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Pelosi tells Harvard students she read every page of healthcare bill By Ros Krasny (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:39:47 PM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told students at Harvard University on Friday that she had indeed done her reading. Taking questions during the 90minute event, Pelosi assured one skeptical undergraduate that she, and many other House members, had read “every page” of the roughly 1,900-page healthcare bill passed by the House. She expounded on leadership qualities, healthcare reform, the impact of more women in Congress, troops to Afghanistan — oh, and healthcare reform. Participating in the healthcare debate, so long a signature issue of the late Massachusetts political titan Ted Kennedy, was “humbling,” she said. Pelosi said she would have had a hard time cobbling together enough votes for a healthcare bill without a public option to balance the influence of

insurance companies. And she sympathized with women’s groups fearful of the Stupak-Pitts anti-abortion amendment contained in the House bill. But of all the heavy legislative lifting in Congress this year, passing supplemental funding for the war in Afghanistan was the

hardest, Pelosi said. Looking forward, she said, “it would be very hard to get many Democratic votes to support a big increase of troops to Afghanistan.” The first female speaker of the House — who said having more women in Congress had a big impact on pushing healthcare

legislation forward — added that compromise and an ability to negotiate were critical tools. “You have to be passionate about what you believe in, but dispassionate when you’re at the table … we all have our theology of what we believe in, but you have to be agnostic when you go to the table.” Pelosi’s biggest applause line came in her unabashed support of her liberal positions. “I take it as a compliment” to uphold so-called “San Francisco values,” she said. “Tolerance is a condescending word. It’s about respect, it’s about taking pride in the beautiful diversity of our community.” CORRECTS: Healthcare bill is about 1,900 pages. Click here for more Reuters political coverage Photo credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts (Pelosi unveils healthcare plan on Capitol Hill)

24 hours in pictures (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/14/2009 4:49:30 AM

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Droid (Sales) Blowing Up [Droid] By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/14/2009 6:05:00 AM

Don't worry, it's not the batteries that are exploding. But if thirdparty data is any indication, sales might be. Location network developer uLocate, creators of WHERE, saw about 25,000 active accounts using its software. Traditionally, uLocate is installed on about 10% of launch units. Multiply it out and you've got a healthy estimated 250,000 Droids out there. Not iPhone level, sure, but not a bad first week considering the Palm Pre sold 300,000 in one month. [ BGR via Electronista]

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Republican sees Democrats passing healthcare overhaul By Donna Smith (Front Row Washington)

Abercrombie & Fitch: A momentum play after Q3 release? By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks)

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Sarah Palin says on her Facebook page that the healthcare overhaul passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week should be “Dead on Arrival” in the U.S. Senate. The House-passed bill, which includes a new government health insurance plan, may not be what the Senate passes. But the far-reaching healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama is far from dead. At least one influential Republican senator believes Congress will enact sweeping legislation. “I think a bill is going to pass,” said New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg. In an interview with C-Span’s “Newsmakers” that will air on Sunday, Gregg said Obama has invested too much political capital in his top domestic priority to allow it to fail. Gregg once considered joining the Obama administration, but now has become a major critic of Obama’s proposed healthcare reform and its impact on the country’s mounting debt. “We’re on an unsustainable path, it is that simple,” Gregg said.

compared to 72 cents per diluted share in the year-ago period. Filed under: Earnings reports, After adjustments, earnings came Aetna Inc (AET), Gap Inc (GPS), in at 30 cents per share. Okay, Kohl's Corp (KSS), Abercrombie that profit drop is bad enough, and Fitch (ANF), American but wait till I get to the really bad Eagle Outfitters (AEO) stuff. Which would be revenues. Back in August, I discussed my Total sales declined 15%, but amazement at Abercrombie & same-store sales were even Fitch ( ANF). The stock just worse: they plunged off the didn't seem to be acting in a proverbial cliff, falling 22%. manner which reflected the Continue reading Abercrombie fundamentals of the business it & Fitch: A momentum play after represents. Well, my bout of Q3 release? amazement continues, because Abercrombie & Fitch: A shares of the retailer are up 9% as momentum play after Q3 release? of this writing on the latest originally appeared on earnings report. One that didn't BloggingStocks on Fri, 13 Nov impress me. 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see For the third quarter, our terms for use of feeds. Read| Abercrombie made, on a reported Permalink| Email this| Comments basis, 44 cents per diluted share Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:00:00 PM

Gregg said he does not see Democrats scaling back the legislation in the face of eyepopping, record deficits. On the contrary, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struggling to muster the 60 votes needed to pass the bill in the 100-member Senate, Gregg sees “more baggage” being added to it in an effort to win votes. The bill that initially passes the Senate is not likely to include a new government-run health insurance program, Gregg said.

But he said the legislation will likely “move to the left” once Senate and the House negotiators meet to work out their differences and develop a single bill. He said he expects the final bill to include some version of a new public insurance option. For more Reuters political news, click here Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Senator Judd Gregg By John Biggs (CrunchGear) in his office) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:42:07 AM

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Review: 'Art & Copy' Profiles Mad Men, Women of Advertising's Rise By Michael Calore (Wired Top Stories)

A new documentary from Hype and Scratch director Doug Pray

tracks the evolution and cultural impact of marketeers' creative

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US and China, locked in equal embrace | John Gittings By John Gittings (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:00:00 AM

Obama's trip comes at a time when the US needs China as much as China needs it – and neither nation can afford to let go When President Obama arrives in Shanghai tomorrow he will be carrying the baggage of a relationship between communist China and capitalist America that dates back more than 60 years. "There is no such thing as America not intervening in China," Mao Zedong told a US diplomat in 1945 – and offered to fly to Washington to talk about the future with President Roosevelt. Mao's proposal, made a year before the Chinese civil war in which the US backed Chiang Kai-shek's rule, never reached Roosevelt. What might have happened if they had met is a fascinating counter-factual question of history. After the communist victory in 1949, two decades of hostility ended with Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972 when China became a useful ally for Washington against the Soviet Union. Since then the relationship has fluctuated but has always been seen on the Chinese side as essential – less consistently so by the US.

What is different today, and what takes the Obama administration into new territory, is that it is at last a relationship of equals: the US now needs China as much as China needs the US. The contrast with the last presidential state visit to China, by Bill Clinton in 1998, is striking. That event was more show than substance, carefully choreographed to give the president a much-needed boost after the Monica Lewinsky affair. Clinton urged the virtues of democracy upon President Jiang Zemin and offered to act as a gobetween for him and the Dalai Lama. It looked good at the time but the Tibetan offer came predictably to nothing and six months later Jiang launched a crackdown on the Chinese democracy movement. Within another six months, the US air force bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, provoking a wave of genuine anger across China. George Bush, in his presidential campaign, would label China as a potential strategic threat, not as a partner. It was the shock of 9/11 that gave China a grim golden chance to make itself more useful to the US (and target its own Muslim dissidents in Xinjiang province) by signing up to the war on terror. Yet in spite of Chinese entry into the World Trade

Organisation, Beijing knew that the relationship remained less than equal: in the wry expression of a senior Chinese diplomat "we think it is better to remain number two". Today's relationship occupies a completely different world in which there is talk of a Sino-US G2, and even suggestions that China might become No 1. The past rhetoric of both sides – "empty cannons" as Chairman Mao once called them – seems dated. China is not going to make too much fuss about continued US arms sales to Taiwan (when was that island last in the headlines?). Human rights in China – never a huge concern to Washington (only a month after the Beijing massacre in 1989, a secret US envoy was sent to Beijing to maintain relations) – will be mentioned for form's sake by Obama. But the priorities identified by Obama earlier this week are the only ones that really matter: "climate change, economic recovery, nuclear nonproliferation". The US says it seeks a "comprehensive partnership" with China in what Jon Huntsman, new US ambassador to Beijing, calls "the most important bilateral relationship in the world". This is music to the ears of Chinese foreign policy advisers in Beijing who have

Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Scandal By David Kravets (Wired Top Stories)

A federal appeals court is barring outed spy Valerie Plame

Wilson from discussing her tenure as a former CIA agent.

often worried about the underlying "inequality" in USChina relations. The presidents whom they advised, Jiang and now Hu Jintao, can privately tell internal critics that their long-term strategic policy of putting the relationship with the US first has paid off. More openly, the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has warned the US military establishment that China should be regarded as a partner, not an adversary. Does China perhaps have the upper hand in this relationship, as it measures another 8% growth in GDP against the limping US economy? Hardly so, if we consider the real implication of the familiar statistic that China now holds $800bn in US Treasury bonds. Obama may ask Beijing to revalue the Renminbi; Hu may ask Washington to "focus on its own financial deficit", but the Chinese surplus rides on the American debt as if on the back of the Old Man of the Sea: neither can let go of the other. And China's extensive growth over almost two decades is not only unhealthily dependent on foreign markets, but has been bought at the expense of a deteriorating environment and a worsening rich-poor divide.

US presidential visits to China have always had a showbiz element – ever since Richard Nixon stood on the Great Wall and declared that it was truly a great wall. We may expect a wave of Obama-fever in the Chinese media: every tabloid paper – and there are a lot of them now – will want to have Michelle on the front page. Yet the widely read Huanqiu Bao (Global Times) says that the Obama visit "won't shake the world" and that most Chinese people have "neither strong concerns nor high expectations". In a more equal Sino-US partnership, fewer heads may actually turn for the presidential motorcade. • Barack Obama • China • Obama administration • US foreign policy • United States • Global economy • Global recession • Nuclear weapons John Gittings guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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Republic of Ireland v France - live minute-by-minute report By Josh Widdicombe (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:15:49 AM

Hit the auto-update button for the latest posts and email joshwiddi@gmail.com with your predictions and witticisms. Follow all tonight's scores live here Josh will be here from 7.30pm. In the meantime read David Hytner's take on Giovanni Trapattoni's progress in his plan to reinvigorate the Republic. Republic of Ireland near ultimate test of Giovanni Trapattoni's vision When Giovanni Trapattoni outlined his mission statement at his official unveiling as the Republic of Ireland's manager in May 2008, he drew what he hoped would be an inspirational comparison. "Nobody would have thought a couple of years back that Greece would have won the European Championship in 2004," he told the assembled hordes who, as much as the nation's players, had grown disillusioned after the torpor and paranoia of Steve Staunton's reign. "But Greece had trust," the Italian continued. "They believed in themselves. We have to begin like this. The

players must believe in themselves first and foremost. Trust and belief come with results and continuity." Trapattoni name-checked a handful of what he described as "technical" Irish players. Robbie Keane, the captain, was prominent, as he has been since, while Damien Duff, Kevin Doyle and Aiden McGeady featured in dispatches. So, too, did Stephen Ireland; you cannot win them all. "Duff is Duff, Robbie Keane is Robbie Keane," has become one of Trapattoni's many catchphrases. On the face of it it means nothing but, to his mind, it conveys the grandest seal of approval. Yet the parallel with Greece was clear and it extended beyond Ireland's recruitment of a seasoned overseas coach. For Trapattoni, read the German Otto Rehhagel. An unheralded group, the Greek players were driven by a collective desire to become greater than the sum of their parts. Theirs was a ferocious work ethic. It is a disservice to say Trapattoni has a squad without reputations. He feels that in Manchester City's Shay Given he has a goalkeeper to rival Italy's Gianluigi Buffon, and the defenders John O'Shea and

Richard Dunne have both enjoyed upwardly mobile Premier League careers. Yet his squad and, indeed, his likely lineup for tomorrow night's World Cup play-off first leg against France at Croke Park is peppered with players who have taken somewhat humbler paths to fame. The central midfield pair of Glenn Whelan and Keith Andrews, now of Stoke City and Blackburn Rovers, and the right midfielder Liam Lawrence, another Stoke player, who is expected to get the nod over McGeady tomorrow, have spent the lion's share of their careers outside the English top flight. The trio have played in all four divisions. Sean St Ledger, meanwhile, who is on loan at Middlesbrough from Preston North End, has never played in the Premier League. "This is the biggest game of my career," the defender said with a smile, as he prepared for Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka et al, "although I seem to be saying that every time I join up with Ireland." Wolves' Doyle also began at an unfashionable club, Cork City in the League of Ireland, while Kevin Kilbane who, together with Given, has 100 caps to his name, is currently out of the Hull

City team. It is a good thing that matches are not played on paper. France's team contains not only players from the top clubs in Europe's biggest leagues but major stars at those clubs. Keane noted with no little admiration that France have been able to omit Patrick Vieira while they will be without arguably their key player, the forward Franck Ribéry, who has a knee problem. Ireland cannot afford any injuries and Trapattoni knows that his squad's virtual clean bill of health represents a stroke of fortune. "If you look on paper at the players that France have," Keane said, doing what many Irish fans have tried not to do, "you see world class all over the pitch but we have desire and commitment and we are absolutely desperate to get to South Africa. France are the favourites, no question, but they cannot expect an easy game." The basic tenet of Trapattoni's philosophy, drummed into him from birth in Cusano Milanino, the town in which his roots remain inextricably set, is that only through hard work can you succeed. He was not an extravagantly gifted player but through sheer grit and determination he carved out a

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fine career with Milan and Italy. He has embraced the likes of Whelan, Andrews and St Ledger, shunning the more mercurial talent of the Sunderland midfielder Andy Reid, and he has worked tirelessly on a compact 44-2 system. Togetherness has been prized. He has made Ireland difficult to beat – they did not lose in their 10 Group Eight qualifiers – and with results and continuity has come belief. Trapattoni is not one to overcomplicate but now comes the ultimate test of his approach. Will it prove substantive enough to upset France? Trapattoni has called for his players "to add something more" now that it matters most. Greece have lit the path. They themselves beat France at Euro 2004. Ireland holds its breath. • World Cup 2010 • Republic of Ireland • France • France Josh Widdicombe guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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A green call to arms | Joshua Wickerham By Joshua Wickerham (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

debt that the US will make necessary domestic changes without retreating into protectionism. Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:00:00 AM Obama also needs to convince T o j u m p - s t a r t t h e g r e e n Americans that China is part of e c o n o m y , O b a m a s h o u l d the solution and that only further encourage co-operation between partnership will ensure common US and Chinese businesses prosperity. China has committed Barack Obama can use his vast political, social and business inaugural China visit to jump- resources to promoting the start the transformation to a technology and "corporate social global low-carbon economy. The responsibility" agenda that will US and China must both cut underpin low-carbon markets. It carbon emissions as quickly as is scaling up company use of possible, but business-sector international sustainability action remains overlooked in s t a n d a r d s a n d r e p o r t i n g deepening the relationship t e c h n i q u e s , i n c r e a s i n g between both countries and investments in green laboratories securing fast low-carbon growth. and issuing laws and guidelines Obama should call on American that spur companies to "compete and Chinese companies, with up" for recognition in setting and p a r t n e r s i n E u r o p e a n d meeting common environmental e l s e w h e r e , t o s t e p u p t h e goals. China now produces more d e v e l o p m e n t o f m a r k e t electric vehicles, solar panels and mechanisms and sound policies renewable energy than any other t h a t r e w a r d l o w - c a r b o n country, but, like the US, still investments. depends heavily on dirty coal. With outcomes at the UN China and the US should pursue Copenhagen climate change opportunities for joint research c o n f e r e n c e i n c r e a s i n g l y and sharing intellectual property. uncertain, setting bilateral, Time is running out on a global regional and sector strategies is climate deal. If Obama takes a crucial. Calls from Obama to "business as usual" approach in increase technical co-operation Beijing, it will seem out of step. could accelerate low-carbon His state visit comes just two preparedness and reduce fears weeks before the EU-China t h a t e i t h e r s i d e w i l l b e business summit, which is disadvantaged in coming low- supported by the EU presidency carbon markets. Obama needs to and the Chinese state, and is the r e a s s u r e C h i n e s e l e a d e r s last major state-level summit hovering over 25% of US foreign before Copenhagen to focus

entirely on the green business agenda. With landmark support from the Swedish ministry of foreign affairs and the Chinese ministry of commerce, global non-profit research organisation AccountAbility, with Chinese partner WTO Tribune, will present findings from a joint report on responsible competitiveness in China. This report suggests that China is becoming a major enforcer of intellectual property, that its companies are "doing more and saying less" on low-carbon – in short, that Chinese businesses are well on their way to a green transformation, but cannot do so alone. Obama's key messages in Beijing should not ignore governments or citizens, but should target corporate leaders. He should encourage corporations to invest more in efforts like IBM's collaborative laboratories programme, GM's Shanghai partnerships, China's new$1.5bn Texas wind farm and Warrant Buffet's stake in automaker BYD. Companies should increase mutual learning and engagement with local stakeholders. They can improve the transparency and accountability of their environmental governance systems, critical while operating internationally under varying local legal settings, economic demands and social expectations.

While universal action is unlikely, unilateral action is insufficient. This is Obama's chance to gear up a low-carbon economy that ensures decades of common prosperity between emerging markets, established players and a stronger China. In addition to improving prospects of a global deal in Copenhagen, Obama's business call to arms should lead to concrete action. Obama can ensure that the next Sino-US strategic economic dialogue is more than a discussion about exchange rates and trade policy, but a true platform for companies and officials, including wider stakeholders, to set the collaborative rules for jumpstarting the economy and saving the planet. • China • US foreign policy • Carbon emissions • International Trade • Climate change • Barack Obama • United States • Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 • Renewable energy Joshua Wickerham guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

ViewSonic heats up phone collection, V901 spotted on Microsoft China site By Ross Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:58:00 PM

In just one week, ViewSonic has gone from a glint of a 3G phone maker to having two models prominently on display. We've already seen VPC08 Windows XP phone, and now up to bat is the V901, found in the pages of Microsoft China's official site. The Windows Mobile 6.5, apparently TouchWiz-skinned device has a 3.6-inch, 480 x 800 touchscreen, a Marvell PXA310 processor, 128MB RAM and 256MB ROM storage with microSD expansion, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth, all hailing to the wavelengths we call CDMA EV-DO Rev. A. Launch is Q4 2009, so sometime very soon -- but we get the feeling this is China-only, at least for now. [Via iTech News Net] Filed under: Cellphones ViewSonic heats up phone collection, V901 spotted on Microsoft China site originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Egypt's Darwin debates | Riazat Butt By Riazat Butt (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

incompatibility between religion, namely Islam, and evolution. He illustrated his point with a roll call of famous Islamic scholars, Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:30:00 AM telling delegates that Muslims Scientists from around the world had carried the tradition of gather in Alexandria to discuss science through the Dark Ages. evolution – but is religion getting He then quoted a hadith that in the way? stressed the value of knowledge – It was perhaps fitting, and more "The ink of scientists is equal to than a little fortuitous, that this the blood of martyrs" – before w e e k e n d ' s c o n f e r e n c e o n turning to a 13th century scholar, Darwin's legacy coincided with Ibn Al-Nafis (pdf), who said: Egypt's crucial World Cup " W h e n h e a r i n g s o m e t h i n g qualifier against Algeria. The unusual, do not preemptively British Council's chief executive reject it, for that would be folly. Martin Davidson joked about Indeed, horrible things may be natural selection and survival of true, and familiar and praised the fittest, the audience tittered things may prove to be lies. Truth along. It was against a febrile is truth unto itself, not because backdrop of flag waving, horn [many] people say it is." honking and patriotism that more Delegates later heard Nidhal t h a n 1 5 0 s c i e n t i f i c m i n d s Guessoum, professor of physics attempted to unpack the issues and astronomy at the American around evolution and religion, a University of Sharjah in the major theme of the event. United Arab Emirates, say that "We are in the Muslim world," only three Muslim or Muslimdeclared Ismail Seragaldin, majority countries out of a director of the Bibliotheca possible 22 taught evolution. Alexandrina, "and there are many Salman Hameed, professor of here who are questioning if there I n t e g r a t e d S c i e n c e a n d is a contradiction between their H u m a n i t i e s a t H a m p s h i r e beliefs and Darwinian theory." College in Massachusetts says Like many of those appearing that students in Pakistan were onstage in the Great Hall, able to learn about evolution Seragaldin saw n o because it was couched in

religious language. The stately Bridget Kendall, who was chairing the opening debate, to be broadcast next Saturday on the World Service, asked whether the root cause of this tension was that evolution threatened belief in a God. After all, if science provided an explanation for life on earth then God was irrelevant. Dr Eugenie Scott, from the National Centre for Science Education, said science could tell people many things but it, too, had limitations. "We don't need to find God's hand in our ability to understand the natural world. It cannot tell us whether there is a God and whether God acts." She objected to science being viewed through a religious filter and said the two should not be confused. "A biologist who studies enzymes that cause cell division does not bring the Qur'an or Bible into it. It does a great violence to science to run your explanation through a religious filter for this understanding to be accepted." At lunch delegates spoke hurriedly and through gritted teeth, although whether this was due to frustration or the glacial air-conditioning was unclear. First impressions were that there

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was no debate – people were merely presenting their opinions – and there was very little very little engagement with people fiercely opposed to evolution. A British academic, Dr Francisco Diego, from University College London, railed against the hold of religion. Its very placing alongside evolution confused science, how it was taught and received. "How did religion start? With myths and traditions and superstitions. That came first and science came later. But there is an explanation for the natural world whether we like it or not." Nobody talked about Isis or Osiris these days, he said afterwards. "Who knows if people will talk about our god in 1000 years time?" • Islam • Religion • Evolution • Egypt • Middle East • Charles Darwin Riazat Butt guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed By Ross Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 11/14/2009 4:11:00 AM

Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls Chumby One review YouTube begins streaming 1080p insecurities next week Other news of import • Google's Chrome OS just a week away from launch? • Dell Mini 3i officially set for imminent launch in Brazil and China Sony's 2010/2011 OLED and flagship XBR series LCD roadmap leaked? T-Mobile launching BlackBerry Bold 9700 on November 16 for $199.99 • UK Channel 4 set to throw some 3D programming our way • Nokia rumored to be eyeing Palm buy yet again The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Beating the diabetes bulge | Neville Rigby By Neville Rigby (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

and how long that is depends on a rigorously disciplined approach to control the diabetes. We tend to take insulin treatment for Submitted at 11/14/2009 6:00:01 AM granted. But, in some parts of the With cases of obesity-related world, it is a different story. If type 2 diabetes due to double by you are unlucky enough to be a 2030, we must – and can – do child with diabetes in in subbetter than drug therapy Saharan Africa, after being We often hear about diabetes as stricken with type 1 diabetes, the one of the downsides of obesity – rest of your life can be as short as and now the United Nations even seven months. Type 1 diabetes has chosen to highlight the issue can be a death sentence for many by endorsing World Diabetes unfortunate young victims. Day, marked every year on 14 But type 2 diabetes is what we November. But there is still a lot are really referring to when we of confusion about the disease, talk about the consequences of its causes and its treatment. overweight and obesity. It used One of the odd things about to be called NIDDM – nondiabetes is that it is, in some insulin dependent diabetes respects, more than one disease. mellitus – and it accounts for Type 1 diabetes, or insulin more than 90% of diabetes dependent diabetes mellitus, is worldwide. the sort that suddenly hits The theme of this year's World children and younger people Diabetes Day is education and when their body no longer prevention. For the 1.6 billion produces insulin, produced in the p e o p l e w h o a r e a l r e a d y pancreas to regulate blood sugar overweight or obese globally – levels. This form used to be and who therefore provide the called juvenile diabetes. most eligible candidates for If you are lucky, you learn to suffering from type 2 diabetes – cope with daily injections of the concept of education and insulin for the rest of your life, prevention may have come a

little late in the day. WHO research experts, including Dr Sarah Wild from Edinburgh University, have estimated that overall diabetes cases will double to 366m by 2030, compared with 171m in 2000. This is why taking serious steps to address overweight and obesity is given so much emphasis. Recent research from Sweden is already signposting a way forward. A new analysis confirms that the size of abdominal fat cells and a waist-to -height ratio clearly predicted women who were likely to develop type 2 diabetes. There is ample evidence now type 2 diabetes can be avoided. The latest follow up to the US Diabetes Prevention Program, published a fortnight ago in The Lancet, confirms how the remarkable effect of "intensive lifestyle intervention" (basically, changing diet and exercise habits) was more powerful that the commonly prescribed drug treatment with metformin. In the early stages, the lifestyle effect reduced the incidence of diabetes by 58%, compared with 31% for

the drug. A decade later, researchers found that diabetes incidence was reduced by 34% among the lifestyle group, but by only 18% for the group receiving drug therapy. This lends great strength to the theme set by the International Diabetes Federation for World Diabetes Day over the next five years. It may be too late for some, but it suggests that we need not accept that a doubling of diabetes is inevitable. Education and prevention – if it results in intensive lifestyle changes – can be a lifesaver, too. • Obesity • Health • United Nations • Fitness • Food & drink • Drugs • Pharmaceuticals industry • Medical research Neville Rigby guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

There Shouldn't Be A GPS Tracking System In My Lingerie [Nsfw] By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:00:00 PM

I'm all for naughty, oh-cometreat-me-like-a-bad-girl-tonight scraps of lace. What I'm not such a fan of is trashy oh-come-follow -me-using-the-built-in- GPS lingerie. I don't care if it's pretty, frilly designer lingerie. It's got a damn tracking system embedded in the fabric. Designed by Lucia Lorio, this fashion line is dubbed "Find Me If You Can." But how could you not find someone when they're running around with a pagersized GPS device sewn into a bodice? While the fact that it would be impossible to not notice the gadget makes me laugh off the whole paranoia of jealous men using this as a sneaky way to keep tabs on their lovers, I still think it's a ridiculous design. Why you would spend between $1200 and $1600 for something intended to be ripped off a body. [ The Age via GizmoWatch]

Five winners of a weak dollar By Jamie Dlugosch (BloggingStocks)

Last week, under the guise of betting on America, Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:00:00 AM Hathaway ( BRK.A) made an Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), offer to buy all outstanding Starbucks (SBUX), PepsiCo shares of Burlington Northern( (PEP), Caterpillar (CAT), Stocks BNI) for a significant premium. Buffett confidently claimed that to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009 In making the announcement, rail would play a big role in the

recovery of the economy. What he did not say was that this was a bet on the U.S. dollar. Continue reading Five winners of a weak dollar Five winners of a weak dollar originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 14 Nov

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This video shows Oli Lemieux practicing on the trampoline wall of Cirque du Soleil and I've watched it twice already. I keep searching for clues that it's just a cleverly edited video, that someone couldn't possibly really do these stunts. Despite all the discussion of what the human body can be pushed to do, I feel feel a sense of disbelief watching Oli jumping around. I know that he's a talented man and that this clip is almost certainly not edited in ways that enhance the stunts. But a part of me desperately wants the video to be fake, because, despite the many years of practice it must've taken him to make everything look easy, Oli has forced me to realize my own personal limitations.

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Filed under: Scandals Normal tech support phone call: "Press 1 for help with e-mail. Filed under: Toyota Motor Corp. Press 2 to have your password (TM), Comfort Zone Investing reset." The dollar doesn't buy what it Madoff tech support phone call: used to, especially if it's "Hello, how can I help you something made in another dummy up some trading records country. When the dollar is weak, today?" imports cost more because it The investigation of Bernie take their renminbi, buy dollars takes more dollars to buy a Madoff's fraudulent financial foreign product. And the weak and repatriot the money. They empire is leading to more arrests. dollar is just the way our still make the same profit on the Jerome O'Hara and George product and enjoy stronger sales, government likes it. Perez, both computer That's because the other side of due to the weak dollar. programmers employed by the the dollar bill is that when it's Continue reading Comfort Zone Ponzi schemer, were arrested by Investing: The unmighty dollar weak, U.S. products become the FBI on Friday morning. The cheaper for other countries to Comfort Zone Investing: The charges include conspiracy for buy. While China is having a unmighty dollar originally falsifying books and records. resurgence in its economy, it will appeared on BloggingStocks on They are accused of doing the buy more goods and services, Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST. deed for the boss and accepting many of them from the U.S. Our Please see our terms for use of hush money -- in the form of stuff is a bargain because it feeds. Read| Permalink| Email 25% raises and net bonuses of doesn't take as many renminbi to this| Comments $60,000 -- to keep the scam buy dollars. U.S. manufacturers afloat. Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:30:00 AM

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Weak dollar winner #1: Whirlpool (WHR) By Jamie Dlugosch (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/14/2009 11:00:00 AM

Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009 The collapse of the domestic housing market crushed businesses that made things that

went into the building boom. One of the biggest makers of stuff for homes is Whirlpool( WHR). During the real estate bull market, Whirlpool was firing on all cylinders. But when the market crashed, so did WHR WHR has made a big recovery. stock. That recovery was based on a Since bottoming earlier this year,

recovery in the domestic real estate market. What has yet to be priced into the stock is a boom in overseas shipments. Continue reading Weak dollar winner #1: Whirlpool (WHR) Weak dollar winner #1: Whirlpool (WHR) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on

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Former auto task force Weak dollar winner #2: chief calls GM one of Caterpillar (CAT) 'worst-run companies' ever By Jamie Dlugosch (BloggingStocks)

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Filed under: Caterpillar (CAT), Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009 Filed under: Management, Nothing says manufacturing like General Motors (GM) Caterpillar( CAT). Those Speaking at Bloomberg monster trucks made for earthWashington Summit Friday, moving, digging and trucking are Steven Rattner, the former head the epitome of making stuff in of the government's auto task force, wasn't exactly in the mood task force chief calls GM one of the good old USA. Emerging markets are gaining for pulling punches. 'worst-run companies' ever Referring to his time overseeing Former auto task force chief confidence in building again, and the government involvement in calls GM one of 'worst-run a d e c l i n i n g d o l l a r m a k e s the auto industry, he said that companies' ever originally Caterpillar equipment cheap for "They were some of the worst- appeared on BloggingStocks on them. So, look for big sales gains run companies I've ever seen in Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:10:00 EST. in Caterpillar as the dollar drops. my life," and said there was Please see our terms for use of Continue reading Weak dollar plenty of blame to go around, feeds. Permalink| Email this| winner #2: Caterpillar (CAT) Weak dollar winner #2: i n c l u d i n g u n i o n s a n d t h e Comments companies' executives. Continue reading Former auto

MacMall Early Black Friday Sale, Discounted Hardware Galore [Dealzmodo] By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:30:00 AM

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MacMall's running a hardware sale all weekend. You can expect price cuts on par with the edu discount, so if you've lost a little too much hair to use that student ID anymore, MacMall has you covered. [ MacMall via I4U] Caterpillar (CAT) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Cranberry DiamonDisc: the $35 DVD that'll last longer than your ghost By Darren Murph (Engadget)

company is selling its wonder product right now. The so-called Submitted at 11/14/2009 11:40:00 AM DiamonDisc -- which is We've seen outfit after outfit reportedly constructed from trumpet their long-lasting optical "diamond-hard stone" -- is s t o r a g e w a r e s b e f o r e , b u t designed to store precious Cranberry seems different. memories for 1,000 years or Rather than promising that more, and it's even built to whatever miracle they've just w i t h s t a n d " t e m p e r a t u r e s unearthed will be available "in extending up to 176 degrees the very near future," this Fahrenheit as well as UV rays

that would destroy conventional DVD discs." Unfortunately, each disc holds just 4.7GB of

information, and each one will run you $34.95 if purchased individually. Oh, and it's only playable on "most" regular DVD drives, so across-the-board compatibility seems less than likely. The more we think about it, the more sense that whole "just carve it into stone for future generations to see" mantra makes. Kudos, cavemen.

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Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins] By Aimee Mullins (Gizmodo)

Her parents were impressive in their own right, first by not imposing labels or limits on her, Last year I met a beautiful five- and then making this medical year-old child, who had been journey of decisions for their born with neurofibramatosis child a collaborative process that (NF), causing her left leg to have included her, appraising her of extremely brittle bones. new options in technology that For nearly the first year of her had arisen as they became aware life, her parents and doctors were o f t h e m . U n f o r t u n a t e l y , unaware of the NF, and the t e c h n o l o g y i n h e r c a s e â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a brittleness had contributed to successive series of operations to multiple bone fractures of the try and stretch the brittle leg lower leg, unbeknownst to using internal rods and pins to anyone. These early bone breaks fuse the boneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hadn't progressed resulted in her left leg being as fast they would have hoped. seven centimeters shorter than After the first two of what they the other, and as a bright, knew would be many surgeries, precocious and athletic child, she her parents and doctors had made adapted to her leg imbalance the decision to proceed with this incredibly well. I felt like I could rod approach until she reached have been looking at myself as a five years of age. Then they 5 year old. Unlike me, however, would re-evaluate the process, who didn't have a clue about an considering any advancements in a e s t h e t i c s t y l e i n o u t w a r d technology. If it hadn't advanced appearance until college, she past this type of treatment, they already had been bitten by the would consider "other options." fashion bug, and was particularly Amazingly, because of excited by the prospect of a new t e c h n o l o g i c a l p r o g r e s s i n holiday dress or her first day of prosthetics, amputation was now school outfit. Her source of an attractive option for this distress lay in the fact that the f a m i l y . A m p u t a t i o n a n d vast majority of little girls' shoes s u b s e q u e n t f i t t i n g s w i t h were off-limits for her, as there prosthetics was simply seen as were only a few companies that liberation from a leg that didn't made shoes that could be adapted function. Shortly after her sixth with a special lift to even out her birthday, her mother told me, walking planes. These shoes had "She downloaded all these to work within the structure of images of you off of the internet, the external leg brace she grew and she's always asking â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;when, up wearing. when can I get rid of my bad leg, Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:00:00 AM

when can I get a new leg?'" She even did her show-and-tell at school about prosthetics! That is decidedly not what I would have expected a six-yearold to do. After a few months, the child's mother called me, telling me that

she, her spouse, and the doctors collectively made the decision to amputate, and that they would be telling the child this news that very night. My reaction was visceral and very surprising to me: I felt my breath grow short and my heart pounded, and I felt

ill as waves of stress and worry pummeled me. I panicked at what role I might have played in this chain of events, and how I couldn't guarantee that this child would have anywhere near the same experiences I had had as an amputee. I found myself having doubts I had never had about myself or, indeed, most any amputee: "Would she be okay? Would her life be happy and full of opportunity?" I spoke to the mother one last time before the surgery, and she informed me of the surgeon's decision to do an amputation through the ankle, the common thinking to be to "save as much of the flesh and bone leg" as possible. I couldn't be sure about this and hesitated even mentioning it, but I asked the mother if she had consulted with the child's would-be prosthetist about this "Syme's" style amputation, because I had heard reports of resulting limitations in people being able to obtain the latest prosthetic technology. Ironically, by keeping more of the residual limb, you negate more options for different prosthetics, as there is no physical room to put the components (think of the shockabsorber and spring leg). An incredible facet of this story for me was learning that, at no time NORMAL page 12

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before this rather momentous surgery of this child, did the pediatric surgeon and the prosthetist ever have even one conversation. Her mother investigated with the prosthetist who confirmed that, by leaving as much of the limb as possible, the child wouldn't be able to get any of the legs in the images she downloaded from the web. The surgeon was shocked to learn this, and had never considered that it might actually be better to amputate a few inches higher, increasing the future mobility options of the child. This past April, while walking through a street fair hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival, I felt a tug on my shirt. It was this little girl, 6 months after her amputation, with colored paints on her face and in her hair, and a plastic teeball bat in her hand. She was jumping up and down (postcotton candy) and she wanted to show me her new High School Musical 3 "tattooed" leg. She asked me if I knew Zac Efron and "could I get him to autograph her leg?" (I don't, but I'm working on hooking this up.) She pulled me a few meters over to the batting cage stand, where she deftly used her prosthetic leg to press the foot pedal, launching a whiffle ball pitch that she smacked as hard as she could. On her feet, she proudly sported Mary Janes covered with red sequins. Seven months ago, she was as active as a child could be with a leg brace and tremendous

pain; here, she ran and jumped and cartwheeled and tackled her little brother, who tackled her back. Even I, who rarely doubts the incredible ability of human beings to adapt to their adversity, was awe-struck. I wondered how her childhood, her adolescence, her college years would collude to shape how she saw herself. Would she struggle through various identities, wanting to be "normal" as I did, only to find eventual freedom of self-expression in the absence of normalcy? Barring puberty, which is probably awful for everyone, I think this girl is going to skip over ever wanting to be "normal." Why be normal when you can have Zac Efron and Friends staring up at you everyday from your ankle? The generation of children growing up today has a distinct advantage in this realm of identity, thanks to their daily interaction with the internet and video games. It's commonplace for them to create avatars and parallel representations of themselves, and they see their ability to change, transform, and augment those bodies to best suit their surroundings as beneficial. That kind of fluid thinking was once solely the domain of those whose imaginations were heavily influenced by both technology and science fiction. Talk about seeing evolution speed up before your eyes. My being able to embrace the art in my artifice, to change my identities—how I perceive myself and how others

respond to that perception — has profoundly changed the way I see the world and my opportunities in it. But I didn't possess that ability at age six. I keep thinking of how long it takes for most of us to go through the process of first accepting ourselves as we are, strengths and weaknesses, then celebrating that self and starting to have fun with your strengths and weaknesses, then transforming ourselves as architects of own our identities, redefining what our strengths and weaknesses actually are. I think kids today are able to do this faster than previous generations. I've noticed a progression from how kids used to respond to my wooden legs to responses toward a prosthetic limb today. Quite simply, the fear-as-first-response has all but disappeared; I do not experience children who are afraid to meet me and in fact, I haven't recently met any child who, when I'm sporting obvious prosthetics like the RoboCop legs, wasn't drawn like a magnet to them, accompanied by a list of very astute questions. For the most part, it's adults who rein kids in, in an attempt to not have them stare or offend with their natural curiosity. But curiosity is necessary; it is the foundation of imagination and innovation. It's tremendously important to allow children to see the diversities of human experience and understand how their own lives relate to it, so we can acknowledge how much more similar we are as human

beings than different…even if what makes us different is where we discover and engage our rare and valuable qualities, offering them to society. When I was a child, I watched plenty of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Where some see Professor Xavier, I secretly know he's Captain JeanLuc Picard. And thanks to airport security, I admit that I often daydream of being able to be molecularly transported around the world. I think about that other little girl and wonder to what extent her ability—and that of her peers—to google the word "prosthetic" and come up with tons of imagery to inspire their imaginations marks a marvelous shift in our society. There's plenty of evidence that connects our visualization of what we dream to be possible to what we eventually create as a new reality. Gene Rodenberry's imagination in Star Trek and that of Arthur Clarke's, Marvin Minsky's and Stanley Kubrick's in 2001: A Space Odyssey had a direct impact on funding certain projects at NASA because scientists and researchers had "seen" this whole imaginary world, and they sought to make it real. For my own childhood inspiration, I had the Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man(to this day, the somber phrase "we can rebuild him" makes my heart pound wildly!), and even Inspector Gadget cartoons made me draw third

grade pictures of legs with rocket jet packs flaming from the heels. This "entertainment" not only asks questions but encourages more of them, replete with inherent timelines for answers: "When are we going to do molecular transport? We've been seeing it for forty years on Star Trek!" It's within the scope of our imagination. I remember in high school seeing Forrest Gump when they convincingly transformed Lt. Dan—Gary Sinise, an actor with two flesh and bone legs—into an amputee. A budding actress, I thought "Oh my God, if they can do this with CGI, couldn't they do the opposite? Could they create an image of me on screen with full flesh and bone legs?" I was intrigued by the imaginary visual of a different version of myself, and I suspect it provided something tangible when asked if now, at this point in my life, I would trade my prosthetics for flesh and bone legs. (I wouldn't.) The transformative power of films lay in engaging how I imagined myself and my "realities," giving me license to re-imagine them as I desire. Now that many people, starting from an early age, are creating and choosing their own identities in a virtual world—or in multiple virtual worlds—this selfmalleable perspective has a lot of power. People can align themselves with global groups of their own choosing, and see NORMAL page 15

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It’s Google’s world and handset makers just live in it By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/14/2009 6:44:48 AM

When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful,“brand new” OS. The whole package – hardware, software, and marketing – seemed flawless. In fact, phones running Android 1.5 now look hopelessly outdated and with 2.0’s gesture, CDMA, and search support you’d wonder why handset manufacturers like HTC, LG, Kyocera, and Samsung are using 1.5 at all. The reasons have more to do with Google than any decision on the carriers’ part. In fact, according to a source close to the handset business, Google’s Android team directly assisted Motorola and Verizon in building the Droid’s software from the ground up and is currently assisting another, unknown, handset maker in Korea to create a finely-tuned hardware and software combination. Most important, however, is that this is sort of assistance most

manufacturers do not receive and, in the end, they are dinged for running an “older” version of Android. These two bits of information – that Google assists certain companies in making specialized hardware and software and that Google is now helping another manufacturer to the detriment of others – sounds like sour grapes. However, the original vision for Android (as it was understood by lay users like myself) was an open, free OS available to multiple manufacturers and carriers. This preferential treatment is an anathema to that thought. This is akin to Linus Torvalds building a special version of Linux just for a commercial partner and refusing to release it until that partner has milked its value. While it is clear that some manufacturers like HTC are keeping a stiff upper lip and running their special special UIs over 1.5, reviewers consistently ding manufacturers for running 1.5 while the Droid is given a pass. And 2.0 matters. We asked Ross Rubin from the NPD Group

We asked him why he thought Motorola got 2.0 early. He wrote: As to why it debuted on a Motorola device, there could be several reasons. Verizon’s subscriber strength and more direct competition with AT&T and the iPhone may have led it to push for Android 2.0 to be more competitive. Or it could be about his thoughts on 2.0 and got simple product development back a half a book: timetables. Moving forward, Android 2.0 brings refinement HTC will want to put its Sense and more integration to the u s e r e x p e r i e n c e o n t o p o f operating system, Examples Android 2.0, which requires include support for Microsoft development time. Google wants Exchange and Facebook, which a healthy Android ecosystem and are the digital contact centers of a c o m p e t i t i v e M o t o r o l a many people’s professional and c o n t r i b u t e s t o t h a t . social lives. It also brings a While this desire is absolutely revamped and much faster understandable on Google’s part, browser, albeit one that Google there is a method to this madness. isn’t yet deriving from Chrome. Google releases major updates on T h e o t h e r b i g a p p l i c a t i o n one handset and one handset i m p r o v e m e n t i s G o o g l e alone. These updates are then N a v i g a t i o n , w h i c h i t h a s pushed out to other android introduced as a free service on partners. Case in point: top of Maps. Many carriers, • 1.0 went to the HTC G1• 1.5 including Verizon, charge for went to the HTC Hero• 2.0 went such functionality in other to Motorola devices. Google is aggressively driving a major update while Microsoft is between major revisions of Windows Mobile. In short, they offer exclusivity to

a certain partner in exchange to unfettered access to the design process which, in Motorola’s case, was gravely needed. Why is there no outcry? Handset manufacturers are deathly afraid of Google. They worry that they will be cut out of the upgrade process and lose access to Google’s Android team. What needs to be done? In the interest of fairness, all updates should roll out to the general ecosystem before heading to any one carrier. Sadly, this hippie attitude is no good for Google’s business and by creating flagship devices featuring their latest and greatest they ensure forward momentum for the platform. Fairness, it seems, stops at the grade school sandbox. Again, you can take this as a complaint or a call to action. Android is an excellent platform but Google’s tendency towards “flagship” phones is detrimental to the general ecosystem, especially once the OS falls in along with RIM and Apple as a preeminent smartphone platform.

AMD breaks 7GHz barrier with liquid helium and nu-metal By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:30:51 PM

A while back I went to a fun overclocking event held by AMD, where there was a lot of

vapor, some exploding burritos, and some overclocking that got tantalizingly close to 7GHz. It was just an arbitrary number, and they broke a bunch of other records, but they couldn’t quite months and I can only guess how hit that last target. But a few

much liquid helium later, they nailed it. Their video, far from the lighthearted hijinx and sloppy editing of my own, is a professional affair, dominated by some nu-metal that perfectly

embodies the concept of overclocking. Well, that’s not really true. But it’s better than the constant hissing noise that is the soundtrack to mine.

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Palm Pre WebOS 1.3.1 update available now By Richard Lawler (Engadget)

by default, instead of being cropped. • If you tap to play a YouTube video embedded on a web page, the YouTube application launches and the video plays in the app. • You can select a unique ringtone for new message alerts: Open Messaging > application menu > Preferences & Accounts > Sound > Ringtone. • While listening to a song with album art displayed, you can tap the screen below the art to display a playback slider. Dragging the slider jumps forward or backward in the song.

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webOS 1.3.1 was always destined to come right around the launch of the Pixi, but it's surprised us by showing its face early. No app catalog bombshells here, but there are a slew of more minor fixes and updates that should make users experience a great deal smoother. Is this the update that finally unlocks access to the GPU and provides the speed boost Pre owners are waiting for / advances the iTunes chess match another step? We'll let you know once our unit reboots, for now here are a few highlights from Palm's list of changes: Update: Downloaded, applied and rebooted. iTunes still isn't spotting our Pre as a device to sync with, and at least for the moment there's no great speed increases to speak of, but we have noticed a few more key tweaks that owners are sure to

like -- setting a specific ringtone for text messages is exactly what we've been looking for. • Yahoo! now appears as a Calendar/Contacts/instant messaging synchronization account. • You can forward a text or multimedia message by tapping

the message > Forward. • A new option is available for restarting the phone: press and hold power > Power > Restart. The prior restart method (Device Info > Reset Options > Restart) is still available. • Widescreen videos (including YouTube) now display in widescreen mode on the phone

Yahoo Messenger 10 waves bye to 'beta' By Jessica Dolcourt (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:52:00 PM

Yahoo Messenger 10 leaves beta, adding social-networking and video chat improvements to Yahoo's general chat app offering. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Madoff's personal belongings up for auction in NYC (AP)

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Modders hard at work circumventing Xbox banning By Dave Freeman (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:00:04 PM

Were you one of the 1 million Xbox live users that got banned yesterday? Well, you might not want to go buy that new Xbox quite yet. Some of the modders (you know, the ones who got you

banned in the first place) are working on a solution that returns the firmware to an almost stock configuration, which would allow you to actually use your console again. Much like the jailbreakers, the Xbox modders are nothing if not persistent. Yesterday, Microsoft went after the estimated 1 million

Xbox owners that had tampered with their systems. The ban

locked out the installation of games on the hard drive, stopped Windows Media Player from working, wrecked the gamertags stored on the Xboxen in question, and blocked the consoles from logging in to Xbox Live. There are two fixes currently being worked on, one from iXtreme LT, which isn’t ready

yet, and one from Xbox-Scene which works, but is extremely complex. And you need to know your CPU key, which can be difficult to obtain, particularly if you’re already banned. [via Daily Tech]

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themselves as their ideal selves without many of the social constraints present just a generation ago. Although it took surviving junior high, I evolved myself to the point where I decided against measuring myself to "normalcy," deciding instead to selfdetermine what was cool, who was cool, and the transformation subsequently happened in how other people treated me. "Cogito, ergo sum." It's one of the simplest truths we revealed for ourselves, right? "I think, therefore I am." If you think you can pull it off, you can. Or as Henry Ford put it, "whether you think you ‘can' or you think you ‘can't': either way, you're right."

I'd postulate that technology is innately teaching today's children that very same lesson, and they're learning it much earlier. This confident perspective, one perpetually shifting from imagination to invention—be it a personality, a human figure or a new technology—would not have happened a hundred years ago. If I had been born back then, I doubt I would have been enabled by society to do much, even with a self-ignited fire of human spirit, as being a woman was as much of a disability as anything. Today, I'm grateful for all of my strengths and weaknesses, changing and morphing as they are, and I'm especially grateful for technology's advancements to

prosthetics, as my life has been successful because of having had them, not in spite of having had them. Aimee Mullins is an athlete, speaker, actress and model we met at TEDMED. She's also the guest editor for our theme week This Cyborg Life. Read her bio here. [Lead Image: Matthew Barney CREMASTER 3, 2002 ©2002 Matthew Barney Photo: Chris Winget Courtesy Gladstone Gallery]

EU's Cookie Law Should Crumble By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:51:41 PM

A bunch of folks have been sending in versions of this story about new EU cookie rules that will require anyone placing cookies on your computer to first get consent. This is the sort of law that is passed by people who don't understand the technology at all, and misinterpret "cookies" as automatically being malicious.

This is the sort of thing that people who were first understanding the web got concerned about a decade ago, until they realized it was nothing to worry about. Except... it appears some people haven't quite figured that out yet, and tragically, they make laws in the EU. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

BBC redoubles its Wii efforts with dedicated iPlayer channel By Donald Melanson (Engadget) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:17:00 AM

The BBC's iPlayer streaming video / radio service has been available on the Wii in the form of a browser-based app for some time now, but it looks like it's now set to step up its game considerably with a full-fledged

iPlayer Wii channel. Launching in the UK on November 18th, the new channel boasts a streamlined, Wii-friendly interface that was apparently the result of extensive testing, and includes a number of other smaller design touches, like some nifty background animations during radio programs, and some use of the Wiimote's rumble

feature for added feedback. Best of all, the whole thing's completely free -- now, about

that UK-only part... [Via BBC News, thanks Lenny] Filed under: Gaming, Home

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London Flash: The Storm Circuit MK2 watch By Dave Freeman (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:00:44 AM

Created by the design firm STORM of London, the Circuit

MK2 is an LED watch integrated into a stainless steel bracelet. While it looks like it might have a bit of a learning curve, it definitely has a unique look that standard analog dial or digital should stand out from your

display. It’s a fairly basic watch, there’s no chronograph functionality (obviously) but it does display the time and date. Sure it’s not quite as bling as a Tokyoflash

watch, but this one you might actually be able to read. Retail price starts at $200.

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The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of... the Hills [Terrafon] By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:40:00 AM

The Alunda Church Choir wanted to see what their giant earth phonograph, the terrafon, would sound like if they dragged it across the ground. Unsurprisingly, it sounds like dirt being plowed. But louder. Occasionally, nature's music of scraped soil and rocks is By Darren Murph (Engadget) now we're overly anxious to hear augmented by a loud creak from how you feel about it. After two the giant gramophone horn. If Submitted at 11/14/2009 3:35:00 AM years, does this thing really live By Darren Murph (Engadget) FCC labs are actually credited you must know what that sounds The nĂźvifone G60 took nearly up to the expectations? Are you with handling the (admittedly like, check out the surreal 11+ Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:43:00 AM two years to go from introduction satisfied with the navigation messy) dissection. Shocking minute video. to on sale at AT&T, and just capabilities? Is the lackluster Archos has already made it pixels await you in the read link, Harvest by Alunda KyrkokĂśr weeks after its introduction, it has battery life worrying you yet? a b u n d a n t l y c l e a r t h a t i t s so make sure you go in fully (2009) from Olle Corneer on been nearly completely forgotten. Should Garmin-Asus even bother Windows 7-based Archos 9 prepared. Vimeo. Smartphones like Motorola's with a second-gen device? Sound media player is US-bound, but [Via jkkmobile] The "Harvest" performance was Droid and HTC's Droid Eris have off in comments below! part of the Volt Music Festival in just in case you were worried Filed under: Handhelds already snagged the spotlight, Filed under: Cellphones over legalities, this FCC filing Archos 9 PMP sneaks into the Sweden. The group wants to and of course, that $300 (on How would you change Garmin- should crank your stress level FCC, gets dissected when caught bring the terrafon to other contract) price tag that it debuted Asus' nuvifone G60? originally down a notch. Best of all, this originally appeared on Engadget croplands soon, so if you hear with didn't help attract any eyes, appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 particular entry includes external on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:43:00 what sounds like a really loud either. That said, we're sure at Nov 2009 03:35:00 EST. Please a n d i n t e r n a l p h o t o g r a p h s , EST. Please see our terms for plow in your backyard, go give least a few (couple?) of you bit see our terms for use of feeds. meaning that the camera-toting use of feeds. Read| Permalink| the team a hand. That thing looks the bullet post- price drop, and Permalink| Email this| Comments employees within the deep, dark Email this| Comments heavy. [ Create Digital Music via Inhabitat]

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Verizon Starts Passing On RIAA Infringement Letters To Users By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:55:00 PM

Palm Pixi Review: Not For Everyone, But It Fits A Niche By Greg Kumparak (CrunchGear)

were run, and countdowns ticked away. With the Pixi? They’ve got a commercial. Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:38:36 PM Compared to Palm’s last run, the Palm and Sprint have taken a marketing campaign surrounding very different approach to the the Pixi is decidedly more launch of the Pixi than they did average – and after spending a with its slightly older and slightly few days with the phone, I’d say brawnier brother, the Palm Pre. they made the right decision In the days leading up to the Pre, there. both parties were on full attack Read the rest of this entry at mode; keynotes were held, MobileCrunch >> massive tradeshow booths were built, full page newspaper ads

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Allison K alerts us to the news that Verizon is the latest US broadband provider to agree to pass along the RIAA letters accusing Verizon customers of unauthorized file sharing. AT&T, Comcast, Cox and some other ISPs already do this. The By Dave Freeman certainly are cool. There are two letters don't include specific (CrunchGear) models to choose from, Jaguar on threats of action (so, no "three the Decepticon side, and Tigerton strikes" type policies), but the Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:00:43 PM from the Autobots. RIAA is clearly hoping that by Brando, home of the odd USB So is it just me, or were passing on the letters it will device, finally has a product I Transformers cooler in the 80’s? discourage unauthorized file want to order. No no, it’s not a I was looking at one at the store sharing. It's a bit of a waste for heated slipper or a spy camera, the other day, and it just seemed V e r i z o n t o n e e d t o s p e n d it’s a Transformers USB drive. c h e a p c o m p a r e d t o h o w I resources on this, and it really is How cool is that? remember them. just the RIAA's first step in the It’s only a 2GB drive, and it’s door to eventually push for pretty expensive at $45, but they kicking people off of the internet, but on the whole it's not that terrible to pass along notices. In the end, my guess is that it will actually serve to do a lot more to promote encryption services than By Don Reisinger Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 anything else. Maybe some (Webware.com) and its Web Slices feature. Yup, encryption service can approach you read that correctly. Verizon about "sponsoring" those Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:40:00 PM Originally posted at The Digital customer notifications. It might come as a surprise, but Home Permalink| Comments| Email the country singer is endorsing This Story

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Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters By Tamar Weinberg (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:23:32 PM

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10 WordPress Plugins to Help Build Community By Jessica Faye Carter (Mashable!)

through the WordPress dashboard, so that you can integrate your highlighted Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:57:18 PM content seamlessly with the rest Jessica Faye Carter is an award- of your site. winning author and columnist. 2. Popularity Contest– Your Her company, Nette Media users will want to know what’s d e v e l o p s s o c i a l m e d i a popular and interesting to their technologies for women and peers in the community and the multicultural communities, and Popularity Contest Plugin can she blogs at Technicultr. help. It keeps track of the most The expression of community popular posts and pages on your has changed considerably since site and acts as a leaderboard that the emergence of social media directs users to the most active technologies, but its basic content in your community. You foundation — the notion of can customize the point values i n d i v i d u a l s e x c h a n g i n g assigned to user actions on the information, ideas, and opinions site, such as comments or views, — remains firmly intact. Today, and display the results easily in a one of the most widely-used tools widgetized-sidebar. Facilitate in developing these types of User Engagement exchanges online is WordPress, 3. Viper’s Video Quicktags– the popular blogging and Including video in your publishing platform. Part of its community is easy using Viper’s appeal is the ease with which Video Quicktags. Just enter the u s e r s c a n b u i l d a d v a n c e d URL of the video in the prompt functionality into their sites with box and see a preview of the plugins. If you’re interested in video right on your screen. Then building a community around specify the dimensions and other your site, there are plenty of third customizations you’d like to add -party add-ons that can help and see your final product before create one. saving it into your post. These 10 WordPress plugins add Supported video sites include features that will help you to YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo engage your user base. Highlight and others. Your Best Content 4. WPtouch– Part of keeping the 1. Featured Content Gallery– If community vibrant means letting y o u ’ r e n o t a n e x p e r t i n your users take it with them. You programming or design, Featured c a n g o m o b i l e w i t h y o u r Content Gallery makes it easy to community using WPtouch and highlight images, posts, or pages avoid building a mobile website anywhere on your site. It comes or the costs of developing an with a sleek and contemporary iPhone application. You can design that is fully customizable control the mobile user interface

options for those building communities in WordPress. It allows you to re-brand the WordPress pages for registration, logging in/out, and lost passwords, as well as the user profile pages. In addition to giving your community a standardized look and feel, CYC by allowing the browser to helps with a long-standing automatically route users to the navigational issue in WordPress: interface of your choosing — i t a u t o m a t i c a l l y d i r e c t s y o u r s i t e o r t h e W P t o u c h “subscribers” to their profiles and interface, which looks similar to b y p a s s e s t h e W P b a c k e n d an iPhone app. You can also entirely. Measure on the Fly show or hide post excerpts and 7. Clicky– While Google customize the icons and general Analytics provides you with a appearance of your mobile site. long-term perspective on your 5. Disqus Comment System– site metrics, Clicky gives you N o t h i n g s t o p s a p o t e n t i a l instantaneous feedback. The commenter in their tracks faster dashboard includes traditional than having to set up a user ID site metrics, but also offers cool and password in order to leave a features, like “Spy”, which message on your site. At the pinpoints the location of current same time, most of us would like visitors on a map. It’s an easy some sort of authentication way to get a snapshot of your process we can use to identify site’s current activity and, in and correspond with other users c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h G o o g l e as we develop our communities. A n a l y t i c s , g i v e s y o u a The Disqus Comment System comprehensive overview of your allows users to engage with your site’s activity. Improve User site using their Twitter, Disqus, Navigation Facebook, OpenID or selected 8. Breadcrumb NavXT– Your other accounts. This prevents users aren’t exactly Hansel and users from having to set up new G r e t e l , b u t t h e y s t i l l m a y accounts while allowing for o c c a s i o n a l l y n e e d h e l p a u t h e n t i c a t i o n . B o n u s : t h e navigating your site, particularly Reactions feature allows you to i f i t ’ s c o n t e n t - h e a v y . include the social component of Breadcrumbs are usually located u s e r f e e d b a c k i n t o y o u r just below a site’s primary comments. navigation system and look 6. Customize Your Community– something like this: Customize Your Community Home » Dance Music » Saint (CYC) provides some useful Etienne » Method of Modern

Love Breadcrumb NavXT, the successor to Breadcrumb Navigation XT, improves your site’s navigation by building this kind of virtual breadcrumb trail for your users to follow. This way, users will know where they’re located on your site. This plugin may require customization, depending on your theme; check out the Advanced Options section of the plugin’s homepage for additional instructions. Monetize It! 9. Advertising Manager– If you were previously using the Adsense Manager plugin, you’ve probably noticed that it hasn’t been updated in a while. That’s because it has been succeeded by Advertising Manager, which is recommended unless you are using WordPress version 2.5 or earlier. The renamed version supports a broader group of ad networks in addition to Google AdSense, such as Adify, AdBrite, and several others. It also imports your AdSense Manager settings, for users of the previous plugin. 10. WP125– Do you prefer a more hands-on management style for your advertising? WP125 allows you to do everything from arranging the ad display so that it fits your site design to setting timelines for ads (they can be removed automatically or manually at expiration). It also provides a placeholder for empty ad space, which you can switch WORDPRESS page 22

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NASA spacecraft confirms water ice deposits on moon (CNET News.com)

Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Working in a 31-milehigh orbit, LRO is designed to Making a bigger splash than create a high-resolution map of expected, the crash of an empty the moon's surface to help rocket stage in a permanently identify sites for future manned shadowed crater near the moon's missions. south pole last month kicked up a It also is measuring the solar and surprising amount of water ice cosmic radiation that future lunar and vapor, confirming the explorers will face and mapping presence of a potentially valuable out the surface topology, resource for future space mineralogy, and chemical travelers. composition of Earth's nearest "I'm here today to tell you that neighbor. One year will be spent indeed, yes, we found water," scouting future landing sites said Anthony Colaprete, the followed by three years of purely project scientist and principal scientific observations. investigator for the Lunar Crater While LRO was launched Observation and Sensing directly to the moon by an Atlas Satellite. "And we didn't find just 5 rocket, LCROSS and the a little bit, we found a significant booster's empty Centaur upper amount." stage were sent into a looping Holding up water jugs to make four-month orbit back around the the point, he said "if you Earth. remember, a month ago we were The spacecraft aimed itself and talking about teaspoons going the attached Centaur stage back into glasses over football fields. at the moon, targeting a Well, now I can say today that in permanently shadowed crater the 20- to 30-meter (65- to 100near the south pole. Data from foot-wide) crater LCROSS made, about in the months ahead, moon system and the early solar and have breathable air for crews previous spacecraft indicated the we found maybe about a dozen looking at the LCROSS data." system." to breathe. But also, if you have presence of hydrogen in the polar of these two-gallon buckets Spectroscopic data from NASA's Michael Wargo, chief lunar significant quantities of this stuff, regions, possibly associated with worth of water." LCROSS lunar impactor shows scientist at NASA headquarters water really is the constituents of water ice just below the surface. And more than water. Data from the presence of water in two i n W a s h i n g t o n , s a i d t h e one of the most potent rocket LCROSS mission managers the LCROSS instruments show s p e c i f i c b a n d s ( y e l l o w discovery holds promise for fuels: oxygen and hydrogen." initially selected a target crater signs of other compounds that r e g i o n s ) . ( C r e d i t : N A S A ) future exploration. Using solar Whether the water ice detected known as Cabeus A, but after may shed light on the moon's Said Greg Delory, a researcher energy, future astronauts could, by LCROSS might be accessible a d d i t i o n a l a n a l y s i s o f evolution. at the University of California at in theory, break down recovered to future astronauts remains to be topographic data, the target was "It's a whole lot more beyond the Berkeley: "This is not your ice and in effect live off the land. seen. But scientists were elated switched to nearby Cabeus, a water," Colaprete said. "That's father's moon. Rather than a dead "Water can be used for the kind with the initial findings. crater measuring some 62 miles the exciting part in my mind, it's and unchanging world, it could in of things we think about every The $79 million LCROSS across and about two-and-a-half not only about the water now. fact be a very dynamic and day, drinking water if we have mission was launched June 18 as miles deep. There's actually a lot more here interesting one that could tell us extended crews on the surface," a companion payload to NASA's NASA page 25 that we're going to be talking unique things about the Earth- he said. "You can break it down $ 5 0 4 m i l l i o n L u n a r Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:27:00 PM

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Google Books settlement sets geographic, business limits (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:19:00 PM

A revised settlement filed late on Friday over Google's rights to scan digital books narrows the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries only, restricts the ways Google can make money from scanning and digitizing out-of-print books, and requires the registry to seek out copyright holders who do not come forward. The amended settlement comes after Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the parties a deadline extension on Monday to try to resolve issues the U.S. Department of Justice had with the original settlement from October 2008. The settlement now applies only to out-of-print books registered with the U.S. Copyright office or published in the U.K., Australia, or Canada, countries that have a common legal heritage and similar book industry practices, according to the FAQ on the revised settlement. Each of those countries will have an author and a publisher seat on the Book Rights Registry board, a nonprofit that will be

responsible for paying authors and publishers. The Book Rights Registry will be required to search for copyright holders who have not yet come forward and to hold revenue on their behalf, under the revised settlement. An independent fiduciary approved by the court will make decisions regarding unclaimed works. Readers will be able to preview and purchase books, institutions can buy subscriptions, and libraries will have free access at designated terminals. The revised settlement limits Google's future business models from the works to individual subscriptions, printon-demand, and digital downloads. The company will need to get approval from the Registry's board and provide notice to all claiming copyright holders before implementing any of the business models. Copyright holders can now choose to make their books available for free or allow re-use under Creative Commons, as well have the option to modify or remove restrictions placed on Google's display of their books, such as limits on the number of pages that users can print. The settlement still allows any bookstores to sell online access

to out-of-print books covered by the settlement, including unclaimed books. Copyright holders will still receive 63 percent of the revenue, while retailers will keep the majority of the remaining 37 percent. A portion of the revenue generated from unclaimed works may be used to locate copyright holders after five years and will not be used for the Registry's general operations or redistributed to other copyright holders as previously planned. After 10 years, the Registry may ask the court to distribute these funds to nonprofits. The Book Rights Registry will now hold unclaimed funds for 10 years, instead of five. After that time, the funds will go to nonprofits in the English speaking countries. The Registry also is prohibited from sharing pricing information with anyone but the book's copyright holder, according to settlement. Authors and publishers now have until March 31, 2011 to make claims for the $60 to $300 per book digitization payments, and have until March 9, 2012 to remove works from Google's database. The revised settlement makes it clear that Google will not display

FatWallet gets in on Black Friday craze By Don Reisinger (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:31:06 AM

FatWallet preps for Black Friday with new Black Friday and Cyber Monday page. It joins one of many companies that are offering

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any content by default from works that are for sale as new internationally, which are considered commercially available. In addition, it includes language that specifies that Google will not share any private information with the Registry without valid legal process. Authors and publishers from outside of the covered countries can still enter into promotional and revenue-generating programs through Google's Partner Program. "The changes we've made in our amended agreement address many of the concerns we've heard (particularly in limiting its international scope), while at the same time preserving the core benefits of the original agreement: opening access to millions of books while providing rightsholders with ways to sell and control their work online," Dan Clancy, Google Books engineering director, wrote in a statement. "We're disappointed that we won't be able to provide access to as many books from as many countries through the settlement as a result of our modifications, but we look forward to continuing to work with rightsholders from around the

world to fulfill our longstanding mission of increasing access to all the world's books," Clancy wrote. Google is seeking rights to scan and display out-of-print books as part of a larger effort to create the modern day equivalent to the Library of Alexandria. Opponents argue that the settlement puts too much power in the hands of one company. In September, the Justice Department voiced objections to the proposed settlement on antitrust grounds. The agency was bothered by the fact that Google and the Books Rights Registry, a nonprofit that will pay authors, would have sole control over the pricing of institutional subscriptions to the digital library. The DOJ also raised questions about whether the proposed settlement complied with Rule 23 of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, as well as copyright law in general. Google first announced plans in 2003 to make books searchable and has hit snags with its efforts since, being sued by authors and facing opposition internationally. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Verizon Won't Offer Free Tethering, But Droid Hackers Might By Roselyn Roark (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:53:00 PM

The Droid will be able to do a lot more than Verizon is telling you. All we await is for Google to open Android 2.0's source

code, which will enable mods to unlock features such as free tethering, iPhone-like pinching and more.

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Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim Google Is Illegal By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

that seems rather relevant (what happened to those FTC disclosure laws?). Hmm. So, on Monday Rupert While I do actually agree with Murdoch suggests that the courts the lawyers that it's a shame the would reject fair use as a focus on the Google Book Search concept, and by Friday two settlement avoided the big fair newspaper industry lawyers just use question, I think they're happen to have an op-ed piece in entirely wrong to suggest that t h e W a l l S t r e e t J o u r n a l Google itself violates copyright explaining how Google violates law. The copyright code allows copyright law by caching the public libraries to copy texts as websites it indexes. If the names long as there is no "direct or of the lawyers -- Bruce W. indirect commercial advantage." Sanford and Bruce D. Brown -- But that does not describe what sound vaguely familiar, that's search engines do. They use the because they're the same two complete copies they take for lawyers who, six months ago, free to sell the advertising that wrote a laughably ridiculous has made them enormously editorial (that time for the profitable. This has a direct Washington Post) proposing impact on book publishers, and special new copyright laws to on the publishers of magazines s a v e n e w s p a p e r s , w h i l e and newspapers that are losing d e s t r o y i n g p r e t t y m u c h the advertising that once e v e r y t h i n g t h a t m a k e s t h e supported them. According to internet useful. Of course, both Ken Auletta's recently released the Washington Post and the book "Googled," its search WSJ conveniently left out the business alone now takes in 40% fact that these two lawyers of all advertising across the regularly represent newspapers Internet. Perhaps Sanford and a n d o t h e r m e d i a a n d Brown are unfamiliar with basic entertainment firms -- even as c o p y r i g h t l a w , b u t t h e

commercial advantage issue is only a small part of copyright law, and there are plenty of wellestablished cases of fair use in commercial use. In fact, I'd suggest that they consult the very media companies they work for, as most of them regularly rely on fair use defenses for reprinting or broadcasting content -- despite the fact that they're very commercial entities. Furthermore, it appears that Sanford and Brown are either unfamiliar with how Google works -- or are purposely misrepresenting it. In the case of most news stories, Google has little or no ads. It only recently put ads on Google News -- long after the decline in ad revenue for newspapers. Besides, if local advertisers are finding a better return by advertising on Google, isn't that a good thing? That's called competition, and I'm surprised these lawyers would be against that. In the last year, many fresh ideas have begun to circulate on how to help the publishing industry transition profitably to the online world.

To Play With Giants, App Devs Risk Getting Squashed

Nikon's Projector Cam Shines Through Exorbitant Price Tag

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there's a risk to being a little guy: By Kelsey Hazlewood (Wired Sometimes the corporation that Top Stories) controls the platform, like Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:45:00 PM Google or Apple, will make your A point-and-shoot with a app obsolete.

But without legal reform to back up these new business models, publishers will not have the bargaining power to make the search engines into true partners willing to compensate them meaningfully for their copyrights. Yes, proposals like the ones that you guys suggested in the Washington Post without disclosing who pays your bills? Funny how that works. And those proposals are not about "helping the publishing industry transition profitably." Plenty of smart publishers are perfectly profitable. The proposals are about protecting the status quo and hurting the innovators who better serve the market. Sanford and Baker are trying to protect their big clients, but they'd be better off telling them to innovate, rather than push bogus editorials and pass ridiculous laws designed to hold back progress. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

projector in it? Get out of town! It's true, and despite being super expensive, Nikon's novel shooter displays vibrant hi-def images up to 72 inches.

Water on the Moon: Even Google’s Celebrating! By Ben Parr (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:04:39 PM

Google’s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they’ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone. If you check Google.com now though, you’ll see that the search giant is celebrating something different: the discovery of water on the moon! NASA made the stunning announcement earlier today after its moon bombing mission successfully revealed water under the lunar surface. And now the Google logo depicts the bombing revealing water. When you think about it, Google had a quick turnaround time for this logo. As fellow space enthusiasts, our hats go off to NASA and the men and women behind the successful mission. Hopefully this is only the beginning of something even bigger than ourselves. Reviews: Google Tags: Google, google logo, moon, space, water

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Switzerland Continues To Fight Google Street View; Takes Google To Court

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By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

based versions of its popular software. With the two giants Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:01:17 PM locked in battle, we wanted to get Since its inception in 1990, your take on things. We asked Microsoft Office has quickly you to vote on which docbeen the dominant force in office building tool you prefer… applications and document …and while it may not come as a building. Need to build a surprise, Microsoft Office came p r e s e n t a t i o n ? T h e r e ’ s out on top. But surprisingly the PowerPoint. Looking to create match was a close fight all the complex spreadsheets? Excel is way to the end. Microsoft Office still the gold standard. And with only secured a slim majority of the power of Windows to help the vote, 51% or 1365 votes. push the desktop software, its Google Docs registered 37% of presence only grew. the tally with its 994 votes. Over the last few years though, Finally, 12% of you (315 votes) the web has begun to change this said it was a tie and both were dynamic. Collaboration has good tools. become more important in We expected Office to win this business. At the same time, web one, but from the votes and the applications have become more reader comments, it seems that and more able to match the the winds of change have begun power and features of their to blow. Whether Office 2010’s desktop counterparts. In the web integration will be enough to document space, Google Docs fend off Google’s attempts to has carried the banner for web- challenge Microsoft, we’ll just based document building. have to wait and see. Now Google claims that Docs Be sure to tune in next week for will be a viable alternative to the next edition of our Web Office by next year. At the same Faceoff series! Below are the time, Office 2010 boasts web- full results of the last eight

Week 5: - WordPress vs. Typepad - WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes) weeks: Week 6: Who would win in a fight: - Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard Microsoft Office or Google - WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 Docs?( poll) votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 Web Faceoff: Overall Results votes, Tie: 121 votes) Week 1: Week 7: - Mozilla Firefox vs. Google - T w e e t D e c k v s . S e e s m i c Chrome Desktop - WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes - WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes) votes, Tie: 260 votes) Week 2: Week 8: Microsoft Office vs. - Tumblr vs. Posterous Google Docs - WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes - WINNER: Microsoft Office, (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes) votes, Tie: 315 votes) Reviews: Week 3: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, - Pandora vs. Last.fm Google, Google Chrome, Google - WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes Docs, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, votes) Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, Week 4: TypePad, WordPress - Twitter vs. Facebook Tags: Google, google docs, - WINNER: Facebook, 2484 microsoft, microsoft office, poll, votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: web faceoff 588 votes)

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A few months ago, when Google launched its "Street View" tool in Switzerland, the government got upset and told Google to take the site down because it violated people's privacy. This was despite the fact that Google had been discussing the project with the government and put in place multiple privacy safeguards, including blurring faces and license plates. Apparently, it wasn't enough. Mr. LemurBoy alerts us to the news that Switzerland is now taking Google to court over Street View, claiming that it doesn't blur people enough, and that sometimes the cameras can see over fences or walls. Of course, anyone walking down the street can see the same things as well, and if they're tall enough, they can see over walls. Is Switzerland going to take tall people to court as well? Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Turn a Plank into a Folding Table [DIY] By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:00:00 AM

If you need a small table for occasional use but you don't have the space for permanently storing

it, this simple folding table, made from a single plank, packs away neatly. This project is a great way to learn some basic wood working skills without spending a ton of money or getting bogged down in

complicated techniques. The

entire table is constructed by ripping an 8 foot plank down into smaller pieces and using a small amount of hardware on the finished product. Check out the link below for a full guide and additional pictures.

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LCROSS successfully separated from the Centaur stage the night before impact, rotated 180 degrees to aim its instruments forward and then followed its doomed companion to the surface, trailing it by about four minutes. The Centaur is believed to have hit the moon within about 650 feet of the planned target, blasting out a crater 65 feet to 100 feet across. Colaprete showed photographs from LCROSS Friday that clearly showed the plume of debris kicked up by the crash. Another photo showed the crater itself. LCROSS flew through the ejecta cloud, collecting data all the while, before crashing a short distance away. The Centaur impact was not particularly impressive to the untrained eye--a pinpoint flash of light in the inky darkness of the crater's shadowed terrain--and many observers, expecting a more dramatic show as indicated in NASA animations, were disappointed. But Colaprete said Friday the impact more than lived up to scientific expectations. Spectroscopic data from two instruments aboard LCROSS clearly showed the presence of

water ice, along with a variety of other materials, in the ejecta plume. Shown is the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact.(Credit: NASA) "We can constrain right now how much water we think is in the field of view of our instrument," he said. "Based on these measurements, there is more than 100 kilograms in the field of view of our instrument. What does that mean, a hundred kilograms? That's the dozen or so two-gallon buckets I described. "But what we need to do next is take all the information, the amount of ejecta, the size of the crater, how this all changed over time and actually reconstruct the entire event, understand how it all fits back into the ground along with all the other things we've seen in the ejecta plume to really understand this whole thing." Delory said more analysis will be needed to figure out where the water ice originated. "One possible source of the water is from comets," he said. "If that's true, and the lunar polar regions really are repositories for this material, they are a literal treasure trove of information in terms of the composition of comets, which are themselves

indicative of early solar system conditions. That would be of extreme interest to many planetary scientists." Another possibility, he said, is that the water ice is the result of chemical reactions that start with the solar wind, "which is basically an ionized gas streaming from the sun composed mainly of hydrogen." "It impacts the lunar surface, undergoes chemistry, eventually these molecules hop around the moon and end up concentrated around the poles," he said. "Studying those deposits would tell us something about solar history, also about the history of chemical reactions occurring on the surface of the moon. Two completely different theories, we don't know which one is right yet." Other sources are also possible, he said, including deposits from molecular clouds the solar system may have passed through earlier in its evolution as well as subtle chemical processes on the moon itself. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Where the Botched Children's Book Adaptations Are By Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:23:00 PM

A beloved kids' book does not these are some of the biggest kidnecessarily translate into a friendly failures. wonderful movie. From The Polar Express to The Hobbit,

WIPO Director General Against Draconian Anti-Piracy Punishment... But For The Wrong Reasons By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:43:24 PM

We were a bit surprised, recently, to hear at a WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) meeting that they actually appeared to be taking more of an evidence-based approach to copyright, rather than just assuming that "more is better." And now, the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry, gave an interview where he explained why he thought that high fines and jailtime weren't the answer to piracy. He's exactly right, which is a bit surprising. But as you read the details, it sounds like he might be right for the wrong reasons -which isn't all that surprising. It's not that he thinks that the better approach is for companies and content creators to adjust their business models -- but that he's afraid the draconian punishment schemes are basically a PR nightmare for WIPO's continuing fruitless effort to convince people that infringement is evil:"I don't believe we are going to win this, (to) find the solution by putting teenagers in jail," Gurry said in an interview on a visit to India. "I think that is not going to win public sympathy." "Part of the battle here is to sensitise the public to the fact

that there is a real issue involved. It is not simply a victimless crime...." Amusingly, the whole reason the RIAA kicked off its lawsuit strategy was based on similar thinking: that it was an "education" campaign that would convince people that there was "harm" done from file sharing. Of course, it didn't work. At all. And no education campaign is going to work, because it's just the basic nature of economics. If the technology has made the product infinite, it's not a moral issue or a legal issue: it's a business model issue. The answer is to change business models, not hope and pray that you can somehow convince people that it's "bad" to do something that obviously can be done quite easily. So, yes, Gurry is correct that draconian punishment has created a massive PR backlash that has helped make things even worse, but an education campaign isn't going to make a difference. Only a business model change can fix a business model situation -- and we're already seeing that happen just fine in many parts of the world. It's not an education campaign that will help the content industry. It's smarter business models. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Anyone with an account can submit here as well, but this Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:43:48 PM section appears intended to work Medpedia, a collaborative something like Google Reader, project for medical information with all sorts of feeds plugging launched in February, is getting into the platform. beyond the medical-data basics And finally, Medpedia News & as it adds answers, alerts, and Analysis lets a wide range of analysis. sources accepted by the The nearly year-old Medpedia Medpedia community selfgrows up with the addition of organize by category, and tag and three key features.(Credit: cross-link to articles. This section Medpedia) is not, strictly speaking, licensed Founded on the noble and create accounts and suggest by Medpedia, so copyright is s e m i p r a c t i c a l s y s t e m o f changes, but not actually make held by the authors themselves, providing free online medical them.) which could prove tricky, as information generated for and by The jury's still out on whether Medpedia hosts content that may physicians, journals, schools, Medpedia will be big enough to or may not be allowed to be patients, and more, Medpedia's be a successful repository of up- there. three stated goals are to be to-date information and tame Since Medpedia went live earlier collaborative, interdisciplinary, enough to be useful, but three this year, it has drawn thousands and transparent. The idea is to new features, announced this o f m e m b e r s , i n c l u d i n g m a x i m i z e k n o w l e d g e a n d week, might at least help push it p h y s i c i a n s , r e s e a r c h e r s , minimize the kind of screwing out of beta incubation: organizations, and experts around that continually threatens Medpedia Answers is a Q&A contributing to its growing the efficacy of other wiki-based feature, collecting questions and knowledge base. Plus, it has the projects. Of course, the extent to answers about health, medicine, likes of Harvard, Stanford, the which this is successful hinges on the body, etc., tagged for search National Health Services, and t h e q u a l i t y , i n t e g r i t y , a n d optimization, and pushed to American Heart Association transparency of the editors. relevant articles and patient participating. Will Medpedia's While Medpedia uses the open- communities. Anyone who takes less democratic editing system source software Mediawiki(also the time to create a profile can prove more bulletproof than used by Wikipedia), it is less contribute to this section, with a Wikipedia's? So far, so good. collaborative than the vast top-contributors list cluing in This content has passed through encyclopedia site, allowing only users to which answers are fivefilters.org. physicians and Ph.D.s approved written by the most informed by an editor to contribute to and (and involved) users. edit articles. (The less medicineMedpedia Alerts aggregates literate masses are allowed to health and medical-news alerts.

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New Economics Paper Explains How Shorter Copyright Stimulates More Music By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

money and attention that might have gone towards new works end up going instead to those In the recent debate in the UK older works. Increasing the about copyright extension for returns in the case of success may performances, one of the key be counter productive for points raised by many who were helping new artistic careers. Most against the proposal was that artistic markets operate in the economic studies suggested that framework of an overwhelming it would really only help a few machinery of promotion and big superstars (who probably advertising. Incentives to invest were well enough off already) i n t h e p r o m o t i o n o f t h e while harming up-and-coming superstars rise as the prospects of a r t i s t s g r e a t l y . C h r i s t i a n superstars' revenues improve (as Zimmerman points us to a recent caused by modifications in the economics paper by Francisco regulation of copyrights or the Alcala and Miguel Gonzalez- size of global markets). In this Maestre that models why this e n v i r o n m e n t , t h e e x p e c t e d happens, and points out that discounted return of a young copyright extension actually artist' career may be reduced as a serves to decrease incentives for result of a positive shock to the creation of new content. The s u p e r s t a r s ' r e v e n u e s . A s a full paper(pdf) basically points consequence, larger high-type out that extending copyright artists' revenues may result in the really only helps the superstar long run in fewer numbers of performers, since, for everyone artists, and therefore, less highelse, the economic value of the quality artistic creation. Nice to content is exhausted by the time see more economists recognizing the extension would matter. the problems of the current That's pretty obvious. But the copyright system. more troubling part is that this Permalink| Comments| Email also then negatively impacts the This Story market for new artists, because Submitted at 11/13/2009 7:32:00 PM

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Madoff Coders Charged With Aiding Massive Ponzi Scheme By Kim Zetter (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:00:00 PM

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Apple rejects Unity games on the App Store By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:00:00 PM

Filed under: Gaming, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK Touch Arcade has the news that the long-awaited Ravensword and a number of other games built on the Unity game engine have been rejected by Apple from the App Store. The problem appears to be a number of API calls in the engine (though not specifically the game themselves, as I understand it) that allow the games to access the iPhone's number and send it back to the developer's servers. Apple considers these to be private APIs, and they also got games developer Storm8 in trouble earlier this week; their games were pulled from the store in response to a lawsuit alleging that they were collecting data from users without their Stream Live Video on k nCohwi lllei nd gg oe ., p u b l i s h e r s o f Twitter from twitcam- Ravensword, contacted us about powered by Livestream this story, and they said that while the Unity engine does By twitter:@stevens_adam allow developers to use these (TweetMeme) calls, they did not use them or collect any user information. Submitted at 11/14/2009 4:54:29 AM We're also told that the problem http://twitcam.com/5ne8 - APIs "have been removed," and Online!!!! #adamnatwitcam Chillingo has resubmitted the 0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : game for App Store approval. twitcam.com

As I understand it, this is the same type of issue that came up with Google a while back. It's not the same APIs (Google was using the proximity sensor back then), but now as then, it's Apple's call whether they will allow developers to use these private and undocumented calls. Obviously some apps on the iPhone have to access the address book from time to time, but it's Apple's call whether they can use APIs like that or not. This time, it appears, they said no. TUAW Apple rejects Unity games on the App Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fees for Smartphones By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:24:42 PM

Want to bail out of your Verizon service for a shiny new iPhone, or head to another carrier before your contract ends? There’s an early termination fee for that. And starting next week, that fee is going to double if you’ve bought a smartphone or other mobile the carrier considers an “advanced device” high-end enough to warrant a steep $350 penalty for ditching. Currently the ETF starts at $175 and is pro-rated by $5 each month you’re in your contract. If you pick up a BlackBerry or Android phone (like the new Droid) after November 15, though, you’ll be in for a $350 starting fee that drops by $10 a month. That means even if you cancel your contract in the very last month of service you’d owe Verizon a $110 chunk of change. To explain how we could

possibly have even gotten here requires a bit of backstory. When you buy a phone on a carrier in the U.S. (and in many other countries around the world), you typically get a discounted price on the phone in exchange for signing a 1- or 2-year service contract with that carrier. The cell companies are willing to subsidize the actual street cost of a phone because of the guarantee that they’ll make it back as well as a tidy profit off of your cell service over the life of the contract. Thus the argument goes that because smartphones are even more expensive in actual cost

value than that basic, no-frills flip phone you can get cheap or even free, the carrier needs more “insurance” should you decide to duck out early. However, consumers and even some legislators are none too happy with the news, including a Minnesota Senator who seeks to block the deal. Others like David Pogue in his NYTimes editorial tie Verizon’s announcement to other shady revenue tactics and the carrier’s overall reputation of aggressive pricing and steep additional fees. What do you think: is Verizon over-reaching its bounds? Do we already pay enough in extra data costs for these “advanced devices” to offset the subsidy, or is the company justified in trying to cover its costs? Reviews: Android Tags: ETF, Mobile 2.0, smartphones, verizon

Whoa! AT&T has had enough of the Verizon slams By Mel Martin (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:00:00 PM

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone AT&T is clearly not going to take it anymore. Today, they blasted back at Verizon for the nasty ads about AT&T coverage. In a press release today, the communications giant pulled out all the stops: "AT&T's wireless data coverage reaches 303 million people - or 97% of the U.S. population, where they live and work. AT&T is the #1 network for smartphones, with twice the number of smartphone customers than Verizon, our closest competitor. Some of the reasons include: Most popular smartphones. Unlike Verizon, AT&T offers the most popular smartphones in the industry. More wireless apps. Unlike Verizon, AT&T customers have access to more than 100,000

applications, more than with any other wireless company. Talk and E-mail at the same time. Unlike Verizon, AT&T's 3G network lets wireless customers simultaneously talk and surf the web or do e-mail. Fastest 3G in the nation. Unlike Verizon, AT&T has the nation's fastest 3G network." It's a bold move to respond to someone doing a number on you. Microsoft tried to counter Apple pricing with mixed reviews, and AT&T, unlike Apple, has a lot of unhappy customers. This will be fun to watch, but one wishes AT&T was improving service and features (tethering anyone?) instead of getting into these lawsuits and public mud baths. TUAW Whoa! AT&T has had enough of the Verizon slams originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

TVbytheNumbers by the numbers: top browser/operating system combos By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:28:32 AM

People seem to want to have a discussion about which browser is best on this slow Saturday. Here’s the access info for the top

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the last 30 days there were 144 combos over the last 30 days, but I only included the top 25: This content has passed through

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Ricky Gervais helps reveal pain of cell phone salesmen (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/13/2009 6:17:00 PM

Ever wander into one of those Verizon or AT&T stores, attempt to have a conversation with one of the smartly dressed salespeople, and whisper to yourself, "What kind of emotionally awkward humans end up working in a place like this?" Well, I have good news for you. Ricky Gervais, who made David Brent perhaps the most painfully sympathetic character in modern television in the original BBC version of "The Office," has been asking himself the very same question. " Phone Shop" a new British sitcom, enjoys Gervais as its script editor (he reportedly took one look at the idea and volunteered his involvement). The pilot airs Friday evening on Channel 4. "Phone Shop" will explore the

life of salespeople in a soulsucking mall cell phone shop.(Credit: Channel 4) Unlike "The Office," which gained existential pleasure from the old-world business of paper manufacture, "Phone Shop" is set in a mall cell phone store. The pilot episode follows the

troubles experienced by trainee salesman Christopher, who has to sell a cell phone by 6 p.m. as part of his one-day trial. Clearly this series will reside in the emotional halfway house that has just two difficult residents-comedy and tragedy. And one wonders just what impression

will be left by the arduous task of pushing yet more portable technology on a populace that bristles with sensory overload. I am deeply concerned that the cell phone business will not come out so beautifully in "Phone Shop." You see, The Independent quoted Angela Jain, head of the E4 Channel, which has bought the series. And beneath her words I sense a little cackling: "Everyone's got a mobile phone and has had some encounter in a phone shop. It's also about those difficult dead-end jobs that everyone has at least once in their lives." So the Droid and the iPhone are being pushed by people in deadend jobs? What has become of our brave new, smartphoned world? This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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The gift of love; the gift of recycled Mac and iPhone jewelry By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

people at PowerBook Medic have a wonderful gift idea for you! They make a living out of repairing old Mac laptops and Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:00:00 AM iPhones, and it's apparent that Filed under: Accessories, o v e r t h e y e a r s t h e y ' v e Humor, Odds and ends Are you accumulated more than a handful looking for that perfect holiday of buttons from machines that gift for a loved one? Is that need fixing. PowerBook Medic is someone special a Mac geek or now making earrings from geekette? If so, then the clever iPhone home buttons (see photo

at right) and the power buttons from aluminum, black, and white MacBooks and MacBook Pros.

These lovely personal accessories can be yours for only US$14.95 per pair, so it's probably a good idea to order a complete set so the recipient doesn't think you're a complete cheapskate. The company is also giving away 15 pairs of the iPhone earrings to lucky winners. Details of their Twitter-fied contest can

be found here. TUAW The gift of love; the gift of recycled Mac and iPhone jewelry originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Filed under: Software, Internet Tools Dropbox, one of my current top 5 favorite apps, has opened voting for their features roadmap. Some neat suggestions so far, but the most cryptic of the top 5 is among the most useful for Mac users: resource fork support! For those less technical among us, the resource fork is metadata attached to a file that helps Mac OS better understand a file. Things like custom icons, folder info, spotlight comments,

openmeta tags, and even file type are defined here. This is how Mac OS can do extension-less file names. This resource fork information is stripped in many backup applications (including Dropbox). Go vote this feature request up(sign-in required) so we can all rejoice! Here's the top 5 requests at time of writing: • Selective sync. Ability to choose which files or folders get sync'd to which computers.

• Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder • Share folders without forcing other members to lose space. • Email files to Dropbox. • Mac resource fork support TUAW Dropbox is taking suggestions on new features, vote for resource fork support! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)

Mashable reader Ben Kerin has noticed an odd change on Facebook that began last night: those importing their Twitter feeds into the service no longer see their links as clickable. In short: if you’re posting web links (Bit.ly, TinyURL) to your Twitter feed and using the Twitter Facebook app to share those updates on Facebook too, none of those links are hyperlinked. Your friends will need to copy and paste the links into a browser to make them work. If this is a design decision on Facebook’s part, it’s an

Fox News Tries Selective DMCA Takedowns: If Liberal Bloggers Use It, Take It Down By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:13:00 PM

An anonymous reader alerts us to the story that Fox News has sent a series of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for a guy who's been putting up clips that have been popular among the "liberal" blogworld. Now, there's an open question as to whether or not these clips are fair use -- but

even if we assume that they are infringing, there's an interesting element to this. They only targeted the guy who posts clips that liberal blogs are using. There are tons of other clips that conservative blogs use -- and those remained up. In many ways, that shows how the DMCA is really being abused. It is not being used because of any loss in revenue

from these clips being online. It's really being used solely to stifle opposition speech. I don't care which side of the political spectrum you fall on, this is an example of an attempt to stifle speech, not protect some sort of business model. It's using the DMCA to take down clips that are being used by people that disagree with the copyright holder, even while they leave up

tons of other clips used by people who agree. I can understand why Fox News is doing this, but it goes way beyond the intended purpose of the DMCA (while also suggesting that Fox News apparently is way too sensitive about its critics). Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

extremely odd one: we’d like to think it’s an inconvenient bug, and we have a mail in to Facebook to check. Suffice to say, the issue is site-wide: it’s not just you. Are you having issues with links in Facebook status updates? Let us know in the comments. Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: facebook, twitter

Twitlonger: Hey everyone!Just wanted to let you know that today is WORLD DIABETES DAY. ... By twitter:@Jonasbrothers (TweetMeme) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:43:53 AM

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know that today is WORLD DIABETES DAY. It is a great day to learn more about (cont) http://tl.gd/ug2d 22 comments Source: www.twitlonger.com

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Stink Different with an Apple toilet By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends We've long heard jokes of the iCar, the iToilet, and other iCrap, but until now we'd never seen a real, working example of one of these things. Well, here's your iToilet, gang. It doesn't connect to the internet in less than three steps, but it does connect to a series of tubes. Tipster Mike Jones actually had this made for himself, but through Rival Toilets, makers of custom, printed potties. Yep, the owner of Rival, Fred, has figured out a way to get decals under a coat of specially-formulated finish (a trade secret), resulting in some glorious toilets you see in the gallery. They last, they are custom and they are really quite something to see. Rival's specialty? Sports team toilets with rival team logos in a "special" place on the bowl. I'm told the Apple version seen here has a similar "rival" logo in the

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Eat Breakfast Like an Olympian with "Super" Oatmeal [Diet]

By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Dietitian Bob Seebohar has guided the diet of many a U.S. Olympic athlete; here he demonstrates how to prepare an oatmeal breakfast that aims to give you the energy of a gold medalist. Although Seebohar uses a rice cooker in the video above, your stove top or microwave would work just fine for creating this energy and antioxidant packed oatmeal. The mixture is packed with enough essentials to fuel your body through workout sessions, an afternoon hike, or maybe some Black Friday power shopping (assuming it's not all done online). The ingredient list is as follows: • Rolled oats • Water • Whey protein powder • Dark cocoa powder • Ground flax • Blueberries • Raisins • Banana

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bottom of the bowl. I'll leave the specifics to the reader's imagination. I don't think it's IBM, however. Gallery: Custom toilets by Rival Share TUAW Stink Different with an Apple toilet originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Filed under: Software, AppleScript Total Apps has published a nice guest post from Sal Soghoian, Apple's Production Manager for Automator, intended for teachers. He describes how educators have a limited amount of instruction time with the kids, and even less for maintenance tasks like making sure the proper software is installed, that students are on the proper web page, and so on. Sal wants to help, and points out a number of links useful to anyone (not just teachers) who wants to automate these repetitive and often timeconsuming tasks. Best of all, he shares a link to The Teacher's Helpers(scroll down a bit), which is a free collection of Automator actions specifically written to

assist teachers with Macs in their classrooms. If you've been put off by AppleScript, give Automator a try. Its drag-and-drop interface is much easier to use. TUAW Sal Soghoian talks Automator use in education originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Authors win Google book concession (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/14/2009 6:20:28 AM

Book publishers and authors in most countries outside the US

won a significant concession late on Friday as Google and American book industry representatives agreed to make changes to their landmark digital books settlement.

The amendments, disclosed in a legal filing in New York close to midnight on Friday, were made after strong objections from the governments of Germany and France, as well as complaints

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By Sarah Rae Trover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:00:00 PM

Do you have a power packed breakfast routine? Ever tried something similar to this "super" oatmeal? Let us know in the comments. Upgrade Your Oatmeal[Social Workout]

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It’s Not Just You: Twitter Pages Massively Broken By Ben Parr (Mashable!)

US to seek death penalty for 9/11 suspect (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:48:51 PM

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Apple quietly updates the 5th Generation iPod nano to 1.0.2 By Joachim Bean (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

items are no longer skipped when using headphone + and - volume buttons to navigate

Update: Twitter seems to have fixed the issue. If your pages are still having the issue, make sure to refresh and/or clear your cache. You may still see broken pages for a while. If you’re taking a look at Twitter.com right now, you’re going to see some very messed up web pages. Images gone, design layouts borked, text overlapping, and missing fonts are just the start. Now thousands of Twitter users are complaining or completely confused. From our perspective, it looks as if the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) of Twitter.com is broken

in some way (or the servers aren’t loading them). We’ll figure it out and update you when Twitter is fixed and why this massive error occurred in the first place. In the meantime, here’s a screenshot of you’ll find on Twitter profile pages if you haven’t visited already: Reviews: Twitter Tags: twitter

The Obama administration on Friday set the stage for what could be the most high-profile trial in US history when it said it was seeking the death penalty in a New York court for Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices accused of being behind the September 11 attacks. Announcing the move, and a related prosecution of five men allegedly involved in a 2000 attack on the USS Cole, Eric Holder, US attorney-general, said it was the most difficult decision he had made in office. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Filed under: Audio, Software Update, iPod nano This week Apple issued an update to the iPod nano, bringing it to version 1.0.2. Fixes and additions include: • Fixed audiobook playbook setting so Normal, Slower, Faster, works for audio podcasts • Resolved issue where Genius Mixes did not work when using the Nike+ Sport Kit • Accessibility setting for Mono Audio in now working • Fixed bug so VoiceOver menu

As always, you can download this update by clicking on the "Check for Update" button in iTunes when you connect your iPod nano to your computer. TUAW Apple quietly updates the 5th Generation iPod nano to 1.0.2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Remembering the most famous exploded whale in TV history By Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:00:00 AM

A lot of Americans mentally record where they were and what they were doing when they first heard that the Berlin Wall had fallen, John F. Kennedy was shot and the Challenger Space Shuttle

exploded. But one famous tragedy has remained suspiciously ignored, until now. This week marked the 39th anniversary of Oregon's famed "exploding whale," a beached whale that washed up on the shores of Florence, Oregon. Officials exploded it with almost half a ton of dynamite because

they couldn't think of another way to remove the sea creature from the beach. We know go to reporter Paul Linnman who was live at the scene... [via The Exploding Whale] Filed under: News, Video, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Moon Water Confirmed (Little Green Footballs)

huge amount of data the spacecraft collected. The team concentrated on data from the When NASA deliberately satellite’s spectrometers, which crashed the LCROSS satellite provide the most definitive into the moon last month, the information about the presence of media spun the event as a dud water. A spectrometer examines because the impact didn’t create light emitted or absorbed by a huge glowing explosion and materials that helps identify their pretty pictures for the nightly l u n a r p o l e s . T h e L C R O S S composition. news. In fact, it wasn’t even findings are shedding new light “We are ecstatic,” said Anthony visible from Earth at all. on the question of water, which Colaprete, LCROSS project But it was no dud, because the could be more widespread and in s c i e n t i s t a n d p r i n c i p a l real point of the experiment was greater quantity than previously investigator at NASA’s Ames t o p e r f o r m s p e c t r o g r a p h i c suspected. Research Center in Moffett Field, analysis of the dust and vapor Permanently shadowed regions Calif. “Multiple lines of evidence kicked up by the crash — and could hold a key to the history show water was present in both that analysis has now confirmed and evolution of the solar system, the high angle vapor plume and the presence of a significant much as an ice core sample taken the ejecta curtain created by the amount of water. on Earth reveals ancient data. In LCROSS Centaur impact. The The visible camera image a d d i t i o n , w a t e r , a n d o t h e r concentration and distribution of showing the ejecta plume at compounds represent potential water and other substances about 20 seconds after impact. resources that could sustain requires further analysis, but it is (Credit: NASA.) Scientists have future lunar exploration. safe to say Cabeus holds water.” long speculated about the source Since the impacts, the LCROSS of vast quantities of hydrogen science team has been working that have been observed at the almost nonstop analyzing the Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:57:01 AM

Anthony shines as Nuggets snap Lakers' streak By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:01:53 AM

Fast Facts • The Nuggets outscored the Lakers 29-8 in the third quarter in their first meeting since the Lakers knocked the Nuggets out of the playoffs in the Western

Conference Finals. • Kobe Bryant went scoreless in the second half after scoring 19 points in the first half. • Carmelo Anthony, who entered the game averaging 19.9 points in 12 career games against Ron Artest, finished with 25 points. • The Lakers had their six-game win streak snapped.

• The Nuggets won for just the second time in their last eight meetings with the Lakers. • The Nuggets' bench outscored the Lakers' bench 43-16. -- ESPN Stats & Information This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Fort Hood Hero Story Changes Heroes (Little Green Footballs)

Sergeant Todd said he was slightly in front of Sergeant Munley on the hill. “Once we A lot of the early reporting in the took fire, she broke right and I Fort Hood mass murder story broke left,” he said. turned out to be false, and here’s Sergeant Todd said he did not another detail that the press got see Sergeant Munley get shot. He wrong: Sgt. Kimberly Munley, said he started to circle around applauded as a hero for shooting t h e b u i l d i n g , b u t t h e n Nidal Malik Hasan after being b a c k t r a c k e d a s p a n i c k e d wounded herself, apparently bystanders told him of the didn’t even fire her weapon. The gunman’s movements. “As it officer who actually fired the unfolded, I went a different shots that brought down Hasan direction and he went a different was Senior Sgt. Mark Todd. direction, and we met up in the In the interview, Sergeant Todd front of the building,” he said. said he and Sergeant Munley had Sergeant Todd said he then saw pulled up to the scene in separate Sergeant Munley on the ground, cars at the same time. He said wounded. He shouted again at they began running up a small the gunman to drop his weapon. hill toward the building that held “Once I came around the front of the processing center where t h e b u i l d i n g , I c a u g h t h i s unarmed soldiers reported for attention again, started shouting check-ups and vaccinations commands, and then he opened before deployment. The gunman up a second time,” Sergeant Todd was already outside, Sergeant said. “And that’s when I returned Todd recalled. fire, neutralized him and secured “That’s when the bystanders him.” were pointing in his direction,” Both officers deserve to be he said. “And when we popped called heroes, for charging up, he was standing there, and we d i r e c t l y i n t o a d a n g e r o u s s h o u t e d o u r c o m m a n d s — situation and putting an end to it. ‘Police, drop your weapons!’ — and he just opened fire on us.” Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:07:32 PM

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Tech Note: RSS Reader Rewritten (Little Green Footballs)

characters were caused by a difference in character encoding between the RSS feed and the Our left-column Ajax RSS LGF page where it’s being widget, with a drop-down list of displayed. Rewriting everything news sites and blogs that lets you to use my own RSS parsing code check out their current RSS instead of an external library feeds, has been completely (like SimplePIE or MagpieRSS) rewritten. The code now uses helped me figure out the real PHP’s native SimpleXML object reason for the problem. Once I library to parse all three flavors understood it, the solution was of RSS (0.92, 1.0, and 2.0) or amazingly simple. Just one line ATOM feeds. Namespacing, of code using the iconv function XPATH, and attributes, oh my! to convert the characters from Another improvement fixes a UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 encoding: small but annoying issue where $theString = iconv("UTF-8", strange characters would show " I S O - 8 8 5 9 - 1 / / T R A N S L I T " , up in place of em dashes, curly $ t h e S t r i n g ) ; quotes, and other types of The server-side PHP script also punctuation. These odd and ugly needs to send a ‘Content-Type’ Submitted at 11/13/2009 3:36:26 PM

header to set the character encoding to ISO-8859-1, before sending the formatted RSS data back to the calling Javascript routine. This ensures that all of our lovingly parsed characters look presentable. header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); My RSS script caches the HTML output of each feed for 30 minutes, to avoid abusing anyone’s bandwidth. But if you’re really craving the hottest, freshest news, you can manually refresh the feed before that time limit by clicking the ‘Reload’ button next to the drop-down list.

AP Dishes Palin (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:07:38 PM

It won’t be officially released until Tuesday, but the Associated Press has an advance look at Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” She complains that the McCain campaign deliberately kept her “bottled up,” and coached her to give non-answers. She portrays herself as a down-home simple kinda gal who resented being forced to wear glitzy clothes. A down-home simple gal who also has a penchant for going rogue.

And she takes a few shots at Katie Couric: Palin, who received an advance of at least $1.25 million, saves her strongest words for run-ins with McCain staffers and her widely panned interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. She describes Couric as condescending, biased and “badgering.” She contends the anchor chose “gotcha” moments while leaving the candidate’s more substantive remarks on the cutting room floor. … Palin takes another dig at Couric

while asserting her expertise on energy matters. She writes that she was shocked Couric had asked her which newspapers and magazines she read; given what she called Couric’s lack of knowledge about energy issues, Palin wondered whether she should have asked the news anchor what she read. I suspect Couric might have been able to come up with a better answer than, “All of them.”

The Gingerbread Announcer Desktop [Featured Desktop] By The How-To Geek (Lifehacker)

desktop customization? Check out our guide to monitoring your Mac and more with GeekTool to Submitted at 11/13/2009 1:00:00 PM add basic system stats and Reader andykashyap85's Mac information, then learn how to desktop proves that sometimes add current weather and a simplicity is all you really need desktop calendar with GeekTool. for an awesome desktop that Once you've created your own helps keep you motivated. beautifully tweaked (and The simple OS X desktop hopefully productive) desktop, consists of nothing more than: post it over in the Lifehacker • Wallpaper: Announcement Desktop Show and Tell Flickr • Geektool Quote of the Day Group complete with a • Geektool Time: date +%D description of the programs and • VLC Icon tweaks you used (and preferably • See Andy's full post for more links as well!), and we just might details. feature it here. The Gingerbread Announcer Desktop[Flickr] Want to create your own OS X

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Top 10 Homemade Remedies for What Ails You [Lifehacker Top 10] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:00:00 AM

Feeling under the weather? Thinking—as you look around your office—that you might be soon? Hone your home remedy skill set with a look at 10 of our favorite DIY cures for illnesses and your body's annoyances. Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. 10. Honey for rough coughs When you've got a bad cough, it feels like your own body is fighting against you—your throat dries out, your lungs spasm beyond your control, and it all makes a bad illness experience feel even worse. Before reaching for the over-the-counter stuff, consider a spoonful of honey. It did better in studies of children's coughs than any of the expensive elixers, and it very likely elicits fewer taste complaints. Even better? An Ayurvedic-style honey-lemon-ginger infusion drink, or our readers' cold and cough remedies from their grandparents. (Original posts: honey, infusion) 9. Toothpaste for bee stings Slate's William Brantley tried out all the pharmaceutical and home remedies he could find for bee stings, including the wellregarded sliced onion. Brantley said the onion made his sting feel worse, actually, and pulls for the acid-neutralizing, itch-reducing properties of toothpaste. If that

doesn't seem to work for you, Caladryl with an analgesic is the preferred store-bought solution. 8. Olive oil for children's earaches When a tyke has an earache, everybody knows about it. To soothe the pain until you can get to the doctor, a Columbia University Medical Center pediatrician recommends using a syringe or something similar to put 2 to 4 drops of warm oil in a small child's ear, age 2 and older, or 5 to 10 drops in your own if you're the one with the aches. Photo by fdecomite. 7. Vick's VapoRub or thyme oil for toenail fungus It's not the most pleasant of afflictions to discuss, but nobody wants to keep dealing with

yellowed, brittle toenails if they don't have to. Vick's VapoRub has thymol in it, a derivative of the herb that reasearchers have found effective in combating fungus, and it's much cheaper than the prescription treatments. eHow explains the step by step of applying Vick's to infected feet, and the Times suggests adding essential oil of thyme, found at health and natural food stores, to a bath is a strong supplement. 6. Vinegar, oatmeal, and others for sunburns Ever get the feeling that the makers of sunburn treatments kind of have you in a painful price position? If your bottle of the green goopy stuff doesn't seem to work, or you don't have any, the Wise Bread blog's

natural recommendations might do the trick: vinegar, crushed-up aspirin, tea, milk, and straight-up aloe vera. We've also heard that an oatmeal paste can do the trick. (Original post: remedies, oatmeal) 5. DIY elixers for colds and flu The Hot Knives blogger loves an excuse to hit the grocery store, and when stricken with a cold (or maybe the flu), he found his muse: a DIY, Southern-Comfortbased elixir to make sleeping, resting, and feeling better much easier. If SoCo's not your poison of choice, the comments thread is full of formulas that won the day for many formerly ill readers. 4. Duct tape for warts There's not a lot we can add to this amazing little mash-up of

modern life, other than to say that, while a double-blind, placebo-matched study isn't available to assuage the uncertainty, many Lifehacker readers swear by the gray stuff's wart-healing powers. 3. Clear nail polish or hot water for bug bites Gil Grissom on CSI claims its true, but the crime scene scientist has a lot of fellow believers in the air-blocking, itch-reducing power of a small drop of clear nail polish on especially bad bites. Using Ben Gay can also work, and some commenters suggest close-but-not-direct contact with heat to draw off the need to scratch. 2. Baby or talcum powder for greasy hair When you're traveling, pressed for time, or otherwise unable to shower on your regular schedule, your hair can end up looking a bit, well, greasy and unwieldy. The simplest solution we've found is running baby powder through it. That link comes from eHow, but the testing is, sadly, rigorously vetted by a certain Lifehacker editor whose morning blogging sometimes leaves him little time to get presentable in a rush. If your baby powder leaves you smelling like a changing station, consider talcum powder, or a little cover-up scent. ( TOP page 37

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From the Tips Box: Multiple Logins, Firefox Betas, and Electrical Tubes [From The Tips Box] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:00:00 PM

Readers offer their best tips for logging into the same site with two accounts at once, running multiple versions of Firefox on the same Mac, and threading wires through long electrical tubes. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments or email it to tips at lifehacker.com. Using Multiple Logins at Once Marc lays out a workaround for logging into the same site more than once: Just a tip I like to use when managing multiple gmail accounts, flight check-ins, etc. simultaneously. Instead of logging out of one account and into the other, I open an incognito window in chrome (don't know if this works in ff /

ie) and login from there. Not a game-changer, but saves a hassle every now and then... I tested this in Firefox and it did not work; starting a private browsing session gets rid of all your open windows. Running a Firefox Beta Alongside a Stable Mac Build Brad shows us how to run multiple versions of Firefox on one Mac: It seemed obvious to me, but apparently a lot of people don't know that you can run a release and beta versions of Firefox on

‘little' because they will share the same profile (where your bookmarks, extensions and the like are kept), and so cannot be run at the same time. This has the plus side of meaning you won't have to re-import bookmarks and such, but you will have to sit through a harmless extension compatibility check whenever you start a different version of Firefox than was last run. You can find Brad's original blog post here. Easily Thread Cables Through an Electrical Tube Photo by Rick Heath. Joost shows us how he gets cables through long electrical tubes: If you can't get a cable through an empty electricity tube: Find an audio tape, break it and put an end of the tape in the tube. Put a vacuum cleaner at he other end of the tube, it will drag the the Mac without them overriding It's simple: e a c h o t h e r ( a f e a t u r e t h e 1. Grab a Firefox beta download, tape through the the tube in seconds. Tie the tape to the cable Windows Firefox installer nicely then mount the disk image provides). 2. Instead of dragging the you want to pull through, and On Windows, the Firefox Firefox app to your Applications pull it through. I've done it installer (quite considerately) folder, drag it to your desktop several times. The main idea is to use won't override existing non-beta temporarily something lighter than the cable versions of the browser with a 3. Highlight the app on your beta version (like the recently desktop, hit the return key, and that will actually be pulled by the released Firefox 3.6 betas). give it a new name (like "Firefox vacuum—I imagine a piece of string would work just as well, if Though it doesn't explicitly say 3.6 Beta") so, Mac OS X users can have a 4. Drag the newly renamed app you're not the type to ruin your music collection. similar behavior, which by the to your Applications folder surprised faces I see when I tell You can then run these two people this, many people don't Firefox versions with little FROM page 38 know about. interaction between the two. I say

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This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:00:00 PM

This week we taught you how to get started teaching yourself to code, rounded up five of the most popular antivirus apps on the block, and helped you out with some clever DIY fixes for your broken stuff. • Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. • Five Best Antivirus Applications Computer viruses are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive. If you can't afford to run your computer without some sort of antivirus software installed, check out these five popular options to protect your PC. • Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough When it comes to keeping your Windows PC secure, all of the scare tactics and overblown virus stories out there make it hard to feel safe

online. The fact of the matter is that you don't need to pay for Windows security. • Top 10 Clever Fixes for Your Broken Stuff Buying a replacement at Target isn't always the necessary solution when your stuff goes on the fritz. Fix common problems or altogether broken gear with these clever repair methods. • The Gaia Desktop Reader Sweetshop Union's Windows 7

desktop has been completely transformed with the Gaia09 skin for Rainmeter, complete with widgets, wallpaper, and a visual style to match. • Paint.NET Releases Big Update, Still a Killer Photoshop Alternative Windows only: Paint.NET is a free, fast, and powerful image editor for Windows. It's a giant leap above Microsoft Paint, and a serious alternative to bigger, bloated (for

most users, at least) image editors like Photoshop or GIMP. • Tom's Planner Is an Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Tool If your work life's all laid out in Gantt charts but you're not happy with the tool you're using, check out Tom's Planner, a web-based project scheduling and collaboration tool. • Grab the MacHeist nanoBundle for Free If you're a fan of the free

stomach is in need of something calm and steady. A bacon sandwich, according to British researchers, is just what the hangover doctor ordered. The bread has the carbohydrates

you're hungry for, while the bacon's protein (made more appealing by tasty fat) breaks down into amino acids, which your brain has been starving for ever since happy hour started.

Photo by amagill. ( Original post) What's the best home or natural remedy you know of, or that your parents swear by? We want to hear about it in the comments.

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Original post) 1. Bacon sandwich for hangovers The morning after a long night out, your brain is depleted of neurotransmistters, and your

OS X software offered at MacHeist, you'll want to scoot over there to grab some free software before their software giveaway expires. • Best Antivirus Application: AVG Last week we asked you to share your favorite antivirus application and then we rounded up the five most popular candidates for your review and a final vote. We're back with the results, and this was one very close race. • Happy Birthday: A Look Back at Five Years of Firefox Five years ago, an open-source browser called Firefox—one that didn't ship with your computer—was available as a 1.0 download. To say it's changed the world's web experience is understatement. • Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect harmony.

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DVD Knife Quickly Extracts Any Clip from DVDs [Downloads] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:00:00 PM

Trying to extract clips from a DVD is usually a roundabout process that involves a lot of waiting. Free utility DVD Knife makes it easy to extract clips from any part of your DVD. Generally, in order to extract a small clip from a DVD, you've got to rip and convert the entire movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or at least a specific chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;before you can work with it. DVD Knife does away

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with this lengthy process with a quick, four-click solution. When you start it up, you just open the disc, navigate to and mark your

start and endpoints, and click save. DVD Knife will extract the clip (without compressing or decompressing) into a small VOB file that you can then convert into whatever file type you need, giving you more time to actually concentrate on the goal at hand (or to finish up that project quickly and go do something else). DVD Knife is a free download, Windows only. DVD Knife[via Life Rocks 2.0]

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Medical Helicopter Crashes Near Nevada, Killing 3 (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:50:05 AM

DEVELOPING: A medical helicopter crashed Saturday near the Nevada-California state line north of Reno, killing three crew members aboard, officials said. KOH Radio in Reno reports the Mountain Life Flight helicopter out of Susanville, Calif., was on a return flight from transporting a patient to Renown Medical Center in Reno. The crash early Saturday

morning occurred in southern Lassen County, about 15 miles north of the border between California and Nevada, authorities said. Further details weren't immediately available. This is a developing story. Refresh page for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Rackspace Says it Is Closing the Gap with Amazon By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)

business. Sponsor Stream Live Video on Napier did not provide details Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:11:17 AM Twitter from twitcamabout the gap nor how much powered by Livestream T h e c h i e f e x e c u t i v e o f R a c k s p a c e h a s g a i n e d o n Rackspace says the company has A m a z o n . By twitter:@matheusrdonadio closed the gap with Amazon, He did say the Rackspace cloud (TweetMeme) gaining significant market share business contributed 10 percent Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:49:32 AM in its cloud computing compared to the company's revenue in the to a year ago. third quarter. Business for cloud http://twitcam.com/5o4m - ola In an interview with Reuters, computing services has been 0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : Chief Executive Lanham Napier growing in excess of 100 percent twitcam.com said a year ago Amazon was per year. In the second quarter, " i n c r e d i b l y f a r a h e a d , " o f the Rackspace cloud business R a c k s p a c e i n t h e c l o u d grew 17 percent. computing market. But this year The cloud business does have its he said Rackspace has closed the pitfalls, in particular in respect to gap with Amazon's web services the tight margins that come with

cloud computing providers such as Joyent. Microsoft will soon enter the game. offering the service. Napier said The key will be in how to add those tight margins have been margins to the cloud business. offset by its hosting business. Depending on traditional hosting Rackspace provides hosting to business may get tricky if more l a r g e e n t e r p r i s e s . C l o u d of that business goes to the cloud, computing services are primarily too. provided to customers for hosting Amazon seems to be fighting websites and renting servers that that battle on a daily basis. They can be scaled up and back down continue to add features but have to respond to market pressures at any time. But can this scenario continue? with competitive pricing. The Competition is only starting in company recently announced it the cloud computing market. was dropping prices for its EC2 Rackspace competes with other service. Discuss

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Should Apple Care That Facebook's iPhone App Developer Has Quit? By Guest Author (ReadWriteWeb)

Pinch Media reports that the average iPhone application has netted (for the developer) a grand Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:13:31 PM total of $8,500, and 80% of News reverberated through the developers have made less than developer community that long- that. That's not per month - which time and highly prominent would be a starting point for a community contributor Joe two-person team - but rather total Hewitt has quit developing the revenue earned. iPhone Facebook application. And as reported a few thousand While Joe said that Apple has the times, the approval process is a right to do what it wants, he does black box. For the most part, not agree with its policies and has developers don't know whether chosen to move on. Joe posted their app will be approved or in this tweet in the afternoon of what timeframe, making the November 11th: entire experience a nail-biter. "Time for me to try something Should Apple Care? new. I've handed the Facebook Well, of course, Apple should iPhone app off to another care. Apple should be inclusive engineer, and I'm onto a new of its community and encourage project." small developers to grow and Sponsor make a living from developing This guest post was written by for the iPhone. Apple rightly Elia Freedman. The Problem views the App Store as a Apple's App Store is a mess for competitive advantage and s m a l l a n d i n d e p e n d e n t should continue striving to keep developers. Very few developers its developers in-house. are making even a livable wage, On the other hand, Apple is not and the approval process is a responsible for marketing and black box. selling for its developers. The Let's start with making money. App Store is a distribution

few days and get great placement on Apple's virtual store shelves. Electronic Arts, for example, has no public rejection stories and currently has titles throughout the list of top grossing apps, suggesting that it is in the top 10% for App Store revenue medium, not a marketing and generation. sales platform. Apple has a And so, Joe Hewitt has quit the system in place for enabling App Store. It's a great show of customers to quickly and easily unity for small developers, but purchase and download software A p p l e h a s c l e a r l y l i n k e d for their devices. And it has been successful applications to big a massive success, with over two b r a n d s , a n d t h o s e b r a n d s billion downloads. continue to clamor for iPhone The difference, though, is that presence. the apps that Apple needs in the Guest author: Elia Freedman is App Store most - gaming and the CEO of Infinity Softworks, entertainment titles - are getting the leading provider of software in. And they are being developed calculators with over 15 million by some of the biggest brands in distributed. In its 13-year history, the world. After all, the iPhone Infinity Softworks has developed and iPod Touch are, first and a p p l i c a t i o n s f o r i P h o n e , foremost, entertainment devices. BlackBerry, Windows, Palm OS Note that these big brands do not and Windows Mobile. Elia writes face the same problems as the about tech, mobile and running a rest of the developer community. b u s i n e s s o n h i s b l o g , Many have contacts deep in eliainsider.com and at Twitter as Apple, are magically ushered eliajf. Discuss through the review process in a

China detains dissidents ahead of US visit (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:27:29 AM

Chinese police have detained dozens of dissidents and political reform advocates ahead of US President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first

visit to China, according to family members and human rights activists. The crackdown comes as human rights groups worry that Mr Obama, who arrives in China on Sunday, will play down Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor human rights record in order

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Review: Monk - Mr. Monk is the Best Man By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:55:00 AM

(S08E13) Just three more episodes till the end of Monk, so it sort of feels like they're wrapping up some loose ends. Tonight, the focus was on Leland Francis Stottlemeyer, Monk's best friend, the guy who has been solidly behind Adrian through all the difficult years since Trudy's death, helping Monk to cope and remain gainfully employed as a police consultant. Leland's always been a good guy, but not so lucky in love. As the title suggested, if Mr. Monk is the best man, that means that Leland was the groom. More about the nuptials after the jump. Continue reading Review: Monk - Mr. Monk is the Best Man Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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Second Life Founder Launching Reputation Currency System By Dana Oshiro (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:11:00 PM

Six years after creating Second Life, Philip Rosedale announced that he would be focusing on a new project. Shrouded in mystery, the Linden Chairman and fellow Lindenite Ryan Downe began work in October on Love Machine Inc. Said Rosedale in today's blog post, "Yes, we are working on making a version of the Linden Lab LoveMachine (and some other tools too)...hopefully we can sell [this] to some companies and help them out." ReadWriteWeb sought to answer the immortal question - What is love? Sponsor LoveMachine is best known amongst Linden employees as a method of peer review. According to a 2006 Second Life Herald article, it was once used as a points-based employee incentive tool. Linden employees gave and received "love" for a job well done. If an employee

was well-received amongst his or her peers, their accumulated love currency was redeemable for a cash bonus at the end of the month. Similar to social capital systems like Whuffie Bank, it appears that LoveMachine may become a reputation currency system for businesses. Intrigued, we visited the location of LoveMachine's virtual office for more information. Judging by the posh waterfront property and lack of outside distractions, the real world's down economy has not affected the peaceful Second Life metaverse. While startup companies in San Francisco are downsizing from their SOMA lofts, Rosedale and Downe have built themselves a tropical paradise. The duo have left their boardroom open for potential contractors to view the company worklist. Contractors have a

choice of being paid in US or Linden dollars and must complete an initial project before becoming a long term employee. From the projects given to potential employees we know there is an iPhone app and database involved. At this early stage, other tasks include setting up a server, printing 50 decks of cards and delivering Ryan Downe a steak burrito. For the sake of the company we're hoping the burrito is a lower level priority. Given Rosedale's success at Linden, it will be interesting to see if the plucky entrepreneur can infiltrate middle management and monetize employee incentive programs. While the Second Life universe has been a boon for virtual learning environments, widespread adoption in the boardroom has yet to materialize. Depending on the barrier to technical entry, Rosedale may find more mainstream appeal in this latest venture. Discuss

Google Executive Says Companies Can Get Rid of Microsoft Office...Next Year By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:34:04 AM

The Google executive in charge of Google Enterprise is talking smack about Microsoft Office, saying that firms will be able to get rid of the software suite in one year's time. Man, those are some fighting words. The remarks came from Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division, in an interview with ZDNet Asia. Sponsor In context, what Girouard says does make sense. Open formats are the rule these days and proprietary formats like those from Microsoft will have less of an appeal. But it may not be just Google that rules the enterprise. Microsoft SaaS offerings will become more robust and a number of new players are making headway. Girouard, one of four presidents at Google, said that in a year's time, Google Docs will have a "point of capacity," that will be enough for people to make the switch from Microsoft Office.

He admitted that at this point, Google Docs is much less mature but efforts are underway to add 30 to 50 new features and performance upgrades that will put it in a position to work for the "vast majority" of users. He added that Microsoft Office will never go away but as it stands it is overkill for most users. In his words, Office will be more for specialty users. Hubris? Perhaps. Microsoft still has a huge lead and its Sharepoint product is really the future for Microsoft's place in the enterprise. But open formats are what's hot. Young people are used to the way the Internet works. They have access to so much information that it is critical for them to port it to where they want it to be. Girouard says this movement will spread into the enterprise. Discuss

Obama says China not a threat (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 9:26:25 PM

America will not try to contain a rising China, Barack Obama, the US president, told an audience in Japan on Saturday on the eve of

his first visit to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most populous nation. Speaking during the first leg of his inaugural visit to Asia, which

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Despite Layoffs, Adobe Expands Investment in E-Books By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

support for business models like subscription, advertising and retail. Submitted at 11/13/2009 11:05:44 AM Sony, for example, currently Adobe announced earlier this uses Adobe's Content Server to week that it plans to lay off power its DRM solution for ealmost 10% of its workforce. At books. While Sony offers its ethe same time, though, the books in the ePub format, it also company also announced that it uses Adobe's Content Server to plans to expand its investment in wrap a proprietary DRM solution e-books and digital publishing. around the open ePub format. Adobe is creating a new Bill McCoy is Leaving Adobe organization within the company Bill McCoy drove Adobe's push that will focus on products for towards making ePub the default book, newspaper and magazine b o o k b u s i n e s s g r o u p s t h a t format for eBooks. McCoy, publishers. With Bill McCoy, worked on the Adobe Reader however, is leaving Adobe as however, the company is also Mobile SDK, Adobe Content part of the restructuring. We can losing one of its most visible Server, Adobe Digital Editions, only hope that the company will advocates for open e-book as well as the group that worked continue to push for open standards in this week's layoffs. with the New York Times on the standards in McCoy's absence. Times Reader 2.0. The new More details about McCoy's role Sponsor Reorganizing Adobe's E-Book group will focus on developing at Adobe can be found at p r o d u c t s a n d b u s i n e s s TeleRead. Discuss Groups This new organization within o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r d i g i t a l Adobe will bring together the e- publishers. These will include

White House hits out at plan to strip Fed powers (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:09:53 PM

A Senate proposal to strip the Federal Reserve of its bank supervision powers met resistance on Friday from two senior Obama administration officials.

Chris Dodd, the Senate banking committee chairman, this week published draft legislation to merge four US banking regulators into one, with the Fed the most high-profile loser. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

What's On Tonight: iCarly, Secret Saturdays, Robin Hood, Wanda Sykes By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:12:00 PM

• At 7, ESPN has College Football, Alabama vs. Mississippi State. • ESPN2 has College Football at 7, Auburn vs. Georgia • At 8, ABC has College Football, Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh. • FOX has a new Cops at 8. • Food Network has Thanksgiving episodes of shows starting at 8: two episodes of Good Eats and episodes of The Secret Life Of... and Unwrapped. • Nickelodeon has a new iCarly at 8, followed by a new True Jackson, VP. • TCM has Saboteur at 8. • At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted. • CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9. • Cartoon Network has a new Secret Saturdays at 9. • BBC America has a new Robin Hood at 9, then a new Graham Norton Show.

• Also at 9: Hallmark has the movie Flower Girl. • At 9:30, Biography Channel has a new Ghostly Adventures, followed by a new Celebrity Ghost Stories. • At 11, FOX has a new Wanda Sykes Show, then a new Sit Down, Shut Up. • At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with January Jones and Black-Eyed Peas. • At 12:30AM, Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Bleach. Check your local TV listings for more. Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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The Apple Store: An Unsung Hero By Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:23:24 PM

Apple previewed its Upper West Side store in New York yesterday. Besides welcoming the media into the company’s latest example of retail minimalism taken to its logical extreme, Apple Senior VP Ron Johnson talked retail. Glass and stone enclose 8,500 square feet of retail space on street level, topped with a glass ceiling 45 feet above, and with a glass spiral staircase leading to the floor below. According to Gothamist, which has some really nice photos, the street level enclosure could fit 11 of the glass cubes like the one in front of the 5th Avenue store. “We opened our first store in Manhattan seven years ago, and the response has been incredible,” said Johnson, and not just at New York stores. A look at the numbers shows just how successful the Apple Stores have been. Apple opened its first store in May 2001. At the time, it was a controversial decision, and not just because the store design looked like something out “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Rival PC retailer Gateway was cutting

back on its stores, but Steve Jobs envisioned Apple Stores as a boon to both sales and marketing. One goal was to eventually put an Apple Store within driving distance of 85 percent of consumers in the U.S., a goal which must be nearing achievement. For 2009, Apple opened more international stores than domestic. The company now intends to open at least one Apple Store in one new country a year. Further, according to Gizmodo,

the company plans on opening “more like 50 stores in the current fiscal year, including more “significant” stores. The outlets, formerly known as “flagship stores,” will be built in multiple countries in Europe as well as Canada, and at least one in Shanghai, China. Also, in the future, stores will be larger in general, making room for more product tables, as well as a bigger Genius Bar. Anyone who has sought technical support at an

sales per store is now $26 million, coming in behind competitor’s like Best Buy, but besting Best Buy by a factor of five in terms of sales per square footage, $4,300 to $872. Apple beats even Tiffany’s on a retail space-based comparison. Finally, there is the marketing factor. According to Apple, there are more than 100,000 applications on file for positions at Apple Stores. For the Upper West Side store alone, 10,000 applications were submitted, 2,500 applicants were interviewed and 200 were hired. While it’s something of a jibe to describe Apple as a cult, if you think of Apple Stores as metaphorical churches, or in the case of the Upper West Side, a cathedral, one role of Apple Store Apple Store can see the need for employees becomes clear: that improvement. As for the making converts. Consider this: number of stores being opened, Half of those purchasing Macs at 50 in 2010 would equal that of Apple Stores are new to the 2 0 0 7 , w h i c h i s e s p e c i a l l y platform. That statistic that hasn’t impressive considered the current changed since the first Apple Store opened more than eight difficult economic times. However, Apple and the Apple years ago. Stores appear immune to those While the Upper West Store economic troubles. More than stands out architecturally, it is 170 million people visited Apple Apple Retail that has arguably Stores this year, and for the done as much for the company as quarter just ending that meant OS X, the iPod and the iPhone. $1.87 billion in revenue. Average

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TV Ratings:Ghost Whisperer leads night with 18-49; Smallville hits season high with viewers By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers)

to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:53:53 AM Share (of Audience): The More or less your typical Friday, percent of households (or with CBS taking the night overall persons) using television who are with adults 18-49 and with tuned to a specific program, overall viewers. Ghost Whisperer station or network in a specific was the night’s highest-rated area at a specific time. (See also, program with a 2.0 adults 18-49 Rating, which represents tuning rating. or viewing as a percent of the Meanwhile Smallville fans will entire population being delight that Smallville hit a measured.) season high in viewers (2.7 Time Shifted Viewing– Program million) and matched its season ratings for national sources are highs with adults 18-34 (1.2/5) produced in three streams of data and adults 18-49 (1.2/5). – Live, Live+Same Smallville ranked #1 in the hour Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. in men 18-34 (1.3/6) and men 18Time shifted figures account for 49 (1.3/5-tie) and ranked second incremental viewing that takes in adults 18-34. And for those place with DVRs which are who just can’t stand not currently in approximately 24.4% knowing, Smallville pulled a of all U.S. TV households. 1.0/4 with women 18-34. Nielsen Company. All Rights include all programming on the For example, with a World Series L i v e + S a m e D a y ( L i v e + S D ) Ugly Betty was on par with last Reserved. affiliated stations, sometimes game, Fast Affiliate Ratings include viewing during the same week with adults 18-49, though Definitions: including network programming, would include whatever aired broadcast day as the original down slightly with viewers. Fast Affiliate Ratings: These sometimes not. The figures may from 8-11PM on affiliates in the telecast, with a cut-off of Meanwhile over on FOX, a first national ratings, including include stations that did not air Pacific Time Zone, following the 3:00AM local time when meters B o n e s r e r u n o n c e a g a i n demographics, are available at the entire network feed, as well live football game, but not game transmit daily viewing to Nielsen outperformed the most recent approximately 11 AM (ET) the as local news breaks or cutaways coverage that begins at 5PM PT. for processing. Live+7 Day airing of an original Dollhouse at day after telecast, and are for local coverage or other The same would be true of ratings include incremental 9pm by 50 percent (1.2 vs. .8). released to subscribing customers programming. Fast Affiliate Presidential debates as well as viewing that takes place during Full details: daily. These data, from the ratings are not as useful for live live award shows and breaking the 7 days following a telecast. = For more information see National People Meter sample, programs and are likely to differ news reports. You can see TV ratings from a r e s t r i c t l y t i m e - p e r i o d significantly from the final Rating: Estimated percentage of Numbers 101 and Numbers 102. other recent Overnight ratings information, based on the normal results, because the data reflect the universe of TV households This content has passed through reports here. broadcast network feed, and normal broadcast feed patterns. (or other specified group) tuned fivefilters.org. Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The

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Lopez Tonight does better than Seinfeld reruns for TBS, now what? By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/13/2009 4:02:10 PM

In its Monday premiere, TBS’ George Lopez show, “Lopez Tonight” averaged 1.7 million viewers on TBS (3.2 million total including the simulcast on TNT and truTV). The simulcast across multiple networks was only for the premiere. On Tuesday, it dropped down to 1.4 million, Wednesday it hit a TBS high with 2 million viewers and Thursday it hit is low with 1.3 million. James Hibberd has some analysis on week 1 and suggests the show is holding up OK. By way of comparison to what TBS was airing from 11p-12A last week: Monday 11p : “My Name is Earl” (1.166 million) Monday 11:30p “My Name is Earl” (981,000) Tuesday 11p: “Seinfeld” (931,000) Tuesday 11:3op: “Seinfeld” (1.045 million)

Fox Exec On Dollhouse: “I’ll still get hate mail and death threats” Wednesday 11P: Seinfeld (1.135 million) Wednesday 11:30p Seinfeld (942,000) Thursday 11p: “Seinfeld” (843,000) Thursday 11:30p Seinfeld (926,000) The good news is it easily bested 10+ year old “Seinfeld” reruns and “My Name Is Earl” reruns in a heavily promoted first

And in a bit of Dollhouse blowback imagining, Ben week. If “Lopez Tonight” Grossman of Broadcasting & improves or merely retains the Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:33:34 AM Cable has some “What They margins it held over reruns in the It appears that Fox doesn’t think Said, What They Wanted To first week a couple of months its “patience” with Dollhouse is Say” : down the road, TBS will surely g o i n g t o s a v e i t f r o m f a n What They Said: “Dollhouse got claim success. But I wouldn’t b l o w b a c k . cancelled. F-ck you, Fox. F-ck be looking for any press releases And last week, Fox chucked Joss you so hard—YET AGAIN for from TBS declaring George Whedon’s Dollhouse on the doing this to Joss and all of Lopez the new king of late night. scrap heap. Though the network us!!!”—One of America’s great This content has passed through has promised to air all 13 of the thinkers (and the show’s dozens fivefilters.org. show’s commissioned episodes, of devoted fans), on Twitter. loyal Dollhouse fans aren’t likely What They Wanted to Say: “Hey to go gently into that good ma! Can we get some meatloaf? night.“I’ll still get hate mail and The meatloaf! We want it now! death threats,” says Preston The meatloaf! F-ck!” those updates on Facebook too, Beckman, executive VP of via Broadcasting & Cable. n o n e o f t h o s e l i n k s a r e strategic program planning at This content has passed through hyperlinked. Your friends will Fox. fivefilters.org. need to… via Broadcasting & Cable 2 comments Source: mashable.com

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those importing their Twitter feeds into the service no longer see their links as clickable.In Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:03:17 AM short: if you’re posting web links Mashable reader Ben Kerin has (Bit.ly, TinyURL) to your n o t i c e d a n o d d c h a n g e o n Twitter feed and using the Facebook that began last night: Twitter Facebook app to share

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Bears – 49ers averages 3.899 million Michael Moorcock to on NFL Network write Doctor Who story By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers)

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(my understanding is this figure also includes the simulcasts in the San Francisco and Chicago markets). Via PI Feedback forums: NFL Thursday Night Football: Chicago at San Francisco (NFLN; 8:21-11:23pm et) - 3.899 million viewers - 2.4 HH - 1.7 A18-49 And for a sports on cable comparison: NBA Thursday: Cleveland @ Miami (TNT; 8:16-11:10pm et) - 2.564 million viewers - 1.7 HH - 1.0 A18-49 Last years’ game during the same week on NFLN did a bit

better: 4.411 million, with the Mangini vs. Tom Brady-less mentor matchup between the New York Jets and New England Patriots. (as the comment below notes, last year’s version of the New York Jets also included Brett Favre). Last year the NFLN led off a week earlier than this year with a Broncos/Browns

Fantasy novelist Michael Moorcook will be writing a Doctor Who story. No, it won't be a script for the actual television show bur rather an original novel. He revealed this on his forum. The mind boggles with regards to what a fantasy novelist like Moorcock could do with Doctor Who. He's used to antihero game. I don’t have handy access creations like Elric. Any spin he to those numbers, but commenter could put on the character would “romo” says it pulled a 1.9 be interesting. As of yet, it's not household rating on November 6, even known which incarnation of 2008. The Doctor he'll be writing This content has passed through about. fivefilters.org. The most appropriate Doctor for Moorcock to write about could be the first (played by William Hartnell), who had a subtle arrogance and sinister nature (arguably the least human of the bunch). I'd personally like to read a sixth Doctor story by

Moorcock. Moorcock has influenced legendary writers like Alan Moore. Whatever take he has on the Doctor Who universe will at least be interesting. What do you think? Filed under: OpEd, Doctor Who, Celebrities, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Review: Stargate Universe - Time By Mike Moody (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/14/2009 11:49:00 AM

(S01E08) So that was bleak. But don't worry, Stargate Universe will hit the reset button next week, and everything will be peachy. Well, as peachy as things can get aboard The Destiny.

While some fans have been pushing for SGU to ditch the drama for more action and adventure (like SG-1 or Atlantis), this week's episode tried to offer a compromise: An off-world adventure that turned dark and caused a lot of drama for the characters.

The crew faced death - you

know, like they do every week -but this time they were struck by a dangerous virus and attacked by a pack of nasty fang-toothed worm things. But this episode wasn't really about combating a virus or an evil alien entity. It was about seeing how the characters would react after

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Review: White Collar Flip of the Coin By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:20:00 AM

(S01E04) "Yeah, and I didn't even have to go to prison first." Lauren, after Caffrey pointed out that she just joined the team I want Neal Caffrey's life. He gets out of jail by promising to help the FBI with cases with his expertise in ... well, just about everything. And he gets to do it from the penthouse apartment of an incredibly cool Manhattan mansion. This is a lesson for all the kids out there. If you are going to be a criminal, make sure

those crimes are in fields where the U.S. government will have no choice but to take you out of jail and have you help them because they can't solve cases without you. Oh, and I also want Peter Burke's dog. Continue reading Review: White Collar - Flip of the Coin Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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(S09E08) Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! Okay, so it wasn't so much the Wonder Twins as an homage to the Wonder Twins. Or Wonder Twins: The Next Generation. You get the idea. The blingy Gleek cell phone was a nice touch. Hell, the ringtone even sounded like an alien monkey. Of course, the Wonder Twins were just gravy for the actual purpose of the episode: to further the legend of the Blur and heighten the Lois/Clark relationship. Like her predecessor in the 1990's Lois & Clark series, Lois is a smart cookie but really

Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy. As you blind when it comes to secret can see from the graph above, the identities. Speaking of cell amount of electricity being phones, her ringtone for the Blur supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t go was very cute indeed. Continue reading Review: below 30% at any point in the 24 hours and is closer to between 40 Smallville - Idol Filed under: Smallville, Episode -50% for most of the… 0 comments Source: Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | g r e e n m o n k . n e t Comments

Galaxy Advance to MLS Cup Final By FanHouse Newswire (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:30:00 AM

by FanHouse Newswire Filed under: MLS CARSON, Calif. -- Gregg Berhalter and Landon Donovan scored in overtime to put the Los Angeles Galaxy into MLS Cup final with a 2-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Friday night. The Galaxy will play in its first Chicago and Real Salt Lake. MLS Cup final since 2005 on Los Angeles will make its sixth Nov. 22 in Seattle against the MLS Cup final appearance since winner of Saturday's Eastern the league began in 1996. The Conference final match between

Galaxy won championships in 2002 and 2005. David Beckham's free kick set up Berhalter's goal in the 102nd minute. The Dynamo's Eddie Robinson tried to clear Omar Gonzalez's header off Beckham's free kick but Berhalter poked the ball into the net from 7 yards. Galaxy Advance to MLS Cup Final originally appeared on Fanhouse Soccer Blog on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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The Fix Picks the NFL: Week 10 (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/13/2009 12:58:03 PM

The stench of some truly awful games in Week 10 is mitigated by two tremendous matchups that should make for compelling viewing: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, where the two rivals will battle for the AFC North lead; and New England at Indianapolis, featuring the NFL’s two winningest teams this decade (the Colts have 109 wins; the Pats, 108) with two electrifying quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. Associated Press Tony Romo has won 13 straight starts in November. Then there are questions: Can New Orleans go to 9-0 for the first time? Can Dallas QB Tony Romo win his 14th straight November start? And why are the Cleveland Browns on “Monday Night Football”? Some things defy logic, and answers. Week 9 recap (overall): David Roth: 5-8 (63-65-1), Garey Ris: 8 -5 (67-61-1), Al Toonie, the Lucky Canadian Two-Dollar Coin: 7-6 (58-70-1) SUNDAY’S GAMES Atlanta (-1) at Carolina: There’s a lot to like about this matchup. OK, seriously. Problems abound for both teams, but Atlanta’s inability to win more than two games in a row could have playoff implications. Falcons QB Matt Ryan has two consecutive wins against the Panthers. He’s also won eight straight when his passer rating is above 100. One

way to get there is to throw to WR Roddy White and TE Tony Gonzalez, who have a combined 10 TD catches. Not so for the struggling Panthers duo of Steve Smith and Mushin Muhammad. GR Pick: David: Atlanta, Garey: Atlanta, Al Toonie: Atlanta Tampa Bay at Miami (-10): It seems like a decade has passed, but the Dolphins are only a year removed from a surprising AFC East division title. Now they’re only 3-5 and facing a Tampa Bay team that finally won last week after a seven-game losing streak to start the season. “Swoon over Miami” pretty much sums up the Dolphins’ scattershot season, although they have won three of their past five games. Blame an offense (23rd) and defense (22nd) ranked in the bottom third overall. As bad as those rankings are, they are better than Tampa Bay’s showing on offense and defense. GR Pick: David: Tampa Bay, Garey: Tampa Bay, Al Toonie: Miami Detroit at Minnesota (-16.5): It’s not a stop-the-virtual-presses moment to say the Lions are awful. A 1-7 record usually befits a team wallowing in the muck and mire of ineptitude, and while QB Matthew Stafford & Co. will see brighter days, the Lions are still rebuilding and this season already is a write-off. Conversely, the Vikings are the class of the NFC North, winning all five conference games, including a 27-13 triumph over

Detroit in Week 2. GR Pick: David: Minnesota, Garey: Minnesota, Al Toonie: Minnesota Jacksonville at New York Jets (7): There’s no such thing as a sure thing, of course, but the Jets look like an easy pick. One reason: Jags QB David Garrard hasn’t thrown a TD in any of Jacksonville’s four road games. The Jaguars’ pass rush is almost nonexistent, too, recording only eight sacks. A bright spot on offense is RB Maurice JonesDrew, the 5-foot-7 dynamo who has scored 11 TDs already. Rookie QB Mark Sanchez would love to regain the form he showed in propelling the Jets to a 3-0 start (606 yards, 4 TDs, 2 picks). GR Pick: David: Jets, Garey: Jets, Al Toonie: Jets Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (-7): It’s been years since a Bengals game in Week 10 has had any significance, but this year they’re looking like — gasp! — a playoff team. A victory on Sunday would give them a sweep of the Steelers, whom they beat in Week 3, 23-20 — as well as a 7-2 mark, good for the AFC North lead. The Bengals’ defense, led by their cornerbacks,

has given up the league’s fifthfewest points and helps a team whose offense is still maturing under QB Carson Palmer. The Steelers are rounding into form (five straight wins) after starting the season with two losses in their first three games. GR Pick: David: Cincinnati, Garey: Cincinnati, Al Toonie: Cincinnati New Orleans (-13.5) at St. Louis: Let’s see: An 8-0 team boasting the NFL’s top-ranked offense (37.9 points per game) meets an also-ran with the league’s fourth-worst scoring defense and an offense sputtering and stumbling to score a leagueworst average of 9.6 points per game. No contest: Drew Brees & Co. by at least 28. GR Pick: David: New Orleans, Garey: New Orleans, Al Toonie: St. Louis Buffalo at Tennessee (-6.5): This is one of those games that make you pine for the day when the Bills and Titans played a meaningful game, because this isn’t. Not with the Bills at 3-5 and the Titans 2-6. The only thing appealing about this game is the fact that it’s a Legacy Game, in which the teams will wear throwback uniforms and helmets. Just seeing the old helmets has me waxing nostalgic about a Bills-Titans game that mattered: say, the Music City Miracle. GR Pick: David: Tennessee, Garey: Tennessee, Al Toonie: Buffalo Denver (-3.5) at Washington: Garey should really be writing

this, if only to explain his pick in this game. For my part, I think GMoney is reaching in picking Washington — against anybody, and against the fading Broncos. Denver is having a hard time of it of late, to the point where some are calling for the team to install Chris Simms as the new quarterback. But the Redskins are the Redskins — flatlined on the field, shorthanded everywhere you look (although Ladell Betts has excelled in relief of Clinton Portis before), and some are sizing up their next coach. In short, they’re a team I wouldn’t pick to win a split-squad scrimmage. DR Pick: David: Denver, Garey: Washington, Al Toonie: Denver Kansas City at Oakland (-1): Are you ready for some football, shut -ins and people who can’t find their remotes or are wearing those Clockwork Orange-style eyelid clamps as part of some sort of sadistic football experiment? I am really sorry if you are. There’s something of a rivalry at play, here, although currently — given the Chiefs’ recent break-up with the incorrigible Larry Johnson— the debate has become centered on which team is “more controversial.” What does that even mean? It means that you should not watch this football game. Although if you signed up for this sadistic football experiment, it’s kind of your FIX page 51

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Pike steps in with 2 TDs as No. 5 Cincy holds on By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

twice in 2004). • Cincinnati had 3 consecutive double-digit win seasons under Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:01:23 AM head coach Brian Kelly. Prior to Cincinnati shakes early mistakes Kelly's arrival, Cincinnati had as Pike's 2 part-time TDs doom one season with double-digit WVU wins (1951). CINCINNATI -- Far from • The Bearcats' 31 wins over the perfect, No. 5 Cincinnati was last three seasons are tied with good enough to stay unbeaten. Florida, Texas, and Boise State Now the Bearcats can try to run for the most in the FBS over that the table with their senior span. quarterback throwing the ball. • Noel Devine became the fifth Tony Pike threw two touchdown player in WVU history to rush passes in a cameo appearance for 3,000 yards in his career. Friday night, and the Bearcats -- ESPN Stats & Information overcame a self-destructive first "It's unbelievable how much half to beat West Virginia 24-21 winning can change a city and for the best start in school how much a city can rally behind history. you," said Pike, who was 2-of-4 Cincinnati (10-0, 6-0 Big East) f o r 1 6 y a r d s a n d t h e t w o struggled offensively because of t o u c h d o w n s . uncharacteristic mistakes -- a A pair of sophomores who fumble, a dropped touchdown opened the season as backups led pass, a missed field goal and an them through. interception -- all in the first half. Isaiah Pead ran for a career-high In the clutch, the Bearcats were 175 yards, and Zach Collaros good enough in front of the threw for 205 yards in his fourth b i g g e s t c r o w d i n N i p p e r t start for Pike, who is recovering Stadium's history. from an injury to his nonFast Facts throwing arm. • Cincinnati started a season 10-0 "We definitely shot ourselves in for the first time in school history the foot a couple of times in the and became the first FBS team to first half," said Collaros, who 10 wins this season. was 17-of-24. "We came back to • Isaiah Pead was the first the sideline and said, 'They're not Bearcat to rush for 100-plus stopping us. As long as we keep yards in the first half in the last doing what we do and take care five seasons (Richard Hall did it of business the way we have the

last nine games, we'll be all right.'" West Virginia (7-3, 3-2) took advantage of the mistakes to keep it close, but couldn't break through. The Mountaineers wasted a chance with 5:23 left, going for it on fourth-and-8 from the Cincinnati 24-yard line. Jarrett Brown's pass into the end zone while under pressure fell incomplete. "I was going for the win," coach Bill Stewart said. "It was going to be tough to stop them. We really hadn't stopped them all night. I couldn't go for the field goal. I figured the game would go to the end." Pead cut across the field on a 43yard run on the next play that put Cincinnati in position to take control. Jake Rogers' 38-yard field goal made it 24-14 with 2:08 left. Brown's touchdown pass against a soft defense cut it to 24-21 with 39 seconds left and West Virginia out of timeouts. Cincinnati's Armon Binns recovered the onside kick to finish it off. "Every loss hurts, but this is a very tough loss," fullback Ryan Clarke said. "This kind of loss really hits you." Pike's return got the Bearcats going. The senior quarterback damaged

the plate in his left forearm a month ago, forcing the inexperienced Collaros to run the offense for the last four games. With a protective brace on his left arm, Pike got back on the field Friday and made an instant impact. He completed Cincinnati's opening drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Binns on his first snap. He also came off the bench and finished the Bearcats' opening drive of the second half with a 6-yard scoring pass to D.J. Woods, a throw zipped between defenders that made it 21-14. "You couldn't ask for anything better," Pike said. "I got a great ovation. You couldn't write a better script, coming in on the first play and throwing a touchdown." Coach Brian Kelly figured it was a good spot for Pike because the Mountaineers wouldn't blitz Pike. To throw a touchdown on the first pass? "I don't know if anybody's ever done that before," Kelly said. "It was kind of crazy." Brown played with a sprained foot and came up limping at times, but made enough important plays to keep it close. Noel Devine, the Big East's second-leading rusher, played with a sore ankle and ran for 88 yards. He was on the sideline

getting his left ankle retaped during the Mountaineers' decisive drive that came up empty. Cincinnati had been the only team in the Bowl Subdivision that hadn't lost a fumble this season. The streak ended when tight end Adrien Robinson coughed it up at midfield after a catch, setting up West Virginia's first score. The Bearcats had another selfdestructive drive in the second quarter, when Robinson dropped a pass in the end zone and Rogers then missed a field goal after a bad snap, keeping it tied. Not for long. Clarke broke a 37yard run on a third-and-short play, putting the Mountaineers up 14-7 midway through the second quarter. Cincinnati hadn't trailed since the third game of the season at Oregon State. There were more Bearcat blunders to come. Pead fumbled while diving over the pile and stretching the ball toward the goal line, with West Virginia recovering. The call was overturned on review, which indicated the ball crossed the goal line before he lost it. Collaros forced a pass that was picked off just before the break for his first interception in his four starts, leaving it tied 14-14 PIKE page 49

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Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, make weight for fight By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

recent typhoon in his native Philippines to starring in an action movie called Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:07:25 PM "Wapakman." The father of four Pacquiao-Cotto Weigh-In Post - - w h o n a m e d o n e o f h i s Pacquiao-Cotto Weigh-In Post daughters Queen Elizabeth -- has L A S V E G A S - - M a n n y so many things going on all the Pacquiao spent long, hard weeks time that even his ever expanding getting ready for one of the entourage has trouble keeping b i g g e s t n i g h t s o f h i s l i f e . track. Hundreds of hours sparring in None of it matters, though, if he sweltering gyms, nearly as many doesn't take care of business o n m o r n i n g r u n s t h r o u g h Saturday night when he again deserted streets. carries the weight of a nation on Not to mention all those nights his shoulders in the latest in a rehearsing with the band. string of fights that have made Many in boxing think Miguel him wildly popular far beyond Cotto will be Pacquiao's toughest his home country. c h a l l e n g e w h e n t h e y m e e t Pacquiao expects it to be his first Saturday night in a highly knockout performance of the anticipated 145-pound fight. But night. after trading punches he has to "For me boxing is a kind of please another kind of crowd entertainment," Pacquiao said. when he takes the stage to sing "You have to entertain people. with his band later that night You have to earn their trust." down the Las Vegas Strip. Pacquiao has done just that in His trainer would rather he his last two fights, giving Oscar concentrate on the immediate De La Hoya such a beating that task at hand. But Freddie Roach he retired and dropping Ricky u n d e r s t a n d s b y n o w t h a t Hatton with one huge punch. Pacquiao can't keep still in the He's gone from being a top-tier ring or out. fighter to being widely regarded "I'm against the concert, of as the best pound-for-pound course," Roach said. "But he fighter in the world, and beating does a lot of stuff. He's Cotto would give him an multitasking all the time." unprecedented seventh title in as The stuff includes everything many weight classes. from helping victims of the It also would set up a bout with

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unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. in one of the biggest fights in boxing history. That's assuming, of course, that Pacquiao can focus on his most important duty of the night. "I set aside everything that can distract my mind," Pacquiao said. "This is the important fight of my life. To win seven titles means 20 or 30 years ago you won't forget my name. Manny Pacquiao will still be there." Though the fight will be for a piece of the welterweight title, it is being held at 145 pounds at the insistence of Pacquiao's camp because Cotto is a natural 147pounder and Pacquiao has fought only once above 140 pounds. The scheduled 12-rounder at sold-out MGM Grand arena will be shown on pay-per-view. Pacquiao weighed in at 144 pounds, his heaviest ever, while Cotto was 145 at a weigh-in Friday attended by some 7,000 fans. The fight has the potential to be one of the most entertaining of recent big bouts, if only because Pacquiao fights in a frenetic style and Cotto loves nothing better than to move forward while throwing a relentless swarm of punches. But there are still questions about Pacquiao's chin against a bigger fighter as well as

how much Cotto has recovered from the beating he took last year at the hands of Antonio Margarito. Oddsmakers make Pacquiao a 2Â˝-1 favorite partly because the betting public is going by his last two performances and partly because he seems to have accomplished the hardest task in boxing -- bringing both his speed punch with him as he moved up in weight in a pro career that began at 105 pounds. "We believe we have an advantage in speed and in power, too," Pacquiao said. "My speed is still there and if you have speed you can create power." Hatton found that out when he was on the receiving end of Pacquiao's left hook, his best punch. But Roach has helped Pacquiao develop a decent right hand in the last few years, too, so opponents can no longer look for just one punch. The fight plan is simple for Pacquiao: Take command early and don't give Cotto a chance to build his confidence. "If we let him win the first few rounds he'll begin to think he can fight with Manny," Roach said. "My job is not to let that happen." Cotto's left hook is his best weapon, too, and until Margarito

-- with the possible help of some suspect hand wraps -- stopped him in the 11th round last year, Cotto was a rising star himself. Cotto struggled in his last fight to win a bloody split decision over Joshua Clottey and Roach, for one, believes he has slowed and is no longer the same fighter he once was. Cotto will make just half of Pacquiao's $13 million guarantee for this fight. He will also have to deal with having a new and untested trainer in his corner and the possibility that his cut against Clottey will be reopened in this fight. The crowd also figures to be against him. "It's just a fight," Cotto said. "I'm not mad that people want me to win this fight or not. If he thinks he is going to win seven titles in seven weight divisions now, he has picked the wrong moment, the wrong fighter and the wrong opponent. If he thinks he is going to win the seventh title against Miguel Cotto, he is very wrong." Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Australian Masters: Tiger Woods falls into tie for lead By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

â&#x20AC;˘ Complete scores Woods hit one poor shot after another on a relatively benign Submitted at 11/14/2009 8:43:40 AM day for scoring and created Woods In Three-Way Tie For opportunities for so many others. Lead Woods In Three-Way Tie He started with a three-shot lead. For Lead By the end of the day, a dozen MELBOURNE, Australia -- The players were separated by four tee shot sailed to the right and shots. onto a sandy path. His driver Chalmers, who hasn't won in bounced left and into the gallery. Australia in 11 years, had the Tiger Woods couldn't get lead for most of the back nine anything straight Saturday in the until he missed a 6-foot par putt Australian Masters. on the 16th hole and a birdie putt About the only thing that gave from about that range on the him hope after he struggled to an 18th. He shot a 69. even-par 72 in the third round at Nitties, who easily secured his Kingston Heath was seeing his PGA Tour card during his rookie name atop the leaderboard in a season in America, agonized over three-way tie for the lead with the so many putts that burned the Australian duo of James Nitties edge early in the round. Even so, and Greg Chalmers. he kept bogeys off his card and "It certainly should have been a also shot a 69. lot worse than that," Woods said. They were at 10-under 206 with Right when the record-setting Woods, who had a chance to gallery was ready to coronate the regain the lead until missing a 10 world's No. 1 player, Woods -foot birdie on the final hole, a squandered a three-shot lead in fitting conclusion to a round he six holes and had to rally on the would rather forget. back nine -- by playing even par - "Didn't hit the ball very good on - just to stay in the hunt. the range, and on the golf course Australian Masters Leaderboard wasn't very good, either," Woods T-1. Woods (-10) said. "I hit some really good T-1. Nitties (-10) shots out there, but also I hit T-1. Chalmers (-10) some really terrible golf shots. T-4. Percy (-8) There was no gray area. Very T-4. Dufner (-8) fortunate to be tied for the lead."

The low point came at the 13th. Woods had played the par-5 12th nearly perfectly until he badly missed a 5-foot birdie putt. Still steaming, he opted for a driver off the tee at the 354-yard 13th, especially with the pin to the back right of the green. The only place he couldn't afford to hit it was to the right. It went well to the right. Woods slammed the head of his driver into the turf, and it bounced up and into the gallery to the left. One surprised fan caught the club and returned it. "That was my mistake," Woods said. "I got hot after a bad tee shot and let go of the club." Woods is playing Down Under for the first time since the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne. This 11-year anniversary took on an additional meaning Saturday, however, with the prospect of Chalmers winning on home soil for the first time in 11 years. He described making up a threeshot deficit to Woods as a "tall order." Tied for the lead with 18 holes is far better odds. "I don't think anybody is sitting around trying to hand the trophy to anybody else," Chalmers said. "I think everyone is fighting to shoot the lowest score they can."

Woods knew he was in for a long day on the par-5 opening hole, among the easiest on the course. He blocked his 3-iron into the hay to the right of the green and failed to make birdie for the first time all week. Even so, his 35-foot birdie on the second gave him a four-shot lead over fellow American Jason Dufner. Four holes later, his lead was gone. Woods three-putted from the fringe on the third, had to make par putts from 8 feet and 18 feet on the seventh and eighth holes, and dropped another shot on the 11th when he chipped from below the green and nearly went into a bunker on the other side. "Today was reflective of how I warmed up," he said. "I'm very fortunate to be tied for the lead. I played myself into a tie. I could have played myself out of the tournament." Dufner took the lead for the first time with a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 8, only to scramble for bogey at No. 9 as Chalmers moved to the top with his 30-foot birdie on the ninth. Dufner didn't make birdie the rest of the way, dropped shots on the 16th and 17th, and shot 71. He was tied with Cameron Percy(69) at 8-

under 208. Michael Sim, who set an earnings record on the Nationwide Tour this year with three victories, had a 69 and was at 6-under 210 with Stuart Appleby(71), while Adam Scott had a 69 and was another shot back. Asked what it would take to win, Nitties jokingly said, "Hope that Tiger doesn't turn up." Nitties spent the first two rounds playing behind Woods, coping with fans who are allowed to stand in crosswalks and surround every green. He gets to play behind him again Sunday, and that's a good thing -- it means he's no longer trailing. Nitties was surprised, not that he was playing in the final group, but that Woods wasn't there, too. "I want to be playing with Tiger. He's my idol. It's disappointing," Nitties said. He paused, then smiled before adding, "It's not that disappointing." Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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fault. DR Pick: David: Kansas City, Garey: Oakland, Al Toonie: Kansas City Seattle at Arizona (-9): Some of this is East Coast Bias, and some of it is Pro-Watchable-Football Bias, but I often find myself forgetting about the Seahawks. It wasn’t so long ago that the team was in the Super Bowl, and the roster is stacked with recognizable names, but Seattle’s sterling, standard-setting mediocrity just kind of passes right through me. The Cardinals are fascinating but maddening — excellent one week, well-oiled flub machine the next — but their baseline competence and Seattle’s lameness on the road should leave this one lopsided. The last playoff-bound team Seattle beat on the road was Minnesota… in 2004. It’s no crime to be biased against a team like that. DR Pick: David: Arizona, Garey: Arizona, Al Toonie: Seattle Dallas (-3) at Green Bay: There’s more wrong with the Packers than a lame offensive line, but let’s give that offensive

line credit: They stink. They’ve allowed an implausible 37 sacks (worst in the NFL by a lot) of patient-to-a-fault quarterback Aaron Rodgers through the first half of the season, and an offense that should be excellent just isn’t. Calling fewer long-gestating deep passes might help, but the O -line is going to struggle against a tough Dallas pass rush no matter what. The Cowboys aren’t worldbeaters, but they have it together enough to beat decent-but-flawed teams. The Packers fit nicely into that category. DR Pick: David: Dallas, Garey: Green Bay, Al Toonie: Dallas Philadelphia at San Diego (-1): The Eagles and Chargers enter Week 10 with a ton of very recognizable names on their injury reports and a host of lessrecognizable names — world, meet Eagles starting linebacker Moise Fokou — in their starting lineups. If the apparent rejuvenation of San Diego’s defense during its current threegame winning streak is for real, they could be getting started on something interesting. But with a host of limping stars on offense

and a stout opponent for a change, San Diego will face a harder test here than in weeks past. The Chargers don’t quite smell right to me, but this will be an interesting sniff test. DR Pick: David: Philadelphia, Garey: San Diego, Al Toonie: San Diego New England at Indianapolis (3): When New England went undefeated during the regular season back in 2007, it was nearbiblical both in its weird wrathfulness and outsize force. Indy’s 8-0 record this year has been less dramatic, as injuries on both sides of the ball have prevented the Colts from really running away with games. New England, on the other hand, has been dominant of late, and seems to be rounding into form. The Colts keep finding ways to win, but with the margins growing slimmer every week, and with rookie corners pressed into duty for Tom Brady to terrorize, it seems like it might be time. “Undefeated” is even harder than it seems; the 18-1 Pats of 2007 can tell you that. DR Pick: David: New England,

Garey: Indianapolis, Al Toonie: New England MONDAY’S GAME Baltimore (-10.5) at Cleveland: Back in the day — you know, the Dennis Miller Era — “Monday Night Football” got the week’s marquee game, but those days are gone. Cleveland is a team that shouldn’t be seen on anything but closed-circuit security televisions, and they will, as usual, be disheartened and overmatched here. Trusting fraudulent genius Eric Mangini to reshape the organization clearly wasn’t a good idea — Jamal Lewis will tell you as much— and sending poor Brady Quinn back out there at quarterback doesn’t seem like the answer to any question worth asking. I know, I haven’t mentioned the Ravens in this preview yet. Do I need to? DR Pick: David: Baltimore, Garey: Baltimore, Al Toonie: Cleveland

The Count: Are Undefeated Colts Favorites Against Pats? (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:10:58 PM

The Indianapolis Colts are 8-0 and playing at home on Sunday against a two-loss opponent. On paper, that should make Indy a heavy favorite. But more advanced NFL measures, taking into account schedule strength and victory margin, aren’t so clear on the outcome. Getty Images Last year Peyton Manning and the Colts had a losing record when they upset the Pats. The visiting 6-2 New England Patriots have a cumulative point differential of 110 points, or one more than the Colts, despite those COUNT: page 52

Resident Evil 2's soy boy returns for Darkside Chronicles By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

character from the hidden "Tofu Survivor" stage in RE2, will return for the Wii-exclusive rail We should have seen this shooter, as confirmed (or concoming, given that Resident Evil: extra-firmed) in this trailer. But Darkside Chronicles recounts not as a protagonist: in Darkside events from Resident Evil 2, but Chronicles' Tofu Mode, many of it never oc-curd to us: Tofu, the the zombies are swapped out for Submitted at 11/14/2009 5:30:00 AM

gelatinous, crumbly, flavorabsorbing tofu. After the break, enjoy a trailer featuring some alternate costumes for the playable characters, all of whom are made of meat, as far as we know. Gallery: Resident Evil: The

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New Orleans Hornets PG Chris Paul Brawl Will 'Spice Up' leaves game with ankle injury Movie About Artest By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com)

game," said Paul, who said he expected about 75 friends and relatives to attend the Atlanta Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:53:54 AM game. "They just took X-rays. I Chris Paul Injured In Defeat don't know anything." Chris Paul Injured In Defeat According to media reports, Paul NEW ORLEANS -- Chris Paul c o u l d m i s s t i m e b e y o n d had to be helped off the court by S a t u r d a y . teammates after apparently The (New Orleans) Timesspraining his left ankle late in the Picayune reported that according third quarter of the Hornets' 86- to a team source, Paul could miss 78 loss to the Portland Trail as much as two weeks. And Blazers on Friday night. Yahoo! Sports, citing NBA Paul left the arena on crutches, sources, reported that Paul is s a y i n g h e w o u l d n o t p l a y expected to miss one to two Saturday night in Atlanta and weeks. beyond that could not be sure Moments after setting up Hilton about how serious the injury was. Armstrong's dunk, Paul appeared "I hate to watch and I hate to to land on Joel Przybilla's foot, know that I'm going to miss a before falling hard to the court

and writhing in pain. It was the same ankle the New Orleans' star point guard twisted earlier in the week during a victory in Los Angeles over the Clippers. Paul had been struggling throughout the game, going 1 of 8 from the field in the Hornets' first game since the firing of coach Byron Scott. Paul had three points, eight assists and five rebounds when he left the game and the Hornets were trailing 6252 at the time. Information from the Associated Press was used in this report This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

By Chris Tomasson (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/14/2009 1:50:00 AM

by Chris Tomasson Filed under: Lakers, Pacers, Pistons, FanHouse Exclusive DENVER -- Five years after the "The Malice at the Palace,'' Ron Artest isn't showing remorse. In fact, one could say he is embracing his infamous place in history. Artest, a Lakers forward, said in an interview Friday with FanHouse he's making a movie about his life. He said he made sure to touch upon the Nov. 19, 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills in order to "kind of spice up the movie a little bit.'' COUNT: In that basketbrawl, Artest, then continued from page 51 with Indiana, charged into the two losses. And while neither three points.) also have demonstrated that stands in the final minute of a team has had a particularly tough New England’s narrow edge in kicking indoors is a lot easier game at Detroit after a fight had schedule, the Pats have had a point differential was the basis than splitting the uprights broken out and a fan had thrown slightly tougher road. Overall, for a retrospective look at the outdoors, and that the NFL’s ban a cup of beer at Artest. The game they rank just ahead of the Colts teams’ past meetings by Daniel on the wedge formation on kick was called, and there were nine at No. 2 in Wayne Winston’s Adler of the Harvard Sports returns hasn’t had any apparent players suspended for a total of strength rankings(behind the Analysis Collective. Picking the effect on yardage. 146 games. Artest got the worst undefeated Saints) and lead both winner based on which team had Elsewhere in NFL numbers, penalty, being sat down for the the Saints and Colts in Football the better Pythagorean record — Mike Tanier explains on Football final 73 games of the season. Outsiders’ weighted DVOA, a method, derived from baseball, Outsiders why the Packers, a Thursday marks the fifth-year which breaks down success on that is based on victory margin team with a good offense and anniversary, and Artest will play every play, weights recent games — was correct in five of the last good defense, has gone 4-4 so that night at home against more than older ones and adjusts nine meetings. (It actually picks far. (It has a lot to do with sacks, for schedule strength. The Colts the Colts, not the Pats, this punt coverage and penalties.) do lead the Pats in Brian Burke’s Sunday, because the Colts have a rankings; Burke says the Colts higher ratio of points scored to have a 69% chance of winning. points allowed.) (Vegas lines favor the Colts by Those Harvard sports analysts

Chicago. Artest, who celebrated his 30th birthday Friday, was asked if he's matured and is a different person since the brawl. "Not really,'' he said before the Lakers were crushed by Denver 105-79 at the Pepsi Center. "I'm the same person.'' Brawl Will 'Spice Up' Movie About Artest originally appeared on Fanhouse NBA Blog on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:50:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Cincinnati Is First to 10 Chris Paul Sprains Wins Ankle, Out 1-2 Weeks By Brett McMurphy (FanHouse)

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by Brett McMurphy Filed under: Cincinnati, West Virginia, Big East CINCINNATI -- The talk all week in Cincinnati -- no make that for the past few weeks -- was when would Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike return? And, if so, would he start? Friday against West Virginia, Pike finally saw his first action in 29 days and even threw two touchdowns, but he was merely a footnote. The real story for the Bearcats was running back Isaiah Pead, who rushed for a careerhigh 175 yards as the fifth-ranked Bearcats did just enough to get past the Mountaineers 24-21. With the victory, Cincinnati became the nation's first team to get to 10-0 this season, but it was anything but a perfect 10.

Playing on Friday the 13th, there were a lot of strange occurrences for the Bearcats, including trailing in a game for the first time in 24 quarters and losing a fumble for the first time this season. Cincinnati Is First to 10 Wins originally appeared on Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:03:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

by Tom Ziller Filed under: Hornets, NBA Injuries Not the best night for the New Orleans Hornets. In the team's first game under new coach Jeff Bower, supernova point guard Chris Paul was ineffective and reportedly frosty through three quarters, before spraining his ankle and leaving the game, an eventual 86-78 loss to the Blazers. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that the ankle injury is severe enough to knock Paul out for up to two weeks. Despite the Hornets' disappointing start, Paul has been the best player in the league statistically. Paul is averaging nearly 24 points and nine assists per game, and has shot 59 percent from the field and 65 percent from three. Rookie Darren Collison played the fourth quarter of Friday's game and is

Kobe: LeBron Using Head, Not Mouth By Chris Tomasson (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/14/2009 2:34:00 AM

expected to start Saturday in Atlanta. More Coverage: Fantasy Impact Chris Paul Sprains Ankle, Out 12 Weeks originally appeared on Fanhouse NBA Blog on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:11:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

by Chris Tomasson Filed under: Cavaliers, Lakers, FanHouse Exclusive DENVER -Do as I say and not as I do. Or, at least not what Kobe Bryant once did. While bound for free agency in the summer of 2004, the Lakers star openly spoke about teams he might consider. But Bryant now KOBE: page 54

Westphal Having Fun, Nellie Looks Done By Matt Steinmetz (FanHouse)

Don Nelson might not know it, but they find themselves in similar situations. Both are Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:20:00 PM experienced coaches trying to by Matt Steinmetz guide young teams, each with a Filed under: Kings, Warriors, few veterans sprinkled in. NBA Coaches SACRAMENTO - The expectations for both teams - Sacramento Kings coach Paul are low, with few believing either postseason. Both teams have Westphal and Warriors coach team will sniff the NBA's

intriguing rookie point guards ( Tyreke Evans/ Stephen Curry), talented but flawed shooting guards ( Kevin Martin/ Monta Ellis) and promising second-year power forwards ( Jason Thompson/ Anthony Randolph). But stop right there. That's where the comparison ends.

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Islanders Coach Caught! (Rapping and Dancing in 1986 Video) By Christopher Botta (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/14/2009 11:00:00 AM

by Christopher Botta Filed under: Islanders, NHL Fans, NHL Videos, College Hockey Scott Gordon was told, with a purposeful tint of vagueness, that a reporter had a question "about your days in Boston College." "I bet you do," said the head coach of the New York Islanders. Gordon had been warned about this two weeks ago. The video, the one he filmed in 1986, was recently re-discovered, dropped on the world wide web and slowly but surely was starting to

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says Cleveland star LeBron James is making the right decision by deciding earlier this week to stop talking about his impending free agency. "He doesn't need to,'' Bryant said in an interview with FanHouse while in Denver for Friday's 10579 loss to the Nuggets. "He did the right thing by not talking about it. I mean, what can you say?''

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Brazil proposes carbon cut target (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/13/2009 5:14:46 PM

The Brazilian government has announced that it aims to achieve a reduction of at least 36% on its carbon emissions by the year 2020. If it meets its pledge, greenhouse gas emissions would be near 1994 levels. The proposal, which is not a binding target, was revealed in advance of the major UN summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen in December. Brazil hopes to put pressure on richer nations to declare their intentions and break the deadlock in the negotiations. Details of the government's proposals were unveiled following a meeting involving President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and some of his senior ministers. 'Ambitious' target

In common with other developing nations, Brazil is not setting a binding target for reducing carbon emissions, but is instead proposing to take voluntary action. However with its promise to reduce the anticipated level of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 by 36%-39%, South America's largest country hopes to encourage others. Officials here regard the proposal as "ambitious" and a meaningful way to combat climate change. Much of the proposed reduction is expected to be achieved by improved protection of the Amazon. The government here announced this week that deforestation in the rainforest was its lowest level since monitoring first began 21 years ago. Deforestation is blamed for more than half of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions.

At the highest end of the proposed range of cuts, emissions would be reduced to nearly 1994 levels, but ministers say international and private sector help would be needed to reach this kind of objective. A senior official involved in the preparations for Copenhagen said while some richer industrialised nations deserved praise for their efforts to combat climate change, as a group they had not been prepared to put their numbers on the table. Brazil hopes it can play a leading role in securing an agreement in Copenhagen, and as part of that effort, President Lula will hold talks in Paris this weekend with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Ubisoft aims to 'quickly' soar to a 10% market share By Xav de Matos (Joystiq)

"quickly." At its core, Ubisoft's plan was detailed as a three-pronged D u r i n g t h e B M O C a p i t a l approach: A focus on present and Markets Digital Entertainment future consoles, online and social Conference, Ubisoft CEO Yves networks and entertainment Guillemot told attendees his convergence. In June 2009, company aims to capture a 10 Ubisoft revealed the cross-game percent market share in the interface social media and digital f l o o d e d g a m e s i n d u s t r y . platform, Uplay-- a web-based According to Guillemot (via service it hopes will allow GamesIndustry.biz), Ubisoft developers to better connect with currently stands at "around 6 p l a y e r s . A p a r t f r o m t h i s percent," but the executive "confluence" concept, Ubisoft believes his company can expand has continued its convergence its reach using a multi-tiered s t r a t e g y b y e x p a n d i n g i t s strategy to raise its share very marketing reach to gamers Submitted at 11/14/2009 4:00:00 AM

through various forms of media and through the use of its movie license agreements. "We have many opportunities to gain market share," Gillemot said

during the event, echoing statements made during its Q2 earnings call last week regarding the importance of leveraging upcoming technology from

Microsoft and Sony. And let's face it, if pre-order data is to be believed, Ubisoft will soon be diving into giant wells of loot following the release of Assassin's Creed 2... and that has to help the company inch closer to its 10 percent goal. Ubisoft aims to 'quickly' soar to a 10% market share originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Man forced by kidnappers to purchase a PlayStation 3 By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)

having him steal his stepfather's credit card, and then drive to the local Walmart where they made You can tell the recession is him buy them a PlayStation 3. dramatically affecting folks all Naples News reports that the over the United States when suspected assailants entered the stories about kidnappers forcing P e b b l e b r o o k e L a k e s g a t e d their detainee to buy them community in a white truck, with gaming consoles arise. That's Yarkosky following behind on exactly what Kyle Yarkosky is foot, said to be headed to "meet a alleging that David Daniels and friend." Instead, the truck another unnamed suspect did to allegedly stopped, with Daniels h i m , a f t e r f o r c i n g h i m a t and "an Asian-looking man" gunpoint into their vehicle, exiting and ordering Yarkosky Submitted at 11/14/2009 11:30:00 AM

into their vehicle. The two suspects are said to have forced Yarkosky to steal his stepfather's credit card and drive to a local

Yarkosky purchase a PlayStation 3. According to reports, Daniels then told Yarkosky he was "free to go," thus ending the ordeal. [Thanks Kreyg!] Man forced by kidnappers to purchase a PlayStation 3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of Walmart, where Daniels intended feeds. on having a gun purchased. Read| Permalink| Email this| When the gun counter was Comments closed, he then requested

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EA job listing hints at online multiplayer for Dead Space 2 By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)

MMO Roundup: Massively's week in review By Shawn Schuster (Joystiq)

fans are still asking the big question: When? Obviously the planned 2008 beta didn't happen, When it comes to MMO news and now fans will have to wait a and special features, Joystiq bit longer. Will Star Trek Online sister site Massively.com has you be ready for its launch? covered. Whether you're looking It's no secret that a lot of people for info on the hottest new in the MMO blogosphere are MMO, or you're just curious excited about Star Trek Online, about an old favorite, you'll find considering that it's more or less it at Massively. Check out our a built-in home run from many of biggest features of the week: the same people who play NCsoft hints at Guild Wars 2 MMOs. But there are certainly beta in 2010, launch in 2011 questions to be asked about any While the bits of information MMO due out soon, especially given here and there add up to one with three more months something relatively substantial, before it hits launch day. Bio Submitted at 11/14/2009 1:30:00 AM

Break asks the question in simplest terms: will the game really be all set for a February release? Continue reading MMO Roundup: Massively's week in review MMO Roundup: Massively's week in review originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

based on the fact that we have no idea how it would work out. Given the first game's heavy If an Electronic Arts job listing f o c u s o n " s t r a t e g i c is any indication, Dead Space 2 is dismemberment," we can only set to receive a gameplay feature imagine that multiplayer matches that none of us saw coming -- w i l l q u i c k l y d e v o l v e i n t o online multiplayer support. The hilarious, appendage-removing listing, which calls for the aid of duels. Kind of like Bushido a " S e n i o r O n l i n e L e v e l Blade meets the Black Knight Designer," mentions that the new scene from Monty Python and hire should "be able to work the Holy Grail. (Actually, that collaboratively with Creative sounds pretty awesome!) Director and Online Producer to [Thanks, Andrew!] create extremely fun, satisfying EA job listing hints at online and polished multiplayer levels." multiplayer for Dead Space 2 Those who desire to create droll, originally appeared on Joystiq on u n s a t i s f y i n g a n d s h o d d y Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST. m u l t i p l a y e r l e v e l s s h o u l d Please see our terms for use of probably look for employment feeds. elsewhere. Read| Permalink| Email this| We'd call this move surprising Comments Submitted at 11/14/2009 1:30:00 PM

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Raichu cosplayer uses Marriage Proposal By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

And now that they've done this - a proposal in Pikachu and Raichu outfits, all floppy fake When Chris Herbert decided to mouse ears on their hats and pop the question to his girlfriend yellow glove slipped off to try on of three years, Belle Starenchak, the ring that came out of the he picked the most romantic Pokeball -- we believe that the place he could think of: Anime world's quota for PokemonWeekend Atlanta, with both themed proposals has just been dressed as Pokemon. It ... kind of filled. makes sense for them. By the way, it was super Belle, or "PikaBelleChu," is effective. See the moment after featured in the Guinness Book of the break. World Records: Gamer Edition Continue reading Raichu f o r h e r m a s s i v e P i k a c h u cosplayer uses Marriage Proposal memorabilia collection, and Raichu cosplayer uses Marriage Herbert met her by staging a Proposal originally appeared on Pokemon auction. So while we Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 might be tempted to laugh, it 07:05:00 EST. Please see our would seem that the pursuit of ' terms for use of feeds. em all is a major component of Read| Permalink| Email this| this couple's lives. Comments Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:05:00 AM

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Showing Some Love for India at the Taj Pierre By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/13/2009 10:56:44 AM

Now available in stores, To India with Love: From New York to Mumbai, a coffee-table-bound By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) download. travel scrapbook made by some (To be fair, the dinosaurs of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most fashionable Submitted at 11/14/2009 2:31:00 AM featured in Dino D-Day are travelers. Jewelry designer and Okay -- Time Gentlemen, Please unable to speak, so it's difficult to actor Waris Ahluwalia was featured a number of Hitler- know whether they harbor the inspired to produce the book in Heiling prehistoric lizards, so we disturbing political and social c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h T i n a guess there's now two games out b e l i e f s o f t h e N a z i p a r t y . Bhojwani, SVP at Link Theory t h e r e w h i c h f e a t u r e N a z i However, they're affiliated with H o l d i n g s ( U S ) I n c . , a n d Dinosaurs. Still, the more recent them in combat, so we've got no Mortimer Singer, SVP of Marvin title to boast the hybrid, a Half- reservations about punching them Traub Associates, to benefit Life 2 mod titled Dino D-Day, r e p e a t e d l y i n t h e i r s t u p i d those affected by the November actually allows you to go toe to d i n o s a u r f a c e s . ) 2008 attacks in Mumbai. talon with with these fanged, There's a game that exists which Contributors include Owen scaly members of the Third h a s N a z i D i n o s a u r s i n i t W i l s o n , W e s A n d e r s o n Reich. You can check out an originally appeared on Joystiq on (Ahluwalia has had roles in many overwhelmingly patriotic trailer Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:31:00 EST. of Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s films), Natalie for the mod over on ModDB -- Please see our terms for use of Portman, and Anjelica Huston, as or, if you're in the mood to feeds. well as fashion luminaries massacre some Nazi Dinos right Read| Permalink| Email this| Cynthia Rowley, Tory Burch, now, the mod is also available to Comments Rachel Roy, and British designer Matthew Williamson. ELLE's own Fashion News Director Anne Slowey, who has been a SHOWING page 58

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Nars Fetes Its 15th By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

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Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 11/14/2009 10:26:14 AM

NEW YORK – Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios. He was calm under pressure. A good leader. Last fall, Pigott responded to a WOMAN page 60

Peru and Chile in 'spy' scandal (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

"I am returning 24 hours earlier than scheduled so I can obtain complete and sufficient Submitted at 11/14/2009 2:46:23 AM information (on the issue) and to A new diplomatic row has be able to speak from Peru," Mr erupted between Peru and Chile Garcia said, quoted by AFP new after a Peruvian court ordered the agency. arrest of two Chilean military Reports in the Peruvian media officers over alleged spying. said Lima had recalled its The court accused the officers of ambassador to Chile for talks. paying a Peruvian air force Claims dismissed officer to reveal national secrets. Speaking in Singapore, Chile's C h i l e a n F o r e i g n M i n i s t e r foreign minister said: "Chile does Mariano Fernandez has denied not engage in espionage. h i s g o v e r n m e n t h a s b e e n "We dismiss any charges [that] involved in espionage. the Chilean government is But Peru's President Alan Garcia involved in anything illegal in said he was leaving the Asia- regards to relations between the Pacific summit in Singapore a two countries," Mr Fernandez day early over the row. added. He also said he had cancelled The Peruvian air force officer, planned talks with his Chilean Victor Ariza Mendoza, has been counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, arrested and charged with spying. at the Apec summit. Lima-based El Comercio

reported that Mr Ariza had worked at the Peruvian embassy in Santiago in 2003. Tensions are already strained between the two countries following a military exercise staged by Chile last month near its disputed border with Peru. Peru and Chile have been embroiled in a bitter border dispute since the late 19th century, when Chile defeated Peru in the War of the Pacific. The countries also disagree on their maritime border, and last year Peru took Chile to the international court in The Hague to seek a resolution. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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New York 9/11 trial ignites row (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:48:36 PM

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US Attorney General Eric Holder: "We will pursue the maximum punishment" Senior US Republicans have condemned the Obama administration's move to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said bringing the suspects from Guantanamo into the US would put "Americans unnecessarily at risk". The five will be tried in a civilian court near Ground Zero. The prosecution says it will seek the death penalty. Democrats hailed the decision, while families of 9/11 victims are divided. The move is part of US President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo detention centre for terror suspects. "The Department of Justice will pursue prosecution in federal court of the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks," US Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference. "I fully expect to direct prosecutors to seek the death penalty against each of the alleged 9/11 conspirators." But Republican leaders

immediately criticised the move. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell described it as "a step backwards for the security of our country" that "puts Americans unnecessarily at risk". Former President George W Bush's last attorney general, Michael Mukasey, said: "The Justice Department claims that our courts are well suited to the task. Based on my experience trying such cases and what I saw as attorney general, they aren't." Bloomberg support Sen John McCain, a Republican who lost to Mr Obama in the 2008 presidential race, stated that military tribunals were the best venue for terror suspects. "They are war criminals, who committed acts of war against

our citizens and those of dozens of other nations," he said. About 70 prisoners are in limbo. There is not enough useable evidence for a military or a civilian trial yet no other country will so far take them and release is seen as too dangerous. Guantanamo Bay, as the attorney general indicated, is therefore unlikely to close by the deadline. The announcement also confirmed military commissions will go ahead in some cases, so the move to civilian trials is not a general one. It remains to be seen whether the trial will accept any alleged confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as it might have been based on water-boarding, or whether, in a courtroom close to

Ground Zero, he will seek to glory in the attacks. But Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said the decision demonstrates "to the world that the most powerful nation on earth also trusts its judicial system". New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg - an independent also backed the move: "It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered." Two Yemenis, a Saudi and a Pakistani-born Kuwaiti will face trial alongside Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They are accused of helping finance and plan the attacks of 11 September 2001 in which nearly

3,000 people were killed. No date was given for a trial, but US media reports say Congress needs at least 45 days' notice before the detainees can be transferred to the US. The five men had until now been facing prosecution at US military commissions in Guantanamo. The government had faced a 16 November deadline to decide how to proceed in their cases. Five other detainees have been referred for military commission trials. 'Barbarians' Mr Mohammed has been described by US investigators as "one of history's most infamous terrorists". They say he has admitted being responsible "from A to Z" for the 9/11 attacks. Believed to be the number three al-Qaeda leader, he was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. He told a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo in December 2008 that he wanted to plead guilty to all charges against him. However intelligence memos released earlier this year revealed he had been subjected to harsh interrogation techniques including water-boarding on multiple occasions since his capture - potentially rendering some evidence inadmissible. Some relatives of 9/11 victims expressed anger at the decision. "We have a president who doesn't know we're at war," said Debra Burlingame, whose NEW page 65

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call of a naked man teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at officers below with a long fluorescent light bulb. Among New York police work, not an extraordinary case. Pigott made a split decision to order an officer to fire a stun gun, but the order backfired, leading to the man's death â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Pigott's eventual suicide. "I was trying to protect my guys that day! ... I can't bear to lose my family and go to jail," he wrote in capital letters in a suicide note to his three children and wife, who is now suing the city and police department because she believes the NYPD threw her husband to the wolves as it sought a scapegoat in the case. Though suicide is relatively rare among police officers, experts say it's important for officers, especially those in charge like Pigott, to feel they have the support of their superiors and their community. Yet that's hard to come by, especially after an event like the Tasered man's death that puts the entire department under a spotlight and takes on a life of its own through viral videos. Susan Pigott says in her lawsuit that NYPD disciplinary action after the incident caused "extreme emotional anguish, humiliation, depression, fear and shame." The suit was filed to

clear her husband's name, she said. It seeks no specific monetary claim. The city Law Department, which is handling the case, issued a short statement. "While the loss of lives was clearly tragic, we are unable to comment any further due to the pending litigation," said Mark Palomino, chief of the special litigation unit. Pigott, who died on his 46th birthday, was an emergency services officer for six years and a member of the department for more than 20. The team deals with hostage situations, suicidal suspects, building collapses and hazardous materials threats. It's a place for cool heads who can deal with the unpredictable. They are the best of the best at the nation's largest police department. "He had saved people who were attempting suicide on bridges; he had gone to sites where people were going to fall and he rescued them," said the family's attorney, Rodney Lapidus. "He was a cop's cop." But that day he made the wrong call, and Iman Morales died. Morales had a history of emotional problems, and witnesses and neighbors said he had grown increasingly agitated and threatened to kill himself, prompting his mother to call 911. When police arrived, Morales fled out the window of his third-

floor apartment. Pigott ordered Officer Nicholas Marchesona to fire the Taser. The 5,000-volt shock immobilized the 35-year-old Morales, who then toppled from his perch. He plunged 10 feet to the ground and died. Officers had radioed for an inflatable bag as the incident unfolded, but it had not yet arrived when Morales fell. The confrontation was caught on amateur video, and the media pressure was immediate and intense. Tabloids posted the video on their Web sites, and it was played over and over on local news as an angry Morales family and community demanded disciplinary action. Reporters surrounded Pigott's home. He apologized to the family, saying he was "truly sorry." Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said quickly afterward that it appeared Pigott had violated department rules with his order. He was stripped of his gun and badge and demoted to a job with the department's motor vehicle fleet. The Brooklyn prosecutor's office and the police department investigated, routine when a death occurs involving officers, but the case still plagued Pigott. He never spoke to an attorney. "He was thinking he was going to be prosecuted and the city wasn't going to be backing us at all," Susan Pigott said.

It's difficult for civilians to understand the pressures of police work, and the effect of intense scrutiny, especially after a traumatic event, according to psychologists who counsel officers. "If you're a cop and you make a mistake, you don't have the next day. The decision is made in a millisecond: to pull the trigger, to give an order to fire or not to fire, not to go into a dark alley," said Dr. Daniel Goldfarb, who has been counseling officers in Long Island's Suffolk County for decades. "Your decisions are far more rapid than the public makes." And the repercussions can be much more isolating and tragic. "Among their worst fears is being put up on trial for doing their job as best they could," said Dr. Daniel Rudofossi, a former NYPD officer who counseled officers and is now an administrative clinician with the Drug Enforcement Administration. "Though it's not usual to act out that quickly." Pigott was ordered to undergo counseling, but it's not clear whether he attended any sessions. There's been great improvement in the NYPD and in other departments with peer support and counseling to try to break the stigma of the stoic officer. But it's still difficult to get officers to talk, Rudofossi said.

Depression, stress and trauma are common, but suicide is not. The suicide rate for NYPD officers is lower than that of average New Yorkers, according to a 2002 study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Susan Pigott said her husband didn't bring his work home with him. But that week he seemed pretty depressed. "'My life is on the line, my job is on the line. What's going to happen to me?' were just a few of the things that he expressed," Susan Pigott said. He grew increasingly distraught. Eight days after the stun gun confrontation, on the day Morales was to be buried, Pigott killed himself with a single shot to the head from a 9 mm Glock handgun at his unit's headquarters. "I love you all I'm sorry for the mess!!" he wrote to his family, signing the letter with careful, flowery script, "Michael Pigott." ___ Associated Press writer Frank Eltman contributed to this report from Bohemia, N.Y. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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still too raw. "Ripping that scab open will create a tremendous hardship," he NEW YORK – The move to put said. the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 Some city leaders seemed to mastermind on trial just blocks relish the chance to hold the from ground zero raises a host of evildoers accountable at the legal, political and security scene of the crime. questions, chief among them: "It is fitting that 9/11 suspects Can a fair-minded jury be found face justice near the World Trade in a city still nursing deep Center site where so many New wounds from the attack on the Yorkers were murdered," Mayor World Trade Center? Michael Bloomberg said. Some also worry that the trial of New York Police Commissioner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will Raymond W. Kelly also said that make New York an even bigger holding the trial in the city most terrorist target, and that he will devastated by the 2001 attack is use the proceedings to incite appropriate, and he pronounced m o r e v i o l e n c e a g a i n s t the Police Department prepared Americans. to meet any security challenge. The loudest protests Friday came It may be years before from relatives of the victims, Mohammed is brought to trial, many of whom oppose any and there is no guarantee the civilian trial for terror suspects proceedings will actually be held — especially at the federal in the city. courthouse 1,000 yards from the A defense attorney is almost spot where nearly 3,000 people certain to ask the judge to move died. the proceedings to someplace less "If we have to bring them to the likely to produce a jury tainted by United States, New York City is extreme hatred of the defendant, not the place to have it, let alone said James Benjamin, a New in a courthouse that is in the York City lawyer who has shadows of the twin towers," said studied terrorism prosecutions. Lee Ielpi, whose firefighter son Still, he added, the city has died in the 9/11 attacks. The handled big terrorism cases city's wounds, he said, are simply before. Submitted at 11/14/2009 9:17:48 AM

Trials arising from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and another plot to attack city landmarks were held in federal court in New York. Manhattan has jails ready to receive Mohammed. Terrorism defendants have been taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center— an austere, 10-story building next to the courthouse — and placed in solitary confinement in 10 South, a cellblock for high-risk prisoners. For the 2001 trial in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, spectators had to pass through two sets of metal detectors, the courtroom and surrounding hallways were monitored around the clock, and videotape recorded any movements. The defendants were stripsearched before being led through a passageway connecting the jail to the courthouse. Their feet were shackled throughout the proceedings, the chains shielded from the jury by a curtain attached to the defense table. "The courts have handled many sensational cases fairly and effectively over the years," Benjamin said. Civil rights groups, including the

American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, said Muhammad is likely to be treated more fairly in New York, despite the hatred for him here, than he would before a military tribunal. In announcing that Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed confidence that a "searching, complete" selection process would produce a fair-minded jury. "We can come up with a process that ensures the defendants can get a fair trial in New York," he said. Still, others with close personal ties to the case predicted chaos. "It will be a travesty!" said Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame, one of the pilots of the airliners hijacked on Sept. 11. She said Mohammed's court appearances will be a "three-ring circus," with the defendant using every opportunity to spout antiAmerican views as he did in front of 9/11 family members who traveled to Guantanamo to face him in court. "He's going to be exulting in the suffering of the families," she said. "He will ridicule the judge. He will ridicule his lawyers. He

will rally his jihadi brothers all over the world to kill more Americans." She said she was sickened by "the prospect of these barbarians being turned into victims by their attorneys." New York Rep. Peter King, a Republican who favors trials before a military tribunal, said that providing security for the Mohammed case would further stretch the Police Department's resources. "They already have 1,000 cops working on counterterrorism," he said. King, who previously complained to the attorney general that transferring Guantanamo detainees to New York for a trial "will make New York City that much more of a target," said he hadn't changed his mind about the risk. As for Mohammed, the congressman warned: "I think this is the moment he's been waiting for." ___ Associated Press writers Tom Hays and Warren Levinson contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Football Players Clad in Camouflage to Salute Military (FOXNews.com)

Ivey said the military connection adds a dimension to the game. Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:37:12 AM “Knowing we’re playing not just COLUMBIA, S.C. South for ourselves, but for wounded Carolina and Maryland will veterans, I think it will encourage emerge from their locker rooms us to persevere because that’s Saturday wearing camouflage their life,” he said. uniforms with military values When it came time to try to such as “Duty,” “Honor,” and return to the football field, “Courage” on the back in place Grooms drew inspiration from of names to honor those who T i m “ P o p s ” F r i s b y , S o u t h have served. Carolina’s 40-ish former Army Few will understand as well as Ranger receiver who played for 26-year-old Gamecocks long Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier. snapper Matt Grooms, who Grooms’ football days looked served four years in the Marine done after Marlboro County High Corps. School. A so-so offensive Grooms spent six months in linemen with average grades and Kuwait outfitting and fixing no college options, Grooms transport trucks in Iraq. He was followed older brother, Donald, nearly killed by a virus and was into the Marine Corps in August rattled by an American missile 2001. that exploded too close to camp. After basic training, Grooms Still, he said it was “the best four shipped off to Camp Lejeune in years I’ve had.” North Carolina where he worked Come Saturday, Grooms and his as a mechanic on military trucks. Gamecocks teammates, who play Soon, though, his direction No. 1 Florida, and Maryland, changed with the Sept. 11 taking on No. 20 Virginia Tech, attacks. “We knew we were also will be sporting different going to war,” he said. uniforms—desert and black Grooms, a corporal, was camo. The jerseys and equipment deployed to Kuwait for a sixwill go up for auction, and some month stint in 2004. He mostly of the money will help The stayed at camp, repairing five-ton Wounded Warrior Project, which troop transports and Humvees. aids wounded service members. But he was rarely out of sight or Watch the Fox News Channel's earshot of gunfire. live reports from South Carolina “You could see the little flashes starting at noon EST. all the time,” he said. Terps defensive lineman Travis As his four-year hitch ended in

2005, Grooms considered a military career— until a faulty U.S. Tomahawk missile blew up a building on base and rattled Grooms’ nerves. Once home, Grooms wasn’t sure what to do next. He worked at a hospital, yet couldn’t shake his desire for football and remembered Frisby, the 20-year veteran who walked on to the Gamecocks and shared his story with late night hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman. “If he could do, then I could stick it out, too,” Grooms said. Grooms moved to Columbia and spent two years improving his grades at a technical school, dropping by South Carolina practices for inspiration. He enrolled at South Carolina in spring 2008 and went to a walkon tryout, where he caught the eye of then special teams coach Ray Rychleski. When he showed up for spring workouts, the once-in-shape Marine was about 90 pounds or so over his Parris Island weight and not ready for gassers. He blacked out during 100-yard wind sprints and staggered to the sidelines. The next day, Grooms got so dehydrated, he left practice in an ambulance. And Rychleski, now the Indianapolis Colts special teams coach, figured he’d never see Grooms again.

Wrong. Grooms got on a workout plan every bit as intense as boot camp. And a few months later, Grooms was a trimmer, stronger, focused athlete ready to go. “I lost weight, gained a bunch of speed, really felt good,” Grooms said. The improvement showed, and “Groomsy,” as coach Spurrier calls him, earned his spot. Grooms isn’t South Carolina’s only vet. Walk-on linebacker Matt Ansley, 20, spent 18 months served on the front lines in Iraq with the Army Reserves as a gunner. A request to speak with Ansley was turned down. Every so often, Grooms gets questions from teammates about life in Iraq. Sometimes, they touch nerves. “They don’t understand,” Grooms said quietly. That’s a bond for the veterans, who inspire others to follow them back onto the football field. Although he last played four years ago, Frisby continues to receive letters, e-mails and calls from ex-military men turned players grateful for his example. “It’s often not too late to do anything,” he said. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

'Balloon Boy' Parents May Get Jail Time, or TV Deals (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/14/2009 5:30:27 AM

FORT COLLINS, Colo. The Colorado parents of three children could wind up in jail after admitting in court they fabricated a story about their son in a runaway balloon to gain publicity for a possible reality TV show. Richard Heene appeared before a Larimer County District Court judge first, pleading guilty to a felony count of falsely influencing the sheriff who led the rescue effort during the 50mile balloon chase that captivated a global television audience Oct. 15. Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of knowingly filing a false report with emergency services. Prosecutors said she had a lower level of culpability and cooperated with authorities, telling investigators the balloon launch was a publicity stunt two weeks in the making. But even as the Heenes entered their guilty pleas, their attorneys' comments in court set off speculation of talk show appearances or other deals. Judge Stephen Schapanski agreed to the attorneys' request that the couple be allowed to travel to New York and California to explore 'BALLOON page 65

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Some Fort Hood victims' funerals set for Saturday (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:28:50 AM

KIEL, Wis. – When Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger joined the U.S. Army Reserves after the 2001 terrorist attacks, she vowed to hunt down Osama bin Laden. When her mother said she couldn't do it alone, the soldier defiantly told her, "Watch me." Krueger and several of the other 12 victims of the Fort Hood shooting rampage were set to be mourned at funerals across the country Saturday. On Friday, hundreds packed into the Kiel High School gymnasium for a visitation for Krueger, 29, who was remembered as a determined, energetic young woman. "We know what happened, but we don't know why it happened," said Geneva Isely, 57. "To give her all the way she did — and on United States soil. Just unbelievable." Krueger was set to deploy to Afghanistan for a second time in December and had recently

arrived at Fort Hood for training. She had been studying psychology at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and was a mental health specialist who wanted to help soldiers cope with combat stress. She also loved playing sports, shooting pool and was a partygoer who sang karaoke and belted out songs by rapper Eminem. "Her smile would light up any room, her energy would envelope all of those around her," her parents, Jeri and David Krueger, said in a statement. "It is that smile and that energy that keeps us going throughout this difficult time." She was to be buried in a private service. Funerals also were planned Saturday for Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah; Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, an Indiana native who lived in Evans, Ga., with his wife and daughter; Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, a psychiatric nurse who worked for San Diego

County, Calif.; Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla.; and Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolingbrook, Ill. Utah's congressional delegation, governor and the president of the Mormon church were among those expected to attend services for Nemelka, an Eagle Scout who carried on a family tradition by joining the Army a little more than a year ago. "Aaron was a man of few words but deep feelings and a gentle disposition," according to an obituary in Salt Lake City newspapers. "His beautiful smile and cheerful, fun-loving personality endeared him to his many friends and family members." In Plymouth, Ind., small American flags were to be distributed downtown to honor DeCrow. His body was to be escorted from a funeral home to a church by military members, police officers and Indiana Patriot Guard motorcyclists. "It tears at your heart that it was someone from our community,"

Mayor Mark Senter said. "People will be out to support him and all that he did for our country." In Kiel, an eastern Wisconsin town of 3,500 and selfproclaimed "little city that does big things," Krueger knew Mayor Robert Werdeo Jr. simply as "Uncle Bob." "She had that constant, everloving smile — except when she was playing pool. Then she was there to win," Werdeo said. "Just a very strong-willed, determined, beautiful young lady." Werdeo said Krueger always wore an Army hat or shirt around town and received a tattoo shortly before leaving for Fort Hood, where authorities allege Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at a processing center last week. With a tattered flag in the background, Krueger's tattoo read: "All gave some. Some gave all. Sacrifice." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Funerals for Some Fort Hood Victims Set for Saturday (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:09:44 AM

KIEL, Wis. When Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger joined the U.S. Army Reserves after the 2001 terrorist attacks, she vowed to hunt down Usama bin Laden. When her mother said she couldn't do it alone, the soldier defiantly told her, "Watch me." Krueger and several of the other 12 victims of the shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas were set to be mourned at funerals across the country Saturday. On Friday, hundreds packed into the Kiel High School gymnasium for a visitation for Krueger, 29, who was remembered as a determined, energetic young woman. "We know what happened, but we don't know why it happened," said Geneva Isely, 57. "To give her all the way she did â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and on United States soil. Just unbelievable." SLIDESHOW: Fort Hood

Victims Krueger was set to deploy to Afghanistan for a second time in December and had recently arrived at Fort Hood for training. She had been studying psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and was a mental health specialist who wanted to help soldiers cope with combat stress. She also loved playing sports, shooting pool and was a partygoer who sang karaoke and belted out songs by rapper Eminem. "Her smile would light up any room, her energy would envelope all of those around her," her parents, Jeri and David Krueger, said in a statement. "It is that smile and that energy that keeps us going throughout this difficult time." She was to be buried in a private service. Funerals also were planned Saturday for Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah; Staff Sgt. Justin M.

DeCrow, 32, an Indiana native who lived in Evans, Georgia, with his wife and daughter; Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, a psychiatric nurse who worked for San Diego County, California; Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Oklahoma; and Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Utah's congressional delegation, governor and the president of the Mormon church were among those expected to attend services for Nemelka, who carried on a family tradition by joining the Army a little more than a year ago. "Aaron was a man of few words but deep feelings and a gentle disposition," according to an obituary in Salt Lake City newspapers. "His beautiful smile and cheerful, fun-loving personality endeared him to his many friends and family members." In Plymouth, Indiana, small American flags were to be distributed downtown to honor

DeCrow. His body was to be escorted from a funeral home to a church by military members, police officers and Indiana Patriot Guard motorcyclists. "It tears at your heart that it was someone from our community," Mayor Mark Senter said. "People will be out to support him and all that he did for our country." In Kiel, an eastern Wisconsin town of 3,500 and selfproclaimed "little city that does big things," Krueger knew Mayor Robert Werdeo Jr. simply as "Uncle Bob." Werdeo said Krueger always wore an Army hat or shirt around town and received a tattoo shortly before leaving for Fort Hood, where authorities allege Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at a processing center last week. With a tattered flag in the background, Krueger's tattoo read: "All gave some. Some gave all. Sacrifice." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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"employment opportunities." David Lane, Richard Heene's lawyer, declined to elaborate as he left the courtroom, and Heene waved off questions. SLIDESHOW: 'Balloon Boy' Hoax Case The Heenes are amateur storm chasers and had twice appeared on ABC's "Wife Swap." Richard Heene's business associates said he was trying to pitch a TV series based on science, and the couple had a tentative deal in the works with RDF USA, which produces "Wife Swap." RDF has said it scrapped the plans after the balloon flight. At least one New York-based production company ruled out a Heene venture. "It's just too poisonous," said Irad Eyal, vice president of development at True Entertainment. "I don't think anyone is going to want to meet with a man who shamed his family and children that way. In reality TV, there's a definite line

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you don't cross, and that's tormenting children." Lane said the couple would have no public comment at least until sentencing, set for Dec. 23. Under terms of the plea agreements, Richard Heene faces up to 90 days in jail, probation and a fine. Mayumi Heene could get 60 days, likely to be served in a work-release program, and probation. Richard Heene also could have to pay restitution for tens of thousands of dollars in costs incurred by police. Without the deal, the charge against Richard Heene carries a possible sentence of two to six years in state prison and a fine of up to $500,000. The charge against his wife is punishable by up to six months in the county jail and a fine up to $750. The deal does not call for removing 6-year-old Falcon or the couple's other two children — ages 8 and 10 — from the parents' custody, according to

Lane. Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has said the Heenes deliberately released the balloon and falsely reported Falcon may have been inside. The boy was later found safe at the Heenes' home. The story began to unravel when Falcon Heene said they "did it for the show" during a CNN appearance. Investigators found evidence Oct. 17 that the Heenes were working with RDF on a reality show, according to court documents released Friday. It wasn't clear when RDF's plans were scrapped, or if the company knew anything about the couple's plan to release the balloon. RDF didn't immediately respond Friday to phone and e-mail requests seeking comment. Sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said Friday some aspects of the case were still under investigation. She would not comment on RDF.

Lane portrayed his client's decision to enter a plea as a sacrifice to preserve the family and avoid the possibility that Mayumi Heene, a Japanese citizen, could be deported by being convicted of more serious charges. Lane said prosecutors threatened Mayumi Heene with that prospect. But chief deputy district attorney Andrew Lewis insisted Friday prosecutors never did so. Richard Heene was asked after the hearing if he had anything to say to those who looked for his son. He didn't respond. More at KDVR.com: Could 'Balloon Boy' Mom Be Deported? This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

"If we claim to be a country that believes in the rule of law, then we need to behave that way ourselves," John Leinung, whose stepfather died in the collapse of the Twin Towers, told AP. The White House is hoping to close Guantanamo by 22 January 2010. Mr Obama's administration says it will try some detainees in US courts and repatriate or resettle

others who are not perceived as a threat. However, questions remain over the fate of those assessed as dangerous but who for legal reasons could not be prosecuted in a US court - prompting suggestions that the deadline will slip. Are you in New York? How do you feel these suspects will be received? Do you think New

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Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to trial at a New York City courthouse was received by families of Sept. 11 victims with mixed reaction Friday. Many of the relatives expressed opposition to any civilian trial for terror suspects — especially at the federal courthouse 1,000 yards from the spot where nearly 3,000 people died. Some called the decision a terrible mistake, while others said the trial would give the men a platform to "spew" their antiAmerican hatred and invective. Ed Kowalski, of the 9/11 Families for a Secure America FAMILIES page 66

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brother was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon. She told AP news agency she was sickened by "the prospect of these barbarians being turned into victims by their attorneys" if the trial focused on torture allegations. But other 9/11 families have supported the move toward public trials.

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Foundation, said: "To allow a terrorist and a war criminal the opportunity of having U.S. constitutional protections is a wrong thing to do and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been done before. President Obama is wrong to do this." "If we have to bring them to the United States, New York City is not the place to have it, let alone in a courthouse that is in the shadows of the twin towers," Lee Ielpi, whose firefighter son died in the 9/11 attacks, said. The city's wounds, he said, are simply still too raw. "Ripping that scab open will create a tremendous hardship," he said. "We have a president who doesn't know we're at war," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles Burlingame, had been the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon. She said she was sickened by "the prospect of these barbarians being turned into

victims by their attorneys." But Lorie Van Auken, whose husband Kenneth was killed in the World Trade Center attacks, voiced support for the decision, saying the trials would help to bring closure. "I'm glad to hear they are going to be brought to New York to the scene of the crime and giving the families that were affected the chance to actually watch the trial," Van Auken told Reuters. Valerie Lucznikowska, whose nephew died at the World Trade Center, said she would not care if the suspects sounded off in court, so long as the victims' families got to see them put on trial. "What are words? It was a horrible thing to have 3,000 people killed," she said. Trying the men in civilian court is a risky move and is likely to confront a host of difficult issues, including rough treatment of detainees, sensitive intelligence gathering and the potential

spectacle of defiant terrorists disrupting proceedings. U.S. civilian courts prohibit evidence obtained through coercion, and a number of detainees were questioned using harsh methods some call torture. Holder insisted both the court system and the untainted evidence against the five men are strong enough to deliver a guilty verdict and the penalty he expects to seek: a death sentence for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people who were killed when four hijacked jetliners slammed into the towers, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania. The Times of London and the Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

'Sabbath' protest targets Intel (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

Orthodox Jewish community broke down earlier this week. Intel has been operating on Submitted at 11/14/2009 6:21:57 AM Saturdays for years - and the U l t r a - O r t h o d o x J e w s i n company defends the policy. Jerusalem have protested outside " W e h a v e a l w a y s w o r k e d the offices of the US firm, Intel, according to the company's against the plant operating on the needs. If the needs call for it, we Jewish day of rest. work on the Sabbath as well," The demonstrators chanted Intel Israel spokesman Kobi "Shabbes! Shabbes!", the Yiddish Becker told Israel's Ynet website. word for Sabbath when Jews are Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews forbidden to work. have become increasingly Intel, the world's biggest maker militant in recent months in their of computer chips, ringed its attempts to enforce a Saturday offices with barbed wire before work ban. the protest. There were no reports They have held regular protests of violence. against the opening of a Ultra-Orthodox Jews have Jerusalem car park on the Jewish recently held a series of such Sabbath. protests in Israel. Print Sponsor More than 1,000 people took This content has passed through part in Saturday's rally. fivefilters.org. It was staged after talks between Intel and Jerusalem's ultra-

US Army orders Arlington inquiry (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/14/2009 7:52:49 AM

The US Army has begun an investigation into the way records have been kept and burials organised at one of the nation's most important burial sites. Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is a famous resting place

thousands of war heroes. Investigators will look at allegations that people have been buried in the wrong graves or in ones already in use. A separate report published by the Army has indicated that the cemetery is underequipped and understaffed. Announcing the new inquiry, US Secretary of the Army John

McHugh said: "As the final resting place of our nation's heroes, any questions about the integrity or accountability of its operations should be examined in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice." This investigation comes after the army revealed that a married couple who should have been buried together in one grave were

not. Instead they were placed in adjacent graves, with one of the tombstones left unmarked. Grave-markers have now been ordered for the site. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Art.view: Dollars, cents and sensibility (The Economist: Daily columns)

The most talked about work of the week was Warhol's “200 One Dollar Bills” (pictured left), an Submitted at 11/14/2009 4:23:02 AM historically important, handArt.view drawn silkscreen painting from Nov 14th 2009 1962. Until the day before the From Economist.com Warhol s a l e , t h e i d e n t i t y o f t h e and Doig do it again consignor, described in the This week in New York, the post c a t a l o g u e a s h a v i n g a -war and contemporary art “ d i s t i n g u i s h e d p r i v a t e market had its bi-annual check collection”, had been a well-kept up. Christie’s went first, selling secret. Then word slipped out 39 of 46 lots for a total of $74.1m that it had belonged to Pauline on November 10th. It was less K a r p i d a s , a L o n d o n - b a s e d than a quarter of their $325m collector. Back in 1986 Mr and total exactly two years ago, but Mrs Karpidas had paid $385,000 still a respectable outcome given for the picture, the highest price the difficulty of obtaining ever paid for a Warhol at auction consignments. No one wants to during the artist's lifetime. sell their art during a recession Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's chief unless they have to. Remarkably, auctioneer, opened the bidding at few collectors seem to be in that $6m whereupon Alex Rotter, a position and, if they are, they feel Sotheby's specialist on the phone safer off-loading behind the with a client, immediately scenes than at public auction. doubled the bid. The price Sotheby’s evening sale was escalated in million-dollar much more robust, selling 53 of increments so quickly that it was 55 lots for a total of $134.4m. hard to tell where the bids were That sell-through rate—96% by coming from. Philippe Ségalot, lot, 98% by value—hadn't been an art advisor, Jose Mugrabi, a seen since 2004. An astounding dealer who owns some 800 result given the times. The estate Warhols, Abdallah Chatila, a of Mary and Louis Myers, Ohio Lebanese collector, and two other arts patrons, provided the first 20 Sotheby's staff members, Loic lots of the evening, but the chief Gouzer and Bruno Vinciguerra, earner was Andy Warhol. together nodded and waved the

lot all the way up to its $39m hammer price. In the end, Mr Vinciguerra won the picture for his anonymous buyer for $43.7m with fees. It was the secondhighest price ever paid for a Warhol at auction, exceeded only by “Green Car Crash”, which sold in May 2007 to Philippe Niarchos for $71.7m. The price proves the adage that real masterpieces retain their value in almost any economic climate. As Mr Ségalot affirmed, “The date, subject matter, composition and condition are all fantastic. The painting probably sold for the same price as it would have two years ago.” Christie's also enjoyed a runaway lot that provided auction -room drama. “Reflection (What Does Your Soul Look Like)” (pictured), an exquisitely rendered, psychologically complex painting from 1996 by Peter Doig, a British artist, was consigned by César Reyes, a Puerto Rican psychiatrist who owns a number of the artist’s works. Seven bidders pitched for the painting and four of them were still in the game at $8.8m, well over the high estimate of $6m. After that, the lot bore witness to a duel between Jay

Jopling, a British dealer (who is thought to have been bidding for Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian collector), and Marc Porter, Christie's president, who had an insistent client on the phone. In the end Christie's chief auctioneer awarded “Reflection” to Mr Porter's telephone bidder for $10.2m, even though Mr Jopling offered a bid just as the hammer was coming down. The dealer did not look happy. It was a shame as another few increments could have led to a world-record price for the artist. Francis Outred, Christie's European head of post-war and contemporary art who brought in the Doig consignment with his New York-based colleague, Andy Massad, said: “Some people saw ‘ White Canoe’, which commanded £5.7m ($11.2m) in February 2007, as a symbol of the art market bubble, but three of the four highest prices for Doig have been made this year. Doig's market has continued to grow throughout the recession. It's a reflection of quality and a testament to the way Peter has moved forward the boundaries of painting.” Many assume that Russians have made the Doig market, but Mr Outred

asserts that the four main contestants for the work included an American, an Asian and a European (which could include those from the former Soviet Union). It's rare to see artists at an auction, but Mr Doig was seated with the consignor of the painting, which suggests that Mr Reyes might have offered a cut of the proceeds to the artist. However, Mr Doig admitted to “no more than curiosity”. With them was Gavin Brown, a New York dealer who has been exhibiting Doig's work since 1994 and sold “Reflection” to Reyes for $24,000 in 1996. After the sale, Mr Brown was jubilant. “This result, if nothing else, suggests the landscape has been readjusted to something based on truth and beauty. The cynical age of Damien Hirst, et al, might well have passed. Now we all have to use our eyes!” Back to top ^^ Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Italy's justice system: Imposing limits (The Economist: News analysis)

Italian law, meaning that the complete legal process would have to be complete within six Submitted at 11/14/2009 12:28:33 AM years. Italy's justice system In a court system that is Nov 14th 2009 | ROME overloaded, underfunded and From Economist.com A bizarre renowned for inefficiency, the attempt by Silvio Berlusconi's chances of completing each of government to constrain Italy's the three stages in less than 24 courts months are low. The proposed IF YOU live in Italy and are law, which would apply to trials planning to commit a moderately already being held, excludes severe crime—perhaps a white- from its provisions defendants collar offence such as cooking with a criminal record, offences the books, or beating your for which the penalty is a jail children, even stabbing your sentence of 10 years or more, and neighbour—the law might soon certain serious crimes such as be of little hindrance to you. If a those related to terrorism or the bill tabled in parliament this mafia. But the corporate body week were to become law, it that represents Italy's judges and would mean you could commit prosecutors says the law’s effects any of the above offences and would be “devastating”. It could expect a reasonable chance estimates that more than 100,000 of avoiding paying a penalty. trials would have to be scrapped. The proposed law, which is In addition, the proposed law backed by Silvio Berlusconi's would have effects beyond Italy's c o n s e r v a t i v e g o v e r n m e n t , borders. It would apply, for suggests that the charges against example, to copyright violation, defendants would have to be b r i b e r y , t h e m a r k e t i n g o f dropped two years after they c o u n t e r f e i t g o o d s a n d t h e were laid unless, by then, trial defrauding by Italians of EU has been completed. The same funds. One of the trials it would two-year limit would be applied h a l t s t e m s f r o m t h e 2 0 0 3 to both of the appeals to which Parmalat fraud whose victims defendants (and prosecutors) are include foreign as well as Italian subsequently entitled under bondholders.

The law sounds like madness, yet Mr Berlusconi has selfinterested reasons to support it. Last month the constitutional court overturned a law that had been introduced by his government that gave him (and three other senior officials) immunity from prosecution. Italy's prime minister is already a defendant in two trials, for tax fraud and bribery, and other investigations are ongoing. If the bill were approved by parliament, where his coalition has a substantial majority, it would cancel both the trials and make it very likely that any charges brought against him in future would be 'timed out'. In any case Mr Berlusconi appears not to be taking any chances. On Wednesday, one of his MPs tabled another bill that would restore the immunity that all Italy's national lawmakers enjoyed until 1993. Either or both of the proposed laws could run into stiff resistance if referred to the constitutional court. But their introduction makes it ever more likely that the rest of Mr Berlusconi's time in government will be dominated (as was his previous spell) by his legal struggles.

All this will prove to be an unhelpful distraction from more important matters, such as trying to get Italy out of recession and to deliver much-needed economic and social reforms. Mr Berlusconi's supporters argue that introducing time limits will promote swifter justice. Maurizio Gasparri, the leader of his party in the Senate and the bill's main sponsor, suggests that “if the magistrates worked harder, trials would be quicker”. But he acknowledges that they also need better resources and says that funding for the courts will be increased in the 2010 budget. Even if the government were to deliver on that promise, it will take years to undo the decades of neglect to which Italian justice has been subject. In the meantime, if Mr Gasparri and his leader have their way, Italy would become an even more lawless society than it is already. Back to top ^^ Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

MediaDailyNews: Warner, FreeWheel Ink Deal To Place, Track Ads At Music Sites, Platforms (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:11:26 PM

Music labels have moved closer to making money from digital videos online. Warner Music Group has inked a partnership with FreeWheel, an online ad technology company, aimed at helping music labels bring in the bucks, but some analysts aren't sure whether it will work. Warner Music will have an option to place, monitor and track the effectiveness of ads across artist sites and digital media platforms. The deal, which also supports a YouTube strategy, took between nine and 10 months to pull together, according to Doug Knopper, Co-CEO at FreeWheel, San Mateo, Calif. "They have the potential to create a whole new model on how music videos are monetized online," he says. "The music, sports and movie industries are starting to figure out how to make money online." FreeWheel's video ad MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 69

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management platform works with content owners, such as Warner Music, to manage and distribute videos as well as manage the rights, accounting, revenue share and ads that serve up in the videos, which have ad tags. The platform decides the companies authorized to buy and sell ads into the content. Knopper says FreeWheel created a hub, "an air traffic control room," to monitor the ad serving and rights management platform, as well as to manage the inventory for about 40 content owners and distributors. FreeWheel tracks the available ad slots and advertisements. About 60 engineers have been working on the system for about 2.5 years. The ads are sold and served on a CPM basis. Music rights monetization sounds good, but no one has tapped into the perfect solution, according to Marissa Gluck, co-

founder and managing partner at Radar Research, Los Angeles, who is not convinced the business model will work. Gluck says: "It's complicated because most times, there is more than one for one piece of music, a distributed network, and constituencies trying hard to avoid being tracked," she says. "I'm not talking about YouTube, but there are plenty of companies less vigilant about working closely with rights holders." The music labels have undergone an "attitude" shift, however. While the labels haven't fully embraced digital music, they are less aggressive about suing their customers, which seemed their main form of revenue for awhile, Gluck says. Gluck points to ad-supported Spotify in the United Kingdom as a way for music labels to monetize content. "Most record labels see them as a real

competitor to Apple's iTunes," she says, adding that the company has plans to cross the Atlantic into the United States. Earlier this week, Google revealed that it has begun to test "skippable" pre-roll ads in videos on YouTube that could lead the Mountain View, Calif. search engine toward a new advertising model. The technology allows people who find the videos to click on the link and skip the ad, which takes them directly to the content. The ads will run on videos from content partners, which have already opted into the test. Knopper says FreeWheel works with YouTube to monetize videos. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

MediaDailyNews: News Corp. Enlists McKinsey For Growth (MediaPost | Media News)

been hurt by the ad slump, in line with the industry. Forbes quoted a representative At least one group appears to be f o r t h e W S J s a y i n g t h a t profiting handsomely from the McKinsey is not being brought in advertising recession: McKinsey to cut costs. "Our emphasis is on & Co. building and growing our News Corp. has become the products," he told the magazine. latest media company to enlist For the most recent quarter, the consulting firm, tapping it to News Corp. reported operating review its Dow Jones business, income of $25 million at its according to a Forbes report. publishing segment, down $109 That comes after McKinsey million from the same period last c o n d u c t e d a h i g h - p r o f i l e year. The company did not offer evaluation of Conde Nast's specifics, but said ad dollars were operations that appears to have down at the WSJ and revenues resulted in the shutdown of fell at Dow Jones' newswire several magazines. Forbes also operations. cited reports that Time Warner The WSJ, which now has the has engaged the company for its largest circulation of any paper in magazine segment. the U.S. and has a refashioned Dow Jones operates The Wall European edition, has increased Street Journal, one of the few its newsstand price. publications to devise a pay This content has passed through model for its Web site. But it has fivefilters.org. Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:19:42 PM

MediaDailyNews: Diageo OK With NFL 'Morgan' Move (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:45:08 PM

Diageo was not about to let a stunt some branded as marketing magic disappear easily. The company put out a tongue-incheek statement Friday saying it understands the NFL's move to ban end-zone celebrations where

players engage in the "Captain Morgan pose." Diageo had offered to donate $10,000 to a fund for retired NFL players each time a player was caught on camera striking the pose after scoring a TD. The amount, according to a Yahoo Sports report, would have increased to $25,000 in a playoff

game and $100,000 in the Super Bowl. A Philadelphia Eagles player mirrored the "Captain" in a game last week -- putting a hand on his waist, and the other on a raised leg a la the rum's mascot. Then, the NFL banned the stunt and referred to it as "ambush marketing."

The statement from the "Captain" read: "I am a man of action, a man of the moment, and I always make fun a priority. And when it comes to football, what is more fun than a touchdown? "I believe in drinking responsibly, marketing responsibly and helping charities, too, but understand my friends at

the NFL's perspective. I will continue in my quest for legendary times and ask my fans to do the same." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Digital Outsider: Mall Media Move On Measurement (MediaPost | Media News)

from music video content provided by Warner, Sony, Universal, and EMI. With the end of the recession On the mall side, Akoo plans to ( m a y b e ) i n s i g h t , r e t a i l have the DOVOD network establishments are hoping for a installed in a total of 150 boost in sales -- or at the very different venues, 120 of which least, a bump in visitors. Hoping are located in the top 25 DMAs; to cash in on the new foot traffic, altogether Akoo vice-president of two leading digital out-of-home marketing Andy Stankiewicz networks with significant mall says this network aggregates presences have rolled out new about 1.4 billion shopper visits measurement initiatives. per year, with potential to add Akoo, which operates a DO a n o t h e r 7 5 m a l l s i n 2 0 1 0 . music video-on-demand network According to Stankiewicz, the reaching malls and college company's overall measurement campuses, recently announced a capabilities "let advertisers know new measurement deal with what's being activated at what Arbitron for audience estimates. mall, at what time, with data to The measurement initiative allow them to become more comes as Akoo continues a major relevant to their users, for expansion of its interactive social example through opt-in programs network to a number of new via their mobile devices," for venues, installing digital displays which the company maintains opt in mall and university food courts -in mobile databases. which visitors can control with Meanwhile another major mall their mobile devices, selecting ad network, Eye Corp., recently Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:15:15 PM

completed a shopper profile study with Arbitron, using the research company's custom research assets. The study was conducted at seven malls across the country, out of a total 250 malls reached by Eye Corp.'s digital and static signage. Among other findings, the Arbitron study revealed that shoppers reached by Eye Corp. visit malls an average of 3.5 times per month, each time spending an average 1 hour and 38 minutes. Over half the shoppers view the mall as a place to reward themselves, and 66% noticed Eye Corp.'s displays. Eye Corp. is combining this proprietary data with subscriptions to syndicated category and audience datasets and single source information for advertisers. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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content to the device as well. NYTCO, which partnered with Amazon for the development of the newest Kindle readers, needs whatever help it can get. Earlier this year, the company threatened to sell or close The Boston Globe unless unions agreed to substantial cuts in pay and benefits. It only obtained these

concessions after drawn-out negotiations. More recently, NYTCO said total revenues fell 16.9%, from $687 million in the third quarter of 2008 to $570.6 million in the third quarter of 2009. Total revenues at the New England Media Group fell 12.6% to $109.7 million -- a smaller drop

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MediaDailyNews: 'Boston Globe' Debuts Digital Edition (MediaPost | Media News)

It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. In addition to the basic Like other major newspaper daily subscription, new digital publishers, the New York Times subscribers can also opt for a Co. is seeking new ways to package that includes the paper's monetize digital content at its Sunday print edition. various properties. In the most A number of big metro dailies recent move, The Boston Globe have rolled out digital versions has launched a new digital that can be viewed on desktop product that includes E-reader and laptop computers over the software and a digital version of last couple of years. Publishers t h e n e w s p a p e r , c a l l e d are also looking to a new GlobeReader, which will be generation of portable devices, available to new subscribers for like Amazon's Kindle, as a $4.98 per week. Subscribers to source of additional subscription t h e p r i n t v e r s i o n o f t h e revenues. n e w s p a p e r g e t i t f o r f r e e . In March, it was revealed that The GlobeReader is the final Hearst Corp. is preparing to version of the electronic edition introduce a new electronic reader that appeared in "preview" form a n d w i l l e n c o u r a g e o t h e r earlier this year, adding more p u b l i s h e r s t o l i c e n s e t h e sports and weather content, as technology, so they can deliver well as the daily crossword and comic strips. MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 70 Submitted at 11/13/2009 2:35:24 PM