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Sarah Palin is REALLY tired of Levi Johnston
By Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 1:47:08 PM
Former Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah
Palin is striking back hard at her
daughter’s ex-fiance, Levi
Johnston, for what she called
“mean-spirited, malicious and
untrue attacks.”
Palin, and Johnston, who had a
child out of wedlock with Palin’s
daughter, Bristol, have been in a
war of words since Levi and
Bristol broke off plans to marry
early this year.
Johnston appeared on CBS’
“Early Show” and repeated a
charge he made in a recent
Vanity Fair interview that Sarah
Palin would often refer to her son
with Down Syndrome, Trig
Palin, as being “retarded.”
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Johnston also talked about his
plans to appear nude in Playgirl
magazine, saying it will be done
Photo Gallery: Sony Gadget Teardown Porn
By Brian X. Chen (Wired Top
Stories)
28/10/09 - 29/10/09 LibertyNewsprint.com U.S.
our ‘blessed little angel’ who
knows it and is lovingly called
that every day of his life. Even
the thought that anyone would
refer to Trig by any disparaging
name is sickening and sad,” she
said.
She also criticized CBS for
giving Johnston publicity.
“CBS should be ashamed for
continually providing a forum to
propagate lies. Consider the
source of the most recent
attention-getting lies — those
who would sell their body for
money reflect a desperate need
for attention and are likely to say
and do anything for even more
attention,” she said.
tastefully. a s J o h n M c C a i n ’ s v i c e Click here for more Reuters
“I’m not gonna just go out there presidential candidate last year. political coverage
and get naked,” he said. In a statement issued by her
Photo credit: Reuters/Matt
All this comes as Palin prepares spokeswoman, Palin said she had Sullivan (Sarah Palin waves in
to issue her memoir next month, tried to ignore the “mean spirited, front of daughter Bristol and son
“Going Rogue, An American malicious and untrue attacks on Trig in August 2008)
Life.” She resigned as Alaska our family.”
g o v e r n o r l a s t s u m m e r a n d “We, like many, are appalled at
r e m a i n s p o p u l a r w i t h the inflammatory statements
conservative voters after running being made or implied. Trig is
Collaborating with iFixit, we post photos of the innards for a along with many honorable
challenged Wired.com readers to chance to win prizes. Here are mentions.
rip apart their Sony gadgets and photos of the winners' teardowns,
Hopefully this
Borderlands trailer gets
you playing the game
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:06:13 AM
You’ve heard of Borderlands,
right? It’s one of the new FPSs
out there but forget about the
rest, you must play this game. I
just started yesterday after
beating Prototype (another killer
game) and I have to say I’m
hooked. So far I’m getting the
vibe that the game is kind of like
a cross between a western-
themed FPS and a RPG with a
simple, but robust character
development. (I’m playing as
Mordecai, the sniper) Anyway,
just watch the trailer above and
then get the game. It’s on Steam
or your favorite torrent site. Oh,
and it has a Co-Op mode.
Everyone loves Co-Op.
2 Top News/ Finance/
The First Draft: Obama Decision
Time On Afghanistan?
By Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 6:36:25 AM
The latest violence in
Afghanistan may raise the
drumbeat in Washington for a
decision from President Barack
Obama on whether to send more
U.S. forces.
He’ll make remarks today at a
Congressional Gold Medal
Ceremony, and could address the
matter there. Plenty of other
topics are on the front burner,
though, including healthcare
reform and overhauling financial
regulation, to name just two.
Senator John McCain, Obama’s
Republican presidential rival in
2008, said the decision on
sending more troops to
Afghanistan should come soon.
McCain told CBS television’s
“Early Show”: “Overwhelmingly
the military establishment and
those who have had the
experience of our success in Iraq
know that the people there don’t
want the Taliban back … and
they want an environment of
security. And we watch this
situation continue to deteriorate
while this long protracted process
of decision-making goes on.
We’re not operating in a vacuum.
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ServeRSS) (AD ServeRSS)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:13:00 PM
The president of the United
States needs to make this
decision and soon. Our allies are
nervous and our military
leadership is becoming
frustrated.”
Afghanistan is clearly not the
only focus of U.S. foreign policy
concern. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan,
pledging a fresh start in U.S.-
Pakistani relations. Clinton’s visit
came as a car bomb killed over
80 people in a crowded market.
Back in Washington, the
struggle continues to get doses of
swine flu vaccine to those most at
risk. One top U.S. health official
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says the government may end up
throwing away unused doses of
the vaccine if people can’t get it
fast enough.
And it’s raining. Again. Still.
One bright note: U.S. consumer
confidence is on the rise for the
first time since 2007.
Click here for more Reuters
political coverage.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Ahmad
Masood (Security forces around
an international guest-house in
Kabul after an attack by Taliban
militants, October 28, 2009)
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Analyst upgrades, downgrades
and initiations: ADBE, HAL,
GCI, GT, IMAX, URBN ...
By Trey Thoelcke Overweight from Neutral at
(BloggingStocks) JPMorgan. Target was raised to
Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:30:00 AM
$25 from $14.
• Urban Outfitters(NASDAQ:
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and downgrades, Halliburton Overweight from Market Weight
(HAL), Analyst initiations at Thomas Weisel as they expect
Analyst upgrades: a "meaningful sales and earnings
• Sierra Wireless(NASDAQ: improvement in Q4." Target was
SWIR) was upgraded at Jefferies raised to $39 from $32.
to Hold from Underperform • Methanex(NASDAQ: MEOH)
following Q3 results. The firm was upgraded to Buy from
b e l i e v e s t h e W a v e c o m Neutral at UBS, citing improved
a c q u i s i t i o n i n t e g r a t i o n i s methanol demand following the
progressing better than expected Q3 report. Target was raised to
and finds the valuation attractive $19.50 from $17.
at current levels. The firm raised • Buffalo Wild
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• Boston Properties(NYSE: upgraded at Raymond to Market
BXP) was upgraded to Buy from Perform from Underperform.
Hold at Deutsche Bank to reflect
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occupancy. The firm raised its initiations: ADBE, HAL, GCI,
target to $69 from $46. GT, IMAX, URBN ...
• Wyndham(NYSE: WYN) was Analyst upgrades, downgrades
upgraded to Outperform from and initiations: ADBE, HAL,
Market Perform at FBR Capital GCI, GT, IMAX, URBN ...
after the shares sold off following o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n
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Asian fusion is on APEC’s sartorial
menu
By Patricia Zengerle (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:32:47 AM
The APEC summit gives world
leaders a chance to play a little
dress-up and trade-in their
typical business suits for the
traditional wear of the host
country.
This year it’s in Singapore and
we’ve got a description, but no
photos yet, of what the leaders
will wear for the group shot on
Nov. 14.
Long-sleeved linen shirts with
mandarin collars for the men, and
a V-necked blouse with elaborate
embroidery and lace for the
women will be sported by
President Barack Obama and the
leaders of the 20 other nations
attending the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit
next month.
This year’s outfit was created by
local Singapore designer Wykidd
Song, the Straits Times reported,
and is inspired by the
Peranakans, a local term for the
descendants of the Chinese who
settled in the Malay Archipelago
Birds Migrate by Light, Not Magnetic Field
By Laura Sanders (Wired Top
Stories)
from the 17th century.
“The Peranakan culture is a rich
blend of the Chinese and Malay
cultures with some influence
from the Portuguese, Dutch,
British, Thai, Indian and
Indonesian cultures as well, ” the
Singapore Tourist Board says on
its web site.
And there’s a choice of color –
blue, red and green.
Some of the world’s most
powerful leaders don some of the
Scientists have found light-
sensing cells in the eyes of
European robins that may be the
world’s most distinctive outfits at
the annual APEC group photo
shoot.
At the 2008 meeting in Peru,
they wore traditional ponchos,
and other years have featured
long silk tunics or leather jackets.
PHOTO CREDITS: Bush in
poncho, REUTERS/Pilar
Olivares; Bush, Putin, Hu in
traditional Vietnamese outfits at
2006 APEC summit,
REUTERS/Reinhard Krause.
key to guiding their migration. receptors in the beak are the
O t h e r r e s e a r c h e r s h a v e secret.
hypothesized that iron-based
Top News/ Finance/ Tech News/
Before the bell: Stock
futures higher ahead of
GDP data
By Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:35:00 AM
Filed under: Before the bell,
Exxon Mobil (XOM), Market
matters, Sprint Nextel Corp (S),
Procter and Gamble (PG),
Economic data U.S. stock futures
were mildly higher, indicating a
positive open for this Thursday
morning following the previous
session's sell-off. However, all
bets are off before the U.S.
releases third quarter gross
domestic product that would give
a better picture of the state of the
U.S. economy and growth. The
GDP data will no doubt affect
investors' mood once released at
8:30 a.m., or an hour before the
opening bell.
[ Update 9:00 a.m.: The economy
grew at a 3.5% pace in the third
quarter, the best showing in two
years, fueled by government-
supported spending on cars and
homes. Futures got a boost from
the reading.]
Economists expect GDP to have
grown at a 3.2% annualized rate
in the third quarter, according to
Briefing.com after shrinking at
3
an 0.7% annualized rate in the
second quarter. If true, it would
mean the economy is back on its
feet after being knocked over by
the worst recession since the
1930s. But many attribute the
growth to government support
programs such as cash for
clunkers and mortgage
modification and wonder what
the fate of the economy be once
gone.
Continue reading Before the
bell: Stock futures higher ahead
of GDP data
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Acrostic? Coincidence? You Cramer on

decide… BloggingStocks: It's not
By Peter Henderson (Front
Row Washington)
Ammiano and the governor have
a bit of a history. The
representative shouted “You lie!”
the worst case, but...
Submitted at 10/28/2009 2:56:26 PM
and other messages at By Jim Cramer
(BloggingStocks)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger when the
Schwarzenegger’s spokesman governor crashed a recent Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:00:00 AM

insists it was just an innocent Democratic Party gala, left-

coincidence. leaning Calitics website reported. Filed under: Market matters,
San Francisco state Ammiano took the veto incident Economic data, Cramer on
representative Tom Ammiano, as just part of California politics BloggingStocks, Visa Inc. (V)
tongue firmly in cheek, says it and focused on his plan for From TheStreet.com Network
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exercising veto power.” to legalize and tax marijuana to Third Quarter
The facts are clear: A letter on help shore up the creaky state • Exxon, GDP: Thursday's
the governor’s website budget. Headlines
explaining his veto of a bill to The veto message is posted on
help finance the port of San the governor’s website. TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer still
Francisco is three paragraphs For more Reuters political news doesn't like this market -- the
long. The letters that begin the please click here good GDP figure isn't enough to
coincidence.” sustain us.
four lines of the second “There are other messages that Photo credit: Reuters/Phil program. It has nothing to do
paragraph and the three lines of McCarten (Schwarzenegger You know when you have gotten
say things like ‘ear’ and ’soap’,” with the red-hot Visa(NYSE: V)
the third spell out an obscene speaking at the Women’s too negative? When you pick up
he said. ( Cramer's Take) at all.
comment. See below: Conference in California on Oct. the paper and the lead story is
Websites like Gawker were Continue reading Cramer on
Schwarzenegger spokesman 27) "Slump Sinks Visa Program,"
incredulous, especially since BloggingStocks: It's not the
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originally appeared on
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) The best part? He added lasers to BloggingStocks on Thu, 29 Oct
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remember not to cross the beams our terms for use of feeds.
congressional bashing for once,
Jeezum crow! This guy has and that your halloween party Permalink| Email this| Comments
but about a skilled workers
made a fully functional (kind of) can be a promotional expense so
Proton Pack from Ghostbusters you should invite clients instead
including a trap, ecto goggles, of friends. Onion: Republicans Endorse Swine Flu
and some coveralls. He added a The instructions are, obviously, (Little Green Footballs) Flu Republican Response. national emergency, Republican
few lights controlled by an at Instructables. Submitted at 10/28/2009 12:32:00 PM
WASHINGTON—Claiming that leaders announced Wednesday
Arduino board. the president was preying on the that they were officially
A classic Onionism: Obama’s public’s fear of contracting a endorsing the swine flu.
Declaration Of Swine Flu fatal disease last week when he
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He’s powerful… And you’re not? Options Update: Sun

By Patricia Zengerle (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 12:33:01 PM
Maybe it was a sign that
someone wanted to put the press
corps — or possibly the White
House staff — in their place.
Who knows, but at the beginning
of the daily White House press
briefing on Wednesday, a
disembodied voice sounded in
the briefing room, saying: “THE
PRESIDENT IS POWERFUL.”
Reporters and White House
staffers in the room laughed, and
White House spokesman Robert
Gibbs joked about it, to more
laughter. But no one offered an
explanation for the
pronouncement.
“Was that happening just in my
head, or did you all — did you all
hear that, too?” Gibbs asked.
“We didn’t hear anything,”
someone answered.
“Wow. Wow. That’s — that was
interesting, if inexplicable,”
Gibbs said.
And then, apologizing “for not
having an equally grand
introduction by which to call on
the first reporter,” he plunged
into the usual routine of
responding to, if not answering,
questions on Afghanistan,
healthcare reform and a news
report that Democratic donors
were being given special access
to the White House.
So, did Halloween come early to
the White House? Or is it some
new get-out-the-message
mechanism?
Click here for more Reuters
political coverage
Photo Credit: Reuters/Jim
Young (Gibbs at daily White
House press briefing on Sept. 28)
Microsystems volatility elevated
on EU Commission concerns
By Paul Foster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:15:00 AM
Filed under: Sun Microsystems
(JAVA), Oracle Corp (ORCL),
Options
Sun Microsystems(NASDAQ:
JAVA) closed at $8.18.
Oracle's(NASDAQ: ORCL)
announced in April it was paying
$9.50 in cash per share for
JAVA. JAVA November option
implied volatility is at 57,
December is at 57, January is at
59, above its 21-week average of
19, according to Track Data,
suggesting larger price
movement.
CBOE Volatility Index- VIX at
27.90; 10-day moving average is
22.77.
Option Update is provided by
Stock Specialist Paul Foster of
theflyonthewall.com.
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Microsystems volatility elevated
on EU Commission concerns
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Obama plants a piece of New Jersey on White

House lawn
By Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 3:01:17 PM
Kind of a quiet day at the White
House today. Hey, why not plant
a tree?
President Obama was on hand
for a commemorative tree
planting on the White House
front lawn.
There’s always a good tale
behind these things and here’s
this one: Benjamin Harrison It’s supposed to be a sturdier tree
planted a Scarlet Oak tree in the so maybe this one will take root. Droid Eris Doesn't Look
same spot in 1889. There it stood W e h o p e s o , b e c a u s e i n Too Shabby for a
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shine, and, well, you get the idea. doesn’t sound right.
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and tumped over in a 2007 political coverage Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:35:38 AM
rainstorm. George W. Bush Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young
planted a Scarlet Oak in the same (Obama plants commemorative A better look at the purportedly
spot as a replacement in 2008, Leaf Linden tree donated from tree at White House) $99 Droid Eris. Not bad, but why
but it didn’t take hold. Halka Nurseries Millstone is everybody going to stupid
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Blair bid debate on EU summit sidelines

By Ian Traynor (World news referendum on the Lisbon treaty. to a deal, but the prospects for a among the EU's 27 governments. the president of Cyprus, said a
and comment from the Officially, the job does not exist breakthrough look dim. Fredrik In the midst of a financial crisis, council president "from a small
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) until Klaus finalises Czech Reinfeldt, the Swedish prime the eastern Europeans say they country would be more objective
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:52:55 AM ratification of the treaty, expected minister, warned that Europe's cannot afford the climate change and more consensual. The
within weeks. While Blair credibility on global warming fund. European Union is a family of
Climate talks overshadowed by personally has kept quiet about was at stake. Angela Merkel, sworn in compromises."
divisive subject of Tony Blair's h i s a m b i t i o n s , t h e B r i t i s h In recent weeks European yesterday for a second term as The Dutch centre-right prime
candidacy to be Europe's first government is campaigning governments have locked horns German chancellor, will be minister and possible contender,
president increasingly assertively on the over the financing package and pivotal to any climate change Jan-Peter Balkenende, has come
European government chiefs former prime minister's behalf. have been unable to reach financing deal and her answer to under pressure this week to
gather in Brussels this evening "We will be making the case for agreement. The aim is to come the Blair question may also be renounce European presidential
for a summit likely to be the first a strong, internationally known up with pledges of an EU fund of decisive. So far, she has been ambitions since his move to
occasion to broach the divisive figure who can open doors in up to €15bn (£13.4bn) a year by hedging her bets. Brussels could trigger early
subject of Tony Blair's candidacy [foreign] capitals," said an 2020 for transfers to the While Nicolas Sarkozy, the elections and the fall of his
to be Europe's first president. official. "There is only one developing countries to combat French president, is known to government.
The topic is not formally on the candidate." global warming. The overall support Blair with reservations, Christofias emphasised that
agenda of a meeting that will be That was not a reference to Jean- package is central to a there are no German candidates tonight the priority would be to
dominated by wrangling over Claude Juncker, the veteran Copenhagen deal. for the two big new jobs being get the Klaus blocking of the
climate change funding and how Luxembourg prime minister and But with the other big players, created under Lisbon – the Lisbon treaty lifted rather than
to get the Czech president, European fixer, who is the only especially the US, which is European president and a focusing on who gets what under
Vaclav Klaus, to add the final contender so far to have openly reluctant to commit to a figure, European foreign minister or Lisbon.
signature to the reformist Lisbon declared his candidacy. He Germany believes Europe should high representative for foreign Senior diplomats agreed it was
treaty. But senior diplomats emerged this week as the anti- not show its hand until the and security policy. too early to discuss names. If
predicted there would be intense Blair. Copenhagen negotiations. The In Paris last night the French and Klaus signs thetreaty soon, a
private discussion on the fringes Juncker looks certain to fail in European commission and others German leaders discussed the special summit would be
of the summit over the question: his bid for the top job. But he such as the UK and the posts, although there was little convened next month to decide
who will get the plum job of first may well succeed in destroying Scandinavians believe agreeing information on whether they on the president and foreign
sitting president of the European Blair's chances, being viewed as on a figure in advance would reached a pact. Sarkozy said the minister, also leaving the
council, the pre-eminent EU a stalking horse who will vanish strengthen Europe's global two leaders agreed on "almost European commission chief, Jose
forum that brings leaders together to make way for a third unknown leadership role on climate change everything". Manuel Barroso, to put together a
for summits at least four times a contender. and send a strong signal to other Austria, Belgium, the new team.
year. While the Blair debate rages on potential signatories. Netherlands, and Luxembourg – • European Union
David Miliband, the foreign the sidelines of the summit, the The Poles and other eastern all said to nurse ambitions to • Tony Blair
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8 World/ Finance/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

US set to emerge from recession Best Buy's Taking Droid

By Graeme Wearden (World spending, business inventory basis. The unusually wide range economic prospects.
news and comment from the investment and residential of estimates is due to uncertainty "Markets are likely to see today's Pre-Orders and Lets You
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) construction investment," Marple over the state of America's figure for what it is, a historical Skip the Mail-In Rebate
predicted. inventories. Firms are believed to figure driven by one-off stimulus
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:40:38 AM
Other economists, though, be stockpiling more goods, packages, and transient boosts to
Madness [Droid]
• US GDP expected to grow by believe the recovery will be less having slashed their inventories growth from inventories. Strong By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
between 2% and 4.8% buoyant. Mike Englund, the chief when the downturn hit. growth this quarter is likely to Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:19:56 AM
• Growth driven by stimulus economist at Action Economics, "When the economic cycle is at a open up the possibility of
packages and inventories predicts growth of just 2.2%. turning point it is very difficult to weakness, even a contraction in Like it's done for every major
The US is expected to emerge Confirmation that the US say with any degree of certainty 4Q09, and we doubt markets will phone that carriers force you to
from its longest recession since economy has returned to growth what the inventory levels will be unduly moved by it," said actually mail in a rebate for to get
the second world war today, would be a fillip for President be," explained Rob Carnell, chief Carnell. the advertised price
when GDP for the third quarter Obama, whose opponents have international economist at ING. In London the FTSE was down (*cough*PalmPre*cough*), Best
of 2009 is published. been vocal in their criticism of Carnell expects that the US by 6 points in morning trading at Buy's taking care of the rebate
Wall Street analysts have his multibillion dollar stimulus economy grew by 3.8%, but 5073, following yesterday's 120- bullshit for you with the
predicted that the world's biggest plans. But it would do little to concedes that it could be point tumble. Motorola Droid, whose rebate
economy grew by between 2% ease the pressure on Gordon anywhere between 2% and 7% as • US economy process with Verizon—resulting
and 4.8% in the last three Brown, with the UK already "inventories are a trash-can for • US economic growth and in a $100 debit card—is
months, on an annualised basis. destined to be one of the last all unexplained activity that recession inexplicably stranger than most.
This would be America's first c o u n t r i e s t o c o m e o u t o f cannot be forced into other • Green shoots Plus, you can pre-order it today.
quarter of positive growth since r e c e s s i o n . components. This makes it a • Global recession I'd wait for the reviews in about a
the second three months of 2008, Unlike in Britain, US GDP is wildcard". • United States week though, personally. [
e n d i n g f o u r q u a r t e r s o f annualised – so the quarterly The prospect of economic BusinessWire via Engadget]
contraction. change is calculated over four growth did little for optimism on Graeme Wearden
James Marple, an economist at quarters on a compound basis to Wall Street last night, where the guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
TD Securities, has forecast that show how much the US economy Dow Jones closed 119 points & Media Limited 2009 | Use of
US GDP rose by a "substantial" would have grown over a year. lower at 9763. With US this content is subject to our
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be a rebound in consumer 0.5% and 1.2% on a quarterly concern about next year's

Third-quarter GDP shows growth -- is the recession over?

By Mark Fightmaster Domestic Product indicates. The growth in the third quarter. But originally appeared on
(BloggingStocks) GDP showed that the U.S. even excluding the influence of BloggingStocks on Thu, 29 Oct
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:35:00 AM
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Good news It appears that the c o n t r a c t i o n s t r e a k . Continue reading Third-quarter
U.S. economy may finally be The growth is attributed to the GDP shows growth -- is the
d r a g g i n g i t s e l f o u t o f t h e massive government stimulus, i n i n v e n t o r i e s a n d r o b u s t recession over?
economic doldrums. At least, that which led to higher consumer government spending helped spur Third-quarter GDP shows
is what the third-quarter Gross spending. In addition, a reduction growth -- is the recession over?
Internet News Record World/ Finance/ Gadgets/ 9

Cyprus president lambasts EU-Turkey relations

By Ian Traynor (World news deep, deep differences." certainly head towards partition. objections.
and comment from the Christofias's gloomy remarks ran Tensions will rise in the eastern Christofias warned that any
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) counter to diplomats' hopes that Mediterranean and EU-Turkey European concessions to Ankara
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:07:16 AM the Greek and Turkish Cypriot tension will deepen." to keep Turkey on a pro-
leaders represented the best With much at stake in the European path could backfire.
Greek Cypriot leader Demetris chance for a settlement in a Cyprus talks, Christofias laid a "I don't compare Turkey with
Christofias warns concessions to generation. large part of the blame for the Nazi Germany," he said. "But it Apple TV 3.0 Can Play
Ankara could backfire as talks on Both leaders, personal friends stalemate on the Turkish is not reasonable to say don't
divided island hit trouble who are both on the left, have leadership of Prime Minister challenge Turkey because it will
iTunes LP and Extras
The president of Cyprus today been conducting negotiations for Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We get angry. There are rules and Like a Real Video Box
urged Europe to get tough with more than a year. Talat, however, don't agree on anything with Mr unfortunately Turkey does not [Unconfirmed]
T u r k e y , l i k e n i n g t h e E U ' s is widely tipped to lose power in Erdogan," he said. respect those rules ... This
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
concessions to Ankara to the presidential elections in Turkish- Hopes for a solution to the reminds me of the situation
appeasement of Adolf Hitler in occupied northern Cyprus next Cyprus problem have been raised before the second world war, Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:10:19 AM

the 1930s, and playing down April to nationalist hardliners, so by the approach adopted by appeasing Hitler so he doesn't
The updated iTunes terms &
expectations of any breakthrough the duo may have only months to Greece's new prime minister, become more aggressive. The
conditions has a new paragraph
in the quest for a settlement of 35 strike a deal. Cyprus has been George Papandreou, who visited substance of fascism was the
under the iTunes LP section
years of partition in Cyprus. divided since a Turkish military Turkey shortly after he was substance of fascism. Hitler was
spilling Apple TV 3.0—namely,
Demetris Christofias, the Greek invasion in 1974. elected, where he met Erdogan. Hitler."
that it'll finally support iTunes LP
Cypriot leader and Cypriot Christofias rejected talk of a Christofias's negative comments • Cyprus
and Extras viewing.
president, said that more than a d e a d l i n e a s a r t i f i c i a l a n d reveal how difficult the task will • Turkey
Why Extras—which are like
year of negotiations with his suggested the Turkish side was be. • European Union
DVD extras, with bonus clips,
Turkish Cypriot friend and exploiting Talat's electoral The fate of the Cyprus
interviews and photo galleries,
counterpart, Mehmet Ali Talat, problems to blackmail him. settlement talks is crucial to Ian Traynor
but for iTunes movies—is just
were in trouble. If the talks fail, warned Hans Turkey's bid to join the EU. guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
now on its way to Apple TV is
"Unfortunately, my expectations Van Den Broek, the former Swathes of the complex & Media Limited 2009 | Use of
sorta mystifying, even for their
have not been justified," he said Dutch foreign minister who sits membership negotiations this content is subject to our
most neglected product. (What
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does Apple have against its tinier
differences and divergences, on Turkey, "the island will frozen because of Greek Cypriot
boxes?) It's like, the thing Apple
makes expressly to plug into your
Is Goodyear a good bet after the Q3 report? TV, where you might want to
watch those things.
By Steven Mallas earnings release was the culprit. Continue reading Is Goodyear a Since Apple TV 2.0, the last
(BloggingStocks) Although, at first glance, you good bet after the Q3 report? major update to the sad little box
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:00:00 AM
might wonder what the heck is Is Goodyear a good bet after the happened almost two years ago,
wrong. Q3 report? originally appeared on maybe, just maybe, there's more
Filed under: Earnings reports, Sales were down 15% in Q3 on BloggingStocks on Thu, 29 Oct to Apple TV 3.0 than just Extras
Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT) a year-over-year basis, but they 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see and iTunes LP. Or you know,
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Company(NYSE: GT) sold off basis. The company increased Permalink| Email this| Comments
on Wednesday by nearly 20%. GAAP earnings per share by was 45 cents per share after items
V o l u m e w a s v a s t l y a b o v e more than 100% to 30 cents. were excluded, five pennies
a v e r a g e . T h e t h i r d - q u a r t e r According to Bloomberg, income ahead of expectations.
10 World/ Gadgets/
Obama meets coffins of fallen
soldiers
By Daniel Nasaw (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:40:16 AM
Commander-in-chief makes late-
night trip to Dover air force base
to receive and honour remains of
18 killed in the conflict
Barack Obama last night came
face to face with the true cost of
the war in Afghanistan, as the
remains of 18 US soldiers and
drug enforcement agents were
unloaded from a military aircraft
and returned to US soil.
The unscheduled, late-night visit
to Dover air force base came as
the president debates whether to
meet General Stanley
McChrystal's request for tens of
thousands more troops to fight
Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents
in Afghanistan. Since taking
office, Obama has already
ordered more than 21,000
additional troops into the
country.
The fallen troops, whose return
Obama observed, died in two
separate incidents on Monday: a
Chinook helicopter carrying
seven soldiers and three drug
enforcement agents crashed and
eight soldiers were in a vehicle
struck by an improvised
explosive device in the
Arghandab river valley.
The total of 55 US troops killed
in Afghanistan this month have
made it the deadliest month in the
eight-year war. The US military
has endured a brutal few months,
testing the nation's resolve to
pursue a war that Obama says is
essential for its security. In all,
902 US troops and 222 British
troops have died in the war.
Under George Bush, who
launched the conflict in
retaliation for the terrorist 9/11
attacks, news media were barred
from observing the return of
fallen troops through Dover
airbase.
The Pentagon said the measure,
in place since the administration
George Bush Sr, guarded the
families' privacy, but critics
claimed the government was
trying to obscure the conflict's
human toll.
Obama overturned the ban this
year, and allowed the families to
choose whether to allow media
coverage . Bush spent time with
grieving military families but
never went to Dover.
Shortly after midnight, Obama
joined a party of White House
aides, military leaders and his
attorney general, Eric Holder, on
the tarmac at the base in
Delaware.
At a chapel on the base, the
president met the families of the
dead. Then he and his party
boarded the C-17 aircraft that
flew the remains home, listened
as an air force chaplain said a
prayer and watched six army pall
-bearers wearing black berets and
combat fatigues offload each flag
-draped "transfer case" from the
plane to a waiting vehicle.
Following the families' request,
news media were permitted to
witness only one transfer, that of
Sergeant Dale Griffin of Terre
Haute, Indiana, who was the last
off the plane.
The president and his party
saluted as the case was placed in
a white mortuary van, and again
as the van drove away.
Four hours later, Obama arrived
back at the White House in the
pre-dawn darkness and walked
inside, alone.
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Qooq recipe and cooking
tablet pc launched for
French speakers only
By Laura June (Engadget) does not have a browser (though
Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:28:00 AM
it's got built-in weather, digital
photo viewing, and internet radio
Cooking tablets and recipe apps), and it's only available for
readers have been pretty limited French language speakers for
(and not very good) in the past -- n o w . I f y o u d o s p e a k t h e
but this one looks extremely language of love, you can get one
promising. Called the Qooq, the of these puppies for €349 (about
10.2-incher boasts -- in addition $513), with the subscription
to a bunch of recipes, of course -- service running an additional
complete meal prep videos, €12.95a month (about $19).
instructions and advice on [Via Red Ferret]
choosing ingredients, shopping Filed under: Handhelds,
lists, meal planners -- all which H o u s e h o l d
can be updated monthly via a Qooq recipe and cooking tablet
subscription service. Specwise, pc launched for French speakers
w e ' r e l o o k i n g a t a g l a s s only originally appeared on
touchscreen, Ethernet and USB Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
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'Somali pirates holding us hostage'
By Sam Jones, Caroline
Davies (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:14:52 AM
Paul Chandler tells ITV by
phone that kidnappers bundled
him and wife off Lynn Rival
yacht in Indian Ocean
Paul Chandler, who went
missing with his wife in the
Indian Ocean last week, has
confirmed by phone that they are
being held hostage by Somali
pirates.
Chandler, 59, told ITV News he
was asleep when the pirates
attacked their yacht. "I was off
watch. I was asleep and men with
guns came aboard. It was on
Friday last week at 2.30am," he
said.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defence
said a Royal Navy ship searching
for the couple had found an
empty yacht.
Chandler, a former quantity
surveyor, and his wife, Rachel, a
55-year-old economist, had not
been heard from since last Friday
when the emergency beacon was
activated on their boat, the Lynn
Rival.
The couple, from Tunbridge
Wells in Kent, were sailing from
the Seychelles to Tanzania when
The Troubles of Korea's Influential Economic Pundit
By Mattathias Schwartz
(Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 3:00:00 PM
contact was lost.
"We can confirm that a ship
encountered a yacht believed to
belong to Paul and Rachel
Chandler in international waters,"
an MoD spokesman said. "[The
Chandlers] were not aboard the
yacht; no one was."
The spokesman said there was
nothing to suggest the couple had
been harmed, adding that it
appeared they may have been
transferred to another vessel.
The news emerged after a
meeting was held this morning of
the Whitehall emergency
committee Cobra to investigate
how best to bring about the
release of the Chandlers.
A Somali fisherman told the
Associated Press that two boats
carrying eight pirates and a white
couple had arrived in the village
of Ceel Huur, north of the pirate
stronghold town of Haradhere,
early today.
Dahir Dabadhahan said a convoy
of about 30 other pirates in six
luxury vehicles met the group in
front of fishermen, who were
preparing their boats of the day.
"The pirates opened fire into the
air, waving us to move away," he
said.
The Chandlers' relatives met the
Somali leader, Omar Sharmarke,
in London yesterday. He pledged
Park Dae-Sung lived in
anonymity in a small Seoul
apartment, until his spot-on
blogging about the imploding
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to do everything he could to "see
a peaceful solution".
Rachel Chandler's brother,
Stephen Collett, 58, said:
"[Sharmarke] told us they do
look after hostages well as they
see them as trade goods and want
to keep them so they can barter,"
he said. "Unfortunately, they [the
Chandlers] have no money – it's
all in the yacht."
Paul Chandler's sister, Jill
Marshment, 69, said the couple
were "resilient people".
"If I was to give a message to the
pirates, I'd say you've got the
wrong people," she said.
"They're not a wealthy couple.
They just wanted to take early
retirement, to take a boat and to
see more of the world."
The.best.Iron.Man.costume.ever
The Chandlers have been By John Biggs (CrunchGear) this costume to the children’s
married for 28 years and have no Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:30:12 AM
hospital to give them a sense of
children. They are experienced joy to know that a hero has come
sailors but their route would haveReader Anthony Le sent in his t o w i s h e s t h e m a h a p p y
taken them near waters notorious entry for the costume contest and H a l l o w e e n .
for pirate attacks. I just had to share it with you build materials
• Piracy at sea guys. It’s an amazing replica of -High impact urethane plastic
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plastic and rivets. Anthony even -heat gun
Sam Jones Caroline Davies goes to his local Children’s -hot glue gun
guardian.co.uk© Guardian News Hospital in it to cheer up the kids. -boat load of hot glue sticks
& Media Limited 2009 | Use of Anthony is a truly geek who -Open flip helmet “like Ironman
this content is subject to our inspires awe. movie”
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picture from comic-con. The gloves “like the movie”
Costume is 100% home made, -flexible abdominal area, and join
the build took approximately 2 covers.
weeks and 5 days. I’m a very -voice changer in helmet “when
busy person as well! Over 700+ spoken into, makes me sound
economy began drawing tens of rivets and rivet washer used. All
like a robot”
thousands of pageviews — and items on the costume are 100%
the attention of the government. made from scratch. I’ve lso taken
12 Gadgets/ Tech News/
TomTom’s iPhone car kit no workie
with iPod touch, first-gen iPhone
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:41:00 AM
Bad news, you guys. If you were
thinking of dropping $120 on
TomTom’s iPhone car kit and
then another $100 on TomTom’s
navigation app for use with your
first-generation iPhone or second
-generation iPod touch, it now
looks like you’d to run into some
compatibility issues.
AppleInsider is reporting“that
although the Car Kit dock is
compatible with all iPhone
models, the TomTom application
will only work with the iPhone
3GS and iPhone 3G – even with
the dock connected to a first-
generation iPhone or iPod
touch.”
You’ll recall that the hardware
dock features its own built-in
GPS chip and speaker to amplify
GPS signal strength and the
volume of turn-by-turn
directions, so it appears that if
you were to dock an iPod touch
or older iPhone that you wouldn’t
Sculptor in Chief: Futurama Writer
Saves Line of Tiny Presidents
By Olivier Knox (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 3:00:00 PM
Futurama writer Patric Verrone
creates Lilliputian presidents
be able to take advantage of those
enhancements. Basically, you’d
have a $120 car charger.
AppleInsider further reports that
“When asked whether the
application could be updated to
allow it to work with the iPod
touch and first-generation
iPhone, a company spokesman
simply said that TomTom has not
made any ‘public
announcements.’”
(plus the losing candidates).
Since toy company Louis Marx
stopped making its plastic
replicas of U.S. politicians, he
fills the void himself.
It doesn’t seem like it would be
rocket science to add the extra
compatibility, and TomTom
would theoretically benefit from
the expanded hardware base of
potential customers but, suffice
to say, it’s best to hold off for
now.
TomTom Car Kit, navigation
software will not work with iPod
touch[AppleInsider]
Second Use for Google Wave
Discovered: Role Playing
Games [Google Wave]
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:20:00 AM
I'm trying to like Google Wave,
but at the end of the day, I can't. I
don't really give a damn about it.
Recreating movie scenes is cute,
but hardly the life-changing
paradigm they predicted. RPGs,
on the other side...
According to experts, Google
Wave is perfect to organize role
playing games. Its persistent
nature allows to keep a precise
record of all that is happening.
Players can keep three waves:
The few games I'm following
typically have at least three
waves: one for recruiting and
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general discussion, another for
out-of-character interactions
("table talk"), and the main wave
where the actual in-character
gaming takes place. Individual
players are also encouraged to
start waves between themselves
for any conversations that the
GM shouldn't be privy to.
Character sheets can be posted in
a private wave between a player
and the GM, and character
biographies can go anywhere
where the other players can get
access to them.
Yeah, I don't give a damn about
Google Wave. Next! [ Google
Wave]
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New HP Notebook
Sony and VIZIO ditch the courtroom, clear up Is Hearty Helping
licensing issues of Fast and Cheap
By Christopher Null (Wired
By Darren Murph (Engadget) concerns, but now it seems the [Image courtesy of
Top Stories)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:14:00 AM
two have reached a mutual TooMuchNick/ WireImage]
agreement to use each other's Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:00:00 PM
VIZIO sure ends up in a whole technologies without bickering Home Entertainment
lot of legal battles, but one way over who owns what. The release Sony and VIZIO ditch the Looking for a notebook that's
or another, it always seems to on the matter states that Sony courtroom, clear up licensing just as affordable as it is fast?
find its way out in the long run. "has become a licensee under issues originally appeared on Have a gander at the dm3 from
Such is the case once again VIZIO's patent portfolio," and Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 HP. Just pay no mind to the
today, as the current LCD TV that " VIZIO now is a licensee 09:14:00 EST. Please see our trackpad.
king has apparently said all the under Sony's color television terms for use of feeds. Read|
right things to Sony. If you'll patent portfolio." Who knows Permalink| Email this| Comments
recall, Sony (along with a slew of how much under-the-table cash everyone happy, but hey, a
problem solved is a problem
others) filed suit against Vizio and shaky promises had to be
solved.
awhile back over patent licensing passed along in order to make

Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS

fate
By Thomas Ricker (Engadget) scary text scrolls), a revamped to the user." It's available in Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:31:00 AM
audio framework that improves desktop, server, and netbook 08:31:00 EST. Please see our
sound control across multiple editions now so get to it, before terms for use of feeds. Read|
It's October 2009 which means applications, and a new Software you know it you'll be updating to Permalink| Email this| Comments
something very special for Linux Center that visually simplifies the Lucid Lynx.
fans: a 9.10 release of Ubuntu. Add/Remove Applications tool. Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Today we see the launch of These are just a few of the user- Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala'
"Karmic Koala" featuring a faster centric improvements meant to the OS experience and help bring released, could decide your OS
graphical boot sequence (no more have a "transformative effect" on "the world of open source closer fate originally appeared on

Magellan SE4 navigation unit turns up at Best Buy

By Donald Melanson
(Engadget)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:49:00 AM
Well, Magellan doesn't seem to
be doing much talking about this
one itself just yet, but Best Buy
has a fresh listing for a new SE4
nav unit from the company, and
it seems to be available right seemingly few other notable appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29
now. Better still, Best Buy also features to speak of -- not even so Oct 2009 08:49:00 EST. Please
looks to have knocked a full $60 much as a memory card slot or see our terms for use of feeds.
off the MSRP right of the bat, MP3 playback, if Best Buy's Read| Permalink| Email this|
bringing it down to just $119.99. listed specs are right. Comments
That'll get you a 4.3-inch [Via GPS Review]
touchscreen, NAVTEQ maps of Filed under: GPS
the 48 contiguous states, Hawaii POIs, and text-to-speech and turn Magellan SE4 navigation unit
and Puerto Rico, six million -by-turn voice prompts, but turns up at Best Buy originally
14 Gadgets/ Tech/ Politics/
Xerox announces silver
ink, keeps printable
electronics dream alive
By Vladislav Savov
(Engadget)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:35:00 AM
Here comes Xerox, huffing and
puffing its way back from
obscurity with what it believes is
a revolutionary new
advancement. Its brand new
silver ink and related printing
technologies promise to make it
possible for the lazy or
breadboard handicapped among
us to print their own circuit
boards atop plastics, film, and
even textiles. The wizardry of it
lies in the company's
development of a metallic ink
with a melting point lower than
that of plastics, which allows the
former to be laid (in liquid form)
atop the latter. It's all very neat,
and the potential for flexible,
lightweight, disposable
electronics is well and good, but
haven't we heard this all before?
Filed under: Wearables
Xerox announces silver ink,
keeps printable electronics dream
alive originally appeared on
Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
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Portable HDTV and
DVD player costs $300
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:05:00 AM
If you long for the ability to
watch high definition TV on a
seven-inch screen that’s
resolution is a mere 480×234 but
you also want to have the option
to watch standard definition
DVD’s as well, then here’s your
next purchase.
According to Hammacher
Schlemmer, this is “The First
Portable HDTV And DVD
Player.”
Will it be the last? Probably not.
This one, however, costs a
whopping $300 and features two
hours of battery life for HDTV
watching or 2.5 hours for DVD
playback. You can also view
pictures and video files using the
RIAA's Main Anti-Piracy Partner
Appears Clueless About BitTorrent
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 2:38:41 AM
Earlier this year, the RIAA
dumped its longterm anti-piracy
partner MediaSentry and hired
DtecNet instead. MediaSentry
had lots of problems in terms of
credibility, but it appears that
DtecNet may be even worse. It
recently came out with a report
claiming that file sharing
built-in memory card reader.
The digital tuner supports
broadcasts in 720p and you’ll
have to bring along the included
“sensitive external antenna” in
order to reel them in.
The First Portable HDTV And
DVD Player[Hammacher
Schlemmer]
decreased massively after The
Pirate Bay went down
temporarily. Not surprisingly,
this report is getting some press
attention. The problem? The
report appears to be based on a
nearly comical misunderstanding
of how BitTorrent works.
TorrentFreak details numerous
basic mistakes in the report,
nearly all of which suggest the
claims made by DtecNet have
Internet News Record
Video: The People
Behind Doug
Hoffman's Candidacy
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 7:08:35 PM
Michael Long is chairman of the
New York state Conservative
Party. This is Long’s speech to
supporters on the steps of the
Capitol Building in Albany (on
June 9, 2009).
A glimpse of the agenda of the
people behind Doug Hoffman’s
candidacy in New York’s 23rd
congressional district.[Video]
Another video from this
rally:[Video]
(Hat tip: Thanos.)
UPDATE at 10/28/09 7:27:40
pm:
Chris Matthews tries to corner
Michael Long into expressing a
real opinion:[Video]
little, if anything, to do with
reality. Considering that DtecNet
is going to be leading the charge
for the RIAA in any future
lawsuits and various "three
strikes" plans, the fact that it
doesn't seem to understand how
BitTorrent works suggests
problems ahead.
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One Spectacular Big
Bang [Image Cache]
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:00 AM
Wonder at the impressive
technological prowess of the
genius engineers at NASA, as
brave Ares launches. Be amazed
at the sheer beauty of the mighty
rocket as it it breaks the sound
barrier, thundering the skies of
this glorious nation.
OK, so it looks like a flying
condom.
NASA says that the six minute
flight was a success. In fact, they
said the vehicle flew better than
expected. Good work, my dearest
space boffins. Watch the video
here.
Images by the AP
Apple Helps You to
Have Office Affairs
[Retromodo]
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:40:00 AM
Apple ads are usually quite
good. Sometimes, however, they
are so bad that I would like to
bitchslap the copywriter. When
the headline is "Start a personal
relationship at the office," you
know it's going down hill from
Gadgets/ 15
Dress up! Win
an XBox! For
serious!
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:49:07 AM
Halloween is coming up and if
there's one thing I know it's that
geeks love Halloween. The
opportunity to hide behind a
mask, to subvert the status quo,
and to dress up like sexy
nurse/sexy witch/sexy balloon
boy is a cause for celebration.
That said, we're offering one
Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2
Limited Edition Console to the
winner of our First Annual
CrunchGear Halloween Costume
Contest. Here's how to enter.
there.
Actually, it doesn't only go just
downhill. It crashes into a dark,
smelly pothole: "And learn more
about the office relationship that
can free you up for other affairs."
And there you were, thinking
that Mad Men promoted bad
stereotypes.
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Facebook woos developers with a roadmap

By Josh Lowensohn developer site. Beard says that it Alongside the new left side and use parts of the site as if they that hopefully more people will
(Webware.com) will remain updated with new navigation Facebook is also were on Facebook proper. In read it.
Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:49:00 PM
items, planned changes, and APIs trying to make more of a turn, their actions will be able to In addition to policy, Facebook
as they are announced. The distinction between notifications show up on their Facebook is doing away with its six-month-
Facebook's Ethan Beard outlines company is also making publicly that are from apps and those that profile and news feeds. Beard old verified apps program in
what the company is up to in the available a bug list, which will are sent from other users. This said that the Open Graph API is place of verifying every single
next six months.(Credit: CNET / show developers problems with change involves taking simply a continuation of the app that passes a certain use
Josh Lowensohn) the site that Facebook is working notifications out of the move to add Facebook objects as threshold. This means that
PALO ALTO, Calif.--Facebook on, as well as how they are being sometimes-dreaded notification well as people to third-party sites. Facebook is going to be
on Wednesday took the wraps off prioritized to be fixed. box (which will be soon be "The graph does not necessarily evaluating every app on its
its brand new development The changes for users getting the ax) and giving have to exist in facebook," he service to make sure it meets the
roadmap, unveiling changes and The new user navigation menu developers a new way to notify said. "It can also live on the company's guidelines and getting
features the company is planning takes place of the long bar that users with alert badges that pop Web." rid of ones that might have
to implement within the next used to sit on the bottom of the up as counters. And for Facebook is improving its otherwise flown under the radar.
three to six months. page.(Credit: Facebook) notifications that are sent from analytics with a new system that Other tidbits
Many of the changes are smaller, So what are some of the big other users, these will soon be developers can use with third- Facebook canvas pages are now
simply rearrangements of certain changes users will see? The first found in users' Facebook in- party analytics tools.(Credit: getting a special blue bar on top
parts of the user interface. is that Facebook is doing away boxes instead. CNET / Josh Lowensohn) that removes much of the
However, the company is also with many of the visual and The changes for developers Fan pages are not the only thing Facebook branding and user
making some radical moves like organization changes it's made in One of the biggest upcoming to escape Facebook's walled interface. Beard said that the
e n f o r c i n g b a d l y w r i t t e n the last two years. That includes changes for developers deals with garden though. Beard outlined move was largely to help
a p p l i c a t i o n s a n d e n a b l i n g the removal of the Windows Start Facebook's level of user privacy the company's plans to offer developers make their canvas
developers to acquire user e-mail b a r - l i k e a p p l a u n c h e r a n d protection. The company will be developers a way to view a pages more immersive.
addresses as well as create notification bar that sat at the letting users give app developers deeper level of analytics for their Profile boxes will be
Facebook-like sites outside of the bottom of the page. That's being their e-mail address. In return apps. The reports, which Beard disappearing, and tabs will be
social network's walls. moved over to the left side of the they can remove their own says are much better than the slightly more narrow.
Ethan Beard, Facebook's director page where things like filters Facebook in-box from app Facebook's current Insight The new Facebook games tab
of platform marketing, who gave currently reside. notification equation. This also system, will be able to be sent to may implement leader boards
the presentation in Facebook's The new navigation bar will applies to Facebook Connect, so third-party analytics engines Facebook is reworking its
headquarters here, said that the house new quick jumps to menus third-party companies that use it where they can be stacked up friends selector so that when a
one thing the company kept for both games and applications-- for log-ins can send important alongside performance metrics user is picking friends to invite or
hearing from developers was that something for which Facebook is messages directly to a user's Facebook wouldn't have send a message, it will let them
they needed to know what the making a notable distinction. primary e-mail instead of their otherwise been able to provide. use the same filters they use to
company was working on ahead Both will serve as a way for users Facebook in-box where it might Keeping bad developers out group their friends. Facebook is
of time--and not just for short- to get a bird's-eye view of what's get lost. Besides some cosmetic and back also working on a way to suggest
term development, but a year happening in games or the The Connect program will also -end changes, Facebook is also a shortlist of users based on
down the line. "You want to applications they've been using, be joined by a new developer stepping up how it handles recent, or overall activity.
know what's going on inside of as well as what their friends are API called Open Graph that developers and applications that Developers will be getting a live
Facebook," he said. "And today up to. The company will also be essentially lets site owners create don't conform to the site's rules view into the Facebook Platform
is to provide you with a lot more making it easier for users to add a page on any Web site that has and regulations. Part of that is status. This is kind of like
predictability." third-party applications to the left the same features as one of simplifying its platform policies Twitter's status blog and will
That predictability revolves side navigation bar with some Facebook's fan pages. These will from 14 pages to just three. show all known problems as well
around the company's roadmap, new code that makes it a one- allow users to sign up to be a fan Beard says the extraneous
w h i c h n o w s i t s o n a n e w click affair. FACEBOOK page 19
with their Facebook credentials language has been cut down, so
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Keep track of the World Series with these resources

By Don Reisinger Series. group's page, you'll find a lot of MLB At Bat 2009 features all every moment of the series.
(Webware.com) MLB's World Series page is interesting content, ranging from the postseason coverage you World Series What better way to
Submitted at 10/28/2009 1:20:51 PM
there for the taking.(Credit: discussions on the Yankees, might want. You can watch keep track of the World Series
Screenshot by Don photos of Yankees fans, and games from one of seven than to follow the updates on
If you're as excited for the World R e i s i n g e r / C N E T ) more. You can also read the different camera angles right on Major League Baseball's World
Series as I am, you're probably Facebook wall, where users are talking your iPhone or iPod Touch. You Series Twitter page?
looking for some resources that Phillies Facebook Group If you about their predictions for the can also view your content in The MLB's World Series Twitter
will help you stay up-to-date on plan to support the Phillies series. Since the group is larger "Quad Mode" to see four page is quite informative. It
all the drama surrounding the during the World Series, you than the Philllies' group, there is different camera angles at the features information on the teams
Fall Classic between the New might want to consider joining much more discussion. That same time. The app lets you see that were in the playoffs before
Y o r k Y a n k e e s a n d t h e the team's unofficial Facebook helps make it a little more viable. every pitch, its location, and even the Phillies and Yankees won. It
Philadelphia Phillies. group. There aren't many users-- Expect a flurry of activity in the hear the broadcast from MLB. also includes World Series
I've compiled a list of different about 2,500 as of this writing-- group when the games start. You can also watch "condensed topics. So far, the page hasn't
resources to help you prepare for but it's filled with fans who share Yankees Facebook Group games" on the app, which packs been updated much, but now that
the big games, which begin all kinds of great content. features a lot of members.(Credit: the entire three-hour-plus game the World Series will (finally) get
Wednesday. For iPhone users, When I was sifting through the Screenshot by Don into a quick 10- to 12-minute under way, look for the profile to
I've thrown in a couple of apps group's pages, I found several Reisinger/CNET) snippet. I could go on, but I be updated often. It's a must-see.
for when you're on the go. So photos, a lot of handy links to iPhone think you get the point: MLB At The World Series Twitter page is
without further ado, let's get game-related topics, and more. Box Score Baseball If you're Bat 2009 is where you want to be ready to go.(Credit: Screenshot
going on the baseball chatter. The Facebook group also has a looking for a simple way to find if you can't watch the game on by Don Reisinger/CNET)
World Series time discussion board where fans can out quickly what the score on the the big screen. And for $9.99, Twitter's MLB On Fox profile is
MLB World Series Major discuss several team-related game is, check out Box Score it's not too expensive. a must-see for baseball
League Baseball's World Series topics. If you plan to support the Baseball. Get all the game updates in fans.(Credit: Screenshot by Don
page is a great resource for those Phillies, its Facebook group is a Box Score Baseball is a free MLB At Bat 2009.(Credit: Reisinger/CNET)
who want to learn just about good place to start. iPhone app that provides basic MLB) My top 3
anything related to the Fall The Facebook Phillies Group information on the status of a Twitter 1. MLB At Bat 2009: If you're
Classic. page features several neat game. You'll find the score, the MLB On Fox Since the World looking for the best iPhone app,
When you get to the site, you'll pictures.(Credit: Screenshot by inning, who's batting, who's Series will be broadcast on Fox this one is it.
be able to read the news, watch Don Reisinger/CNET) hitting, and how many hits each this year, you'll probably want to 2. MLB World Series:
videos related to the game, and Yankees Facebook Group If you team has tallied. If you just want consider following the MLB On WorldSeries.com promises to be
watch all the interviews you want to see the Bronx Bombers quick updates about the game, Fox Twitter page. a fine online resource for
might have missed. When the take another World Series, you this app is for you. The profile gives users updates baseball fans.
game's playing, the site will give might want to consider joining Box Score Baseball has simple, on the status of a game on Fox 3. World Series: If you're a
you some updates on the progress the unofficial Yankees Facebook but useful information.(Credit: while it's going on. When World Twitter user, you'll definitely
both teams are making. You can Group. Box Score) Series games are played, expect want to check out the World
also play World Series trivia The Yankees Facebook Group is MLB At Bat 2009 If you're the profile to give you play-by- Series Twitter profile.
games, buy MLB merchandise, much larger than the Phillies' looking for the best mobile way play on important points in the
and more. It's a great place to Facebook page. It has over 7,000 to track the World Series, MLB game. That should help you out
learn more about the World members. When you get to the At Bat 2009 is it. if you don't plan on watching

Become a PowerPoint Power User

By How-To Wiki (Wired Top Master your presentations by Here are some hidden tips, tricks professional presentations easily.
Stories) honing your PowerPoint skills. a n d s h o r t c u t s f o r m a k i n g
18 Tech/ Internet News Record

Motorola sees small third-quarter profit

(CNET News.com) average, 6 cents per share. "The introductions of our new earnings were $199 million, By noreply@blogger.com (Ad
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:56:00 AM
The earnings report found a products powered by Android are down from $263 million a year ServeRSS) (AD ServeRSS)
favorable response on Wall important milestones as we begin earlier.
Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:06:00 PM
Beleaguered handset maker Street. In early trading Thursday, to address the mobilization of the The company's Enterprise
Motorola on Thursday had some shares were up roughly 9 percent Internet and the growing demand Mobility Solutions segment Christian World Adoption is one
good news to offer investors, to around $8.68, following for modern smartphones. Next logged sales of $1.8 billion, of the largest international
reporting a small profit for the Wednesday's closing price of year, we will continue to expand down 13 percent from the year- adoption agencies in the United
third quarter. $7.96. our smartphone portfolio and ago quarter, while its operating States. Since 1991, Christian
For the three months ended The company, now some years deliver improved financial earnings were $306 million, World Adoption has placed
October 3, Motorola reported net removed from its glory days with results." compared with $403 million in thousands of children from
income of $12 million, or a the Razr phone, is pinning its For the third quarter, sales for the year-ago quarter. Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and
penny per share, compared with a hopes on Google's Android Motorola's Mobile Devices Also on Thursday, Motorola said Latin America. These children
loss of $397 million (and a loss software for mobile devices. In segment came in at $1.7 billion, that Edward J. Fitzpatrick, who now enjoy the love and security
of 18 cents per share) for the year September, it unveiled its first down 46 percent from the year- has been serving as the of a forever family. Christian
-ago period. Android device, the Cliq. On ago quarter, but the company did company's acting chief financial World Adoption currently offers
Revenue, however, was down Tuesday, several weeks into the compress its operating loss for officer since February, is now its adoption programs in Bulgaria,
year over year, coming in at fourth quarter, Motorola and that segment to $183 million, permanent CFO. China, Ethiopia, Guatemala,
$5.45 billion for the third quarter Verizon Wireless unveiled the compared with a year-ago loss of This story was updated at 5:15 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
of 2009, versus $7.48 billion in A n d r o i d - b a s e d D r o i d $840 million. a.m. PDT with additional and Ukraine. Explore our website
the same quarter of 2008. smartphone. Motorola says it shipped 13.6 information from Motorola's to learn more about international
Analysts polled by Reuters had " W e d e l i v e r e d o n o u r million handsets during the third Thursday statements, and again adoption. Then, when you’re
been forecasting, on average, a commitment to improve the quarter, giving it just under 5 at 7:25 a.m. PDT with the stock ready, call our friendly adoption
break-even quarter on revenue of financial performance of Mobile percent of the worldwide market market response. counselor, toll free, at
$5.54 billion. Devices and to commercially share. This content has passed through 1.888.97ADOPT.
For the fourth quarter, Motorola launch two smartphones in time In its Home and Networks fivefilters.org.
is forecasting earnings from for the fourth- quarter holiday Mobility segment, Motorola saw
continuing operations of between season," Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of third-quarter sales of $2.0 billion,
7 cents and 9 cents per share. Motorola and CEO of Mobile down 15 percent compared to the
Analysts have been expecting, on Devices, said in a statement. year-ago quarter. Operating

Twitter app Brizzly adds Facebook, too

By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 12:08:00 PM
A look at the Facebook news
feed in Brizzly. Check out the
buttons at the top to toggle back
and forth between Facebook and
Twitter.(Credit: Brizzly)
Brizzly, a Twitter client that's
still private beta, on Wednesday
added the ability for members to
follow their Facebook contacts as
well through the Web-based
service (unlike many of its
competitors, Brizzly has opted to
not take the form of a
downloadable desktop app)--and
to post Brizzly updates back to
their Facebook profiles. For those
of you who have Brizzly
accounts, it should be live later
on Wednesday if it isn't already.
It's a natural move: Most Twitter
clients, like TweetDeck and
Seesmic Desktop, also support
updates from Facebook to one
degree or another. Brizzly,
created by San Francisco-based
Thing Labs and spearheaded by
Blogger and Google veteran
Jason Shellen, makes a Twitter
feed look quite a bit like a
Facebook news feed by
expanding image and video links
from services like TwitPic and
YouTube.
Through Facebook Connect,
Brizzly can pull in your news
feed so that you can toggle back
and forth between a Twitter view
and a Facebook view. But it's a
little bit limited for now:
currently, it's just the revamped
"top stories" news feed, not the
live-streaming feed that had been
Facebook's default until this
week.
Of note: when you've clicked on
Facebook view in Brizzly, the
Brizzly bear mascot is wearing a
Facebook-logo sweatshirt and
waving a pennant. Now that's just
plain cute.
UPDATE: We hear the bear's
name is Phineas.
Originally posted at The Social
Internet News Record Tech/ 19

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Nintendo's profit

By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:42:12 AM
Fast forward to today, and the
Internet has over 1.5 billion
users, and most of them can’t
plunges on weak Wii
I remember when I first saw it.
My dad called me over to his
imagine the world without it.
Most of you don’t need an
explanation of what it is and how
sales
(CNET News.com) Resort in July and Wii Fit Plus in
office, where he had a x86 PC it works; it’s one of the early September. As one of the
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:46:13 AM
with a 1200 bit/s modem, which fundamental things you few bright spots, Wii Sports
I’d mostly used for games (I was encounter, like rain or electricity. Sinking sales and a price cut for Resort has enjoyed brisk sales.
15 at the time) and connecting to jumped on the train and never It’s in our blood. It brought us the Wii knocked Nintendo's first- The weak earnings fell short of
various BBS’. He said: there’s looked back. the ability to communicate fast, half earnings by 52 percent. Nintendo's earlier estimate of a
this new thing, they call it the The real beginning was a couple to connect with our friends, to On Thursday, the game maker 100 billion yen profit for the first
Internet. I think it’ll be really of decades earlier, although no create stuff together; it brought reported a profit of 69.5 billion half and prompted the company
important. one can really set the exact date us social media, Twitter and yen ($767.8 million) for the six- to lower its forecast for fiscal
What can you do with it, I for Internet’s birth. But on Facebook. month period ended September 2009. Nintendo now expects
asked? You can see what’s on October 29, 1969,, the first two But unlike rain or electricity, it 30, compared with 144.83 billion annual earnings to fall to 230
other computers, far away, he n o d e s o f A R P A N E T w e r e changes, faster and faster, each yen for the same period last year. billion yen, lower than its May
said. You can do it via Gopher, interconnected between UCLA’s day. Its first 40 years were just Sales for the period also estimate of 300 billion yen, and
or FTP, or Cello(the predecessor School of Engineering and the beginning, and I’m really, tumbled, falling 34 percent to down from the 279.1 billion yen
of today’s WWW browsers). A p p l i e d S c i e n c e a n d S R I really interested in what it will 548 billion yen. it earned in 2008. This would
There wasn’t a lot to see there, so International (SRI) in Menlo look like in another 40 years. Nintendo blamed the shortfall on mark the first annual earnings
I quickly moved onto other Park, California. It took 12 years Whatever it is, it’ll probably be weak sales of its Wii combined decline in six years.
things, but soon after that day, a for 213 computers to get linked unimaginable from today’s with its recent price cut for the Nintendo also slashed its sales
new way to browse the Internet in the network. standpoint. game console. In September, the forecast for the full year, now
came out: Netscape. Somewhere after that, things Do you remember how you company trimmed the cost of the expecting revenue of 1.5 trillion
And suddenly, the Internet started changing, fast. Netscape – learned about the Internet? What Wii in the U.S. by $50 to yen, down from its prior estimate
became great. I could find out the archetypal browser – was was your first experience with it? $199.99. Nintendo said it sold of 1.8 trillion yen, an 18.4
about games and bands I’d never overrun by Internet Explorer. It Share your thoughts with us in 5.75 million Wii machines percent drop from 2008.
heard of before. I could see what t o o k a b o u t 1 0 y e a r s f o r the comments. globally during the first half of The game maker is hoping for a
the weather is like in South Netscape’s market share to fall Image courtesy of iStockphoto, its fiscal 2009, a huge decline brighter holiday season when gift
Dakota. I could create a personal from over 90% to less than 1%. Eraxion from the 10 million units that -seeking shoppers may take
page (that’s what people did on Then Firefox started eating away Tags: birthday, internet flew off the shelves for the same advantage of the Wii's lower
the Internet before blogs came to at Internet Explorer’s market period last year. price. Nintendo is also eager to
be) with my biography and share. Who knows what we’ll be The Wii continues to face see whether its upcoming New
picture for everyone to see. I browsing on in 10 years? competitive pressure from both Super Mario Bros. Wii game
FACEBOOK S o n y ' s P l a y S t a t i o n a n d proves to be a hot seller.
continued from page 16 Microsoft's Xbox, which have Reports have even surfaced that
as how hard Facebook's APIs are Crawler benefited from their own price the Wii may follow in the
being hit. cuts. footsteps of Sony's PlayStation 3
More information about the new Nintendo was also hurt by a lack by offering a Netflix streaming
developer APIs can be found on of hot new games for the Wii and option.
Facebook's developer site. portable DS game console. For This content has passed through
Originally posted at Web the Wii, the company's only fivefilters.org.
major releases were Wii Sports
20 Tech/ TV/
Google Launches Music Search With Pandora now shares
MySpace, Lala, Pandora, and More with Facebook, Twitter
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:16:24 PM
Earlier today, Hitwise published
a report estimating that music-
related searches currently make
up about 6% of total queries on
Google. Clearly then, by
integrating actual audio content
that could be purchased online,
Google would create a big
opportunity for all of those
involved.
Well, Google has just answered
that call, by launching a major
new feature that incorporates
streaming audio previews when
you search for an artist, album, or
song using the search engine.
There’s also music discovery
baked in from services like
Pandora, Rhapsody, and Imeem.
Google explains the product
further on their blog:
“Now, when you enter a music-
related query — like the name of
a song, artist or album — your
search results will include links
to an audio preview of those
songs provided by our music
search partners MySpace (which
just acquired iLike) or Lala.
When you click the result you’ll
Chelsea Handler, Giant Playboy Covers, and Jay Leno
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:02:16 PM
Internet News Record
somehow], I’ll get results for By Harrison Hoffman give the user the "Buy from
Phoenix’s song “Rome.” (Webware.com) Amazon/iTunes" option that
There’s a video demo as well: Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:00:00 PM
Pandora's main app features.
The biggest winner here (or at In addition, Pandora is bringing
least the company that needs this Pandora, with new Facebook, more attention to its station-
the most) would seem to be Twitter, and Gift sharing gifting feature. This feature
MySpace, who continues to work features.(Credit: Screenshot by basically allows users to create
to reinvent itself as a content and Harrison Hoffman/CNET) an entirely new station, pair it
Pandora on Wednesday
be able to listen to an audio entertainment destination where with an eCard and send it off to
announced the arrival of some
preview of the song directly from music plays a huge role. In someone. Pandora is essentially
new sharing features for the
one of those partners. For recent days, the company has trying to create the modern
service. In the past, you have
example, if I search for [21st also been reported to be working version of the mixtape. This
been able to share Pandora
century breakdown], the first on deals with both Facebook and feature has been around for a
stations, but you were forced to
results provide links to songs M S N . With a Google little while, but it has gained little
partnership now in place, at least do it via e-mail instead of taking attention to this point. The more
from Green Day’s new album.
one huge piece of its new advantage of one of the modern prominent placing in Pandora's
MySpace and Lala also provide
social networks. Now, Pandora
links to purchase the full song. distribution model is complete. music player may change that.
is enabling station and song
Many times, though, you don’t Here’s what MySpace’s player These new sharing features
sharing via much more efficient
know the name of the song or the will look like in Google music should boost usage of Pandora.
means: Facebook and Twitter.
artist who sings it. Maybe you search results. Note, you can Tapping into the previously
These features work pretty much
remember only the chorus — or play the track, watch the video, untouched power of Facebook's
exactly how you would think
maybe you remember who sang or find tour info and buy tickets: social graph and Twitter can only
they would. Clicking on the
it, but you forgot the exact name Google says the music search be a good thing. Pandora is just
Facebook icon pops out a
of the song. If you’ve ever heard features will be rolling out coming off of reaching an
Facebook window, allowing you
a catchy song in a car or cafe, but “gradually to users across the agreement on new royalty rates
to share either the current song or
just can’t figure out the name of U . S . o v e r t h e n e x t d a y . ” for music this summer and it's
station. The Twitter integration
the song, you’ll know what I’m Reviews: Facebook, Google, working toward its goal of being
works in much the same way,
talking about. This search feature MySpace, Pandora, Rhapsody, profitable by the end of the year.
enabling you to tweet out a link
also helps you find many of those imeem They're also facing some stiff
Tags: Google, imeem, Lala, to the current song or station. competition from companies like
songs by entering a search
When you click on the station
containing a line or two of lyrics. music, myspace, pandora Slacker. Pandora still has a long
link that someone has shared, it road ahead, but opening up its
So if I search for [static silhouette
whisks you away to their Pandora service to sharing on Facebook
station and lets you listen. and Twitter is definitely a step in
However, the song links only go the right direction.
Chelsea Handler Exclusive “The Jay Leno Show”: to a landing page that gives you a Originally posted at The Web
Playboy Reveal (2:48) This content has passed through 30-second preview and an option Services Report
First look at Chelsea Handler’s fivefilters.org. to create a station based on that
December Playboy Cover on song. Oddly, this page does not
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Payments start-up Zong moves Photographers Can Do

beyond mobile CwF+RtB Experiments,
By Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Hill Ferguson told CNET News.
"You've got PayPal. You've got
several of us in this mobile
that when enough points have
been accrued, the member may
be alerted that their next purchase
Too
Submitted at 10/29/2009 2:00:00 AM
payment arena. What Zong Plus is "on the house." By Michael Ho (Techdirt) if any, delivered free, a likely
The heated mobile-payment does is just elevates us into a Whether it will work is still Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:34:00 PM
US$14.99 value or more
wars are expanding...beyond different mobile payment type." unclear. Zong has deals with • Three hours of personal, one-
mobile. Zong, one of the start- On the surface, adding social gaming and virtual-world Michiel Rhoen writes in to tell on-one time with Thom, a
ups hoping to capture the market traditional credit card payments companies like OMGPOP, us about photography instructor US$750 value
for online micropayments billed seems to defeat the purpose of IMVU, and Gaia Online, but and author, Thom Hogan, who
to a mobile phone, announced Zong, which inherently tries to there are still enough rivals has embraced the CwF+RtB So this deal is aimed directly at
Thursday the debut of "Zong o f f e r a s i m p l e r a n d m o r e offering similar packages as well philosophy by offering a limited folks who own a very specific
Plus," which lets members link universal alternative for small as the off chance that a big e- edition deal(only 25 spots camera and who happen to be
credit or debit cards to their Zong payments (cell phone carriers put commerce player like PayPal available with 4 already taken at able to travel to see Hogan when
accounts. a cap on how much can be could launch a service of its own the time of writing this) where he's available for the one-on-one
It's another move that pits Zong spent). But Ferguson said that and snuff out the competition. Mr. Hogan will sit down one-on- time. It's not exactly going to
against Boku, a competitor that Zong Plus, which is free for The announcement comes in one with each buyer for 3 hours. make Hogan a millionaire (at
launched right around the same p a r t i c i p a t i n g m e r c h a n t s t o advance of the Virtual Goods During those 3 hours, Hogan is best, it's going to make him
time with broader global reach-- upgrade to, "is an optional Summit in San Francisco, where game for almost any kind of $21,225 gross). But it's a great
last month, it announced its feature for consumers who have pretty much any start-up photography consulting, giving example of how an author can
expansion to subscription-based payments cards and feel that the involved in the latest generation his professional advice on camera take advantage of actual
services in addition to on-demand i n c e n t i v e t h a t w e o f f e r i s of e-commerce (read: magic equipment, portfolio reviews, scarcities (Hogan's time and
micropayments. powerful enough for them to swords and Mafia dons) will be help with post processing work expertise) as part of a business. I
A t l a u n c h , Z o n g P l u s i s open up their wallet and type in showing off its wares. Plenty of or just a long chat over a meal do find it interesting that Hogan's
c o m p a t i b l e w i t h V i s a , the information." other companies will be making together. But that's not all... The limited edition offer is an
MasterCard, Discover, and What's that incentive? Part of announcements, too, presumably complete Thom Hogan Limited experiment that might
American Express accounts, Zong Plus is a loyalty program some in the payments space. Edition package (US$849) demonstrate the advantages of
"Today you've got a variety of that will rack up points much like Originally posted at The Social includes: selling an author's time over
products for different kinds of airline miles. In a participating • A full normal package for the selling content that is already
payments and services," vice game or other micropayments- book, Complete Guide to the created. I imagine if this package
president of product management linked application, this means Nikon D700(CD and To Go sells out, that Hogan will expand
Guide), a US$49.99 value this limited offer to other specific
• A full printed version of the
Jessica Biel About to Get 'Engaged' main book in black and white, a
US$29.99 value
cameras. And I'd bet he'd even
be able to crowdfund a new book
if enough amateur photographers
(ETonline - Breaking News) 'F***ing Engaged,' according to crusty old parents, The • A full printed, signed, ask him to create his next
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:10:00 AM
The Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood Reporter says. Biel numbered version of the main "complete guide" for a camera he
This comedy focuses on an can next be seen in 'Nailed' and book in color, a US$99.99 value might not otherwise have
No, Jessica Biel has not been engaged couple who agree to 'Valentine's Day.' • All of the above shipped to you reviewed.
ring shopping with boyfriend make love every day leading up via Priority Mail Permalink| Comments| Email
Justin Timberlake. The actress to their nuptials because they • All future updates of the book, This Story
will be starring in the film don't want to turn into their
22 Tech/ Entertainment/
Google Maps Navigation Launch
Aftermath: Yes, This Will Be Huge
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 3:18:18 AM
Yesterday, we wrote about a
new, free product from Google:
Google Maps Navigation.
Another free Google perpetual
beta product, one might say;
nothing to get overly excited
about.
Well, the first reviews and
reactions are in, and it seems that
this is one of those Google
products that change the
landscape of an entire industry.
GPS turn-by-turn navigation has
historically always been
something you had to pay for.
Creating and maintaining a map
of the entire world, together with
points of interests and traffic
info, plus developing the
algorithms that make sure you
don’t take a wrong turn, costs
millions of dollars. But Google is
now offering it for free. The
result was devastating for shares
of GPS navigation companies:
Garmin’s shares fell by 16.4%;
TomTom’s by 20.8%. We’re
talking billions of dollars of
Hollywood Hunks Cite Chivalry as Gentlemanly Quality
(ETonline - Breaking News)
market capitalization, gone in
one day, just because Google
presented another free product
(they release new products on a
monthly, if not weekly basis).
This doesn’t necessarily mean
that TomTom and Garmin are
going out of business. But it
means that this entire space has
fundamentally changed, and the
market reacts to developments
like that.
Do they do have something to
fear? Absolutely. Google Maps
Navigation isn’t some half-
baked, crippled free version of
GPS turn-by-turn navigation. In
most areas, it’s comparable with
standalone GPS navigation
solutions, and it even brings
some novelties to the table, for
example Google’s fantastic
satellite view and Street View.
ET caught up with some of
Hollywood's most handsome
The folks over at Engadget have
tested it out with a Droid, you
can check the results in the video
below.
Right now, Google Maps
Navigation works only on
Android 2.0 devices. But as it
spreads to other platforms and
devices, it’s obvious that
everyone will get it. After all, it’s
free, so why not? People who
used GPS navigation before will
get it to see how well it works.
People who never cared about it
will try it out to see how it’s like.
In a matter of months, Google
will control a huge, previously
untapped portion of the market.
From their competitors’
perspective, it’s a nightmare.
From the user’s perspective, it’s
fantastic: a free alternative for a
service that you previously had to
pay for. It’ll be interesting to see
where Google takes this, but I
have a feeling that GPS
navigation will get far more
exciting in the future. Reviews:
Android, Google
Tags: Google Maps Navigation
studs at "GQ Magazine's
Gentlemen's Ball" and they
This Is Why You’re Fat
(And About to Get a
Little Bit Fatter)
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:38:40 AM
Deep fried chocolate cake, tacos
wrapped in pepperoni pizza, the
“fat bastard burger” … these are
all reasons that America has an
obesity problem, and the basis
for a recent Internet phenomenon
– the blog called “ This Is Why
You’re Fat” (TIWYF) that
showcases excessive junk food
items.
The blog recently joined a host
of other Internet memes by
scoring a book deal, and is
celebrating its release by holding
a very cool (and fattening)
promotion in New York City
today where fans of the site can
enjoy the type of food items that
make up TIWYF’s content.
TIWYF has teamed up with six
New York City food trucks (all
of whom have their own Twitter
accounts) to offer a TIWYF-
inspired item today. Through its
own Twitter account, TIWYF
will be periodically announcing
the location of each truck. The
first fan to post pics of
themselves eating all 6 items
revealed what it takes to win over
a lady's heart.
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wins the prize: a private food cart
party for them and 25 of their
friends.
Meanwhile, if you don’t have
time to make it to all six or
simply don’t want to throw down
a few thousand extra calories
today, you can follow the
pictures others are uploading on
TIWYF’s Facebook Page. In the
future, the company is hoping to
bring similar challenges to other
cities with burgeoning food cart
cultures like Portland, LA, and
San Francisco.
In all, it’s a smart and fun
integration of TIWYF’s brand
with the real world activities that
the site chronicles. Reviews:
Twitter
Tags: Food, MARKETING,
social media, this is why you're
fat
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Uncle Walt says "Apple's built-in

software still has the edge" GateHouse Media Strikes Again:
By Steven Sande (The Snow Leopard is fast and
Unofficial Apple Weblog reliable. And it comes with a full Claims Headlines, Ledes Are Covered
(TUAW))
Submitted at 10/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
suite of excellent built-in
programs, including email, photo
By Copyright, Threatens Forum
and video software. Microsoft By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) copyrighted property of
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, has stripped Windows 7 of such Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:33:15 AM
GateHouse Media... and that your
Software, Blogging, Snow programs. Some PC makers have copying constitutes infringement
Leopard Walt Mossberg, the restored some or all of these in Remember GateHouse Media? of GateHouse's rights under U.S.
curmudgeonly, smooth-pated certain models, although I The regional news company sued Copyright law. This infringement
personal technology blogger at consider Apple's counterparts the NY Times for linking to it, is not excused by links to the
The Wall Street Journal's All better. Another huge plus: The c l a i m i n g i t w a s c o p y r i g h t original stories or by indicating
Things Digital, has released his Shopping." Mac isn't susceptible to the vast infringement to include the the name of the publication in
fall computer-buying guide. And While Walt points out the majority of viruses and spyware. headline and a brief snippet along which the content originated. Of
when Walt talks, people listen. obvious -- that Windows PCs are That's high praise again from the with the link (you know, like c o u r s e , i t ' s n o t c l e a r t h a t
Mossberg is usually very kind to usually less expensive than Macs Prince of Personal Tech, and a Google...). Amusingly, it turned copyright law actually agrees
Apple products, which probably and that Windows 7 has closed list of good arguments for us out that GateHouse Media was w i t h t h a t . A n d , e v e n i f
explains why he gets the latest the gap between the operating "Apple Fanboys" to bring up doing the same thing. Eventually GateHouse is correct, this makes
and greatest equipment sent to s y s t e m s i n t e r m s o f u s e r - when we're faced with Windows- the two companies settled, and no sense whatsoever. It's not as
him by the guys in Cupertino friendliness -- he also goes on to lovers. apparently that's convinced if people reading the Masscops
prior to release, and we don't. In say some very nice things about TUAW Uncle Walt says G a t e H o u s e M e d i a t h a t forums are doing so as a
his latest guide, he says some Macs: "Apple's built-in software still complaining about such links is a substitute for some GateHouse
surprisingly nice things about But Apple's hardware is stylish has the edge" originally appeared good idea. Media news sites. If anything,
Windows PCs. That's mostly due and sturdy, and, in my tests, on The Unofficial Apple Weblog Via CitMediaLaw we found out Masscops is sending traffic to
to the progress in usability and Macs usually boot faster than (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 that GateHouse Media has sent a them, and helping new readers
friendliness brought about by the W i n d o w s m a c h i n e s . P l u s , 00:00:00 EST. Please see our cease & desist letter to an online discover GateHouse's sites.
recent release of Windows 7. But Apple's chain of retail stores terms for use of feeds. forum, claiming not just that its What sort of company turns
he also goes on to say some very offers a better buying experience Read| Permalink| Email this| stories are covered by copyright, down links and traffic? Not one
interesting things in his lead-in and strong post-purchase support. Comments but that its headlines and ledes. that's long for this world...
post, titled " Operating Systems Also, in my view, Apple's built- We wish to advise you that the Permalink| Comments| Email
Provide New Choices in PC in software still has the edge. stories, headlines and/or ledes This Story
that you are copying are the

Steele Continues Backing Scozzafava

(Little Green Footballs) etc.) are rushing to the side of stuck by Republican special chairman, and that’s the way it
Doug Hoffman in the NY-23
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:15:19 AM
election candidate Dede should go, right?” Steele said in a
election, but Michael Steele Scozzafava in an interview on light-hearted exchange (video at
The religious right and social s t a n d s f o r l o r n l y b y D e d e MSNBC’s Morning Joe on about 5 minues in).
conservatives (Tim Pawlenty, S c o z z a f a v a . Wednesday.
Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Republican National Committee “I support the Republican
James Dobson, Rick Santorum, (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele nominee as the Republican Party
24 Tech/ Internet News Record

Attacks on Google suggest it is New Avatar Trailer Hits

winning the Web [VIDEO]
(CNET News.com) lawsuit cheaply, and it's unlikely By Christina Warren
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:07:28 AM
that Symbian's noise will unduly (Mashable!)
distract it. It may not end up Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:13:32 AM
You can look at Google's dominating mobile, for a variety
growing market share in of reasons, but it's going to be a Although the official trailer isn’t
Android, its dominance in search, significant competitor, just as it is supposed to hit the web until
and elsewhere as signs that it's in search and increasingly in tomorrow, Film School Rejects
winning in its markets. But for enterprise computing. has tracked down a high-quality
me, the best indicator that Google After all, Google is innovating in foreign leak (we think it’s from
is winning is the increasingly infringement, but has endured Android, as CNET reports, and Thailand, but if you recognize the below. This trailer sets the stage
vitriolic attacks piled on it. hundreds of patent lawsuits, generally pushing the envelope language let us know in the for the film far better than the
You want a piece of me? nearly all of them ultimately on what's possible in computing: comments) that they got via The other released material and really
You can always spot a winner by found worthless. mobile, "desktop," and Film Stage. The Film Stage also gives the audience and sense of
the bull's-eye painted on it. No But it's not just patent trolls that cloud/server. Importantly, open has an unreleased featurette with what the film is about. Avatar is
one bothers to diss a loser. are on the scent. Symbian, the source is a central strategy in even more new footage. due in theaters on December
Or sue them. Red Bend one-time leader in mobile phone each of these areas, which may The film has had a tremendous 18th.
Software has launched what operating systems, has gone on be one of the things that most amount of buzz on and offline, If the trailer is to go offline,
appears to be a specious patent the offensive, claiming Google is riles the incumbent competitors because of its big budget, we’re pretty confident the movie
claim against Google, alleging "evil" and fear-mongering about in its markets. revolutionary filmmaking blogs will have us covered and
that Google's Chrome browser w h a t G o o g l e w i l l d o w i t h For Google, the increasing techniques and because this is we’ll update the post
violates its patent (6,546,552) by consumer data gathered with its vehemence of the attacks on it James Cameron’s first film since accordingly.
i n c l u d i n g t h e C o u r g e t t e Android software. should signal that it's doing “Titanic” more than a decade What do you think of the latest
algorithm, which enables Google Is this an indication that something right. In fact, many ago. “Avatar” trailer? Has the online-
to push compressed software Symbian can't compete in the "somethings" right. The first trailer came out in buzz affected your excitement
updates to the browser. market and must instead resort to This content has passed through August and Fox has been pushing level? Let us know! Reviews:
As Microsoft learned years ago, FUD? fivefilters.org. this movie hardcore — with the Facebook, Twitter
success breeds patent lawsuits. Google may ultimately be able “Avatar Day” IMAX promotion Tags: avatar, james cameron,
Microsoft rarely sues over to get out of the Red Bend and its Twitter and Facebook movie trailers, trailers
intellectual property accounts.
Check out the second trailer

Sprint losses and customer defections continue

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:29:00 AM
Sprint Nextel is still losing
customers, the company said
Thursday as it reported a third-
quarter loss.
Sprint's losses widened to $478
million, or 17 cents a share,
during the quarter that ended
September 30, from a loss of
$326 million, or 11 cents a share,
a year earlier. Revenue fell nearly
9 percent to $8.04 billion.
Results were slightly worse than
analysts had expected. Analysts
had been looking for Sprint to
report a loss of 15 cents per share
on revenue of $8.09 billion.
Sprint continued to lose
customers, as it has for several
quarters. But it lost fewer
customers than analysts had
expected. Sprint lost a total of
801,000 subscribers in the
quarter. Analysts had expected
the company to lose 870,000 so-
called post-paid customers.
Meanwhile, Sprint competitors
AT&T and Verizon Wireless
added 2 million and 1.2 million
customers, respectively.
Sprint's churn rate, or the rate at
which customers dump its
service, was 2.17 percent, up
from 2.05 percent in the second
quarter.
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fivefilters.org.
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Count The Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...
By Matt Tinsley (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Audio, iPhone, iPod
touch, First Look, App Review,
Music Here in the UK, it's getting
pretty chilly on the willy
compared to a month ago, or so.
The warm memories of the
summer are slowly dwindling to
the reality of earlier, darker
evenings (the clocks have just
gone forward) as well as tentative
first visits from our old friend
Jack Frost. Generally speaking,
the cold grasp of winter is
steadily fastening on us ( or not).
But we are blessed with a few
heart warming occasions over the
winter season (Christmas, New
Years Eve etc) that make the
cold, well, a little less nippy on
the bone. One of these such
occasions is, of course, Guy
Fawkes night(Remember
remember the 5th of
November...) And, to me, that
means one thing, HOUSE
PARTY! And what does a great
house party need? An authentic
DJ.
So when I heard my main man
Dan the DJ couldn't make the
party (or at the least lend me his
decks) I turned to the next best
thing, Sonorasaurus- the first
complete deejay setup for the
Tech/ Entertainment/
iPhone / iPod Touch.
At this point you may be
wondering what a DJ app has to
do with ' Count The Beats', or, in
fact making music on an Apple
platform, but it quite literally has
everything to do with it. Come
on, we all know that deejays are
real musicians too, right?
Continue reading Count The
Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...
TUAW Count The Beats: Hey
DJ, play us a song... originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu,
29 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EST.
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New Cute Kid
Pics! 'Jon & Kate''s
Adorable Eight!
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 3:32:00 AM
Despite intense feuding between
their estranged parents, Jon and
Kate Gosselin's eight children
have been lighting up the TV
with their infectious smiles and
adorable ways for five seasons.
Take a look at brand-new pics of
"Jon & Kate"'s adorable eight!
Keep clicking to see pics of the
cute kids in gym class, on a
butterfly outing and playing
baseball!

The Apple tablet that wasn't

By Mike Schramm (The just about an inch thick, with a touchscreen tablet craze even be
Unofficial Apple Weblog screen the same size as a Mac here if it weren't for the iPhone?
(TUAW)) Portable. They were bringing a And isn't Apple's smartphone just
Submitted at 10/29/2009 3:00:00 AM few different companies in on the a hop, skip and a jump from their
deal, and apparently it worked original PDA?
F i l e d u n d e r : H a r d w a r e , well -- ran a full Mac OS, used a TUAW The Apple tablet that
P o r t a b l e s , O d d s a n d e n d s pen to control or let you plug in a wasn't originally appeared on
TechCrunch has posted pictures mouse and keyboard, and there The Unofficial Apple Weblog
of what they're calling an was even a smaller version called (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
"unlaunched Apple tablet." In the PenLite(bulky by today's 03:00:00 EST. Please see our
1990, as the story goes, Apple standards, but remember that this Sculley, who apparently thought won't second guess him -- while terms for use of feeds.
was supposedly working on a pen is 20 years ago now). the tablet idea was out, and the it's easy to think that anything Read| Permalink| Email this|
-based touchscreen tablet called So why weren't we all using PDA idea was in, and we ended could have beaten the Newton, Comments
the Pen Mac that was actually tablet computers 20 years ago? up with the Newton instead. I would the current Apple
extremely small for the time -- T e c h C r u n c h b l a m e s J o h n
26 Tech/ Tech Blog/
Examiner.com invades 5 The Cost of Larry
Canadian cities Johnson’s Gay Slur on
By Don Reisinger
(Webware.com) Twitter: $213,000
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:20:00 PM
Hyper-local publishing company
Examiner.com is set to launch its
service in five Canadian cities.
According to the organization,
Examiner will now provide
localized content to those living
in Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa,
Toronto, and Vancouver. The
company will also offer national
content for all those not living in
the five cities.
Examiner is growing up quickly
since its launch in April 2008.
Examiner now provides localized
content in 162 U.S. cities,
according to a company
spokesperson. It plans to add 40
more markets in the coming
months. With the expansion to
Canada now under way, the
How to rank real-time search
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:29:51 AM
Eric Schmidt says he can search
real-time stuff, but how to do
ranking?
Good question. Would have
been easier had Twitter not
spokesperson told me in a phone
conversation on Wednesday that
the company plans to bring its
service to the U.K. and Australia
by the first quarter of 2010.
Examiner's foray into the
Canadian market follows its
strategy in the U.S. market, the
spokesperson said. When it
launched in the U.S., only five
cities were covered. Today, local
"examiners" are posting more
than 15,000 stories per week.
Examiner is currently looking
for Canadians who are
"passionate about their interests
and areas of expertise" to join
one of the markets' local sites.
When Examiner chooses a writer,
they provide training on how to
write articles. All writers are
paid based on performance and
other metrics.
polluted the follower-count
measure of authority. But you
can still do it by making it
relevant on a personal level.
Someone I follow is a lot more
relevant than someone I don't.
After that people who are
followed by people I follow. That
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 8:57:48 PM
It was inevitable: a big time pro
athlete has been suspended for
comments made on Twitter, and
the price tag is a big one.
The player is Larry Johnson of
the Kansas City Chiefs and the
cost of his offense is $213,000,
the amount he would have earned
for the game he’ll miss due to
being suspended by the team.
Johnson was suspended for the
gay slurs he directed at a Twitter
heckler earlier in the week, a
comment he apparently repeated
in the Chiefs’ locker room.
We’ve seen a few similar albeit
smaller incidents in the past, like
when Antonio Cromartie of the
San Diego Chargers was fined
$2500 for tweeting about his
team’s less than stellar food at
training camp, and when Dallas
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
used his account to criticize
immediately cuts down the power
of the super-elites with millions
of followers (they tend not to
follow many).
Google is onto it with their
social search. I've been asking for
that, but in a different form. I
want to tell them that I'm the
referees.
The lesson here is fairly clear:
Twitter and other social media
are going to be viewed the same
any other medium, with the
messages carrying the same
amount of weight. While some
stars are capitalizing on that,
others are seemingly struggling
to come to terms with it. Perhaps
now that the steep price tag of
poor Twitter behavior has been
revealed, the lesson will be
quickly learned.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
tforgo Reviews: Twitter,
iStockphoto
Tags: football, nfl, sports, twitter
author of this blog. Now they
know a lot more about what my
interests are.
7/26/09: Two-way search.
So it would be nice if ranking
were a personal thing. Keep
going the way you're going Eric.
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Twitter Banning
Satirical 'Fake' Versions
Of Politicians?
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 7:21:16 PM
It's certainly become popular on
blogs and on Twitter to create
"fake" satirical versions of
various famous people. These
are usually humorous (or they try
to be) over-the-top
representations of these
celebrities. Usually, they are
quite obvious, even to the point
of saying that they are "the fake
so-and-so" or clearly stating in
the bio that this is fake. There
should be no confusion around
such things. However, a
journalist in India who created a
"fake" satirical Twitter profile for
Indian politician Shashi Tharoor
has found herself banned from
Twitter without any explanation
or chance to appeal. Now,
obviously it is Twitter's right to
decide whether or not to shut
down certain accounts, but you
would think with such an
obviously fake profile that the
company might be a bit more
careful and, at the very least,
communicate with the account
holder about the issues with the
account before just shutting it
down.
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Trademark Claims:
The Option Of Choice
For Censoring Critics
By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:36:00 PM

Seeds, Tools, and Via Michael Scott, we learn

about how the American
Training Federation of Teachers (AFT)
tried to shut down a blog critical
By noreply@blogger.com (Ad d e a t h s c a n b e t r a c e d t o of the group using a trademark
ServeRSS) (AD ServeRSS) malnutrition and hunger. But you claim. While the AFT eventually
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:35:00 PM
can help these children reach backed down, after pretty much
their God-given potential. everyone made it clear that it had
Every day is a fight for survival Your gift today will go toward
in many parts of Africa. But you World Vision programs in 19
DSi LL: Nintendo no chance to win a trademark
claim against a site that was
can help thousands of suffering countries across Africa. You’ll
children and families survive — help provide seeds and tools to
and thrive. Your gift to provide assist farmers in raising crops
supersizes its gaming clearly criticizing it, Ron
Coleman makes the point that
trademark is the "tort of choice

multiplied 4 times by grant improved agricultural techniques, handheld

seeds, tools, and training will be a n d l i v e s t o c k , t r a i n i n g i n

f u n d s , a n d c a n m e a n t h e and guidance on environmental (CNET News.com)

for censors." I'd suggest that
copyright isn't far behind, but it's
than the original DSi(Credit: r e a l l y a m a z i n g h o w o f t e n
difference between life and death protection. Your gift can also Nintendo Japan) trademark holders try to use
for hungry children. help provide emergency food, Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:12:00 AM Tor Thorsen has additional trademark claims to censor any
Severe food shortages often clean water, and other care as Nintendo has taken the wraps off details on the DSi LL/XL at kind of speech they dislike about
r e s u l t f r o m f a c t o r s t h a t needed to fight child hunger in a n e w v e r s i o n o f t h e D S i GameSpot. But, with the possible their mark. And even if the
compound each other: poor Africa. handheld that sports larger 4.25- exception of some bundled DSi trademark claim has no chance of
farming techniques, overplanting, Help African families get back inch dual screens. The portable Ware titles, this is exactly what it winning, it often doesn't matter to
environmental decline, drought, o n t h e i r f e e t w i t h c r i t i c a l gaming unit will be considerably looks like: a supersized version those who simply can't afford the
and natural disasters. Nutritious resources like seeds, tools, and bigger than current and previous of the DSi. We're still scratching time or the money to fight such
food is critical for a child’s training to grow food for years to DS and DSi models. It will be our head as to who would claims.
growth and development. In fact, come. dubbed the DSi LL in Japan actually want one of these, since Permalink| Comments| Email
more than half of all childhood w h e r e i t g o e s o n s a l e o n we've always felt the pocketable This Story
November 21 for 20,000 yen aspect of the DS/DSi was one of
Shell shake-up to shed 5,000 jobs (about $220). In Europe, the unit its great advantages. On the other
(Financial Times - US this year. will be known as the DSi XL hand, many of us never expected
homepage) It gave the update on job losses when it appears on store shelves Nintendo titles like Wii Fit to
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:23:15 AM
as it announced a decline in third- in the first quarter of 2010. achieve megahit status, either.
quarter profit that was a little Nintendo did not provide details What about you: would you be
Royal Dutch Shell said on smaller than analysts had, on on a possible North American interested in buying the DSi LL?
Thursday that a total of 5,000 average, expected. launch. Share your thoughts below.
staff would be leaving the Anglo- This content has passed through The DSi LL's larger screens This content has passed through
Dutch oil and gas group as part fivefilters.org. require a much larger housing fivefilters.org.
of a restructuring begun earlier
28 Tech/ Sports/ Internet News Record

Apple to bring changes Lawsuit Against Cable

to retail stores Companies For Not
Offering A La Carte
By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Channels Dismissed
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:00:00 AM By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:44:00 AM
Filed under: Apple Corporate,
Retail, Holidays As the holiday Two years ago, a class action
season brings additional shoppers lawsuit was filed against the
to Apple's retail stores, they'll be cable companies for not offering
making changes to ensure a a la carte channels. This is an
pleasant experience for the new eliminating the often time- issue that gets people up in arms
customers, ifoAppleStore reports.
First, they're going to ditch the
color-coded Starfleet uniform T-
consuming walk to the cash
register.
Watch for these changes at an
Seinfeld back with the -- even as studies have suggested
that mandated a la carte would
cost consumers more(though,
shirts, which shoppers have
found confusing. Instead, all
Apple Store near you.
TUAW Apple to bring changes
Mac in latest Curb others dispute those findings).
On the whole, I think that a la
employees will wear the same to retail stores originally
color. Next, the handheld
checkout devices will be
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu,
episode carte offerings that let people
choose their own channels would
certainly make consumers much
swapped out for specially- 29 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST. By Sang Tang (The Unofficial happens to be one of my all time happier (a good thing), but I have
equipped iPod touches. A new Apple Weblog (TUAW)) favorite shows -- Jerry is actively
Please see our terms for use of trouble believing that it should be
scanner accessory will interact feeds. discussing ideas with Seinfeld
Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:05:00 AM mandated by the government.
with point-of-sale software on the Read| Permalink| Email this| creator, Larry David. In the
So does the district court where
iPods. Best of all, employees will Comments Filed under: Odds and ends scene, a MacBook Pro is
the lawsuit was filed. It's now
be able to accept cash from Didn't it seem like it was ages prominently shown on Jerry's been dismissed, with the court
customers right where the stand, ago that those Microsoft desk.
saying that the plaintiffs failed to
commercials with Jerry Seinfeld Not that there's anything wrong
show the harm to the market. Of
Raptors get 28 from Bargnani, and Bill Gates commercials
aired? You know, the one with
with that.
TUAW Seinfeld back with the
course, the case will be appealed,
so this is a long way from over.
knock off Cavs the shopping for shoes, as well as
the one with the duo bonding
Mac in latest Curb episode
originally appeared on The
Permalink| Comments| Email
By Associated Press assists for the 25th triple-double with a family. Don't remember? This Story
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(ESPN.com) of his career. Well, apparently neither does (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:23:58 PM
• The Cavaliers dropped to 0-2 J e r r y S e i n f e l d , w h o w a s 08:05:00 EST. Please see our
for the first time since the 2004- purportedly paid USD $10 terms for use of feeds.
Fast Facts 05 season. million for the commercials. Permalink| Email this|
• Andrea Bargnani scored 28 • Cleveland had won its previous In the latest episode of HBO's Comments
points on 11 of 15 shooting, five games against the Raptors Curb Your Enthusiasm-- which
helping the Raptors hand the before Wednesday's loss.
Cavaliers their second straight -- ESPN Stats & Information
loss. This content has passed through
• LeBron James finished with 23 fivefilters.org.
points, 11 rebounds and 12
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EBay Says No to Scott Roeder

Benefit Auction
(Little Green Footballs) killing Wichita abortion doctor with simple human decency.
George Tiller will not be
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:38:49 AM
Those working on the fundraiser

iTunes TOS update permitted, company officials said

The Kansas City Star’s Judy L. Tuesday.
Thomas reports that eBay has “Based on the details we know
said banning the auction was a
violation of their rights.
“They’re not only chilling the
hints at Apple TV 3.0 rejected an auction by anti- about the anticipated listings, we
abortion extremists intended to believe these would violate our
First Amendment of the
Constitution, they’re raping the
raise money for Scott Roeder, the policy regarding offensive whole Constitution,” said Regina
software alleged murderer of Dr. George material,” the company said in a
Tiller. The auction would have statement to The Kansas City
Dinwiddie, a Kansas City
abortion opponent and friend of
By Megan Lavey (The check of my Apple TV reveals no included items such as an Army Star. “EBay will not permit the Roeder.
Unofficial Apple Weblog update has been pushed to the of God manual, a “cookbook” items in question to be posted to Apparently Dinwiddie and her
(TUAW)) devices as of yet. compiled by a woman in prison the eBay site, and they will be posse are trying to get Roeder to
Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:00:00 AM Many thanks to those who for abortion clinic bombings, and removed if they are posted.” plead “justifiable homicide” in
submitted the tip! signed drawings by Roeder. Roeder’s psycho-fanatical fans the murder of of Dr. Tiller.
Filed under: iTS, Apple TV TUAW iTunes TOS update hints An eBay auction planned by are as unacquainted with the US Otherwise known as a “good luck
A new terms of service at Apple TV 3.0 software abortion opponents to raise Constitution and the meaning of with that” defense.
agreement has been posted up for originally appeared on The money for the man accused of the First Amendment as they are
iTunes users to approve when U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
purchasing songs, movies or apps (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
-- but a read of the summary 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
reveals that Apple TV 3.0 terms for use of feeds.
software is on the way. Thus far, Read| Permalink| Email this|
all we know is that the update Comments
will include support for iTunes
LP s and iTunes Extras. A quick

Obama Administration Opposes UN Anti-Defamation Laws

(Little Green Footballs) barring the defamation of protect the freedom of religion is speech, the Organization of the speech in Muslim countries.
Submitted at 10/28/2009 3:54:26 PM
religion. By “religion,” the OIC to implement so-called anti- Islamic Conference, a group of Earlier today, President Obama
means “Islam.” defamation policies… . I strongly 56 Islamic nations, has been signed into law a new hate crimes
The Obama administration, Secretary of State Hillary disagree,” Clinton said. “The pushing hard for the U.N. Human bill that has been enraging the
through Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized on protection of speech about Rights Council to adopt religious right, because it extends
Clinton, came out strongly today Monday an attempt by Islamic religion is particularly important resolutions that broadly bar the federal hate crimes to include
against the Organization of the countries to prohibit defamation since persons of different faiths defamation of religion. The effort assaults against people due to
Islamic Conference’s efforts to of religions, saying such policies will inevitably hold divergent has raised concerns that such sexual orientation.
get the UN Human Rights would restrict free speech. views on religious questions.” resolutions could be used to
Council to adopt resolutions “Some claim that the best way to While unnamed in Clinton’s justify crackdowns on free
30 Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

Put Together a Winter Car Emergency Kit [Winter Upgrades]

By Jason Fitzpatrick average American you can go a
(Lifehacker) very long time without food. You
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:30:00 AM
won't last very long frozen solid
and you won't last very long
Earlier this week we talked without water, and you'll hasten
about an emergency kit for your the former by getting the water
home, now it's time to focus on you need from the icy snow
your car and how to be prepared around you.
for the unpleasantness of being The water situation can be a
stranded in a winter wonderland. tricky one, after all if you've been
Compared to creating a home driving for hours out in the cold
winter emergency kit a car the giant jug of water you've got
emergency kit has two principle in the trunk is likely as frozen as
differences. First, you're severely the snow on the back bumper.
limited on space compared to This is where having smaller
home preparations—and you water containers is much handier,
burn extra gas hauling your loot smaller bottles are easier to thaw
around. Second, when the power out in the heat of the car.
goes out and the party stops at Alternately you can keep your
your house, you're still at home water in a small cooler. I have a
safe and sound. When your car $19 Coleman cooler that can
gets stuck in the middle of no keep drinks cold in my trunk for
where and it's 12F out, it's a almost a week, it could certainly
radically worse situation that work in the opposite direction
could end tragically. Keep Your and keep things unfrozen longer.
Car Topped Off and Well If you live in a particularly rough
Serviced and isolated area, you might
You can't avoid every curve ball thought "Man I'm glad I skipped for the absolute worst mind you, isn't going to buy you a whole lot consider keeping an emergency
Old Man Winter will throw at that $200 tune up." Photo by nobody expects you to keep a of time or comfort. At minimum stove and small camp pan in your
you, but if you run out of gas on T o m e L e m o . A s s e s s Y o u r surgical kit and a guide to field you should plan to be stuck with kit for melting snow—the two
a lonely and frozen highway Driving Patterns and Plan for the s u r g e r y i n y o u r c a r . M o s t your car for a day—it's a rarity to will run you under $15.
because you'd passed a half Worst emergency kits fall woefully be in such a situation but the cost Food is, as noted above, not as
dozen gas stations while running The amount of inclement short through. What if the of being prepared versus the cost critical as water but you should
on less than a quarter of a tank, weather preparation you'll need accident/stranding/car breaking of being unprepared makes it a include it anyway. You'll want to
you can't exactly point your to undertake is largely dependent down leaves you stuck in the veritable bargain to make sure focus on packing calorie-dense,
finger at anyone. The same goes on the kind of driving you do. middle of nowhere in a blizzard you have the right supplies. non-perishable foods. Energy
for having your tuned up and Winters can be bitter in New for a day or more? It sounds Hydration and Heat are Critical bars, nuts, granola and dried fruit
road-ready. We know it's not York City, but you won't need preposterous to a city dweller, Staying warm and staying well are all great choices. It is best to
cheap and owning a vehicle can the kind of gear in your trunk that but the US is a very big place and hydrated are the most important select food you actually normally
be quite a monkey sink, but someone who commutes on the in bad weather you'll find many a t h i n g s t o c o n s i d e r w h e n enjoy eating and then rotate it out
nobody huddled in a broken rural highways of North Dakota road goes untraveled for long contemplating being stranded in of the car every few weeks. That
down car on the side of a would need. stretches of time. Having an ice your car. You can go a long, way you won't be stuck gnawing
deserted road and slowly losing When it comes to planning for scraper, a half eaten bag of a l b e i t u n c o m f o r t a b l e t i m e ,
the feeling in their limbs has the worst, you don't need to plan Combos, and some frozen gum without food. If you're an PUT page 32
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From the Tips Box: Windows 7 Screencasting, Quicksilver,
and Recipes [From The Tips Box]
By Whitson Gordon
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:00:00 PM
Readers offer their best tips for
screencasting in Windows 7,
using Quicksilver to launch
applications in VMware, and
organizing your personal recipes
using a blog.
Don't like the gallery layout?
Click here to view everything on
one page.
About the Tips Box: Every day
we receive boatloads of great
reader tips in our inbox, but for
various reasons—maybe they're a
bit too niche, maybe we couldn't
find a good way to present it, or
maybe we just couldn't fit it
in—the tip didn't make the front
page. From the Tips Box is
where we round up some of our
favorites for your buffet-style
consumption. Got a tip of your
own to share? Add it in the
comments or email it to tips at
lifehacker.com.
Built-In Screencasting in
Windows 7
Mark shows us a nice built-in
feature of Windows 7:
I found if you just type "PSR" in
the run box, the problem solution
recorder pops up. It looks similar
to the sound recorder, and when
you press record, it captures key
actions and saves them as an
MHT in a zip file (I assume
MHT is Media HyperText
Markup Language, because it is
all in one file).
Launching Windows
Applications in VMware with
Quicksilver
Photo by Ben Becker.
Joe shares a convenient tip on
how to further Quicksilver's
usefulness:
If you add
~/Documents/Virtual
Machines/[name of the
vm].vmwarevm/Applications
to the Quicksilver catalog you
can index all of the apps in your
VMWare virtual machine and use
Quicksilver from within the PC
Virtual Machine or even launch
PC apps from your Mac desktop
Tech Tips/ 31
Recipes
Photo by Jennifer Dickert.
Sara-Elizabeth shares her
favorite tool for recipe logging:
I know you've had lots of people
suggesting ways to keep up with
recipes, but I'd like to add my
two cents. Borrowing on the idea
of saving the recipes in
Delicious, I then created a
Blogspot account and posted the
individual recipes as entries (with
photos uploaded to my personal
web space and source noted). I
can quickly find recipes based on
certain criteria and I'm even able
to link within recipes to other
recipes needed for the whole
project.
Use Wax or Crayons to Keep
Wood From Splitting
Photo by Chris Metcalf.
Stephen shares another way to
e v e n w h e n t h e V M i s n o t I'd like to be able to hibernate at keep wood from splitting:
powered on (it will start VMware the end of the work day, but not Surprised that no one has
automatically)... Its faster than still be logged on to my work mentioned wax, even a crayon,
using the start menu! acct...) I wrote (of all things) a get it onto the nail and the nail
Quick Log Off and Hibernate two line batch file: drives about five times easier and
David tells us how he closes shutdown /l much less chance of splitting, to
down his computer quickly shutdown /h boot.
( w i t h o u t s h u t t i n g d o w n I named it LogoffHib.bat and And absolutely put wax onto a
completely): saved it to a convenient place, long screw that you're running
I came up with a very simple then made a shortcut to it on my into hard wood — you'll be
solution to a problem I've had, d e s k t o p , c o m p l e t e w i t h amazed at the difference. Soap
and I thought it might be Ctrl+Alt+End shortcut key, and works also, wax is better IMO.
something others would like to B o o m ! I ' v e s e a r c h e d f o r
do as well. I've been looking for something like this for ages and
a way to easily log off of my never found anything, but I
account _and_ hibernate my thought someone else in a similar
Vista system in one step (I have situation might like it too.
work acct and a home acct, and Use a Blog to Keep Up with
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continued from page 30
on a four year old protein bar
when you eventually have to bust
into your emergency kit.
Have a sleeping bag—winter
weight!—in the truck, along with
winter boots and additional
winter clothing. The clothes don't
need to be fancy they just need to
keep you warm, so throw in some
older winter gear that doesn't see
much use. Don't overlook hats,
scarves, and gloves here, they
help keep heat in at high loss
points like the neck and head.
Photo by Muffet. Be Able to
Signal
You know what a light colored
car, in a ditch, in a snow storm
looks like? Nothing. You don't
want to be looked over by other
motorists and rescue workers as
you sit in your car freezing. You
need a way to signal. Plan on
your car's electrical system being
out of commission and have an
LED emergency beacon or two in
your car.
They aren't particularly
expensive, you can pick them up
Son or Daughter for Mark Wahlberg
& Pregnant Wife?
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:57:00 AM
Mark Wahlberg and wife Rhea The youngest of nine, Mark, 38, kids right. With all the success or torrent—and leave your torrent Koala)[Ubuntu Releases via
Durham are welcoming their said four kids is enough for him. I've had in the world, if I fail at client running for a bit to help Gizmodo]
fourth child and the actor "We were all raised with a lot of that, my life means nothing."
r e v e a l e d w h e t h e r t h e y ' r e love. But we didn't get the kind
expecting a boy or a girl. of attention I think that we all
at backpacking and outdoor
stores and they even have ones
designed for automotive
emergency use at many auto
supply stores. For the unfamiliar
it's essentially a battery powered
strobe, like the kind of little and
intense strobes above emergency
exits. It's highly visible for long
distance, even in a snow storm,
and it lets emergency workers
know that you're in need of help.
While you're shopping for a
beacon, don't forget to get an
LED flashlight or two. Aim for
getting a lower power flashlight
with a long battery life, some of
the high-intensity models chew
up batteries really fast. Photo by
S. Diddy. Dealing with the Little
Things
Our list up to this point has
leaned towards the extreme side
of things like preparing to make
sure you don't freeze to death on
the side of the road, a rather
important thing to be prepared to
ward off. On the less-fatal side of
things, and certainly the more
"I'm having another girl," Mark needed. My parents had to
told People.com. "So I'll have provide to put food on the table.
two girls and two boys."
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common, you'll be dealing with
things like getting stuck but
having assistance nearby.
Here having things on hand like
a bag of sand in your trunk for
additional traction and a tow rope
or chain if you've got a good
Samaritan at hand but the tow
truck is no where to be found are
extremely helpful. In addition to
a bag of sand, a shovel is always
handy. Look for a sturdy one
sized for a child, it'll fit in the
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
trunk better and still have a fairly
wide surface area compared to a
Koala Out Now
tiny emergency shovel. Photo by
Kennymatic.
Think of something we didn't
[Downloads]
include in our list? Have a story By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) spread the open-source vibes.
or two about being stuck in the Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:00 AM
Already running the beta or
snows of the great white north? release candidate? Assuming
Let's hear about it in the The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 you've been keeping up with your
comments. has hit Ubuntu's servers a little updates, you're already running
bit ahead of its front page. Grab a the final version by now. If
torrent or ISO of the free Linux updates happen at a molasses
operating system while the pace today and tomorrow, try
servers aren't slammed. switching to a mirror server to
From our own experiences, and move things along.
those of commenters, the final We've previously taken a look
release of Karmic Koala will around 9.10 in beta, posted
g e n e r a t e e n o u g h t r a f f i c t o a"emergency key" restoration tip,
seriously slow, if not entirely and showed non-Ubuntu users
404, Ubuntu.com's web servers. where they can grab the new
If you're good with BitTorrent icons and wallpapers. Now's your
downloading, it's likely your best turn—tell us what you've liked,
bet for today. Grab the copy you loathed, and tweaked in the latest
need—for most users, that's the Ubuntu release in the comments.
ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386 image U b u n t u 9 . 1 0 ( K a r m i c
My mission in life is to raise my
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ Economy/ 33

US economy
grows by 3.5%
(Financial Times - US
Google Music Search homepage)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:57:23 AM

Officially Launched The US economy grew for the

first time in a year as an
[Music] aggressive array of stimulus
measures brought an end to the
Minimalist Gmail Pares By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:30:00 PM
Still, Google already puts video
results from YouTube in the
longest period of contraction
since the Great Depression.
US gross domestic product grew
search results page, and more
Gmail Down to the We already knew it was coming, often than not they're what you're
but today Google is officially looking for, anyway.
at an annualised rate of 3.5 per
cent in the third quarter after

Basics [Downloads] l a u n c h i n g b u i l t - i n m u s i c Right now we're not seeing the

playback results on regular updates in our results, but
Google search queries. chances are you'll start seeing
shrinking in each of the past four
quarters, commerce department
figures showed on Thursday.
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) and the header itself (with the Much has been made of this new them in the next day or so if you Wall Street analysts forecast that
Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:30:00 AM
very important search bar) is feature, and it certainly will make aren't already. the economy would grow by 3.2
accessible through a tiny arrow it easier for users to get straight So what do you think? Excited per cent.
Firefox: If you liked the look of placed in the upper-left corner. to a song they're looking for, but
about the new music-in-Google This content has passed through
Zen Habits' Minimalist Gmail Here are your options with the it's not something we're getting
features, or kind of lukewarm fivefilters.org.
adaptation, but don't usually roll Minimalist Gmail menu:
all that excited about. We'll admit like us? Let's hear your thoughts
with Greasemonkey scripts, a Gina's own Better Gmail 2 that finding and playing back a in the comments. Making search
coder has put together a single extension can hide some of the song when all you've done is
more musical[Official Google
Firefox extension that can hide same elements as Minimalist search for lyrics is kind of cool.
Blog]
header, footer, and sidebar Gmail, along with adding other
elements for an elegant look. features that might work nicely in
After installing the extension, conjunction with the skinning
you'll get a "Minimalist Gmail" extension. Minimalist Gmail is a
Hollywood Hunks Cite Chivalry as
menu in the upper-right corner of free download, works wherever
Gmail. Click it, and you'll have F i r e f o x d o e s . M i n i m a l i s t Gentlemanly Quality
the option to hide whatever Gmail[Matt Constantine via Zen (ETonline - Breaking News)
pieces of the Gmail interface you Habits] wife Demi Moore to the event, mirror.
said, "I think it's about how you Josh Lucas responded,
want. They'll still be accessible Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:53:00 AM
treat other people...with respect "Chivalry. I think that's the main
by keyboard shorcuts, of course,
ET caught up with some of and kindness and the way that thing and being someone who
Hollywood's most handsome you would like to be treated. And thinks more about what you can
s t u d s a t " G Q M a g a z i n e ' s then beyond that, I think it's give back than necessarily what
Gentlemen's Ball" on Wednesday about carrying yourself in a way you can get."
night. They revealed what it takes that you want to be seen." He
to win over a lady's heart. said he aims to be proud of the
Ashton Kutcher, who escorted man he sees when he looks in the
34 Tech Tips/ Tech News/ Fashion/ Internet News Record

Will Google Listeners Bankrupt

Kill New Program
Highlighting in Any Start
Menu [Windows Tip]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:00:00 AM
If you're a frequent tester or
tinkerer, you know that Windows
likes to "highlight" your newest
installed apps and program
folders in the Start Menu, and
doesn't turn it off until you take
notice. Stop that with a little-
known setting.
If you never thought to look in
your Start Menu settings, there's
a simple toggle, located in
slightly different places in XP
Lala?
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 8:10:00 PM
The question period after today's
launch of Google's OneBox
music search focused a great deal
on the project delivering users
with easy "legitimate music"
versus other illegitimate sources.
While discussion was centered
around squashing the millions of
illegal torrent files available for
download, the truth is that a
number of streaming music sites
like Imeem have worked hard to
pen legitimate label deals. While
and Vista/7, that turns off the some may wonder why iLike and
highlighting of newly-installed Lala were chosen above others to
programs that can be rather benefit from the Google deal,
irritating. Both toggles are found many more are worried that the
under the "Customize" menu companies will be unable to
tucked into a button in your Start offset label fees via premium
menu's properties, which can be subscriptions and advertising.
accessed by a right-click. For a Sponsor
more direct roadmap to program- Said rap superstar Mos Def, "I
highlight freedom, check the full personally wasn't happy to see
post at the How-To Geek's home how the labels responded to
away from Lifehacker. Quick Napster. I thought that was a
Tip: Disable Highlighting New missed opportunity with the fans.
Programs in Windows 7, Vista, It seems to me that this project
and XP[the How-To Geek]
revisits this with a better
can't offset the licensing fees
with ad revenue. There's only so
much you can do with
advertising, but the [pure]
subscription model ensures that
you're running something
sustainable."
In anticipation of a future
European launch, one reporter
suggested Spotify as a legitimate
source for streaming music to
Google VP of Search Marissa
perspective towards the fans- not Mayer. Said Mayer knowingly,
from an adversarial point of "Your suggestion is duly noted."
view. " Still, many wonder If Hyman is as confident in his
whether this new fan-friendly hunch about freemium services
discovery engine will bankrupt as we think he is, he may even be
those footing the bill. While hoping that Spotify cuts a
iLike likely has a huge amount of European Google deal and burns
resources from MySpace, Lala is through its cash before its US
betting on the fact that users will launch. It'll be interesting to see
use up their initial 25 song credits if Google will be the catalyst in
and take the plunge to premium. swaying listeners to pay for their
Last month MOG CEO David purchases or if streaming music
Hyman spoke to ReadWriteWeb startups will continue to tweak
a b o u t t h e l a u n c h o f h i s and revisit their monetization
subscription service. When asked strategies.
if he would offer free listening, For complete launch details visit
Hyman declined saying, "The F r e d e r i c Lardinois'
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Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers

By Jolie O'Dell - something that has taken off to users. subscriptions.
(ReadWriteWeb) the extent of taking over the Developer Product Changes Finally, Facebook's Developer
Submitted at 10/28/2009 6:39:49 PM
platform, and not something that Beard also highlighted two APIs Principles and Policies have been
was necessarily anticipated. For actions. set to change. The Open Graph streamlined and will now be
Today, Facebook has published that reason, we see of the most Apps are also getting a new API will allow any page on any applied across the platform. "In
a developer roadmap outlinining interesting changes as drawing a canvas layout, "a format that website to integrate Facebook addition," Beard notes, "we're
upcoming relevant changes and a line in the sand between social increases brand association with Page features. This means that retiring the formerly optional
rough timeline for each. games and "real" apps. users," writes Beard. users can become Facebook fans Application Verification brand,
Changes include developer In this bit of new hotness, you Communication Changes of any site or page on the submission process, fees and
access to user emails, more can see Apps displayed on the App-user communication is Internet; that page would then badge; the program's higher
prominent app displays on user homepage left-hand menu for rather busted in its current state. appear on the user's profile and in standards will be required and
profiles, all-new homepage easier user discovery that will Beard acknowledges this fact and Facebook search results; and the applications will be subject to
dashboards for apps and games, likely be less dependent on presents a preliminary solution. page will be able to publish review at any time."
and improvements to Open recommendations or invitations "Application communication in stories to the user's stream. In terms of reducing the
Graph and Analytics APIs. from one's Facebook friends. channels like notifications and Although this change in itself platform's complexity and
Facebook Connect libraries will And Games are now just games, requests aren't effectively serving doesn't open any Facebook data increasing its power and speed,
be "smaller, clearer, and faster," no longer grouped under the their original purpose. There is a to the rest of the world, it does Beard concludes, "We are
and app policies and principles general apps umbrella. significant opportunity to significantly increase the focused on designing Platform in
w i l l b e s t r e a m l i n e d a n d The Games Dashboard will also improve the user experience and boundaries of the walled garden. a way that we can run core
uniformly enforced. Read on for g i v e d e v e l o p e r s a n e w reduce spam by replacing them Beard also writes that an Facebook applications on the
details and screenshots of the communication channel, called with better features." improved Application Insights same set of APIs you're building
new faces of Facebook apps. "News", for sending personalized Moving forward, Facebook Page and new Analytics API are on. If our technologies aren't fast,
Sponsor text updates to their users. developers will also be able to o n t h e w a y . H e p r o m i s e s robust, and simple, we will feel
"These updates are designed to One of the more interesting interact with users in several improved tools, more robust data, the same pains that you do."
simplify communication for users changes that will drive adoption different ways. First of all, user- a n d b e t t e r m a n a g e m e n t What do our developer friends
and developers, improve app and interaction virally is letting user communication via the c a p a b i l i t i e s f o r a p p s a n d have to say about Facebook's
discovery and engagement, and usersfeature their favorite apps platform will be consolidated into F a c e b o o k C o n n e c t - e n a b l e d proposed changes and attempts at
p r o v i d e y o u w i t h m o r e on their home pages with streams and inboxes and will w e b s i t e s . communicating them? Is it
comprehensive tools for building bookmarks and new dashboards. have new features to help users And speaking of Facebook helpful to have some idea of what
or expanding your business with "In addition, users will be able to remain engaged with apps. User- Connect, those libraries are set to will be happening to the
Facebook," writes Facebook better represent applications on t o - u s e r c o m m u n i c a t i o n s become smaller and faster. Other platform, when changes will
product head Ethan Beard on the their profile following short-term commonly in the notifications boons to devs include the public occur, and why Facebook is
Facebooks Developer blog post. changes that include focusing and requests channels will be roadmap, a new website for making those adjustments?
"Through these new APIs and profile integration on application moved to the inbox, as well. developers, and Platform Live Another question that interests
t o o l s , w e a r e g i v i n g a l l tabs, as well as removing profile Also, developers will have Status, "a central dashboard to us is that of cross-platform
d e v e l o p e r s b u i l d i n g w i t h boxes, the info section of boxes, access to user email addresses. view the health of various development: From what other
Facebook and those in our largest and the Boxes tab," writes Beard. Using the d o m a i n integration points, bugs, and companies would you also like to
application category - gaming - A l s o , t h e a p p s t h a t a r e @facebookappmail.com, devs Platform uptime as well as detail see developer roadmaps?
new ways to attract and engage b o o k m a r k e d i n t o a u s e r ' s will be able to contact users via about upcoming changes and Let us know your thoughts in the
users." Look & Feel Changes homepage menu will have email through what Beard says improvements to Platform." The comments. Discuss
Indeed, Facebook seems to counters, just like Facebook's will be a safe, secure channel for developer blog and status feed
regard gaming as its own monster own features, to prompt user will also be available via email
36 Tech News/ Fashion/ Internet News Record

AdMob Reports on Mobile Web's Explosive Growth

By Sarah Perez month and now accounts for 43% with 49.5% of requests, most of smartphone crown, especially
(ReadWriteWeb) of all smartphone requests that from the U.S., and the given the company's plans to
Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:15:11 AM
worldwide. In the U.S., that second largest region is Asia, continue spreading its OS across
percentage is even slightly accounting for 25.3% of requests. numerous devices worldwide. As
Mobile ad firm AdMob has higher, with iPhone traffic market. While still far behind the Western Europe, Africa, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt
revealed the dramatic changes the accounting for nearly half (48%) iPhone OS in terms of traffic Latin America follow with 9.4%, recently declared, "Android
mobile industry has seen in their of all smartphone requests. with only 17% of U.S. traffic and 5.3% and 5.0% respectively. adoption is about to explode."
second annual Mobile Metrics Apple devices (iPhone and iPod only 10% of traffic worldwide, Looking at just percentage Also, AdMob noted on an earlier
R e p o r t , r e l e a s e d j u s t t h i s Touch) also claim the top two Google's mobile OS is already increases in traffic growth, a blog entry that there are already
morning. Believe it or not, it was spots on both the U.S. and the beating out competitors like different picture appears. Latin 12 Android phones already
only a year ago that the Motorola worldwide charts of top handsets. RIM, the maker of Blackberry America is showing a large available through 32 carriers in
RAZR scored as the number one However, feature phones like the devices, and Windows Mobile. It percent increase year-over-year 26 countries. By the time they
phone here in the U.S. while the RAZR v3 and Samsung's R450 has also claimed two spots on the at 0.6%, second only to North release their next Mobile Metrics
iPhone was the only touchscreen are still making the top ten list as top 10 chart of handset models in America's 1.1%. Other regions in report, those numbers are sure to
device to even make the list of well and account for 60% of ad the U.S with the HTC Dream the top five, while still have increased.
top ten handsets. Only a year requests in the U.S. - a figure coming in at number 3 and the accounting for large numbers of What all this means to the
later, and so much has changed. that's likely due to the unlimited HTC Magic coming in at number requests, actually saw slight consumer is that smartphones are
Now half of the top ten are data plans available with each of 10. Worldwide, the Dream is also decreases in growth (less than now edging out feature phones as
touchscreen devices, six include these devices. Key Takeaway #2: number 3, but the Magic only 0.5%) over the past year. the devices of choice. More
Wi-Fi capabilities, and six have Watch Out! Android is Rising makes it to spot number 15. Key Smartphones are Taking Over, phones than ever come with the
mobile application stores. And as Fast Takeaway #3: Outside of U.S., Mobile Web Grows advanced capabilities like
you would expect, this new crop Now climbing up the charts, Mobile Web Strong in India, While none of the data included touchscreens, full-featured web
of super-powered phones are Google's Android, the newcomer Indonesia, U.K., Philippines in this report is all that surprising, browsers, and Wi-Fi. With
making heavy use of the mobile to the mobile operating system When looking at the number of it's interesting to see actual features like these, more people
web. game, is beginning to have an ad requests by country, the U.S. numbers put to the reported will begin to surf the mobile web
Sponsor impact on mobile web traffic as is still dominating with 47.3% of trends. We can now see the and download mobile
Key Takeaway #1: iPhone Still well. From August to September all requests coming from the disproportionate amount of web applications. This, in turn, will
the Top Smartphone Worldwide of 2009, the percentage of States. The next nearest country, surfing done by iPhone users, no drive related changes in mobile
and Has Traffic to Prove It smartphone traffic generated by India, only comes in at 6.5%. doubt thanks to the phone's Safari platforms, communication, e-
Among the devices making the devices running the Android OS Rounding out the top five are web browser, a vast improvement Commerce, and more, all of
heaviest use of the mobile web grew a whopping 13% over the Indonesia, the U.K., and the over the browsers included in which are bound to see similar
are the iPhone and its non- course of the month. That's a Philippines. These numbers point many other mobile devices on the upward trends over the coming
smartphone counterpart, the iPod dramatic increase in such a short to heavy mobile web use in each market. months. Discuss
Touch. The data traffic created period of time and gives credence of these countries as compared It's also worth noting how fast
by these two handhelds has to recent reports that Android is with the rest of the world. Android is moving up the charts
i n c r e a s e d 1 9 t i m e s f r o m poised to become the number two When grouped by larger regions, right now. It could very well be
September 2008 to this past smartphone in the worldwide North America is number one the next contender to the

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Internet News Record
Google Wave Use Cases: Education
By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:43:19 AM
Google Wave is a much hyped
new Internet-based
communications and
collaboration platform. It was
announced at the end of May,
released as a 'Preview' product
shortly after and 100,000 more
invites were made available at
the end of September.
Early users reported mixed
feelings. But one month after
Google Wave was opened to tens
of thousands of people, how are
people using it now? What use
cases are being discovered? Let's
start with the education sector.
We'll explore other use cases in
upcoming posts.
Sponsor
What is Google Wave Again?
A quick reminder of what
Google Wave is. In a nutshell,
Google Wave is a new form of
real-time communications.
Google describes it as "equal
parts conversation and
document." In our first 'hands-on'
post at the beginning of June, we
described it as "real-time email
with a big dose of IM built-in" -
although we noted that "this only
describes a small part of what
Wave can do."
In a recent CNN profile, Wave
creators Lars and Jens
Rasmussen described it as
making email "collaborative and
instant." Wave in Class
After searching some public
'waves,' we came across an
educational wave. Entitled 'Wave
in Class,' this wave was started
by Loren Baum (a self-described
"collaborative learning
enthusiast" and graduate student
at Ben Gurion University) and
Sam Boland (a Politics student
and "Tech Enthusiast" at
Occidental College, Los
Angeles).
The wave was started to explore
concepts like "Collaborative Note
Taking" and "Wave as a
Debate Host." Nearly 100 people
are included in the wave, ranging
from teachers to PhD students to
IT professionals to high school
students.
This particular wave was framed
at the start as being "a set of
collaborative documents,
supported by a chat."
As a note-taking tool, Samuel
Boland wrote that "there appears
to be a concensus that this
[Google Wave] will work as a
note-taking tool, the only
disagreement is over how to
implement it." Options for note-
taking include voluntary extra-
curricular groups, rotating in-
class groups and small in-class
groups.
A few users enthused later in the
wave that "Google Wave
combines a lot of the best
features from different
applications" - but with a real-
time twist. It was noted that
while Google Docs can be used
to share notes and collaborate on
assignments, with Google Wave
students can collaborate in real-
time. This could be important in
education for things like
notetaking, asking questions
(a.k.a. a backchannel) and
collaborative projects.
Another feature of Wave that
would be useful for education
purposes, according to this 100-
person wave, is the play-back
ability - "so instructors can see
exactly who did what, and see the
progression of ideas." Will Wave
Make Students Lazy?
One concern that seemed to pop
up several times in the wave was
that Google Wave could make it
too easy for lazy students to get
by. As Justin Neitzey succinctly
put it: "I don't think kids should
be allowed piggy back of the
work of others."
This is a similar concern that
some in the education system had
with Wolfram Alpha, another
innovative Web tool that is set to
change the way education is
delivered.
Manny Guendulay responded
that "reading those notes and
participating in the collaboration
of those notes hold totally
different of levels of thinking."
He argued that "the person
simply reading the notes
(passively learning) has no
chance to perform at the same
level as someone who helped
collaborate (active learning) on
those notes, or even watched and
read along while they were being
created."
In other words, engaging with
Google Wave - and the Web in
general in fact - will lead to
smarter, better performing
students. That sounds reasonable
to us, but time will tell for both
Google Wave and Wolfram
Alpha on that score. Conclusion
Overall, it is clear that Google
Wave has potential to be very
useful in the education system,
particularly as a real-time
collaborative note-taking tool.
Three students experimented
with just that in a lecture; the
resulting notes were said to be
"more complete" than if Wave
hadn't been used.
If you're interested in exploring
other education waves, check
these out:
• Higher Ed Directory (meta)
• Software Roles in Education- a
structured, goal driven
exploration
• Wave for Notes- about note
taking
• Student-side Class
Management: a Wave template
Discuss
Tech News/ TV/ 37
Craig Ferguson's
show goes dark
... literally
By Danny Gallagher (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:03:00 AM
Craig Ferguson is not just a
consummate entertainment
professional. He's a five armed
plate spinner, a punchline
deliverer with a Jack Dempsey
right cross, a Horatio Alger of
guffaws. He puts his whole being
into every late night show and
comedy performance he does that
he could even make an audience
laugh if they were in total
darkness.
Sound like a bigger tall tale than
Pecos Bill taking Amelia Earhart
to the homecoming prom? Here's
the proof. His Late Late Show
suffered a power outage towards
the end of Tuesday night's
episode and he still stepped in
front of the camera with only a
flashlight to serve as his comedy
spotlight. This convinces me that
if a bull suddenly got loose in the
studio, Ferguson could use the
moment to make the audience
laugh until they are gasping for
life while teaching the bull
English just so he could beat an
apology out of it. Chuck Norris
never made me laugh,
intentionally.
Filed under: Late Night,
Celebrities, Reality-Free
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Amazon Speeds Checkout with New PayPhrase

Technology
By Sarah Perez 1-Click, the new PayPhrase checkout system today. Even
(ReadWriteWeb) system is even easier to use and PayPal forces you to sign in,
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:53:26 AM
more flexible. Using this system, choose payment methods, and ABC locks in December
shoppers don't have to be signed using their personal and payment complete your transaction before
Online retailer Amazon.com has in to the site with an Amazon information saved on Amazon's being redirected back to the return dates for Scrubs
just announced a new checkout account as is necessary with 1- servers. At this time, DKNY, retailer's website. While a few and Better Off Ted
system called " PayPhrase" Click. That saves an extra step Jockey, Patagonia, Buy.com, extra steps aren't a big deal on the By Robert Seidman
which speeds up the process of and could lead to more impulse J & R , a n d C a r - T o y s h a v e web, when you're on a mobile (TVbytheNumbers)
making online purchases by buys as there's no "cooling announced they will add the phone, every delay makes it that
allowing shoppers to enter a down" time, however brief, PayPhrase system on their sites, much harder thanks to slower Submitted at 10/28/2009 7:07:55 PM

unique phrase and 4-digit PIN between seeing something you too. Is PayPhrase the Future of internet connection speeds, tiny Ah December. Dancing With the
n u m b e r t o c o m p l e t e t h e i r want to purchase and then Mobile Transactions? keyboards, and, more often than
Stars goes away for a while and
transaction. Both the phrase and finalizing the transaction. Clearly, the new PayPhrase not, a lack of time to get involved the Renew/Cancel Index gets at
PIN are created in advance and The PayPhrase system also technology has been designed to in any long process. If you can't least a little holiday season
are linked to a shipping address allows for the creation of make online checkout easier, but checkout in a minute or so, it's nutmeg spice as Scrubs and
a n d p r e f e r r e d m e t h o d o f multiple PayPhrases and PINs so could there be more to it than g e n e r a l l y n o t e v e n w o r t h Better Off Ted make their
payment. After the initial set up, you can associate different that? Earlier this month, the bothering until you're back at returns. The Index should have
PayPhrase users are no longer a d d r e s s e s a n d m e t h o d s o f company launched a mobile h o m e o n y o u r b r o a d b a n d - had enough time to heal from the
required to sign in or fill out payment with each other. For payments service which allows c o n n e c t e d P C . B u t w i t h stinging Scrubs dealt it by
credit card information when example, you could additionally mobile application developers to PayPhrase, you can checkout predicting doom for Scrubs
shopping online. have a corporate credit card tied integrate Amazon's checkout incredibly fast - only two steps practically every week last
Sponsor to your office address or a pre- system into their mobile software are required: one to enter your season. Since then the Index has
Why PayPhrase Beats 1-Click paid credit card your children use and mobile websites. The mobile special phrase and another to learned to play it at least a bit
Amazon already has a similar tied to your home address. 1- payments system also allows for e n t e r y o u r P I N . A l t h o u g h faster and looser with 30 minute
speedy checkout system known Click checkout, on the other the integration of the 1-Click Amazon hasn't made any formal sitcoms.
as "1-Click." When activated, h a n d , o n l y a l l o w s f o r t h e checkout process, so there's no announcements about integrating Scrubs will return with double
customers can associate payment combination of one address and r e a s o n t o d o u b t t h a t t h e PayPhrase into their mobile episodes on Tuesday, December
methods with a frequently used one method of payment. PayPhrase technology will now platform just yet, they must have 1 from 9pm to 10pm, and then
shipping address, such as a home The PayPhrase technology will also be added to the payments h a d i t i n m i n d w h e n t h e y Better Off Ted will take the
address, to quickly complete go live across all of Amazon.com platform as well. designed this technology.
9:30p slot on December 8.
purchases without having to fill as well as on several third-party With PayPhrase, the process of D i s c u s s Source: Josef Adalian’s twitter
out their name, address, and sites that use "Checkout by making an online purchase takes feed
credit card details. Amazon," a service that lets other far less steps than any other This content has passed through
Although not designed to replace retailers checkout customers by
fivefilters.org.
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Turn Your Windows 7 Computer Review: Modern Family

Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes, - Run for Your Wife
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Free & No Hardware Submitted at 10/29/2009 1:30:00 AM

By Jolie O'Dell allows multiple users to (S01E06) Once again, the three
(ReadWriteWeb) piggyback off a single families on this show needn't
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:35:21 PM
connection. Oh, and the MiFi and interact at all for the series to
gamut between Sticking It To similar devices cost a bit - or a lot work. Maybe if someone were
Connectify.me is a new service The Man and Violating My ISP's - to buy and maintain, but tuning in for the first time,
we just found out about. They've T O S ; n e v e r t h e l e s s , i t ' s a n Connectify is free to install and completely unaware that the three
sussed out how to make any interesting, fun little hack that run. families were all related, they'd
Windows 7 computer into a WiFi should've been done long ago. Connectify runs on Windows 7 be confused as to why we're
hotspot. Since we just installed Installation is simple. Go to the and Windows Server 2008 r2. following these three separate
Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we website, click the big, shiny Why no other Windows OSes, storylines. Even then, though, I
figured it was about time to make button, run the .exe file, follow you ask? "Connectify depends on suspect they'd still laugh at Lily's
Windows do something cool, so the prompt. You'll then see a improvements made in Windows costumes and Manny's
we installed the app. C o n n e c t i f y l o g o i n t h e 7 to operate," reads the site's
Colombian pan flute.
We were quite literally up and notification tray. It's party time! FAQ. "Frankly, Windows 7 is As a parent, I'm not to the
running with other devices C h o o s e a n a m e , s e t u p a such a big improvement that we teenage years yet, so can't relate
connected in five minutes. In password, and click the big, s u g g e s t y o u ' r e b e t t e r o f f living my exact life. Maybe all
as well with the experiences of fifth graders are equally off-the-
fact, this post is being published shiny button. Congratulations. upgrading than waiting for us to Phil and Claire, but I do
right now on a Connectify.me- You're now a software-based get all this working on an older wall, or maybe my child is as
remember the fear and panic you special and unique as Manny.
powered connection. Windows 7 wireless router. It took about five version of Windows." have with your first child. Every
users have got to try this app. very obvious clicks and was truly Three cheers for Windows for Continue reading Review:
little bump is a crisis, as we saw. Modern Family - Run for Your
You never know when you'll get so easy a caveman could do it. getting their act together on the And, I'm ashamed to admit that I
to save the day by letting other This is almost as much fun as OS front, and many thanks to Wife
committed the same "horrible" Filed under: OpEd, Episode
u s e r s s h a r e y o u r I n t e r n e t that MiFi we played with a while Connectify for bringing us all n- crime they perpetrated on Lily
connection. ago. The main difference is that for-the-price-of-1 WiFi! Discuss Reviews, Reality-Free, Modern
later in the episode, as well. Family
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Speaking of which, use cases we connection for 3-5 users using son is in the fifth grade.
can think of right now run the cellular networks, and Connectify Comments
Sometimes I feel like they're

Trauma Canceled by NBC: no additional episodes will be ordered

By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:12:18 PM
NBC has effectively canceled
Trauma opting not to give it a
full season pick-up. The current
plan is that the original order of This increases the odds of an look for its January return on
13 episodes will complete early return for Chuck, likely in Mondays at 8pm and for NBC to
production and air, but no January. The Trauma news move Heroes to the 9pm time
additional episodes will be comes on the heels of NBC slot, just like last year.
ordered. ordering six additional episodes This content has passed through
The move comes as no surprise, of Chuck, which was originally fivefilters.org.
especially on the heels of a full season pick-up for Mercy. scheduled to return in March. I’d
40 Apple/ Internet News Record

The Greening of Apple: Is It Important To You?

By Charles Moore sensible approach because based because they must be able to politically correct rhetoric and
(TheAppleBlog) on his research into the matter, in operate on battery power, they’re feel-good exercises that let one
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:00:01 AM
Enderle’s view Apple’s engineered for energy efficiency. imagine they’re “doing
customers mostly don’t care. Is However, even Apple’s mass something” virtuous to save the
Apple is putting a lot of that an accurate assessment, or market desktops have very decent planet with empty symbolic
e m p h a s i s o n i t s “ g r e e n ” exaggeratedly jaundiced? After energy consumption profiles gestures rather than substantive
initiatives lately. But is it the real all, environmentalist poster boy f e w e r p e r i p h e r a l s w i t h i t s these days, with iMacs reportedly behavior changes, like, say,
deal? Al Gore sits on Apple’s board of systems, which arguably has using about as much energy as a taking fewer showers or washing
For example, Apple’s new directors. some minimal environmental 60-watt lightbulb, and Mac minis clothes less often, or shutting off
energy efficiency page says that Enderle claims that Apple tried benefit, but also saves Apple a substantially less than that. How (or sleeping) their computer
because 53 percent of Apple’s to ignore green computing f a i r b i t o f m o n e y w h i l e Much Does the Average Mac- when not using it.
greenhouse gas emissions are a entirely until the eco-activist d i m i n i s h i n g v a l u e t o t h e buyer Care? A Pew Research study found the
result of the power its products organization Greenpeace began consumer of what is a premium- But how much does the average average North American’s
consume, it’s designing these r e l e n t l e s s l y s l a g g i n g t h e priced product. Diminishing Mac-buyer care? I’ve been definition of what constitutes
products to be as energy efficient company as an environmental Value f o r M i n i m a l almost exclusively a laptop user “necessity” these days includes a
as possible employing three f o o t - d r a g g e r a n d l a g g a r d . E n v i r o n m e n t a l B e n e f i t for the past 13 years, but even car (91 percent), washer (90
strategies to reduce energy A d d r e s s i n g Apple’s For example, the new WallStreet back when I used desktops, I percent), dryer (83 percent),
consumption: more efficient E n v i r o n m e n t a l F o o t p r i n t PowerBook I bought in 1999 almost always shut them down if home air conditioning (83
power supplies, components that Apple’s website highlights came with video, Ethernet, and I would be away from the percent), microwave (68
require less power, and power several key areas in which it’s modem cables and a decent hard keyboard for a half-hour or more. percent), TV (64 percent), car air
management software. Every addressing its environmental copy manual. To connect the My observation was that most conditioning (59 percent), and
new Mac is claimed to meet the footprint, citing engineering unibody MacBook I bought this people were inclined to just leave home computers (51 percent).
strict low-power requirements of innovations such as the unibody year to an external monitor I need their computers up and running Substantial minorities also
the Energy Star specification. MacBooks, whose light, fully one of several varieties of Mini all day, and even in many included cell phone (49 percent),
H o w e v e r , t h e o p e r a t i v e recyclable housing is sculpted DisplayPort adapters, have to instances all night as well. dishwasher (35 percent), cable or
questions are how much does from a single billet of aluminum, supply my own Ethernet cable, My inference, not only in the satellite TV (33 percent), and
“green computing” matter to and the lightness of the current was obliged to buy a USB context of personal computers high-speed Internet (29 percent),
c o n s u m e r s , a n d w h e t h e r iMacs which contain less than 20 modem, and documentation and other IT devices, is that and a few even considered a flat
corporate marketing of “green” pounds of materials. a m o u n t e d t o a q u i c k s t a r t while people like to think of screen TV (5 percent) and an
IT devices amounts to more Apple also claims to be at the p a m p h l e t . E n v i r o n m e n t a l themselves as being “green” and iPod (3 percent) “necessities.”
image-spinning than substance. industry forefront in eliminating sensibilities notwithstanding, I environmentally conscientious, Am I being overly cynical? How
Only the Bare Minimum? toxic chemicals, such as arsenic, don’t perceive this as progress. their resolve tends to flag quickly much do Apple’s and the other
S o m e c r i t i c s , s u c h a s brominated flame retardants Apple’s claims of cleaning up its when reducing their personal computer-makers’ green efforts
MacNewsWorld’s Rob Enderle (BFRs), mercury, phthalates, and environmental footprint act do environmental footprint begins to impact your buying intentions
accuse Apple of doing the “barest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from have substance in terms of involve more than minimal and user behavior?
minimum necessary” to justify its its products. operational energy consumption. i n c o n v e n i e n c e a n d / o r
“green” claims — indeed less Cupertino has reduced One reason using laptops has significantly increased cost, so
than its major competitors, but packaging bulk, and, somewhat long appealed to me is that that for many a commitment to
viewed pragmatically that’s a questionably in my view, bundles “greenness” is heavier on
Internet News Record Apple/ Fashion/ 41

Camtasia vs. ScreenFlow: Creating Your First Screencast

By Matthew Bookspan complete production. no way to avoid this, although it • Features/Functionality
(TheAppleBlog) Please note, I did not try to would be nice if both tools had • User Experience
Submitted at 10/28/2009 1:00:40 PM
record a screencast across this as an option). Both tools • Price
multiple displays or using an make this really easy to do.
If you have need to visually external microphone. I used what Both applications have advanced ScreenFlow 2.0 is priced at $99
demonstrate your product, and most of us have — a MacBook audio capabilities. ScreenFlow (or $29 for an upgrade).
you have the resources, then it (or a desktop) and the built-in don’t need. has true audio ducking, or the Similarly, Camtasia 1.0.1 is
just makes sense to produce a microphone. Basic Editing • Trimming: Remove any extra ability to decrease the volume of currently priced at $99 (this is a
screencast. With the release of After I recorded the basic (or bad) audio/video from the one recording while another promotional price, the web site
ScreenFlow 2.0, I thought it’d be screencast, I was presented with timeline. audio volume is increased. shows the full retail for $149).
useful to perform a real-world the Editor window within each • Playback tools: Play, reverse, Camtasia offers audio transition If you have limited funds, there
c o m p a r i s o n r e v i e w o f t h e program: fast-forward. effects, which offers some is the screen recording capability
screencast heavyweight champ Screenflow Main Window • Import Media: Additional flexibility, but not anywhere near in QuickTime X, a component of
versus the relative newcomer (at Camtasia Main Window audio, video or images. as rich as ScreenFlow. Snow Leopard. If you’ve already
least to the Mac), Camtasia. Both programs have very similar • And a whole lot more… Unfortunately, neither upgraded to Snow Leopard, then
Getting Started editing experiences using a application has great iLife you have this option available.
I started this comparison by timeline. ScreenFlow has the What’s nice is that as you begin integration, so I can’t directly Otherwise, the Snow Leopard
creating the same video in both added advantage of separating to explore more in ScreenFlow i n s e r t a u d i o c l i p s f r o m upgrade is $29. Please note that
Camtasia and ScreenFlow. Both out the audio from the video and Camtasia, they both provide GarageBand. I think this is a QuickTime X is nowhere in the
a p p l i c a t i o n s a r e v e r y portions of the recording. This is simple video tutorials to show missed opportunity for both same league as ScreenFlow or
straightforward to setup and get a great experience, because you you how to use the features. For Camtasia and ScreenFlow. The Camtasia. However, if you have
going in creating the screencast. can also add another voiceover s o m e o n e n e w t o c r e a t i n g Victor a new Mac that includes Snow
Camtasia gets a little bit of an quite easily. In contrast, Camtasia screencasts, this is very helpful. This is a tough call. However, I Leopard and iLife ‘09 (which
edge for configuration because, merges the audio and video. It Here are a few glimpses of the g i v e t h e s l i g h t e d g e t o includes iMovie ‘09), you can
unlike ScreenFlow, you do not wasn’t easily discoverable how to app once I inserted some text, ScreenFlow because of its ability make some very simple
have to install a separate audio add or change the existing audio graphics and transitions. to edit audio separately as well as Screencasts, excluding the
driver. recording. With my limited skills, ScreenFlow: with additional text its UI for editing different fancier features available from
However, once you get started being able to re-record the audio box and transitions properties of a recording. I either ScreenFlow or Camtasia.
recording, both applications as a separate track was very Camtasia: with additional happen to prefer the overall The Videos
provide you with a simple h a n d y . E n h a n c i n g Y o u r graphics, text and transitions Camtasia UI over ScreenFlow’s Don’t laugh, they’re horrible.
countdown prior to recording. As S c r e e n c a s t R e c o r d i n g I did perform a little trimming as it seems more like iMovie ‘09 Camtasia
a primer, try to write your script Each has a plethora of features (Camtasia calls this Delete or to me. ScreenFlow
prior to recording. This way, you to modify your recording. Ripple Delete) at the end of each Ultimately, you have to decide
will have a consistent experience • Cropping: Remove extra video so that you can’t see me which items are more important
for your customer once you portions of the video that you click/end the recordings (there is to you:

Shop Naeem Khan at Home

By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:40:00 AM
Get a head-start on holiday
dressing courtesy of Naeem
Khan. Starting today, the
designer of high-glamour gowns
and separates will launch his first
-ever line for HSN(tune in
tonight at 8 p.m. to watch as
Naeem presents the collection).
What to expect: party-perfect
sequin-encrusted dresses, tops, —Violet Moon Gaynor
jackets, and skirts, along with Follow ELLE on Twitter.
sleek black trousers. The entire
collection is available in size 2-
24, and will range in price from
$59 to $499
42 Apple/ TV/ Internet News Record

Apple Issues Magic Mouse Update, Comedy Central is

But Where Are the Mice 'Goode' to Mike Judge
Themselves? with new deal
By Darrell Etherington them for sale when you ask. As I By John Scott Lewinski (TV
(TheAppleBlog) mentioned above, the Toronto Squad)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 7:42:24 AM
Eaton Centre Apple store Submitted at 10/29/2009 8:02:00 AM
employee seemed to think it had
Last week, Apple announced the to do with Apple getting the The Goode Family-- the Mike
Magic Mouse, which is its new necessary software out so that it Judge show ABC did everything
standard pointing device, wasn’t selling unsupported it could to kill -- has a new home
complete with Bluetooth hardware, but they hadn’t even at Comedy Central.
connectivity and multitouch received a shipment yet — they According to Daily Variety, the
gesture support. I promptly called weren’t just holding off on actual cable network will air all 13 pundits went so far as claiming
my local Apple store, and a staff sales. episodes of the animated comedy such a show was inappropriate in
member told me they weren’t in Is it just me, or is this the most that ABC canceled last summer. the era of Obama.
stock and to try back again later what other special features could poorly executed product launch That's good news for fans of a In other words, it's only
in the week. I did, and again, no they be talking about? The Snow Apple’s had since the iPhone 3G show ABC buried in its line-up -- censorship when your side is the
luck. It’s now been over a week, Leopard driver is nearly double a n d i P h o n e O S 2 . 0 w e r e moving it around like a pea under one being silenced.
and no stores seem to have the size of the Leopard one, at introduced? It seems like the a nutshell until it finally put the Continue reading Comedy
stocked them yet. 64MB vs. 36MB. Both have to Magic Mouse was rushed out to Goodes out of their misery. Central is 'Goode' to Mike Judge
One staff member at the flagship be downloaded from Apple’s meet a deadline that centered At the time, the show was with new deal
Toronto store said that the delay support site, and won’t show up a r o u n d t h e i M a c a n d n e w embraced by fans of Beavis & Filed under: Other Comedy
w a s d u e t o s o f t w a r e in your update menu unless you u n i b o d y p l a s t i c M a c B o o k , Butthead and King of the Hill as Shows, Cancellations, Pickups
incompatibility, and that the mice actually have the Magic Mouse despite the fact that the software a worthy sardonic successor to and Renewals, Reality-Free
would be available following an already. backend wasn’t actually ready for Judge's animated quiver. But, Permalink| Email this| |
update release from Apple. Late Which brings me to my second release. critics often attacked its mockery Comments
yesterday, we received said point: Does anyone actually have The resulting delay could affect of political correctness and
update, which makes the Magic the Magic Mouse already? I sales. I know my initial fervor progressive politics. Some
Mouse compatible with Mac OS m e a n , b e s i d e s t h o s e e a r l y about the Magic Mouse has been
X Leopard, includes a driver for adopters of the new iMac model, tempered now that I’ve been able
10.6.1. OS X 10.6.2, which is with which it ships. I know for a to think about it. My current
coming soon, and is said to fact us TAB staffers are finding it pointing device needs are more
support it out of the box. hard to get our hands on one than met, and unlike with the
Both the 10.5.8 and 10.6.1 (short of trying out the store iPhone, delayed availability is
update descriptions say nothing display models), both through weakening my desire to own a
beyond that they allow you to Apple’s brick-and-mortar retail M a g i c M o u s e , r a t h e r t h a n
“take advantage of your Magic stores and its online counterpart. s t r e n g t h e n i n g i t .
Mouse special features.” They All Apple stores seem to have
d o n ’ t e v e n e x p l i c i t l y s a y them on display, but I’ve yet to
anything about multitouch, but run across one that actually has
Internet News Record Apple/ TV/ Economy/ 43

Google Plans to Introduce Maps Straight Outta Da

Navigation, Could Come to iPhone Office: Subtle Sexuality
By Darrell Etherington the actual street at upcoming By Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
(TheAppleBlog) turning points along your trip Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:01:00 AM

Submitted at 10/28/2009 8:22:16 AM

route, so that you’ll recognize
exactly where you should turn. If The Real Housewives of
If you’re the CEO of TomTom That should eliminate a lot of Atlanta can record an upbeat
or Garmin, you may want to sit confusion in dense, layered urban party tune, why not (the beautiful
down for this. Google is working areas where freeways and streets and mysterious) Kelly Kapoor
on a turn-by-turn navigation app overlap, and many route and (the pretty) Erin Hannon
that it will be offering for free on divergences and convergences from The Office? They may
Android 2.0 handsets. And if that are subtle. fictional characters on a sitcom,
wasn’t bad enough, it’s working The version for Android 2.0 but they are just as real as the
with Apple to bring it to the App demoed also had a feature that Housewives. And their debut
Store, too. recognized when the device was song, "Male Prima Donna," is a
But hey, maybe it isn’t so bad placed in a cradle or cupholder, lot more fun than tardiness in
for you, GPS industry. Maybe and enlarged on-screen buttons to regards to the party.
people will still want to pay way make it easier to work with while Kapoor and Hannon are the new
too much for single-purpose driving. The only feature not singing sensation Subtle
devices instead of installing a mentioned that is already present Sexuality, and "Male Prima
free app on the cell phone they in many other GPS devices and Donna" dropped just after you can catch the tour kickoff at
already have, that works with the midnight this morning. They Idle Hour Bowling Karaoke.
apps is voice guidance, but even
Google Maps and Google Search already have a Web site, a Continue reading Straight Outta
if not currently present, it’ll
they already use. merchandise page with t-shirts, Da Office: Subtle Sexuality
probably make an appearance
According to CNET’s Tom with” are well chosen, because down the road. mugs, and tour posters. es, they Filed under: Video, Web, The
Krazit, Google’s new app, Maps Navigation requires a While I can’t see why Apple list several dates in and around Office, Reality-Free, Webisodes
appropriately dubbed Google slightly different approach than would reject or hamstring the the Scranton, PA area and one in Permalink| Email this| |
Maps Navigation, was demoed the standard App Store approval introduction of this exciting, new Ithaca. If you happen to be in the Comments
Tuesday for reporters, and will be process, since it won’t be a feature, we’ve seen in the past Dickson City, PA area tonight,
officially announced sometime standalone application, but will that the relationship between it
today. The Google demo had the instead work directly out of the and Google can be tricky. I think China to investigate US car
app running on an unidentified built-in Google Maps app. Cupertino will realize, though,
black Motorola Android 2.0 Direct Google Maps integration that in this case, the ability to subsidies
p h o n e , b e l i e v e d t o b e t h e means that the new navigation market built-in, free-of-charge (Financial Times - US
app will be uniquely positioned navigation is a great way to move The move comes at a time of
upcoming Droid device. homepage) heightened trade tensions
The good news for us Apple among its competitors to deliver more hardware, even if Navigon
between the two countries after
faithful is that Google announced s o m e r e a l l y c o o l f e a t u r e s , and TomTom won’t be too Submitted at 10/28/2009 6:57:12 PM
the US imposed duties on
at the event that it is working including Google Search for pleased with the decision. China is preparing to launch a Chinese tyres last month. Many
with Apple on bringing the game nearby points of interest (POI). trade investigation into whether warned this would prompt
-changing software to the iPhone Google Street View will also US carmakers are being unfairly Beijing to retaliate.
platform. The words “working play a part, allowing you to see subsidised by the US This content has passed through
government, according to people fivefilters.org.
familiar with the matter.
44 Apple/ TV/ Economy/ Internet News Record

Quick Look: Creating and Using Site Smallville producers

Specific Browsers
By Alfredo Padilla
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:30:51 AM
The advent of the cloud over the
pushing for a tenth
season and Prism. The major difference
between the two is that Fluid uses
Webkit to power its SSBs, while
Prism uses the Gecko browser By Mike Moody (TV Squad)
base that runs Firefox. Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:36:00 AM

past few years has meant that a Aside from these underlying
lot of the tasks that we were used technologies, the two programs Smallville really is the show that
to doing on our Mac have now won't die.
a site specific browser here on o f f e r r e m a r k a b l y s i m i l a r After more than eight years,
moved to the web. This brings
TAB in the past, Mailplane, functionality. Simply enter a web numerous cast departures, and
with it a host of issues, from data
which is used to access Gmail’s address, choose an icon(or just countless recycled plotlines,
ownership to reliability of use the site favicon), and voila, a
online interface. Smallvill e might be headed for a
services (see recent Sidekick
The beauty of an SSB is not only new program based on that site tenth season, producer Kelly
fiasco) and whether the web can
do you get the bonus of neatly will be created for you. What’s Souders told EW. Somehow, the
deliver a Mac-like experience.
having your own icon for a single more, each browser can accept veteran superhero series manages
Putting all that aside, however, a
web application, but it also v a r i o u s s c r i p t s t o a d d to stay on the air while shows
more mundane problem is
allows that site to integrate with functionality like a dock icon and like Southland and Trauma can't
managing all of those sites and
OS X more completely. For even Growl notifications. You seem to make it past season one.
getting to them quickly and
example you can have things like can even make an SSB your Smallville has experienced a
easily. Individual apps
address book access and dock default email or RSS program. drop in ratings since its recent
conveniently come with their In many ways SSBs may
badges, all things that Mailplane move to Friday nights on The in its ninth season.
own icon on your dock, web apps r e present the future of
does for Gmail. CW, but Souders says the drop Continue reading Smallville
do not, forcing you to dig computing. Just look at Google’s
That’s great if you use Gmail, off hasn't been that bad. Last producers pushing for a tenth
through the myriad of open tabs
but what about all the other great upcoming Chrome OS, where the week's episode, " Roulette," season
in your browser to find the app
web-based applications out browser is the operating system. attracted 2.5 million viewers, a Filed under: Industry,
you need. If you’ve truly made
there? Although there are not In such a situation it makes no season high for the series. It Smallville, Reality-Free
the jump to cloud computing
specific SSBs for things like sense to continue using the shared third place in the ratings Permalink| Email this| |
there is, thankfully, a better way:
T w i t t e r , G o o g l e C a l e n d a r , outdated system of web pages with ABC for the 8 p.m. hour. Comments
site specific browsers (SSBs).
Remember The Milk and other and browser bookmarks. When a That's not terrible for a CW show
The basic idea is simple: Create a
web services, there are two website is a program unto itself
separate web browser, complete
different programs that will let you can argue that it deserves to
with its own icon on the dock, to
you take any web site and turn it be treated as one at the operating
browse to a single site. We’ve
into a site specific browser: Fluid system level.
covered an excellent example of

Wall St set to rise on growth data

(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:43:19 AM
US equity futures rose on
Thursday as the US economy
emerged from the worst recession
since the second world war and
mostly better-than-expected
corporate results raised hopes
that the seven-month rally in
stocks can continue.
After four consecutive days of
losses, the S&P 500 futures were
up 1.7 points at 1,040.30 less
than an hour before the opening
bell. They were trading above
fair value of 1,039.42. Nasdaq
futures were up 1.00 points at This content has passed through
1,681.00, above a fair value fivefilters.org.
reading of 1,680.51. Futures for
the Dow Jones Industrial
Average were up 17 points at
9,728.
Internet News Record Apple/ TV/ 45

How-to: Create Services for Quick Search Box

By Bryan Schuetz possibilities. Grab text or files in scripts don’t need to be
(TheAppleBlog) QSB and pass them on to your complicated. For example, here is
Submitted at 10/28/2009 3:00:39 PM
services to do whatever you want the one I use for adding To Do
with them, like creating a new To items in iCal: on process(input)
I’ve been playing around with Do item in iCal. I’ve been tell application "iCal" tell
Google Quick Search Box lately focused recently on replicating calendar "work" make new todo
and am especially enjoying this functionality that I lost when I at end with properties
services plugin from Martin Kuhl made the switch over from {summary:input} end tell end tell
which lets you activate and pass Quicksilver and I think that this end process
input to OS X services right from improved service integration will If you wanted to get fancy you
within QSB. get me about 90 percent of the could pass additional properties
One snag though has been that way there. like the due date, priority, etc.,
services created through the new The bad news is that this means I but just getting a new item into
Automator template included in need to whip up a bunch of the list is all I need.
Snow Leopard leave out some custom services for myself. The Once you have your service
vital bits that limit integration. good news is that ThisService setup accessing them through
Luckily, a handy application makes that task very easy. Just Quick Search Box is as easy as
from Waffle Software called give it a script (AppleScript will can be. Because showing seems
ThisService makes creating d o , b u t i f y o u ’ r e m o r e completed service into most complicated part, which is to be more useful than
proper services that integrate comfortable with other scripting your~/Library/Services directory why ThisServices comes bundled describing, below is a quick little
seamlessly with QSB a lot easier languages you can use those), where QSB will see it and serve with some handy starter scripts to video clip of the To Do service in
than you might think. define the type and name of your it up as an available action when put you on the right path. They action. What kind of services
Being able to extend the service and click Create Service. appropriate. also make a number of example would you like to have? Share
functionality of QSB with OS X ThisService handles all the fiddly Actually writing your scripts and services available for your thoughts in the comments.
services really opens up a lot of Cocoa bits and spits out a AppleScript will likely be the download from their site. The

More Chuck sooner: NBC orders 6 additional

episodes; likely to return early
By Robert Seidman if what The Wrap’s Josef Adalian NBC’s move could be a sign the
(TVbytheNumbers) is hearing pans out. NBC is network wants to bring “Chuck”
Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:16:07 PM
looking to order up six additional back on the air in January,
episodes of Chuck and the show splitting its season into pre- and
Update 2: with the news that could return as early as January: post-Olympics pods.
Trauma would not get a full NBC is close to giving “Chuck” More on The Wrap
season pick-up, Chuck’s early a big thumbs up. This content has passed through
return seems certain. The network will likely order as fivefilters.org.
Update The Live Feed reports many as six additional episodes
that the six additional episodes is of the comedic spy adventure, The extra episodes would be on
a done deal according to sources. two industry insiders familiar top of the 13 hours already
Good news, Chuck fans, at least with the situation told TheWrap. ordered for season three.
46 Tech Blog/ Economy/ TV/
Twitter feeds stray puppies
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:15:40 AM
A bunch of random notes on
returing from the#140conf in Los
Angeles.
Next time I go to a conference
I'm taking the Asus, not the
MacBook. You're always looking
for a power outlet with the Mac
and that sucks. I'm also going to
actively look for a replacement
for the Sprint MiFi and my
AT&T iPhone, both of which
have terribly spotty coverage. I
couldn't get online in LAX last
night, even though my iPhone
can tether and I had the Sprint. If
you can't get online in one of the
largest airports in the world, what
is the point of carrying this thing
with you. SFO wasn't much
better. And I couldn't use either
of them in my hotel room in the
biggest hotel in Hollywood in the
middle of a shopping mall and
convention center. These are
places that by now these cell
providers should have the best
coverage in. The question is -- is
Verizon any better?
Great Rebooting The News with
Jeff Jarvis as the guest. Lovely
rapport betw Jay and Jeff.
Galleon paid banks millions for ‘edge’
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 4:00:27 PM
The Galleon hedge fund at the
centre of an insider trading
scandal paid hundreds of millions
At the conference yesterday they
explained the vague
announcement made by
YCombinator and Twitter over
the weekend -- YCombinator
startups will have access to
Twitter's firehose. The audience
heard "startups get help from
Twitter" which they reacted to as
if they said "Twitter feeds stray
puppies." I hate to spoil the party,
but not all speculative
investigations are done by
"entrepreneurs" -- and not all
entrepreneurs are part of
YCombinator. This is just more
of the lunacy that comes from
building an industry around a
company instead of an open
format or protocol. Paul Graham
hypes it as Twitter having
discovered a protocol like SMTP
or HTTP. That's pure bunk.
When there's a protocol, no one
will own the firehose, and no one
will be granted access (and no
one will not be granted access).
I'm continuing to love my
linkblog. I've gotten nothing but
complaints from readers.
Eventually you all will love it
too. I'm sure of it. In the
meantime, my work is 100
percent more valuable to me, and
of dollars a year to its Wall Street
banks and in return regularly
received market information that
would not have been disclosed to
most investors, executives
familiar with the matter say.
A person familiar with Galleon,
Internet News Record
I'm starting to depend on this
software.)
I started to watch the video of
my presentation at 140conf,
which everyone says went well
(it was widely quoted on Twitter,
of course). That's good, cause I Review: Eastwick
couldn't stand to watch it because
I'm frowning too much because - Bonfire and
there's a light shining in my eyes.
We have to come up with a better
Betrayal
way to do this, so it doesn't feel By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
so much like "I'm up here and Submitted at 10/29/2009 3:28:00 AM
you're out there." I have to be
(S01E06) "It's like you've
my incentive to remember a link able to at least abstract the stepped out of a 70's porno and
by pushing it through Twitter audience when I'm speaking. into my life." - Roxie to Darryl
(and my linkblog) is greater than That's why I much prefer the It's Halloween, and there's no
ever. So I'll do more work for interview format, because I can better place to be than Eastwick.
you, you'll be better informed, talk to another person. It's part of Unless you've got an insane
and happier and more productive. the theme of my talk, we're just pastor on your tail who's bound
I can't promise you'll live longer. people, I'm not Mike Wallace and determined to make you pay
We'll feed some stray puppies and you're not really an audience. for your past sins (see photo
It's a brave new world and we
too. above).
Reminder to subscribe to this should have the courage to accept But first, the celebration!
feed not the one that WordPress it for what it is. And please Everyone decorates coffins, fills
provides. (Note to Matt and the believe me that I'm smiling as I them up with whatever's been
WP community and company, as write this. I wish I had been bothering them this past year,
I use WP more and more I'm smiling more while I gave the brings them to the giant witch
hitting limits we never had in talk. statue, and watches them burn.
Radio or Manila. You guys And don't forget to feed the stray Sounds like a party, doesn't it?
should seriously look at stealing puppies. Continue reading Review:
some ideas from those products. Eastwick - Bonfire and Betrayal
I'll help you find them, because Filed under: Other Drama
Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews,
Reality-Free
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whose founder, Raj Rajaratnam, years of this decade. Comments
was charged with insider trading This content has passed through
this month, said it paid about fivefilters.org.
$250m to its banks last year.
Executives who dealt with the
fund said it paid more in fees and
other charges during the boom
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By the Numbers: Nikki Finke vs. The Levi Johnston Spills All
Wrap October 21-27, 2009 about Sarah Palin
By Robert Seidman the cause of the traffic spike, but (ETonline - Breaking News) know."
(TVbytheNumbers) our experience is when you say a Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:55:00 AM
He explained that Palin used
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:34:40 PM
spike like that, it’s almost always some surprising terms to describe
related to only one post. Levi Johnston, the father of her son Trig, born with Down
The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman Spikes like that are always nice former Republican Vice Syndrome. Johnston says, "She'd
Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke and when you get them, most sites Presidential candidate Sarah come in from work and she'd be
The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman don’t get them every day. Palin's grandson, is going on the like, 'Hey, where is my retarded
have not been all that shy about Conferences. Definitely record about what he knows baby,' and just something like
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World Series Diary: Phillies 6, Yankees 1
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 2:30:58 PM
The Journal provides minute-by-
minute analysis of the
Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-1 victory
over the New York Yankees in
tonight’s Game 1 of the World
Series. Guest blogger Jonah Keri
offers commentary on the game
and the Fox telecast, while
Journal staffer Matthew
Futterman adds insight from
Yankee Stadium. Guest bloggers
Nando Di Fino (Yankees) and
Ken Kalfus (Phillies) give a fan’s
perspective. Getty Images Cliff
Lee (right), who pitched a
complete-game six-hitter,
celebrates with catcher Carlos
Ruiz after the Phillies’ win.
11:30: Hammer curve whiffs
Posada, Lee’s 10th K of the game
6-1 Phillies, final.
The postmortem is pretty simple.
CC Sabathia was good. Cliff Lee
was great. Two homers by Chase
Utley were all the Phillies
needed. They’ve wrested away
home-field advantage and sent a
giant statement that they’re the
defending champs.
Pedro Martinez is a very
uncertain commodity in Game 2.
But the Phillies at least have a
shot to head back home up 2-0.
Heady stuff.
Tune in tomorrow for more live-
blog goodness, and we’ll see how
the plot unfolds.* * *
Everyone on their feet here,
standing under the big screen.
Lee gets his last K, and the
shouts go up in a single cry.
Someone is waving his rally
towel out the window. An
exhausting game, so close for so
long, but very satisfying on this
end of the blog.– Kalfus* * *
On the bright side, the Yanks
may not have done much better if
they were facing Roy Halladay
tonight instead. But man…we
looked dead out there. A-Rod is
going to get blasted by the papers
for the three strikeouts, Swisher
is playing like he has mono, we
didn’t have any excitement until
the ninth inning (and that was
from two singles and an error)…
If we get beaten by an old man
tomorrow, who couldn’t even
convince a team to sign him until
mid-summer, then we deserve to
be down 0-2.– Di Fino
11:26: Lee fans A-Rod for the
third time. Wow. Two away for
Posada.
11:25: Utley with a great play to
spear Teixeira’s bounder up the
middle, flips to Rollins for the
force. Rollins’ relay airmails
Howard by about five Ryan
Howards. There goes the shutout
and Tex to second, but first out
of the inning’s more important. 6
-1 Phils.
11:24: Don’t worry, I’m not
comfortable.– Kalfus* * *
Take that, @Jposnanski. You
and your Yankees Game 1
shutout trivia will have to wait
another year!– Di Fino
11:22: Damon single. Two on,
nobody out. Now I’d be really
nervous. Gotta drive the stake
through the heart to kill the
vampire.
11:21: Joe Buck has decided to
read off the names and ages of
Cliff Lee’s kids. Has it really
gotten to that point?– Di Fino
11:18: Howard lashes a single to
right, cashes one run, but
Victorino pegged out at home. 6-
0 Phils going to the bottom of the
ninth. Still not enough runs to
give Cliff Lee a break and bring
in Brad Lidge. That’s the state of
Philly’s bullpen at this point.
Instead, we get to see a pitcher at
the height of his powers try to
close out a near-historic game.
11:15: Utley flies out to right for
the second out against Phil Coke.
This is a really long inning.
11:10: From the great Joe
Posnanski of SI, on Twitter:
“@JPosnanski Number of times
the New York Yankees have
been shut out in Game 1 of the
World Series: Zero.”
11:09: I think the fifth run
qualifies as insurance. Here in
Philly, on our little piazza, the
crowd is getting derisive,
shouting expletives at the
momentarily hapless Yanks.
And, odd, given the heroics of
gentlemen named Cliff and
Chase, they’re paying homage to
the manager: “Let’s go
Charlie!”– Kalfus
11:08: Victorino rolls a single to
right. 5-0 Phillies. This still isn’t
a big enough lead for a Phillies
fan to feel safe should Charlie
Manuel go to Brad Lidge, by the
way.
11:05: Rollins cues an infield hit
up the third-base line. First and
third, one out.
11:03: Ruiz clubs a one-out
double to center. Booing at
Yankee Stadium! Never thought
I’d see that in this World Series.
11:02: Popout to second off
reliever Brian Bruney to start the
ninth. Yankee fans’ reaction
sounds like an 11-0 deficit in a
meaningless April game.
10:59: Lazy popout to center by
Cabrera, Stop me if you’ve heard
this before — 1-2-3 Yankees. 4-0
Phils after eight.
You’re darned right Lee (106
pitches) is coming out for the
ninth.
10:57: That last out began the
clearing-out phase from the
stadium. Folks are ready to hit
the Major Deegan Expressway.
Even for this bunch of Yankees,
a four-run deficit seems like far
too much to overcome. Can’t
blame anyone for taking off early
after sitting through three-plus
hours in this weather.– Futterman
10:56: Lee paints the inside
corner on a fastball to freeze
Swisher. Strikeout number eight.
Two out. Jaw-dropping.
10:54: BEHIND-THE-BACK
play by Lee on a grounder back
to the box. He’s just toying with
the Yankees. Even the most
optimistic Phillies fan couldn’t
have dreamed this kind of
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scenario.* * *
If Gary Cooper pitched lefty.
he’d be Cliff Lee.– Kalfus
10:50: Robertson induces an
inning-ending groundout to third.
Too little, too late. 4-0 Phils,
going to the bottom of the eighth.
Yankees need to get Lee out of
the game and test the bullpen to
have any semblance of a
chance.* * *
So… um… in 2007, Cliff Lee
had a 6.29 ERA. He has given up
runs before. There’s hope!– Di
Fino
10:48: And Joe Girardi is now
guilty of undermanaging. Ibanez
two-run single. 4-0 Phillies.
Should’ve been Mo, Joe.
10:47: Robertson gets ahead 1-2
and nearly sneaks an outside
fastball by Ibanez. Looking better
this at-bat. Crucial out here.
10:44: Dave Robertson pitching
change…not as nifty. Four-ball
walk to Werth. Bases loaded,
Ibanez coming up.
This should be Rivera time. But
they’re leaving Robertson in.
10:41: Hey, it’s still early. There
are fans all over this jittery, heart
-in-our-mouths metropolis
wondering if Lee will really
finish.– Kalfus
10:40: Marte gets Howard on a
liner to right. Heckuva job! I sit
corrected.
10:38: Terrific curve by Marte
freezes Utley for a ginormous
strikeout.
10:36: Girardi taps the lefty
Marte here to face Utley. I’d
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have gone to Rivera. They really
can’t allow any more runs here.
One inning from Rivera tonight,
come back ready for Game 2,
then day off after Game 2.* * *
The more you watch the Phillies
this postseason, you begin to
wonder how they actually lost 69
games. They’re on the verge of
going 8-1 against the best teams
in baseball. They have weapons
of every sort in the lineup, tough
starting pitching and aren’t
making many mistakes. The
Yankees are going to have their
hands full with this team. If it’s
any consolation to Yankees fans,
the Phillies were only 45-36 at
home this season — though they
are undefeated there in the
postseason.– Futterman
10:34: These DirectTV
commercials where actors re-
enact movie scenes are doing
three things:
1. Making me hate Wayne’s
World
2. Making me hate DirecTV
3. Making those “Lopez
Tonight” and the old “Frank TV”
commercials on TBS seem a lot
less annoying.– Di Fino
10:33: Hughes misses way
inside for a second straight walk.
That’s all for Hughes; he’s way
too wild.
10:32: You go, Jimmy. See that
smile when he came up? These
guys are playing like they’re
ahead by five.– Kalfus
10:31: Phil Hughes has a lousy
move to first, Posada isn’t a great
thrower, and Victorino with a 3-0
count. Great call sending Rollins
for the stolen base there.
10:29: Hughes misses on a pitch
over Rollins’ head for a leadoff
walk. Yikes. Last thing the
Yankees want to do is yield
insurance runs.
10:27: Phil Hughes in for
Sabathia. Jimmy Rollins leading
off the eighth, launches a ball
down the right field line…foul!
10:25: I’m sure it has more to do
with his conversion to a reliever
and generally being a year older
and wiser, but Phil Hughes was
pretty bad wearing #34 last year,
and has been awesome with #65
this season. You have to like the
young Yankees pitchers for that:
Hughes wears 65, Joba wears 62,
and Aceves wears 91. It’s just
very un-corporate, which is
refreshing considering how
frustratingly corporate and bland
the elder Yankees sometimes
act.– Di Fino
10:24: Lee needed just nine
pitches in that inning. 95 pitches
through seven, and he looks
completely in control. Complete
game definitely a possibility.
Beef of the Yankees’ order due
up in the ninth, though.
10:22: Matsui with a weak
groundout to third. 1-2-3 go the
Yankees. 2-0 Phils, end of seven.
10:20: Posada taps back to Lee
for out number two. This is a
clinic.
10:18: A-Rod grounds out to
third to start the seventh. The
Yankees just can’t seem to put
any good swings on the ball.
10:13: Another groundout to
third, and that’s the inning. Can’t
fault Sabathia for that effort
tonight. Yankees just haven’t
been able to touch Lee.* * *
Not in any way to put down Sfc
Mary Kay Messenger, who has a
really beautiful voice, but it’s
kind of weird to not hear Ronan
Tynan booming out “God Bless
America” here. Then again, the
Yankees have won zero titles
since Tynan started singing in
2001. Baseball is a notoriously
superstitious sport, and I don’t
think I would be accused of
being a total conspiracy nut job if
I suggested that the whole
business with Tynan being ratted
out to the Yankees by a
pediatrician for allegedly making
an anti-Semitic joke at an
apartment showing
(seriously…why go tattle to the
Yankees?) was at least a mini-
setup to get Tynan out and break
the possible bad luck.– Di Fino
10:11: Sabathia walks Francisco
to start the seventh. 5-4-3 double
play quickly wipes that out.
Sabathia might be able to get
through seven and still be fine for
Game 4 after all.
10:10: The crowd actually came
to life as Johnny Damon took
Lee to a 3-2 count with Jeter on
first and one out. That’s what
counts for a rally against Cliff
Lee in the 2009 postseason.
There’s a larger problem at work
here for the Yankees. What
happens when your ace loses
Game 1 at home with a likely
Hall of Famer on a hot streak
going up against a somewhat
inconsistent second starter in
Game 2. There’s three innings
left to play but, all of a sudden,
the idea that the Yankees could
head to Philadelphia down 0-2
doesn’t seem totally out of the
realm of possibility.– Futterman
10:09: Still can’t get over that
Cliff Lee catch. That’s got to
rank as one of my top 10 favorite
playoff baseball moments ever.
This is the World Series, Cliffy!
You can be a little excited.
10:06: Teixeira’s grounder up
the middle speared by Utley,
races to the bag to beat Jeter.
Lee’s cruised through six
innings, no runs, just four hits,
seven Ks, no walks. Only 86
pitches. He’s not going
anywhere.
2-0 Phils after six.
10:05: The crowd loves that little
insouciant catch by Lee. Put that
on the highlight reel. A great
inning.– Kalfus
10:03: Damon jammed again,
pops up back to the mound. Cliff
Lee makes the single most
nonchalant catch I’ve ever seen.
He practically yawned. Tim
McCarver was cackling.* * *
Cliff Lee’s catch was straight out
of one of those old TCM black-
and-white movies where
someone like Gene Kelly is cast
in the role of a baseball player, he
just finished doing a big musical
number, dances around the field,
playfully flicks an umpire’s hat,
then sticks his glove out and the
ball falls in. This is Game 1 of
the World Series, Cliff! You
barely looked! I’d put 2-to-1
odds that this becomes one of
those “iconic catch” moments in
the DVD of this series.– Di Fino
10:00: Jeter bounces a single just
out of Utley’s reach. As much as
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the soggy crowd is deflated, one
swing and it’s a tie game.
9:58: Lee still cooking, gets
Cabrera to fly out to right to start
the bottom of the sixth.
9:55: Sabathia just went over
100 pitches. If Girardi wants him
to pitch in Games 4 and 7, this
might be it for him.
And CC fans Ibanez. Inning
over. We’ll see.
9:52: Jayson Werth hits an 82-
hopper that somehow eludes
Cano’s glove for a base hit. Two
out, man on first for Ibanez.
9:50: Starting to get the feeling
this just isn’t the Yanks’ night —
or maybe the Phils are just plain
better and Lee is untouchable.
The crowd is sort of out of it.
Cold weather and a deficit with
just three hits send even the
diehards to the concession
stands.– Futterman* * *
The crowd is on their feet here,
people are hanging out their
windows around the square. And
maybe Utley is the best player on
the team — he’s really coming
through tonight. He may get the
chance to be the new Mr.
November. Meanwhile, it’s just a
two-run lead.— Kalfus
9:48: For the second straight
time, a cheesed-off Sabathia fans
Howard after giving up a bomb
to Utley. Reuters The Phillies’
Chase Utley hits the first of his
two solo home runs.
9:44: Sabathia sets down
Victorino, goes 0-2 on Utley,
then grooves a fat pitch for a
monster homer.
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The Phillies’ best player strikes
again. 2-0 Phils.
9:39: Lee gets the inning-ending
popout. Down go the Yankees
again. 1-0 Phils through five.
9:37: Umps get it right! Your
friendly neighborhood live-
blogger’s prediction comes true!
Dogs and cats living together!
9:36: And right on cue, Cano
does hit into a double play. Or
does he?
Did Rollins catch it in the air or
not? Rollins’ throw pulled
Howard off the bag…
Yup, double play. Umps botched
the call, ruled ball hit the ground.
Let’s see if they overturn it.
9:35: But is Cano a disputed
double-play candidate?– Di Fino
9:32: Lee gets two strikes on
Matsui again. But on 3-2, throws
a fastball right down the middle
instead of that killer change-up.
Matsui slaps it up the middle for
a leadoff single. First time all
night Yanks have the leadoff man
on.
Cano’s a double-play candidate,
though.
9:28: Sabathia climbs the ladder
on Rollins, gets him to pop out
on a fastball out of the zone.
Going to the bottom fifth, 1-0
Philly.
9:26: I can’t stop laughing
everytime I see “Ken Rosenthal”
on screen, and it’s solely because
the folks at Baseball Think
Factory nicknamed him
“Robothal”– a nod to his
ridiculous output of columns and
updates during the Winter
Meetings and trade deadline.– Di
Fino
9:25: Sabathia with a filthy
curve on the inside corner
catches Feliz with the bat on his
shoulder. Oof.
Ruiz follows with a groundout to
short. Apparently Sabathia and
Lee have dinner reservations at
10:30.
9:24: WSJ colleague Nando
DiFino reminds me that’s our
first Expos reference of the night.
That’s only because I held back
mentioning that the Yankees
should’ve been playing the
Expos at this time 15 years ago,
in the 1994 World Series. Thanks
Bud Selig!
9:22: The Montreal Expos once
traded Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore
AND Brandon Phillips for
Bartolo Colon. And people
wonder why the Nats are still
awful.
9:20: Lee fans A-Rod on a
change-up, sixth K of the game.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to
anyone who’s paid attention. Lee
doesn’t get the acclaim of
Halladay, Lincecum, Sabathia
and company. But he’s been a
true ace past two years.
And Lee fans Posada to strike
out the side and end the inning.
Seven Ks. Wow.* * *
The mist is back, this time in the
form of a steady drizzle.–
Futterman
9:15: Lee starts the fourth with
yet another strikeout, this one
taking a little off and fooling
Mark Teixeira.* * *
There’s an odd dynamic at work
here tonight. Three hours before
game time, there were still tickets
being sold at the box office, and
looking around the stadium it
doesn’t appear that they all got
sold, no matter what baseball and
the Yankees ultimately announce.
There are empty seats scattered
all throughout the upper deck,
too many for all these people to
be getting a hot dog or going to
the bathroom.
Also, visiting teams are
supposed to come here and get
psyched out by the size of the
stage and the history. The
Yankees play all sorts of
nostalgic footage of the Babe and
Yogi while the other team is
taking batting practice just to
remind them where they are. And
yet, the Phillies seem like the
more relaxed team out here,
taking time with their at-bats,
playing workmanlike defense,
while the Yankees are rushing
and swinging at bad pitches. You
get the feeling the Phillies knew
exactly what to expect here.
Experience must count for
something.– Futterman
9:13: As the man who broke the
“Swisher endorses chocolate
milk” story, I would like — as
the appointed representative of
Yankee fans here — to append
my esteemed colleague’s take on
Nick Swisher by saying that a lot
of us fans all still kind of love the
guy. Especially the ladies. I
think it’s because he comes
across as human and accessible.
Full disclosure, though: I own a
“Swisher 33 t-shirt (it was a
groomsman’s gift, to be fair) and
when I see the“Swisher” sticker
on urinals in bars, I snap a photo
with my phone and send it to my
Yankee fan friends.– Di Fino
9:12: Down goes Ibanez on a
freeze-worthy curve for strike
three.
Ben Francisco hacks at a 2-0
pitch, flies out to center to end
another quick inning.
9:11: Can we stop with the Raul
Ibanez fawning? Fantastic first
half, then hit .232 with a .326
OBP in the second half, lousy
defense throughout the year. He’s
a good player, but he costs eight
figures a year. This isn’t the Evan
Longoria contract here.
9:08: Another darting, diving
change-up, this one by Sabathia,
strikes out Werth to start the
fourth. Wonder if both pitchers
perfected that pitch while in the
Indians organization.
9:04: Lee saws off Damon with
an inside fastball, grounder to
third ends the inning. 1-0 Philly
after three.
9:02: A friend says, “What I like
about these Phils is that none of
them look like John Kruk.”–
Kalfus
9:01: And right after saying that,
Lee misses location with a thigh-
high fastball that caught too
much of the plate. Slashed down
the right-field line for a two-out
double by Jeter.* * *
Maybe it’s just that we’re close
to Halloween and everything is
macabre to me right now, but I
hope they pick up all those
shards of Damon’s bat — it
didn’t just break, it exploded —
or someone sliding into home
later on could become a bloody
mess with a huge splinter. I’d
like to see that swing again on
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one of those super-slow replays
just to see how many pieces went
flying.– Di Fino
9:00: Nick Swisher is as flaky as
they come these days. He
believes in his titanium-coated
necklaces, credits his hairdo
–which he calls the “Swish-
hawk” — for his hits in the final
game of the ALCS, has tattoos a-
plenty and chats endlessly,
mostly about himself, in front of
his locker. When he’s cranking
home runs it comes off as fun-
loving and charming. When he’s
mired in a slump, like he is now,
it just seems downright goofy.–
Futterman
8:59: Another popout, this one to
second, for the second out.
What I like about Lee’s
approach, aside from how
quickly he works, is how he
changes the batter’s eye level.
He’s getting popups on higher
pitches, but scrapes the dirt in
two-strike counts, the way he did
on the strikeout change-up to
Matsui.
8:57: Nick Swisher’s postseason
slump now extends to the World
Series. Pops out to first against
the razor-sharp Cliff Lee for the
first out of the third.* * *
All right, first blood! But
seriously, Nando, thanks. The
Phils are a nice team, usually.
The best players are home-
grown, at least they came up
through the farm system, and
they’re involved in the
community, at least a little
beyond the pro forma stuff.–
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Kalfus
8:55: Sabathia has proven he has
something of a rubber arm. The
guy throws 113 pitches in Game
1 of the ALCS and comes back
three days later and dominates.
That said, this doesn’t look to be
the most-efficient outing of his
career. Through three innings,
he’s already thrown nearly 60
pitches. The Utley home run
came after Victorino just missed
the left-field foul pole, and some
other expensive outs. The Yanks
should feel pretty fortunate to be
down by just one run at this
point, and they better hope their
middle relief is sharper than it’s
been in recent games. They may
very well need it.– Futterman
8:52: Sabathia comes back with
a terrific low and inside fastball
under Howard’s hands for the
strikeout. Phils lead 1-0 going to
the bottom of the third.
8:50: Utley immediately
vindicates that last remark. Pop-
fly homer into the first row of the
right-field bleachers. The
ballpark’s ludicrous dimensions
come back to bite the Yanks. 1-0
Phillies.
8:49: Utley lays off a close pitch
just a bit up and in for ball three.
Another long, patient at-bat by
the Phillies’ best player (you
heard me).
8:46: Victorino taps a two-
hopper to Jeter for the second
out. Another off-speed pitch that
messed up a hitter’s timing by
Sabathia.
8:44: I know, as a Yankees fan,
I’m supposed to hate certain
things — Red Sox fans, failure,
cheap beers, small-market teams
with pluck, World Series
opponents — but I think this
Phillies team is built so similarly
to the Yankees (some affable
players, a lifer shortstop, great
pitching, famous
girlfriends)…I’m finding it hard
to dislike them.– Di Fino
8:44: Ryan Howard is either
focusing really hard in the
dugout, or attempting to drill a
hole in his skull with his bat.
8:43: Rollins with the first deep
fly of the game, but to the wrong
part of the ballpark. Run down by
Melky Cabrera on the warning
track in center.
8:42: Jimmy Rollins appeared in
MC Hammer videos as a child in
the late 80s?!?! Is it all right if I
drop any pretense of being
objective at this point?
8:41: Cliff Lee is God’s gift to
late-season baseball. He works so
quickly, even these innings are
flying by, which, given the
inclement weather, is a welcome
development. Now if only we
could do something about the
three-minute commercial breaks
between innings, life would be
good. Thankfully the mist is
slowing down.– Futterman
8:39: It doesn’t look like so
much fun out there. Here in the
square, we’ve just been passed
by a dachshund in Phillies red.
It’s lovely here in Philly.– Kalfus
8:38: Cano flies out to center.
We’re flying so far, scoreless
through two.
8:36: Five Yankees outs, four
strikeouts by Cliff Lee. That
change-up to Matsui was like a
slow-motion splitter. Filthy.
Unhittable.
8:34: A-Rod, apparently having
slightly less fun, whiffs to start
the inning.
Posada follows by dunking a
single to right-center. Much
better approach than he showed
in the clinching game of the LCS,
when Posada stranded 10 men
on base.
8:32: Tim McCarver: “Alex
Rodriguez has rediscovered the
joy of baseball.” So what you’re
saying is he’s just having fun out
there? Does Brett Favre know
about this trademark
infringement?
8:29: Ruiz grounds out to
second. 1-2-3 go the Phils. Fans
battling pneumonia applaud
lustily.
8:27: Sabathia quickly turns the
tide and induces a pair of
groundouts to the right side.
My colleague Matt Futterman is
spot on about the weather. Slips
and slides on the basepaths are
entirely possible. Fans shivering
and miserable is a certainty.
8:24: Sabathia missing his spots
early, another three-ball count,
this one on Ben Francisco, who’s
starting with Ibanez at DH.
8:23: There’s a very unpleasant
mist falling here at the stadium.
We realize this season got
messed up because of the World
Baseball Classic, but late October
and bad weather in the northeast
seem to go together a little too
well. The season suddenly started
to feel a little too long.–
Futterman
8:21: I know a lot has been made
of this whole “Cliff Lee faced
Sabathia in the first game ever at
Yankee Stadium!” trivia, but
here’s something interesting
about it: The Yankees’ third
baseman that day (a 10-2 Indians
win) was…Cody Ransom.– Di
Fino
8:20: My favorite Cliff Lee stat
this season: 12 starts for the
Phillies, 10 walks. The Yankees
will have to earn it tonight.
Teixeira strikes out to end the
inning. Buckle up!
8:18: Cliff Lee doesn’t get the
acclaim that Sabathia does, but
he’s been every bit as good, or
better than CC over the past two
seasons. He fans Jeter to start the
game. Gotta love the Phillies
sending Lee against the lefty-
heavy Yanks. If Cole Hamels
answers the bell this series, that’s
a nice hidden advantage for
Philly.
Damon bunts right back to Lee
for the second straight easy out.
8:15: We thought here that CC
was about to walk in a run. I
guess that was delusional.–
Kalfus
8:14: Ibanez does zippy with the
3-1 pitch, taps out to second to
end the threat. No score heading
to the bottom of the first.
8:13: And Ibanez working
Sabathia too. CC throws a
surprising 2-1 breaking ball that
misses, 3-1 now.
8:11: The Phillies’ non-Rollins
patient ways continue. Werth lets
a high-outside fastball go by on a
full count for the walk. Sacks
juiced, two out for Raul Ibanez.
8:09: Whatever problems Ryan
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Howard may have had with left-
handed pitching — this season,
last season, pretty much his
whole career — he’s been that
much better against southpaws
during these playoffs. He was
hitting only .182 in these playoffs
vs. LH heading into this game (2
for 11) but with a .400 OBP and
.545 SLG.
Crank those numbers up, as
Howard turns on a pitch and
drives it to right for a double.
Second and third, two out for
Jayson Werth.
8:08: Lot of cheers here, the
crowd’s pretty excited already.
OK, let’s have a base hit.– Kalfus
8:06: Chase Utley takes a close
pitch for ball four, a two-out
walk. Normally being extra-
patient against Sabathia is a hit-
or-miss proposition, since the big
man may have better stamina
than any other pitcher in the
game. But racking up big pitch
counts against the Yankees’
starters could make it tough for
Joe Girardi to go to his preferred
three-man rotation.
8:04: A bunt to Teixeira and a
pop up to Teixeira to start the
game. For those of us who have
crafted a drinking game around
how many times Joe Buck will
say his name tonight, this could
turn out to be a long game…– Di
Fino
8:03: Sabathia throws a tricky
two-strike changeup that
completely fools Shane
Victorino and induces a lazy
popout. Sabathia can dial his
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A World Series Battle Between the Haves and Have-Mores

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) “Two men who won Cy Young Wednesday evening, as Jonah was clean or dirty. At the New
Submitted at 10/28/2009 7:38:54 AM
awards for the Cleveland Indians Keri and Matthew Futterman live York Times’s Slap Shot hockey
should be pitching for the -blog Game 1. You can also see blog (video included), Stu Hackel
The teams taking the field Cleveland Indians, not for teams all of the Journal’s coverage of wonders why the NHL doesn’t
Wednesday night for Game 1 of better able to compensate them,” the Yankees, Phillies and World mete out more severe punishment
the World Series definitely aren’t Sheridan writes. “The Yankees Series at our new topics pages.* for dangerous hits to the head.* *
small-market. Nor will fans see have always had the advantage. ** *
the Freeway Series or the When they win, as they did in the After the Los Angeles Lakers Minnesota Vikings quarterback
nostalgic Yankees-Dodgers series 1990s, the temptation is to throw the Star-Ledger’s Steve Politi celebrated their 2009 NBA Brett Favre returns to Green Bay
many had rooted for. European up your hands at the unfairness writes. “ Will he continue his championship with another on Sunday to face the Packers,
Pressphoto Agency The Phillies’ of it all. When they fail to win torrid streak and lift this team to banner at Staples Center and the team he led for 16 seasons,
Pedro Feliz tries in vain to keep the title, as they’ve done for a championship against the shiny, diamond-studded rings including to the 1997 Super Bowl
his bat warm and dry during his much of this decade, it’s fun to Phillies? Or will he struggle at Tuesday night, they began the title. The hype surrounding the
team’s workout at Yankees mock them for trying to buy a the plate as the Yankees again new season with a 99-92 victory game may reach levels slightly
Stadium on Tuesday. championship.” fail to win their 27th title?” over the Los Angeles Clippers. above-average. In the teams’ first
Which doesn’t mean Phillies- This series is more than about The spotlight will also shine on Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with meeting in Minnesota in Week 4,
Y a n k e e s c a n ’ t b e l o n g o r pitching. Much of the focus will managers Joe Girardi and Charlie 33 points. In the Los Angeles Favre’s Vikings scored a 30-23
compelling, pitting the upper- be on the Yanks’ Alex Rodriguez Manuel. In the Chicago Tribune, Daily News, Ramona Shelburne victory. At CityPages, Judd
class Phillies with their$111 and the Phillies’ Ryan Howard, Phil Rogers and Dan McGrath notes the team is focused on Spicer says he doesn’t expect
million payroll against the tycoon two stars posting lofty postseason write about how the Yanks’ repeating, hoping their only Packer fans to cheer Favre. “For
-class Yankees and their$208 numbers. “It’s a dream scenario Girardi honed his work ethic over offseason acquisition, Ron Lambeau to embrace their folk
million roster. Philadelphia’s for MLB, not only because of the the years. In the Boston Globe, Artest, plays a big role. hero Favre — Packer fans would
mission: defeat the favorites and two players’ name recognition, Peter Abraham describes how In Cleveland, Shaquille O’Neal only look like suckers,” Spicer
repeat as champions, becoming but because neither one seems to Manuel has fit in perfectly with faces enormous pressure to bring writes.
the first National League team to be close to cooling off at the the Phillies. the Cavaliers their first Sticking with the NFL, too many
do so since the Cincinnati Reds plate,” Christian Red writes in A few other worthy clicks: In the championship. O’Neal scored lousy teams are costing sports
in 1976. the New York Daily News. Los Angeles Times, Bill Shaikin just 10 in his debut, a 95-89 loss books millions of dollars thanks
The series opens with a great The bulky, powerful Howard argues for expanded replay; the to Boston, but the Cleveland to blowout after blowout this
pitching matchup: the Phillies’ wasn’t keen on becoming a one- New York Times’s Dave Plain Dealer’s Terry Pluto season, Dan Wetzel writes at
Cliff Lee and the Yankees’ CC dimensional player later in his Anderson remembers the Yanks’ advises fans that it’s only one Yahoo Sports.
Sabathia, former Cleveland career, so he began altering his sweep of Philadelphia in 1950; game and not worth panicking – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
teammates having outstanding diet in the past year, with solid the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bill over.* * * Don Hartline.
postseasons with minuscule results, Yahoo Sports’s Jeff Lyon talks to a Whiz Kid from David Booth of the Florida Found a good column from the
ERAs. If the series goes the limit, Passan writes. that ‘50 Phillies team; and the Panthers becomes the latest NHL world of sports? Don’t keep it to
Lee and Sabathia could get three All eyes will be on Rodriguez, Orlando Sentinel’s George Diaz player sidelined by a vicious hit yourself — write to us at
starts apiece. who hopes to earn his first World says Tampa Bay’s trip to the to the head. On Saturday, dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
That’s fine for Phillies and Series title. “Rodriguez is no World Series last year defied the Philadelphia’s Mike Richards consider your find for inclusion
Y a n k e e s f a n s , b u t t h e different than the Jeters or the economics of modern baseball. steamrolled Booth just after in the Daily Fix. You can email
Philadelphia Inquirer’s Phil Posadas on this team, since no Finally, Yahoo’s Tim Brown has Booth made a pass in the Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
S h e r i d a n s a y s t h e p a y r o l l one who plays this game on the a position-by-position breakdown offensive zone. Booth had to be
disparity between the haves and highest level hasn’t pushed of the World Series. removed on a stretcher. Debate
the have-nots is hurting baseball. themselves to reach this stage,” Be sure to come back here has raged over whether the hit
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World Series: Don Zimmer not buying into Pedro Martinez

version of brawl
By ESPN.com news services told me a couple of bad words When he saw Zimmer on the the devil. I'm a Christian man. I that."
(ESPN.com) about my mom. I just had to react ground, Martinez said he thought don't like those things. I take Martinez spent four injury-
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:27:45 AM
and defend myself. about his father, who died last those things very serious. Those plagued seasons with the Mets
"It was something that we have year. are the kind of things that the from 2005-08. Signed by the
NEW YORK -- Six years after to let go kind of, and forget about “ fans actually get used to seeing, Phillies in mid-July after sitting
their famous brawl in the 2003 it, because it was a disgrace for Pedro is full of crap. It's what, and actually sometimes influence out the first half of the season, he
playoffs, Pedro Martinez and baseball," he added. "Even six years later? If Pedro wants to those people to believe that you lacks the overpowering fastball
Don Zimmer still differ on what though it wasn't my fault, I was be a big man, I don't care what he are a bad person, that you are like he used to have. But he still
exactly happened. involved in it, and it's one of the says.”-- Don Zimmer an ogre." knows how to win.
When a separate altercation moments that I don't like to see. I "I respect elders; I don't condone One of baseball's most colorful Martinez threw two-hit ball for
broke out on the field at Fenway don't like to see it because I'm not anything like that," Martinez characters, Martinez is set to seven shutout innings in Game 2
Park, Zimmer, then a 72-year-old a violent man." said. "But I've got no choice. I've pitch for the Philadelphia Phillies of the NL championship series at
New York bench coach, charged Zimmer, now a Rays senior got no choice but to just respond against A.J. Burnett and the Dodger Stadium.
at then Red Sox ace Martinez, adviser, disputes Martinez's and get away." Yankees in Game 2 of the World "As you know, I'm older and
who grabbed Zimmer by the head version of the incident, saying he From that point on, Martinez Series on Thursday night. wiser. I believe my experience
and tossed him to the ground. was trying to take Martinez didn't appreciate the way New Back in the Big Apple, where he played a big role in that,"
The Yankees were annoyed that d o w n , a i m i n g h i s h e a d a t York tabloids portrayed him as a was first a Red Sox villain and Martinez said.
Martinez hit Karim Garcia with a Martinez's chest but Martinez villain or monster every time he then an ace for the Mets, a Thursday will be his second
pitch earlier in the game, but the took hold of his neck. returned to Yankee Stadium with reflective Martinez threw all his World Series start -- he pitched
38-year-old Martinez said his "Pedro is full of crap," Zimmer the Red Sox. pitches during an anything-but- seven scoreless innings of three-
ailing shoulder was giving him told the St. Petersburg Times. "You guys have used me and ordinary news conference before hit ball for the Red Sox against
trouble. "It's what, six years later? If abused me," he said. "I remember Game 1. St. Louis in 2004.
“ Pedro wants to be a big man, I quotes in the paper, 'Here comes "I don't know if you realize this, It will be the first World Series
It was something that we have to don't care what he says." the man that New York loves to but because of you guys in some outing for the hard-throwing
let go kind of, and forget about it, Zimmer, however, was more hate.' Man? None of you have ways, I might be at times the Burnett, who did not receive a
because it was a disgrace for forgiving in an interview with the probably ever eaten steak with most influential player that ever decision in three AL playoff
baseball. Even though it wasn't New York Daily News. me or rice and beans with me to stepped in Yankee Stadium. I can starts this year.
my fault, I was involved in it, and "I told the whole world I was understand what the man is honestly say that," Martinez said. "I'm excited," he said. "I'm going
it's one of the moments that I w r o n g a n d t h a t I w a s about. You might say the player, "I have all the respect in the to prepare, yeah, maybe, as
don't like to see. I don't like to embarrassed by what I'd done the competitor, but the man? You world for the way they enjoy another game, but deep down I
see it because I'm not a violent and I apologized for it," Zimmer guys have abused my name. You being fans. Sometimes they know what it's about. I know how
man.”-- Pedro Martinez told the Daily News. "I was guys have said so many things, might be giving you the middle real it is, and I don't want to
"It was an ugly scene," Martinez definitely wrong and Pedro didn't have written so many things. finger, just like they will be change it."
said Wednesday, adding this was do nothing. I told the whole "There was one time I remember cursing you and telling you what Information from The
probably the first time he was world that, even though the when I was a free agent, there color underwear you're wearing. Associated Press was used in this
discussing it publicly. "Zim Yankees didn't want me to hold a was talk that I might meet with All those things you can hear report.
charged me and I think he's going press conference because they [George] Steinbrenner. One of when you're a fan. But at the end This content has passed through
to say something, but his reaction w e r e a f r a i d I m i g h t s a y your colleagues had me in the of the day, they're just great fans fivefilters.org.
was totally the opposite, [he] was something to stir things up papers with horns and a tail, red that want to see the team win. I
trying to punch my mouth and more." horns and a tail. That's a sign of don't have any problem with
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continued from page 51
fastball into the mid-90s. If he
changes speeds effectively, that
would go a long way toward
mitigating the swift winds
blowing out tonight and the
potential homers that could
ensue.
8:01: Jimmy Rollins leads off
the game by doing what he does
best: Not taking pitches. Tries a
first-pitch bunt to catch the big
man off guard, pushes it instead
right to Mark Teixeira for the
first out.
7:57: Yogi Berra! There was a
great picture of him in the New
York Times the other day,
making a tag in the 1950 Series.
Nice to have that continuity —
they had the Phillies pitcher and
1950 season hero Robin Roberts
on the radio the other day.–
Kalfus
7:40: I’m pretty excited about
the game.. I’ve come to watch it
at the Piazza at Schmidt’s, a new
residential, shopping and dining
complex in the Northern
Liberties section of Philadelphia.
The vast, cobblestoned piazza is
an exact, lovingly rendered
replica of Rome’s Piazza Navona
— the only difference being the
26-foot-high television screen
that broadcasts Phillies and
Eagles games. I’m sitting on the
square now, at the Swift Half bar,
which is starting to fill up with
red shirts and red hats. Here we
go!.– Kalfus
7:10 p.m. ET: A few pregame
notes from Game 1 of the World
Series:
– If the current weather holds,
this could be a seriously high-
scoring affair. The wind is
blowing straight out toward
Yankee Stadiums short right-
field porch. During batting
practice, basically everything
Phillies reserve player Matt Stairs
put in the air towards right sailed
over the wall, often into the
second deck. Sabathia and Lee
better keep the ball down. The
damp air from the last 36 hours is
gone. Its cool and breezy and
blowing out — postseason home-
run weather.
– Pedro Martinez has lost his
mind. In a rambling late-
afternoon press conference, the
Game 2 starter said he might be
the most influential player that
ever stepped into Yankee
Stadium. I can honestly say that.
Ruth? Gehrig? Mantle? Youve
got nothing on a guy who never
wore pinstripes. Pedro claimed
he has been used and abused by
the New York media for years.
Pedro doesn’t mind when the NY
fans chant “Who’s Your
Daddy!!!” But he said his
feelings were hurt when he
appeared in a newspaper with
horns and a tail because he is a
Christian. He said he felt bad
about an on-field altercation with
former Yankees coach Don
Zimmer but never thought of
apologizing to him through the
press. You guys have abused my
name. You guys have said so
many things, have written so
many things.”
Pedro has earned more than
$100 million playing baseball.
He practically stole money from
the Mets in 2007 and 2008. We
hope his feelings arent too hurt to
pitch tomorrow night.
– Interesting moment during
batting practice: Yogi Berra, who
has more rings than nearly any
other Yankee shaking hands with
Dave Winfield, who played here
for 10 years without winning
one.
– The Angels were noticeably
uncomfortable warming up for
Game 1 here in the cold evening
air two weeks ago and it showed
once they began playing,
committing several errors in the
first two games. Not surprisingly,
the Phillies showed nothing
similar. Jimmy Rollins warmed
up in a ski cap, but plenty of guys
worked out in shirtsleeves or just
a sweatshirt. The cozy confines
here arent all that different for
them than Citizens Bank Park,
which is just 100 miles southwest
from here.
– Joe Girardi still isnt talking
about whether hell throw CC
Sabathia on short rest in Game 4.
Theres no rush, the focus is on
Game 1 tonight and thats what
well worry about.– Futterman
Pregame: Two great teams with
rich franchise histories, the New
York Yankees and Philadelphia
Phillies, meet tonight for Game 1
of the World Series.
Potential storylines abound. Will
the Yankees stay with the three-
man rotation that proved so
effective in the LCS, even with
the tighter World Series
schedule forcing short rest for
starters? Will the Phillies’
bullpen hold up against the
toughest, deepest lineup in the
game? How will Yankee
Stadium’s short porch come into
play? With inclement November
weather dampen both ballparks’
offensive environments? Will Joe
Girardi continue to overmanage
and jeopardize his team’s
chances? Can Pedro Martinez,
seemingly washed up and out of
baseball a few months ago,
duplicate his lights-out LCS
performance in the World Series,
against the Yankees no less?
All fascinating plots waiting to
unfold. Instead, the big media
buzz surrounds Jimmy Rollins’
supposedly brash guarantee that
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the Phillies will win the World
Series.
Gee, what did you think he was
going to say? Knowing that
Rollins likes to speak his mind
and make bold predictions, the
media collectively shove a giant
microphone in his face and ask
him for his prediction. And he
didn’t predict that his Phillies
would get humiliated in a four-
game sweep! Wow, that’s gutsy!
The level of discourse in the
world we live in is so low, so
often. Is it too much to ask
sports writers and broadcasters to
do something a little more
interesting than spoonfeed a line
to a player, then breathlessly
repeat it in 64-point type when
that player says exactly what
everyone expects him to say?
I’m looking forward to
watching Jimmy Rollins this
series, just as I’m excited to see
Alex Rodriguez, Chase Utley,
Mariano Rivera, Ryan Howard,
CC Sabathia, and many others.
None of that excitement has
anything to do with the dull
clubhouse discourse that takes
place before the game. Let’s have
Rollins, and everyone else, let
their play do the talking.
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The Count: An Unusual Bullpen Proposal

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) opponents’ bullpens, while the playoff inning, Rivera may have
Submitted at 10/28/2009 1:38:09 PM
Yankees hit 6% better. Also, as contributed more wins to his
one commenter pointed out at team than any pitcher in history.
Cardinals pitcher John Smoltz Baseball Think Factory, the Is Yankees leftfielder Johnny
suggests the Philadelphia Phillies Yankees’ bullpen is a lot stronger Damon in line to become the
employ a novel bullpen strategy than Philadelphia’s. worst player in major-league
to beat the favored New York The relative strength of the history to collect 3,000 hits? He’s
Yankees in the World Series. His Yankees’ bullpen is just one of 575 hits shy of the mark and
i d e a , a s r e l a t e d t o S p o r t s several reasons New York is
Illustrated’s Tom Verducci: “I favored to win the series, by
blogging Wednesday’s Game
One, and they’ve invited Rob
turns 36 next month. Tango
examines the numbers and
Sidney Crosby
would keep bringing in a fresh everyone from psychics to
arm to pitch to them, rather than statisticians, and deny the Phillies
Neyer and may also be joined by
sabermetrics pioneer Bill James.
concludes Damon would likely
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asking my starting pitcher to go a repeat title. Cyril Morong
deep into the game trying to get points out that the Yankees have
(Jonah Keri and Matthew
Futterman, no slouches
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order. The Yankees’ batters Marchman points out flaws in World Series: recently Manny Ramirez, in weekday recap of the previous
improved each time through the New York skipper Joe Girardi’s With umpire gaffes receiving 2004. Rodriguez and night's action across the league.
order at about league-average strategic moves. Giradi may have wide attention, Eric Seidman and Philadelphia’s Jimmy Rollins PITTSBURGH -- I'm not quite
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instances where they got a fourth particularly an intentional walk tendencies. These are admittedly ever to record a run batted in in the world that had never seen a
look at the starting pitcher. of Alex Rodriguez that irked early efforts and will need some each of his team’s wins. player record a hat trick in
This strategy might make even Tango. I noted Tango’s second- work; for instance, they get Let’s hope that none of this person, whether it be as a fan in
more sense for the Yankees to guessing of managerial decisions seemingly contradictory answers year’s games makes its way on to the stands, or sitting in the press
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Disgruntled RB Larry Johnson suspended by
Kansas City Chiefs
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:54:16 PM
Chiefs Suspend Larry Johnson
Chiefs Suspend Larry Johnson
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas
City Chiefs running back Larry
Johnson, who made two gay slurs
within a 24-hour period, was
given what amounts to a one-
game suspension Wednesday
night, but Johnson's agent said he
would appeal.
Agent Peter Schaffer said the
game check and other lost
revenue would amount to about a
penalty of about $600,000 for the
former two-time Pro Bowl
player.
AFC West blog
ESPN.com's Bill Williamson
writes about all things AFC West
in his division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
In a three-sentence release, the
Chiefs said Johnson would be
suspended until Monday, Nov. 9
for conduct detrimental to the
team. The Chiefs are on their bye
week and will not play again
until traveling to Jacksonville on
Nov. 8.
The Chiefs had been saying for
three days that they were
"investigating" the situation.
Johnson was told to stay away
from the team on Tuesday.
Schaffer said he had consulted
with the Players Association
about the appeal.
"We will be filing an appeal on
behalf of Larry tomorrow,"
Schaffer told The Associated
Press. "While we respect the
Chiefs' ability to try to discipline
a player, we disagree and
respectfully disagree that the
punishment they propose is
warranted by the facts or
allowable by the collective
bargaining agreement. Hopefully,
we will be able to work out a
mutual and positive resolution
with the Chiefs short of a
hearing. If we don't, then this will
go to an arbitrator."
Schaffer said they would try to
expedite the matter and get a
resolution before the team's next
game on Nov. 8.
In 2007, Johnson signed a five-
year contract extension that
guaranteed him about $19 million
and could be worth as much as
$45 million. But because of these
latest problems, his future with
the Chiefs beyond Nov. 8 may
still be cloudy.
Coach Todd Haley and first-year
general manager Scott Pioli have
repeatedly said they are trying to
build a new culture and a new
attitude for a struggling
franchise, which has sunk to the
bottom of the NFL and that
disloyalty will not be tolerated.
Johnson, who needs just 75
yards rushing to break the team's
career record, first used the gay
slur on his Twitter account in an
exchange with one of his
followers on Sunday night.
Earlier he had posted comments
calling Haley's qualifications into
question.
Then in a whispered remark on
Monday after telling reporters in
the locker room he was not
talking, Johnson repeated the
slur, according to the Kansas City
Star which has posted audio of
the alleged comment.
The three-sentence news release
issued Wednesday night by the
team said only that Johnson, who
turns 30 in a few weeks, was
suspended for conduct
detrimental to the club. The
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Chiefs said they would have no
further comment on Johnson's
status "at this time."
Johnson wrote the objectionable
material on his Twitter account
several hours after the Chiefs (1-
6) lost 37-7 to San Diego, one of
their most lopsided home losses
Cavs Fall to
ever.
Johnson issued an apology on
Raptors to
Tuesday, almost exactly 12 Remain Winless
months after apologizing to the
By Matt Moore (FanHouse)
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for two incidents in Kansas City Submitted at 10/29/2009 1:20:00 AM
nightspots that led to his pleading
by Matt Moore
guilty to disturbing the peace.
Filed under: Cavaliers, Raptors
Those problems caused him to
Rome was not built in a day. But
be benched for three games in
in two days, the NBA's version of
2008 and suspended by
Camelot sure has looked like the
commissioner Roger Goodell for
barbarians are at the gate.
an additional game.
OK, I'll try not to lob anymore
Johnson was one of the best
historical metaphors at you. But
running backs in the NFL in
you might want to get ready for a
2005 and '06, running for more
whole lot of consternation from
than 1,700 yards each season and
the great state of Ohio, because
earning Pro Bowl honors. But
the team with the best record in
this season, like the Chiefs, he
the league last year has started
has struggled.
out 0-2. The Cavaliers fell to the
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Raptors in Toronto 101-91 to
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Coach Jeff Fisher to reveal
Tennessee Titans' QB plans on
Thursday
By Paul Kuharsky
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:24:12 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. --
Tennessee Titans coach Jeff
Fisher declined to share the snap
distribution of his quarterbacks at
practice Wednesday, saying he'd
reveal his plan for the position
Thursday after practice.
"I'm not going to discuss the
quarterback situation today for
competitive reasons but I'll have
an answer for you tomorrow,"
Fisher said.
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Incumbent Kerry Collins could
be pulled for Vince Young. The
Tennessean has reported that
owner Bud Adams told Fisher he
wants Young in the lineup
against the Jacksonville Jaguars
on Sunday at LP Field.
Neither quarterback spoke to the
media Wednesday, an unusual
development for a team whose
players are routinely at their
lockers and willing to talk after
practice. Collins typically has a
media session Wednesday.
Players didn't tip their hands on
any information they may have.
Keith Bulluck said he has
continued faith in Collins and
believes he is the guy, but at least
one other player, receiver Justin
Gage, indicated a change is in the
air.
Bulluck said Adams can call the
shots but pointed out he's seen
such decision-making from on
high fail to pan out elsewhere.
"What do I think about Bud
Adams saying that he wants to
see Vince Young play?" Bulluck
said. "If you are the owner of a
team, you have the right to do
whatever you want, because
you're paying everyone under
that umbrella. That's how I look
at it.
"But what I've seen from other
teams when the owner tries to
step in and says he wants certain
moves made and certain things
done, it doesn't always work out
the way those teams have wanted
it to," he said.
The Titans have carried only two
quarterbacks since cutting Patrick
Ramsey after Week 3 but
Wednesday had John David
Booty added to the practice
squad, presumably to take a share
of scout-team reps while the
situation with the starter is sorted
out. Young had referred to
himself as the scout-team
quarterback since Ramsey's
departure.
Tight end Bo Scaife, a close
friend of Young's who was his
teammate at Texas, said he
expects Young to be ready if
called upon.
"I know he's been waiting
patiently, I know he's excited and
if the chance comes I know he's
going to make the best of it,"
Scaife said. "I hope he's ready.
Only Vince knows if he's ready.
He's been looking good at
practice, he looked good at
training camp. Practice is
different than the game."
In other Titans news, RB Javon
Ringer hurt his lower back or hip
near the end of practice and was
carted off the field before being
helped inside the team's building.
Fisher did not have any
information on the severity of the
injury, though the rookie was in
obvious pain.
Paul Kuharsky covers the AFC
South for ESPN.com.
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Kansas Jayhawks top
preseason hoops ESPN/USA
Today coaches' poll
By ESPN.com news services
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Morningstar was suspended from
first-semester games after he was
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:21:19 AM
arrested earlier this month on
suspicion of driving while
Pollsters think Kansas can put intoxicated.
distractions aside and dominate The arrest was the latest
the college basketball world. embarrassment for the Jayhawks,
The Jayhawks topped the as university police opened an
preseason ESPN/USA Today investigation into September's
Top 25 coaches' poll, which was brawl involving members of the
released Thursday. school's football and men's
Michigan State, which finished basketball teams.
as the runner-up in the 2009 But Bill Self returns a strong
NCAA tournament, starts the nucleus from the team that was
2009-10 campaign second in the beaten in the regional semifinals
poll. of the NCAA tournament by
After a 23-12 finish last season, Michigan State.
Texas makes a big jump to the Center Cole Aldrich and point
No. 3 spot, while national guard Sherron Collins provide
champion North Carolina Tar stability at two key positions.
Heels starts out in the fourth Morningstar's void could be
position. filled by highly recruited 6-foot-6
Kentucky didn't finish last freshman Xavier Henry.
season in the rankings, but John Information from The
Calipari's arrival coincides with a Associated Press was used in this
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With Another Epic Performance, Alvin & the Chipmunks:

Cliff Lee Is Dr. October
By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 1:10:00 AM
by Jay Mariotti
Filed under: MLB NEW YORK
-- Ever seen a crowd in this city
so quiet, so wet, so stupefied?
This was to have been the
beginning of another pinstripe
coronation, the first in a series of
Win One For The Boss vignettes
in the House That Ruthlessness
Built. Instead, all the puffy hubris
was silenced on a rainy, windy
Wednesday night by Cliff Lee,
who began the year in woeful
Cleveland and may end it in a
pitching pantheon.
It wouldn't be wise to dismiss
the Phillies as unworthy of these
Yankees and this World Series
backdrop. With Lee outdueling
his best pal in baseball, CC
Sabathia, consider Game 1 a firm
reminder that the Phillies are the
defending champions and not the
least bit intimidated by the
mammoth city to the north, a Taj
Mahal ballpark in the Bronx and
the massive payroll and talent of
the Yankees. We winced when
Jimmy Rollins, the mouthy
The Squeakquel game tie-in
leadoff man, boosted Jay Leno's
sickly ratings when he went on
coming in early December
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) -rhythm game of some form. As
the show and forecast another
Philadelphia championship. "Of Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:00:00 AM
you can imagine, we were so
course, we're going to win," he entranced by the slurry of colors
If there's one wonderful thing we and sounds that it was hard to
chirped. "If we're nice, we'll let it
can say about movie game discern any clear information.
go six, but I'm thinking five --
trailers, it's that they keep us on We did discover, however, that
close it out at home." More:
top of what's happening with the the game will be coming to the
Moore: Yankees Yuck| Fletcher:
kids these days. Take for instance N i n t e n d o W i i a n d D S o n
Utley Show| Price: CC's Heavy
Alvin & the Chipmunks: The D e c e m b e r 1 .
Load
Squeakquel-- we didn't even Alvin & the Chipmunks: The
With Another Epic Performance,
know there was a second film Squeakquel game tie-in coming
Cliff Lee Is Dr. October
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Fantasy Felony: Rescuing Your Team From Total

Nightmare
By Tom Herrera (FanHouse) Forte is just one of many reasons Fantasy Felony: Rescuing Your
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:10:00 PM
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He looks so forlorn, doesn't he? the week you need to make trades of saving, at least you can say
Like he's carrying a rotting in an attempt to save your season. you tried. Time to blow this
cantaloupe instead of a football. And even if it's beyond the point squad up and go for broke.
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Williams Proves Worth What Are Yanks Doing

in Magic Win to George?
By Tim Povtak (FanHouse)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:28:00 PM
by Tim Povtak
Filed under: 76ers, Magic
ORLANDO -- When the Orlando
Magic signed out-of-work Jason
Williams this summer to a one-
year, minimum wage contract,
they made it sound like he was
coming merely to be an insurance
policy, giving them a past-his-
prime, third point guard in case
the bottom fell out on the other
two.
He's obviously going to be more,
a lot more for a real good team.
Williams, 33, is no longer the
flashy, wrap-around-passing
entertainer he was earlier in his
career in Sacramento, but he
looks refreshed and ready to play
at a high level once again, adding
another strong weapon to the
defending Eastern Conference
champs.
A year off certainly did him
well.
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Submitted at 10/29/2009 12:57:00 AM
by Terence Moore
Filed under: Yankees, MLB
Playoffs, World Series NEW
YORK -- This was a lousy way
for the New York Yankees to
hug somebody they supposedly
love.
You had their listless ways at the
plate. Then, if you combine that
with a couple of mindless pitches
by CC Sabathia and a shoddy
bullpen, they spent Wednesday
night at Yankee Stadium playing
the opener of the World Series as
if they wish to choke whatever
life is left inside of the ailing
George Steinbrenner.
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DSi LL coming to Europe in Q1 2010 as 'DSi XL'

By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 10:05:00 AM
Nintendo may have announced
Japanese plans for the new DSi
LL first, but it's not taking long
for news about other regions to
come out. Nintendo of Europe
confirmed to Videogamer that the
giant handheld will be released in
that region as the DSi XL, in the
already-packed Q1 time frame.
"The retail price of the Nintendo
DSi XL is expected to be higher
than that of the Nintendo DSi,"
the statement reads. "Further
details will be released soon."
The Japanese DSi LL will be
available in Wine Red, Dark
Brown (above), and Natural
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Express: Math. There is no word DSi LL coming to Europe in Q1
yet about the color variation or 2010 as 'DSi XL' originally
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Jay-Z is a gamer; likes Madden and, uh, you know, stuff like
Madden
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) "Immediately, of course, with the It's not like we have the numbers
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:00:00 AM
success of Guitar Hero, you of "the guys" to fact check your
know,[DJ Hero] piqued my claims anyway.
When celebrities get on board interest, and then on top of that it Continue reading Jay-Z is a
for a game, the inevitable pitfall was something from the hip-hop gamer; likes Madden and, uh,
is the dreaded interview where culture. So, anytime you can, you you know, stuff like Madden
said celebrity awkwardly tries know, I can expand the genre and Jay-Z is a gamer; likes Madden
relating to the "gamer" crowd introduce it to new audiences and and, uh, you know, stuff like
(trust us, we know all about it.) widen it -- you know, the reach Madden originally appeared on
With DJ Hero dropping this of what hip-hop can do -- you Joystiq on Thu, 29 Oct 2009
week, celebrity sponsor Jay-Z sat know, I'm interested in that," Jay- 05:00:00 EST. Please see our
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support for the cultural awareness that's another story altogether. "I cobbles together, "I was, like, impresses us, right? It's okay, Mr.
opportunities inherent in the was really a gamer," Jay-Z urges. really a problem. Like, those Z -- you don't have to impress us
recently released turntable title. "Like, ask any of the guys. Like, were my things -- for awhile." with your gaming prowess, too.

Impressions: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (the trailer)

By Kevin Kelly (Joystiq) Gemma Arterton and Ben doesn't come out until May 2010.
Submitted at 10/29/2009 9:30:00 AM
Kingsley -- a lot of bombast and Continue reading Impressions:
CGI. What usually comes out is a Prince of Persia: The Sands of
We were invited out to Jerry loud, boisterous film that makes a Time (the trailer)
Bruckheimer Films earlier this lot of money at the box office. Impressions: Prince of Persia:
week to watch the trailer for The Not that there's anything wrong The Sands of Time (the trailer)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of with that! originally appeared on Joystiq on
Time. The good news? It looks The only hitch is that it's a Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EST.
like a Jerry Bruckheimer film. videogame adaptation, and those Please see our terms for use of
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Nintendo officially
New movie-themed announces large-screen
Elite bundles for the UK DSi LL, hits Japan Nov. 21
By Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:00:00 AM
VideoGamer.com is reporting
that a supplement in this week's
issue of MCV is advertising two
new Xbox 360 Elite bundles.
Both bundles are themed around
recent movie releases,
specifically Star Trek and
Transformers 2. The Star Trek
bundle comes with an extra
controller, a copy of J.J. Abrams'
Star Trek stored on a USB drive -
- shaped like the Star Fleet logo -
- as well as 800 with which to
buy " Star Trek PDLC." Let's just
hope you don't have to waste
those points on Star Trek D-A-C.
A Transformers 2 bundle is in the
works as well, featuring an extra
controller, a copy of the movie
on a Bumblebee-shaped USB
drive and the Transformers 2
game.
Release date, pricing, and the
size of the included hard drive
(120GB or "Super Elite" 250GB)
are not specified in the ad.
However, as MCV is a UK
magazine, it's possible these are
only destined for that region.
We'd be hard-pressed to tell
potential buyers which one
bundle is the better but, but we
will say that only one of them
goes where no one has gone
before. And the other one is
Transformers.
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Submitted at 10/29/2009 4:01:00 AM
It's huuuuge: Nintendo DSi LL
(red) versus Nintendo DSi
(white) Well, that didn't take
long. Just two days after Japan's
Nikkei newspaper reported that
Nintendo was planning a new
variant of the DSi sporting larger
4" screens (which it called
"speculation"), the Big N has
gone and announced it -- for
Japan, at least. Called the
Nintendo DSi LL, the hefty
handheld will be released in
Japan on November 21 for a
price of ¥20,000 ($221).
The device has so far been
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shown only in a burnt red finish
and features a full pen-sized
stylus. The whole kit's big-- just
look at the above comparison
image from Nintendo's site-- and
really does appear well-suited for
an older audience. We'll have
more on the DSi LL soon.
[Thanks, Dr. NOGAMES!]
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Islamist dies
in FBI
Detroit raid
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World Edition)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 10:04:59 PM
The leader of a radical
fundamentalist Islamic group has
been shot dead in an FBI raid
near the US city of Detroit,
officials say.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53,
died in a firefight with agents in
Dearborn after refusing to
surrender, the FBI says.
The agency said it was trying to
arrest Mr Abdullah and 10
followers on charges including
conspiracy to sell stolen goods
and illegal arms possession.
The FBI says the group's aim
was to set up a Sunni Islamic
state in the US.
Mr Abdullah, who was also
known as Christopher Thomas,
had regularly preached anti-
government rhetoric, the agency
says.
He had also reportedly urged his
followers to engage in jihad, or
holy war.
Officials said an FBI dog was
also fatally wounded during
Wednesday's raid in the US state
of Michigan.
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Musical Mondays at Splash Bar Trend Crush: All Kinds

By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 12:17:58 PM
While famed NYC gay hot spot
Splash Bar can get just a wee bit
seedy on most evenings
(especially when those college
guys get rowdy on Thursdays!),
Monday night found the dance
floor occupied by a decidedly
mixed crowd all there to enjoy
the weekly Broadway sing-along
night deemed Musical Mondays.
Though any Monday night is a
good excuse to gather your
gaggle, down a few drinks, and
belt your lungs out to video-taped
recordings of some of the Great
White Way’s most famous
performances, this particular
evening held the especially high
occasion of celebrating the six-
year anniversary of the opening
of Wicked. In honor of the
show’s almost 2,500
performance run (and certainly
counting) a handful of Wicked
cast members took their night off
from the Gershwin Theater to
lend their voices to some
memorable performances for a
gathering of their most adoring
fans.
Dee Roscioli (pictured), who
plays Elphaba on Broadway,
ripped through “The Wizard and
I” as if the cold she was
reportedly nursing didn’t even
exist. Chelsea Krombach,
currently the Elfaba understudy,
blew our ears off with “Defying
Gravity,” and Heather Spore, a
Galinda understudy, did the
dutiful role of bewitching the
crowd with Wicked fan favorite,
“Popular.” After a performance
by the Wicked dancers and a
crowed giveaway, night took a,
uh, charmingly desperate (?) turn
when Craig Jessup, the make-up
artist responsible for greenifying
Elfaba every night, sang an
original number, “Date With
Myself.” Naturally, almost
everyone in the room identified.
At least we’ll always have our
musicals.
—Seth Plattner, Assistant Editor
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of Cutouts
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog) below who’d worn hers over a
Submitted at 10/28/2009 1:00:15 PM
simple strapless sheath. Topped
off with gladiator sandals and
Cutouts in the daring, Cushnie et Ray Ban aviators, the look was
Ochs sense may not be for u n i q u e , e d g y - p r e t t y , a n d
everyone, but as you can see surprisingly, not as trying-too-
below, there are plenty of ways hard as it sounds.
to try out this trend without If nothing else, try a fun cutout
baring the odd patch of skin or cuff or shoe—they’re everywhere
looking too much like an Erin these days (at every price point)
Wasson hipster copycat. and inject instant cool into even
Over the weekend, I brunched the most conservative outfit.
next to a woman who had paired Cutouts at any cost (clockwise
the mesh-paneled Alex Wang from top left): cuff by CC Skye,
skirt with a slim, rolled-sleeve ankle boots by Velvet Angels,
white oxford and simple black mini dress by Helmut Lang, skirt
patent flats. For as edgy a skirt as by Alexander Wang, crop top by
it is, the overall look came off on White Trumpet, oxfords by
t h e c o o l s i d e o f p r e p p y . Opening Ceremony, dress by
Similarly, while in LA last week, Silence & Noise
I saw a girl sporting a ‘Swiss Follow ELLE on Twitter.
cheese’ crop top almost identical
to the White Trumpet tee shown

FAA Slow to Alert Military of Wayward Plane

(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:35:22 AM
The Federal Aviation
Administration violated its own
rules by taking more than 40
minutes to alert the military after
losing communication with a
Northwest Airlines flight last
week, according to officials
familiar with internal reviews
under way at several federal
agencies.
The delay has sparked
consternation within the military,
concern within the FAA and
special oversight by the White
House, these officials said,
particularly because such time
lags were supposed to be
eliminated as a result of the
lessons learned from the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks. In the
event of a hijacking, the military
would order fighters into the air
to intercept an aircraft and
possibly shoot it down.
SLIDESHOW: Northwest
Airlines Plane Mystery
In an interview, the man charged
with protecting the skies above
North America, U.S. Air Force
Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., said
he was displeased with the way
the situation evolved, stressing
that notification should have been
quicker and those involved
should have been more agile in
their response.
In a statement to The Wall Street
Journal Wednesday evening,
FAA Administrator Randy
Babbitt said air-traffic controllers
"should have notified [the
military] more quickly that the
plane was not responding." Local
controllers apparently became so
focused on trying to re-establish
contact that they failed to alert
higher-level FAA managers
about the problem in a timely
manner.
"We are conducting an internal
review," Babbitt said, "and will
require retraining on proper
notification procedures when we
lose radio contact with aircraft."
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Christian Louboutin Serves up Bubbly in Chic
Champagne Flutes
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 12:39:52 PM
Way back when, in the
romanticized heyday of the
French aristocracy, men used to
perform "Le Rituel" at social
events to show their undying love
and devotion to a woman by
drinking from her shoe. Now, in
a day and age where you can't
even get a suitor to call you back,
you might appreciate that Mews
of Mayfair is reviving the
tradition avec Christian
Louboutin.
The stylish London spot, along
Dieting 'keeps diabetes at bay'
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Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:09:44 PM
A period of careful eating and
regular exercise can stave off
diabetes for a decade, a study
suggests.
US researchers followed up
nearly 3,000 overweight people
who had taken part in a three
year diabetes prevention
programme.
The group had initially been
divided into three - assigned
either to a diet and exercise
programme, the diabetes drug
metformin or a placebo.
The Lancet report notes it was
the dieters who reaped the most
with Piper-Heidseck, is hosting a
chic escape from holiday
shopping via a champagne
service featuring a bottle of Piper
served in a Slovenian crystal
Christian Louboutin champagne
benefit.
All three groups were given
access to ongoing lifestyle
coaching once the initial three
year trial had ended.
That trial, carried out by the US-
based Diabetes Prevention
Program Research Group, had
shown a diet aimed at achieving
7% weight loss, combined with
half an hour of exercise five days
a week, reduced the risk of
developing Type 2 diabetes by
58% compared with the placebo
group.
The group on metformin, a drug
which has been used to treat the
condition since the 1950s, saw
their risk decline by nearly a
third.
flute.
You can sip bubbly stylishly
from its sleek 5.5 inch heel
replete with the iconic red sole.
And as James Robeson, the
owner of Mews of Mayfair,
In the seven years after the trial
ended, both the drug and placebo
groups - now also eating more
carefully and exercising - saw the
rate of diabetes fall.
But the most significant drop
was among those who had started
out on a diet and exercise regime
- their risk was over a third lower
than the placebo group.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr
Anoop Misra, a specialist in
diabetes in New Delhi, described
the prevention of the disease as
"a long and winding road".
'No short cut'
Dr Misra said: "There seems to
be no short cut, and a persistent
and prolonged intensive lifestyle
intervention seems to be the most
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describes it, “Drinking from the
Louboutin shoe is great fun; we
are expecting to be the
destination of choice for a true
fashionista’s Christmas night
out.” And it isn't even that
costly, only 90 pounds (roughly
150) for the experience of Le
Rituel in one of London's most
stylish venues.
And if you want the flute all for
yourself (don't blame you if you
do) you can get them exclusively
through Selfridges.
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effective way to travel on it."
But he warned it could not be the
only measure: "We need more
effective drugs for those who
cannot follow intensive lifestyle
therapy because of infirmity."
Type 2 diabetes usually appears
in people over the age of 40,
however increasing numbers of
children are being diagnosed with
the condition, some as young as
seven.
Although obesity is a risk factor,
not all people with type 2
diabetes are overweight.
Dr Iain Frame, head of research
at Diabetes UK, said: "It is
fascinating to read about the 10-
year follow up studies and of the
importance of lifestyle
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In gritty Newark,
civilians cruise
against crime (AP)
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NEWARK, N.J. – Loiterers and
criminals on the nighttime streets
of New Jersey's largest city have
some company — concerned
citizens and government workers
who are cruising neighborhoods
in an effort to reduce crime.
Under Newark's "Crime
Caravan" program, volunteer
convoys have been rolling
through the city's roughest
neighborhoods a few nights each
week since Sept. 29. More than
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interventions, with or without
metformin, in the prevention of
Type 2 diabetes even after 10
years.
"There is clearly no easy route to
take to prevent Type 2 diabetes
but indications are that with
further research into the long-
term benefits of good dietary
advice, physical activity and,
where necessary drug therapies,
we may be a step closer into
helping people at high risk of
developing Type 2 diabetes
modify their lifestyle choices that
are sustainable in the longer
term."
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Radical Islamic Group Leader Killed in FBI Raid
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Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:32:59 AM
Three people were still on the
loose Thursday after the FBI raid
and deadly shooting of a radical
Islam leader whose goal
authorities say was to take down
the U.S. government.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53,
was killed in a shootout with
federal agents in the Detroit
suburb of Dearborn as they tried
to arrest him on a number of
charges including conspiracy to
sell stolen goods and the illegal
possession and sale of firearms.
Abdullah repeatedly told
followers that the U.S.
government was their enemy and
they should be willing to fight
the FBI, even if it meant death,
according to the criminal
complaint against him.
"You cannot have a nonviolent
revolution," Luqman Ameen
Abdullah said, according to a
2008 conversation secretly
recorded by a confidential FBI
source.
Abdullah was killed Wednesday
at a warehouse in Dearborn,
where agents were attempting to
arrest him. FBI spokeswoman
Sandra Berchtold said Abdullah
refused to surrender, fired a
weapon and was killed by gunfire
from agents.
He was one of 11 people named
in a criminal complaint after a
two-year investigation.
Seven of the 10 people charged
with Abdullah were in custody,
including a state prison inmate,
the U.S. attorney's office said.
Three still were missing.
Another man not named in the
complaint also was arrested.
The FBI will hold a news
conference Thursday morning.
More from MyFoxDetroit.com.
The 43-page complaint
described Abdullah as an
extremist who believed the FBI
bombed New York's World
Trade Center in 1993 and the
Oklahoma City federal building
two years later.
Abdullah beat children with
sticks at his Detroit mosque, the
complaint claimed, and was
trained with his followers in the
use of firearms, martial arts and
swords.
Neither Abdullah nor his co-
defendants were charged with
terrorism. But he was
"advocating and encouraging his
followers to commit violent acts
against the United States," FBI
agent Gary Leone wrote in an
affidavit filed with the complaint.
The FBI said Abdullah, also
known as Christopher Thomas,
was an imam, or prayer leader, of
a radical group named Ummah
whose primary mission is to
establish an Islamic state within
the U.S.
Abdullah told followers that it
was their "duty to oppose the FBI
and the government and it does
not matter if they die" and to
"simply shoot a cop in the head"
if they wanted the officer's
bulletproof vest, Leon wrote.
The affidavit also said bombs,
guns and even the recipe for TNT
were among Abdullah's regular
topics with his allies. Group
members and former members
said they were "willing to do
anything Abdullah instructs
and/or preaches, even including
criminal conduct and acts of
violence," the FBI agent wrote.
He and his followers were
American born, mostly African-
American converts to Islam.
But that description doesn't
match what Dawud Walid,
executive director of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations'
Michigan chapter, said he knew
of Abdullah.
"He would open up the mosque
to homeless people. He used to
run a soup kitchen and feed
indigent people," Walid said. "I
knew nothing of him that was
related to any nefarious or
criminal behavior."
Walid said Abdullah had a wife
and children. A phone number
for the family had been
disconnected.
Ummah believes that a separate
Islamic state in the U.S. would be
controlled by Jamil Abdullah Al-
Amin, formerly known as H. Rap
Brown, who is serving a life
sentence in a federal prison in
Colorado for shooting two police
officers in Georgia in 2000,
Leone said.
Al-Amin, a veteran of the black
power movement, started the
group after he converted to Islam
in prison.
"They're not taking their cues
from overseas," said Jimmy
Jones, a professor of world
religions at Manhattanville
College and a longtime Muslim
prison chaplain. "This group is
very much American born and
bred."
Abdullah's mosque is in a brick
duplex on a residential street in
Detroit. A sign on the door in
English and Arabic reads, in part,
"There is no God but Allah." The
mosque was located elsewhere in
the city until the property was
lost in January because of unpaid
taxes.
When the eviction took place, a
search turned up empty shell
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casings and large holes in the
concrete wall of a "shooting
range," Leone said.
The FBI built its case over two
years with the help of
confidential sources close to
Abdullah who recorded
conversations and participated in
undercover operations involving
the sale of furs, laptop
computers, televisions, energy
drinks and power tools.
Abdullah received at least 20
percent of any profit and claimed
the "Prophet Muhammad said
that it is okay to participate in
theft; as long as that person
prays, they are in a good state,"
Leone wrote in the affidavit.
Imad Hamad, regional director
of the American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee in
Dearborn, said the FBI briefed
him about the arrests.
"We know that this is not
something to be projected as
something against Muslims,"
Hamad said.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) extremist who believed the FBI and the government and it does Amin, formerly known as H. Rap the U.S. attorney's office said.
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:08:54 AM
bombed New York's World not matter if they die" and to Brown, who is serving a life Another man not named in the
Trade Center in 1993 and the "simply shoot a cop in the head" sentence in a federal prison in complaint also was arrested.
DETROIT – A leader of a Oklahoma City federal building if they wanted the officer's Colorado for shooting two police The FBI built its case over two
radical U.S. Sunni Islam group two years later. Abdullah beat bulletproof vest, Leon wrote. officers in Georgia in 2000, years with the help of
killed in a shootout with federal children with sticks at his Detroit The affidavit also said bombs, Leone said. confidential sources close to
agents near Detroit repeatedly mosque, the complaint claimed, guns and even the recipe for TNT Al-Amin, a veteran of the black Abdullah who recorded
t o l d f o l l o w e r s t h a t t h e and was trained with his were among Abdullah's regular power movement, started the conversations and participated in
government was the enemy and followers in the use of firearms, topics with his allies. Group group after he converted to Islam undercover operations involving
they must be willing to take on martial arts and swords. members and former members in prison. the sale of furs, laptop
the FBI— even if it meant death, Neither Abdullah nor his co- said they were "willing to do "They're not taking their cues computers, televisions, energy
authorities said. defendants were charged with anything Abdullah instructs from overseas," said Jimmy drinks and power tools.
"You cannot have a nonviolent t e r r o r i s m . B u t h e w a s and/or preaches, even including Jones, a professor of world Abdullah received at least 20
revolution," Luqman Ameen "advocating and encouraging his criminal conduct and acts of religions at Manhattanville percent of any profit and claimed
Abdullah said, according to a followers to commit violent acts violence," the FBI agent wrote. College and a longtime Muslim the "Prophet Muhammad said
2008 conversation secretly against the United States," FBI But that description doesn't prison chaplain. "This group is that it is okay to participate in
recorded by a confidential FBI agent Gary Leone wrote in an match what Dawud Walid, very much American born and theft; as long as that person
source. affidavit filed with the complaint. executive director of the Council bred." prays, they are in a good state,"
A b d u l l a h , 5 3 , w a s k i l l e d Three of the 11 people were still on American-Islamic Relations' Abdullah's mosque is in a brick Leone wrote in the affidavit.
Wednesday at a warehouse in at large Thursday. The head of Michigan chapter, said he knew duplex on a residential street in Imad Hamad, regional director
Dearborn, where agents were the FBI in Detroit, Andrew of Abdullah. Detroit. A sign on the door in of the American-Arab Anti-
attempting to arrest him on Arena, called a news conference "He would open up the mosque English and Arabic reads, in part, Discrimination Committee in
charges that included conspiracy for late Thursday morning and to homeless people. He used to "There is no God but Allah." The Dearborn, said the FBI briefed
to sell stolen goods and illegal also planned to meet privately run a soup kitchen and feed mosque was located elsewhere in him about the arrests.
possession and sale of firearms. with the Council of Islamic indigent people," Walid said. "I the city until the property was "We know that this is not
He was one of 11 people named Organizations of Michigan. knew nothing of him that was lost in January because of unpaid something to be projected as
in a criminal complaint after a The FBI said Abdullah, also related to any nefarious or taxes. something against Muslims,"
two-year investigation. known as Christopher Thomas, criminal behavior." When the eviction took place, a Hamad said.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra was an imam, or prayer leader, of Walid said Abdullah had a wife search turned up empty shell ___
Berchtold said Abdullah refused a radical group named Ummah and children. A phone number casings and large holes in the Associated Press writers David
to surrender, fired a weapon and whose primary mission is to for the family had been concrete wall of a " shooting Runk, Corey Williams, David N.
was killed by gunfire from establish an Islamic state within disconnected. range," Leone said. Goodman and Rachel Zoll
agents. the U.S. Ummah believes that a separate Seven of the 10 people charged contributed to this report.
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120 volunteers in 45 vehicles hit
the streets Monday, breaking off
into five groups, called "packs."
Each pack was led by an off-duty
police officer in an unmarked car
with flashing emergency lights.
It's about "waving the flag" and
stressing that Newark is a city of
laws again, according to Mayor
Cory Booker, who initiated the
trial program to dampen crime
this fall. Critics say the patrols
are a political ploy by the mayor
and could endanger the civilians
who participate.
"The caravan gives people a
sense of strength and security,"
said Booker, who is trying to
fashion a national blueprint for
renewal in a former icon for inner
-city decay. "They let criminals
know we're taking the city back."
The cash-strapped city pays
nothing for the program, and
supporters say it channels
community angst about violence
into a force multiplier for police.
The packs look a lot like the
multi-vehicle police impact
teams — known to locals as
"trains" — that are filled with
heavily armed officers. Civilian
volunteers aren't allowed out of
the vehicles, most of which are
white vans paid for with
charitable donations.
The program also helps Booker
politically by harnessing the
same popular angst over
community violence as his
opponents, who have been
holding anti-violence protest
rallies in key city intersections.
John Sharpe James— son of
former Mayor Sharpe James— is
part of that movement. The
former U.S. Army major views
the caravan program as strictly a
political ploy.
"I see no effect" from them on
street violence, James said.
Jack Calhoun, a law enforcement
consultant for the National
League of Cities, said the citizen
patrols are a novel way to elevate
civic activism — instead of just
relying on the police to do
everything.
"Community fear is a big issue in
crime-torn areas," said Calhoun,
who manages the California
Cities Gang Prevention Network.
Jeff Walker, a criminal justice
professor at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock, said the
patrols advance two other law
enforcement objectives by raising
police visibility and disrupting
the street drug trade by
increasing "search time,"
referring to the amount of time it
takes an illegal drug user to find
a dealer.
"Anything that increases search
time is good because some
people will just give up," Walker
said. "My only concern about the
caravan is the potential for
civilian injury once people on the
street realize they're not trains."
Both Calhoun and Walker said
they were unaware of similar
programs in other cities.
Monday's caravan left at 11 p.m.
— just hours after Newark's 58th
homicide of the year — and
returned after three hours on
patrol. The five packs didn't
make any arrests, but they
garnered plenty of attention. For
organizers, that's the whole point.
"The goal is deterrence," Newark
Public Safety Director Anthony
Campos said.
People loitering on the street
moved quickly when the packs
rolled through Monday night.
Six teenage boys were prowling
the streets of a Newark
neighborhood at around 12:30
a.m. when Booker's pack pulled
up beside them.
"Come on guys," said Booker,
40. "It's way too late. Go home."
Recognition quickly gave way to
smiles.
"Hey, it's Cory Booker," said one
teen.
"Go home," the mayor repeated,
impatiently.
"We are, we are," a second teen
replied, explaining that the group
had encountered a similar pack
minutes earlier.
"We don't want any trouble," a
third teen said.
The caravan idea is similar to a
tactic Booker used as a city
councilman, when he parked a
motor home in troubled
neighborhoods to disrupt drug
dealing. The caravan lets people
join him.
Some civilian participants are
looking to make a difference.
Others just want to spend time
with a popular mayor who has
become a celebrity after
appearing on NBC's "Tonight
Show," HBO's "Real Time With
Bill Maher" and " The Colbert
Report" on Comedy Central.
Joseph Gallant, 19, and two of
his classmates from Rider
University joined Monday's
caravan after Booker mentioned
the program at their school. The
Newark native said he likes that
the program provides motivated
citizens with an outlet.
"You don't want a disconnect
between citizens and police,"
Gallant said.
Booker hopes the caravan will
help preserve the strides the city
of 281,000 residents has already
made in reducing shootings and
killings. The number of Newark
shooting victims fell 32 percent
to 344 in 2008, from 503 in 2006.
Homicides fell 36 percent during
the same period to 67. Newark is
on pace for fewer shootings this
year, but more homicides.
Booker took office in July 2006.
He succeeded Sharpe James, who
is in prison for his role in the cut-
rate sale of city land to a former
mistress.
The mayor said the big test for
the caravan program will occur
on Halloween and "Mischief
Night," a night before Halloween
long associated with vandalism.
"Those are the two nights we're
going to roll hard," Booker said.
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American Music Awards
Streams Pre-Show
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Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:22 AM
The American Music Awards
and its live digital pre-show will
align with mobile service
SayNow to offer an interactive
viewer's experience during the
red carpet event preceding the
live broadcast Nov. 22 on ABC.
SayNow has activated an official
AMA SayNow number. The
SayNow AMA Hotline will
provide fans with the opportunity
to call the pre-show hosts and
leave questions they would like
them to ask their favorite artists.
Fans will also be able to receive
the latest updates, including red
carpet guests, performances,
presenters, nominations and
voting information. The "Official
AMA Pre-Show," presented by
Coca-Cola, will feature hosts
Julie Moran, Jenni Pulos, Jai
Rodriguez and Taryn Southern,
will be streamed by dick clark
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Phillies Power Past N.Y. in World Series Opener
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Submitted at 10/28/2009 9:40:17 AM
NEW YORK Look out for
Cliff Lee, Chase Utley and this
New Red Machine.
Lee outdueled CC Sabathia,
Utley homered twice and the
Philadelphia Phillies kept rolling
through October, beating the
New York Yankees 6-1 on a
misty Wednesday night in the
World Series opener.
The defending champion Phillies
shut down Alex Rodriguez & Co.
in the first Series game at the
new billion-dollar Yankee
Stadium. Trying to become the
first NL team to repeat since
Cincinnati in 1975-76, the Phils'
17-4 postseason run is the best in
league history.
Big Red Machine, meet your
match.
Game 2 is Thursday night, with
wily Pedro Martinez pitching for
the Phillies against jumpy A.J.
Burnett.
Ryan Howard reprised his MVP
performance, doubling twice and
driving in the final run for the
Phillies. Rodriguez, however,
went hitless and struck out three
times in his Series debut.
Lee bamboozled the Yankees
with a spiked curveball,
deceptive changeup and his usual
pinpoint fastball, pitching a six-
hitter while striking out 10
without a walk.
Lee blanked the Yankees until a
run scored on shortstop Jimmy
Rollins' throwing error in the
ninth inning. The lefty improved
to 3-0 with an 0.54 ERA this
postseason.
He really seemed to enjoy
himself, too.
If Lee felt any nerves in his
Series debut, facing the team that
led the majors in wins, homers
and runs, it didn't show. And if
the Phillies were supposed to be
intimidated of the pictures of
Babe Ruth and all the Yankees
greats on the giant videoboard, it
didn't happen.
Pitching in short sleeves on a
blustery evening, Lee worked a
wad of gum while he worked his
spell over the Yanks. He stuck
out his glove hand for a ho-hum
catch on Johnny Damon's popup
that left the Phillies chuckling,
shrugged after a nifty, behind-the
-back stop on Robinson Cano's
one-hopper and casually tagged
out Jorge Posada on a
comebacker.
Lee beat his good friend and
former Cy Young teammate
Carsten Charles Sabathia in the
first game at this ballpark back in
April, and got this chance after
the Phillies traded four minor
leaguers to Cleveland in July to
get him.
Playing in their 40th World
Series, and first in six years, the
Yankees went quietly.
Utley's solo home runs in the
third and sixth innings gave Lee
all the support he needed. Raul
Ibanez hit a two-run single in the
eighth and Shane Victorino
added an RBI single in the ninth.
The Phillies' may have been a bit
overdue — in their only other
October meeting, the Whiz Kids
from Philadelphia got swept by
the Yankees in the 1950 World
Series and totaled just five runs.
Even though he's an All-Star,
Utley was an unlikely candidate
to rock Sabathia, the MVP of the
ALCS. Utley was 0 for 7 with
five strikeouts against the big
Yankees lefty going into the
game.
Utley won a nine-pitch duel with
Sabathia in the third, pulling a 95
mph fastball over the right-field
wall. The shot was the first by a
left-hander allowed by Sabathia
at home this year.
Utley struck again in the sixth,
sending another 95 mph heater
deep into the right-center field
bleachers.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel
had little to do except watch from
the top step of the dugout.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi
was more busy, bringing in five
relievers after Sabathia left
following the seventh inning.
First lady Michelle Obama and
Jill Biden were among the crowd
of 50,207, as were a few specks
of fans dressed in Phillies red.
Yankees owner George
Steinbrenner watched from an
upstairs box — he has yet to see
his team win in the palace he
built.
After a rocky postseason,
umpires faced just one tricky call
and got it right. They huddled
after Rollins trapped a popup and
threw to first, and correctly ruled
it a double play.
Neither team got a lot of good
swings in the early innings. Lee
and Sabathia had a lot to do with
that, and maybe a light drizzle
hurt the hitters. So did the fact
that each club had played only 10
games in 3 1/2 weeks because of
the scattered postseason
scheduling.
There was plenty of postseason
bunting for the opener. Red,
white and blue decorations
adorned the upper decks, and
both Rollins and Damon bunted
into outs in the first inning.
The Phillies loaded the bases
with two outs in the first inning
on two walks sandwiched around
Howard's double. Ibanez got
ahead in the count 3-1 and swung
away, hitting a routine grounder.
NOTES: Utley set a postseason
record by safely reaching in his
26th straight game, breaking a tie
with Baltimore's Boog Powell. ...
Rodriguez fanned three times in a
game for the first time since July
30. ... The Yankees went 64-36
in Series games at their old
park.... The only previous time
Cy Young winners met in the
Series opener was 1995 when
Cleveland's Orel Hershiser faced
Atlanta's Greg Maddux. ... The
Yankees grounds crew wore T-
shirts that said "Win it for the
Boss."
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Storm dumps snow
on Rockies, plains,
more forecast (AP)
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Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:32:52 AM
DENVER – A slow-moving
autumn storm showed no signs of
letting up in Colorado and the
western Plains on Thursday,
blanketing areas already buried
with as much as 3 feet, closing
schools and businesses and
delaying flights.
Roads across Colorado and
Wyoming were snow-packed and
icy from the first big winter
storm of the season in the West,
and the snow's not likely to let up
anytime soon. The storm spread a
blanket of white from northern
Utah's Wasatch Front to western
Nebraska's northern border with
South Dakota.
"There's definitely some adverse
driving conditions right now, and
it's expected to continue
throughout a good portion of the
day," said Bob Wilson, a
Colorado Department of
Transportation spokesman.
Wilson said although some cars
are sliding off roads, not many
accidents had been reported.
In Colorado, U.S. Highway 6 is
closed to Loveland Pass, while
Interstate I-25 is closed from
Wellington to Cheyenne. Wilson
said the closure is to prevent
traffic congestion going into
Wyoming, where driving
conditions are worse than in
northern Colorado. Interstate 80
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'Baby Grace' Stepdad
San Francisco drivers face day 2 of tough Dumped Girl's Body,
commute (AP) Lawyer Says
(FOXNews.com)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Department of Transportation bridge every day jammed of the 1989 earthquake on the
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:47:39 AM
Submitted at 10/29/2009 5:24:21 AM
attributed the incident to alternate routes and crowded into bridge, called the repair last
vibrations and grinding on a buses and trains as they tried to month a "Band-Aid" that GALVESTON, Texas A man
S A N F R A N C I S C O – S a n metal tie rod, causing it to snap. get into San Francisco. jeopardized public safety to get accused of murdering his 2-year-
Francisco Bay area commuters During a briefing Wednesday, Officials with the Bay Area the bridge open quickly. old stepdaughter put her body in
were bracing for another day of state transportation spokesman Rapid Transit District said it saw "When this eyebar fractured, this the trash and dumped in it the
wearisome commutes as crews Bart Ney said crews were an increase in ridership of nearly is very serious element of this Galveston Bay — but he didn't
worked on repairs to the San "making several enhancements to 56,000 passengers, or about 49 part of the bridge. So the safety kill her, his lawyer told jurors on
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. address that issue." percent, Wednesday between the issue is very serious here," he Wednesday.
A day after 5,000 pounds of He also said strong winds likely East Bay and San Francisco. said. "The repair done, in my Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 26, is
metal fell and hit the San played a role in the failure, which BART added extra cars to its opinion, is very unusual to put it charged with capital murder in
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge heightened concerns by some trains in anticipation of the mildly." the death 2-year-old Riley Ann
during an evening rush hour, experts about the integrity of the increase in riders. The main contractor on the Sawyers, whose body was
state transportation officials said repair and the bridge's safety in Drivers using the other bridges repairs, C.C. Meyers, Inc., stood discovered in a plastic box on an
the bridge would not open in an earthquake. Scientists in 2008 across San Francisco Bay are by the work, but deferred to island in the bay in 2007.
time for the Thursday morning said there is a 63 percent expected to face delays again as Caltrans to determine why the Before her remains were
commute. probability of a quake similar to they jam bridges for a second day pieces failed, spokeswoman Beth identified, Riley was called
There is no estimate for when the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Thursday. Ruyak said. "Baby Grace" until news
the bridge will open again as temblor in the Bay area over the The westbound drive across the Meanwhile, the Federal accounts helped relatives in Ohio
crews were scheduled to work next 30 years. San Mateo Bridge, which Highway Administration sent recognize and identify her.
through the night and morning. The 1989 earthquake caused a typically takes about 15 minutes, engineers on Wednesday to help Zeigler's wife and Riley's
The pieces that failed Tuesday 50-foot section of the bridge's was a 50-minute drive Caltrans investigate. The federal mother, 21-year-old Kimberly
were parts of major repairs done upper deck to collapse onto the Wednesday morning. Traffic on agency said it had not inspected Dawn Trenor, in February was
last month after state inspectors deck below, causing another the bridge was about 40 percent the Labor Day weekend repairs convicted of capital murder and
d i s c o v e r e d a c r a c k i n a n section to give way. heavier than usual, according to a made to the heavily used span, sentenced to life in prison.
"eyebar," an important structural It took state officials until 1997 bridge supervisor. instead relying on state Prosecutors allege that the couple
beam. The rods that broke were to decide it would be cheaper Traffic is also expected to be inspection reports to ensure beat the child and threw her to a
holding a saddle-like cap that had over the long run to build a new heavier on the Golden Gate safety guidelines were met. tile floor, which fractured her
been installed to strengthen the span than retrofit the existing Bridge for a second day in a row. This content has passed through skull.
cracked eyebar. Only motorist one. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a civil fivefilters.org. During Wednesday's opening
was left with minor injuries after Transit officials said Wednesday engineering professor at the statements, defense attorney Neal
the incident Tuesday. that many of the estimated University of California, Davis III said his client walked
Officials with the California 280,000 commuters that use the Berkeley who studied the effects into the family's home in Spring,
a Houston suburb, to find his
wife with her unconscious child
in July 2007.
"He put her in a trash bag and in
another container and put it in the
bay," Davis told jurors.
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"There is not one iota of evidence Ohio welfare worker snatched

California girl (AP) that Royce Zeigler knowingly,
intentionally or in any way
her from his home. He
abandoned the story in his second
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Wednesday. A fifth suspect found the girl semiconscious and c a u s e d t h e d e a t h o f R i l e y interview. Asked repeatedly
Submitted at 10/29/2009 6:28:54 AM
arrested Tuesday, 21-year-old naked from the waist down near a Sawyers," Davis said. "He is not during the first interview if Riley
Salvador Rodriguez of picnic table. only not guilty, he is innocent." was Baby Grace, Zeigler said, "I
RICHMOND, Calif. – Four Richmond, also remained jailed Margarita Vargas, who was But Galveston County swear to God I do not know
teens could appear in court as but had not been charged. watching television Saturday prosecutor Kayla Allen told that." In his second interview, he
early as Thursday after being The alleged gang rape and night with others at her home two jurors that Zeigler lied repeatedly acknowledged that Riley was
charged in the alleged gang rape b e a t i n g S a t u r d a y n i g h t a t blocks from the school campus, to investigators, giving them Baby Grace.
of a 15-year-old girl outside her Richmond High School have told the newspaper she reported conflicting statements on the An autopsy determined that the
high school homecoming dance rattled the city of about 120,000 the assault as soon as she heard girl's death. child died of two skull fractures.
in Northern California. in the San Francisco Bay area. about it. The newspaper did not " R o y c e C l y d e Z e i g l e r a n d Prosecutors have said Trenor and
The four — ages 15, 16, 17 and Police believe as many as 10 say whether Vargas was a student Kimberly lied to everyone they Zeigler beat Riley with belts,
19 — were charged Wednesday people ranging in age from 15 to at the school. could lie to," Allen said. "They dunked her head in cold bath
with rape and enhancements that mid-20s attacked the girl for "They think it's cool," Vargas lied to their family, co-workers water and threw her onto a tile
they acted in concert, which more than two hours in a dimly said of the alleged perpetrators. and police over and over." floor, fracturing her skull and
could make them eligible for life lit area. As many as two dozen "They weren't raised to respect Prosecutors showed the causing her death.
in prison. people witnessed the rape girls." Galveston County jury, made up "You'll see at the end of the trial
"These are people who played a w i t h o u t n o t i f y i n g p o l i c e . Gagan said the victim, a of nine men and three women, Royce Zeigler is full of nothing
significant role in the incident," Dara Cashman, head of the sophomore, left the dance and video of Zeigler admitting to but lies, and that he and his wife
Richmond Police Lt. Mark Contra Costa District Attorney's was walking to meet her father dumping the child's body in murdered Riley Ann Sawyers,"
Gagan said. "I'm confident that Office sex crimes unit, told the for a ride home when a classmate Galveston Bay, the Galveston Allen said.
more arrests will be made." Contra Costa Times, a Bay area invited her to join a group County Daily News reported. As with Trenor, Galveston
Besides rape, the 19-year-old, newspaper, that those who drinking in the courtyard. The After their arrests, Trenor and County prosecutors are not
Manuel Ortega of Richmond, witnessed the alleged rape and girl had consumed a large Zeigler offered contradictory seeking the death penalty for
was charged with robbery and did not report it could face aiding amount of alcohol by the time the statements. Trenor said in a Zeigler.
assault causing great bodily and abetting charges — if it can assault began, police said. videotaped statement that Zeigler Click here for photos of 'Baby
injury. It was unknown if he had be proven that their actions Gagan said the girl's father tried stayed home from work July 25, Grace.'
an attorney. facilitated or goaded the to call her cell phone, but no one 2007, to make sure Riley was Click here for photos from the
The other three face one count p e r p e t r a t o r s . answered. properly disciplined. She said she mother's trial.
each of felony rape with a foreign Police hope a $20,000 reward She was released from the and Zeigler beat Riley with a This content has passed through
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adults because of the severity of with information. This content has passed through water and smothered her with a
the crime, Gagan said. The 16- Police received a tip about a fivefilters.org. pillow.
year-old also faces robbery possible assault on campus from Zeigler, in his first interview,
charges. a former student, who heard two said Riley disappeared after an
All four remained in custody males bragging about it. Officers
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is closed from Cheyenne to
Laramie.
Wyoming officials said they'd
had reports of about 70 crashes,
most of them on I-80, before
deciding to close the road.
Laramie County District 1
schools have closed and some
state offices are opening later in
the day. High winds were
causing drifting snow and
reduced visibility, and two or
three inches of snow were
expected to fall Thursday, said
meteorologist John Griffith with
the National Weather Service in
Cheyenne.
The storm that began Tuesday
already added enough snow to
break records for total snowfall
in October for Wyoming. It was
the biggest October snowmaker
in the Denver area since 1997,
said Byron Louis, a National
Weather Service hydrologist in
Boulder, Colo.
At Denver International Airport,
all four runways were expected
to open after snow crews worked
through the night, said
spokesman Chuck Cannon. He
said airlines had not indicated
how many flights would be
canceled.
The airport warned of more
delays, saying it would see a foot
of snow by Thursday afternoon.
The Denver metro area will be
under a winter storm warning
until 6 p.m. Thursday, with snow
through the afternoon, blowing
snow throughout the day and
temperatures in the upper 20s, the
National Weather Service said.
As much as 7 inches could fall
around parts of Denver before the
storm ends.
"The plows are out, but the roads
are kind of icy and snowpacked,"
said Ryan Drake, traffic
operations specialist for the
Colorado Department of
Transportation. "Be patient and
take your time."
Many schools in metro Denver
remained closed Thursday, but
the University of Colorado in
Boulder and Colorado State
University in Fort Collins, where
17.5 inches fell, decided to
reopen, a day after sending
students home early. At least
three high school football playoff
games set for Thursday in
Nebraska were postponed.
Whiteout conditions were
predicted Thursday for the plains
areas of eastern Colorado and
Wyoming and western Nebraska.
Winds were a concern farther
west, too.
Winds gusting through Southern
California forced a commuter
train line to shut down and
knocked a tree onto a car, but no
serious injuries have been
reported.
The National Weather Service
warned of the possibility of
further gusts up to 50 mph
through Thursday morning in
Los Angeles and Ventura
counties. Fire danger warnings
were up in some areas.
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Associated Press Writers
Catherine Tsai and Kristen Wyatt
in Denver, Mead Gruver and
Matt Joyce in Cheyenne, Oskar
Garcia in Las Vegas and Scott
Sonner in Reno, Nev.,
contributed to this report.
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Canadian coyotes kill
folk singer
(BBC News | Americas | occurrence," Brigdit Leger, a
World Edition) spokeswoman for the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, told
Submitted at 10/28/2009 5:23:26 PM
Reuters news agency.
Two coyotes have attacked and She said the two coyotes were
killed a 19-year-old folk singer in "extremely aggressive" when
Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, authorities arrived at the scene.
officials say. The small wolf-like animals are
Taylor Mitchell, a promising found from Central America to
musician from Toronto, died in the United States and Canada.
h o s p i t a l a f t e r t h e a n i m a l s Ms Mitchell - touted as a rising
pounced as she hiked alone in star in the folk music scene - was
Cape Breton Highlands National nominated for a Canadian Folk
Park. Music Award earlier this year in
Walkers alerted park rangers the youth category.
after hearing her screams. The "Words can't begin to express the
rangers shot one coyote, but were sadness and tragedy of losing
still searching for the second. such a sweet, compassionate,
Attacks by coyotes on humans vibrant, and phenomenally
are rare; they usually prey on talented young woman," Lisa
deer and hares. Weitz, Ms Mitchell's manager,
Bleeding heavily from multiple s a i d i n a n e - m a i l t o t h e
b i t e w o u n d s , t h e s i n g e r - Associated Press news agency.
songwriter was airlifted to a "She just turned 19 two months
Halifax hospital, but died of her ago, and was so excited about the
injuries on Wednesday morning, future."
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4 Charged in Gang Rape, Beating MediaDailyNews: Publishing

Group Offers Data That's Good
After Homecoming Dance For What Ails Pharma Plans
(FOXNews.com) Thursday. It was unknown if attacked, police said.
Ortega had an attorney; a
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:26:48 PM
Officers found the girl (MediaPost | Media News) "What we're offering is
message left for him at the jail semiconscious and naked from Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:22 AM
accountability," he says, noting
RICHMOND, California Four was not returned. the waist down near a picnic that the SDI data is based on
teens were charged Wednesday "These are people who played a table. She was released from the In an effort to court more ad actual purchase and usage
in the gang rape and beating of a significant role in the incident," hospital Wednesday. dollars from pharmaceutical behavior.
15-year-old girl outside her high Gagan said Wednesday. "I'm Police also hope a $20,000 marketers, the Publishing Group Not surprisingly, Porter says the
school homecoming dance in confident that more arrests will reward will bring more people of America has struck a deal with SDI analysis shows that PGA's
Northern California, in an attack be made." forward with information. that will enable advertisers in its three titles - American Heritage,
that has generated widespread More coverage at KTVU.com. Gagan said the girl left the dance magazines to measure how well Relish and Spry magazines -
outrage. A fifth suspect arrested Tuesday, and was walking to meet her t h e i r a u d i e n c e s d e l i v e r which reach 34 million readers in
All four — ages 15, 16, 17 and 21-year-old Salvador Rodriguez father for a ride home when a c o n s u m e r s s u f f e r i n g f r o m their local markets via partner
19 — were charged with rape and of Richmond, remains in custody classmate invited her to join a specific ailments and who are newspapers that carry them,
enhancements that they acted in but has not been charged. group drinking in the courtyard. using prescription drugs to treat index very high among some
concert, which could make them The Saturday night attack at The girl had consumed a large them. The deal with SDI Health, ailments and prescription drugs.
eligible for life in prison. Richmond High School and its amount of alcohol by the time the a f i r m t h a t t r a c k s a c t u a l Overall, the PGA titles have
The minors each face one count aftermath have rattled the crime- assault began, police said. Gagan prescription drug sales and nearly a 15% penetration of
of felony rape with a foreign ridden city of about 120,000 in said the girl's father tried to call compliance for the top 50 sufferers across a broad range of
object. The 16-year-old also the San Francisco Bay Area. her cell phone, but no one p h a r m a c e u t i c a l c o m p a n i e s conditions, but the coverage can
faces robbery charges. They were Police believe as many as 10 answered. nationwide, is believed to be the soar for suffers of some of the
charged as adults because of the people ranging in age from 15 to Police received a tip about a first to give advertisers and most important pharmaceutical
severity of the crime, Richmond mid-20s attacked the girl for possible assault on campus from agencies the ability to index the categories, including consumers
Police Lt. Mark Gagan said. more than two hours in a dimly a young woman, a former coverage magazine titles have b e i n g t r e a t e d f o r a s t h m a ,
Besides rape, the 19-year-old, lit area. As many as two dozen student, who heard two males among those consumers. depression, cholesterol and
Manuel Ortega of Richmond, people saw the rape without bragging about it. Previously, PGA CEO-Publisher diabetes.
was charged with robbery and notifying police. The victim was found nearly an Dick Porter says media planners Under the agreement with SDI,
assault causing great bodily The victim, a sophomore, had hour after the dance had ended. and brand managers had to rely all pharmaceutical ads in PGA's
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World Edition)
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President Barack Obama salutes
US servicemen killed in
Afghanistan
US President Barack Obama has
paid his respects to 18 Americans
killed in Afghanistan, the first
time he has honoured the fallen
in this way.
The bodies of 15 US soldiers
and three Drug Enforcement
Agency agents were transferred
to a mortuary on the base.
The president also met their
families privately.
His predecessor, George W
Bush, visited the families of dead
troops but never received the
bodies at the base, in Dover,
Delaware.
Mr Bush also did not go to
military funerals, telling the
military newspaper Stars and
Stripes three years ago that he
preferred to meet families
privately.
Mr Obama, who was wearing a
dark coat, was taken to the base,
100 miles (161km) from the
White House, by the Marine One
helicopter to greet the C-17
aircraft that had brought back the
dead.
He boarded the plane and
watched as a military chaplain
prayed for those who had passed
away.
'Salute'
There has been a ban on the
media attending such events for
18 years, but this was lifted
earlier this year for transfers
when families involved give
permission.
A small group of reporters were
allowed to watch the final
transfer, of Sgt Dale R Griffin,
from the plane to the van which
would take it to the mortuary.
Mr Obama saluted as the flag-
draped case was moved.
The returned remains were of
troops killed this week in three
separate incidents.
On Monday, 10, including the
three drug enforcement agents,
died when a US military
helicopter crashed in western
Afghanistan. Four more US
troops died when two helicopters
crashed over southern
Afghanistan.
The remaining eight soldiers
were killed on Tuesday in
roadside bomb attacks in
Kandahar province.
It has been the bloodiest month
so far in the past eight years for
US troops in Afghanistan - with
at least 53 killed.
On Monday, Mr Obama told
troops at a Florida naval base he
would not rush any decision
about boosting the number of
troops in Afghanistan.
He said he would not risk their
lives unless it was "absolutely
necessary".
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Cuba's ex-
leader Castro
'strong'
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
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Dr Margaret Chan: "He looks
wonderful"
Cuba's ex-leader Fidel Castro is
looking strong and remains on
top of developments at home and
abroad, says a world health chief.
Dr Margaret Chan, head of the
World Health Organization, was
granted an audience with Mr
Castro this week.
Mr Castro has not been seen in
public for more than three years,
since a series of major intestinal
operations.
The only updates on his health
come from visiting dignitaries
who have been able to meet him.
Exactly what he suffers from,
and where he is recuperating,
remain state secrets.
Dr Chan spent more than two-
and-a-half hours with Mr Castro
on Tuesday evening, when she
had a "long talk" with him.
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"He walked me out of the house, understanding of the importance

that's quite a distance, so pretty
strong. And don't forget, I'm
younger than him," she said,
without discussing specific health
issues.
Topics ranged from swine flu
preparations to the possible
health impact of climate change.
Speaking at a news conference
in Havana, Dr Chan said that
Cuba's 83-year-old former leader
remained well informed and as
demanding as ever.
"I have to say Mr Fidel Castro's
MediaDailyNews: Study Finds HDTV Preference
of health, particularly public
health, is impressive.
"Any one of you, especially the
doctors, if you don't know your
subject well, don't talk to him. He
knows more about the subject
than you do."
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Health-care reform in America: A
public row
(The Economist: News declared Nancy Pelosi, speaker possibly—revive an idea that had
analysis) of the House of Representatives, seemed dead and buried.
this week. Her effort to rebrand Just a few weeks ago, it looked
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:43:36 PM
the hugely controversial proposal as though the proposal to tack on
Health-care reform in America to add a government-run insurer a public plan was, despite fervent
Oct 29th 2009 (usually called a “public plan”) to support among the left,
From The Economist print the health reforms now being politically doomed. First came
edition Democrats are trying to negotiated seems ridiculous at Barack Obama’s slippery but
revive the idea of a government- first blush. In fact, it is part of a clear efforts to back away from
run health plan concerted and clever push by the
“IT’S not really a public option, political left that could—just HEALTH-CARE page 73
it’s a consumer option.” So
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it. Then came a crucial vote of

Growing, Differences In Fidelity Of Men, Women
(MediaPost | Media News) markedly in two years, and
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:22 AM
whether, for example, it's a
function of more content being
American TV viewers receiving available in HDTV.
high-definition TV (HDTV) are That could be at least part of the
much more likely to watch reason though, as Knowledge
programs televised in HDTV on Networks Vice President-Group
a daily basis than they were two Account Director David Tice
years ago, according to the most notes that there has been a
recent findings in an ongoing significant increase in the
tracking study being released frequency of viewing of certain
today by Knowledge Networks. genres of programming - such as
The study, "How People Use "how-to" and news content - that
HDTV 2009," shows that the "we wouldn't have associated
percentage of HDTV viewers with HD a few years ago."
who now watch HDTV The percentage of HDTV
programming every day has viewers watching "how-to"
increased to 43% from 26% two shows in HDTV has more than
years ago. doubled to 26% from 12% two
While that's a 65% increase, the years ago. The percentage of
findings do not explain why the HDTV viewers watching evening
b e h a v i o r h a s c h a n g e d s o newscasts in HDTV has jumped
the Senate Finance Committee,
which rejected the public plan.
to 31% from 22% two years ago. to purchase brands or products The final congressional health
The new study also finds t h a t a d v e r t i s e d u r i n g H D bill must reconcile the versions
significant differences in the programs than men (15%). coming out of the full House and
c o n s u m p t i o n o f H D T V " T h i s s e n d s a m e s s a g e t o Senate, and the powerful Finance
p r o g r a m m i n g b y g e n d e r . advertisers that [HDTV] is C o m m i t t e e ’ s r e j e c t i o n h a d
Men are much more likely becoming the new norm for those appeared to be a final nail in the
(48%) than women (19%) to with [HDTV] access across all coffin.
check HDTV channels first when program types," Knowledge But this week Harry Reid, the
turning on their TV sets, and men Networks' Tice states. "An leader of the Senate Democrats
(58%) are also much more likely important learning for companies and an ardent fan of the proposal,
than women (41%) to choose targeting products to men - who dropped a bombshell. During the
HDTV over standard definition are more likely to seek out process of reconciling the output
programs when both options are [HDTV] programming and to of the Senate’s Health and
available to them at the same recognize the difference between F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e s , h e
time. standard and high-definition ads - overruled the wishes of the latter.
W h e n i t c o m e s t o T V is that creating advertising that is So the health bill that the full
commercials televised in HDTV, more relevant to the male Senate is likely to consider over
men and women are equally split. audience could make you stand the next few weeks now looks
Men (42%) are more likely to out from the [HDTV] crowd." likely to include a public plan.
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women (24%) are more inclined Reid has circumscribed his public
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Europe.view: Linguistic discontents Terror in

(The Economist: Daily flare-up sooner rather than later. before the law and talk of or the Vojvodina province of Afghanistan:
columns)
Submitted at 10/28/2009 11:08:18 PM
A short list of Hungarian
grievances would go like this.
discrimination is absurd. All
efforts to pamper the Hungarians
Serbia?
Nobody seems to be collecting
Murder in Kabul
Since 1992 the new Slovak state just make them complain all the this data, either in official (The Economist: News
Europe.view has made its largest linguistic more, in an annoying and statistics or in academic surveys. analysis)
Oct 29th 2009 minority feel like outsiders. disloyal way. If Hungarian- Lessons could be learned from Submitted at 10/28/2009 2:03:04 AM
From Economist.com Slovaks, N a t i v e S l o v a k - s p e a k e r s speakers really do not feel at Britain’s diplomatic service,
Hungarians and missing data increasingly dominate the upper home in Slovakia then they can which makes a big effort to Terror in Afghanistan
THE row is over but the reaches of government; the leave. attract applicants from a wide Oct 28th 2009
problems remain. Amid an outcry handful of Magyarphones in the To an outsider, the striking thing range of class, ethnic and From Economist.com The
from neighbouring Hungary, and diplomatic service has been is the prevalence of assertion and linguistic backgrounds and Taliban kill several UN staff in
discreet pressure from other purged (from ten ambassadors to the absence of facts. How many monitors how successful this has Afghanistan, ahead of a
outsiders, Slovakia’s government one, for example). The parts of people in Slovakia are really been. But Slovak officials react presidential election
has backed away, for the southern Slovakia where “ethnic Hungarians” as opposed with shock at the idea that THE murder of at least five
moment, from implementing its Hungarians tend to live have to, say, Hungarian-speaking monitoring the composition of foreign, civilian, UN staff in a
badly drafted and intrusive- missed out on foreign investment Roma, or native Slovak-speakers the civil service could help settle private guest house in Kabul, and
sounding new language law (see and have the worst public with Hungarian surnames, or the arguments about prejudice. “It a near-simultaneous rocket attack
article). services. Bilingualism is products of mixed marriages who would not be politically correct” on the city’s most prestigious
Despite the backdown, hopes declining: few mother-tongue do not regard themselves as says a senior government hotel, on Wednesday October
that membership of the European S l o v a k s l e a r n H u n g a r i a n ; being fully in one camp or the spokesman. 28th, are reminders of the
Union and NATO would bring a Hungarian-language schools other? Are those who self- That seems a rather lazy and apparently expanding reach of
p e r m a n e n t e n d t o c e n t r a l teach Slovak remarkably badly. identify as ethnic Hungarians complacent approach. Taliban insurgents in
Europe’s tribal conflicts and The rise of the Slovak National better or worse paid, housed or Consequently, without even the Afghanistan. At least three
historical grudges now look over- Party has made anti-Hungarian educated than other population elementary information to know suicide attackers, wearing
optimistic. It would be good if all racism alarmingly acceptable in groups? Is this changing over what is right and what to do, the explosives and carrying grenades
c o n c e r n e d — t h e S l o v a k public life. time? Is bilingualism declining? two sides remain entrenched in and automatic weapons, made
government, Hungarians in Slovak grievances read rather How many go to Hungary for their silos of ignorance, making their way into the Bekhtar guest
Slovakia and Hungary’s political differently. Hungary has a higher education? How do their myths, and sooner or later, house, reportedly by posing as
parties—paused for reflection conceptual problem in accepting fortunes compare to Slovak mischief. policemen. Frequented by
about the troubling issues that that Slovakia is a real country. universities’ alumni? What are Back to top ^^ Readers' foreigners, the guest house is in a
divide them. But the economic Public figures there stir up the statistics on mixed marriages, comments central area of Kabul that had
crisis, and the likely victory of Slovakia’s Hungarians with migration, and life expectancy? The Economist welcomes your previously been considered
the tough-talking Viktor Orban reheated historical wrongs. The And how do all these compare to views. relatively secure. Guards and the
and his right-of-centre Fidesz number of ethnic Hungarians in the comparable population This content has passed through intruders exchanged gunfire,
party in Hungary’s parliamentary Slovakia is exaggerated: many of groups in Hungary proper, and to fivefilters.org. guests were killed (and nine more
elections next year, are among them are in fact Gypsies (Roma). Hungarians living in other places were injured), as well as four
the reasons for expecting another All citizens of Slovakia are equal such as Transylvania in Romania Afghans. Three attackers were
eventually shot dead.
A Taliban spokesman promptly
claimed responsibility for the
murders, saying that they were
“just a start” of an assault on
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plan in several ways. First, only a
minority of Americans
(essentially, those without
employer-provided coverage)
would be eligible. Second, the
plan is forbidden from dictating
that hospitals accept the same
low reimbursement rates given
by Medicare, the government
scheme for the elderly. Most
important, though, is that
individual states would be
allowed to opt out.
Though leftists groused that this
was too weak a proposal, the
news buoyed the spirits of public
-plan advocates in the House.
Many conservative Democrats
there (including the “Blue Dog”
coalition) and moderates from
conservative districts are
reluctant to cast a vote for any
final House bill with the public
plan without cover from the
Senate: their vote would be in
vain, but they would still get
pummelled by Republicans back
at home for supporting the plan.
Anthony Weiner, a liberal
congressman from New York,
gushes that “Reid was worth 15
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“anyone engaged” in the process
of preparing for a run-off
presidential election that is
scheduled for November 7th. The
head of the UN mission, Kai
Eide, responded to the worst
single attack on his staff in the
country by vowing to remain
“committed to Afghanistan”. But
the Taliban may hope that a
bloody enough assault on UN
votes!”
Perhaps, but it is too early to say
whether Mr Reid’s gamble was
bold or reckless. That is because
it has offended moderates in both
chambers. As Mrs Pelosi
scrambles to put together a
majority of 218 votes in the
House, it is too early to say
whether the 15 votes she
supposedly picked up this week
were offset by many more
refuseniks. A caucus meeting of
House Democrats this week gave
an indicator that the latter might
be true. Rumours swirled that
efforts to promote a “strong
version” of the public plan (one
which would tie reimbursement
rates to Medicare) failed to
garner sufficient support in the
House.
Mr Reid’s gambit has also
offended several important
moderates in the Senate, who are
now considering dropping all
support for the health reform
effort, which might still deprive
the Democrats of the 60 votes
they need for normal passage of a
bill. This is a grave matter, as Mr
workers might yet provoke the
organisation either to reduce its
activities in the country or to
consider withdrawal, as happened
in Iraq in 2003 after 22 staff were
killed by bombers at its
headquarters in Baghdad.
After a deeply fraudulent first-
round presidential election in
August, and amid rising casualty
figures for western armies
Obama has indicated that he
would like health reform to pass
without resorting to a hugely
provocative procedure known as
budget reconciliation, which
would require only 50 votes.
One senator with his nose out of
joint is Joe Lieberman of
Connecticut who is now
officially an independent but who
still caucuses with the
Democrats. He said this week
that he cannot vote for any
Senate bill that contains a public
plan. Similar noises were made
by Olympia Snowe of Maine, the
lone Republican to vote for the
bill passing out of the Senate’s
finance committee. There are at
least three other wavering
Democrats in the
Senate—Louisiana’s Mary
Landrieu, Arkansas’s Blanche
Lincoln and Nebraska’s Ben
Nelson—who all, unsurprisingly,
come from states that voted for
John McCain in the last
presidential election.
Whether a public plan will
prevail or not is anyone’s guess.
A strong version has no chance
engaged in Afghanistan, foreign
governments are increasingly
hesitant about committing to
prolong and expand military
engagement in the country.
Barack Obama is reviewing
military strategy and considering
whether to deploy as many as
40,000 extra soldiers to fight a
war that is becoming more
unpopular in America (and
of passing both chambers, but it
is now possible that some lesser
version could end up on Mr
Obama’s desk for signature. He
himself has advocated a
compromise version that would
be triggered only after a few
years, and only if private
competition failed to achieve
affordable universal cover. That
plan, which the courageous (and
now snubbed) Ms Snowe also
supports, may yet emerge at the
eleventh hour as a compromise.
The only thing that can be said
with certainty is that a proposal
that seemed close to death is now
alive and kicking.
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elsewhere). October has proved
to be the bloodiest month so far
for American soldiers in
Afghanistan since the invasion in
2001, with 53 soldiers killed by
October 27th.
Mr Obama is unlikely to
announce a decision on strategy
until after the election. By then, it
is hoped, Hamid Karzai, the
president and likely winner, can
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Karzai’s position bolstered by a
claim this week, by the New
York Times, suggesting that the
president’s brother, who is
suspected of involvement in the
country’s opium trade, has also
been getting regular payments
from the CIA. Ahmed Wali
Karzai reportedly denied the
allegations.
The Taliban are most likely to
attempt more attacks in the
coming ten days in an effort to
encourage outsiders to waver
further. By attacking the UN (and
if the assailants indeed posed as
policemen, by the method
employed) the Afghan Taliban
have followed an approach taken
by Pakistani militants across the
border, who assaulted an office
of the World Food Programme
earlier this month, killing five
UN workers. Also on Wednesday
Pakistan’s Taliban detonated a
car bomb in a packed market in
the north-western city of
Peshawar, killing at least 87
civilians and injuring at least 200.
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be more credibly presented as a
legitimate partner for outsiders.
Stark evidence of ballot stuffing
and other manipulation in Mr
Karzai’s favour during the
presidential election in August,
suggest that many—perhaps
most—Afghans do not see him as
a credible leader. Nor was Mr
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Research Brief: Two-Thirds of US Adults See Digital Out-of-

Home Screens
(MediaPost | Media News) Previous Month Digital OOH Doctors office or hospital 4 approximately 45 within Canada
Submitted at 10/29/2009 7:00:22 AM
Audience(Persons Seen Screen 19 9,285 who accept third-party
x000) 44,103 Source: Adcentricity, October advertising. Collectively, there
According to a forecast and Venue Stadium or arena 2009 are active media screens in more
industry update report from Digital OOH Audience Past 18 Of those who recall seeing than 70 venue types each with
Adcentricity, 42% of agency and Month 41,781 digital out-of-home displays in unique audience and media
brand marketers plan to increase Persons Estimated Drug store the past month, 76% noticed characteristics to understand.
their digital out-of-home All listed 14 them at multiple venues, the 38% of active digital OOH
(DOOH) advertising spending 67% 32,497 report says. network operators are planning
through 2009 and the first half of 155,519 Restaurant • Digital video screens in capital investments of between
2010. Total DOOH spending is Shopping mall 14 retail locations (including $1M-$10M to expand their venue
on target to hit $4.53 billion by 31 32,497 grocery stores, large and screen capacity in the next 12
2013, up from $2.6 billion in 71,957 Office building retailer/department stores, drug months, finds the study. Just less
2009. Grocery store 11 stores, shopping malls or than 20% of them plan on
This projection suggests that 30 25,533 convenience stores) reach expanding their screen count to
DOOH is among the fastest- 69,636 Bar more than half of American more than 1,000 each.
growing media in North America Retail or department store 8 adults in an average month. Though digital OOH advertising
and will account for 44.1% of all 29 18,569 • Digital out-of-home continues to grow, figures from
OOH spending by 2013, the 67,314 Health club displays at gas stations and the Outdoor Advertising
report concludes. Gas station 7 movie theaters each reach more Association of America for Q209
The Adcentricity "2010 Digital 22 16,248 than 20% of US adults per revealed that out-of-home
Out-of-Home Outlook & 51,066 Elevator month. revenue declined 18% for the
Planning Guide," also revealed Movie theater 5 quarter, from $2.2 billion in
that digital out-of-home 21 11,606 Digital out-of-home currently Q208 to $1.82 billion.
advertising currently reaches two 48,745 Riding public transit has approximately 112 For additional information,
-thirds of US residents ages 18+ Airport 5 significant network operators please visit Adcentricity here
each month and delivers a fairly 19 11,606 (many running multiple
representative cross-section of 44,103 Waiting for public transit networks) in the US and RESEARCH page 76
consumers.