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What is it about presidents and golf? US trailer park death toll

By Patricia Zengerle (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 11:35:39 AM
rises described his ball hitting a tree),
he said it gives him a chance to
relax and spend time with friends,
largely unobserved (the Secret (BBC News | Americas | World have arrested the man who
President Barack Obama seems Service is around, but often off in Edition) reported the killings.
to have a new favorite past-time. the woods, Obama said) and away Submitted at 8/30/2009 8:02:31 PM Guy Heinze Jr, 22, faces
The 48-year-old campaigned as a from reporters and photographers. charges of lying to police,
basketball player, but now his “It is the only time that, for six An eighth person has died tampering with evidence and
heart seems to belong to the links. hours, first of all, that I’m outside. following an attack in a mobile possession of drugs.
He has squeezed at least four golf And second of all, where you home in the US state of Georgia, Mr Doering said he was a
outings — three for 18 holes and almost feel normal, in the sense police say. "family member who came home
one just nine — into his week- jibes. Anti-war protester Cindy that you’re not in a bubble,” he Glynn County Police Chief Matt and discovered (the victims)".
l o n g v a c a t i o n o n t h e Sheehan used it to publicize a told CBS News. Doering named the victim as Asked if Mr Heinze was a
Massachusetts island Martha’s news conference she was planning Golf Digest ranked John F. Michael Toler, 19. suspect, Mr Doering said: "I'm not
Vineyard, despite two days of rain on the island during Obama’s Kennedy as the top presidential He was one of two people going to rule him out, but I'm not
and a trip over to Boston for the visit. “When President Obama golfer, noting that his average critically injured in the attack at going to characterise him as a
funeral of his friend and former was playing golf yesterday, four score was 80, despite chronic New Hope Plantation trailer park suspect."
colleague, the late Senator soldiers died in Afghanistan,” back pain. Back in January, it put in Brunswick on the Georgia Police have announced a
Edward Kennedy. Sheehan said in a flyer distributed the athletic Obama 8th. coast. $25,000 (£15,300) reward for
Lately Obama has also been at the Martha’s Vineyard White The presidents who didn’t golf? A ninth person is still in hospital information leading to an arrest
golfing on most Sundays when he House press center this week. Golf Digest says they were Jimmy in Savannah. Police have not and conviction in the case.
is in Washington, generally on But for U.S. presidents, golfing Carter , Harry Truman and released the names of the other Mr Doering said police had no
courses at military bases near the is — er — par for the course. Franklin Roosevelt. But Roosevelt seven victims or revealed how other suspects so far and added:
city. Fifteen of the past 18, including would have been another golfing they died. "We need help."
His foursomes are more likely Obama, have golfed, according to president if he had had his way. Mr Doering said that the killer "We just simply don't have a lot
to include long-time friends and Golf Digest magazine. Obama According to the Armchair Golf was not among the dead, found in to go on," he said.
aides than well-heeled contacts — explained its appeal for him this Blog, Roosevelt loved playing the mobile home on Saturday, or Autopsies on the victims began
this week he golfed with a top summer in an interview with CBS golf as a young man, but polio in the last survivor. on Sunday and officials said they
executive of the UBS investment News. Although he was unhappy 1923 forced him to give the game Police called to the property could take two or three days to be
bank, but he also played with a with the state of his game (he took up. described the scene as "horrific". completed.
White House assistant chef and a more than five hours to play 18 Photo credits: Obama golfing on Relative arrested Print Sponsor
press aide. holes this week, and a woman M a r t h a ’ s Vineyard, In another development, police
The habit has attracted a few who lived near one course R e u t e r s / J A S O N R E E D
California wildfires
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The First Draft: mixing politics and
national security?
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:43:30 AM
Mixing politics with national
security? Maybe under Obama,
but not under Bush. Well, not
exactly.
That summarizes Tom Ridge in
an interview on ABC’s “Good
Morning America.” Former
President George W. Bush’s first
homeland security secretary took
on the Obama administration’s
controversial review of Bush-era
interrogations and his own
published worries about politics
and the threat of terrorism.
Ridge was asked what he made
of former Vice President Dick
Cheney’s public assault against
the decision by U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder to name
a special prosecutor to look
deeper into harsh Bush-era
interrogations of captured
terrorism suspects including
accused Sept. 11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who
was waterboarded 183 times.
“I think he’s right, pure and
simple,” Ridge told ABC.
In fact, the former Republican
governor of Pennsylvania
suggested the Justice Department
investigation should itself be
outlawed.
“To go back and investigate —
criminally investigate — what
these men were asked to do
believing at the time that they
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Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:00:00 PM
were empowered to do it and it
was consistent with the law, I
think it’s wrong. It’s chilling and
it’s inappropriate,” he said.
“To suggest four or five years
later that what they did was
criminal, I think that’s criminal,”
Ridge said.
But Ridge, 64, tried to
downplay the controversy sparked
by his own upcoming book.
In his new book, “The Test of
Our Times: America Under
Siege,” Ridge says he worried that
election politics might have
motivated some top Bush
administration officials to argue
for a heightened threat level at the
time.
“A lot of people are
hyperventilating about that
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passage,” Ridge said.
“At the end of the day, I had to
be absolutely sure that we’re on
the right path. Process worked.
We didn’t go up. And it was
designed so that nobody could
pressure anybody to do anything.
A consensus was reached. We
didn’t go up.”
But he didn’t take back the
assertion that Bush’s political
interests might have had a role in
the discussion.
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Bush daughter to be TV
reporter
By JoAnne Allen (Front Row I’d do the best job on them —
Washington) education, urban education,
Submitted at 8/30/2009 8:41:29 PM women and children’s issues and
literacy,” Hager said.
Teacher, author and now Being a television
television correspondent.
correspondent wasn’t something
Not a bad resume for a former she’d always dreamed of doing,
first daughter .
but Hager told AP she was
Former President George W. intrigued by the idea when Bell
Bush’s daughter Jenna Hager, a came calling.
Baltimore teacher, is joining “I think one of the most
N B C ’ s “ T o d a y ” c r e w a s a important things in life is to be
c o r r e s p o n d e n t , t h e s h o w ’ s open-minded and to be open-
executive producer Jim Bell told minded for change.”
AP on Sunday. But it’s a part-time gig for now,
Hager, 27, will work out of Bell says. Hager intends to keep
NBC’s Washington bureau, but working at her school.
she won’t be covering politics.
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scrutiny known mostly as one of Ernst (Jenna and husband Henry
the Bush Twins. Hager on White House South
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The Pope blessed Ted Kennedy

By Anthony Boadle (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 7:13:46 PM

As a divorcee who was pro-

choice on abortion, the United
States’s most prominent Catholic
politician was not exactly in the
Vatican’s good books.
Yet Pope Benedict XVI
blessed the terminally ill Senator
Edward Kennedy, according to
correspondence made public at his
burial in Arlington National
Cemetery on Saturday.
Kennedy, whose political career
was marred by scandal, asked for
the Pope’s prayers in a letter that
was handed to the pontiff by
President Barack Obama in Rome
on July 10. Visitors drawn to new
“I am writing with deep humility
to ask that you pray for me as my
own health declines. I was
Kennedy gravesite
commitment to accessible saddened to know of Kennedy’s By JoAnne Allen (Front Row Several hundred people stood in
diagnosed with brain cancer more healthcare for all Americans was illness.
than a year ago, and, although I Washington) line in the hot sun to visit his
the political cause of his life, the “Commending you and the Submitted at 8/30/2009 6:34:40 PM grave — a small group was
continue treatment, the disease is dying senator wrote to the pontiff. members of your family to the
taking its toll on me. I am 77 already waiting when the
“I have always tried to be a loving intercession of the Blessed Hundreds of people lined up at cemetery opened at 8 a.m., The
years old and preparing for the faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, Virgin Mary, the Holy Father
next passage of life,” Kennedy Arlington National Cemetery Washington Post reported. That
and though I have fallen short cordially imparts his Apostolic Sunday to visit the grave site area of the cemetery had been
wrote. through human failings, I have Blessing as a pledge of wisdom,
“I know that I have been an of Edward Kennedy a day after closed to the public since early
never failed to believe and respect comfort and strength in the Lord.” the long-time senator from Saturday morning.
imperfect human being, but with the fundamental teachings. I Photo by Brian Snyder
the help of my faith, I have tried Massachusetts was laid to rest in a Kennedy’s widow, children,
continue to pray for God’s (President Obama and Kennedy private service. extended family and close friends
to right my path.” blessings on you and our Church family members stand by Sen.
In his nearly 50 years in the A simple cross and a memorial attended a private burial service
and would be most thankful for Edward Kennedy’s casket during tablet mark the gravesite, near Saturday evening as darkness fell
Senate — Kennedy wrote — he your prayers for me.” funeral services in Boston)
championed the rights of the poor, those of the late senator’s on Washington.
The Pope replied through a brothers, Senator Robert For more Reuters political news,
opposed the death penalty and Vatican official that he was
fought to end war. His Kennedy and President John F. click here
Kennedy. On Sunday, small Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri
No Mochaccinos, No Problem for Marines of Echo Company bouquets of flowers were placed Gripas ( Gravesite of late U.S.
on the ground nearby. Senator Edward Kennedy at
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Top Stories) Pizza Hut, sip an iced shower is a bucket. The toilets: a week, at age 77, after a year-long
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:20:00 AM mochaccino, surf the web and wooden box over a hole. Which battle with brain cancer.
enter salsa dancing competitions. suits the Marines just fine.
Since the American invasions of For the Marines of Echo company
Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. i n A f g h a n i s t a n ' s H e l m a n d
military has built a series of Province, it's a little rougher. AC
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Calif. police expand search in kidnapping case (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:07:44 AM
ANTIOCH, Calif. – Armed with
rakes, shovels and chain saws,
about 20 officers on Sunday
combed the backyard of a couple
charged with kidnapping and
raping Jaycee Lee Dugard and
used cadaver dogs to search an
adjoining property where
neighbors say one of the suspects
once served as a caretaker.
Sheriff's deputies and
prosecutors from two counties and
officers from two city police
departments were using the dogs,
shovels and other tools to inspect
the neighboring yard, which sits
behind an off-white house with a
chain link fence.
"We do consider it a crime
scene," said Jimmy Lee, a
spokesman for the Contra Costa
County Sheriff's Department.
Lee would not elaborate on
what kind of evidence
investigators were seeking or the
nature of the possible crimes
involving the second property.
The link to the kidnapping case is
that Phillip Garrido, the man
charged with holding Dugard in
captivity for 18 years in his own
backyard, had access to the
neighboring land when the house
that sits on it was vacant three
years ago.
"It looks like Garrido lived on
the property in a shed," Lee said.
Damon Robinson, who moved
into the vacant house in 2006, and
another neighbor say Phillip
Garrido served as caretaker of the
home before Robinson took
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occupancy. That same year
Robinson's then-girlfriend called
police after she saw tents and
children in the backyard, but the
responding deputy did not
uncover the backyard compound.
A third neighbor, Janice
Deitrich, 66, said that Phillip
Garrido visited and helped to feed
an elderly neighbor who lived in
the house before Robinson.
Police in Pittsburg, a Bay Area
city near where the Garridos
lived, have said they are
investigating whether Phillip
Garrido may be linked to several
unsolved murders of prostitutes in
the 1990s. Antioch police are also
looking into unsolved cases but
declined further details.
"We will take a close look at if
there are any links to open cases,"
Lee said, declining to provide
additional details.
Authorities on Sunday removed
two paper grocery bags filled with
papers from Garrido's primary
residence, which he shared with
his wife and mother, and boarded
up the structure's windows.
Searches of both parcels were
expected to continue on Monday,
Lee said.
Investigators also continued
clearing brush from the scruffy
backyard compound of tents and
sheds where Garrido and his wife,
Nancy, allegedly took an 11-year-
old Dugard in 1991 after
abducting her. Dugard and the
two daughters, now 11 and 15,
she had by Garrido lived in the
secret encampment, authorities
allege.
The compound was concealed
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by thick foliage, trees and tall
fences, and authorities say it was
equipped with a makeshift shower
and an outhouse. The structures
were lit by lights powered by
extension cords, and one shed was
soundproofed and set up with
access controlled from the
outside.
Karen Walker, 58, who has
lived two doors down for the last
five months, said the Garridos had
a fire recently in a van parked on
their property. When neighbors
went to investigate, Phillip
Garrido "shooed people away,"
Walker said.
Like many others on their street,
Walker could not recall ever
seeing Jaycee Dugard, but
remembered seeing two shy
young blonde girls.
Walker said her 9-year-old
grandson once asked the younger
of the two girls if she wanted to
play.
"They asked if they could ride
bikes with her, just being friendly,
but she said she couldn't," she
recalled.
Other neighbors said they
pointedly kept their distance from
a man they nicknamed "Creepy
Phil," partly because he ranted
about hearing voices from God,
and because some knew that he
was a registered sex offender. But
they assumed parole authorities
were keeping a close watch on
their eccentric neighbor, who was
convicted three decades ago of
abducting and raping a casino
worker in a Nevada warehouse
that a former detective described
as a "sex palace" for playing out
openness rules that protect
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his fantasies.
But even though Garrido wore
an ankle bracelet tracking device
and received visits from his parole
officer, they did not find out about
Dugard or the secret compound.
And a sheriff's deputy, following
up a neighbor's complaint that
there were girls and tents in the
backyard, left after concluding
there was nothing more than
minor building code violations.
Neighbors said they did not see
Dugard but they saw two shy
young blonde girls who, it turned
out, were Dugard's daughters.
The customers of Garrido's
business card and brochure
company knew Dugard as Allissa,
the polite, efficient assistant and
the business owner's daughter.
They talked with her on the phone
and exchanged emails.
At least one customer, Ben
Daughdrill, also saw her in person
twice in the last six months when
he drove to the Garrido home to
pick up office supplies and pay
for them.
She came out alone to
Daughdrill's vehicle and
conceivably could have escaped
or asked for help.
"There was a reason she did not
say anything," said Daughdrill.
By then, she was mother of two
girls, now ages 11 and 15, sired
by Garrido.
The secrets of the Garrido home
began to surface early last week
when he and his two daughters
went to the University of
California at Berkeley. He wanted
to leaflet and hold an event on the
campus, but the events
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coordinator and a campus police
officer thought he behaved
strangely and were concerned
about the robotic behavior of his
daughters.
When the officer found that
Garrido was a registered sex
offender with a rape conviction in
Nevada, she contacted his parole
officer.
At a meeting with his parole
officer, Garrido brought along his
wife, Dugard and the two girls.
Authorities say he confessed to
snatching Dugard from a South
Lake Tahoe bus stop in 1991 and
was arrested along with his wife.
Dugard, now 29, was reunited
with her mother, sister and
another relative Thursday. Her
stepfather says her two children
remain with her and she is healthy
although she feels guilty about
developing a bond with Garrido.
"Jaycee has strong feelings with
this guy. She really feels it's
almost like a marriage," said Carl
Probyn, who had witnessed the
kidnapping and tried to give
chase.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido
pleaded not guilty Friday to a total
of 29 counts, including forcible
abduction, rape and false
imprisonment.
___
Associated Press writer Terry
Collins in Antioch contributed to
this story, with reporting from
Cathy Bussewitz.
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LA-area blaze size doubles, threatens 12,000
homes (AP)
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Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:39:32 AM
LOS ANGELES – A massive
fire in the Angeles National
Forest nearly doubled in size
overnight, threatening 12,000
homes Monday in a 20-mile-long
swath of flame and smoke and
surging toward a mountaintop
broadcasting complex.
The fire that burned at least 18
homes was moving north, south
and east through the rugged
foothills northeast of Los
Angeles. Despite the lack of wind,
it surged without letup by running
through steep granite canyons and
feeding on brush that had not
burned for 40 years to a century,
fire officials said.
"It's burning everywhere," U.S.
Forest Service spokeswoman
Dianne Cahir said. "When it gets
into canyons that haven't burned
in numerous years, it takes off. If
you have any insight into the good
Lord upstairs, put in a request."
The fire had burned 134 square
miles of brush and trees by early
Monday and was just 5 percent
contained.
About 12,000 homes, as well as
communications and astronomy
centers atop Mount Wilson, were
threatened by fire.
At least 6,600 homes were
under mandatory evacuation
orders and more than 2,500
firefighters were battling the
flames. On the blaze's
northwestern front, two
firefighters were killed Sunday
when they drove off the side of a
road on Mount Gleason near the
city of Acton.
The victims were fire Capt.
Tedmund Hall, 47, of San
Bernardino County, and
firefighter Specialist Arnaldo
"Arnie" Quinones, 35, of
Palmdale. Hall was a 26-year
veteran, and Quinones had been a
county firefighter for eight years.
"Our hearts are heavy as we are
tragically reminded of the
sacrifices our firefighters and their
families make daily to keep us
safe," Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger said in a
statement.
With flames about a half-mile
away from the communications
and astronomy centers on Mount
Wilson, crews planned to set more
backfires and planes dropped fire
retardant around the mountaintop
complex, which hold transmitters
for more than 20 television
stations, many radio stations and
cell phone providers.
Television stations said if the
antennas burn, broadcast signals
would be affected but satellite and
cable transmissions would not be.
Two giant telescopes and
several multimillion-dollar
university programs are housed in
the century-old Mount Wilson
Observatory. The complex of
buildings is both a historic
landmark and a thriving modern
center for astronomy.
The sheer length of the fire
meant that it threatened homes
ranging from scattered ranches to
multimillion-dollar estates in
luxury enclaves.
Mandatory evacuations were in
effect for neighborhoods in
Glendale, Pasadena and other
smoke-choked cities and towns
north of Los Angeles.
"Our neighbors sent us photos of
all the other houses that are lost,"
said Beth Halaas, who lost her
house in Big Tujunga Canyon,
one of the many communities
under mandatory evacuation.
The fire was the largest of many
burning up and down California
after days of triple-digit
temperatures and low humidity.
The National Weather Service
said a red flag warning for
extreme fire conditions remained
in effect for the mountains of
Central and Southern California.
"We know what's coming this
afternoon, just the sheer heat and
the low humidity," Bill Peters, a
spokesman with the California
Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection, told KTLA-TV.
"The fire makes its own path,"
Peters said. "It just flows with the
terrain. It'll run very quickly
uphill and because of the
dynamics and the decadent
vegetation being so dry, it will
drive itself downhill, where
normally you need a wind to do
that."
Northeast of Sacramento, a fire
destroyed 60 structures, many of
them homes in the town of
Auburn. The fire had wiped out
an entire cul-de-sac, leaving only
smoldering ruins, a handful of
chimneys and burnt cars.
Rick Lund, whose house is
nearby but escaped the fire, stood
at the end of the cul-de-sac of
about 10 homes, watching
firefighters attend to what once
were the homes of friends and
neighbors.
"It's right there," he said,
pointing to a house of his 11-year-
old daughter's close friend. "Or it
was."
The fire had blackened 275
acres amid high winds and was 50
percent contained Sunday night,
CalFire spokesman Daniel
Berlant. The governor declared a
state of emergency in the Sierra
foothills area because of the fire,
which began Sunday afternoon.
About 30 people waited
anxiously at an evacuation center
in the Rock Creek Elementary
School, including Pam and
Stephen Incerty.
"If there's nothing there when we
get back, we won't rebuild,"
Stephen Incerty said of their home
on five tree-covered acres of
rolling hills. "There'd be no trees,
just dirt."
In Mariposa County, a nearly 7-
square-mile fire burned in
Yosemite National Park and
forced the evacuation of about 50
homes. The blaze was 50 percent
contained Sunday, said park
spokeswoman Vickie Mates. Two
people suffered minor injuries,
she said.
Hot, dry and windy conditions
also helped fan a monthlong
wildfire in rural Utah, where
residents in the town of New
Harmony were told to leave their
homes as the blaze flared up over
the weekend. The lightning-
sparked fire has already destroyed
three houses and blackened more
than 12 square miles in the Pine
Valley Wilderness area.
___
Williams reported from Auburn,
Calif. Associated Press writers
Christopher Weber and Andrew
Dalton in Los Angeles contributed
to this report.
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Disney to acquire
Marvel in deal wort...
- Los Angeles Times
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Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:19:50 AM
The Walt Disney Co. today
announced that it had agreed to
acquire comic-book giant Marvel
Entertainment, creator of such
characters as Iron Man and Spider
-Man, in a cash-and-stock deal
worth an estimated $4 billion.
The acquisition would give
Disney access to a library of more
than 5,000 characters -- several of
whom have inspired major films
for other Hollywood studios.
Marvel, meanwhile, gains the
clout of Disney's ability to take a
popular character and make
money on it through films,
television and licensed
merchandise.
“We believe that adding Marvel
to Disney’s unique portfolio of
brands provides significant
opportunities for long-term
growth and value creation,” said
Disney President and Chief
Executive Robert A. Iger.
Under the deal, Disney will
acquire ownership of Marvel,
including its more than 5,000
characters. Ike Perlmutter, the
comic-book company's chief
executive officer, will oversee the
properties and work directly with
Disney to build and integrate
Marvel’s properties.
Iger has shown a willingness to
make key acquisitions to bolster
the company. In 2006, he
negotiated a $7.4-billion deal that
brought Pixar Animation Studios,
the creator of such successful
films as "Toy Story" and "Cars,"
in house.
-- Dawn C. Chmielewski
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US 'needs fresh Afghan strategy'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:18:27 AM
A top US general in Afghanistan
has called for a revised military
strategy, suggesting the current
one is failing.
In a strategic assessment, Gen
Stanley McChrystal said that,
while the Afghan situation was
serious, success was still
achievable.
The report has not yet been
published, but sources say Gen
McChrystal sees protecting the
Afghan people against the Taliban
as the top priority.
The report does not carry a
direct call for increasing troop
numbers.
"The situation in Afghanistan is
serious, but success is achievable
and demands a revised
implementation strategy,
commitment and resolve, and
increased unity of effort," Gen
McChrystal said in the
assessment.
Copies of the document have
been sent to Nato Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
and US Defence Secretary Robert
Gates.
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The report came as further
results from last week's
presidential election were
released, with ballots now
counted from almost 48% of
polling stations.
President Hamid Karzai is
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leading so far, with 45.8% of the
votes counted.
The independent Electoral
Complaints Commission says that
of more than 2,100 allegations of
wrongdoing during voting and
vote-counting, 618 have been
deemed serious enough to affect
the election's outcome, if proven.
Crisis of confidence
Gen McChrystal's blunt
assessment will say that the
Afghan people are undergoing a
crisis of confidence because the
war against the Taliban has not
made their lives better, says BBC
North America editor Mark
Mardell.
The general says the aim should
be for Afghan forces to take the
lead - but their army will not be
ready to do that for three years
and it will take much longer for
the police.
And he will warn that villages
have to be taken from the Taliban
and held, not merely taken.
Responding to Gen
McChrystal's review,
Afghanistan's deputy minister of
rural rehabilitation, Wais Barmak,
said Afghans should have been
consulted about military strategy
from the start.
"We would have had better
achievements, better results, if the
Afghans were consulted right
from the beginning," he told the
BBC's Newshour programme.
He said the government and
development agencies should
provide services for the people in
the aftermath of the military
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operation.
"That is one way to engage with
the people on the ground and re-
establish the trust and confidence
of the people in their
government."
Gen McChrystal also wants
more engagement with the
Taliban fighters and believes that
60% of the problem would go
away if they could be found jobs.
More than 30,000 extra US
troops have been sent to
Afghanistan since President
Barack Obama ordered
reinforcements in May - almost
doubling his country's contingent
and increasing the Western total
to about 100,000.
This report does not mention
increasing troop numbers - that is
for another report later in the year
- but the hints are all there, our
correspondent says.
But when Gen McChrystal's
report lands on Mr Obama's desk
he will have to ponder the
implications of increasing a
commitment to a conflict which
opinion polls suggest is losing
support among the American
people.
The latest Washington Post-
ABC news poll suggests that only
49% of Americans now think the
fight in Afghanistan is worth it.
In a recent BBC interview, Gen
McChrystal said that he was
changing the whole approach to
the conflict in Afghanistan - from
what he described as a focus on
"body count", to enabling the
Afghans to get rid of the Taliban
themselves.
Nato partners
On Saturday, British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown promised
more support for UK troops in
Afghanistan, during a surprise
visit to the country.
During the visit he met Gen
McChrystal. Correspondents say
the pair discussed the need to
speed up the pace of training of
Afghan troops.
The British Ministry of Defence
said it would look closely at any
recommendations from Gen
McChrystal.
"The UK conducted a review of
policy earlier this year and the
prime minister set out a new
strategy on Afghanistan and
Pakistan on 29 April.
"General McChrystal's work will
be an important input to further
planning, and we will work
closely with him and our Nato
partners moving forward," an
MoD spokesman added.
• An earlier version of this
article suggested that General
McChrystal's report was expected
to liken the American military in
Afghanistan to a bull charging at a
matador [the Taliban] - slightly
weakened each time it is "cut".
In fact this remark was part of a
more general commentary on US
counterinsurgency policy, made
by Gen McChrystal in his
Counterinsurgency Guidance to
units in the field, issued last week.
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Submitted at 8/30/2009 2:50:30 PM
Eight people died when gunmen
opened fire on a crowd partying in
a Mexican coastal town, police
say.
The shooting took place in a
boulevard in Navolato, Sinaloa
state, said to be a popular
weekend gathering place for
young people.
Local media said most of the
victims were aged between 15 and
20.
Sinaloa, which lies on Mexico's
northern Pacific coast, is a drug
trafficking hotspot and a
stronghold for the notorious
Sinaloa cartel.
State spokesman Martin Robles
said the gunmen fired into the
crowd with AK-47 rifles on
Saturday night.
He said the motive for the
shooting was not yet known.
At least three other people were
reported to have been injured.
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Emmy Awards. Entertainment
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Ga. 911 caller screams `My whole family is dead!'

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among the dead. He also pleads police and illegal possession of The slayings happened in a ___ Stock Specialist Paul Foster of
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Outrage! Canadia says
How to Donate to the Jaycee Dugard Tr... - ABC we’re lazy! But they do
make better Palm Pre
News commercials
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
(Most Popular - Google News) Garrido's wife, Nancy Garrido, They conctacted his parole officer Jaycee has been meeting with a
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:44:53 AM has also been arrested on more and mentioned Garrido's two psychologist. Probyn told ABC Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:57:22 AM

than two dozen charges. Both daughters. The parole officer, who News last week that his
The two police employees husband and wife have pleaded had visited Garrido's home on stepdaughter feels guilty for You know what Canada looks
c r e d i t e d w i t h c r a c k i n g t h e not guilty. previous occasions, immediately bonding with Garrido over the like? It looks like the best part of
abduction case said it was simply Donations for Jaycee Dugard realized something was wrong years. town - where everyone is cool and
intuition that something was can be sent -- checks only -- to because there had been no "She's just going minute by gets drunk all the time without
amiss when accused rapist and Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund, c/o mention or signs of children in minute," he said today, adding hangovers and where you used to
kidnapper Phillip Garrido showed Viewtech Financial Services, P.O. Garrido's life. that all the girls are "very smart." go to raves when you were like 16
up at a college campus with Box 596, Atwood, Calif. 92811. The parole officer called Authorities are combing the and now when you go back the
Dugard's two daughters. When Jacobs met the girls, 11 Garrido in for an interview and Garridos' Antioch, Calif., property rave places have grown up with
"Their movements weren't that and 15, what she called mother's during that session, Jaycee and the next door plot that Phillip you and become chocolate shops
of ordinary girls," UC Berkeley intuition kicked in right away. Dugard announced her true Garrido once took care of for and classic book stores - but it
Officer Ally Jacobs told "Good "I observed two young girls, one identity and Garrdio admitted he clues in the Dugard case as well looks like that all over the
Morning America" today. "They of which was just staring at me had kidnapped her. as a string of unsolved prostitute country.
were very robotic." very intensely with this very eerie Jaycee was reunited last week murders. Anyway, this commercial for
Lisa Campbell, a manager with smile on her face," she said. The with her mother, Terry Probyn, As the investigation works to the Palm Pre in Canadia (in order
the campus police who first older girl was acting "strange" and and her half-sister Shayna who unearth the hellish secrets of of importance) shows roller
spotted the trio handing out refusing to make eye contact with was just a year old when Jaycee Garrido's back yard, a look inside derby, some kind of old persons
religious material at UC Bekeley, authorities, Jacobs said. was kidnapped. the squalid complex of tents and ball game, and the Palm Pre. The
told "GMA" that there wasn't one The girls told police that they Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, sheds -- which locked only from resulting footing, led by an
thing that raised her suspicions. were home schooled and that they told "GMA" today that mother the outside – gave a disturbing amiable guy in a tie, tells me more
Garrido, she said, "appeared to had an "older sister" living at and daughter are overjoyed to be insight into the life Jaycee has had about the Pre than Ms.
be really unstable, erratic in home. One of them, Jacobs said, together again, though Jaycee's for nearly two decades. Freakyhead ever did. Good job,
conversation" while his two had a bump over her eye. family is having a hard time Books were stacked on crudely Canada! Too bad you’re
daughters, Angel and Starlet, That older sister was actually stomaching the details of her last built shelves among trash and a monarchist communards or I’d
lingered in the background. their mother, Jaycee Dugard. 18 years. seemingly out of place totally be living up there.
It was that meeting that blew Garrido, a registered sex offender "I actually stopped her and "Welcome" sign. One of the book via Giz
open the disappearance of Jaycee who had previously served time wouldn't let her tell me," Probyn titles was "Self Esteem: A Family
Dugard who hadn't been heard of for kidnapping and rape, was their said of the details his wife shared Affair." There was also a display
since June 10, 1991 when the then father. with him. "It upset me too bad." of cat decorations adorning a
-11-year-old was snatched off the The Berkeley officers ran a Probyn said the National Center dresser.
street near her South Lake Tahoe background check on Garrido and for Missing & Exploited Children
school bus stop. discovered he was on parole. has been assisting the family and

Cramer on BloggingStocks: The bears are shooting blanks

By Jim Cramer
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ammunition.
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can't wait to get in. They are
almost beside themselves that we
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I have bad news for them and
good news for them.
The good news first: I think
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need, the one that takes out 6%
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Police to wrap up Dugard search

(BBC News | Americas | World ordered to a parole meeting by
Edition) police officers whose suspicions
Submitted at 8/30/2009 2:25:47 PM had been aroused by the
behaviour of two girls with him.
Police in California say they will The two officers, Lisa Campbell
soon end the search of the and Ally Jacobs, met Mr Garrido
property where Jaycee Lee on Tuesday as he sought to hold a
Dugard was held for 18 years, religious meeting on the grounds
along with a neighbouring house. of the University of California at
A sheriff's office spokesman in Berkeley, where the officers
Antioch said there remained work.
questions that might take weeks Officer Jacobs said something
or months to answer. about the girls, aged 11 and 15,
Police extended the search after alarmed them.
it emerged kidnap suspect Phillip "I think Lisa asked, 'do you guys
Garrido had taken care of the next go to school?' and they both, like
-door house before the current robots, [said] 'we're home
resident moved in. schooled'."
Mr Garrido and his wife Nancy The officer said they noticed the
deny 29 charges in connection girls were "extremely pale in
with the case. comparison" to Mr Garrido, and
They are accused of abducting had "penetratingly blue eyes and I
Jaycee Lee from outside her home just got a weird uneasy feeling".
in South Lake Tahoe, 200 miles Police have apologised for
(320km) away, when she was 11. m i s sing an opportunity in
It is believed Mr Garrido Mr Robinson had earlier told the However, he said it was too properties by Sunday evening
Associated Press news agency early to say if there were any links local time. November 2006 to find Ms
fathered Ms Dugard's two
children, the first when she was that Mr Garrido used to act as a to other "open cases". The spokesman said he had no Dugard.
caretaker for the property until Media have said police have information on the progress of Ms An officer visited the Garrido
just 14. home when a neighbour -
Full cooperation 2006. Neighbours told AP he used been searching for clues to a Dugard and her children.
The Contra Costa County to visit and help out the previous number of prostitute murders in They are said to be staying at a reportedly the then-girlfriend of
sheriff's office spokesman, Jimmy elderly resident. the 1990s. Several bodies in the motel near San Francisco after Mr Robinson - alerted them to
Lee, said the house next door was Mr Lee stressed that Mr unsolved murders were dumped being reunited with Ms Dugard's suspicious behaviour there.
But the officer only spoke to Mr
now being treated as a crime Robinson had fully cooperated near an industrial park where Mr mother, Terri Probyn. Garrido and did not enter his
scene. and was neither a suspect nor a Garrido worked. Held without bail
He said: "Phillip Garrido had person of interest. Please turn on JavaScript. Ms Dugard is believed to have property to carry out a search
"There are no other suspect leads Media requires JavaScript to play. been living in tents and sheds in Mr and Mrs Garrido are being
access to that property. He used held without bail and a further
that property and it looks like he in this case," Mr Lee said. Jimmy Lee, County Sheriff's the backyard of the Garridos'
He said dogs were being used to spokesman Antioch home for 18 years. court hearing has been scheduled
lived on that property in a shed"
before current occupant Damon search the properties, including Mr Lee said officials expected Her identity was rediscovered for 14 September.
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The Nikon Coolpix S1000pj’s launch has been pushed to October

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:00:05 AM
Sorry, folks. If you’ve been
anxiously awaiting the launch of
the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj
projector camera, you’re going to
have to wait a little longer. The
original plan according to the
press release was to bring the
camera to the market in
September, but that doesn’t seem
to be the case any longer. Now the
camera is going to launch on
October 23rd.
It seems that Nikon ordered a
lot more of the cameras to be
manufactured and so it created the
delay itself. This way there
shouldn’t be any shortage of the
12.1 MP projector camera when it
launches. We’re down with that.
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Future of daytime TV a hot topic at
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Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:31:42 AM
By MICHAEL CIDONI (AP) –
26 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES — It was
pushing 100 degrees as nominees
made their way down the red
carpet before entering the restored
— and gloriously air-conditioned
— Orpheum Theatre for the 36th
annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
"I feel like a roast chicken,"
noted a glistening Emily O'Brien,
nominee as outstanding younger
actress in a drama series for "The
Young and the Restless." "This is
like an oven," she said Sunday
afternoon. "I'm almost done."
A bit of heat is one thing
daytime television's longtime
mainstay, the soap opera, could
use these days. Overall
viewership has been declining,
and CBS' "Guiding Light" leaves
the airwaves in mid-September
after 72 years of production, first
on radio, then on TV.
The future of daytime television
was on the minds of many
attendees.
"Daytime television has been
evolving," observed Alex Trebek,
who was nominated as
outstanding game show host for
"Jeopardy!"
"Talk shows are still great. ... I
look around here and I see Dr.
Phil is here, Montel (Williams) is
This Mentalist season one recap is heavy on the Red John
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:26:00 AM
CBS has posted a season one
recap of The Mentalist, and if you
here and Ellen (DeGeneres) is
going to be here. These are all
very successful daytime talk
shows."
Those include "The Tyra Banks
Show," which took home the
award for outstanding talk show
— informative for the second year
in a row.
"You've got to move and I've
totally redone my show from skin
and guts — how it looks, feels all
the way down to content, because
of the changing generation,"
Banks said.
Soap-opera veteran Susan Lucci
said fans shouldn't take the
cancellation of "Guiding Light" as
a sign the entire daytime-drama
genre is in trouble.
"I think it's like nighttime TV.
Just because one show gets
canceled doesn't mean nighttime
TV is out the window. But ABC
is showing a huge vote of
confidence by moving (the New
York-based) 'All My Children' to
L.A., they wanted to expand not
contract. So I think our situation
is a very, very positive one."
That is, for some of the "All My
Children" cast. Debbi Morgan,
who has been with the show on
and off since 1982, may not make
the cross-country trip with her
colleagues. Morgan was married
just last June, and the couple is
still discussing the possibility of
pulling up stakes.
don't watch the show you'd think
that every single episode was a
hunt for Red John. They're not, of
course. This recap doesn't give
you a feel for what Jane and
"We are going back to the
kitchen table because I love, love,
love my husband," Morgan said.
"I love waking up with him every
morning, and going to sleep with
him every night. And I love my
job."
Would she do a bicoastal
commute, as Vanessa Williams
did when "Ugly Betty" was
filming in Los Angeles.
"I wouldn't say that I would
never not absolutely not rule that
out," Morgan said. But she
wouldn't offer any more details.
The carpet was crammed with
actors from "Guiding Light," who
gathered for a telecast tribute to
their show.
But veteran "Light" actor Robert
Newman said he's heard nothing.
"And, you know, I'm going to be
moving forward with my life and
career as if it is over," he added.
"If something happens, that's
fantastic and I'll deal with that
when it comes along. But it has
been a lot of years, and maybe
sometimes things just have to
move on."
The last episode of "Guiding
Light" is set to air Sept. 18 on
CBS.
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company do on the show but it
does give you the background on
that case and Jane.
I just saw a promo for the new
season and the gang is getting a
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Pat Robertson, 79, on
mend after heart surgery
(AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) enlarged left appendage on
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:32:49 AM Robertson's heart. They believe
the appendage, which was
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – removed, was the cause of
R e l i g i o u s b r o a d c a s t e r P a t Robertson's atrial fibrillation.
Robertson underwent 10 hours of "Only the prayers of thousands
surgery to repair a heart disorder of believing people kept me on
a n d i s b a c k i n V i r g i n i a this earth," Robertson said in a
recovering, a spokesman said statement.
Monday. He said he expects to resume a
" H e ' s r e a l l y d o i n g w e l l , full schedule in several weeks.
recovering very quickly," Robertson founded the Christian
spokesman Chris Roslan said of Broadcasting Network, which airs
the 79-year-old founder of the programs in nearly 100 languages
Christian Broadcasting Network. in more than 225 countries. Its
"He's doing great." flagship program, the "700 Club"
Robertson, who has scaled back talk show, reaches 1 million
his official activities in recent American households daily.
years, was treated Aug. 19 at Earlier this year, CBN' s board
FirstHealth Moore Regional of directors appointed Gordon
Hospital for atrial fibrillation. He Robertson to succeed his father as
was released last Thursday, CBN's chief executive officer.
Roslan said. Robertson also announced plans
R o b e r t s o n u n d e r w e n t to retire next summer as president
convergent procedure, which of Regent University, the private
i n v o l v e s c a u t e r i z i n g t h e Christian college he founded in
continually beating heart muscle 1978. He will continue to serve as
with heat generated by a radio chancellor and on the board of
frequency. The procedure is less trustees at the Virginia Beach
invasive than traditional heart school known for its evangelical
surgery and uses four small Christian perspective.
openings to hasten recovering ___
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Orton's finger cuts Broncos at critic... BYD to sell electric car

- Chicago Sun-Times in US in 2010
(Most Popular - Google News) preseason opener against the San April 2 deal that had the teams (Financial Times - US but will only start limited private
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:03:56 AM Francisco 49ers, who picked him swapping QBs and draft picks. homepage) sales next month.
off three times. Of course, this wasn't the same Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:24:50 AM Auto analysts in China have
DENVER -- There was bad Still, while he finished 12-for- Broncos offense Cutler ran last questioned how successful such
blood, and then there simply was 16 for 96 yards Sunday, the year en route to a Pro Bowl BYD, the upstart Chinese car sales will be. Despite government
blood. passes he missed are the ones fans appearance. Orton already was company backed by US subsidies of Rmb30,000 to
In the end, the quarterback likely will remember. Denver's operating without Pro Bowl investment guru Warren Buffett, Rmb50,000 for the purchase of
vilified as a crybaby by Denver first possession ended with Orton receiver Brandon Marshall, said on Monday that it would start alternative fuel vehicles, the BYD
fans, Jay Cutler, borrowed a page overthrowing a pass to Correll suspended by rookie coach Josh selling its e6 all-electric sedans in hybrid electric car will still cost
from John Elway on Sunday night B u c k h a l t e r . O n t h e t h i r d McDaniels for the rest of the US next year, a year ahead of nearly twice as much as the
a n d d r o v e t h e B e a r s t o a possession, he drove the Broncos preseason for conduct detrimental schedule. equivalent BYD conventional
preseason victory at Invesco to the 13, only to overthrow tight to the team. Running back Announcing in Hong Kong that model.
Field. end Tony Scheffler on a fade that Knowshon Moreno, the Broncos' the company had nearly doubled “From a relative perspective,
The Broncos, meanwhile, were was nicely defended. top draft pick, was sidelined with first half net profits from a year that’s still very expensive,” said
left to wonder what's next, with He also threw behind Scheffler an ankle injury, and receiver earlier, Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s Klaus Paur of TNS, the marketing
former Bears quarterback Kyle on third-and-7 in his final drive, Jamar Gaffney also was out. chairman, also said he was consultancy, in Shanghai. Most
Orton forced from the game late only to be given another chance In the first quarter, Orton lost considering selling more shares to Chinese customers remain
in the second quarter with an b e c a u s e o f i l l e g a l c o n t a c t another starter when right guard Mr Buffett. dubious about electric vehicle
injury to his right index finger. He elsewhere on the field. His next Chris Kuper left with an ankle MidAmerican Energy Holdings, reliability and repair costs, he
suffered a bloody gash when his pass, intended for Buckhalter, hit injury. a unit of Mr Buffett’s Berkshire said.
hand caught on defensive end a Bears defender in the back. The Broncos had just nine yards Hathaway, bought a 10 per cent Mr Wang’s announcement that
Adewale Ogunleye's helmet. X- Then came the bloody finger. rushing on eight first-half stake in BYD last September. BYD would accelerate plans to
rays showed the finger was not ''I didn't see it,'' receiver Brandon attempts and were flagged six “MidAmerican has always sell its e6 all-electric model in the
broken. Stokely said. ''There was some times for 51 yards while Orton intended to raise its stake in BYD US may be largely “a marketing
''I don't know how long I'll be screaming, but I thought it was was in the game -- a sign there's because it has confidence in the move aimed at the mainland
out,'' Orton said later, sporting because of how bad we were plenty of work left before the company’s prospects,” Mr Wang market”, according to Mr Paur.
heavy bandages on the finger and playing.'' season starts. said, but added “we are still BYD wants to portray itself as a
refusing to say if he'd received Luckily for Orton, he was in the There was one positive for considering (whether to sell global player, to boost its image
stitches. ''I don't want to say [I'm] locker room when Cutler directed Orton: He got to visit his old more)”. among mainland consumers – and
concerned, but there's things a 12-play, 98-yard touchdown teammates. His comments sent BYD’s perhaps to help with plans for a
we've got to fix. There's not a drive to put the Bears up 17-3, the ''It was good seeing them. I shares up 8 per cent to close at mainland stock market listing,
whole bunch of time right now.'' capper being a six-yard pass to talked with them before the HK$48.60, more than six times possibly within the next year.
Orton's first preseason game in Matt Forte. game,'' Orton said. ''They came what MidAmerican paid for its In terms of conventional car
Denver wasn't as bad as a Cutler finished 15-for-21 for out and played better than us, stake nearly a year ago. sales, BYD’s growth has been
scrimmage earlier this month 144 yards and a 106.1 passer smarter than us.'' BYD is a global leader in very strong: it sold its first
when he threw two interceptions, rating. rechargeable battery technology, branded car in China only in
resulting in headlines such as The outcome seemed to confirm but only a recent entrant to the 2005. On Monday, Mr Wang said
''Orton Hears a Boo,'' or the the Bears got the better end of the Chinese car industry. Mr Wang, he hoped to exceed his 2009 sales
an engineer-turned-entrepeneur, target of 400,000 vehicles, as the
Banhistas plans to combine batteries with Chinese auto market continues to
By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) making photo management an cars to spearhead a green steam ahead powered largely by
Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:37:58 AM easy, natural and collaborative revolution in electric vehicles, government subsidies for the
process. Get comments, notes, with the help of Chinese small cars that BYD sells.
• About Flickr and tags on your photos, post to government subsidies. With additional reporting by
Flickr is a revolution in photo any blog, share and more! BYD started selling hybrid Shirley Chen in Shanghai
storage, sharing and organization, electric vehicles to some fleet
customers in China late last year
12 Top News/ Finance/ Sports Internet News Record

Texas boaters fought heat, hunger for Disney to buy Marvel

week in Gulf (AP) for $4bn
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) three were reported missing Aug. sun's rays and keep up their (Financial Times - US of the total.
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:24:18 AM 22 after they left Matagorda, spirits. The men also started homepage) The offer underscores Disney’s
about 90 miles southwest of seeing things. Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:14:32 AM reputation as one of the media
BLESSING, Texas – Three Houston, on a fishing trip and "About the fourth or fifth day we groups that has best weathered the
Texas fishermen who spent eight never returned. Port Aransas is started hallucinating about people Disney to buy Marvel for $4bn storm of plunging advertising
days stranded in the Gulf of about 130 miles from Matagorda. dropping off food and water," By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson revenues and weak consumer
Mexico atop their capsized boat The three were asleep that Phillips said. "And we were in New York spending. It also highlights the
endured hunger, blistering heat, Friday night and were awakened talking to them, but they weren't Published: August 31 2009 continued balance sheet strength
s c a r e s f r o m s h a r k s a n d by water coming in the boat, there," Phillips said. 14:40 | Last updated: August 31 of some of the sector’s largest
hallucinations, but they never Hawkins said. One thing the men saw that 2009 15:14 groups.
gave up hope they'd be rescued. "Once we were awake and saw wasn't a hallucination was sharks. Walt Disney on Monday The combination, which will
"It was on a day-to-day basis what happened, it flipped over in "We had a bunch of black-tipped unveiled a surprise $4bn bid for d e p e n d o n c l e a r a n c e f r o m
t h a t e v e r y b o d y h a d t h e i r one minute," Phillips told the sharks schooling up under the Marvel Entertainment, ending a antitrust authorities, could bring
breakdown," Tressel Hawkins Chronicle. "Then us country boys boat," Phillips said. "One of them deal-making drought in the media brands that have become highly
t o l d N B C ' s " T o d a y S h o w " went into survival mode. That's jumped across the back of the sector and paving the way for Iron successful box office franchises to
Monday. "The power of prayer all we could do."' boat." Man, Spider-Man and Captain Disney’s studio. At present,
had us feeling safe as far as The men rationed their salvaged Finally, they were spotted by America to be united with Mickey Spider-Man and Iron Man films
knowing that we were going to bubble gum, crackers, beer and Eddie Yaklin, a Corpus Christi car Mouse and Hannah Montana. are made by other studios.
make it out of it, but didn't know chips, and used a hose to suck dealer who was fishing on his 75- The agreed deal is structured as Disney could also bring the
how long that we were going to fresh water out of the internal foot yacht. Yaklin told NBC the a cash and stock offer, worth $50 cartoon characters to its children’s
have to endure this." "washdown" tank. Fishermen boat went right past the men while a share based on Disney’s closing television channels and websites,
The men were reunited with often keep such a tank to wash heading to a nearby oil rig to fish. share price on Friday. Shares in and to theme parks around the
their families early Sunday after fish slime off their boat when they But then after about an hour he Marvel jumped $10.35 or 27 per world.
they were found sitting on their 23 are out in the salt water. spotted them. They were atop cent to a record high of $49 on the “Disney is the perfect home for
-foot catamaran 180 miles from "We'd eat crackers one day, and their boat when Yaklin arrived. announcement. Disney shares Marvel’s fantastic library of
land. They were identified as then a handful of chips," Phillips Hawkins said he initially were 1.6 per cent lower at $26.40. characters given its proven ability
Hawkins, 43, of Markham; James said. "Everything tasted like wondered if his rescuers were The transaction would combine to expand content creation and
Phillips, 30, of Blessing; and gasoline and saltwater." another figment of his Marvel’s globally recognised licensing businesses,” said Ike
Curtis Hall, 28, of Palacios. Hall and Haskins both said they imagination. brand and 5,000 characters with P e r l m u t t e r , M a r v e l ’ s c h i e f
"I knew we were coming home; saw U.S. Coast Guard helicopters " My first reaction was, 'Is this Disney’s creative skills, portfolio executive and largest shareholder.
I never had a doubt," Phillips, the and rescue planes fly over. The really real?' You just have to kind of entertainment properties, and “This is an unparalleled
boat owner, told the Houston Coast Guard, which gave up the of sit back and say is this real or “ a b u s i n e s s s t r u c t u r e t h a t opportunity for Marvel to build
Chronicle. search after the men had been hallucination," he said. "You have maximises the value of creative upon its vibrant brand and
The crew of a sport fishing boat missing a week, never saw them. to wake yourself up three or four p r o p e r t i e s a c r o s s m u l t i p l e character properties by accessing
spotted the men waving their Phillips said the roughest time times to make sure it is real." platforms and territories,” said Disney’s tremendous global
white T-shirts near Port Aransas was during the heat of the day, B o b I g e r , D i s n e y ’ s c h i e f organisation and infrastructure
and rescued them Saturday. The when they would try to endure the executive. around the world,” he added.
Disney is offering $30 per share Copyright The Financial Times
Renteria's slam pulls Giants even in NL wild card in cash plus about 0.745 Disney Limited 2009. You may share
By Associated Press Rockies for the NL wild-card their last six games while shares for each Marvel share, but using our article tools. Please
(ESPN.com) lead. Colorado has dropped five will adjust the amount of cash and don't cut articles from FT.com
Submitted at 8/30/2009 5:47:42 PM • Edgar Renteria finished 3 for 4 straight following a four-game stock if necessary at the closing of and redistribute by email or post
with five RBIs, including a grand win streak. the deal so that Disney stock to the web.
Fast Facts slam in the seventh inning that -- ESPN Stats & Information makes up no less than 40 per cent
• The Giants earned a sweep of gave the Giants a 6-5 lead.
the series, tying them with the • The Giants have won five of
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California fire 'serious threat' - BBC News
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Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger: "Please listen
and follow the evacuation orders"
Firefighters tackling an intense
wildfire north of Los Angeles say
the blaze remains "very
dangerous".
Fuelled by hot weather and
dense, dry brush, the blaze is
threatening 12,000 buildings and
key communications masts.
Two firefighters were killed on
Sunday after their vehicle was
overrun by flames and rolled
down a mountainside.
Mike Dietrich, of LA County
Fire Dept, said: "We are making
progress. But it is... slow and very
dangerous. We have to wait for
the fire to come to us."
The fire has been growing
steadily, doubling in size on
Sunday. Mr Dietrich said it was
possible it would double in size
yet again over the next few days.
Some 6,600 homes are under
mandatory evacuation orders.
State Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger described the
blazes as "still totally out of
control".
The fires also threaten
communication towers housing
transmitters for all Los Angeles'
major TV stations.
Mount Wilson, where the
towers are located - near the city
of Pasadena - is also home to a
historic solar observatory.
Firefighters are on the mountain
clearing brush and spraying fire
retardant in preparation for the
fires, which are approaching the
transmitters.
About 2,500 firefighters are
trying to contain the fires, which
have burnt over 66 sq miles (170
sq km) of forest.
Fire department officials say the
area's steep, rugged hills are
making efforts to fight the fire
more difficult.
With forecasts of continuing hot
weather, there has been
speculation that it could take
firefighters a week to bring the
blaze under control, says the
BBC's David Willis in Los
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Good news for a
new AstraZeneca
drug
By Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Good news,
Industry There is good news
surfacing for pharmaceutical firm
AstraZeneca(NYSE: AZN) this
morning. Turns out a new drug
produced by AZN helps reduce
heart patients' chances of dying by
more than 20% when compared to
the standard treatment. The drug
is designed to prevent blood clots
in heart patients.
The study followed 18,624
Angeles. and videos to yourpics@bbc.co.uk patients from 2006 to 2008, with
Wildfires are a feature of the or text them to+44 7725 100 100. roughly half taking rival medicine
Californian summer, but it is If you have a large file you can Plavix and the other half taking
unusual for them to break out so upload here.
AZN's Brilinta. The results show
close to major population centres. Read the terms and conditions that patients taking Brilinta had a
A number of other fires are also At no time should you endanger 4.5% chance of dying, compared
burning in southern and central yourself or others, take any to a 5.9% chance for patients on
California. unnecessary risks or infringe any Plavix.
A new fire in Placer County, laws.
Continue reading Good news
north-east of the state capital, A selection of your comments for a new AstraZeneca drug
Sacramento, has destroyed 60 may be published, displaying your
Good news for a new
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the town of Auburn. state otherwise in the box below. appeared on BloggingStocks on
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California fire 'serious threat'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:33:21 AM
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Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger: "Please listen
and follow the evacuation orders"
Firefighters tackling an intense
wildfire north of Los Angeles say
the blaze remains "very
dangerous".
Fuelled by hot weather and
dense, dry brush, the blaze is
threatening 12,000 buildings and
key communications masts.
Two firefighters were killed on
Sunday after their vehicle was
overrun by flames and rolled
down a mountainside.
Mike Dietrich, of LA County
Fire Dept, said: "We are making
progress. But it is... slow and very
dangerous. We have to wait for
the fire to come to us."
The fire has been growing
steadily, doubling in size on
Sunday. Mr Dietrich said it was
possible it would double in size
yet again over the next few days.
Some 6,600 homes are under
mandatory evacuation orders.
State Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger described the
blazes as "still totally out of
control".
The fires also threaten
communication towers housing
transmitters for all Los Angeles'
major TV stations.
Mount Wilson, where the
towers are located - near the city
of Pasadena - is also home to a
historic solar observatory.
Firefighters are on the mountain
clearing brush and spraying fire
retardant in preparation for the
fires, which are approaching the
transmitters.
About 2,500 firefighters are
trying to contain the fires, which
have burnt over 66 sq miles (170
sq km) of forest.
Fire department officials say the
area's steep, rugged hills are
making efforts to fight the fire
more difficult.
With forecasts of continuing hot
weather, there has been
speculation that it could take
firefighters a week to bring the
blaze under control, says the
BBC's David Willis in Los
Angeles.
Wildfires are a feature of the
Californian summer, but it is
unusual for them to break out so
close to major population centres.
A number of other fires are also
burning in southern and central
California.
A new fire in Placer County,
north-east of the state capital,
Sacramento, has destroyed 60
structures, many of them homes in
the town of Auburn.
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concerned about the spread of the
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SanDisk makes room for
unwanted slotMusic
cards in new Sansa
Clip+
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:49:00 AM
Remember slotMusic? How
about slotRadio? Don't feel bad --
no one else on the planet does
either. To that end, SanDisk is
apparently hoping to push some
aging inventory on unsuspecting
consumers with its new Sansa
Clip+, which is essentially a
Sansa Clip with a microSD card
slot. The device will ship in a trio
of hues (red, blue or black), and
If you have a large file you can you can rest assured that it won't
upload here. blow any minds with sick new
features. It'll play MP3 files on a
Read the terms and conditions
At no time should you endanger relatively small screen, get great
yourself or others, take any battery life and barely put a dent
unnecessary risks or infringe any in your wallet -- what more could
laws. you really want? It's available
A selection of your comments starting today from Best Buy and
may be published, displaying your the like for $39.99 (2GB), $49.99
name and location unless you (4GB) or $69.99 (8GB).
state otherwise in the box below. Update: Looks like a few early
The BBC may edit your reviews have sprung up, with
comments and not all emails will most folks being totally pleased
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Jaycee police focus on unsolved killings

By Ed Pilkington, Bobbie Walnut Avenue, Antioch, using asphyxiated. Her shoes were from neighbours by an intricate
Johnson (World news and metal detectors. They dug holes in found the next morning by the system of tarpaulins, with entry
comment from the Guardian | the backyard, pored over scrap side of the road, and her body was only through a narrow opening
guardian.co.uk) heaps and used a chainsaw to discovered eight days later near a shielded by shrubs. Part of the
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:44:16 AM clear vegetation. They also landscaping firm further along the construction was sound-proofed
extended the search to the next highway. Police did not say and this section is where it is
Search of Garrido home and door house where Garrido, 58, is whether she was sexually abused. believed the two daughters, now Santech LV1 is low
neighbouring house relates to nine understood to have been caretaker Lisa's mother, Minnie Norrell, aged 11 and 15 and called Scarlett
murders in San Francisco Bay until its current occupant moved said on local television that police or Starlite and Angel, were born. voltage and low fat,
area, say authorities in three years ago. had told her they were now Photographs have been released but not low price
| Read this in Chinese Local authorities have indicated searching for clues to her showing women's clothes hung on
Police from Antioch, the town that the search of the Garrido daughter's death. "I think I started a makeshift rack inside a tent, and By Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
near San Francisco where Jaycee property and the house next door shaking. I'm hopeful that's who it a cluttered work area with Submitted at 8/31/2009 8:39:00 AM
Dugard was held hostage for 18 relates to a string of nine murders is, just so there's an end. There haphazard shelves and food
years by a sex offender until her that occurred between 1998 and will never be closure but there containers and objects strewn over Santech might not be the most
dramatic release last week, will 2002 in Pittsburg, a town of will be an end," she told KTVU. chairs and on the floor. familiar name around here, but the
meet tomorrow to discuss almost 60,000 in the San John Conaty, one of two Among the 20 or so books on company has a bit of history in
reopening more than 10 cases Francisco Bay area just seven detectives who led the Norrell the shelves were several volumes the mobile field, and its latest 13.3
concerning murdered and missing miles from Garrido's home. case, is now an inspector and is dedicated to cats, and a self-help -inch effort definitely merits a
women in the area. The victims' bodies were all believed to be involved in the book on raising families called second look. Coming in under that
Phillip Garrido and his wife, found in a remote industrial zone investigation into Garrido's Self-Esteem: a Family Affair. magical mental barrier of an inch
Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to in Pittsburg and neighbouring Bay activities. The other detective, There were toys and crayons in thickness and sporting an Intel
29 counts, including kidnapping, Point. It is understood that the Raymond Giacomelli, was killed dotted around, a children's swing CULV processor, it's slinky and
rape and unlawful imprisonment, m e t h o d s o f k i l l i n g b o r e in a shoot-out with a drug dealer outside one of the tents, and a (just) powerful enough to be
after they were discovered last similarities and that Garrido used in 2003. vase of flowers. called an ultraportable. Add in a
Wednesday to have been hiding to work in an industrial park on Other cases in which the police The possibility that Garrido claimed 12 hours of battery life,
Dugard and the two children she the waterfront close to where have shown renewed interest could be linked to a much greater and the LV1 would seem like a
had borne her attacker, in tents several bodies were discovered. since Garrido's arrest include that series of tragedies has caused viable competitor to Acer's
and sheds in their garden. A number of women were found of Michaela Garecht, who, in consternation, mixed with hope of Timeline series, but it falters on
Dugard had been missing since beaten, strangled or stabbed and 1988, was kidnapped, aged nine, new leads, across the Bay area. In pricing, which -- once you add the
being snatched in 1991, when she dumped in the area within a two- from Hayward, about an hour's South Lake Tahoe, where Dugard 8-cell battery to the base unit of a
was 11, outside her house in month period in 1998-99. They drive from the Garrido home, and used to live until her abduction, SU3500 1.4GHz CPU, 2GB RAM
South Lake Tahoe, about 170 included three women alleged to has not been seen since. There is banners and ribbons have been and 160GB HDD -- is €701
miles away. be working as prostitutes, Jessica also the unsolved case of a 17- tied to hundreds of trees and ($1,003) after taxes, or €100 more
Detectives are now homing in Frederick, 24, Valerie Schultz, 27 year-old girl murdered a few posts, all in pink, the colour of the than an almost identical Aspire
on killings and missing persons and Rachel Cruise, 32. The body months before Garrido kidnapped clothes she was wearing that 3810T from Acer.
reports in and around Antioch, in of a 15-year-old, Lisa Norrell, and raped a woman in 1976, for fateful morning of 10 June 1991. [Via Notebook Italia]
the suspicion that Garrido – was also found at around the same which he was imprisoned for 11 • Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnap Filed under: Laptops
known by neighbours as "creepy time. Norrell, who was adopted years. • California Santech LV1 is low voltage and
Phil" – might have been involved from Mexico as a baby by a Over the weekend details began • United States low fat, but not low price
in many more incidents. Police Californian family, had been in to emerge about the conditions in Ed Pilkington Bobbie Johnson originally appeared on Engadget
have indicated they have reasons Antioch to attend a rehearsal for a which Dugard and her children guardian.co.uk© Guardian on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:39:00
for pursuing the investigation, but friend's coming-of-age party. were kept. They lived in an area News & Media Limited 2009 | EST. Please see our terms for use
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forensic and homicide officers miles from Garrido's house, sheds. The "backyard within a Feeds
searched the Garrido home in N o r r e l l w a s a t t a c k e d a n d backyard" was kept obscured
16 World/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Latin Americans ditch 'war on drugs'

By Rory Carroll, Jo Tuckman, and Democracy has certainly violence, made it no longer an Sempruch, director of the Global
Tom Phillips (World news and helped to open up the debate offence to possess 0.5g of cocaine Drug Policy Programme. "My
comment from the Guardian | about more humane and efficient (the equivalent of about four hope is that Latin America will be
guardian.co.uk) policies. But, most of all, the facts lines), 5g of marijuana (about four the next region, after most of
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:25:57 AM are speaking by themselves," said joints), 50mg of heroin and 40mg Europe, where evidence and
Cardoso. of methamphetamine. science will be the basis for policy
In a backlash against the US 'war Reform campaigners have long Three years ago, Mexico -making."
on drugs', Latin America turns to a r g u e d t h a t c r i m i n a l i s a t i o n backtracked on similar legislation Argentina and Mexico's moves
a more liberal policy enriched drug cartels, fuelled after the initiative triggered howls may encourage other governments
Argentina and Mexico have savage turf wars, corrupted state of outrage in the US and to follow suit. A new law has
taken significant steps towards institutions and filled prisons with predictions that Cancún and other been mooted in Ecuador, where Olympus E-600 Ditches
decriminalising drugs amid a addicts who presented no real resorts would become world President Rafael Correa last year the Power Windows and
growing Latin American backlash threat to society. centres of narcotics tourism. pardoned 1,500 "mules" who had Climate Control [Dlsrs]
against the US-sponsored "war on The US used its considerable Now, however, the authorities been sentenced to jail. His late
drugs". influence to keep Latin America quietly say they need to free up father was a convicted mule. By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Argentina's supreme court has and the UN wedded to hardline resources and jail space for a Brazil's supreme court, as well Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:38:29 AM
ruled it unconstitutional to punish policies which kept the focus on military-led war on the drug as elements in Congress and the
people for using marijuana for interdictions and jail sentences for cartels, even while publicly justice ministry, favour If the Olympus E-620 was a
personal consumption, an eagerly consumers as well as dealers. The justifying that offensive to the decriminalising possession of cheap Four Thirds camera,
awaited judgment that gave the "war" was first declared by the Mexican public with the slogan small quantities of drugs, said consider the E-600 an even
government the green light to Nixon administration. "to stop the drugs reaching your Maria Lúcia Karam, a former cheaper Four Thirds camera.
push for further liberalisation. The economic and social cost, children". They also argue corrupt judge who has joined the Essentially an E-620 without the
It followed Mexico's decision to plus European moves towards police officers will be deterred advocacy group Law Enforcement perks, the E-600 looks to be the
stop prosecuting people for liberalisation, have emboldened from extorting money from drug Against Prohibition. exact same 12MP camera as its
possession of relatively small some Latin American states to try users. She welcomed the moves older sibling with the same 2.7
quantities of marijuana, cocaine, new approaches. Washington did not protest towards decriminalisation but said inch rotating live preview screen.
heroin and other drugs. Instead, Argentina's supreme court, against the announcement, which repression remained a cornerstone But to bring the cost of a fully
they will be referred to clinics and presented with a case about was kept deliberately low key. of drug policy. "Unfortunately the loaded 14-42mm f3.5/5.6 lens kit
treated as patients, not criminals. youths arrested with a few joints, "They made no fanfare so as not 'war on drugs' mentality is still the down by $100, the aptly priced
Brazil and Ecuador are also r u l e d l a s t w e e k t h a t s u c h to arouse the ire of the US," said dominant policy approach in Latin $600 E-600 removes a few key
considering p a r t i a l behaviour did not violate the Walter McKay, of the Mexico America. The only way to reduce features:
decriminalisation as part of a constitution. "Each adult is free to City-based Institute for Security violence in Mexico, Brazil or • backlit buttons (ouch)
regional swing away from a make lifestyle decisions without and Democracy. "I predict that anywhere else is to legalise the • three art filters (no biggie)
decades-old policy of crackdowns the intervention of the state," it when the US sees its nightmare production, supply and • two-shot multi exposure mode
still favoured by Washington. said. has not come true and that there is consumption of all drugs." (half ouch)
"The tide is clearly turning. The The government, which favours no narco-tourist boom it will • Argentina • aspect mask control (half ouch,
'war on drugs' strategy has failed," decriminalisation, is expected to come under more pressure to • Mexico it allows you to crop the
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a amend laws in light of the ruling. legalise or decriminalise." • Drugs trade viewfinder to the aspect you are
former Brazilian president, told The court stressed, however, that Some US states have Rory Carroll Jo Tuckman Tom shooting)
the Guardian. Earlier this year, he it was not approving complete decriminalised the possession of Phillips So if you were considering an E
and two former presidents of decriminalisation, a move that small amounts of marijuana and guardian.co.uk© Guardian -620 and care about the end
Colombia and Mexico published a would be fiercely resisted by the the Obama administration has News & Media Limited 2009 | product alone (your photos), it's
landmark report calling for a new Catholic church and other groups. emphasised public health Use of this content is subject to probably worth saving the extra
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US general doubts Afghanistan strategy

By Mark Tran (World news and filed. Results are still being Although the report does not difference to local people, said
comment from the Guardian | compiled, but a tally released mention increasing troop David Kilcullen, a senior adviser
guardian.co.uk) today based on 48% of polling numbers, the implication is that to McChrystal.
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:58:58 AM stations gave the incumbent more soldiers will be needed to "A government that is losing to a
president Hamid Karzai 45.8% of turn around an unsuccessful counter-insurgency isn't being
Top American commander the vote to 33.2% for his nearest strategy. Officers in Afghanistan outfought, it is being out-
announces completion of long- challenger Abdullah Abdullah. consider much of the effort of the governed. And that's what's
awaited review that may prefigure Karzai needs 50% to avoid a last eight years wasted, with too happening in Afghanistan," Nanontron 3000: The
request for more troops
The west must change its
second round run-off.
McChrystal has been working
few troops deployed and many of
them placed in the wrong regions
Kilcullen told Australia's National
Press Club.
iPod Nano Hacking
strategy in order to prevail in on the review since Obama put and given the wrong orders. Obama has already sent nearly Lego Robot [Lego]
A f g h a n i s t a n , t h e t o p U S him in charge of the war in June Any recommendation of a troop 20,000 additional troops to By Danny Allen (Gizmodo)
commander in the country said after firing his predecessor, David increase would come against a Afghanistan, raising the total of
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:45:00 AM
today as he handed over to US McKiernan.. The document has background of growing US troops to about 68,000 by the
and Nato commanders a sweeping been sent to the US military's scepticism about the war, with the end of the year. In all, Nato has Lego Mindstorms put to
review of operations that may central command(CentCom), latest Washington Post-ABC committed about 100,000 troops nefarious deeds! While iPodLinux
lead to a demand for more troops. responsible for the wars in Iraq news poll showing that only 49% to the war effort. McChrystal is works with older iPods, newer
"The situation in Afghanistan is and Afghanistan, and to Nato of Americans now think the fight widely expected to ask for even models have encrypted firmware
serious, but success is achievable headquarters in Brussels. in Afghanistan is worthwhile. more forces, as he tries to updates. That's why the
and demands a revised The review has not been "Over the next 12 to 15 months, implement the kind of counter- Linux4nano team has designed
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commitment and resolve, and reports leaked to the BBC, positively have to do is persuade a Iraq from descending into all-out 3000 to help with a repetitive
increased unity of effort," General McChrystal likens the US military sceptical American public that civil war two years ago. brute-force attack.
Stanley McChrystal said. His to a bull charging at the matador- this can work, that you have a While Obama has to wrestle The team has previously
findings will be submitted to l i k e T a l i b a n a n d s l i g h t l y plan and a strategy that is with Afghanistan, there is also cracked the 2G Nano, but
President Barack Obama, who weakened with each "cut" it feasible," Stephen Biddle, a renewed concern about Iraq, exploiting a vulnerability for
faces a public increasingly restive receives. The review is also military expert who advises the where suicide bombers have further models involves tracking
over a war that has lasted eight e x p e c t e d t o c o n f i r m t h a t US-led command in Afghanistan, stepped up attacks that have killed down the specific part of memory
years. protecting the Afghan people told the McClatchy-Tribune news hundreds of Iraqis as political their code ends up. Testing these
McChrystal does not ask for against the Taliban must be the service. tension mounts ahead of January's memory locations is painstaking,
more US troops to be sent to top priority. Another leading counter- elections. and there are tens of thousands of
Afghanistan, but his grave US officials have spoken openly insurgency expert said • Afghanistan segments, and several iPods
reflections on the failure of about the failing war effort in Afghanistan's government must • US foreign policy models to test.
strategy may well herald a request Afghanistan and McChrystal's fight corruption and deliver • Obama administration The answer: Automate the
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expected later this autumn. strong misgivings. He says the because Taliban militants were guardian.co.uk© Guardian 3000. It can press three buttons if
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Dalai Lama visits typhoon-hit Taiwan 'New Moon'

By Tania Branigan (World Dalai Lama to visit, warning that Dalai Lama told reporters. But he state news agency Xinhua.
Soundtrack
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
he is a "splittist" who wants
Tibetan independence – although
added: "We are not seeking
separation for Taiwan, but the fate
He added: "We resolutely
oppose this ... [His] visit is bound
Details Revealed
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:44:51 AM he insists he seeks only autonomy. of Taiwan depends on the more to have a negative influence on (ETonline - Breaking News)
Taiwan is an especially sensitive than 20 million people [here]. the relations between the Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:40:00 AM
Dalai Lama stresses post- case because China still claims You are enjoying democracy and mainland and Taiwan."
Morakot visit is non-political, sovereignty over the self-ruled that you must preserve. I myself A member of the ruling The first single for 'The Twilight
after China criticises Taiwan territory. am totally dedicated to the Kuomintang said the party had Saga: New Moon' soundtrack has
opposition for invitation But the tone of official promotion of democracy." sent an official to China to speak officially been confirmed,
The Dalai Lama began his trip comments was low key and China He said the island should have to the Taiwan affairs office, but according to 'Twilight' author
to Taiwan today by insisting his blamed the opposition Democratic "very close and unique links" with he declined to elaborate on the Stephenie Meyer's blog.
stay was non-political, after China Progressive party (DPP), which the mainland. reason. Indie band Death Cab for Cutie
warned that it would damage the invited the Dalai Lama, rather Kneeling on the ground above About 20 protesters -- fronted by Ben Gibbard, fiancee
i s l a n d ' s r e l a t i o n s w i t h t h e than the ruling Kuomintang. The what was once the village of demonstrated outside the Dalai to actress Zooey Deschanel-- has
mainland. president, Ma Ying-jeou, who Hsiao-lin, in southern Taiwan, he Lama's hotel today, saying the written a song exclusively for the
The exiled spiritual leader engineered the recent thaw with offered prayers for the estimated visit was not bringing real disaster vampire sequel titled "Meet Me
offered prayers for recent victims the mainland, approved the trip 500 people who died in mudslides relief to Taiwan. On the Equinox" and will debut
of typhoon Morakot as he kicked but will not meet the Buddhist triggered by Morakot. "I love it," the Tibetan spiritual the single live at the MTV VMA
off the visit, which has brought leader. "We welcome him and we're leader told reporters. "It's an Awards on September 13, music
together China's two most In December Ma said 2009 very happy that he's here," said indication of freedom of Web site Pitchfork.com reports.
sensitive territorial issues. Beijing would not be an appropriate time Liu Ming-chuan, one of 50 former expression. It's wonderful." Meyer's posted a statement from
said the trip was "bound to have a for the Dalai Lama to visit. But residents who had returned for the • Dalai Lama the Seattle based band on her blog
negative influence" on recently w h e n t h e D P P i s s u e d t h e visit. • Taiwan describing the single: "We are
improved ties across the strait. invitation, he faced a choice Prior to his arrival in Taiwan, • China very excited to be a part of this
The Dalai Lama did not discuss between risking the anger of the Dalai Lama said it was his • Natural disasters and extreme amazing series of novels set in our
Tibet, although on a visit to a Beijing and offering ammunition responsibility to accept the weather own backyard. It just seemed a
village buried by a mudslide he to his critics, who argue that he invitation because there were Tania Branigan perfect synergy that a band from
told reporters he was dedicated to has been too concerned with many Buddhists there. guardian.co.uk© Guardian the Northwest would create a
promoting democracy. About 570 pleasing China and that the The spokesman for the Taiwan News & Media Limited 2009 | song for a series of novels set in
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month. been badly dented by the disaster. Dalai Lama, who has long been
Beijing usually criticises in "I'm very, very strict, [the trip is engaged in separatist activities, to
harsh terms nations that allow the of a] non-political nature," the visit Taiwan," according to the

Time Warner takes out Weinstein Company with 'Final Destination'

By Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: Time Warner
(TWX), Viacom (VIA), Sony
Corp ADR (SNE), Film
I wonder: did Michael Meyers
have a premonition of doom --
like the ones those clairvoyant
teens from the Final Destination numbers will change anything, Destination' originally appeared
series have -- right before Time because Halloween 2, distributed on BloggingStocks on Mon, 31
Warner(NYSE: TWX) by The Weinstein Company, Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please
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Destination came in first this with 'Final Destination'
past weekend at domestic theaters million. Even though that's an Time Warner takes out
with a gross of around $28 estimate, there's no way the final Weinstein Company with 'Final
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Sri Lankan court jails Tamil
journalist
By Randeep Ramesh (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:01:37 AM
JS Tissanayagam sentenced to
20 years' hard labour under anti-
terrorism laws
A Tamil journalist who wrote
articles criticising the Sri Lankan
government's war against the
Tamil Tigers was today sentenced
to 20 years' hard labour under the
country's anti-terrorism laws.
Judge Deepali Wijesundera, at
the high court in Colombo,
convicted JS Tissanayagam on
three charges of conspiracy,
breaking prevention of terrorism
laws, and violating wide-ranging
emergency regulations.
The court found Tissainayagam
guilty of causing racial hatred and
receiving money from the banned
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) to fund his website.
The journalist, who had been a
respected columnist for Colombo
papers, was arrested in 2008 and
charged five months later with
inciting violence in articles in his
magazine, the North Eastern
Monthly, which is now closed.
Tissainayagam's defence lawyers
said their client would appeal,
maintaining he had always fought
for human rights. The journalist's
case has attracted international
attention, with President Obama
saying earlier this year it was
"emblematic of the hundreds of
journalists who face intimidation,
censorship, and arbitrary arrest".
"He was never a racist, and he at
no time tried to arouse hatred,"
Tissainayagam's lawyer, Anil
Silva, said in his defence. "Now
he has been punished for what he
wrote as a journalist. This will be
a lesson to other journalists, too."
However, the prosecution
argued that the constitutional right
to free speech did not extend to
spreading "false information to
spur ethnic violence".
Until its defeat in May, the
LTTE fought a guerrilla war for
almost three decades to create a
separate nation for Sri Lanka's
minority Tamils. The war ended
with the death of the Tamil Tigers'
leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The verdict is the first under Sri
Lanka's draconian anti-terror
laws. Human rights groups have
criticised the government for
suspending press freedoms and
cracking down on reporters
considered to be insubordinate.
The New York-based Committee
to Protect Journalists says 11 Sri
Lankan reporters have been
forced into exile over the past
year.
In some cases, the government
has been accused of assassinating
journalists. Amnesty International
says at least 14 Sri Lankan
journalists and media workers
have been killed since the
beginning of 2006. "The courts in
Sri Lanka cannot be considered
independent … even the chief
justice has been silenced for
speaking out on the issue of Tamil
refugees in the country," said
Suhas Chakma of the Asian
Centre for Human Rights.
"The message is that nobody can
speak out against the government,
and is especially pointed given
that exiled journalists last week
had sent out a video showing Sri
Lankan soldiers executing
Tamils."
Chakma said there were still
questions to be asked about how
many people had been killed in
the final stages of the war, and
that the verdict was "about
silencing dissent".
• Sri Lanka
• Human rights
• Press freedom
Randeep Ramesh
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Wall Street set to follow
China downwards
(Financial Times - US 2006 to January 2007.
homepage) European stocks were near their
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:55:15 AM lows for the day ahead of the open
on Wall Street. The FTSE
US equity futures were sharply Eurofirst 100 index was 0.6 per
lower early on Monday, as cent lower. UK trading was closed
investors focus on a further steep for a public holiday.
decline in Chinese stocks and Asian equity markets closed
August draws to a close. mainly lower, led by a 6.7 per
In deal news, Baker Hughes cent slide in Shanghai, taking its
announced that it was buying BJ losses for August to nearly 22 per
Services in a $5.5bn cash-and- cent. Shares in Tokyo also fell .4
stock deal. per cent as the stronger yen, in the
Less than an hour before the wake of Japan’s election victory
opening bell, S&P 500 futures for the Democratic Party over the
were down 6.4 points at 1,020.60, ruling Liberal Democrats, hurt
just above their morning low of exporters.
1,019.20, and were trading below Bond yields were lower amid
fair value of 1,028.04. the fall in global equities. The
Nasdaq futures were down 11 yield on the 10-year Treasury note
points at 1,631.50, below a fair was down 4 basis points at 3.41
value reading of 1,643.19. per cent.
Futures for the Dow Jones “This morning, traders will be
Industrial Average were down 56 using the futures markets of
points at 9,480. Chicago as well as cash markets
“The news is pretty thin this to hedge their bets on the levee
m o r n i n g t h o u g h t h e r e ’ s a which looks like it is breaking in
predictable focus on China which the equity markets of China,” said
has seen their stock market fall a interest rate strategists at UBS.
record 21 per cent during the Both the yen and the dollar rose
month of August,” said Bill against major currencies early in
O’Donnell, strategist at RBS New York as risk aversion was
Securities. the theme for trading.
Last week, the S&P rose to a Oil prices were sliding early in
fresh high for the year and is set New York. US crude prices were
to end August with a gain of trading below $71 a barrel.
about 4 per cent. In spite of a In economic news, investors
rocky opening, the S&P is on await regional manufacturing data
course to record its sixth straight after the opening bell.
month of gains, its best monthly
streak since the rally from June
20 Finance/
New era for Japan as DPJ triumphs
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 10:25:06 PM
Japan’s centre-left opposition
Democratic party won a crushing
victory over the long-ruling
conservative Liberal Democrats
on Sunday, redrawing the political
landscape of the world’s second
largest economy.
The result – the first time since
the LDP’s founding in 1955 that
any other party has won an
electoral majority in the Diet’s
lower house – gave the DPJ a
mandate to pursue its campaign
policies of taming the nation’s
powerful bureaucrats and rolling
out generous child allowances and
welfare payments.
The DPJ will also take over the
daunting task of reviving the
economy which, as figures
released on Monday showed,
remains extremely fragile.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock
average initially rose as much as
1.5 per cent to 10,767, its highest
level in over 10 months, but the
market gave up the early gains
and slipped 0.4 per cent to
10,497.19 by midday. The yen
strengthened to Y92.93 against
the dollar from Y93.60 and
climbed to Y132.90 versus the
euro from Y133.85.
“The Japanese people have for
the first time bravely selected a
new government, and I would like
to thank them for that,” said
Yukio Hatoyama, DPJ president,
and Japan’s prime minister
presumptive. “We humbly accept
their mandate.”
Speaking at his home on
Monday, he said: “This is by no
means the destination. At long last
we are able to move politics, to
create a new kind of politics that
will fulfil the expectations of the
people.” Blog
Elections coverage on
FT.com/newsblog
According to the latest update
on state broadcaster NHK’s
website, the DPJ had won 308
seats in the lower house compared
with the LDP’s 119. Before the
poll the LDP had 302 seats to the
DPJ’s 112.
“This election is not about a
ruling party with an unpopular
prime minister in a bad economy,
this is about the end of the
postwar party system in Japan,”
said Gerald Curtis, professor at
Columbia University in New
York. “It’s the beginning of a
different party system.”
While the DPJ fell short of a
two-thirds super-majority in the
Diet’s lower house, which would
have allowed it to enact
legislation without the approval of
its coalition allies there, its victory
was a vindication of its strategy of
focusing its campaign on the
simple theme of a “change of
government”.
The result tore off one corner of
the famous “iron triangle”
established in the postwar era,
which featured a close and co-
operative three-way relationship
between the LDP, the bureaucracy
and Japanese business. LDP
timeline
November 15 1955 The LDP is
formed from a merger of the
Liberal and Democratic parties,
starting an uninterrupted 38-year
reign as the majority party in the
Diet.
October 1990 The Nikkei closes
at 20,222, a 48 per cent slide over
nine months. Hyperinflated
property prices follow suit and a
banking crisis ensues.
August 9 1993 The LDP,
marred by scandal and economic
declines, loses power for the first
time.
June 1994 The LDP returns to
government in coalition.
September 2006 Junichiro
Koizumi steps down as prime
minister after two terms. His two
successors resign in quick
succession.
September 2008 Taro Aso
becomes prime minister.
July 2009 Mr Aso calls an
election.
Click here for ful interactive
timeline
For the LDP, this defeat was far
more profound than its only
previous fall from power, suffered
in 1993 when it lost its lower
house majority after senior
members including some of the
DPJ’s current leadership left the
ruling party to create opposition
groups.
The anti-LDP coalition
government that resulted proved
fractious and the LDP returned to
power within 11 months. Analysts
said Sunday’s result was likely to
usher in a new political era
featuring two dominant political
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parties competing for the favour
of an impatient electorate wanting
the government to revitalise the
economy and tackle demographic
challenges.
Taro Aso, defeated LDP
president and prime minister, said
he would step down as party
leader after a poll that had “shown
people’s disappointment”.
Other people were blunter. In
remarks at LDP headquarters,
where the mood grew ever more
sombre as vote counting
progressed, Yoshihide Suga,
deputy-chairman of the LDP’s
election strategy council, said the
defeat suggested “the LDP has
passed its use-by date”.
The DPJ’s manifesto promised
better welfare and a shift away
from support for big business and
construction spending. It is
unclear how far the incoming
party can deliver in the face of
budget constraints and
bureaucratic resistance.
DPJ calls for a rethink of
Japan’s half-century alliance with
the US have raised concerns in
Washington, but Mr Hatoyama
has also stressed the need to win
the trust of the US.
In a White House statement,
Barack Obama, US president, said
he looked forward to “working
closely” with Tokyo following the
DPJ’s victory in a “historic
election”.
“We are confident that the strong
US-Japan alliance and the close
partnership between our two
countries will continue to flourish
under the leadership of the next
government in Tokyo,” the White
House said.
Additional reporting by Michiyo
Nakamoto and Reuters
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Baker Hughes snaps up rival BJ
Services for $5.5bn
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:55:58 AM
Baker Hughes snaps up rival BJ
Services for $5.5bn
By Julie MacIntosh in New
York
Published: August 31 2009
13:01 | Last updated: August 31
2009 13:55
Baker Hughes, the oil field
services provider, said on Monday
it would buy BJ Services, a
smaller rival, for $5.5bn in cash
and stock to broaden its selection
of products and services.
Baker Hughes will pay 0.40035
of a share of its stock, plus $2.69
in cash, for each share of BJ
Services, which represents a 16
Walt Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion
By Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Deals, Walt Disney
(DIS), Marvel Entertainment
(MVL)
This morning saw no shortages
of deals, and now add one more.
The Walt Disney Co.(NYSE:
DIS) said it is acquiring Marvel
Entertainment Inc.(NYSE: MVL)
for $4 billion in cash and stock. Men, among others.
Disney will acquire ownership of
5,000 Marvel characters, in pre-market trade as
including Iron Man, Spider-Man, shareholders will receive $30 per
the Fantastic Four, and the X-
per cent premium to BJ Services’
closing price on Friday.
Chad Deaton, chairman and
chief executive of Baker Hughes,
said in an interview that the
companies signed the deal just a
few hours before announcing the
transaction on Monday morning
after talking about a potential
transaction for several months.
Baker Hughes once owned BJ
Services, but spun it off in the
early 1990s.
The purchase of BJ Services
will significantly boost Houston-
based Baker Hughes’ ability to
perform pressure pumping
services, which are in increasingly
high demand around the world as
oil fields age and require
stimulation to keep producing.
MVL shares jumped about 25%
Baker Hughes’ pressure
pumping business will jump from
less than 1 per cent of its revenue
to more than 20 per cent when the
deal is completed. That is still
less, on a percentage basis, than
the amount of revenue larger
rivals Schlumberger and
Halliburton derive from pressure
pumping.
Baker Hughes shares were
down 3.65% at $36.70 in pre-
market trading in New York on
Monday.
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share in cash, plus 0.745 Disney
shares for every Marvel share,
which values each Marvel share at
$50. MVL closed at $38.65
Friday. Meanwhile, Disney shares
fell about 2.6% in pre-market, but
have recovered after the
beginning of trade.
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Chasing Value: GE -- the Exxon
of water
By Sheldon Liber
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Other issues,
Industry, General Electric (GE),
Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chasing
Value, Technology
While I'm chasing value,
General Electric(NYSE: GE) is
chasing revenue from water
projects. It may not amount to
much now, but GE is betting it
will be huge some day and it has
been working towards this goal
for many years.
Although GE had estimated
2009 revenue of $2.5 billion from Continue reading Chasing
the water business, that is only a Value: GE -- the Exxon of water
meager 1.6% of the $156 billion Chasing Value: GE -- the Exxon
in worldwide sales generated by of water originally appeared on
its major business divisions that BloggingStocks on Mon, 31 Aug
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this year.
Dr. Drew: Pain Meds May Have
Led DJ AM to Relapse
(ETonline - Breaking News) prescribed, I’m saying he didn’t
know the risks.”
Submitted at 8/30/2009 11:19:00 PM
The AP says pain medication
Dr. Drew Pinksy of “Celebrity was prescribed to the disc jockey
Rehab” claims that pain following two skin graft surgeries
medications prescribed to Adam he underwent as part of his
"DJ AM" Goldstein during his recovery from a tragic plane crash
recovery from a 2008 plane crash last year. According to the news
could have opened the doors for a service, law enforcement called to
relapse. the scene found a crack pipe and
Pinsky told the Associated prescription pills in the apartment
Press, “It very slowly and subtly where Goldstein was found dead
reawakens addiction. I’m not Friday evening.
saying it was inappropriately
22 Economy/
How the Fed Has Failed Us
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 3:25:08 AM
No, this is not a satire. Now that
Bazooka Ben (Bernanke) has been
re-appointed as Chairman of the
Federal Reserve after continuing
Alan Greenspan’s bubble-bust
framework (albeit, not as
radically), it’s the perfect time to
examine the Federal Reserve’s
stated mission to see whether they
are succeeding or failing.
According to the Federal
Reserve’s website:
The Federal Reserve System is
the central bank of the United
States. It was founded by
Congress in 1913 to provide the
nation with a safer, more flexible,
and more stable monetary and
financial system. Over the years,
its role in banking and the
economy has expanded.
Today, the Federal Reserve’s
duties fall into four general areas:
• conducting the nation’s
monetary policy by influencing
the monetary and credit
conditions in the economy in
pursuit of maximum employment,
stable prices, and moderate long-
term interest rates
• supervising and regulating
banking institutions to ensure the
safety and soundness of the
nation’s banking and financial
system and to protect the credit
rights of consumers
• maintaining the stability of the
financial system and containing
systemic risk that may arise in
financial markets
• providing financial services to
depository institutions, the U.S.
government, and foreign official
institutions, including playing a
major role in operating the
nation’s payments system.”
Let’s look at each duty in order
… the fact that we just experienced
1) Maximum employment,
stable prices, and moderate long-
term interest rates: Maximum
employment has not been
achieved for two reasons. First,
we have seen an incredible
number of jobs go oversees while
chasing cheaper wages for the
same blue or white collar quality
labor (e.g., China and India,
respectively). So long as the
government does not subsidize
health care, there is literally no
way we can compete until wages
in those countries catch up to
ours. The Federal Reserve has not
done a good job actively seeking a
solution to this problem … it’s
getting worse. Further, if you find
the U6 Unemployment Rate of
16+% unemployment to be
“maximum employment,” then
it’s time to call ourselves Europe.
Click to enlarge:
Headline Unemployment Rate
(red) v. Total Unemployment
Rate (purple)
In addition, when U.S. citizens
are unemployed, we are now
unemployed longer than ever
before. Thus, the trend indicates
another Fed failure:
9Click to enlarge)
Average (Mean) Duration of
Unemployment
Second, we have the issue of the
bubble-bust cycle in employment.
I have been out of school for over
a decade and lived through two
bubbles and two collapses. Most
people in my generation have had
at least three different employers
in a very short time (Cf. my
grandfather who worked for one
company — Brinks — for 40
years). As a result, we live with
constant anxiety that our jobs will
blow up at any time, we have
retirement savings that are
constantly rolling over (which
means we don’t get a chance to
reach more favorable terms), and
we have spent more time
searching for employment than
the meaning of life. If we are to
create stability in our society (the
underlying mission of both the
government and Federal Reserve),
then we need both maximum
employment and stable
employment.
Stable prices have not been
achieved. With each bubble we’ve
had a nice taste of inflation.
During the most recent debacle,
housing, food and gas prices went
through the roof. In this category,
the Fed delegated their holy duties
to housing speculators, the corn
lobby (e.g., ethanol), and oil
speculators. If the Fed cannot
drive policy to stop this bullshit,
then again they are failing.
Click to enlarge:
5-Year Gas and Crude Prices
Moderate long-term interest
rates have been another problem
for the Fed. I asked David
Proman, a portfolio manager at a
boutique investment management
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extended period of time. Due to
(and are still experiencing) some
of the greatest deflationary
pressures of all time, it is
probably a necessary evil to keep
rates low for a while.
On whether the government has
done a good job, I will say they
did what they had to do after the
fact. But from a preventative
stand point, they really blew it.
2) Supervising and regulating
banking institutions to ensure the
safety and soundness of the
nation’s banking and financial
system and to protect the credit
rights of consumer: Where to
fund, to comment: begin? The recent financial crisis
The Fed has failed at keeping and economic collapse was due to
moderate long term rates because a total failure to supervise and
they fail to anticipate problems regulate banking institutions. As a
and then are forced to react with r e s u l t , b a n k i n g i n s t i t u t i o n s
throw-the-kitchen-sink-at-the- invented no-doc loans and we’ve
problem solutions. However, by had some of the biggest banking
then it is too late to keep rates institution bankruptcies in U.S.
moderate. history. Further, the safety and
Technically the Fed can’t soundness of the banking and
actually control long term rates. financial system was completely
They can only hope to through obliterated when mortgages were
issuance of debt. The only rate the allowed to be securitized (i.e.,
Fed can control is the Fed Funds Mortgage Backed Securities) and
rate which is an overnight lending scattered all over the globe while
rate. The rest of the curve goes uncollateralized insurance (i.e.,
from there. Credit Default Swaps) was sold
It is really a matter of opinion on these shit-pit loans.
whether they succeeded or failed As for the credit rights of the
in keeping moderate long term consumer, what right does a
rates. 10-year rates have risen consumer have to borrow money
over 110 bps from the December which has no plausible chance of
lows. 30-year rates rose over being repaid? Is that good for
200bps but have recently fallen consumers who can pay back
back down again. I think the debt? I’d love to see Bernanke
market has done somewhat of a write some erudite, algorithmic-
decent job of correcting itself based paper to explain that
across the yield curve, although I illogical phenomenon (blessed by
do not think we can sustain rates the Fed).
this low. It is extremely 3) Maintaining the stability of
inflationary to keep rates
incredibly low like this for an HOW page 28
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Japan's election: Banzai!

(The Economist: News around the DPJ’s victorious apart. financial slump, hit a record 5.7% country that is crying out for good
analysis) campaign offices. NHK, the During much of its tenure, it in July. Deflation has also re- leadership.
Submitted at 8/30/2009 10:15:51 PM public broadcaster, said the party held power because it helped emerged; consumer prices fell Besides naming a cabinet, Mr
had won 308 seats in the Diet, deliver rising prosperity to a 2.2% in July from a year earlier. Hatoyama, who has appeared to
Japan's election with almost all the seats counted, country that had only recently The LDP’s failure to improve flip-flop on sensitive issues such
Aug 31st 2009 | TOKYO as polls had largely predicted. The endured the ignominy of second- people’s lives was one of the twin as Japan’s occasionally
From Economist.com A DPJ hopes to forge a coalition world-war defeat and American pillars of the DPJ’s successful subordinate relationship with
landslide victory for the DPJ in with two minor parties that would occupation. After taking office in campaign. The other was the America, is soon likely to have to
Japan give it a two-thirds majority, 1955, it turned Japan into one of LDP’s complicity with an all- step onto the world stage. He
The victors have an emotive enabling it to force through America’s firmest cold-war allies. encompassing bureaucracy that hopes to travel to New York in
name for it: seiken kotai, or legislation. But the three parties But as Japan’s economic has been guilty of staggering September for the UN general
regime change. It came in brutal do not see eye to eye on all issues, miracle faded, and the country incompetence recently, not least assembly, and will probably meet
fashion on Sunday August 30th which means plenty of haggling sank into a deflationary funk in by losing millions of personal- Barack Obama on that trip.
when Japan, Asia’s richest will be needed. The DPJ already the 1990s, the LDP clung onto pension records in 2007. The But as he sets out to introduce a
democracy, dumped the party that holds the upper house. power largely thanks to an public has also been vexed by the new era of political openness and
has ruled it for almost all of the For the long-ruling Liberal entrenched system of patronage practice of rewarding top civil accountability to Japan, he will be
last 53 years and gave a huge win Democratic Party (LDP) there and lavish use of the pork barrel. servants with plum jobs at firms dogged by a thorny question that
to one that until recently had little was no disguising its anguish, as It used public funds or access to they formerly supervised. The was already being put to him as
idea of how it would govern. discredited heavyweight after Japan’s vast pool of private DPJ has vowed to stamp out that he cautiously claimed victory on
In a historic result, unofficial heavyweight fell, often to young, savings to launch public-works policy. Sunday night. That is the position
r e s u l t s s h o w e d t h a t t h e telegenic DPJ novices shrewdly projects that for its last two But how well it can fulfill its of Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ’s former
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), drafted in as giant-killers. Taro decades in power kept its grass- manifesto pledges—repeated with leader, who orchestrated this
a leftist grouping of ruling-party Aso, the visibly shaken prime roots supporters, such as farmers worthy insistence on the remarkable election victory and is
renegades, social democrats and m i n i s t e r , c o n c e d e d d e f e a t , and construction workers, loyal. campaign trail—will depend on a master manipulator eminently
socialists, was heading for a describing the result as “very None of that spending generated many factors. Firstly, it may need capable of pulling Mr Hatoyama’s
landslide. It is led by Yukio severe”. When he dissolved a sustainable recovery, however, to reach some sort of strings.
Hatoyama, a mild-mannered parliament in July to hold the nor did reforms by Junichiro accommodation with civil-service So far, the new leader has
career politician likely to be the elections, the LDP held 300 seats. Koizumi, a political one-off who mandarins, because only a ducked the question. But Japan,
next prime minister. He promises NHK’s count showed it had won revived the LDP’s fortunes during handful of its most senior for all that it will celebrate dealing
a government less beholden to the 119 seats so far, almost the same the last election in 2005, but members have experience at the LDP a punishment it has long
powerful civil service, wants to as the puny number the DPJ held whose followers, known as cabinet level. Its spending deserved, will want an answer.
temper the free market and is keen before the elections. “Koizumi’s children”, were proposals are largely to be funded Otherwise its people may fear
to dole out cash to the The raw numbers, however crushed by the DPJ this time by cutting waste from government they have replaced one dark force
d i s a d v a n t a g e d i n t h e dramatic, only partly tell of the round. Instead Japan has become spending; that is always easier to with another.
economically stagnant and ageing upheaval this could mean for saddled with a debt projected to promise than to deliver. Back to top ^^ Readers'
country. He declined to name a Japanese politics. The LDP has rise to twice the country’s ¥497 Meanwhile, Japan’s economy is comments
cabinet until he is confirmed as had its hands on almost every trillion ($4.8 trillion) GDP, and it still poised precariously between The Economist welcomes your
prime minister in a special session lever of power for more than half remains dangerously dependent recovery and renewed slump. If views.
of the lower house, or Diet. That a century; even when it briefly on its large exporters. Figures the recovery fails to materialise, it
may be within the next two lost office in 1993, it regained it released in the closing days of the will not necessarily be the DPJ’s
weeks. within 11 months because the campaign showed unemployment, fault. But it will be the first test of
Jubilant cries of Banzai! echoed forces assembled against it fell exacerbated by the global its administrative competence in a
24 Economy/ Internet News Record

The Ratings Debate: A Little Knowledge Goes a Long Way

(Financial Sector and Stocks actions. learn it in levels and at each level appreciate the game. The knowledge such as how Value at
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) Many have debated that we the skills required change and the application of math in finance and Risk VaR for example works until
Submitted at 8/31/2009 3:05:53 AM should get away from "fancy" risk understanding of the game risk is the same way. The they have either mastery or have
models and others argue that if changes. Consider the following difference is that instead of losing reached their personal peak
One of the current debates going people just understood more about levels of knowledge in chess: the game, if one overly relies on a capability for comprehension. We
in finance is about models and the how to use or not use models we • What is the objective of the piece of knowledge it can be can't all be Gary Kasparov.
role they played in the current would be OK. Unfortunately the game? disastrous. Over confidence kills Now for the Dangerous part.
problems ie. CDO disasters and debate is a little stale, so I will • Which way does the bishop and a little bit of knowledge can There comes a point in our
ratings flaws. To paraphrase a throw in my bit. With these 2 move? lead to over confidence. learning when we believe we
popular expression, models don't fundamental rules: • What is castling? In formal learning there is a understand enough to act on our
shoot holes in balance sheets, • Models aren't dangerous, • How many points is a rook taxonomy of knowledge known as knowledge. Confidence can be a
overly confident bankers shoot misapplied models are dangerous. worth? Blooms Taxonomy. I submit the very dangerous thing in finance or
holes in balance sheets. • The likely misapplication of a • What is En Passent following diagram below to show knowledge as it may lead to the
The models are merely one of model on a large scale is a • What is the Spanish opening? an example of Bloom's taxonomy application of knowledge in a
the tools used to establish the function of a groups confidence • What is it like to "see the laid onto the learning of flawed way. Belief may rush
false beliefs (over confidences) level. board" like a grand master mathematical finance. ahead of skill. The graph below
that collectively lead to many Financial knowledge is not a Each level of knowledge has Each practitioner will proceed
financial actors taking bad linear thing, it is like chess. You different rules and new ways to up the chain with a piece of RATINGS page 28
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Green.view: Not as fragile as they look
(The Economist: Daily
columns)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:26:18 PM
Green.view
Aug 31st 2009
From Economist.com Leave
them alone, and damaged
ecosystems will bounce back fast
CONVENTIONAL wisdom is
often a poor guide. For one thing
it suggests that human damage to
the world’s species, habitats and
ecosystems is terminal: that when
things are lost, they are lost for
ever. But oil spills of the sort that
now threaten the Timor Sea,
forest fires like those that recently
afflicted Greece, and other man-
made and man-assisted threats to
wildlife are transient. Except in
those cases in which a species is
driven to extinction, the Earth’s
ability to shrug such things off is
often underestimated.
Alan Weisman shows this in his
book, “ The World Without Us”,
which illustrates nature’s great
capacity to recover. Have
mankind abducted by aliens or
wiped out by some Homo sapiens
-specific virus, and nature, Mr
Weisman reckons, would reclaim
its territory with surprising speed,
as weeds colonised pavements,
rivers flooded subway tunnels and
buildings burst as they were
played like concertinas by a cycle
of freezing and thawing. By Mr
Weisman’s reckoning, residential
neighbourhoods would return to
forest in 500 years and only the
most stubborn of human
inventions, such as certain
plastics, would prove permanent.
Mr Weisman’s conclusion was
backed up earlier this year by a
study published in the Public
Library of Science by Holly Jones
and Oswald Schmitz, of Yale’s
School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies. They used
Web of Science, an online journal
archive, to gather a set of 240 peer
-reviewed scientific papers that
measured recovery rates in large
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The data thus available included
work on agriculture,
deforestation, the introduction of
invasive species, logging, mining,
oil spills, overfishing and the
damage done to seabeds by
trawling, as well as, for
comparison, naturally occurring
disasters such as hurricanes.
The pair measured 94 aspects of
how ecosystems are put together,
including the ways in which
nutrients cycle within them, the
rates at which decomposition
takes place and the sizes of their
plant and animal populations, so
that they could classify whether,
and how fast, an area had
recovered. They found that 83 of
the 240 papers demonstrated
complete recovery, while 90
showed a mixed response. Only
67 showed no recovery at all and,
as the authors explain, more
would have recovered if the
projects had continued for long
enough to track the changes in
ecosystems that respond more
slowly, such as forests.
Ecosystems exposed to more
than one pressure, such as a forest
that is first felled and then used
for agriculture, took the longest to
recover. Even in those cases,
though, the average recovery time
was, at 56 years, within a human
lifetime. Sites that experienced
single threats typically recovered
in less than 20 years. The
researchers found that recovery
rates are influenced more by the
type of ecosystem than by the
magnitude of the damage inflicted
upon it. Forests, for example, take
longer to renew (42 years) than
ocean floors (typically less than
ten) regardless of the scale of the
stresses inflicted on them.
Some commentators are
sceptical about such positive
findings. They point out that, of
necessity, the study’s
retrospective methodology
includes papers published before
researchers were required to
declare any competing interests.
This may have allowed, for
example, an oil company to
produce a report that plays down
the damage done by a spillage.
But such biased individual reports
would be unlikely to affect the
overall findings of a large study
like this one.
Critics also question whether
total ecological recovery really
has been achieved as often as Ms
Jones and Dr Schmitz suggest,
and point to examples where it
manifestly has not, such as the
cod fishery of the Grand Banks,
off the coast of Newfoundland,
which collapsed in 1992. Almost
two decades on, the cod show no
sign of recovery, perhaps because
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new predators, such as dogfish,
now dominate the waters.
It is true, though, that the
question of what is pristine or
natural can be debatable. A good
example of this, which Mr
Weisman uses in his book, is
Dartmoor, a national park in the
south-west of England. Dartmoor
is considered by many to be one
of Britain’s great nature
wildernesses. In fact, it is a human
construction, formed by tens of
thousands of years’ worth of
alterations such as burning and
agriculture. But it is in its current
state, rather than as the forest it
once was, that people wish to
preserve it. Ms Jones and Dr
Schmitz point out that most
conservation work is not actually
concerned with returning
landscapes to their natural or
prehuman states and “instead use
contemporaneous reference
systems as targets”.
Despite their study’s limitations,
and the difficulty of measuring
recovery and choosing targets, Ms
Jones’s and Dr Schmitz’s findings
are good news for
conservationists. But the final
word of advice belongs to Mr
Weisman as he invites people to
ponder an alternative to his post-
human future: “Since we’re
imagining, why not dream of a
way for nature to prosper that
doesn’t depend on our demise?”
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Breaking: Disney To
Acquire Marvel
Entertainment For $4
Billion
By Robin Wauters
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:37:52 AM
The Walt Disney Company has
agreed to acquire Marvel
Entertainment in a stock and cash
transaction, the companies
announced today. Under the terms
of the agreement and based on last
week's closing price of Disney,
Marvel shareholders would
receive a total of $30 per share in
cash plus approximately 0.745
Disney shares for each Marvel
share they own. Based on the
closing price of Disney stock on
Friday, August 28, the transaction
value is $50 per Marvel share or
approximately $4 billion. Under
the deal, Disney will acquire
ownership of Marvel including its
more than 5,000 Marvel
characters, including Iron Man,
Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain
America, Fantastic Four and Thor.
(News breaking, more coming)
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S&P 500 Sector Leadership Changes, 1990-2009: Bubbles and
Reverse Bubbles
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:55:40 AM
If we look at the sector
leadership by percentage share in
the S&P 500 from 1990 to 2009,
we can’t ignore the dramatic rise
of the financial and technology
sectors in last twenty years. From
1990 to 1994, Consumer Staples,
Consumer Discretionary and
Industrials were the leading
sectors but in the later half of
nineties, Technology almost
dominated the S&P 500 with a
30% share. The financial sector
also saw a similar rise while the
Consumer Staples and Materials
sectors lagged behind as shown in
the table below:
click to enlarge
However after the technology
bubble popped in 2000-01, the
Financial sector took over. Again,
a single sector grew to more than
20% of the S&P 500 and it
resulted in another bubble - in the
financial sector this time.
But if we look at the volatility
of the sectors, the energy sector
was the most volatile sector from
2001 to 2009. Even after a huge
drop in oil prices this year after
last year's run up and respective
market cap loss of oil companies,
the Energy sector's share in the
index is almost twice what it was
in the beginning of the decade as
shown in table below:
click to enlarge
After looking at this data, you
would wonder whether there was
a bubble inside a bubble and the
Energy sector bubble still exists
after the financial sector bubble
popped last year. It may also be
the case that with the emergence
of new world economies, energy
needs have changed drastically
worldwide and this sector’s higher
weight is justified in the current
environment.
Here are some of the other
observations from this data:
There is not much change or
visible trends at a high level in
Industrials, Healthcare, combined
Consumer Staples and
Discretionary and the Utilities
sector shares overall.
The Material sector's percentage
share is increasing with
commodities becoming an
essential part of portfolios and
increasing demand of for
commodities from developing
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by these companies.
One possibility is that the
Telecom sector correction has
been overdone over the last 20
years and company valuations
have gone haywire. It could also
be that local carriers in the
developing countries carry most
of the traffic and they are not part
of the S&P 500 but then, this
should actually be factored in as
growth opportunities for
multinational telecom companies
which are part of the S&P 500.
Traffic and information needs in
developed countries have also
grown many times over. One can
economies. The Telecom sector is amenities that require these argue that cable companies or
severely depressed relative to its resources. The Telecom sector has media companies can deliver
1990s levels. Telecom companies g o n e t h r o u g h a l o t o f some of the services telecom
actually deliver more services consolidation and companies have companies have been delivering
today including voice, video and cut costs to the bone. But this but that is true the other way
data as compared to the nineties. would not explain why today's a r o u n d a l s o i . e . t e l e c o m
The customer base of telecom Telecom sector weight is one- companies can provide TV and
services has also increased third of its sector weight in the video on demand type services as
worldwide and information needs 1990. It also does not look like the well.
are even greater today. The glut of Telecom sector was in a bubble in To me it looks like Telecom has
bandwidth that was created by the early 1990s as there is no huge become a 'forgotten' sector
internet bubble should have drop or rise in percentage share because of lower returns in the
already been absorbed by the seen but a gradual drop in the last last few years and this may
additional voice and video data 20 years. actually be a bubble in reverse
traveling on those big optical The total value delivered to the direction that should correct itself
pipes that were put into use in the economy by these companies with time.
late nineties. should have increased through Data Source: Bespoke
Looking at this data, one would cost cutting and consolidation I n v e s t m e n t G r o u p A r t i c l e s ,
wonder why then the Telecom when overlaps were removed. Current data in the tables is end of
sector is not seeing the growth the Even if there is a lower number of June 2009 data.
Energy and Materials sectors are telecom companies, and hence Disclosure: Multiple positions
seeing with the emergence of sources of market cap in the S&P in S&P 500 stocks
m o r e a n d m o r e d e v e l o p i n g 500, the values of the existing
economies where people have companies should actually reflect
started utilizing the modern a higher contribution to economy
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Swiss 'Black' Accounts: A Trillion Dollar

Problem
(Financial Sector and Stocks million.
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) Mr. Hummler’s comments are
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:48:16 AM unlikely to go unnoticed by the
global taxing authorities. The idea
The case against UBS is over. that there is this much money
The Justice Department appears to waiting to be claimed by the host
have won this one. A total of countries makes it certain that the Medion X9613: A
4,450 out of a total of 52,000 attacks against Swiss banks will Multitouch PC that
names will be divulged to either continue far into the future.
DOJ or IRS. Based on what has Everyone will want their share of Longs to Be Your Home
been presented it would appear $1 Trillion. Theater [PCs]
that the other 48,000 names that I believe that the trees are
were not disclosed either had the shaking and the leaves falling on By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
money sent back to a bank in the this issue as I write. I recently Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:32:32 AM
Sates (equivalent of full reviewed a letter from a large
disclosure) or they had hired a Swiss private bank (not Wegelin If you can handle its 24-inch
lawyer and confessed their sins to & Co) that was sent to a US client screen, the Medion X9613 all-in-
the IRS. it reads, in part, as follows: one certainly looks the part of a
According to the DOJ the To ensure transparency toward perfectly contained HTPC.
52,000 names had a total of $15 the IRS, we would ask you to sign Loaded with Windows 7, the
billion in their black accounts. A the enclosed form W-9 and return X9613 features a multitouch
sizable amount of money. The it to us by 30 September 2009. screen, Core 2 Quad Q9000
question that has been hanging in We will then forward form W-9 to processor, Nvidia GT240M
the air is how much money is still our US depository, which will in graphics, 4GB of RAM, Blu-ray
in Swiss black accounts that has from foreign governments is Mr. Hummler has put a number turn disclose your holdings to the drive and even a second Sideshow
not been flushed out at this point? understandable.” These are not of nearly 1 Trillion dollars on the IRS. monitor (that box you see on the
How many other Americans have the words of a critic of the banks, problem. This is much higher than While this letter may not bottom, we believe). But it's the
accounts that were not with UBS? but of private banker Konrad any estimate that I have seen represent the thinking and action system's glossy, touch-button and
How many accounts are there Hummler. He says that around before. I thought it could be as of other Swiss banks it is likely fingerprint-friendly design that
from non-US names? What is an 30%, or CHF 1,000 billion, of the high as $500b. It appears that I that they will be forced to follow would make it an aesthetically
estimate as to the size of this CHF 2,800 billion or so of foreign was understating things by a suit in the not too distant future. welcome addition to one's typical
problem? assets in Swiss banks is untaxed factor of 2. Some perspective Mr. Rolf Ribi the author of the array of home theater equipment.
The August edition of Swiss “black money”. based on the comments by Mr. story in Swiss Review states in his Announced for Europe only at
Review provides some insight. Mr. Hummler probably knows Hummler: lead in, Banking confidentiality is the moment, the X9613 is priced
While Swiss Review is not the as much about the topic of black -The $15 billion owned by the facing, “the beginning of the between $2,100 to $2,700 after
end all source of information on accounts in Switzerland as 5 2 , 0 0 0 A m e r i c a n n a m e s end”. I would disagree with Mr. conversion. Luckily, these types
this topic their writing is not anyone. His Bio: represents 1.5% of the total. R i b i . W e a r e f a r f r o m t h e of rigs will only get cheaper.[
independent of the Swiss Konrad Hummler is managing -The average US account beginning of this process. The end New Gadgets via Engadget]
Government who provides a partner of Wegelin & Co., private balance at UBS was $300,000. will come much sooner than is
portion of the operating budget. bankers, and has acted for many ($15b/52k). Extrapolating from expected. Black accounts in
With that in mind I was shocked years as personal advisor to the that number one gets an estimate Switzerland are a thing of the
to find the following in the chairman of the board of directors on the total number of black past.
August edition of SR: of the Union Bank of Switzerland accounts at 3.3 million. Based on A Hat Tip to Mr. Hummler for
Switzerland has become a ( UBS). He serves as a colonel in this calculation a range of providing this insight.
paradise for foreign capital on the general staff of the Swiss estimates on the total number
which tax is not paid. The uproar Army. would be between 2 and 4
28 Gadgets/
RATINGS
continued from page 24
highlights the case for the
individual financial modeling
practitioner.
As one progresses along from
ignorance (1) to mastery (6) our
ability screw things up is not a flat
line. In the beginning a person
wouldn't act on a financial model
or approach out of ignorance or
unfamiliarity. As we learn a few
things we get confident enough
"to give it a shot". Ideally people
learn the limitation of a model or
approach and move on.
VaR for example stops being
the Silver bullet of market risk
once one appreciates the flaw of
averages, extreme leptokurtosis of
financial data etc. or the whole
silliness of a the EMH and most
modern finance in general.
This mismatch of confidence
and application occurs on the
group level as well. Consider a
firm engaging in a new initiative
(FAD) such as CDS's, Value at
Risk or moving into the hot new
Phoenix condo market. They will
move slowly at first until a few $'s
hit the balance sheet and the
organization runs into the new
goldmine and no one wants to get
between the rapacious banker and
their bonus. Sr. management
definitely doesn't want to kill the
new golden goose.
Organizationally groups go
through the same phases.
Now for the final point. An
entire industry can go through
these phases which causes huge
potential for disaster as the
industry "learns" its way forward.
If you imagine the individual
actors (banks) and an industry
going through an evolution and
were to plot the to hills as 2 axis
other you may get something like
the chart below.
The failure of acting without
full competence or knowledge
now becomes a much larger issue.
CDSs were a classic case of this.
My guess is that 1-3% of the
participants new about the
convexity risk inherent, but the
industry was right in the middle of
the learning curve and confidence
was extremely high as mark to
market balance sheets made many
confuse skill (applied knowledge)
with luck.
I mention this because of a
personal concern with Basel 2.
Individual firms will each be
acting and learning how apply and
game a new unified risk approach.
They will be doing this more or
less simultaneously throughout
the world. As each bank starts
applying its "skill" the Basel 2
framework will get more tightly
coupled.
My concern is that this tightly
coupled risk framework will
amplify systemic risk creating
something that no single
participant (central bank) is
experienced enough to understand
much less control.
A banking system filled with
ignorant participants with low
confidence is safer than a group of
highly confident mediocre
participants. Ignorance and fear,
keeps many from acting to boldly.
As an anthropologist, I view
money as a social phenomenon, a
belief system that sometimes gets
ahead of itself. Understanding
behavior, overconfidence and
group motivations of various
actors in finance can be a helpful
tool in the world of money.
HOW
continued from page 22
the financial system and
containing systemic risk that may
arise in financial markets: Do you
own a house or stocks? Then you
already know that this one may be
the biggest kick-me-in-the-groin-
and-spit-in-my-face joke of them
all. A 25-year chart of the Dow
Jones Industrial Average makes
the case in point: ( Click to
enlarge)
25-Year Dow Jones Ind. Avg.
And insofar as containing
systemic risk is concerned, since
we just had the biggest systemic
crisis since the Great Depression,
I think we can use our jumbo-
sized red marker to slap an “F” on
this pseudo-science fair project.
4) Providing financial services
to depository institutions, the U.S.
government, and foreign official
institutions, including playing a
major role in operating the
nation’s payments system: Well,
we’ve finally stumbled upon
something they actually do.
However, to our detriment. One
look at the long-term (89-year)
value of the U.S. Dollar and we
can see that the Fed has simply
inflated away the purchasing
power of the hard working middle
class.
Click to enlarge:
Source: Zerohedge.com
So yes, the Fed has provided
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financial services to those friends
listed above. However, in doing
so they have borrowed from the
future to keep up with the Jone’s
of the present. This is not the
American legacy of working hard
and building a better future for
tomorrow.
For the record, I do not think we
should abolish the Fed (at least in
one full-swoop). Such a drastic
move requires tremendous skill
and a delicate touch on the part of
policy makers. Unfortunately, I
consider the task as challenging as
teaching a sasquatch how to dance
the Nutcracker. Therefore, I leave
the task to Congressmen Ron Paul
and Alan Grayson to figure out if
we can simply make the Fed
fulfill their government delegated
duties.
In conclusion, this case could
become a 1000 page dissertation
on how the Fed fails us daily. I
will leave that to those who have
seven-years of Ph.D time to
accomplish that goal. I, for one,
have to get back to earning ever-
deflating U.S. pesos, I mean
dollars, so I can buy another $4
gallon of milk and pay my unfair-
valued mortgage.

Samsung Gets In On the App Store Action [Samsung]

By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) the year. and OmniaLITE. only)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:00:00 AM The store will initially arrive in Every man and his dog is doing For a good primer on how all
the U.K., France, and Italy on an app store these days: these competing options (except
Samsung plans to roll-out an app September 14. A further 30 • Apple iPhone App Store LG) compare, check out Giz
store for its Omnia smartphones, European countries will follow, • Android App Market Explains: All The Smartphone
and has signed on the likes of and though Samsung confirmed • BlackBerry App World Mobile App Stores[ Wall Street
E l e c t r o n i c A r t s , G a m e l o f t , plans for the Americas and Asia, • Windows mobile Marketplace Journal]
Capcom, and TAITO to help it it hasn't mentioned any dates. • Nokia Ovi Store
expand the 300 launch You'll also need to have an support is expected to soon also • Palm App Catalog
applications to 2000 by the end of Omnia or i8910 HD phone, but include handsets like the Omnia II • LG App Store (Asia/Pacific
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Charting News: Federal
Spending, Bank Reserves
and Shipping Overseas
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 3:38:42 AM
U.S. banks are required to keep
money in reserve based on
requirements set by the Federal
Reserve (the Fed). Anything
beyond that is considered excess
reserves and is generally held on
deposit with the Fed. Since last
September, with the myriad Fed
programs initiated, excess
reserves have exploded (and along
with it the Monetary Base, which
includes excess reserves).
Some of these excess reserves
are borrowed–for instance, the
Fed may lend money to a bank
based on collateral posted by the
bank to the Fed, which could be a
Treasury Security, an Agency
Security, or even now a Mortgage
Backed Security. Eventually, this
money must be repaid and the
collateral is returned to the bank
Big Muscle Russell on 'Big Brother'
Eviction
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:30:00 PM
He had the brawn, but Russell
couldn't power through to win
"Big Brother." Now the evicted
housemate is telling ET about the
blowups that got him booted.
ET: Do you really harbor bad
feelings toward Jeff, who you
called "an idiot," or do you feel he
was just playing the game?
RUSSELL: He played a great
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by the Fed.
However, banks also maintain
non-borrowed excess reserves,
which is money on deposit with
the Fed that they can use for any
purpose without the need to repay
it. This money has come largely
from permanent open market
operations, whereby the Fed Bad Decisions:
purchases Treasury, Agency and
Jägermeister 6-Bottle
Mortgage Backed Securities from
banks and deposits the proceeds
from the sale in the banks’
Archos 3 Vision PMP Shot Cooler [Alcohol]
accounts at the Fed.
As is demonstrated by the thick
given one-handed By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:03:39 AM
green line, non-borrowed excess
reserves have increased
dramatically over the past year
shakeycam review You know that friend of yours
who was so excited for college
and appear to be correlated with By Tim Stevens (Engadget) regarded is the non-responsive UI, until three weeks in when,
movements in the stock market. Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:41:00 AM w i t h a c u r i o u s o n - s c r e e n suddenly, they packed their bags
We will soon be posting a more thumbwheel that looks highly and moved back home? Just what
detailed analysis of the Curious about how well the new unintuitive -- at least when used did they encounter that was so
ramifications of this correlation Archos 3 Vision portable media by this particular thumb. The shockingly depraved? This thing.
on our website. player stacks up to its bulkier, video below is informative but a For when one night of crying in
more voluminous predecessors? bit painful to watch, so feel free to a cold shower isn't enough, the
Perhaps the video review after the skip straight to roylovelock's Jägermeister 6-Bottle Shot Cooler
break courtesy of Archos Fans written impressions on the other puts six bottles of the licorice
forum user roylovelock will
satiate your curiosity -- it will, at
end of that read link, which are from hell on ice, making them
rather more easy to take in on a accessible through a spigot that
least, make you a bit queasy
thanks to the handheld
Monday morning.
[Via Archos Fans]
looks suitably impossible to
properly sterilize. At $120, the
game and I have no hard feelings. camerawork. Placed next to an Continue reading Archos 3 price must look a bit steep to most
ET: Why did you give Jessie A r c h o s 5 t h e t h i n g l o o k s Vision PMP given one-handed college freshman. But this is your
your vote -- especially after Jeff positively lilliputian, but its 3- shakeycam review future we're talking about, people.
saved you and Jessie had no inch touchscreen seems more than Filed under: Portable Audio, Spare no expense. This college
intention of keeping you that very adequate and, while 8GB of Portable Video certainly isn't going to drop itself
same night? storage may not be much, Archos 3 Vision PMP given one out. [ Jägermeister via Uncrate via
RUSSELL: I told Jessie that I microSDHC expansion offsets - h a n d e d s h a k e y c a m r e v i e w uberreview]
would never vote to evict him. I that. The review praises the originally appeared on Engadget
was unsure if Michele would vote device's functionality, including on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:41:00
to keep him in the house and that integrated FM receiving and EST. Please see our terms for use
would have been 3-2 vote in broadcasting as well as its of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email
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and upwards of five hours of
video battery life. Not so highly
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Olympus pulls the trigger on the E-600 DSLR
By Peter Ha (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:39:03 AM
Big news this AM from
Olympus with the announcement
of the E-600 DSLR. Looks like
another entry-level(ish) digital
SLR. Big notables for the 12.3-
megapixel shooter include a
swiveling 2.7-inch LCD and slew
of fancy art filters. That’s
seriously about it, folks. The E-
600 coupled with a 14-42mm
f3.5/5.6 kit lens will retail for
$600 in November.
CENTER VALLEY, Pa.,
August 31, 2009 - The new
Olympus E-600 is a digital single
lens reflex (DSLR) camera with
everything you need to start
enjoying the benefits of DSLR-
quality photography today. It’s
simple to use, so moving up from
a basic point-and-shoot is an
enjoyable and affordable
experience, and packed with
features to meet all of your still
photography needs.
The E-600’s high-performance
swivel 2.7-inch HyperCrystalTM
LCD screen helps you compose
from virtually any angle; in-
camera Art Filters add more
pizzazz to your pictures; its four-
frames-per-second burst speed
won’t miss a moment of the
action, and In-body Image
Stabilization removes blur caused
by camera shake when you’re on
the go. The 12.3-megapixel image
sensor and TruePic III+ captures
detailed, crisp images and
accurate color.
“With the E-600, Olympus has
answered the call for a more
affordable and creative camera
that has everything you could
need to get great results,” said
John Knaur, senior marketing
manager, Digital SLR, Olympus
Imaging America Inc. “The new
entry-level SLR camera offers
something for everyone to enjoy,
including in-camera Art Filters for
expanded creative freedom.”
Exceptional Image Quality
Whether you’re shooting a high
school basketball game or
capturing a city streetscape, the E-
600’s high-performance 12.3-
megapixel Live MOS image
sensor delivers excellent dynamic
range, accurate color fidelity, and
a state-of-the-art amplifier circuit
to reduce noise and capture fine
image details in both highlight
and shadow areas.
Its Live MOS image sensor is
complemented by Olympus’
TruePic III+ Image Processor,
which produces clear and colorful
photos using all the pixel
information for each image to
provide the best digital images
possible. The new image
processor is noted for accurate
natural color, true-to-life flesh
tones, brilliant blue skies, and
precise tonal expression; it also
lowers image noise in photos shot
at higher ISO settings, enabling
great results in low-light
situations.
Swivel Live View LCD Swings
into Action
The E-600’s 100 percent
accurate 270 degree swivel 2.7-
inch Live View HyperCrystal III
LCD can be rotated freely so
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photographers can compose at any
angle, including overhead and
down low, without getting bent
out of shape. This makes it easier
to photograph young children on
their own level or shoot high
above a crowd. E-600
photographers can compose a
subject right on the Live View
LCD and see the results of the
various creative features - live as
they’re happening, before the shot
is taken.
With Live View, settings like
white balance and image
brightness can be selected, and the
result can be seen instantly on the
LCD display. Real-time Live
View offers amazing versatility
and creative control. The LCD
displays 230,000 pixels in vivid
color and includes HyperCrystal
technology, which offers many
times the contrast of conventional
LCD monitors for easier viewing
in both preview and playback. It
also provides a wide viewing
angle of 176 degrees, which
ensures images can be composed
from even the most obscure
angles. The 2.7-inch LCD makes
icons and text on the camera’s
menu easy to view.
Fast Autofocus
Life moves fast, so it’s
important to have a camera that
locks focus accurately and
quickly. Whether you choose to
use the super fast autofocus
technology or focus the lens
manually, the E-600 offers the
same sophisticated focusing
options as higher-end DSLRs.
Use the optical viewfinder to
track movement like birds or
wildlife or your favorite team on
the field, or use the large Live
View LCD to frame up a flower
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SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio
Dream Alive [Mp3 Players]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:04:11 AM
Remember slotRadio, SanDisk's
anachronistic plan to load
microSD cards with sometimes-
DRMed music, as if they were
CDs? It was strange! Also
strange: SanDisk still believes in
it, and they've even produced a
second, fuller-featured player,
called the Clip+.
The core concept hasn't changed
since it was introduced, so here's a
quick refresh: The first tier of the
system is a fairly literal update to
the CD, in which customers pays
around $15 for a DRM-free MP3
album on a microSD card. The
second, and potentially more
interesting, part of the plan is
slotRadio, which upped the SD
card content to 1000 songs, the
price to $40, and the DRM
warning level to "Critical." It
didn't win too many fans here (or
anywhere), partly because it was a
flawed concept, and partly
because the player sucked.
And for what it's worth, the
Clip+ looks like a better piece of
hardware. Alongside the
slotMusic/Radio shtick, it's a
fairly standard entry-level MP3
player—a direct update to the
popular original Clips—with an
FM radio, anywhere from 2GB to
8GB of storage, and prices from
$40 to $70, and— this is notable,
sadly—a way to navigate your
music via a one-inch OLED
screen. For its benefit, you should
probably just think of the Clip+ as
another one in the growing pile of
commoditized low-end MP3
players, that just happens to
support one of the most
misguided marketing ploys the
music industry has ever seen. The
players will be available online
tomorrow, and in stores on the
13th of September. [ SanDisk]
SanDisk Debuts Sansa Clip+
MP3 Player – Offering Big Sound
and Tons of Features in a Tiny,
Stylish Package
New microSD Card Slot
Extends the Fun Indefinitely,
Letting Consumers Listen to
Thousands of Additional Songs in
Seconds
M I L P I T A S ,
Calif.—(BUSINESS
WIRE)—SanDisk® Corporation
(NASDAQ:SNDK), the global
leader in flash memory cards,
today announced the Sansa®
Clip+ MP3 player. The new Sansa
Clip+ MP3 player comes
equipped with a new microSD™
memory card slot that enables
consumers to listen to thousands
of additional songs effortlessly.
microSD Card Compatibility
Offers Major Music Enjoyment:
As the successor to the best
selling full-featured sub-$100
MP3 player in America, the Sansa
Clip+ MP3 player is fully
compatible with SanDisk
slotRadio™ and slotMusic™
cards, as well as any microSD
card pre-loaded with music. By
sliding any of these cards into the
new Sansa Clip+ memory card
slot, music lovers can instantly
listen to premium songs and
handcrafted playlists without
consuming any of the device's
onboard memory.
* slotRadio cards: SanDisk
slotRadio cards (starting at $39.99
MSRP, U.S. only) give consumers
immediate access to some of their
favorite styles of music, including
Rock, Country, Oldies and Hip
Hop/R&B. Most slotRadio cards
contain 1,000 songs** featuring
chart topping artists from the
Billboard® charts.
* slotMusic cards: Consumers
can also insert a SanDisk
slotMusic card into their Sansa
Clip+ MP3 player's microSD card
slot to plug-and-play the latest
albums (on microSD card) from
today's hottest artists, as well as
greatest hits' compilations from
past decades (cards start at $14.99
MSRP, U.S. only). slotMusic
cards make music portable and
can also be used in mobile phones
with a microSD card slot that can
play MP3 files, computers with a
microSD USB reader or an SD
card adapter, and even some car
stereos with a microSD USB
reader or SD card adapter.
* Custom-loaded microSD
cards: Consumers have the option
of inserting a microSD card
loaded with their own music
library to listen to - up to 4,000
additional songs1 per 16GB card -
which again adds interoperability
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with other devices, including
mobile phones that are microSD
card compatible.
Tailor made for budget and time
-conscious music fans looking for
the best MP3 player for the
money, the Sansa Clip+ MP3
player offers outstanding sound
quality; long-lasting rechargeable
battery; bright, easy-to-read
screen, and compact wearable
design.
"We made a great product - the
Sansa Clip - even better," said
Eric Bone, vice president, retail
product marketing, SanDisk.
"This small player packs big
features, including a new
microSD memory card slot that
gives music lovers the ability to
listen to thousands of additional
songs in seconds. It's the perfect
player for travelers, busy moms,
fitness buffs or anyone looking to
enjoy music without the hassle of
loading songs from their computer
or updating playlists."
The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player is
expected to be available at
sandisk.com and bestbuy.com on
Aug. 31, and at other retailers
nationwide on Sept. 13. The
device will be available in Canada
and Europe in time for the holiday
season. The music player comes
in a variety of capacities,
including 2-gigabytes* (GB) of
onboard memory for up to 500
songs1 for $39.99 (MSRP), 4GB
which holds up to 1,000 songs1
for $49.99, and 8GB, which has
an up to 2,000-song1 capacity for
just $69.99.
Consumers can show off their
style by choosing the Sansa Clip+
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or a group of friends at the family
gathering. Consumers accustomed
to composing and focusing using
a point-and-shoot camera’s LCD
will appreciate that the E-600
offers the same easy, seamless
experience (what you see on its
LCD is what you get!). Either
way, the focus is quick, precise
and easy.
Art Filters for Expanded
Creative Control
If you’re hoping to get more out
of your camera than simply
capturing and documenting a
scene, and enjoy enhancing or
customizing an image to make it
your own, then you will value the
camera’s Art Filters. The filters,
which are built into the camera,
provide incredible individual
artistic control over an image, so
that you can spend more time
shooting and less time computing.
Let your inner artist shine
through and make a statement
with these in-camera Art Filters:
* Pop Art: Enhances colors,
making them more saturated and
vivid, creating high-impact
pictures that express the joyful,
lighthearted feeling of the Pop Art
style of the 1960s;
* Soft Focus: Creates an
ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere
that renders subjects in a heavenly
light without obscuring details;
and
* Pin Hole: Adds a nostalgic
look and feel to the image with a
darkened vignette around the
subject connecting the viewer
intimately with the subject at the
center of the picture.
Art Filters are easily activated
with the mode dial on the right
side of the camera body, and the
fun part is that you can see and
experiment with the effects on the
subject live, on the LCD, before
you take the shot!
In-Body Image Stabilization for
Sharp Images on the Go
The E-600 travels with you to
more places, thanks to its compact
size and light body. Capture sharp
images on the go with the
camera’s in-body Image
Stabilization (IS), which virtually
eliminates blur with any lens
attached. Three IS modes handle
any situation. The IS-1 mode is
for general shooting and adjusts
the sensor on both the horizontal
and vertical planes to compensate
for movement by the
photographer so images stay sharp
in low light even at slow shutter
speeds. To capture the motion of
moving subjects, the E-600 offers
two specialized modes: IS-2 mode
is ideal for capturing a runner or
cyclist traveling by in the
horizontal mode, preserving the
sense of motion while panning; IS
-3 mode achieves the same effect
when the camera is held
vertically. In either mode, the
artistic effects of panning enhance
the shot and render the subject in
sharp detail with blurred
background. Moreover, the E-600
is the world’s smallest DSLR with
built-in Image Stabilization, so
you’ll feel comfortable taking it
on the road with you to capture
the action.
Always Find a Face in the
Crowd
The new camera’s Face
Detection technology reduces the
chance of blurred subjects in
photography by distinguishing
between people’s faces and the
background. It tracks up to eight
faces within the image area, even
if people are moving, and
automatically focuses and
optimizes exposure for sharp,
brilliant portrait pictures (ideal for
large family or party group
photos).
Fast Sequential Shooting
The E-600 can capture images
at the highest image-quality
setting at a rate of four frames per
second. Whether you’re capturing
a soccer game, children playing or
a bird swooping through the yard,
the E-600 ensures that you won’t
miss a frame.
Preview a Multitude of
Possibilities
Perfect Shot Preview enables
users to easily preview and select
from four thumbnail previews of
the photographic effects of white
balance and exposure
compensation adjustments live on
the LCD before taking the
photograph. It is an ideal way for
novice users to learn about the
effects of different photography
techniques, visually, without
having to scroll through menu
options. With 13 preset scene-
select modes for every imaginable
shooting scenario, automatic
modes and full manual controls,
the E-600 offers a world of
possibilities to photographers.
Versatile Memory
Accepting both CompactFlash
Type I & II, UDMA, Microdrives
and xD-Picture Cards, the camera
provides a choice of data storage
options for enhanced flexibility,
and it is possible to transfer image
files from one card to the other
right inside the camera.
Dust Reduction System for Spot
-Free Images
Life moves too fast to spend
time worrying about dust ruining
the perfect image. Olympus’
proven Dust Reduction System
produces spot-free photos with the
exclusive Supersonic Wave
FilterTM. The patented ultrasonic
technology vibrates to remove
dust and other particles from the
front of the image sensor and
captures it on a special adhesive
membrane every time the camera
is turned on. These spot-free
photos liberate users from hours
spent retouching photographs at
the computer or sending their
cameras back to the manufacturer
to remove dust trapped inside.
With Dust Reduction and the new
creative features, Olympus
continues to liberate users from
the computer and editing
software, and enables them to
have fun capturing it all while on
the go.
Accessories
The HLD-5 Power Battery
Holder can hold up to two
Lithium Ion BLS-1 batteries to
extend the performance life of the
E-600 and its existing BLS-1
battery. It also enables effortless
vertical shooting with its own
separate shutter button and control
dial.
Availability
The Olympus E-600 DSLR will
be available in early November
2009. It includes the E-600 Body,
USB Cable, Video Cable, Li-Ion
Battery Pack (BLS-1), Li-Ion
Battery Charger (BCS-1),
Shoulder Strap, OLYMPUS
Master 2 Software CD-ROM,
Manuals and Registration card.
U.S. Pricing / Product
Configurations
E-600 Body with ED 14-42mm
f3.5/5.6 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lens
Estimated Street Price: $599.99
via PB
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Proof Of Concept
Skype Wiretapping
Malware Released
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 1:25:38 AM
One of the benefits of Skype was
that, due to the way it works (P2P,
encrypted communications), it
made it much more difficult to do
any sort of wiretap. This has upset
various governments who are
used to having the ability to
wiretap any voice
communications. However, it's
never impossible. The most
obvious way is to simply create
some sort of trojan that gets
installed on one user's computer
that has audio recording abilities -
- and Symantec is going around
hyping up the fact that source
code for just such a trojan has
been released. Of course, even
Symantec admits that there's no
evidence of the code actually
being used in the wild -- it seems
more like a proof-of-concept. On
top of that, it's hardly a new idea.
Nearly a year ago, we talked
about how German authorities
were accused of using something
that sounded quite similar. Still, it
is a good reminder that even if
you're using an encrypted Skype
call, at either end of that call, the
audio is decrypted, and a well-
placed recording system can
capture it.
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MP3 player in red, blue or black.
(Capacity and associated colors
vary.)
Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player
Features:
* Superior sound – one of the
best sounding MP3 players on the
market
* microSD expansion slot which
is compatible with slotRadio and
slotMusic cards and any standard
microSD card
* A wearable clip for hands-free
portability and effortless
enjoyment of digital music on the
go
* Large(1"), bright (OLED)
screen with a simple user
interface that makes it easy to
choose playlists or songs sorted
by title, artist, album, genre
* FM tuner with 40 presets for
listening to sports, tuning in at the
gym or your favorite music
station
* Built-in microphone to record
thoughts while on the go
* Equalizer mode to fine tune the
listening experience
* Rechargeable, lithium ion
battery with up to 15 hours of
life2 - one of the most competitive
battery performances for an MP3
player of its size on the market
today
* Solid state flash memory for
skip-free playback of music
* Support for many music
download and subscription
services including Rhapsody®,
Napster, eMusic and others
* Designed to work seamlessly
with a wide range of music
formats, such as MP3, WMA,
WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and
Audible files (for audio books), in
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both unprotected and protected
files
The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player is
the first Windows 7 certified MP3
player (along with the Sansa®
Fuze™, Sansa® View, and
Sansa® Clip portable media
players). This compatibility
simplifies the user experience and
offers a smooth transition to the
forthcoming operating system.
The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player
updates SanDisk's Sansa
audio/video product family, which
includes the popular full-sized
Sansa Fuze MP3 player, SanDisk
slotRadio™ player, SanDisk
slotMusic™ player and the
companion SanDisk slotRadio
and slotMusic cards.

ASUS' Eee PC roadmap leaks: Ion-boasting netbooks,

multitouch T91 coming soon?
By Laura June (Engadget) for the first time, with an Atom PC roadmap leaks: Ion-boasting
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:16:00 AM N270 CPU, 2GB RAM, a 250GB netbooks, multitouch T91 coming
HDD, Bluetooth and 802.11n soon?
If two slides leaked to the WiFi, running $499 for release in Filed under: Laptops
Eeeuser.com forum are to be mid-October. Other than that, we ASUS' Eee PC roadmap leaks:
believed, ASUS has some pretty can expect to see the 1005HA-P Ion-boasting netbooks, multitouch
i n t e r e s t i n g - - t h o u g h n o t with the N280 processor and a T91 coming soon? originally
terrifically surprising -- netbooks 250GB HDD option running appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31
on the horizon. The slides, which Windows 7 also arriving in Aug 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please
are apparently the company's O c t o b e r f o r $ 3 9 9 , a n d t h e see our terms for use of feeds.
roadmap for US products for the 1 0 0 5 H A - M w i t h t h e N 2 7 0 Read| Permalink| Email this|
next two quarters, are chock full processor, a 250GB hard drive, running T91 convertible tablet slide is after the break; hit the Comments
of refreshed product information. and Windows 7 Starter Edition for with a 32GB SSD priced at $549. read link if you want the full
It looks like we're going to be $349. Finally, Netbook News is There's no timeline mentioned for details on each model.
seeing a brand new Eee PC, the also reporting some new 1008HA this one, but we'll keep our ears to [Via Netbook News]
12-inch 1201N, which will bring models not listed on the slides, as the ground expectantly. The other Continue reading ASUS' Eee
NVIDIA's Ion platform to the line well as a multitouch, Windows 7-
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Samsung's YP-R1 now

really official, ships next
month
By Darren Murph (Engadget) budge much, though exact pricing
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:02:00 AM details should be uncovered in
Berlin within the next few days.
It ain't the first time we've seen a As for shipping dates? It'll march
gizmo take a backwards approach out next month in Europe, with
to launch, and we get the feeling it "other markets including Russia,
won't be the last. After leaking China, Singapore, Hong Kong and
Olympus grabs for entry-level DSLR out, getting reviewed and hitting
the all-revealing FCC, Samsung's
mildly exciting YP-R1 portable
Taiwan to follow."
Continue reading Samsung's YP
-R1 now really official, ships next
dollars with $600 E-600 media player is finally an official
product in the megacorp's product
month
Filed under: Portable Audio,
By Darren Murph (Engadget) otherwise heralded device. If you on the forthcoming holiday gift line. Expected to debut at IFA Portable Video
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:21:00 AM can live without those, you'll find list. here in just a few days, the 8.9 Samsung's YP-R1 now really
a delectable $599.99 price tag that [Via Electronista] millimeter-thin player will boast official, ships next month
W e h a d s o m e p r e t t y includes a 14-42mm f3.5/5.6 Gallery: Olympus grabs for DivX compatibility, a 2.6-inch originally appeared on Engadget
overwhelming evidence that Zuiko zoom lens, a 2.7-inch entry-level DSLR dollars with E- touchscreen, TouchWiz interface on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:02:00
Olympus' entry-level E-600 was swiveling Live View LCD, in- 600 and a Beat DJ feature that enables EST. Please see our terms for use
more than just some fancy body image stabilization, a dust Filed under: Digital Cameras owners to add in their own of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email
Photoshop, and sure enough, the reduction system, sequential Olympus grabs for entry-level crackly voice and space-themed this| Comments
outfit has today made things shooting at four frames per DSLR dollars with $600 E-600 sound effects to songs. We don't
official for us. Designed as a low- second and the ability to accept originally appeared on Engadget expect the $180 starting price to
cost E-620, the 12.3-megapixel CF, UDMA and xD memory on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:00
shooter drops only the backlit cards (sorry, SD lovers). It'll be EST. Please see our terms for use
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The early days of John
Madden Football
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:30:52 AM
Great article over at Edge Online
for anyone interested in the early
days of EA’s John Madden
Football franchise. Did you know
that one of the first versions of the
game was initially 7-on-7 due to
memory limitations? Madden
himself put the kibosh on that one
right away, saying, “What’s this
seven-on-seven? This isn’t
football. If my name’s going to be
on something it’s got to be 11-on-
11.”
Other little gems include actual
NFL players calling up EA to
complain that their in-game
characters weren’t good enough.
Except for Jerome Bettis, that is.
He called EA and said, “I’m
playing the game and I appreciate
what you guys did but you made
me too good.” And in later years,
EA “hired an engineer with a
PHD in flocking behaviour to
design algorithms where plaers
would converge on another and
tackle him.”
Good stuff all around, especially
if you’re an old-timer like me and
remember playing Madden on the
Sega Genesis way back in the
90’s.
The Making Of: John Madden
Football[Edge Online]
Informal CG/TC Meet-up in
Israel
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:26:27 AM
Hey, all: I, John Biggs, will be in
Israel from the Sept 5 through the
10th. I’d love to meet up with
some great start-ups in the
Jerusalem/Tel Aviv area. I’m
most interested in the great
gadgets coming out of there but
I’m happy to sit down with local
folks to talk web services.
Here’s what I’m thinking: I’d
like to have an informal event on
Tuesday, September 8. I don’t
know where it will be -
suggestions are welcome- and if
Gadgets/ Tech Tips/
you’d like to sponsor an hour of
drinks, please let me know. Either
w a y , R S V P t o
john@crunchgear.com with the
subject line “RSVP ISRAEL.” I’ll
keep a mailing list and let you
know where/when we’ll hold the
even on Monday morning.
If you’re a start-up and would
like to meet during that period I’m
happy to pop in and see what
you’re up to so email me or ping
me on Twitter.
Looking forward to seeing our
distant neighbors to the middle
east.
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Make Quick "Ice
Cream" with Only
Frozen Bananas
[Recipes]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:00:00 AM
If you've got five minutes and
some cream and vanilla hanging
around, you can whip up the
justifiably popular five-minute ice
cream. Even quicker and less
complicated, however, is blending
some frozen bananas into a
smooth, creamy dessert.
One seriously enthusiastic
Instructables user illustrates the
magic that happens when frozen
bananas meet a blender or food
processor. At first, the fruit may
seem to resist the transformation,
but persevere with your powered
blades, and soon you'll have a
nice alternative to heavier frozen
desserts. It's a tactic The Kitchn
blog has also endorsed, and it's
inspiring us to dig out the food
processor for one last summer
evening treat.
Know another fruit that auto-
blends into delicious dessert? Tell
us all about it in the comments. 1-
i n g r e d i e n t I c e
Cream[Instructables]
36 Tech/ Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

HOW TO: Find the Name of That Song

By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) performance, as well as clips from gives you the ability to purchase
Submitted at 8/30/2009 6:50:44 PM other users who have sung in their the track on CD or MP3. Google
own search queries from that Music Search
Ever had that tune you just track. The results set is influenced Of course, the most obvious
couldn’t get out of your head, but by other users who have searched way to find the song name if you
you couldn’t remember the darn for that song and found the right know some of the lyrics is to use
title or who the heck performed match, so over time the accuracy our old friend Google to search
the track? Well there’s an app for of the entire database theoretically the string of words you know VapURL Creates Self-
that. improves as well. from the track. However, if other Terminating Temporary
Actually, there are several. In Midomi also has an iPhone If it’s a tune from a movie songs have similar lyrics or if the
this feature we’ll look at several App, Midomi Ultra that provides soundtrack that’s stuck in your track you’re looking for is URLs [URL Hacking]
services that can help you name the same functionality, for song brain, or you just can’t remember somewhat obscure, you might By Jason Fitzpatrick
that tune. We’re still waiting on recognition on the go. You can the name of That Song from That have to dig through some results (Lifehacker)
the app that can actually banish also simply hold it up to a speaker Movie, ScreenTunes might be to find the right match. Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:30:00 AM
that annoyingly catchy song from and base a query on the actual able to help you out. Mashing up However, there’s a way you can
your mind, but until then at least song itself. Check out a brief the IMDB soundtrack data with up your chances of finding the Need to create a URL that
y o u c a n b e a r m e d w i t h video demo of the app below, the LyrcisFly API, ScreenTunes right song on the first try by disappears into thin air? VapURL
knowledge. which also integrates with Twitter allows you to search by song or invoking the not-well-documented creates a shortened URL with a
Midomi and Facebook for socialized movie title, or by a specific lyric. Google Music Search. If you shelf life.
Midomi is a musical search sharing of your found songs. From the search results page simply add the term “music:” to Whatever your motivation for
engine powered by your voice. If Shazam you can listen to a song inline or the front of your search you will doing so, if you need to create a
you have a webcam, built-in mic Shazam is similar to Midomi, purchase it from iTunes or invoke Google’s searchable URL that has a fixed lifespan you
or can hook up even the cheapest but works primarily as a mobile Amazon. You can also click on database of artists, songs, albums can do so with VapURL. You
of microphones to your computer, app and does not include the the movie title to see the rest of and lyrics specifically. plug a URL into the VapURL site
all you have to do is click the ability to sing or hum the tune. the tracks from that film. The You can also use Google Music or use the VapURL Bookmarklet
voice search tool and sing or hum However, it’s available for more creator, a high school senior, says Search to pull a bunch of other and specify the parameters of
the song that’s stuck in your head. platforms and features quick and artist search is coming next. information related to your song, expiration. You can have a
In our usage of Midomi over accurate search results from Lyrics Sites its artist and album, other versions VapURL expire after a set
time, we’ve found it to be simply holding your phone up to There are a number of sites of it, and more. number of visits, a set amount of
startlingly accurate. Of course, it the source of a song. dedicated to creating databases of Do you have other great ways of time, or a combination of both
depends a bit on some esoteric With applications available for song lyrics, so if you know some naming that tune that don’t variables.
factors such as how faithfully you iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android of the words but don’t feel involve asking Uncle Howard Have a novel ULR-tweaking
can reproduce the sound (or (plus other platforms in the UK comfortable trying to sing or hum who can recite the lyrics to every service to share? Sound off in the
conversely, how tone-deaf you only at the moment), Shazam the tune, try out one of these song since 1957? Let us know comments. VapURL[via
are!) and how obscure the track is casts a wider net in terms of destinations. your favorite method in the MakeUseOf]
you’re trying to identify. You’ll platform support. They also elyrics.net— Search by lyrics comments!
also need to give the search feature a number of social within a song, browse lyrics by Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
engine some core identifiable integrations including a Facebook artist, or search by band or song MarsBars Reviews: Android,
piece of the song to work from, app and other ways to share songs name. Facebook, Google, Pikchur,
which means knowing enough of and “musical moments” with Lyrster— This one is a very Shazam, Twitter, YouTube,
the lyrics or melody to trigger a friends. s i m p l e G o o g l e - l i k e s e a r c h iStockphoto
match. You can also find out more interface. Just type in the words Tags: Google, iphone, lyrics,
Still, it usually only takes a few about the artist once you’ve you can remember from the tune Midomi, Mobile 2.0, screentunes,
seconds’ worth of recording identified a track, as well as get and get matching results back. shazam, songs
(Midomi suggests 10) to get links to purchase the song Find Me a Tune— Taking the
search results. You can then listen i m m e d i a t e l y o r w a t c h a n y simple approach a la Lyrster,
to a clip from what Midomi associated YouTube videos. Findmeatune.com returns results
i d e n t i f i e s a s t h e o r i g i n a l ScreenTunes based on your lyric search and
Internet News Record
Being Unique Is Not The Same As
Exclusive (Or Scarce)
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:39:43 AM
Taylor Davidson alerts us to an
odd blog post with suggestions on
how photographers need to adapt
to the changing market place. As
Davidson properly notes, there's
some good points mixed in there
with some really odd conclusions.
The writer does a decent job
explaining how the market has
shifted -- with the ease of digital
production and distribution, the
old exclusivities have gone away.
But, from there, gets confused
about what to do with it, focusing
on trying to build up artificial
scarcities or suggesting that
photographers try to ignore basic
economics. That's not going to
work.
The key point is that the writer
seems to think that the key
scarcity is uniqueness, as if there's
some exclusivity to it. Uniqueness
is a good thing, but it's not the
same thing as exclusivity (again, a
point Davidson makes).
Uniqueness is what gets you
noticed (promotion) and what
makes your real scarcities (time,
access, experience, etc.) worth
more. But the writer of the post
seems to think that uniqueness
can only be developed by
shunning others, learning from no
one, and trying to hide all of your
ideas. Some examples: Hide your
best work. Only your clients
should see it. no one else. I can't
think of an idea any worse than
this. Earlier, the writer suggests
focusing on commissioned work.
You don't get commissioned if
you're hiding your best work.
Your best work is the calling card
for you to get commissioned
work. Do not share or post your
techniques. You will only be
popular with the ones that have no
imaginations. Like leeches, they
feed on others knowledge. Yes,
because all brilliant photographers
are simply born brilliant, and
never learned a thing from others.
The statement above does not
mesh with any creative process I
know. Sure, there will always be
some copycats and "leeches," but
if you are an innovator, that's only
good for you. It boosts your own
reputation as being a trendsetter.
Furthermore, most truly creative
people use the ideas of others as a
part of their own, and build on
them -- taking pieces of what they
find from others, but still building
on them and creating something
new and unique. Hiding your
techniques doesn't make you
exclusive or your work more
valuable. It likely just means
you're cut off from what is state of
the art. Never, ever ask for the
opinion of another photographer.
If its good, they will copy you, if
it's bad, they won't tell you.
Someone's sounding a bit
paranoid here. Collaboration and
feedback are good things. They're
what help people grow. The
problem is that the writer seems to
think that this market is a zero
sum game, of sorts. If one
photographer has a good idea, it's
one less good idea for the rest of
the world. That also explains the
following: Do not copy. If you
have an idea, look to see if it has
been done. If it has, drop it. Move
on. be creative. Of course, an
awful lot of creativity is done by
unique individuals looking to redo
the work of others, but adding
their own style and flare to it.
All in all, I recognize that it's
tough for content creators in
disrupted markets to come to
terms with the market challenges
they're facing, but locking
everything up isn't the answer.
Cutting yourself off from the
world, and hiding your best work,
is not the answer. That seems only
guaranteed to make your own
market dwindle. No one will
recommend you. People searching
for you won't find you. Your work
may be unique, but you'll have
missed out on valuable ideas and
feedback from others. It's hard to
see how that's a winning strategy
at all.
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Three for three: Friday's
trifecta of Snow
Leopard upgrades
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 8/30/2009 4:00:00 PM
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion,
OS, Blogging, iMac, Macbook
Pro, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard
If you joined us Friday night for
the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow
Leopard liveblog, you probably
saw me say that I didn't have
many issues with the upgrade.
That's an understatement -- I think
Snow Leopard is one of the
smoothest upgrades I've ever
performed with any operating
system. You've probably already
read the reports of fellow bloggers
David Winograd and Mel Martin,
which noted many similar
findings.
During a four hour period after
the delivery of my 5-install
Family Pack by FedEx, I
upgraded three Macs. The
experience with each of them was
slightly different, which is
something you'd expect since all
three are completely different
models, but in each case the end
result was essentially the same.
All had about 10 - 15 GB more
hard drive space than when I
began, all were more "snappy" in
terms of response, and the display
looked crisper.
After surprising the FedEx
Tech/ 37
delivery person with my HD
video camera (yes, there's going
to be an unboxing video coming
later this weekend), I ripped open
the box, pulled out the Snow
Leopard box, pulled off the
plastic, and then got the disk
ready to go. I had done a final
Time Machine backup of my
MacBook Air just to make sure I
had captured the last changes
made on documents, so I plugged
in the MBA's external SuperDrive
and popped in the disk. I'm not
exactly sure what I did after
starting up the installer, but on the
MacBook Air, I was asked to
reboot the machine and then the
installation began.
Continue reading Three for
three: Friday's trifecta of Snow
Leopard upgrades
TUAW Three for three: Friday's
trifecta of Snow Leopard
upgrades originally appeared on
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Sun, 30 Aug 2009
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The Internet About to Turn 40, Last Wikipedia Will Use

Seen With a Blonde in a Red
Corvette
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:54:28 AM
It’s impossible to set an exact
date for the birth of the Internet.
You could say that it was born
when the first two nodes of the
ARPANET were connected
between UCLA and SRI
International in Menlo Park,
California, on October 29th, 1969.
Or you could say that it all began
when Len Kleinrock and his team
at UCLA transferred some data
between two computers on
September 2nd that same year.
However you look at it, the date
is now very near, and in its 40
years of existence the Internet has
changed our lives forever.
However, as AP’s Anick
Jesdanun notes, if you look at its
last couple of years, the Internet –
once flying almost solely on
enormous enthusiasm of everyone
involved – is now definitely going
through a crisis, perhaps
somewhat obscured by the shiny
new tools at our disposal.
On one hand, you have the
evident rise of social media and
social networks, which are
becoming an essential part – the
fragmentation of the Internet that
might have long lasting
consequences, especially for the
developing countries. Remember
when Internet was about sharing
everything with everyone? Look
at services such as Veoh, Hulu,
meat around the bones, if you will Pandora: if you happen to be
– of the Internet. Twitter and living in the wrong part of the
Facebook don’t really enable you globe, these don’t work for you.
to do anything you couldn’t have It’s getting harder and harder to
done before with old protocols connect and to share on the
and services such as IRC, but they Internet. In China, the country
focus on you – the person – and where the iPhone is made, people
they make it easier than ever to are still waiting to be able to buy
share and to connect with other an iPhone. When they do, they
people. To us who follow these won’t be able to access the same
new tools and write about them websites; they won’t get the same
daily, it feels like a wonderful search results, and various online
revolution. services will behave differently or
The Internet is, however, today won’t work at all.
also plagued by countless One day, we’ll wake up and see
that there are many Internets out
problems. Uneven standards,
censorship in many countries, there. Will your Internet be a
c o u n t l e s s l a w s u i t s a n d t h e world full of possibilities, open
subsequent ostracizing of sharing for sharing and connecting with
content altogether, net neutrality others, or will it be a place full of
issues, and finally, copyright restrictions, restraints, and
issues that are fueling stricter – limitations? Think fast, because
often way too strict– laws which soon it may be too late. Reviews:
are towering over our online Facebook, Hulu, Pandora, Twitter
freedoms. Tags: 40, crisis, internet
All of these are causing a
Colors to Add Layers of
Trust to its Articles
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:21:41 AM anyone can edit it, it means that
some degree of misinformation
Back in 2007, we wrote about a w i l l a l w a y s s l i p t h r o u g h .
plan to add different colors to Wikipedia’s army of volunteers,
v a r i o u s W i k i p e d i a e d i t s , however, have so far managed to
signifying the level of their do a pretty good job at keeping
trustworthiness. It’s easier to trust this enormous body of text
editors with a high number of relatively clean, with only a
entries and revisions than those handful of incidents in its entire
who are new to the site, and now history.
registered users will be able to
The principle of how Wikipedia
easily discern between the two by keeps itself accurate and bias free
looking at the color of the text’s is simple: when people notice
background.
misinformation, they react and
If an untrusted source adds text correct it. This is also the basis on
to Wikipedia, it will have a bright which WikiTrust resides: the
orange background; text from longer text is visible, the bigger
trusted editors will be lighter. The the chance that it’s accurate.
background color will change While WikiTrust won’t make
over time; as more people view Wikipedia’s accuracy 100%
and edit the new entry, its p e r f e c t – n o e n c y l o p e d i a ,
background will slowly change regardless of how it’s maintained,
color to white, signifying that it is can ever claim to have 100%
g e t t i n g m o r e a n d m o r e accurate information – its color-
trustworthy. This feature, called based trust system will definitely
WikiTrust, will be available for make life easier for those for
registered Wikipedia users.
whom accuracy is crucial.
Accuracy and bias on Wikipedia R e v i e w s : W i k i p e d i a
have always been a source of
debate surrounding the largest
Tags: wikipedia, WikiTrust
online encyclopedia. After all, if

Michigan Launches 'Full Investigation' of Rodriguez Allegations

By Bruce Ciskie (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 7:15:00 PM
by Bruce Ciskie
Filed under: Michigan, Big 10
Sunday's Detroit Free Press
included allegations of NCAA
violations against Michigan
football coach Rich Rodriguez.
Current and former players are
alleging that Rodriguez
overworks his players, calling for
mandatory workouts that exceed
limits mandated by the NCAA.
The university, which could be
facing serious sanctions to a
program that has for years prided
itself on being clean, was quick to
respond to the report Sunday.
Michigan Launches 'Full
Investigation' of Rodriguez
Allegations originally appeared
on Fanhouse NCAA Football
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19:15:00 EST . Please see our
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It's Not The 'Good Enough' Revolution; It's

Recognizing What The Consumer Really Wants
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:22:00 AM
It's hardly a new idea, but
BullJustin points us to an article
in Wired about what the author,
Robert Capps, refers to as The
Good Enough Revolution, in
which he talks about various
offerings that have succeeded in
the marketplace, despite not
having the "quality" of the leading
products. So, he talks about the
Flip Digital video cameras,
compared to higher end
camcorders, mp3s vs. CDs, and
things like Zoho Writer vs.
Microsoft Word. His explanation
is that these "lower quality"
products are "good enough," and
tend to offer certain features, such
as easier accessibility, lower price
and better ease of use.
I'd argue that the concept of
"good enough" misses the point --
and the real issue is that the actual
quality is in those other
characteristics that he discusses.
The real problem is that some
start to focus on the "quality" of
some aspect of the product, rather
than the quality of meeting what
the consumer wants. It's the same
thing we've discussed over and
over again, with a company (or
industry) not really understanding
its market. The first automobiles
were a lot crappier than the fancy
horse carriages you could buy --
but they did the important thing
better: getting you somewhere
faster and cheaper.
The issue is that the focus on
"quality" is on the wrong
attribute. It's also why many
people falsely claim that the VHS
beat Betamax, despite "lower
quality.
With the MP3 and the Flip
Camera and Zoho Writer (and
many others), it appears
convenience is a driving attribute.
So while all may seem to have
less in terms of the type of
"quality" that some like to focus
on, they ignore what the market
actually wants, which appears to
be convenience.
This, too, is one of the reasons
why it doesn't make sense to get
so focused on the product when
you don't know what the market
actually wants. The people who
create the initial products almost
always assume that the most
important attributes are the
product itself, rather than the
convenience it provides users.
There will always be snobs who
quality." Yes, it may have had want to focus on the "highest
lower quality of the recorded quality" possible, but they're part
video, but that wasn't the attribute of a small market, rather than a
people cared about. They wanted mass market. And if that's "good
to be able to record longer videos, enough" for them, that's fine -- but
which the Betamax was not set up it misses the real marketing
to do, but VHS was. In almost opportunity.
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quality -- but the real question
was what attribute the market
cared about when it came to
My Snow Leopard
casualties: what's
not working in 10.6
By Brett Terpstra (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:30:00 AM
Filed under: Software, Snow
Leopard
Overall, I'm very happy with
Snow Leopard, and loving all of
the little refinements I keep
stumbling upon. However, I want
to mention a few pitfalls I ran into
with my upgrade, on the off
chance that anyone has a similar
setup and might benefit from
some advance warning, or any of
the fixes I've found. Safari &
Input Managers
There were a few things we
knew to expect (and maybe

Kansas City Chiefs' Matt Cassel has MCL strain

By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:22:25 AM
Kansas City quarterback Matt
Cassel has a strained medial
collateral ligament in his left knee
and could miss the Chiefs' season
opener and beyond, Yahoo
Sports! reported on Monday.
Cassel
Citing a source within the
organization, Yahoo Sports!
reported Cassel could miss two to
four weeks. He was hurt Saturday
night when sacked on the third
play of a 14-10 preseason loss to
Seattle.
The Chiefs open the regular
season Sept. 13 at Baltimore.
They return to practice Monday
and are expected to have injury
updates on Cassel and others,
including wide receiver Devard
Darling(leg).
Tyler Thigpen is Cassel's
primary backup.
Cassel was acquired by Kansas threw for 3,693 yards and 21
City in an offseason trade with touchdowns.
New England and signed a $63 Information from The
million, six-year contract with the Associated Press was used in this
Chiefs. The contract contains $28 report.
million in guaranteed money.
Cassel replaced injured Patriots
quarterback Tom Brady in the
first week of the 2008 season and
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knew to expect (and maybe
dread), mostly having to do with
32-bit vs 64-bit processing and
compatibility. Input Managers
were known casualties. Two of
the major victims for me were my
1Password and Evernote plugins
in Safari. In 64-bit mode, at least
at first, they didn't show up at all.
See the Switcher's Blog for
updates on 1Password and Snow
Leopard. The current 3.0 beta of
1Password is working for me in
64-bit, I just have some keyboard
shortcut issues to work out.
Hopefully the Evernote blog will
start offering more updates soon.
In the meantime, there's a partial
fix: if you select the application
(Safari) in your Applications
BREAKING: Disney to Acquire
Marvel for $4 Billion
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:09:31 AM
The Walt Disney Company has
announced it will acquire Marvel
Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and
cash transaction worth 4 billion
dollars.
Disney will pay Marvel
shareholders a $30 per share, plus
approximately 0.745 Disney
shares for each Marvel share they
own, based on the closing price of
Disney on August 28, 2009. What
makes this deal huge, as far as
content goes, is the fact that under
the terms of the deal, Disney will
acquire ownership of not only
Marvel itself, but also over than
5,000 Marvel characters. Disney
folder, go to the File menu and
hold down the Option key while
selecting Get Info, you'll get the
Inspector panel (also accessible
with a simple Command-Option-
I). For applications which have 64
-bit capabilities (such as Mail and
Safari), you'll see a checkbox to
force them to load in 32-bit mode.
That gets Evernote working for
me, so I'll run it in 32-bit until
things get straightened out. I'll be
keeping an eye on the Glims blog,
as well.
Update: There's a press
release& a blog post from Agile
this morning that reiterate the
company's compatibility stance
for 1Password v2: it should work
fine on Snow Leopard in all
will now benefit from any movie
or a game based on characters
such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-
Men and many others; extending
its reach to the young male
population it had somewhat
neglected will definitely be good
for the entertainment giant.
Ike Perlmutter, Marvel’s Chief
Executive Officer said that
“Disney is the perfect home for
Marvel’s fantastic library of
characters given its proven ability
to expand content creation and
licensing businesses.”
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browsers except Safari, and will
Twitter Listening Party:
work with Safari launched in 32-
bit mode. Version 3 will be fully
Tweet and Stream The
supported with Safari in both 32
and 64-bit configurations.
Continue reading My Snow
Used’s New Album for Free
By Christina Warren
Leopard casualties: what's not (Mashable!)
working in 10.6 Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:52:43 AM
TUAW My Snow Leopard
casualties: what's not working in Virtual online listening parties
10.6 originally appeared on The have been used by bands and
Unofficial Apple Weblog A&R execs for years to build
(TUAW) on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 buzz about a new music release
07:30:00 EST. Please see our and give fans a way to listen to
terms for use of feeds. party.
the music before plunking down That tweet will let you listen to
Read| Permalink| Email this| the cash. Now the savviest of
Comments the entire album “Artwork,”
promoters are tying Twitter into including two B-side tracks. The
the experience.
listening party will be taking
Rock band The Used releases place for 24-hours.
their latest album, “Artwork” If this tactic sounds familiar, it
today in the US and the UK. As a might be because back in June,
way of building buzz and giving
fans and potential buyers a chance
to hear the new music, the band’s
Travis Barker and the late-DJ AM
used a similar move to promote
their latest mixtape. Tweeting a
label, Warner Bros. Records, has
teamed up with Culture Jam Labs
to launch what they call “the first
link promoting the mixtape
enabled fans to download it free
of charge.
“This transaction combines ever Twitter Listening Party.”
Marvel’s strong global brand and I think that using Twitter to
This is how it works, go to promote a listening party/album
w o r l d - r e n o w n e d l i b r a r y o f twitter.theused.net and click on
characters including Iron Man, t h e p r e - p o p u l a t e d T w i t t e r release is a pretty cool way of
Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain message. This will take you to an using social media. What do you
America, Fantastic Four and Thor O A u t h s c r e e n t h a t w i l l think? Reviews: Twitter
with Disney’s creative skills, a d d @ w e a r e t h e u s e d t o y o u r Tags: listening party, music,
unparalleled global portfolio of Twitter account and send out a The Used, twitter
entertainment properties, and a tweet with a link to the listening
business structure that maximizes
the value of creative properties
across multiple platforms and
territories,” said Robert A. Iger,
President and Chief Executive
Officer of The Walt Disney
Company.
Read the official announcement
here.
Tags: disney, Marvel
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Apple: "Exploding"
iPhones succumbed to
external pressure
By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) California Beats
Submitted at 8/30/2009 11:30:00 PM

Filed under: Apple Corporate,

Taiwan, Takes
Hardware, iPhone There's been Little League WS
much news of "exploding"
iPhones lately. If you're By FanHouse Newswire
unfamiliar with the story, the (FanHouse)
European Commission formally Submitted at 8/30/2009 6:00:00 PM

Snow Leopard nice asked Apple to investigate a series

of reports that users' iPhones were by FanHouse Newswire
Filed under: Little League
abruptly cracking and/or catching
touch: no more "Picture fire. According to the French
periodical Les Echos, an iPhone
World Series
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
(AP) -- California came up big
1" files in Aix-en-Provence, France,
started to "crackle and pop like a
deep-frier" before breaking
late to win the Little League
World Series.
By Michael Rose (The marquee features of Mac OS X violently apart. Bulla Graft's sharp single scored
Unofficial Apple Weblog 10.6, but there's one little Snow This past Friday, Apple said the go-ahead run in the fourth
(TUAW)) Leopard tweak that's already won that, in all cases, the iPhones in inning and Kiko Garcia pitched
Submitted at 8/30/2009 3:00:00 PM my heart: no more Picture 1s! question were damaged by an three-plus scoreless innings of
Screenshots to file created via the "external force," not a faulty relief to lead Chula Vista to a 6-3
Filed under: Snow Leopard system key commands (-Shift-3 or battery or glass screen: victory over Taoyuan, Taiwan, to
I've always been a fan of-Shift-4 -4, add the Control key to capture "To date, there are no confirmed take the tournament title.
f o r t a k i n g q u i c k a n d e a s y to the Clipboard instead of to a battery overheating incidents for iPhones would suddenly turn into With the pro-U.S. fans on their
screenshots on my Mac, even with file) now get a name that's quite a iPhone 3GS and the number of Molotov cocktails. We'll keep you feet, Garcia closed out the victory
such level-up options as Jing, bit more descriptive, including the reports we are investigating is in updated on this story. by striking out Yu Chieh Kao.
Skitch, GrabUp and LittleSnapper date and time of the capture. No the single digits. The iPhones with TUAW Apple: "Exploding" The California fans yelled, "USA!
readily to hand. What I wasn't a more file name collisions, no broken glass that we have iPhones succumbed to external USA!"
f a n o f , h o w e v e r , w a s t h e more wondering which Picture is analyzed to date show that in all pressure originally appeared on California Beats Taiwan, Takes
proliferation of "Picture 1," the one you took of that cryptic cases the glass cracked due to an The Unofficial Apple Weblog Little League WS originally
"Picture 2,"... up to "Picture N" error message in the middle of the external force that was applied to (TUAW) on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 appeared on Fanhouse Main on
screenshot files on my desktop. night. Viva Snow! the iPhone." It does seem odd that 23:30:00 EST. Please see our Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EST .
Not only was it tricky to figure TUAW Snow Leopard nice at least four cases have been terms for use of feeds. Please see our terms for use of
out which Picture file was which touch: no more "Picture 1" files reported in France in short order. Read| Permalink| Email this| feeds.
(a task made easier with Quick originally appeared on The Still, it's even stranger that Comments Permalink| Email this| Linking
Look), it was also reasonably U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g Blogs| Comments
likely that at some point I'd (TUAW) on Sun, 30 Aug 2009
overwrite a Picture 1 someplace 15:00:00 EST. Please see our
that I wanted to keep with a brand terms for use of feeds.
-new Picture 1 I just snapped and Read| Permalink| Email this|
copied off my desktop. Comments
It's certainly not one of the
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Good To See: Wikipedia

Moves Forward With Color
Coding Less Trustworthy Text
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) score between zero and nine.
Submitted at 8/31/2009 3:43:44 AM When someone makes an edit, the
background behind the new text
More than two years ago, we gets shaded orange depending on
talked about a great idea to deal their reputation: the brighter the
with the (somewhat misleading) orange, the less "trust" the text
question of the trustworthiness of has. Then when another author
Wikipedia: color code new edits edits the page, they essentially
from untrustworthy editors. Not vote on the new text. If they like
only would this alert people to at the edit, they'll keep it, and if not,
least double-check that particular they'll revert it. Text that persists
info, it would remind people that will become less orange over
W i k i p e d i a i s a c o n s t a n t l y time, as more editors give their
changing site. To be honest, I was votes of approval. While there are
a bit disappointed that I hadn't some concerns about how well
heard much about this idea since this will work (and how much
that summer of 2007. However, processing power it will take), it
apparently, it's been gaining in s e e m s l i k e a w o r t h w h i l e
popularity, and now Wikipedia is e x p e r i m e n t .
Talkcast reminder: 10pm ET Sunday, set to start using it across the site.
Here's how it works: Based on an This Story
person's past contributions,
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the Snow Leopard aftermath WikiTrust computes a reputation

By Michael Rose (The upgrade reports, favorite features talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the
Unofficial Apple Weblog so far, gotchas that have been call, you can request to talk by
(TUAW)) discovered and of course, your keying in *-8. Talk with you then!
Submitted at 8/30/2009 5:30:00 PM calls and questions. Saddle up! Recording support for the
To participate on TalkShoe, you talkcast is provided by Call
Filed under: TUAW Business, can use the browser-only client, or Recorder from ecamm networks.
Podcasts Last week, we spent you can try out the classic TUAW Talkcast reminder:
almost the entire hour shaking our T a l k S h o e P r o J a v a c l i e n t ; 10pm ET Sunday, the Snow
heads and making "tsk, tsk" however, for maximum fun, you Leopard aftermath originally
noises over the FCC responses to should call in. For the web UI, appeared on The Unofficial Apple
the Google Voice imbroglio. You just click the"TalkShoe Web" Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 30 Aug
can download the show, along button on our profile page at 10 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see
w i t h a l l p a s t s h o w s , f r o m pm Sunday. To call in on regular our terms for use of feeds.
Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes. phone or VOIP lines (take Read| Permalink| Email this|
We'll be back live tonight with a advantange of your free cellphone Comments
hearty helping of Snow Leopard weekend minutes if you like): dial
goodness, including hands-on (724) 444-7444 and enter our
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COOL: Reruns of Fringe and
Glee With Twitter
Commentary
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 12:47:18 AM
There are many ways to use
Twitter, but not all of them are
equally great. Sometimes,
however, we hear about an idea
which sounds just perfect for the
microblogging wonder of the
world. Example: Fox and Twitter
have teamed up for the reruns of
popular TV series Fringe and
Glee, which will go together with
tweet-peats; meaning the cast
members and the producers will
Mac OS X, now HDTV- tweet their thoughts and
comments during the episodes.
ready with 10.6 If you’re a true fan, seeing what
the people involved in the
By Aron Trimble (The who wants to check it out and creation of the series thought
about certain moments in an
Unofficial Apple Weblog may not be fully-versed with
(TUAW)) some of the issues. episode can be lots of fun. On the
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:15:00 AM We've tried to reproduce the other hand, it’s a lot easier to do
above using a DVI -> VGA
Filed under: Video, Snow adapter and have thus far found
Leopard Got a fancy new Mac bupkis. We're not sure if this
Tennant's Doctor Who hangs on in Dreamland
with some flavor of DisplayPort works with DVI -> HDMI either, By John Scott Lewinski (TV
connector and a shiny new copy but we do know it works with Squad)
of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DisplayPort -> HDMI. Check it Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:03:00 AM
installed? If you do and you also out for yourself and let us know
happen to hook said Mac up to an your results. Before Doctor Who fans say
HDTV via an HDMI adapter, then Thanks to Jay for sending this in good bye to David Tennant in the
h e a d o n o v e r t o S y s t e m via Twitter. BBC's final three specials of
Preferences to check out the latest TUAW Mac OS X, now HDTV 2009, they'll get a little extra
uncovered Snow Leopard nugget -ready with 10.6 originally colorful bonus Tennant from the
of awesomeness. appeared on The Unofficial Apple Beeb's Red Button service and the
Three new resolution options Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 31 Who website.
are now available for your HDTV Aug 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please Doctor Who: "Dreamland" is
-viewing experience: 720p, 1080i, see our terms for use of feeds. the show's first venture into "3D"
and 1080p. This should be good Read| Permalink| Email this| CG animation, and that makes for
news for anyone rocking the Comments a stylistic representation of the
HTMac set-up, or even for anyone Tennant's tall, skinny Time Lord.
Writer Phil Ford (a veteran of
Tech/ TV Tech News/
for the cast than to record
voiceover commentary on top of
the DVD edition – the way it’s
usually done. Plus, it’s interactive:
cast members will also answer fan
questions, and fans will be able to
follow Twitter streams online, or
on-air, in a scroll at the bottom of
the screen.
To follow these tweet-peats, and
ask questions, go to
twitter.com/FRINGEonFOX and
twitter.com/GLEEonFOX.
Reviews: Twitter
Tags: fringe, GLEE, tweet-
peats, twitter
both live action Who and
Torchwood) takes the The Doctor
to a diner in Roswell, New
Mexico where all manner of alien
shenanigans are going on.
American fans won't get to see
the six-part series in its first run,
43
RockDex Announces
Merger, Fleshes Out
Offering for Bands on
the Social Web
By Jolie O'Dell
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 8:25:16 PM
While talking to musically
inclined entrepreneurs Jimmy
Winter of RockDex and Shannon
Schlappi of Locker Partner, I was
reminded of something startup-
scene veteran Robert Scoble
mentioned in passing at
Gnomedex. "I want to see a CEO
who is passionate about what that
startup is doing," he said.
Business acumen be damned,
Scoble and I agreed that a true fan
makes for a great leader.
Winter is undoubtedly a huge
music fan; moreover, he's got the
as they're blocked out of video
feeds on the BBC's websites. If
only there were other websites
that showed online video
(illegally) posted by fans. Oh,
well.
Continue reading Tennant's
Doctor Who hangs on in
Dreamland
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Fi/Supernatural Shows,
Programming, Animation, Doctor
Who, Reality-Free
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web and business experience to
make his own music-related web
endeavors successful. Music
Arsenal is one of his online-music
-promotion-and-planning tools;
we spoke tonight about RockDex,
a tool bands can use to measure
their social media clout and
growth, as well as his upcoming
merger with Locker Partner,
which will allow those bands to
take marketing actions based on
the analytics RockDex already
provides.
Sponsor
Winter spent the end of his
teenage years - and the end of the
dotcom days - flying back and
forth from the his home base in
Omaha to Manhattan, where he
worked as a web developer for
Fastmusic.com. RockDex was
created, he said, for artists to
"understand where their fanbase is
at and make decisions based on
that information."
Back in June, Winter wrote on
his blog, "We began RockDex
simply as a cool site to track your
online buzz, but the response has
been so overwhelming we decided
to take it a step further." Since
then, he's created RockDex Pro,
which allows for "deeper tracking,
better results, detailed data and
The Climbing-Wall Fortress [Featured Workspace]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 4:00:00 PM
We've featured a variety of
offices here, but this is definitely
the first time we've featured an
office built into a rock-climbing
wall.
Lifehacker reader Scott Mulder
works at Tree Fort Bikes—a sport
more."
Initially launched just before
SXSW Music in March 2009, the
site provided musicians with a
score of their overal presence on
the social web. RockDex Pro
gives more in-depth information
on how artists are represented and
discovered across various social
networks and blogs. Bands,
labels, managers, agents, and
others can use this information to
understand how their marketing
efforts are working, discover
rising talent while it's still off the
radar, and understand customer
behavior.
We played around with
RockDex, using indie label band
Year Long Disaster as our test
subject. We were able to discover
a ton of great information about
where their fans live online as
well as where they are in the real
world. (The guitarist/lead singer
was shocked to his foundation
that Last.fm was generating more
plays than MySpace, for
example.) It was also enlightening
to read the tweets from users who
attended the show where they
opened for The Cult.
Somewhat similar to
NextBigSound, which we
reviewed shortly after their
and bike shop in Ypsilanti,
MI—and have quite a novel
office. His workspace is inside the
top of their climbing wall and has
a distinctly tree-fort like
appearance.
Inside his climbing-wall fortress
he has a desk made of particle
board that has been sanded and expect from the kind of material
sealed with polyurethane to give it it's made out of.
a glossy surface you wouldn't
TechStars demo, RockDex is
nevertheless unique in its
offering, which is further
enhanced by the Locker Partner
merger.
"NextBigSound is just
displaying plays or friends," said
Winter. "RockDex has single-
song information, geographical
information, blog data, and it's
just more in-depth. They [NBS]
are tracking more artists, but it's
clear that we're head-to-head
competition."
As a use case, Winter mentions
an emerging band on a large
independent label. "The manager
was pushing for a certain track to
be the next single, and the label
wasn't wanting it. But people
were organically gravitating
toward to the song the manager
wanted to use; it was getting as
many MySpace plays as their
mega-single that was already out.
The manager was able to use that
as proof that that track should be
used as the single."
And when it comes to touring,
Winter said, "People are often
surprised to find hidden fanbases"
around which they can structure a
tour schedule.
As far as Locker Partner is
concerned, Kansas City-based
Schlappi has been a web/music
veteran since 1996. He owned at
least one label, worked in
distribution, put on shows, and
has worked on social media
marketing strategies for labels in
recent years. In partnering with
Winter, Schlappi's company willl
bring programming and marketing
expertise and help artists build
marketing plans around
RockDex's analytics and data.
"Not only do we know that
Jimmy has the best tool to retrieve
to data," said Schlappi, "but we
have the tools to help people
make smart moves based on what
the data's telling them.
"Almost everything that
RockDex retrieves - we've been
using that data, but we didn't have
it easily accessible in real time."
Does this Midwestern merger of
two startups and the partnership
between two experienced,
passionate founders add up to a
strong contender in the music
metrics and marketing space?
Keep an eye out for the RockDex
redesign and new offerings to find
out. Discuss
There is a shelf for his computer
tower, another for some office
supplies, and even a bed for one
of the Tree Fort dogs, Dag Dag.
Check out the photos below for
pictures inside and out.
If you have a workspace of your
own to show off, throw the
pictures on your Flickr account
and add it to the Lifehacker
Workspace Show and Tell Pool.
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Wikipedia's Most
Visited Pages: Beatles,
Jacko, YouTube
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 8:43:03 PM
Prior to 2001, gilded hard cover
encyclopedias were cracked to
fact check everything from raptor
names to State capitals. Today the
world's most popular English
encyclopedia is more often used
to identify pop culture icons and
social media companies. A recent
Telegraph article listed the 50
most-viewed Wikipedia articles of
2008 and 2009 and while the
results are slightly inaccurate,
they're pretty interesting. Below
Include some details about your
setup and why it works for you,
and you just might see it featured
on the front page of Lifehacker.
The Climbing-Wall
Fortress[Lifehacker Workspace
Show and Tell Pool]
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Got an iPhone? With Fwix, Now You Can Be a

Reporter
By Sarah Perez When you first visit Fwix, the and Twitter updates based on your
(ReadWriteWeb) site auto-detects your location by current location. However, neither
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:32:06 AM looking at your IP address. If it nor any of the others allow you
you're in one of the supported to use their app to actually do MTV spent big for The
Fwix, a website for local news, cities, you'll immediately be reporting like this. And once Beatles, slowly backing
aims to be a "real-time local shown the local homepage for that you've submitted your eye-
newswire" for your hometown. area. The presentation of the away from peripheral
O f f e r i n g a c o m b i n a t i o n o f headlines is simple, displaying employee, Darian Shirazi, the witness report, the news story will business
traditional content pulled from only headlines and brief one- c o m p a n y ' s n e w i P h o n e make it to the Fwix homepage
newspapers and blogs along with sentence summaries - perfect for a p p l i c a t i o n w i l l m a k e i t s almost instantly. By Alexander Sliwinski
With all the talk of the failing
i t e m s s u b m i t t e d b y c i t i z e n this modern day-and-age where appearance in the iTunes App
newspaper industry and declining (Joystiq)
journalists, the site reads more people don't read entire articles as Store sometime this week. With Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:20:00 AM

like a location-based lifestream much as they scan the headlines. the free app, which will let you revenues, Fwix has come up with
than a typical news site. Key to use your Facebook or Twitter an innovative new concept for It appears that Viacom, parent
Current news items take up the account for sign in purposes, gathering news. This is precisely company of MTV Games and
the site's success will be the main part of the page while active
inclusion of user-generated (aka "popular") stories, weather, you'll be able to submit stories, the sort of iPhone application Harmonix, guaranteed a minimum
content coming in from iPhone and site activity panels fill the and take pictures and videos (the your hometown local paper of $10 million, along with another
submissions. The company plans sidebar. Another interesting latter if you use the newer iPhone should have thought of first. potential $40 million in royalties,
to launch an updated version of feature is the "break" button 3GS which includes video- Unfortunately, they didn't - which to its respective estates for the use
their Fwix iPhone application this which appears under each story. recording functionality). Your is probably one of the many of The Beatles in the upcoming
week which will allow anyone to By clicking this, you have the items will then appear on the reasons they're struggling today. Rock Band game. Sources
file news stories, photos, and opportunity to "break" the story Fwix web site. You can also use Good thing Fwix is open to familiar with the deal tell The LA
videos from anywhere, all geo- by posting it to Twitter or the app to read the news stories syndication. Says Shirazi, the Times that the "royalty rates on
from your city. company has some deals "in the [the deal] are not even
tagged thanks to the iPhone's GPS Facebook. That's a bit of twist on
location data. Although there are plenty of pipeline" to offer Fwix content to comparable to anything that has
what people usually mean when iPhone applications for local news local media outlets but isn't been done before." All this cash is
Sponsor they say a news story was "broken
The original incarnation of by Twitter" - i.e., Twitter was the (just do an iTunes search), none announcing anything just yet. being thrown around in the midst
really offer what Fwix does. Even The Fwix website itself gets of a revenue decline in the rhythm
Fwix, launched almost exactly a first place it appeared. In this 400,000 unique visitors per month
year ago, focused more on case, though, you're just tweeting CNN's popular iReport only takes genre.
aggregating content from sites something that someone already emailed-in submissions for when but their content network receives MTV Games is seemingly
like Craigslist and Yelp instead of reported. However, in the case of y o u ' r e m o b i l e , t h e r e ' s n o nearly 8 million, reports Shirazi. taking even more steps away from
on local news. Today, the San user-generated submissions, you dedicated application. The closest (Quantcast reports 7.3 million producing and distributing
Francisco-based venture offers up still may be the first to bring the iPhone app competitor is probably people globally). If citizen peripherals. Paul DeGooyer,
local news streams for nearly 85 news to the microblogging outside.in's Radar(iTunes link), a journalists adopt the new app senior vice president at the
cities in the U.S. and has plans to network. The iPhone App complement to the company's when it arrives, those numbers company, explains that its "core
expand internationally later this own local news service. Radar may soon increase. Discuss competency is media" -- he'd
According to Fwix's 22-year-old pulls in relevant news, blog posts, rather let Activision "take on the
year. How it Works founder and former Facebook burden of getting those super-tight
margin instruments out there."
MTV spent big for The Beatles,
slowly backing away from
peripheral business originally
appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 31
Aug 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
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continued from page 44
are this year's most visited
Wikipedia pages measured in hits
per day.
Sponsor
1. Wiki(131,383 page hits per
day): For both 2008 and 2009 the
"Wiki" page and the Wikipedia
page have maintained a spot in the
top 10 visited pages. It's fairly
safe to say that the majority of
visitors to these articles are
looking for definitions,
community information and
editing tips.
2. The Beatles(111,896): In the
Telegraph's list for 2008, two
different Beatles pages are listed
as numbers 14 and 18 for 2008;
however, according to the original
Wikistics source statistics the
"Beatles" page is ranked at
number 20. In 2009, the page
became the second most visited
page on Wikipedia due to
automated requests. The fact that
the Fab Four's catalogue is due to
be re-released in digitally
remastered format within the year
also can't hurt page traffic.
3. Michael Jackson(79,734):
Not surprisingly, Michael
Jackson's page is among the most
viewed pages on Wikipedia. The
day after Jackson's death the page
received 5.9 million views. Of the
top 10 most-viewed Wikipedia
pages of 2009, Jackson's name is
also mentioned on the Deaths in
2009 page and briefly in the
Beatles page due to his
controversial purchase of most of
the Lennon-McCartney Beatles
catalog in 1985.
* Favicon.ico(78,077): While the
Telegraph articles lists this as
number 4, it's irrelevant as the
Wikistics stat source cites that the
Favicon.ico ranking includes
browser-based requests for the
Wikipedia icon.
4. YouTube(72,318): Whether
looking to cite corporate info or
simply interested in finding out
what the fuss is all about,
Wikipedians have flocked to both
YouTube and Facebook pages for
the last two years.
5. Wikipedia(52,542)
6. Barack Obama(49,401): In
2008 the Barack Obama page was
the 3rd most visited page on
Wikipedia and not surprisingly,
interest has dwindled post-
election. Sarah Palin's page
(64,465) was the 4th most visited
page in 2008 and John McCain's
page (34,486) was the 13th most
visited page.
7. Deaths in 2009(48,758):
Apparently the public is
clamoring to remember those
they've lost in 2009. Both the
Deaths in 2008 page and the 2009
page have made the top 10 list of
most visited Wikipedia pages. It
looks like memorial sites like My
Death Space and Respectance
aren't such a strange idea after all.
8. United States(46,545): This
page offers basic information on
politics, economics, demographics
and customs of the United States.
With a large population and a
large number of Wikipedians
hailing from the US, the page is a
popular one. Surprisingly it is not
listed on the community's most
vandalized pages. Meanwhile
both the US Democratic Party and
Republican Party pages are listed.
9. Facebook(42,679)
10. Wikipedia Current Events
Portal(40,962): This page lists
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daily news topics and the latest
Wikinews articles. It is a great
source for breaking news stories.
The page also links to recent
deaths and ongoing events such as
the automotive industry crisis.
For the Telegraph's entire list
visit the article. You can also
check them against Wikistics list
of yearly page hits for 2008 and
2009.
Another interesting resource is
Oyster Card: 10
Wikipedia's most popular articles
within the last hour. While
Million + RFID
recently deceased celebrities
appeared on this list at the time
Chips in London
this article was written, there were By Richard MacManus
definitely some interesting (ReadWriteWeb)
anomalies. For instance, the Ernie Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:30:46 AM
Davis Wikipedia page saw a
dramatic increase in hits. When The Oyster card is an RFID
cross-referenced against real time smart card used for electronic
search engine Collecta it appears ticketing on London public
HBO was airing the Ernie Davis transport services, notably the
biography "The Express". London Underground and buses.
Audience members were Other countries have similar smart
simultaneously watching cards. A couple that I've come
television while searching for across in real life recently were
Davis' biography. Boston's CharlieCard and
Discuss

Gotcha! Tax Evaders Nabbed on Facebook

By Dana Oshiro citizen or a tax dodging criminal, barbershops and church While they're unlikely to kill
(ReadWriteWeb) there's something eerily meetings." your next-of-kin after questioning
Submitted at 8/31/2009 12:03:48 AM omniscient about the taxman. Agents are not permitted to them, they can garnish your
According to a recent Wall Street friend suspected tax evaders using family's wages and slowly lure
Despite the fact that he is Journal article by Laura Saunders, false information; however, public you out of hiding. If the group has
perhaps one of the world's most our all-seeing state revenue agents information is perfectly just caught on to Facebook and
famous gangsters, Al Capone have increased their power to acceptable. In the past, collections MySpace, imagine the power
wasn't first imprisoned for c a t c h t a x e v a d e r s t h r o u g h agents were aggressive enough to they'll wield once they start using
bootlegging, racketeering or the Facebook, MySpace and Google. appear at residences, places of facial recognition software and
gangland execution of the Saint Sponsor work and schools. If you thought people search engines like Spock
Valentine's Day Massacre. Said Jim Eads, director of the old school debt collectors were and Pipl. You've been warned.
I n s t e a d , C a p o n e w a s f i r s t Federation of Tax Administrators, tough, think of today's social Pay your taxes on time and avoid
imprisoned for tax evasion. "These new supplements are often ones, such as reading the local media wielding bunch as the an audit. Discuss
Whether you're a law abiding far more efficient than the older newspaper or making inquiries at Terminator 2 version.
Internet News Record Tech News/ 47
OYSTER
Google May Hand Over Caribbean continued from page 46
Wellington's Snapper card. Some cards and refill them (including an

Journalists' IP Addresses smart cards are used for other

types of micro-payments as well
as transport - for example Hong
auto top-up option). But that's the
extent of the site's functionality.
The Oyster card has many
By Marshall Kirkpatrick legal-support@google.com by Kong's Octopus card and Japan's potential Internet applications,
(ReadWriteWeb) 5pm Pacific Time on September Suica card. particularly in the retail area. For
Submitted at 8/31/2009 3:59:53 AM 16, 2009, Google The Oyster Card and others like example you could potentially be
will assume you do not have an it are significant from a web offered personalized shopping
Google has reportedly sent a objection to production of the technology perspective mainly offers in future, if retailers had
letter to a high-profile Caribbean requested because they introduce RFID access to your travel habits. Of
investigative website called The TCI Journal, a UK commission of information and may provide technology to the masses; and this course you may not want retailers
TCI Journal saying it will supply inquiry, and others," Assange responsive documents on this data will eventually end up being to have that data; and therein lies
the IP addresses used to access the writes, "showed that foreign date. utilized on the Internet. the problem. So far security and
Journal's primary GMail account property developers were giving Google has not yet responded to Sponsor privacy have naturally been the
unless the Journal supplies a legal millions in secret loans and our inquiry asking what the The way Oyster works is pretty main concerns for the Oyster Card
counter-motion within the next payments to senior Islander company might do once the TCI simple: you purchase the card, and similar smart cards.
two weeks. A libel suit filed politicians, including an alleged Journal does send a motion to buy tickets or concessions either Nevertheless, enterprising
against the Journal in Santa Clara, $500,000 cash payment to the quash the subpoena, which we at terminals or online, then swipe British geeks have been exploring
C a l i f o r n i a S u p e r i o r C o u r t Island's now former Premier, presume it will do. Hiring lawyers the card at a Reader when you less serious applications for the
c o n c e r n s i t s r e p o r t i n g o f Michael Misick." According to in California will likely be an take a train or bus trip. The Oyster Oyster Card over the past few
government corruption in the the UK Guardian, it was due to onerous task for a volunteer-run card makes ticketing much more years. The Tinker.it! team in
Turks & Caicos Islands. that corruption that the British website from a tiny Caribbean efficient for the consumer: no London wrote a post earlier this
This case is just the latest to be g o v e r n m e n t t o o k o v e r k e y island. Journal editors tell us that paper tickets, no handover of year outlining creative uses for
followed closely, reported on and governance processes on the they hope Google will decide to cash, little to no interaction with the Oyster card. One was an
even participated in by the island again earlier this month. help them fight the case on 1st t i c k e t i n g s t a f f , s p e e d i e r interactive exhibition that
controversial public interest A property developer discussed amendment grounds. processing when entering train translated a user's unique Oyster
document-exposure organization a t l e n g t h i n t h e J o u r n a l ' s This case is reminiscent of station or bus. For the transport card id into a unique snowflake,
Wikileaks, a website where a staff documentation of corruption and Yahoo's providing user account authorities, there are cost savings which was then displayed on
of journalists and lawyers vet in the official UK government information in 2005 to the and instances of ticket payment Tinker.it's office window for
sensitive documents submitted by inquiry report is now suing the Chinese government for journalist avoidance / conterfeit are greatly passers-by to play with.
anonymous independent sources. journal for libel. Shi Tao's Yahoo Mail account. reduced. While there isn't much of an
The status of the case was Google said the following in a Tao allegedly summarized a As the following statistics show, Internet story yet for the Oyster
summarized tonight by Julian letter to the TCI Journal last government order directing media Oyster has been a very large scale Card, the fact that RFID chips and
Assange, Investigations Editor at week, as posted on Wikileaks and o r g a n i z a t i o n s i n C h i n a t o d e p l o y m e n t o f R F I D . T h e readers are so widespread in
Wikileaks. sent to us by the Journal: downplay the upcoming 15th statistics are from a March 2008 London (and other smart cards in
Sponsor To comply with the law, unless a n n i v e r s a r y o f t h e 1 9 8 9 presentation by Birkbeck College major cities across the world)
According to Wikileaks and you provide us with a copy of a crackdown on pro-democracy senior lecturer George Roussos: means that there's much more data
other reports, the TCI Journal has motion to activists and was sentenced to 10 • 10 million Oyster cards issued being produced about people in
a history of reporting on rampant quash the subpoena (or other years in prison for "illegally • 5 million journeys a day their everyday lives. That data is
corruption on the Turks & Caicos formal objection filed in court) providing state secrets to foreign • 16,000 readers in stations destined for the Internet, to be re-
Islands, a former British colony. via email at entities." Discuss • 8,000 buses used, at which point we will see
"A trail of evidence dug up by the • 2,600 readers at external retail some very useful applications
points arise... if the privacy and security
• cash accounts for 4% today concerns can be assuaged.
Oyster Cards & The Web Discuss
Right now the Internet isn't a
major part of the Oyster Card.
There's a website for the card,
where consumers can purchase
48 Tech Tips/
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive
Capacity Correctly (in Base 10)
[Disk Space]
By Gina Trapani (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:30:00 AM
ZDNet reports that Snow
Leopard has changed the way it
calculates disk capacity from
earlier versions of OS X: now it's
actually accurate, and you can
better judge when a disk is really,
actually full.
When it's running Snow
Leopard, your Mac shows you the
same gigabyte count on your
drives as appear on the
manufacturer's box, calculated in
base 10, and not in base 2, which
is what Leopard, all earlier
versions of OS X and all current
and earlier versions of Windows
uses. This Apple knowledge base
article explains:
A 200 GB drive shows 200 GB
capacity (for example, if you
select the hard drive's icon and
choose Get Info from the Finder's
File menu, then look at the
Capacity line). This means that,
for example, if you upgrade from
an earlier version of Mac OS X,
your drive may show more
capacity than in the earlier Mac
OS X version.
My own tests confirm: a 4GB
Cruzer thumb drive in my Snow
Leopard Mac shows up with a
capacity of 4.01GB. Leopard
reports the same drive's capacity
as 3.74GB. (Click to enlarge the
screenshot on the right.)
Kudos to Apple for leading the
charge on this change for the
better, which will reduce age-old
consumer confusion and questions
about why a drive seems smaller
in the software than it says it is on
the box. This change also raises
two other interesting questions: Is
this new "found space" part of the
reason why Snow Leopard
"saves" you disk space? (Because
if it is, SL isn't actually saving
you anything–it's just an
accounting adjustment.) More
importantly for the rest of the
market: When will Windows
follow suit? Snow Leopard fixes
disk capacity bug[ZDNet]
Smarterware is Lifehacker
editor emeritus Gina Trapani's
new home away from 'hacker. To
get all of the latest from
Smarterware, be sure to subscribe
to the Smarterware RSS feed. For
more, check out Gina's weekly
Smarterware feature here on
Lifehacker.
Internet News Record
Use Your Car as a Food
Dehydrator [Clever Uses]
By Jason Fitzpatrick drying to his car:
(Lifehacker) Along with them, I moved our
Submitted at 8/30/2009 3:00:00 PM kitchen thermometer. For
dehydrating, you want the food to
Keeping tasty dried fruit on hand dry fast enough that mold does
doesn't require buying a device not grow, but you don't want to
off late-night TV. Using the sun cook it, and you want some
as a free energy source, you can enzymes to survive. So for
u s e y o u r c a r ' s s u n - b a k e d vegetables and fruit you aim for
dashboard to get the job done. temperatures in the 100-150
Tom, of the home and garden degree range.
blog The Tangled Nest, had an The car proved to be the perfect
abundance of fruit on his hands temperature and the figs he was
that he didn't want to let go to testing out the technique with
waste. He started off by building a dried nicely over the course of
simple solar dehydrator out of a several days on the dashboard.
box and a piece of window For more details, check out the
screen, but it didn't seem to be full post and the additional
drying them effectively. pictures at the link below. Have a
Building an actual solar oven handy food hack of your own?
seemed silly when he had a car L e t ' s h e a r a b o u t i t i n t h e
sitting right in the driveway that comments. Drying Food in the
rose to scorching temperatures Dehydrator You Already Own:
when left out in the sun. He Your Car
moved the box of fruit he was
Internet News Record
Turn Google Voice into a Growl-
Friendly Windows App [Webapps]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:30:00 AM
Earlier this month, we showed
you how to load Google Voice as
a stand-alone Fluid app with
Growl notifications and a dock
badge. One clever hacker figured
out how to create much the same
setup in Windows with Firefox.
The Thoughts and Rants blog
details the steps needed to install
three Firefox extensions—
Greasemonkey, Growl/GNTP,
and Reload Every—and then two
scripts, Google Voice Growl and
Google Voice notifications, to get
Firefox in the habit of sending
new voicemail and SMS message
notifications to your Growl for
Windows client.
This was my first time installing
Growl for Windows, and on my
Windows 7 system, I kept running
into an "Error 2869" when
installing the .msi package, which
the Google Voice post suggests is
necessary. Anatoly Lubarsky's
blog post detailed the fix I
needed, related to how Vista and
7 handle permissions for MSI
installers. Open a command line
as an administrator (Win+R, type
cmd, right-click and choose "Run
as Administrator"), then use this
code to launch Growl's installer:
m s i e x e c / i
"C:\Windows\Path\to\wherever\G
rowl\file\is"
Be sure to substitute the correct
location of your Growl installer,
of course, rather than my joke-y
directory tree.
I'm using the previously
mentioned GVoice Favicon Alerts
to keep Voice in a tiny, permanent
browser tab, and new Voice
messages seem to be activating
Growl without auto-reloading
enabled. If you're seeing
something different, or can
suggest a more elegant setup, tell
us about it in the comments. How
to Turn Google Voice into a True
Windows app[Site via Source]
Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews 49
Why is Google using
Solr for search?
(CNET News.com) you won't see directly, is that our
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:23:00 AM search engine is now powered by
SOLR, an incredible open source
Google is arguably the world's project that will allow us to
largest open-source company, not provide higher quality and more
only releasing a minimum of 14 u p - t o - d a t e o p p o r t u n i t i e s .
million lines of open-source code Nonprofits should start seeing
but also hosting over 250,000 their opportunities indexed faster,
open-source projects on Google and users should see more
Code, in addition to its open- relevant and complete results.
source advocacy work like I don't think this means that
Summer of Code. Google thinks Solr provides better
Despite these open-source bona results than its own code. Rather,
fides, it's still surprising to see I suspect this was simply a case of
Google adopting Solr, an open- a Googler using her 20 percent
source search server based on "free" time to get a job done. It
Apache Lucene, for its All for was likely easier to roll a service
Good site. using Solr than to get official
Google is the world's search approval from Google to use its
market leader by a very long s e a r c h t e c h n o l o g y f o r a n
stretch. Why not use its own important but nonprofit purpose.
search technology? Why use Solr? (My request for comment by
Google's Public Sector team Google had not been answered at
suggested an answer last week: t h e t i m e o f t h i s p o s t ' s
One of the top concerns we've p u b l i c a t i o n . )
been hearing from nonprofit To me, this says much about the
organizations who list volunteer p o w e r o f G o o g l e ' s c u l t u r e :
opportunities on All for Good is Googlers appear to be unfettered
that their opportunities aren't to use the best tool to get a job
updated on the site as frequently done, which may not always be
as they need. This happens the best technology, per se, but
because...we crawl feeds from simply the most easily available
partners like VolunteerMatch and technology for a given project at a
Idealist just like Google web given time.
search crawls web pages. The decision also says a
Crawlers don't immediately tremendous amount about the
update, they take time to find new value of open source, and of Solr
information. in particular. If it's good enough
Today, we're rolling out for Google, as David Fishman
improvements to All for Good notes, it's probably going to be
that will help solve this problem just fine for you, too.
and improve search quality for Follow me on Twitter @mjasay.
users. The biggest change, which
50 Tech Reviews Internet News Record

Apple's new OS geared for multicore future

(CNET News.com) couldn't keep the chip fed with speaking, a thread is an without major re-engineering; The three major makers of
Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:00:00 AM data. Worse, the chips required independent computing operation. they're lightweight and don't take graphics chips--Intel, Nvidia, and
extraordinary amounts of power For programmers to take up resources when they're not AMD's ATI--have endorsed
Apple began shipping Snow and produced corresponding advantage of multicore processor, running; and they're flexible OpenCL, and the Khronos Group
Leopard on Friday, but the true amounts of hard-to-handle waste they assign one thread to each enough to encapsulate large or has made it a standard. That
importance of the Mac OS X heat. core, and away they go, right? small parts of code. means programmers are likely to
update likely will emerge well And so began the mainstream Not so fast. Threads come with "There's a lot of overhead around be able to reuse their OpenCL
afterward. multicore era, in which processors baggage. Each requires memory threading that means you want to code with Windows applications,
That's because Mac OS X 10.6 got multiple computing engines and time to start. Programs should break your program into as few too.
begins a longer-term Apple called cores that work in parallel. be broken up into different pieces as possible. With Grand Graphics processors employ
attempt to get ahead by cracking a That's great for some tasks that numbers of threads depending on Central Dispatch, we say break parallel engines that suit them for
p r o b l e m f a c i n g t h e e n t i r e can be easily broken down into how many cores a processor your program into as many tiny running the same processing
computer industry: squeezing i n d e p e n d e n t p i e c e s , b u t offers. Programmers have to pieces as you can conceive of," chore on many data elements. For
useful work out of modern programmers were accustomed to worry about "locking" issues, Hodges said. computers without a graphics
processors. Instead of stuffing a more linear way of thinking providing a mechanism to ensure Another difference with the chip, though, OpenCL also can
Snow Leopard with immediately where tasks execute in a series of one thread doesn't change data Grand Central Dispatch approach employ that parallel execution
obvious new features, Apple is sequential steps. another thread is already using. is its centralization. The operating strategy on ordinary multicore
trying to adjust to the new reality Enter Grand Central Dispatch, And one threaded program might system worries about managing processors.
in which processors can do many or GCD. This Snow Leopard step on the toes of another all applications' blocks rather than The 64-bit transition
jobs simultaneously rather than c o m p o n e n t i s d e s i g n e d t o running at the same time. each application providing its own Apple began its 64-bit transition
one job fast. minimize many of the difficulties Some tools to ease the oversight. That central view years ago with the PowerPC
"We're trying to set a foundation of parallel programming. It's easy difficulties, such as Intel means the operating system processors it used before
for the future," said Wiley to modify existing software to use Threading Building Blocks, are decides which tasks get which switching to Intel chips. With
Hodges, director of Mac OS X G C D , A p p l e s a i d , a n d t h e available, but threads remain resources, Apple said, and that the Snow Leopard, nearly the full
marketing. operating system handles complicated. system overall can become more suite of its software--Mail, Safari,
Apple shed some light on its complicated administrative chores "We looked at this and said it responsive even when it's busy. Finder, iChat, iPhoto--become 64-
project, called Grand Central so programmers don't have to. needs a fundamental rethink. We Other foundations bit programs.
Dispatch, at its Worldwide Overall, Illuminata analyst want to making developing There's a second mechanism in Intel chips these days are 64-bit,
Developer Conference in June, G o r d o n H a f f b e l i e v e s , t h e applications for multicore easier," Snow Leopard that gives a new but what does that get you over 32
but most real detail was shared computing industry really is only Hodges said. "We're moving way for programmers tap into -bit chips? Briefly, it can let
only in with programmers sworn beginning now to tackle parallel responsibility for the management hardware power: OpenCL, or heavy-duty programs use more
to secrecy. Now the company has programming in earnest. If code into the operating system so Open Computing Language. It than 4GB of memory, improve
begun talking more publicly about b u i l d i n g m a t u r e p a r a l l e l application developers don't have lets computers use graphics chips performance by offering more
it and other deeper projects to take programming tools is a 10-chapter to write and maintain it." not just to accelerate graphics but chip memory slots called
advantage of graphics chips and book, the industry is only at Blocking and tackling also some ordinary computations. registers, and speed up some
Intel's 64-bit processors. chapter two right now, he said. The core mechanisms within To use OpenCL, programmers mathematical operations.
The moves align Apple better But with no other alternative, the GCD are blocks and queues. write modules of code in a Moving to a 64-bit design
with changes in computing. For book will be written. Programmers mark code chunks variation of the C programming doesn't guarantee instant speedup,
years, chipmakers such as Intel "It has to happen," Haff said. "If to convert them into blocks, then language called OpenCL C. Snow though. In one developer
and Advanced Micro Devices had you look at history of information tells the application how to create Leopard translates that code on document, Apple states: " Myth:
steadily increased the clock rate technology, things that have to the queue that governs how those the fly into instructions the My application will run much
o f t h e i r p r o c e s s o r s , a n d happen really do happen." blocks are actually run. Block graphics chip can understand and faster if it is a 'native' 64-bit
programmers got accustomed to a Burdensome threads execution can be tied to specific transfers necessary data into the application. Fact: Some 64-bit
performance boost with each new One way programmers have events--the arrival of network graphics system memory. Many executables may run more slowly
generation. But earlier this dealt with the arrival of multicore information, a change to a file, a tasks won't benefit, but OpenCL on 64-bit Intel and PowerPC
decade, problems derailed the p r o c e s s o r s - - a n d w i t h t h e mouse click. is good for videogame physics architectures." One issue: the
gigahertz train. multiprocessor machines that Apple hopes programmers will simulation or artificial doubled length of references to
First, chips often ended up preceded them--is through a like blocks' advantages: Older intelligence algorithms, technical memory addresses.
merely twiddling their thumbs concept called threads. There are code can easily be retrofitted with computing chores, and
more because slower memory various types, but generally blocks so programmers can try it multimedia operations. APPLE'S page 53
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High-end server chips breaking records

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 5:35:00 AM

How would you like a single-

chip microprocessor with more
than four times the performance
(on some applications) of Intel's
best Core i7?
Then consider that up to 32 of
these chips can be directly
connected to form a single server,
achieving four times the built-in
scalability of Intel's next-
generation Nehalem-EX
processor.
That's IBM's widely anticipated
Power7, which it described at last
week's Hot Chips conference. But
if you're interested, you'd better
be prepared to spend a lot more
than four times as much per chip.
IBM isn't talking about pricing,
but large Power servers can cost
more than $10,000 per processor.
IBM's forthcoming Power7
server processor has eight cores,
manages 32 threads, and includes
32MB of on-chip embedded
DRAM cache. Power7 also has
the highest levels of off-chip
bandwidth ever achieved by a
microprocessor.(Credit: IBM)
What makes the Power7 so
powerful? Each chip has eight
cores, and each core supports four
-way multithreading. There's
32MB of level-3 cache on the
chip, made using embedded
DRAM (eDRAM) cells. Most
CPUs use SRAM for cache
because it's generally easier to
combine with high-performance
logic, but DRAMs--with only one
transistor per bit--offer
compelling density advantages.
IBM spent years developing a
new kind of eDRAM that would most advanced product to use the run much more slowly than those from Hot Chips 19: Session 1, long CPU pipeline in order to
work with SOI (silicon on new technology. in the Power6 processor, which I IBM's Power6"). The Power6 was
insulator) manufacturing Interestingly, the Power7 cores wrote about here in 2007 (" Live designed to run very fast using a
processes, and the Power7 is the HIGH-END page 52
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HIGH-END
continued from page 51
deliver the highest possible
performance on each thread of
execution.
Maybe that strategy didn't work
out as well as IBM hoped,
because the Power7 returns to a
more traditional microarchitecture
with a shorter pipeline and much
lower clock rates--though IBM
didn't say exactly what those rates
would be.
IBM did, however, promise that
the Power7 would be roughly four
times as fast as the Power6, chip
for chip. Since it has four times as
many cores, each of the new
slower-clocked cores must still
deliver about as much
performance as those in the
previous generation.
Chip-level performance must
always be matched by off-chip
connections lest the incoming data
or outgoing results be
bottlenecked by a too-slow
channel. Accordingly, the Power7
is equipped with eight I/O
channels for DRAM, each of
which connects to an off-chip
buffering device that splits the
channel into two 64-bit DRAM
interfaces. All together, IBM says
the Power7 has 180 GBps of
DRAM interconnect that can
sustain over 100 GBps of
effective memory bandwidth.
There's another 50 GBps of
peak I/O bandwidth and a
staggering 360 GBps of peak
bandwidth used to let each
Power7 chip communicate with
others. The DRAM connected to
each chip is thus shared across
larger systems.
Combining these figures, IBM
says a single Power7 has 590
GBps of total off-chip bandwidth.
This isn't the real number, since
many of those bytes are used for
error-correcting codes and other
overhead, but it's still pretty
impressive.
So is Power7's die size: 567
square millimeters for 1.2 billion
transistors. That's nearly a square
inch! IBM says that if the 32MB
L3 cache had been manufactured
using SRAM, the transistor count
would have been 2.7 billion
instead.
Still, Power7 wasn't the only
high-end chip talked about at Hot
Chips.
Rainbow Falls, a record for core
count
Sun Microsystems was there to
describe its forthcoming Rainbow
Falls chip, which I assume will be
marketed as the UltraSparc T3.
The chip has 16 cores, each of
which is reportedly able to
manage 8 threads.
Sun's primary Rainbow Falls
presentation focused on details of
Rainbow Falls' internal and
external interconnects; a second
talk described the cryptographic
coprocessors present in each of
the chip's cores. These
coprocessors--one for modular
arithmetic (commonly used in
public-key cryptography) and a
cipher/hash unit to accelerate bulk
ciphers like AES and secure hash
algorithms--provide many times
the performance of pure software
implementations.
Fujitsu was also at Hot Chips to
describe its eight-core, 2GHz
Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, the
latest in a long series of
impressive designs from the
company. Fujitsu quoted a peak
performance figure of 128
GFLOPS (billions of floating-
point operations per second) with
a typical power consumption of
just 58 watts. It did not, however,
provide sustained performance or
worst-case power consumption
figures.
AMD, Intel vie for high-volume
servers
Few of us will have direct
exposure to the IBM, Sun, and
Fujitsu chips. A pair of
presentations from Advanced
Micro Devices and Intel described
products that will be much more
widely available.
AMD launched its six-core
Opteron processor code-named
"Istanbul" earlier this year (see
Brooke Crothers' coverage from
June). Next year the company will
begin shipping a new Opteron
model currently code-named
Magny-Cours (after a racetrack in
France). Magny-Cours will
consist of two Istanbul chips in a
single package, with twice as
many DRAM interfaces to
support the new processor's
increased performance.
AMD also teased the audience
with another mention of a new
processor core design that has
been under development there for
several years: "Bulldozer," which
is now targeted at 32nm process
technology. This new core will
incorporate new x86 instruction-
set extensions which will
probably not be adopted by Intel
(a strategy that reminds me of
AMD's old 3DNow extensions).
But saving the best for last--
best, that is, from the perspective
of anticipated sales--Intel's talk on
Nehalem-EX showed just how far
Intel has been able to push the
technology envelope for high-
volume servers.
Nehalem-EX is an eight-core
version of the existing quad-core
Nehalem design. The new chip
also has 24MB of L3 cache done
in old-school SRAM. By my
calculations, about 60 percent of
the chip's 2.3 billion transistors
are in this cache alone.
Nehalem provides four links to
external DRAM buffer chips
supporting two DDR3 DRAM
interfaces each (much like the
Power7 solution) and four
QuickPath Interconnect links that
provide direct "glueless"
connections for up to eight-
processor systems (64 cores, 128
threads). Intel is also working on
an external Node Controller chip
for systems with up to 2,048
Nehalem-EX processors.
The aggregate bandwidth
numbers for Nehalem aren't as
mind-boggling as those for
Power7, but they're still far
beyond anything available for PC-
architecture servers today. Based
on the presentation, I estimate
Nehalem could boast over 85
GBps of peak memory bandwidth
and 100 GBps of chip-to-chip
bandwidth, some of which must
be allocated to I/O.
I expect the raw number-
crunching performance of the
Nehalem-EX cores to be roughly
on the same level as Power7's
cores. The lower ratio of
bandwidth to processing power
for Nehalem-EX reflects a
different design target, not a
design shortfall--and most
importantly, a much lower selling
price. There will presumably be
versions of Nehalem-EX priced
similarly to existing Xeon MP
products, which currently top out
at$2,301 each in small volumes,
but that's a very reasonable price
to pay for the market's most
advanced x86 server processor.
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Mac OS Snow
Leopard: Great news
for Windows 7, too
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:00:00 AM
OS X 10.6 includes Boot Camp
3.0, a new collection of software
drivers that make Windows run
much better on Mac
hardware.(Credit: Screenshot by
Dong Ngo/CNET)
Every time I see the"I'm a
Mac/I'm a PC" ads on TV, I can't
help but wonder, "Why not both?"
And it has never been a better
time for that.
It's been a three weeks since I
first got my hands on Apple's new
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
(If anything, this means lots of
hard work benchmark testing the
product while trying to keep my
mouth shut about it till now,
which was even harder.)
Overall, personally, I found that
while the new Mac OS doesn't
warrant a "wow," it's still
definitely worth the $29 upgrade
price. Snow Leopard offers an
even more streamlined Mac
experience than Leopard and
noticeably faster interface
responsiveness. The application
performance, however, is slightly
slower than it is with Leopard, at
least on the MacBook Pro we
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continued from page 52
used as our test machine. As the
OS is now a pure 64-bit operating
system, expect the application
performance to improve over
Leopard as you add RAM or use
it with a high-end desktop.
Mac users can read more about
Snow Leopard in my colleague
Jason Parker's full review. On the
other hand, for Windows users,
especially Windows 7, the release
of Snow Leopard is straight-on
great news.
Boot Camp 3.0 enables
Windows to read files from OS
X's partition.(Credit: Screenshot
by Dong Ngo/CNET)
I recently blogged about
running Windows 7 on a 15-inch
Unibody Macbook Pro, which
required some tweaking with Boot
Camp 2.1. Snow Leopard comes
with Boot Camp 3.0, which
makes installing and running
Windows on a laptop a much
more pleasant experience.
First of all, the new Boot Camp
includes all the drivers necessary
to run both the 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Windows 7 smoothly
on the Mac hardware.
(Note that you only need to run
the Boot Camp Assistant, BCA, if
APPLE'S
continued from page 50
Apple encourages programmers
to test their software to see if the
64-bit incarnation is faster. All
Apple's own applications that
moved to 64-bit versions are
faster, the company said.
The 32-bit kernel
However, the core component
of Mac OS X, the kernel, is still
32-bit software by default on
consumer machines such as
MacBooks and iMacs. Apple has
written it so that applications can
handle more than 4GB of
you want to dual-boot OS X and
Windows on the same machine.
The utility will then create a new
partition for the installation of
Windows. In this case, make sure
you run the BCA first when the
computer boots up to avoid file
errors. If you want to run just
Windows and skip OS X
altogether, you can boot from the
Windows 7 install DVD and start
the installation the way you would
install the OS on any PC from
scratch.)
After the installation is done,
Boot Camp 3.0 can be installed
from the Snow Leopard DVD.
Then, without further ado, you got
yourself a great Windows
computer.
The second really nice thing
about Boot Camp 3.0 is the fact
that it includes a software driver
to make Windows able to read the
Mac partition (somewhat like
MacDrive minus the ability to
write). This means that when you
dual-boot OS X and Windows,
Windows now can browse and
read files that reside on OS X's
partition without any extra
software install.
The last major improvement of
memory, though, and the kernel
can manage it all.
In its developer document on 64
-bit performance, Apple
states:"Myth: The kernel needs to
be 64-bit in order to be fully
optimized for 64-bit processors.
Fact: The kernel does not
generally need to directly address
more than 4 GB of RAM at once."
Apple's 32-bit kernel hits limits
with very large amounts of
memory, though. "Thus,
beginning in Snow Leopard, the
Boot Camp 3.0 that I am very
happy about is the battery life.
Windows 7 now has much
improved battery life compared
with what it had with Boot Camp
2.1. I haven't tried Windows Vista
or Windows XP, but Windows 7
now has about the same battery
life as Snow Leopard.
Other little things have also
been improved. The double-tab
right-click works right away and
the multitouch pad is now less
sensitive (though still a little too
sensitive). With Boot Camp 2.1, it
was so sensitive you just couldn't
use the "tab to click" feature
because of the extremely high risk
of making accidental clicks. The
sound and video chat are also
much more stable now than
before.
Apart from Boot Camp 3.0,
Snow Leopard comes with tools
that make a PC become part of a
MacBook Air.(Credit: Screenshot
by Dong Ngo/CNET)
If you want to nitpick, there are
two little odd things Windows
users will find on Mac hardware.
First, the MacBook's keyboard
doesn't have two separate
"Backspace" and "Delete" keys,
kernel is moving to a 64-bit
executable on hardware that
supports such large memory
configurations," its Xserve server
line and Mac Pro workstations,
the company said.
The tricky aspect of moving
from a 32-bit kernel to 64-bit
kernel is that drivers--software
that let the operating system
communicate with devices such as
printers, video cards, and hard
drives--must also be 64-bit. That's
not so bad when it's a hardware
which come in handy when you
want to remove text. Second, the
Boot Camp control panel doesn't
include an option to change the
sensitivity of the multitouch pad
and there's no separate "tab to
click" options for the right and
left clicks, either.
Other than Boot Camp 3.0,
Snow Leopard comes with two
other tools that make a Windows
computer work better with a
MacBook Air. The first is called
Remote Install Mac OS X and it
allows for installing the new OS
remotely onto a MacBook Air.
The other is the DVD or CD
sharing that allows the MacBook
Air, which doesn't come with an
optical drive, to use the PC's DVD
or CD drive as one of its own.
Overall, I have to say Boot
Camp 3.0 takes the Windows
experience to a new high on Mac
hardware. To me, this is about as
exciting as the release of
Windows 7 itself.
So there you go, Windows
fanboys, don't say Apple never
does anything for you. And Apple
fanboys: the truth is that inside
every new Mac there's a PC just
waiting to jump out.
device under Apple's control, but
it's harder to move the full
collection of third-party devices
with their own drivers.
Apple argues it's not hard to
make the jump, though. "As a
driver developer, you must update
your drivers with 64-bit binaries.
Fortunately...many drivers 'just
work' after changing the compile
settings," the company said in a
reference document.
This all may sound very low-
level, but for programmers, Apple
Tech Reviews 53
LA fires threaten
cell phone,
broadcast signals
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:25:14 AM
Intense wildfires in Southern
California are dangerously close
to facilities atop Mount Wilson,
threatening damage to cell phone
and TV broadcast towers, as well
as a famed observatory.
The blaze, which started August
26, has burned approximately
20,102 acres and as of Sunday
was only 5 percent contained,
according to the Web site of the
California governor's office.
Known as the "Station Fire," as it
began about one mile above the
Angeles Crest Fire Station, the
inferno has spread throughout the
San Gabriel Mountains in
Northern Los Angeles County.
At an altitude of 5,715 feet,
Mount Wilson houses a number
of TV, radio, and cell phone
transmitters known as the
Communications Facilities, all
providing service to the Los
actually is working at a higher
level than most. That could be an
asset since many attempts to
embrace parallel programming
imposed more demands than most
programmers were willing or able
to handle.
And attracting programmers is
key. Ultimately, Apple's deeper
technology moves such as Grand
Central Dispatch and OpenCL
will be a success only if the
company can get other developers
to use them.
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continued from page 53
Angeles area, according to the LA
Times. Also threatened by the fire
is the historic Mount Wilson
Observatory, home to critical
astronomy projects and research.
Observatory Director Harold
McAlister wrote of the situation
in blog posts early Monday:
Monday, 31 Aug 09, 6:10 am
PDT- Larry and Dave report that
fire fighters are preparing to set
more back fires below the
broadcast towers, but otherwise
things are calm on the mountain
for the present.
Monday, 31 Aug 09, 5:50 am
PDT- Sky and Telescope
magazine posted this article in the
last hour. Our reports on site are
not presently so dire, but the "fog
of war" certainly exists in a
situation like this. Every
preparation is being made for this
scenario, and it may indeed yet
happen. I remain optimistic for
now.
On Friday, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger declared
a state of emergency in Los
Angeles and Monterey Counties
due to the Station fire and other
wildfires. Evacuations have been
ordered, and two firefighers have
already lost their lives.
The latest updates on the Station
fire can be found at the state's
Calfires site and at the Incident
Information System Web site.
Watch CBS Videos Online
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SEC Suspicious, Opens Investigation
By Liam Cassidy great deal of volatility in Apple’s
(TheAppleBlog) investigating trading that occurred shares.
Submitted at 8/31/2009 8:02:49 AM in four very specific periods of • Whether anyone had exact
time suggesting that more than knowledge of when specific
A u g u s t 2 0 0 9 w i l l b e one violation in trading took releases would be made by the
remembered as something of a place. company with regard to Jobs’
mixed bag for Apple. There was “…the agency’s investigation health or Ipod sales and pretty
G o o g l e V o i c e g a t e , a n d t h e likely centered on possible trading much of an awareness, as well, as
backlash it generated from the that may have been based on the to what those announcements
tech press and public alike; illegal use of inside information would say.
culminating in questioning from involving three particular Apple- Dorfman adds that a trader told
the FCC. On the other hand, Mac related developments.” him that he saw “uncanny”
OS X’s latest big cat was The SEC is asking very pointed trading taking place at Apple. “It
released, and that gave almost questions. It wants to know: almost looked at times like the
everyone something to be happy • Whether anyone got an illegal buyers and sellers were working
about. lead on precisely how sales were at the company.”
But now, as August finally faring on key items in Apple’s Coincidentally-fortuitous
draws to a close, there’s news that highly successful Ipod product buying and selling happens from
some investors might have been a line. time to time. But on four separate
bit naughty in their dealings with • Whether anyone was given a occasions? However this unfolds,
Apple shares. And the Securities precise insight into the health of you gotta admit that August has
& Exchange Commission is very the company’s co-founder and been a tumultuous month for the
keen to get to the bottom of it. CEO, Steve Jobs, a cancer boys and girls in Cupertino. On
Reporting yesterday in the survivor who took a six-month Sept 10th, 500 people will gather
Huffington Post, Dan Dorfman leave of absence last January and to figure out how to make the
says that he has obtained copies of then received a liver transplant. most of the $45 billion mobile
internal SEC documents from Subsequent questions about the web market at Mobilize 09. Join
what he calls a “regulatory viability of his health then led to a them!
contact” that show the SEC is

Wanted: A simple DNS app for Mac or Windows

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 10:24:43 AM
In the early-mid-90s there was a
Mac desktop app that was a
Domain Name Server. Here's how
you'd set it up.
1. Put it in your Startup Items
folder so it would launch at
startup.
2. When it booted a window
opens with a list of all the
domains it was managing. Of
course initially it was empty. You
could click on the name of any of
them to edit the settings in a
dialog. There was a place to edit
the name of the domain. A place
to add an A record or a CNAME.
(In other words it works more or
less the same as any web app we
use to manage DNS.)
3. An Add button at the bottom
of the window. Click it and a
dialog like the one in #2 would
appear, except all the fields would
be blank.
4. There was a text file that also
configured the server, in fact the
dialogs above just served to add,
remove or change the text in the
file. I suspect the file was in a
standard format that all DNS's going to say, yes, I know there's a
use.
Anticipating what people are
DNS built into the Mac, but it
doesn't have a graphic interface
and the instructions for setting it
up are ridiculous. I think the one
on Windows has a graphic UI, but
I can't find any comprehensible
instructions that explain how to
set it up.
A college classmate, Sandy
Wilbourn, who I think of as a
brother, is an expert in DNS, and
he says the app I'm looking for
doesn't exist. I threatened to write
it myself, he advised against it.
Oh man. What is it with these
simple web services that we're
allowed to use them through a
web app, but they don't want us
running our own. I'm going to run
my own DNS at some point, and
I'd rather do it sooner than later.
Someone is going to ask why I
need to do this. I have a good
reason. You can either take my
word or pay me $1000 and I'll
explain.
Update: Chuck Shotton points
to MenAndMice's server for
Windows, and JY points to
CutEdge's server for Mac. Both
appear to fit the bill. Thanks
guys!!
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Home Improvement creators After a short run, Being

hoping to revitalize the Human ends its first season
family sitcom strong
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 8:07:00 AM
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:05:00 AM

Matt Williams has an impressive It's almost impossible to fathom

sitcom pedigree. He created the
quintessential '90s sitcom with
a six-episode run being a full
season of a series, but in the case
of Being Human, it is. Granted,
True Blood:
Roseanne. Then, with Carmen
Finestra and David McFadzean it's a show that came from the
UK, where shorter seasons are the
Frenzy
alongside, he struck gold again By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
with Tim Allen's Home norm. And yet, in only six
Improvement. Now they're hoping episodes we got so much Submitted at 8/31/2009 4:55:00 AM

lightning can strike twice (thrice?) character and world development,

with another take on the
traditional family sitcom for
ABC.
Once a television staple, the
family sitcom has probably never
seen leaner days than right now.
But with the multi-camera format
making a comeback, there's no
better time to test the waters. This
time, the family will be a sports
psychologist who works out of his
home, along with his three kids
and presumably a wife.
The big difference between this
project and Williams' other two
successes is the lack of an
established comedian at the center
of it. One could easily argue that
both Roseanne and Home
Improvement were just
expansions of the stage acts of
their respective stars. That was
kind of a trend back then. Are you
ready for a family sitcom in the
vein of these classics, or has their
time come and gone?
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it's amazing the installments didn't
feel rushed.
In those episodes, we learned a
little bit about the world of ghosts,
explored werewolves and
uncovered a lot about the secret
society of vampires plotting a
mass conversion of humanity into
their undead world. We also had
time to become intimately
familiar with our three main
characters.
Saturday night saw the season
finale of Being Human on BBC
America. In it, we got the
resolution to Mitchell's staking,
Annie's decision about the door to
the afterlife, and George's latest
transformation, which saw him do
something he'd so far managed to
avoid.
Continue reading After a short
run, Being Human ends its first
season strong
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(S02E11) "I am gonna kick that
bitch's evil ass out of my gran's
house, and then you are gonna
shoot her." Sookie to Lafayette,
about Maryann
Well, they didn't make us wait,
and picked up with True Blood
right where we left off last week,
with Bill walking in on the
vampire queen, played deliciously
by Evan Rachel Wood. And ... is
the vampire queen a lesbian?
There were certainly some sexual
overtones with her sucking blood
out of the girl's leg, and then later
saying, "I haven't enjoyed sex
with men since the Eisenhower

The sweet and bittersweet Daytime Emmys

By Allison Waldman (TV coming off a terrific year. And it struggling, a point made clear bittersweet Daytime Emmys
Squad) was great for the ladies of The when Betty White hosted a Filed under: Food/Home/DIY,
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:29:00 AM View, who were probably starting farewell to Guiding Light. No OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities,
to feel like getting the gold was an offense to the delightful Ms. Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
History was made at the impossible dream. Unfortunately, White, but the salute was Permalink| Email this| |
Daytime Emmys last night... they weren't there -- not one of lackluster and hardly worthy of a Comments
twice. The Bold and the Beautiful them -- to accept. show that has been broadcasting
won as the top Daytime Drama However, amid the joyful wins for 72 years! The cast appeared to
and the hosts of The View finally and a jolly 40th anniversary salute Perhaps it was the over-arching receive a final ovation, but
were winners. Good for B&B, the to Sesame Street, there was a sad r e a l i t y t h a t d a y t i m e T V i s nobody spoke for the show.
last of the half-hour soaps, quality to the Daytime Emmys. Continue reading The sweet and
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administration." Then again, she penises. Or both."
Houston Rockets' Yao Ming
did ask Bill if he wanted to have
sex, and he politely declined. He
also declined her suggestion that
Continue reading True Blood:
Frenzy
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'progressing well' from foot surgery
he feed on the girl. Reviews, Reality-Free, True By ESPN.com news services cast for a short period [two weeks and foot injuries.
"What gives you the right to say Blood (ESPN.com) ago], so the doctors could In 2006-07, Yao missed 32
no to the femoral blood of a good Permalink| Email this| | Submitted at 8/31/2009 6:07:20 AM examine it, and everything is games after breaking his right leg.
woman?" she asks. "You know Comments going well. Everything is on He sustained a stress fracture in
what your problem is, William? Yao Ming's return from foot track." his left foot in 2007-08,
You're a snob. Tiny, tiny souls. Or surgery might come sooner than The 7-foot-6 Yao, a seven-time underwent surgery and sat out 26
anyone expected. All-Star, had surgery in July, games.
In an interview with ESPN The more than two months after "He comes to the gym pretty
Daytime Emmy Awards Magazine's Sam Alipour, Houston
Rockets general manager Daryl
suffering a hairline fracture late in
a playoff game against the Los
much every day. He's become
pretty good at making shots from
Morey said Yao could return at
Salute the Stars some point in the 2009-10 season
and the team no longer feels his
Angeles Lakers. Surgeons grafted
bone onto the tarsal navicular
bone and realigned Yao's foot to
a seated position," Morey told
Alipour. "I've been joking with
him that when we're in the NBA
(ETonline - Breaking News) Series- Julie Berman, "General broken left foot is a career- reduce stress on the repair. At the Finals, and he gets knocked down,
Submitted at 8/30/2009 10:00:00 PM Hospital" threatening injury. time of the procedure, he was and he hits the shot falling-
Game-Audience Participation "Yao Ming is progressing well. I expected to be immobilized in a backwards to win the game, all
The 36th annual Daytime Emmy Show- "Cash Cab" don't think that [a career-ending cast and using crutches for at least this hard work will have paid off."
Awards heated up Hollywood at Talk Show Host- Whoopi scenario] is something that will 6-8 weeks. Yao is due to make more than
the historical Orpheum Theatre -- Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth happen, based on what I'm "Once the cast is removed, he'll $16 million next season, with a
ET has your list of the award Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and hearing from the doctors," Morey be able to start rehab on his foot, player option for 2010-11 that
winners! Barbara Walters, "The View" told Alipour. "They do know that and the cast has a little ways, would pay him more than $17
And the Emmy goes to... Writing Team in a Drama Series the bone will heal and he'll get multiple weeks, to go," Morey million.
Entertainment Talk Show- - "General Hospital" back on it. And they have not told Alipour. He has averaged 19.1 points and
"Rachael Ray" Directing in a Drama Series- actually ruled out [his return] this Yao played in 77 regular-season 9.3 rebounds in his career.
Supporting Actor in a Drama "One Life to Live" season. I think that's less likely games in 2008-09, his most injury Sam Alipour writes about the
Series- Vincent Irizarry, "All My Performer in a Children's Series than likely, but they haven't ruled -free season since 2004-05, when NBA for ESPN The Magazine.
Children" and Jeff Branson, - Kevin Clash as Elmo, "Sesame it out. he played in 80. Before last Information from The Associated
"Guiding Light" Street" "And next season, the outlook is season, Yao missed chunks of the Press was used in this report.
Supporting Actress in a Drama Game Show Host- Meredith very good. He just took off the previous three seasons with leg
Series- Tamara Braun, "Days of Vieira, "Who Wants to be a
Our Lives" Millionaire"
Informative Talk Show- "The
Tyra Banks Show"
Lead Actress in a Drama Series-
Susan Haskell, "The Bold and the
The Barclays: Heath Slocum wins as
Younger Actor in a Drama Beautiful"
Series- Darin Brooks, "Days of
Our Lives"
Lead Actor in a Drama Series-
Christian LeBlanc, "The Young
Tiger Woods misses putt
Morning Show- "Good Morning and the Restless" By Associated Press He was locked in a tense battle he had to wait until the
America" Daytime Drama- "The Bold and (ESPN.com) over the final hour Sunday at tournament was over to learn that
Lifetime Achievement Award - the Beautiful" Submitted at 8/30/2009 6:39:34 PM Liberty National with some of the by the slimmest of margins -- two
"Sesame Street" biggest names in golf -- Tiger points -- he was the No. 124 seed
Younger Actress in a Drama Slocum's Putt On 18th Wins The Woods, Steve Stricker, Padraig out of the 125 players who
Barclays Slocum's Putt On 18th Harrington and Ernie Els. qualified.
Wins The Barclays Even more incredible is that a Sobel: Slocum's High Yield
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Heath week ago, Slocum was not even Win
Slocum might have been the one sure he would make it to the In the shadows of Manhattan,
player no one expected to win The opening event of the PGA Tour
Barclays. Playoffs. Having missed the cut,
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Heath Slocum proved to be a high
riser in the FedEx Cup standings
after a 1-shot victory at The
Barclays on Sunday, writes Jason
Sobel. Story
"My fate was not in my own
hands," Slocum said.
He had his hands around that
putter on the 18th green, however,
and delivered the biggest shot of
his life.
On the same green where
Woods stunned the crowd by
missing from 7 feet, Slocum
knocked in a 21-foot par for a one
-shot victory at The Barclays to
get this FedEx Cup bonanza off to
a compelling start.
Slocum closed with a 4-under
67 to win for the third time in his
career, and first time in four years.
The victory, worth $1.35 million,
moved him from No. 124 to No. 3
in the FedEx Cup standings,
giving him a shot at the $10
million prize next month in
Atlanta.
"It was an incredible day,
incredible experience," Slocum
said. "I was just kind of lucky to
come out on top. A lot of good
players. At the end of the day, that
putt on the last was magical. I'll
remember that for the rest of my
life."
It was another finish Woods
would like to forget.
In his first tournament since
losing a two-shot lead to
unheralded Y.E. Yang in the PGA
Championship, the putter again
cost Woods a chance to win -- not
only the final round, but all week
on greens he could never trust.
Woods rimmed out a 3-foot par
putt early in the round. He twice
missed from inside 10 feet on par
5s. And after another clutch shot
on the 18th hole, this one a 6-iron
from 189 yards to 7 feet with a
chance to tie for the lead, the
birdie putt slid by on the left.
"It happens," said Woods, who
shot a 67. "Not too many golf
courses that you misread putts
that badly. This golf course is
one."
The Barclays Leaderboard
1. Slocum (-9)
T-2. Woods (-8)
T-2. Els (-8)
T-2. Stricker (-8)
T-2. Harrington (-8)
• Complete scores
The drama unfolded even after
some of the stars had left the
course.
Els finished his bogey-free 66
and had his clubs in the trunk of
his car when he heard the loud
cheer from the 18th green after
Woods stuffed his 6-iron close.
Then came a groan after the
missed putt. Els had his golf shoes
in a plastic bag when he was told
that Slocum and Stricker, tied for
the lead at 9 under had driven into
fairway bunkers on the 18th. He
quickly changed shoes and headed
to the range.
Stricker caught the lip of the
bunker, which left him short of
the green, and hit wedge to 10
feet. Slocum also came up short,
as did his wedge, leaving him 20
feet from the top of the ridge.
Slocum raised both arms in the
air when his par putt broke gently
back to the left and disappeared
into the cup. Stricker's putt to
force a two-way playoff caught
the left lip of the cup.
In the third year of these
playoffs, the FedEx Cup finally
has a winner that resembles a real
underdog.
"That's what it's all about,"
Slocum said. "I was sweating it
out last week. I didn't even know
if I'd be here. I came in here with
the attitude that I had nothing to
lose."
He turned into a huge winner.
Slocum, who came into The
Barclays at No. 197 in the world
ranking, finished at 9-under 275
for the biggest win of his career.
His other two victories were
opposite-field events, when the
best players in the world were
competing elsewhere.
He faced an All-Star cast across
the Hudson River from
Manhattan, and Slocum shined.
The 35-year-old knocked in a 25
-foot birdie at No. 2, the toughest
par 3 at Liberty National, then
surged into a share of the lead by
holing out from 157 yards with a
7-iron for eagle on No. 5. He was
steady the rest of the way,
especially on the 18th.
Why Tiger Lost
Tiger Woods missed a seven-
foot birdie putt on 18 which could
have tied winner Heath Slocum.
In four rounds, Tiger made 85.3
percent of his putts from 10 feet
or closer -- well below his average
of 90.4 percent.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
"Anybody here in this field has
the potential to win the
tournament," Stricker said. "Heath
is a very steady player. He's a
very good player. I don't think we
should be surprised that he won."
The surprise came from Woods.
The world's No. 1 player was
lurking most of the day, unable to
get any traction while missing so
many putts. A 3-footer for par
rimmed around the cup at No. 4,
and he failed to convert birdie
putts on two of the par 5s from
inside 10 feet.
Down the stretch, everything
changed.
He made a 10-foot birdie on the
14th, saved par with a 15-foot putt
on the next hole, and got in range
with pitch to 2 feet for birdie on
the 16th. And with everything
riding on one shot, he nailed his 6
-iron to birdie range.
Any other week, any other
course, Woods making that putt
was practically a given.
This one never had a chance.
"Usually, he makes it," Slocum
said. "Ho-hum for him. I guess
you can't make 'em all."
Els played bogey-free and
pulled into a tie for the lead with a
birdie on the par-3 14th. He might
have been hurt using a new driver,
after discovering a crack in his
other one on Saturday. Els felt his
tee shots were getting away to the
right, and he didn't want to risk
such a mistake on the par-4 16th,
which played only 287 yards in
the final round. He laid up and
made par.
"From where I've come from,
where my game has been, where
my confidence has been, this is
moving in the right direction,"
said Els, who has not won since
March 2008 at the Honda Classic.
Harrington continued his solid
form, getting into the mix for the
third straight tournament. He
finished with four birdies over the
final seven holes, making a long
birdie at the 18th.
The final round featured endless
possibilities, except for the guys
atop the leaderboard.
Steve Marino and Paul Goydos,
tied for the lead at 9 under to start
the final round, and Webb
Simpson and Fredrik Jacobson,
both two shots behind, combined
to go 11-over par. Marino shot 77,
while Goydos made only one
birdie in his round of 75.
Copyright 2009 by The
Associated Press
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Michigan launches
investigation into
whether football
program violated NCAA
rules on practice time
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:22:20 AM
Michigan Investigating
Allegations Michigan
Investigating Allegations
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The
University of Michigan
announced Sunday that it has
launched an investigation into
allegations that its football
program regularly violates NCAA
rules limiting how much time
players can spend on training and
practice.
The announcement from
Michigan athletic director Bill
Martin came after a Detroit Free
Press article in which players
from the 2008 and 2009 teams
said the amount of time they
spend on football during the
season and in the offseason
greatly exceeds NCAA limits.
The players spoke to the
newspaper on condition of
anonymity because they feared
repercussions from coaches.
"We are committed to following
both the letter and the intent of the
NCAA rules and we take any
allegations of violations
seriously," Martin said in a
written statement.
"We believe we have been
compliant with NCAA rules, but
nonetheless we have launched a
full investigation of the
allegations in today's newspaper,"
he said.
Martin also said that the school
had reached out to both the Big
Ten and the NCAA about the
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This Man Will Not Win the U.S. Open continued from page 57
allegations. He said the university
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Spaniard’s aggressive play has program in the 1980s failed, but would have more to say after its
Submitted at 8/31/2009 7:41:07 AM exacted a toll on his body as he ODU’s dream will finally be inquiry was done.
tries again for his first U.S. Open realized on Saturday, Melinda Big Ten compliance officials
It’s no stretch to say NCAA title, the Washington Post’s Liz Waldrop writes in the Newport began interviewing players and
champion Devin Britton has his Clarke writes. It’s the only major News Daily Press.* * * officials with the assistance of the
hands full on opening day of the yet to elude Nadal. Hall of Famer Ted Williams Michigan compliance staff in Ann
U.S. Open. On Monday afternoon, One interesting plotline on the was a .344 lifetime hitter who had Arbor on Sunday and it will
Britton faces Roger Federer, women’s side is whether Serena 7,706 at bats in the majors. Only continue Monday, a source
who’s won the past five U.S. Williams can repeat as champ and once, on Sept. 20, 1960, did any familiar with the process told
Opens and has 15 Grand Slam claim her fourth U.S. Open title. wins came in Tucson, Ariz., and Boston Red Sox player pinch-hit ESPN's Joe Schad.
titles. Oh, and Federer is ranked But perhaps Ana Ivanovic makes Mississippi — the former [event] for Teddy Ballgame. The Los Former Michigan wide receiver
1,369 places higher. Getty Images a more intriguing story. The no longer exists.” Angeles Times’s Jerry Crowe has Toney Clemons told ESPN on
Britton reminds himself of his Serbian zoomed to No. 1 after Many pundits aren’t sold on the the story here.* * * Sunday night that all of the
first-round opponent’s ranking. winning the French Open in 2008 PGA Tour’s playoff, calling it a Last Thursday, Mike Perham, allegations reported are accurate.
Britton, who won the collegiate but has since fallen to 13th. contrived way to keep golf in the 17, of the United Kingdom "The allegations are true,"
championship in May for Ole Yahoo Sports’s Josh Peter writes picture after the majors are became the youngest person to Clemons said. "Nothing is
Miss, won’t be in the spotlight for about Ivanovic’s meteoric rise, complete. So no matter how sail alone around the world. Now fabricated or exaggerated in that
long, barring a miracle. “It’s an her spectacular collapse and Woods fares, “All four Grand a 13-year-old Dutch girl wants to story. I was there on Sundays
amazing story, is it not?” Rick whether recent changes can Slam events are crammed into attempt the same feat. Laura from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. or 11 a.m.
Cleveland writes in the Clarion resurrect her career. four months, and no prize money Dekker has the support of her to 10 p.m. depending on if guys
Ledger. “Five years ago, Britton Sports Illustrated’s Jon or artificial playoff can change parents, but she’s been taken into needed treatment. You were there
was a gangly 13-year-old banging Wertheim predicts the men’s and that,” Filip Bondy writes in the temporary custody while her case daylight to nighttime."
balls against all comers at Parham women’s winners. New York Daily News.* * * is being reviewed, Time’s Gaëlle Clemons has since transferred to
Bridges Tennis Center in Follow all the U.S. Open action Cancer has changed the Faure writes.* * * Colorado. On Saturday night,
northeast Jackson. Now, he’s here.* * * direction of Conrad Bolston’s life. Spending a quiet day at the lake another former Michigan starter
about to play perhaps the greatest Heath Slocum barely qualified He had hoped for a career in the fishing might not be your idea of and a current Michigan player
player in the history of the sport for the Barclays championship — NFL but after being cut by the excitement, so perhaps combat who asked for anonymity started
on the sport’s biggest stage.” he was ranked 124th out of 125 Green Bay Packers a year ago, fishing in Alaska is more to your said the reports of excessive
While Federer should advance invitees — but he held off Ernie Bolston needed two surgeries to liking, Kim Murphy writes in the training and football-related
with ease, plenty of challengers Els, Padraig Harrington and Tiger remove a tumor on his spinal Los Angeles Times. activities were accurate.
have him in their sights, including Woods by one stroke Sunday to cord. The former defensive tackle – Tip of the Fix cap to reader "On Sunday, it was lifting, film,
Scotsman Andy Murray. But the win the opening weekend of the had to relearn motor skills and Don Hartline. dinner and practice," Clemons
w o r l d N o . 2 n e e d s m o r e FedEx Cup. now is working toward getting Found a good column from the told Schad. "I usually got out
aggression in his game, ESPN’s “Sunday’s victory was into law school, Josh Barr writes world of sports? Don’t keep it to around 10:20. I truly don't want to
Greg Garber writes. inestimably bigger than anything in the Washington Post.* * * yourself — write to us at be associated with the program
At Yahoo Sports, Martin Rogers h e ’ d d o n e i n t h e g a m e “Football alone does not make a dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll back there. But I am going to help
writes that improved conditioning previously,” CBS Sports’s Steve university great, but there are very consider your find for inclusion in benefit my teammates back there
has helped No. 5 Andy Roddick Elling writes. “His two other PGA few great universities without the Daily Fix. You can email by speaking and giving
s h e d 1 5 p o u n d s , b u t i t ’ s Tour wins came in what are football.” So says Roseanne Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com. testimony."
Roddick’s mental condition that euphemistically called ‘opposite Runte, Old Dominion Coach Rich Rodriguez and the
may determine the American’s events,’ because they are staged University’s president from 2001- university's compliance director,
success at the U.S. Open. opposite limited-field tournaments 08. A school effort to start a Judy Van Horn, have denied that
Rafael Nadal is only 23, but the featuring the game’s top stars. His the football program violated
NCAA rules.
"We know the practice and
offseason rules, and we stay
within the guidelines. We follow
the rules and have always been

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completely committed to being
compliant with all NCAA rules,"
Rodriguez said in a written
statement to the newspaper.
Those regulations allow players
to spend eight hours a week on
mandatory workouts during the
offseason. However, players told
the Free Press that they have spent
two to three times that amount on
required workouts.
The players also said the
amount of time they spent on
football activities during the
season exceeded the weekly limit
of 20 hours and often exceeded
the daily limit of four hours.
A current member of the
Michigan football team, who has
started, also told ESPN his in-
season Sundays at the football
facility lasted from 10 a.m. to
9:30 p.m., although he
acknowledged the first two hours
were spent in treatment, which is
not counted against the restricted
hours.
The player said this season
players will be off on Sundays,
practicing on Mondays.
The player said he worked out
about twice as many hours as the
allotted eight per week in the
offseason. He asked strength
coaches why the workouts seemed
excessive and was told that some
parts of the exercises, such as core
work and injury prevention, were
not counted as required.
The player said the strength
coach told him that the workout
plan had been approved by the
NCAA.
Players told the Free Press that
the quality-control staff often
watched seven-on-seven
offseason scrimmages that are
supposed to be voluntary and that
only training staff are allowed to
attend.
The school can argue that many
activities do not count toward the
NCAA's allotment. For instance,
voluntary individual workouts
that are not supervised by
coaching staff members do not
count. However, those activities
may be monitored for safety
purposes by the school's strength
and conditioning personnel.
The Free Press said five of the
10 current or former players it
interviewed gave similar accounts
of how the program is run and a
sixth player confirmed most of the
descriptions. Other players gave a
general idea of the program. None
disputed the allegations, the
newspaper said.
The players acknowledged they
had signed forms stating NCAA
rules had been followed and had
not told the university's
compliance department about
their concerns. One player told the
Free Press that athletes would get
in trouble if they didn't sign.
Big Ten associate commissioner
for compliance Chad Hawley told
ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg
that the conference would not
conduct an independent
investigation and would only be
involved in an advisory capacity
for any probe of this matter.
Depending on the circumstances,
the NCAA could still investigate.
Michigan was 3-9 last season --
Rodriguez's first year as head
coach of the Wolverines -- and
did not make it to the postseason,
ending a 33-year streak.
Information from ESPN's Joe
Schad and The Associated Press
was used in this report.
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Heath Slocum's Putt on 18
Takes All the Fun Out of
Playoff Golf at Barclays
By Will Brinson (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 6:20:00 PM
by Will Brinson
Filed under: PGA, FedEx Cup
Heath Slocum was, by all
accounts, the unlikeliest of golfers
to win the Barclays. Sure, he had
the lead late, but Tiger Woods
was charging, Ernie Els was just a
stroke back, Steve Stricker was
matching him shot-for-shot and,
most importantly, he had a
lengthy par putt on 18 to secure,
at worst, a playoff with Stricker.
But he buried the putt, Stricker
missed and Slocum only had to
avoid an eagle hole-out from
Frederik Jacobson to win the
Barclays -- his third tournament
ever -- in surprising fashion given inexperience. More: Final
Leaderboard at The Barclays
his 72 and 70 in the second and
third rounds, respectively. Heath Slocum's Putt on 18
Takes All the Fun Out of Playoff
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Boo All You Want, Fans: In Giant Spot, Renteria Clutch

Broncos Stink As Cutler
Thrives
By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/31/2009 1:52:00 AM
by Jay Mariotti
Filed under: NFL DENVER --
Because it was their duty as
guardians of the Rocky Mountain
empire, they convened in their
football temple, gathered their
hostilities and booed. And drank.
And booed and drank some more.
The fans greeted Jay Cutler with a
standing boovation, booed him
when he jogged onto the field,
booed him when his image was
shown on the big screen, booed
him when he tied his shoes, booed
him when he scratched his nose.
How loud was it? At one point,
Cutler cupped his hands over his
ears. How raucous was it? The
stadium was shaking when he ran
out for his first series as an enemy
player. How zany was it? Fans
wore diapers in the parking lot
and "Crybaby Cutler" T-shirts
while finding unique ways of
defacing his jersey, such as
Again
By Jeff Fletcher (FanHouse)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:49:00 PM
by Jeff Fletcher
Filed under: Giants, Rockies,
NL West SAN FRANCISCO --
The Giants are often maligned for
putting too much emphasis on the
back of the baseball card,
counting on players to repeat the
past.
For relying on players like 34-
year-old Edgar Renteria, who has
two sore shoulders and an elbow
that needs surgery in the
burying it in tailgating food and offseason. Renteria is clearly past
even manure. How gratifying was his prime.
the reception for the coach who
That said, Renteria will always
traded Cutler, in what might be be a part of a very select club.
recalled as one of the dumbest Renteria is one of just five players
trades in NFL history? Josh to have a walk-off hit to win
McDaniels was thrilled.
Game 7 of the World Series. He
Boo All You Want, Fans: did it with the 1997 Marlins. A
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Big Download:
August 24-30
By Joystiq Staff (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 11:00:00 PM
Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta
(about Joystiq)
The last full week of August has
news and downloads take
something of a breather compared
to the past few weeks, but there
was still plenty to report on in the
PC gaming world. As usual we
break down the last seven days on
our site for you.
Exclusive Features
• Fall 2009 For PC Games: We
are on the edge of the biggest part
of the year for new PC games.
Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part
3 of our feature that looks at the
entire list of games and also check
out our top 10 most anticipated
PC games on our list.
• Reviews: Check our our

Digital Foundry examines why 360 and PS3 can't take the heat
By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Thickbroom explained that the We have the same rule for our
Submitted at 8/31/2009 10:50:00 AM massive amount of heat generated underwear, so that part should be
by the HD systems -- exacerbated easy to remember.
You could make the argument by high-end technology crammed Digital Foundry examines why
that system reliability has been into a small compartment -- 360 and PS3 can't take the heat
the preeminent conversation of contribute to their eventual originally appeared on Joystiq on
this console generation, but it's demise (and all because you Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:50:00 EST.
one often clouded by speculation played on them so often). And Please see our terms for use of
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independent console workshop, Though Xbox 360 failure rates are how much you play it. People the issues they've got, I'd expect
who offered a lot of revealing abysmal, Thickbroom noted that might disagree with us, but this is to change them every year."
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Japanese hardware sales, Aug. 17 -
Aug. 23: Bottom drops out edition
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/30/2009 9:30:00 PM
The entire Japanese gaming
hardware market was visited by
the ghost of plummeting sales this
week -- a natural side-effect from
the waning of interest in the
highly anticipated RPGs which hit
the nation throughout the past
month. However, no console took
the brunt of the depreciation quite
as hard as the PS3, which took an
unfamiliar last place finish in this
week's charts. You'll find it just
below its last-gen brother, the PS2
-- which would likely be
maniacally cackling right now, if
it was equipped with the vocal
chords required to do so.
Don't go hocking your Sony
stock just yet -- the sizable drop
can be attributed to the nation's
anticipation for the PS3 Slim,
which is set to rise like a phoenix
on September 1. To continue our
cryptozoological metaphors, the
other consoles should level out
like a winged chimera by that
point -- except for the PSP, which
may be strengthened like a
minotaur with the Japanese
release of Soulcalibur: Broken
Destiny. Also, the Xbox 360 will
inexplicably be like a chupacabra.
There's no reason for this
observation. You're just going to
have to trust us.
- DSi: 59,578 28,358 (32.25%)
- PSP: 27,187 12,695 (31.83%)
- Wii: 26,972 20,760 (43.49%)
- Xbox 360: 8,979 183 (2.00%)
- DS Lite: 5,735 2,186 (27.60%)
- PS2: 3,295 1,612 (32.85%)
- PS3: 2,052 3,892 (65.48%)
[Source: Media Create]
See: The cryptozoological
archives
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Rapala: We Fish, and we
use lazy Wii naming
conventions
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) feel terrible about hooking them
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:50:00 AM and pulling them into your boat.
After you've caught a fish in a
For whatever reason, third tournament, you must then race
parties are hesitant to use the back to land in your boat to turn it
word "Wii" in their Wii game in -- while other players attempt
titles, but "We" is catching on. to knock the fish out of your boat.
We Ski, We Sing, and now Which ... actually sounds like a
R a p a l a : W e F i s h a r e pretty enjoyable gameplay
demonstrating the new lazy way element. Rapala: We Fish will be
to title a Wii game. It's the o u t i n N o r t h A m e r i c a o n
modern equivalent of "[game S e p t e m b e r 2 9 .
series] 64."
Rapala: We Fish, according to
Gallery: Rapala: We Fish (Wii)
[ Image credit]
publisher Activision, is the first Rapala: We Fish, and we use
Wii-exclusive title in the Rapala lazy Wii naming conventions
fishing game series. It includes a originally appeared on Joystiq on
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verdicts on the second chapter of
Tales of Monkey Island along
with the indie game Osmos.
• Team Fortress 2 Hats
Checklist: Want to know what
hats are available in Valve's
multiplayer shooter? We got you
covered (so to speak).
• Mac Monday: This week Mac
gamers have two games to check
out: Big Kahuna Words and Mega
Brickbash 3000.
• Boot Disk: Our retro games
column this week looks at a true
PC game classic: Outcast.
• Big Ideas: Our weekly look at
PS3 marketing shifts focus game themes takes on the
question on how old can you be to
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of a new column that looks at the
growing genre of free-to-play
online games. This week we look
at Quake Live.
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly
look at conventional free games
takes a look at a classic title:
Starsiege Tribes.
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to 'total entertainment get into playing PC games.

• Playing For Free: It's the debut

solution'
By Xav de Matos (Joystiq) "really own" home entertainment.
Submitted at 8/31/2009 9:10:00 AM According to Dille, SCEA's
current campaign is the largest
A s S o n y C o m p u t e r and costliest in the console's
E n t e r t a i n m e n t A m e r i c a history and -- although the
relaunches the PlayStation 3 with c o m p a n y h a s a t t e m p t e d t o
its PS3 Slim model, its marketing position the console as a "jack of
campaign has deemed the console all trades" entertainment device in
as a "total entertainment solution," the past -- Sony feels Americans
rather than a video game console. care more about non-gaming
Its fall and holiday ad campaign capabilities now than ever before.
touts the console as "the greatest [Via Edge]
gaming, Blu-ray playing, movie PS3 marketing shifts focus to
downloading system around." 'total entertainment solution'
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