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Palin’s Exxon Valdez account draws guffaws By Yereth Rosen (Front Row Washington)

While the plaintiffs did manage to salvage some punitive damages, the result was hardly a Submitted at 11/18/2009 1:34:14 PM win, said Riki Ott, a scientist, ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah environmental activist and Palin’s new memoir, “Going longtime commercial fisherman Rogue,” already has been from the Prince William Sound strongly criticized by John town of Cordova. McCain’s aides for her account “It’s a disgrace. It’s a disgrace to as a vice presidential candidate the legal system. It’s a disgrace on the ticket with him in their to intellectual honesty to call 10 unsuccessful 2008 race for the cents on the dollar a win for White House. Alaskans,” said Ott, who has Now, add Alaskan experts who written a book about the spill and were involved in the case over the failure of the justice system to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster address it. saying her account over her role At the time of the Supreme in the litigation is distorted for a in her book. “Finally, Alaskans Exxon Mobil Corp. “She didn’t C o u r t r u l i n g , e v e n P a l i n could recover some of their have a damn thing to do with it, d e s c r i b e d i t a s a b i t t e r number of reasons. and she didn’t know what it was disappointment to Alaskans In the book, Palin claims to have losses.” helped the fishermen, Alaska But Palin’s claims of victory for about.” rather than a victory. In an Natives and other individuals the plaintiffs and of playing a While the Supreme Court in its interview with Reuters, she said suing Exxon over spill damages role in achieving that victory are June 25, 2008 decision did the state will tighten its oversight highly distorted, said the chief uphold the right of the plaintiffs of the oil industry in response. prevail in their legal case. “It took years for Alaska to attorney for the approximately t o r e c e i v e s o m e p u n i t i v e “Exxon will know that we’re achieve victory. As governor, I 32,000 plaintiffs that sued Exxon damages, it slashed the award very disappointed in this ruling,” directed our attorney general to over damages from the worst oil- dramatically. The Supreme Court she said then. ordered that punitive damages be Click here for more Reuters write an amicus brief in the case, tanker spill in U.S. waters. and, thanks to Alaska’s able “That is the most cockamamie no more than $507.5 million, political coverage. attorneys arguing in front of the bullshit,” said Dave Oesting of down from the $2.5 billion - Photo credit: Reuters/Mike highest court in the land, in 2008 Anchorage, lead plaintiff attorney ordered by a U.S. appeals court Blake (workers clean up from the the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in in the private litigants’ civil case and the jury’s original verdict of Exxon spill.) favor of the people,” she writes against Exxon and its successor, $5 billion.

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Accordion Folding Speakers [Speakers] By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:20:00 AM

These portable USB Folding Speakers are great. According to the manufacturer, the accordion mechanism creates a chamber that makes them sound richer than similar speakers. Too bad they can only play German folk music and tangos. [ Santa Fe via LIkecool]

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The First Draft: More is Less By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:54:32 AM

The Senate has spoken — for the moment. But it’s definitely not in one voice. Senator Harry Reid, the leader of Democrats, last night unveiled a healthcare bill cobbled from two Senate versions. At 2,074 pages, it is longer than the 1,990-page House bill. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office put the plan’s 10year cost at $849 billion, which is below President Barack Obama’s $900 billion goal and the House bill which came in at more than $1 trillion. So apparently when it comes to legislation, more pages mean lower cost. Republicans are gearing up for a fight including possible delay tactics such as forcing the whole bill to be read out loud on the Senate floor. “It’s going to be a holy war,” Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, tells the Los Angeles Times. Offerings from morning TV shows: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

Research in Motion (RIMM): A 'love-hate' relationship By Steven Halpern (BloggingStocks)

is following Sarah Palin’s book tour and reported from Fort Wayne, Indiana, in front of a long line of people waiting for the former Alaska governor turned former Republican vice presidential candidate turned current author. NBC’s “Today” show also had Twilight’s Robert Pattinson ahead of the movie release of “New Moon” — this is one of those if you have to ask (as I did)

moments… One woman in the crowd outside the NBC studio was excitedly showing Pattinson a doll and telling him it was of him — that’s real star power. Click here for more Reuters political coverage Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young (Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in October), Reuters/Fred Prouser (Pattinson at Los Angeles premiere)

the smart phones market is over. "For the record, many analysts disagree with Suva's assessment. Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:50:00 AM Credit Suisse has reiterated its F i l e d u n d e r : N e w s l e t t e r s , 'outperform' rating with a target Research in Motion (RIMM), p r i c e o f $ 9 5 . B a n k o f Stocks to Buy America/Merrill Lynch has a "Suddenly, no one likes Research $100 target, Scotia Capital has a in Motion ( RIMM) any more, at $103 target and CLSA Asialeast that's the impression you get Pacific Markets has a target of from the media," observes $100. Gordon Pape. In his Internet Continue reading Research in Wealth Builder, he offers a Motion (RIMM): A 'love-hate' contrary -- and bullish -- view of relationship the smartphone maker. Research in Motion (RIMM): A "To hear some analysts tell it, the 'love-hate' relationship originally BlackBerry maker is going the appeared on BloggingStocks on way of Nortel. It's just a matter of Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:50:00 EST. time. For example, analyst Jim Please see our terms for use of S u v a o f C i t i g r o u p G l o b a l feeds. Permalink| Email this| Markets recently issued a sell Comments signal on the shares, saying that RIM's long-time dominance of

Is Old Navy's comeback for real? Of course not By Zac Bissonnette (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:20:00 PM

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Gap Inc (GPS) Old Navy is back!

At least, that's what most media outlets are reporting. According to Associated Press, "the bad economy has been good for the chain's lower-price Old Navy brand, which was retooled last year to resume catering to frugal

moms after an ill-fated foray into trendier fashions."

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The world's most influential Muslims? | Riazat Butt By Riazat Butt (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:27:10 AM

A list of the 500 'most influential' Muslims in the world has left me confused, and not just because my name isn't there I was in Cairo International Airport earlier this week, scrolling through Facebook to see what my friends were up to, when I saw Shahed Amanullah had updated his status to say he was one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. I followed his link (pdf) to see who or what constituted influence these days. The result was a strange mix of clerics, dictators, terrorists and billionaires. It's a fascinating document – all 202 glossy pages of it – and comes complete with a potted guide to Islam and a handy league table to show which country has the highest success rate. "We have strived to highlight people who are influential as Muslims, that is, people whose influence is derived from their

practice of Islam or from the fact that they are Muslim," says the introduction. Influence is a tricky concept, it continues, and in a variety of different ways each person on this list has influence over the lives of a large number of people on the earth. "The 50 most influential figures are profiled. Their influence comes from a variety of sources; however they are unified by the fact that they each affect huge swaths of humanity." The above provide the overarching criteria for selection but there are more than a few anomalies. A quick glance reveals that being good and being influential are not mutually exclusive – Adnan Oktar makes an appearance. Not being observant presents no barrier to inclusion either as I was always under the impression that Zaha Hadid is an atheist. Dave Chapelle is also on the list. Dave Chapelle? Have they seen his R Kelly skit? The writer and comedian has never confirmed whether he is Muslim or not, so the judging panel might as well

have included Ronnie O'Sullivan as one of the 500. But if you're talking about affecting "huge swaths of humanity" then surely Osama Bin Laden should be at the top spot? He isn't. It's King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah is custodian of the two Holy Mosques so he has a position of responsibility, but influence? The following paragraph is more revealing: "King Abdullah reigns over a land of massive crude oil reserves, Saudi Arabia has approximately 25% of the world's proven oil reserves, making him a key player in the global petroleum industry." Bin Laden is on the list – as a radical. Funny, I thought he was a terrorist. This chapter is reserved for "infamous individuals [who] have incredible influence on vast amounts of people, often cited for heinous acts and controversial statements made from their platforms of authority." Alarm bells also ring over the lack of women featured. They get a separate section from the men. Too many of the top 50 are either

heads of state, which automatically gives them an advantage when it comes to influence, or they have inherited their position. Lineage is a significant factor – it has its own category – and the predisposition to include children of important people reveals a mindset that indicates achievement is an optional extra. There are some spot on assessments. Khamenei's decisive role in geopolitics is undeniable. Erdogan's position is also accurate. But this ambitious exercise seems more than a little inconsistent and ill-judged. • Religion • Islam • Saudi Arabia • Iran • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Available November 24th [Windows] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:33:00 AM

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available worldwide on November 24th. Note that Power Pack 3 will be a free update to anyone already using Windows Home Server through Windows Update. [ Windows Home Server Blog]

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Rumor: Firefox Coming to the PlayStation 3 [PS3] By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:54:39 AM

Because browsing the web on your video game console is so painless and intuitive, there's a

rumor out there that Sony is looking into bringing Firefox to the PS3. Cool, I guess. [

Playstation Insider Technabob]

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Tiananmen Square protest leader goes on trial in China By Tania Branigan (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

process has been kept secret," Zhang Yuewei, Zhou's girlfriend, said from Los Angeles where she lives. She said Zhou's immediate Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:40:02 AM family had told her of the trial in US resident accused of fraud but Shehong county, in the southsupporters say charges are western Sichuan province. punishment for years of activism In an email to Reuters, she A long-term US resident and added: "Holding the trial at this former leader of student protests t i m e w a s t o s h o w t h e U S in Tiananmen Square went on p r e s i d e n t . . . t h e C h i n e s e trial in China this morning, one government maybe believes that d a y a f t e r B a r a c k O b a m a it has the power and cash to go c o n c l u d e d h i s v i s i t t o t h e up against the United States and country. international society." Zhou Yongjun is accused of Obama raised human rights fraud charges involving a bank in concerns with senior leaders Hong Kong, his lawyer and his during his trip, and spoke girlfriend told Reuters. She and publicly about why America other supporters said they believed rights such as political believed the charges were a participation were universal, but pretext to punish him for years of some campaigners had hoped he activism. Zhou was a leader of would go further. the Beijing Students Autonomous Zhou, 42, was handed over to Union and was jailed for two mainland authorities by Hong years following the bloody Kong officials in September last suppression of the 1989 protests. year. It is thought he had hoped "I know from the lawyers that t o v i s i t r e l a t i v e s u s i n g a he's on trial today, but the whole M a l a y s i a n p a s s p o r t .

Although Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, it has separate political, legal, economic and immigration systems from the mainland. Hong Kong's government refused to comment on Zhou's case. Visitors whose travel documents do not meet requirements were usually returned to their "place of embarkation or origin", the government said. Zhou has a US green card giving him residential rights in the US but not full citizenship – meaning the US has little formal power to intervene. Zhou's lawyer, Chen Zerui, told Reuters: "Of course, he pleaded innocent and spoke out to the court in his own defence. "He believes the whole case is without any foundation." Chen told the Associated Press that the passport Zhou was using was in a name on a money laundering watchlist, but that the defendant said he had obtained the passport through an

immigration agency and had simply been the victim of bad luck. According to the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, the name is a pseudonym used by the deceased leader of a meditation group banned by China and authorities suspected Zhou of attempting to access funds frozen after the leader's death. Bank officials say they spotted a suspicious request for a transfer of funds. • China • Tiananmen Square protests 1989 • United States Tania Branigan guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

I'm Not Sure This Shot Is Going to Sell Any PSPs [Image Cache] By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:09 AM

Yeah, this is about how I feel playing any portable gaming device. Tiny screens, cramped controls, no thank you. [ Gigazine via Kotaku]

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Blackstone chomps on $1.3B deal for Birds Eye By Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)

brands can be found in about 80% of the households in the U.S. The portfolio includes Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:40:00 PM Duncan Hines baking mixes and Filed under: Private equity, frostings, Vlasic pickles and Blackstone Group L.P (BX) Swanson frozen dinners. Controlled by the Blackstone Well, Pinnacle will get even Group ( BX), Pinnacle Foods is a bigger; that is, the company -packaged foods company whose along with the financing from

Blackstone-- will purchase Birds

Eye Foods for roughly $1.3 billion. There will also be debt financing from Barclays Capital ( BCS), Credit Suisse ( CS), BofA Merrill Lynch ( BAC), HSBC and Macquarie Capital. Continue reading Blackstone chomps on $1.3B deal for Birds Eye

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Fossil hunters unearth galloping, No guarantees: Sony dinosaur-eating crocodiles in Sahara loses e-reader edge By Ian Sample (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:31:06 AM

The primitive crocodiles, which lived 100m years ago, were good swimmers but were also capable of galloping across the plains Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that "galloped" on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago. The skeletons of five creatures that walked with dinosaurs – and ate them – were unearthed in remote and rocky regions of what are now Morocco and Niger during a series of expeditions in the Sahara desert. Three of the crocodiles are new species and include Kaprosuchus saharicus, a 6.5m-long beast with three sets of dagger-like tusks and an armoured snout for ramming its prey. Another species, Laganosuchus thaumastos, was of similar length but had a pancake-flat head and is thought to have lurked in rivers with its jaws open, waiting for unsuspecting fish to pass. The most striking feature the

beasts have in common was revealed by their bone structure, which suggests they were efficient swimmers, but when they clambered ashore they were also capable of galloping across the plains. Modern crocodiles crawl on their bellies because their legs sprawl out to the side. "My African crocs appeared to have had both upright, agile legs for bounding overland and a versatile tail for paddling in water," writes Paul Sereno, a palaeontologist at the University of Chicago, in National Geographic Magazine. "These species open a window on a croc world completely foreign to what was living on northern continents." The third new species, Araripesuchus rattoides, was only a metre long and probably used a pair of buckteeth in its lower jaw to dig for grubs. The other two crocodiles unearthed during the expedition are known species. One had a wide, overhanging snout containing sensory areas that it used to sniff out prey in shallow waters. The other had a soft, doglike nose and is thought to have been extremely agile. Most of the fossils were found

near the site where, in 2001, Sereno uncovered a 12m-long crocodile that lived 110m years ago. The beast, nicknamed SuperCroc, weighed around eight tonnes. The latest fossils are described in the journal ZooKeys. "We were surprised to find so many species from the same time in the same place," said Hans Larsson, a palaeontologist at the University of Montreal, who took part in the expedition. "Each of the crocs apparently had different diets, different behaviours. It appears they had divided up the ecosystem, each species taking advantage of it in its own way." The expedition was sponsored by National Geographic, which airs a documentary about the discoveries, When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs at 5pm on Sunday 20 December on the Nat Geo Wild channel. • Fossils • Zoology • Dinosaurs Ian Sample guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

By Tom Johansmeyer (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:00:00 PM

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Amazon.com (AMZN), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Technology Every day, it's becoming clearer that e-readers will be the hot holiday gifts of 2009. Amazon ( AMZN) is obviously in the game with its Kindle, with which it took an early lead in the industry. Barnes & Noble ( BKS) has made a play with its new Nook reader, applying some pressure to what was once a wide open space. Even though we're still short of Black Friday, the weeding process has begun. Sony ( SNE), which is also in the e-reader

Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to

SimpleGeo navigates from stealth to beta By Caroline McCarthy (Webware.com)

Start-up hopes to make it easy to bring location-aware features to

any Web or mobile service--but we haven't seen it in action yet.

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Detroit man accused of murdering son By Ed Pilkington (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

instantly began beating his son, despite Cherry's attempts to intervene. A neighbour described to local Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:41:43 AM Detroit television witnessing the Jamar Pinkney allegedly forced naked boy being frog marched his 15-year-old son to strip naked outside by his father. "He and march to a field before brought him out of the house, he shooting him walked him over there and said, A father in Detroit enraged after 'Get on the ground,' and he's like, l e a r n i n g o f t h e s e x u a l l y - 'No, Daddy, no, Daddy,' and next inappropriate behaviour of his 15 thing you know, he grabbed his -year-old son has been charged head and he shot him." with murder after he forced the Then Pinkney got into a car and boy to strip naked, marched him drove away. Pinkney, who is a out of the house, made him kneel postal worker in the city, has in an empty field and shot him in been charged with first degree the head. murder as well as other offences Jamar Pinkney, 37, turned up at related to possession of the gun the home of his son of the same and using it to threaten the boy's name on Monday afternoon mother. If convicted, he faces life carrying a gun. He had been told in prison with no chance of that morning by the boy's mother, parole. Lazette Cherry, that he had After his court appearance confessed to her that he had yesterday, his lawyer Corbett inappropriately touched his three- O'Meara said: "He's calm. He year-old half-sister a few months appears to understand what's previously. going on." "I called and told his father this The shooting has torn apart the isn't something you sweep under family of the victim and the the rug," Cerry said. When neighboured of Highland Park Pinkney arrived at the house he where he lived. Speaking to the

Detroit Free Press, his mother said: "There wasn't nothing that my son wouldn't do for his father. He loved his father so much." She said that the boy had told her that he had behaved inappropriately with his halfsister, but insisted he didn't rape the girl and had kept his clothes on. "He told because he knew it wasn't right," Cherry said. The local prosecutor, Kym Worthy, said that "no individual has the right to exact the death penalty on another, no matter how reprehensible the behaviour - that is why we have laws." The victim's aunt, Yolanda Cherry, who was present during the incident, said: "There is nothing normal about killing your child." • United States • Michigan Ed Pilkington guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

YouTube turning on automatic captions By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:30:00 AM

Google and YouTube engineers

plan to show off their work on using Google Voice technology to automatically generate captions for certain YouTube videos.

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SocGen's proposed portfolio for a global economic collapse By Melly Alazraki (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:10:00 AM

Filed under: International markets, Market matters, Economic data French bank Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, The Telegraph reports. In a 68-page report titled "Worst -Case Debt Scenario," SocGen explains that the rescue packages over the past year have merely transferred private liabilities onto government shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems. Debt levels, public or private, are too high as a share of GDP. The deleveraging process will take years. Continue reading SocGen's

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Liveblog today: Google Chrome OS press conference By Rafe Needleman (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:46:00 AM

Starting at 10 a.m. PST, Google

plans to reveal technical details and launch plans for its upcoming operating system. CNET's Rafe Needleman will have a running commentary.

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Solar energy and lithium-ion Laugh, I nearly went to Tehran! Iranian capital starts laughing classes batteries: Sanyo now builds By Robert Tait (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

atmosphere left over from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection, which triggered a Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:20:31 AM clampdown that opponents claim It's no joke! City council starts left at least 72 people dead and laughing clubs in colleges and resulted in many others being jails to put smile back on citizens' tortured or raped in detention. faces and boost health Clubs have been established in Amid simmering political two cultural centres normally tensions, a fierce post-election used for more high-minded crackdown and a depressed pursuits such as concerts, further economy, reasons to be cheerful education classes and poetry are hardly in abundant supply in readings. Eventually, the council Iran. hopes to expand the events to Now Tehran city council has pensioners' groups, health centres found an antidote to gee up down and even prisons. -in-the-mouth inhabitants : the The classes are based on good old belly laugh. methods devised by Iranian It is starting laughing clubs in an l a u g h t e r t h e r a p i s t M a j i d effort to reach out to people "who Pezeshki, who developed his have lost the power of laughter", technique from a discipline a c c o r d i n g t o t h e T e h r a n - e practised in India based on the Emrooz newspaper, which is principle that laughing has linked to the city's mayor, physical and psychological health Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. benefits. Participants will be urged to However, applying it in Iran guffaw away the blues in group may be no joke. Since the 1979 sessions designed to tackle the I s l a m i c r e v o l u t i o n , p u b l i c stress of urban living in a city of laughter has been officially 12 million people. The classes frowned upon by the religious may also lighten the morbid authorities, perhaps mindful of

the maxim attributed to the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the revolution's spiritual leader: "There is no fun in Islam." The difficulties were illustrated last year when an earlier attempt to start the classes was aborted because of the two-month religious mourning periods of Moharram and Safar, despite 6,000 people having enrolled. The new sessions also challenge another longstanding taboo: they are open to women. Traditionally, it was considered uncouth and unfeminine for Iranian women to laugh uproariously. Until recent times, brides would pose for their wedding photos with a deliberately glum expression. • Iran • Religion Robert Tait guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

Get a cool background for your Twitter profile By Don Reisinger (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/18/2009 3:36:07 PM

If you're a Twitter user, you might be looking for ways to create unique, appealing backgrounds. We have found

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“green” homes in Japan By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:00:57 AM

Sanyo is already being considered Japan’s “greenest” brand in the consumer electronics field (which is the main reason Panasonic is about to acquire the company), but them building complete, eco-friendly buildings is certainly new. Sanyo Homes[JP], a wholly-owned subsidiary, will start marketing all-electric homes with lithium ion batteries providing back up power to Japanese customers as early as tomorrow. (Sorry for the tiny picture, which shows a CGImodel of how these houses look like.) Each house will be equipped with a 3.78kw solar energy system. But buyers will also get 1.57kw Sanyo lithium ion batteries to make sure they’ll have access to eco-friendly energy during the night or during days without enough sunlight. Sanyo Homes says that each of their houses will come with ten

LED light fixtures running on direct-current power to minimize energy loss and a solar-powered heat-pump water heater. The company expects these extras to boost the prices for their homes to some extent, but says buyers will be able to recoup the initial plus in investment over time and will also get financial from the Japanese government. A 132sqm Sanyo home, for example, will sell for $355,000, which is $62,000 more than a comparable conventional one (but only eco-friendly homes will get government subsidies, in this case $30,000). Via Nikkei[registration required, paid subscription]

Going rate for acquisitions at Intuit: $170 million By Rafe Needleman (Webware.com) Submitted at 11/18/2009 9:46:00 PM

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Sharp rise in England swine flu deaths By Owen Bowcott (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)

has reached 214. There were 18 deaths in England last week. The figures since the start of the outbreak in May are 142 fatalities Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:36:28 AM in England, 21 in Wales, 38 in Department of Health extends Scotland and 13 in Northern i n o c u l a t i o n p r o g r a m m e t o Ireland. include all children aged six The number of people needing months to five years hospital care for the virus is 783, Healthy children between six down slightly from 785, in the months and five years old will be previous week. Of those in vaccinated against swine flu, the hospital, 180 were in intensive D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h h a s care, up from 173 in the previous confirmed. week. T h e e x p a n s i o n o f t h e The Conservative party has been g o v e r n m e n t ' s i n o c u l a t i o n pressing the government to give programme was revealed as the vaccinations to healthy children latest weekly bulletin showed a because those under the age of 16 sharp rise in patient deaths and are in one of the more vulnerable the number of children being groups. About 21% of all H1N1 admitted to hospital. deaths in the UK have been The overall number of new cases among under 14s. showed a second successive So far the priority groups have weekly fall. Health officials included those with pre-existing estimate there were 55,000 new medical conditions, their carers cases this week in England and pregnant women. Children compared with 64,000 last week. with asthma or diabetes are There was a slight drop in already being vaccinated. Now, Scotland. children aged six months to five The number of people who have years are to be offered the died from swine flu in the UK vaccination from next month.

Responding to the announcement, the Conservative health spokesman, Andrew Lansley said: "This is in line with the emerging evidence that they are one of the groups with the highest rates of hospitalisation which is putting a real strain on the NHS. "It is extremely important that we improve the levels of take-up of the swine flu vaccine amongst those who are in the at-risk groups. I am particularly worried by the low numbers of NHS and healthcare staff using the vaccine, who have a duty to protect their patients. It is also vital that we improve the rates amongst pregnant women as well." • Swine flu • Health Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds

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And again, Fox News shows old footage of Sarah Palin from the

presidential campaign to give the impression that she’s drawing huge crowds on her book tour.[Video] The Swamp reports that heads

may roll at Fox over this embarrassing incident.

Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen gets an app store By John Biggs (CrunchGear)

deal. The pen will tell you if you’ve won. My favorite app, however, is the periodic table of In the end, everything will have the elements in Braille, demoed an app store. Take the Pulse below: smartpen from Livescribe, for The amazing thing is that this example. The company, whose application replaces a $1,000 pen is quite cool (it records what physical device used by the blind you write and can “remember” to learn chemistry. By printing a things on page, allowing for Braille-embedded sheet at home, paper-based calculators and y o u c a n e s s e n t i a l l y l e a r n control panels), has just launched everything there is to know about an app store for its 2- and 4GB the elements using the pen and a Pulse pens. piece of paper. Other cool apps The store offers multiple games, include a classical music learning tools, and study aids for prices system and a clever piano. that range from free to about $2. Does a smart pen need an app You can download apps here and store? I don’t know. However, then upload to your pen. the fact that something so small Take Video Poker, for example. and so cool can have a rich To play, you select it on your pen developer community is quite and then draw Deal, Bet, and impressive. card shapes. You then select the cards you want to keep and tap Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:07:42 AM

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The 5 rules of HDTV buying By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:52 AM

So there you are, standing in front of Best Buy’s wall o’ HDTVs. Which one do you buy? There are just so many different factors and terms: LCD, LED, plasma, 3D, DLP, 1080p. No worries. Follow these five rules and you’ll end up with the perfect HDTV for you. Rule 1 – Buy for your room Forget the LCD vs plasma debate for just a moment. It might not matter. Your room might choose your HDTV for you. LCDs generally counter glare better than plasmas because of their matte finish. Most plasmas have a glossy screen protector over the screen, which while a great defense against flying Wii remotes and children, reflect everything like a mirror. However, if glare isn’t an issue at all and in fact, the room is a little on the dark side, buy a plasma. They thrive in darker environments where their rich colors and contrasts can really show off. Also consider how close you sit to the TV. It’s often the rule of thumb to buy the biggest TV you can afford or that will fit in a certain area, but standard definition content like basic cable look terrible on larger HDTVs and it’s very obvious when you’re sitting close. Large TVs can also overpower a room and cause headaches and eye

strain. Remember your home probably has a lot lower ceiling than retail stores like Best Buy and Walmart so the actual size of the TV might be deceiving at when you’re shopping. Thankfully most retail stores have liberal return policies. Just be prepared to pay a restocking fee or pick-up charge if you simply return the HDTV and not buy another one. Rule 2 – Buy the picture that looks the best to you There is one huge advantage

brick and mortar stores have over Internet retailers: demos. Walk into a Best Buy and you can see how different TVs look compared to others. This is important. Everyone’s eyes are different. Perception is different. You can not solely rely on Internet TV reviews when buying an HDTV. You need to see it in person. Stand there. Let your eyes wonder and pick out a TV that looks good to you. Here’s what you need to look for:

• Black blacks • White whites • Not vivid colors, but realistic • No motion blur when objects are moving fast • The glare factor Let a salesman point certain things out to you but you’re the one that’s ultimately going to have to live with the TV. Buy the one you like, but keep an open mind. Rule 3 – Buy a familiar brand It doesn’t matter what you’ve

heard, all TVs have problems. Generally speaking, a Sony HDTV will hold up just as well as a Panasonic, Samsung, or Vizio. Modern HDTVs do not have any moving parts and most use the same display panels and components anyway. You need to accept that there’s a possibility that any number of items might go wrong with your new HDTV no matter whose logo is on the front. A good rule RULES page 16

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Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal” By Daniel Brusilovsky (CrunchGear)

term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you’re aware but we recently received a letter Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:55:30 AM from a law firm working on The Little App Factory seems to Apple’s behalf instructing us that have a big problem on their we had violated several of hands. The company received a Apple’s trademarks in our letter from Baker & McKenzie, application iPodRip and asking representing Apple, asking that us to cease using the name and The Little App Factory change Apple trademarks in our icons. the name of one of their most We have been distributing successful applications. Why? It iPodRip since 2003 with the aim has the word iPod in it. of providing a method to recover i R i p ( f o r m a l l y k n o w n a s music, movies and photos from iPodRip) was originally written iPods and iPhones in the event of i n 2 0 0 3 a t t h e M a c H a c k a serious hardware failure on developer conference in order to their Mac which leads to data fulfill an obvious problem with loss. Our goal has been to the iPod. Basically, iRip lets your provide the highest quality copy and transfer your songs product coupled with the highest from iPod and iPhone to your quality service in a bid to resolve computer. The app itself has been s o m e o f t h e a n g s t t h a t i s downloaded more then five generated by such an ordeal; million times, and has helped service befitting of an Apple users transfer more then one product. In this department we billion songs to their computer. think we have succeeded as we The Little App Factory CEO have approximately 6 million John Devor emailed Steve Jobs c u s t o m e r s , m a n y A p p l e regarding the issue. Amazingly, employees, music artists and Jobs replied. other notable people in society. The original email: In fact I’d argue that our Dear Mr. Jobs, customer service is the best of all My name is John Devor and I’m competing applications in our the co-owner of a small Mac niche as many of them are scams shareware company named The and frauds that leave Apple Little App Factory and a long- customers with a terrible taste in

their collective mouths. We fear very much that tens of thousands of Apple customers looking to recover their own music and having heard of our product via word-of-mouth or otherwise, will instead find a product produced by one of our competitors, and will wind up the victim of a scam (one closely-named competitor charges a hidden monthly fee, for instance). It is quite obvious that we mean Apple no harm with the use of the name iPodRip, or of the inclusion of trademarked items in our icons, and in fact I believe that we have been providing an excellent secondary service to Apple customers that has potentially caused you many repeat clients. In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right! With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and

our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me. If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful. Best, John Devor Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal. Steve Sent from my iPhone So, not wanting more legal problems then already needed with Apple, The Little App Factory changed iPodRip to iRip, and also have been forced to remove the iPod icon in Evom, an app that lets you convert and transfer movies from your computer and the web. Earlier this year, The Little App Factory acquired RipIt, a popular Mac app that lets you archive DVD’s directly to your Mac.

Hollywood Domes: L.A. Accessorizes With Geodesic Treehouses By Rena Kosnett (Wired Top Stories)

Plain ol' treehouses are cool already. How about a $20,000

geodesic one, like the kind arboreal architect Dustin Feider

has been installing around LA?

Tony Hawk takes a "Ride" with CNET's The 404 Podcast (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:47:00 AM

Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk joins CNET's The 404 Podcast for an in-studio demo of his newest game, " Tony Hawk:Ride" for the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and XBox 360. Hosts Jeff Bakalar, Wilson Tang, and Justin Yu also sit down with the 10-time X-Games gold medal winner to chat about his insanely popular video game franchise and how this latest game will bring new levels of realism and interactivity. Tony Hawk: Ride is the first in the series to come with a physical skateboard equipped with a contoured base, infrared sensors, and four smart motion devices that help you push, turn, lean, and pull off unbelievable tricks within the virtual environments. After a quick how-to demo, Tony tells The 404 about the soundtrack to the game and even speaks to the future of skateboarding and whether or not the sport will ever make it as an official event at the Olympics. Be sure to listen to The 404 Podcast live every Monday through Friday at 11 a.m. ET. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Archerfish Quattro now on sale at Amazon.com By Scott Merrill (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:30:01 AM

The Archerfish“Mobile Video Intelligence System” has been renamed to Archerfish Quattro, presumably because “Mobile Video Intelligence” doesn’t roll off the tongue. The unit is on sale now at Amazon.com, making it easy to add one of these to your holiday shopping. For purchases made on Black Friday through Cyber Monday you can get a free camera added to your system! Archerfish Quattro Launches on Amazon.com Interactive video monitoring and recording system now available on leading e-commerce site Reston, VA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 — Cernium announced today that Archerfish Quattro™, a 2009 CES Design & Engineering Award Honoree in the Integrated Home Systems category, is now available on Amazon.com. Consumers will be able to purchase the interactive video monitoring and recording system, as well as additional cameras for system expansion from Amazon. Unlike motion detection-based video monitoring systems, Archerfish Quattro has Homeland Security-grade

technology built in that analyzes video content in real time. When Quattro sees something of interest – whether an expected event or an unanticipated intrusion – it immediately sends a notification to your mobile phone or email. “Archerfish Quattro provides homeowners and business owners with the video monitoring solution they thought they’d been getting with other products,” said Craig Chambers,

CEO of Cernium. “We’re very pleased to bring a smart, complete solution to Amazon customers.” Amazon.com shoppers are eligible for a special Black Friday – Cyber Monday promotional offer when they purchase an Archerfish Quattro Interactive Video Monitoring and Recording System from the site: • Systems purchased between November 26, 2009, and November 30, 2009 ship with an

additional free camera (retail value $229.00); and • For a limited time, each Archerfish Quattro system also includes a free 3-month Archerfish SmartPortal™ Subscription. Complete details are available at www.myarcherfish.com/subscrip tion. To purchase Archerfish Quattro and accessories on Amazon, p l e a s e v i s i t

Overlooked '80s Sci-Fi Flicks, Recalled by Wired Readers By Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/18/2009 9:00:00 PM

Wired.com readers speak up for great science fiction movies — some mind-bending classics, others amazingly funny — that

failed to make the cut when we the sun. put together our list of favorites. Tron, The Terminator and some surprising picks get their day in

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl _sr_electronics?ie=UTF8&search -alias=photo&fieldbrandtextbin=Archerfish. About Cernium Cernium Corporation develops innovative, high-value products that employ video to deliver useful and timely information for better lifestyle management, communications and security. Cernium has brought advanced video technology to customers worldwide, from residential and small-medium business consumers to Fortune 100 manufacturers, government, healthcare, transportation, hospitality, education, entertainment and major cultural institutions. Cernium’s product portfolio includes Archerfish®, the first interactive video monitoring and recording solution for consumers; Perceptrak®, video surveillance software for medium-large enterprise; and ExitSentry®, passenger flow monitoring for airport checkpoints and exit lanes. For more information on Archerfish, visit: www.myarcherfish.com

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Oh Look, Some Police Do Know How To Use Craigslist As A Tool

Ear Force X41 Review [Review] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:00:00 AM

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The Ear Force X4 was a rare and wonderful product, the only Xbox 360 wireless surround sound headset to integrate voice chat smoothly into the mix. Now the sequel, the Earforce X41, is even better. The Price $180 (technically $200, but Amazon sells 'em cheaper) The History Read our X4 review if you've never heard of these products before. This article will make a lot more sense. The Improvements • 2.4GHz RF instead of IR audio transmission • USB powered instead of wall jack • Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound instead of Dolby 5.1 I was skeptical that the Ear Force X41 would be any better than the Ear Force X4. But after using the headset for a week, I'm remiss to return to the X4s I bought last year. Quite simply, the audio is more consistently clear with the new RF transmission, now that line-of -site and ambient light has become a non-factor. And I think that overall audio quality, while the speaker components themselves remain unchanged, has seen a bump because of this cleaner signal. (For those concerned, I was able to use the headset without interfering with

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my Xbox's Wi-Fi adapter or my home network—the primary potential hiccup with using RF instead of IR. Results may vary, I'm sure.) As for the jump from Dolby 5.1 to 7.1 support, you probably won't ever notice. Playing Modern Warfare 2, missiles fly by your head with impressive panning, but the sound localization is no better than it was in the X4s...though to be fair, that's not necessarily a knock, even if the audio lacks the shining moments you'll enjoy in the best surround sound headphones offered by

companies like Sony. Oh, and the headset still requires AAAs as opposed to bundling a rechargeable lithium ion. I will say, however, that the batteries I tested with have broken the 10hour barrier by a decent margin, and they're still operational. As a wireless, surround sound headset for the Xbox 360, the X41 is at the top of its class (at least partially because it's still the only product in its class). If you're willing to go wired, you can save about $100+ on a cheaper version of the Ear Force, or you can take a look at the even more expensive but lauded Astro

A40s. In fact, if you guys are interested, let me know in the comments. I may try to call in a pair of those Astros in to hear for myself. [ Turtle Beach] Comfortable Superb chat quality RF offers smooth audio transmission Highly specialized but useful product Overall audio quality is OK, not stellar AAA batteries? C'mon!

We keep hearing stories of law enforcement officials, such as Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County Illinois, trying to blame Craigslist for the actions of its users, rather than recognizing that Craigslist can be a great tool for actually monitoring and tracking down crime. Some are realizing this, and Eric Goldman point us to the latest example of this. Police in Palo Alto, California (right in the heart of Silicon Valley, so it's a good sign that they get this), used a Craigslist ad to help track down a bicycle thief. This is, obviously, a rather simple example, but it does make you wonder why more law enforcement agencies don't regularly do similar things. It has to be better than suing (or threatening to sue) Craigslist for the activities of its users. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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One of Jay's ideas for rebooting professional news applies equally, imho, to personal news. I wrote it up over at rebootnews.com.

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of thumb in the TV world is that if you haven’t heard of the brand and it’s less expensive than other options, it’s probably that store’s house brand and something you might want to avoid. If you’re really concerned about your new investment, buy an extended service plan. Rule 4 – Don’t be afraid to buy online Brick and mortar stores have the demo advantage, but online retailers will beat them every day in the price game. Go to Best Buy and pick out the TV you want and then shop online for it. As long as the online retailer has

cheap shipping and a good return policy, you have nothing to fear. But also don’t be afraid to ask the Best Buy to match or come close to the online price. You might be surprised. Rule 5 – The TV is only as good as the source You’re buying an HDTV so it needs high-def content. Your standard cable will look like poo on it and yes, it will cost more each month from your content provider. Consider this extra cost when you’re shopping for the TV. It’s not a bad idea to call up your cable or satellite company before hand to find out the extra

cost. Cable subscribers generally have it the easiest, especially if they already have a digital cable box. Likely all they will need is a different box. But if you have a satellite, you may need all new equipment including a different dish. The install cost might be nominal though. Don’t be afraid to shop around either. You might find a better deal.

Palin Calls E-Mail iTablet Gains OLED Hack 'Most Disruptive' Display, Delayed Campaign Event Until End of 2010 By Kim Zetter (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/18/2009 3:51:00 PM

In her new book, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin calls the hack of her private e-mail account last year "the most disruptive" event of the campaign. She describes first learning about the intrusion and her reaction to it.

By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/18/2009 9:00:00 PM

If an unannounced product exists solely in the minds of speculative journalists and know-nothing analysts, can it be “delayed”? If so, then the fabled Apple tablet has just seen a setback to its nonexistent launch date, pushing it to the second half of 2010.

Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for Xbox 360 review By Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:02:00 PM

To celebrate the release of Forza Motorsport 2, Microsoft made a big deal about its Wireless Racing Wheel, a cable-free forcefeedback controller for racers that was only really wireless if you didn't want force-feedback. It was a reasonable compromise and a reasonably good wheel, but it just didn't compare to the highend stuff supported by that other

great console racing series: Gran Turismo. In GT5 you can hit the track while gripping things like Logitech's G25 or G27, either of which make Microsoft's offering look like a toy. With the release of Forza 3 there's a new contender available, the Porsche Turbo S from Fanatec. It's a much more serious offering with more capable feedback, proper shifters with a clutch, and a rather more impressive design. But it also has a rather more

impressive price tag: $249 to price or are you better off putting start and, like a real Porsche, your money toward race tires? going way up from there with Read on to find out. options. Is it worth the entrance Gallery: Fanatec Porsche Turbo

S wheel Continue reading Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for Xbox 360 review Filed under: Gaming Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for Xbox 360 review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

Live Blog: The Google Chrome OS Press Event By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:39:50 AM

Google has scheduled a press event for 10am PST this morning

where the company plans to announce more details about the Linux-based Google Chrome OS. According to the information we received from Google, the company plans to launch Chrome OS next year. We don't expect

Google to release an early build of Chrome OS today, but we would be more than happy to be wrong. We do, however, expect to hear more details about the OS and to see a demo of Chrome

OS's functionality. Read on for our live updates from the event, which will start at 10am PST. Sponsor

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Is Sony trying to get Firefox ported to the PS3?

Judge Says 'There's An Ad For That...' And It's Ok For Now By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear)

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So this is reasonably exciting. Some super secret source told PlayStation Insider that Sony has talked to Mozilla about porting Firefox to the PS3. Note the wording of that sentence: talks about porting Firefox. Needless to say, if this is even true, then we’re at a very early stage of development. It’s no secret that the PS3 Web browser isn’t the best one out there, and porting Firefox would give Sony another bullet point to put on a press release: “Runs Firefox (Does your Xbox 360? Thought not.)” I’m not sure how often people use their PS3 Web browser, so I don’t know if this will end up being a huge deal

from a users’ standpoint, but yeah, I just see it as something Sony can have over its competitors. I seem to recall the Xbox “scene” trying to port over Mozilla and/or Firefox to the Xbox1 back in the day, but the people were like, “The code base is a giant mess, it’d take many, many hours to get it to run on the Xbox.” Of course, people have had the Vladislav Savov ability to run Firefox on the PS3 By (Engadget) for some time—provided you install Linux on the system, Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:51:00 PM which you can’t do anymore. In a world where the Headtime scalp massager not only exists but presumably even sells, is it any wonder that assistant robots like this here fella are cropping up? While keeping the design somewhat generic in order to be the maker of the Flip video able to adapt the bot to the camera — you might have an particular circumstances where it answer: Early next year Cisco is employed, the designers at will market a new, WiFi-enabled Kawada Industries are keen to Flip. promote the NEXTAGE as a step toward humans and machines coexisting and working together in harmony. Sounds peachy, doesn't it? Of course, some meatsack will

Cisco: New Wi-Fi Flip Camera Early Next Year By Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 11/18/2009 9:00:00 PM

If you thought 'Huh?' when Cisco bought out Pure Digital —

Recently, AT&T sued Verizon over its "There's A Map For That" ad, that mocked AT&T's 3G network coverage, while playing on the Apple iPhone slogan of "there's an app for that." It seemed like an odd thing for AT&T to do, as it really just called more attention to the ad and the differences in 3G networks. Now, to make matters even worse, a judge has refused to issue an injunction stopping the ad. That doesn't stop the lawsuit, though, and the ad might still get taken down if AT&T have to be made redundant to wins, but it's unlikely Verizon's make way for the machines, but ad campaign is going to last until humans were always going to be the lawsuit is finally decided, sacrificed for the greater robotic anyway. So for now, all it's done good. That was the plan all along. is driven a lot more attention to See the video demo after the the ad, in which Verizon comes break. out favorably. Continue reading Kawada Permalink| Comments| Email NEXTAGE humanoid robot just This Story wants to help out (video) Kawada NEXTAGE humanoid robot just wants to help out (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Plastic Pals| Kawada Industries| Email this| Comments

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Camino 2.0 Adds New Features to Speedy MacCentric Browser [Downloads] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:00:00 AM

Hasselblad intros 50 Qualcomm's Mirasol e-reader megapixel H3DII-50 to get game controller, MS with multishot Cheetos fingerprints? (video)

By Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget)

sensor by one pixel between each shot, thereby recording full RGB By Joseph L. Flatley values at each position. If you're does on Android -- that would be Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:23:00 PM (Engadget) not a current Hasselblad owner a disaster. Get another look below (including a fine video of We know that some of you were (and you're not) you can't take Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:42:00 AM the display in action). And hit the h o l d i n g o f f o n l a s t y e a r ' s advantage of the trade-in / tradeDon't get too excited, it's just a read link for the full-on gallery Hasselblad H3DII-50 camera. up process, but you can shell out "Why spend upwards of thirty â&#x201A;Ź23,000 (roughly $34,000) for non-functional proof-of-concept treatment. We dare you. (albeit one with that working, full Continue reading Qualcomm's grand," you asked yourself as the H3DII-50 MS. Hit up that -color Mirasol display we saw Mirasol e-reader to get game you patted your briefcase full of read link for much more info. yesterday) but the kids at controller, Cheetos fingerprints? Euros, "if I'm going to be taking Hasselblad intros 50 megapixel shots one at a time, like a H3DII-50 MS with multishot SlashGear have produced pics of (video) the snap-on game controls that Qualcomm's Mirasol e-reader to sucker?" Then you lit another originally appeared on Engadget Q u a l c o m m i s m u s i n g a s a get game controller, Cheetos cigar with a $1,000 bill. But on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:23:00 possible addition to your next e- fingerprints? (video) originally those days are behind you, dear EST. Please see our terms for reader. And why not? If you're appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 reader, because the company has use of feeds. Permalink Digital going to get a full-color, low- Nov 2009 10:42:00 EST. Please updated its medium format Photography Review| Hasselblad| power device that supports video, see our terms for use of feeds. camera for multi-shot action. The Email this| Comments you'd better be able to kill the Permalink| SlashGear| Email this| new system can capture four consecutive shots by moving the undead on it during periods of Comments downtime. Just so long as iDracula doesn't play here like it

Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in. Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned with having a solid browser on your OS X desktop that isn't Safari. Selective site "annoyance blocking" in itself makes it worth the download for those who hate to see pop-ups or jittery Flash ads on sites you can't help but visit, and the list of other features makes it seem like a worthy contender. You can even bring over your Firefox profile with a few changes. Camino 2.0 is a free download for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. Tell us if you're thinking of making the switch, or just happy to see a new version of your favorite, in the comments. Camino.[via Mozilla Feedhouse]

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Newman's A36HD PMP keeps things slim, out of North America By Donald Melanson (Engadget)

for more, support for 720p video output, and support for the usual range of audio / video formats Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:42:00 AM (including FLAC lossless audio), China's Newman is nothing if among other basics. Not exactly a n o t p r o l i f i c , a n d i t ' s n o w reason to go on an importing introduced yet another new PMP bender, to be sure -- but if this that continues its trend of one just speaks to you for some nondescript designs and limited reason, you can get your order in availability 'round these parts. At at the link below. just 8mm thick, however, the Newman's A36HD PMP keeps company's new A36HD device t h i n g s s l i m , o u t o f N o r t h should at least turn a few more America originally appeared on heads than the usual fare, and it Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 doesn't look to have cut too many 11:42:00 EST. Please see our corners to make that happen. terms for use of feeds. Permalink That includes a 3-inch, non- Akihabara News| Newman| touchscreen display, 4GB or 8GB Email this| Comments of storage, a microSD card slot

Wrestling and boxing gong-shaped alarm clocks test your reaction time By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:01:08 AM

Japan and its alarm clocks. We just blogged the bizarre Clockman on Monday, but major Japanese toy maker Banpresto’s two new models aren’t too normal either. The company has designed alarm clocks using wrestling and boxing gongs as the design motif. The idea

actually kind of makes sense but is cruel at the same time. The way both devices work is that first a referee’s or broadcaster’s voice tortures you with a count down before the bell rings. The only way to stop it is to hit the clock within ten counts in the boxing version or three counts in the wrestling model (with the small hammer you see on the pictures). Otherwise the

bell will go on ringing and ringing. The idea is to test the user’s reaction early in the morning. Banpresto will start selling both version in Japan in the middle of next month. You can get both the boxing and wrestling model shipped to addresses outside Japan over at Geek Stuff 4 U for $49.84. Via Akihabara News

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1Password 3.0 out of beta By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Software, Snow Leopard 1Password 3.0 is available today for Leopard and Snow Leopard users, with a bunch of new features. Top of the list is 1PasswordAnywhere, which allows you to view 1Password data from any other computer --Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever -- with a modern browser like Safari or Firefox. (It By Donald Melanson financing. It's not saying much should also allow you to use (Engadget) more than that at the moment 1Password passwords on Mac though, and it still seems to be browsers where the tool is not Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:11:00 AM business as usual on its website -- fully supported, such as Opera or Zepto Computers may not have though you might just want to Google Chrome.) exactly made a huge name for hold off an any purchase you I've been using the 3.0 betas itself during its relatively short were planning. since Snow Leopard was existence, but it did stand out [Thanks, Ian] released, and they have been from the pack somewhat with Filed under: Laptops completely stable. It is also some high-end, unusually Zepto Computers files for possible to sync your 1Password understated gaming laptops bankruptcy originally appeared keychain data over Dropbox so (amongst other things). That on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov t h a t a l l o f y o u r p a s s w o r d apparently wasn't enough to keep 2009 11:11:00 EST. Please see information is available on all of the Danish company afloat in the our terms for use of feeds. your Macs.( Dropbox users: you tumultuous computer business, Permalink NotebookReview| may want to read this article h o w e v e r , a s i t h a s n o w C i s i o n W i r e | E m a i l t h i s | about slimming 1Password announced that it's filed for C o m m e n t s backups if you store your bankruptcy after not being able to 1Password backups on Dropbox. secure some much needed It dropped my backups from 21MB to 1MB.) For those who aren't familiar with 1Password, let me tell you, it does more than just store passwords. It will generate them for you so you don't end up using

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the same lame password on a whole bunch of sites because it is the only one you can remember. All you have to remember is the password for 1Password (hence the name!). It will also manage multiple logins on the same page. My favorite feature? It will store credit card information and autofill forms for you with your billing/shipping address. I use this all the time, and whenever a website asks me if I want it to save my credit card information, I can say "No" and not have to worry about their security being compromised and my credit card information being exposed. Another new feature is the Vault for storing software licenses, as well as file attachments. iPhone sync has been redesigned, and 1Password items can now be edited in the browser. ( See all new features here.) This is a very worthy "new version" release packed with a lot of bang for your buck. Which brings us to the "How much does it cost?" information. Agile is having a sale on upgrade licenses as part of the release: • If you purchased 1Password 2 on or after February 1, 2009 you get a free upgrade to 1Password 3. For bonus points: your current license should "just work" in the new version. • If you bought a license for any previous version of 1Password

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before February 1 (even if you got it through a bundle deal like MacHeist) single user license upgrades are $19.95, and Family 5-Pack licenses are $29.95. Note that this price is only good through November 30, 2009. • For new users can try a fullyfunctioning 1Password 3 demo for 30 days. New single licenses are $39.95, and Family 5-Packs are $69.95. A 30-day money back guarantee is offered. 1Password is an essential addition to my life on the web. I bought my upgrade as soon as it w a s a v a i l a b l e . 1PasswordAnywhere is going to solve the biggest hurdle to using secure passwords everywhere (since I sometimes have to use Windows). The folks at Agile are very responsive to support requests, both via email and on Twitter, so your money is going to support active Mac and iPhone developers. If you haven't tried 1Password before, now is a good time to check it out. TUAW 1Password 3.0 out of beta originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs By Tamar Weinberg (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:58:57 AM

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter. But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable’s job boards are a place for sociallysavvy companies to find people like you. This week and every week, Mashable features its coveted job board listings for a variety of positions in the web, social media space, and beyond. Have a look at what’s good and new on our job boards: Mashable Job Board Listings Senior Flash Developer at DNA Games Incorporated in Mountain View, CA. The Flash Developer position is responsible for both designing and creating flash based games and gaming elements. You will work closely with the Lead Game Designer and Marketing Team to integrate proprietary marketing and design elements into games. Read more about this opportunity here. Website and Social Media Project at The

BizWorld Foundation in San Francisco, CA. You’ll have a few roles, including developing and implementing a Website Strategy that would include utilizing social media and RSS feeds and presenting website strategy to executive team for approval. Read more about this opportunity here. Project Manager at Hot Gold Fish Corp in Hollywood, FL. We are looking for a web designer well versed in css, xhtml and current web standards to redesign our current e-commerce site. Read more about this opportunity here. Online Marketing Manager at MusicChoice in New York, NY. This position will be responsible for planning, development and execution of online marketing campaigns. Manage the creation and trafficking of all marketing assets on musicchoice.com. Assist in brand development and execute online marketing strategies to drive traffic and engage consumers with TV and VOD products. Read more about this opportunity here. Sales Associate at AdsBeam in Mountain View, CA.

engagement and maximize overall monetization. Read more about this opportunity here. Marketing Programs Manager at Scout Labs As a Sales Associate, you will be Representative at EMI Music in in San Francisco, CA. the driving force behind new New York, NY. Scout Labs is looking for a rockclient acquisition. You will have EMI Music is looking for star Marketing/PR Manager to a pivotal role in helping the digitally minded people to join help us execute against our company earn revenue and bring our Interactive Marketing team. marketing plan and further in new business. As a co-founder Candidates need not necessarily accelerate our leadership of the company, you will provide have music or professional position. input that will help shape the marketing experience, but all Read more about this future of the company. candidates must be very digitally opportunity here. Social Media R e a d m o r e a b o u t t h i s engaged and interested in online Manager at Critical Mass in opportunity here. Performance marketing and trends. These Chicago, IL. Test Engineer at Synacor in entry-level positions will be Critical Mass is currently Buffalo, NY. based in New York City. seeking a Social Media Manager We are seeking a Performance Read more about this in Chicago. This position is part Test Engineer that will be opportunity here. Director of of Critical Mass’s Experience r e s p o n s i b l e f o r d e s i g n i n g , New Media Marketing at IIR Distribution group that is made developing and maintaining USA in New York, NY. up of Paid Media, Search and automated test tools, scripts, and Your job would include the Influence Marketing. harnesses for application exploration of emerging Read more about this profiling, performance and load technologies and enhancements opportunity here. Online Brand test suites. that can increase revenue, brand Manager at New Media R e a d m o r e a b o u t t h i s awareness and improve overall Strategies in Arlington, VA. opportunity here. Social Media customer experience, while The qualified candidate will M a n a g e r a t R a c k s p a c e i n supporting marketing teams to have 5-7+ years account Blacksburg, VA. creatively implement successful management experience in social We are looking for a Social marketing campaigns online. media, online advertising or Media Community Read more about this related field. They will bring a Manager–someone to stay opportunity here. Social strong record of strategic client connected and engaged with the Community Marketing Manager support to senior level CPG, R a c k s p a c e E m a i l & A p p s at FUNimation Entertainment in Fortune 500 and/or Automotive community, which means our Flower Mound, TX. clients and agencies. customers, potential customers, As a social community Read more about this fans, and those that have an marketing manager, you will opportunity here. Social Media interest in what we’re doing as a manage all aspects of marketing Strategy at McKinley Marketing company. and promotion of our online Read more about this social brand to generate MASHABLE’S page 22 opportunity here. Social Media awareness, increase customer

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Partners in Alexandria, VA. We seek mid-to senior-level marketing professionals from corporate and/or agency backgrounds with seven or more years of marketing experience. We offer a wide variety of opportunities which change on a daily basis. Read more about this opportunity here. Drupal Support Engineer at Acquia in Woburn, MA. We’re looking for Drupal experts to join our team of “ninjas” who share an obsession about helping customers overcome roadblocks to make their Drupal sites rock. The right fit is someone with mad Drupal skills and an astute diagnostic mind coupled with warm people skills — “Support DNA”, we like to call it. Some have it, some don’t. Read more about this opportunity here. Technical Architect at Acquia in Woburn, MA. As Technical Architect, you will be involved in all stages of the client experience including presales, engagement planning, implementation, project management, client management, and post-deployment escalation support. You will engage with clients and teammates as both a leader and an individual contributor, building and maintaining a high-level of technical and business credibility with our clients and partners. Read more about this opportunity here. Product

Development Manager at Synacor in Buffalo, NY. Are you energized by the thought of jumping into a product development role and creating a company’s next great product? Do you have experience in the Internet, Cable or Telecom industries? Have you worked in a fast-paced technical or software environment? We are seeking a Product Development Manager who loves to write product requirement documents, provide technical consultation to an engineering team, and serve as a liaison between the customer and the engineering staff to facilitate the development of a great product. Read more about this opportunity here. Online Community Manager at Heavy Hammer in Annapolis, MD. We are an online marketing firm in Annapolis, Maryland We promote our website by search engine optimization (SEO), social media optimization (SMO) and paid placement (PPC). Our Online Community Manager will oversee and contribute content to support our customers and corporate objectives. Read more about this opportunity here. Visual Designer at Acquia in Woburn, MA. Acquia is looking for an exceptional visual designer to work on a contract to permanent basis. We’re looking for someone who is fast, truly talented and passionate about great design with an appreciation for usability.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with internal creative, marketing and engineering teams to identify the vision of an entire site, page, UI component or advertisement and bring it to life. Read more about this opportunity here. Drupal Web Developer at Acquia in Woburn, MA. We are seeking qualified Drupal developers to work on all aspects of Acquia’s customer-facing Drupal systems. Qualified developers will be building and adding capabilities to several systems and sites. Read more about this opportunity here. Continuous Integration / Build and Release Engineer at Acquia in Woburn, MA. You’ll lead the development and maintenance of Acquia’s automated build, continuous integration, release and deployment systems, add and debug new components to the build, acquire and release tools and packages, improve the build process and infrastructure, manage branching and other subversion activities, and continuously improve our tools for building, unit testing, regression testing, and problem isolation of build, packaging and product problems. Read more about this opportunity here. Interactive Marketing Manager at Barona Resort & Casino in San Diego. The Interactive Marketing Manager works with the Director of Database Marketing and

Innovation and property management to leverage, via multi-channel direct marketing programs, Barona’s competitive advantages represented by our customer database as well as various interactive, electronic, emerging, and other media. Design and develop objectives and strategies for properly integrated programs. Analyze the market in order to plan, direct and execute promotions that select the right channel(s) for each player and allow for robust web and behavioral analytics. Assist the Director in contributing to revenue growth through customer acquisition, retention and recovery programs. Provide creative, strategic and tactical support to the Director for other direct-response marketing programs. Read more about this opportunity here. Web Designer at Alliance Defense Fund in Scottsdale, AZ. ADF is seeking a full-time and highly professional Web Designer responsible for developing and executing creative concepts for all online marketing communication initiatives and the construction of all emails and landing page. The Web Designer is responsible for increasing the quality, quantity and turnaround time of all ADF online marketing communications. As a result, there will be an increase in team capacity – allowing ADF to respond to a greater number of requests and opportunities for

growth. Other responsibilities include managing and updating all content on the ADF websites. Read more about this opportunity here. Account Director at M80 in Los Angeles, CA. The Senior Account Director is responsible for driving our relationship and account team for a number of our retained clients within the automotive vertical. An experienced account manager with vertical expertise, coupled with a strong knowledge of social media strategy, tactics and channels is required with an ability to manage teams, and manage relationships with highlevel executives at top global brands. Read more about this opportunity here. Senior PHP Developer at Gelaskins in Toronto, Canada. Some of your duties include: maintain a php-based eCommerce website including custom shopping cart, develop the back-end infrastructure and front-end features of social community sites using PHP, MySQL, and other open-source technologies, maintain CMS infrastructure and ensure efficient process integration across different departments, and develop, design, test, and maintain highly innovative and scalable web-based applications coded in PHP & MySQL Read more about this opportunity here. Associate MASHABLE’S page 26

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Essayist Writes Popular Essay... Then Sends 'Non-Negotiable' Invoice To Church Who Posts It Online By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:39:00 AM

We've seen recently how some companies have turned copyright into something that certainly approximates a tool for extortion. Rather than threatening to break up your store with a baseball bat, they threaten to sue you if you don't pay them for infringing on their copyrights. Even in the cases where the copyright has been infringed, this whole process seems incredibly sleazy and underhanded -- and it's even worse when it's done against those who are clearly "accidental" or "unaware" infringers. Or you can take it even further: using this method to demand a non-negotiable payment from a church. Reader Sam Cook writes in to let us know how a woman named Linda Amstutz is going around threatening pretty much anyone who posts her essay/poem called "If my body were a car." It's apparently one of those essays that gets regularly passed around the internet -- often without attribution. While you can understand why the author might get a bit upset about it getting passed around without attribution, it appears that Amstutz has taken it to another level. She could alert those who are posting it with the evidence that she's the author and ask,

nicely, for proper attribution. She could also then use that fame and celebrity to get other commissioned writing projects, or maybe a book. But no. She just sends them bills. She (or, rather, her "literary agent" Mary Taylor Smith) sends nasty letters to people demanding immediate payment of $750, significantly more than anyone would ever pay for such reprint rights -- using the fact that statutory copyright infringement violations have a $750/infringement starting point (which, we already know is ridiculous). Of course, Taylor Smith never seems to suggest that anyone might have a fair use exemption. She just sends the letter and an invoice demanding payment. A couple years ago, the wellknown author Orson Scott Card found out about Amstutz and Taylor Smith's effort to abuse copyright law, and wrote up a blog post that pretty accurately described the picture. He notes that those who are posting the essay are almost certainly infringing on the copyright, but that's no excuse for Amstutz's actions, whom he refers to as "a

moderately talented but extremely greedy, litigious, and self-righteous author:" Now, her essay was originally published in Ozark Senior Living magazine. You can bet that she did not receive $750 for first publication. She may not have been paid at all. Furthermore, $750 is a ridiculously high price for reprint rights for essays. I have stories reprinted all the time -sometimes award-winning stories twenty times the length of "If My Body Were a Car," and for which I was originally paid many times $750. But the reprint rights usually go for $300 or less, and that's fair. Besides the money, you see, I get to have that story out there collecting new readers for me... The web is full of people who don't understand that websites are publications. Nobody gave them a course in copyright law before they put stuff up online. Most of them are decent folks who, as soon as someone tells them they're doing something wrong, will immediately correct their error. But Amstutz is not interested in understanding human failings. Instead, she has seized upon a

means of terrifying people into paying her ridiculous amounts of money. It's as if you went into a store, inadvertently broke a vase worth $75, only to find that the store manager is going to make you pay $750 on the spot, or else you'll be hauled off to jail for vandalism and fined $30,000. Yep. $30,000. Because that's what Mary Taylor Smith, Amstutz's agent, misleadingly tells you you'll have to pay. Here's her exact language: "The minimum damages for copyright infringement in a court of law is $750 and is punishable up to $30,000, plus attorney fees and court costs." Yes, but that $30,000 is a maximum. There is zero chance that a rational court would charge a mom-and-pop non-profit website anywhere near that amount for infringing the copyright of a piece of writing that probably earned $100 or less on first publication. Especially when they took the essay down the moment they realized it was a copyright infringement. Amstutz also has a rather obnoxious webpage up about this topic, saying that she's building a list of all the people who refused to pay

and will soon sue them all (at which point she'll also "rescind" the invoice for $750, and try to get much more in court. She also has a "lesson" in copyright which gets a lot of the details wrong (she calls infringing stealing, makes no mention of fair use at all, and says you can never use someone else's words without permission, etc.) Card points out that this does, indeed, feel like extortion, even if it is infringement: Amstutz brags about just how much money she intends to extort from anyone who trips over her essay. Because that's what it seems like to me: extortion. Yes, republishing her essay is an infringement of copyright. But most people who do it are ignorant of what they're doing. Amstutz preys on these people, hovering to see who falls into the trap, and then threatening them and bullying them to pay her far more than the reprint rights are worth, under threat of maximum fines they would never have to pay. There are plenty of people like this in the world -- vultures who prey on people who make mistakes. I'll wager that Amstutz makes far more money from legal extortion than she makes as a writer. She has left writing far behind. Now she's just a bully, ESSAYIST page 25

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Jalen Rose’s Fab 5: Athletes Who Would Have Been Social Media Mavens By Jalen Rose (Mashable!)

“float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” right past his opponents. He had the best This post is part of Mashable’s combination of intelligence, Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, power, skill and showmanship which highlights trends in the that sports will ever see, and will social media space. Jalen Rose is no doubt go down in history as a former 13-year NBA star and “the greatest of all time.” current ESPN basketball analyst Muhammad Ali is your icon’s but may be best known for being favorite icon. a m e m b e r o f t h e f a m o u s What social media app would University of Michigan Fab Five. have been most suitable for The Until a couple of years ago, Champ? I could see Ali having social media did not exist, and been great on Ustream. He had a professional athletes had to go personality that shined best in through the media to show their person, and an unforgettable personalities and communicate voice. Ali was a man with deep with their fans. But recently, sites political and religious beliefs, like Facebook and Twitter have and he would have used Ustream given pro athletes the ability to to share them with the world. 2. be themselves and speak for Babe Ruth themselves. I know I would have The man had mystical status on liked to have social media during and off the baseball diamond. my career, but I’m happy to have This legendary slugger held or it now. Here are five athletes still holds many of baseball’s who, for various reasons, really most important hitting records. would have benefited from Ruth was one of the more having social media during their popular spokespersons of his careers. It would have been fun Yankees era, and was famously to see. noted to make sure liquor, 1. Muhammad Ali women, partying, and sex were A cultural icon, he changed his always present. Curfew was not name from Cassius Clay after an option, but Babe Ruth was not joining the Nation of Islam in your typical athlete. 1 9 6 4 . A l i , a t h r e e - t i m e Ruth would have been king of heavyweight champion would Twitter in his day. I can only Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:10:58 AM

of all of the women he met. Also, he loved the camera. Like I said, he was a big man with a big personality and a lot of confidence, and he loved the spotlight. Flickr would have helped Wilt shine. 4. Deion Sanders Before the NFL draft, “Prime imagine some of the tweets and Time” showed up at his workout Twitpics that would have come riding in a limo. He went on to from his account. I’m not sure run the fastest 40-yard dash in the Red Sox or Yankees would the NFL Scouting Combine’s have been too happy about it, but h i s t o r y . S a n d e r s t o l d m y then again, Ruth was pretty open hometown Detroit Lions that we a b o u t h i s e x t r a c u r r i c u l a r would have to “put me on activities and I don’t think layaway” if we drafted him. He is anyone cared as long as he kept the only athlete ever to play in a playing the way he did. 3. Wilt Super Bowl and World Series, Chamberlain and is known for his trademark He is the most unstoppable force high-stepping and touchdown the NBA has seen. His size, dances. His biography was called ability, and power are legendary. “ P o w e r , M o n e y , a n d S e x : Chamberlain holds the record for Success Almost Ruined My most points in a single game with Life.” 100, and had season averages of In his playing days, Deion 50 points and 25 rebounds. He Sanders would have had some was also the only center to ever great tweets. His would be lead the league in assists. similar to the style of current Chamberlain was larger than life N F L p l a y e r a n d T w i t t e r and had the personality to match aficionado Chad Ochocinco; a lot it. of trash talking, calling out his Being a bit of a flirt and a ladies’ opponents, and confident selfman, Wilt would have been a promotion. My only concern is champ on Flickr. I could see him that he would not have been able creating albums and albums full to limit his comments to 140

Identify an E-Mail Phishing Scam By How-To Wiki (Wired Top Stories)

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characters! 5. Dennis Rodman Sometimes known as “The Worm,” the eclectic Rodman won 5 NBA titles as a player, with the Pistons and Bulls. Rodman’s “different” persona was as well known as his hardnosed defense and trademark rebounding. He routinely sported multiple hair colors, as well as tattoos, and body piercings, and wrote a book titled, “Walk on the Wild Side.” Rodman actually has a Facebook Fan Page, but it’s pretty tame now that he’s retired — imagine what he could have done with Facebook while he was a player. He was known to throw and attend a lot of parties, and could definitely have taken advantage of Facebook Events. Rodman would have been able to exhibit his personality through videos and photos, and it sure would have been interesting to see some of the status updates that came from his Fan Page! Images via Walter Huang on Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons. Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, SEX, Twitter, ustream Tags: fab five, jalen rose, List, Lists, social media, sports

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Are The Record Labels Using Bluebeat's Bogus Copyright Defense To Avoid Having To Give Copyrights Back To Artists? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

via a "termination" right, as any other content creator could. Glazier, the staffer who slipped As you hopefully know, back in this into the bill, ended up going 1 9 9 9 , t h e R I A A h a d a to work for the RIAA just three Congressional staffer named months after putting this text into Mitch Glazier slip four words the bill. He was apparently hired into a totally unrelated bill on with a$500,000 salary. Not a bad s a t e l l i t e r e t r a n s m i s s i o n o f payoff for changing a key broadcast TV, literally in the component of copyright law in m i d d l e o f t h e n i g h t , t h a t the middle of the night when no effectively changed the way one's looking. copyrights worked on songs by Luckily, soon after this passed a major label artists. It effectively few people did notice, leading to took much of the control out of a big uproar from artists, and an the hands of the artists and eventual backtracking from handed it right to the labels. Congress, who never did believe Remember that the next time the t h e R I A A ' s l i n e t h a t t h i s record labels claim they're "change" just "clarified existing representing the best interests of law" rather than changed it artists. The use of four simple entirely. words, buried deep within the But, it's important to remember bill, which no one other than the all of this when discussing RIAA knew about (seriously, termination rights for music. those who voted on it later said B a c k i n O c t o b e r , w e h a d they had no idea), turned songs discussed how the songs of many recorded by artists signed to top musicians were quickly record deals to works made for approaching those termination hire. That meant that those rights, and some of the major artists could not reclaim the record labels stood to lose the copyrights to their songs later on copyrights on some of their Submitted at 11/19/2009 5:33:00 AM

biggest hit albums. Wired recently ran a similar article about this "ticking time bomb," and I wasn't going to post it, because I wasn't sure it added much new, until reader Mesanna pointed out one little factoid down at the bottom: The second option is to re-record sound recordings in order to create new sound recording copyrights, which would reset the countdown clock at 35 years for copyright grant termination. Eveline characterized the labels' conversations with creators going something like, "Okay, you have the old mono masters if you want -- but these digital remasters are ours." Labels already file new copyrights for remasters. For example, Sony Music filed a new copyright for the remastered version of Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen album, and when Omega Record Group remastered a 1991 Christmas recording, the basis of its new copyright claim was "New Matter: sound recording remixed

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like a big kid threatening little kids so they'll turn over their lunch money. Card, as he did when JK Rowling started bullying the author of the Harry Potter Lexicon, points out how and remastered to fully utilize the unoriginal the idea of Amstutz sonic potential of the compact essay is in the first place. He disc medium." Now, of course points out that plenty of others that sounds ridiculous, to hear have written similar things. that record labels can get a new While he says, correctly, that this copyright on just remastering a doesn't change the fact that her work... but, that sounds an awful specific expression is covered by lot like the argument made by copyright, it does raise questions Bluebeat.com, concerning its about why Amstutz thinks her "psycho-acoustic simulation" re- work is so special. His suggested recordings of famous songs, that s o l u t i o n : s t o p p o s t i n g o r enabled it to claim a new forwarding her writings and copyright. Now, the record return her "to obscurity where labels are crying foul about this, she belongs." a n d t h e v a s t m a j o r i t y o f Finally, he shows how an author copyright law experts say that should respond to such flattery, Bluebeat's claim has no chance at by granting everyone the right to all. But, if that's the case, then forward his works online, as long the record labels own attempts to as they properly credit it. He get new copyrights on remastered d o e s a s k t h a t p e o p l e a s k albums to avoid the termination permission to repost his essays, rights might also be in jeopardy. but says he'll often grant the It seems like any argument that is right, free of charge with little made against Bluebeat can soon hassle. be used against the labels as well Permalink| Comments| Email if they really do try to claim This Story copyright on remastered albums. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

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Account Executive at IMRE LLC in Sparks, MD. IMRE, a full-service marketing agency located in Sparks, MD is seeking a full time Associate Account Executive for our Word of Mouth (WOM) marketing services team. The opportunity involves working with account teams to research and implement strategic campaigns for clients in home and building, financial services and healthcare. These campaigns could include the following tactics: blog/forum administration, social networking marketing, and ambassador and loyalist program development. Read more about this opportunity here. Social Media Paid Intern at in New York, NY. Safari Sundays is looking to staff up our Organic Media team with a couple of Social Media interns. We have a number of interesting projects in the works, and need help managing the social aspects of our campaigns on a daily basis. Read more about this opportunity here. Office Sheriff

at kgbweb in New York, NY. kgbweb is looking for an Office Sheriff to join our phenomenal and growing team. This is an ideal position for someone looking to work in a start-up environment. Read more about this opportunity here. Interactive/Digital Marketing Consultant at L’Oreal USA in New York, NY. A beauty industry giant is seeking a full-time interactive marketing strategist to developing strategies and manage day-to-day execution of digital marketing programs for professional haircare brands. Read more about this opportunity here. Digital Marketing Manager at Red Bull North America in Santa Monica, CA. Act as social media leader on the RBNA digital marketing team. Cultivate and expand Red Bull’s use of social media as a communications channel across Red Bull stakeholder groups including consumers, employees,

and partners. Assist crossfunctional partners in applying social technologies and tools to achieve marketing and communications objectives. And more. Read more about this opportunity here. Weekend Web Producer at CBS Radio in New York, NY. Are you a news junkie who craves local news? Do you receive breaking news updates on every mobile device you own? Are you a pro at creating sticky Web content? Can you spot a typo from a mile away? Do you dream in headlines? If you said yes to the above questions, you’re off to a good start! 1010 WINS is looking for a Weekend Web producer to post content to our all news, award-winning Web sites 1010wins.com, and WCBS880.com. Read more about this opportunity here. Marketing Communications Associate at simplehuman in Torrance, CA. Are you a simplehuman? Do you want to be? Our mission is to

create “tools for efficient living” for the home. Our products are designed to help make everyday chores just a little bit easier and more efficient. How we talk about our products, who we are and what we do is the focus of this position. Read more about this opportunity here. Mashable has a variety of web 2.0, application development, business development, and social networking job opportunities available. Check them out at Mashable’s Job Board. Got a job posting to share with our readers? Post a job to Mashable today ($50 for a 30 day listing) and get it highlighted every week on Mashable.com (in addition to exposure all day every day in the Mashable marketplace). Reviews: Drupal, Mashable, PHP Tags: jobs

Remember the Milk Gadget Puts To-Dos in Google Calendar [Google Calendar] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 5:30:00 AM

Google's own Tasks to-dos are a bit too under-powered for many goal-oriented types. If Remember the Milk's more your speed, they've released an integrated Google Calendar gadget that puts your tasks, along with a command-line-like Smart Add bar, just to the right of your calendar or agenda view. And Google Apps users, you have, for once, been highly looked after, as explained at RTM's gadget page. [ Remember The Milk]

Online Retailers Are Rolling Back Prices on Palm Pixi and Pre By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:59:04 AM

How much is a a Palm Pre, or the new, lightweight, webOSpowered smartphone, Palm Pixi these days? The answer might surprise you. Officially, Palm Pre costs $150

on Sprint.com, and Palm Pixi is around $100; both deals come with a two-year contract with Sprint. But Amazon has slashed the prices even further; way further. Right now, Palm Pre costs $79.99 on Amazon, while the Pixi is a mere $24.99. These prices also come with a two-year

plan from Sprint, and free activation.

Without a doubt, both the Pre and the Pixi are currently kings of the low-end; the best choice for smartphone buyers on a budget (without going into the subtleties of a contract with Sprint versus the contract with, say, Verizon or AT&T). Call it desperation or a price war, but it’s definitely good news for the

buyers who can come into the new year with a brand new smartphone at the cost of a couple of hamburgers. Tags: Palm Pre, Pixi, smartphones

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Kicking People Off The Internet Not SimpleGeo navigates Enough In South Korea, Copyright from stealth to beta Lobbyists Demand More (CNET News.com)

development hell, hoping to do for "geo" apps what PayPal did for sites requiring payment By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) what sorts of companies are course, with all that, a "three Location awareness is hot, from systems or Facebook did for sites afraid to adapt. The big record strikes" plan to kick people off gamelike social services such as requiring logins and socialSubmitted at 11/19/2009 7:07:00 AM labels and the big movie studios the internet was also included. Foursquare and Gowalla to n e t w o r k i n g f e a t u r e s . T h e I f y o u t h o u g h t t h a t t h e couldn't be bothered with the You would think that the p l a t f o r m s s u c h a s G o o g l e complete offering, which can entertainment industry would tricky proposition of actually industry would be happy and Latitude. Now one start-up is also build in augmented-reality stop at having the ability to force u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e n e w leave well enough alone, right? hoping to make it as easy for any features, encompasses storage, ISPs to kick people they accuse marketplace and adjusting their Of course not. Reader Dan company to integrate into a Web a n a l y t i c s , a n d a s o f t w a r e (not convict) of file sharing business model. So, they went to alerts us to the news that some or mobile service as it is for d e v e l o p m e n t k i t ( S D K ) . offline, you might want to pay the US government and said entertainment industry lobbyists retailers to use PayPal. Meet Three versions are available: attention to what's happening in "something must be done." That are now demanding that all file SimpleGeo, which on Thursday free, $399 per month, and $2,499 South Korea. South Korea, of "something" turned out to be a sharing services must use content is launching into a private beta. per month. A public version is course, is home to very high n e w " f r e e t r a d e " ( h a h a ! ) filters. Otherwise, they plan to B o u l d e r , C o l o . - b a s e d slated to launch in the spring. broadband penetration, with agreement with South Korea, that sue. Just another reminder that SimpleGeo, co-founded by Nobody's really doing this yet, exceptionally high speeds. And, had little to do with free trade, for some of these folks, enough former Digg engineer Joe Stump though apparently a few other not surprisingly, there's a lot of but plenty to do with pushing will never be enough. They will and Socialthing founder Matt start-ups are toying with similar unauthorized file sharing going ridiculously draconian copyright keep pushing for more and more, Galligan (who sold the would-be business plans, and SimpleGeo is on there. Of course, if you laws on South Korea (i.e., just as consumers keep pushing FriendFeed competitor to AOL), still new enough that it has not looked at the Korean cultural p r o t e c t i o n i s m f o r t h e back on having their own rights started out as a company called yet closed a round of venture world, you'd immediately learn entertainment industry, not free stripped away. Crash Corp. earlier this year. The funding. Because it's in private that smart entrepreneurs and trade). Of course, these new laws And, don't think this is limited to goal was to make augmented- beta, we also haven't yet seen just entertainers quickly learned to went way beyond what any other South Korea. Many of the reality applications for mobile how powerful it is (though adapt and take advantage of this country had, and included getting " l e a k e d " p o i n t s a b o u t t h e devices like the iPhone, but the Galligan has posted some test new world. Entrepreneurs like the government to shut down file needlessly secretive ACTA deal founders said that building the video to Flickr) so it's not yet JY Park recognized the changing sharing sites while restricting are supposedly "based on" the location-aware infrastructure for possible to answer the big, marketplace, and adapted-- and how user-generated content sites trade agreement that was done their first game took a whopping glaring question: what if Google the massive success he's had with c o u l d w o r k a s w e l l . N o t with South Korea. So take a look three months. makes a big, developer-focused artists like Rain and Wonder surprisingly, once the law passed, at what's happening there and see So they changed their company Latitude push that could snuff out Girls, suggests that perhaps various sites began restricting if that's how you think copyright name and angle: SimpleGeo's smaller competition? "piracy" wasn't a big deal. All how they could be used, even law should work in the US. p u r p o s e i s t o b u i l d t h a t This content has passed through you need is some smart business limiting the uploading of any Permalink| Comments| Email i n f r a s t r u c t u r e f o r o t h e r fivefilters.org. people who can adapt. songs, even ones that users This Story companies to eliminate the But, of course, we've all seen themselves had created. And, of Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

AOL to cut a third of workforce (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:18:55 AM

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Larry Magid Calls For News Tax To Mac Tablet Files: Fund Failing Newspapers Rumored delay for the rumored device By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 11/19/2009 3:53:56 AM

I usually find Larry Magid's columns pretty reasonable, so I'm a bit surprised to see him calling for a special "news tax" to fund failing newspapers. Most of the column is a decent enough explanation of how the newspapers are losing subscribers and are having trouble making as much money as they used to. He even notes (as so few in this debate do) that subscriber revenue to newspapers has never really been about funding the news operations, and has always been a very small piece of the revenue puzzle. And he suggests, as we have many times, that it's quite unlikely that a paywall solution will work. But, right towards the end, he writes the following: Maybe we need to find another model? I realize there would be a lot of objections to using tax money to finance journalism, but I wonder if we should take a look at the British model that finances the

BBC's TV, radio and online programming with a $237 tax on whatever device you use to watch TV, be it a computer, personal video recorder, mobile phone or TV set. In Britain, according to the British government's TV licensing Web site, "watching TV without a valid license is a criminal offence." I'm quite sure that criminalizing unlicensed Web surfing or TV viewing would be even more unpopular with Americans than mandatory health insurance. But unless media companies can find another way to stay in business, we may very well see some serious proposals along these lines. Magid is, certainly, not the first person to call for government funding of newspapers, but he does little to actually explore the idea -- such as looking at the recent report talking about how as more government money goes to funding newspaper activities, the coverage of gov't corruption drops. On top of that, there are serious practical issues here. The

BBC setup, involves funding a single national operation, not many different newspapers (which is what the rest of Magid's piece is about). It seems odd that he would effectively be suggesting that we wipe out local newspapers in favor of a gov't funded national news organization. And, of course, there are all sorts of questions about whether or not this is even needed. Certainly, many newspapers are struggling, though in many cases it's not due to trouble funding operations, but due to the massive debt loads they took on a few years back when management stupidly thought that they were invincible to market changes. At the same time, we're seeing new and innovative startups hiring journalists and doing good work. Shouldn't we let the system work itself out before we suddenly decide to have the government intervene? Permalink| Comments| Email This Story

Equities drop as risk aversion grips investors (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:17:34 AM

16:45 GMT. Riskier assets succumbed to a bout of profit taking on Thursday as investors fretted that the rally was showing

signs of fatigue and the dollar, the perceived driver of activity, bounced towards the top of its recent tight range. Traders flicked the strategy switch to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;risk offâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, shedding commodities and buying government bonds after a broker

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By Ken Ray (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors DigiTimes stories are fun. They just are. Sometimes they provide insight into the components side of tech. Other times they make me wish I hadn't given up my dreams of writing fiction. Today, unnamed sources from unspecified component manufacturers say Apple is postponing the launch of its amazing wonder tablet, moving the date from next March to the second half of 2010. According to the shadowy sources, Apple has decided to switch some components, and now plans to produce a tablet using a 9.7" OLED panel from LG Display. The panels would be provided under Apple's five-year, US$500 million display deal with LG Display revealed at the beginning of the year. The nameless talkers say construction of the devices will be done by three companies, and that there will be two, distinct units, the previously mentioned 9.7" OLED screened unit, and a 10.6" TFT LCD screened version. OLED's are very expensive compared to LCD

displays, a cost that will be passed on to consumers. Sources figure the OLED tablet will have a retail price of about US$2,000, though that could come down with subsidies from telecom partners. The LCD unit with its 0.9" larger display is expected to be priced between US$800 and US$1,000. There are advantages to OLED versus LCD displays, but would consumers pony up twice the money for an untried device when they can get a bigger screen at a lower cost? Thanks to Paul for the tip. [via DigiTimes] TUAW Mac Tablet Files: Rumored delay for the rumored device originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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ASCAP, BMI And SESAC Continue To Screw Over Most Songwriters: 'Write A Hit Song If You Want Money' By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)

in the middle of a wholly original set. The licensing organizations don't seem to care, they just want We keep hearing from folks how you to pay, just in case. When the collections societies in the US asked how they know that for songwriters and composers, covered music is being played, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, are they admit they don't:"Basically, supposedly the "good guys" in we don't know," said Dave that they actually give money to Ascher, the SESAC Music the actual musicians, and they Licensing Consultant who sent aren't like the RIAA at all. But the letters. "To make a long story the evidence continues to be short, there's no way, logistically, lacking on that front. In fact, it for us to know whether on a dayincreasingly looks like they're to-day basis they're playing doing a lot more harm to most SESAC music." But, just in case, musicians. Earlier this year, we you need to pay up. Of course, noted that their aggressiveness in rather than doing that, the venues getting just about any small are just giving up on live music, venue to pay up fees was killing providing fewer places for off open mic nights and other musicians to perform, hone their sorts of venues that allowed craft, and build up a following musicians to play live. Mike (and a business model). points us to the news that many As for the claim that these venues are simply giving up on organizations help bring in live music. The problem? Well, money for those musicians, well, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC are all that's not seen either. We've demanding huge fees. Even the already seen how they only give restaurants that don't bring in money to big name artists in cover bands are being told they most cases, because that's all need to pay up, just in case a they're able to track. In fact, the musician happens to do a cover article talks to one musician Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:23:00 AM

More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up (CNET News.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

The simple concept of having virtual-good payments in games sent directly to your cell phone bill has gotten a lot of buzz--and stirred up a lot of rivalry. One of the start-ups looking to pull this off, Boku, announced Monday that it has signed on a dozen new gaming partners, both a few based on the Facebook platform and some others that are either Web-based or desktop downloads. The partner companies are Waves, Cie Studios, Cyberstep, GameDuell, IGG, King.com, NHN USA, Ntreev, Outspark, PerfectWorld, Snap Interactive, and Zoosk. Most of them aren't household names: they're game manufacturers, not the games themselves, and some of them are most prominent outside the U.S. There are a handful of companies trying to grab market share in this space, but the two who have been most vocal about making inroads have been Boku

who's upset about all the venues closing, but is still registering his songs with ASCAP. When asked if he's received any royalty check at all, the answer was no. So, how do the collections organizations respond? They tell them to become more famous:"I'm sorry to hear that, but what I would like to tell him is that he needs to write a hit song," BMI's Bailey said. How nice. They funnel all the money to big name artists, force venues to close so new artists can't become famous, and then when asked about giving money to those up-and-coming artists, they flippantly tell them to become more famous. At some point, musicians and songwriters need to learn that these organizations are not doing things in their best interests at all. They're simply bureaucracies to funnel money to big names, while limiting the competition. Permalink| Comments| Email This Story By twitter:@garagemkorova (TweetMeme)

and rival Zong, which last month announced that it would allow members to sync credit cards with their phone numbers, allowing for larger payments and putting the company closer to direct competition with the likes of PayPal. Boku says it's sticking to the mobile-number-only strategy, choosing instead to ink more deals and emphasize its global reach: with the current round of partnerships, the company says it will have 200 million registered users added to its ranks (no word on how active they all are, or how much redundancy there is across games). Additionally, Boku has made some infrastructure upgrades that it says will improve the user experience, including the ability to detect whether a phone number that has been entered is landline or mobile--and if mobile, what carrier it's coming from. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Working with the new Apple Mac mini Server and Snow Leopard Server By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

'Twilight' Star Robert Pattinson Reveals His Rules for Biting (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:01:00 AM

Robert Pattinson shares some bizarre stories he has from 'Twilight' press tours with David Filed under: Enterprise, Mac Letterman, offers his guide to mini, Mac OS X Server, Snow biting people and answers Leopard It's always nice when, as questions as to whether he is in a Mac consultant, I can play with fact dating his onscreen lover the latest hardware and software Kristen Stewart. and get paid to do it. Last week Just two days before the theater was no exception, and when I release of 'The Twilight Saga: received a call from a new client New Moon' on Friday, Nov. 20, who wanted assistance with a Pattinson appeared on the "Late Mac mini Server, I jumped at the Show" and talked about his chance. Since the introduction of chaotic fan base that is out to be the Mac mini in early 2005, I've bitten by the vampire heartthrob. been using "regular" Mac minis Pattinson said that one female fan as servers, and they've worked asked him to bite her small child. flawlessly. I had two servers of after setting up these servers, I There was a bit of a holdup Continue reading Working with "Somehow I ended up biting the my own at Macminicolo.net for rarely, if ever, need to go back when I discovered that the server the new Apple Mac mini Server baby on the head and there was a quite some time, and Brian and fix anything. photo of it afterward," the actor came with a mini-DVI to DVI and Snow Leopard Server Stucki, the owner of that Mac Unboxing the server (sorry, no adapter, while I had brought my TUAW Working with the new jokes. mini colocation firm, noted in a unboxing movies this time...) old VGA display with me. Apple Mac mini Server and Pattinson explains to Letterman discussion a few years ago that unveiled a plastic-wrapped mini F o r t u n a t e l y , o n e o f t h e Snow Leopard Server originally his decision process when biting the failure rate on the mini Server and the traditional power employees on-site had a monitor appeared on The Unofficial a fan, saying, "Depends on your hardware is phenomenally low. brick, along with a small box that was quickly pressed into Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, mood and depends on what you I've set up Mac minis with Mac containing Mac OS X 10.6 service, and after plugging in the 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. want to get out of it. ... There are OS X Server for architectural Server and assorted manuals. keyboard, mouse and power, the Please see our terms for use of variations of biting." firms, PR companies, design While I didn't check for the usual server quickly booted up. feeds. firms, non-profits, and a number Apple stickers, I did find the Apple is marketing the Mac mini Read| Permalink| Email this| of other companies that needed server software serial number Server as "Easy to set up. Easy to Comments centralized control of digital cards that are essential during the run," and they're right on -- to a assets, but didn't want to spend a setup process. point. lot of money to do so. Usually Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:00:00 PM

Brazil sparks wider currency control fears (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/19/2009 3:37:48 AM

Brazil sparks wider currency control fears By Peter Garnham in London Published: November 19 2009

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MS software architect: Apps don't make the phone

Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search

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

(CNET News.com)

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, Hardware, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store This sounds an awful lot like sour grapes to me: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software engineer, told a Professional Developers' Conference earlier this week that it wasn't the apps that would make or break the smartphone platforms. Of course, that's what most press and blog outlets seem to be focusing on (maybe because we all already know what the hardware is like -apps change every day if not every minute, and the hardware only changes occasionally), but Ozzie says customers won't buy a phone for the apps. The biggest apps, he says, will eventually be available on every platform. To put it in as few words as possible, you'll be able to tweet from everything in the future.

but for the way it fits in their hand, and how just plain slick it is. That's not to say that the smartphone platform war is over -- no way, it's only beginning, and we consumers will take innovative ideas wherever we can get them. But Ozzie saying the apps don't count (and echoing his And he's got part of a good point fellow Microsofters in trying to there: it's true, the major separate Apple from their functionality of "killer apps" will software strategy) seems to mean be available across platforms. that even he thinks he's already But Ozzie forgets (or is just lost that race -- they certainly do ignoring) that that's already the play a large part in which case on desktops. While yes, you platform consumers eventually could claim that porting to the choose. various smartphones is easier TUAW MS software architect: than porting to the various PC Apps don't make the phone platforms, that doesn't avoid the originally appeared on The fact that I can tweet, IM, email, U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g browse, edit photos and movies, (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 and do whatever else I want on 11:00:00 EST. Please see our both platforms as well. And for terms for use of feeds. some reason (ahem, the hardware Read| Permalink| Email this| and the way both software and Comments hardware are designed), I'd rather do them on the Mac. People love their iPhones not just for the apps

improvement, although one that's not all that different from what can be found on Google and Yahoo is adding more context to Bing. news searches, bringing photos, The main difference is that videos, and even tweets into its Yahoo will now provide the search results page. option of browsing images or Searchers on Yahoo-- who are tweets related to a given query dwindling--will find new results without having to leave the for newsy events Thursday, when search results page to click over Yahoo launches new tabs on the to the Yahoo News section, Yahoo News Shortcut. You've Cornett said. Bing surfaces long been able to find links to photos and video in its News news stories about a given search section but not necessarily in its query through the shortcut, but main search results page, and you can now find other ways of Google takes a similar approach. telling the story with the new Yahoo is using Twitter's public tabs, said Larry Cornett, vice API to surface tweets, which are president of consumer products a l s o r u n t h r o u g h a Y a h o o for Yahoo Search. algorithm to determine relevancy, Yahoo may be close to finalizing Cornett said, declining to provide a deal to outsource the back end details on exactly how that o f i t s s e a r c h b u s i n e s s t o works. Yahoo has not secured Microsoft, but it insists that it's access to the "firehose" of tweets, s t i l l a c o m p e t i t i v e s e a r c h whereas Microsoft and Google company with its decision to just signed deals for access to f o c u s i t s r e s e a r c h a n d that data as part of their own bid development on new ways of to index tweets. presenting search results. The This content has passed through n e w s h o r t c u t i s o n e s u c h fivefilters.org. Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

Review: Nip/Tuck - Alexis Stone By Jonathan Toomey (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:46:00 AM

( S06E06)"That's the wonderful thing about raising children -they keep you young!" - Erica With Teddy's murder now come

and gone (I could go on for hours about how displeased I still am with the way her story ended), Nip/Tuck returned to safe territory last night in "Alexis Stone" by bringing back one of the most loved (and hated) -- Julia's mother, Dr. Erica characters to ever grace the show

Noughton (played to icy Continue reading Review: perfection by Vanessa Redgrave). Nip/Tuck - Alexis Stone With Erica around, conflict is Filed under: OpEd, Nip/Tuck, always guaranteed and this was Episode Reviews, Reality-Free no exception. Calling her the Permalink| Email this| | mother (and mother-in-law) from C o m m e n t s hell would be the understatement of the year.

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Mac 101: Two things I love about Address Book By Erica Sadun (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

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Filed under: Odds and ends, Mac 101 More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice Mac users. It's so easy to take Address Book for granted, and yet that simple utility has two absolutely killer features: big phone numbers and simple envelope printing. These features do exactly what their descriptions suggest: display phone numbers in Very, Large, Type -- and print envelopes, complete with your personal return address. To zoom a phone number, control-click or right-click the number you want to see and choose Large Type from the contextual pop-up. Address Book zooms that number way out, allowing you to see it while dialing, even if you're not standing right next to the computer. I find that it's a lot easier just to show the number to my husband than try to read it out to him. Your spousal success rate may vary. To print a properly formatted envelope, just insert a standard envelope into your printer. Make sure the address side (and not the flap side) faces the toner cartridge. For me, that is flap side down. My printer, which is pretty darn standard, has an envelope

Just like TV, captions play an important role in making online video accessible to everyone. While YouTube has offered captioning for a few years, today they’re making it significantly easier for publishers to add them. Now, YouTube can automatically assign captions to video using speech recognition. Moreover, video publishers can now upload a transcript for their videos, which further helps the site add accurate captioning. You can translate these captions into multiple languages too when watching videos. feeding clamp in the single sheet styles used in North America, How does it work? Google feed. I pop open the single sheet Japan, and "International." explains: access, adjust the clamp inward Address Book can also print out “We’ve combined Google’s to match the envelop size and mailing labels, lists, and a pocket automatic speech recognition feed in the envelop flap side address book. See the Style pop(ASR) technology with the down. up for details. For the free YouTube caption system to offer In Address Book all I need to do contact manager that comes with automatic captions, or auto-caps is select a contact and print it. the OS, it's got moxie. for short. Auto-caps use the same (File > Print). Make sure you've TUAW Mac 101: Two things I voice recognition algorithms in chosen Envelopes from the Style l o v e a b o u t A d d r e s s B o o k Google Voice to automatically (it's my default), and that Print originally appeared on The my address is selected so the U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g return address is properly added (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 to the envelope. If you're using 12:30:00 EST. Please see our By twitter:@mike_gingerich (TweetMeme) an envelope that's not a standard terms for use of feeds. business layout, choose the Read| Permalink| Email this| Submitted at 11/19/2009 5:32:01 AM proper layout. Address Book Comments Reading: 14 Ways To Fight supports most common envelope Twitter Burnout: By Karl Staib

generate captions for video. We’re also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we’ll use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video.” Google demos the features in the video below: Reviews: Google, Google Voice, YouTube Tags: Google, video, youtube

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EV Project to showcase Nissan LEAF (CNET News.com)

Apple releases updates improving printing, scanning, iSight cameras and QuickTime By Joachim Bean (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:51:41 AM

Nissan will begin taking orders for its LEAF EV in Spring 2010.(Credit: Nissan) The EV Project, a pilot program to develop a nationwide public charging system for electric vehicles, is expected to give people an opportunity to inspect the Nissan LEAF EV more closely on Thursday and announce expansion plans that include San Diego. The unveiling will take place at a press conference in San Diego and include representatives from San Diego Gas & Electric, the City of San Diego, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), and Don Kramer, the president of Ecotality's subsidiary eTec. Electric-charging station manufacturer Ecotality has received $100 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and is one of the lead partners on the EV Project which will span 11 U.S. cities in five states: Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee,

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and Washington. While the company has been partnering with Nissan to make public charging options a reality in the U.S., Ecotality has repeatedly said its stations are designed to fit Society of Automotive Engineers standards so that they'll be compatible with any electric cars built to that standard. Ecotality announced Wednesday that its CEO Jonathan Read is currently in China as part of a 40person delegation accompanying U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary

Locke. The group is taking part in the China Clean Energy Roundtable as part of President Barack Obama's visit to China. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced Wednesday a U.S.-China "Electric Vehicles Initiative" to encourage research and develop joint standards for electric transportation, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Filed under: Accessories, Peripherals, Software Update Over the past few days, Apple has been releasing updates for printer and scanner drivers in Snow Leopard, i Sight cameras in LED Cinema Displays and QuickTime 7 for Windows. First, Apple released printer driver updates for Snow Leopard for Lexmark printers and Brother, Canon and HP printers and scanners. Next, Apple released a firmware update for the iSight camera that's built into the Apple LED Cinema Display. According to Apple, this firmware update corrects an issue with the built-in iSight camera on the LED Cinema Display where the camera may not be recognized by applications. Finally, Apple released QuickTime 7.6.5 for Windows, which fixes an issue where applications weren't reliably

loading libraries required by QuickTime at startup and the incorrect display of QuickTime movies embedded in a webpage using custom scale attributes. All of these updates are available from the Apple Support downloads page and Software Update. TUAW Apple releases updates improving printing, scanning, iSight cameras and QuickTime originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Jill Martin Dishes 'Fashion for Dummies' (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:39:00 AM

Emmy-nominated television personality Jill Martin dished

exclusively to ET about her new book, Fashion for Dummies, at a star-studded party in NYC. “We’re really reinventing the Dummy series in a way, because

we’re really now making it about fashion, and about women learning how to take what’s in their closet and reinvent it,” Martin told us about her new

book, co-authored by Pierre A. saying, shop in your closet,” she Lehu and in stores now. adds. “With the economy the way it is, no one wants to go out and spend a million dollars. So we’re

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Facebook Goes to the Red Carpet With Live Video for American Music Awards

Kevin McKidd on 'Grey's Anatomy''s New Love Triangle

By Christina Warren (Mashable!)

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Live webcasts of red carpet events are an emerging trend with social networks and live video. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen the red carpet events for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” and“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” bring in big viewers. The “Twilight” event, which was a collaboration between MySpace and Ustream, broke Ustream records by delivering 3 million viewers. Unsurprisingly, the biggest social networking site on the web — Facebook — has also picked

up on the trend. The American Music Awards will be streaming its first ever digital pre-show on Sunday, November 22 on the popular Celebs on Facebook Page. Facebook is teaming with Ustream(Facebook was also hosted the Ustream/Sony “This Is It” red carpet premiere) and fans at home will have a chance to

post questions for the hosts — which include Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg and Brandee Barker — to ask the music artists as they prepare to enter the award show. The AMA’s air Sunday night on ABC from 8-11 EST. The preshow will start at 6 p.m. EST. You can tune in at Facebook’s Celebs Page, the AMAs Facebook Page or via Ustream or ABC.com. What do you think about the trend of live events crosspromoting across social networking sites? Reviews: Facebook, ustream Tags: AMAs, facebook, livestream, ustream

Cristina are moving on with their relationship, or are they? Owen just invited Dr. Teddy Altman ( When Owen Hunt ( Kevin Kim Raver) into the mix. He McKidd) scrubbed into Seattle thought he was giving Cristina a Grace Hospital on "Grey's present by bringing a top-notch Anatomy" last season, he quickly heart surgeon to Seattle Grace, found himself attracted to but Teddy has romantic feelings Cristina Yang ( Sandra Oh), but for Owen, so is she really going acting on it was another matter. to be a gift for himself? A love Having just returned from the triangle can't be too far behind! war in Iraq, he was dealing with Kevin talks to ET about the two Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- w o m e n i n O w e n ' s l i f e , and he tried to strangle her. McNicknames and all the babies Now in therapy, Owen and on the set. Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:30:00 AM

Twitter Fever! Yahoo Search Adds Twitter News Content By Ben Parr (Mashable!)

Now Yahoo Search, which is in the awkward position of waiting for the Microsoft search deal to It seems like every search engine close, has also caught the Twitter has gone gaga for Twitter. Last fever. The Internet company has month, Microsoft’s Bing inked a just launched an expanded news search deal with Twitter to module within Yahoo Search integrate tweets into search results, one that not only includes results. Only a few hours later, news, photos, and videos, but Google shot back with its own curated Twitter news feeds as search deal and announced Social well. Search as the cherry on top. The integration’s actually quite Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:47 AM

simple: when you search for developing news stories (Yahoo’s example is the Space

Shuttle Atlantis), the news module will appear at the top with four tabs for news, photos, videos, and Twitter. The Twitter feed takes tweets from wellknown news sources (e.g. BBC) and then provides a link to search Twitter for that news item. While we all know that Yahoo Search is eventually going to be shelved in favor of Bing, we’re glad that it doesn’t mean that the

world’s second largest search engine is going to stagnate and die. They revamped search back in September and are doing it again today. Adding Twitter feeds is a sensible move to keep pace with a fast-changing marketplace. Reviews: Bing, Twitter Tags: twitter, Yahoo

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AOL: We Need To Fire Two App Store updates: Trillian 2,500 Employees. Any ships, Google Earth 2.0 arrives Volunteers? By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

By Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

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Filed under: App Store There are two arrivals in the App Store of note. First, after a three month AOL is not doing well. The wait, the multiservice IM client company started some serious Trillian is now available in the restructuring of its workforce two conducted on a voluntary and App Store [ iTunes link] for years ago, and it’s been cutting it involuntary basis. The goal of the iPhone and iPod touch. Restructuring is to reduce down ever since. We previously discussed the fact Now, AOL has announced they ongoing annual operating costs that Trillian was sitting in need to fire 2,500 employees, and by approximately $300 million. approval limbo with no word they’re looking for volunteers. If the Restructuring is approved, from Apple as to why the app From their filing with the SEC: the Company expects to incur was being delayed. As of today it “On November 19, 2009, AOL restructuring charges of up to i s a v a i l a b l e f o r U S $ 4 . 9 9 . Inc. (the “Company”) informed $200 million, substantially all of Cerulean Studios website has its employees of proposed which is expected to be incurred more information on features, restructuring activities as part of from the date of the Spin-off and we will be reviewing the app its continuing cost reduction through the first half of 2010.” soon, but we wanted to let you initiatives aimed at aligning the Additionally, AOL CEO Tim know that it was available (for C o m p a n y ’ s o r g a n i z a t i o n a l Armstrong is giving up his entire structure and costs with its 2009 bonus, which amounts to strategy (the “Restructuring”) … approx. $1.5 million. It’ll be of It is anticipated that, if approved, little consolation to the third of the Restructuring will include the the workforce that’s about to reduction of approximately a leave the company in search for third of the Company’s current greener pastures. employee base, which will be Tags: aol, layoffs Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:59:00 AM

iPhone/iPod touch devices running OS 3.0 or later). Second, the 2.0 update to Google Earth for iPhone [ iTunes link] is rolled out now. The major new feature in the app is the

ability to overlay your own custom Google maps onto the geographic display in GE; the app also improves POI selection and adds a slew of new languages. Google Earth requires iPhone/iPod touch OS 2.0 or later, and it's free. [Google Earth hat tip to Ars Technica] TUAW Two App Store updates: Trillian ships, Google Earth 2.0 arrives originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

The Ultimate 'Twilight' Photo Gallery! Over 60 Sizzlin' Photos! (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 4:33:00 AM

Feast your eyes on some of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon''s

hottest stars -- Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Taylor Lautner, and of course -- Robert Pattinson! From before they were they were

heartthrob's to their international promotional tours and 'New Moon' film stills, ET has over 60 sizzlin' pics of your fave vamps and werewolves as they rock it

through the years. You can even take a gander at some stars from as far back as 2001, when they were just kids! Watch as Hollywood's most

sought-after young stars turn into the sexy celebs you love today! The highly anticipated 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' sinks its teeth into theaters Nov. 20.

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Bill Maher and the Pyre of Stupidity Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army in 2007 (Little Green Footballs)

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At Huffington Post, TV talk show host Bill Maher has a very lengthy article trying to explain his anti-vaccination opinions, but it’s more obfuscation than explanation: Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having. It’s pretty long-winded and a bit whiny, and amounts to a restatement of Maher’s previous positions, which were never really hidden: he has quackish beliefs about science, medicine, and especially vaccines. Maher’s nemesis at SciBlogs, Orac, has posted an even lengthier but much more readable response to Maher’s apologetics; he lets Maher have it: Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines—again. First off, Maher is apparently very, very unhappy that he’s been sucked into this debate. More like he’s never actually been called out so publicly for his

medical and scientific ignorance before or so clearly revealed to be anti-science when it comes to medicine. He doesn’t like it, not one bit. So he starts out by complaining about how the topic is coming up in every interview he does these days. I also think he was particularly hurt by Michael Shermer’s excellent (but far too polite for the situation) Open Letter to Bill Maher. Never does it cross Maher’s fragile eggshell mind that the reason that the topic of vaccines in general and the flu vaccine in particular are coming up so often in his interviews is because of—oh, maybe, just maybe—his history on the topic. It’s not as though Maher hasn’t been laying down swaths of antivaccine nonsense hither and yon since at least 2005, which was the first time I noticed him. It’s not exactly a secret that Maher’s been an antivaccine loon who “doesn’t believe in Western medicine” for many years now. He’s been “questioning” vaccines and

“Western medicine” (a code word for science-based medicine among the woo set) for years now, both in his comedy act and on his show. So—surprise! surprise!—when a flu pandemic shows up in 2009 and the government gears up for a mass vaccination program to combat it, why is Maher surprised that the topic comes up a lot on his show or whenever he does interviews? More likely, he’s surprised at the amount of justified criticism he’s taken for his anti-scientific health views. After being given a free pass for at least five years, suddenly people are noticing just how flaky Maher’s medical views are. So now, a month after the most recent season of his show ended, he shows up on that quackfest known as HuffPo to try to defend himself. The results, predictably, are pathetic. Read the whole thing…

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killing 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood on Nov. 5 — to work with some of the As we learn more about Maj. Army’s most troubled and Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s clear that vulnerable soldiers. he was throwing off warning On May 17, 2007, Hasan’s signals right and left — but supervisor at Walter Reed sent nobody wanted to step up and the memo to the Walter Reed take action about him until it was credentials committee. It reads, too late: Hasan’s Supervisor “Memorandum for: Credentials Warned Army In 2007. Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Two years ago, a top psychiatrist Hasan.” More than a page long, at Walter Reed Army Medical the document warns that: “The Center was so concerned about Faculty has serious concerns what he saw as Nidal Hasan’s a b o u t C P T H a s a n ’ s incompetence and reckless professionalism and work ethic. behavior that he put those … He demonstrates a pattern of concerns in writing. NPR has poor judgment and a lack of obtained a copy of the memo, the professionalism.” It is signed by first evaluation that has surfaced the chief of psychiatric residents from Hasan’s file. at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Officials at Walter Reed sent Moran. that memo to Fort Hood this year When shown the memo, two when Hasan was transferred leading psychiatrists said it was there. so damning, it might have sunk Nevertheless, commanders still Hasan’s career if he had applied assigned Hasan — accused of for a job outside the Army. Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:08:54 AM

Would You Buy a Data-Only Cellphone? [Reader Poll] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:00:00 AM

There's an eyebrow-raising rumor that Google's toying with a cellphone that could work on any data network and make phone calls through its Gizmo5/Google Voice package. Are you ready to leave standard voice channels behind for the wireless data

frontier? There are a handful of clues that, strung together, seem to point toward Google offering its own phone-like VoIP services. The Google Voice project and its Gizmo5 acquisition, the Android phone OS, of course, and a deal that lets them re-sell wireless in, some phone provider could, at data. Then again, regardless of some point, could make this kind whether Google's ready to jump

of offer—unlimited domestic voice calling, cheap international calls, and a data-friendly a phone that works with any data contract. If Google or some other firm offered a (presumably) subsidized, affordable phone with an internet calling package and any data package you want, would you nibble? Or is the difference between data and

voice coverage big enough to enjoy having a backup? Vote below, then post your "Other" answers and reasoning in the comments. Would you buy a data-only cellphone?( answers)

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Google Navigation is a Total GPS Replacement—As Long As You're Connected [GPS] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:00:00 AM

My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but longdistance treks, Google's Navigation is good enough. I've been using Google Maps Navigation on an HTC G1, which is not the higher-powered, bigger-screened Droid it was designed for. That said, Navigation has delivered that "I'm living in the future" feeling that makes you start mentally marking down the margin you paid for your gadgets. It combines a slew of services Google has recently refined—overhead maps and street-level images, voice recognition, local searches with plain English queries, and traffic data from real drivers—and presents them in an interface that's surprisingly inviting and useful, given Google's tendency for the Hey It Works school of design. More than anything, though, it's free, the data it serves up is free, and it'll always remain up to date for free. That's not to say that my Garmin, a Nuvi 350 model bought for about $100, doesn't do its primary job, and do it well once it's working. But Google's

free offering has made my phone the go-to gadget for navigating across the city or on same-day car trips. For long drives across regions without great cellular coverage, you might still want a stand-alone GPS unit. (Remember, Navigation downloads all the map data over your phone's data connection, while most GPS devices store gigabytes worth of map data locally.) Assuming Google intends to make Navigation available on any future Android phone, and maybe iPhones as well, GPS navigation devices are going to have to develop features that add cleverness and value to compete for the crowd that's just

looking for the local Marriott. Using Google Maps Navigation From the video tour Google offered up with the Droid launch, it's easy to assume that Navigation offers a turn-by-turn experience inside its Street View images—kind of like driving through a first-person shooter game with a thick blue line. It's disappointing when you realize it doesn't do live turn-by-turn in Street View; instead it only gives you the handy view when you click to see an upcoming turn or intersection. Still, Navigation's driving view is just as good as a GPS unit's, and at times even a little better. The big advantages Google

pushes have to do with local information. Inside the app itself, that means putting Google's "Layers" on top of your standard three-quarter view of the streets. You can have live traffic indicators overlaid on your streets, see your maps in satellite pictures, or have nearby restaurants, gas stations, banks, ATMs, and hotels show up. While you're navigating, you can also tap the voice search button and find something nearby that you're looking for. High-end GPS models likely offer similar voiceactivated search, but likely not at the speed and with the range of results Google provides. What really impressed me,

though, was the actual turn-byturn experience. The map automatically zooms in and out as your speed fluctuates, giving you a tight, precise view of where you're supposed to turn when you're slowing down for an off-ramp or intersection, but pulling back when you're cruising the highway and looking for the bigger road changes. The digital voice reading your directions is ever-so-slightly distorted compared to others I've heard, but you can understand it without problems. If you can't live without your digitized British female tour guides, well, I understand. Data pulling, road refreshes, and GPS location awareness were definitely at par with my standalone unit, even on an EDGE connection, beneath a city's taller buildings. This will vary from city to city, and from phone to phone, of course—but I'd consider using a hacked G1 in Buffalo, NY a fairly good test of both location and lag-ridden hardware. Since Navigation runs as a background process, you can take phone calls over your speaker or through a Bluetooth headset, and Navigation will cut in (on your audio only) when it's time to make a turn. You can also switch out of Navigation's view to perform other tasks, if you feel GOOGLE page 38

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like callously endangering the lives of everybody on the road around you with certain distraction and delayed response time. Navigation does warn you about that distraction danger, by the way, when you first launch it, but only that one time. Whether that's an advantage over GPS units' regular reminders depends on your point of view. Actually, let's go ahead and assume you like fewer nag screens. If you're driving somewhere without EDGE or 3G data coverage on your carrier, Maps Navigation will eventually run out of maps to show you. There might be local maps packs to pull down in the future, and wireless data coverage might eventually bridge its gaps over the last mile. If rural coverage is a non-starter for you, you weren't likely to buy a smartphone anyways. Otherwise, Navigation probably does everything your Using a

GPS device The GPS device I'd been using for the better part of a year, a Garmin Nuvi 350, is far from the top of the line. Most readers will be familiar with how one works, even if they haven't owned one, so I'll just say what's different and unique. The obvious advantages are that you're not draining, or at least continually charging, your main cellphone's battery, and that a GPS unit can dish out directions almost anywhere, without any need for a wireless data connection. Depending on your phone, the screen on a GPS unit may be bigger, and, on my Nuvi, at least, the "Night Mode" that pops on at a dynamic sunset time is certainly very helpful. GPS units also come with all the hardware they need to mount to your window or dashboard, and for those afraid of their own distractions, don't ping you when new email or text messages come

in. The chart Enough jibber-jabber from one geeky tester. Here's the head-on comparison between my GPS and my hacked G1 Navigation system. Click to enlarge, unless you've got Superman eyes. For an alternate take on Google Maps Navigation by the (admittedly more GPS-savvy) Gizmodo crew, read Wilson Rothman's Maps Navigation feature review. I have far from the perfect phone or GPS unit to make my judgments in the ideal realm, but I also consider myself a regular old consumer (as opposed to a latest-and-greatest gadget guy). Could you abandon your stand-alone GPS unit, or take it off your wish list, for Google's Navigation? Give us your take in the comments.

Chaz Bono: I'm Living the Life I Always Wanted (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:09:00 AM

In a follow-up to his exclusive interview with ET's Mary Hart this past October, Chaz Bono-child to Cher and Sonny Bono-suited up for "Good Morning

America" and spoke further about his gender reassignment process from a female to a male. "I feel so much more comfortable than I've ever been," Chaz tells "GMA" correspondent Chris Cuomo on Wednesday morning. "I'm living the life that I always

wanted to live now." It's been eight months since Chaz began the process, saying he believes gender is "what's between your ears, not what's between your legs."

MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alternative to Sharepoint and Salesforce.com? By Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/19/2009 4:00:13 AM

Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing MindTouch Cloud, an open-source, SaaS service that integrates business data from any number of sources, including Oracle, Sugar CRM and Salesforce.com. Sponsor MindTouch Cloud is meant for a business community to create their own dashboards. It allows users to collaborate with a familiar wiki environment with the capabilities of an enterprise platform. It's also another example of how enterprise technologies are increasingly designed so the average business user may perform tasks that have traditionally been the domain of the IT department. What differentiates MindTouch from Sharepoint and other services is its emphasis on the data. Users may collaborate across multiple enterprise

systems and web applications. MindTouch Cloud is an enterprise mashup service. Business critical information can be exported from enterprise systems and mashed up to create reports and build applications. It has the requirements for the enterprise, including authentication using LDAP, single-sign on security. Role management is built into the service with the capability to create new users, roles and groups. Compare that to Salesforce Chatter and you see some similarities in how applications can be integrated to create an intelligent dashboard environment that fits into an enterprise environment. MindTouch does need some work on its user interface. But it has all the features that can make it a valuable service for a business looking to build dashboards that can mashup enterprise data and external applications. This is MindTouch's first cloud computing effort. Pricing starts at $7 per user per month. Discuss

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YouTube Videos Get Automatic Captions By Frederic Lardinois (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:53:38 AM

Google just announced that YouTube can now automatically generate captions and subtitles for videos in English. For now, this feature is only enabled on a handful of partner channels, but Google plans to make this feature available for all users in the future. In the meantime, YouTube now also offers a new 'automatic mode. desktop, taskbar, start menu and caption timing' feature for all • On the Windows Activation, etc will be restored. new uploads that makes it easier click on Access your computer with reduced functionality Once the shell loads, you can to add captions manually. You option. fire up the command prompt and simply upload a text file with a • Once the Internet Explorer continue with the same old rearm transcript of the video and loads, click on File on menu bar trick we've covered before. Keep Google's speech recognition and then select Open on the pull- in mind that while this trick is a technology will figure out when down menu. nice workaround if you want or those words are spoken and • On the Open dialog window, need to extend your activation create captions based on this type in C:\Windows\Explorer.exe period and access your data for a information. and then click OK. bit longer, it'll only work for a Sponsor As Google points out, • Click OK button on "IE needs couple of rearmings (120 days). to open a new window to open If you've been using the old YouTube's users currently upload this webpage" confirmation rearm trick in your Windows 7 over 20 hours of video every prompt. installation, let's hear how it's minute - and most of this video • Click Run button on "File w o r k i n g f o r y o u i n t h e isn't accessible for users with Download – Security Warning" comments. Quick and Dirty hearing impairments. While dialog prompt. Trick: Bypass Windows Vistas • Click on Run button on "File a n d W i n d o w s 7 ' s R e d u c e d Download – Security Warning" Functionality Mode and Get w a r n i n g d i a l o g r e l a t e d t o Your Data[UneasySilence] unknown and not verified publisher. • User shell will load, and the

Bypass Reduced Functionality Without Acitvating Windows [Annoyances] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:00:00 AM

If you've installed Windows 7 (or Vista) but still don't have a product key, you'll eventually end up with an activation nag screen and "reduced functionality" until you get a proper key. Still not ready to buy? Temporarily bypass the problem instead. Tech weblog UneasySilence details how to use the previously mentioned rearm trick to extend your trial period so you can access your installation the same way you had been previously. It's easy to rearm before your trial has expired, but the extra bonus in their post comes in their details for getting to a command prompt (in which you can enter the slmgr -rearm command) once you're stuck in reduced functionality

uploaders could always add captions to their videos manually, only a very small minority of users ever did so. YouTube's speech recognition technology is based on the same speech-to-text algorithms that transcribe voicemails in Google Voice. You can also translate these captions into 51 languages. As expected, these captions aren't always perfect, but work surprisingly well on the videos that we have seen so far. If you want to have a look at how these captions work, have a look at one of the videos in the UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke, UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic, Demand Media, UNSW and Google& YouTube channels. Discuss

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How to Make Your Fireplace More Effecient [Home Improvement]

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Fireplaces are lovely and cozy to sit around but not to great for actually heating your home. Increase the efficiency of your fireplace with these tips and get some of that wasted heat back. Photo by Cornell University Library. The problem with most fireplace design is that a significant amount of heat is pulled right up the chimney and then the problem is compounded by a strong updraft pulling heated air from the room along with it. Tweaking a fireplace to be more efficient involves combating both of those problems. At Mother Earth News they put together a list of ways you can cut down on heat loss and increase the heat retained in your living space. Some of the solutions are fairly inexpensive like installing a fire throwback: A fireback is simply a heavy sheet of metal (traditionally cast

At first glance, the phrase "dream achievement service" conjures images of people in head scarves listening to self-help tapes. Nevertheless, in the case of semantic search service Dorthy, "dream achievement" is about getting good results free from the irrelevant fodder of the regular search experience. In August 2009, Dorthy celebrated its Alpha release and as of this evening it's opening access to its data. Sponsor Dorthy claims to be a mixture of "AI, machine learning, natural language processing and common sense reasoning." Rather than focussing on individual keyword search, the site looks at the combined history of a users searches and adapts to omit and serve specific results. Users are asked to enter their dream or passion and the site

iron) behind the fire. In addition to protecting masonry in the back of the fireplace, a fireback reflects heat into the room (instead of all the heat going up the chimney). Estimated cost: $75 to $350. Adding glass doors to a fireplace is another simple, although pricier fix. The most efficient but expensive fix is to install an insert into your fireplace essentially turning it into a

miniature wood stove. For more information on these techniques and more, including links to suppliers and additional sources, check out the full article at the link below. If you've done anything improve the efficiency of your fireplace, let's hear about it in the comments. How to Make Your Fireplace More Efficient[Mother Earth News]

First Look at Robert Pattinson's New Film (ETonline - Breaking News)

are out and only Entertainment Tonight has the first look. The film -- scheduled to hit New scenes for 'Twilight' theaters February 12 of next year heartthrob Robert Pattinson's new -- follows two lovers who are romantic movie 'Remember Me' coping with their family tragedies Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:33:00 AM

as their newfound love affair progresses. Pattinson plays the character of Tyler Roth and stars alongside Pierce Brosnan and Emilie De Raven. Watch ET tonight, Nov. 19, to

see 'Remember Me' scenes and check out ETonline for more Pattinson coverage.

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Rumored Apple Tablet Now Rumored to Be Delayed By Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:05:47 AM

Ever entertaining—if unreliable— DigiTimes has not one, but two big tablet rumors today. The mythical device has been delayed from early 2010 to the second half of next year, and there will an OLED model. Seriously. According to anonymous sources inside that the electronics supply chain, Apple changed the launch from March—as opposed to January—to “switch some components” and to add a model with a 9.7 OLED screen. The OLED model will be manufactured with a display from LG Electronics, as part of a $500 million dollar contract with Apple. That model would be in addition to an LCD tablet with a 10.6 display. help keep you aware of how you ECOBOT runs on Adobe AIR If making two tablets with can reduce your carbon footprint. but, strangely enough, can only different size screens seems a The app tracks wireless networks be used on a Mac right now. curious decision, the price of the you access to learn how much Developers say a PC version will O L E D t a b l e t i s e x t r e m e . you're traveling, and logs how probably be developed "soon." According to DigiTimes, a 9.7 much paper you use whenever Got a favorite tip for keeping you use your printer. ECOBOT your energy consumption in also automatically calculates how check? Let's hear it in the much energy your computer uses, comments. ECOBOT and you can manually add other appliances like video games and televisions.

ECOBOT Tracks Your Carbon Footprint [Downloads] By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:30:00 AM

Mac: Wondering what kind of impact your power and fuel consumption have on the environment? ECOBOT helps you figure it out. ECOBOT is a free, open-source application that calculates how much fuel, paper, and power you use during the course of a day to

OLED display would cost about $500, and display price is typically a third of total cost, so $1,500 would be the price to manufacture the tablet. Even accounting for cost reductions by next year, the retail price could be as high as $2,000. That’s probably about right (the price, not the rumor). The Sony XEL-1 TV has an 11 OLED screen and retails for $2,500, but can be found for as “little” as $1,800. However, even with a subsidy from a wireless provider, there is no way Apple is going to recreate the Cube failure in twodimensions by selling a tablet in the range of $2,000. Look for an LCD tablet for around $800 early next year.

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Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:22:49 AM

The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has more female users than male, for example. In the final sections of the study, the company has turned its attention to social networking data to discover more details about webmail users' social media profiles, memberships and network preferences. Sponsor Social Network Membership Data In the latter parts of the study, the company looked specifically at social network membership data for users of the AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo webmail services. Not surprisingly, the study found that Facebook was the most popular network across the board. What's more interesting is how well MySpace fared in some cases. On both the Hotmail and Yahoo webmail services, Facebook only had a small lead. Here, around 20% of all Hotmail and Yahoo webmail

users were found to be on Facebook and MySpace. What does this reveal about the Hotmail and Yahoo user base? That they're a little more behind the times? Or that they've been around on the net longer and at one time had created (and possibly now abandoned) their MySpace pages? Unfortunately, the study can't provide us with these sorts of answers. The study also showed that Twitter is far more popular among Gmail users than anyone else. In fact, on the other services, it's 4-5 times less popular than Facebook. We would like to think that's because

Gmail users are just more websavvy and cool, but it's possible that it's because they're just younger than everyone else. Not surprisingly, LinkedIn is the least popular social network, but as Rapleaf points out, many LinkedIn users may have registered with their business email instead. Participation Levels - Hotmail Users have Most Profiles, Gmail Users Better-Connected When it comes to how the webmail users participate on social networks, Rapleaf found that the majority of the users have only one social media profile. But the service where the

networks with 46.2 friends while Yahoo users have the least with 40.0. Since again, Gmail users tend to be younger than the rest, it goes to reason that they would be in a demographic where their peers are more likely to have social membership profiles. Older webmail users, meanwhile, are still signing up for these sites. Although baby boomers and other middle-aged folks are joining sites like Facebook in droves these days, social networks are still dominated by the young. Methodology For the Rapleaf study, the company sampled 120,000 webmail accounts from users with @aol.com, @gmail.com, average number of profiles is the @hotmail.com and @yahoo.com highest might surprise you - it's email addresses. They then Hotmail. There the average is 2.5 looked into the users' age, gender profiles per user. Hotmail is and social networking data by followed by Yahoo, then AOL, collecting information from and it's Gmail users who have the public social media profiles. least number of social media Obviously, in doing so, they've profiles. That finding seems odd skewed their findings a bit, as the considering that Gmail users are company notes in their original younger and more likely to use blog post. However, the sample Twitter in addition to Facebook. size is large enough to form some In fact, it almost seems like this conclusions about the members data doesn't even fit with the rest of these services, even if it relied of the study. on a particular subset of users. However, the discovery that Discuss Gmail users are better-connected than the other users makes more sense. On average, Gmail users have the most friends on social

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At Last! Facebook Improves Photo Uploading Experience By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:11:54 AM

Facebook has just added a new photo uploader tool to their Prototypes directory, the "labs" section of the social network where new programs are released for testing prior to their public rollout. The uploader dramatically improves on what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts over 80 billion photos and adds around 2 billion more each month, the process of adding new photos to your profile was cumbersome, slow and buggy. Even Facebook itself admitted there were problems saying that most users found the tool "functional, but only just." They also discovered that a significant percentage of users couldn't even upload photos due to technical issues. Because of these complaints, the company finally decided it was time to

revamp their uploader for good. Sponsor Believe it or not, the Facebook photo uploader hasn't changed since its introduction in 2005. As it did then, the current tool still relies on a third-party ActiveX control and Java Applet. For users, this meant a photouploading experience that felt just as old as it was. When thinking as to how the new uploader should function, Facebook had a few goals, most of them technical in nature. They wanted the new tool to no longer depend on Java, be compatible with future versions of Facebook's chrome, be easy to update and more. However, to the end user, the best part about the new uploader is that it allows you to start a photo upload and then leave the page to browse around elsewhere on Facebook (or even the web!) while the upload is underway. To meet their goals, Facebook went with a browser plug-in that uses JavaScript APIs and a front-

uploader from days past. Facebook says the new tool has several additional security mechanisms built in as well, one end created with HTML and of the more interesting being a CSS. The end result is a much "kill switch" that can remotely improved experience. But like deactivate the tool in the event the Facebook blog post says, that a security hole is discovered. "while it looks like magic, it's While confident that the new really just a bunch of cool uploader is already securely hacks." Hacks or not, regular designed and architected from the Facebook users will greatly start, the company has released it appreciate the upgrade. Install the as a prototype first so people can New Photo Uploader Tool report any security issues they To install the new uploader, you may find. must first visit the Prototypes Less technically-minded folks page for the tool and activate it can simply activate the tool and for your profile. Then, the next use it, reporting any problems time you go to create a new they find as well as far as user album, you'll be prompted to experience issues, crashes or install the Facebook plug-in. other bugs. Depending on the O n c e c o m p l e t e , y o u ' l l b e results of the tests, Facebook will presented with the new user be able to correct any problems interface which lets you browse prior to rolling it out to all users. through your computer's photo If you want to give the new library and select the images you uploader a shot yourself, you can w a n t t o u p l o a d . T h i s n e w do so by visiting its page here. interface is much easier to Discuss navigate - and more attractive, too - than the old Facebook

Seoul ready to ‘talk again’ to US on cars (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 11/19/2009 3:45:06 AM

Lee Myung-bak, the South Korean president, on Thursday assured Barack Obama, his US counterpart, that Seoul was willing to “talk again” about cars, the main sticking point to what stands to be the biggest US trade deal in more than a decade. Speaking at a joint news conference, Mr Lee stopped well short of saying the bilateral deal, which was signed two years ago but has not been ratified by either country’s legislature, could be renegotiated as US congressmen demand, but his words appeared to soften Seoul’s previous position that the agreement could only go forward as written. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Neil Patrick Harris & Other Fellas Talk Fashion at GQ's 'Men of the Year' Party (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:16:00 AM

The men were looking polished and sophisticated at the iconic

Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night for GQ's "Men of the Year" Party. They told ET how they whipped up such a refined look. "How I Met Your Mother"'s Neil

Patrick Harris let us in on a secret: "I'm one of the lucky guys because I play a character on TV right now that wears suits all the time, so I asked the wardrobe

girls to throw something together for me and it's pretty much what I wore all day long." The married men confessed they entrust their wives with the

styling duties. LA Lakers' star Kobe Bryant said, "My wife actually is the stylish one of the house...She dresses me."

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Microsoft Launches Pivot, A Radically New Visualization of Online Objects

Is Twitter more open than News Corp?

By Jolie O'Dell (ReadWriteWeb)

My chin fell to the floor this morning as I read a BBC article quoting Twitter co-CEO Biz Stone advising Rupert Murdoch to be more open. This got me to think about where Twitter is and where they're going and how similar it is to where Murdoch's newspapers are. In a newspaper, reporters get the prime space with the big headlines, and the readers are placed in a corner, Letters to the Editor. Or represented by a "Public Editor" who does a better job of representing the editors and owners. In Twitter there's a similar hierarchy developing, pretty rapidly. The prime space is allocated, in a totally non-transparent way, to certain people, and the rest of us are mostly talking to ourselves, in very small numbers. I was having coffee the other day with a former colleague at Berkman, Ethan Zuckerman, who said he would try to do something special if he had the

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It always gives us joy to tell our readers that Microsoft is actually doing cool things. The company's Live Labs has been the source of a few interesting projects: a 3D photo-stitcher called PhotoSynth, a bookmarking service called Thumbtack(which was shuttered just this month). Typically, the UIs have been slick, but user adoption has lagged. Today, the Live Labs' latest creation has launched. Pivot is a fun, powerful discovery tool, built on Seadragon and powered by Silverlight, that runs in Vista or Windows 7 with IE8. It looks great and allows for truly intuitive exploration of information. Sponsor The official demo video is was pretty cool, but is proving unembeddable. Instead, take a look at this onstage demo from Neowin: In short, datasets are organized as collections. Results can be as

granular or as big-picture as the user desires, and correlations and patterns are easy to see and examine through powerful but simple visualizations. Imagine browsing through thumbnails representing Kiva loans, then sorting the loans by the different types of businesses they helped established. Or, on a nerdier note, think about riffling through decks of Magic: The Gathering cards, zooming in for larger-than-life detail of the card's artwork and then zooming out to see how each was related or linked to others in the set. This probably reminds you - as it did us - a lot of Wikipedia. But imagine Wikipedia as an infinitely scannable, shuffleable, expandable, retractable, linked, and yet still detachable deck of digital cards; and then you have an inkling of how Pivot looks and feels.

Collections can be created by anyone, including third-party developers. Types of collections include simple, linked, and dynamic, which are each progressively more difficult to create. Developers are also encouraged to create collections from existing online datasets, such as the Internet Archive or data.gov. It's very exciting, indeed; and it's available for Windows users only at the moment. Mac users, we're sorry. Why don't you go write some complaint letters on your beautifully designed, virusimmune machines? We'd love to rub it in some more by posting a few screenshots with gloating captions, but we're too busy trying to get this machine to stop being so Windows-y and just run the software Right now, the service is invitation-only. We encourage you to Google around for your invite codes or check in here later to see if the kind folks at Live Labs have passed along any to us. Discuss

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millions of followers you get when you're on the Suggested Users List. I've seen people go that route. All of a sudden it's not good enough to be yourself, now you have to do something to take advantage of the flow you're able to generate. I wonder if that distortion, when it all shakes out, will be all that different from the feeling a reporter gets that he or she is more than a person writing from their own point of view. My guess is that it's more or less the same thing. Stone has made a mess of something that could have been great by not being tranparent. How ironic that he advises Murdoch on something he himself so badly needs to do. Pretty typical of the way the tech industry relates to media. Anyway, I think it's inevitable that Murdoch and many others in the media business will see the need to challenge Twitter for dominance in the realtime message distribution network. I don't see Twitter as being any more or less open than Mudoch's company. The basis for success will come elsewhere.

MediaDailyNews: New Actresses Vie In Next 'Scream Queens 2' (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:21:30 AM

"Scream Queens 2" will take 10

aspiring actresses and give them the chance to win a breakthrough role in "Saw 3D," the next film in Lionsgate's "Saw" horror

franchise. Produced by Lionsgate and Joke Productions, the reality show and will premiere in 2010. This season's cast will again be

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Cut the Drama: Private APIs, the App Store & You By Andrew Bednarz (TheAppleBlog)

Now Includes an Automated Layer. The quick version is that Apple is now Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:00:18 AM using an automated tool to I’ve had a rant building up for a determine if the Apps that f e w w e e k s . A r a n t a b o u t developers submit to the App developer’s treatment at the Store are using any Private API h a n d s o f t h e A p p S t o r e calls. submission procedure. However These two headlines are actually unlike many rants on the topic, the same story, a fact that was mine is not directed towards made quite apparent by a popular Apple. It is directed towards the d i r e c t i P h o n e - t o - i P h o n e iPhone developers who complain messaging App called Ping!. On about the poor, unfair treatment Ping!’s Facebook Page, the they get, carrying their bleeding developer announced that the hearts in their palms while much-anticipated version 1.2 of claiming Apple is bludgeoning Ping! has been rejected by Apple: the life out of them. Bad news is Ping! 1.2 has been Two recent news headlines, rejected by Apple on Nov 14 due s e e m i n g l y s e p a r a t e , a r e to a software library we used, intrinsically tied together and the developed by the Facebook synergy of them have made my company. This library is used by e y e s d i s l o c a t e d f r o m t h e many apps including Ping! and c o n t i n u e d r o l l i n g t h e y the iPhone Facebook app itself. involuntarily perform. Unfortunately the most The first headline, Facebook recent version of this library has Developer Turns Back on iPhone v i o l a t e d s o m e o f A p p l e ’ s relates how another high-profile guidelines and has caused developer has thrown their hands hundreds of apps to get rejected up in disgust over how Apple’s including Ping! 1.2. closed system runs against their So let’s get this straight. Ping! principles. A direct quote from and hundreds of apps have been Joe Hewitt, developer of the rejected because they used a popular Facebook application can popular development framework, be found on TechCrunch, and is a framework which used Private most relevant. I will come back APIs. A framework, which was to this later: created by Joe Hewitt initially for I respect their right to manage u s e w i t h t h e F a c e b o o k their platform however they application and then made w a n t , h o w e v e r I a m available to third-party philosophically opposed to the d e v e l o p e r s . existence of their review process. Lets be clear about this; Joe The second headline is Apple’s Hewitt used Private APIs in his App Store Approval Process public framework, well-known to

shouldn’t have been allowed, we are working on a way to fill up the cracks in the system” • Apple then goes ahead and fill the cracks with an automated (and thus unbiased) system to test of private API usage. • Developers then cry foul, “It’s not fair, you’re a bully, it’s too hard.” Cry me a river…. Before I get off my soap box, I’d like to add that there are times and places for Private API use. As a professional software be against the rules of the App a dozen, maybe two dozen make developer working on proprietary Store, and then acts all indigent a public fuss and quit. Big deal! custom embedded solutions on when Apple slaps his framework This is the real world; businesses Windows Mobile devices for down. Rather than disclosing his start, some succeed and some specific customers, I freely admit error, rather than saying “oops can’t hack the brutal reality. to using Private API calls at sorry about that,” he would rather Those just make excuses and times. Sometimes its necessary to ride the trendy wave of ‘blame quit. Just like everywhere else in get a specific job done. The difference is scope and Apple control policy’ and cite the business world. ‘philosophical differences.’ I To summarize the full story that control. Our clients deploy the r a t h e r w o n d e r i f t h e s e I see, it goes something like this: software under our care and philosophical differences would • Apple publishes the rules for guidance, with specific OS and still be present if his framework making iPhone Apps, including hardware requirements. If they hadn’t been caught in this publishing and documenting the change devices or operating automated tool. If it were just specific APIs which developers systems, we know about it well in advance and can prepare for it other people’s frameworks that are allowed to use. were caught, would he still have • Some developers ignore these accordingly. Our clients don’t quit for ideological reasons? rules and make use of Private just upgrade the OS and expect Now I don’t mean to pick solely APIs. Some Apps get through the everything to work. The consumer market is a on Mr Hewitt, and maybe I’m cracks in the newly functioning completely different kettle of being too harsh. But he is just the App Store review procedures. latest example in a blogosphere • Apple starts to crack down on fish, customers upgrade willythat increasingly seems to love private API usage. Developers nilly and expect things to just taking the loud minority and say who get rejected due to Private work, especially things related to “Look! Here’s proof that the end API use cry foul “Why are WE Apple products. Private APIs are is nigh!” Come on, the end isn’t rejected but THOSE apps are private for a reason, because they nigh, it’s not even on the horizon. allowed?” This was a fair can not be relied upon to behave Out of the thousands of App question. CUT page 48 Developers that exist, we’ve had • In response Apple says “They

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Ozzie Misses the Point, says Apps Don’t Matter By Liam Cassidy (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/18/2009 3:56:27 PM

Speaking yesterday at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie explained what’s really important when it comes to the smartphone business, and it’s apparently nothing at all to do with the number of apps available on any one platform. All the apps that count will be ported to every one of them. It’s a completely different situation from the PC market, where software’s built to run on a Windows or a Mac. Mobile apps require very little development, so it’s much easier to bring them onto every platform. Yeah. That’s why there are more than 100,000 apps in the iTunes Store and, what, five in the Windows Marketplace? And that’s why quality apps like Facebook or Tweetie 2.0 have been ported, feature-complete, from the iPhone to Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Palm OS? Oh, wait… The point here is that Microsoft’s senior execs apparently continue to misunderstand what’s going on in todays smartphone market. Microsoft seems to view the iPhone not as a serious competitor but more as a toy, something to disregard because

grown-ups (grey-suited corporate drones) aren’t interested in all that flashy functionality and rich media. They’re not interested in the astonishing range of software available for the iPhone. They just want Mobile Powerpoint and Excel, plus a few other ageing Office apps. That’s all that really matters, right? Wrong. We need look no further than JD Power’s recently published results of a satisfaction survey they conducted of business smartphone customers around the world. Apple came in at number one, RIM finished second. WIRED’s Gadget Lab published an article yesterday examining some of the mistakes Microsoft has made with Windows Mobile. NPD Group analyst Ross Rubin told WIRED: Microsoft’s mobile OS history is rooted in personal digital assistants, which were marketed toward enterprise audiences. Today, the smartphone has shifted into the mainstream as a consumer device, and yet Windows Mobile is still largely focused on enterprise features. Perhaps Microsoft has a significant change planned for the release of Windows Mobile 7, WIRED’s Brian Chen asked Redmond HQ. They declined to discuss Windows 7 directly, but did have this to say about their mobile OS business; The company’s mobility strategy

timely article published this week by the Wall Street Journal, about the disparity between old, primitive tech used in the office, and the far more capable and empowering technology found at home. According to the WSJ’s Nick Wingfield, execs at Kraft Foods noticed the difference. Executives began to worry that the company’s technology has not changed; it is and has p o l i c i e s w e r e p r e v e n t i n g a l w a y s b e e n t o p r o v i d e a employees from staying in step software platform for the with trends. Kraft was a industry. The company works consumer company, they figured, c l o s e l y w i t h m a n y m o b i l e so workers needed to be more operators and device makers familiar with the technologies around the world because people that consumers were using, want different experiences on a whether the iPhone or YouTube. So, the IT department stopped variety of phones. blocking access to consumer Well, it’s certainly a different experience alright. A lousy one. Web sites, and the company That’s one reason Microsoft’s started a stipend program for global smartphone market share smart phones: Workers get an has dropped from 11 percent in allowance every 18 months to 2008 to 7.9 percent today. In the buy a phone of their choosing. meantime, Apple and RIM have (Over 60% picked iPhones.) seen their market shares swell to With all the above in mind, I 1 7 . 1 a n d 2 0 . 8 p e r c e n t , can’t see how Microsoft’s Mobile strategy could be respectively. Microsoft’s Mobile strategy is considered sound business. If I out of touch. Ever-increasing were a Microsoft shareholder, I’d numbers of enterprise customers be hopping mad at the company’s who once used Windows phones apparent inability to understand are today carrying Blackberrys or — and adapt to — the demands iPhones and have entirely o f t o d a y ’ s s m a r t p h o n e different expectations of their c o n s u m e r s . It’s paradoxical, really. cellular devices. Mobile Outlook just won’t cut it any more. Microsoft has always highlighted how customer choice is of Hopping Mad Driving the point home is a paramount importance, indeed, a key component in its success

with Windows. In the quote above, Microsoft’s own spokesperson stresses how Microsoft works with mobile operators and OEM’s to provide choice. But at the PDC yesterday, Ozzie seemed to be saying that an impressive selection of apps (ie. choice) is un important. He mentions “apps that count” but doesn’t say what those apps are; in any case, that’s a short-sighted assertion. Apps that matter to me, may not matter so much to you. That’s precisely why an iPhone owner’s home screen is so fascinating to other iPhone owners. The iPhone’s greatest strength is the tens of thousands of software titles available in the App Store, usually at a knock-down price. There is, literally, something for everyone, no matter how discerning ones’ taste in Games, Productivity tools, or fart apps. I give Windows Mobile another year, max. If it can’t build its app marketplace into a substantial repository of quality titles at (very) low prices, it won’t matter how closely Microsoft works with its technology partners. Because, at that point, Windows Mobile will be reduced to a Wikipedia entry as an “also ran” in the history of the smartphone.

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Intel Capital Invests in Mac-focused Active Storage By Weldon Dodd (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 11/18/2009 11:30:49 AM

Is it possible that the Mac is making inroads with Enterprise IT? Intel Capital announced at CEO Summit that it is leading a Series A investment round in Active Storage of Torrance, CA, which builds high-performance storage solutions for the Mac platform. Other investors in this round include Mission Ventures and Valhalla Partners. Intel Capital invests in companies that drive demand for Intel products, but it also looks to make money and apparently it sees money in enterprise-class solutions for the Mac. Active Storage was born out of Apple’s decision to discontinue the Xserve RAID. Alex Grossman, CEO of Active Storage, and the other founders were previously executives in the Servers and Storage products group at Apple, Inc. They left to form their own company that would produce storage solutions of the same quality. While Apple has been pitching the Promise VTrack RAID as a replacement solution, Active Storage has developed its XRAID product line to be a lot more Mac-like with brilliant Mac-native management software. This is

high-end gear for serious business — fibre-channel, redundant controllers, redundant power supplies, redundant cooling, etc — with an emphasis on performance. The XRAID comes in two flavors, the original XRAID with 16TB capacity expandable to 32TB and the XRAID ES with 4TB, expandable to 16TB. All of this power is wrapped in a sexy package that feels very Apple like. The folks at Active Storage have put a lot of care into building enclosures with no sharp edges, tapered screws that sit flush with the chassis, thick gauge aluminum, and slick handles on the drive sleds that pop out with a light touch. I had a chance to take a look at the

XRAID at Macworld Expo in January and the build quality on these units is astounding. Having been in a data center or two in my life, finding a polished product where attention has been given to every detail to make it simple to access from both the front and the back of the rack is a real joy. One of the coolest pieces is an iPhone monitoring app that gives you all the details you could want on how the XRAID is performing even when you are not near the data center. This is definitely a storage solution fit for a Mac. The extreme ease of use in a Mac environment has made Active Storage popular in the entertainment crowd. When asked to explain further, Mr.

Grossman explained that, “You may not know this because you aren’t in working with these systems every day, but featurelength movie production requires 50 to 100TB of storage. And that need doesn’t go away when the movie is finished either. There is a need for long-term archival storage as well. And it doesn’t always make sense to use tape backup, so disk-to-disk archiving is growing.” Final Cut has made the Mac platform a common choice for film editing with some feature films like King Kong being composited and edited entirely on Macs. With the advent of HD, the storage needs for films are growing astronomically. Active Storage appears to be positioned

to take advantage of that trend. It makes a great hardware solution in conjunction with Apple products like the Xserve, Final Cut Server, and Xsan 2. The company currently has about 25 employees, but about 50 open positions on its web site. It is obviously looking to grow substantially in 2010, especially with this capital available to fund hiring and product development. It is great news to see a wellrespected investment fund like Intel Capital place bets on the Mac market, especially in a company that is focused on enterprise-class solutions for the Mac.

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Mplayit Provides iPhone App Discoverability Via Facebook By Darrell Etherington (TheAppleBlog)

presenting say all the top Twitter apps. The best part of Mplayit, from Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:22:38 AM the standpoint of people who recommendations via the app I spend an awful lot of time which will appear on their profile need to see to believe, is that poking around in the App Store page and in the news feed. That most apps come complete with in both iTunes and on my iPhone, way, you’ll have a trustworthy videos and images previewing just in the hopes of finding source when you’re shopping for the functionality of the software something new and exciting to new software for your device. running on an actual iPhone, and download and use on my device. By far the most useful aspect of a full text description, too. That’s It’s not an ideal situation, and I Mplayit during my brief use of what puts Mplayit ahead of other often wish Apple would throw t h e a p p w a s t h e a p p iPhone app discovery sites like o u t i t s t i r e d m o d e l a n d recommendations and shared AppShopper.com or 148apps. Of completely restructure the App a p p s . T h e r e s t , i n c l u d i n g course, each app also includes Store from the ground up. popularity, search and categories buy links that redirect you to the There’s little chance of that is already available to users via App Store, and a link through happening, but a new Facebook the App Store itself. which you can add the program app could help make the App I’m not exactly sure how apps to your collection, which helps Store more navigable, and do so get on to the recommended list, Mplayit track app popularity and with a little help from your since I would assume that they recommendation information. friends. Mplayit is a new service would be the ones which are the Many people are reluctant to use being offered on Facebook that most recommended, but then F a c e b o o k a p p s b e c a u s e o f aims to bring some sense to the what’s to differentiate them from privacy concerns and fears of jungle that is the 100,000-strong the shared app? Whatever the spamming the news feeds of A p p S t o r e u s i n g a m o r e m e t h o d o l o g y b e h i n d t h e i r friends, but after trying out the intelligent browsing system selection, the fact remains that service for a little while, I based on recommendations and they are good picks, and well haven’t found any cause for demos. deserving of attention. The list concern with Mplayit. The best The idea is that there’s no one provides a good variety, too, part is that you can still use most better to recommend iPhone apps covering apps with a range of aspects of the app without you’d like then your friends. f u n c t i o n s i n s t e a d o f j u s t granting it access to your profile Using Mplayit, friends can make information.

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from one OS release to the next. I’m constantly dumb-founded as This means that applications will to why some people expect it to break and the consumers, you be so. and me, lose out. In the brutal competition of any market place, and indeed the world in general, the strong will survive and the weak will perish. The App Store is no different and

Review: The New Adventures of Old Christine - Love Means Never Having to Say You're Crazy By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:18:00 PM

(S05E08) Ah, Dave Foley. His sad sack Tom has been good for a laugh more than a few times, and he was used to good comic effect again this week. In the double blind-date scenario with Christine and Richard, his counterpart was the lovely Jennifer Grey, real-life wife to Clark Gregg. The New Adventures of Old Christine is a rare comedy in that it can work in guest stars like this without it detracting from either the ongoing character moments, or taking the spotlight away from the main cast. Too often when a show gets deeper into its run, like Will & Grace in its final years, it becomes a cavalcade of celebrity guest-stars, as if the writers have run out of ways to keep things THIS IS HUGE 0 c o m m e n t s S o u r c e : fresh with their own core group. Christine has mixed things up www.boingboing.net

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TV Ratings: Modern Family, Cougar Town rebound , Glee tops with young adults and teens By Robert Seidman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:45:19 AM

CBS won the night both with adults 18-49 and overall viewers on the backs of Criminal Minds and CSI: NY. FOX edged out ABC for second with adults 18-49 and FOX won the night outright with adults 1834 by a wide margin with its lineup of So You Think You Can Dance and Glee. Glee was the night’s highest-rated program of the night with adults 18-34 and teens. Modern Family and Cougar Town were both up from the ratings-notched November 4th when Cougar Town hit a series low with adults 18-49 (CMA Awards aired last week) and were the night’s most-watched comedies. Both The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried were up about 5% from last week, and Criminal Mind s was up almost 10% with adults 18-49, though CSI: NY was down 16% with adults 18-49 from last week’s CSI crossover. It was the most viewers for The New Adventures of Old Christine since March 11, 2009, and the best adults 18-49 delivery since the season premiere on Sept. 23, 2009. It was Gary Unmarried’s best with adults 18-49 since November 19, 2008.

The America’s Next Top Model finale reached season highs in women 18-34 and women 18-49, and matched season highs in adults 18-34 and adults 18-49. This was down more than 25% with adults 18-49 from last year’s fall finale on 11/19/08. The In The Spotlight With Robin Roberts: Janet Jackson special didn’t have out of the park ratings (at least from an “all

things Jackson” perspective, but it did outperform the last new airing of Eastwick by more than 25% with adults 18-49. In Late-Night Local People Meters Wednesday night: • Conan O’Brien (1.0/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS’s LATE SHOW (1.1/5) in Nielsen’s 24 local markets with People Meters.

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Law & Order: Old Dog, New Tricks? By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

Fridays have been renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes. • (S) – Syndication: Shows nearing syndication (66-88 episodes), often have economic factors that trump ratings leading to renewal. • (T) – Third Party: Shows that have a portion of their cost underwritten by a 3rd party can be renewed with substantially lower ratings. • (P) – Produced by the network’s production company – For shows on the bubble, being produced by the network’s corporate production company can be a survival advantage. For real losers, it’s unlikely to help.

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Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through November 15, 2009): • Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010 • Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010 • Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season Who was the guy who wrote “ Law & Order: Twenty And Done“? Oh yeah, me. In my defense, the show’s ratings on Friday began terribly. Here are the adults 18-49 ratings for the episodes this season (1.2, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, 1.7, 1.6). It’s almost as if the fans couldn’t find the show during its first two weeks. A show increasing its ratings by 25+% over a short period like that rarely happens. If Law & Order can hold a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating on Friday (maybe even a 1.6 rating) it’s back on NBC next season. With a 1.7 rating and assuming that NBC’s overall average falls after football to a 2.5, that would produce an Index of 0.68. CBS renews its Friday dramas with those relative ratings, I figure NBC will too. Trauma is canceled now, no new

episodes will be ordered. Mercy’s ratings make it effectively as canceled at the end of the season. It has a 22 episode order, but it has done no better than Trauma. No chance it comes back next season. The ratings carnage at NBC is so complete that unless a miracle happens this spring with their new shows (and their development slate) the network very well may have to have to hold its nose and keep some of its well below average performers. If that happens, 30 minute

sitcoms like Community and Parks & Recreation are the likely candidates. This is a breakdown of NBC scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks: • ABC scripted shows • CBS scripted shows • CW scripted shows • Fox scripted shows Notes: The Renew/Cancel Index is a show’s Season To Date adults 18

-49 rating divided by its network’s Season to Date average 18-49 rating. If a show’s season to date 18-49 ratings average equalled its network’s 18 -49 average, the show would have an Index of 1.00. Without special factors, scripted shows that were more than 10% below their network’s average are typically canceled by the end of the broadcast primetime season. Factors that could cause a show to be renewed with a well below average Index: • (F) -Fridays: Shows airing on

While I initially tried to designate shows with “plum” timeslots, I think that’s hard to make that call at this point in the season. It’s likely still a factor, but will have to be an “after the fact” call. What’s the History of the Index and How Did It Do In the Past? Check out the results from the 2007-8 season and the 2008-9 season. Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings used are Live+Same Day viewing. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Proof that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles -- even though Apple won't talk about the device. Condé says its tablet magazines will feature the same content found in the print versions, including original ads, with the ability to view pages in their original form or in formats designed specifically for the device. Also, the digital version will import multimedia content, like videos, and synch up with social networks and other Web sites. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Set in the summer of 1963, “Dirty Dancing” tells the story of 17-year-old Baby (Grey) who vacations with her parents at a Catskill’s resort. While there, she meets Johnny (Swayze), the hotel dance instructor, who changes her life forever. Baby soon becomes Johnny’s pupil in dance and love. The film also stars Jerry Orbach and Cynthia Rhodes, with choreography by Kenny Ortega(“High School Musical,” “This Is It”). About TV Guide Network TV Guide Network is the true entertainment insider and the only network that celebrates Hollywood, its stars and the shows that fans adore. Committed to buzz-worthy, breakout programming and a rich, multi-platform viewing experience, TV Guide Network is seen in more than 80 million homes nationwide and online at TVGuide.com, a one-stop fan destination serving 21 million unique users per month. TV

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'Hawks Likely Have Some Dealing to Do By Bruce Ciskie (FanHouse)

Reports began to surface this week regarding some significant Submitted at 11/19/2009 1:00:00 PM moves by the Chicago by Bruce Ciskie Blackhawks. Five-year deals are F i l e d u n d e r : B l a c k h a w k s , coming for forwards Patrick W e s t e r n , N H L E c o n o m i c s Kane and Jonathan Toews, and

defenseman Duncan Keith is

apparently going to sign a mammoth 13-year deal for less annual money. 'Hawks Likely Have Some Dealing to Do originally appeared on Fanhouse NHL Blog

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Fox Continues Youth Demo Ratings Leads; CBS Now Flat Or Down vs. Last Season By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:03:11 AM

Season To Date Ratings While ABC’s adults 18-49 ratings win for the week chipped away at Fox’s season to date lead, if Fox continues to place a close second it will easily hang onto the seasonal lead until American Idol and 24 arrive and its annual spring ratings beatdowns resume. Fox continued to stretch its season lead in adults 18-34. This season is shaping up to be a huge margin of victory for them in that demo. CBS increased its 25-54 lead over Fox, but ABC closed the gap between them and CBS ever so slightly. In average viewership, CBS increased its lead over ABC by the tiniest of

considering their automatic boost to their seasonal ratings averages just by dumping Sunday nights. Compared to last season, the CW’s current situation is a disappointment. Each rating point is a percentage of the US TV population in that demographic group and equals: 2.90 million viewers, 1.32 million adults 18-49, 0.68 million adults 18-34 and 1.24 million adults 25-54. Note that the chart includes RATINGS not VIEWERSHIP as margins. No reason to believe Season all categories vs. last season. was typical in our weekly they will not win that category The biggest change since last While they were certainly helped network ratings posts prior to again this season. week is that CBS can no longer by a big improvement in the July, 2009. You can see past week’s claim increases in any of the World Series numbers, they were Nielsen TV Ratings Data: broadcast network primetime broad ratings demographics vs. well ahead before the baseball ©2009 The Nielsen Company. season to date average TV ratings last season. They are now down playoffs began. The CW is ahead All Rights Reserved. results here. or flat in all of them. vs. last season in adults 18-34, This content has passed through Ratings Increase / Decrease: Fox continues to be the only but they should be well ahead of fivefilters.org. 2009-10 Season vs. 2008-9 English broadcast network up in last season across the board

Review: The Middle - The Scratch By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:15:00 AM

(S01E07) Right from the beginning, The Middle had me in familiar territory. I remember rushing around the house gathering trash and trying to get it out to the curb before the trash truck finished at the neighbor's house. And I remember just missing it; what a horrible feeling that was. From there, while I was still able

to enjoy the episode for the laughs it offered, I was just as equally terrified. As a parent, I've often wondered just how close we are to having the state take our children away. How innocent a comment or statement would it take before these agencies swoop down on our lives with all their self-righteous glory and scare the living crap out of us that they're going to tear our families apart? From the moment when the police officer told Mike he wasn't

even allowed to touch Brick in the principal's office, to the social worker refusing to tell Frankie

and Mike how the evaluation went until she filed her report, it just seems like way too much power for some outside entities to have over our families. Continue reading Review: The Middle - The Scratch Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments

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National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT.

The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports. Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.) Time Shifted Viewingâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live, Live+Same Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day.

Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day(Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast. For more information see Numbers 101. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

LeBron James injures left wrist on dunk against the Washington Wizards By Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:04:18 AM

LeBron James Injury Analysis LeBron James Injury Analysis WASHINGTON -- LeBron James hurt his left wrist by banging it on the basket while dunking late in the Cleveland Cavaliers' 108-91 loss to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. James "I hit it pretty bad on the rim," said James, who iced his wrist in the locker room after the game.

"It's like you hit your funny bone, but it's not funny at all." He said it happened on one of his driving dunks that closed Cleveland's scoring with more than 2 minutes left. "Didn't feel good at the time," said James, who added that he hurt the same wrist earlier this season. He finished with 34 points and nine assists. Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force to air new Christmas episode in December By Jonathan Toomey (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:53:00 PM

With the holidays fast approaching, it's good to know that Adult Swim is thinking of you. According to their online schedule, Aqua Teen Hunger Force will return on December 13th at 11:45 p.m. ET with an episode elusively referred to as

"ATHF Xmas." In true Adult Swim fashion, there's been absolutely no indication as to what this episode might be about, however it's likely that it somehow ties into the recently released Aqua Teen Hunger Force Christmas CD, Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas. If you haven't bought you haven't lived until you've it yet, do yourself a favor and get heard Meatwad croon his own it now. Trust me when I say that

version of "Silent Night" or Carl cackle his way through "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Anyway, regarding the episode, it's the only one listed on the schedule, so it's probably not the new season premiere, but it'll hopefully have some sort of performance aspect with songs from the album. That and maybe The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future

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What's On Tonight: Bones, Vampire Diaries, 30 Rock, Project Runway By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

• At 10:30, Current has a new Rotten Tomatoes Show. • At 3AM, FOX News has a new Red Eye.

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• At 8, ABC has a new FlashForward, followed by new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. • CBS has a new Survivor, then new episodes of CSI and The Mentalist. • NBC has a new Community, followed by new episodes of Parks and Recreation, The Office, 30 Rock, and The Jay Leno Show. • FOX has new episodes of Bones and Fringe. • The CW has a new Vampire Diaries at 8, then a new Supernatural. • At 9, Spike has a new TNA Wrestling.

• Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Action at 9. • TLC has a new American Chopper at 9. • Current has a new SuperNews at 9. • Also at 9: History Channel has two new episodes of WWII in

MediaDailyNews: AP Cuts 71 Job This Week, Closes 4 Bureaus (MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:38:17 AM

The Associated Press, hoping to cut expenses by 10%, laid off 14 union workers yesterday and Check your local TV listings for c l o s e d f o u r U . S . b u r e a u s , according to the News Media more. After the jump, the late night Guild, reports Bloomberg. The four shuttered bureaus were in talk shows. Continue reading What's On D a y t o n , O h i o ; R o a n o k e , Tonight: Bones, Vampire Virginia; Grand Rapids, D i a r i e s , 3 0 R o c k , P r o j e c t Michigan; and Jacksonville, Florida. AP fired 57 Guild Runway F i l e d u n d e r : L a t e N i g h t , workers on Nov. 17, according Programming, Celebrities, Talk the union. In its annual report, HD. Show, What To Watch Tonight, AP said that salaries and labor• At 10, Lifetime has the season related expenses rose 1.8% in Reality-Free finale of Project Runway, P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | 2008. Net income rose 4.5 followed by the season finale of percent to $25.1 million from Comments Models of the Runway. $24 million in 2007. • FX has a new It's Always This content has passed through Sunny in Philadelphia at 10, then fivefilters.org. a new episode of The League.

Review: Modern Family - Great Expectations By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)

They haven't had as much screen time, yet, as really anyone else on Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:31:00 AM the show, but who can deny how (S01E08) I don't know if enough funny it is watching Ariel Winter credit is being given to the child as middle daughter Alex just actors on this show. All four are torturing her dimmer siblings. doing top-notch work... five if Sarah Hyland is channeling her you count Lily. We already knew best Mila Kunis in the role of that Rico Rodriguez is amazing eldest daughter Haley, who's just she matched wits with her as Manny, but so little is being so tortured by how mean and grandfather, only he'd been down said about the Dunphy children. horrible her family is. This week,

this road so many times with his own daughter, and to a lesser extent his son, that he knows all the tricks by heart. I was laughing so hard I had to rewind and watch the whole scene again when Haley got up from the table and stepped outside, only to find Jay out there already changing a light bulb. Continue reading Review:

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Joy Behar Show Ratings No Better Than The Show It Replaced

Review: Cougar Town Two Gunslingers

By Bill Gorman (TVbytheNumbers)

By Joel Keller (TV Squad) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:05:00 PM

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In response to some commenter requests, reader MikeS has produced a chart of the first 50 days of ratings for Headline News’ The Joy Behar Show and compared them to the final 50 days of the show she replaced, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell. So far, Joy’s done no better in the ratings. Remembering the tiff caused by earlier time period vs. time period comparisons, I’m sure this is not intended to imply that the two time periods were exactly the same in terms of ratings potential. They’re simply the numbers, interpret them as you will. The trend lines above are 10 day moving averages. For complete information on all

cable news ratings check our daily cable news ratings posts. Anybody else wanting to produce trend charts of any of our other data, drop me an email. Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates(as of September, 2009) CNN/HLN: 99.10 million HHs CNBC: 96.78 million HHs FNC: 96.26 million HHs MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company.

(S01E08) It does seem like we're still in the "unsteady footing" stage of this series, doesn't it? For every episode like "Don't Come Around Here No More," which shows the cast gelling and gives us the glimmer of hope that the show will become a really good ensemble, we have episodes like All Rights Reserved. this one, which are at times funny P e r s o n a l a t t a c k s i n t h e and at other times irritating. c o m m e n t s w i l l b e d e l e t e d . Commenters have told me to Political comments will be stop obsessing over the fact that deleted. If I have to delete your Courteney Cox's character of comments more than once I will Jules is at her most annoying just block you from commenting. when she's dealing with her "over If you find the comments to be 40" issues. But I just can't; that's unpleasant, please just don’t read when the show is at its most them. – Bill sledgehammer-in-your-face This content has passed through irritating, with Cox acting to the fivefilters.org. rafters. This episode showed that quite a bit -- I could have used less of Jules desperately trying to convince people she could pass

for 34 -- but it also showed that, when Jules isn't worrying so much about her age, Cox does a pretty nice job of making Jules less of a cartoon. Continue reading Review: Cougar Town - Two Gunslingers Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Cougar Town Permalink| Email this| | Comments

Footprints in the Snow: Phillies By Knox Bardeen (FanHouse) Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:00:00 AM

by Knox Bardeen Filed under: Phillies, NL East Footprints in the Snow is FanHouse's look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. Philadelphia Phillies general

manager Ruben Amaro made it a point not to bring back the exact same lineup in 2009 after winning the World Series in 2008. He succeeded in that goal by replacing the departed Pat Burrell with Raul Ibanez in left field. The strategy worked as the Phillies won their division and made it all the way to the World Series, eventually losing to the

New York Yankees. During this offseason, expect the

mantra to be very similar to last winter. The one position in the lineup that likely will roll over is third base. The team declined their $5.5 million option on Pedro Feliz and will try and find an upgrade in the free-agent pool. If they fail to do so, they can always bring Feliz back to the team. More Footprints in the Snow

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Soccer Diary: France Beats Ireland (2-1 Aggregate) (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/18/2009 10:30:36 AM

AFP/Getty Images William Gallas (right) celebrates his overtime goal that put France into next summer’s World Cup finals. The Journal provides minute-byminute analysis of today’s second-leg match in France’s 2-1 aggregate victory over Ireland in a World Cup qualifying playoff. Journal staffer Dave Kansas offers commentary on the game and the telecast. 12:07 pm | Pregame | by Dave Kansas France takes a 1-0 lead into its home return match against Ireland with one of the few remaining tickets to the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer on the line. Les Bleus won Saturday's opening leg of the two-match set in Dublin on a goal by Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea). France, led by Anelka and fellow forward Thierry Henry (Barcelona) needs a tie or better to go through to South Africa. Ireland expects to have as many as 25,000 fans packed into the Stade de France. Robbie Keane (Tottenham) will lead the Irish attack while goalkeeper Shay Given (Manchester City) will do his best to keep Franceâs attacking firepower at bay. Among other World Cup qualifiers, Portugal takes a 1-0 lead to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia trails visiting Russia 2-

1 and Greece travels to Ukraine tied at 0-0. 3:01 pm | Pregame | by Dave Kansas Greetings from an undisclosed location somewhere in West London. Surrounded by lots of fans here, mostly Irish backers. Before we get to the big game, a couple of updates. First, Algeria has beaten Egypt 1 -0 to advance to South Africa. Places are getting fewer and fewer. Greece has edged Ukraine 1-0 which has Athens on the way to the World Cup finals, too. Lots of heartbreak among the Ukrainians nearby. They peppered the Greece goal often toward the end of the match in a driving rain, to no avail. For France-Ireland, no suprises

in the starting lineups. Nicolas Anelka and Thierry Henry up front for France, Karim Benzema on the pine. For Ireland, Robbie Keane and Kevin Doyle need to find the net, Shay Given in goal. The other big games we'll try to nose in on from time-to-time: Russia at Slovenia and Portugal at Bosnia-Herzegovina. Teams now walking onto the pitch at St. Denis outside of Paris. Strong Irish contingent on hand. But plenty of French flags, too. Should be lively. 3:04 pm | First minute | by Dave Kansas Anthems have been sung, flags waved, the issue is simple. Ireland trails 1-0 on the road. They need to score or else it is all moot. In the stands: French hero Zinedine Zidane.

3:05 pm | Second minute | by Dave Kansas Lots of play up the middle as both sides feel one another out. French keeper Hugo Lloris with a touch, but nothing much happening yet. 3:06 pm | Third minute | by Dave Kansas France with some control through Bakari Sagna on the right side, but the play breaks down and Ireland clears. Thus far, France looks the more composed side. 3:07 pm | Fifth minute | by Dave Kansas Bit more from Ireland. Kevin Doyle up front to Robbie Keane, but Patrice Evra snuffs it out. Lousy clearance by Evra falls to Ireland, but their resulting free kick doesn't amount to much.

Goal kick to France. 3:10 pm | Fifth minute | by Dave Kansas Julien Escude of France gets banged up a bit going for a header. He is bleeding and being tended to on the sidelines, but no sub so far. Ireland keeping the pressure on. After the first couple of minutes, they have pressed forward effectively. 3:14 pm | Ninth minute | by Dave Kansas Sebastien Squillaci comes on for the injured Escude, who is carted off. France responds with a quick attack through to Henry, who scuffs the shot wide. 3:15 pm | 11th minute | by Dave Kansas While Ireland has dominated SOCCER page 57

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much of the early possession, France has looked the more menacing. Henry should have done better with the recent through ball from Lassa Diarra. 3:18 pm | 14th minute | by Dave Kansas French cross to Lassa Diarra is banged over the Irish goal. The match has drifted back in France's favor. Sagna throw-in to Diarra, Henry is banged down by John O'Shea, giving France a dangerous free kick about 30 yards out. 3:20 pm | 15th minute | by Dave Kansas Free kick falls to Anelka, who drives it into Irish traffic. Online commenter awesome writes: "now this is awesome! finance and soccer at the same place!" Indeed -- another record high for gold today! 3:22 pm | 17th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland threatening again, with a cross cleared by Evra. Ireland is showing moments of threat, but for the most part, France seems to have the upper hand thus far. Kevin Doyle makes a good run down the left side, but he can't control the ball as he sails by the French box. 3:23 pm | 20th minute | by Dave Kansas O'Shea bangs Henry, giving France a fee kick from about 40 yards. WIlliam Gallas and other defenders come forward for France. Squillaci heads Henry's free kick well over the net. Goal kick for Given.

3:25 pm | 21st minute | by Dave Kansas Robbie Keane looking a bit lonely out front for Ireland. He has yet to really latch onto anything. And just like that, Liam Lawrence's run down the right side results in a floating ball across the box that can't find Keane. France clears after a few quick breaths from backers of Les Bleus. 3:27 pm | 23rd minute | by Dave Kansas Reader Red Devil thinks this is brilliant -- indeed! Ireland threatens and Lloris with a very big save. France can't clear and Lloris comes off the line to thwart Robbie Keane's goalmouth effort. Really brilliant by Lloris. He had to dive into the fray there to prevent Keane from touching the ball. 3:30 pm | 25th minute | by Dave Kansas Irish threaten again. This time a cross to Kevin Doyle glances off his head as William Gallas applies pressure. The header goes just wide. Oh, Ireland is getting plenty of chances all of a sudden. Gallas a bit shaken up by that flurry. Reader NikkiMiami says this is a foregone conclusion -- I don't know! 3:32 pm | 28th minute | by Dave Kansas After the recent Irish flurry, France settles down a bit. Perhaps the early exit of Escude has affected France more than one would have thought. Duff takes the ball down the left side, but his effort is cleared out to

Henry, who takes the ball at midfield before it goes out of bounds. Henry having to come back quite far to get the ball. 3:36 pm | 30th minute | by Dave Kansas For right now, France is relying heavily on their back four, Gallas in particular. Ireland continues to threaten. A through ball to Robbie Keane at the edge of the box finds him offside. 3:36 pm | 32nd minute | by Dave Kansas GOAL!!! IRELAND!! 3:40 pm | 33rd minute | by Dave Kansas Doyle takes the ball down the left side deep and slots it back to Keane, who slams it home for his 41st international goal. No chance for Lloris. Great goal. Ireland up 1-0. Game definitely on. 3:41 pm | 36th minute | by Dave Kansas Things very quiet at Stade de France. But France pushing forward. They won't go quietly. 3:42 pm | 38th minute | by Dave Kansas Corner to France. Henry skies it well over the action. But France controls. 3:44 pm | 40th minute | by Dave Kansas France keeps pressing ahead. Anelka's cross bounds to the top of the box, but it is cleared by Ireland. Tense times. Ireland would be unwise to let France press forward too much. 3:46 pm | 42nd minute | by Dave Kansas Free kick to Ireland at midfield,

but it goes to Lloris. 3:48 pm | 43rd minute | by Dave Kansas Can France steal one in the waning moments of the half? Ireland has become much more conservative, but it is only tied in aggregate. 3:49 pm | 45th minute | by Dave Kansas Two added minutes. Anelka fires a shot from outside the box; easily handled by Given. 3:51 pm | 45th minute plus one | by Dave Kansas Irish free kick about 35 yards out after a Gallas foul. Taking their time. But the kick bangs off Evra. 3:51 pm | Halftime | by Dave Kansas Twweeeeet. Robbie Keane has made it 1-0, 1-1 aggregate. Big second half coming up. Need to address some tech difficulties, back soon! 4:06 pm | 46th minute | by Dave Kansas French crowd alive again, lots of flags, and dour coach Raymond Domenech paces the sidelines. We're off! 4:08 pm | 47th minute | by Dave Kansas Lassa Diarra floors Keane and O'Shea has a great chance on Lawrence's free kick but pops it over. Ireland may rue that miss! 4:09 pm | 47th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland continues to look like the more potent team. 4:15 pm | 49th minute | by Dave Kansas Ooh, another golden chance for Ireland, but France clears. If

Ireland can score, based on the away-goal rule, they would be in the driver's seat. In a real sense, one more Ireland goal is worth two, since France would then need three to win. 4:16 pm | 53rd minute | by Dave Kansas Will France rise to the moment? A threat by Anelka via Evra goes nowhere. Long way to go yet. 4:19 pm | 55th minute | by Dave Kansas Still 1-0 and some discussion of extra time coming from the commentators. Premature? Just at that moment, Anelka takes the ball down the right side and plays it in to Henry, but the ball is cleared by Ireland. Close run, that. 4:19 pm | 56th minute | by Dave Kansas Govou on for Gignac of France. 4:21 pm | 57th minute | by Dave Kansas Evra to Anelka down the right and he pulls a great move, shoots into the box and the ball seems to glance off of Richard Dunne's hand. No penalty given, and none really warranted. Arm was down. But French faithful screaming. 4:22 pm | 58th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland starting to get a bit chippy. Free kick to France from 25 yards to Given's left. Henry tees up the kick. Cleared by Lawrence, but not far and the ball comes back into the box where Given is Shay on the Spot to make the save. SOCCER page 58

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4:22 pm | 60th minute | by Dave Kansas OK, it's starting to get tense. South Africa on the line and we're all knotted up. France has started to press forward effectively, but Ireland are thus far equal to the task. But the Green are a bit on the back foot right now. 4:23 pm | 60th minute | by Dave Kansas This is getting ridiculous. Just as I say Ireland is sitting back, Damien Duff breaks free and he should have done better, but Lloris fends him off. Just like that, Lloris springs Henry down the right side and his chance on goal glances off Given for a corner. Oh man, oh man. 4:24 pm | 61st minute | by Dave Kansas Corner...into the mixer, but Ireland clears. 4:24 pm | 63rd minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland sub: Whelan off, Gibson on. 4:25 pm | 63rd minute | by Dave Kansas Keane dropped at midfield, looking for a yellow, but none coming. Ireland plays it into the France end, but nothing doing and France will reset. 4:26 pm | 65th minute | by Dave Kansas Okay, if we end as we are with Ireland up 1-0, we get extra time. Then if that ends tied, we go to penalties. Oy. 4:27 pm | 66th minute | by Dave Kansas Anguished Irish Reader? Jason

O'Connell writes: "All Duff had to do was chip it over the keeper's head...I know he was being pressured but with Johnny's miss it should be 3-0" No kidding... 4:28 pm | 66th minute | by Dave Kansas John O'Shea comes off for McShane at Stade de France. O'Shea may be injured, it seems. 4:30 pm | 68th minute | by Dave Kansas Bit of a breather all of a sudden. Can't be breathless back-andforth forever, I suppose. With 22 minutes in regulation remaining, France seems to be getting the most chances, but Ireland looks absolutely scary on the counterattack. If Ireland can score, the hill becomes huge for France -- it would need those three goals on the away-goal rule. 4:32 pm | 70th minute | by Dave Kansas It's all France right now. Henry with a great chance but it slams off Dunne, I think. 4:33 pm | 71st minute | by Dave Kansas This time, it's Anelka. But he pushes it wide. Lawdy! 4:34 pm | 72nd minute | by Dave Kansas Oh my! Lawrence's through ball to Keane springs the Irish striker. But he can't close the deal. Oh, the Irish have missed some golden opportunities! 4:37 pm | 75th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland gaining a little control here, and badly needed. But handball (shoulder?) on Keane

ends the small threat. 4:40 pm | 77th minute | by Dave Kansas France throws forward again. Sagna on the right, back to A. Diarra and Gignon is fouled. Free kick to the right of Ireland's goal. Possible threat here...But first, Squillaci collects a yellow card for some scruffiness prekick. Ireland clears the kick. 4:42 pm | 80th minute | by Dave Kansas Ten minutes now left in regulation and the game is taking on a bit of a punch-drunk quality at times. Ireland has definitely had the better chances, but with Anelka and Henry, France really can threaten at anytime, like George Foreman throughout his career. Thus far, though, the big dogs have come close but been unable to land the telling blow. 4:43 pm | 82nd minute | by Dave Kansas Given free kick into the French end. Lawrence puts it in the middle but Lloris is there. France comes back down the field through Anelka, but Ireland clears. The Irish will NOT back down, even as France brings more and more forward. 4:45 pm | 84th minute | by Dave Kansas Duff and Evra mix it up, Duff getting the best, Evra getting the kick for France. Ball is played deep into the Ireland end, but beyond Henry. Ireland clears. 4:46 pm | 85th minute | by Dave Kansas France back in the attacking end. Ireland is sitting back more and

more, trying to hit on the counter -attack. Playing to French vanity, perhaps, knowing that Les Bleus must think they OUGHT to win at the Stade de France? Spirited game, very spirited. 4:48 pm | 87th minute | by Dave Kansas On comes Malouda for Gourcoff for France. Throw-in for France in the Irish end. Evra throws it in, cleared by Ireland. 4:50 pm | 88th minute | by Dave Kansas France still threatening...should have a couple minutes of extra time at least. Duff breaks things up and suddenly Ireland has some chances. 4:51 pm | 89th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland still controlling; Duff playing nicely here.Inside to Lawrence, but he can't make it happen. Good possession for the Irish. 4:51 pm | 90th minute | by Dave Kansas Keane intercepts a pass inside the France end and he has a chance...but he pushes it high and wide. Oh, how many chances has Ireland squandered today? We have three minutes added time! 4:52 pm | 90th minute plus one | by Dave Kansas Malouda gets a yellow card for France. 4:53 pm | 90th minute plus two | by Dave Kansas Scrambling play around midfield and it breaks for France, but Anelka puts the ball over the goal from the left side. Henry well

covered in the middle, no threat there. 4:55 pm | End of regulation time | by Dave Kansas France with the last chance of regulation. Anelka down the left. He dribbles around, finds Henry, who can't put it home. Great chance for France. BUT TWEETER TWEET TWEET, we are done with regulation. Need a breather. Extra time, here we come! 5:01 pm | Intermission | by Dave Kansas OK, lots of debate about extra time, aggregate, etc. Here's where we stand. It is tied 1-1 in aggregate. France won 1-0 in Dublin, Ireland has won 1-0 in Paris. Now we go to extra time. There IS away goal advantage. That means that if Ireland scores, France would need three goals to win. They would lose at 2-2 in aggregate. Extra time is NOT sudden death. If it's tied after 30 minutes, we go to penalty kicks. 5:02 pm | 91st minute | by Dave Kansas Back underway at the Stade de France. 5:02 pm | 92nd minute | by Dave Kansas As often happens, bit of a lull here after the extra time gets underway. Play bottled up in midfield as the teams start to show signs of fatigue. Can't blame 'em. SOCCER page 61

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Ex-Kansas Jayhawks players: Coach Mark Mangino said 'hurtful' things By Joe Schad (ESPN.com)

was mad," Brown said. "And I said, 'Yes, sir. Yes, sir.' The yelling didn't bother me. But then M a n g i n o D e f e n d s H i s he said, 'Shut up!' He said, 'If you Reputation Mangino Defends His don't shut up, I'm going to send Reputation you back to St. Louis so you can Former Kansas football players get shot with your homies.' I was are speaking out about an irate. I wanted to hurt him to be investigation into allegations honest with you." c o a c h M a r k M a n g i n o h a s Brown said another teammate v e r b a l l y a b u s e d o r h a d had confided in the team that his inappropriate physical contact father was an alcoholic and the with players. player dreamed of becoming a Former Jayhawks linebacker lawyer. Mike Rivera, who plays for the "One day, [Mangino] said in T e n n e s s e e T i t a n s , s a i d front of the entire team, 'Are you Wednesday night he could not going to be a lawyer or do you speak about the allegations. He want to become an alcoholic like plans to have a formal interview your Dad?' " Brown said. on the matter with representatives Said former Kansas wide from Kansas in the next few receiver Marcus Herford, also a days. senior last season: "I remember But five of Rivera's former that. Very vividly. [Mangino] teammates said they were not w o u l d t a k e y o u r p e r s o n a l surprised by the investigation business and he would attack you launched by athletic director Lew with it. There's nothing wrong Perkins. And some relayed with being a disciplinarian. But p e r s o n a l e x p e r i e n c e s w i t h there is a way to handle your Mangino. players and keep them motivated. Former Kansas wide receiver His way was to demotivate you Raymond Brown, a senior last and make you feel as low as you season, said Mangino would can go." often "say personal, hurtful, Herford said he was not embarrassing things in front of surprised by the allegation people." Mangino had poked senior Brown cited two examples. He linebacker Arist Wright in the said that once, his younger chest at a walk-through prior to brother had been shot in the arm the Oct. 17 Colorado game. in St. Louis. Then came a game. "I remember one time he grabbed "I dropped a pass and [Mangino] [former offensive lineman] Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:53:04 AM

Anthony Collins and Anthony threw his arm down," Herford said. "I mean, to put your hands on another man? There is no reason to ever do that. And Anthony was very angry. Mangino was screaming. And Anthony was like, 'You're not going to do me like that.' " Said Brown: "I don't know if poking and grabbing is physical abuse. Sometimes Mangino maybe goes over the edge. I have seen him run up to a player and push a player. Sometimes he gets in your face and you feel like, 'OK, now you're in my bubble.'" Big 12 blog ESPN.com's Tim Griffin writes about all things Big 12 in his conference blog. â&#x20AC;˘ Blog network: College Football Nation Said former Kansas running back Jocques Crawford, who played one season before transferring to Tennessee Tech: "Every other day, he'd get in somebody's face and be pushing them on the shoulder pads. He tried to provoke us to get us to snap. His whole motto was to 'break you down to build you up.' One time I felt he'd gone to far with Mike [Rivera.]" Crawford said he left, in part, because, "I felt disgraced by my coach." "At halftime, he could pick out players one by one and talk about

their flaws," Crawford said. "He got to me and he says, 'We have a guy on the team that says he's going to rush for 2,000 yards and he's not shown me s---. After I arrived, players told me, 'You have two weeks until you see the real Mangino come out.' Some of the things he would say or do were totally outrageous." "He'd say things like, 'I'll send you back to the street corner where you came from,' " Herford said. "He'd say, 'This is Kansas, you're not back home,' " Crawford said. "He'd say, 'You're not back with your homies. If you're not careful you'll be watching the game in the stands with your homies. You'll be back in that neighborhood.' " Former Kansas defensive lineman Russell Brorsen said that though he's "not surprised that people are coming out of the woodwork now," he believes Mangino is a "hard-nosed, demanding, disciplinarian." "I'm not going to deny that some of those things didn't happen," Brorsen said. "But I think part of the problem here is you have four or five years worth of stuff hitting the fan within a period of three or four days. I think [Mangino] could get pretty intense. And I think there was swearing. But my personal opinion is it's not much worse

than what you would get at another university." Said Herford: "Everything the players have been going through, for years, in my opinion, has been covered up by the winning. If somebody was to bring it up, they would have said, 'Well, it's working, because you're winning.' We've seen this all along. His coaching style has never been accepted by his players. It's just now, it's blowing up." As the investigation continues, Mangino told reporters Wednesday night that he expects to coach against No. 2 Texas on Saturday. "I have not done anything that's inappropriate," Mangino said. "I have been in this conference for nearly 20 years, and what I can tell you is that our coaching intensity does not largely differ from the other Big Eight and Big 12 teams that I have observed. We have handled this program in terms of intensity and holding players accountable the same since 2002 to today. Nothing's changed. Absolutely nothing has changed." Joe Schad is a college football reporter for ESPN.com. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Hand of Henry Sets Soccer World Ablaze (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:21:35 AM

The evidence is clear: A Thierry Henry handball led to William Gallas’s goal in extra time. (He touched the ball twice, actually, as the German video below shows.) That goal propelled France to a 2-1 aggregate victory over Ireland, sending the French to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup and the Irish home with an excruciatingly painful loss. Associated Press Thierry Henry looks back in anguish at the handball that led to the goal that stamped France’s ticket to South Africa. For many fans, Henry’s handball is reminiscent of Maradona’s“Hand of God” goal in Argentina’s victory over England in the 1986 World Cup. If FIFA, soccer’s governing body, was ambivalent about adding video review on goals, it shouldn’t be any longer. Referee Martin Hansson missed a huge, easy call when today’s technology could quickly have righted the wrong. Then again, soccer has had its share of infamous moments. “It felt shocking that a country’s dream could perish so fraudulently,” Vincent Hogan fumes in the Irish Independent. “Short of tucking the ball up his jersey, Thierry Henry couldn’t have been more openly tactile in

possession before flicking to William Gallas for the kill shot.” In the Irish Times, retired star Mark Lawrenson says“the dust from this match will take a long time to settle.” Ireland’s government and football association are demanding a replay of the game. Writing for the Times of London, former soccer player Tony Cascarino calls Henry “ an insincere cheat.” Also in the Times, Patrick Barclay argues for video review. The Irish Independent’s David Kelly sees a bright future for Ireland under coach Giovanni Trapattoni. Yahoo’s Martin Rogers says that “All’s fair in love and soccer, yet if there is any justice France will suffer the same fate it did at the 2002 World Cup — elimination in the group stage.” Wednesday was the final day of qualifying for South Africa, and the Journal’s Matthew Futterman says the results, which included Slovenia’s 1-0 upset of Russia, give hope to some of the world’s smaller nations. Finally, BBC has thumbnails on the 32 qualifiers for World Cup 2010.* * * One of college football’s most storied rivalries — Michigan vs. Ohio State — resumes with Saturday’s clash in Columbus Ann Arbor. But the Buckeyes’ recent dominance of the

injured reserve and are short numerous other contributors on offense and defense. Both Carolina and Miami have been clicking fairly well on offense of late, and Miami has a brilliant backup in Ricky Williams, but Miami’s shorthandedness makes Wolverines leaves Fox Sports’s them tough to pick in this one. Bruce Hooley pining for the days And in general. when their games always meant Pick: David: Carolina, Garey: Carolina, Al Toonie, the Lucky something. For the first time in recent Canadian Two-Dollar Coin: memory, the stakes for the Miami* * * Stanford-California grudge match The Chicago Blackhawks were are higher than those in the an afterthought for years in one Buckeyes-Wolverines game. In of the NHL’s biggest markets. the New York Times, Karen Season after season of missing Crouse profiles Stanford running the playoffs — and no Stanley back Toby Gerhart, a Heisman Cup since 1961 — had led to fan Trophy candidate who’s also a and media indifference. All that’s strong baseball prospect.* * * changed in the two years John Week 11 of the NFL season McDonough has been president. kicks off with a game Thursday The Hawks have young, exciting night between two 4-5 teams, stars in forwards Patrick Kane hardly a compelling matchup. a n d J o n a t h a n T o e w s a n d Then again, neither are most defenseman Duncan Keith, all games this weekend. Fellow about to be signed to rich Fixer David Roth previews the contract extensions, and are one of the NHL’s better teams. But Dolphins vs. the Panthers: Miami at Carolina (-3): These McDonough won’t be satisfied days that cliché about football until the Hawks win the Stanley being a rough game is looking Cup, the Chicago Tribune’s less like a thing people say and David Haugh writes.* * * more like something people A golf tournament without Phil should actually do something Mickelson, Tiger Woods nor the about. Sadly, whatever systemic winners of the four majors might changes are in the offing will not be on the radar with fans. Yet arrive too late for the Dolphins, the Dubai World Championship who recently placed star running this week has its merits, says one back Ronnie Brown on the observer. For one thing, the Irish

Independent’s Karl MacGinty writes, it gives some of Europe’s new young stars a chance to shine.* * * Basketball and football are the glamour sports at most Division I schools. But George Washington University is offering athleticbased aid in hopes of building a top-notch squash program, Jon Brand writes in the Washington Post.* * * Jilleanne Rookard has faced plenty of hurdles in her life: When she was 18, her father died of a heart attack. Her mother is battling multiple myeloma. Now the 26-year-old speedskater is on the verge of qualifying for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Pretty impressive for someone who took up speedskating only three years ago and has worked 20-hour weeks to raise money for training, Gary D’Amato writes in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. – Tip of the Fix cap to reader Don Hartline. 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 in the Daily Fix. You can email Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.

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5:03 pm | 93rd minute | by Dave Kansas France out in front, Malouda to Anelka and Anelka lets loose from outside the box. VERY close, but Given really did have that shot covered to the low right. 5:04 pm | 94th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland has had all the chances tonight, but hasn't finished it. Still, I believe Ireland will win it on penalties. 5:05 pm | 95th minute | by Dave Kansas Play decidedly chippy here in extra time. Free kick to Ireland at midfield. Keane looking for it by the goalbox but it comes off Kilbane to nothing. Lloris gathers it up and we keep on going. 5:07 pm | 97th minute | by Dave Kansas Evra breaks through, gets by Dunne, but good defending by Ireland. Corner to France. Not too many corners today. Skied over and no threat. 5:11 pm | 97th minute | by Dave Kansas Anelka goes down in the box, but rightly ruled no foul. Close call, that. Anelka with a half decent dive, but not good enough. 5:12 pm | 99th minute | by Dave Kansas A chance for Ireland. Wide! 5:13 pm | 101st minute | by Dave Kansas Oh my!!! Evra comes through and the ball is in the net -- but

called offside. Oh my. Flag was up before Evra shot. 5:14 pm | 102nd minute | by Dave Kansas GOAL to France!! Henry gets a free kick, over to Gallas and the Arsenal back slots it home. 5:14 pm | 104th minute | by Dave Kansas That goal not without controversy. France looked offside. Duff booked in protest. 5:16 pm | 105th minute | by Dave Kansas It also appears that Henry may have handled the ball before passing to Gallas. The teams switch sides. Ireland will feel quite wronged. 5:18 pm | 106th minute | by Dave Kansas We play on. If Ireland scores, they win. Penalties are no longer possible. A tie would go to the Irish. 5:21 pm | 107th minute | by Dave Kansas Irish corner flies across the crease, but not near anyone. Ireland still fighting. 5:23 pm | 109th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland scrappily trying to push the ball forward. But nothing to show. 5:25 pm | 112th minute | by Dave Kansas France looking to hit on the counter, but an Anelka move peters out. 5:26 pm | 113th minute | by Dave Kansas

Time starting to run short for Ireland. 5:28 pm | 116th minute | by Dave Kansas Dunne takes down Malouda: free kick to France. Kick goes out for French corner. 5:31 pm | 119th minute | by Dave Kansas Waning moments for Ireland; France looks on the cusp of making it to South Africa in a not terribly glamorous fashion. But they won't mind and who will remember come next summer. 5:32 pm | 119th minute | by Dave Kansas Ireland pouring everything forward. Dunner and his defensive comrades all in there, but thus far, France holding off the white shirts. 5:33 pm | 120th minute | by Dave Kansas Given comes forward for a corner kick, but Lloris gathers it up and he has to sprint back. France on the counter and they miss a huge chance to kill this. Lloris, by the by, has been great tonight. One minute added time. 5:34 pm | FINAL | by Dave Kansas That's it, France goes through thanks to a 2-1 win in aggregate. Ireland has every reason to be angry. The deciding goal came with France arguably offside and Henry handling the ball before crossing to his one-time Arsenal teammate, William Gallas. At the same time, Ireland had MANY

MANY chances to kill this match and didn't do it. Duff and Keane could have made the entire thing moot, but didn't. 5:47 pm | Postgame | by Dave Kansas France scored in extra time against Ireland at the Stade de France to win a spot in next summer's World Cup final in South Africa. Ireland came into the match trailing 1-0, but a firsthalf goal by Robbie Keane evened things up. The match ended with the two sides tied at 1-1 in aggregate. In extra time, William Gallas scored a controversial goal off a free kick to give France the lead and, ultimately, the win. France appeared offside and it appeared Henry handled the ball before passing to Gallas. Still, Ireland, which dominated spells of the first half, had several chances to add to its lead. Keane and teammate Damien Duff both had golden opportunities that were ultimately squandered. A valiant Irish effort at the close of extra time came for naught and France squeezed into the World Cup finals. Even though France struggled, a side with Nicolas Anelka and Henry will be a threat come next summer. Some teams will wish the Irish had finished the job.

Dragon Age: Origins DLC to 'Return to Ostagar' this holiday By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:58:00 PM

Polish up your armor and prune your dialog trees: EA has announced a new Dragon Age: Origins DLC adventure, " Return to Ostagar," is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC this holiday season for $5. The add-on will allow your hero to "revisit Ostagar, the site of the Grey Wardens' darkest hour, to reclaim the honor and learn the secrets of Ferelden's fallen king." Listen, we're as big of fans of Dragon Age: Origins as you're likely to meet, but we have to question the scheduling of this DLC release. It's not that we don't want it, but who out there has played so much DA:O that they're bored of what's on the disc? Seriously, the thing's like 340 hours long! Dragon Age: Origins DLC to 'Return to Ostagar' this holiday originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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keeping good company. His next game, though, wasn’t quite as good. He shot just 8 for Just eight games into his NBA 22, and scored just 25 points. career, Brandon Jennings already How does that compare to the 28 has joined an illustrious list of games that followed the prior 28 players. The Milwaukee Bucks efficient 50-point scoring nights? r o o k i e , w h o t u r n e d 2 0 i n I crunched the numbers, which September, scored 55 points demonstrate that a hot hand in a g a i n s t t h e G o l d e n S t a t e basketball doesn’t seem to carry Warriors Saturday while hitting over from one game to the next. 21 of his 34 shots. His third Jennings and his counterparts quarter may have been the most played their next game much like efficient scoring quarter ever, they did the rest of the season, a c c o r d i n g t o B a s k e t b a l l excluding those two games. The Prospectus— 29 points on just 13 day after their 50-point games, shots. Getty Images Brandon the typical player scored 27 Jennings lit up the Warriors with points, shot 43% from the field, 55 points, but scored just 25 hit 30% of three-point attempts points in the next game. and 80% of free throws. And Jennings also turned in just the over the rest of the regular 29th performance in the last 10 season, that same typical player seasons to feature 50 or more a v e r a g e d 2 5 p o i n t s w h i l e points and a field-goal percentage shooting 46% from the field, of 60 or higher, according to 34% from three-point range and Basketball Reference. The other 80% from the free-throw line. players on the list include Kobe This reflects a natural tendency Bryant (six times), LeBron James for players to regress to their (twice), Tracy McGrady (twice), mean performance. Dwyane Wade, Tim Duncan and Some follow-up performances Dirk Nowitzki, which would also stand out. Wade had a big dropbe a reasonable starting point for off, to 19 points on 8-of-21 the top players over the last shooting, but that came in the decade. Some other players to playoffs, as he erupted for 55 a c h i e v e t h e f e a t a r e n ’ t a s points in last season’s finale. A immortal (e.g. Jamal Crawford year ago, Tony Parker scored just and Tony Delk). Still, Jennings is four points before leaving Submitted at 11/18/2009 12:31:56 PM

better. (In his next game, Jamison shot 10 of 23 and scored 28 points.) Creating this list of players was made possible by Basketball Reference’s play index, a fun tool that allows users to search for every game since 1986-87 that meets certain criteria — for instance, 50 or more points and a shooting percentage of 60 or higher. Inspired by Matt Barnes’s 13 points and 13 rebounds last Friday, November 13th, and with the help of the site’s creator, Justin Kubatko, I found 316 performances featuring exactly 13 points and 13 rebounds(or 13 because of injury. He missed points and 13 assists, or 13 three weeks. Besides Parker, rebounds and 13 assists). (That Delk had the biggest drop-off in c o m p a r e s t o 5 1 3 1 2 - 1 2 points, scoring just 10 in his next performances and 248 14-14, so game while seeing a drop-off in it’s not a surprising number. field-goal percentage from 74% Incidentally, Jason Kidd had seven of the 29 games in which to 40%. O n t h e f l i p s i d e , A m a r e rebounds and assists were equal Stoudemire managed to improve and each totaled 12, 13 or 14.) from 74% shooting to 79% in his Exactly 13 of these — spooky! next game, in which he scored 34 — fell on the 13th of a month, points. And Antawn Jamison which isn’t a great surprise. If improved his field-goal shooting every day of the month were by nine percentage points, while equally likely, we’d expect about matching his point total — he 10 or 11 of these to fall on the was the only player on the list to 13th, but since the season collect back-to-back games with generally ends soon after April 50 points on 60% shooting or 13, more games are played on the 13th than on, say, the 22nd

during the season. The 13th falls on a Friday about one-seventh of the time, so about two of these 13 performances should have fallen on Friday the 13th. But four have — Barnes’s, Andre Miller in March, Marc Jackson in 2007 and Anthony Mason in 1996. Are NBA players working harder to get to 13, and then stopping, on Friday the 13th? Probably not. More likely, this search got off the ground in the first place because one of these anomalous events happened. Discarding that one, there have been three, and that’s not much more than two. Probably better to chalk this up to chance than to triskaidekaphobia or triskaidekaphilia. The Baseball Reference bloggers have been using that site’s even more sophisticated event finder tool. It can look for games since 1954 that meet the criteria of a certain equation or inequality — for instance, games in which a team scored more runs than it had hits. Among the recent findings are the two games in which a team’s lineup featured only players who were 33 or older, and the highest batting average by a team in a single game (.609).

Movie popcorn = 3 burgers + 12 pats of butter - TODAY Health By twitter:@abend0c4 (TweetMeme) Submitted at 11/19/2009 4:29:11 AM

Isn’t popcorn supposed to be a healthy snack? It can be, but watch out: One medium-popcorn -and-soda combo sold at a

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Bud Selig planning fewer breaks in playoff schedule By Associated Press (ESPN.com)

or foul. "I'm going to talk to a lot of people. I haven't changed my Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:36:02 AM view at all, but I'm always Mike And Mike: Greeny Wants willing to talk to a lot of people Credit Mike And Mike: Greeny and I've talked to a lot of Wants Credit managers and I've talked to a lot CHICAGO -- Baseball plans to of general managers," Selig said. cut down on off days during the "I haven't heard from anybody postseason next year. about instant replay. The only Commissioner Bud Selig said comments I get are when I call Wednesday he's working on somebody on a bunch of subjects tightening up the 2010 playoff and we talk about it." schedule so there will be fewer Selig said he's still working on gaps between games. details for the new postseason Los Angeles Angels manager format. Mike Scioscia criticized the "When you plan the playoff current format after the Yankees schedule, you don't know how and Angels played only eight many games the first round times in 20 days going into Game would go. So it's difficult," he 6 of the AL Championship explained. "There were clubs that Series. sat around. Some were necessary, "We're going to change it," Selig but some were not." said. "I don't disagree with Mike Starting in 2007, baseball added Scioscia. I think he was right, so four extra days off during the we're going to try and tighten that postseason at the request of its up." television partners, shifting the Selig also said he would W o r l d S e r i e s o p e n e r t o continue to discuss instant replay, Wednesday from Saturday, but it's not expected to be a major usually the lowest-rated night of topic when owners have a full the week. meeting Thursday morning even The economic disparity between though there were several missed payrolls for some of the largecalls by umpires during the market teams -- such as the New postseason. York Yankees-- and smaller ones In the past, Selig has resisted the will always be an issue, Selig idea of expanded video replay. said. Under the current system, it is A salary cap might bridge the used only to judge if home runs disparity between the largehave cleared the fence or are fair market and small-market teams,

but Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio said there are other ways to address competitive balance. Or imbalance. "For example, by changing the draft," he said. "Pretty much in the other sports the best players go to the worst teams. That doesn't always seem to happen in our sport. I think if we can adjust things so that happens that would help." At a meeting last week, general managers discussed factoring postseason performance into draft position, meaning the World Series winner would pick last. Drafting foreign players could also be a consideration, but that would be subject to collective bargaining. "I don't know what the mechanics of that would be. Right now, really international is somewhat freeform," Attanasio added. Under the current system, players outside the United States are not subject to the draft. They are free agents eligible to sign with any team. Selig favors restructuring the draft, too. "I've said it: We need a worldwide draft and we need a slotting system. There's no secret about that. It's fair," Selig reiterated. Revenue sharing was discussed

during committee meetings Wednesday. On another subject, Selig said he's not worried about the ownership situation with the Los Angeles Dodgers that has become messy after Frank McCourt and his wife, Jamie McCourt, separated. After she was fired as the team's chief executive, Jamie McCourt filed for divorce and said she would like to buy the club. "Look, the Dodgers are in good hands," Selig said. "There's no reason to get into any debate about what's going to happen. The Dodgers are going to be in L.A. for as long as any of us are alive and many generations after." During a dinner Wednesday night, owners were to welcome Tom Ricketts and his family as new owners of the Chicago Cubs. "Every franchise is different. Asset values are very important - they're very important to me, they're very important to these 30 people," Selig said. "But the Cubs are a very, very unique franchise. I mean there's no question about it -- Wrigley Field and the Cubs and everything about it." Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Meet ELLE Decor Editor Margaret Russell! By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/18/2009 1:22:38 PM

Want to mingle with Margaret Russell, editor-in-chief of ELLE Decor and author of Style and Substance: The Best of ELLE Decor? Then head to Anthropologie's Rockefeller Center store tonight between 7 and 9pm, where she'll be signing copies of the new book. And check back tomorrow for a recap of the event! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Erin Clements Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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Jayson Williams reportedly to take plea deal in shooting case By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:55:29 AM

TRENTON, N.J. -- Retired NBA star Jayson Williams has agreed to a plea deal that would send him to prison for up to three years for accidentally shooting a driver at his New Jersey estate in 2002, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Thursday. Williams, who retired in 2000 after playing nine seasons in the NBA for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, was to face a retrial in January on a reckless manslaughter count. The person, who was not authorized to speak about the case, told the AP on condition of anonymity that Williams is to plead guilty Friday to aggravated assault. Because a gun was used in the crime, Williams must serve at least 18 months in prison, the person said. The Star-Ledger of Newark first reported the plea deal, citing people with knowledge of the case. But Williams' wife, Tanya Young Williams, told ESPN on Thursday that "Jayson called me this morning to make sure that I wasn't blindsided regarding any

misinformation about a court appearance on Friday. "He said he has not accepted any plea deal at this time as he is still learning the details of the offer. He is still in mourning over the recent loss of his father and is finding it difficult to process those details." Williams' father died Nov. 10 at Williams' home in South Carolina. Several messages left for defense attorney Joseph Hayden were not returned Thursday. The state attorney general's office, which has taken over the case, declined to comment on any aspect of the case because of a gag order. The plea deal would resolve all charges in a case that dragged out for nearly eight years. Witnesses testified that Williams was showing off a shotgun in his bedroom in February 2002 when he snapped the weapon shut and it fired one shot that struck driver Costas Christofi in the chest, killing him. They also testified that Williams initially placed the gun in the dead man's hands and instructed those present to lie about what happened. The defense has maintained the shooting was an accident and that Williams panicked afterward.

During his trial, the jury deadlocked on the reckless manslaughter count, acquitted Williams of aggravated manslaughter and convicted him of covering up the shooting. He was never sentenced for the cover-up counts, pending the outcome of the retrial, and has remained free on bail. Williams had been offered pleas that would have called for him to serve less prison time, the person told the AP. One of the earlier offers, the person said, came just before a hearing last month on whether a racial slur used by a detective and other conduct by the county prosecutor's office should result in dismissal of the reckless manslaughter count and the cover -up convictions. State Superior Court Judge Edward Coleman later rejected the defense's claim that, had they known about the slur, they would have changed their trial strategy. Information from The Associated Press and Willie Weinbaum of ESPN's Enterprise Unit was used in this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Sources: Buffalo Bills contact Mike Shanahan about coaching opening By Adam Schefter (ESPN.com)

coach. Fewell is well-respected within the organization and will be given every opportunity to Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:12:48 AM earn the full-time job. Sources: Bills Contact Mike The Bills also will investigate Shanahan Sources: Bills Contact options expected to include Mike Shanahan Florida Tuskers coach Jim One day after firing Dick Jauron, Haslett and New York Giants the Buffalo Bills have wasted no offensive coordinator Kevin time identifying a potential Gilbride, both of whom have ties replacement. to the Bills. Buffalo has contacted and is in Haslett played linebacker for the process of arranging a Buffalo from 1979 to 1985. meeting with former Denver Gilbride was the Bills' offensive Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, coordinator during 2002-03, according to two NFL sources. when quarterback Drew Bledsoe AFC East blog had his most productive seasons ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes with the team. about all things AFC East in his Another candidate on the Bills' division blog. radar is Marc Trestman, coach of â&#x20AC;˘ Blog network: NFL Nation the Canadian Football League's Shanahan, a two-time Super Montreal Alouettes, who posted a Bowl winner with the Broncos, is CFL-best 15-3 regular-season said to be willing to listen to the record and are one win from the Bills. He has said in the past that Grey Cup final. Ironically, he is determined to return to the T r e s t m a n o n c e s u c c e e d e d NFL next season. Shanahan as the offensive While Shanahan is viewed coordinator of the San Francisco within the Bills' organization as a 49ers. desired candidate, there are other Adam Schefter is an ESPN NFL names at or near the top of the Insider. team's wish list. This content has passed through F o r n o w , t h e B i l l s h a v e fivefilters.org. appointed defensive coordinator Perry Fewell as interim head

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The Return of Eddy Curry, Antawn Jamison and ... Raja Bell?

Jim Rutherford Sees Better Things Ahead

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his "talents" with the hopes that someone will bite on his contract. That says a lot, doesn't it? by Tom Lorenzo For the Pacers it was Danny Filed under: NBA Last Night, Granger who led the way with 33 Fantasy Basketball Home points on 12-of-18 shooting and Delivery is your morning five treys. He wasn't very helpful roundup of last night's action in in the second half, scoring just the NBA from a fantasy three of his 33 in the final two perspective. quarters. The Knicks bench came up big like a safe add. The Return of Eddy Curry, as they erased a 19-point deficit Danilo Gallinari's big goose egg Antawn Jamison and ... Raja in the second-half on their way to was overshadowed -- literally? -- Bell? originally appeared on picking up their second victory of by the return of every Knick fan's Fanhouse Fantasy Blog on Thu, the season. Al Harrington led the favorite big man, Eddy Curry. 19 Nov 2009 06:00:00 EST . way with 26 points on 8-of-13 Big Slacks had 10 points and Please see our terms for use of shooting, while Larry Hughes four rebounds in 12 minutes feeds. added 22 points, 10 rebounds, coming off the bench. Mike Permalink| Email this| Linking seven assists and three steals. Breem said it best when he Blogs| Comments Hughes has trumped both Nate insinuated that the Knicks were Robinson and Toney Douglas at going to start giving Curry more the 'two' and continues to look playing time in order to showcase

by Susan Slusser Filed under: Hurricanes So far, this season is a disaster for the Hurricanes, a projected contender that fell flat from the get-go, hit with injuries and bedeviled by underperformance. Asked the reasons for his team's fizzle out of the gate, Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford told FanHouse, "I don't have enough fingers. It's been a little bit of everything." Yet Carolina is showing some positive signs of late. The team snapped a franchise-record-tying 14-game winless streak last week, then followed that up by playing well in a shootout loss to

Montreal. Coach Paul Maurice praised his squad after that game, and Rutherford agreed. Jim Rutherford Sees Better Things Ahead originally appeared on Fanhouse NHL Blog on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

Thursday-and-Long: It's Rex Ryan's Party, He Can Cry If He Wants To By Dan Graziano (FanHouse)

games in the NFL and has already been called everything from a breath of fresh air to a by Dan Graziano blowhard to a crybaby. Yeah, in Filed under: NFL Predictions, case you haven't heard the last NFL Analysis, NFL Notebook thing on the Jets' head coach is Could we all please stop telling that he cried during a team Rex Ryan how to live his life? I meeting Monday morning. The mean, I think we should stop New York Post broke the story, telling everybody how to live and it became a big deal in New Wednesday news conference, their lives, but we can start with York. Ryan, to his credit, brought joked that he'd just scored a Rex. Poor guy has coached nine o f b o x o f t i s s u e s t o h i s sponsorship deal with Kleenex Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:00:00 PM

and said, "I'm man enough to be me." "I'll be true to myself," Ryan said. "I'm always going to be, and I said that from day one. If I don't fit the stereotype of coach-speak or anything else, so be it. I'm always going to be myself." Can I say I hope Ryan is reading this when I type, "Thank goodness?" Thursday-and-Long: It's Rex

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Tito Ortiz Rematch Helps UFC 106 Video: Forrest 'Emotional' Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz Pre Griffin Go Back to Basics -Fight Press Conference By Ariel Helwani (FanHouse)

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by Ariel Helwani Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, FanHouse Exclusive LAS VEGAS -- Come Saturday night, Forrest Griffin will have an opportunity to answer a lot of questions: can he rebound mentally and physically from his recent loss to Anderson Silva at UFC 101? Is he still a major player in the UFC's light heavyweight division? And three and a half years later, can he prove that he deserved to be declared the winner when he fought Tito Ortiz in their first meeting in April 2006. FanHouse spoke to Griffin at Wednesday's UFC 106 media workouts about all these

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questions and more. The video interview is below. Tito Ortiz Rematch Helps 'Emotional' Forrest Griffin Go Back to Basics originally appeared on Fanhouse MMA Blog on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:25:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

by Michael David Smith Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC UFC President Dana White, main event fighters Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz, and co-main event fighters Josh Koscheck and Anthony Johnson will all meet the press on Thursday in Las Vegas at the UFC 106 pre-fight press conference, and if you can't be there in Vegas, you can watch here at FanHouse. White, Griffin, Ortiz, Koscheck and Johnson will answer questions, talk about their fights and maybe engage in some final trash talk on Thursday in the Mandalay Bay Ballroom. The press conference begins at 4 PM

Gmail Users BetterConnected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services By twitter:@grocerysalmon (TweetMeme) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:39:22 AM

The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was ET on Thursday and the video is examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact below. UFC 106 Video: Forrest Griffin that Gmail has more female users vs. Tito Ortiz Pre-Fight Press than male, for example. In the Conference originally appeared final sections of the study, the on Fanhouse MMA Blog on Thu, company has turned itsâ&#x20AC;Ś 1 comment Source: 19 Nov 2009 12:17:00 EST . w w w.readwriteweb.com Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

Sony pushes profitability goal back to 2013 By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:15:00 AM

Apparently unwilling to accept the cold, hard scientific fact that the world will end in December of 2012, Sony has announced that it plans to be profitable and operating at a five percent margin by March of 2013, according to the Washington Post. Though the

company originally hoped to hit the goal by March of 2008, an economic-collapse-shaped wrench was tossed into the works of that particular plan. As you might imagine, the PlayStation division is a big part of Sony's profitability strategy, o n t h e b a c k o f d i g i t a l and the company says it hopes to distribution. Sony's targeting 300 have that part of its business in billion yen (around $3.4 billion the black by next year, partially

or 1.7 billion copies of the Andy Dick PAIN DLC) in digital sales by March 2013, which would

amount to six times what it pulled in this year. Sony pushes profitability goal back to 2013 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Marvelous lost money on most of its Wii releases

Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition hits retail in March, DLC in February By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)

the first DLC chapter earlier. "Lost in Nightmares" and a custom pack will be available for It looks like Capcom USA was download on February 17 for tired of us making fun of the Xbox 360 and February 18 for By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) published Stateside by Ignition, costs, Marvelous said, PSP proposed name for the upcoming PS3, while the second unnamed sold 45,000 copies. Little King's software was more successful, Resident Evil 5 expansion, " DLC episode will be released Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:45:00 AM Story sold 26,000 copies in with four out of five releases A l t e r n a t i v e E d i t i o n . " T h e March 3 (Xbox 360) and 4th Pretty much everyone can guess Japan, 37,000 copies in North making money on similar sales division has chosen a bling-ier ( P S 3 ) a l o n g s i d e a s e c o n d why No More Heroes is being America, and 67,000 in Europe. numbers. Half-Minute Hero was title for its stateside release: c o s t u m e p a c k . released again-- Marvelous needs Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga, M a r v e l o u s ' s o v e r a l l b e s t - Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Gallery: Resident Evil 5: Gold m o n e y . D u r i n g a Q & A which came out in September in performing title, at 70,000 copies Gold Edition will be released as a Edition p r e s e n t a t i o n ( P D F l i n k , North America, sold just 16,000 sold. retail box copy on March 9 for Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition Japanese) about its fiscal Q2 copies (Japanese sales, which [Via Siliconera] $49.99 as a single Blu-ray disc, hits retail in March, DLC in 2010 earnings, Marvelous boldly started in October, are not Marvelous lost money on most including the original game and February originally appeared on revealed that three out of its four mentioned). Harvest Moon: Tree of its Wii releases originally add-on content, on PS3 and as a Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 2009 Wii releases lost money, of Tranquility on Wii somehow appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 DVD with download voucher for 12:43:00 EST. Please see our though it didn't say which was sold 57,000 units in 2009 despite Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please Xbox 360. terms for use of feeds. the winner. being a 2007 release in Japan, a see our terms for use of feeds. If you already have Resident Read| Permalink| Email this| Muramasa sold 47,000 units in 2008 release in America, and not P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | Evil 5, you'll be able to pick up Comments Japan, the company said, not out until October in Europe and C o m m e n t s specifying American sales. Arc Australia. Rise Fantasia, which will be Because of lower development Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:43:00 PM

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GameStop earnings up in Q3, Modern Warfare 2 company's biggest launch ever

Sony to release 'non-game' dev kits in Q2 2010 By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)

gaming content. The PSP update adds a new category to the XMB called "Extras," which allows Already, various non-game users to launch the web browser applications can be found on both to download third-party apps on the PS3 and PSP. From Skype to t h e P S P . T h e P l a y S t a t i o n VidZone, the XMB now plays Network Digital Comics Reader home to a variety of services. is the first official "Extra" to Going forward, it appears Sony appear on the XMB, with more w i l l o p e n t h e P l a y S t a t i o n sure to come in 2010. p l a t f o r m f u r t h e r w i t h t h e A wide release of non-game dev introduction of "non-game" kits may attract the active development kits in the middle of homebrew community to release next year. official programs on the PSP and Last night's 6.20 firmware PS3. We'll be chatting with update for PSP lays down the SCEA soon to get further details. framework for additional non- Until then, we'll be dreaming of a Submitted at 11/19/2009 12:15:00 PM

native YouTube application for our PSPs. [Via VG247] Congratulations to StevenMichael on being the first to comment. You've been emailed a free Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta code. Click here, for more information on this giveaway. Official rules apply. Sony to release 'non-game' dev kits in Q2 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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initial sales expectations. GameStop also revealed thar Modern Warfare 2-- which Submitted at 11/19/2009 11:15:00 AM released in Q4 on November 10 G a m e S t o p r e m a i n s a n - sold 2.5 million copies at the unstoppable retail force, as the retailer in 72 hours. GameStop juggernaut slammed cash register C E O D a n i e l D e M a t t e o i s drawers shut with $1.83 billion in optimistic and believes MW2 is a sales and $52.2 million in profit bellwether for the rest of the for the quarter ending October holiday season. 31. The figures represent 8.2 and GameStop earnings up in Q3, 1 1 . 8 p e r c e n t i n c r e a s e s , Modern Warfare 2 company's respectively, from the same biggest launch ever originally quarter last year. appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 The top five games during the Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please quarter were Madden NFL 10, see our terms for use of feeds. Halo 3: ODST, Batman: Arkham Read| Permalink| Email this| Asylum, NBA 2K10 and Wii Comments Sports Resort, with all titles having "exceeded" the company's

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Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: A First Look By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

Star Wars: Trench Run targets iPhone today By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

angles, leaderboards, and, of course, special Force powers including the ability to slow THQ has launched (roughly) the down time. It's just not a Star millionth game to simulate the Wars flying game without a iconic attack on the Death Star scratchy Obi-Wan voice sample from Star Wars-- but on iPhone telling you to use the Force. this time! In Star Wars: Trench Star Wars: Trench Run($4.99): Run, available today for $4.99, Gallery: Star Wars: Trench Run you use tilt controls to steer your (iPhone) X-Wing ship, and touch controls Star Wars: Trench Run targets to take down the TIE Fighters iPhone today originally appeared that attempt to impede your path on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 to the Death Star's thermal 10:45:00 EST. Please see our exhaust port. terms for use of feeds. The game features both arcade Read| Permalink| Email this| and story modes, multiple camera Comments Submitted at 11/19/2009 10:45:00 AM

with metallic feathers. And she Submitted at 11/18/2009 12:47:19 PM ends up in this regal realm of princess-ness, where the wings Last Friday we took a sneak have Swarovski jewels and peek at some of the artfully peacock feathers.” constructed angel wings that will All photos: Kelly Stuart f l o a t d o w n t h e r u n w a y “The wings are very more in tomorrow's Victoria’s Secret conceptually driven than in years Fashion Show (airing Tuesday, past—and sublimely executed,” December 1, on CBS), and observed costume designer Todd captured exclusive images of Thomas. “Look closely at the beauties Doutzen Kroes and details this year. They’re really Miranda Kerr trying them on for remarkable.” Designer Marian size. This year’s fantastical affair “Killer” Hose crafted this piece bears a “romantic travel” theme (seen here on Doutzen Kroes), and features categories such as inspired by “travel, film, and Enchanted Forest, All Aboard, glamour,” using leather, vinyl, a n d S t a r T r o o p e r . — E r i n organza ribbon, velvet, and Clements rhinestones. “We came up with the idea of “We found out, with the model this girl who lands from outer search, just how many girls want space in Paris,” explained show to do this, and I feel so blessed,” stylist Charlotte Stockdale. “She said Kroes. To feel that energy gets on a train that comes to a and be in the center of all the halt in Pinkland, where pink girls attention is pretty amazing. It’s get on and off. Then they go into also very nerve-wracking.” this fairy-tale forest and little “Every year we come across new lady bugs and butterflies land on artists or jewelry makers or them and vines grow up on their textile painters or artisans. It’s clothes. Then, there’s Tick-Tock just such a luxurious job to be Time; the wings in this section able to collaborate with so many are based on clocks—there’s one people. And it’s exciting to be modeled after a pocket watch

back in New York for the show this year,” said Thomas. “It’s such a fun, theatrical show,” said Miranda Kerr. “It’s a great chance for us girls to get together. The energy is incredible, and the audience really gets involved.” “We’ve reduced the number of sections,” said Stockdale. “It used to be six, sometimes seven, and this year we’ve done five. In doing that, we’ve made the sections much longer. They’re all 12 outfits now, which allows us to tell a greater story within the sections. They’ve become more powerful. “The biggest challenge is not being repetitive,” says Stockdale. “You’re telling a story in a sentence. And the other challenge is marrying what looks good in real life with what looks good on camera, since they are opposite sides of the spectrum. Bold works very well. Delicate can work too, but it has to be done in a certain way or it doesn’t work on television.” Photos: Kelly Stuart

The Dubai Airshow As Seen From Orbit By Paul Adams (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

Our friend the GeoEye-1 satellite, which tirelessly photographs the world at halfmeter resolution from its constant orbit, swung by the Dubai

Airport the other day and took

this snap of the Dubai Airshow, East and the fastest-growing in progress this week. Thanks, airshow in the world. GeoEye-1! The Dubai Airshow is the largest aerospace event in the Middle

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With Her New NYC Store, Devi Kroell Sends ELLE’s Fashion News Trio Into a Tizzy By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/18/2009 2:45:58 PM

Serpentine Bar and Grill Pops up at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:15:50 AM

Every holiday season, a fair of mega-proportions known as the Winter Wonderland takes over Hyde Park. The yearly spectacle of rides, games, and performances, including a giant ferris wheel that towers over the trees and a skating rink, lights up the park in holiday splendor. Though, just because one goes to the fair, one doesn't have to be

subjected to fair fare. Enter the Serpentine Bar and Grill. The famous restaurant has popped-up on the Serpentine River in Hyde Park and is serving up classic British holiday fare along with winter favorites like spiced mulled wine, hot mince pies, roasted chestnuts, and guinea fowl in a breathtaking winter setting. There are rustic communal benches paired with gingham-covered tables set amongst holiday spruce trees. And to further set the scene, live

music plays the background. But this pop-up restaurant won't be around forever, only from the 19th of November to the 23 of December, so come by and grab a bite of holiday cheer. —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin The venue for the Serpentine Bar and Grill pop-up in Hyde Park (in summertime.) Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

ELLE’s Fashion News team descended on Devi Kroell’s new Madison Avenue store yesterday in full force. Anne Slowey wearing an Alex Wang duffel coat over a Marc Jacobs plaid top and 3.1 Phillip Lim trousers. Alexa Brazilian in a gray Vince blazer and J Brand jeans. And me in some vaguely 80s zip-up dress from Shareen Vintage in LA. I bring up our sartorial differences because upon seeing a pair of Devi’s black sequin-and-tweed, ankle-grazing pants, we three simultaneously lunged toward the mannequin at sample-sale speed. Apparently, we’re not alone. The $1400 pleat-front, low-waisters, which also come in basic black, have become the designer’s best seller of the season. (Those, and her signature fur vests.) It’s yet to

be seen which one of us buys them as an early Christmas present to ourselves, first. Somehow, I think it’ll be Slowey.—Whitney Vargas . Click through to see Devi Kroell's new Madison Avenue boutique. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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ELLE Décor Celebrates 20 Years By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:43:52 AM

Last night at Rockefeller Plaza’s Anthropologie store, our sister shelter magazine ELLE Décor celebrated its 20th anniversary with the release of a new book, Style and Substance: The Best Of ELLE Décor(Filipacchi). Editorin-Chief Margaret Russell, who’s worked at the magazine since its launch in 1989, greeted guests and Sharpied her signature on dozens of copies. "It's our yearbook," she says. “Especially for this economy, I wanted to do a book that was really packed with ideas, so I tried to choose pictures that look as fresh today as they did 20 years ago.” And we couldn’t resist asking Russell, who also appeared as a judge on Bravo’s Top Design, to tell us about one of her favorite home items: “The best drinking glasses

in the world are those Marta glasses from CB2. They’re ultra simple, and they come skinny and fat. I use them as pencil cups, too. They’re brilliant.” —Julie Vadnal, Editorial Assistant Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

Tom Binns Seeks Inspiration from Alice in Wonderland By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog)

inspired by Tim Burton’s movie, which is slated to come out March 5. Binns’ gems—dark Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:30:15 AM Cheshire cat grin earrings, a Tom Binns is launching a line of Queen of Hearts bracelet with Alice in Wonderland jewelry. resin and Swarovski crystal Binns, who in the last few years hearts, and keyhole-shaped rings gave us neon spraypainted floral f e a t u r i n g i m a g e s o f '50s-style jewelry and African, is W o n d e r l a n d — h i t s t o r e s lending his post-punk wit to nationwide in February and will necklaces and bracelets—all be priced from $50 to $1000.

Lewis Carroll’s book may have been about his Opium-fueled literary imaginings, but with Binns’ psychedelic tricks, there’s no need for any extracurricular drugs. His designs are mindaltering enough. — Anne Slowey Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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FAA glitch causes widespread US air travel delays (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

Takemoto said. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's ATLANTA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Air travelers busiest, was particularly affected. nationwide scrambled to revise The problem also exacerbated their plans Thursday after an delays caused by bad weather in FAA computer glitch caused the Northeast, with airports in the widespread cancellations and Chicago, Washington, D.C., and delays for the second time in 15 New York metro areas reporting months. problems. T h e F e d e r a l A v i a t i o n Some flights were more than Administration said the problem, two hours behind schedule. which lasted about five hours, Airports around the South also was fixed around 10 a.m., but it reported delays and cancellations. was unclear how long flights U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, Dwould be affected. New York, said the country's Doug Church, a spokesman for aviation system is "in shambles" the National Air Traffic and the FAA needs more C o n t r o l l e r s U n i o n , s a i d resources to prevent such controllers were still entering p r o b l e m s f r o m c o n t i n u i n g . flight plans manually in some "If we don't deliver the resources, locations even after the glitch manpower, and technology the was fixed. FAA it needs to upgrade the Aviation officials told The system, these technical glitches Associated Press that the problem that cause cascading delays and began at the computer center in chaos across the country are Salt Lake City. The officials going to become a very regular asked not to be named because o c c u r r e n c e , " h e s a i d i n a they were not authorized to speak s t a t e m e n t . publicly. In Atlanta, sisters Sharon Walker FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto and Sheila James were taking said the problem started between their elderly mother, Rosa 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. Airplane Washington, to see their other dispatchers had to send plans to sister in St. Louis. The trio's 9:30 controllers, who entered them by a.m. flight out of Hartsfieldhand. Jackson was delayed until 4 p.m. "It's slowing everything down," "We were going to be there for a Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:08:31 AM

four-day weekend, but now it's getting cut short," James said as she sat with her family in airport atrium. "It's just not a good day." AirTran canceled at least 22 flights and delayed dozens more. Delta Air Lines was also affected. American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said several hundred flights would be delayed around the country. He said American was told the problem would be fixed soon, "but once you get behind, it tends to stay that way" throughout the day. Julie King, a spokeswoman for Continental Airlines, said delays averaged about an hour from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and were concentrated at the carrier's hubs in Houston, Cleveland and Newark, N.J. JetBlue Airways said 25 of its flights at JFK had average delays of 60 minutes and delays at other airports were up to 30 minutes. Passengers were asked to check the status of their flights online before going to airports. At Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., nearly all departures were still on time. But passengers on AirTran flight 63 to Atlanta were trying to make other arrangements after that flight was canceled.

Hilda Ruffin of Manassas, a senior citizen who uses a wheelchair, said the airline urged passengers to head to nearby Reagan National Airport to catch another flight to Atlanta. She eventually lobbied the airline for a free shuttle pass to Reagan. "I really fought for it...I don't have the money to pay for a cab," said Ruffin, who was trying to get to San Antonio. Houston's two airports and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported few delays but said things could get worse, especially for travelers headed east. Los Angeles International Airport also reported that delays were likely later in the day. The problem hinged on flight plans collected by the FAA for traffic nationwide at two centers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one in Salt Lake City and the other in the Atlanta area. Victor Santore, the National Air Traffic Controllers Union southern region vice president, said he began getting e-mail messages from air traffic controllers around 7 a.m. EST Thursday that the Atlanta-area computers had stopped processing plans. Santore said some controllers were pulled away from their normal duties talking to airplanes

or pulled off breaks to help enter the flight plans. "When something crazy like this happens, we'll pull everybody onto the floor," Santore said. "Every airport at some point some will be affected ... (The delays) are going to ripple through the entire system." In August 2008, a software malfunction delayed hundreds of flights around the country. In that episode, the Northeast was hardest hit by the delays because of a glitch at the Hampton, Ga., facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. The FAA said at that time the source of the computer software malfunction was a "packet switch" that "failed due to a database mismatch." ___ Associated Press Writers Joan Lowy in Washington, D.C., Marcus Franklin in New York, David Koenig in Dallas, Johnny Clark and Dionne Walker in Atlanta, and Matt Barakat in Chantilly, Va., contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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No rebuke for 'admonish,' 2009 Word of the Year (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)

words that jumped and stayed up there," Sokolowski said. "Even if Submitted at 11/19/2009 3:09:14 AM the word was no longer on the SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – When front page of the newspaper, it the U.S. House admonished Rep. was still something that people Joe Wilson for shouting "You were blogging about or reading lie!" at President Barack Obama about online." during a health care speech to "Admonish" shot to the top in Congress, it not only lit up talk part because it was used at show lines, but also sent many several stages of the story — people scurrying to the Internet originally to describe the reaction in search of a definition. to Wilson's outburst, then to the Admonish, a verb dating to the editorial reaction, and finally to 14th century meaning "to express the official House resolution warning or disapproval in a admonishing the South Carolina gentle, earnest, or solicitous Republican. manner," generated enough Dictionary users may have been curiosity to crown it Merriam- seeking to distinguish shades of Webster's Word of the Year for meaning from synonyms such as 2009. "scold" or "rebuke," Sokolowski It beat out several other finalists said. Those terms suggest a that emerged from what the harsher tone, while "admonish" dictionary publisher's editor at suggests a decidedly more large, Peter Sokolowski, called genteel response. the "intersection of news and Another word on Merriamv o c a b u l a r y . " R u n n e r s - u p Webster's 2009 Top 10 list, announced Thursday included "emaciated," generated a flurry inaugurate, pandemic, furlough of interest after it was used to and rogue — the latter tied to describe the condition of Michael Sarah Palin and the sole Jackson's body after the carryover from the 2008 list. entertainer's death in June. It was Virtually all the words were the most looked-up word of the associated with a news event or summer, Sokolowski said. coverage and resulted in a Only one of the year's top words prolonged spike of look-ups on had no clear peg to current the dictionary offered online for events. It was "nugatory," an free by Merriam-Webster, based adjective meaning "of little or no in Springfield, Mass. consequence." Sokolowski said "Words that make up this list are that while it was a favorite word

of his, he remains puzzled as to why it created a buzz of sudden dictionary interest. A search of Associated Press news archives found no reference to "nugatory" in any recent story. The Wall Street financial crisis gave rise to "bailout," the 2008 Word of the Year. In the two previous years, Merriam-Webster used online polls or surveys, producing ""w00t" (an exclamation used by online gamers) in 2007 and "truthiness" (a term coined by political satirist Stephen Colbert) in 2006. Other dictionary makers and groups also announce Words of the Year, using different methodology. The New Oxford American Dictionary chose "unfriend," the act of removing someone as a friend on Facebook or other social networking site. Oxford uses a committee of lexicographers and other experts to select a word that is not currently in the dictionary but will be added. Merriam-Webster, on the other hand, selects among existing entries based on Web site traffic. "It gives a certain amount of insight into the preoccupations of the past year," said Allan Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and executive secretary of the American Dialect

Society, who compared the selection of a Word of the Year to Time Magazine's Person of the Year. The society plans to name its Word of the Year, along with a Word of the Decade, in January, Metcalf said. The word "rogue" made Merriam-Webster's 2008 list after Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, was said to have "gone rogue" from the John McCain campaign. It resurfaced this year when the former Alaska governor prepared to release her book, titled "Going Rogue." The sense in which the word was used to describe Palin does not, in fact, correspond to any of the five definitions for the noun rogue in the Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary, which range from a "dishonest or worthless person" to a "horse inclined to shirk or misbehave." However, the definition for the adjective form of rogue does appear to fit Palin, right down to the elephant that's a symbol of the GOP: "resembling or suggesting a rogue elephant especially in being isolated, aberrant, dangerous, or uncontrollable." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Negligence ruling in Katrina floods may cost feds (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:42:04 AM

NEW ORLEANS – The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be forced to pay much more. The ruling should give more than 100,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming damages. Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He said, however, the corps couldn't be held liable for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, where two of the plaintiffs lived. The ruling is also emotionally resonant for south Louisiana. Many in New Orleans have argued that the flooding in the aftermath of Katrina, which struck the region Aug. 29, 2005, was a manmade disaster caused by the Army Corps' failure to NEGLIGENCE page 76

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Missouri Girl Allegedly Killed 'to Know What It Felt Like' (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:38:16 AM

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said. That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said. Why? "Ultimately, she stated she wanted to know what it felt like," Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice testified Wednesday during a court hearing over the slaying. Rice, who interviewed Bustamante in the days after Elizabeth's disappearance, said she confessed to investigators and led them to the fourth grader's well-concealed body in a wooded area near their neighborhood in St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City. A Cole County judge ruled Wednesday that Bustamante, who has been held in Missouri's juvenile justice system, should be

tried as an adult. Hours later, the teen was indicted on adult charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action for allegedly using a knife to kill Elizabeth. A judge later entered a not guilty plea on Bustamante's behalf and referred her to the public defender's office. The court proceedings marked the first time that the suspect in Elizabeth's death had been publicly identified since a twoday search for the girl by hundreds of volunteers. When they found Elizabeth's body Oct. 23, authorities only said that a 15 -year-old had led them to it and was in custody for the slaying. Bustamante remained largely expressionless as she sat with her hands shackled around her waist in court Wednesday. She occasionally looked down beneath the brown bangs that covered her eyes and swallowed hard as a judge read the charges against her. On one side of the courtroom sat her mother and grandmother, who has been Bustamante's legal guardian for about half of her life. On the other side sat Elizabeth's mother, relatives and friends, several of whom wore pink â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elizabeth's favorite color. Bustamante was ordered held without bond pending her trial. If

convicted of first-degree murder, she would be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Witnesses at Bustamante's adult certification hearing described a girl who was bright yet depressed and clever in a sometimes sneaky sort of way. She ranked in roughly the top third of her class at Jefferson City High School, the principal said, and had been in no trouble at school or with the law. Yet Bustamante had tried to commit suicide at age 13 and had been receiving mental health treatment for depression and cutting herself, said David Cook, the chief juvenile officer in Cole County. Once, she led her family to believe she was attending a local church event when she instead sneaked off to a concert in St. Louis, about two hours away, Cook said. On one or two other occasions, Bustamante spent the night in the woods without permission, he said. After her arrest, Bustamante tried to cut herself with her own fingernails while being held in juvenile custody, said her appointed juvenile defense attorney Kurt Valentine. He argued Bustamante should remain in the juvenile system, where she could potentially be rehabilitated before being set free

by age 21. Valentine warned that Bustamante would either kill herself or be assaulted and killed by others if she were placed in an adult jail cell or prison. "We are throwing away the child and we are signing a death sentence for Alyssa," Valentine said. "She is not going to survive her time in the Cole County jail." Cole County Sheriff Greg White said later that Bustamante would be held at a different, undisclosed location. Cook recommended Bustamante be tied as an adult. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem agreed, saying the killing was vicious and that the state had no adequate facilities or services to treat Bustamante if she remained in the juvenile system. Bill Heberle, with the Missouri Division of Youth Services, testified that the state has no secure facilities with fences for female juveniles. Youths in Missouri's juvenile system generally are housed in group settings and are not typically watched by staff 24 hours a day, he said. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Bus company: Driver in Minn. crash had aneurysm (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:57:15 AM

MINNEAPOLIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm before a crash on a southern Minnesota interstate that killed two people and injured 21 others, the bus company's owner said Thursday. Driver Ed Erickson suffered the aneurysm in his chest and lost consciousness shortly before the bus swerved off a clear, dry freeway Wednesday and rolled into a ditch, said Randy Lavoie, a spokesman for Strain Bus Line, which runs the bus trips to an Iowa casino. Erickson is among 14 people who were hospitalized after the crash. Erickson, 52, of Elgin, is "quite shaken" and "his first concern was the passengers," Lavoie told the Post-Bulletin of Rochester on Wednesday night. The bus company's owner, Dalmer Strain, told KSTP-TV that a passenger said Erickson's body shook and he slumped over the wheel. "Ed didn't remember a thing until they cut him out of the seat belt," Strain told the station. "This was an aneurysm that came out of the clear blue. And he had no symptoms, no indications." Bold Lines Inc., which does business under the Strain name, is talking to insurance adjustors BUS page 76

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maintain the levee system protecting the city. " Total devastation could possibly have been avoided if something had been done," said Tanya Smith, one of the plaintiffs. "A lot of this stuff was preventable and they turned a deaf ear to it." The 36-year-old registered nurse anesthetist lived in Chalmette close to the channel when Katrina hit. She was awarded $317,000 in property damages, the most of any of the plaintiffs. Duval referred to the corps' approach to maintaining the channel as "monumental negligence." Joe Bruno, one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs, said the ruling underscored the Army Corps' long history of not properly protecting the New Orleans region. "It's high time we look at the way these guys do business and do a full re-evaluation of the way it does business," Bruno said.

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He said he expected the government to appeal. The corps referred calls seeking comment to the Justice Department. Spokesman Charles Miller said the government would review the judge's ruling before making any decision on how to proceed. During trial testimony, government lawyers and experts argued the levee system was overwhelmed by the massive storm, and levee breaches couldn't solely be blamed on the shipping channel dug in the 1960s as a short-cut between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. The corps had also unsuccessfully argued that it is immune from liability because the channel is part of New Orleans' flood control system. In his 156-page ruling, Duval said he was "utterly convinced" that the corps' failure to shore up the channel "doomed the channel to grow to two to three times its

design width" and that "created a more forceful frontal wave attack on the levee" that protected St. Bernard and the Lower 9th Ward. "The Corps had an opportunity to take a myriad of actions to alleviate this deterioration or rehabilitate this deterioration and failed to do so," Duval said. "Clearly the expression 'talk is cheap' applies here." Ahead of Duval's ruling, experts had said it would likely have consequences for the way the Army Corps does business nationwide. Pierce O'Donnell, another lead plaintiffs lawyer, said the ruling was the "first time ever the Army Corps has been held liable for damages for a major catastrophe that it caused." The plaintiffs lawyers would like Congress to set up a compensation fund to speed up payments to the thousands of others whose claims must still be heard in court. At a one-month trial in May,

experts clashed over the causes of flooding and the channel's contribution to it. Government experts argued the levees and floodwalls would have failed regardless of whether the channel had been dug. By contrast, the plaintiffs' team of experts said the outlet became a "hurricane highway" that funneled storm surge into New Orleans. They said that without the channel, the flooding would have been minimal. The lawsuit was the first major case against the federal government over Katrina flooding to go to trial. A decision rested with Duval because a jury cannot try a case against the federal government. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, office manager Steve Burt told The Associated Press on Thursday. "As of right now we are still gathering the facts ourselves," Burt said. Minnesota State Patrol spokesman Capt. Matt Langer told the AP that it's "just too early" in the investigation to say what caused the crash. The Post-Bulletin, citing death notices it received Thursday, identified the two people killed in the crash as Pamela S. Holmquist, 56, of Kasson, and Rhonda R. Hill, 52, of Plainview. The State Patrol won't confirm the names but plans to release its own list of victims later Thursday. Earlier, Langer had described the injuries as ranging from minor to critical. Fourteen people had been hospitalized Wednesday night in Austin, Albert Lea and Rochester. Hospital officials BUS page 78

Computer glitch hits US flights (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

plans stopped working properly. As a result, controllers were forced to enter flight plans Submitted at 11/19/2009 8:03:36 AM manually. A computer glitch affecting The FAA said the safety of aircraft flight plans has caused planes in the air was not affected cancellations and delays along and, according to US media the US east coast. reports, the computer system is According to the Federal now working again. Aviation Administration (FAA), The problems began at about a computer system in Atlanta, 0515 local time (1015 GMT) on Georgia, which processes flight Thursday and, according to the

Associated Press news agency, were resolved around 1000. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was worst affected, with dozens of flights cancelled or delayed. Airports in New York, Boston and Florida also reported delays. Airline officials said they expected the delays to continue through the day. Last August a similar computer

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many flights were affected, but the cause was being investigated. The technical difficulties didn't An FAA computer malfunction have an impact on air traffic involving access to flight plans control's contact with aircraft, she c a u s e d n a t i o n w i d e f l i g h t said. c a n c e l l a t i o n s a n d d e l a y s Controllers had "radio coverage Thursday. and communications with planes" The glitch was fixed by mid- while the computer program was morning, but travelers continued down, according to Bergen. to feel the effects and scrambled Doug Church, a spokesman for to make other arrangements. the National Air Traffic The Federal Aviation Controllers Union, said Administration said the computer controllers were still entering system was up and running again flight plans manually in some by about 10 a.m. EST. But flights locations even after the glitch across the United States were was fixed. being affected at least through Aviation officials told The the day and possibly longer. Associated Press that the problem For the FAA's flight tracker, began at the computer center in click here. Salt Lake City. The officials The problem lasted about five asked not to be named because hours, according to the FAA, but they were not authorized to speak it was unclear how long flights publicly. would be impacted. FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto The FAA's automated systems said the malfunction started couldn't retrieve flight plans and between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. in some cases they had to be Airplane dispatchers had to send entered by hand, spokeswoman plans to controllers, who entered Kathleen Bergen said. them by hand. Bergen said she didn't know how "It's slowing everything down," Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:36:35 AM

Takemoto said. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, was particularly affected. The problem also exacerbated delays caused by bad weather in the Northeast, with airports in the Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York metro areas reporting problems. Some flights were more than two hours behind schedule. Airports around the South also reported delays and cancel source of the computer software malfunction was a "packet switch" that "failed due to a database mismatch." AirTran Airways and Delta Air Lines are among those with widespread delays and cancellations. Passengers should continue to check the status of their flights online before going to airports, officials said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in just about all world regions. For its 30 member countries, rich nations including the US and UK, it has more than doubled its growth forecast to 1.9% for next year, from 0.7%. But the OECD warns developed nations not to expect a smooth ride. It said growth was being "held back by still substantial headwinds" and would be "modest" for some time. The very measures that are helping richer nations to recover pose risks to that recovery, the OECD says. The UK, for example, needed to come up with a concrete plan to ease concerns about the stability of the public finances, it added. The OECD said the effectiveness of the UK's asset purchase programme - the socalled quantitative easing programme - was uncertain. Jobless recovery? The main danger for rich countries is unemployment, according to the OECD's economic outlook. In the US, people are expected to continue

to lose their jobs at a faster rate than new ones are created until sometime in the first part of next year. For the European Union, the picture is even worse. Unemployment may continue to rise in that region until 2011. A very different economic outlook is forecast for key emerging nations. China can expect to grow by 10%, India by more than 7%. The other two stand-out nations are Brazil and Russia. The OECD expects Brazil's economy to rebound and expand by almost 5% after stagnating this year. Russia is also predicted to see that kind of economic improvement next year. But its turnaround will be even more dramatic. This year, it has experienced one of the worst economic slumps in the world contracting by almost 9%. But those four so-called Bric countries are not part of the 30strong OECD club. The one member nation whose economy should perform vigorously in 2010 is also an eastern one: South Korea should rebound to grow by 4.5% in both 2010 and 2011, after ending this year with almost no growth. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Canada hears of Afghan 'torture' (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/18/2009 8:48:32 PM

A senior Canadian diplomat has testified that many Afghan detainees captured by Canadian forces in 2006 and 2007 were likely to have been tortured. Richard Colvin told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa that government bureaucrats had ignored his warnings. He said the detainees were tortured by Afghan security officers after being transferred from Canadian custody. But Conservative Party MPs on the committee were concerned he had spoken to just four alleged victims. His testimony has raised serious allegations about Canada's role in the transfer of prisoners in Afghanistan. 'Beatings'

Mr Colvin wasted no time in making his central allegation to Canadian members of parliament. He said that Afghan detainees transferred from the Canadian military base in Kandahar to the Afghan intelligence service had been tortured. "The most common forms of torture were beatings, whippings with power cables and the use of electricity," he said. Mr Colvin said that for 16 months, up to April 2007, the Canadian military in Kandahar had no monitoring system for keeping track of an Afghan detainee after he had left Canadian custody. "Was he still in detention? Had he been released? Had he been transferred to a third party? Had he died under torture or been executed? We had no idea," he said. Mr Colvin said he relied on what he called trusted sources for

much of his information. But he admitted that he had only spoken to four detainees himself. That led to a scornful response on the committee by MPs from the governing Conservatives, who said that that fact alone discredited the intelligence officer's testimony. The issue of torture has been raised publicly in both the United States and Britain in the past but never in Canada. Mr Colvin said that he and his colleagues had tried to warn senior officials in Ottawa about the torture allegations. But he said that he was ordered by Canadian foreign ministry officials to stop putting his concerns on paper. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Florida Family of 3 Blindfolded, Held Captive for 3 Days (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 6:50:00 AM

A family of three was bound, blindfolded and held captive for three days before the mother was able to jump from a second story window and escape, MyFoxOrlando.com reported. Four people knocked on family's door in Winter Garden, Fla., Sunday morning, burst into the home and used duct tape to tie up a father, mother and 5-year-old before blindfolding them and taking the trio to a house in Apopka, Fla., according to the Web site. The next day, they were brought back to their home and the mother, Marcela Borges, was forced to drive one of the suspects to a bank â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where she BUS was ordered to withdraw $23,600 continued from page 76 from the family's account, were not releasing information putting her head back to rest right side, blocking the door. t o about those patients Thursday. when the bus crashed. Tammy Eggum of Hayward, a c c o r d i n g M y F o x O r l a n d o . c o m. The bus was traveling east on "When I got myself organized who was driving in the other Interstate 90 just west of Austin there was all kinds of red and direction at the time of the crash, On Tuesday, Borges removed o n W e d n e s d a y a f t e r n o o n , white and blue lights flashing," told the Austin Daily Herald that her blindfold and pull down the carrying a group of mostly senior Swenson said. "There was glass the bus briefly went airborne mask of one of the young female suspects. citizens on their way home from all over." before landing on its side. a day trip to an Iowa casino. It Langer said the bus had no seat "It was like the movie `Speed,'" She was then able to loosen her bonds and escape through a crossed the median into the belts, and when it overturned, Eggum told the newspaper. westbound lanes, flipped and some passengers were trapped Bold Lines is a small operator window, but was shot in the back ended up on its side in the ditch underneath. Rescue crews were with six drivers and four buses in the process. north of the freeway. forced to pull off the bus's and has had no accidents in the WDBO-AM in Orlando reported that the bullet went through her Passenger Ardell Swenson, 71, windshield because the 47BUS page 79 of Austin, said she was just passenger coach had settled on its

and then struck her left wrist, shattering it. "I heard some gunshots... looked up to where I heard the gunshots and saw a guy with a handgun shooting at this lady," a construction worker in the v i c i n i t y t o l d MyFoxOrlando.com. The witness said two or three shots were fired before the gunman got into a black SUV, where a getaway driver was waiting. The pair sped off, according to the worker. "After that, I saw a couple more guys come from behind the house and jump the fence and run," he told MyFoxOrlando.com. Police nabbed Victor Manuel Sanchez, 20, and Miguel DiazSantiz, 25, shortly after they ran from the house. A third suspect, Alexander Diaz-Hernandez, 19, was caught Wednesday afternoon. Police are still looking for a fourth, female suspect, who according to an arrest affidavit demanded that Borges be killed after pulling off her blindfold. Click here for more on this story from MyFoxOrlando.com. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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Corps blamed for Katrina floods (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

The Corps is responsible for maintaining a system of canals and earthworks that protect New Submitted at 11/19/2009 7:44:45 AM Orleans from storm surges. A US judge has ruled that US district judge Stanwood negligence by the US Army Duval ruled "negligent failure" to Corps of Engineers led to maintain the Mississippi Rivermassive floods in parts of New Gulf Outlet - a shipping channel Orleans as Hurricane Katrina had led to flooding in the city's struck in 2005. Lower 9th Ward and nearby St The court upheld complaints by Bernard Parish. six residents and a business Forceful attack against the Corps over its However, he said the Corps had maintenance of a navigational not been responsible for flooding channel. in eastern New Orleans. They were awarded damages Government lawyers have totalling $720,000 (ÂŁ431,000), argued the system had been and the ruling could lead to overwhelmed by the hurricane thousands more claims. and that levee breaches could not About 80% of New Orleans was be blamed on the channel alone. flooded by Hurricane Katrina. In his 156-page ruling, Judge More than 1,800 people died on Duval said he believed it was the t h e U S G u l f c o a s t i n t h e failure to shore up the outlet that devastating storms. "doomed the channel to grow to

two to three times its design width" and "created a more forceful frontal wave attack on the levee". It was the first time a US court has found the federal government directly responsible for some of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. The government can appeal against the ruling. US justice department spokesman Charles Miller said it would review the judge's ruling before making a decision on how to proceed. Correspondents say that, if upheld, it could set a precedent for thousands more flood victims to sue the government for damages. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

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past two years, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Web site. In 2002, Bold Lines paid $20,000 to settle an enforcement case over drug testing for drivers, according to the federal safety agency. It also paid $300 to settle a case over driver duty times and record-keeping. The agency has advised roadside inspectors to inspect the company's vehicles because of safety concerns, according to the Web site. Its "Inspection

Selection System" rated Strain at a 76, with any score between 75 and 100 meaning an inspection is warranted. ___ Associated Press writer Chris Williams contributed to this report. (This version CORRECTS last name to Swenson.) This content has passed through fivefilters.org.

Residents 'Vindicated' by Katrina Ruling Against Army Corps (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 11/19/2009 9:16:11 AM

NEW ORLEANS New Orleans -area residents have been "vindicated" after a historic ruling that found the Army Corps of Engineers negligent in failing to prevent Hurricane Katrina flooding, an attorney in the case said Thursday. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the corps' failure

to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding during Katrina in August 2005. Lawyer Joe Bruno, who represented plaintiffs in the case against the Corps of Engineers, praised the decision and said those affected by the devastating storm have been "vindicated." Another speaker at the news conference said residents are finally seeing justice served and vowed that the decision will

stand. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He said, however, that the corps couldn't be held liable for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, where one of the plaintiffs lived.

Duval awarded the plaintiffs $720,000, or about $170,000 each, but the decision could eventually make the government vulnerable to a much larger payout. The ruling should give more than 100,000 other people, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming billions of dollars in damages. Bruno, one of the lead plaintiffs lawyer, said the ruling

underscored the Army Corps' long history of failure to properly protect the New Orleans region. "It's high time we look at the way these guys do business and do a full re-evaluation of the way it does business," Bruno said Wednesday. The Associated Press contributed to this report. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.