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Ex-defence chiefs attack Gordon Brown over Afghanistan By David Batty (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

armed forces in the House of Lords, Lord Guthrie said: "I do think that military services, the people in the frontline, are Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:14:25 AM questioning whether the Peers accuse prime minister of government is really, really lacking commitment to the war committed to making progress in and failing to support British Afghanistan." troops The peer, who was chief of the Three former defence chiefs defence staff between 1997 and have accused Gordon Brown of 2001, said there was a "clear failing in his commitment to the need for more helicopters" for war in Afghanistan and support UK troops, adding that had they for British troops. been available soldiers' lives Field Marshal Lord Inge said the would have been saved. a r m e d f o r c e s n e v e r r e a l l y "Both the prime minister and the believed Brown was "on their chancellor have said the frontline side" while General Lord Guthrie can have what they ask for," he accused the prime minister of told peers. "dithering" over his promise to "I have no doubt whatsoever that send 500 extra troops to the with additional helicopters some country. Admiral Lord Boyce of these lives which have been said the government "did not lost would have been saved." realise we are at war". Guthrie criticised Brown's The scathing criticism came decision to send 500 more troops after Brown pledged that Britain conditional on them being would not "walk away" from properly equipped, on other Nato A f g h a n i s t a n a n d w o u l d states taking more of the military "succeed" in its mission. burden, and on the Kabul Speaking in a debate on the government providing more

Afghan army recruits. "The three conditions laid down by the prime minister for their movement reveal a complete lack of understanding of what these men are for," Guthrie said. If commanders on the ground had requested additional troops they should be sent regardless of political concerns. The current chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, has warned that the reputation of Britain's armed forces is under threat unless progress is made in Afghanistan. An internal Ministry of Defence document, entitled Strategy for Defence, makes clear that the mission in Afghanistan must succeed to secure "the reputation and long-term future of the armed forces" . The document, leaked to the Times, calls for the "assumption of a rolling three-year military commitment to Afghanistan", effectively ruling out an early pullout. Brown has warned the re-elected

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president Hamid Karzai that he will "forfeit the right to international support" if he failes to root out corruption in Afghanistan. Brown told Karzai a home-grown army must be built to take over responsibility for security. But the prime minister stressed he was not threatening to pull out Britain's 9,000 troops. "We cannot, must not and will not walk away," he said in a speech to the Royal College of Defence Studies. Lord Boyce, the chief of the defence staff between 2001 and 2003, said the UK was in the middle of a "defence train crash". "It is too much to hope that the present government will provide the necessary cash to allow its aspirations to be realised properly or honourably," he said. He said frequent changes at the top of the Ministry of Defence – where there have been four defence secretaries in the past three years – had been unhelpful. Lord Inge said the prime minister had "some baggage"

with regard to his support for the armed forces. "They have felt he has never really been on their side and they have not had his support," he said. The criticism of the government's Afghanistan policy came at the end of a lethal week for British troops, with seven killed, including five soldiers shot by one of the Afghan policemen they were mentoring. The losses brought the total British death toll since 2001 to 230. • Defence policy • Military • Afghanistan • House of Lords David Batty guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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British tourist shot dead in Texas bar (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:20:57 AM

Sarah Palin to visit Washington next month By Steve Holland (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:34:42 PM

Look out Washington, Sarah Palin is coming. Palin will be the Republican speaker at the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club of journalists in Washington on Dec. 5. “The governor is very excited and was honored to accept the invitation,” said her spokeswoman, Meghan

Stapleton. The former Alaska governor, who rose to fame as John McCain’s vice presidential nominee last year, is about to go on a book tour to promote her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” For more Reuters political news, click here. Photo credit: Reuters/Nathaniel Wilder (Palin talks to wellwishers in Fairbanks in July)

Thomas Reeve, 28, killed in Amarillo as shots are fired at drinkers during robbery A British tourist has been shot dead in a bar in Texas. Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed in the city of Amarillo when shots were fired at several drinkers, the Foreign Office confirmed. The attack happened at the Spotted Pony Lounge in the town at about 10.45pm local time on Thursday. Police said Reeve arrived in Amarillo a few hours before the

'I will kill ten for each IED we find' By Guy Grandjean, Sean Smith, Alex Healey (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:49:15 AM

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shooting. He was travelling across the US with two friends. He died at Northwest Texas hospital after being shot in the torso. An autopsy was being performed in Lubbock, the Amarillo Globe-News reported. Reeve was drinking in the bar with his friends. They had rented a car in California and stopped in Amarillo on a trip to Florida. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm the death of Thomas Reeve and we are providing consular assistance to the family." Another customer, Gordon Gollihugh, 48, was shot in the hand and taken to a local hospital, according to the

connectamarillo.com website. The gunman hit other customers with his fist, took purses, wallets and money from the bar's cash register and forced a woman to remove some of her clothing, according to officers. Ray Carlos Cisneros, 25, was arrested yesterday and was being questioned over the shooting, according to the Amarillo GlobeNews. • Gun crime • United States guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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This Inflating Bra Commercial Left Me Confused Yet Reaching For My Wallet [Nsfw] By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/6/2009 9:03:21 PM

Based on my non-existent Chinese skills, I managed to understand that this inflatable bra makes boobs big, BIG, BIG. And I guess it comes with odd sound effects included? Can someone

watch please this commercial and translate for me? I just really need to know whether the voice over guy or the girl with the measuring tape are included with the purchase or sold separately.

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'Civil disobedience has a role to play' | Al Gore By Oliver Burkeman (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:17:17 AM

Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet? Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A mere nine years ago, back when George Bush was just a cheeky rogue with an adorable line in malapropisms, presidential candidate Gore was famously derided as wooden and dull. Having failed to win the presidency – though of course that depends, as ever, on your definition of the word "win" – he next became a pitiable loser, then a laughable climate-change wonk, then the Oscar-winning, peace prize-winning, Live Earthorganising darling of liberal Hollywood. And so it says something hugely flattering about his present-day stature, surely, that the new official anti-Gore line is that he is quite simply evil: an anti-American hypocrite, a supporter of world government, and, like Barack Obama, probably a communist or a fascist or both. A recent documentary about Gore made by Irish global warming denialists, Not Evil Just Wrong, made the mistake of diverging from this stance,

prompting fury among parts of its intended audience in the US. Not evil? Get real. In person, Gore is neither wooden nor, in any obvious way, evil. What he is, is reserved: settling back into an armchair at a fancy hotel in Los Angeles, he answers questions obligingly and at length – sometimes at very great length – but without the effort to connect that seems to be a compulsion of most politicians. He is trim, strikingly handsome, in a dark blue suit and black cowboy boots, and looks mysteriously unsleepy, despite having just flown in from a threeday trip to China. (After LA, he's due home for one night in Nashville, then off on a book tour that will take him to South Africa and Egypt. Denialists enjoy attacking Gore's personal carbon footprint, even though, as denialists, it's not clear what they're objecting to.) Not long ago, Time magazine called him "improbably charismatic", which is accurate, though this may be a consequence of his new incarnation: for a successful politician, Gore comes across as surprisingly distant, but as professorial climate change experts go, he's a rock star. Gore, optimistically, attributes the hardening tone of his critics to "the sunset phenomenon, where there's a spectacle just before the subsiding": as the remaining climate change doubters and vested interests begin to realise that the game is

up, he suggests, they're bound to make one last stand. "This selfinterest on the part of some of the carbon polluters – who are becoming a bit intense in their efforts – reflects their awareness that public opinion has been shifting very significantly," he says. "When I say 'they', I don't mean to indict all of them, because the business community is now very much split… but that realisation has produced a desire on the part of some of these carbon polluters to dig in their heels." He points to the US Chamber of Commerce's new hardline stance against action on the environment, which prompted several major American corporations to resign from it. (They included Apple, on whose board Gore sits, though he says he first heard of that decision when he read about it in the paper.) "They're calling for a new Scopes trial," says Gore, referring to the Chamber's efforts to liken a belief in global warming to creationism. "Ha! The Scopes trial happened in my home state, and I can tell you, one was quite enough." But many firms are beginning to take a different approach, he notes, for example those who have joined the 10:10 campaign in the UK, which is supported by the Guardian; Gore calls 10:10 "brilliant", and sees no reason why it couldn't work in the US, too. Gore's new book, Our Choice: A

Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis, gives global warming deniers short shrift, and shows little concern for displays of political bipartisanship: he likens the doubters to the "birthers" intent on proving that Obama is a Kenyan – not just mavericks, but fantasists who inhabit a different version of reality. "The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected," he writes, in a typically Goreish sentence, immediately prior to quoting Theodor Adorno, King Solomon and Aesop. Primarily, though, Our Choice is a sumptuously illustrated coffee-table book of potential solutions, explaining both Gore's favourites ( geothermal energy, biochar,"smart" electrical grids) and those about which he's deeply sceptical (nuclear power, carbon capture and pumping sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, a plan he describes as "insane"). When making his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore arguably had it easy: it's fairly straightforward to grip an audience when you're portraying scenes of apocalyptic destruction. The new book pulls off a considerably more impressive feat. It focuses on solving the crisis, yet manages to be absorbing on a topic that is all too often – can we just come

clean about this, please? – crushingly boring. Importantly, it seeks to enlist readers as political advocates for the cause, rather than just urging them to turn down the heating. "It's important to change lightbulbs," he says, in a well-burnished soundbite, "but more important to change policies and laws." Or perhaps to break laws instead: peaceful occupations of the kind witnessed recently in the UK, he predicts, are only going to become more widespread. "Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. And I expect that it will increase, no question about it." People sometimes express incredulity that Gore, who was groomed for the presidency almost since birth, seems so resolved that he'll never return to electoral politics. But here's a vivid example of the benefits of life on the outside: how many serving politicians would feel able to come so close to urging people to commit trespass? Gore is particularly compelling on psychology: his book addresses head-on the fact that merely repeating grave pronouncements about the climate crisis isn't a remotely effective way to get governments or individuals to act. Instead, he 'CIVIL page 4

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explores ways to link long-term environmental goals to everyday incentives that people and businesses can actually get their heads around, most obviously by putting a price on carbon via capand-trade and other mechanisms: "If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value," he writes. He's also passionate about the potential psychological impact of Dscovr, the Nasa satellite project he proposed while serving as Bill Clinton's vice-president (which Dick Cheney mothballed, and Obama has resurrected). Among other things, it would provide a continuous view of the sunlit side of the Earth, available via the internet – a sort of real-time version of the famous Earthrise photograph, serving as a constant reminder and update on the fragile state of our planet. But it is, naturally, the state of Gore's personal psychology that interests people just as much. Everyone has their hypotheses. They want to know if his environmental campaigning has somehow brought him peace, after the almost unimaginable disappointment of the 2000 election. Or they speculate that he feels guilty for not focusing sufficiently on the climate during that campaign, and is making up for lost time, or guilty for not fighting harder over Florida, given all that subsequently happened under Bush. Our Choice, like An Inconvenient

Truth, declares that we are at a historic decision point, at which we can choose to hesitate, with disastrous consequences, or to rise to the occasion – which is virtually an invitation to engage in armchair psychoanalysis. Didn't Gore himself blink, at an analogous crucial moment, with momentous results for himself, and the world? In the years immediately following the disputed presidential election– after growing a beard and gaining weight – Gore drew on deadpan humour to help process the experience, and to put audiences at their ease. "You win some, you lose some, and then there's that little-known third category," he would say. Or: "I don't want you to think I lie awake at night, counting and recounting sheep." But these days the gags have subsided. "To place the disappointment, which I felt keenly, into some perspective, there are millions upon millions of people who have suffered infinitely larger losses than I suffered," he says now. "They move on with their lives, and if they can, I certainly can. If we walked through the lobby of this hotel and down the sidewalk outside, we'd run into a lot of people who, without us knowing it, are carrying enormous burdens of loss and disappointment. It's part of the human condition." It does seem, though, as if taking on the biggest conceivable global challenge has helped heal the wound, and perhaps even

provided him with a satisfaction that being vice-president didn't. "It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling," he says. "There's a passage in the Bible – not that I wear religion on my sleeve; I do not – but there's a passage that's long had meaning for me: 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might'... There's that wonderful old English movie, Chariots Of Fire, when the runner says at one point, 'When I run, I feel God's pleasure.' He was expressing a universal human emotion that I think is applicable." It is easy to forget exactly how unlikely it is that Gore should be doing anything, at this point, other than serving as an elected politician. The son of the Tennessee senator Albert Gore, he was born in Washington DC and grew up immersed in politics; by the time he went to Harvard, he'd gone public with his ambition to become president. He met his future wife, Tipper, at his high school prom in 1965, and served in Vietnam as an army journalist, despite opposing the war; by 1977 he was a Congressman, aged 29. He upgraded to the Senate in 1985, where he played a key role in securing funding for the nascent internet – even if he didn't quite invent it, as some critics falsely alleged that he'd claimed– and ran unsuccessfully to be the Democrats' presidential nominee in the 1988 election. In 1989, his son Albert, then six, was hit by a car while crossing the road and

nearly died: Gore said the experience transformed him, and put him off running for president; instead, he joined Clinton's ticket in 1992. During 2007 and 2008, it was frequently suggested that he should run again – indeed, that he had a moral duty to run again – and he never quite fully dismissed the notion until he endorsed Obama. More than any other living figure on the US national stage, perhaps, Capitol Hill and the White House have dominated his life. And yet here he is, aged 61, living in Nashville, in an 18room mansion that has been retrofitted to rely entirely on renewable energy, shuttling across the globe, positioning himself cleverly both as the ultimate insider and an activist willing to go far further than the insiders would dare. He serves as an adviser to Google, as well as an Apple board member, chairs a sustainable investment fund, and is a partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital fund with environmental interests. (He is, as a result, often accused of a conflict of interest, but responds that all his profits go to his nonprofit organisation, the Alliance for Climate Protection.) "He's got access to every leader in every country, the business community, people of every political stripe," Tipper Gore told Time magazine. "He can do this his way, all over the world, for as long as he wants. That's freedom. Why would anyone give that up?"

Contrary to the general consensus among activists and journalists, Gore remains optimistic about the Copenhagen talks in December– optimistic that the US Senate will pass a bill to clarify Washington's position, arming Obama with muchneeded moral authority, and thus optimistic that a worthwhile agreement, which hinges on a US commitment, will emerge from the gathering itself. "I was in China two days ago, and the premier of China asked me, in essence, why I'm optimistic that the Senate will pass legislation when the conventional wisdom says otherwise. And the answer is that I have been a part of conversations between Democrats and Republicans that give me a very different view from what the consensus is in the journalistic community." He refers to the op-ed by South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham and Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry in the New York Times, calling for legislation to pass. "There are other surprises like that in store." Of the potential Copenhagen deal, Gore says, "I expect it to be far weaker than the one I would like to see. However, the important achievement [will be] to put a price on carbon, and reset expectations among business, government, NGOs and others." He likens the situation to the Montreal Protocol on the ozone layer. "The world acted fairly 'CIVIL page 7

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Italy's respectable right wing in a bind | Roberto Mancini By Roberto Mancini (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:00:00 AM

Gianfranco Fini is caught between Berlusconi's waywardness and unreconstructed racists within the Lega Nord "We must cleanse our streets of the black-skinned, the yellowskinned, the Roma … I would have all the immigrants put on file, one by one. Unfortunately, this is not allowed by the law. They are the carriers of all sorts of diseases, tuberculosis, Aids, scabies, hepatitis" This is how Giancarlo Gentilini, former mayor of Treviso (19942005) and current deputy mayor, a leading figure in the Lega Nord(Northern League), addressed the Festival of the People of Padania in September 2008. Last month he was convicted by a court in Venice of "inciting racial hatred" and, as a result, will not be allowed to address political rallies for three years. In the country where Mussolini's racial laws were approved in 1938, the current anti-fascist

constitution, which came into force on 1 January 1948 after the liberation struggles, forbids the re -formation of the Fascist party. In postwar Italy, both fascism and racism – the essence of the extreme right – have therefore had to find new and original ways of expressing themselves. Gianfranco Fini, president of the house of deputies, originally belonged to the neofacist party Movimento Sociale Italiano(MSI). The MSI subjected itself to a long and critical review of its fascist roots, and by the 1990s had accepted the values of parliamentary democracy and the constitution of the republic, relaunching itself as the Alleanza Nazionale(National Alliance). In the meantime the rich Italian vein of xenophobic and racist ideas were siphoned off into the Lega Nord, a grassroots movement inspired by the French New Right ethno-pluralists such as Alain de Benoist. The ugly face of this movement was hidden behind the term "federalism" –which is why Gentilini and Mario Borghezio, the colourful MEP also from the Lega Nord, always brag that they are "federalists".

Gentilini's real views are clearly expressed in the quote above that lead to his conviction. In this, he mirrors the feelings of many fellow inhabitants in the wealthy and economically successful Veneto region. Amid all this, Fini, who is the third highest officer in the state after president Giorgio Napolitano and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and is now the deputy leader in Berlusconi's Popolo della Libertà, finds himself in a difficult position in his efforts to build a respectable right, albeit with ample room to manoeuvre. On the one hand, he has to steer the rightwing vote away from the racism of characters such as Gentilini, whose supporters fundamentally oppose the political unity of Italy, and who consider the south of the country to be as under-developed as the Islamic countries on the Mediterranean coast. On the other hand, Fini has to provide a buffer for Berlusconi's subversive tendencies, displayed last week when he announced, following the court's rejection of British lawyer David Mills' appeal in a corruption case in

which he is also involved: "I will not resign even if I am convicted." Accordingly, Berlusconi's party has for some time now been unable to use the traditional rightwing motto of "Law and Order". Instead the Italian centreright has been busy demolishing the respect for legality, in a longrunning campaign to denigrate judges. Fini has attempted to thwart this suicidal strategy, which undermines the foundations of the rule of law and civil relations between the government and the opposition. But he is not yet strong enough to defeat an excessively rich and powerful media tycoon like Berlusconi. Translated from Italian by Judy Segor • The far right • Italy • Race issues Roberto Mancini guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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CBS challenged in Q3, waiting for better advertising climate By Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:20:00 PM

Filed under: Earnings reports, Television, General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World Shares of CBS(NYSE: CBS) are no longer rolling around in the pits of equity hell. Do you recall when they were trading around $3 per share? Nasty time it was. Amazingly, as I write this, CBS is hovering near a 52-week high. They are well over $12 in value. Yet, when I look at the latest earnings report, I don't feel as upbeat as the market. According to the press release(the link goes to a .pdf file), revenues were flat for the third quarter and adjusted income dropped to 25 cents per share from the year-ago figure of 39 cents per share. Continue reading CBS challenged in Q3, waiting for better advertising climate CBS challenged in Q3, waiting for better advertising climate originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Read| Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Gordon Brown calls for global bank bailout fund By David Batty (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:14:53 AM

Prime minister tells G20 that taxpayers must be protected from bearing cost of failure by banks The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure that the cost of their failure would never again be borne by taxpayers. Addressing a G20 meeting in Scotland, Brown said it was not acceptable that banking success was reaped by the few but failure was "borne by all of us". He called for a fund for future bank bailouts to be set up, possibly paid for by a tax on banking transactions. Brown told the meeting in St Andrews of finance ministers from the world's 20 richest nations that there should be a "just distribution of risks and rewards". He said: "I believe we should discuss whether we need a better economic and social contract to reflect the global

responsibilities of financial institutions to society. This is a unique sector that, when it fails, imposes such a high cost to the wider economy and damage to society that government intervention becomes essential. So the taxpayer had no real choice but to step in to keep the system afloat. "And it cannot be acceptable that the benefits of success in this sector are reaped by the few but the costs of its failure are borne by all of us. There must be a better economic and social contract between financial institutions and the public based on trust and a just distribution of risks and rewards." Max Lawson, Oxfam senior policy adviser, said: "Gordon Brown today signalled that payback time for banks could be just around the corner. A tax on banks would be a major step towards clearing up the mess caused by their greed. The G20 has a responsibility to act. Every minute around the world 100 people are forced into extreme poverty as a result of the economic crisis. Money raised by

a financial transaction tax on banks could make a massive difference to the lives of ordinary people." Brown also repeated his warning that it was still too soon for countries to consider withdrawing the one-trilliondollar "stimulus" package which they agreed to support their economies. Some G20 nations, including the US and Germany, want to debate ending the measures. "While recent indications of economic expansion give cause for cautious optimism they are not a reason to end economic stimulus prematurely," he said. "It would be dangerous to put recovery at risk by suddenly cutting off the funding and investment that is supporting families and businesses through the most challenging times in a generation." He added that, when the time came, it was important that countries were able to coordinate their "exit strategies". As well as discussing how and when to withdraw the huge taxpayer support they have given

their economies over the past two years, finance ministers at the two-day summit are expected to focus on climate finance ahead of next month's United Nations conference in Copenhagen. The International Monetary Fund will tell the G20 that the global economic recovery is uneven and the timing of any exit strategies should err on the side of supporting demand. "The pace of recovery is uneven, particularly in advanced economies, with consumer confidence remaining subdued; the waning of temporary fiscal measures such as the cash-forclunkers programme in the US and similar programmes elsewhere is slowing production," an IMF paper said. • Banking • Gordon Brown • G20 • Global recession David Batty guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Dealzmodo: $100 Xbox 360 at Amazon, More Electronics Deals All Day Long [Dealzmodo] By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:30:00 AM

Remember that Walmart ad featuring a$100 Xbox? Well, Amazon is matching the offer, so you can skip the crowds. There'll be other electronics deals running all day starting at 9 a.m. EST. Update: It looks like the Amazon 9 a.m. deal ran out (not before I managed to grab one, natch), but the same deal will be running again at 12 p.m. EST, 9 a.m. PST. So don't despair, there's a second chance! Also, Walmart is now featuring the deal online. Man holiday price competitions rule. [ Amazon via Cheap Ass Gamer]

Senator Sanders proposes legislation to break up large banks By Connie Madon (BloggingStocks)

Financial Crisis US Senator Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont, is Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:00:00 PM known for his straightforward Filed under: Management, and unbiased positions. Industry, Market matters, Money His new legislative proposal is to and Finance Today, Politics, break up big banks that are quote Mr. Sanders: "if an Headline news, Federal Reserve, deemed "too big to fail." To

institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. We should break them up so they are no longer in a position to bring down our entire economy." Continue reading Senator Sanders proposes legislation to break up large banks

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quickly, but the agreement they reached was criticised for being insufficient." Yet, he points out, when the treaty was revised, "many of the businesses that had opposed [it] were there to argue in favour of toughening it significantly. Because once they began to comply... they realised that it was not as difficult as they had feared. And once they'd made the commitment to the change, they were eager to get on with it." It made more sense, financially and in PR terms, to go all the way instead of halfway. Is it important for Obama to go to Copenhagen himself? "Oh yes. And I expect that he will. He hasn't told me that he will, and no one representing him has told me that he will. But I feel certain that he will." In Gore's position, of course, optimism infused with urgency is the only rational stance to take in public. Unless you either don't believe in human-caused global warming, or you think it's definitely too late to do anything about it, there's no real upside to saying anything other than that the situation is grave yet addressable. But Gore, you get

the feeling, really is an optimist, all the way through. His repeated references to JFK's promise to put a man on the moon may not, as a climate change analogy, bear close scrutiny: putting a man on the moon didn't require the average American to do anything at all. Still, the crisis needs its Kennedy, and Gore – for all his improbable, un-Kennedy-like brand of charisma – seems to be that man. "We have a tendency as human beings to confuse the unprecedented with the improbable," he says. "If something has never happened before, we tend to assume it will not happen in the future... [but] throughout history, there have been examples of human societies confronting dire threats, and finding, in their response, that they were capable of more than they thought they were capable of." What everything depends on now, he says, is "how soon we reach a critical mass of political awareness that can... give us the ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption." We will win or we will lose: outside of dodgy

Floridian elections, there actually isn't a third category. • Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis, by Al Gore, is published by Bloomsbury at £14.99. To order a copy for £13.99 (including UK mainland p & p ) , g o t o guardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0330 333 6846. • Al Gore • Climate change • Climate change • Climate change scepticism • Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 • US elections 2000 • Energy • Energy bills • Energy monitoring • Energy efficiency Oliver Burkeman guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Earnings highlights: Cisco, Ford, Humana, MasterCard, Starbuck, Toyota ... By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/7/2009 9:40:00 AM

Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Starbucks (SBUX), Ford Motor (F), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Activision Inc (ATVI), Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: • Activision Blizzard Inc.(NASDAQ: ATVI) said its Q3 profit declined despite the popularity of Guitar Hero. • Blackboard Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBB) said Q3 revenue surged and its offered impressive cash flow numbers. • Boston Beer Co. Inc.(NYSE: SAM) easily beat Q3 earnings estimates and raised its full-year

guidance. • Cisco Systems Inc.(NASDAQ: CSCO) lower Q1 results topped estimates and sent shares higher. • Cognizant Technology Solutions Inc.(NASDAQ: CTSH) was upgraded following its strong Q3 results. • Corporate Executive Board(NASDAQ: EXBD) received an analyst's upgrade following the Q3 results. Continue reading Earnings highlights: Cisco, Ford, Humana, MasterCard, Starbuck, Toyota ... Earnings highlights: Cisco, Ford, Humana, MasterCard, Starbuck, Toyota ... originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Six top trades for the rest of 2009 By Sam Collins (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/7/2009 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2009 After seven months of one of the

strongest rallies in history, the stock market is showing signs of faltering. From here on out through the rest of 2009, I believe the advance will shift gears, and instead of recording new highs every month, the trend

will tend to flatten.

And as we head into the heart of the fourth quarter, I wouldn't bet on the market making many more new highs this year. Continue reading Six top trades for the rest of 2009 Six top trades for the rest of

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Despite stock's sluggishness, Hess remains a buy

Fed signals low rates will continue 'for an extended period'

By Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks)

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Filed under: Stocks to Buy So far, institutional investors (IIs) have not noticed that Hess Corp.'s(NYSE: HES) upstream operations (exploration and production) should benefit from high oil prices in the $80 per barrel range. But the argument here is that eventually they will, preferably starting in early 2010, which is why I'm reiterating my Buy rating for the company, first recommended on April 22, 2009 at a price of $50.41. Right now, IIs are fixated on the lower margins of downstream operations, which Hess and other refiners are coping with, as a result of recession-induced

Filed under: Forecasts, Federal Reserve, Recession, Financial Crisis Is a Fed rate tightening up ahead any time soon? Despite concern that low, real, short-term sluggish U.S. gasoline sales. The interest rates are hurting the First Call FY2009/FY2010 EPS dollar. Don't count on it. estimates for HES are $1.63 to First, the U.S. Federal Reserve $3.66. wants to encourage banks to lend Continue reading Despite stock's -- for auto purchases, and sluggishness, Hess remains a buy especially for business loans -Despite stock's sluggishness, and nothing prompts banks to Hess remains a buy originally lend, even in tighter capital appeared on BloggingStocks on times, like low-interest-rate or Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST. zero-interest-rate money. Please see our terms for use of Continue reading Fed signals feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Gigabyte BIOS Update Fixes iPhone Syncing Issues [IPhone] By Chris Jacob (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:00:00 AM

Gigabyte's been listening to all of the iPhone syncing issues from motherboard owners using Intel's P55 chipset. They've put out a beta BIOS that addresses the problem. Unfortunately, that doesn't help all the Asus and MSI users who are having the same troubles, but hopefully now that Gigabyte has set an example the low rates will continue 'for an others will follow. extended period' If you're one of the unlucky few, Fed signals low rates will hit the link to grab the update. [ continue 'for an extended period' Gigabyte via PC World] originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Onion: Ford Unveils New Car for 2010 (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:47:32 PM

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Ford's inflatable seat belts headed to Explorer in 2010, other whips in due time (video) By Darren Murph (Engadget)

Ford feel pretty much the same way, as the outfit has just announced that these very Inflatable seat belts. At a glance, devices will be making their that doesn't seem like such a bad debut in the next-generation Ford idea after all, particularly for Explorer before rolling out across those rear seat passengers who the fleet. Of course, Lexus is also aren't blessed with two huge bags planning to shove these into its or air right in front of their chest. ultra-luxurious LFA (which will We're guessing the top brass at probably make a grand total of Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:33:00 AM

which vehicle will hit the showroom first. Jump past the break for a vid. Continue reading Ford's inflatable seat belts headed to Explorer in 2010, other whips in due time (video) Filed under: Transportation 14 wealthy owners feel really, Ford's inflatable seat belts really safe), but it's tough to tell headed to Explorer in 2010, other

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10 Terrible Tips for Longer Battery Life [Humor] By Wilson Rothman (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:00:00 PM

Nowadays, everything comes with a rechargeable battery, but who knew that getting long battery life could get soooo confusing? Here are 10 expertbacked tips to keep you from running low on the juice: 1. Since a battery should never be 100% full or 100% empty, you should charge it then discharge it in sequence ideally ranging between 80% to 20%. Start by charging for 12 minutes, then running it down, then charge it for 11 minutes then run it down, and so on. Confused? Just use this handy formula: n!=C(n,k)/r! where n can't equal r, and k never reaches zero. Simple! 2. If you use a phone or laptop without first charging its battery fully, you will die. 3. A lot of battery experts warn of the memory effect, but it's not really an "effect." It's just their way of saying "Remember to charge your batteries!" 4. Batteries run better when cold. The easiest way to do this is to find a refrigerated warehouse or meat locker, befriend the night watchman, and do all your work from there. ($20 bribes usually work.) 5. If your laptop battery gets hot

ASRock ION 330HTBD nettop gets unboxed and cracked open on video By Darren Murph (Engadget) Submitted at 11/7/2009 8:16:00 AM

enough to sear tuna, step away. Check your fridge for tuna. If no tuna in fridge, run to the supermarket to buy tuna. Don't worry, as long as you don't unplug your laptop, the battery will stay hot while you are gone. 6. When putting your laptop into storage, take out the battery. Wrap the extracted battery in a well oiled cloth and place it in a clay pot. Bury the pot in a hayfield. Any will do, but it's best if there's a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. The battery should keep fresh for up to six months that

way. If you're worried about finding it again, just mark your spot with a rock that has no earthly business in a hayfield. I favor black volcanic glass. 7. If your battery is about to run dry, take it out and blow on it. I have no idea why this works, but it totally does. 8. If your battery does die, you can always make your own: A potato theoretically has enough "potential energy" stored inside to power a laptop for a full hourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the trick is knowing where to stick the wires. Just ask a third grader. One tip: The potato must

ASRock's family of nettops may not be anything special when it comes to design, but the ION 330HT-BD can definitely handle its fair share of multimedia. The Atom CPU could unquestionably use a bit lot more oomph, but the NVIDIA Ion GPU and the integrated Blu-ray drive make this little fellow quite the not be baked. 9. You should never confuse entertainer. Care to see what it your batteries. Here's an easy looks like inside and out? Hop on way to keep them apart in your past the break and mash play, head: Lithium Ion batteries then. e x p l o d e , N i c k e l C a d m i u m Continue reading ASRock ION destroys the environment, and 330HT-BD nettop gets unboxed Lead Acid batteries are more and cracked open on video corrosive than the Alien Queen's Filed under: Desktops blood (plus, they contain lead). ASRock ION 330HT-BD nettop You can eat Lithium Ferro gets unboxed and cracked open on video originally appeared on Phosphate batteries. 10. People may tell you to carry Engadget on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 a battery-life extender in your 08:16:00 EST. Please see our bag, but the secret there is, it's terms for use of feeds. Read| just another battery. What do I Permalink| Email this| Comments recommend? Jumper cables.

2010 Superfly Will Make You Say 'My Oh My' By Mark McClusky (Wired Top Stories)

Conventional wisdom says a mountain bike with 29-inch tires

is an ungainly ride. Conventional wisdom can suck it. Meet the

2010 Superfly.

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Siren.gif: Microsoft COFEE law enforcement tool leaks all over the Internet~! By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/6/2009 7:14:07 PM

It was one of the most sought after applications on the Internet until it was leaked earlier today. And now that it’s out there—and it is all over the place, easily findable by anyone able to use a search engine—we can all move on with our lives. Yes, Microsoft COFEE, the law enforcement tool that mystified so many of us (including Gizmodo~! and Ars Technica~!), is now available to download. If only there were a “bay” of some sort where, I don’t know, pirates hang out… I’m not mentioning any names, nor will there be any screenshots, but the resourceful among you will be able to find the application. Not that it’ll do you any good, since this is how Microsoft describes COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor: With COFEE, law enforcement agencies without on-the-scene computer forensics capabilities can now more easily, reliably, and cost-effectively collect volatile live evidence. An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in

Office Building Or Home To A Super Heroine? [Architecture] By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:25:42 PM

less than 10 minutes—to use a pre-configured COFEE device. This enables the officer to take advantage of the same common digital forensics tools used by experts to gather important volatile evidence, while doing little more than simply inserting a USB device into the computer. To reiterate: you have absolutely no use for the program. It’s not something like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, an expensive application that you download for the hell of it on the off-chance you need to put Dave Meltzer’s

face on Brett Hart’s body as part of a message board thread. No, COFEE is 100 percent useless to you. Given that, what makes COFEE so mysterious, so special? The sole reason is because it’s never been available before (unless, of course, you’re a law enforcement official). People get a thrill by having something they’re not meant to have, and that effect is magnified online where you have chat rooms and message boards filled with people who get all excited over the idea of having

some super-secret piece of software that was never meant to reside on their hard drive. So that’s that then; Microsoft COFEE is out there. It’s not too big, either, at around 15MB. I’ve kept this post as cryptic as possible primarily to work y’all, and to put over COFEE as the most amazing thing to have never been leaked onto the Internet… until now~! Flickr

Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter By Don Reisinger (Webware.com)

Social network says it has a started a limited rollout of its

retweet feature. The new button will work much the same way the

"reply" option works.

Switzerland gets all the cool offices. This particular one's dubbed "Cocoon" and acts as headquarters for an architecture firm. I prefer to imagine it as home to a super heroine who zoom-zoom-zips down that spiral and saves the day. Such gorgeous design. When I snuggle up in my own cocoon of blankets tonight, I'm going to dream of being in that building and of being that particular super heroine. Right after I figure out a proper alter ego name that is. [ WAN]

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The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed By Ross Miller (Engadget)

Sixth Sense creator to release code, wearable gesture interface becomes a reality for all By Darren Murph (Engadget)

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Netflix instant streaming demoed on PlayStation 3 We've got to admit -- the whole thing looks exceptionally sleek, but given the PS3's multimedia prowess, we didn't really expect anything less HTC Hero / Eris mega faceoff on video Any way you lean it's a pretty good handset with some perhaps overly bulky software, a wonderful pricepoint and probably a limited time in the sun with upcoming Android 2.0 devices rolling on in. DROID mania sweeps the nation, so to speak And if riffraff like us can waltz into the store and get them, you should certainly be able to. Good luck being assimilated out there today. Other news of import • Poll: Will the DROID have you in its clutches? • OpenOfficeMouse isn't free, isn't pretty • Unused Adamo XPS

If we're being honest (and trust us, we're being honest), Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense contraption prototypes reveal touchscreen streams media from OS X to any has always baffled us. It's kind of trackpads, key-less keyboard internet-connected device like Sony's Rolly. It looks cool, it • Boxee shows off its new look sounds rad, but we're fairly Microsoft emancipates Digital at Beta Unveiling jam December certain only 2.49 people actually Cable Tuners with second Media 7 know and fully comprehend how Center update today it works. That said, we're more This half should enable all than jazzed about the possibility Windows 7 PCs to work with the • LG to announce Snapdragon- of having wearable gesture CableCard tuners, sans-OEM boasting Android phone, Korea- interfaces gracing every human requirement or inconvenient bound in 2010 we come into contact with, and hacking. Verizon confirms • Nokia's latest batch for rather than attempting to make DROID tethering cost, will ask emerging markets includes its his invention "comply with some subscribers to double-down on cheapest phone ever kind of corporate policy," he's their data plan • Google breaks from tradition, purportedly aiming to release the $60 monthly for "unlimited" posts DROID ad on home page source code into the wild in order data, here meaning 5GB of data to let "people make their own per, a total of 10GB split between The daily roundup: here's what systems." Nice guy, huh? All the two $30 plans. you might've missed originally told, the Sixth Sense can be built • ATI DCT Firmware update appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 for around $350 (plus oodles of pops up on Windows Update, Nov 2009 23:37:00 EST. Please unpaid time off), and we're pretty DRM-free MCE recordings & are see our terms for use of feeds. certain that a few talented DIYers a go Permalink| Email this| Comments can get this thing whipped into • Orb for Mac finally arrives,

shape far quicker than Mega Corp X. So, how's about a release date for that code? [Via AboutProjectors] Filed under: Displays, Wearables Sixth Sense creator to release code, wearable gesture interface becomes a reality for all originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Daily Crunch: Bread Line Edition By Bryce Durbin (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/7/2009 12:00:23 AM

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Toyjector: Cute mini projector to be released in Japan Does anyone in tech pay attention to unemployment numbers? Hard to buy that new

gizmo when you don’t have a

job, right? Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook You are not worthy of the 18button OpenOfficeMouse (and it

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The Back Burner: Things we didn’t post this week By Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:00:00 AM

A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips-at-crunchgeardot-com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are a few that we missed. Dear Andrey, Can I call you Andrey? That would be lovely, Andrey. Sometimes in this crazy world we call blogging, we forget to step back and take the time to enjoy some good old fashioned Church music from Russian singing groups.

We would actually love it if you could show up around holiday time. The only challenge will be that all of us who work here at CrunchGear live in different parts of the country, but if you could sing inside the chatroom that we use to communicate with each other on a daily basis, we would all be able to enjoy your Church music. You would have to actually type the words out since it’s a textbased chatroom, but that’s never stopped anyone from a live singing performance before. Hi Jennifer, Um… thanks? We might enjoy

some of those, yes. As far as uploading is concerned, do you want us to upload photos of our own recent trips or should we just upload photos of gadgets?

You guys sure look happy in that picture there. I think that little kid and I have the same green shirt! Jinx for shirts! We meet again, Bossman.

You think I don’t know what you’re trying to pull here? You know damn well that I’ve got the (Dock Box) market cornered in these parts. Now you’re trying to shop the competition, eh? See how many (Dock Box) I have in stock and how much I’m selling them for, right? Then price your own (Dock Box) inventory accordingly, is that how it works Bossman? You make me sick. Click here to read previous Back Burner posts…

Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can't use it By Ben Drawbaugh (Engadget)

only seen one demo and not a single product announcement. This doesn't surprise us, but Submitted at 11/7/2009 2:34:00 AM AACS-LA is apparently The egg had to come before the surprised because although all chicken right? Well either way, B l u - r a y D i s c s s o l d a f t e r one of 'em came first and in the December 4th have no choice but case of the latest Blu-ray feature, to allow at least one copy to be Managed Copy, the Blu-ray made, the requirement to label Discs will come before the the packaging as such has been hardware. Less than five months postponed until Spring of next since AACS was finalized and year. We'd expect at least a few the details of Managed Copy products that support Managed were revealed and so far we've Copy to be announced at CES

and although we highly doubt any stand-alone Blu-ray players will sport this feature anytime soon, we do have our hopes on

PC software and expect a few movie jukebox devices like Kaleidescape-- that we won't be able to afford -- will be

announced at the big show in Vegas. Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can't use it originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

The iPhone coming to The Shack By Dave Freeman (CrunchGear)

There were rumors out there that the iPhone would be coming to authorized resellers soon, and

we're finally starting to see it showing up. Surprisingly, The Shack will be the first one out the

gate.

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Hello Facebook User, I'm a Nigerian Prince in Need of Assistance... [Facebook] By Don Nguyen (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:00:00 AM

Facebook ad scamming is on the rise, unsurprising for a site gaining a huge user base—what is surprising, if the allegation proves true, is Facebook's complicity in allowing the dodgy ads. Tech Crunch's Michael Arrington believes that Facebook is looking the other way because it doesn't want to loose the revenue. He points out popular game Farmville: "it took me about 10 seconds to find really scammy ads." Of course Facebook is adamant that it's doing everything it can to stop scams. In an email exchange with Newsweek, Facebook spokesman David Swain stated "We have, and will continue to, move aggressively to stop any activities that threaten or damage

Amazon steps up and matches Walmart’s Xbox 360 deal

our users' experience. Any assertion to the contrary is false." Policing and curtailing scam containing ads will be a challenge for Facebook as it grows, though it would be a good idea to tackle the problem now while it's still manageable. I can't wait to see how this plays out in the Facebook movie. [ Newsweek] Photo by TechCrunch

Video: A new workout for the Wii (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:56:00 PM

Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help

revitalize the Nintendo console? 3 minutes 33 seconds November 6, 2009 6:24 PM PST This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Safa Xing LED features MP3 playback, 27 pixel resolution

At least 8 people have been shot in the Gateway Center office

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Thank the gaming gods for retail competition. You know the Xbox 360 Walmart is running today, right? Yeah, Amazon is going to match it. By Joseph L. Flatley display the icon of your choice or At 9:00 am EST and 3:00 pm (Engadget) used for a rousing game of Rock EST Amazon will give you a a / Paper / Scissors. Sort of makes $100 promotional code when you Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:44:00 AM that Zune HD of yours look like purchase an Xbox 360 Arcade for Safa is a Korean firm that has o v e r k i l l , e h ? P r i c e a n d $199. You better be sitting in put out quite a few forgettable availability yet to be announced. front of your computer all signed DAPs in its day, and while this [Via PMP Today] in and ready to go before the two one isn't going to win any awards Continue reading Safa Xing times though. The deal is good for technological advancement, it LED features MP3 playback, 27 only for a limited quantity. [via d o e s l o o k l i k e " f u n , " f o r pixel resolution Cheap Ass Gamer and Gizmodo] whatever that's worth. The Xing Filed under: Portable Audio LED is a none-too-shabby 12mm Safa Xing LED features MP3 thin and boasts 12 hours of playback, 27 pixel resolution playback time on a single charge. originally appeared on Engadget The company fails to mention on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:44:00 little things like storage capacity EST. Please see our terms for and file format support, but that use of feeds. Read| Permalink| ain't why we're here: the face of Email this| Comments the device features 27 LEDs that can be either programed to

Mass Shooting in Florida (Little Green Footballs)

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)

building in Orlando, Florida. Not many details available yet…

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How would you change Windows Mobile 6.5? By Darren Murph (Engadget) Submitted at 11/7/2009 12:59:00 AM

We know, today is totally Android 2.0's day to shine, but what would a Friday night be without a little diversity? Windows Mobile 6.5 officially landed on a gaggle of Windows Phones back in early October (a month ago to the day, in fact), but by and large, all of 'em have seemingly drifted off into some forgotten corner while Motorola's DROID has taken over the hype. Still, we've got a feeling at least a

few of you loyalists went out and gave Sir Ballmer a few more of your nickles, and now we're eager to hear if you're loving or

regretting that choice. Is 6.5 really a worthy update over 6.1? Are you waiting for WinMo 7 instead? What would you change about 6.5 in order to make 7 the best mobile OS of all time? Sound off in comments below! Filed under: Cellphones, Software How would you change Windows Mobile 6.5? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'

Court Says Telenor Doesn't Need To Block The Pirate Bay

By Tom Krazit (Webware.com)

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When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line." Originally posted at Relevant Results

A 31-page 7D review for your consideration By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:49:54 PM

The always thorough DPReview has finally published its epic review of the Canon 7D. Their

conclusion? Brilliant. While in the end your purchase probably will rely more on your investment into the Canon, Nikon, Pentax, or whatever ecosystem, the 7D performs considered among the very best incredibly well and should be available. Not much else to say

Zune Pass troubles? Users report Zune purchases are busted By Devin Coldewey (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:39:32 PM

Zune down! The Zune support forums are awash with users claiming various issues with they aren’t playing. Sounds like Zune subscription media. Songs an authentication issue to me, and are not showing up, or if they do, those happen every once in a

except I wish I had two grand burning a hole in my pocket so I could pick one up.

Review: Military Dudes Abide in Funny 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' By Angela Watercutter (Wired Top Stories)

while — but for weeks on end? Any of you fine folks out there Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:20:00 PM having trouble? I’ll see if I can scare up any info from the Zune George Clooney, Jeff Bridges team and post an update later. and Kevin Spacey play psychic "Jedi Warriors" in a movie [Thanks, Aditya] improbably inspired by a real Army program.

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) I'm heading over to Norway in the next few days to give a talk at the Nordic Music Week event, and it's nice to see that the courts in that country seem to recognize how silly the IFPI's demands that major ISP Telenor block access to The Pirate Bay are. Telenor was smart enough to fight back, and the courts have now said that Telenor is not liable for what its users do, and should not have to block access to a site like The Pirate Bay. From TorrentFreak on the ruling: The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its subscribers use The Pirate Bay, and therefore there is no legal basis for forcing the ISP to block access to the site.... In making its decision, the court also had to examine the repercussions if it ruled that Telenor and other ISPs had to block access to certain websites. This, it said, is usually the responsibility of the authorities and handing this task to private companies would be "unnatural." Good to see a court recognize that the entertainment industry doesn't own the internet, and shouldn't be the one to determine what is and what is not legal online. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Thinking About Real Copyright Reform By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

Litman's paper goes through the problems with today's copyright law, and begins to explore what Michael Scott alerts us to a real copyright reform should recent paper by professor and entail, even while noting the copyright expert Jessica Litman political difficulty of having it go about"Real Copyright Reform." anywhere: A wise approach to While there's been some chatter copyright revision might inspire here and there about doing real us to rethink the model. If both copyright reform, there seems to creators and readers are illbe no real effort behind it. That's served by distributor-centric for a few reasons, including the copyright, and if the economics fact that many people still of digital distribution now makes remember what a pain the last it possible to engage in mass attempt at real copyright reform dissemination without significant was (it took decades) combined capital investment, perhaps it is with the realization (especially on time to reallocate the benefits of the part of copyright holders) that t h e c o p y r i g h t s y s t e m . T h e their ability to push through laws consolidation of control in that solely favor themselves to distributors' hands does not greater and greater degrees may appear to have made life easier or not be so easy this time around. more remunerative for creators. Thanks to the internet and Copyright lobbyists have not various "wars" on consumers, shown that recent enhancements copyright isn't just an arcane to copyright have made it easier subject that the day to day person or more rewarding for readers, doesn't know much about. A listeners and viewers to enjoy serious attempt at remaking copyrighted works. Perhaps the copyright laws might actually classic picture of copyright is too draw out well-reasoned and well- far removed from its reality to be argued points that go against the useful. From there, Litman makes current views held by the record similar arguments that have been labels and movie studios. See made recently by James Boyle w h a t ' s b e e n h a p p e n i n g i n and William Patry (among Canada, for example. others), wondering why there is Submitted at 11/6/2009 7:37:00 PM

little investigation into the actual impact of changes in copyright law, rather than just assuming that "stronger protections" lead to better results, when so much of the evidence suggests otherwise. And, of course, all of this harkens back to the speeches by Thomas Macauley from over a century and a half ago, back when he was able to point to the lack of evidence from those who wished to extend copyright law: Copyright is monopoly, and produces all the effects which the general voice of mankind attributes to monopoly.... I believe, Sir, that I may safely take it for granted that the effect of monopoly generally is to make articles scarce, to make them dear, and to make them bad. And I may with equal safety challenge my honorable friend to find out any distinction between copyright and other privileges of the same kind; any reason why a monopoly of books should produce an effect directly the reverse of that which was produced by the East India Companys monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essexs monopoly of sweet wines. Thus, then, stands the case. It is good that authors

should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. And yet, in copyright reform today, there seems to be no one in the political realm with enough power to play the role of Macauley today. But Litman raises these same issues: Instead of asking how to enhance copyright owner control, I suggest, we ought to be asking why. Does a particular proposed enhancement of copyright owner prerogatives seem likely to expand opportunities for creators or improve reader, listener or viewer enjoyment of copyrighted works? Is it likely to make the copyright system simpler, more effective, or more transparent? Does it seem to be designed to shore up copyright's apparent legitimacy? If not, it seems as likely to make the current mess worse instead of better. Litman goes on to suggest that the fact that so many people out there don't have any respect for

copyright law at all is pretty clearly the fault of the current copyright holders who have twisted and abused the law to the point that people just don't respect it. So, her ideas for copyright reform are based on bringing back "legitimacy" to copyright law by focusing on four principles: • Radically simplifying copyright law • Empowering content creators (rather than intermediaries and distributors) • Empowering readers, listeners and viewers (who, after all, are supposed to be part of the beneficiaries of copyright law) • Disintermediating copyright away from the middlemen who seem to control the law today To then accomplish this, she suggests the following steps: • Focus on commercial exploitation (rather than personal use) • Simplify what copyright covers (rather than breaking out each separate exclusive right within copyright) • Reconnect creators to their THINKING page 17

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5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers By Megan Berry (Mashable!)

required). If you don’t know which wine goes with which types of food, what wines are Megan Berry is an evangelist for best for what occasion, or how to Mobclix, the industry’s largest pronounce Sauvignon Blanc then mobile ad exchange, working on this is the right app for you. social media and marketing. She Perfect for every wannabe wino also blogs at The Huffington Post out there, Hello Vino will make and the Mobclix blog. You can choosing the right wine easy. f o l l o w h e r o n T w i t t e r Pick the type of food you’re as@meganberry, or through having or the occasion and then the@Mobclix handle. choose whether you’d like a red, Unsure about mixing your white, rose, sparkling, or sweet iPhone with wine? Well, if w i n e . S o p h i s t i c a t e d w i n e you’re a true vinophile, the connoisseurs will find this app iPhone is an amazing device to beneath them, but those with less keep you more connected to your experience with the vines will wine. The following list of top find its lack of complexity just wine apps on the iPhone will right. Hello Vino can help you convince you that mixing the two pick whether you should get a is worth the risk of spilling some chardonnay or a malbec, but look pinot noir on your phone. Like further if you want an app to help wine itself, these apps vary in you determine which specific price and quality, and many still wine to buy. The best part? It’s have a ways to go in terms of free, a rarity for wine apps. functionality. But the five Cost: Free 2. Pair It! awesome apps on this list will The ultimate wine snob must help you find, choose, taste, pair, have not only drink the best and collect wines. wine, but pair those wines Think I missed an important perfectly with the food they’re o n e ? N o m i n a t e i t i n t h e eating. Pair It!, created by a wine c o m m e n t s ! 1 . H e l l o V i n o pairing expert from Sonoma For those who aren’t quite wine county, encourages users to snobs, but wish they were, this shake their iPhones to find a app will help you fake it ’til you random pairing, or figure out the make it (stealthy use of iPhone perfect pairing for the food or Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:23:22 PM

wine they already have by entering into the app. In case you doubt the true wine snobbery of this application, you should be aware it takes into account relative weights, flavor bridges, and elements of taste to find the perfect match. In other words, this app knows wine. Cost: $2.99 3. Fromage No good wine tasting would be complete without cheese. Fromage is your pocket guide to over 650 types of cheeses. You can rate cheeses and mark your favorites. Each cheese comes with descriptions of flavor and suggested wine pairings. A fairly simple app, but a must for any wine (and cheese) lover. Cost: $2.99 4. Drync Wine Much like the name implies this app will help in almost every step of the process of drinking wine. With a database of well over a million wines, you should be able to find the one you’re looking

for. Drync Wine was born out of the developer’s own desire to track the wines he was drinking. Once you’ve found your wine, you can take tasting notes, rate it, and add a photo of the label so you remember it. This will get saved to your virtual cellar so you can keep track of the wines you’ve tasted. Drync Wines replaces those cheesy wine tasting journals and does it cleanly and simply. Furthermore, they recently released a free version that lets you try before you buy (you can only keep up to 10 wines in the free version). Cost: Free / $4.99 (the link above is to the Pro version) 5. DrinkFit DrinkFit provides nutritional information for different varieties of wine so you can get an idea of how many calories you’re drinking with your dinner. A fairly simple interface make it pretty easy to find the wine you’re drinking and get a calories count. Note, however, that this app does not measure the calories of specific vintages just the difference between, for instance, the average calorie count of a pinot noir versus a pinot gris. It also contains calorie counts for other types of alcoholic

Opera Mobile 10 beta browser: First Look video By Jessica Dolcourt (Webware.com)

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beverages such as, beer and cocktails, but I’m sure you always drink wine, right? Cost: $1.99 Honorable Mentions: Wine Snob: ($3.99) A solid wine tasting log and wine database. Cellar: ($0.99) It allows you to visually keep track of your wine collection. Wine Ph.D.: ($4.99) The wine ratings are helpful, although the database is less than complete. Cor.kz Wine Info: ($3.99) This is a fairly complete app with a wine database, wine tasting notes, cellar management, and wish lists. More iPhone resources from Mashable: - iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television - Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged by Mashable Readers - 7 iPhone Apps That Can Save Lives - 15 iPhone Apps to Tame the Kids - 20 Creative Apps For Your iPhone Image courtesy of iStockphoto, zoom-zoom Reviews: iStockphoto Tags: iphone, iphone apps, List, Lists, wine

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The Moral Argument In Favor Of File Sharing? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/6/2009 6:47:14 PM

I've discussed in the past the question of whether or not there's even a moral question to consider when it comes to copyright, if you can first show a situation where everyone is better off (i.e., if the end result of content being shared, willingly, is better for both the content creators and consumers, why should morals even be a question?). Separately, I have made clear that I do not engage in any sort of unauthorized file sharing -noting that it is illegal and, I personally believe, wrong. Some people have pushed back on that latter point, suggesting that my labeling it as "wrong" is, in fact, a moral statement as well. A couple months ago (yes, I'm slow, but I'm catching up on some old "saved" submissions), SteelWolf sent over some thoughts on why file sharing is not wrong, and why there's actually a moral argument in favor of sharing: It is through sharing that we develop a culture and advance humanity. Creative works like art and music are, at their core, about sharing with others. They tell stories, reveal personalities, or comment on the world in ways that others can appreciate, forming a part of our culture as they are spread around. Gregor Mendel's discoveries

about genetics had no value while they were gathering dust on the monastery bookshelf; it is only when those discoveries were shared with the world that they became vital. Infinite Goods Should Be Shared Say you have something that is good for others, and it is infinite, so you will not lose any of it by giving some away. I don't think it's a stretch to say that most people's idea of morality would dictate that they should share that thing. In general, information is something that can be seen as a public good. If somebody has a discovery or an idea, it costs nothing to give it away, it is not scarce, yet it can potentially benefit the world. On this, I absolutely agree -- but it is much more the argument for why the content creators themselves should share their content first. And that's where things get tricky. I do think it makes sense to share content. I think that content creators would find themselves better off if they share their works (and do so strategically, in combination with a business plan that takes advantage of it). But what if the original creator doesn't want the content shared? Then what? SteelWolf argues that there's a moral imperative to share, but again, this seems to apply more to the content creator, than those downstream: Faced with an

infinity of good things in the form of content information, why would somebody chose not to give it away? What is gained by hoarding something that can help others and costs nothing to share? Let's say you figure out that you can protect people from a deadly virus, say, influenza, with a vaccine. While it costs something to manufacture physical vaccines and mail them to everybody in the world, sharing the information behind it is free. Others can chose whether or not they want to invest money in creating their own, but sharing has given them the option to do so where before it did not exist. Faced with this situation, who would chose to let thousands of people perish by denying them even the potential opportunity to save themselves? Yet this is exactly the choice many people are making in the name of "intellectual property." They would rather see others suffer than share something infinite with them, desperately clinging to business models that depend on scarcity. In the 21st century, ideas, information, digitized content are all infinitely available. For these things, the Star Trek replicator has been made, and it's time to use that as a stepping stone to greater things. Faced with an infinite supply of information that can potentially benefit billions of people, I chose

to share. Those who try to hoard this information are both attempting to drink the ocean and doing wrong. While I think this is interesting, and at times compelling, in the end I'm still not convinced there's a moral component here, except potentially for the creator/innovator. But, at the same time, I still believe that we're better off taking the moral discussion out of it. Perhaps a moral argument like the one above is helpful to convince some, but it leads right back to the economic discussion, where some will ask why anyone would bother in the first place, if they're just told they need to give it away for moral reasons. Instead, I'm more convinced by economic arguments that show greater opportunity in sharing infinite goods, in that it decreases the cost of creation, promotion and distribution, while making it easier reach a larger audience for selling scarce products. Again, if you can make the economic argument, and then throw in the moral benefits of spreading information on top of it, that makes sense. But a purely moral argument still falls a bit short for me. Still, I'm sure it will lead to an interesting discussion here. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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copyright (via a termination right that lets them take copyrights back from third parties) â&#x20AC;˘ Clearly recognize readers' (or viewers', listeners', users', etc) rights â&#x20AC;˘ Get rid of existing compulsory license (and similar) intermediaries, such as ASCAP, BMI, SoundExchange and others It's definitely an interesting proposal, though I think there are some serious problems with it. I've said in the past that the line between commercial use and personal use is increasingly blurry, so trying to draw that distinction may be a lot harder than most people think. We're already seeing the kind of mess termination rights create, and I'm still not sure why they help matters, rather than just make them more complex. And, of course even as Litman notes, new intermediaries will spring up to fill the void of the old ones. Still, if you're interested in copyright and copyright reform, it's certainly a worthwhile paper to read just to get you thinking. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Glenn Beck Not Allowed To Rape And Murder An Internet Meme By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

legal threat that you'll ever see. It's quite amusing. Randazza takes the old "moron in a hurry" Back in September, we wrote test up one level, using the about Glenn Beck's misguided "abject imbecile" test. And then attempt to gain control over the there was this: We are not here domain name used as part of an because the domain name could internet meme that is critical of cause confusion. We do not have G l e n n B e c k , a declaration from the president GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedA of the international association YoungGirlIn1990.com(it's a dead of imbeciles that his members are site now, keep reading). If you're b l a n k l y s t a r i n g a t t h e unfamiliar with the meme, it's Respondent's website wondering mocking a favorite tactic of "where did all the race baiting various cable news talk show content go?" We are here hosts, to "ask questions" that are b e c a u s e M r . B e c k w a n t s accusatory in nature, whether or Respondent's website shut down. not there's any substance to back He wants it shut down because them up. Glenn Beck didn't Respondent's website makes a accuse the site of defamation or poignant and accurate satirical anything, but filed a domain c r i t i q u e o f M r . B e c k b y name complaint, saying that it parodying Beck's very rhetorical violated his trademark. As we style. Beck's skin is too thin to noted at the time, the trademark take the criticism, so he wants claim was really questionable -- the site down. Apparently, and, of course, only served to R a n d a z z a ' s l e t t e r w o r k e d draw more attention to the site wonders. The WIPO Arbitration and the internet meme. Panel has rejected the attempt to The site brought on lawyer Marc take the domain, saying that it Randazza who filed one of the was a legitimate use of Beck's most brilliant responses(pdf) to a name: In the present context, this

Panel considers that if Internet users view the disputed domain name in combination with a visit to Respondent's website, the "total effect" is that of political commentary by Respondent, capable of protection as political speech by the First Amendment under the Hustler Magazine standard. Respondent appears to the Panel to be engaged in a parody of the style or methodology that Respondent appears genuinely to believe is employed by Complainant in the provision of political commentary, and for that reason Respondent can be said to be making a political statement. This constitutes a legitimate noncommercial use of Complainant's mark under the Policy. Either way, now that the site's owner has prevailed, he apparently feels he has made his point, and has agreed to voluntarily hand over the domain(pdf), along with an explanation in the First Amendment and how not to respond to internet memes: It bears observing that by bringing

Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry

After 5 Years on Web, Firefox Preps for Next Round

Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:40:00 PM

By Jessica Dolcourt (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:57:00 PM

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up to snuff on BlackBerry. Originally posted at The Download Blog

By Michael Calore (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:30:00 PM

The Firefox web browser celebrates the fifth anniversary of

the WIPO complaint, you took what was merely one small critique meme, in a sea of internet memes, and turned it into a super-meme. Then, in pressing forward (by not withdrawing the complaint and instead filing additional briefs), you turned the super-meme into an object lesson in First Amendment principles. It also bears noting, in this matter and for the future, that you are entirely in control of whether or not you are the subject of this particular kind of criticism. I chose to criticize you using the well-tested method of satire because of its effectiveness. But, humor aside, your rhetorical style is no laughing matter. In this context of this WIPO case, you denigrated the letter of First Amendment law. In the context of your television show and your notoriety, you routinely and shamelessly denigrate the spirit of the First Amendment.... Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

its debut Monday. With IE humbled and Chrome on the rise, the next five years are going to look totally different than the first five.

Murdoch Reconsidering Paywalls? Delaying Implementation By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:14:34 PM

Is Rupert Murdoch flip-flopping on paywalls again? Way back when (i.e., two years ago) Murdoch was a big believer in the idea that news should be free online, and that he could more than make it up with other business models. But, then, earlier this year, he did a complete flip-flop, declaring that all his publications would put up paywalls, saying that free content is bad, and accusing aggregators and search engines of "stealing" content. Some speculated that it was all a ploy to get others to put up paywalls. Though, others just think Murdoch's getting a little senile. Either way, it looks like he's stalling a bit. Jay Rosen points us to the news that Murdoch is "postponing" the date for when he wants his papers to have paywalls. It's not clear if the delay is due to technical difficulties in implementing a paywall, or if he's actually reconsidering. Either way, it doesn't look like the great big paywall is going up any time soon. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office

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By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)

Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:20:05 PM

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: DocVerse Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Genius Idea: Collaboration is a key to success in any business, especially when you have a scattered team that needs to work on documents constantly. There are already a lot of options, including Google Docs, Adobe Acrobat, and even Microsoft Office 2010 to some extent. But having full, Google Docs-like collaboration in Microsoft Office would be nice. This is the gap that DocVerse is trying to fill. It’s a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds this type of functionality to a new sidebar within Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. This sidebar is where all of DocVerse’s magic happens. You

can invite friends and colleagues to collaborate on any documents. As you and others make edits, those changes are synced to the cloud. In addition to a hard copy, the plug-in automatically saves a web-based version of the doc that others can see to make collaboration easy. It’s not just the instant collaboration though – there are also some great discussion and tracking features via the DocVerse sidebar. One allows you to IM anybody collaborating on the document in question. Another lets you track the most recent changes and by whom they were made. Finally, the version history tab lets you see a larger overview of the history of the document. All in all, DocVerse is slick, easy to understand, and perfect for small and large businesses where the employees are used to using Microsoft Office to get

things done. DocVerse’s collaboration suite isn’t free, though. It’s $49/month for 10 users and 500 documents and $99 per month for 25 users and 1500 documents. If you just can’t get your team on board with Google Docs though, DocVerse may be the answer you’re looking for. Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today. Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Azure Services platform for their website hosting and storage needs. Microsoft recently announced the“new CloudApp()” contest– use the Azure Services Platform for hosting your .NET or PHP app, and you could be the lucky winner of a USD 5000* ( please see website for official rules and guidelines).” Reviews: Adobe Acrobat.com, Google Docs, PHP Tags: bizspark

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As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings. As such, we’ve started work on our own project to categorize Twitter into what we hope will be useful lists. These are nowhere near finished, of course: just a starting point. We’ll be adding more and more names over the coming weeks. If you see people you’d like to include (and there are many, many more to add – sorry if we missed you!), just send a Tweet to @mashable with your suggestions. Twitter Lists from Mashable You can explore all our evolving lists here >> Media Thinkers: media thinkers and commentators. Social Media Linkers: social media experts, thinkers and linkers. Mashable Team: the Mashable team, social media musings and personal Tweets. News Orgs: news organizations

on Twitter, breaking news. Marketing Experts: marketers who Tweet, digital marketing insights and links. Top Designers who Tweet: web designers share their insights and musings. Music: popular musicians on Twitter. Web People: the web scene, a growing list of all things webby. Top Brands on Twitter: brand names on Twitter, official company accounts. Tech: interesting voices in tech. Foodies to Follow: foodies who Tweet, top chefs share knowledge. Celebrity: celebrities who Tweet. Journalists and Journalism Tweets: journalists talk media, newspapers, tv and the growth of online journalism. The Twitterati: early Twitter stars who share interesting links. Healthcare on Twitter: healthcare experts and organizations on Twitter. Reviews: Mashable, Twitter Tags: trending, twitter, Twitter Lists

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IP Czar Focused On Protecting Jobs, FishVille Launches on Not Promoting Progress? Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

But more troubling? Espinel made it clear that her job is not to do as the Constitution requires, We were already somewhat and make sure that intellectual concerned about the nomination property laws are properly of Victoria Espinel for the IP "promoting the progress of arts Czar job in the administration and the useful sciences" (she (forced on the administration by never mentions this part), but, the silly and pointless "ProIP" instead she claims her focus is A c t f r o m l a s t y e a r ) . O n cracking down on infringement T h u r s d a y , s h e h a d h e r to protect jobs: If I am confirmed confirmation hearings where she as the United States Intellectual said pretty much what we P r o p e r t y E n f o r c e m e n t expected about how important Coordinator, I will work side by intellectual property is, and how side with agencies, Congress, s h e v i e w e d h e r j o b a s stakeholders and the public to c o o r d i n a t i n g d i f f e r e n t ensure that jobs that depend on government agencies to crack intellectual property are not down on infringers. Much of her c o m p r o m i s e d b y o t h e r s ' (brief) testimony(pdf) talked up unwillingness to respect and the usual industry claims about enforce the rule of law.... But the importance of intellectual intellectual property law is not property on the economy, not about "protecting jobs" it's about recognizing how misleading they e n c o u r a g i n g i n n o v a t i o n . are. These are stats that simply Innovation can be disruptive. credit anything covered by Jobs can get shifted around. intellectual property laws, as if P r o t e c t i n g j o b s i s n o t the only reason those industries encouraging innovation. It's the exist is because of those laws. opposite. Better and smarter That's a mistake. protection and enforcement of Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:31:00 PM

intellectual property rights will create more jobs... There's simply no evidence to support that. Shouldn't our IP Czar rely on actual evidence rather than broad industry claims that are unproven? Then, on being questioned she appeared to support Hollywood's position that any net neutrality laws won't apply to mandating content filters on ISPs. It's looking like -- just as was initially feared -- this position is really to get Hollywood's own representative in the White House. What a shame. If you must have an "IP Czar" shouldn't it be someone who's actually focused on making sure progress is being promoted, rather than someone who wants to blindly crack down on infringement with no thought towards whether or not it makes sense? Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

NPR: Maj. Hasan 'Freaked Out' Other Doctors at Walter Reed (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 11/6/2009 12:28:02 PM

This NPR segment from Morning Edition reveals that

alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave a lecture to other doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center that “really freaked them out:” Officials

Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together. The guy was apparently giving off all kinds of warning signs.[Video]

By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:56:06 PM

We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of the wildly popular social game might be in the works. And indeed it was, with FishVille launching in beta today. It’s a bit of a late contender to the aquarium games space, with Happy Aquarium, Fish World and My Fishbowl all getting a head start. Nevertheless, Zynga has enough clout in the social games space to make FishVille a quick winner in all likelihood. With an estimated$200 million in revenue this year, it’s arguably the most successful of the companies in the space along with Playfish, Playdom, and others. The game itself is fairly simple, like many of the Zynga’s other titles including YoVille and Cafe

World along with FarmVille. You’re given a virtual aquarium with a few starter fish, that you feed and then harvest and sell to invest in new fish eggs. In a similar revenue mechanic to other Zynga games, you can either pony up real money to get credits to buy more eggs, or complete ad-related surveys and offers in exchange for credits — a practice that has recently come under some scrutiny as a host of less than reputable ads have been finding their way into social games from several companies. Have you played FishVille yet, or tried out any other social games on Facebook or elsewhere? Let us know your impressions and your favorites in the comments. Reviews: Facebook, Yoville Tags: facebook, fishville, games, offer ads, social games, virtual goods, Zynga

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Mobile: Still waiting to see what sticks

Apple introduces reserve and pick-up

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By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:53:42 PM

Together we can figure this out Despite Apple's tremendous success with the iPhone, we're still in the early innings of mobile adoption. As such, a strategy of "throwing-lots-of-things-againstthe-wall-to-see-what-sticks" makes a lot of sense. It's true of platforms like Google Android, but it's also true of applications. Even on the iPhone, which reportedly drives $2.4 billion worth of applications in annual sales, very few application developers appear to be making much money. Zynga, creator of Farmville, is an exception, as BusinessWeek notes, doing more than $100 million in annual sales. This isn't to suggest that developers should stop trying. Quite the opposite. Now is the time to try a range of applications to see what sells. Google is following the same strategy with its Android platform. The company is happily promiscuous with its

code, allowing and even encouraging fragmentation to see where the industry will take Android. Fragmentation enables handset manufacturers and others to find the best fit for Android in the market, rather than going the Apple route. ("If we build it, they will come.") It's very possible, as Bill Weinberg notes, that such fragmentation and experimentation will result in Android getting greater play beyond mobile than it does in the smartphone market. I suspect Google won't mind. As in other areas, it's using the broad -based, open-source approach to increase adoption of its services like Search, services which generate more than $22 billion each year.

It's an approach that works particularly well for a fastfollower: someone tracking the progress of an early market leader. An open-source strategy basically enables the industry to determine, by itself and for itself, what the market leader is missing and how to resolve the voids. However, it's also a good way to generate developer interest and, hence, modifications and addons. Application developers might be well-served by opensourcing their applications to encourage adoption and make their road maps a community affair. There are over 4 billion mobile phones on the planet, with virtually no one outside of the wireless carriers and handset manufacturers making money from this extensive device reach. The market is ripe for software businesses, but first we need to experiment to discover what sells. Open source just might be able to help with that. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate By Kim Zetter (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:30:00 PM

The nation is closer to a national data-breach notification law and setting security standards for handling sensitive data. After

legislation aimed at the problem languishes on Capitol Hill for four years, two bills make it out of Senate committee.

Submitted at 11/7/2009 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Hardware, Retail, Odds and ends, Apple, Holidays As a guy who likes shopping online, but who still appreciates the act of going into a retail store for big purchases, I love this news. Apple has introduced a "Reserve and Pick-up" service for the holiday season. The name is a little unwieldy, but it gets the point across. You go onto the Apple web site to find what you want, click to reserve the product at a nearby Apple Store, and then go to the store and pick up the goods while you're doing your holiday shopping between December 15 to 24. For many folks, this might seem awkward -- why not just buy the product online and get it shipped, or just go to the store and buy it? For guys like me, it's perfect -all of the convenience of choosing a product online, with the added bonus of being able to check out the retail store during the holidays. iLounge notes that there's no

AppleTV on the list, so if you were planning to pick one up as a gift, you'll have to go a more traditional route. There's also no way to actually reserve an iPhone. Instead, you're told to get an iPhone gift card to give to some lucky recipient. Nevertheless, I like the idea of reserve and pick-up, an interesting mix of online shopping and in-store purchasing for the holiday season. It's Apple take-out. TUAW Apple introduces reserve and pick-up originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores

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

Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:15:00 PM

This week on the Roundtable: the App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was mostly to buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and has proven successful by Apple: the App Store. In this model, there is one and only one outlet for software, and it's run by the people who make the hardware. And, critically, you can't get a product into the store unless the hardware maker approves it. The app store concept is spreading to other mobile platforms and may become a part of general-purpose computing and game platforms as well. It's changing how software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. To

discuss these and related topics: Sebastian Rupley, editor in chief of the GigaOm network, which publishes, among other things, a great tech analysis site. Via remote from our New York office, CNET Senior Writer Maggie Reardon, who covers mobile and Web-based businesses. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Reporters' Roundtable #9: The app store business Show notes and talking points... How big a deal is the app store concept? How pervasive will it become? What did Apple do right? How did it get to more than 100,000 apps? What's the No. 2 app store (Maggie)? What does this do for developers?

Outlook for Android, Palm, BlackBerry, MS, Symbian? Only two weeks ago did Apple enable trialware--free before paid. What took so long? Isn't this known as one of the great ways to market on the Net? Discuss pricing models. Discuss approval process. Could it work in Windows, OS X? What about the Web? Yahoo is considering apps on its homepage. What about games? And in-app purchases, like Farmville? Next time: The business of humor with Ben Huh of Failblog! Plus one other great guest to be revealed later... Watch my Twitter feed for updates. Feedback to our new email address, roundtable@cnet.com. Thanks! This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself By How-To Wiki (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:30:00 PM

It may not seem like it, but your MacBook hard drive is no different than that of any other laptop. Replacing it without

Apple's help might void your warranty, but it sure is a lot cheaper if you do it yourself.

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Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools Bambooapps has released a simple and useful utility called Quiet Read that has earned a spot on my Mac's menubar. With a simple drag-and -drop, it lets you save a web page for later review. Of course, there are many apps that do this, including Instapaper and Evernote. Instapaper gets the job done via a bookmarklet; just give it a click while at the desired URL and it's saved. Evernote does pretty much the same thing, thought their bookmarklet behaves differently between Safari and Firefox. In addition, they have the Mac application for tagging and organizing. I spent the day using Quiet Read instead of the other two. Here's what I liked and disliked. First, adding a URL is as easy as possible. Simply drag it out of your browser's address bar and drop it onto the menu bar icon. The display keeps track of how

many you've collected. A tidy drop-down lets your browse the saved articles for easy selection. What I disliked is that once an app is gone, it's gone. Instapaper saves read articles. But Quiet Read isn't Instapaper. If you're looking for a free, simple way to save articles for later reading (and you're running 10.6 or later), Quiet Read could be the solution. TUAW Save URLs for later with Quiet Read originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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POLL: TweetDeck Trounces Seesmic Desktop in Reader Vote By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

Week 4: - Twitter vs. Facebook - WINNER: Facebook, 2484 We’ve had a number of close votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: calls here during our Web 588 votes) Faceoff series, but this wasn’t Week 5: one of them. This week we pitted - WordPress vs. Typepad TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop forget to tune in again on - WINNER: WordPress, 2714 against each other in a bar room Monday for the next round of our votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: brawl for favorite Twitter client. Web Faceoff series (and check 357 votes) Now, the results are in. out all the past winners below). Week 6: Whereas last week’s Windows 7 Web Faceoff: Overall Results - Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Week 1: - WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 battle was a close one, with - Mozilla Firefox vs. Google votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 Windows 7 going the distance to Chrome votes, Tie: 121 votes) outlast the current Mac OS, this - WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes Week 7: week’s showdown had a big (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 - T w e e t D e c k v s . S e e s m i c winner. Desktop votes) …and TweetDeck was it, with a Week 2: - WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 full 71% of the vote (3294 votes) - Tumblr vs. Posterous votes (Seesmic Desktop, 1055 a s c o m p a r e d t o S e e s m i c - WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes votes, Tie: 260 votes) Reviews: Desktop’s 23% (1055 votes). Six (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, percent or 260 of you just votes) Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, couldn’t decide and went for the Week 3: Pandora, Posterous, Seesmic Tie option. Desktop, Tumblr, TweetDeck, - Pandora vs. Last.fm What did you think of the - WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes Twitter, TypePad, WordPress results? Did the best Twitter (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 Tags: poll, seesmic desktop, client win? Let us know in the votes) tweetdeck, twitter, twitter clients, comments! And of course, don’t web faceoff Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:41:26 PM

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model By Daniel Roth (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:00:00 PM

A fiendishly clever startup knows what we are Googling &mdash! then churns out thousands of cheap videos and

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iPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 [RUMOR] By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:21:51 PM

Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while Verizon might be all about showing off what Droid does right now, a new report suggests it could become the first carrier other than AT&T to offer iPhone on American soil, starting in the second half of 2010. According to a report obtained by Apple Insider, “Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers, and specifically to Verizon Wireless in the US” –

the significance of CDMA being that it’s the standard that Verizon’s network uses, versus AT&T’s GSM. As you might suspect, there’s currently no comment from Apple or Verizon, but it’s not the first time the two companies have been linked. Just last month, a report surfaced suggesting that Verizon and Apple were already testing a 4G version of the iPhone. While we await more details, we can’t help but be amused by how we might end up looking back at the current attack ad battle taking place between Verizon, AT&T, and Apple if a Verizon iPhone comes to fruition. Tags: apple, att, iphone, verizon

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The week in TUAW By Victor Agreda, Jr. (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/7/2009 12:33:00 AM

Filed under: Video, TUAW Business Need a Mac or iPhone developer? TUAW job boards are here! Notice anything new at TUAW? We've had our job boards up for a week now, making sure all the tape would stick when new jobs were posted, and I'm proud to say that the doors are wide open for job... TUAW Video: a tour of Freeverse transition everything over to the Developer Program for a year, Welcome to the first of what we n e w o w n e r . H e d o e s n ' t and then you just need to find a hope will be many, many TUAW specifically say that he'll transfer developer you can pay -- or even Videos to come. We've done lots the developer account on Apple's do it yourself with a helper o f v i d e o o n T U A W , f r o m Macworld Expo coverage to App Store to your name (he says service). he'll send over a DVD with the If you'd rather start off with a WWDC interviews to fart apps source code and transfer "the bunch of marginal to silly 99- and more. This time we're... whole kit and caboodle" to you), cent apps and happen to have an Hands-on with the Magic Mouse but we presume that's what will extra $100,000 lying around to Lawsuit Accuses happen -- of course if you go for spend (maybe for a nice holiday Facebook of Conspiring it, you're doing this at your own gift?), here's your opportunity. risk. TUAW For sale on eBay: One to Break Video-Privacy What will a burgeoning App iPhone development business, Law Store business, complete with batteries not included originally By Kim Zetter (Wired Top apps like iSexyRef and Swine appeared on The Unofficial Stories) Flu cost you? Just a cool $100 Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, grand. That's the starting bid in 07 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:15:00 PM the eBay auction, which has just Please see our terms for use of A lawsuit filed in Texas accuses over a week left and no bids as of feeds. Facebook of conspiring with this writing. There are certainly Read| Permalink| Email this| Blockbuster to violate a federal less expensive ways to get started Comments law protecting records related to selling apps on the store. It only the sale and rental of videos. costs $100 to register in Apple's

For sale on eBay: One iPhone development business, batteries not included By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/7/2009 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Developer, Deals, iPhone Want an iPhone app business without all the boring hassle of actually programming and releasing iPhone apps? Boy, does Brice Milliorn have a deal for you! He's auctioning off his iPhone app business, which he says has 87 different apps for sale, over on eBay. Milliorn says he started out developing apps on his own, but the business is just too big for him to keep up so he's selling all of the apps and their rights, all of the source code, and technical support for two months to

Well, I got my Magic Mouse a few days ago, and I've been using it for my everyday tasks for a few days (and I'm still using it), and here are my impressions. Packaging: This packaging is... Also of interest: • TUAW Review: Kanex HDMI + audio adapter works fine but costs extra • TUAW Gift Guides: Gifts for tech-savvy women • Waveboard on the iPhone, Google Wave access slightly better than Mobile Safari TUAW The week in TUAW originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Sneak a Peek! BrandNew 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' Pics! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:11:00 PM

Just in! Take a look at the sizzlin' new pics from 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'! The highly anticipated sequel sinks its teeth into theaters Nov. 20.

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Rumor: Smaller iPhone on tap for Verizon in Q3 2010?

EMI to offer instant concert recordings

By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

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smaller than the current model which uses a 3.5" display. Photos of the smaller display were first featured on iLounge in Submitted at 11/7/2009 12:30:00 AM June of 2008 (see photo at right), Filed under: Rumors, Wireless, sparking widespread rumors at Apple, iPhone the time that an " iPhone nano" If you're tired of dropped calls was on the way. Over a year and dead zones, and pondering later, neither the smaller iPhone the merits of turning in your nor a Verizon model are iPhone for a DROID... hold on available. However, if the leaked there, champ. AppleInsider says report is any indication, 2010 it's received a copy of a report by could be yet another year of OTR Global, claiming that Apple incredible growth for the iPhone has signed contracts to produce a the report as the target carrier for economy. UMTS/ CDMA hybrid iPhone to the new devices. TUAW Rumor: Smaller iPhone be released in the third quarter of The report states that Foxconn, on tap for Verizon in Q3 2010? 2010. the Taiwan-based sole-source originally appeared on The The hybrid handset, built around provider of iPhone hardware at U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g a d u a l - s y s t e m c h i p f r o m this time, will not build the new (TUAW) on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 Qualcomm, would allow the device. Instead, a subsidiary of 00:30:00 EST. Please see our iPhone to run on virtually any Asustek known as Pegatron has terms for use of feeds. GSM/UTMS cellular network b e e n s e l e c t e d t o k i c k o f f Read| Permalink| Email this| worldwide -- and also on the manufacturing. It's also rumored Comments CDMA2000 networks of US that the hybrid device uses a 2.8" carriers like Verizon and Sprint. screen, making the handset In particular, Verizon is cited in

Instant concert recording isn't new: EMI sub-label Mute Records has had a similar Record label EMI this week program in place since 2004-announced that it will begin according to the press release, 10 selling on-the-spot recordings of percent of fans at a recent Blur concerts. concert downloaded the show The name of the initiative, afterward--and Willie Nelson has Abbey Road Live, is a bit been selling flash drives with onmisleading--it doesn't have the-spot concert recordings for anything to do with the Beatles several years. album or the recording studio But having a large record label after which it was named. like EMI on board legitimizes the Rather, EMI is using its Abbey practice. It's a no-brainer way for Road brand to indicate that these live acts to earn some extra casharen't low-quality bootlegs but -and great for fans as well. I can p r o f e s s i o n a l m u l t i t r a c k think of many concerts I've recordings, mixed and mastered attended, after which I would on the spot, and sold on CDs, gladly have paid another $20 for DVDs, or flash drives to fans at a recording. This should become the venue. EMI also said on standard operating practice in the Wednesday that it plans to make next couple of years. the recordings available as This content has passed through streams or downloads, so fans fivefilters.org. can access them from home. Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:21:00 PM

Apple Store Carrousel du Louvre opens today By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Louvre Museum in Paris is Carrousel du Louvre, home to shops, a gourmet food court, Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:00:00 AM exhibition space and, as of this Filed under: Apple Corporate, Saturday, an Apple Store. This Retail Apple typically opens will be the first Apple Store in retail stores in high-end shopping Paris and in France. Another areas, and this one is as high-end Apple Store is poised to open in as it gets. the seaside town of Montpellier glass spiral staircase that's featured in other flagship stores Beneath the great glass pyramid next Saturday. that marks the entrance to the This location has the now iconic and two levels total. If you can't

visit Apple Store Carrousel du Louvre this weekend, check out the photos and coverage from ifoAppleStore as well as these photos on Flickr. C'est Magnifique! Also notable this week is the new Musee du Louvre app that's available for free from the App Store [ iTunes link]. Coincidentally, of course.

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Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:57:00 PM

Flixster sure didn't look this good on our BlackBerry Bold.(Credit: Flixster) We were excited to hear that Flixster's popular iPhone movie app was making the jump to BlackBerry. Unfortunately, not all apps dive as elegantly into other mobile platforms. Flixster's Movies app is one of them. The free Movies by Flixster app for BlackBerry has all the essentials: a tab for box office hits, an area to enter your Zip code to find movies near you, a list of upcoming titles, and movies that have come out on DVD. You can even purchase movies via movietickets.com.

Yet this movie "app" is not so much a native application as it is a shortcut to a BlackBerryoptimized version of Flixster's mobile Web site. While a nicely formatted mobile site routinely delivers a better

reloads every screen as you navigate. In contrast, the iPhone version, pulls show times and theater information into a stylized interface that in no way resembles the Flixster.com site, apart from the information it downloads. Users aren't fooled by the baitand-switch, either. Flixster's movie app on BlackBerry rates 2.5 stars out of 129 votes at the time of writing. The program's average iPhone rating scores experience than navigating the higher, with a 3.5-star average site through a browser, winding for the current version out of u p w i t h a n o t - a p p a f t e r about 16,000 user reviews. downloading an application feels Come on, Flixster. We know like a cheap trick. To top it off, you can do better than that. Flixster Mobile looks like a This content has passed through mobile site on BlackBerry and fivefilters.org.

Droid Does: An Ad on Google’s Homepage By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)

homepage ad for both the first Android handset’s G1 launch and for the Chrome browser — it’s In addition to celebrating still a relatively rare occurrence Muppets today, Google appears to be up in lights on the Google t o b e l o u d l y a n d p r o u d l y homepage. celebrating something else on its Clicking the link takes you to a home page. splash page with more With the Verizon Droid launch information and purchasing links hot and heavily underway today, — we took a screencap you can the search giant is according the see below. highly-regarded Android phone a Of course it makes sense for place of honor on Google.com G o o g l e t o g i v e a n i c e t o d a y . A l t h o u g h i t ’ s n o t promotional push to what is unprecedented — they’ve done a shaping up to be the handset that Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:48:00 PM

finally pushes its Android mobile operating system project into the mainstream. Not only is it the first Android phone on the U.S.’s largest carrier, but it’s being widely hailed as the phone that

comes closest to catching the iPhone in terms of sheer awesomeness. Did you pick up a Droid today? Are you contemplating doing so? Let us know your impressions or vacillations in the comments. Reviews: Android, Chrome, Google Tags: ads, android, droid, Google, Mobile 2.0, Motorola, verizon droid

Sarah Palin Joins Al Gore In Not Realizing That Everyone's A Reporter These Days By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/6/2009 6:01:00 PM

Last year, we wrote how odd it was that former VP Al Gore banned reporters from a speech he gave, where all audio-video equipment was also banned. These days, such "no reporters allowed" speeches make no sense -- because anyone can be a reporter. Yet, it seems that there's something in the veep sauce (or veep wannabe sauce) that leads to these sorts of positions, as former VP candidate, Sarah Palin, is trying to do the same thing, barring "reporters" along with any kind of recording devices from a talk that she is giving. You can understand, perhaps, why politicians like to do this, but it seems both out of touch and completely pointless. Every single person in that room can be a reporter in one way or another - and it doesn't take a recording device, but a pencil and some paper (or a decent memory). Trying to block out the "official" press is just a waste of time. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Squarespace hosting/CMS service launches iPhone app By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:00:00 PM

Filed under: Software, Blogging, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store After a long wait, Squarespace customers finally have an iPhone app of their own. Squarespace is a hosted blogging/CMS service that competes with the likes of WordPress.com and Typepad. Having used all three, I can say that interacting with Squarespace (posting, changing your site's look and feel, etc.) is unlike the others. Instead of a separate control panel/dashboard, Squarespace previews changes in real time on the same screen. It's really nice. The iPhone app [ iTunes link] seems to be an extension of its browser-based sibling. For example, check out the live preview mode pictured at right. You can also manage multiple accounts, post, upload multiple images at once (awesome) view stats and more. The UI looks nice as well. While bloggers on other platforms have had compatible apps in the App Store for a while now, this is Squarespace's first solution. We're eager to play

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men and women who came under attack yesterday. The hero of this incident is Sgt. There are unconfirmed reports Kimberly Munley, who brought that Major Malik Nadal Hasan the gunman’s rampage to an end was shouting “Allah Akbar” by shooting him four times. during his alleged shooting Sgt. Munley, 34 years old, was rampage at Fort Hood Army credited by Army officials with base. firing the bullets that brought CBS Video down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, P r e s i d e n t O b a m a m a d e a the Army psychiatrist who statement today, urging people allegedly opened fire in the not to jump to conclusions. base’s Soldier Readiness We don’t know all the answers Processing Center on Thursday yet. And I would caution against afternoon. jumping to conclusions until we Survivors described the scene as have all the facts. What we do c h a o t i c : t h e l o n e g u n m a n know is that there are families, spraying bullets in all directions, friends and an entire nation u n a r m e d s o l d i e r s f a l l i n g , grieving right now for the valiant s c r e a m i n g , s c r a m b l i n g t o Submitted at 11/6/2009 10:48:36 AM

respond. Many soldiers ripped off their uniforms to use as tourniquets; others ignored their own injuries to help those more gravely wounded. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, the top commander at Fort Hood, said Friday that Sgt. Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire. Gen. Cone said Sgt. Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself. “It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer,” he said. Sgt. Munley is in stable condition.

New Clone Wars episodes stunning, but less kid friendly around with it. Squarespace for iPhone is free and requires a paid Squarespace account. TUAW Squarespace hosting/CMS service launches iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

By John Scott Lewinski (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/7/2009 10:00:00 AM

Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars just might be the best action/adventure show on television. Come to think of it, it might be the only true action/adventure show on television. But, as the show ramps up the action content and significantly sweetens its visuals, its increased intensity might be driving away some younger viewers. As The Clone Wars moves

through its second season, the war is growing -- both in scope and violence. Viewers are seeing more dead Clonetroopers, more

crashed vehicles and more beloved characters in deadly jeopardy. Its ratings continue to cruise in hyperspace (especially for males), but I wonder if the darker tones of season two could drive younger kids and their parents away from the show. Continue reading New Clone Wars episodes stunning, but less kid friendly Filed under: Other SciFi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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From the Tips Box: Multiple Dropbox Accounts, Twitter Notes, and Cloud Billing [From The Tips Box] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:00:00 PM

Readers offer their best tips for running multiple instances of Dropbox at once, using Twitter to jot down notes and ideas for yourself, and using Google Docs to manage money between friends. 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. Running Multiple Dropbox Instances Photo by Jean-Baptiste M. Tino shows us a workaround to have multiple Dropbox accounts running at once: Dropbox client does not allow you to run multiple instances concurrently but you can get around with this issue by running it as different Windows User Accounts. With a little help of

Dropboxen by Dale H, you can easily run multiple instances of Dropbox client concurrently. Get a copy of Dropboxen here if you haven't. You need to unzip the files into your Dropbox installation folder. The default installation folder is C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Dropb ox\bin\ or C:\Program Files\Dropbox\ depending on your OS. You will need to edit the file Dropboxen.xml but before doing that, you need to create a Windows User Account for each Dropbox account that you will be using (it has to be an Administrator account, not Standard User). For Windows XP, go to Control Panel > User

Account > Create a new account, remember to set a password for your account. For Windows Vista or 7, go to Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > Add or remove user accounts, remember to set a password for your account. You will need to login to your new account and install Dropbox client, do this for every single User account. After you're done with creating User Accounts and installations, log off and switch back to your main account. Let's edit Dropboxen.xml, you can open it with any text-editor: Dropboxen.xml: Now you need to fill in your user accounts and passwords. This is what my Dropboxen.xml looks like:

Now go ahead and click on Dropboxen.exe to start Dropbox client again, there should be multiple instances of Dropbox client according to how many accounts you put in Dropboxen.xml. Now you can use multiple Dropbox accounts at the same time. The last thing you need to do is create a shortcut for Dropboxen.exe in your Startup folder. Using Twitter as a Personal List Drew gives us a clever use for Twitter: Use a private twitter account and its RSS feed to easily add personal notes to your RSS reader, particularly useful for those who have a RSS reader on the go. Can be used for to-do, reminders, or maybe hearing

yourself think. I can see this being really useful for "hearing yourself think"—ideas that you don't want cluttering up your workspace or to-do lists, but ideas that you think of on-the-go and want to come back to later on. rfrye had a similar tip that recommended Wordpress instead of Twitter, if you prefer. A Tab System for Google Docs Michael shows us how he keeps track of expenses with multiple people involved: I'm one for efficiency and productivity tools, and I prefer the lifehacker mindset: spend a long time on solutions that will save time. Even if I end up using more time than I saved, I've learned something and created a product as well. I know that there are many weband iPhone-based solutions that look pretty cool for this type of thing, but I wanted to make one using Google Docs. The version I came up with has four people in it and allows you to enter up to 100 transactions per person. Under a transaction, enter the amount spent and a 1 under the column of every person who the amount should be shared with. You can use it to share something four ways or for 2- or 3-person splits or loans. Now that we have it, we will regularly pick FROM page 30

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This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:00:00 PM

This week we showed you how to really browse without leaving a trace, rounded up a handful of media-center-boosting apps, uncorked a bottle of wine with nothing but a shoe, and oh so much more. • How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace Think that your browser's private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you're still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we'll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing. • Top 10 Apps that Boost Your Media Center Streaming video, digital DVD backups, DVR recording—it's all possible from your TV-connected media center, and you don't need a system administrator to pull it off. • Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap You won't find a better media center than the opensource XBMC, but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC

Boxee to Launch Beta Early Next Month with Loads of New Features [Media Center] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:30:00 PM

Boxee has taken the media center world by storm in the last set-top box. gnawing between tiny bones for • What's Your Main Operating year, which is why it's always a • Five Best Application Docks hard-to-get meat and getting System? Windows 7 has only Remember the days of digging sauce all over your face are a been out for about two weeks surprise when we're reminded through folders of shortcuts and crucial part of the chicken wing now, but statistics web site that it's still only an alpha release. menus to launch applications? experience. S t a t C o u n t e r r e p o r t s t h a t Until December 7th, that is, when These days many users prefer • Open a Bottle of Wine with Windows 7's OS market share Boxee is rolling out an official customizable, attractive docks for Your Shoe Got a bottle of wine reached roughly three percent by beta release, in which you can expect a new interface, better launching and keeping track of on hand but no corkscrew to get the end of October. their favorite apps. it open? You can argue all you • The Illustrated Guide to the navigation, search functionality • Browser Speed Tests: The want about whether or not the New Firefox 3.6 Windows 7 for TV shows and movies, Windows 7 Results Firefox 3.6 guy in this video really needs Integration The latest Firefox improved shortcuts, and more. Beta 1, like every other browser, more wine, but you can't argue beta integrates much more fully Boxee has tackled online video makes a claim to being "faster." with the results. into Windows 7, adding support like none other, and it's a great We took Firefox and all the other • Handcrafted and Free Floating: for Aero Peek-enabled tabs, an choice if you're looking to drop latest browsers, put them on The Wraparound Workspace enhanced Ctrl+Tab, and more. your cable bill for good, so we're W i n d o w s 7 , a n d r a n t h e m We'll simply never get tired of We'll show you how they work, excited to see what's coming through our human-measured diving into the Lifehacker and how to enable or disable around the corner. [ Boxee Blog] speed tests to vet the bragging. Workspace pool and finding them. • Eat a Chicken Wing with Little hand-crafted gems like today's to No Mess For some folks, featured workspace.

Dr. Phil Renewed Through 2014 By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:32:09 PM

I have to admit that my first

reaction when I read this was “He’s been on eight years already?”. Syndicated talk show “Dr. Phil” has been renewed through the

2013-2014 season in 70% of the

country, including 20 of the top via THR.com. 25 markets. This content has passed through The three-year renewal will take fivefilters.org. “Dr. Phil,” now in its eighth year, through its 12th season.

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up dinner for each other and "bill" each other on the tab system. This version also calculates how to settle the tab. Try it out here, and if you like it, open the read-only version and go to File -> Make a Copy to copy it to your own Google Docs. And please, let me know if you end up using it or making any improvements! Michael also mentioned that this is all Creative Commons material, and encourages other people to use and build upon it. Deleting Exchange Calendars from the iPhone swsboarder366 gives us a workaround for deleting calendars off the iPhone: When I started using the push support of Google calendars on my phone (via Exchange) I was disappointed to find out that I could not delete calendars on my iPhone. Deleting local calendars from iCal, and even unchecking "Sync iCal Calendars" in iTunes

still did not remove my old calendars. A quick Google search and I found a working solution in an Apple support forum. The solution was originally for Mobile Me, but works just the same for syncing Google Calendars over the air: This assumes there is no calendar information that lives only on your iPhone that you want to keep. On your iPhone, in SettingsMail, Contacts, Calendars, find your Mobile Me account (or Exchange account), turn off "Calendars". Exit the settings application (hit the button to go back to the home screen), or the next sync will fail. Temporarily create a calendar in iCal called "Temp" or something. In iTunes under your phone-Info, "Sync iCal calendars", select just that calendar (unchecking the option to sync iCal calendars won't clear out the stranded ones).

Under "Advanced" on the same screen (you might have to scroll down to see it), check "Calendar" under "Replace information on this iPhone" Sync. On iTunes, uncheck "Sync iCal calendars" Sync. On your Mac, delete the temporary "Temp" calendar you created If you are using Mobile Me (or Exchange): On your iPhone, go back to Settings-Mail, Contacts, Calendars, find your Mobile Me account, turn "Calendars" back on. This should leave you only with the Mobile Me (or Exchange) calendars on your iPhone.

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Report: Jaycee Dugard Tried to Cover Up Her Identity (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:00:00 PM

Jaycee Dugard reportedly gave authorities a false name and became defensive under questioning in the hours before her alleged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, was arrested. A report by California's

Inspector General goes as follows: On August 26, Dugard initially identified herself to Garrido’s parole agent as “Alyssa” and said she was the mother of two younger girls with her. When the parole agent continued to question her, she became “defensive and agitated, wanting

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to know why the parole agent was interrogating them.” She said she knew Garrido was a registered sex offender, but added that he was “a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids.”

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Reset Your Lost Password in OS X Redux [Passwords]

Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation

By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)

By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

Submitted at 11/6/2009 12:30:00 PM

It's not a great place to find yourself, but if you ever lose or forget your password for OS X, you're not out of luck. Weblog AppleDoes details how to quickly and easily reset your password. All you'll need is your installation DVD. From there, the process is dead simple: • Insert the DVD to the tray • Restart and press down the letter ‘C'. It will load the installer DVD • On the first screen, select Installer > Reset Password • Select your account and make admin account, you can just reset your password by logging into up a new password. the admin account, opening the • Reboot Accounts preference pane in the The AppleDoes post has more System Preferences, and resetting than a few typos, so to clarify: If that user's password. Otherwise, you're using FileVault—the the method above is a great default encryption tool for OS option. X—and you lose your password, We've covered how to reset your you are out of luck. Also, if the lost OS X password before from account you want to access isn't Terminal, but this method seems an administrator account and you a bit more user friendly. Keep in do have the password for your m i n d t h a t r e s e t t i n g y o u r

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Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release a web client with support for lists earlier today. Seesmic Web offers another first for webbased Twitter clients, however: support for Twitter's geolocation API. password will generally mean Sponsor y o u ' l l l o s e a l l t h e s a v e d Lists With Auto-Updates passwords saved to Keychain as In Seesmic's web interface, users a security precaution, but it's a can now simply hover their pretty good tradeoff. cursor over profile pictures and a Windows users, you've got all menu will appear. This menu, kinds of ways to reset, change, or among other things, allows even crack your lost passwords. Seesmic's users to add others to If you ever forgot you Mac OS X lists. One nice aspect of the web login password, here is what to interface is that it auto-updates do[AppleDoes] lists when new tweets come in.

The desktop app - at least in the current version - doesn't do this and forces users to manually refresh lists to see updates. Geolocation In addition to supporting lists, the new version of the web client also supports Twitter's geolocation API. Seesmic users can't share their locations, but whenever a Twitter user broadcasts location data, a little pin will appear underneath the profile picture, and hovering over this pin will bring up a map. Only a few users actually have the ability to broadcast their locations at this point. Twitter is only giving platform developers access to this feature for now, but it should soon become a standard feature in mobile clients like Tweetie 2 and Twitterrific. Discuss

R Family Vacations Sails On (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 4:45:00 PM

Although Rosie O'Donnell and wife Kelli have announced they are splitting as a couple, their r

family vacations, formed with friend Gregg Kaminsky, sails on. A spokesperson for O’Donnell told ET today, “There will be no changes in r family vacations, and it’s business as usual for the

company, which is well underway with planning for 2011 and continuing to book for 2010.” R family vacations, founded by Kelli and travel entrepreneur

Kaminsky, provides family vacations for gays, lesbians, their families and friends. Its maiden voyage featuring Rosie, Kelli and their children was documented for the HBO Emmy-nominated

documentary "All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise."

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Keep Dishonest Landlords at Bay with Your Camera [Apartments] By Sarah Rae Trover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:00:00 PM

Even if your landlord seems happy-go-lucky upon moving in, there's always a chance they won't be so nice when you move out. Keep all parties accountable and in check for a hassle-free lease with a little help from your camera. Photo by Lara604 As much as we'd like to say every landlord out there has a heart of gold, the truth is, economic times are tough. Even if you have left your last rental sparkling clean, there's rarely any proof as to what it looked like

and after photosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both are imperative. Before-and-after photos leave little room for manipulation or consequence. We've put our before-and-after photos to the test by a landlord who claimed our tenancy resulted in water damage. Out came the pictures, which happily proved the condition existed before our arrival and no more questions were asked. By Danny Gallagher (TV How have you dealt with a bad Squad) landlord in the past? Sound off in Submitted at 11/6/2009 7:25:00 PM the comments. Protect Yourself From U n s c r u p u l o u s While NBC juggles its possible Landlords[Charles and Hudson] new owner, another TV takeover went down this week in the epicenter of its shadow. Scripps Networks won the right to buy the "controlling stake" in The Travel Channel from Cox Communications and it only cost them $181 million to earn a 65 percent stake in the cable eitherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in fact, the hardest part is network. Only $181 million? Did probably finding a shopping cart Cox put The Travel Channel up (although the author mentions for sale at a flea market? that most stores will gladly give Why did they jump at a deal for you old, soon-to-be-discarded a network with such a small carts). Make a Hand Truck From audience? Slate's Troy Patterson a S h o p p i n g C a r t i n says that even though the M i n u t e s [ I n s t r u c t a b l e s ] audience is small, it's a "niche market" that "advertisers can't resist pandering to." [via TVTattle] Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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before you moved in unless you create your own. Landlords have been known to claim things are in need of repair, paint, or cleaning just to weasel a few more dollars out of your pocket before you officially turn over the keys.

More often than not tenants are willing to just pay off final bills with landlords to be out and gone, but that's obviously not the fair. Instead of dealing with the game playing, kill any suspicion before it starts by taking before

Make a Hand Truck Out of a Shopping Cart [Weekend Project] By Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:00:00 PM

So you need to move some large, heavy stuff, but you don't want to throw out your back? Instead of renting or paying two hundred dollars for your own moving dolly, DIY web site

Instructables details how to make your own. The project requires an old shopping cart and some pretty heavy-duty tools (and the project does require some welding), but it shouldn't take you more than an hour or two, and you'll have saved quite a bundle on a dolly. takes it step-by-step, so it The guide is pretty detailed and shouldn't be remarkably difficult

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Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More... By Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:00:00 AM

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, compare five recommendation services for iPhone apps, review the new-look MSN, and more. We also check in on our two m a i n c h a n n e l s : ReadWriteEnterprise(devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' trends and p r o d u c t s ) a n d ReadWriteStart(dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs). Sponsor Subscribe to Weekly Wrapup You can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapup by RSS or by email(form below). RWW Weekly Wrap-up Email Subscription form: Web Trends The Age of Mega Content Sites Answers.com and Demand Media Two companies that produce massive quantities of new content every day, Answers.com and Demand Media, are rapidly moving up the list of top U.S. web properties, as measured by comScore. Answers.com has

risen from #26 to #13 in just two months, and Demand Media has risen from #24 to #15 in the same time period. Is the fact that these sites produce so much content, and are quickly gaining in popularity as a result, cause for concern about the future of the Web? As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to Twitter Facebook is getting old. No, people aren't getting tired of it, it's actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it's 33. So where are today's college students hanging out now? Well, to some extent, they're still on Facebook. Surprisingly though, they're also headed to another network you may have heard of: Twitter. Amazon Turns Twitter into a Marketplace - Are You Concerned? This week, Amazon sent out emails to their Amazon Associates members touting the latest addition to the company's affiliate program: a new feature called "Share with Twitter." According to the email, participants can generate "tweetable" links to any Amazon product after first logging into their Associates account. After updating Twitter, any person who clicks through on the link and makes a purchase will earn the

is evolving but still with a fair degree of resistance for its adoption. ReadWriteStart participant referral fees payable Our channel ReadWriteStart, through the Associates program. s p o n s o r e d b y M i c r o s o f t Thanks to Mozilla, Web Gets B i z S p a r k , i s d e d i c a t e d t o Less Ugly, Good Type Gets p r o f i l i n g s t a r t u p s a n d Machine Readable entrepreneurs. Recently, a consortium of type Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad: designers and web designers Newbies Take the Stage have gathered around a new font At the Enterprise 2.0 format specification called Web Conference, we witnessed some Open Font Format ( WOFF). The of the enterprise community's f o r m a t w o u l d a l l o w m o r e brightest new stars. Enterprise typefaces to appear across the 2.0 Launchpad offered earlyweb and to be readable by both stage companies a chance to humans and search engines. With shine. In a gong-show like support from Mozilla announced presentation series, the four with the release of Firefox 3.6, finalists took to the stage to battle the question of web fonts might it out for the title of best be satisfactorily resolved in the newcomer. near future. SEE MORE STARTUPS SEE MORE WEB TRENDS C O V E R A G E I N O U R COVERAGE IN OUR TRENDS R E A D W R I T E S T A R T CATEGORY CHANNEL Web Products ReadWriteEnterprise Discovering Great iPhone Apps: O u r c h a n n e l 5 Recommendation Services ReadWriteEnterprise, devoted to Compared 'enterprise 2.0' and using social The iPhone App Store is a software inside organizations. blessing and a curse. It's one of Enterprise 2.0: Declaring War the best things about the mobile Does Not Work platform, but it's so popular that At the Enterprise 2.0 conference finding great new apps to this week, Andrew McAfee made download can be a real challenge. a few points about the approach Where there's a monetizable pain to enterprise technology and how -point, services will flower! it might be changed. McAffee, of Enter a variety of new iPhone the Center for Digital Business, app recommendation services M I T S l o a n S c h o o l o f that aim to point you toward your Management, is considered the next download and pocket the father of Enterprise 2.0. His affiliate fees for paid apps. views reflect how Enterprise 2.0

Below we've posted a chart comparing the features of 5 new services for iPhone app discovery. The New MSN: Will More White Space and Local News Make You Visit It? Microsoft announced this week a radical redesign of its MSN homepage. Today's MSN homepage for the US market is a busy mix of ads, hundreds of links and some customizable local news and weather widgets. The redesign, MSN's first major redesign since 2004, puts a new emphasis on search, local news, video and integration with social networks. The new page features more white space, a tabbed design and a new MSN logo. The Very Strange Story of the Startup That Says It Made $10m Before Launching Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search engine that just came out of beta today, called Leapfish, and he says the company will already report $10 million in revenue this year despite having barely launched to the public. This is a strange story, so consider suspending your disbelief so you can see what Leapfish has to offer. WEEKLY page 34

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PayPal's X: A Platform to Pick Your Pocket After waiting for two months for PayPal to release its muchBy Alex Williams More use cases are popping up. anticipated platform, the day (ReadWriteWeb) No matter how you feel about the offerings augment their work. finally arrived for PayPal X. Enterprise 2.0 conference, a lot "Dennis has a point," Gotta said. Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:05:50 PM ReadWriteWeb first covered the "These systems are not workflow of companies were there to say Dennis Howlett got the attention driven - we already have tools to how they are using lightweight company's announcement in late of the Enterprise 2.0 community do that. These tools augment t e c h n o l o g i e s t o s o l v e July and this week, at San t o d a y , w i t h h i s c o n t i n u e d work. They enhance it, they p r o d u c t i v i t y a n d b u s i n e s s Francisco's Concourse Exhibition Center, developers and press s k e p t i c i s m a b o u t " s o c i a l " enrich it." problems. technologies and their place in B u t e v e n t o o l s l i k e E R P Companies on the sell side are people waited with baited breath the business world. Here's a o f f e r i n g s a r e i n t e g r a t i n g growing. Are they all charlatans? to see what was earlier described quote from his post entitled lightweight layers to make them If so, are their clients really that as a "platform as ubiquitous as Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate: more usable, so that people can stupid? We don't think so. To call the electrical outlet." "Why am I not surprised? I've get their work done. We also people fakes is to say that these Ribbit Launches Google Voice argued for years that the notion recently wrote about Netvibes poor business people are just Challenger of anything that has 'social' working with Sage Software to victims. That makes no sense. Ribbit announced this week the attached to its moniker is about provide personal dashboards so Moreover, we wonder how much launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit as welcome as breaking wind in a business users can better use ERP more waste enterprises can take Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP spacesuit." with heavyweight IT projects - telephony service that brings applications. Sponsor those cost far more than a SaaS together web-based calling, smart A few other signs: While Howlett makes a few The Services sector is growing. offering that you can test, try and call routing and voicemail good points in his post, we think We spoke to a large technology pay on a per use basis. that he's making a straw man company this week that is We do see the gap between argument - that the Enterprise 2.0 questioning how they can grow productivity and the business community is somehow involved under the weight of the email that side of the organization with in a big lie. stalls people in their work. They Enterprise 2.0 technologies. But The reality is that Enterprise 2.0 are working with a large services the innovation is there. And lines applications augment our work group which is helping them look of business are taking advantage and these technologies are having at a number of ways for real-time of tools because they help get the an effect on productivity and in data and notifications to take work done. (ETonline - Breaking News) s o m e r e s p e c t s , b u s i n e s s some of the load off of their We do agree that 'social' is a Submitted at 11/6/2009 5:09:00 PM processes. e n g i n e e r i n g t e a m . T h e y ' v e term too often overused. But to We spoke today with Mike looked around and believe dismiss the Enterprise 2.0 With only days left until 'The Gotta, an industry analyst with Enterprise 2.0 tools can perform community is going a bit too far - Twilight Saga: New Moon' rises the Burton Group. He puts it a role that will help them grow and does not reflect the reality of in theaters, ET is sitting down well. For data entry and claims and become a more profitable this new world. Discuss with the cast for a series of processing, people use other business. revealing interviews! tools. The Enterprise 2.0 Today, we have a sneak peek of our interviews with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and

transcriptions. It is hard to look at Ribbit Mobile without comparing it to Google Voice. Just like Google Voice, Ribbit gives users a new phone number or they can use call forwarding. Ribbit Mobile also has quite a few features that Google doesn't offer, including the ability to make calls from within the browser. SEE MORE WEB PRODUCTS COVERAGE IN OUR PRODUCTS CATEGORY That's a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone. Discuss

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Clicker: A One-Stop Shop For Online Video (1000 Invites)

Peek was worth a peek

By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb)

I thought perhaps the Peek email device might be a good service to get for a family member who's not very technical. I wanted them to have access to text messaging, and thought its advertised simplicity might be the answer. So I bought a device for $49 and bought one month of service for $19.95, with the understanding that it's not a service plan, and if I didn't like it, I could easily optout. I used it for a few days and decided it wasn't what I wanted. It is simple, but the text messaging feature is a hack on top of email, and they put ads for their service in the text messages, and texting is more or less oneway, and it's the wrong way for my application. It's easy for the Peek user to send text messages but virtually impossible for them to receive them. This didn't suit the application I had in mind, because I wanted the ability to send messages to the family member. I didn't think she'd be sending many on her own (she doesn't now). So I decided to opt out. There's no way to do it from the website. They don't explain how to opt out the FAQ. When I called the sales department, they said I could turn the service off, but I wouldn't be able to use the remaining time on the month worth of service I had already purchased. I said that's unacceptable. I wanted to get off

complete series. Clicker also keeps a record of all the shows a user has watched already. Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:00:00 PM All of these features are nice and Finding specific online videos these make it as easy as Clicker useful, but the area where Clicker f r o m T V n e t w o r k s a n d to find the videos you are looking really shines is in how it presents independent producers can often f o r , h o w e v e r . W i t h a u t o - the search results and how easy it be a daunting challenge. Some completed searches, a smart is to browse the site and discover TV shows are on Hulu, some can categorization system and well shows. Taming the Wild West of only be found as paid downloads designed search results page, Online Video on iTunes or Amazon and some finding the right video on Clicker With its focus on indexing highare only available for streaming is a snap. quality videos and making it easy on the network's and producer's Whenever possible, Clicker uses to find them, Clicker manages to video embeds to play videos right stand out from its competition. own sites. Clicker wants to change this by on its own page, though if a show Earlier this week, Clicker added making it easier to find shows can't be embedded, Clicker will Blake Krikorian, the founder of from TV networks, music videos, point to other sources. It's Sling Media to its board of and web videos from across the important to point out that while directors, whose experience in Internet. Clicker is currently in most of these videos are available this market will definitely be a private beta and only available in for free, Clicker also indexes boon for the company. the US. The company gave us shows that are only available for As Clicker's CEO Jim Lanzone 1000 invites for our readers. paid downloads and streams on told us earlier today, online video Read on to find out how you can services like iTunes or Amazon. is still going through its Wild Clicker also indexes shows from West phase. Thanks to services get yours. Netflix - though you need to be a like Clicker, it's now getting a lot Sponsor Clicker aggregates over 300,000 Netflix subscriber to stream easier to find and play online e p i s o d e s f r o m o v e r 1 , 2 0 0 these. videos without having to search networks, as well as 50,000 A very useful feature on Clicker through dozens of sites. music videos and thousands of is that users can subscribe to Invites shows and build up a personal Clicker gave us 1000 invites. movies. library of shows and playlists. Simply click here, sign up, and Features and User Interface There are, of course, already Every episode page gives users you are ready to go. numerous video search engines the option to add this episode to Discuss like blinx or Truveo. Few of the playlist or to subscribe to the

Kobe reaches milestone in win over Grizzlies By Associated Press (ESPN.com) start chronicling your sports memories today with ESPN's Enter the Did you attend this game? If so, Sports Passport.

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the monthly plan and use the remainder of the time I had already purchased. (Maybe I'd find another use for it?) After a lot of back and forth, the service person, Jacqueline, said I should get in touch with the operations manager, David Hung. I'm going to email him a pointer to this blog post. Net-net, Peek is an attractive device, the service works reasonably well for email, but not for texting. It is simple to set up and use. However they don't make it easy to get out. At this point, I'm still going to charged for $19.95 on December 2. They'll probably do what I asked after reading this blog post, but you shouldn't have to write a blog post for what should be a routine matter. It should be easy to turn the automatic renewal off and on as you wish.

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Remixing Via iPhone: 5 Tools for the Pocket DJ By Dana Oshiro (ReadWriteWeb)

shake and tap to change song tempo and tone. You can also record your voice directly to the Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:00:00 AM App. In 1906 John Philip Sousa 4. Looptastic: With this service criticized the gramophone saying, users can import loops, share "These talking machines will ruin them between sets and combine the artistic development of music them with others. You can also in this country." Nevertheless, download pre-existing loops to because Sousa did not forsee user experiment. Users rave about this -generated culture proliferating buttons. Users touch specific app, but for many the $9.99 price alongside "mechanical music" he buttons on the app surface to tag will be a deterrent. could not have been further from create ambient loops. From here 5. Thounds:Thounds is a music the truth. Not only have machine the loops can be layered and platform that allows you to create technologies aided in musical c o m b i n e d t o m a k e f u l l e r music and share it with friends development, but there are a s o u n d i n g m u s i c . and family. The service lets you variety of mediums to choose 2. Sonifi: Sonifi allows users to to create one portion of a musical from. While audio engineers may r e m i x , r e c o r d a n d c o n t r o l track and share that link with scoff at the idea of making music visualizations via the iPhone. other musicians for additions. on the iPhone, there's no denying Created by electronic DJ BT, the Users can contribute a basic that a number of options exist for service allows for real-time baseline, vocals or guitar riffs. the pocket DJ. Below are a few collaborations and users can An iPhone app is expected control beats, bass, melody and shortly. tools to get you started: h a r m o n y v i a t h e i P h o n e ' s If you've got more tools to add Sponsor 1. Melodica: Melodica is like a c c e l e r o m e t e r . to this list or examples of music Yamaha's Tenori-On instrument 3. ZOOZBeat: Similar to Sonifi, you've made using any of the for the iPhone only it doesn't cost Zoozbeat allows you to remix above products, link to them in $1000 to play with it. This tool and make music via gestural the comments below. Discuss interface consists of rows of motions from the iPhone. Users

Joe Jackson Seeks Allowance from Michael Jackson's Estate (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:30:00 PM

Michael Jackson's father is trying to obtain an allowance from the late singer's estate.

ET has obtained court documents filed by an attorney for Joe Jackson in Los Angeles on Friday, in which the 81-yearold is seeking an allowance from his son's estate.

The papers state that Jackson "has been without support since the death of his sonâ&#x20AC;Ś," and "is in urgent need [of] funds to maintain his household."

Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan By Danny Gallagher (TV Squad)

Unlike other TV shows that you can just have in the background to break the silence of your Submitted at 11/7/2009 3:52:00 AM lonely place, SOA demands your (S02E09) -"I know the greater attention and gets it every time, devil when I see it." - Deputy at least for this season. You can't Chief Hale to Clay just leave it on and not not watch The great thing about a show it (screw good grammar, if you like Sons of Anarchy is you can think of a better and more never exactly know when you're entertaining way to say it, be my watching its true boiling point. guest). Anything that can stop You might think the situation and slow time, whether it's a TV you're watching is the apex of the show, a flying DeLorean or a hot conflict, particularly the beef tub deserves special merit in my between Clay and Jax, but it book. always finds an interesting and Continue reading Review: Sons surprising way of making it of Anarchy - Fa Guan worse and makes you forget that Filed under: Episode Reviews, it still has more episodes to go. Reality-Free, Sons of Anarchy That's the true sign of a good Permalink| Email this| | series. It sucks you in and erases C o m m e n t s any and all concept of time.

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Layar Tells CNN: Augmented Reality Will Be Second Only to Voice On Phones

Benny Hill stamps too risque for the Royal Mail

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When you've got a global audience, maybe it's good to make sweeping, ambitious statements. Maarten LensFitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar, was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular. Maybe. Many people in the Augmented Reality world are rolling their eyes at Layar's incredible media exposure. They worry that relatively simple implementations of this technology paradigm will create such a bubble of hype that software developed over decades will suffer as well, if public opinion crashes in a let-down from high expectations.

on mobile devices. Layar could not identify pant sizes walking down the street if it wanted to. Either way, here we are: AR is becoming the hot new thing and not just among geeks. It's hitting the mainstream. From CNN profiles like this to the next issue of Esquire Magazine. Even the New York Times is beginning to Sponsor explore the possibilities- though Fact of the matter is, sometimes the Times is both mainstream and Layar and other AR services full of super-geeks. work well and sometimes they What do you think? Is don't. None of the mobile Augmented Reality the next step applications currently available for the internet? Displaying data actually process the live video about the world, on top of our they are looking at and respond, view of the world, certainly some just postulate at what seems compelling. Could mobile should be where you're looking AR overtake traditional mobile and others look for a very browsing, photography, etc. and specific marker. be second only to voice as the In other words, it's not at all like way people use their phones? the Terminator view shown by It seems possible. Here comes CNN to illustrate the concept. the future, when we get to find Live video AR (called "true AR" out. Discuss by some in the industry) is just beginning to make an appearance

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The Royal Mail in the U.K. have decided against producing a series of stamps based on The Benny Hill Show which will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the British channel ITV. The subject matter of the show was deemed to be too politically incorrect for the purposes of putting on a stamp. Anybody who watches the show nowadays would acknowledge that the show contained sketches that were blatantly sexist. Somehow I doubt ITV or the Royal Mail or anyone would put any of the racier scenes of the show on the stamp. It would just be Benny himself mugging for the camera, so to speak. For the Royal Mail, it likely boils down to this: when you

have a program noted for women whose clothes fly off at any given moment and they're left running around in their underwear and that show is put on a stamp, the last thing you want to ask people to do is lick it. Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Review: Smallville - Kandor By Brad Trechak (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/7/2009 1:08:00 AM

(S09E07) If Smallville continues to produce episodes of good quality like tonight's, I may have to take back some of the things

I've been saying about it. Seriously. Tonight we got a lot of backstory and explanation about some of the stranger aspects of the Smallville universe. Why is E a r t h s u c h a m a g n e t f o r Kryptonians, dead or otherwise?

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The White Unibody is the Second-Best MacBook Ever, So Why Do I Feel So Let Down? By Charles Moore (TheAppleBlog)

performing machine with better case engineering and build quality than its predecessor, and Submitted at 11/6/2009 10:30:46 AM better-looking, but alloyed with T h e n e w p l a s t i c u n i b o d y some strange compromises that MacBook is arguably the second- undermine its desirability and the best MacBook model Apple has “must-have” factor. produced yet (trumped only by The case aesthetics are definitely the late 2008 aluminum unibody a major step up from the iBookMacBook). So why am I finding esque previous model, whose m y s e l f u n e x p e c t e d l y looks were getting tired after underwhelmed and disappointed eight and a half years. I like with it? white computers and I like glossy When rumors began circulating finishes, and this has both, i n l a t e s u m m e r a b o u t a n although I think Apple is blowing imminent new unibody MacBook an opportunity by not offering it in polycarbonate plastic. Being a in black as well, and the high consummate Apple laptop g l o s s i s p r o v i n g q u i t e aficionado, I was excited. controversial with some. Speculation that it would sell in I think the MacBook’s all-white the $700 – $800 range further keyboard looks more attractive whetted my anticipation but I and inviting, and will be easier to was also expecting something see (I’m not a touch typist), than insanely great. After all, Apple the black keys on my aluminum could build on what it had Macbook, which are probably my learned making polycarbonate u n f a v o r i t e e l e m e n t o f i t s MacBooks for three and half generally pleasing appearance. years (the best-selling Mac model As for robustness, I haven’t got ever) combined with the unibody my hands on one yet, being out engineering of the MacBook Pros h e r e i n t h e N o v a S c o t i a adapted to plastic materials. backwoods 150 miles from the Instead of Insanely Great, We nearest Apple reseller, but Get…OK reportedly this new unibody However, instead of insanely machine has a solid feel, with no great, we get OK — or perhaps case flexibility or squeaks and just a bit more than OK. I like it a rattles, and excellent panel fits, lot better than the original which is what I would expect MacBook, but there’s nothing based on my own aluminum really exciting or special to get unibody machine. Actually, the up in the night and write home new MacBook’s rubbery-coated about. It’s just a good, solid- bottom panel is an aluminum

stamping. True Mediocrity Rears its Ugly Head On the downside, true mediocrity rears its ugly head in the context of I/O connectivity and expansion, with an impoverished port array comprised of two USB ports (only one fully powered), Ethernet, a mini DisplayPort a combo headphone/line-in port (you can’t use both earphones and a microphone at the same time) and a security slot. No FireWire and, most bizarrely, no SD card slot (“Pro feature?” — get real Apple). No HDMI either. FireWire and no expansion headroom are the big disappointments to me. I’m living daily with the vicissitudes of FireWirelessness with my aluminum unibody MacBook, and I’m not cheerily disposed, but Apple seems determined to dump FireWire wherever it can

get away with it. When USB 3.0 is finally incorporated, maybe there will be a case for dropping FireWire, but USB 2.0 is an abominably lame and crippled substitute at this point. I’m dumbfounded that Apple didn’t learn its lesson from the chorus of boos when it tried that with the aluminum MacBook (OK, so I bought one anyway, and I like it almost unreservedly except for the FireWire crippling, but that really rankles). No Legitimate Excuse As for no expansion, there’s no legitimate excuse. Even the humblest tiny little $300 PC netbooks comes equipped with SD Card readers, and often three USB ports as well. There’s no satisfactory excuse for Apple leaving the SD Card slot out of the new MacBook and providing a measly two USB ports — only one of them delivering full bus

power. My speculative deduction is that it’s just Apple contriving to put some distance between the MacBook and the more expensive 13 MacBook Pro specs -wise. Ample Power In the positive column, the new MacBook’s internals pretty much match the current base 13-inch MacBook Pro’s: a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo with a 3MB L2 cache, a 1066MHz frontside bus and 2GB of standard RAM, and the ubiquitous NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chipset, as well as a similar LED backlit display — the only difference being that the Pro has a 60 percent greater color gamut. Power-wise, I would find it more than satisfactory, having no complaints in that department about my 2.0GHz MacBook. Then there’s the built-in, non swappable battery, which I have definitely mixed feelings about. Apple rates it at seven hours runtime, but a real-world four-tofive hours will be experienced more typically, after which you have to find a power outlet. I prefer swappable batteries. In summary, while I want to like this new MacBook, I don’t find its $200 lower price nearly compelling enough to even tempt me to not opt instead for the $1,199 13-inch MacBook Pro with its SD card slot, FireWire WHITE page 39

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iApps: The Software Suite Apple Should Create By Jon Buys (TheAppleBlog)

or an iPhone, but Address Book and iCal sync silently, if Submitted at 11/6/2009 9:00:17 AM configured to do so in iTunes. If Once upon a time, iTunes did iTunes were to be separated into exactly what it sounded like it different apps, perhaps the iSync should do: play music. It was the utilities role could be expanded digital jukebox for your mac, to handle what is synced where. Rip, Mix, Burn, remember that? That almost sounds like the job Looking at the sidebar in iTunes of a system preference to me. now, I’ve got Music, Movies, TV Now I think that the three Shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, functions of iTunes are tied Audiobooks, Applications, and together because of the iTunes Radio, and that’s just the main store. Since Apple used the same library. Next is the iTunes Store distribution model that had been and a “Purchased” smart list, the successful with music for movies Genius feature, iTunes DJ and app. same app. Thunderbird (with the and TV shows, adding the (finally) my custom Smart Similarly, I’d like to see Apple lightning extension) does this, as functionality to iTunes and the Playlists. That’s a lot to pack break out the App Store into it’s do Outlook and Lotus Notes. iTunes Store offered the path of into one application, especially own dedicated application. Apple sees sending and receiving least resistance. Similarly, when considering that many of the Leave the functionality exactly as mail, calendaring, and storing it needed to build another store features have nothing to do with it is now and simply move it into information about contacts as for applications, Apple built it on each other. There are very few its own app. There are many three separate functions, and t o p o f w h a t w a s a l r e a d y times when I’m wanting to watch times that I’ve got iTunes open, wrote three separate apps to s u c c e s s f u l . a movie that I care to look most of the time just to listen to handle it. The iLife suite is I don’t see Apple changing through my music collection. music, and have no interest a n o t h e r g r e a t e x a m p l e o f directions with iTunes any time M u s i c a n d v i d e o a r e t w o whatsoever in my collection of separating applications that do soon. If it were to create three different functions, and in my apps. different things. iPhoto ties into apps out of the one iTunes, it opinion, deserve two different Maybe my desire for Apple to iWeb, Garageband, iMovie, and would have to create them for apps. break apart iTunes is because of iDVD, but they are still separate Windows as well. I don’t have Actually, I’d like to see Apple my background in Unix, and the apps for separate purposes. access to the source code, but release an entire “iApps Suite,” Unix philosophy for writing I thought for a while that audio, k n o w i n g w h a t I d o a b o u t separating out audio, video, and applications that “do one thing, video, and apps were all lumped programming and development, I applications. Strip Movies and and do it very well.” Or, maybe together in iTunes to make it can’t imagine that would be an TV Shows out of iTunes and it’s because the direction iTunes easier to sync to iPods and easy task. Perhaps this is a thirdintegrate them into a new has taken doesn’t seem very iPhones. But, iCal, Address party opportunity for some “iVideo” app, or something “Mac like.” Take the bundled Book, and iPhoto have no ambitious indie devs out there? similarly named. Hide the video applications for example. Mail, problem syncing their data. Or, maybe, just maybe, if we get content from the iTunes store in iCal, and Address Book are very iPhoto will, by default, open the right people’s attention, a iTunes and create a link for an often lumped together in the when you plug-in an iPod touch conversation might start that iVideo store inside the new video leads to some real change.

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port, brighter, better color gamut display backlit keyboard, and aluminum case, Certified Refurbished examples of which should be available for about the same price as a new unibody MacBook. If this machine sold for, say, $799, it would be a whole different value equation — an opportunity missed in my estimation, although it’s harder and harder to argue with Apple’s pricing and marketing strategy given its latest quarterly financial results. I think the new MacBook will continue to be a strong seller for Apple, but I wish it would have tried a little harder with this one, though. Don’t you?

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Rumor Has It: 8GB 3GS, RFID-Capable iPhones on the Way? By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We’ve heard now from two Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:11:08 AM sources that AT&T, and we What better way to end the week guess Apple, are contemplating than with two fresh, shiny new launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at iPhone rumors to chew on? the $99 price point before According to various reports, the Christmas. One source said this iPhone 3GS could get an 8GB was AT&T’s way of combating model just in time for the the Droid madness. holidays, and Apple is said to be It should be noted that BGR testing iPhones that support radio specifically points out that they -frequency identification (RFID), haven’t heard any of this from a tech that allows devices to Apple or any of its personnel, sense nearby embedded chips which could mean that AT&T is without coming in actual contact pitching the idea but doesn’t with them. necessarily confirm that Apple is While the timing of both rumors receptive. Still, a 3GS at the happens to be concurrent, please magical $99 sweet-spot would note that it is very unlikely that if definitely take some of the wind Apple were to release an 8GB out of Droid’s sails. iPhone 3GS in time for the Of course, there is the fact that holiday season, it would use the Phil Schiller said the Apple new RFID tech. It’s more likely holiday lineup is set. That should that the RFID integration will mean no new products, right? Or come to fruition in later models it could mean that the 8GB 3GS of the iPhone.$99 8GB 3GS was already on the roster and that Rumors of the smaller capacity it just hasn’t been announced yet. 3GS come via Boy Genius Still, if it is coming in time for Report, which has proved fairly Christmas, Apple is already reliable in the past when it comes missing out on some prime to predicting product launches by holiday buying time. We’ll Apple. They claim to have heard definitely see it before Black news of the 8GB model from two Friday if we’re going to see it at separate sources at AT&T: all. RFID

AppleInsider: The cost of RFID chips is now down to just a few cents each in quantity, making it possible to apply them to a wide variety of uses. Shipping companies and retailers already use RFIDs to track packages much like barcodes; libraries use them to track books, farmers use them to identify animals in herds, and the army, theme parks and schools attach RFIDs to people. The site also speculates that Apple could then leverage its existing iTunes accounts, broadening it to make it a method Apple is looking into integrating for paying for anything via your RFID swipe support into new iPhone, so long as the vendor iPhone prototypes, AppleInsider you’re dealing with is equipped reports. iPhones boasting RFID to accept RFID payments. Such capabilities could allow for payment systems using cell t h i n g s l i k e m a k i n g s w i p e phones have already been used payments, proximity alerts, and widely in parts of Asia and getting data from swiping RFID- Europe. If Apple gets in early on embedded objects or even widespread RFID adoption here animals. RFID tech is ideal for this sort of in North America, it could see thing because it requires little the kind of industrial and power, since the data transferred business success it’s been is often small in size, usually missing thus far. It might become only a number or a URL. There’s as common to see an iPhonealso the cost benefits of the tech, based device on the loading dock and the fact that they’re already as it is to see one in a Starbucks. in wide use. According to

Choose the Model Who Will Join Heidi Klum When she Hosts the Victoria's Secret Fashon Show! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:10:00 PM

"The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" announces the Top 10 finalists in its model search to determine who will win a once-in -a-lifetime opportunity to strut the runway -- and ET has photos of the 10 women who hope to become the next Runway Angel. Check them out, and then vote starting Monday, Nov. 9 at VSallaccess or cbs.com. "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show," hosted by Heidi Klum, will air on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 10 p.m. on CBS.

New Pics: Ellen DeGeneres as O Magazine Cover Girl! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:15:00 PM

ET has your look at the two covers of next month's O magazine -- where Ellen

DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey pose in winter white for the highly anticipated cover shots!

Ellen will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Monday, Nov 12 -- the same day the December

issue of O magazine hits newsstands.

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I got a DROID (Scripting News)

USB cable into my Mac but it doesn't mount as a hard drive. Don't tell me I need to use iTunes I had to do it. Went down to the -- please! Verizon store in El Cerrito and Update: Quick podcast review, put down $350 and bought the recorded on the DROID speaker $99 per month unlimited texting phone using Cinch. A little plan. Took it home, fell in love. It baseball philosophy thrown in at really is beautiful. I'm an iPhone no extra cost! user who loves the esthetics of Update: How do I get music on the iPhone. The DROID is this thing? Tried something different, but also very nice. dumb, after mounting it on my I'm sure there will be Mac desktop, I copied the annoyances, always are, but the contents of a Little Feat album first-time experience is great. into a folder I named Music. Let's The web browser display is large see if the Music app on the Droid enough to be usable. The can find it. I launch the Music gestures that work on the iPhone allows you to format an SD card, app and it says Sorry, your SD but I don't see one. I've read the card is busy. Interesting! Let me don't work on the DROID. I find both the on-screen docs, very limited, but they make try unmounting it. I had to click keyboard and the physical no mention of it. in the menubar to unmount it, keyboard hard to use. The keys They just sent me a text message and then boom (sorry Steve) the asking me to sign onto their music app found my Little Feat are too small. Oddly, when entering text into website, but the password doesn't songs. This is how it's supposed Facebook or an email, typing is work. Tried 8 times. Asked them t o w o r k . G o o d b y e i T u n e s . natural and easy. It's only a pain to send a new one, they sent the F o r e v e r . when entering a username or same one again. I'll come back to Update: It plays iPod-size password. I wonder why this is. this. movies, just watched a bit of (Probably has more to do with Took some pictures with the fargo.m4v. Looks great. camera. Example. the operator than anything.) The setting system makes sense. Can't figure out how to get some There are a few puzzlers. It music onto it. Plugged in the Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:58:27 AM

Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion By Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:04:00 PM

Part of me is surprised that this deal took this long to happen. But when you watch the recent crop of new shows on the Chortle Network (with the exception of Tosh.0), it really shouldn't surprise anyone. Comedy Central has ordered a half-hour scripted pilot based on the Onion's Sports Network. The OSN is part of the popular satirical magazine's online TV news network that launched a little under a year ago. This isn't the first time the network has tried to do a satirical

sports show. Comedy Central also shot a pilot for a Daily Show -esque sports show called Sports Central that died in the pilot stage. This incarnation sounds much more promising since it will spoof not only sports figures and stories, but also the tone and style of sports media. Sweet sassy molassey, this is gonna rock! Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, News, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Review: Ghost Whisperer - Devil's Bargain By Isabelle Carreau (TV Squad)

now offers regular reviews of CBS' Ghost Whisperer. What an episode to start reviews with! Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:07:00 PM The first episode of November (S05E07) "The answers are there, S w e e p s o f f e r e d u s m o r e but you have to know when to backstory and mythology about look." - Carl the Watcher the shadows, some of their Starting this week, TV Squad powers, the book ... and Jennifer

Love Hewitt in lingerie doing

some pole dancing! We were also treated to a case of the week that kept us guessing as to who was to blame for the death of now-ghost Tina and what secret Dr. Morgan and President Bedford were hiding. Continue reading Review: Ghost

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Updated: During The Ft. Hood News Cycle, CNN Was A Distant Second In the Ratings By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

MSNBC –1,101,000 viewers CNBC – 255,000 viewers HLN –621,000 viewers Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:19:18 PM 25-54 Total Day CNN’s fourth place primetime FNC –472,000 viewers finish during Tuesday’s off year CNN –278,000 viewers e l e c t i o n c o u l d p e r h a p s b e MSNBC –146,000 viewers explained away because “nobody CNBC – 85,000 viewers cared about it, but the Ft. Hood HLN- 158,000 viewers murders yesterday were the kind 25-54 Prime Time of big event that would typically FNC – 1,147,000 viewers s e n d c a s u a l n e w s v i e w e r s CNN – 596,000 viewers flocking to CNN. However, as MSNBC –308,000 viewers the Ft. Hood news was unfolding, CNBC – 126,000 viewers CNN found itself in a distant HLN – 221,000 viewers second place in the ratings. 35-64 Total Day Here’s a 3pm-12am time period FNC – 820,000 viewers slice of the data we don’t CNN – 404,000 viewers normally see: MSNBC – 235,000 viewers 3PM-12AM CNBC – 114,000 viewers FNC: 3,039,000 in P2+ (837,000 HLN – 199,000 viewers in 25-54) 35-64 Prime Time C N N : 1 , 5 7 6 , 0 0 0 i n P 2 + FNC –1,820,000 viewers (471,000 in 25-54) CNN – 887,000 viewers M S N B C : 8 2 0 , 0 0 0 i n P 2 + MSNBC –551,000 viewers (248,000 in 25-54) CNBC – 145,000 viewers HLN: 428,000 in P2+ (177,000 HLN –316,000 viewers in 25-54) Morning programs (6:00AMLive + Same Day Cable News 9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64) Daily Ratings for November 5, FOX & Friends- 1,015,000 2009 viewers (367,000) (625,000) P2+ Total Day American Morning- 358,000 FNC – 1,757,000 viewers viewers (125,000) (181,000) CNN – 896,000 viewers Morning Joe- 285,000 viewers MSNBC –457,000 viewers (69,000) (154,000) CNBC – 217,000 viewers Squawk Box- 160,000 viewers HLN –336,000 viewers (83,000) (115,000) P2+ Prime Time Morning Express w/ MeadeFNC – 3,765,000 viewers 314,000 viewers (188,000) CNN – 2,024,000 viewers (228,000)

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) Fort Hood Shooting Coverage – 3,227,000 viewers (801,000) (1,483,000) Situation Room—1,803,000 viewers (523,000) (870,000) Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—778,000 viewers (222,000) (420,000) Fast Money—240,000 viewers (74,000) (128,000) Prime News–413,000 viewers (206,000) (254,000) 6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) Special Report with Bret Baier– 3,351,000 viewers (843,000) (1,553,000) Situation Room—1,452,000 viewers (449,000) (724,000) Ed Show—799,000 viewers (278,000) (445,000) Mad Money —185,000 viewers (84,000) (125,000) Prime News — 358,000 viewers (184,000) (207,000) 7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) The Fox Report w/ Shep –3,966,000 viewers (1,055,000)

—1,161,000 viewers (283,000) (572,000) Inside American Airlines — 282,000 viewers (131,000) (152,000) Joy Behar- 454,000 viewers (125,000) (214,000) 10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64) On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —2,480,000 viewers (778,000) (1,293,000) Anderson Cooper 360 — 1,837,000 viewers (565,000) (1,757,000) Lou Dobbs Tonight—1,522,000 (767,000) Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – viewers (513,000) (724,000) Hardball w/ C . 782,000 viewers (290,000) Matthews—1,064,000 viewers (406,000) Inside American Airlines – (315,000) (551,000) Kudlow Report — 177,000 195,000 viewers (102,000) (103,000) viewers (69,000) (80,000) I s s u e s – 5 1 1 , 0 0 0 v i e w e r s Nancy Grace –470,000 viewers (258,000) (246,000) (202,000) (312,000) 11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64) 8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) On The Record Special The O’Reilly Factor– 4,955,000 viewers (1,485,000) (2,292,000) —1,695,000 viewers (526,000) Campbell Brown – 2,024,000 (927,000) Anderson Cooper 360 — viewers (605,000) (952,000) Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,267,000 viewers (451,000) 1,360,000 viewers (351,000) (573,000) Rachel Maddow Show (674,000) Cruise Inc. – 289,000 viewers —517,000 viewers (210,000) (272,000) (145,000) (182,000) Nancy Grace – 996,000 viewers Mad Money – 141,000 viewers (79,000) (61,000) (293,000) (517,000) Showbiz Tonight– 319,000 9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64) Hannity –3,845,000 viewers viewers (147,000) (153,000) This content has passed through (1,176,000) (1,872,000) Larry King Live —2,211,000 fivefilters.org. viewers (619,000) (941,000) Rachel Maddow Show

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Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County scores series highs with 5th season premiere

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By Clay Travis (FanHouse)

highest rated season premiere in all of “Real Housewives” franchise history among the key Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:13:31 PM adult 18-49 demographic. via press release: Additionally, part two of “The B R A V O ’ S “ T H E R E A L Real Housewives of Atlanta” HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE season two reunion special COUNTY” FIFTH SEASON delivered over 2.4 million total D E B U T S C O R E S S E R I E S viewers. Bravo ranked as the No. HIGH NUMBERS 1 cable network among adults 18 OC Season Five Premiere Tops -49 and women 18-49 in Prime. Previous High by 44 Percent “The First Ladies of Orange “ T h e R e a l H o u s e w i v e s o f County do everything with style Atlanta” Season Two Reunion a n d t h e i r r e c o r d b r e a k i n g Delivers Over Two Million premiere is no different,” said Viewers Frances Berwick, Executive Vice NEW YORK – November 6, President and General Manager, 2009 – The blondes are back Bravo Media. “To achieve a with a score to settle as Bravo’s series high with a fifth season s e a s o n f i v e “ T h e R e a l premiere is remarkable and a Housewives of Orange County” t e s t a m e n t t o o u r v i e w e r s ’ debut became the highest rated continued passion for the entire e p i s o d e i n a l l o f “ O r a n g e housewives franchise.” County” history, according to Ranked as the No. 1 cable Nielsen Media Research. The telecast of the day among adults premiere shimmied in with series and women 18-49, the fifth h i g h n u m b e r s a c r o s s a l l season premiere of “The Real demographics; double-digit Housewives of Orange County” growth over season four’s earned 1.98 million adults 18-49 premiere, and attracted 2.58 and 2.58 million total viewers, up million total viewers. And, the 44 percent (vs. 1.37 million) and season five premiere marks the 38 percent (vs. 1.88 million)

respectively over season four’s premiere (11/25/08). The OC ladies also outperformed an original episode of “Project Runway,” up 19 percent among adults 18-49 (vs. 1.66 million) and up 10 percent among women 18-49 (1.45 million vs. 1.31 million). Ending its successful second season run, part two of the reunion of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” scored 2.44 million total viewers and 1.77 million adults 18-49, Bravo’s highest Thursday 9 p.m. telecast ever among adults 18-49 and No. 1 in cable for the hour. “The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” second season was the highest rated “Real Housewives” franchise season ever, averaging two million adults 18-49 and 2.84 million total viewers, up 101 percent and 116 percent respectively versus season one. Catch an all-new episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” next Thursday, November 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo, where the newest blonde on the block is

introduced, 32-year-old stay-athome mom, Alexis Bellino. For a sneak peek at next week’s e p i s o d e , g o t o : http://www.bravotv.com/the-realhousewives-of-orangecounty/videos/meet-alexis. Source: Nielsen Media Research, Live + Same day through 11/5/09 Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC Universal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

LeBron, Cavs show off against Knicks in MSG By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:32:19 PM

Fast Facts • LeBron James finished with 33

points, nine assists and eight rebounds in a commanding performance vs. the Knicks in the Cavs' only scheduled trip to Madison Square Garden this season.

• James scored 19 points in the first quarter, marking his thirdhighest total in the opening period. • The Cavs have won six straight against the Knicks and four

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by Clay Travis Filed under: All That and a Bag of Mail Our beaver pelt trader of the week is, be still my beating heart, my coaching crush Mike Leach. As if it weren't enough that he went on "Friday Night Lights" -spoiler alert, I have to wait until January to watch the show because I don't have DirecTV -after the loss to Texas A&M, Leach blamed the loss, partly, on the players' "fat little girlfriends." Given the status of bingo wings in Florida, Urban Meyer should file this excuse away. It's much better than blaming the flu for poor performances. Not to be outdone, as reader Chris V. e-mails, "There is now a website up selling apparel at fatlittlegirlfriend.com. Outstanding. All That and a Bag of Mail: Fat, Little Girlfriends Edition originally appeared on Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers: MMA Twitter Mailbag By Michael David Smith (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/7/2009 10:01:00 AM

by Michael David Smith Filed under: Strikeforce, M-1 Global MMA Twitter universe is getting excited for Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers Saturday night on CBS, and that's reflected in the latest installment of our MMA Twitter mailbag. But what's particualrly interesting is how many fans I'm hearing from who are concerned about whether this CBS show will be a success: Below we address fans' questions about The trend lines above are 30 day September, 2009) Political comments will be how strong a rating CBS needs moving averages. CNN/HLN: 99.10 million HHs deleted. If I have to delete your and what kinds of ads CBS has For complete information on all CNBC: 96.78 million HHs comments more than once I will sold. cable news ratings check our FNC: 96.26 million HHs just block you from commenting. Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett daily cable news ratings posts. MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs If you find the comments to be Rogers: MMA Twitter Mailbag Anybody else wanting to Nielsen TV Ratings Data: unpleasant, please just don’t read originally appeared on Fanhouse produce trend charts of any of ©2009 The Nielsen Company. them. – Bill MMA Blog on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 our other data, drop me an email. All Rights Reserved. This content has passed through 10:01:00 EST . Please see our Nielsen Cable Network P e r s o n a l a t t a c k s i n t h e fivefilters.org. terms for use of feeds. Coverage Estimates(as of comments will be deleted. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

O’Reilly vs. Olbermann vs. Brown vs. Grace TV Ratings Through November 5 By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:31:04 PM

Reader MikeS has once again graciously updated his 8pm Cable News ratings charts. Long Term Trend of O’Reilly vs. Olbermann vs. Campbell Brown TV Ratings:

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Electricity blackouts in Ecuador The League up over 50% without World Series (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:24:58 PM

Here’s some ratings detail on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League via FX (note the ratings noted are “coverage ratings” but the viewer averages still are comparable to other data you normally see on the site): Sunny posted a 1.51 P18-49 rating for episode eight. A lift of +68% over last week and the highest rating since week one. Among M18-49, last night’s

and 10%, but businesses will not be affected. The drought, which has hit the Submitted at 11/6/2009 9:00:53 PM 3.06 rating or 853,000 Andes region, is the worst in four impressions – highest since the E c u a d o r h a s i n t r o d u c e d decades, correspondents say. premiere. electricity rationing after a The Paute plant, in eastern The League delivered a 1.10 drought led to acute water Ecuador, has been forced to halve rating among P18-49 for episode shortages at the country's main its average production because of two, up +56% from its premiere hydro-electric power plant at the drought. (0.71). Men 18-49 posted a 1.58, Paute. Ecuador depends heavily on while M18-34 generated a There have already been h y d r o p o w e r t o p r o d u c e w h o p p i n g 2 . 6 1 r a t i n g — blackouts in the capital, Quito, e l e c t r i c i t y . retaining 85% of its Sunny lead- and the Pacific port city of Print Sponsor in. Guayaquil, officials say. This content has passed through +24% They say power to residential fivefilters.org. episode delivered a 1.94 rating or This content has passed through areas will be cut by between 5% more than a million impressions. fivefilters.org. Equally, if not more impressive, were M18-34 which notched a

Tom Brady: I've Never 'Influenced a Call' By Chris Burke (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:20:00 PM

by Chris Burke Filed under: Dolphins, Patriots Coincidence or not, after Tom Brady missed almost all of the 2008 season after a low hit tore the Patriots star's left MCL and ACL, the NFL's Competition Committee made clear that it would enforce more strictly a rule preventing defenders from tackling quarterbacks at or below the knee. It was affectionately

dubbed "The Brady Rule" by folks outside the league office. And the Patriots have benefitted from the increased focus on QB protection, with their opponents picking up five roughing the passer penalties in seven games. One, in particular, raised some eyebrows -- in New England's Week 4 win over Baltimore, Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs gently brushed Brady's knee, and Brady gestured back at referee Ron Winter, and a flag came flying.

Winter might have thrown the flag regardless of Brady's reaction -- it is in the rule book, after all, though the rule states that forcible contact must me

made -- but, nonetheless, the anti -Brady folk out there used it as evidence that Brady gets whatever he wants from officials. Tom Brady: I've Never 'Influenced a Call' originally appeared on Fanhouse NFL Blog on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:20:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

MediaDailyNews: Carl's, Jr. Ends AntiItalian Ad Campaign (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:56:41 PM

The California Italian-American Task Force and the National Italian-American Federation today applauded Carl's Jr. for discontinuing its advertising campaign for a new chicken Parmesan sandwich that depicted Italian-Americans as mobsters and garbagemen. The Task Force said Carl's Jr. has promised to end the ads, which aired prominently during the World Series, this week. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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The Fix Picks the NFL: Week 9 (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/6/2009 12:15:38 PM

One of our less-astute commenters chimed in a couple of weeks ago to the effect that our esteemed colleague Al Toonie was “a joke” for picking the Rams in a game the Rams were obviously not going to win. (Which is just about any game, admittedly, but was in this case a game against the very-good Colts) A more-astute commenter quickly set the Toonie-baiter straight — “Al Toonie is a code name for a coin flip,” the commenter wrote. And that is indeed what Al Toonie is — a Canadian coin with a bear on it, flipped to get random, rule-ofchance picks for every NFL game this season. Garey, the coin -flipper, is very dedicated. Reuters The Falcons’ Matt Ryan is in the first prolonged slump of his two-year NFL career. But Al Toonie is something else — he/it is the coin that owned both Garey and me last week. Sometimes the NFL is like that, with a tumbling inanimate object as likely to make the right call as two writers who (if we’re being honest) are among the finest minds of their respective generations. We’ll try to do better this week. Al Toonie is indeed kind of a joke (and a nod to a New York Jets demi-legend), but said joke was very much on us last week. Week 8 recap (overall): David Roth: 6-7 (58-57-1), Garey Ris: 6

-7 (59-56-1), Al Toonie, the Lucky Canadian Two-Dollar Coin: 8-5 (51-64-1) SUNDAY’S GAMES Washington at Atlanta (-10): If it seems like Atlanta should be a lot better than it has been recently, it’s because Atlanta should be. Quarterback Matt Ryan is in the first slump of his young career, and the explosive-on-paper offense has been implosive — thanks to Ryan’s struggles and injuries in the backfield — on the field. Which is something the Falcons will need to worry about once they get done beating the hopeless Redskins. Washington’s terribleness is too multifaceted to explain in this small space, but their abjectness this season has been so pronounced as to occasion an inevitably qualified apology from defectiveSteinbrenner owner Daniel Snyder. It’s that bad. DR Pick: David: Atlanta, Garey: Atlanta, Al Toonie: Washington Arizona at Chicago (-3): The Bears and Cardinals got to 4-3 records in different ways, although only the Cardinals have looked much better than that mark along the way. While the Bears gave the abject Browns an appropriate thrashing last week, their offensive execution is a mess, and churlish quarterback Jay Cutler already seems unhappy. The Cardinals have had a hard time finding the big plays that sustained them in last year’s playoffs, but they’re re-working their offense and — weird Week

8 loss aside — look fairly sharp. The Bears periodically look quite good, but I’ll take the team with the good offense over the well, the one with the orange C’s on their helmets. DR Pick: David: Arizona, Garey: Arizona, Al Toonie: Chicago Baltimore (-3) at Cincinnati: There was an era — let’s call it the Testaverde Administration— when Baltimore’s defense wasn’t great, but this has been the NFL’s defining D for a decade. It had also been decidedly middling until Week 8, when both offense and defense clicked in a thorough thrashing of Denver. Baltimore was uninspired in a home loss to Cincy earlier this year, but while the Ravens have perked up (and Cincy has come back to earth) since, the result in this one depends on which Ravens team shows up. I like both Baltimore and Cincinnati, but I don’t know that I like Baltimore as a road favorite because the Ravens have only one win away from home (though it was admittedly a convincing one over San Diego). DR Pick: David: Cincinnati, Garey: Baltimore, Al Toonie: Cincinnati Houston at Indianapolis (-9): Considering that it might be

barely a word, sparkyness is hard to define, but whatever it is, Houston inconsistent, occasionally electric, sometimes maddening, generally middling has it. Indianapolis, even with injuries chipping away at its offense and defense, looks great; Houston, despite three straight convincing wins, is less so, unless Week 8 breakout Ryan Moats really is Brian Westbrook. He’s not, but this is a generous line, and the Colts didn’t cover against a 49ers team Houston dispatched with relative ease. It’s not hard to imagine the Texans covering here. DR Pick: David: Houston, Garey: Indianapolis, Al Toonie: Indianapolis Kansas City at Jacksonville (6.5): Jacksonville is nearly 850 square miles in size, making it the largest contiguous city in the United States. That is not in any way proof that the recessionslammed sprawlopolis can support a NFL team. It certainly hasn’t done so of late. Jacksonville’s viability as a NFL city is an interesting/depressing question, but it’s also one that can pretty much go out the window this week, when these two brutal teams square off in an epic flub-off that promises to make Jacksonville’s (inevitable) TV blackout something of an act of mercy. DR Pick: David: Jacksonville, Garey: Jacksonville, Al Toonie: Jacksonville Miami at New England (-10.5):

It’s never a good sign when one finds oneself agreeing with Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter. That’s how you wind up furnishing stucco Florida mansions with portraits of yourself and purchasing terrifying dogs, and that’s not a path you want to go down. And yet when Porter copped to“a natural hate” of Bill Belichick’s Patriots earlier this week, I was hard-pressed to disagree. Of course, Porter presumably thinks that the gadgety, sparky, flawed and undermanned Dolphins have a shot against the locked-in Pats in this one. On that, and on the desirability of scary dogs, he and I disagree. DR Pick: David: New England, Garey: Miami, Al Toonie: Miami Green Bay (-9.5) at Tampa Bay: Green Bay has a terrible offensive line that has had trouble protecting quarterback Aaron Rodgers and opening holes for running back Ryan Grant, but the offense has managed to function fairly well despite that. Tampa Bay has a terrible everything, and has not managed to function well at all, in any aspect. The Buccaneers have promoted promising firstrounder Josh Freeman to the starting quarterback role, which is presumably nice for him. They also have a pirate ship at their stadium. But, yeah: The good team with the bad offensive line will beat the bad team with the FIX page 50

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Browns’ Season Already Fading to Black — Again (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:51:20 AM

You’d need a long memory to remember when the Cleveland Browns were the epitome of NFL franchises instead of one deserving pity. The Browns were a dominant team in the 1950s, winning three of their four NFL championships with head coach Paul Brown and quarterback Otto Graham. The Browns’ last title came in 1964, but the team might have won a couple of Super Bowls in the 1980s if not for The Drive and The Fumble against Denver in the 1987 and ‘88 AFC championship games. As gutwrenching as those losses were, the team’s move to Baltimore after the 1995 season was worse, leaving Cleveland without an NFL team until 1999. Associated Press Derek Anderson and the Browns are going through a miserable season. Pro football’s been back for a decade, but Cleveland is mired in mediocrity. The Browns are 1-7 in their first year under coach Eric Mangini, not what anyone expected after an offseason that included the hiring of general manager George Kokinis, who was fired earlier this week. Browns owner Randy Lerner’s decision to allow Mangini to choose his general manager was a gamble that was a colossal failure, Charles Robinson writes at Yahoo Sports. “One minute, Mangini was a rising star paying his dues in the Patriots system.

The next, he was being dubbed ‘Mangenius,’ appearing on ‘The Sopranos’ and starring in a national cellphone commercial, Robinson writes. “All of this after a 10-6 season and a playoff loss in 2006. Then after a career 23-26 record (including his one postseason defeat), he gets fired by the Jets and then hired by the Browns seemingly before he’s had a chance to put his suitcases down. So yeah, excuse me if I think Mangini was afforded a lot of affection and a second opportunity that was slightly out of whack for his accomplishments.” At Sports Illustrated, Don Banks paints a picture of a flawed relationship between Mangini and Kokinis, and how Mangini won the power struggle.* * * Perhaps The Answer isn’t the answer for the Memphis Grizzlies. Allen Iverson isn’t happy coming off the bench instead of starting for a team that’s already 1-4 this season. It’s not like Iverson had any leverage when he signed a one-year, $3 million contract with Memphis — they were the only team interested in him. Still, Iverson made his plea to start after Monday’s loss to Sacramento. At Memphis’s Commercial Appeal, members of the sports department debate whether Iverson should start or remain a role player for the Grizzlies. In New York, the Knicks are more worried about their 1-4 start than which free agent they might

in the 13-horse field. In the Los Angeles Times, Eric Sondheimer finds that synthetic tracks such as Santa Anita where the Breeders’ Cup races are held aren’t necessarily safer than dirt tracks. ESPN’s Rick Reilly tries calling sign next season from a crop of a horse race, finding out it’s superstars that includes LeBron harder than you might imagine. James, Mary Schmitt Boyer Be sure to listen to the audio. writes in the Cleveland Plain A n d t h e n l i s t e n t o C h i c k Anderson’s famous call of Dealer.* * * T h e N e w Y o r k Y a n k e e s Secretariat’s 31-length victory in celebrate their 27th World Series the Belmont Stakes to win the championship Friday with a 1973 Triple Crown.* * * ticker-tape parade. Pardon Sports Rush Limbaugh was going to be Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski if he’s part of a bid to buy the NFL’s St. not too thrilled about New Louis Rams until too many York’s success. It’s easy to be people complained about the among baseball’s better teams controversial talk-show host. with a payroll that dwarfs other Donald Sterling is a billionaire large-market teams, he writes, who settled a federal case this but harder to celebrate the hope week for $2.73 million for on Opening Day that isn’t there alleged racial discrimination at apartments owned by him and his for many teams. At CBS Sports, Danny Knobler wife. Thousands of words were looks ahead to the 2010 season written against Limbaugh’s and sees the possibility of potential involvement with the another Fall Classic involving the Rams, but the same isn’t true about Sterling, who also owns Yanks and Phillies. Finally, the Journal’s Darren the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. Everson reports on what Hideki At Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel Matsui winning the World Series wonders why there’s no outcry MVP award means both in the against Sterling from either NBA major leagues and in Japan.* * * owners or commissioner David When the betting line closes for Stern — or the media. (If you S a t u r d a y ’ s B r e e d e r s ’ C u p missed it earlier this year, Classic, Zenyatta, the only mare ESPN’s Peter Keating had a in the $5 million race, could be thorough read on Sterling’s the favorite. In the Los Angeles almost always awful Clippers and Daily News, Kevin Modesti finds his dealings with apartment t h e r e ’ s n o c o n s e n s u s o n tenants.)* * * Zenyatta’s chances to be favored The sports world has always

been filled with colorful characters and outsized egos: John McEnroe and Muhammad Ali, Mark Cuban and Dennis Rodman, Billy Martin and John Madden. The list is endless. But character and ego extend to the printed page, too. At the National Sports Journalism Center, Dave Kindred recounts that some of journalism’s best writers were just as combative and competitive as athletes.* * * At age 39, Mike Modano is in the twilight of his NHL career, which spans 20 seasons in Minnesota and Dallas, and includes a Stanley Cup with the Stars in 1999. Modano, the alltime U.S.-born scoring leader, still has something to prove, though. He’s out to show that last year’s disappointing point totals were a fluke and that he can still contribute, Jim Reeves writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Who knows, maybe the next Modano will come out of California instead of Minnesota and Massachusetts. In the Orange County Register, Jeff Miller writes about JSerra and Santa Margarita, the first two highschool programs in Orange County. – Tip of the Fix cap to the Journal’s Adam Thompson. Found a good column from the world of sports? Don’t keep it to yourself — write to us at dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll consider your find for inclusion BROWNS’ page 48

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No. 7 Boise St. withstands upset bid by La. Tech By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

games I think. Throw in a little pressure and it just shows the resiliency of this team." Submitted at 11/6/2009 9:54:22 PM Moore threw for 354 yards and Moore, No. 7 Boise State hold three touchdowns, and Boise off Louisiana Tech's upset bid State remained unbeaten and in RUSTON, La. -- Early in the contention for a BCS bid with a fourth quarter, there was nervous 45-35 victory over Louisiana pacing along Boise State's Tech on Friday night. sideline. Tech had pulled within 30-28 With an opportunity to show a early in the fourth quarter on national television audience why Dennis Morris' leaping catch in they should once again become a the corner of the end zone. The BCS buster, a close game on the Broncos defense buckled down road was not what the Broncos long enough after that for Boise (No. 7 BCS, No. 5 AP) had in S t a t e t o p u l l a w a y w i t h mind. touchdowns on consecutive Fast Facts drives, first on Moore's 12-yard • Boise State has won eight pass to Austin Pettis and then on straight vs. Louisiana Tech and J e r e m y A v e r y ' s 4 4 - y a r d has outscored the Bulldogs by t o u c h d o w n r u n . 23.8 in those contests. "We made more plays then they • The Broncos have won 12 did tonight when it mattered and straight and 22 of their last 23 we were able to finish it out," WAC games. Moore said. • Boise State is 9-0 for the fourth Avery finished with 146 yards time in six years. rushing, while Titus Young -- ESPN Stats & Information caught eight passes for 110 They looked anxious, but they yards, including a 40-yard weren't rattled. touchdown for Boise State (9-0, "We know we are going to have 4 - 0 W e s t e r n A t h l e t i c people's best shots," Boise State C o n f e r e n c e ) . quarterback Kellen Moore said. Boise State has scored no fewer "It's kind of fun playing in tight than 45 points in each of its four

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WAC games this season. Still, the Broncos could have used a more dominant victory in their quest to prove they are more deserving than unbeaten and sixth-ranked TCU for a Bowl Championship Series bid. "That's how it always is when we play," Boise State coach Chris Peterson said. "It's never good enough, but it's good enough for us. We are going to try to do better next week and just go from there." Trailing 27-7 at halftime, Tech (3-6, 2-4) made a game of it in the third quarter, starting with Josh Victorian's first career touchdown on Moore's third interception of the season. It was an ill-advised throw under pressure that hung in the air for Victorian, who raced down the sideline and cut inside Moore to cap a 75-yard return. "Throwing that stupid pick, I think that really gave them some momentum that they were able to build on and take advantage of," Moore said. "I think that certainly kept them in the game and it is definitely something that I shouldn't have done." Moore responded by leading a

15-play drive to set up Kyle Brotzman's third field goal, then Tech's offense suddenly came to life. The Bulldogs got their first first down in two quarters on the way to a 73-yard scoring drive capped by Ross Jenkins' 9-yard keeper around the right end to make it 30-21. Tech's Matt Nelson then caught the Broncos by surprise with an onside kick that he recovered himself. Shortly after, Jenkins found Morris over the middle for 36 yards to the Boise State 12, setting up Jenkins' third-down pass to Morris, who leaped to catch the ball over defensive back Kyle Wilson's head to pull Tech within 30-28. "It looked like the game was going to get away from us, but I was really proud at how well we did in the second half," Louisiana Tech coach Derek Dooley said. "We didn't make the plays at the end of the game we needed to win, but if we keep fighting the way we've been fighting, we'll play out of it eventually." When Brotzman missed his second field goal of the game on the Broncos' next drive, the crowd was going wild, and it

appeared the Bulldogs just might upset the highest-ranked team ever to play at Joe Aillet Stadium. Instead, Boise State put its figurative foot down, forcing a quick punt. Then Moore floated a pass down the sideline to Kyle Efaw for his second 40-yard completion of the game, setting up his scoring pass to Pettis to make it 38-28. Soon after, Tech failed to convert a fourth-and-6 on its own 44, setting up Avery's gameclinching run that made it 45-28 with 4:52 to go. Tech managed one more touchdown after that. Jenkins finished 10 of 19 for 114 yards and one interception. Daniel Porter rushed for 92 yards and a score for Tech. Moore's three TD passes gave him 27 on the season, eclipsing the 25 he had last year as a freshman. Pettis finished with nine catches for 105 yards. Richie Brockel had a 2-yard TD catch in the first half and Doug Martin scored on 2-yard run for the Broncos. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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HSBC Champions: Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods in final pairing at HSBC By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:45:23 AM

SHANGHAI -- Tiger Woods stalled with pars. Phil Mickelson poured it on with birdies. The back nine Saturday at the HSBC Champions changed names atop the leaderboard, as Mickelson made three birdies over the last five holes for a 5under 67 that took him from a two-shot deficit to a two-shot lead over Woods and Nick Watney in the final World Golf Championship of the year. HSBC Champions Leaderboard 1. Mickelson (-14) T-2. Watney (-12) T-2. Woods (-12) 4. Moore (-11) 5. Westwood (-10) â&#x20AC;˘ Complete scores What didn't change was the excitement level at Sheshan International, especially with what awaits on Sunday. Mickelson and Woods will be in the final group Sunday for the first time since 2005, that famous "Duel at Doral," when Woods rallied from a two-shot deficit in the final round to win. Mickelson, who was at 14-under 202, was the only player among the top 18 on the leaderboard Saturday to break 70. He made three birdies in his opening five holes and three birdies over his last five holes, his lone bogey

coming at No. 9 that provided what he hopes is a good sign. Trapped in the bushes, Lefty inverted a wedge and blasted out right-handed to the fairway. He hit a similar shot at Doral this year when he went on to win his first World Golf Championship. "I thought that might have been a good omen, even though it led to a bogey," Mickelson said. Woods appeared to be in control with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th to build a two-shot lead. That was his last birdie of the round, however, as he twice missed good birdie chances in the final hour and closed out a frustrating round by hitting into the rough and the bunker on the par-5 18th and having to save par. He wound up with a 2-under 70. "I didn't take advantage of the par 5s and 16, I hit it in their stiff and missed that one," Woods said. "Consequently, I was three shots worse. That's about right." Woods and Mickelson also were paired in the final round at the Masters this year, when both lit up Augusta National with birdies until they ran out of holes. They also played together in the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2007, which Mickelson won by four shots, although they weren't in the final group. And they will have company Sunday -- and Mickelson's view,

not just in the final group. Watney continued to fall farther back with a three-putt bogey on the 17th, but he finished with a bang. The 28-year-old rolled in a 50-foot eagle putt on the last hole for a 70 and left him tied with Woods, and it gave the first WGC event in Asia an AllAmerican -- for that matter, an all -Californian -- final group. "I thought I played pretty well overall, considering it was my first time playing with Tiger in a tournament, and I was happy that I was able to concentrate and play the shots I needed to play," Watney said. "Hopefully, at only two back, I might have a shot at the tournament, and I really can't wait." Ryan Moore, who played alongside Woods and Watney, had a 70 and was at 11-under 205. The best round belonged to Lee Westwood, who leads the Race to Dubai on the European Tour and did himself a huge favor by running off eight birdies in his 65. Westwood was at 10-under 206, and now can consider winning his first WGC event. "This is a golf course that you can make up a lot of shots over a round," Westwood said. Mickelson didn't have to make up that many, starting only one shot out of the lead. He was briefly tied for the lead on a couple of occasions with birdies

early in the round, then seemed to stall on the back nine. He came to life in the final hour, however. It started with a lob wedge he had to throw up into the strong wind, leaving him a 6foot birdie putt. Then came a drive he smashed through fairway at the 15th, giving him only a 9-iron to 15 feet and another birdie that had Mickelson singing on the way to the next tee, "Somebody's got his putter back." He missed opportunities on the next two holes, then finished with a pitch that brought an enormous gallery surrounding the 18th green to its feet. Woods had a good view of it all in the group behind him, but he couldn't answer. The last time they competed against each other was the Tour Championship six weeks ago, when Mickelson won at East Lake with newfound confidence in his putting stroke, and Woods captured the FedEx Cup trophy. Only one trophy is at stake Sunday. "I know we are both looking forward to it," Mickelson said. "I think it will be a fun day, and we're excited to be playing in the last group here in China." Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

So you want to play the Bayonetta demo early, do you? By Xav de Matos (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:00:00 PM

Sega just announced that 40,000 lucky Xbox 360 owners will get extremely early access to a demo for the upcoming action game Bayonetta. To be considered for the prize, gamers must register for a free Sega Pass -- essentially the publisher's newsletter -- and enter for a chance to be selected on the official Bayonetta demo site. Registration for the "contest" will be open from Monday, November 9 to Friday, November 13. Winners will be notified on Monday, November 16. Those not selected will then be referred to as "the group least likely to win a 'boot-gun thing' firing contest" ... or PlayStation 3 players. Should you not get selected, you might want to take advantage of making a Japanese account. So you want to play the Bayonetta demo early, do you? originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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bad everything. Soundly. DR Pick: David: Green Bay, Garey: Green Bay, Al Toonie: Tampa Bay Carolina at New Orleans (-13.5): The Saints, the NFC’s only unbeaten team, are an offensive juggernaut, scoring 36 TDs in surging to a 7-0 record. This looks like an easy pick, a mismatch: undefeated team versus a 3-4 squad. You knew there was a “but” coming, right? Exactly. New Orleans hasn’t lost yet, but Carolina has won six of the past seven meetings, and seven straight at the Superdome. Jake Delhomme is no Drew Brees — that’s a given. However, he’s 8-2 all-time against the Saints. After last week’s spotty rush defense against Atlanta, the Saints look to get back on track Sunday. GR Pick: David: New Orleans, Garey: Carolina, Al Toonie: New Orleans Detroit at Seattle (-10): The NFL game notes read like something only the motivational group Up With People would produce. “Game features 2 of top 4 picks in 2009 NFL draft.” These teams

got such high picks because they were awful last year, and this year again they’re terrible, as is this matchup. (Lions QB Matthew Stafford was the first pick; Seahawks LB Aaron Curry was fourth.) The NFL wouldn’t dare trumpet the fact that the Lions are 1-6 and the Seahawks 2 -5. Detroit has the NFL’s secondworst scoring defense, Seattle has the 21st-ranked scoring offense. This has all the makings of a Zzzzzzz. GR Pick: David: Detroit, Garey: Seattle, Al Toonie: Seattle San Diego at New York Giants ( -4.5): What’s wrong with the Giants? Three straight losses have put a damper on a season that began with five consecutive wins. While Eli Manning’s is-itor-isn’t-it slump has gotten a lot of press, the biggest problem has been a weak pass defense (840 yards, eight TDs) against New Orleans, Arizona and Philadelphia. Maybe the flawed Chargers are the elixir the Giants need to get back to their winning ways. New York has won its past four games against AFC foes. GR

Pick: David: Giants, Garey: San Diego, Al Toonie: San Diego Tennessee at San Francisco (-4): Everyone loves second-chance stories, and this game features the Titans’ Vince Young and the Niners’ Alex Smith, both high draft picks who had lost their starting jobs, then regained them. The Titans have plumbed the depths of incompetence only a year after going 13-3. Young has been down, too, but he won his first 2009 start in Week 8, and is playing with added motivation — this could his last chance to prove himself as an NFL-caliber quarterback. GR Pick: David: San Francisco, Garey: Tennessee, Al Toonie: Tennessee Dallas at Philadelphia (-3): No doubt the Cowboys will remember their last visit to Philly, a 44-6 pounding that gave the Eagles the final NFC playoff spot last season. Cowboys QB Tony Romo’s streak of 12 straight November wins might come to an end against a Philadelphia team that routed the Giants a week ago. Dallas’s defense has 17 sacks in its past

five games after going sackless the first two games. Also in Dallas’s favor is the fact that the Cowboys have spread the offense around in their three-game winning streak. GR Pick: David: Philadelphia, Garey: Philadelphia, Al Toonie: Dallas MONDAY’S GAME Pittsburgh (-3) at Denver: The Steelers might want to look at the videotape (is there still such a thing?) of Baltimore’s hammer job on Denver last week, 30-7, which ended the Broncos’ sixgame winning streak. Even with the loss, Denver still boasts the NFL’s second-stingiest defense (13.7 points per game). The defending champion Steelers are riding a four-game winning streak after starting the season 12. It’ll be interesting to see how rookie Broncos RB Knowshon Moreno fares against the NFL’s best rush defense. GR Pick: David: Pittsburgh, Garey: Pittsburgh, Al Toonie: Denver

Bus Crash Injures 19 People in Los Angeles (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:38:56 AM

LOS ANGELES A county bus has collided with another vehicle in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, injuring 19 people, one critically. Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Diana Igawa said the accident involving a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus happened around 6 p.m. Friday. Igawa says 10 people were taken to the hospital. One person was reported to be in critical condition. The other injuries were described as minor to moderate. Police are investigating the cause of the crash near the Glendale Boulevard entrance to State Route 2. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Tragic Times Fail to Deter Iowa HS Football Team By David Whitley (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/6/2009 8:15:00 PM

by David Whitley Filed under: High School Sports The season is over for the most famous high school football team in America. It wasn't the happy

ending everyone wanted. If it had been, ESPN's trucks would be rolling back into Parkersburg, Iowa, followed by a truckload of other media. This story had a Hollywood beginning, then it turned into a reality show.

"Our kids deserved to have a ball

bounce their way or a break to win a close game," Al Kerns said. "But that's the movies." He's the co-coach at AplingtonParkersburg High. You may not remember the name, but you probably remember the plight. Tragic Times Fail to Deter Iowa

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The Count: Does Clutch Kicking Exist? (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/6/2009 3:22:26 PM

Statistically minded baseball analysts are pretty sure that clutch hitting, as a repeatable skill, hardly exists, and that it has a minuscule effect on the game. While one player may perform better in crucial situations than another, few seem to be able to do so consistently — and hardly any more than you’d expect if such differences arose by random chance rather than because of some intrinsic skill. Does the same conclusion apply to placekicking in the NFL? Getty Images Kris Brown’s 50-yard field goal helped the Texans hold off a 49ers comeback. Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats attempted to answer the question by aggregating data on all field-goal attempts from 2000 to 2008. He found that, from nearly every distance, there was essentially no difference between success rates late in close games, and in all other game situations. “While it appears that pressure doesn’t affect NFL kickers as a whole, we still don’t know whether some individual kickers are truly good or bad in the clutch,” Burke writes. “Unfortunately, because kickers

imagine being the first coach to onside in a tie game with 2:30 on the clockprofessional suicide.” Elsewhere in football stats analysis: The sample size is small, but analysis by Pro Football Reference’s Jason Lisk suggests typically only have between 30 that the home-field advantage is and 40 attempts a year, and only largely a matter of familiarity. two or three could be considered The advantage shrinks as visiting clutch, we’ll never be able to teams gain experience playing in new stadiums. know.” Burke also recently analyzed I wrote last NFL season about another aspect of the pro kicking rare scores. Minnesota’s victory game. He found that surprise at Lambeau Field was the first 38 onside kicks are recovered 60% -26 score in NFL history, which of the time, which means they w a s p e r h a p s s o m e w h a t should be used more often— overshadowed by the name of the they’d be valuable at any rate Vikings quarterback. above 42%, when taking into Steven Jackson has been, by one account field position and the measure, the most valuable value of possession. Of course, if running back in the league — more teams used the ploy more even though he scored his first often, it would become less of a touchdown of the season last surprise and return teams would week. be configured to defend better The 2000 New York Giants against the strategy. NFL coaches never had a chance in the Super would be behaving optimally Bowl. Their opponent, the when the success rate matches Baltimore Ravens, holds three of the break-even rate. Their the top four positions on a list of characteristic conservativism will best two-game stretches of the p r o b a b l y p r e v e n t s u c h a n decade, and all three came during equilibrium from being reached. that year’s playoffs. One commenter wrote, “I understand the math, Brian, but

Chad Dawson Looks to Repeat Against Glen Johnson By Lem Satterfield (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/6/2009 7:14:00 PM

by Lem Satterfield Filed under: WBC, HBO, IBO Perhaps Glen Johnson's best attempt at head-games during the buildup to Saturday night's 175pound rematch with IBO titlist Chad Dawson is his refusal to admit defeat. The facts are that Johnson was not only judged the loser of their first light heavyweight clash in April of 2008 by scores of 116112 on all three cards, but that the decision was rendered before a partisan crowd in Miami -- not far from the native Jamaican's current home in Hollywood, Fla. But Johnson's insistence that he was "robbed" clearly rankles Dawson's promoter, Gary Shaw, and if nothing else, has Dawson

so chagrined that he has vowed to turn up the heat when they face off at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., near the champion's hometown of New Haven. Chad Dawson Looks to Repeat Against Glen Johnson originally appeared on Fanhouse Boxing Blog on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:14:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

MediaDailyNews: Cable As Catalyst For Future Profits (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/6/2009 1:29:00 PM

[ fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] Cable networks are a sweet spot in a media industry struggling to find

its financial footing. They are driving conglomerates earnings as well as richly priced deals, and will be a growth vehicle for branded content across all digital platforms.

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Manny Ramirez sticks with Los Angeles Dodgers for $20 million option

Harper Filling Yow's Big Shoes at N.C. State

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reported. "That's an unusual circumstance," Boras said, according to the report. "That's something he's never dealt with, mentally or physically." Boras also said Ramirez's suspension might have affected his value on the open market, had he opted for free agency. But he explained that Ramirez's decision to exercise his option was largely based on his comfort level living and playing in Los Angeles, according to the report. "Obviously, he enjoys L.A.," Boras said, the Times reported. "If he went into the marketplace, the real negative was that he could end up playing in a place he wasn't comfortable playing." Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers from Boston in July 2008. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

by Michelle Smith Filed under: NC State, Oregon, Tennessee, ACC, Pac-10, SEC, Women's Basketball Kay Yow is still very much a presence in the North Carolina State women's basketball program. Her name is on the athletic department's Wall of Fame, and on the basketball court at Reynolds Coliseum. Her photo still hangs in the women's basketball locker room. "She was North Carolina State basketball, and you don't and you can't wipe that away with a new staff," said new N.C. State head coach Kellie Jolly Harper. Harper Filling Yow's Big Shoes

of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors. Speaking at the G20 meeting in St Andrews, Scotland, the British prime minister raised a number

of possibilities he suggested might help banks to pay for the insurance they receive from taxpayers and repeated an earlier G20 commitment to ask the International Monetary Fund to

after the suspension, he batted .269 with 13 HRs and 43 RBIs. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:31:52 AM We still feel that he's a very M a n n y T o R e m a i n W i t h good hitter and maybe with a Dodgers Manny To Remain With winter off and a chance to Dodgers regroup, he can come back with a LOS ANGELES -- Manny better frame of mind and his Ramirez is coming back to the confidence rebuilt.â&#x20AC;?-- Dodgers Dodgers next season. GM Ned Colletti The team said Friday that the In the NL Division Series slugger exercised his $20 million against St. Louis, Ramirez batted contract option for 2010. His .308 with no homers and two agent Scott Boras informed RBI. Against Philadelphia in the general manager Ned Colletti of NL Championship Series, he hit the decision, which Ramirez had .263 with one homer and two until this month to make. RBI. He could have exercised an out "There was no doubt he had his clause in the two-year, $45 struggles this past season," million deal he signed in March. Colletti said, according to the Ramirez hit .290 with 19 home Times. "We still feel that he's a runs and 63 RBIs in 104 regular very good hitter and maybe with season games. He missed 50 a winter off and a chance to games while suspended for regroup, he can come back with a violating baseball's drug policy. better frame of mind and his According to the Los Angeles confidence rebuilt." Times, in the 27 games before his Ramirez's mid-season suspension, Ramirez hit .348 suspension was to blame for his with six home runs and 20 RBIs; late-season slump, said his agent, in the 77 regular-season games Scott Boras, the newspaper

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Brown floats global tax on banks (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:17:34 AM

Gordon Brown raised the possibility of a global tax on

financial transactions on Saturday in a move that threatened to reignite international tensions over the regulation of the banking industry and upstage the Group

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Phil Mickelson Leads in Shanghai, Tiger Woods Two Back By Mick Elliott (FanHouse)

WRUP: 'Too many games, not enough time' edition

Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:12:00 AM

by Mick Elliott Golf keeps wanting to see a final-round tough-guy battle between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson for a tournament title. It gets one and it's halfway around the world. At the World Golf Championship - HSBC in Shanghai, China, Mickelson holds a two shot lead over Woods and fellow American Nick Watney going into Sunday's final round. Mickelson shot 67 Saturday to go 14-under while both Woods and Watney posted 70s to stand 12 under. Phil Mickelson Leads in Shanghai, Tiger Woods Two

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Afghanistan hits back at foreign criticism (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:01:48 AM

Afghanistan hit back at pressure from Western powers for it to crackdown on corruption on Saturday and accused the United Nations envoy to Kabul of seeking to interfere in the formation of the next government.

Washington, Europe and the United Nations have increasingly been putting public pressure on Hamid Karzai, the newly reelected president, to tackle widespread graft since he emerged as the winner of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disputed elections on Monday. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

MMO Roundup: Massively's week in review

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Admittedly, it's not as bad as previous years, but we're already drowning in a bunch of wellreceived and just-plain-fun games for the holiday season. There are already too many quality titles taking up our time By Shawn Schuster (Joystiq) Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon and this was supposed to be a Mark Kingdon, Linden Lab's "slow" year. How did our wallets Submitted at 11/7/2009 4:00:00 AM CEO, has been a bit of a mystery ever keep up with holidays past? When it comes to MMO news figure since his appointment Oh wait, they couldn't. What's and special features, Joystiq about a year and a half ago. everyone playing this weekend? sister site Massively.com has you W h i l e h e h a s n o t b e e n [ I m a g e C r e d i t : covered. Whether you're looking uncommunicative, it's been hard G n a c k G n a c k G n a c k ] for info on the hottest new to get a very good sense of the Continue reading WRUP: 'Too MMO, or you're just curious man at the helm of Linden Lab, many games, not enough time' about an old favorite, you'll find his passions, interests and edition it at Massively. Check out our direction. WRUP: 'Too many games, not biggest features of the week: C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g M M O enough time' edition originally Funcom receives grant to create Roundup: Massively's week in appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 extreme sports MMO review Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please In between navigating the MMO Roundup: Massively's see our terms for use of feeds. sometimes-choppy waters of Age w e e k i n r e v i e w o r i g i n a l l y Permalink| Email this| of Conan and working toward the appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 07 C o m m e n t s launch of The Secret World, Nov 2009 04:00:00 EST. Please Funcom is having a busy year, see our terms for use of feeds. but it looks like they are adding Permalink| Email this| one more project to the pile as C o m m e n t s well. Exclusive interview with

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LGJ: Read the fine print! By Mark Methenitis (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/7/2009 2:00:00 AM

Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq("LGJ"), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games: CJ Sorg Well, after the incident with Courtney Love and Kurt, it looks like the whole issue of famous musicians in games is back in the press with No Doubt suing Activision over Band Hero. A one time event is an anomaly, but twice in just a few months suggests something else. Of course, both of these all tie back to the contract, and since I'm a transactional attorney who spends the majority of most days negotiating and drafting agreements like these, I'm hoping

consideration, for the contract to be valid. The parties must intend to enter into a contract, and be of the appropriate mental capacity to enter into the agreement. And then the agreement is generally recorded in writing, as most jurisdictions have rules that require written agreements, which is then signed by the parties. And that is how a contract is born, in theory anyway. Continue reading LGJ: Read the fine print! I can shed a little light on what assume that most people reading consideration, intent, capacity, LGJ: Read the fine print! might be causing the problems. this have at least some idea, but and formalities. In reality, it's originally appeared on Joystiq on Since I wasn't involved in these just in case, it's worth describing fairly simple. The parties must Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST. particular negotiations nor have I in detail. A contract is a legally have a meeting of the minds, that Please see our terms for use of read these contracts, all of what binding agreement between two is agree to the same terms, which feeds. I'm presenting is speculation. p a r t i e s t o p e r f o r m c e r t a i n is often viewed as an offer by one Permalink| Email this| But before I begin, I suppose I promises in the future. In theory, party and acceptance by the C o m m e n t s s h o u l d a n s w e r t h e s i m p l e to form a contract there are five other. Each party must put up question, "What is a contract?" I elements: Offer and acceptance, something of value, called

Readers pick best webcomic: Babicide By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:59:00 PM

The dynamic duo from Penny Arcade have had long-standing animosity with infants, as evidenced by a number of their past strips. This cycle -- and the comic's victory streak --

continued in last week's Webcomic Wrapup winner, titled " Babicide." Just to be clear, they're talking about demonic baby murder in this strip, and not that blue liquid that hairstylists use to clean combs. Yes, that's Brawl in the Family's " Zombie how it hit us first, too. Second and third place went to Attack" and Hiimdaisy's " Big

Long Persona 4 Comic Part Two," respectively. If you've got a favorite strip you'd like to see in tomorrow's poll, it's not too late to send it in! Just leave a link in the comments section of this post, or shoot us a tip! Readers pick best webcomic: Babicide originally appeared on

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Now he is calling for these instruments, in effect a form of insurance on individual firms (or governments) that pays out when the institution defaults or

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Greenlight Capital founder calls for CDS ban (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/6/2009 9:57:09 AM

When one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most

renowned hedge fund investors turns 180 degrees on a key financial instrument that has been centre stage throughout the financial crisis, it is worth paying

heed. David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, was one of the earliest and most prescient users of credit default swaps.

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Square Enix summons Earnings Report; Final Fantasy XIII Sales Projections evade attacks By David Hinkle (Joystiq)

yen ($30 million). The statement also talks about the acquisition and assimilation Square Enix recently chose to of Eidos in direct proportion to attack with its annual earnings Square Enix's games group report, and among the 12-page division -- which includes video PDF file's barrage of numbers, games across all platforms and things look pretty good for the o n l i n e g a m e s f o r p e r s o n a l company. Net sales for the six computers. Through the aid of months ending September 30, titles like Batman: Arkham 2009 were up 33 percent over the Asylum, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 same period last year to 91 Days and the aforementioned billion yen ($1 billion), while Dragon Quest IX, the games operating income was also up by division rose its net sales and 39 percent to 13 billion yen operating income by 117 percent ($144.5 million) over the same and 63 percent to 4.8 billion yen period last year. It's not all roses ($53 million) and 1.0 billion yen and Dragon Quest IX sales, ($11 million), respectively. however -- net income was down As for the company's upcoming almost 58 percent to 2.7 billion darling, Final Fantasy XIII, Submitted at 11/6/2009 10:30:00 PM

Square Enix prez Yoichi Wada spoke about concern regarding the title's projected domestic sales. Basically, he's not concerned at all! " PS3 sales continue to increase. We're

bundling PS3 and FFXIII, and can expect even further sales increases. Orders for FFXIII are definitely not bad," he said. While he didn't reiterate anything as bold as six million, Wada did

claim that the game is expected to sell in the millions. Source- Square Enix earnings (PDF) [Via andriasang] Source- Wada comments on FFXIII sales Square Enix summons Earnings Report; Final Fantasy XIII Sales Projections evade attacks originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Demon's Souls director talks difficulty, sequel possibility By Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:30:00 PM

"> Perhaps you've heard, but Demon's Souls is a hard game. Like really hard. Like bonecrushingly, soul-scathingly hard. Speaking to Game Informer, Demon's Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki explains why. According to Miyazaki, the difficulty was designed around giving players "a sense of accomplishment," specifically in regard to the soul collecting mechanic. For those who haven't played the game, souls act as

currency and you lose all of them upon death. They can be regained, but only if you make it back to your bloodstain without dying twice more. Trust us, it's not as easy as it sounds. According to Miyazaki, "If the Souls could be recovered anytime, there would be no suspense or sense of accomplishment." He added that he wants players to feel like, "I did it! I made it to my bloodstain!" Of course, Miyazaki fails to mention the sense of utter, despairing failure one feels when they don't make it back to

their bloodstain (a frequent occurrence). Regarding the possibility of a sequel, Miyazaki said he couldn't give a direct answer, but noted

that the team learned a great deal on Demon's Souls and there were several things that didn't make it into the game. Given the opportunity, Miyazaki said he

would "welcome the chance to create an even better game in the same style." Gluttons for punishment that we are, we'll take it. Demon's Souls director talks difficulty, sequel possibility originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/7/2009 6:00:00 AM

There are few who will declare their love for squeaky cupboards, wonky drawers, and dripping faucets like Shabby Chic’s Rachel Ashwell. In an era full of luxury apartments and McMansions, Ashwell remains a breath of fresh air with her belief that every imperfect trinket not only “adds to the quality and honor of a home,” but also has a story that should be passed on from owner to owner. In her new book Shabby Chic Interiors: My Rooms, Treasures, and Trinkets(Cico Books), Ashwell opens her studio, sunny California house, and Malibu beach cottage revealing overflowing interiors full of magical chandeliers, whimsical good luck elephants (“trunks always up for maximum fortune”), and enchanting royalty

china. Since the launch of Shabby Chic in 1989, Ashwell has created a world of blissful make believe, and it’s clear that being a savior to all things tarnished and broken will forever remain her design philosophy (she confesses to asking for forgiveness when chopping down legs of paint-chipped tables during restorations). This past January, Shabby Chic filed for bankruptcy, but Ashwell

has since been able to buy back the Shabby Chic name with the help of Brand Sense Partners (an investment and marketing company), and she will soon begin designing a lower-pricepoint collection that will be sold in furniture stores nationwide. Ashwell’s Simply Shabby Chic collection at Target became my go to décor when I moved into my first apartment a year ago. Everything from my shower curtain to my vanity table are from the collection, so my fingers are tightly-crossed that Ashwell’s dreams of opening her own hotel and designing a line of wallpaper will one day come true! For more on Shabby Chic visit shabbychic.com. —Natasha Clark, Associate Fashion Credit Editor Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

US jobless rate surges above 10% (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:56:26 AM

US unemployment surged above 10 per cent for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in October, increasing political

pressure on the Obama administration. According to figures revealed on Friday, the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 per cent, its highest since 1983, as companies continued to shed jobs in spite of a return to economic growth.

Non-farm payrolls were down 190,0000, slightly more than analysts expected, taking the total of jobs lost since the recession began to 7.3m. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Society For Rational Dress Dresses A Secret Self By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

instead of dressing her up in the traditional Halloween sense, we Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:22:59 PM had her outfit mirror how she felt Last Saturday, the Santa Monica a t t h i s p o i n t i n h e r l i f e : Museum of Art hosted hundreds comfortable and happy—very at of guests, as their first Halla Gala peace.” The designer started with went off without a Halloween a dark, roomy silk dress, added hitch. As reported earlier, in an oversized alpaca pullover with addition to co-hosts Leonard and a bright, multicolored turtleneck Susan Nimoy, the dress as your (both pieces from her FW09 secret self event had some pretty collection), and then incorporated big fashion names attached to it the color palette into Mimi’s as well, one of which was dramatic eye makeup. Corinne Grassini, owner and With a successful turnout and design mind behind the line many happy secret self customers Society for Rational Dress. “I and designers, not to mention loved the twist on the traditional awe-inspiringly executed décor costume party, “ Grassini said. (inanimate and human!), here’s “Each person’s look created a hoping the museum makes the c o n v e r s a t i o n , a n d i t w a s Halla Gala an annual event. Santa Monica’s secret self interesting to see all the different ways the concept of ‘secret self’ partygoers (left to right): Society for Rational Dress designer was interpreted.” How did Mimi Wheeler, the Corinne Grassini with Mimi woman who purchased the ticket Wheeler, party atmosphere, package that included Corinne’s designer Brian Lichtenberg and a assistance—and Society for futuristically chic friend R a t i o n a l D r e s s Photos: Courtesy of Stefanie clothing—interpret the night’s Keenan theme? “Well, she was quite Follow ELLE on Twitter. pregnant,” Grassini laughed, “so Become our Facebook fan!

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ELLE News Quiz: 11/6 Rosie Huntington Whitely Now a Victoria's Secret Angel By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:55:54 AM

How well do you know this week's most stylish happenings? 1. What Brit model was just named a Victoria's Secret Angel? 2. What designer teamed with Baileys Irish Cream for a holiday shoe auction? 3. What museum just opened an exhibit featuring photos of rock icons? 4. What shoe designer just rolled out a customized line of Barbies? 5. Leighton Meester wore a floral frock by what designer to the NYPL's Library Lions Gala? 6. What stylish songstress hosted MTV's European Music Awards? —Erin Clements Answers: 1. Rosie Huntington Whitely

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Kraft set for hostile move on Cadbury (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/6/2009 2:01:07 PM

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Rosie Huntington Whitely has just been named a Victoria's Secret Angel, and as it stands right now, she is the only Brit to currently hold the heavenly title. The doll-faced model has been steadily climbing the ladder to supermodel-dom and now that she has the ultimate trophy, her angel wings, the future will only get brighter for the 22 year-old. But for the English rose, who has already been the face of Burberry and holds the 2009 Model of the Year title from the ELLE Style Awards, how much more is there

is to conquer? We will just have to wait and see. —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Photo: Getty Images Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

US food group Kraft was on Friday preparing to launch a hostile takeover bid for UK rival Cadbury in its ambition to create a combined global confectionery group. Kraft was finalising its plans to make a direct appeal to the shareholders of Britain’s bestknown chocolate brand by Monday when a “put-up or shutup” deadline enforced by the Takeover Panel expires, according to people familiar with the situation. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Jackson's father seeks allowance (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/7/2009 1:45:13 AM

Joe Jackson has requested an allowance from the estate of his late son Michael, saying the pop star supported him for years before his death. In court papers filed in Los Angeles, the 81-year-old's lawyers said his monthly expenses are $20,000, but he

receives only $1,700 from the state. They added that the pop star's estate has earned an estimated $100m (£60.1m) since his sudden death on 25 June. A hearing to assess the request is expected to take place early next year. 'Surprising' Michael Jackson's will omitted his father, but made provision for his mother and children.

Monthly payments to Katherine Jackson along with his daughter and two sons were approved by a judge last month. They may be re-evaluated at the same time as the hearing to determine Joe Jackson's case. Documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court state that Joe Jackson does not have a regular income and relied on payments from his son which came through his wife Katherine for many

years. Joe Jackson's lawyers went on to state that he has diabetes and suffered a stroke a decade ago. His only source of income comes from social security payments, they added. Howard Weitzman, a lawyer for the administrators of the pop star's estate, said it was "quite surprising to learn of the request". He added: "Mr Jackson's petition

will be considered as are all requests for money from Michael's estate." Joe Jackson's outgoings were listed in the court papers and included rent for his Las Vegas home, meals out, air travel and hotel accommodation. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Ft. Hood Massacre Witnesses Tell Tales of Horror, Heroism (FOXNews.com)

Palestinian uncle told Fox News that the family was "shocked" by the allegations and had no Pfc. Marquest Smith, who is indication Hasan was capable of h e a d i n g t o A f g h a n i s t a n i n such violence. January, was filling out medical "He was very quiet, very nice, paperwork about his bee-sting never been upset, always a allergy when he heard a loud smile," Rafiq Ismail told Fox popping noise. News' Reena Ninan in an Moans followed, then the interview in Ramallah, the West sudden, urgent shout of "Gun!" Bank. "Til now, we did not Smith poked his head over the believe he did it. It's not him. ... cubicle's partition and saw an Something happened, made him extraordinary sight: An Army snap or something." officer with two guns, firing into Ismail said Hasan's parents died the crowded room. several years ago and he had The 21-year-old Fort Worth been "coping" with the loss since. native quickly grabbed the He said his nephew was against civilian worker who'd been the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but helping with his paperwork and was dismayed by the antiforced her under the desk. He lay Muslim backlash. low for several minutes, waiting "He was saying they were killers, for the shooter to run out of what they did in 9/11. He did not ammunition and wishing he, too, approve of it," Ismail said. "But I had a gun. tell you he did not like the After the shooter stopped to reaction ... collective punishment reload, Smith made a run for it. for the background Arabic or Pushing two other soldiers in Islam." front of him, he made it out of The massacre could have been the Soldier Readiness Processing much worse, but for the heroics center — only to plunge into the of Smith and others — like the building twice more to help the 19-year-old private who ignored wounded. her own wounds, and the Smith had survived the worst diminutive civilian police officer mass shooting on an American whose gunfire helped take down military base: a rampage of more Hasan. than 100 shots that left 13 dead "Unfortunately over the past a n d m o r e t h a n t w o d o z e n eight years, our Army has been wounded, including the alleged no stranger to tragedy," said a shooter, Army psychiatrist Maj. somber Gen. George Casey, Nidal Malik Hasan. Army chief of staff. "But we are SLIDESHOW: Deadly Fort an Army that draws strength Hood Rampage from adversity. And hearing the T h e s u s p e c t e d g u n m a n ' s stories of courage and heroism Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:50:05 AM

that I heard today makes me proud to be the leader of this great Army." ___ Home of the 1st Cavalry and 1st Army Division West, Fort Hood has seen more than its share of deployments and casualties in the past eight years. As a psychiatrist, Hasan, 39, had listened to soldiers' tales of horror. Now, the American-born Muslim was facing imminent deployment to Afghanistan. In recent days, Hasan had been saying goodbye to friends. He had given away many of his possessions, including copies of the Holy Koran. At 2:37 a.m. Thursday and again around 5, Hasan called neighbor Willie Bell. Bell could normally hear Hasan's morning prayers through the thin apartment walls, but Hasan skipped the ritual Thursday. Bell didn't pick up either time, but Hasan left a message. "Nice knowing you, old friend," Hasan said. "I'm going to miss you." About an hour later, surveillance cameras at a 7-Eleven across from the base captured images of a smiling Hasan, dressed in a long white garment and white kufi prayer cap, buying his usual breakfast — coffee and a hash brown. At the processing center on the southern edge of the 100,000acre base, soldiers returning from overseas mingled with colleagues filling out forms and undergoing

medical tests in preparation for deployment. Around 1:30 p.m., witnesses say a man later identified as Hasan jumped up on a desk and shouted the words "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" He was armed with two pistols, one a semiautomatic capable of firing up to 20 rounds without reloading. Packed into cubicles with 5-foothigh dividers, the 300 unarmed soldiers were sitting ducks. Those who weren't hit by direct fire were struck by rounds ricocheting off the desks and tile floor. When he decided that Hasan wasn't close to being out of ammo, Smith made a dash for the door. He'd made it outside when he heard cries from within. "I don't want to die." "This really hurts." "Help me get out of here." Smith rushed back inside and found two wounded. He grabbed them by their collars and dragged them outside. His second time through the door, he ran into the shooter, whose back was to him. Smith turned and fled, bullets whizzing by his head and hitting the walls as he rushed outside. Around this time, Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley got the call of "shots fired." The SRP isn't on Munley's beat; she was in the area because her vehicle was in the shop. Munley, 34, was on the scene within three minutes.

Just over 5 feet tall, Munley is an advanced firearms instructor and civilian member of Fort Hood's special reaction team. She had trained on "active shooter" scenarios after the April 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech University. She didn't wait for backup. As Munley approached the squat, rectangular building, a soldier emerged from a door with a gunman in pursuit. The officer fired, and the uniformed shooter wheeled and charged. Another officer, Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, also responded to the sound of gunfire. He arrived to find Hasan "just standing there, hiding behind a telephone pole." "He just looked like he was calm and he was just pointing, it was almost like he was pointing his finger at me," Todd told CNN in an interview late Friday. "But then I seen the weapon. ... I just know I seen the weapon and muzzle flashes and then that's when we returned the fire." Munley was hit at least three times in the exchange — twice through the left leg and once in her right wrist. Hasan was hit four times. It's not clear whose bullets hit the suspect, but from the first shots to the last, authorities say the whole incident lasted less than 10 minutes. ___ Pfc. Jeffrey Pearsall, 21, from Houston, was waiting outside in the parking lot for Smith. He was FT. page 66

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A grief counseling center was set up Friday at the Killeen Community Center to help FORT HOOD, Texas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A residents struggling to make Muslim leader says the Army sense of one of the worst mass psychiatrist suspected of going shootings ever on a military on a shooting rampage at Fort facility in the United States. At Hood asked him for advice on least 13 people died and more what he should tell soldiers who than two dozen were wounded in had concerns about going to fight the attack a day earlier. Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Remember to keep breathing. ... Osman Danquah (oos-MAHN' Keep going," Douglas Carver, dahn-KWAH') is the co-founder the Army's chief chaplain, told of the Islamic Community of the crowd of several hundred at Greater Killeen. He says he had a the vigil, many dressed in bad feeling about Maj. Nidal fatigues and black berets. Malik Hasan after the two talked The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal twice in late summer. Malik Hasan, was wounded and He told The Associated Press on taken into custody after a gunfire Saturday that Hasan regularly exchange with two civilian police attended services at the mosque officers. At least 13 people died in his uniform. and more than two dozen were Danquah says Hasan never wounded. mentioned any anger toward the Like other military installations Army or indicated any plans for nationwide, the bonds between violence but seemed incoherent Fort Hood and the town at its during their second conversation. d o o r s t e p a r e t i g h t . T o w n Danquah says he told Hasan that merchants depend on the soldiers there was "something wrong with who shop at their stores and eat you." at their restaurants. Locals show THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS their appreciation and support for UPDATE. Check back soon for the troops, hoisting giant yellow further information. AP's earlier ribbons and raising money for story is below. charities benefiting Fort Hood FORT HOOD, Texas(AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A soldiers stationed in Iraq or chaplain exhorted hundreds of Afghanistan. m o u r n e r s g a t h e r e d a t a "Most of our clientele are candlelight vigil to not give up soldiers, so this affects everyone hope as Fort Hood and its in the community," said James surrounding community looked Carpenter, 34, a tattoo artist at to each other for comfort after an Zombie Ink and a former soldier Army psychiatrist allegedly went who had been stationed at Fort on a deadly shooting spree at the Hood before he left the Army in military post. 2003. "Everyone is asking why Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:16:24 AM

and saying, `I can't believe he did that.'" Witnesses said Hasan stood on a desk and began firing after walking into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where troops who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening. Those who weren't hit by direct fire were struck by rounds ricocheting off the desks and tile floor. Officials say the gunman was stopped after two civilian police officers arrived on the scene and began a firefight with Hasan, who was hit four times including at least once in the torso. Most of the shooting survivors remained hospitalized, many in intensive care. Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers Friday night at the post hospital. A Bush spokesman said the couple spoke with family members of the wounded and personally thanked hospital staff members and Fort Hood leaders. Hasan was transferred Friday to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood. Army officials late Friday gave no indication of his condition except to say he was "not able to converse." Some who knew Hasan said he may have been struggling with a pending deployment to Afghanistan and faced pressure in his work with distressed soldiers, although authorities still

did not have a motive. Hasan's Palestinian uncle said his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country. Rafik Hamad, 64, told the Associated Press in the West Bank town of El-Bireh that Hasan had been harassed by other soldiers because of his Muslim faith but that he was not angry. "He really wasn't angry ... I felt that he feels sympathy for them because they are ignorant and that's their level of understanding," Hamad said. Fort Hood spokesman Col. John Rossi said that the assailant fired more than 100 rounds and that his weapons were not military arms, but "privately owned weapons ... purchased locally." Shock over the shootings persisted into Friday night, when hundreds attended a candlelight vigil in the first formal community gathering since the killings. Earlier in the day, a moment of silence was held at U.S. military installations as a show of respect for the victims, and 13 flag-draped coffins departed from Fort Hood for Dover Air Force Base and the military's mortuary based in Delaware. At the vigil, husbands wrapped their arms around their wives, babies cried and old men in wheelchairs bowed their heads during the service at a post stadium. The crowd sang "God Bless America" and "Amazing Grace" in the bleachers under the

stadium lights. After about 20 minutes, the stadium went dark, the only light from camera flashes and surrounding buildings in the distance as candles were passed around the bleachers. It was a tough night for Maj. Dan Walker, 34, who returned from Kuwait in June, his third deployment overseas. "I've been to a lot of these in my career," Walker said as he walked through the dark parking lot after the service. "They definitely don't get any easier, and this one is probably one of the toughest ones just because it came so close to home. "When you go to war, you expect it and understand it," he added. "But this is different. When you come home, you try to relax and live as normal a life as possible. You don't expect this." Among the victims were Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, who was pregnant and preparing to return home. Family members said Velez had recently returned from deployment in Iraq and had sought a lifelong career in the Army. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., joined the Army after the 2001 terrorist attacks and had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden, her mother, Jeri Krueger said. Amy Krueger arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday and was scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan in December, her mother told the Herald Times SUSPECT page 68

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years ago. Jason Rodriguez was taken into custody several hours after the ORLANDO, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A man shooting Friday at a downtown charged with killing a worker and Orlando office tower, and police wounding five others in the say he will be charged with firstOrlando engineering firm where degree murder and other crimes. he once worked has been denied Police said Rodriguez told bond. detectives he blamed the firm for A judge Saturday ordered 40- recent trouble he had receiving year-old Jason Rodriguez held unemployment benefits. As without bail at the Orange officers led him handcuffed into County Jail in Orlando. a police station, a reporter asked His defense attorney, Bob the divorced 40-year-old why he Wesley, asked the judge that h a d a t t a c k e d h i s f o r m e r police and prosecutors have no c o l l e a g u e s . contact with Rodriguez without "Because they left me to rot," his permission. said Rodriguez, who recently told Police said Rodriguez told a bankruptcy judge he was detectives he blamed the firm for making less than $30,000 a year recent trouble he had receiving at a Subway sandwich shop and unemployment benefits. had debts of nearly $90,000. The man killed in the Friday All the victims worked at the shooting was identified by police firm of Reynolds, Smith and as 26-year-old Otis Beckford. Hills, where Rodriguez was an The five wounded people were in entry-level engineer for 11 stable condition at Orlando months before he was fired in hospitals and police say all are June 2007, the company said. expected to survive. Witnesses told police Rodriguez THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS entered the company's eighthUPDATE. Check back soon for floor lobby, pulled a handgun further information. AP's earlier from a holster and fatally shot an story is below. employee standing next to the ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; receptionist's desk. The slain Employees at an engineering firm victim, identified by police as 26recognized their former co- year-old Otis Beckford, was hit worker when he drew a handgun by at least two bullets. The from under his shirt, police said, gunman then went into the and shot his first victim dead in common work area and opened the reception area. He then fire on his other victims. walked into the office and The five wounded people were unloaded several more rounds, in stable condition at Orlando wounding five other employees hospitals and police say all are at the company that fired him two expected to survive. Four of the Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:18:11 AM

victims, three men and a woman ranging in age from 23 to 49, were recovering Saturday at Orlando Regional Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Katie Dagenais. Hours after the shootings that paralyzed downtown Orlando, police tracked Rodriguez to his mother's home and ordered him to come out. He surrendered peacefully, apologizing as officers handcuffed him, police said. "I'm just going through a tough time right now. I'm sorry," officers quoted him as saying. Rodriguez worked on drawings in the firm's transportation group, but his supervisors said his performance was not up to their standards, and when he did not improve, he was fired. The company did not hear from him again. "This is really a mystery to us," said Ken Jacobson, the firm's general legal counsel and chief financial officer. "There was nothing to indicate any hard feelings." Rodriguez told detectives that the company had fired him without cause and had made him look incompetent. He told them he was unemployed for a year and a half before getting a job at a Subway, where worked until recently. He told them the shop couldn't give him enough hours, and he later filed for unemployment. He expected to get a check recently but when it didn't arrive he

blamed Reynolds, Smith and Hills, thinking it was harming his efforts to qualify, police said. He told police he could no longer support his family. Rodriguez' bankruptcy filing and his former mother-in-law suggested he was plagued by money woes. Les Winograd, a spokesman for Milford, Conn.-based Subway Restaurants, said Rodriguez had worked for one of the sandwich shops in the Orlando area until six weeks ago. He would not say whether Rodriguez was fired. His ex-wife's mother, America Holloway, told The Associated Press that Rodriguez and her daughter, Neshby, were married for about 6 1/2 years before divorcing several years ago. They have an 8-year-old son who lives with Neshby in Kissimmee, about a half-hour away. Holloway said the couple lived with her in Orlando for several years and that Rodriguez abused her daughter and once threw all her clothes into the street. "I used to tell my daughter he was crazy," Holloway said. "He was always fighting, always yelling. There was always problems." After the divorce, Rodriguez seldom saw his son, but he called last week while the child was at Holloway's house and the boy asked his father why he did not come over, too. "He said, 'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When

things get better, I'll come see you,'" Holloway said Rodriguez told his son. Charles Price, an attorney who represented Rodriguez in his bankruptcy case, said he could not comment on specifics of the matter. He had not seen Rodriguez since the summer. The Orlando Sentinel reported on its Web site that Rodriguez was detained by the Orange County Sheriff's Office in June 2007 after it received a report that he was a "danger to self and others." Nursing aide Denise Exume, 39, told The Associated Press on Friday that during the 2007 incident she was asked to watch him after he was taken to Florida Hospital-East in Orlando for a mental health exam. He wasn't allowed to leave the room, but he stood up and said he wanted to use the bathroom. Exume tried to block him. "He just pushed me," she said. He left, and she was evaluated in the emergency room and didn't press charges. The hospital declined comment, citing privacy laws. ___ Associated Press writers Travis Reed, Kelli Kennedy, Jennifer Kay, Laura Wides-Munoz, David Fischer and Damian Grass in Miami; Mitch Stacy and Tamara Lush in Orlando; and Christine Armario in Tampa contributed to this report. SUSPECT page 61

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4th Victim Identified in Ohio Sex Offender Case (FOXNews.com)

women and the paper-wrapped skull of another was silent on Friday, and investigators say they CLEVELAND The man who h a v e n o p l a n s t o r e s u m e lived in the house of rotting searching for additional remains. corpses never gave people a The ex-Marine, who served 15 reason to wonder what he was years in prison for attempted really doing behind closed doors. rape, is being held without bail Anthony Sowell was the guy on five aggravated murder who liked to sit on his front steps charges. drinking King Cobra Malt Liquor So far only four victims have for $1.50 a bottle, sometimes in been identified, including 43-year the company of a woman. He -old Nancy Cobbs, of Cleveland, was the guy who hung around the whose name was released Friday. c o r n e r c o n v e n i e n c e s t o r e Others already identified are bumming change off his Tonia Carmichael, 52, of neighbors. He was the guy who Warrensville Heights; Telacia scrounged around sidewalks and Fortson, 31, of Cleveland; and backyards for empty cans and Tishana Culver, 31, also of scrap metal to sell. Cleveland. The city coroner's SLIDESHOW: Bodies Found on office is combing through DNA Cleveland Rapist's Property. samples from the families of The suspected serial killer missing women to identify more seemed so harmless that when he remains. invited neighbors over for a Unbeknownst to most neighbors, barbecue in his driveway, they Sowell was a registered sex came. So benign that when he offender who checked in with beckoned women inside his authorities from time to time and house that smelled of death, they fooled people into believing he apparently went willingly. was just another guy trying to "If it's up to the people in the scrape out a living. neighborhood, he probably never The only distinguishing physical would have got caught," said 52- characteristic about Sowell, who year-old LaBaron Simpson. is about 5-foot-11 and weighed "Because he didn't cause no 160 pounds, is a scar under his problems around here." left eye. The house where the authorities He smelled pretty bad, but then a say 50-year-old Sowell lived lot of hard-up folks in this rough among the reeking corpses of 10 Cleveland neighborhood smell Submitted at 11/7/2009 2:54:42 AM

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less than clean, people say. And even when a terrible, rotting stench wafted down the street and past his house, people didn't think Sowell was the source. Instead, they pointed fingers at the sausage shop next door. "Nobody could imagine that this man was capable of doing what he was doing," said Fawcett Bess, owner of Bess Chicken & Pizza, a restaurant across the street from Sowell's house. "He always showed respect to you — 'good morning' and 'good evening' and that kind of thing." The portrait of Sowell's early years is hazy, and no record of his birth could be found. Court papers show he claims he fathered a child in 1978 with a woman who was not identified. He also said he was married in 1981 and divorced in 1985, but did not name his ex-wife. In January 1978, when he was 19, Sowell joined the Marines, where he became a rifle sharpshooter and won two good conduct medals during stints in Cherry Point, N.C., Okinawa, Japan, and Camp Pendleton, Calif. In 1985, having risen to the rank of corporal, Sowell left the service. A few years later, back home in Cleveland, he committed his first known attack. Records of that 1989 assault

show Sowell took a 21-year-old woman to his Page Avenue home, pushed her down on the bed and started to choke her. When she tried to scream, he said: "You can scream all you want, nobody is home." He sexually assaulted the woman twice, gagged her, threatened to kill her and tied her up with a necktie, the report said. Because of the viciousness of the crime, the parole board repeatedly denied him early release. In a parole hearing, he owned up to a drinking problem and said he'd been drinking the day of the assault. The prison system gave Sowell excellent grades, however, for his attitude, initiative and dependability at his kitchen job. "Works well w/all staff & where ever needed," according to a July 22, 2003, inmate evaluation report sent to the parole board. Upon his release in 2005, Sowell moved into the Imperial Avenue home owned by his father Thomas — who had died two years earlier — and Thomas' wife, Segerna. Neighbors say Segerna Sowell was often sick, and some believe she moved into a nursing home. Though others had wondered if she was among the dead, police Lt. Tom Stacho confirmed Friday that Segerna Sowell "is alive and

well in Cleveland." Despite Sowell's quiet presence in the neighborhood, he was known to behave strangely at times. We'd catch him talking to himself," said Martin Lloyd, who hired Sowell off the street to help rehabilitate houses, but fired him six months later for stealing tools. "Sometimes he'd just yell out loud." The city's public defender says Sowell was laid off two years ago, but it was unclear what kind of work he had been doing. For a while, he was collecting unemployment checks. Sometimes, neighbors say, they saw Sowell dragging garbage bags down the street. Although his home was in a crowded neighborhood, his backyard — a burial site for five victims — was obscured by trees and a fence. Alongside the fence stood a trash bin that would start to smell about once a month, said neighbor Robby Adams. "It would get really, really bad," he says, "and it would go away after they emptied the Dumpster." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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After immigrant killed in NY, others tell of abuse (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

"a pervasive climate of fear in the Latino community" in Suffolk County. PATCHOGUE, N.Y. – The high Many victims said they had school buddies who trolled the always been reluctant to contact streets looking for Hispanics to police, fearing they would be attack called it "beaner hopping." asked about their immigration "Jose, Kevin and I started status. Just weeks after presiding popping and Jose punched him so at a funeral for Lucero, a hard he knocked him out," preacher invited Hispanic crime Anthony Harfford told police. v i c t i m s t o s h a r e t h e i r Harfford said he didn't do it e x p e r i e n c e s . D o z e n s c a m e often: "Maybe only once a f o r w a r d . week." "It was a bunch of people There had been other high- relieved that someone was profile attacks on a growing listening," the Rev. Dwight Lee Hispanic population on eastern Wolter said. "They just wanted Long Island before Ecuadorean some sort of witness that their immigrant Marcelo Lucero was story was worth telling." stabbed to death a year ago Many were unable to identify Sunday on a street corner. attackers, but prosecutors gleaned But it wasn't until the seven enough evidence to file charges teens accused in the killing told in eight other attacks against the police of the attacks — and teens accused in the Lucero Hispanic residents who had been killing. long silent about hate crimes Not all were crime victims. One came forward to confirm the man came to the church with his stories — that officials began to telephone answering machine realize what they were dealing wrapped in plastic, Wolter said. with. He had received threatening The year since the Lucero phone calls from his landlord, slaying has put a national peppered with anti-Hispanic spotlight on race relations here slurs, and wanted advice on h a s s e e n t h e U . S . J u s t i c e making it stop. Department launch a probe of Wolter is hosting an interfaith hate crimes and police response service Saturday night, after a to them. A national civil rights candlelight vigil organized by group released a study that found Lucero's family at the spot where Submitted at 11/7/2009 12:44:13 AM

he died. Foster Maer, an attorney for Manhattan-based LatinoJustice, which called for the Justice Deaprtment investigation, said the Lucero killing "raised everybody's awareness of how bad it is." Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said officers don't ask victims whether they're illegal immigrants and said the probe would exonerate the department. Dormer assigned a Hispanic officer to command a local precinct after the killing. Lucero, 37, came to the United States when he was 21 and worked at a dry cleaner. He was walking with a friend shortly before midnight near the Patchogue train station when they were confronted by a mob of teens. His friend ran away, but Lucero was surrounded, prosecutors say. He tried to fight back, flailing at the assailants with his belt. At some point, 18-year-old Jeffrey Conroy plunged a knife into Lucero's chest before running away, prosecutors said. They strengthened their case against the teens this week when one pleaded guilty to conspiracy and hate crime charges and agreed to testify against the

others. Nicholas Hausch also admitted participating in other attacks on Hispanics, confessing he and his cohorts frequently used racial epithets when confronting victims. In one attack, Hausch said, they shot a BB gun at a Hispanic man. Conroy attorney William Keahon told Newsday of Hausch, "I guarantee the jury will not believe a word that comes out of his mouth." Keahon did not return a call from The Associated Press. Suffolk County has seen thousands of Hispanics settle there in recent years. U.S. Census figures show the number of Hispanics more than doubled from 7.1 percent of the population in 1990 to or 13.7 percent in 2008. The Southern Poverty Law Center report titled "Climate of Fear; Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County," catalogued a litany of anti-immigrant attacks dating back a decade. Two men are serving long prison terms for attempted murder after luring two Mexican laborers to a warehouse in 2000 with the promise of work, only to pummel them with shovels. Last August, three young men were charged with hate crimes in

the robbery and beating of an Ecuadorean man near the spot where Lucero was killed. Police said one man punched 22-yearold day labor Milton Balbuca in the face while the others kicked and punched him, yelling antiMexican slurs. Margarita Espada, a playwright who emigrated from Puerto Rico, has written "What Killed Marcelo Lucero" for a local theater. The production features vignettes about the experiences of whites and Hispanics on Long Island. "People will have the opportunity to see what happened," she explained. "It's a long-term issue because there is no trust. There's no hope." Obdulio deLeon, a cast member who arrived from Guatemala 23 years ago, says even now, newcomers live in fear. The volunteer EMT said some are even afraid to call for a doctor when they're sick. "They don't want to call 911," he said. "They don't want to call the ambulance or call police for anything. If they get beat up or they get picked on, they just let it be." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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ORLANDO, Fla. Employees at an engineering firm recognized their former co-worker when he drew a handgun from under his shirt, police said, and shot his first victim dead in the reception area. He then walked into the office and unloaded several more rounds, wounding five other employees at the company that fired him two years ago. Jason Rodriguez was taken into custody several hours after the shooting Friday at a downtown Orlando office tower, and police say he will be charged with firstdegree murder and other crimes. Police said Rodriguez told detectives he blamed the firm for recent trouble he had receiving unemployment benefits. As officers led him handcuffed into a police station, a reporter asked the divorced 40-year-old why he had attacked his former colleagues. SLIDESHOW: Orlando Office Shooting "Because they left me to rot," said Rodriguez, who recently told a bankruptcy judge he was making less than $30,000 a year at a Subway sandwich shop and had debts of nearly $90,000.

All the victims worked at the firm of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, where Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer for 11 months before he was fired in June 2007, the company said. Witnesses told police Rodriguez entered the company's eighthfloor lobby, pulled a handgun from a holster and fatally shot an employee standing next to the receptionist's desk. The slain victim, identified by police as 26year-old Otis Beckford, was hit by at least two bullets. The gunman then went into the common work area and opened fire on his other victims. The five wounded people were in stable condition at Orlando hospitals and police say all are expected to survive. Four of the victims, three men and a woman ranging in age from 23 to 49, were recovering Saturday at Orlando Regional Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Katie Dagenais. More on this story from MyFoxOrlando.com. Hours after the shootings that paralyzed downtown Orlando, police tracked Rodriguez to his mother's home and ordered him to come out. He surrendered peacefully, apologizing as officers handcuffed him, police said.

"I'm just going through a tough time right now. I'm sorry," officers quoted him as saying. Rodriguez worked on drawings in the firm's transportation group, but his supervisors said his performance was not up to their standards, and when he did not improve, he was fired. The company did not hear from him again. "This is really a mystery to us," said Ken Jacobson, the firm's general legal counsel and chief financial officer. "There was nothing to indicate any hard feelings." Rodriguez told detectives that the company had fired him without cause and had made him look incompetent. He told them he was unemployed for a year and a half before getting a job at a Subway, where worked until recently. He told them the shop couldn't give him enough hours, and he later filed for unemployment. He expected to get a check recently but when it didn't arrive he blamed Reynolds, Smith and Hills, thinking it was harming his efforts to qualify, police said. He told police he could no longer support his family. Rodriguez' bankruptcy filing and his former mother-in-law suggested he was plagued by

money woes. Les Winograd, a spokesman for Milford, Conn.-based Subway Restaurants, said Rodriguez had worked for one of the sandwich shops in the Orlando area until six weeks ago. He would not say whether Rodriguez was fired. His ex-wife's mother, America Holloway, told The Associated Press that Rodriguez and her daughter, Neshby, were married for about 6 1/2 years before divorcing several years ago. They have an 8-year-old son who lives with Neshby in Kissimmee, about a half-hour away. Holloway said the couple lived with her in Orlando for several years and that Rodriguez abused her daughter and once threw all her clothes into the street. "I used to tell my daughter he was crazy," Holloway said. "He was always fighting, always yelling. There was always problems." After the divorce, Rodriguez seldom saw his son, but he called last week while the child was at Holloway's house and the boy asked his father why he did not come over, too. "He said, 'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When things get better, I'll come see you,"' Holloway said Rodriguez

told his son. Charles Price, an attorney who represented Rodriguez in his bankruptcy case, said he could not comment on specifics of the matter. He had not seen Rodriguez since the summer. The Orlando Sentinel reported on its Web site that Rodriguez was detained by the Orange County Sheriff's Office in June 2007 after it received a report that he was a "danger to self and others." Nursing aide Denise Exume, 39, told The Associated Press on Friday that during the 2007 incident she was asked to watch him after he was taken to Florida Hospital-East in Orlando for a mental health exam. He wasn't allowed to leave the room, but he stood up and said he wanted to use the bathroom. Exume tried to block him. "He just pushed me," she said. He left, and she was evaluated in the emergency room and didn't press charges. The hospital declined comment, citing privacy laws. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Obama praises army base heroism (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

psychological problems. Posttraumatic stress disorder can result in debilitating symptoms, Submitted at 11/6/2009 11:55:46 PM ranging from anxiety to US President Barack Obama has d e p r e s s i o n . praised the heroism of soldiers Earlier this year, the Pentagon and civilians in their response to committed $50m to a study the deadly attack at a US army designed to investigate why base in Texas. suicide rates in the military are In his weekly address, he says rising. that although the shootings Officers are overwhelmed by the showed the "worst of human number of soldiers requiring nature" they had also brought out treatment and they say there's "the best of America". been pressure to retain Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, a US- psychiatrists inside the military born Muslim, opened fire at Fort system. Hood on Thursday, killing 13 It is quite possible that if and people. when Maj Hasan goes on trial for The 39-year-old army these shootings, military psychiatrist was shot four times medicine will be on trial, too. and remains in a coma. But he added: "We saw soldiers About 30 people were also hurt and civilians alike rushing to aid in the attack, with some still fallen comrades; tearing off carrying life-threatening injuries. bullet-riddled clothes to treat the Hundreds of people gathered in i n j u r e d ; u s i n g b l o u s e s a s a stadium at the Fort Hood base tourniquets; taking down the on Friday night for a candlelit shooter even as they bore wounds vigil. themselves. 'Selflessness' Mr Obama added: "We cannot Mr Obama said the shooting was fully know what leads a man to "one of the most devastating ever do such a thing. But what we do committed on an American know is that our thoughts are military base". with every single one of the men Officers say privately that and women who were injured at thousands of young men and Fort Hood." women are returning from Amid fears of a possible antiAfghanistan and Iraq with Muslim backlash after the attack,

Mr Obama stressed the multinational diversity in the US armed forces. "They are Americans of every race, faith, and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendents of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America." Memorial Japan's foreign ministry says Mr Obama has delayed his visit to the country by a day and will now arrive on Friday 13 November. It is thought the delay is to allow Mr Obama to attend a memorial service for those killed. Although the details of the memorial have not been finalised, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the timing would not be dictated by the president's schedule. Investigators are waiting for Maj Hasan to emerge from his coma but have examined his home and computer records to try to find any clue to the motive of his attack. Reports suggested that he had been increasingly unhappy in the military and that his work at his previous post - Walter Reed

Army Medical Center in Washington DC - had been the subject of concern. His cousin told US media that Maj Hasan had been opposed to an imminent deployment overseas, describing it as his "worst nightmare". He also said that Maj Hasan had been battling racial harassment because of his "Middle Eastern ethnicity." The manager of his apartment complex told Associated Press news agency that Maj Hasan's car had been badly scratched recently by an army employee who had returned from Iraq and objected to Maj Hasan's faith. AP also quoted a former classmate on a Maryland university course as saying that Maj Hasan was a "vociferous opponent" of America fighting conflicts in Muslim countries. Maj Hasan's relatives have said they deplore his actions. Cousin Nader Hasan said: "We are mortified with what has unfolded and there is no justification, whatsoever, for what happened. "We are all asking why this happened, and the answer is that we simply do not know." 'Privately owned' The attack began at about 1330

(1930 GMT) on Thursday at a personnel and medical centre at Fort Hood - the largest US military base in the world, home to about 40,000 troops. The commander of the base, Lt Gen Robert Cone, told NBC News that, according to eyewitnesses, Mr Hasan had shouted the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar!" [God is great] before opening fire. Deputy commander at Fort Hood, Col John Rossi, later said that more than 100 rounds were fired during the attack. Col Rossi also confirmed earlier reports that the two handguns carried by Maj Hasan were not military arms, but "privately owned weapons". He said that the suspect - who had been on a ventilator in a civilian hospital - was transferred on Friday by helicopter to the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. There have been no updates on Maj Hasan's condition but the army has confirmed he is "unable to converse". This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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House opens debate on health care overhaul bill (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

reform benefits all of us," said Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., as debate opened on the House WASHINGTON – President floor. Barack Obama's landmark health Republicans were united in their care overhaul moved toward a opposition to the bill. vote in the House Saturday after " The American people need to anti-abortion lawmakers won a understand this is about a chance to knock out language government takeover of the t h a t w o u l d l e t f e d e r a l l y whole health care system," said subsidized health care plans Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. cover abortions. The most contentious issue in Democratic leaders were hopeful the 10-year, $1.2 trillion House they could pass the bill, giving bill is a new government-run Obama his biggest victory since insurance plan that would be last November's historic election, o f f e r e d a l o n g s i d e p r i v a t e no matter how the abortion issue coverage within new purchasing is decided. Obama planned a rare marketplaces, or "exchanges," Saturday visit to Capitol Hill in where individuals and small an effort to cement a majority to businesses could shop for and pass legislation that is certain to compare options. b e s e e n a s a t e s t o f h i s The abortion agreement was presidency. reached at midnight Friday after The bill would cost more than $1 hours of intense negotiations trillion over the next decade. It brokered by House Speaker would provide health coverage to N a n c y P e l o s i , D - C a l i f . tens of millions of Americans Democratic Reps. Bart Stupak of who don't have it now, require Michigan, Brad Ellsworth of most employers to offer it to their Indiana and other abortion workers and prohibit insurance opponents fought for and won an c o m p a n i e s f r o m d e n y i n g opportunity to insert tougher coverage based on a person's restrictions into the legislation medical history. during debate, despite fervent "The status quo is unaffordable opposition from pro-choice and unsustainable. Health care liberals who are a driving force Submitted at 11/7/2009 7:18:33 AM

behind the overall bill. "We wish to maintain current law, which says no public funding for abortion," Stupak said. Federal law currently prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or situations in which the life of the mother is in danger. Left unresolved is whether individuals would be permitted to use their own funds to buy insurance coverage for the procedure in the federally backed insurance exchange envisioned under the legislation. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America contended his amendment would actually go further and bar access for many women to a legal medical procedure. "As a health care provider, Planned Parenthood would very much like to see health care reform passed," said Cecile Richards, the group's president. But the abortion language "would put women's health in jeopardy and undermine real health reform," she said. The leadership's hope is that no matter how the vote on the abortion measure turns out,

Democrats on both sides of the abortion divide will then unite to give the health care bill a majority over unanimous Republican opposition. With Democrats' command of the necessary votes looking tenuous, Obama threw the weight of his administration behind the effort to round up support. He and top administration officials worked the phones to pressure wavering lawmakers. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., said he heard from Obama, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Their message: "This is a historic moment. You don't want to end up with nothing," said Altmire, who remained undecided. Democratic leaders hoped to hold the vote Saturday evening, but Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said it could be delayed. Democrats hold 258 seats in the House and can afford 40 defections and still wind up with 218, a majority if all lawmakers vote. But all 177 Republicans

were expected to vote "no," and Democratic leaders faced a series of complications trying to win the needed votes for their complex and controversial legislation that would affect onesixth of the economy and touch the lives of countless Americans. In the GOP's weekly radio address, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Democrats should scrap their ambitious legislation and concentrate on modest health care changes that could find bipartisan support. "The House Democrats' health care bill should be withdrawn and reworked," he said. Last Tuesday's elections — in which Democrats lost two governors' races — sent a message that voters care about jobs, not growing the size of government, Barbour said. ___ Associated Press writers David Espo and Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar contributed to this report. ___ On the Net: GOP weekly address: http://tinyurl.com/yjltlpx This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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talking to his brother on a cell phone when a group of soldiers ran out the door and a window shattered. It was only then that he heard the gunshots. He pulled his pickup truck forward, then hopped out and helped the wounded into the bed. He loaded as many as he could and sped off to the base hospital. Next door, at the Howze Theater, Spc. Elliot Valdez was filming a graduation ceremony for soldiers who'd completed correspondence courses. Several proud scholars were posing for a group shot when Valdez heard a pounding at the side door. The door burst open and the theater filled with shouts of "Medic!" and "Stay in the building!" A combat videographer who returned from a 15-month Iraq tour in January, some of it in the notorious Sadr City slums, Valdez ran out into the sunlight. Crouching as he continued to roll tape, Valdez could see windows broken by fleeing victims. He saw a soldier in his Class A dress uniform with a gunshot in his back. Soldiers in flowing black graduation robes and purple sashes rushed to help. Pfc. Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wis., tore up her blouse

and used it as a tourniquet on a wounded comrade. It was only later that she realized she'd been shot in the back, the bullet exiting her abdomen. Sgt. Andrew Hagerman, a military police officer, was patrolling a housing area when word of shootings crackled over his radio. As he arrived at the processing center, bloodied soldiers, some shirtless, were already treating each other on the grass outside, ripping pant legs off and tying off wounds. Munley — with whom Hagerman had exchanged small talk on patrols — was being loaded into an ambulance. Hasan lay on the ground, his two handguns beside him, as medical personnel struggled to remove his handcuffs to treat his wounds. Hagerman entered the building, took a deep breath and asked himself: "What do I need to do?" He picked his way around the room's edges, careful not to step in pools of blood or to kick any spent shell casings. He had seen death during his two tours in Iraq, but nothing that compared with this. In the confusion, Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon, 23, lost his cell phone. He borrowed a comrade's phone to send a text to his family in Lodi, Wis.

The message stated simply: "Grant. I was shot in the leg. I'll be OK." Sgt. Howard Appleby, 31, was at the hospital for his regular meeting with a psychiatrist. Appleby, who was born in Jamaica and grew up in New York City, sustained a traumatic brain injury and has posttraumatic stress disorder from a roadside bomb blast during a tour in Iraq. His appointment canceled, Appleby found himself pulling the dead and wounded from ambulances. In combat, he was used to one or two casualties a day. "This," he thought, "is crazy." Lt. Col. Larry Masullo, an emergency room physician from Farmingdale, N.Y., was heading into a monthly meeting to review new doctors' credentials when he heard of the shootings. "Yeah, OK," he said. "Multiple gunshot wounds. Is this a drill?" In the next hour and a half, he would treat nearly two dozen soldiers. For several hours, authorities feared there were several gunmen. By the end of the day, it was clear Hasan had acted alone, they said. ___ Hasan, hooked up to a ventilator,

was moved Friday to a military hospital in San Antonio. The woman who stopped him, Munley, awaited surgery Friday to remove the bullets from her leg. Her husband was flying in from Fort Bragg, N.C. Her boss, Chuck Medley, was thankful. "If an officer had to be close by to respond," he said, "Kim Munley is someone we'd want to be there." Marquest Smith says some of the people he helped made it. But he knows others did not. Afterward, Smith noticed a hole in heel of his right combat boot. A bullet had entered the boot, but he had somehow escaped injury — at least the physical kind. After the adrenaline wore off, Smith was overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal, because this assailant who spilled so much blood was a soldier. "We're supposed to be a family," he said. Fox News' Reena Ninan and The Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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NEW YORK The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center. The USS New York is to be placed in active military service during a ceremony on a Manhattan pier Saturday morning. Naval officials say the steel from the trade center attacked on 9/11 symbolizes that the United States will always persevere. SLIDESHOW: USS New York Arrives in Namesake City The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who themselves survived Hurricane Katrina. Just before the commissioning, a memorial to 9/11 heroes will be unveiled by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Gov. David Paterson and Bill White, who's president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The memorial is also made of steel from the fallen trade center. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Police: LA celebrity burglaries led by 19-year-old (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 11/7/2009 5:36:09 AM

LAS VEGAS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Investigators cracked a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into their unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said. A suspect turned informant told police that a 19-year-old woman was the "driving force" in the thefts, motivated by a desire to own the designer clothes and jewelry of such celebrities as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. According to a Las Vegas police search warrant obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Nicholas Prugo told Los Angeles police detectives that Rachel Jungeon Lee spearheaded the break-ins. Prugo told police Lee, 19, would suggest a target, then Prugo would trawl the Internet for information about where they lived and when they would be away from home. Las Vegas police were involved because Lee

lives there. Officials said Lee was booked on a charge of possession of stolen property and released after posting $3,000 bail. Prosecutors in Los Angeles asked police to investigate her further. She could not immediately be reached Friday for comment. Police say the Lee and Prugo were part of a group of at least six that stole from October 2008 until September. After watching a house, they would break into poorly protected properties, often by simply walking through unlocked doors. Prugo said they removed cash, narcotics and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, including family heirlooms. Acting on a tip, police arrested 18-year-old Prugo on Sept. 17. He initially refused to talk to police, but on Oct. 6, he and his attorney met with detectives and Prugo "provided a full confession, and implicated several other suspects," court documents state. "Prugo admitted to committing

all of the burglaries and that Rachel Lee was with him during the residential burglaries of the homes of Audrina Patridge, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson and the Hilton family," the search warrant states. "Prugo stated that it was Lee who would suggest a target and that he would surf the Internet to learn where the celebrity lived as well as the target's travel itinerary." Prugo said Lee wanted to "own the designer wardrobes of the Hollywood celebrities she admired." Lee, Prugo and at least four others have been arrested in the case. The four others, most between the ages of 18 and 20, have been charged with felony burglary. The search warrant states Prugo told police he and Lee broke into Hilton's house several times. At the Lohan house, the burglary crew gained entrance by prying open a window with a screwdriver, then swiped luggage, clothing and jewelry including a Rolex wristwatch

with a blue face, Prugo told police. He said expensive watches were also a target at Bloom's house, and several were stolen along with artwork and clothing. A search of the Las Vegas home Lee shared with her father turned up a piece of paper with the names of her accomplices. Las Vegas Detective Ethan Grimes confirmed those people were the other subjects identified in the crime ring. Police also found three photos of Paris Hilton, designer jeans, three computers, a Korean passport, 204 $100 bills and less than one ounce of marijuana when they arrested Lee at the home in northwest Las Vegas on Oct. 22, according to the warrants. ___ Watkins reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press Writer Raquel Maria Dillon contributed to this report from Los Angeles. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.