor Who,
His arrival is very timely when controlled Davros should keep Reality-Free, British TV
you consider it's November and any Who fan entertained. The Permalink| Email this| |
time for pundits like me to start only question I have is whether Comments
sending some gift ideas your he'll end up in the fans of kids or
way. their sci-fi fan parents.
Since I'm more than comfortable the good folks at Underground Continue reading Underground
shilling for the geek contingent, Toys sent the evil scientist (right) Toys materializes TV sci-fi swag
38 Politics/ Tech Tips/ Economy/ E-reader Newspaper

Awesome New Milky Way Image from NASA's Ex-Optimal

Space Telescopes
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 2:40:38 PM
Phil Plait has a great description
of what you see in this stunning
new picture of the center of the
Milky Way galaxy, a mosaic
comprised of images from the
Hubble (visible light), Chandra
(X-rays), and Spitzer (infrared)
space telescopes.
There is so much going on in
this image it’s hard to know
where to start. But first… the
Hubble images are in the near-
infrared, with a wavelength a
little more than twice what the
eye can see (1.87 microns for
those playing at home). That’s
represented in the image as
yellow. Spitzer contributed
observations in four infrared
wavelengths (3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and
8.0 microns), and those are
depicted in red. Chandra sees X-
rays which are normally written
as units of energy, but to remain
consistent with the other two
images, they were at wavelengths
of 0.0005, 0.00025, and 0.00016
microns, and are shown in blue.
What does all this mean?
Different objects emit light at
different characteristic
wavelengths. Warm dust, for
example, emits strongly in the
infrared. Stars and warm gas emit
visible and near-infrared light.
Violently heated gas, affected by
huge magnetic fields or shocked
by colossal collisions glows in X-
rays. So this image is a
polychromatic view of the
crowded downtown region of a
bustling city: our galaxy.
Here’s the page at HubbleSite,
where you can find high
resolution images for desktop
wallpaper: HubbleSite -
NewsCenter - NASA’s Great
Observatories Celebrate
International Year of Astronomy
(11/10/2009) - Release Images.
And here’s the combined image;
hover over it to see a popup
showing all three parts.
chief faces
Madoff charges
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:11:07 AM
The former head of Optimal, the
Geneva-based hedge fund
investment arm of Spanish bank
Santander, has been charged with
criminal mismanagement of
client funds that were placed with
fraudulent US broker Bernard
Madoff.
Manuel Echeverría was charged
as part of a probe by Geneva
investigating magistrate Marc
Tappolet, according to legal
sources and a court document
seen by the Financial Times.
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Google Latitude Adds Location History, Alerts [Google Maps]

By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:35:00 AM
If you've been using Google
Latitude to find your nearby
friends, you're in luck: Google
updated Latitude with location
history and alerts for when your
friends are nearby. If you don't
love your every step
tracked—well, it's kind of
creepy.
Clearly if you're someone
concerned about your privacy, a
service like Latitude (and its
recent updates) may feel a bit
strange. Just keep in mind that
the extent to which Latitude
tracks you is always in your
hands. Moving onto the new
features:
Location history is pretty
straight forward. Enable it in
Latitude and the app starts
keeping track of where you've
been as well as where you are.
Location alerts, on the other
hand, are a little more interesting.
After working on this for a
while, we realized it wasn't as
straightforward as sending a
notification every time Latitude
work. To avoid this, we decided
to make Location Alerts smarter
by requiring that you also enable
Location History. Using your
past location history, Location
Alerts can recognize your
regular, routine locations and not
create alerts when you're at
places like home or work. Alerts
friends were near each other. will only be sent to you and any
Imagine that you're Latitude nearby friends when you're either
friends with your roommate or co at an unusual place or at a routine
-workers. It would get pretty place at an unusual time.
annoying to get a text message Neat. Of course, the features are
every single time you walked in only as useful as their adoption,
the door at home or pulled into and considering iPhone users are
stuck with a kind of lame webapp
because Apple worried that
Latitude would confuse users, so
it probably hasn't been adopted as
widely as might be necessary.
Then again, if you've got an
Android, BlackBerry, Symbian
S60, or Windows Mobile phone,
you can grab the proper app.
Google Latitude, now with
Location History &
Alerts[Google Mobile Blog]
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Train Your Mind to Keep Exercising

in Winter [Winter]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:00:00 AM

Gina Kolata writes an inspiring

piece for the New York Times
about the seemingly inevitable
slow-down of exercise routines
in winter—inevitable, really,
only if your mind accepts that
rainy, cold, and slushy runs are a
bad thing.
Photo by auburnxc.
Kolata talks to folks who live in
places with fairly harsh
winters—including Ithaca, N.Y.,
which I can confirm as the snow
pile at the end of Mother Nature's
driveway—and asks how they
get beyond the cold weather and
mental blocks that keep some
runners, cyclists, and other
outdoor types chained to indoor
equipment.
It's not having the right winter
wear, although that's important.
It's figuring out how to re-
consider winter and what it
means for your fitness.
My friend Jen Davis, a physical
chemist, uses a term from
chemistry: Running on dreary
days requires high activation
Geithner seeks to reassure on dollar
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:41:56 AM
Tim Geithner, US Treasury
secretary, on Wednesday
reiterated his belief in the
Get Extra Gmail and
Picasa Storage Real
energy, she says. In chemistry,
activation energy is what must be
added to start a reaction.\
to come up with new music
playlists and team up with friends
to enforce a faltering winter
Cheap [Online Storage]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) suggests, it might a preemptive
But those of us who exercise in exercise habit. step toward making the expected,
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:00:00 AM
all sorts of weather will attest that How do you get beyond the anticipated "GDrive" storage
there is a certain thrill that can imposing winter weather and Need some extra space for your space a real thing.
come from terrible conditions. "It fight on toward fitness? Share the gigantic Gmail habit, or to stash If you've already bought extra
makes us tough," Ms. Davis said. secret in the comments. Training m o r e p i c s i n P i c a s a W e b Google apps space, your account
She calls our runs in horrendous the Mind to Run Right Through Albums? Google took a knife to should see an automatic space
conditions "epic runs." And she's the Winter[NYTimes.com] its extra storage prices, offering, boost for the remainer of your
right. They are truly memorable, [Sponsored] NEC for example, 80 GB for $20 per year's purchase to match the new
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There's also a recommendation At the bottom end, 20 GB goes space make you consider moving
for $5 per year, or a bit over 41 your pictures to Picasa, or
cents per month. Want to get investing a bit more in Google as
importance of a strong dollar, strong dollar,” Mr Geithner told crazy with it? A terabyte runs a storage platform? More extra
ahead of the arrival in Asia of US the Japanese press in Tokyo. $512 per year, and 16 terabytes storage for less[Official Gmail
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40 Tech Tips/ Tech News/
Find Your Whole Social
Graph on Facebook at
Once With FBFriendFinder
By Jolie O'Dell
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 4:15:45 PM
We've just found a new
application for finding your
Twitter followers, LinkedIn
connections, and other friends
from around the web on
Facebook - all at once and all
quite simply.
This tool is called
FBFriendFinder. It comes from
the Dutch web dev shop Open &
Get Google Maps Navigation on Sociaal, and it works like a
charm by using OAuth, Facebook
Your G1 [Android] Connect, and contact export
functions to gather enough data
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) recommend backing up your G1 does—in short, web-attached, to organize a user's social graph.
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:35:00 AM
highly enough before you launch turn-by-turn, voice-recognizing T h e m o s t i n t e r e s t i n g p a r t ,
on this endeavor. driving directions: however, isn't the technology but
Google's awe-inducing, turn-by- Having said that, I've managed Got Navigation working on your the business model. You have to
t u r n M a p s N a v i g a t i o n i s to get Navigation on my G1, own G1 (or, even better, other read it to believe it.
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phone—unless you're willing to instructions at the second link, you like, or any quirks you First, FBFriendFinder makes the
hack around with your G1. With with the Android developer's e n c o u n t e r , in t h e friend-finding part of the process
either some command-line-fu or SDK installed and using adb -- c o m m e n t s . [ T h i n k T a n k ] as user-friendly as possible,
a two-part Windows application, help to figure out what I was M o d i f y i n g G 1 t o e n a b l e eliminating clicks and needless
y o u c a n p u t G o o g l e M a p s doing. Gizmodo recommends a Navigation[XDA-Developers navigation whenever possible:
Navigation on a rooted G1. batch file that does the dirty-but- Forum via Gizmodo] FBFriendFinder has take the
By "rooted," we mean a G1 q u a s i - l e g a l w o r k f o r y o u , Original step-by-step terminal much maligned approach of
running the latest Cyanogen including installation of the instructions[XDA-Developers actually requiring users to pay for
custom ROM(and here's the wiki Maps/Navigation app from Forum] the service. Users are charged
guide to installing it). Installing Android 2.0 (which I grabbed [Sponsored] NEC around one American penny per
this hack, like rooting your from this thread, registration Ads by Pheedo friend found, give or take. The
phone, totally voids your support required).
options from T-Mobile or other Here's a little video reminder of
p r o v i d e r , a n d w e c a n ' t what Google Maps Navigation
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site integrates with PayPal, so the
process is quick and painless.
After we paid our fee, we were
able to scroll through a slideshow
of our social graph (albeit with a
lot of same-name duplicate
accounts) to find and add those
friends to our Facebook network.
This process was a tiny bit buggy
and required some back-and-
forth navigation (it seems our
friends at The Next Web had the
same problem), but overall, the
experience was well worth the
five bucks it took to find these
friends without having to
manually hunt them down
ourselves or rely on Facebook
suggestions.
Also, we appreciate the app's
acknowledgement of our "crazy
lifestyle." And now, we're off to
ditch these pajama pants we've
been sporting since the weekend
and just go bananas. It's our crazy
lifestyle calling to us - the crazy
lifestyle we never knew we had.
A sincere congratulations to the
FBFriendFinder dude for creating
a handy and monetizable
application. Discuss
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X3Studios Makes Abstract Wallpaper Creation
Easy [Wallpaper]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:30:00 AM
If you're a fan of the abstract and
grungy vector-based wallpapers
floating around X3Studios is free
tool for creating abstract
wallpaper without needing a copy
of Illustrator and a pile of stock
images.
X3Studio sets up a palette,
element selection guide, and
workspace right in your browser.
You can select from background
textures, dozens of abstract and
grunge elements, and text you
want to add to your background.
The sliders on the right hand side
of the screen help you adjust the
Emulate Windows 7's Aero Snap Sizing in Linux [Linux]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:30:00 AM
Windows 7's Aero Snap is a
pretty neat feature, allowing for
easy side-by-side window sizing
of any application. You can get a
similar effect in Linux by
tweaking your Compiz
configuration settings.
Getting a half-size, Aero-Snap-
like window when dragged to the
edge of a window is easier than it
might seem—assuming you've
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color, saturation, and brightness
of the elements you have selected
and all elements are easily
rotated and transformed in size.
Many of the navigation
techniques like shifting elements
forward and backward and
got the right commands to enter
into the CompizConfig-Settings-
Manager app, like the OMG!
UBUNTU! blog has. Make a
quick installation of Compiz's
settings manager, if you haven't
already, and enter the commands
and variables recommended at
the link. Now when you drag a
window to the screen edge, you'll
get a half-size window to stack
up.
Two caveats apply to this trick,
though. One is that you seem to
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move i have seen in forever
navigating around the image
using the navigator pane will be
familiar to users of more formal
image editing software like
Photoshop and GIMP—the
interface is just radically
simplified. You can download
lose the ability to drag windows
horizontally into your next
workspace. The other is that,
depending on how you set it up, a
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your wallpaper in sizes ranging
from 1024x768 up to 1600x1200.
If you're not inclined to make
your own but like the style, you
can browse the gallery of work
saved by other visitors. You'll
find over 800 wallpapers in the
visitor gallery all available for
download. The wallpaper
creation tool at X3Studios is free
and requires no registration for
use. Have another favorite online
tool for generating cool
wallpaper? Let's hear about it in
the comments. X3Studios[via
MakeUseOf]
[Sponsored] NEC
Ads by Pheedo
dual monitor setup might not
give properly sized windows. I
can live with the first issue, as I
only use one workspace, but my
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US stocks drive to
2009 high as gold
hits fresh peak
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:41:01 AM
US stocks drive to 2009 high as
gold hits fresh peak
By Jamie Chisholm, Global
Markets Commentator
Published: November 11 2009
07:09 | Last updated: November
11 2009 16:41
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TwinView setup doesn't quite fly
with this trick. That said, it's a
great option for laptops or single-
monitor setups—and if you know
of a fix for those with extended
desktops, by all means, tell us
about it. Get Aero Snap in
Ubuntu[OMG! UBUNTU!]
[Sponsored] NEC
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Raindrop's Universal Inbox Looks
Awesome in Concept Designs
[Inboxes]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:00 AM
Mozilla's Raindrop project
showed us its one-inbox-to-rule-
them-all mission, but a Mozilla
designer now shows us how
Raindrop might actually pull that
off on mobile phones. The
designs are impressive,
combining email, Twitter,
Facebook, and other
conversations into one organized
stream.
Andy Chung has made his initial
designs for RainDrop's mobile
implementation available as a
Flickr set, and they show a really,
really simplified way of looking
at what's coming in. Twitter
replies, emails, Facebook
comments—they're all just
Fergie Speaks Candidly About
Cheating
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:12:00 AM
Pop star Fergie talks about what
she considers cheating,
Prior to reports that her husband
Josh Duhamel had an affair with
an Atlanta stripper, the singer
opened up to The Advocate about
her bisexuality and what that
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Palo Alto Networks:
Twitter Usage Soars in
the Enterprise
By Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:57:08 PM
• Facebook increased 59 percent
The news from Palo Alto when measured by the frequency
Networks reinforces what we in which it was detected on
should probably expect will be corporate networks.
the norm for the foreseeable Organizations saw big bumps in
future. According to the bandwidth consumption,
company's Application Usage increasing 294 percent to 6.3
and Risk Report, social gigabytes per organization.
technologies and collaborative
applications are moving deep into The study comes in the wake of
different-colored messages, and t e l l u s w h a t y o u t h i n k o f the enterprise with Twitter seeing
the reply button always does the Raindrop in the comments. a 250 percent increase in use a number of announcements,
most notably from Cisco, which
same thing. Additional functions T h i n k i n g M o b i l e [ R a i n d r o p since Spring of last year.
look like they're available when Design Development Page via In face of a report like this, it seems to have an understanding
of the social network dynamics at
triggered, but we're just excited TechCrunch] makes sense that Enterprise 2.0
(plainly) about how universally [Sponsored] NEC play in the enterprise. At a press
technologies would be a fit for conference on Monday, John
simple Raindrop looks like on Ads by Pheedo companies. Employees
any phone. Chambers outlined a number of
understand how social initiatives.
Check out the pics and pitch, and technologies function. Notable were his insights into
Collaborative applications make how collaboration is the best way
sense for getting the work done.
Sponsor
Here are some more results from
to quickly invent new products
and enter new markets. He said
this is especially true with
the Palo Alto study:
• Sharepoint adoption increased
younger workers entering the
workforce. Young people are
meant for her marriage. "I think therapist that it is still cheating 48 percent compared to last year. familiar with social networking
women are beautiful, I’ve had a even if it’s with girls, so there is • Google Docs showed up in and increasingly see it is the best
lot of fun with women, and I’m a rule there." 82% of the organizations, way to foster collaboration.
not ashamed of it. The problem is When asked if Fergie and Josh compared to 33% a year ago. Discuss
that I also love a well-endowed have ever made a sex tape, the Bandwidth increased 290 percent
man," she told the publication. singer responded, "No, that’s not since spring of this year.
"But just because I enjoy women happening. We’re too smart for
doesn’t mean I’m allowed to that. We’ve done some filming
have affairs in my relationship. I but with no tape in the camera."
learned through talking with my
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Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Online Music
By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 1:22:08 AM
It's November 2009 and we're
nearing the end of a decade. It's
been a tumultuous time of change
for many industries, much of it
driven by the Internet. With that
in mind, over the coming weeks
ReadWriteWeb will look back on
the defining Web trends of the
past 10 years. From the dot com
boom, to the nuclear winter after,
to the passion and enthusiasm of
the pre-Web 2.0 innovations
(such as RSS and podcasting), to
the highs and hype of Web 2.0, to
the current era of the real-time
Web, to the near future of the
Internet of Things. We'll explore
all of this and more.
We're starting with online music.
No industry, except arguably the
newspaper one, has been rocked
(pardon the pun) more by the
Internet than the music industry.
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Napster & Kazaa: Online File
Sharing
The online music decade started
with Napster, a music file
sharing service created by Shawn
Fanning that operated between
June 1999 and July 2001.
Napster enabled people to freely
share MP3 files over the Internet;
however it quickly ran into major
legal trouble. Napster was the
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Blog)
subject of lawsuits in 2000 by
touchy metal band Metallica and
others. It was eventually shut
down by court order, after several
major record labels went after the
service.
After Napster's demise, a P2P
application called Kazaa became
the most popular service for
music file sharing. But it too
eventually succumbed to record
industry attacks.
Curiously, both Napster and
Kazaa were recently reincarnated
as law-abiding services. After
years of re-launch attempts,
Napster was acquired by Best
Buy in September 2008 and was
born again in May 2009.
Meanwhile Kazaa turned into a
legit music subscription service
in July this year. iTunes / iPod:
Digital Music Goes Commercial
While Napster and Kazaa tried
to skirt around the commercial
imperatives of music, like paying
artists, Apple took on the record
industry in an entirely legal way.
In January 2001, Apple launched
a digital music player for music
called iTunes. Then in April
2003, the iTunes Store was
launched. It offered the ability to
buy songs for 99 cents each,
which had a major impact on the
music industry.
Soon after Napster's demise in
2001, Apple launched what was
to become a revolutionary device
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crowd of users who were years. As ReadWriteWeb's
interested in following pop Frederic Lardinois noted earlier
culture, and, in particular, the up- this year, Pandora derives its
and-coming artists they revenue from targeted audio
discovered while browsing advertising in its music streams
through the network. Only eight and affiliate sales through
months after its launch, MySpace Amazon's MP3 store and iTunes.
began to experience exponential Last.fm is another online music
in the music industry. The iPod growth, as its users created discovery service. It was founded
was launched in October 2001 profiles and friended others who in 2002 and was sold to CBS in
and it became the most popular would then, in turn, invite more 2007. It continues to innovate in
portable music player since the users to join the social network. 2009, for example in May this
Sony Walkman in the 1980s. Thanks to the " network effect," year last.fm announced combo
Fast forward to 2009 and iTunes MySpace soon became the place stations, allowing a user to create
continues to evolve. In January to be online. Everyone was a station with up to three artists
Apple announced that iTunes there." or tags. Conclusion
w o u l d g o D R M - f r e e . I n However by 2008, MySpace had This post and series was inspired
September 2009 Apple launched ceded the social networking by one of my favorite blogs and
version 9 of iTunes, which crown to Facebook. In 2009, podcasts, NPR's All Songs
i n c l u d e d a G e n i u s - l i k e MySpace is once again trying to Considered. They're currently
recommendation feature for apps reclaim its heritage as a music looking back at the decade in
and 'iTunes LPs' - a feature that service. In October MySpace music and much of the discussion
brings liner notes and artwork to launched"Artist Dashboards" and is about how the Internet helped
digital albums. integrated its music video vault define it.
MySpace: Music & Social with recent acquisition iLike. And it's true, when you think of
Networking Pandora & last.fm: Online Music music at the end of 2009 you
MySpace was launched in Discovery think of iTunes, Pandora and
August 2003 and soon became a Online music services have last.fm - MySpace even. The
popular hangout for local bands, flourished in the 'web 2.0' era, record industry is still coming to
e s p e c i a l l y i n d i e r o c k e r s . when the ability to find new terms with these and other
MySpace provided a way for music and share it with others via changes.
those bands to promote their the Web became increasingly Tell us your online music
music and reach a wide network sophisticated. memories of the past 10 years.
through social networking. Two services in particular stand What's been your favorite online
As ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez out. One is Pandora, a free online music product or service during
wrote last month, it was a music discovery service. Pandora that time? Discuss
virtuous circle for MySpace. The w a s f o u n d e d i n 2 0 0 0 a n d
bands' presence on MySpace continues to grow, despite
"began to attract a young, hip various legal issues over the
making photo management an and tags on your photos, post to fivefilters.org.
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Google Gives You More Storage for Less, but Still No GDrive
By Sarah Perez storage solution? solution for any of this yet. And the final step for making a cloud
(ReadWriteWeb) Sponsor many are beginning to wonder if OS a reality.
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:59:18 AM
Ties to Google Chrome OS? they ever will. It's almost strange at this point
Over on The Next Web, blogger In the tech community, there that Google hasn't released
Google just announced Alex Wilhelm thinks the have been rumors about an all- something of the sort yet. In fact,
dramatically reduced prices for increased storage space hints at encompassing online storage they've let Microsoft beat them to
their online storage options via a Google's future plans with their cloud storage system of this service called GDrive for years the punch in this instance
post on the company's Official upcoming netbook operating nature would be a natural fit for on end now, and yet, nothing has courtesy of Microsoft's SkyDrive
Google Blog. The new rates give system, Google Chrome OS. We Google's cloud operating system ever come of it. According to service which launched back in
you 20 GB for $5 per year, or, as have to admit, the same thought designed specifically for speculation (and wishful early 2008. SkyDrive offers a
Google puts it "twice as much occurred to us as well. After all, netbooks. And yet, it still seems thinking), the supposed system free 25 GB of online storage for
storage for a quarter of the old netbooks don't typically have the to be an incomplete offering at would allow for the upload of all your files and also serves as the
price." The new options also let same hard disk space as their this time. But Still So Limited! types of files and would tie central repository for Windows
you expand your storage all the larger, less totable counterparts. As much as we want to believe together all of Google's services. Live Photos as well as the
way up to 16 TB if need be. As However, that's not always the that the new changes are a sign of In our imaginations, we envision documents created via the new
always, these extra storage case these days given the new Google's plans for Chrome OS, a dashboard that links us to our Office Web Applications
options are available once you middle-of-the-road offerings like it's just as possible that they're online Google Docs, our photos, service, Microsoft's challenge to
reach the limit of your free the HP Mini 311, for example, nothing more than the great our Gmail, our Google Sites, and Google Docs. But where's
storage. which falls somewhere between discounts they appear to be. our multimedia content. The Google's answer to this? When
However, the system still only an ultra-portable netbook and full There's nothing all that new GDrive of our dreams would be will it come? Will it ever?
works with Gmail and the photo- -sized notebook with its 350 GB being introduced here - just better accessible from any computer, Perhaps the company is waiting
sharing service Picasa. There's no hard drive option. rates and more available space. keeping in sync all our user data, for the release of Google Chrome
mention of it expanding to But Alex has a point: by Sadly, the core storage offering preferences, and settings. You OS to dazzle us with some sort of
encompass other Google services providing this type of cloud itself is unchanged. It's still very can see a hint of how this sync revamped interface for a game-
like Google Docs, for example. storage solution, netbooks can limited, only encompassing could work with the way the changing cloud computing
And there's definitely no mention remain basic machines which are Gmail and Picasa photos. What Google Chrome web browser operating system. Or perhaps the
of the seemingly mythical smaller and cost less. That would about the rest of our files - like stores your favorites. Your company is just doing what it
GDrive, the long-rumored online pave the way for the Google the ones stored in Google Docs? b o o k m a r k e d s i t e s a r e n o w does best: offering solutions that
storage system supposedly under Chrome OS line of netbooks to What about our music and movie available in the browser no are simply good enough.
development which would allow be even more affordable devices collections? What about the matter what PC you use while a What do you think? Will Google
for the upload of any file type for than what's on the market today hundred or so of home videos we backup copy sits in Google Docs. ever offer us a real cloud storage
safe storage in the cloud. We're since they wouldn't need to come can't bear to delete from our hard GDrive should do the same, but system or is this all we'll ever
b e g i n n i n g t o w o n d e r : w i l l equipped with large hard drives. drives? Google has no centralized not just for web browser favorites get? Discuss
Google ever offer us a real cloud Obviously, an OS-integrated - for everything. That would be

Courteney Cox Heats Up TV Guide's 'Hot List'

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:59:00 AM
ET has the latest...
Winter is fast approaching, but
TV Guide Magazine heated
things up at their "Hot List"
party.
"Cougar Town"'s Courteney Cox,
named "Hot Mama," graces the
cover of this special issue of the
magazine. She told ET of her
pictorial, "I like it. I think it's
great…I haven't seen the actual
one, but I saw a Xerox of it and it
looked good."
Co-star Ian Gomez commented,
"Finally, someone's realized that
she's hot. Not as hot as my wife
of course, but hot none the less."
He scored brownie points with
wife, actress Nia Vardalos, who
was by his side.
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Good Bloggers Make Good Neighbors, New
Survey Shows
By Jolie O'Dell
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 12:01:26 AM
Back in the day, it was assumed
that heavy Internet geeks were a
bunch of basement-dwelling,
trenchcoat-wearing, socially
maladjusted introverts.
However, a new study from the
Pew Internet Project shows that
geeks, including IM users and
bloggers, are more likely to help
neighbors, get out of the house,
volunteer, and behave as
upstanding members of their IRL
communities.
Sponsor
One of the most interesting
findings of the study completely
neutralizes the stereotype of the
antisocial tech geek. "Mobile
phone use, internet use,
frequency of use, or participating
in social networking services,
blogging, photo sharing, or
instant messaging, was found to
have no relationship with the
likelihood of face-to-face contact
with neighbors." That is, Internet
geeks are as likely to know and
speak to their neighbors as are
Jeremy Bloom Retires
By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
non-geeks. Factors such as age,
marital/cohabitation status, and
gender have a much greater
impact on local social activity,
actually.
And although the study found
that Internet users were less
likely to rely on neighbors for
help, its finding also tell us that
frequent or dedicated Internet
users are a mighty friendly and
helpful bunch when it comes to
giving support to neighbors.
Bloggers are almost 80 percent
more likely to do small favors for
their neighbors than other groups,
and they're 84 percent more
likely to help a neighbor care for
a family member, e.g., offer
babysitting help. And while
Internet users, including photo-
sharing folks and IM fans, are
more likely across the board to
help and hang out with people in
their neighborhood, the study
also showed that Internet users
are almost 50 less likely to lend
neighbors money. Insert a pun
about teaching a man to phish
here.
Folks who use sites such as
BuildingBulletins or
Filed under: Skiing
Jeremy Bloom had the athletic
talent to be both a professional
downhill skier and a Division I
punt returner, and he had the
NeighborGoods to connect with
people who live near them are
also more likely to engage with
their community, especially in
terms of actively discussing
community issues, listening to a
neighbor's problems, or helping a
neighbor with chores or errands.
Bloggers and mobile phone
users are also 72 percent more
likely to belong to a local group
or organization such as a
charitable organization, a youth
sports league, or a religious
group. For example, an average
single, white person with no
children has a 40 percent chance
of belonging to at least one local
voluntary group. However, that
chance increases to 54 percent if
that person users a mobile device
wherewithal to stand up to the
NCAA when it prevented him
from doing both simultaneously.
This week Bloom announced that
he's retiring from competitive
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and 72 percent if that person is
also a blogger and frequent
Internet user.
Another fascinating set of
findings completely negate the
stereotypical image of Internet
geeks as agoraphobic recluses.
Internet and mobile users are far
more likely than non-users to hit
up coffee shops, parks, and
restaurants in their communities.
Internet users in general are
around 50 percent more likely to
find themselves in public places
than non-users, and bloggers
specifically are 60 percent more
likely than non-bloggers to spend
time in a public park.
The study concludes, "As with
other local community activities,
the relationship between Internet
use and participation in public
and semi-public spaces is likely a
combination of self-selection and
an outcome of internet use... The
Internet may also enable visits to
public spaces through
opportunities to coordinate
rendezvous and search for new
places to visit." Discuss
sports, and it's a good time to
remember an athlete who had a
career unlike any other.
Jeremy Bloom Retires originally
appeared on Fanhouse Backporch
45
Celine Dion's Husband
Says Fertility Treatment
was Unsuccessful
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:37:00 AM
Celine Dion is said to be
"shocked" that her IVF procedure
was unsuccessful, but her
husband reveals they plan to try
again.
In an interview with Canadian
paper Journal de Montreal[via
People.com] Celine's 67-year-old
husband René Angélil explained
that they believed a previous
implantation had worked, but
sadly did not. "We are living the
reality of the majority of couples
who have to use [IVF]. The
process can be long and
arduous," he said. "But today, we
are full of confidence. Celine is
more determined than ever."
In August, Celine's doctor
announced she was pregnant with
an embryo that was kept frozen
for eight years in liquid nitrogen.
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Mobile Application to Diagnose Etelos Adopts OpenID For

Disease by Hearing you Cough Business Applications Sold
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
tuned-in doctor - or in this case, a
mobile app - can listen to the
Through Its Marketplaces
entire structure of a cough from By Alex Williams
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:31:21 AM
the initial intake of air to the final (ReadWriteWeb)
Feeling a bit under the weather? 100-150 milliseconds of a cough Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:00:00 AM
Soon you'll be able to cough into that contains the distinctive "wet"
your mobile phone for an instant or "dry" and "productive" or Etelos is adopting OpenID and through a "single-user portal."
diagnosis. A research firm called "unproductive" sounds that help Single Sign On(SSO) for its OpenD is a decentralized
STAR Analytical Services is to classify the cough's partners that sell business standard for managing user
working to develop software that seriousness, explains an article applications. The service will names and passwords for single-
can analyze the sound of a cough on Discovery News. Even the provide a single point of user logon access to web-based
a n d i d e n t i f y i t a s e i t h e r n a t i o n s . D e s p i t e t h e p o o r loudness of a cough is taken into authentication for business applications and social sites. It is
associated with a common cold, economic conditions of these account - healthy people have applications distributed through supported by a number of
the flu, or something worse - like under-developed countries, there coughs that are 2% louder than a Etelos marketplaces. companies including Google,
pneumonia or another serious are a plethora of mobile phones sick person's. OpenID will primarily serve IBM and Yahoo!
respiratory disease. Just as w h i c h a r e b e i n g u s e d f o r At the moment, the software small business customers who OpenID has taken some time to
doctors have been doing for everything from early warning exists as a computer application use business applications from establish itself but it did get a
years, the software will "listen" systems to mobile payments to but the scientists plan to have it Etelos partners. OpenID will boost this summer when Google
to the wetness or dryness of a health alerts. An mobile app that re-written, when complete, as an provide small businesses with an Apps adopted it. The adoption
cough and determine whether all diagnoses disease would fit right application for mobile phones. identity solution that gives them meant millions of schools,
you need is a lozenge or if you in. There's no word on when the easier access to the applications businesses and other
need to come in for a doctor's The way the diagnostic software mobile application will be they use. Etelos develops and organizations could use their
visit instead. works is by comparing the released, but the scientists will operates private-labeled Apps accounts as an OpenID.
Sponsor sounds of the mobile user's cough need to collect around 1000 marketplaces for Web-based OpenID should see see
Turn Your Head...Towards Your t o a d a t a b a s e o f c o u g h s c o u g h s a m p l e s b e f o r e t h e business applications such as continued growth, especially as
Mobile Phone associated with all the different database is ready. If they're able Eventbrite and Box.net. enterprise applications
The American and Australian types of respiratory diseases. to then design a successful Sponsor proliferate. OpenID and SSO's
scientists at STAR have received There would also be multiple analytical tool for mobile phones, Subscribers access what Etelos give providers like Etelos a way
a $100,000 grant from the Gates coughs per disease stored in the the impacts to people's health calls a User Management for its customers to offer a simple
Foundation to develop the cough- database to take into account would be far-reaching - and not Interface (UMI). This console identity solution that simplifies
a n a l y z i n g s o f t w a r e f o r variations by age, gender, weight, just in developing countries, but manages all of the application the process for managing
developing countries where and other factors. everywhere in the world. Discuss users for a small business applications.
access to health care is more While to our untrained ears, subscriber. Using this system, Discuss
limited than in first world many coughs sound just alike, a they can access their application
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Apple’s Atomic War

By Mark Crump undertaking this task knew of the much less one with an Apple the hardware and do the grunt
(TheAppleBlog) risks. So, there was little harm sticker slapped on it. But there work to get the OS on it.
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:19:32 AM
done. are enough pictures on Flickr of Granted, while it’s gotten a lot
I’d like to take a look at some of people doing this, so I can see easier over the years and many
With the release of 10.6.2, Apple the armchair theories I’ve seen, Apple getting irate and going, sites have complete
killed unsupported support for and offer my own armchair “OK, enough already.” Who walkthroughs, it’s still an
the Atom processor — the analysis of them. Apple wasn’t knows, maybe people were undertaking. Pystar, though,
processor used in low-cost happy with the (alleged) piracy walking into Apple stores upped the ante. It recently
netbooks. Certain models of The piracy angle has two fronts: looking for “that cute little Apple released the Rebel EFI tool
netbooks could run OS X quite your interpretation of the EULA, laptop I saw the nice guy at the which, allegedly, will allow you
easily, and people used them to and how many copies of OS X airport using.” Apple doesn’t to install OS X on darn near
make the Little Netbook Apple running on hackintoshes were have products running the Atom anything. It’s not a stretch to
Refuses to Make. While it’s a purchased. chipset assume it’s going to sell a
stretch to say Apple has killed the In terms of the EULA, while I I’ll buy this one. While having netbook running OS X. Given the
hackintosh market, it’s certainly know Apple strongly disagrees support for the chipset doesn’t lawsuit, I believe Apple did this
proving it isn’t going to sit with this, my personal take is as are you a pirate? I have no data hurt anything, it’s unnecessary to both be able to demonstrate to
around and ignore it. long as I’ve bought a legal on how many hackintoshes were code. Maybe Apple was thinking a court it has taken measures to
The reaction has been interesting license of OS X (and if it’s an running pirated OS X installs, of using the chipset and decided prevent OS X from running on
a n d v a r i e s f r o m c a s u a l upgrade license like Snow and I don’t have any against it. Maybe knowing un-supported hardware, as well
indifference, to the defense of Leopard, I have the requisite corresponding data on how many support for that chipset was as eliminate a future product line
Apple’s action, to thinking Apple Leopard copy), if I want to install Snow Leopard installs are legal. keeping Jobs up at night. If from Psystar.
cancelled Christmas. While I’ve it on a piece of non-Apple gear as That said, since Apple offers no Apple does end up using the Like I said, I’m a little
been a vocal supporter of Apple’s long as I don’t waste Apple’s or copy protection, I’m going to say chipset, it’s easy enough to re- disappointed in Apple. But I can
right to continue to club Palm mine time with supporting it, I’m that piracy wasn’t a motivator. enable the code in the future. understand why it would cut the
over the Pre syncing fiasco, I in the clear. Now, this is not legal Apple didn’t like seeing netbooks Which is about as close as I’ll get code for an unused chip. I’ve
imagine it’ll sound hypocritical advice in any way, and all the with Apple stickers on them to mentioning the oft-rumored, given some thought to getting a
when I say I’m disappointed in usual disclaimers. It may be a In the somewhat wonky world of n e v e r - p r o m i s e d netbook and hackintoshing it, but
Apple over this move. tenuous stretch, but in this case I Apple’s Land of Preventing User Tablaslabawhatevah. Some have after I got my new MacBook Pro
Up until now, Apple’s stance don’t consider a person creating Confusion, I can actually see this opined that by doing this code a month or so ago, that desire
with the hackintosh community such a hackintosh a “pirate.” one being a reason for doing this. cleanup Apple didn’t know it was faded away. I’m much happier
has largely been don’t ask, don’t The second front, though, has no Now, I go to a fairly technical breaking Atom support. I don’t using Apple-built hardware. I
tell. The people who bought a defense. If you’re creating a university and the overall number agree. While it’s possible there’s have a Dell Ultraportable laptop
netbook and, hopefully, bought a hackintosh and download a of netbooks I’ve seen is small, nothing evil about its intent, I for work, and the small trackpad
copy of OS X to install it, were torrent or borrow a buddy’s disc, and zero of them have been think it was intentional. The on that drives me nuts…I don’t
aware of the risks of doing so. and don’t own a corresponding running OS X (unscientific poll Pystar lawsuit forced its hands want to think of one smaller.
Getting it to run might involve license, you’re a pirate. Where taken while trying to find tables Now we’re getting somewhere. What about you? What do you
waving a dead chicken at the things get gray is if you’re at the canteen and library). I’ve Up until recently, creating a think of Apple’s decision?
screen, or it could be completely downloading a hacked OS X never actually seen a hackbook, hackintosh was very much a do-it
painless. However, the person distro, but have a legal license, -yourself affair. You had to get

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MacBook vs. MacBook Pro: Which Should You Eyes-on: Modern

Warfare 2 night
Buy? vision goggles
By Charles Moore 20 percent higher price. 20 integrated NVIDIA GeForce By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
(TheAppleBlog) Percent Higher Price — 20 9400M graphics chipset (which Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:20:00 AM
Submitted at 11/10/2009 9:26:26 AM
Percent More Value? MacBook Pro in his comparison, should be more than adequate if
Personally, I think these factors noting that at 5.5 pounds, the you’re not into high-end graphics There might be a game buried
AppleGazette’s Kevin Whipps do add up to 20 percent more real unibody 15-incher is not a whole or video, or serious gaming) that deep in the Modern Warfare 2:
addresses the quandary over how value and then some, although lot heavier than the 13 MacBook annexes up to 256MB of your Prestige Edition box that showed
to choose between a MacBook Kevin has a point about the two and MacBook Pro units at 4.7lb. system RAM for video support. up on our doorstep yesterday, but
and a MacBook Pro, noting that machines being pretty much and 4.5lb. respectively, and A No-Brainer if so, we're not aware of it. See,
it used to be that if you wanted a clones when it comes to core offers much more expansive Personally, while I find the new we've been a little too busy
13-inch Mac laptop (excluding computing power. For example, screen real estate at its 1440 x polycarbonate unibody MacBook harnessing the miracle of modern
the MacBook Air), the only it now appears that even Apple’s 900 resolution. Being a former very attractive — a quantum technology so we can see in the
o p t i o n w a s t h e o r i g i n a l nominal 4GB maximum RAM 17 PowerBook user who recently improvement over the old, iBook dark.
MacBook. Now with a 13-inch upgrade spec for the MacBook is switched from the big, old -esque MacBook form factor — We've opened our eyes in the
aluminum MacBook Pro on the completely arbitrary. OWC is ‘Book’s 1440 x 900 display to an my recommendation remains if blackness and seen the green-
market, the decision has become offering 8GB memory upgrade aluminum unibody MacBook’s you can somehow scratch up the tinted future, and now we want to
more complex. kits for the plastic unibody more cramped 1280 x 800 13.3 extra $200, the base 2.26GB share our vision with you.
Kevin allows that the 13 MacBook. screen, I have to agree, and the MacBook Pro 13 represents the (And yes, we'll be giving the
MacBook Pro doesn’t give you a The MacBook comes with a latest $1,699 entry-level 15 Pro is zenith of value and power for the whole thing away soon.)
lot more value for your dollar, 250GB hard drive, which is more especially price-enticing. money that Apple has ever Eyes-on: Modern Warfare 2
comparatively. I beg to differ, but than respectable for standard However, note well that if you offered in a portable computer, night vision goggles originally
there’s a large element of equipment, especially since the need the heavy-duty graphics and if you’re willing to go with appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11
s u b j e c t i v i t y i n a n y s u c h 13 MacBook Pro’s base $1,199 support provided by the discrete an Apple Certified Refurbished Nov 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please
judgment, with many variables model comes with a more modest NVIDIA 9600M GT GPU with unit, the Apple Store currently see our terms for use of feeds.
such as how much you value 1 6 0 G B d r i v e . W i t h t h e 256MB of dedicated VRAM, has them available for the same Permalink| Email this|
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lot), how important a SD Card drives are BTO options, but that up $1,999 for the middle-model M a c B o o k , w i t h t h e s a m e
slot is to your needs, and whether bumps the price to MacBook Pro 2.66GHz 15 Pro. The $1,699 unit w a r r a n t y a n d A p p l e C a r e
the premium look, fit, finish, and levels. The Case for the 15 is essentially identical in power e l i g i b i l i t y .
durability of the Pro’s aluminum MacBook Pro to the high-end $1,499 13 For me, it’s a no-brainer.
unibody construction justifies the Kevin actually includes the 15 MacBook Pro, and has only the

Review: Sons of Anarchy - Balm

By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:21:00 AM
(S02E10) I'm filling in for
Danny, who experienced a DVR
malfunction, so be gentle with
me, as I've been a bit here and
there with Sons of Anarchy this
season. Last winter, I raced
through season one for Jane After
Dark, and fell in love with the
gritty characters and edgy
storyline. But to tell you the
truth, I had trouble watching it
after Gemma's rape this season. It
was really disturbing, and I
wasn't sure I wanted all of that in
my head all the time.
But the fact is that Sons of
Anarchy is a great show and --
like many other FX shows --
unlike most of what you see on
TV these days. So I'm happy to
have this chance to get caught up
a little bit with season two.
Continue reading Review: Sons
of Anarchy - Balm
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Apple Surpasses Nokia as Most

Profitable Cell Phone Maker
By Darrell Etherington Nokia is in the midst of a legal
(TheAppleBlog) battle with Apple over what it
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:59:22 AM
sees as blatant copyright
violation. Charles recently wrote
Despite controlling a much about the conflict over
smaller share of the market,
Apple is now much more
intellectual property between the
two firms. Nokia alleges that the
VESA Issues Mini
profitable than Nokia, overtaking
the handset maker as the most
lucrative company in the business
iPhone infringes on not one, not
two, but 10 patents it holds
regarding wireless tech and
DisplayPort Standard
By Darrell Etherington though DisplayPort 1.2 including
of selling cell phones. Apple also standards. The timing of the suit, (TheAppleBlog) mDP is in the works, which will
overtook Samsung during the last which comes shortly following a double the available bandwidth
Submitted at 11/10/2009 10:44:51 AM
financial quarter, so it actually significant drop in market share of the cable tech to 21.6
jumped from third to first place for Symbian OS, seems quite Earlier this year (right at the Gb/second. That would mean that
overall among global cell phone suspect. beginning, in fact), we brought multi-monitor support via a
companies. The future for Apple looks news that the Video Electronics single cable would be feasible, as
Research firm Strategy Analytics bright indeed, so long as it can Standard Association (VESA) well as higher resolutions and
( via Reuters) points out that and one that will likely only continue taking in the same might potentially make the Mini improved color depth and refresh
while Apple is now the most grow as Apple continues to end incredibly high profit margins on DisplayPort standard, meaning rates. 3-D displays necessary for
profitable company in the cell exclusivity deals around the the iPhone. Part of its continued that manufacturers outside of demanding graphical applications
phone industry, both Nokia and world, opening up iPhone sales ability to do so is probably due to Apple can now use it in their could also be supported with the
Samsung both still beat the to more and more potential the fact that the 3GS iPhone products without Apple’s new version of the standard.
Cupertino company in terms of subscribers. revision actually seemed to approval, including rival As a result of this new standard
sheer size. That’s especially good Of course, there isn’t a direct require very little change on the computer makers, among others. creation by VESA, we could see
news for Apple, which makes relationship between Apple’s production side, which would go The Mini DisplayPort (mDP) a flood of mDP-toting computing
much more on a per-unit basis gain and the slides Nokia and a l o n g w a y t o k e e p i n g standard is described as a smaller devices, or we could see very
than any other mobile phone Samsung are experiencing. Other manufacturing costs down. A form factor of the DisplayPort little change at all. As with
maker. It makes approximately factors are at work, including the significant update will require connector itself. The smaller FireWire, many computer makers
$320 pure profit on each iPhone growing popularity of Google’s more time to become profitable, connector is aimed at devices like might opt to skip mDP or DP in
sold, according to Strategy Android platform, which is being but Apple’s continued success thin portable computes and add- favor of more established
Analytics. adopted by more cell phone with the device means that the in cards that need to support technologies like DVI and VGA,
Estimated profits for Apple makers and network providers. turnaround time required for that multiple display interfaces. since they are more widely
during the third financial quarter The arrival of the Palm Pre to happen will be remarkably Hopefully, display and display available and don’t necessitate a
of this year are around $1.6 probably also had a negative short. accessory makers will adopt the change to manufacturing
billion, compared with $1.1 impact on the handset sales of the standard, reducing the need to processes. The one thing mDP
billion for Nokia during the same two industry leaders. purchase expensive Apple- has going for it is its size, and
period. It’s a commanding lead, branded adapters. makers of MacBook Air
The new mDP is for Version 1, competitors will probably be the
Revision 1a of the standard, first to bite, if anyone does.
50 Apple/ TV/ Media/
Orange Launch Day iPhone Sales Set Leno show makes "radical"
a Record
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 10:08:18 AM
Today is the day the iPhone
stopped being an exclusive in the
UK. Officially, as of 7 a.m., the
device went on sale at Orange
retailers across the UK, and the
carrier is already claiming that
the iPhone has gone over
exceedingly well with
consumers, despite already
having been available to O2
customers since its initial launch.
By the end of business today, the
newest UK iPhone carrier on the
block will have sold well more
than 30,000 iPhones, according
to gadget web site T3. Not bad
for what’s technically a relaunch
of an already available device.
Compare that with Motorola’s
claim of 100,000 Droid units
moved in three days in the U.S.
Properly framed and in context,
the iPhone figures Orange is
claiming are much more
impressive, and show that hype
aside, any competitor still has a
long way to go to contend with
Apple.
Orange also claims that the
impressive sales numbers
MediaDailyNews: Comcast Ups Joy To SVP, Strategy
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:15:07 AM
Comcast Corp. has promoted
E-reader Newspaper
format change; looks more
the Vodafone network is the
fastest using the iPhone:
like old Tonight Show
“We’ve been out and about By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
testing our network across the Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:42:00 AM
UK. Whilst our guys were
watching the latest YouTube If you were one of the dozens of
clips on the iPhone they found people who were watching The
that Vodafone delivered the Jay Leno show on Monday, you
fastest download time for a 10- might have been wondering why
minute video.” the "Headlines" segment came
Vodafone provided not a single right after Jay's monologue
scrap of statistical evidence to instead of right before the local
news. Were you stumbling upon
represent a new record for first back up its claim, which is only
a rerun of the old Tonight Show
day handset device sales in the fair since Orange didn’t provide
that was airing by mistake?
UK, at least regarding published any to support its claim regarding
results. The launch sales of the sales numbers, either. Nope. It seems that, because of
the low-and-sinking ratings Leno
device have also helped Orange’s Orange recently came under
has been getting at ten, the
own Wednesdays app climb to scrutiny for its reported 750MB
producers have decided to"shake
the top of the Entertainment cap on data usage under its
up" the format ... to make it look
category charts, and achieve the “ U n l i m i t e d ” p l a n , a n d f o r
No. 2 ranking overall in the free imposing bizarre restrictions on like the old Tonight Show.
how network data may be used, Of course, changing a pretty tuning to him because nothing's
section of the App Store.
moribund format back to a
Vodafone, which has yet to restrictions that seemed, if taken on and their DVRs are empty.
format that's even older isn't
launch the iPhone, but intends to at face value, to basically prohibit There are no expectations on
exactly a radical shift. But the
in early 2010, didn’t want to just 90 percent of iPhone usage. their part.
sit back and let Orange have its Obviously, the company isn’t producers are likely betting that Continue reading Leno show
returning to the successful
day in the sun uncontested. The actually preventing its iPhone makes "radical" format change;
Tonight formula is the way to go.
UK cell service provider is customers from doing things like looks more like old Tonight
Here's the problem: people don't
hoping to convince some would- using IM applications, and since Show
have the same ingrained
be iPhone buyers to step back no one’s had a chance to hit that Filed under: Talk Show, Reality-
and wait until its own launch, by 750MB limit as of yet, things expectations of a 10 PM talk Free, Jay Leno
show that they have of an 11:30
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show. Instead of tuning into Leno
sure were completely unbiased), smoothly for the big launch. Comments
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sleep late at night, they're now
Aljit Joy to senior vice president and technology planning, as well the company in 2005.
of strategy and communications as product development for This content has passed through
product development. Joy is Comcast's broadband Internet fivefilters.org.
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Opening Weekend: iPhone vs. Pre vs. Droid

By Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:01:11 AM
After heavy promotion,
including a little negative
advertising, Verizon launched the
Droid over the weekend, and two
days later the first sales estimates
are in: 100,000.
Speaking with Bloomberg,
Analyst Mark McKechnie of
Broadpoint AmTech thinks that’s
pretty good. Noting that Verizon
had 200,000 Droids on the
shelves for launch, he said most
stores sold at least half their
inventory.
“I see the first few days as
encouraging,” McKechnie said.
“There seems to be pretty good
demand — they’ve taken the
right steps and picked a good
partner with Google on the
Android side.”
While that may be true,
comparing the Droid to the
iPhone and the Palm Pre during
their launch weekends paints a
different picture…or chart.
According to Apple, both the
iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS sold
more than a million units during
their first weekend. Some might
argue that’s an unfair
comparison, in that both iPhones
were available in multiple
countries. Both also benefited
from the App Store, though that
was far more of an advantage for
the 3GS. When the iPhone 3G
went on sale, there were only 500
apps available, compared to more
than 10,000 for the Droid now.
Still, a more fair comparison
might be found with the original
Apple’s 270,000 iPhones, except
for one thing. That number does
not include Sunday sales, which
fell on July 1 and were part of a
new quarter. It’s very possible
Apple sold as many as 400,000
iPhones during that first weekend
of lines around the block.
Of course, lines aren’t
everything. As Verizon
spokesperson David Samberg
said to CNET regarding Friday’s
Droid launch, “long lines
forming outside are flashy,” but
the goal is a “a steady stream of
people” over days and weeks.
iPhone, as it too was sold in the Perhaps the Droid would be
U . S . o n a s i n g l e n e t w o r k . better compared to Palm’s
However, it should also be smartphone, which is estimated
pointed out that Verizon has to have sold around 50,000 units
more customers than AT&T, and during its launch weekend.
that the original iPhone was not a It’s looks like Verizon may have
3G device, and that the 8GB a “Pre killer” in the Droid.
model cost $599.
Nonetheless, Verizon’s 100,000
Droids looks pretty good next to

Sesame Street 40th: Five greatest animated shorts

By Danny Gallagher (TV children all over the world. It's a four? Because 40 would break
Squad) show that has shaped a the last ounce of my spirit),
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:00:00 AM
generation into curious and starting now with the show's best
innovative people. It's a show short cartoons.
This week marks the 40th that could kick the ass of any Continue reading Sesame Street
anniversary of Sesame Street, the other children's show on the 40th: Five greatest animated
greatest and most celebrated kids' planet if the two were in some shorts
show in the history of the known sort of a weird battle to the death, Filed under: Animation,
universe. provided that no weapons were Children, TV Squad Lists,
Its cast of colorful character and involved and Justice League Reality-Free
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have made it more than just To celebrate this momentous day characters from the show's 40 Comments
entertainment for the young ones. i n t e l e v i s i o n h i s t o r y , I ' m years into four special lists for
It's a children's show that has compiling the most interesting their anniversary week (Why
educated the growing minds of m o m e n t s , m e m o r i e s a n d
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Twitter for Content

(Scripting News) creneaux exist, like laptop sure are there, but with no
Submitted at 11/10/2009 1:08:23 PM
computers and desktop products in them, yet.
computers -- we all know the Communicating Cameras. Oh
Ries & Trout wrote a series of difference. Some creneaux don't boy what a great market that's
books about Positioning. exist, though marketers would going to be when someone goes
I love these books and have have you believe they do. "The after it seriously. No one has, yet.
written about them many times. leading realtor west of the The iPhone is a dress rehearsal
They explain markets in terms of Mississippi and east of the for the real product whose Smallville: Maybe the
metaphors that help you visualize Rockies." Yeah yeah yeah. :-) communication ability will be as
that markets work differently What about ladders and seamless as the Amazon Kindle. Wonder Twins episode
from the ways we were raised to creneaux in markets that are The tech industry hardly notices won't be so bad
think they did. Markets are not developing right now. Yammer that Amazon has solved a hard By Mike Moody (TV Squad)
about features, or about what you proved that there is a segment problem, in typical Amazon
remember, they're about the map you could think of as Twitter fashion, completely. The Kindle Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:04:00 AM

in people's minds, and about the Behind the Firewall or Twitter isn't glitzy like the iPhone or So that silly pair of purple-clad
impressions products leave, not for Workgroups. The product and Droid, but it works so well you superheroes, The Wonder Twins,
the details. company are doing well, because could say It Just Works. A high are coming to Smallville this
In Marketing Warfare, they that is a real segment and they compliment. Friday. I can think of worse
depict the marketplace as a are the top guy on the ladder. Others: Checkbox News and things that could happen to the
b a t t l e f i e l d , a n d u s e d t h e Some products are new but so Social Cameras. show: Kristin Kreuk could return
p r i n c i p l e s o u t l i n e d b y t h e useful that they pretty much form Another creneau that I've been (shudder), for example, or Clark's
P r u s s i a n g e n e r a l C a r l v o n the whole market. Dropbox is an yammering about for years, bare chest could start to sparkle
Clauswitz in his writing about example. That means one of two which I called Payloads for in the sunlight, ala Edward
war. Minds are where the war is things may happen: They may Twitter, I'm now conceiving in a Cullen. Now that would be truly
fought. add a feature or find a new way different way -- I'm giving up on terrible.
Then they depict the market as a to explain it that puts it either Twitter doing this -- and instead But Zan and Jayna nerding up
collection of ladders. On each into a new segment of an existing hoping that Dropbox may get the joint? Sounds like fun to me.
ladder there's a number one, two market or on the ladder in an there first. They have already Being a fan of the veteran
and three in any market. Every existing market. Ries & Trout done an RSS feed for changes to superhero series, I'm not
marketer thinks his or her believe they would do better if dropboxes. And they have a embarrassed to say that I'm
product is unique and stands they did one of those. Either be out what creneau it might be public folder in every dropbox. If looking forward to seeing the live
alone, but what's important is second guy on the ladder in a occupying, so I think it's on the they do a minor cleanup of their -action Twins bump fists this
what the prospect thinks. In colas booming market, or split off a iPhone ladder, maybe #2 or #3. RSS and support a realtime Friday. (I wouldn't even mind a
there's Coke, Pepsi and everyone piece of a market and own it. P r o b a b l y # 2 . C a l l i t t h e protocol such as rssCloud or cameo from everybody's favorite
else. Poor 7Up wasn't even on the Standing alone isn't such a hot Cellphone as Style Statement PubSubHubBub, they will be blue monkey, Gleek, but sadly I
ladder, so they invented a new deal for the first guys in a market. market. The other one is probably squarely in what I think of as a don't think that's in the cards.)
one called Uncola. It worked (but Just ask Cromemco, Altair and t h e P a l m P r e . M i c r o s o f t , new creneau with enormous Continue reading Smallville:
it usually doesn't). Radio Shack about their leading Blackberry and Nokia are on the potential -- Twitter for Content. Maybe the Wonder Twins
A creneau is one of these new p o s i t i o n s i n t h e p e r s o n a l old ladder, the one that the PS: This piece ran earlier today episode won't be so bad
ways of explaining something so computer market in the 1970s. iPhone refused to get on. on my Unberkeley blog. There Filed under: Smallville, Video,
that it stands separately in the So what about Droid. It does so Then there are creneaux that I'm are some comments there you Reality-Free
mind of the prospect. Some much, it's really hard to figure may want to read. Permalink| Email this| |
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Discovery Health Delivers ‘Shock and Awww’ With An All-
New “Baby Week”
By Bill Gorman Health. The special programming
(TVbytheNumbers) begins each night at 8 PM
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:47:35 AM
(ET/PT) from Monday,
November 30, through Friday,
via press release: December 4. Featured BABY
Discovery Health Delivers WEEK world premieres include:
‘Shock and Awww’ With An All -- SHE SURVIVED
-New BABY WEEK, Starting THAT...PREGNANT?! --
November 30 TRANSGENDERED AND
- Three All-New Specials, a PREGNANT -- I'M
Brand-New Series and Two PREGNANT AND... --
Network Premieres Headline the DWARF ADOPTION STORY
Network’s Signature BABY WEEK kicks off with the
Programming Event - premiere of SHE SURVIVED
SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 11 THAT…PREGNANT?!, an
/PRNewswire/ — Beginning incredible hour-long special
Monday, November 30, recounting the stories of pregnant
Discovery Health’s BABY women who survived deadly
WEEK will introduce some of accidents and encounters that
the most jaw-dropping, could have killed them–and their
improbable and inspiring stories unborn children. The incredible
ever told on television. From pregnant women include a
expectant mothers’ indomitable woman whose parachute failed to
will to survive, to unconventional open, causing her to land face-
families’ historic births, to high- first on the ground; a woman
risk pregnancies that defy all the who was first chased by a
odds–this edition of BABY bear–and then after she managed
WEEK features actual events that to escape, was hit by a car; a
will astonish viewers and create woman who fell over a balcony
lasting buzz. and was impaled by a
( P h o t o : microphone stand; and a woman
http://www.newscom.com/cgi- who was shot in the uterus, with
bin/prnh/20081114/NEF006LOG her unborn baby suffering a
O) bullet wound as well. BABY
Behind every baby is an WEEK will also feature the
unbelievable story–and this following all-new premiere
edition of BABY WEEK programs: --
showcases more of the shocking, TRANSGENDERED AND
heartwarming and downright PREGNANT NEW SPECIAL!
bewildering tales that viewers Premieres Tuesday, December 1,
have come to love on Discovery at 8 PM (ET/PT)
This hour-long special tells the
amazing story of a transgendered
couple–the wife, a male-to-
female and the husband, a female
-to-male transgender–expecting a
baby under the most unusual of
circumstances. In spite of
ongoing hormone treatments, the
male-to-female transgender wife
managed to impregnate the
husband, a female-to-male
transgender–and Discovery
Health’s cameras capture the
couple throughout the pregnancy
leading up to the birth of their
first child.-- I'M PREGNANT
AND... NEW SERIES!
Premieres Tuesday, December 1,
at 9:30 PM (ET/PT)
This brand-new series follows
the stories of women facing
serious issues–emotional,
physical, mental or
circumstantial–as they navigate
their nine-month journey through
pregnancy. Topics explored
throughout the six-part series
include:-- I'M PREGNANT
AND I'M ADDICTED -- I'M
PREGNANT AND I HAVE AN
EATING DISORDER -- I'M
PREGNANT AND OVER 55 -
- DWARF ADOPTION STORY
NEW SPECIAL! Premieres
Thursday, December 3, at 8 PM
(ET/PT)
This hour-long special follows
the daily lives of David and Tina
King, a dwarf couple who hope
to adopt their second child–a 2-
year-old dwarf from Albania.
DWARF ADOPTION STORY
follows the King family on the
journey of a lifetime to adopt the
baby of their dreams.
In addition, Discovery Health
will offer the following network
premiere baby-themed
programming during BABY
WEEK:-- LITTLE PARENTS,
FIRST BABY Network
Premiere! Wednesday,
December 2, at 8 PM (ET/PT)
Dwarf couple Becky and Craig
Hennon welcomed their first
child earlier this year–now,
Discovery Health’s cameras
revisit the family to see how they
are faring, and find out if they
have learned whether their baby
boy will also be a dwarf.--
EXPECTING 15 BABIES
Network Premiere! Friday,
December 4, at 8 PM (ET/PT)
Three families experience the
dangerous business of giving
birth to and raising multiples,
including the first Hispanic
sextuplets in the United States, an
expecting mother of quadruplets
and a family with 22-month-old
quintuplets!
Online at DiscoveryHealth.com,
visitors will have access to vital
information on pregnancy, babies
and the postpartum period
through an array of resources,
including relevant articles, tip
sheets and expert-driven guides.
In addition, visitors can discuss
pregnancy and parenting in
community support forums. The
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refreshed site will also feature
interactive quizzes, fun games
and exclusive video content.
Production Credits:
SHE SURVIVED
THAT…PREGNANT?! is
produced for Discovery Health
by Mike Mathis Productions. For
Discovery Health, Alon Orstein
is executive producer and for
Mike Mathis Productions, Mike
Mathis is executive producer.
TRANSGENDERED AND
PREGNANT is produced for
Discovery Health by Mike
Mathis Productions. For
Discovery Health, Alon Orstein
is executive producer and for
Mike Mathis Productions, Mike
Mathis is executive producer.
DWARF ADOPTION STORY is
produced for Discovery Health
by Figure 8 Films. For Discovery
Health, Alon Orstein is executive
producer and for Figure 8 Films,
Bill Hayes is executive producer.
I’M PREGNANT AND… is
produced for Discovery Health
by Sirens Media. For Discovery
Health, Alon Orstein is executive
producer and for Sirens Media,
Valerie Haselton is executive
producer. LITTLE PARENTS,
FIRST BABY is produced for
Discovery Health by Figure 8
Films. For Discovery Health,
Alon Orstein is executive
producer and for Figure 8 Films,
Bill Hayes is executive producer.
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TV Ratings Tuesday: V Drops 29% To A 3.7 Rating

By Bill Gorman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:26:22 AM

ABC’s V dropped 29% To A 3.7

adults 18-49 rating on Tuesday
night. I’m checking, but that may
be the largest % drop from a
premiere to a second episode this
fall.
As it has been this fall, CBS
stayed atop the average ratings
on Tuesday night with an overall
3.5 adults 18-49 rating, stretching
its lead over ABC by a tenth of a
point from last week as its shows
held mostly steady. NCIS was
down 2% to a 4.2 adults 18-49
rating. NCIS:LA was up 3% to a
3.7 rating and The Good Wife
was flat, tieing its lowest series
rating.
Even as V was sinking, buoyed
by a Susan Boyle guest visit,
Dancing With The Stars was up
10% from last week to a 3.4
rating. And an In the Spotlight
with Robin Roberts special
tallied a 2.4 rating, 26% better
than last week’s results for the 0.7 rating for adults 18-49 (vs. .8 (0.6/3 in 18-49 in local people daily. These data, from the programs and are likely to differ
forgotten. last week) and a 1.1 rating for meters) topped CBS’s Late Late National People Meter sample, significantly from the final
Winning the 9pm hour, NBC’s women 18-34 vs. 1.4 last week. Show(0.5/3). are strictly time-period results, because the data reflect
Biggest Loser was up 6% overall Next week Heather Locklear information, based on the normal normal broadcast feed patterns.
from last week to a 3.7 rating. joins the sinking ship that is - broadcast network feed, and For example, with a World Series
And Tuesday’s continue to be Melrose Place. Good luck with You can see TV ratings from include all programming on the game, Fast Affiliate Ratings
The Jay Leno Show’s best night that. other recent Overnight ratings affiliated stations, sometimes would include whatever aired
as it tallied a 1.9 rating, down 5% In Late-Night Local People reports here. including network programming, from 8-11PM on affiliates in the
from last week. Meters Tuesday night: Definitions: sometimes not. The figures may Pacific Time Zone, following the
For the CW, 90210 matched its • Conan O’Brien (1.0/4 in 18-49 *Fast Affiliate Ratings: These include stations that did not air live football game, but not game
season high for adults 18-49 with in local people meters) defeated first national ratings, including the entire network feed, as well coverage that begins at 5PM PT.
a 1.2 rating and had a 2.5 rating CBS’s Late Show(0.9/4) in demographics, are available at as local news breaks or cutaways The same would be true of
for women 18-34. The good Nielsen’s 24 local markets with approximately 11 AM (ET) the for local coverage or other Presidential debates as well as
news ends there however, as People Meters. day after telecast, and are programming. Fast Affiliate
Melrose Place dropped back to a RATINGS page 55
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Syndicated Ratings Top 25: Oprah
still the number one talker by a wide
margin
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 6:58:14 PM
Below is the table of top 25
syndicated shows for the week
ending November 1, 2009. For
context and additional numbers,
check out Broadcasting &
Cable’s write-up on the week.
Please note that the syndicated
weekly results are delayed versus
normal reporting. While we get
the broadcast and cable ratings
for the prior Monday-Sunday
period every Tuesday, there is an
extra week of lag time with the
syndicated ratings and these
numbers are not for last week,
but for the week before last. So
while Friday Night Smackdown!
is now counted as a syndicated
show and we are seeing the
numbers again, they are delayed.
The numbers below are for
Friday October 30, not
November 6.
Legend of the Seeker fans, the
viewer numbers for the season
two premiere over the weekend
of Nov 7-8 will be available in
next week’s report. If I see any
number’s before then, I will post
them.
Top 25 Syndicated Shows for
the week ending November 1,
2009:
- For syndicated shows which air
Please note that the #s for
Monday Night Football are the
total number both for the ESPN
airings and the local markets
where the games are syndicated
to one of the local affiliates (a
rule to ensure the markets
playing the game can watch
them, even if they don’t have
ESPN). As a result Monday
Night Football will be at the top
of the syndicated lists until
football season is over. It’s sort
of bogus, but since I can’t break
the syndicated portion out, I’m
just reporting it as Nielsen does,
but you can figure most of the
viewing is actually directly on
ESPN.
on multiple days, the viewership
shown is the average of all
telecasts.
BUENA VISTA items are
syndicated packages of old
Disney movies. For more
information click here.
DAD = Disney ABC Domestic
Television, SPT= Sony Pictures
Television, 2/T=Twentieth
Television, ESP = ESPN, CTD =
CBS Television Distribution.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data:
©2009 The Nielsen Company.
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live award shows and breaking place with DVRs which are
news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of
the universe of TV households
currently in approximately 24.4%
of all U.S. TV households.
Live+Same Day(Live+SD)
(or other specified group) tuned
to a program in the average
include viewing during the same
broadcast day as the original
minute. Ratings are expressed as telecast, with a cut-off of
a percent. 3:00AM local time when meters
Share (of Audience): The transmit daily viewing to Nielsen
percent of households (or for processing. Live+7 Day
persons) using television who are ratings include incremental
tuned to a specific program, viewing that takes place during
station or network in a specific the 7 days following a telecast.
area at a specific time. (See also, For more information see
Rating, which represents tuning Numbers 101.
or viewing as a percent of the Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The
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Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day.
Time shifted figures account for
incremental viewing that takes
Goldman chief defends
employees’ pay
(Financial Times - US on Tuesday to an audience of
homepage) banking analysts at a conference
Submitted at 11/10/2009 1:52:33 PM
sponsored by Bank of America.
His comments came as public
G o l d m a n S a c h s p a y s i t s debate continues over Goldman’s
employees more than other power and bonuses, prompting
financial groups because its the comedy programme Saturday
employees are more productive, Night Live to ask the bank: “Can
d e c l a r e d L l o y d B l a n k f e i n , you not read how mad people are
Goldman chief executive, at an at you?”.
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EXPECTING 15 BABIES is over 170 countries. Discovery

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Health, Jon Sechrist is executive
producer and for Figure 8 Films,
Bill Hayes is executive producer.
About Discovery Health:
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How will V do for its Can Dance finally lets America
vote. Sadly, I only liked four of
the eight dances this week and I
NASDAQ:DISAD)
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(
( second episode? wouldn't mind if any of them
were eliminated. One thing I did
NASDAQ:DISCK) , the world’s By Robert Seidman error like was the introductory
number one nonfiction media (TVbytheNumbers) After last week I am tempted to sequence, they finally figured out
company reaching more than 1.5 go the reverse direction and
Submitted at 11/10/2009 4:23:37 PM a way to make the stage a little
billion cumulative subscribers in declare that fabulous word of less huge. The choreographers
My predictions last week stunk mouth will drive the ratings even are doing better to let the dances
Bank of England forecasts growth and I was off by like 60% with higher. But, based on all the fill the huge stage.
adults 18-49. Somebody stole production hiatuses and changes With only eight performances,
uplift my psychic fortune teller hat and to showrunners I’m kind of the show felt like the critiques
(Financial Times - US replaced it with a dud! worried that the second episode were longer than the actual
for longer than expected.
homepage) In its premiere V had a 5.2 rating might be complete crap and that dancing. If they inserted one
The central expectation in its
with adults 18-49 and averaged viewers will flee after 10 large group dance, the show
quarterly inflation forecast,
Submitted at 11/11/2009 3:50:05 AM 14.3 million viewers in the final minutes. But maybe that doesn’t could have cut off some of
published on Wednesday, is for a
numbers. happen until the third or fourth Mary's more annoying
T h e B a n k o f E n g l a n d o n growth level of 2 per cent next
So what do I think will happen episode. Or maybe it doesn’t comments.
Wednesday forecast a sharply year and 4 per cent in 2011,
tonight? Well, after my poor happen at all. Continue reading Review: So
improving outlook for growth, much higher than the consensus
showing last week, first we’ll I’ll go just a little higher than the You Think You Can Dance - Top
indicating that it expects a V- among private sector economists.
have a guest prediction chime in top of Travis’ range and predict 16 Perform
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Smallville is getting
Foxy with Pam Grier
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:27:00 AM
Pam Grier, famous for her
appearances in '70s blaxploitation
flicks like Foxy Brown and later
for her appearances in Quentin
Tarantino movies, will be
stopping over in Smallville.
She'll be playing the character of
Amanda Waller for the upcoming
two-part episode with the Justice
Society of America.
Amanda Waller was created in
the comics and has appeared on
television already in the animated
Justice League series. She was ...
how shall I say ... bigger than
Ms. Grier. To play the character
as she was created, Grier would
either have to gain a lot of weight
or don a fat suit.
Actually, the creators will
probably just leave her as she is.
Victor Zambrano's mother rescued in Venezuela
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:14:18 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela --
Venezuela's justice minister says
the mother of former major
league pitcher Victor Zambrano
Smallville is something of its
own universe (as proven by the
appearance of the Wonder
Twins). Her appearance is slated
for the episodes written by
comics writer (and writer of the
previous Smallville episode
"Legion") Geoff Johns, so I'm
already convinced it will be a
good episode. Pam Grier is just
icing on the cake.
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has been rescued.
Tareck El Aissami says federal
police rescued an unharmed
Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano on
Tuesday in the central state of
Aragua. He says three people
have been detained.
Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano
Reuters: Zucker to lead new
Comcast-NBCU venture
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 5:42:18 PM
I was so waist deep in the
weekly ratings I’m just getting
around to seeing this and it looks
to be a couple of hours old
already.
Reuters is reporting that General
Electric and Comcast have
agreed to have NBCU Chairman
Jeff Zucker lead the proposed
joint venture between Comcast
and NBCU without any clauses
was abducted Sunday at her son's
farm. Police said seven armed
men kidnapped her because they
didn't find large amounts of cash
or jewelry.
Zambrano's mother was
kidnapped nine days after his
cousin, Richard Mendez
for him to exit after a specified
amount of time (it’s not planned
as a temporary move).
While the two companies have
hashed out a lot of details they
are still negotiating on the
structure of the board of
directors.
Once GE and Comcast hash
everything out, in addition to
needing Vivendi’s approval, the
deal will need to clear regulatory
hurdles.
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later killed. It's unclear whether
the incidents were related.
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Brady Quinn of
Cleveland Browns gets
second shot, will start at
quarterback Monday
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:22:14 AM
BEREA, Ohio -- Brady Quinn is
getting his second chance at
starting.
AFC North blog
ESPN.com's James Walker
writes about all things AFC
North in his division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
Quinn, benched just 10 quarters
into the season for Derek
Anderson, will start Monday
night's game against the
Baltimore Ravens.
Cleveland Browns coach Eric
Mangini has decided to go back
to Quinn after Anderson went 1-4
as a starter and posted the NFL's
lowest quarterback rating.
Mangini would like to stick with
Quinn for the remainder of the
season.
Quinn was replaced in the
second half of the Browns' 34-3
loss to the Ravens on Sept. 27.
He went 6 of 8 for 34 yards with
one interception before being
pulled for Anderson.
Mangini has been impressed
with Quinn's work ethic since
being demoted. Quinn is 1-5 in
six career starts.
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Leukemia Forges New Bond Between Kareem, Fans

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) others in his personal fight.” pull Lambert out of the game, not a week ago with the Yankees’
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:41:19 AM
MSNBC’s Mike Celizic is only did Vela endorse Lamberts 27th championship, but the
heartened by how fans are behavior, but she failed to beauty of the game means that
It’s impossible to forget Kareem rooting for Abdul-Jabbar. “We perform her duties as a coach,” while spring training is still
Abdul-Jabbar and his stellar 20- c a r e a b o u t t h i s m a n w h o Avilucea writes. “And then, at months away, it’s never too early
year NBA career, which included performed with such greatness the conclusion of the game she to salivate over a free agent or
six championships, five with the for so many years and has lived had the gall to say: ‘We showed a two that might give your team
Los Angeles Lakers. The 7-foot- with such dignity,” Celizic lot of character out there.’ If this hope, at least temporarily. At
2 center, the NBA’s all-time writes. “We dont want anyone to E l i z a b e t h L a m b e r t ’ s passes for character at UNM, Sports Illustrated, Ben Reiter
leading scorer, dazzled with his get cancer, and we particularly unsportsmanlike play during the thats completely laughable, and ranks the top 50 free agents.
legendary skyhook during the dont want our heroes to get it.” University of New Mexico’s Vela should be relieved of her At Yahoo Sports, Tim Brown
Showtime Era in L.A., exuding “The same Abdul-Jabbar who soccer game against BYU last duties as head coach.” looks at the options available for
c o n f i d e n c e i n h i s o w n was never close to the most Thursday. The punching, kicking In a more positive light, the the Toronto Blue Jays before
understated way. Abdul-Jabbar popular of Lakers on his own and ponytail-pulling has earned Washington Post’s Camille pitcher Roy Halladay becomes a
was the antithesis of today’s team despite his unmatched her an indefinite suspension. She Powell writes about Maryland’s free agent after next season.* * *
chest-pounding showboats. Getty success, not in the way Magic has apologized for her actions. rebuilding efforts as the season The soccer world is mourning
Images Six-time NBA MVP Johnson, Michael Cooper, Kurt In the Miami Herald, Linda begins for women’s basketball the death of German goalkeeper
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears on Rambis and James Worthy R o b e r t s o n l a m e n t s t h a t coach Brenda Frese, the last Robert Enke, who died on
A B C ’ s “ G o o d M o r n i n g connected with fans, will be frequently women’s sports gets remaining link to the Terrapins’ Tuesday in an apparent suicide.
America” to discuss his leukemia embraced now as if he was one noticed only for the wrong national championship in 2006.* In the New York Times, Rob
diagnosis. of them all along, NBA.com’s reasons. “Skin sells. Quarreling * * Hughes writes of the uncertainty
Now the intensely private Abdul Scott Howard-Cooper writes.* * sells. Unladylike conduct sells. NFL players seem to get bigger surrounding Enke’s private life
-Jabbar is back in the spotlight * Any double standard will do,” every year, so it’s surprising that but also his athletic career.
after revealing that he’s been For all the second-guessing Robertson writes. “That’s why in 2009 some of the biggest At Deutsche Welle, Stefan
battling a rare form of leukemia sports columnists do, rarely do the greatest hits include Brandi contributions come from smaller Nestler finds that the sports
since December. He describes his they second-guess themselves. Chastain ripping off her jersey to p l a y e r s , i n c l u d i n g l e a g u e world isn’t always kind to
prognosis as good. The Chicago Tribune’s Rick reveal a sports bra! Or cigarette- touchdown leader Maurice Jones- athletes with the quiet demeanor
“The message, like the man who Morrissey is different. At the smoking Tonya Harding and her D r e w o f J a c k s o n v i l l e a n d that Enke displayed.
delivered it, was delivered with a 2007 draft he predicted that knee-whacking associates vs. the Tennessee’s Chris Johnson, the – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
q u i e t d i g n i t y , ” R a m o n a center Joakim Noah would not damsel Nancy Kerrigan. Or the league’s leading rusher. Most of John Falck.
Shelburne writes in the Los become a force for the Chicago W N B A b r a w l b e t w e e n t h e the shorter players making a big Found a good column from the
Angeles Daily News. “He was Bulls. Now in his third season, Detroit Shock and Los Angeles impact are on offense, but some world of sports? Don’t keep it to
diagnosed with chronic myeloid Noah is averaging 11.4 points Sparks. Or Serena Williams’ defensive standouts aren’t your yourself — write to us at
l e u k e m i a l a s t D e c e m b e r , and 12.4 rebounds per game. And profane threat of a line judge u s u a l 3 0 0 - p o u n d , 6 - f o o t - 5 mailto:dailyfix@wsj.com and
meaning it has taken Abdul- now, Morrissey has called with a tennis ball. Or beach behemoths, Sam Farmer writes in we’ll consider your find for
Jabbar almost a year to feel himself out. In the original volleyball, anytime.” the Los Angeles Times. inclusion in the Daily Fix. You
comfortable sharing his situation column, Morrissey promised to The Daily Lobo’s Isaac Avilucea At Sports Illustrated, Jim Trotter can email Garey at
with the world. A year to come to eat his words if Noah proved him faults coach Kit Vela for the predicts how the second half of ris84rap@gmail.com.
grips with the fear, a year to find wrong. On Monday, Morrissey embarrassment Lambert and her the NFL season will play out.* *
the brave face he’d need to stare ate his words — literally.* * * teammates have brought on the *
cancer in the face and involve It’s impossible to have missed soccer program. “By refusing to The baseball season ended only
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Mark McGwire: St. Louis Cardinals The Count: Handicapping
working on how they will re- the NBA MVP Race
introduce new hitting coach After Seven Games
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:23:26 AM
The St. Louis Cardinals are still
figuring out how hitting coach
Mark McGwire will eventually
meet with the media and whether
he will end his long silence on
questions about his alleged
connection to performance-
enhancing drugs.
General manager John Mozeliak
said the team is still in the
planning stages of working out
how it will formally re-introduce
McGwire to Cardinals fans and
the media. McGwire did not
attend a news conference to
announce his hiring late last
month.
“ "I don't have a timetable yet on
It's not something we're ignoring
or hoping will go away.”--
Cardinals GM John Mozeliak
"There is going to be a wide
range of what people are hoping
to hear. For me personally, we're
not there yet as far as what it's
going to look like," Mozeliak
told reporters. "Hopefully in the
next week or so we can work
through that."
McGwire has remained out of
the public eye since a 2005
congressional hearing on
steroids, at which he famously
refused to answer questions
about steroid use, saying he
wasn't there to talk about the
past. Former Oakland Athletics
teammate Jose Canseco claimed
McGwire had used steroids in his
book "Juiced," and former
federal investigators who led the
Operation Equine probe have
said they had information linking
McGwire to steroids.
The Cardinals know the issue is
there and that it won't disappear
on its own, Mozeliak said,
according to the report. "Clearly
my energy is focused on players
and looking at how to improve
our 2010 team. Understanding
that, the McGwire situation has
to be recognized," Mozeliak said.
when we're going to do things or
how we're going to do them. But
it's not something we're ignoring
or hoping will go away."
The Cardinals hired McGwire as
hitting coach last month, as
manager Tony La Russa finally
convinced the ex-slugger to end
his self-imposed exile from
organized baseball. While
McGwire had privately worked
with major-league hitters
including Matt Holliday during
the offseason, he had declined
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previous invites from La Russa to
attend spring training as a hitting Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:06:16 PM
instructor.
The NBA season isn’t even one-
Mozeliak said he has not
tenth over. But for the hoops
approached McGwire about a
analysts at Basketball Reference,
media appearance, but hopes to it’s not too early to start
do so with cooperation from La
handicapping the league MVP
Russa. According to the St. Louis
race. Getty Images Andrew teammate, Andrew Bynum,
Post-Dispatch, there is some
Bynum, who just turned 22, is a ranked fourth. Last year’s
desire within the organization
leading NBA MVP candidate winner, LeBron James, is
that McGwire make himself according to a new analysis. nowhere to be seen, largely
available before the holidays to
Past award voting was studied because his Cleveland Cavaliers
try and put the issue to rest.
by Justin Kubatko, creator of are a mere 4-3.
A number of commentators,
Basketball Reference, to As Basketball Reference
noting how stars including Alex
determine which factors are most commenters point out, team
Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte met important for winning the honor. record has a very large influence
with the media after their
“In the end, four factors proved on the model. Nine of the top 10
connections to performance-
to be much more important than candidates play for the five teams
enhancing drugs became public,
anything else: team wins, points in the league with the best
have suggested that McGwire
per game, rebounds per game, records, including Dwyane Wade
would be welcomed back -- and and assists per game,” Kubatko of the surprising Miami Heat.
make major strides in restoring
writes. He constructed a model (Let’s see if the Heat and Wade
his image -- if he followed a
using those four factors to predict still rank so high after they get
similar path of public
the order of finish. Applied to into tougher stretches of their
acknowledgement and apology.
past years, his model correctly schedule that don’t feature the
"I think it does matter" that predicted the winner two-thirds Knicks, Pacers and Wizards
McGwire make himself
of the time, and 93% of the time every other game.) The 10th
available, Mozeliak said. "I just
its predicted winner finished in contender, Carmelo Anthony,
don't want to paint myself in the
the top three. plays for a team tied for the sixth
corner today on this topic. There
Models based on past data tend -best record. He’s also not
are still some things I'm trying to to look better when applied to looking so valuable by other
learn and to understand."
historical results than when measures, though Kubatko points
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Plus, there’s that whole less-than- will win, rather than advocating
10%-of-the-season thing. Still, for who should win.
it’s fun to check the current
leaderboard, topped by Kobe
Bryant and with his Lakers
60 Sports/ E-reader Newspaper

Jamie McCourt views herself as Source: No team claimed

owner of Los Angeles Dodgers, former Kansas City
denies cheating on Frank McCourt Chief Larry Johnson
By ESPN.com news services investment-wise from every "I've been in this business 30 By ESPN.com news services slur on his Twitter account and
(ESPN.com) single demographic in L.A. years, either practicing law or (ESPN.com) questioning the competence of
When you have partners and you doing something else in a man's Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:28:06 AM
head coach Todd Haley.
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:32:04 AM
have equity, you have an world. If I had known that The 29-year-old was also fined
Jamie McCourt, mired in highly opportunity and the wherewithal somebody would say to me, 'Go Where Will Larry Johnson for his actions. Last week, an
public divorce proceedings that to have an expanded budget for do what you want because they're Land? Where Will Larry Johnson online fan petition was started
also potentially involves the player compensation." going to make something up at Land? asking the Chiefs not to let
future of the Dodgers, told the Jamie McCourt was Dodgers the end anyway,' I would have No team claimed running back Johnson become the team's all-
L o s A n g e l e s T i m e s s h e vice chairman before being had a lot of fun for 30 years. I Larry Johnson off waivers, a time leading rusher -- a record
"absolutely" views herself as the named team president in 2005. In never even had a date until I was league source told ESPN NFL he's just 75 yards shy of.
team's owner. March 2009, Frank McCourt separated -- besides my Insider Adam Schefter, which Behind a poor offensive line this
McCourt, 55, was fired last promoted his wife to CEO, citing husband." means Johnson now is free to year, Johnson has averaged a
month by Dodgers owner and Jamie McCourt's "outstanding Frank McCourt, asked by the sign with any team and the paltry 2.7 yards for the Chiefs (1-
estranged husband, Frank, who job of building a first-class Times for comment, responded Kansas City Chiefs must pay him 7) and appeared not to have the
claims she was having an affair b u s i n e s s o p e r a t i o n " i n through a team spokesman: "He the balance of the $2.1 million quickness and punishing power
with her bodyguard-driver and a n n o u n c i n g t h e m o v e . will respectfully decline left on his contract this season. that enabled him to rush for more
was doing a poor job in her role "When I became CEO, Frank comment." Mike and Mike in the Morning than 1,700 yards in Pro Bowl
as chief executive. used to say, 'Go be the face of the The McCourts have four sons, ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris seasons in 2005 and '06.
Last week, Jamie McCourt lost Dodgers, go be the external the youngest 19 and the oldest Mortensen gives the latest update Johnson winds up his Chiefs
her bid to be reinstated as the brand [in the community],' " she 28. on former Chiefs running back career with 5,996 yards rushing
team's CEO during a court told the Times. "To read everything that's been Larry Johnson. Plus, Mortensen and 55 touchdowns. He also
hearing. Frank McCourt, in court filings, said is devastating, and my kids talks about the coaches on the hot caught 151 passes for 1,369
McCourt, who also is a lawyer, says his wife of nearly 30 years are pretty upset about it," she seat in Cleveland, Washington yards and six TDs.
told the Times she has a plan to cheated on him with Jeff Fuller, said, the Times reported. "I want and Green Bay. Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL
purchase the Dodgers outright, her bodyguard and driver who my kids to look back and say she More Podcasts » Insider. Information from The
though part of the issue is the also had the title of director of took the high road. It's hard, but The Chiefs released Johnson on Associated Press was used in this
validity of the 2004 marital protocol before he was fired in that's what I'm going to try and Monday, the day he was due report.
a g r e e m e n t i n w h i c h F r a n k early October. do." back from his second suspension This content has passed through
McCourt is listed as the team's In her first public response to the Information from The in the past 12 months. Johnson fivefilters.org.
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"My dream would be to have a McCourt told the Times: "I have report.
coalition of people," Jamie never been with another man This content has passed through
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As Raider Nation Turns: 'Big' John McCarthy Talks
Latest on Cable EA Sports MMA Game,
By Chris Burke (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 1:00:00 AM
by Chris Burke
Filed under: Raiders As the NFL
continues its investigation into
Tom Cable's past and his incident
with former Oakland assistant
Randy Hanson, the situation in
Oakland has become tenuous at
best.
It might get messier still.
Yahoo's Jason Cole, citing a
source familiar with the case,
reported that the Raiders plan to
cooperate with the NFL's
investigation of Cable because
"Oakland owner Al Davis is
hoping to gather enough
information to fire Cable with
cause at the end of the season so
that Davis doesn't have to pay
Cable."
Cable, who went 4-8 as
Oakland's interim head coach last
season, was officially named
head coach in the offseason and
given a two-year contract with
two additional option years.
Shaq Simply Can't Handle Howard
By Tim Povtak (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:00:00 AM
by Tim Povtak
Filed under: Cavaliers, Magic
It's hard not to like Shaquille
O'Neal, the most compelling
NBA player of his era and
arguably the best center in
Blackistone: Suspending Cable
Good for Everyone, Including
Him
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on Cable originally appeared on
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history. His love of the spotlight,
his often-outrageous, sometimes-
egotistical, always-entertaining
behavior made him a must-see
attraction since he entered the
league with Orlando a long, long
time ago.
It's why there will be some destroyed on his former home
sadness in seeing him get court Wednesday night by
UFC Relationship, More
By Ariel Helwani (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:00 AM
by Ariel Helwani
Filed under: MMA Videos,
UFC, Strikeforce, MMA Video
Games, FanHouse Exclusive Last
week, EA Sports announced that
legendary MMA referee,"Big"
John McCarthy, would be
featured in their upcoming EA
MMA video, which is slated to
hit stores in 2010. FanHouse
attended the press conference in
Hoffman Estates, Ill., to
announce McCarthy's
involvement in the game (as well
as Muhammed Lawal, Jake
Shields and Brett Rogers) and
details about the game itself.
Below is a video interview with
McCarthy talking about being a
part of EA MMA, his
relationship with UFC president
Dana White, and the current state
of refereeing and judging in the
sport.
'Big' John McCarthy Talks EA
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Relationship, More originally
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Plus/Minus: Boyes,
Perron Have Breakout
Game; Crosby Still
Slumping
By Adam Gretz (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:00 AM
by Adam Gretz
Filed under: Blues, Penguins
We're trying something different
to replace the old Newsmakers in
the NHL posts. Hopefully you'll
like it. Each weekday we'll take a
look at one positive performance
from the previous night (a plus),
and one negative performance
from the previous night (a
minus). It's the plus/minus.Tell
us what you think at
nhlfanhouse@gmail.com.
More Coverage: Tuesday's NHL
Scoreboard
Plus/Minus: Boyes, Perron Have
Breakout Game; Crosby Still
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MediaDailyNews:
Amidst the Trade UFC 105: Brandon Vera QuickPlay Distributes
Rumors, Martin Biron Preparing for 'Capable, TV Over Mobile Wi-Fi
(MediaPost | Media News)

Smiles and Stops Pucks Dangerous' Randy Couture By Michael David Smith
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:30:01 AM

By Christopher Botta
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:00:00 AM
by Christopher Botta
Filed under: Islanders, NHL
Rumors As if being a goalie in
the National Hockey League is
not difficult enough. As if 6-3
power forwards standing in front
of you on power plays is not
enough of a distraction.
From now until the day he is
dealt -- and he almost definitely
will before the March 3 deadline
-- Martin Biron is going to hear
his name in trade rumors. This is
what happens when you're on a
one-year contract at a very
reasonable $1.4 million. This is
what happens when your team
has an established No. 1 goalie (
Dwayne Roloson) under contract
through 2010-2011 and their best
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:55:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse
Exclusive Brandon Vera has been
a Randy Couture fan for years.
Now he's getting ready to fight
him in the Octagon.
netminder ( Rick DiPietro) in the Vera, who will take on Couture
fold for another eleven years. in the main event at UFC 105 on
This is also what happens when Saturday on Spike TV, said in an
you're low-maintenance, talented, interview with FanHouse that he
accomplished and respected. remembers watching Couture
Amidst the Trade Rumors, fighting in the UFC in 1997 --
Martin Biron Smiles and Stops l o n g b e f o r e V e r a h i m s e l f
Pucks originally appeared on considered becoming an MMA
Fanhouse NHL Blog on Wed, 11 fighter. Vera said he views the 46
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The full interview is below.
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Preparing for 'Capable,
Dangerous' Randy Couture
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Digital Element, a IP
Intelligence solutions company,
announced that QuickPlay
Media, a mobile video business,
is leveraging the company's
geolocation technology to
provide secure distribution of TV
episodes over mobile Wi-Fi
connections for QuickPlay's
PrimeTime2Go™ service.
Kavi Maharajh, chief architect,
QuickPlay Media, stated: "The
service helps us allow or deny
access to PrimeTime2Go content
based on a mobile handset's
physical location, ensuring full
compliance with regional coding
restrictions." Per Nielsen, mobile
video has increased 70% in the
last year.
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Moonwork Presents Jim Gaffigan

By ELLE.com (ELLE News crude jokes. Not my idea of a the comedians were great and — J a n n a J o h n s o n , B e a u t y
Blog) night out. So it was with slight there was a special guest Assistant
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:43:27 AM
hesitation that I attended a performance by Jim Gaffigan, Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Moonwork performance this past w h o t o o k t h e s t a g e a n d Become our Facebook fan!
Say the words “comedy club” weekend. Twenty dollars at the hilariously mused about Subway
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dark, smoky room and a sleazy, the booze you care to drink while five comedians (added bonus: it long). Check out upcoming-show
intoxicated man telling rude, watching the two-hour line-up of benefits charity). To our surprise, info at moonwork.org.
E-reader Newspaper Game/ 63

iPhone It In: Canabalt

By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) the device: the gameplay comes
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:00:00 AM
in short, addictive bursts, it loads
up quickly, and it employs the
Canabalt is a 2D side-scroller touchscreen in an intuitive way.
where you control a gentleman Though a vast wealth of quick
continuously running across and addictive games now reside

Ghosts 'n Goblins now punishing rooftops and cranes, gradually on my phone, I find myself
building up speed while avoiding constantly returning to Canabalt's
various objects which will either rooftops and blaring techno
iPhone players slow down or kill him. Rather music whenever I have a spare
t h a n " s c o r e " o r " p o i n t s , " moment.
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) nightmarish in difficulty even If you're feeling brave enough to developer Semi Secret Software Gallery: Canabalt (iPhone)
with real d-pads and buttons, and take on the armies of Satan with measures your success by the Continue reading iPhone It In:
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:50:00 AM
porting that experience directly to just a touchscreen, Capcom is distance you manage to cross, Canabalt
Capcom has released a new the iPhone could only lead to offering the game for $2.99 -- a e v e n a l l o w i n g f o r i n s t a n t iPhone It In: Canabalt originally
Ghosts 'n Goblins game to, of all tears. The lifebar from the PSP discount of $2 -- until November bragging via Twitter in-game. It's appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11
places, the iPhone. Ghosts 'n game will help, but even so we 23. a s i m p l e p r e m i s e w i t h a Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please
Goblins: Gold Knights features expect Arthur to spend most of Ghosts 'n Goblins: Gold Knights surprising amount of depth. see our terms for use of feeds.
polygonal graphics like the PSP's the game in his boxers, as usual. ($2.99): And it's exactly the kind of game Permalink| Email this|
Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins, and, One aspect that is definitely Gallery: Ghosts 'n Goblins: Gold I want to pick up and play on my C o m m e n t s
for the first time, two playable tuned to the iPhone: paid DLC. Knights (iPhone) iPhone. Canabalt is perfect for
characters: Arthur and new hero For 99 cents a pop, you can Ghosts 'n Goblins now punishing
L a n c e l o t , w h o e a c h h a v e power up Arthur or Lancelot, get iPhone players originally
different weapons and lifebars. unlimited lives or unlimited appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 11
We're going to assume that the access to magic, or even reduce Nov 2009 11:50:00 EST. Please
difficulty of the series is tuned the strength of enemies and see our terms for use of feeds.
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64 Game/
Rumor: Project Natal
launch details leaked
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:40:00 AM
MCV reports that Microsoft has
been showing Project Natal off to
UK publishers this week, and
filling them in on the launch
plan. According to the site's
unnamed sources, Microsoft
plans to release the peripheral in
November 2010, at a sub-£50
($84) price point that could go as
low as £30 ($50) when sold by
itself. That price happens to
match the price predicted by
Michael Pachter last month.
MCV's sources say that
Microsoft will have 5 million
cameras ready for launch, with a
" great launch line-up" of 14
games. While a November
launch of a major video game
item seems plausible even in a
year overloaded with spring
releases, this information remains
unverified and, therefore,
suspect. And we're tempted to
say that the price is too good to
be true. If it does turn out to be
$50, our expression of delight
may be the first thing the fancy
camera sees.
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details leaked originally appeared
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MAG Beta now pre-
order exclusive, servers
running 24/7
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 11:20:00 AM
The MAG beta program is
getting one final, well-timed push
before Zipper Interactive gears
up to launch the impossibly
oversized shooter. The game has
officially moved onto Beta Phase
4-- a shift which not only makes
6,000 changes within the game
(including modifications to the
skill tree and an increased level
cap), but also makes the beta
exclusively available to those
who've pre-ordered the online
FPS at GameStop.
Yes, if you've been playing the
beta using one of the other
promotional access codes, you'll
be shut out of the proceedings.
However, as a side bonus, Zipper
is now keeping the game's
servers open all day, every day.
That's right, you no longer need
to sacrifice your nightly Murder,
She Wrote viewings to adhere to
the beta's odd schedule. Thanks,
Zipper!
MAG Beta now pre-order
exclusive, servers running 24/7
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Rumor: EA cuts
targeting Maxis,
Pandemic, C&C staff
By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 9:10:00 AM
We already knew the announced
cuts coming to EA's workforce
(totaling some 1,500 jobs lost)
would be deep but, if a recent
Kotaku report is to be believed,
we're starting to get an idea of
just where the gashes will come.
For starters, the site says it's been
told by unnamed sources that
almost every member of the
Command and Conquer 4 team
would be let go after the game's
completion, which is the very last
Halo Wars feature we wanted to
see copied in C&C.
More cuts are rumored to be
hitting Pandemic (the house
behind Mercenaries and The
Saboteur) and Maxis. We'll keep
reaching out to EA to get the
official story. In the meantime,
our thoughts are with those
affected.
Rumor: EA cuts targeting
Maxis, Pandemic, C&C staff
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The Big Pink is My New Therapy

By ELLE.com (ELLE News to British duo Robbie Furze and
Blog) Milo Cordell for creating so
Submitted at 11/10/2009 11:25:03 AM
cohesive an album and sound that
I was able to fully get lost in it,
Why I thought a Sunday night momentarily forgetting that not
would be appropriate for a half an hour prior I’d seen a
viewing of the mind-liquifyingly deformed satanic old lady
horrifying House of the Devil, I bleeding from her eyes.
have no idea, especially Beyond the unstoppably catchy
considering I hate scary movies. “Dominoes” is a collection of
Alas, I found myself hunkered songs that reminds me of Animal
down in the Angelika Theater Collective—distorted noise,
mentally preparing for what was music playing on top. On Sunday s y n t h e t i c r i f f s , d o c t o r e d

Audiosurf, PGR and other sure to be almost two hours of night, one of those featured v o i c e s — o n l y b e t t e r , m o r e
sheer terror. And it was, OK? I bands was The Big Pink. The focused with the right kind of
cowered. I covered my eyes. I playlist had to loop through a i n t e n t i o n o f h e a v y b e a t s ,
games added to Zune HD jumped. I shrieked. I nearly wept. couple of times before I started to consistent tempos, and hooks I
But I don’t want to talk about it, take notice of their single, can actually get behind. “Crystal

with latest update alright? Because if I talk about it “Dominoes,” that was playing V i s i o n s ” s t a r t s t h i n g s o f f
I...look, I’M NOT GOING TO amid other tracks. I jotted down beautifully and “Velvet” kicks in
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) short ad when you start these free TALK ABOUT IT! their name in my moleskin and, mid-album just when you need it.
games up. So what? It's But, what I am going to talk later that night, looking for Two days later and I’ve still got
Submitted at 11/11/2009 10:50:00 AM
Audiosurf on a mobile device, about is The Big Pink. What I something— anything—to ease ABHOL on repeat, definitely for
Okay, so the Zune HD didn't get and it lets you make rollercoaster love about the Angelika Theater my mind after what I’d just the sound…but also just to
off to the greatest start as a tracks out of your own songs. If is their dedication not only to watched, I downloaded their maybe get me back to that place
portable gaming platform, but we had to watch The Adventures little-engine-that-could movies, debut album, A Brief History of before I’d seen House of the
we're willing to let bygones be of Pluto Nash start-to-finish but also indie music that deserves Love, which dropped back in Devil.
bygones should the device's most every time we loaded the game, to be heard. Before previews start September. I owe my post- — Seth Plattner, Assistant Editor
recent patch be as amazing as it we'd still be thrilled. they’re always running those fun House of the Devil-sanity in part Follow ELLE on Twitter.
sounds on paper. A recent press Audiosurf, PGR and other trivia/factoid reels with featured Become our Facebook fan!
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The press release does explain Submitted at 11/11/2009 3:28:54 AM
costela.– Abre a porta e entra de Copacabana. No elevador,
that, yes, you'll have to watch a sorrindo, como se fôssemos suas pernas...
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66 Fashion/ Twitter Trend/ E-reader Newspaper

Eye-Popping Fall
Trend: Indigo Shadow
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
the lid. Or you can opt for just a
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:31:02 AM flash of color by doing a wet blue
dot on the inner corner of the eye.
Wearing indigo is hot for fall, You can also blend indigo eye
but relegating this it-color to shadow with a brown one and do
clothes or heels alone would be a small tick at the outer edges
nearsighted—because the hue is with blue eye liner.”
particularly hot when worn on Click here for more ideas on
e y e l i d s ! J u s t s e e T a n y a how to wear the indigo trend
D z i a h i l e v a a n d R i h a n n a ’ s —Emily Hebert
peepers for proof: “It’s all about Photo: Dziahileva: Imaxtree;
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Pat McGrath of the look. “You
can do a classic smoky eye and
add a little indigo at the center of

Mobile Application to
Diagnose Disease by
Hearing you Cough
By twitter:@webnews20
(TweetMeme)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:41:18 AM
Feeling a bit under the weather?
Soon you'll be able to cough into
your mobile phone for an instant
diagnosis. A research firm called
STAR Analytical Services is
working to develop software that
Rellik's Chic Collaboration with
can analyze the sound of a cough
and identify it as either
associated with a common cold, Theory
the flu, or something worse - like By ELLE.com (ELLE News that amps the Theory shopping look. But vintage accessories
pneumonia or another serious Blog) experience with shiny baubles to sound expensive, right?
respiratory disease. Just as offset the brand's pared-down Wrong. The two companies have
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:32:47 AM
doctors have been... style. Each accessory, from worked to keep the prices of the
0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : Famed London vintage shop bangles to brooches, has been accessories down and most start
w w w . r e a d w r i t e w e b . c o m Rellik has paired up with Theory hand-picked by the people at at about 20 pounds.
for spring, bringing brightness Rellik to add a perfect —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
and bling to the beloved basics complement to the collection, so Follow ELLE on Twitter.
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Matthew Williamson's Convertible
Jacket
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:22:48 AM
Last week, we reported that
Matthew Williamson would be
creating a line of menswear and
making his collection available
on a new e-commerce site. We
should also mention just how
clever some of the spring items
will be. Take for instance this
jacket, which comes in a couple
of dusky hues including an ever-
so-pale shade of lilac and
features a leather that is like
butter to the touch. You get two
for the price of one with this
piece, as the sleeves unbutton to
convert the jacket to a vest. Now
this is the definition of recession-
chic. Any time you can take an
article of clothing and get double
the fun out of it, isn't it always a
great deal?
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soldiers who served in peacetime
or fought in World War II, Korea
For 90 years, the 11th hour of and other engagements.
the 11th day of the 11th month So in 1954 Congress extended
has been a remembrance of those the holiday to honor all vets,
who served America in time of giving it the name Veterans Day,
war. which it has kept for 55 years.
But the Nov. 11 Veterans Day Today, according to the U.S.
commemoration began as a day Census Bureau, there are some
t o c e l e b r a t e p e a c e — t h e 23.2 million veterans in the
silencing of the guns of World United States. That includes 2.6
War I, "The Great War," which million who served during World
claimed the lives of more than 15 War II, 2.8 million who served in
million soldiers and civilians. the Korean War, 7.8 million in
On that day in 1918, at the 11th the Vietnam War, 5.2 million in
h o u r , G e r m a n y s i g n e d a n the Gulf War and about 1.7
armistice with the Allied Powers million who have served in Iraq
— including the U.S., France, and Afghanistan.
Britain, Japan and Italy — ending Nearly 120,000 are still stationed
major hostilities in a war that in Iraq, and about 68,000 will be
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Silent DC sniper mastermind Muhammad executed (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:55:47 AM
JARRATT, Va. – Sniper John
Allen Muhammad refused to
utter any last words as he was
executed, taking to the grave
answers about why and how he
plotted the killings of 10 people
that terrorized the Washington,
D.C., area for three weeks in
October 2002.
The 48-year-old died by
injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday as
relatives of the victims watched
from behind glass, separated
from the rest of the 27 witnesses
at Greensville Correctional
Center, south of Richmond.
Muhammad was executed for
killing Dean Harold Meyers, who
was shot in the head at a
Manassas gas station during the
spree across Maryland, Virginia
and Washington, D.C.
He never testified or explained
why he masterminded the
shootings with the help of a
teenage accomplice. That left
questions unanswered about why
he methodically hunted people
going about their daily chores,
why he chose his victims,
including a middle schooler on
his way to class, and how many
victims there were.
Muhammad stepped into
Virginia's death chamber and
within seconds was lying on a
gurney, tapping his left foot, his
arms spread wide with a needle
dug into each.
"Mr. Muhammad, do you have
any last words?" the warden
asked. Muhammad, looking calm
and stoic, said nothing.
Meyers' brother, Bob Meyers,
said watching the execution was
sobering and "surreal." He said
other witnesses expressed a range
of feelings, including some who
were overcome with emotion.
"I would have liked him at some
point in the process to take
responsibility, to show remorse,"
Meyers said. "We didn't get any
of that tonight."
After the first of the three-drug
lethal cocktail was administered,
Muhammad blinked repeatedly
and took about seven deep
breaths. Within a minute, he was
motionless.
Nelson Rivera, whose wife, Lori
Ann Lewis-Rivera, was gunned
down as she vacuumed her van at
a Maryland gas station, said that
when he watched Muhammad's
chest moving for the last time, he
was glad.
"I feel better. I think I can
breathe better," he said. "I'm glad
he's gone because he's not going
to hurt anyone else."
J. Wyndal Gordon, one of
Muhammad's attorneys,
described his client in his final
hours as fearless and still
insisting he was innocent.
"He will die with dignity —
dignity to the point of defiance,"
Gordon said before going inside
to watch the execution.
The terror ended on Oct. 24,
2002, when police captured
Muhammad and Lee Boyd
Malvo while they slept at a
Maryland rest stop in a car they
had outfitted for a shooter to
perch in its trunk without being
detected.
Malvo, who was 17 when
carrying out the attacks, was
sentenced to life in prison
without parole for killing Linda
Franklin, a 47-year-old FBI
analyst who was shot as she and
her husband loaded supplies at a
Home Depot in Falls Church, Va.
The men also were suspected of
fatal shootings in other states,
including Louisiana, Alabama
and Arizona.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned
down Muhammad's final appeal
Monday, and Gov. Timothy M.
Kaine denied clemency Tuesday.
Muhammad's attorneys had
asked Kaine to commute his
sentence to life in prison because
they said Muhammad was
severely mentally ill.
"I think crimes that are this
horrible, you just can't
understand them, you can't
explain them," said Kaine, a
Democrat known for carefully
considering death penalty cases.
A small group of death penalty
opponents gathered on a grassy
area near the prison and had a
sign reading, "We remember the
victims, but not with more
killing."
Muhammad was born John
Allen Williams and changed his
name after converting to Islam.
He had been in and out of the
military since he graduated from
high school in Louisiana and
entered the National Guard. He
joined the Army in 1985. He did
not take special sniper training
but earned an expert rating in the
M-16 rifle — the military cousin
of the .223-caliber Bushmaster
rifle used in the D.C.-area
shootings.
The motive for the attacks
remains murky. Malvo said
Muhammad wanted to extort $10
million from the government to
set up a camp in Canada where
homeless children would be
trained as terrorists.
Muhammad's ex-wife said she
believes they were a smoke
screen for his plan to kill her and
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regain custody of their three
children.
Sonia Hollingsworth-Wills, the
mother of Conrad Johnson, the
last man slain that October, sat in
the back seat of a car outside the
prison before the execution,
which she chose not to witness.
But she said she wanted to be
there and was counting the
minutes until Muhammad's
death.
"It was the most horrifying day
of my life," she said. "I'll never
get complete closure but at least I
can put this behind me."
Cheryll Witz, who's father, Jerry
Taylor, was fatally shot on a
Tucson, Ariz., golf course in
March 2002, said she was
unhappy that Muhammad didn't
say anything before he died. But
she said his execution begins a
new chapter in her life.
"I've waited seven long years for
this," she said. "My life is totally
beginning now. I have all my
closure, and my justice and my
peace."
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Associated Press writers Steve
Szkotak in Jarratt and Bob Lewis
in Richmond contributed to this
report.
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Jerry Brown again? Some Calif. Dems express unease (AP)
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Submitted at 11/11/2009 2:01:28 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Jerry
Brown hasn't formally announced
for his old job, but the signs
show he once again has his eye
on the California governor's
chair.
The current attorney general has
emerged as the Democrat's
presumed candidate in 2010 with
just seven months to go to the
primary.
The 72-year-old politician finds
himself in that position after the
field of contenders exited in the
face of a stealth fundraising
campaign and his near universal
name recognition.
It's not the spot in which the
majority party in a state as
diverse as California had
expected to be in, just a year after
a grassroots groundswell helped
give Barack Obama the biggest
margin of victory in a California
presidential election since at least
World War II.
The seeming inevitability of
Brown's candidacy has left some
Democrats nervous about what
his campaign might produce. He
is famously independent, often
unpredictable and his views are
not as well known as his name to
many of today's voters. He has
also mostly stayed out of the
debate about the state's massive
fiscal crisis.
"There's a whole generation who
have no idea who he is, and
there's a lot of activists who have
no clue on how he'd balance the
budget because he hasn't
articulated it," said Steve
Maviglio, a Sacramento-based
Democratic consultant. "That's
why there's a level of
nervousness about Jerry Brown
being our only choice."
The Democratic Party and
California's electorate have
grown increasingly diverse in the
years since Brown last served as
governor 26 years ago. The
party's legislative caucus is
relatively young and is
dominated by Hispanics, blacks
and Asians.
During his tenure from 1975-
1983, and some of his ideas were
considered wacky enough to earn
him the nickname "Governor
Moonbeam." He was also known
for dating starlets and singers.
But some Brown initiatives had
lasting effects, including his
opening of government to
women and minorities and deals
with public employee unions.
The famously combative Brown
also sought the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1976,
1980 and 1992.
Another unknown is how Brown
would fare against a deep-
pocketed Republican such as
Meg Whitman, the former chief
executive of eBay, who is a fresh
face on the political scene and is
aggressively targeting women
voters.
The Democrats' unexpected
position heading into the 2010
governor's race prompted a
lament from former Assembly
Speaker Willie Brown, who
wrote in his weekly newspaper
column that some Democrats are
asking: "Can't we find someone
with a newer paint job?"
Brown is likely to claim that
what's old is new again, invoking
ideas that he first championed as
governor, including
environmental protection, high-
speed rail and fixing California's
schools, all of which are once
again on California's agenda.
Brown's seven-to-one
fundraising advantage and 20-
point lead in public opinion polls
forced San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom out of the race
last month. Newsom, 42, who
was best known for approving
same-sex marriages in his
famously liberal hometown, was
the favorite among younger
Democrats.
Another concern is that Brown
has not officially announced his
candidacy and has not detailed
his views on critical topics,
although he has signaled he will
oppose tax increases.
Steven Glazer, a political adviser
to Brown, said Brown will have
time for politics later.
"I'm very confident he will make
a decision to run, but he's focused
on doing his job as attorney
general right now," Glazer said.
In a statement released by
Glazer, Brown seemed to
indicate that releasing detailed
proposals about how to allocate
California's dwindling resources,
as some Republicans have done,
does not demonstrate how the
candidates would solve the
budget crisis.
"The first step in (the budget)
process is forming a working
consensus among key
Democratic and Republican
leaders. Unless that is achieved,
protracted stalemate will
continue to be the order of the
day," Brown said.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the
only Democrat thought to have
enough name recognition and
financing to challenge Brown.
Feinstein, 76, toyed with the idea
this week in an interview with
The Associated Press, saying she
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is waiting to see what proposals
the candidates offer to address
California's ongoing budget
shortfalls before she decides
whether to run.
Without Brown in the race, 2010
might have been a dramatic year
with a diverse field of
Democratic candidates a
generation or more younger than
he is, including Newsom, Rep.
Loretta Sanchez of Santa Ana
and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa. Brown's expected
run scared off many of the would
-be challengers early.
The worries about Brown as a
candidate, given his famously
erratic personality and propensity
for outlandish statements, have
mostly been muted so far because
Democrats covet the governor's
office after six years under
Republican Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
If Brown emerges as the
nominee, Democratic strategists
will rally around him, banking on
his proven ability to win
statewide races.
"Overriding all of (it) is a real
thirst among Dems to win back
the (governor's office), almost at
any cost," Maviglio said.
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Navajo Code Talkers to Walk in NYC Veterans Day Parade
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:31:58 AM
NEW YORK The famed
Navajo Code Talkers, the elite
Marine unit whose unbreakable
code stymied the Japanese in
World War II, fear their legacy
will die with them.
Only about 50 of the 400 Code
Talkers are believed to be still
alive, most living in the Navajo
Nation reservation that spans
Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Many are frail or ill, with little
time left to tell the world about
their wartime contribution.
But on Wednesday, 13 of the
Code Talkers are coming to New
York City to participate for the
first time in the nation's largest
Veterans Day parade.
The young Navajo Marines,
using secret Navajo language-
encrypted military terms, helped
the U.S. prevail at Iwo Jima and
other World War II Pacific
battles, serving in every Marine
assault in the South Pacific
between 1942-1945. Military
commanders said the code,
transmitted verbally by radio,
helped save countless American
lives and bring a speedier end to
the war in the Pacific theater.
They were sworn to secrecy
about their code, so complex that
even other Navajo Marines
couldn't decipher it. Used to
transmit secret tactical messages
via radio or telephone, the code
remained unbroken and classified
for decades because of its
potential postwar use.
"We were never told that our
code was never decoded" or
given identities of the original 29
Navajos who created it, said
Keith Little, 85, who joined the
Marines at 17 and remembers
crouching in a bomb crater amid
heavy fire on Iwo Jima.
"It was all covered by secrecy.
We were constantly told not to
talk about it," said Little. The
Code Talkers felt compelled to
honor their secrecy orders, even
after the code was declassified in
1968.
Little plans to go to New York
with the other Code Talkers,
many of whom were young
farmers and sheepherders and
had never been away from home
before the war.
"The code did a lot of damage to
the enemy," said Samuel Tom
Holiday, 85, of Kayenta, Ariz.,
who also is joining the parade.
He was a 20-year-old Code
Talker when he and two other
Marines went behind enemy lines
on Iwo Jima to locate a Japanese
artillery unit advancing on
American forces.
Once the unit was located,
Holiday transmitted a coded
message to Marine artillery,
which fired a big shell at the
Japanese. After the Marine
rifleman proclaimed it "right on
target," Holiday messaged "Right
on Target" to a Najavo Code
Talker in Marine artillery.
Though the Code Talkers
transmitted information on tactics
and troop movements, orders and
other vital battlefield
communications, they did not
know at the time how those
messages figured in the greater
battle strategy.
Today "there's a certain elation
about" knowing how much their
work affected the outcome of the
war, said Little, who runs a
family ranch in Crystal, N.M., on
the Navajo Nation.
Before the code, the Japanese
intercepted and sabotaged U.S.
military communications at an
alarming rate because they had
expert English translators.
American forces then devised
ever more complicated codes, but
that increased the time —
sometimes hours — for sending
and decoding them.
The code, based on the ancient
Navajo language, changed that.
In the first 48 hours of the battle
of Iwo Jima, six Code Talkers
worked nonstop, transmitting and
receiving more than 800
messages about troop movement
and enemy fire — none
deciphered by the Japanese.
What confounded the enemy
most was that Code Talkers
could use distinctly different
words for exactly the same
message.
Recognition from the U.S.
government and awareness of the
Code Talkers — even within the
Navajo community — has been
slow to come. It wasn't until 2000
that the Congressional Gold
Medal was bestowed on the
survivors of the original 29 Code
Talkers and silver medals on the
rest.
At least five of the Code Talkers
died just this year, creating an
urgency for the Navajo Code
Talkers Foundation to create a
museum in their honor in New
Mexico, near the Navajo capital
of Window Rock, Ariz. It is
slated to open sometime in 2012.
Yvonne Murphy, a foundation
board member and daughter of
Code Talker Raymond R. Smith
Sr., who died seven years ago,
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did not hear of the Code Talkers
until she was 16.
"I saw this outfit lying on the bed
... a Marine gold-colored shirt,"
she said, the uniform of the Code
Talkers, laid out with some
Navajo jewelry. But it wasn't
until she was in her 30s, "that I
was able to grasp the whole
concept," added Murphy, 45.
The Code Talkers coming to
New York this week hope to
highlight their efforts and
funding needs for the museum,
slated to open sometime in 2012.
On Tuesday, they will visit
ground zero and the World War
II aircraft carrier the USS
Intrepid, where they will give a
proclamation on behalf of the
Navajo Nation to Mayor Michael
Bloomberg.
"A lot more Marines would be
dead right now," if not for the
Code Talkers, said parade
chairman Patrick Gualtieri.
"Our language was used to help
win the war," said Holiday.
"After we're all gone, there will
be no one to tell the story."
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D.C. Sniper Muhammad Executed in Virginia
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 4:36:48 AM
JARRATT, Va. John Allen
Muhammad, the mastermind
behind the sniper attacks that left
10 dead, was executed as
relatives of the victims watched,
reliving the killing spree that
terrorized the Washington, D.C.,
area for three weeks in October
2002.
The 48-year-old Muhammad
looked calm and stoic, but was
twitching and blinking, tapping
his left foot as the injections
began and refusing to utter any
final words.
Victims' families sat behind
glass while watching, separated
from the rest of the 27 witnesses,
who were quiet, looking straight
forward, intent on what was
happening.
"He died very peacefully, much
more than most of his victims,"
said Prince William County
prosecutor Paul Ebert, who
witnessed Muhammad die by
injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at
Greensville Correctional Center,
south of Richmond.
Muhammad was executed for
killing Dean Harold Meyers, who
was shot in the head at a
Manassas gas station during the
three-week spree across
Maryland, Virginia and
Washington, D.C.
The shootings terrorized the
Washington region, as victim
after victim was shot down while
doing everyday chores: shopping,
pumping gas, mowing the lawn.
One child was shot while
walking into his middle school.
People stayed indoors. Those
who had to go outside weaved as
they walked or bobbed their
heads to make themselves a less
easy target.
The terror ended on Oct. 24,
2002, when police captured
Muhammad and his teenage
accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo,
while they slept at a Maryland
rest stop in a car they had
outfitted for a shooter to perch in
its trunk without being detected.
Malvo, who was 17 when
carrying out the attacks, was
sentenced to life in prison
without parole for killing Linda
Franklin, a 47-year-old FBI
analyst who was shot as she and
her husband loaded supplies at a
Home Depot in Falls Church,
Virginia.
The men also were suspected of
fatal shootings in other states,
including Louisiana, Alabama
and Arizona.
Nelson Rivera, whose wife, Lori
Ann Lewis-Rivera, was gunned
down as she vacuumed her van at
a Maryland gas station, said that
when he watched Muhammad's
chest moving for the last time, he
was glad.
"I feel better. I think I can
breathe better," he said. "I'm glad
he's gone because he's not going
to hurt anyone else."
Muhammad never testified or
explained why he directed the
shootings, and his secrets died
with him.
Meyers' brother, Bob Meyers,
said watching the execution was
sobering and "surreal."
"I would have liked him at some
point in the process to take
responsibility, to show remorse,"
Meyers said. "We didn't get any
of that tonight."
J. Wyndal Gordon, one of
Muhammad's attorneys,
described his client in his final
hours as fearless and still
insisting he was innocent.
"He will die with dignity —
dignity to the point of defiance,"
Gordon said.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned
down Muhammad's final appeal
Monday, and Virginia Gov.
Timothy M. Kaine denied
clemency Tuesday.
Muhammad's attorneys had
asked Kaine to commute his
sentence to life in prison because
they said Muhammad had brain
damage and neurological
problems, as well as psychotic
and delusional behavior,
exacerbated by the Gulf War
Syndrome he suffered as a
sergeant in the first Iraq war.
"I think crimes that are this
horrible, you just can't
understand them, you can't
explain them," said Kaine, a
Democrat known for carefully
considering death penalty cases.
"They completely dwarf your
ability to look into the life of a
person who would do something
like this and understand why."
A small group of death penalty
opponents gathered on a grassy
area near the prison and had a
sign reading, "We remember the
victims, but not with more
killing."
Muhammad was born John
Allen Williams and changed his
name after converting to Islam.
He had been in and out of the
military since he graduated from
high school in Louisiana and
entered the National Guard. He
joined the Army in 1985.
He did not take special sniper
training but earned an expert
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rating in the M-16 rifle — the
military cousin of the .223-
caliber Bushmaster rifle used in
the D.C. shootings.
The motive for the attacks
remains murky. Malvo said
Muhammad wanted to extort $10
million from the government to
set up a camp in Canada where
homeless children would be
trained as terrorists.
Muhammad's ex-wife said she
believes the killings were a
smoke screen for his plan to kill
her and regain custody of their
three children.
Sonia Hollingsworth-Wills, the
mother of Conrad Johnson, the
last man slain that October, sat in
the back seat of a car outside the
prison before the execution,
which she chose not to witness.
But she said she wanted to be
there and was counting the
minutes until Muhammad's
death.
"It was the most horrifying day
of my life," she said. "I'll never
get complete closure but at least I
can put this behind me."
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Salt Lake OKs gay
Ft. Hood Suspect Had 'Unexplained Connections' rights laws with
(FOXNews.com) across the world to kill U.S. last Thursday — a familiar, early forces run by the FBI that looked Mormon backing (AP)
troops in Iraq. A military official stage in the investigation of at Hasan. This defense official
Submitted at 11/11/2009 3:09:13 AM
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Tuesday denied knowing Hasan headline-grabbing crimes when asserted that the task force
The Army psychiatrist suspected had such contacts. public officials involved in a case ground rules barred any members Submitted at 11/11/2009 6:32:04 AM

of killing 13 people in a shooting Two government officials, often speak anonymously as they from telling their home agency
rampage at Fort Hood had "more s p e a k i n g o n c o n d i t i o n o f SALT LAKE CITY – The
try to shift any blame to rivals in about task force findings without
unexplained connections to anonymity because they were not Mormon church for the first time
other agencies. approval of the other
people being tracked by the FBI" authorized to discuss the case on has announced its support of gay
The Senate already has launched investigators and wasn't aware of
than just a radical Muslim imam, the record, said the Washington- rights legislation, an endorsement
its own inquiry into the Hasan whether there was ever any
i n v e s t i g a t o r s h a v e f o u n d , based joint terrorism task force that helped gain unanimous
case. Sens. Joe Lieberman, a discussion of doing that.
according to a report. approval for Salt Lake city laws
overseen by the FBI was notified Connecticut independent, and FBI officials were not
The names of the individuals of communications between banning discrimination against
Susan Collins, R-Maine, plan to immediately available to
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was in Hasan and the imam overseas, gays in housing and employment.
hold a hearing on the shootings comment late Tuesday on what
contact with was not revealed by and the information was turned The Utah-based church's support
next week. ground rules prevailed in the
the official, but sources in over to a Defense Criminal ahead of Tuesday night's vote
The disclosure Tuesday of the joint task forces or whether they
Congress told ABC News their Investigative Service employee came despite its steadfast
defense investigator's role were applied in this situation or
names and locations will likely assigned to the task force. The opposition to gay marriage,
indicated the U.S. military was not. One government official,
emerge soon. reflected in the high-profile role
communications were gathered aware of worrisome behavior by however, pointed out that to
The mystery over whether the by investigators beginning in it played last year in California's
the massacre suspect long before complete the assessment the
m i l i t a r y k n e w H a s a n w a s December 2008 and continuing Proposition 8 ballot measure that
the attack. Following the Defense Criminal Investigative
communicating with radical into early this year. barred such unions.
disclosure, a senior defense Service representative had to
imam Anwar al-Awlaki lapsed That defense investigator wrote "The church supports these
official, also demanding access Hasan's Defense
into finger-pointing ahead of up an assessment of Hasan after ordinances because they are fair
anonymity, directly contradicted Department personnel file and
congressional investigations reviewing the communications and reasonable and do not do
that notion. determine what research he was
l o o k i n g i n t o t h e A r m y and the Army major's personnel violence to the institution of
The senior defense official said conducting at the time.
psychiatrist's contacts with file, according to these officials. marriage," Michael Otterson, the
neither the Army nor any other The FBI has opened its own
extremists. director of public affairs for The
The assessment concluded Hasan part of the Defense Department internal review of how it handled
Even as President Barack did not merit further investigation Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
knew of Hasan's contacts with the early information about
Obama remembered those killed — in large part because his day Saints said.
any Muslim extremists. But the Hasan. Military, law enforcement
at the Texas Army post and communications with the imam Passage made Salt Lake City the
defense official carefully and intelligence agencies also are
condemned what he described as were centered on a research first Utah community to prohibit
conceded this view was based defending themselves against
"the twisted logic that led to this paper about the effects of combat bias based on sexual orientation
upon what the Pentagon knows tough questions about what each
tragedy," federal agencies reacted in Iraq and Afghanistan and the or gender identity. Under the two
now. of them knew about Hasan before
to conflicting claims about investigator determined that new ordinances, it is illegal to
Hours later, the same senior he allegedly opened fire in a
whether a Defense Department Hasan was in fact working on fire someone from their job or
defense official reiterated that the crowded room at the huge Army
terrorism investigator looked into such a paper, the officials said. evict someone from their
Defense Department was not post.
Hasan's contacts months ago with residence because they are
The disclosure came as notified before the Fort Hood The Associated Press
Awlaki. Awlaki, an imam who questions swirled about whether lesbian, bisexual, gay or
massacre of investigations into contributed to this report.
was released from a Yemeni jail opportunities were missed to transgender.
Hasan, despite the participation This content has passed through
last year, has used his personal head off the massacre in which Utah lawmakers tend to quickly
of two Defense Department fivefilters.org.
Web site to encourage Muslims 13 died and 29 were wounded fall in line when the influential
investigators on two joint task
church makes a rare foray into

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Washington sniper is put to death

(BBC News | Americas | Muhammad picked off his targets
World Edition) using a sniper rifle, always with a
Submitted at 11/10/2009 8:14:30 PM
single round and from a distance.
After three weeks, he was
The man behind the 2002 sniper arrested at a truck stop, along
attacks in and around with Malvo.
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John Allen Muhammad's residents recall sense of fear
lawyers say he was mentally ill, while sniper was on the loose
but Virginia Governor Tim Kaine Prosecutors say Muhammad
rejected a plea for clemency. never showed remorse.
On Monday, the US Supreme In addition to the 10 people they
Court quashed an appeal for a killed around the Washington
stay of execution. area, the pair were suspected of
Muhammad, 48, was injected murders in other states, including
with a lethal drug for the murder Louisiana, Alabama and Arizona.
of Dean Harold Meyers, one of Cheryll Witz was one of several
10 people killed during the victims' relatives who went to
attacks. watch Muhammad's execution.
Muhammad's accomplice, Lee Malvo said he had shot her
Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the Corrections said. Gordon, the state attorney Lawyer Jonathan Sheldon told f a t h e r , J e r r y T a y l o r - a t
time of the shootings, is serving a Muhammad did not speak before a p p o i n t e d t o r e p r e s e n t the BBC's World Today: "A Muhammad's direction - on an
life sentence in jail. it began, and seemed quiet and Muhammad, said that he would psychiatrist examined him and Arizona golf course in March
The pair killed 10 people during relaxed, Mr Traylor said. die "with his head held high and said he's paranoid and psychotic 2002.
three weeks of attacks in "Mr Muhammad was asked if he no remorse, maintaining his and delusional and gave many "He basically watched my dad
Maryland, Washington and wished to make a last statement. innocence". examples." breathe his last breath," she told
Virginia. He did not acknowledge us or He was, said his lawyer, "a Mr Sheldon also said brain scans the Associated Press news
Please turn on JavaScript. Media make any statement whatsoever," martyr for everything that's of Muhammad had revealed agency.
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Witness describes sniper's final He had, Mr Traylor added, been After the execution, he extended s c h i z o p h r e n i a . breath?"
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Center in Jarratt, Virginia. His lawyer said he had eaten "It's just a tragic situation all shopping, outside schools, or just
The procedure took five minutes, chicken in red sauce, followed by around." sitting and reading.
and Muhammad died at 2111 strawberry cakes, for his final Muhammad's legal team says the Mr Meyers was shot at a petrol
(0211 GMT), Larry Traylor of meal. ex-soldier suffered from Gulf station in Manassas, Virginia.
the Virginia Department of Before the execution J Wyndal War Syndrome. A skilled marksman,
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People in Rio de Janeiro used
candles in the blackout
A power blackout in Brazil left
tens of millions of people sitting
by candlelight, after plunging its
two largest cities into darkness.
Underground railways, traffic
lights, street lamps, lifts and
electric gates in Sao Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro were all affected.
It was several hours before the
problem could be fixed.
The authorities believe it could
have been caused by a fault at the
giant Itaipu hydro-electric dam.
The traffic lights were out of
order, traffic wardens were trying
to maintain the flow of traffic,
radio stations were appealing to
people to drive carefully.
There was chaos in the metro
system as well, some reports that
people had to walk along the
tracks because trains had come to
a halt, that bus drivers were being
called in to provide an
emergency service.
The underground railway
systems in Rio de Janeiro and
Sao Paulo shut down when the
power cuts hit soon after 2200
(0000 GMT), leaving many
passengers stranded.
Thousands of rail passengers had
to walk down underground tracks
to reach stations.
No traffic lights or street lights
were working, causing traffic to
stop or slow to a crawl.
Extra police were put on the
streets to prevent a surge in
crime.
Electricity supplies in Paraguay,
which shares power from Itaipu,
were also disrupted for a short
while.
The power system lost 17,000
megawatts after the massive plant
went offline, possibly because of
a storm.
The director of the dam said it
had lost its entire hydro-electric
output.
The BBC's correspondent in Sao
Paulo, Gary Duffy, says the
power cut happened at a time
when millions would have been
watching the country's popular
soap opera on TV.
He adds that neighbourhood
blackouts are common in the city
of 19 million, but the scale of this
power cut was remarkable.
Major dam
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unaffected.
In all, nine of Brazil's 27 states
were affected.
The Itaipu dam provides Brazil
with 20% of its electricity.
In Paraguay, which relies on the
Itaipu dam for 90% of its
electricity, the entire country was
blacked out for 15 minutes.
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legislative politics. So Tuesday's

(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:08:04 AM
US President Barack Obama is
to discuss US strategy in
Afghanistan with his national
security team, as speculation
mounts over a decision on troop
levels.
A White House spokesman said
Mr Obama was considering four
options, but did not elaborate on
what they were.
He denied reports that the
president had already settled on a
figure, saying a decision was still
weeks away.
But British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown told parliament
that he expected Mr Obama to
announce a decision soon.
"I have spoken to President
Obama and I expect him to
announce in a few days what his
numbers for Afghanistan will
be," Mr Brown told British MPs
on Wednesday.
'Not the slightest idea'
Wednesday's meeting comes as
an exhaustive review of US
strategy in Afghanistan,
including troop levels, appears to
be drawing to a close.
The top US military commander
in Afghanistan has asked for at
least 40,000 more US troops
there.
Reports citing anonymous
officials have suggested that a
figure somewhat below that mark
is likely to be chosen.
President Obama has now had
on his desk the report and
recommendations from the Isaf
commander he appointed in
Kabul, Gen Stanley McChrystal,
for almost three months.
While British, US and other
forces on the ground get on with
the task of trying to build a
reasonable Afghan security force
so that Afghans can ultimately
ensure their own security and
stability, the fear is that the delay
at the White House is helping the
Taliban, who - with every Isaf
soldier's death - are hitting
successfully at the international
community's will to continue the
campaign.
Speaking on Tuesday, White
House spokesman Robert Gibbs
said the president was yet to
decide.
"Anybody who tells you the
president has made a decision...
doesn't have, in all honesty, the
slightest idea what they are
talking about," he said.
Officials have stressed that the
review is not just about numbers,
but includes decisions on how
troops should be deployed.
Among the key outstanding
issues is said to be how much the
government of Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, who was recently
declared the winner of a widely
criticised election, can be relied
upon.
One senior source told the BBC
that whichever option was
chosen, the focus would be on
protection and training rather
than going out and seeking to kill
the Taliban.
Critics have said the decision on
Afghanistan is taking too long,
while Mr Obama has said he
does not want to rush a decision
that involves putting troops at
risk.
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt says
that there is a growing sense of
frustration at the length of time it
is taking for the White House to
make its decision among military
commanders and politicians from
other coalition countries.
She says that as public support
for the campaign wanes in almost
every Nato ally, the signal sent
out by President Obama's
decision will be crucial - and the
fear is that the current delay
sends out a message to other
Nato members, to the Afghan
people and to the Taliban and al-
Qaeda that America and its
partners may be wavering.
Any reinforcement of troops is
expected to start next spring.
The US currently has some
68,000 troops in Afghanistan,
contributing to a coalition force
of more than 100,000.
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action could have broad effects in
this highly conservative state
where more than 80 percent of
lawmakers and the governor are
church members.
"What happened here tonight I do
believe is a historic event," said
Brandie Balken, director of the
gay rights advocacy group
Equality Utah. "I think it
establishes that we can stand
together on common ground that
we don't have to agree on
everything, but there are lot of
things that we can work on and
be allies."
But the church has pointed out
an inherent dispute it has with the
gay lifestyle. Mormonism
considers traditional marriages
central to God's plan. Gays are
welcome in church, but must
remain celibate to retain church
callings and full membership.
Its strong support for Proposition
8 in California last year drew a
sharp reaction from gay rights
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Missing Nato soldier body found

(BBC News | Americas | missing on 4 November, are soldier. from the 82nd Airborne Division, country are from the United
World Edition) believed to have died recovering "One of the two missing US went missing during a mission States and Italy.
Submitted at 11/11/2009 12:47:36 AM
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drowned while on a mission in had been recovered in Badghis and international forces would nearly 110,000, two-thirds of
western Afghanistan has been province. continue to look for the other them from the US.
found, Nato officials have said. But Nato said its forces were serviceman. The biggest contingents
The two soldiers, who went still searching for the other The two soldiers, paratroopers operating in the west of the
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supporters nationwide, with crucial rights of religious

(BBC News | Americas | However, access remains a indirectly to Hurricane Ida. many protesting outside temples organizations," Otterson said
World Edition) major challenge as civil defence Ida, which passed the country that singled out Mormons as the Tuesday.
Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:17:26 PM
authorities say 18 bridges and three days ago, was downgraded key culprits in restricting the Previous Utah legislation that
many more roads have been to a tropical storm as it crossed rights of gay couples. sought statewide protections for
About 10,000 people in El destroyed. the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. Since then, however, Utah's gay the gay community did not
Salvador are in need of food aid Heavy machinery has been Are you in El Salvador? Have community has sought to engage contain those exceptions.
after devastating floods washed brought in to try to reach villages you been affected by the floods? church leaders in quiet And although this was the
away crops. which have been cut off for days. Send us your stories using the conversations to help foster better church's first public endorsement
Three days of national mourning President Funes has blamed form below. understanding, said Valerie of specific legislation, it is not
are being held following the p r e v i o u s S a l v a d o r i a n You can also send us your Larabee, executive director of the the first time the church has
deaths of at least 140 people in governments for failing to put in pictures and videos of the Utah Pride Center. voiced support for some gay
the floods. place the prevention measures flooding to yourpics@bbc.co.uk "I thought this conversation rights. In August 2008 the church
Thousands are living in shelters which could have mitigated the or text them to+44 7725 100 100. would never come to be while I issued a statement saying it
as a result of the disaster and worst effects of the floods. If you have a large file you can was here in Salt Lake City," said supports gay rights related to
large parts of the country are He is also calling upon the upload here. Larabee, adding that the hospitalization, medical care,
without electricity and clean country's National Assembly to Read the terms and conditions discussions have "shifted her employment, housing or probate
water. release $150m of international At no time should you endanger perspective of what's possible" as long as they "do not infringe
The areas around the capital, San aid money immediately. yourself or others, take any and could foreshadow a different on the integrity of the traditional
S a l v a d o r , a n d t h e c e n t r a l In the town of Verapaz in San unnecessary risks or infringe any relationship between the two family or the constitutional rights
province of San Vicente were hit Vicente, soldiers and civilians laws. sides. of churches."
hardest. have been searching debris left A selection of your comments But addressing the council on Last year, church leaders were
President Mauricio Funes has by a landslide for dozens of may be published, displaying Tuesday, Otterson said the silent on a package of gay rights
declared a national emergency. missing people. your name and location unless endorsement is not a shift in the bills known as the Common
At least 49 of the dead are A torrent of mud and boulders you state otherwise in the box church's position on gay rights Ground Initiative, dooming them
believed to be children. from the Chichontepec volcano below. and stressed it "remains from the start, despite the bill
The torrential rains washed away hit the town on Sunday, wrecking The BBC may edit your unequivocally committed to having the support of the most
crops across the region, leaving 300 homes and burying cars. comments and not all emails will defending the bedrock foundation popular governor in state history,
thousands of survivors to face the President Funes visited Verapaz be published. Your comments of marriage between a man and a Jon Huntsman. Huntsman
dangerous lack of a stable food and spoke to some of the 800 may be published on any BBC woman." resigned this summer to become
supply, the UN World Food residents who have been moved media worldwide. Church support for the U.S. ambassador to China.
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aid to the area in the coming the disastrous rains were mainly fivefilters.org. protect those rights. Exceptions shouldn't be illegal to
days. caused by a low pressure system in the legislation allow churches discriminate against someone for
Bridges washed away in the Pacific, which was linked to maintain, without penalty, being gay.
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5 Family Members Charged in Research Brief: Global

Missouri Child Sex Case Consumers Support
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 8:16:51 AM
Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53,
both of Independence, Mo., along
accused of drugging and forcibly
raping a child under 12 and using "Good Cause" Companies
with 48-year-old Jared Leroy a child in a sexual performance. (MediaPost | Media News) and Italy at 74%.
Five men from the same family Mohler of Columbia, Mo. His son is charged with sexual The study also found that 83%
Submitted at 11/11/2009 5:15:08 AM
are in custody in a stunning child David A. Mohler, 52, of assault of a child under 14 and of people are willing to change
sex crimes case in Missouri — Lamoni, Iowa, was charged with using a child in a sexual According to new findings from consumption habits if it can help
and cadaver dogs are now being one count of child rape, and performance. the 3rd annual Edelman make the world a better place to
used in a hunt for possible bodies Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates It wasn't clear how many young Consumer Study, 57% of live, indicating a startling
of victims, Fox4KC.com reports. City, Mo., is accused of using a victims there allegedly were. All consumers globally say a consumer shift and trend away
Police are searching a patch of child in a sexual performance — five men are being held behind company or brand has earned from traditional status markers
l a n d o n a f a r m p r o p e r t y a felony. The relationships of bars without bond. their business because it has been like big houses and luxury cars
Wednesday near Bates City, Mo., Jared, David and Roland Mohler A press conference will be held doing its part to support good and toward identification with
a day after the men were charged to Burrell Mohler Sr. and Burrell Wednesday morning to discuss causes, with Asian countries social purpose brands. The
with committing sex crimes Mohler Jr. weren't immediately more details of the case. coming in highest with China at findings overall show that
against children, according to known. Click for more on this story from 85% and India at 84%. 67% • More than twice as many
Fox4KC.com. The crimes allegedly were Fox4KC.com. globally also say they would people (67%) would rather drive
Charged with multiple counts of committed from the late 1980s This content has passed through switch brands if another brand of
child rape are 77-year-old Burrell until the mid-1990s. fivefilters.org. similar quality supported a good RESEARCH page 78
Edward Mohler Sr. and his son The elder Burrell Mohler is cause, peaking in Brazil at 83%
RESEARCH
MediaDailyNews: Nielsen Sells Trade Titles, continued from page 78

a hybrid car than a luxury car

'Hollywood Reporter,' 'Adweek' Group (33%), with Japan (89%) and
France (84%) preferring hybrid
cars most.
(MediaPost | Media News) other properties, had purchased climate, enduring big hits in The Hollywood Reporter once
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:23:05 AM
the struggling weeklies. revenue and readership. had revenues of $20 million a
When asked for confirmation, Hollywood Reporter, like its year. It is well off that sum now - Globally, the study found that
James Finkelstein's News Gerry Byrne, who heads the siblings, tried massive staff cuts. - as are most B-to-B enterprises - • 70% of people would prefer
Communications has bought entertainment division of Nielsen The big studios have also cut - possibly at $9 million or lower, to live in an eco-friendly house
several Nielsen trade titles -- The Business Media, gave the Wrap back on the lucrative "for your according to estimates. than merely a big house
Hollywood Reporter. Billboard, an email "no comment." consideration" Oscar campaign, a In the late 1970s, James (30%)
A d w e e k , M e d i a w e e k a n d Nielsen has been trying to sell major revenue generator. Finkelstein founded The National • 68% also now feel that it's
Brandweek-- according to a the historic Hollywood Reporter Nielsen originally bought the Law Journal, an outgrowth of the becoming more unacceptable not
knowledgeable source. for over a year, in addition to its magazines for 13x times New York Law Journal, which to make noticeable efforts to
The story, first reported in The other 41 trades, which include earnings. Speculation is that the he sold in 1998 to American show concern for the
Wrap, said that News Editor & Publisher and company sold it for far less. The Lawyer Media. environment (rising to 82% in
Communications, which also B a c k s t a g e . current industry average is This content has passed through China) and live a healthy
owns the Washington, D.C.- All the Nielsen magazines have around 7x times -- for media fivefilters.org. lifestyle (87% in China)
based trade, The Hill, among suffered in this brutal publishing properties. • 69% globally would rather
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have a brand that supports the Supporting labor rights highest expectations on brands consumers saying their ability to • 71% of respondents think
livelihood of local producers 81 with 89% of Brazilians give money to community causes brands and companies spend too
than a designer brand (31%), Fighting spread of global disease expecting brands today to do has been limited, people are still much on advertising and
North American and most and pandemics something to support a good giving of their time: marketing and should put more
European countries in the 80 cause, and 61% are most • 33% have given less into good causes - up almost
study, as well as Brazil, Source: Edelman goodpurpose likely to say they are more financial support due to the 10%age points
overwhelmingly prefer TM Consumer Study, November involved in good causes this year current economic downturn • 64% would recommend a
supporting the livelihood of local 2009 • More than seven in 10 (rising to 51% among U.S. brand that supports a good cause
producers, with each indicating The study results suggest that in Consumers in India and China respondents) - up from 52% last year
more than 80% preference both harsh and rebounding say they would switch brands • 31% are more involved in globally
economies, brands will continue if a different brand of similar good causes than a year ago • 59% would help a brand
Causes Global Consumers to benefit from identifying and quality supported a good cause • 53% have given more time promote its products if there was
Personally Care About contributing to a positive social • Japan fell short of many of in support of good causes this a good cause behind it - up
Cause purpose that makes sense for the global results, with the year because they have not from 53% last year
% Who Care their business, with 64% of exception of choosing social been able to give as much money • 44% are aware of brands
Protecting the environment people globally saying they purpose over social status, • 56% have tried to do more that actively support good causes
91% would recommend a brand that overwhelmingly preferring to support good causes in the past through their products and
Improving quality of healthcare supports a good cause (up from hybrid cars (89%) and eco- year because charities and services - up from 33%
89 52% in 2008, and in the U.S., up friendly houses (87%) other nonprofit organizations
Reducing poverty 16 points from 47% in 2008 to • More than three out of four have suffered in this economic Markson concludes that
87 63% this year). In addition, 63% people in the UK, France, environment "Companies that become
Alleviating hunger and of all respondents are looking to Germany and Italy were catalysts for social change and
homelessness brands and companies to make it willing to change their own While the study reveals that respond to rising consumer
86 easier for them to make a consumption habits if it can help social purpose is becoming expectations... will not only
Equal educational opportunity difference, with Brazil having the make tomorrow's world a increasingly crucial to a brand's survive, but also thrive in ways
86 highest expectations at 86%. better place to live success, 66% of people believe their competitors will not... "
Promoting societal health and Mitch Markson, Edelman's chief • Americans, too, that it's no longer enough for Please visit Edelman here for
wellness creative officer, president of its overwhelmingly indicate they are corporations to merely give more information.
85 brand consulting group, notes willing to change consumption money away, but that they must This content has passed through
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85 social purpose, and brands are better place to live (85%) and are day-to-day business.
Supporting human and civil recognizing it as an area where looking to companies and The report says that the biggest
rights they can differentiate themselves brands to make it easier for them global social changes include:
83 ...not only to meet governmental to make a difference (65%) • 83% of respondents are
Building understand and respect compliance requirements, but willing to change consumption
for other cultures also build brand equity... " While the global recession has habits if it can help make the
81 • Brazil proved to have the created limitations, with 70% of world a better place to live
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TV Board: Media Insights QandA With Richard

Zackon
(MediaPost | Media News) work in media research, is just analytical work. That looked at surprising one to me was that the
Submitted at 11/11/2009 7:30:21 AM
how busy everyone is. It is truly media usage through out the day overall usage of television as
remarkable. People have always -- a sixteen hour day and in some measured by observation
Richard Zackon is not only an felt that they were busy and cases longer -- by about 370 matched within about one or two
accomplished media researcher, researchers work pretty hard. But people in five markets. percentage points [results from]
he is also a lawyer (from his stint the demands placed upon them We looked at them for two days, the Nielsen measured people
at Court TV) and a life coach. He and the pace with which they one in spring and one in the fall, meter device -- at least for in the
also teaches a class on media at n e e d t o r e s p o n d i s r e a l l y and someone watched them and home.
NYU and is a consultant with remarkable. I would say [this recorded every media device We have other measures for out
Nielsen as part of the CRE. trend] began taking off with the which they used including of home that matched virtually as
Richards shares his insights introduction of email and has television, computer, magazine, well. So the fact that through two
about dramatic changes in the c o n t i n u e d t h r o u g h o n e newspaper, telephone, etc. So it entirely different methodologies,
industry, industry innovations, technological breakthrough after is a very, very rich database of we pretty much arrived at the
some of his current projects and another. simultaneous media usage in same result is pretty remarkable,
even some life coach advice. CW: Richard, what projects are context. It is really unique in that confirming the validity of the
L i n k s t o a l l e i g h t o f t h e you working on now? way. Nielsen methodology and the
individual video clips can be RZ: Other than the course that I And the second study, which is validity of the observational
f o u n d a t teach at NYU and some about to be released, is the study methodology. That to me was the
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/ 2 0 0 9 / 1 1 / q - i n t e r v i e w - w i t h - largest project that I am working question, "[For] the people who CW: Thank you so much. How
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Will 2010 Be an Explosive Chapter for E-
Readers? (InternetNews.com)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 11/10/2009 3:08:52 PM
While 2009 is clearly a
watershed year for e-readers with
several product launches, the big
wave of popularity for the
fledgling market will be Q4 of
2010, according to a recent study.
The nascent e-reader market this
year saw new devices from
Amazon, with the DX and
International versions of the
Kindle 2, as well as from Sony,
with the high-end 3G Daily
Reader, along with Barnes &
Noble's Nook. But wait, there's
more: Spring Design, iRex
Technologies, Plastic Logic and
Asus have also unveiled details
about e-readers coming to
market.
With so many devices coming
out with varying feature sets,
digital book format support and
price points, consumers will have
more choice than ever and that
should result in more e-reader
sales this holiday season.
Still, 2010 is the year that the
portable digital reading devices
will finally see the beginning of
mainstream adoption,
"culminating in e-reader mania
for the 2010 holiday season,"
according to Allen Weiner,
research vice president at
Gartner.
"With the entry of new players,
such as Barnes and Noble, into
the e-reader market and an
increase in models from Amazon
and Sony, consumers began to
have choices in single-purpose e-
reading devices in 2009," Weiner
said in a statement. "Among the
product differentiation points are
support for E Ink's electronic
paper technology, support for
further book formats, and the
ability of some devices to allow
consumers to purchase content
wirelessly and to synchronize
content across devices."
While dedicated wireless e-
readers grab most of the
headlines, Weiner said that
digital book apps for
smartphones, especially the
iPhone, are also poised to play a
critical role in the digital
publishing sector, though that
market is still in its infancy.
"It is too early in the evolution of
the e-reading market to know
whether smartphones will
become powerful stand-alone
devices for reading books or
whether they will complement
other devices, such as fixed
readers, said Weiner.
"Book applications for
smartphones have the potential to
become a bridge to other devices
such as tablet readers and
netbooks. Apple, for example,
could migrate the more than 500
book applications in the iTunes
store to a tablet device and
Google, which recently
announced a browser-based e-
reader, could offer applications
for Android-based devices of
various form factors." Challenges
e-readers must overcome to
succeed
Still, the nascent e-reader market
must overcome a few obstacles
before it truly reaches mass
adoption. The devices themselves
need to be sold in more retail
channels, from big-box stores to
lifestyle boutiques, said Weiner.
Currently, most e-readers are
available online, in bookstores or
at electronics stores.
On the publishing side, more
best-seller authors need to be
lured to the digital format, said
Weiner. "For example, there has
been news about the success of
Dan Brown's e-book sales of 'The
Lost Symbol,' however other
noted authors such as John
Grisham and J.K. Rowling do not
have their works available as e-
books," he said.
Weiner's latest research echoes
that of other prominent analysts
in the sector, which noted that
price is a big factor in the future
success of e-readers. Right now,
$199 is the lowest cost for full-
featured e-reading devices, but he
predicts they'll need to drop to
$99 to gain traction in the
marketplace.
Still, he sees only growth for the
market and advises publishers to
shore up digital distribution of
their content to get a piece of the
action.
"It's the perfect time for a trial
and to establish relationships
with others in the value-chain --
that is service providers and
digital warehouses -- that can be
positioned to assist in a rapid
deployment if the market takes
off earlier than anticipated," he
said.
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E-readers will take off
for holiday shoppers in
2010, says Gartner (Digi
Times)
(Yahoo! News Search Results
for e-readers)
Submitted at 11/11/2009 1:25:39 AM
Press release, November 11;
Y v o n n e Y u ,
DIGITIMES [Wednesday 11
November 2009]
This year is likely to be
remembered as a watershed in
the evolution of e-books and e-
readers with several milestones
and product launches standing
out as catalysts for change in the
market, according to Gartner.
However, while the number of
electronic readers sold is likely to
increase in 2009, it expects 2010
to be the year when e-book
readers really become popular
consumer electronic devices,
culminating in e-reader "mania"
for the 2010 holiday season.
"With the entry of new players,
such as Barnes and Noble, into
the e-reader market and an
increase in models from Amazon
and Sony, consumers began to
have choices in single-purpose e-
reading devices in 2009," said
Allen Weiner, research VP at
Gartner. "Among the product
differentiation points are support
for E Ink's electronic paper
technology, support for further
book formats, and the ability of
some devices to allow consumers
to purchase content wirelessly
and to synchronize content across
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continued from page 81
devices."
Weiner said that while fixed
devices - those built solely for
reading, such as Amazon's
Kindle and Sony's family of
devices - get most of the
attention, book applications on
smartphones are an important
component of publishers' digital
strategy. However, Gartner
believes that it is too early in the
evolution of the e-reading market
to know whether smartphones
will become powerful stand-
alone devices for reading books
or whether they will complement
other devices, such as fixed
readers.
"Book applications for
smartphones have the potential to
become a bridge to other devices
such as tablet readers and
netbooks," said Weiner. "Apple,
for example, could migrate the
more than 500 book applications
in the iTunes store to a tablet
device and Google, which
recently announced a browser-
based e-reader, could offer
applications for Android-based
devices of various form factors."
There are a number of hurdles
that need to be overcome before e
-readers can become more
mainstream, such as e-books
needing a wider variety of retail
channels, ranging from big box
retailers and wireless carrier
outlets to lifestyle stores such as
Brookstone. More publishers
must also be seen buying into e-
readers. For example, there has
been news about the success of e-
book sales of Dan Brown's "The
Lost Symbol"; however other
noted authors such as John
Grisham and JK Rowling do not
have their works available as e-
books.
Gartner said that price will also
play a leading role in the future
success of e-readers. At the
moment it appears that US$199
will be the lowest price for fully
featured e-reading devices for the
2009 shopping season, but
Gartner analysts said that prices
will need to drop closer to US$99
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to gain significant consumer
traction.
Longer-term, Weiner believes
that the future is bright for e-
readers and advised publishers to
be bullish in the digital
distribution of e-books,
newspapers and magazines. "It's
the perfect time for a trial and to
establish relationships with
others in the value-chain - that is
service providers and digital
warehouses - that can be
positioned to assist in a rapid
deployment if the market takes
off earlier than anticipated," he
said.
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