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Plan B for Afghanistan: cut and run?
By Simon Denyer (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 8:57:46 AM
In Monday’s blog, I looked at
McChrystal’s recommendation for
a significantly stepped up effort to
stabilize Afghanistan, and a major
shift in strategy to win over the
Afghan people.
But many people, including
influential actors within the
administration and several readers
who left comments on Monday,
are advocating a different
approach: pull out, and leave
Afghans to their own devices.
This blog looks at Plan B.
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“The Russians were in
Afghanistan for 10 years. The
Americans have been here for
seven, and we will send them
home in just three more years”.
That was how Mullah Abdul
Salaam Zaeef, the Taliban’s
former ambassador to Pakistan,
described the movement’s
message to the Afghan people
when I met him in a drafty and
bare Kabul room in March.
Zaeef, who was imprisoned for
years in Bagram and
Guantanamo, says he is no longer
a member of the Taliban but is
now acting as a mediator between
its leadership and the Afghan
government.
But his comments underline one
of the West’s biggest problems in
trying to regain the momentum in
Afghanistan.
All the talk in the West is of an
exit strategy, of when troops can
start to be withdrawn.
And what better time for
President Barak Obama to
announce a drawdown of U.S.
forces than during the next
presidential campaign in
2011/2012 — concidentally a
decade after they first arrived in
Afghanistan?
The Taliban have spotted the
West’s indecision and are
exploiting it, reminding wavering
Afghan villagers that they, not
American troops, are there for the
long haul.
As U.S. Gen. Stanley
McChrystal said in his stark
assessment of the problem this
week, there is a “crisis of
confidence among Afghans”.
“Further, a perception that our
resolve is uncertain makes
Afghans reluctant to align with us
against the insurgents”.
That makes it all the more
urgent for President Barack
Obama to make some extremely
tough decisions soon. What
choice should he be making?
Some people are beginning to
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ponder the previously
imponderable. Should the West
cut its losses and run?
Perhaps we should admit that
more troops will only make things
worse, that nation-building in
such distant and foreign terrain is
impossible, that southern and
eastern Afghanistan will forever
remain a Taliban stronghold.
In this scenario, the West’s
goals would be more limited.
Try to bring some members of
the Taliban into the political
process, and train the Afghan
army to fight the remainder.
At the same time, the U.S. could
LibertyNewsprint.com U.S.
pin al Qaeda’s leaders down with
“precision” airstrikes and keep
them on the run to stop them from
planning major attacks on the
West.
The strategy has its fans, and its
attractions. But would it work?
Once the West leaves
Afghanistan and gives up on the
idea of nation building, there is no
going back. The opportunity to
create a more stable Afghanistan
will essentially have gone.
Southern and eastern
Afghanistan might start to look
even more like Pakistan’s tribal
areas. A weak central government
would essentially have given up
on the idea of controlling
significant swathes of its own
country.
Another problem, as the
experience in Pakistan has
proved, is that airstrikes are never
“precision”. They kill civilians,
and inflame anti-Western passions
even further, steadily
strengthening the hands of
radicals.
They may have claimed the
scalp of Baitullah Mehsud, but
have yet to take out al Qaeda’s
top leadership.
Remote bombing is tempting in
the short term, but does it work as
a long-term strategy.
And nation-building might be
tough, but is the West really
prepared to face the consequences
of an ignominious withdrawal
from Afghanistan, and the morale
boost that would provide for al
Qaeda and its allies?
For more Reuters political news,
click here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Goran
Tomasevic (U.S. Marines patrol
in southern Afghanistan)
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The First Draft: Bill Clinton on race and the

healthcare debate
By David Morgan (Front Row want the government, one more
Washington) time, to take care of people who
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:15:32 AM are left out or left behind. They
are philosophically or emotionally
Bill Clinton has tons of respect
for Jimmy Carter. But he doesn’t
— or whatever — opposed to it,”
Clinton added.
So what’s the
agree that racism is a driving
factor behind angry opposition to
Clinton said he hopes the
current debate will move the
carbon footprint
President Barack Obama’s
healthcare reform agenda.
United States closer to universal
coverage. He would specifically
of a motorcade?
Like Carter, Clinton is a former like to see greater use of By Caren Bohan (Front Row
Democratic governor of a electronic medical records, better Washington)
Southern state who has spent management of chronic diseases Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:36:08 PM
years battling entrenched racism that account for the bulk of
against blacks. healthcare costs and a system that World leaders in New York City
“I sympathize with where encourages care over costly for the U.N. General Assembly
President Carter’s coming from. If medical procedures. also bring motorcades, gridlock,
you’re a white southerner and As for his own foray into and idling engines.
you’ve fought these battles a long healthcare reform, the former So when White House reporters,
time, you’re super-sensitive to president said it all came down to also in New York following
any kind of discrimination based the strength of the Republican President Barack Obama around,
on race,” Clinton, a former opposition led by former Senator got a briefing on U.N. climate
Arkansas governor, said in an Bob Dole of Kansas. change talks, the question had to
interview with ABC’s “Good “Senator Dole decided that he be asked.
Morning America.” demonstrated animosity toward oppose him on healthcare also are wanted to kill all forms of CBS’s Mark Knoller wondered
Carter, a former Georgia President Barack Obama is based racially prejudiced,” said Clinton, healthcare and he had 45 votes, so about the carbon footprint of the
governor, raised the issue of race on the fact that he is a black who lost his own bid to overhaul he could lose four and still have a summit: could the earnest
after U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of man,” Carter told NBC News. the U.S. healthcare system during filibuster. That’s what really statements on climate change be
South Carolina shouted “You lie” Obama, the first black U.S. his first term as president. killed healthcare reform,” Clinton undermined by motorcades,
at Obama during the president’s president, later said he believed “But I believe that if he (Obama) said. gridlock, idling engines?
healthcare speech to Congress this some opposition had to do with were not an African-American, all For more Reuters political news, The answer: electric
m o n t h . T h o u s a n d s o f race. But he denied Carter’s the people who are aga inst him click here. motorcades!
conservatives also rallied in charge that racism was a leading on healthcare would still be Photo credits: Jim (Would that mean electric
opposition to the president at factor. against him,” he said. Young/Reuters (Clinton and sockets on every corner in
demonstrations in Washington. Clinton sounded a similar note. “What’s driving them is: they Obama); David Mercado/Reuters midtown Manhattan?)
“I think an overwhelming “Some of the extreme Right who don’t want healthcare. They don’t (Carter) “I think the U.N. should make a
portion of the intensely pledge to electric vehicle
motorcades within five years,”
China’s pledge fails to lift talks’ prospects U.S. climate negotiator Todd
Stern told reporters.
(Financial Times - US industries emit as part of See country pledges by 2020 cutting carbon dioxide emissions Photo credit: Reuters/Kai
homepage) international efforts to combat compared to 2005 emission levels per unit of gross domestic product Pfaffenbach (power plug is seen
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:42:50 AM climate change, Hu Jintao, Despite raised expectations - but said the policy would figure next to an electric-drive car)
Chinese president, told a UN ahead of the summit, Mr Hu put in his country’s next five-year
China plans a “notable” cutback climate summit on Tuesday. no specific target on the reduction plan.
in the level of carbon dioxide its Pledges and emissions – which would be based on
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Baseball gets Justice — Sotomayor The TV Column: DeLay

Doesn't Do It for 'Dancing With
to throw first pitch the Stars ... - Washington Post
By James Vicini (Front Row
Washington) (Most Popular - Google News) four points from the judges for his
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:30:26 AM Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:20:25 PM participation in a Viennese-waltz
relay which was added to this
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Monday's much ballyhooed year's opening show, which had
Sonia Sotomayor, a longtime avid n i n t h - e d i t i o n d e b u t o f t h e not been available to Springer).
fan of the New York Yankees ballroom dance competition On Monday, nearly as many
baseball team, will throw out the attracted an average audience of people voted to watch a drug-
ceremonial first pitch before 17.5 million viewers, according to addled doctor deal with his demon
Saturday’s game against the early Nielsen stats. as voted for a politician who was
Boston Red Sox. That's the show's smallest trying to redeem himself in
A child of Puerto Rican parents, opening audience since its very popular opinion after falling from
she grew up in the Bronx not far first year on the air, when viewers grace in the wake of a lobbying
from where the Yankees play. were still getting to know the scandal.
Sotomayor, who was appointed imported BBC-produced reality The two-hour season debut of
by President Barack Obama and series. Fox's "House," which had focused
confirmed by the Senate last The last two fall editions both on Dr. Gregory House's Vicodin
month, is the first Hispanic justice opened with more than 21 million addiction, attracted 17 million
on the high court. viewers tuned in. Delay's opening viewers, airing directly opposite
The Yankees said ceremonial numbers are also puny compared "Dancing."
first pitches by Sotomayor and by to the more than 20 million people DeLay fell from political grace
Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to our new home.” will next meet in a private who turned in to the debut in after a lobbying scandal. He had
Martinelli on Friday will take The Yankees, with the best conference next Tuesday and the September of '06, when Jerry ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
place during the team’s final record in baseball, are playing in a new term officially begins on Oct. S p r i n g e r w a s o n e o f t h e who pleaded guilty to fraud, tax
regular season homestand to new stadium this season. 5. competitors. DeLay's relationship evasion and conspiracy to bribe
commemorate Hispanic heritage Sotomayor had a famous brush She is not the only baseball fan with "Dancing" dates back to that public officials -- in a deal that
month. with Major League Baseball when on the nine-member court. Justice edition -- he sent an e-mail blast required Abramoff to cooperate
“Having Justice Sotomayor, a she was a District Court judge Samuel Alito is known as a around America back then, urging with an investigation into his
South Bronx native, participate in with a decision that helped end l o n g t i m e s u p p o r t e r o f t h e p e o p l e t o v o t e f o r o n e o f d e a l i n g s w i t h m e m b e r s o f
our yearly Hispanic heritage the baseball strike of 1994-1995. P h i l a d e l p h i a P h i l l i e s . Springers dance rivals, country Congress. After stepping down as
m o n t h c e l e b r a t i o n i s v e r y “Some say that Judge Sotomayor Photo credit: Reuters/Robert crooner Sara Evans, because she majority leader, DeLay gave up
exciting, as she is an inspiration to saved baseball,” Obama said in S o r b o ( N e w Y o r k Y a n k e e s and her GOP-fundraiser husband his reelection bid in 2006. He is
s o m a n y , ” M a n u e l G a r c i a , nominating her to the Supreme starting pitcher A.J. Burnett) represented "good American under indictment in his home
Yankees Director of Latino Court. values" while liberal talk-show state, on charges stemming from a
Affairs, said. “We are proud to For Sotomayor’s official duties host Springer represented the campaign finance investigation.
welcome her and President as a justice, the Supreme Court "smut" that viewers needed to tell He has pleaded not guilty and the
Hollywood, in no uncertain terms, case has been mired in procedural
Berlin frets at US focus on imbalances "has no place on television." challenges.
(Financial Times - US summit, as US proposals attracted Thursday night, marks the third BTW, Springer was a bad "Politicians always polarize,"
homepage) c r i t i c i s m i n E u r o p e f o r time the world’s largest 20 dancer. DeLay is also a bad "Dancing" executive producer
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:12:34 AM concentrating too heavily on economies have met to discuss the d a n c e r . I n t h e i r f i r s t Conrad Green told The TV
global imbalances instead of lessons of, and responses to, last performances, both men were Column back in August when the
German officials warned on reforming financial regulation. year’s global financial crisis. awarded 16 points out of a show announced DeLay among
Tuesday of a “widening of The meeting of world leaders in possible 30 by the show's official this edition's competitors.
differences” ahead of the G20 Pittsburgh, which kicks off on judges. (DeLay received another
4 Politics/ Top News/ Finance/ Tech News/
Skelton making point on Afghanistan with turn of
phrase
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:47:32 PM
Sometimes it takes a colorful
phrase to get the point across.
And these days when it seems
almost everyone’s got an opinion
on Afghanistan, House Armed
Services Committee Chairman Ike
Skelton’s words caught attention.
In a six-page letter to President
Barack Obama, the Missouri
Democrat bared his view that
General Stanley McChrystal
should have the troops and
Netflix Prize 2: (Privacy) Apocalypse Now? - Ars Technica
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:36:35 PM
Netflix yesterday passed out a $1
million check to the stats geeks of
"BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos," the
team which won the Netflix Prize
by improving on the company's
algorithms for picking the movies
that Netflix subscribers might like
to watch next. Chief Product
Officer Neil Hunt then announced
a sequel, the Netflix Prize 2, but
one law professor is already
calling the new contest a "multi-
million dollar privacy blunder."
The Netflix data set released for
use with the first prize was
supposedly "anonymized," but
security researchers found a way
to link the anonymous movie
recommendations with data from
other sites in order to identify
individual Netflix users. If your
Freaky New Ghostshark Found Off California Coast
By Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top
Stories)
resources he needs for the war.
“The last administration allowed
itself to be distracted from the
fight forced on us in Afghanistan
information appeared in the first
data set, someone knowing a bit
about your movie preferences
could figure out the complete set
of movies that you rated on
Netflix—an information leak that
would certainly not please all
users.
For the Netflix Prize 2, the
company is releasing even more
information, despite the security
weaknesses of the first data set.
Gender, ZIP Codes, ages, genre
ratings, and more will be released
in a data set with more than 100
million entries. That has law
professor Paul Ohm seeing a
bright Netflix red.
Ohm has worried for years
about privacy breaches, and his
newest paper argues that
"anonymizing" data doesn't
actually keep data anonymous.
Given the tremendous advances in
A new species of ghostshark —
a strange, ancient relative of
modern sharks — has been
by the fight it chose in Iraq,”
Skelton wrote.
“I believe that this was a
strategic mistake, robbing the war
in Afghanistan of the necessary
resources and resulting in an
approach of ‘half-ass it and hope.’
We cannot afford to continue that
policy.”
Can bumper stickers be far
behind?
Photo credit: Reuters/Joshua
Roberts (Skelton on Capitol Hill
in 2008)
"reidentification" technology over
the last few years, Ohm argues
that the release of so much new
data should actually constitute a
"privacy breach."
"Researchers have known for
more than a decade that gender
plus ZIP code plus birthdate
uniquely identifies a significant
percentage of Americans," he
wrote in a blog entry. "True,
Netflix plans to release age not
birthdate, but simple arithmetic
shows that for many people in the
country, gender plus ZIP code
plus age will narrow their private
movie preferences down to at
most a few hundred people.
Netflix needs to understand the
concept of 'information entropy':
even if it is not revealing
information tied to a single
person, it is revealing information
tied to so few that we should
identified off the California coast
from specimens discovered sitting
on the shelves of a research
Germany to escape brunt of Opel job cuts
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:26:29 AM
General Motors’ UK, Belgian
and Spanish employees would
bear the brunt of job cuts in the
German-led rescue of Opel,
according to figures floated by
Magna, the lead investor, and
confirmed by people close to the
sale.
The news brought angry
reactions from union leaders ojn
Tuesday, ahead of a rally planned
for Wednesday by GM’s
consider this a privacy breach."
Because Netflix already knows
about the privacy implications of
its data releases, it can't simply
claim ignorance, and in Ohm's
view the company might well be
liable for damages.
"The Video Privacy Protection
Act (VPPA), 18 USC 2710
prohibits a 'video tape service
provider' (a broadly defined term)
from revealing 'personally
identifiable information' about its
customers. Aggrieved customers
can sue providers under the VPPA
and courts can order 'not less than
$2,500' in damages for each
violation. If somebody brings a
class action lawsuit under this
statute, Netflix might face
millions of dollars in damages."
Netflix claims, "As with the first
Netflix Prize, all data provided is
anonymous and cannot be
museum.
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European unions at its plant in
Antwerp, which Magna and the
US carmaker say may need to
close for Opel to become viable.
associated with a specific Netflix
member." It's an odd thing to say,
as the first data set was already de
-anonymized, but the company is
going ahead with it. This time, the
"Netflix Prize 2 focuses on the
much harder problem of
predicting movie enjoyment by
members who don't rate movies
often, or at all, by taking
advantage of demographic and
behavioral data carrying implicit
signals about the individuals' taste
profiles."
Rather than wait for years
before awarding a prize this time
around, Netflix has decided to
give $500,000 to the team in front
after six months, and another
$500,000 to whichever team is in
the lead after a year and a half.
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'Horrorcore' rap drew together suspect, victims (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) minister's daughter, had found "If life imitated art," says Shrim, enter high school. She dropped or playing video games such as
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:12:47 PM each other through their mutual the owner of Albuquerque, N.M.- out but was studying for her high Halo and World of Warcraft, his
love of "horrorcore" music, an based Serial Killin Records, school equivalency diploma, says sister says.
FARMVILLE, Va. – When the obscure hip-hop genre obsessed "there would be a lot of dead friend Marcella Kennedy. McCroskey had been into
tow-truck driver had finished with mutilation, murder and people in the world." "Melanie had so much character horrorcore since 1999, but
pulling the car out of the ditch and satanism. On Friday, authorities found and imagination," she says. "She decided several months ago that
onto a wrecker, he offered the 20- Throughout the conversation, four bodies in a quaint Dutch sported the kind of optimism that he wanted to "contribute to the
year-old driver a ride. Napier did his best to ignore the Colonial home in this rural didn't leave a sickly sweet taste in genre."
As the two men made small powerful stench emanating from college town about 50 miles your mouth, if that makes any Thus, he wrote on MySpace,
talk, the truck driver was almost the passenger seat. He had noticed southwest of Richmond. sense." was born his horrorcore alter ego:
overwhelmed by an odor, a stench i t i n s i d e t h e H o n d a w h e n Emma Niederbrock lived there But a darker Wells emerges Syko Sam.
he later concluded was that of winching it out of the ditch. with her mother, Debra Kelley, an from the pages of her MySpace Sarah McCroskey says her
rotting flesh. "He stunk like the Despite rolling down both associate professor of criminal page. brother met Emma about a year
devil," he says. windows, Napier heaved visibly justice and sociology at nearby On the site, she lists her religion ago, at a concert near San Diego.
That young man, an aspiring twice. Longwood University. On as LaVeyan Satanism, in which They were on the phone so much
rapper who wrote macabre lyrics Napier dropped McCroskey at a Tuesday, officials identified the there is no deity but one's self. after that, Sarah had to buy herself
about the thrill of killing people, local gas station, and that was the victims as the 53-year-old Kelley, She posted violent poems in a cell phone.
is now suspected in the slayings last he saw of him until footage Emma, her 50-year-old father, which she details torturing and She says her brother was
of four people whose bludgeoned o f t h e a r r e s t a p p e a r e d o n Mark Niederbrock, and Emma's killing boyfriends who have been devastated when his father asked
bodies were found in a home in t e l e v i s i o n . friend and fellow horrorcore fan unfaithful, and photos show her their mother to move out about
this quiet Virginia town. ___ Melanie Wells, 18, of Inwood, cavorting in cemeteries and lying five months ago. But he was
Richard "Sammy" McCroskey On his MySpace page, W.Va. atop gravestones. excited for a planned trip to
III told deputies who responded to McCroskey is hooded, his face McCroskey was arrested at the Under interests, Wells listed, Virginia to see Emma. Clearly,
the desolate stretch of Poor House obscured by a skull bandanna. He Richmond airport on Saturday and among other things, "cigarettes, Emma was eager, too.
Road early Friday that the car stands before a Gothic church in a charged with murder in Mark alcohol, partying, sex, drugs, The "next time you check your
belonged to his girlfriend's father. lightning storm, a hatchet in his Niederbrock's death. Police are metal, SKR (Serial Killin myspace, YOULL BE AT MY
Police say he appeared to be raised right hand. In a song posted still analyzing evidence and Records), lust, restorative arts, HOUSE!" she posted Sept. 7, the
turning around when he backed on YouTube, the Castro Valley, expect more charges. blood and gore, open graves, dead day after he left California. "i love
into the ditch. The car wasn't Calif., man growls about the "evil Farmville police Capt. Wade people, animals." you sooo SO much baby; forever
damaged, but because McCroskey voices inside my head." Stimpson says authorities are Her musical tastes ran from the and for always."
had no license, the car had to be "They just want me to murder looking into McCroskey's Backstreet Boys and bubble-gum The group were all heading to
impounded. continuously. "disturbing" songs. But it's clear pop star Aaron Carter to Marilyn Southgate, Mich., for the Sept. 12
The truck driver, 52-year-old "They want me to take lives on a horrorcore had arrived in Manson and groups such as Bullet Strictly for the Wicked festival.
Elton Napier, asked the youth mass murder spree. Farmville long before McCroskey For My Valentine and Cradle of Among the acts slated to play
where he was from. He said he "They love the smell of a body came to town. Filth. Her favorite movies include were Mental Ward, SCUM and
was visiting from California to that's rotten and decayed. ___ " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Dismembered Fetus.
see his girlfriend. "That's what I think about when Shrim says he met Emma and but also "Pretty In Pink." Shrim says Kelley who studied
Napier could see what appeared I'm stalking my prey." Melanie at a horrorcore festival a It appears she and Emma got to violence against women drove
to be red hickeys or "love bites" Fellow horrorcore artist Andres couple of years ago in Chicago. know McCroskey online. them. This time, he says, the
all over his passenger's neck. He Shrim cautions against reading Emma's mother brought them. McCroskey's sister, Sarah, says father came along.
couldn't resist asking. too much into such lyrics. Little information has surfaced their dad, a rock guitarist, raised Sarah McCroskey says her
"My girlfriend did that," Shrim, who goes by the stage about Emma. She was home- her and her brother on a steady brother's friends told her that he
McCroskey replied. name SickTanicK the Soulless, schooled. And unlike diet of heavy metal bands like and Emma had had some kind of
Napier chuckled. "She was writes about killing Christians and McCroskey's MySpace page, her Insane Clown Posse, Metallica falling out at the concert. If
about to eat you up, wasn't she?" dismembering people. While he site is marked private, except for and Primus. A 5-foot-9, 200- anything happened, Wells didn't
he said. acknowledges the genre's words photos of a pretty girl with long, pound kid who took bullying let on.
McCroskey just grinned. and imagery can seem "brutal," he pink-colored hair. without fighting back, "Sammy" "SFTW was (expletive)
He did not tell Napier that he says the songs only reflect "the Wells and her family moved to spent most of his time in his amazing," she wrote on MySpace
a n d 1 6 - y e a r - o l d E m m a reality of the world we are living West Virginia from Louisville, room, composing music on his
Niederbrock, a local Presbyterian in." Ky., just before Wells was to computer, designing Web pages 'HORRORCORE' page 9
6 Top News/
Tough political realities quiet youth 'Obamamania' (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:09:06 PM
CHICAGO – Young Americans
showed their collective power
when they helped vote President
Obama into office. Inspired by his
message of "change," they
knocked on doors, spread flyers,
voted for him by a 2-1 margin,
and partied like rock-the-vote
stars when he won.
Since the election, though, that
fervor has died down noticeably.
And while young people remain
the president's most loyal
supporters in opinion polls, a lot
of people are wondering why that
age group isn't doing more to
build upon their newfound
reputation as political influencers.
"It's one thing to get excited
about a presidential candidate. It's
another thing to become a
responsible citizen," says Jennifer
Donahue, political director for the
New Hampshire Institute Of
Politics. She and other political
analysts thinks they have yet to
prove themselves.
Professors and students
themselves also are noticing the
quiet on college campuses, which
were hotbeds for "Obamamania"
during the campaign.
"They're supportive, but in a
bystander kind of way," says
Laura Katz Olson, a political
science professor at Lehigh
University in Pennsylvania.
Erin Carroll, a 19-year-old
sophomore at LaSalle University
in Philadelphia, blames the lack of
engagement on her generation's
short attention span. They want
change right now, she says and
haven't gotten it.
"I feel like everybody walks
around with their cell phone and
their laptops. We feel like we
need everything immediately. So
that's what we've become
accustomed to," Carroll says.
"We're the 'me-me-me'
generation."
It's not just on college
campuses.
Russ Marshalek, a 27-year-old
professional in Astoria, N.Y.,
observes his 20-something peers
sitting back and letting the
president do the work for them.
"Rather than allow him to speak
FOR us, we need to be inspired
BY him, and volunteer in our
communities, speak our minds,
write, read, think, act," says
Marshalek, a social media director
who works with small businesses.
Such is the fate of Generation
Y, as they're known, both praised
for their willingness to volunteer
but also maligned as the
"entitlement generation" eager to
help but unsure how to deal with
tumultuous times that are a first
for many of them.
On top of that, many of their
parents are baby boomers who
witnessed, and participated in, the
civil rights movement and
Vietnam War protests that
followed John F. Kennedy's
death. That's a lot to live up to.
But to be fair, says political
scientist Mike Wagner says, it's
tough for young people or any
American, for that matter to
know how to get involved in
issues with solutions that aren't
always so clear-cut.
Volunteering for a candidate?
Fairly easy to do. Helping solve
some of the toughest issues to
face our nation, from health care
reform to a deep-seated financial
crisis? Not so much.
"These aren't easy issues for
young people. It's not 'Should we
go to war in Iraq?' or 'Should gay
marriage be legalized?'" says
Wagner, an assistant professor at
the University of Nebraska.
He sees a lot of young people
getting lost in the details, or bored
by them. Or like a lot of us,
they're more focused on their own
worries, such as getting a job or
paying off mountains of student
loans.
Some say the president also
could be doing more to engage
this demographic that was so key
to his early success.
"I think young people do have
clout, and I think it's a mistake if
he doesn't use them," says Mary
Ellen Balchunis, a political
science professor at LaSalle
University, who counts Carroll
among her students. Balchunis
witnessed the fervor on campus
during the campaign the "dorm
storming," when students
persuaded their peers to go to
rallies and eventually to the polls.
She also recalls how students
danced in the streets with nearby
neighborhood residents after
Obama won.
Certainly, health care was on
their priority list then, and
remains so. An AP-GfK poll
conducted earlier this month
found that two-thirds of 18- to 29-
year-olds rated such reform as
"very" or "extremely" important.
So far, though, the proposed
health care overhauls have failed
win the support of a good number
of them. Only about half of them
said they approved of the way the
president was handling health care
and only 38 percent said they
supported health care plans being
discussed in Congress.
Balchunis thinks the president
could boost youth support on
these and other issues and get
them influencing their parents, as
they did in the election if he
mobilized and spoke directly to
them, the way he did during the
campaign. He could for instance,
make use of the well-organized
student groups that campaigned
for him to push the issues of the
day.
If he doesn't, Balchunis thinks
that also could have negative
ramifications for Democrats in the
upcoming midterm elections,
because those young voters will
lose interest and won't bother to
show up at the polls. That's what
happened, she says, after her own
young generation was initially
excited about Bill Clinton when
he was first elected president in
1992. Then, just two years later,
Democrats lost control of
Congress.
Letdown is inevitable to a point,
says James Emmett, an
unemployed recent college
graduate.
"Of course I'm not as hopeful
because everyone's been
exhausted, absorbed by the
economic realities, from man on
the street to Congressman," says
the 23-year-old artist who's living
with his parents on Long Island,
N.Y., while he looks for work.
But, he adds, the president needs
to "trust that we're still with him,
build upon his community of
support."
Certainly, the ugliness of the
political process has turned off
some young people, and made
even some of the president's most
ardent supporters antsy.
"The only thing that has changed
in my mind is the sense of
urgency I feel for the president to
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do what he came to Washington
to do," says Sam An, a 20-year-
old student and president of the
Young Democrats group at the St.
Louis College of Pharmacy. "I
feel that if he got some substantial
things accomplished, it might
quell the heated political
discourse."
That's tough to do in a system
that was set up to encourage
legislative gridlock, even if it
doesn't fit well with young
people's hunger for change, says
Joshua Dyck an assistant
professor of political science at
the University at Buffalo.
"Gridlock is as American as
apple pie," Dyck says. "The
question is whether getting
excited about an election and then
being exposed to the letdown, the
gridlock and compromise,
whether that will lead to an
erosion of the voter turnout gains
we saw in 2008."
For her part, Jessica Sullivan, a
senior at Elmhurst College in
suburban Chicago, remains
hopeful about the president, about
her generation, and about her own
ability to stay inspired and give
back.
"I have to be," says the 22-year-
old who's doing her student
teaching this fall. "I'm about to
walk out of college in February
with a degree in education."
And if it wasn't so in college,
the real world health care,
economy, all of it is about to get
very real.
___
Martha Irvine is an AP national
writer. She can be reached at
mirvine(at) ap.org or via
http://twitter.com/irvineap
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Stadiums, hotels put on alert amid terror probe (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) York trains in a scheme similar to vulnerability of the nation's mass stadium. "They already took two "We're aware of the memo," said
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:41:03 PM the attacks on the London subway transit systems and the danger of buildings down once. Eventually, Bob Moore, spokesman for the
and Madrid's rail system. hydrogen peroxide-based that's what's going to happen. If Kansas City Chiefs, who play at
NEW YORK – The government Backpacks and cell phones were explosives. they hit us next time, it's going to Arrowhead Stadium. "It just
expanded a terrorism warning seized in raids on apartments Zazi In a statement, the FBI and be big." underscores the high levels of
from transit systems to U.S. visited in New York. Homeland Security said that while In the lobby of New York's security we've had and will
stadiums, hotels and Two law enforcement officials the agencies "have no information Grand Hyatt, 81-year-old Barbara continue to maintain. We've been
entertainment complexes as s p e a k i n g o n c o n d i t i o n o f regarding the timing, location or Kane's eyes widened when she in that mode for some time."
investigators searched for more anonymity because they were not target of any planned attack, we heard of the warning. In New Jersey, home of Giants
suspects Tuesday in a possible al- authorized to discuss details of the believe it is prudent to raise the "If something were to happen, Stadium, the state homeland
Qaida plot to set off hydrogen- investigation told The Associated security awareness of our local what do people do?" said Kane, of security office said there will be
p e r o x i d e b o m b s h i d d e n i n Press that more than a half-dozen law enforcement partners Lafayette, Ind. "Do they run? Do an increased police presence at
backpacks. people were being scrutinized in regarding the targets and tactics of they get into a building? Do they key locations, random bag
Police bolstered their presence the alleged plot. The FBI said previous terrorist activity." stay out in the open?" searches and greater use of
at high-profile locations. Extra "several individuals in the United A half-dozen terrorism warnings "Hold my cross?" she added, surveillance cameras and
officers with bulletproof vests, States, Pakistan and elsewhere" and alerts have been issued in the fingering her crucifix. undercover operations.
rifles and dogs were assigned to are being investigated. past week amid the investigations New York's transit agency said A spokesman for
spots such as Grand Central "There's a lot more work to be in New York and Denver. it increased the police presence InterContinental Hotels Group,
T e r m i n a l i n N e w Y o r k . done," said Police Commissioner Bulletins particularly about hotels around the city. The vigilance is which operates more than 4,300
Plainclothes officers handed out Raymond Kelly, cautioning that as possible terrorist targets are playing out during a meeting of hotels worldwide, including
fliers at a nearby hotel with a the probe was still in its early common, and often don't make the U.N. General Assembly, with InterContinental, Crowne Plaza,
warning in large block letters: "If stages. news. In fact, they are so common Obama and other leaders from Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn
you suspect terrorism, call the In two bulletins sent to police that many Americans in the past around the world in town. Also, Express hotels, would not discuss
NYPD." departments Monday and few years have accused thousands of policymakers and specific security measures.
The warnings come amid an obtained by the AP, federal Washington of fearmongering. other visitors are arriving in Julie May was visiting Denver
i n v e s t i g a t i o n c e n t e r i n g o n counterterrorism officials urged Some Americans were blase Pittsburgh for a two-day from London, taking in the sights
Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old law enforcement and private about the latest warnings. economic summit of wealthy and in the city where Zazi worked.
Denver airport shuttle driver who companies to be vigilant at "If it happens, it happens," said developing nations. "I live in London, and terrorist
authorities say received al-Qaida s t a d i u m s , e n t e r t a i n m e n t Lynn Calhoun, an Indianapolis New York's Police Department bulletins are a way of life for me,"
explosives training in Pakistan c o m p l e x e s a n d h o t e l s . computer programmer who produced a 10-minute videotape it she said. "So if it was to stop me
and was found entering New York The bulletin on stadiums noted visited Conseco Fieldhouse, the has begun showing at roll call doing things, I would never do
City two weeks ago with bomb- that an al-Qaida training manual home of the NBA's Indiana instructing officers to be on the anything."
m a k i n g i n s t r u c t i o n s o n h i s specifically lists "blasting and Pacers, to buy a ticket for a Trans- lookout for potential bomb- ___
computer. destroying the places of Siberian Orchestra concert there making ingredients. The video Associated Press Writers Eileen
Zazi's arrest in Colorado last amusement, immorality and sin ... in December. "Where are you puts special emphasis on Sullivan in Washington,
week touched off the most intense and attacking vital economic going to go? What are you going hydrogen peroxide a common Samantha Gross in New York,
flurry of government terror c e n t e r s . " C o u n t e r t e r r o r i s m to do? You can't just go and hide ingredient in homemade Don Mitchell and P. Solomon
warnings and advisories to come officials are also advising police out in Canada for a month." explosives as well as cans of Banda in Denver, Alex
to light since President Barack officers to be on the lookout for James Orash waited for a acetone and bags of ammonium Dominguez in Baltimore, Charles
Obama took office. any possible bomb-making at self- commuter train outside Camden nitrate. Wilson in Indianapolis, Beth
Though Zazi is charged only storage facilities, noting that Yards, Baltimore's ballpark, with Stadiums around the country DeFalco in Trenton, N.J., Ashley
with lying to the government, law terrorists have used such places to his wife. provided few specifics about how M. Hehrer in Chicago contributed
enforcement officials said he may build bombs. "If they're going to hit us, there, they were responding but stressed to this report.
have been plotting with others to The bulletins came just days that's where they're going to hit that they have been vigilant ever
detonate backpack bombs on New after similar warnings about the us," Orash said, looking at the since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Hondurans surround Brazil embassy

(BBC News | Americas | World he wanted to, but urged him to
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Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:43:11 PM corruption and violating the
constitution.
Please turn on JavaScript. Media The interim administration in
requires JavaScript to play. Honduras says Brazil should
Police took action after Mr either hand over Mr Zelaya to
Zelaya's supporters defied a face trial or grant him political
curfew asylum.
Honduran security forces are It insists no coup has taken
patrolling the area around Brazil's place in Honduras - but rather a
embassy in the capital after "constitutional succession"
clashes with supporters of ousted ordered by the courts and
president Manuel Zelaya. approved by Congress.
Mr Zelaya, who is inside after US warning
making a surprise return from Brazil has been keen to
exile, accuses interim authorities demonstrate a clear leadership
of "asphyxiating" the embassy by role over this issue and
cutting off supplies. throughout the Honduran crisis
Brazil's president has warned has adopted a very firm line
against any action being taken on against the interim government,
the embassy. says the BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao
Interim leader Roberto Paulo.
Micheletti has denied any action The European Union has called
is planned, and has urged Mr for calm - adding its voice to that
Zelaya to turn himself in. with not much security. The demonstrators had defied a had been in contact with the
Brazil insists that Mr Zelaya's curfew imposed by authorities on Brazilian mission to discuss "what of US Secretary of State Hillary
Mr Zelaya arrived in the Clinton, who said Mr Zelaya's
Honduran capital, Tegulcigalpa, arrival at the embassy was Monday afternoon until Tuesday kind of assistance that we can return must not lead to violence.
on Monday nearly three months unexpected and that by allowing evening. provide to help them during this
In his comments on Tuesday,
after being forced out of the him to stay they only did what Some 70 supporters of Mr crisis", spokesman Ian Kelly
the US state department's Mr
country at gunpoint, saying he any democratic government Zelaya are reported to be inside reportedly said. Kelly repeated the warning.
wanted peaceful dialogue. would have done. the embassy. Speaking in New York,
Nonetheless it is clear where the The lights, water and telephones Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Respect and protection for the
The US, Brazil and other i n violability of diplomatic
governments have joined Mr sympathies of the Brazilian were cut off on Monday and the Lula da Silva repeated his premises is a universally accepted
Zelaya in calling for a negotiated authorities lie. They regard Mr only contact is by mobile phone, position that a "negotiated and
settlement to the crisis. Zelaya as the legitimate president Brazilian media say. A generator democratic solution" must be p r i n c i p l e o f i n t e r n a t i o n a l
relations," Mr Kelly said.
A curfew has been imposed, of Honduras and say there is no i s b e i n g u s e d t o p r o v i d e found. Are you in Honduras? What is
airports shut and roadblocks set question of either handing him e l e c t r i c i t y . He urged Mr Zelaya to "be very
over to the military forces outside Interim authorities were careful not to allow any pretext your reaction to Manuel Zelaya's
up on highways leading into
Tegucigalpa. or asking him to leave. e m p l o y i n g a s t r a t e g y o f for the coup plotters to resort to return? Did you witness the
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9 Southeast storm deaths as floodwaters linger
(AP)
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Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:34:40 PM
AUSTELL, Ga. –
Neighborhoods, schools and even
roller coasters at Six Flags over
Georgia were awash in several
feet of murky, brown water
Tuesday, and officials found a
ninth storm victim who had been
swept away from her car a day
earlier.
Georgia officials warned
worried residents to wait for the
floodwaters to recede before
checking out their damaged
homes, and in Tennessee, a
retirement center was evacuated.
Torrential Southeast rains
soaked the region for days,
knocking motorists from cars and
splitting at least one mobile home.
A Tennessee man who jumped in
the floodwaters was still missing.
Washed-out roads and flooded
freeways around metro Atlanta
caused commuters headaches and
hundreds of residents sought
refuge in shelters. About 120
residents of a Tennessee
retirement center were evacuated
by boats and trucks and others
were ferried from low-lying
neighborhoods and motels in a
Chattanooga suburb as two nearby
creeks continued to rise.
Georgia emergency officials
said they were confident those in
immediate danger had been
evacuated, but were concerned
about residents attempting to
return to their homes too soon.
"We had people who were out
safely but decided they wanted to
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continued from page 5
at 10:43 p.m. on Sept. 13. "back
in Virginia now, be back in West
Virginia on Wednesday. I MISS
EVERYONE!!!"
get back in danger," said Charley customers were without power. In Chattanooga, Tenn., She never made it.
E n g l i s h , h e a d o f G e o r g i a Scattered outages were also Sylvester Kitchens, 46, was still On Thursday, McCroskey called
Emergency Management Agency. reported in North Carolina. missing two days after betting home and left a message. He said
Gov. Sonny Perdue asked Over 300 people were being onlookers he could swim across a he wanted to make sure everyone
President Barack Obama to helped at shelters across the flooded ditch next to his house. was OK.
declare a state of emergency in Atlanta and north Georgia region, Several others who died were When he ended with "I love
Georgia and urged residents to according to Red Cross officials. m o t o r i s t s w h o s e c a r s w e r e you, guys," his sister knew
stay away from flooded areas. One of the largest shelters was overtaken or trapped by fast-rising something wasn't right.
Officials were beginning to assess at the Cobb County Civic Center, floodwaters. "We weren't like lovey-dovey
the damage and did not provide a where Shirley Jones joined others After several days of steady rain and stuff," she says, "like a 'Leave
financial estimate. sitting on green cots, chatting that dropped up to 20 inches in -It-to-Beaver' kind of family."
"I want to plead with you to give about the fate of their homes. one place, forecasters said there That same day, Wells' family
these waters time to recede," Around them, children played was a chance of more light contacted authorities to say they
Perdue said. "Rescuers are putting g a m e s , o b l i v i o u s t o t h e showers. had not heard from her.
their lives at risk to try to get d e s t r u c t i o n . Days of downpours and Sarah McCroskey
someone out who foolishly drove "When I saw the water rising, it thunderstorms saturated the acknowledges that people might
through rushing waters." brought back bad memories," said ground from Alabama through listen to her brother's songs and
The skies were clear and even Jones, who lived in New Orleans Georgia into eastern Tennessee watch his videos and think him
sunny in parts of Georgia on during Hurricane Katrina. The 72- and western North Carolina, just capable of the slayings. But she
Tuesday. Most of the rain eased year-old had moved to the area months after an epic two-year insists he is not his music.
overnight, but some residents in two months ago. drought in the region ended Since the news broke,
some areas woke up to new Jones said rescue efforts this following winter rains. horrorcore fan sites have been
flooding. time went much more smoothly. As Tuesday rush-hour began in awash in tributes to Emma and
In west Atlanta, resident Garrett A boat retrieved her from a family Atlanta, Interstate 20 west of the Melanie. The girls who reveled in
Nail and several neighbors member's house. city was closed in two spots by s a t a n i c i m a g e r y h a v e b e e n
worked several hours to clear a Before being evacuated, Cordell water spilling over the major eulogized as "fallen angels."
tree that had blocked a road to A l b e r t a n d h e r h u s b a n d artery for suburban commuters. When McCroskey was brought
their community. Christopher moved their valuables Portions of at least two other back to Farmville, a reporter for
"It was troubling at first. There to the second floor of their freeways in the metro area were WRIC television heard him say,
was no power. We knew people Powder Springs home. The couple also closed, as was I-75 in "Jesus told me to do it."
had to get to work, school, waded through knee-deep water H o u s t o n C o u n t y i n c e n t r a l But in one of his videos, he said
doctor's appointments," said Nail. before a raft picked them up. Georgia. his mistakes began elsewhere.
"We were left with two options. "I feel lost," she said. "I feel Hundreds of roads and bridges "It's not my fault, those bad
Help ourselves or wait on the homeless." were under water or washed out, (expletive)-up choices," he
government. We obviously Seven people have died in including 17 bridges on state and rasped. "Don't blame me. You can
decided to help ourselves." Georgia since Sunday night, interstate highways. blame all the voices."
State climatologist David including a toddler swept away ___ ___
Stooksbury said the ground was from his father's arms after a Associated Press writers Greg Breed reported from Raleigh,
saturated and unable to absorb the swollen creek ripped apart their Bluestein, Johnny C. Clark, Errin N.C. Associated Press Writer
large amounts of water. trailer home. Haines and Dionne Walker in Michael Felberbaum in Richmond
"It just takes time for that water The eighth victim, a 22-year-old Atlanta, and Bill Poovey in also contributed to this story.
to work through the system," he Alabama man, drowned when a Chattanooga, Tenn., contributed
said. pond's rain-soaked bank collapsed to this report.
About 12,000 Georgia Power beneath him.
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Sheriff: Suspect says God led him to Severe US flooding kills
Jewel's ranch (AP)
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Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:09:24 PM
FORT WORTH, Texas – A man
accused of stalking singer-
songwriter Jewel at her rural
Texas ranch said he was on a
mission from God, authorities
said Tuesday.
Michael Lawrence Kozelka of
Townsend, Wis., was arrested last
week after he went two
consecutive days to the 2,000-acre
Stephenville ranch owned by
Jewel's husband, rodeo champion
Ty Murray, said Erath County
Sheriff Tommy Bryant.
After Kozelka was found on the
ranch Sept. 14, the landowner
warned him not to return, Bryant
said. But on Sept. 15 Kozelka was
found at the main house with a
pocket knife in his clothing and a
dog with him, although he did not
resist arrest after deputies were
called, Bryant said.
"He was not aggressive and was
not mad," Bryant told The
Associated Press on Tuesday. "He
just said he was on a mission from
God, that God told him to come to
Stephenville and led him to this
ranch."
Bryant declined to say what
Kozelka may have said about
Jewel or her husband, and it's
unclear if either was home at the
time.
Kozelka, 50, was charged with
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stalking, a felony that carries a
maximum 10-year jail sentence,
according to jail records.
He has been jailed in
Stephenville, about 75 miles
southwest of Fort Worth, on
$30,000 bond since his arrest.
His attorney, Michael Nicholls
Pugh, declined to comment
Tuesday, saying he was appointed
to the case that afternoon and had
not yet talked to Kozelka.
Attempts to reach Murray, a
nine-time world champion rodeo
cowboy and past president of
Professional Bull Riders, were
unsuccessful Tuesday. A publicist
for Jewel did not immediately
offer a statement.
Vickie Pintsch, co-owner of
Pintsch's Hardware in Townsend,
Wis., said Kozelka lived in the
area for years, working on
construction and helping with
repairs and odd jobs. Pintsch said
she had not seen him for several
months, although he visited her
store occasionally.
She said Kozelka attended St.
John Lutheran Church in the town
of about 1,000 people, about 80
miles northwest of Green Bay.
"He was pleasant to talk to when
he came into the store," Pintsch
said. "He has never hurt anyone
that I am aware."
According to Oconto County
Circuit Court online records in
Wisconsin, Citizens Bank
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foreclosed on some property
Kozelka owned in November and
a sheriff's sale was conducted in
August.
William Foshag, an attorney for
the bank, did not immediately
return a telephone message
Tuesday.
Bryant said Murray and Jewel
were concerned about publicity
over the incident. According to
the incident and arrest reports
obtained by The AP under the
Texas Public Information Act, a
pseudonym is used for Jewel, and
few details are provided about
what happened that day.
The couple have lived quietly
for years on the ranch near the
dairy community of Stephenville.
Jewel, who was born Jewel
Kilcher, is working on a second
country album the first,
"Perfectly Clear," debuted at No.
1 on Billboard's charts last year
as well as a second book of
poetry.
In the spring the couple joined
the cast of ABC's "Dancing With
the Stars," but injuries during
training forced Jewel to drop out
before the competition began.
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Imrie in Wausau, Wis.,
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Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:07:25 PM and 30,000 people are without
power, state officials said, citing
By Matthew Bigg aerial photographs and initial
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Severe reports.
flooding in north Georgia has Some interstate highways
killed seven people, submerged through Atlanta were also closed.
homes, knocked out power and "We are still very much in
turned streams into rivers while response mode," said Dena
refilling reservoirs after a lengthy Brummer, spokeswoman for
drought in the southeastern United Georgia Emergency Management
States. Agency, more than 18 hours after
Governor Sonny Perdue asked the rain stopped across most of
President Barack Obama on the state.
Tuesday to declare a state of "Safety is our number one
emergency for Georgia because of priority. We have seen an increase
the flooding, which a state in road rescue today rather than
climatologist said was the worst yesterday because people are still
in 100 years in some parts of taking their chances in navigating
Atlanta. through flooded roads," Brummer
Days of heavy rain swelled the said.
Chattahoochee River to Drought-stricken Lake Lanier,
overflowing and in some places which stands near the head of a
turned creeks that trickle through water table that serves Atlanta and
t h e c i t y ' s r e s i d e n t i a l parts of Georgia, Alabama and
n e i g h b o r h o o d s i n t o r a g i n g Florida, rose 3 feet (1 meter) in
torrents at least 15 feet above the recent rain.
normal levels. Some places saw as Two years ago the lake was at
much as 15 inches of rain over record low levels but now it
three days. stands just 3-4 feet below the
The deaths included a toddler 1,071 feet above sea level
ripped from his mother's arms considered its full level during the
when their mobile home was summer, said Lisa Coghlan of the
swept into a creek and a woman U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in
drowned in her vehicle while she Mobile, Alabama.
was on the phone to emergency At the height of a drought in
services pleading for help, local November 2007 the lake's level
media reported. fell to 1,052 feet, Coghlan said.
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cost of damage to infrastructure, Jackie Frank)
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Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:02:12 PM
The Kardashian family is about
to get a bit bigger – and taller.
Meet Lamar Joseph Odom, the
6-foot-10-inch NBA player who'll
join the reality TV family when
he ties the knot with Khloe
Kardashian, 24, on Sunday.
He's been tight-lipped during
their whirlwind one-month
relationship – which has included
bar hopping and attending movie
premieres together – but here are
five things to know about the 29-
year-old L.A. Lakers forward:
He turned pro a decade ago
Born and raised in South
Jamaica, Queens, Odom began his
basketball career during high
school. He briefly enrolled at the
University of Nevada Las Vegas
before transferring to the
University of Rhode Island where
he led the team to the Atlantic-10
championship. After his freshman
year, the L.A. Clippers drafted
him before he went on to play
with the Miami Heat in 2003. He's
been with the L.A. Lakers since
2004.
He's had to deal with personal
tragedies from a young age
His single mother, Cathy
Mercer, a corrections and traffic
officer, died from colon cancer
when Odom was 12. His
grandmother raised him after
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NFL star
Plaxico
Burress jailed
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Edition)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:44:49 AM
Former New York Giants star
Plaxico Burress has been jailed
for two years for gun possession,
after shooting himself at a
nightclub last year.
Burress, 32, pleaded guilty to
criminal possession of a weapon
in August.
Before the incident took place,
Burress had been a rising NFL
talent, having caught the Giants'
winning touchdown at the 2008
Cathy's death but she died in 2003 everywhere," Odom told ESPN. twice in less than a year. Superbowl.
during a season when Odom was "That's what I'm trying to do with He's got a huge sweet tooth But he was suspended after his
sidelined for injuries. Three years this [clothing line]. My Man don't Electrolyte-filled sports drinks? guilty plea and will be banned
later – on the exact day his get his props and he's the biggest Protein bars? Nope, Odom says he from the game until he has served
grandmother passed away – his 6- icon in the world." boosts his energy by eating candy his sentence.
month-old son Jayden died from He's faced a handful of scandals – and lots of it. He once told Burress pleaded guilty to a
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome While at the University of reporters he had "a whole plate of single charge of gun possession to
while sleeping in a crib. (He has N e v a d a L a s V e g a s , s c h o o l jellybean Starbursts" and "it's avoid two counts of criminal
two other kids, Destiny, 10, and administrators withdrew his funny because the games I played possession and one count of
Lamar Jr., 7., with ex-girlfriend s c h o l a r s h i p a f t e r a S p o r t s well were the games where I ate reckless endangerment.
Liza Morales) Illustrated article questioned his candy for breakfast." Wrigley Had he been convicted of the
He's busy off the court standardized test scores. A NCAA e v e n d e s i g n e d a r e p l i c a more serious charges, he could
Odom's business ventures investigation also discovered he championship trophy specifically have faced a prison term of three
include Rich Soil Entertainment, was receiving cash payments from for him made from Skittles, and a half to 15 years.
his music and film production a booster before and after the Starbust, Sour Gummi Tape, Life Burress intends to resume his
company, and Son of Man, a line university said he wasn't allowed Savers Gummies and Hubba professional football career after
of Christian-themed apparel, to enroll at the school. A few Bubba. he completes his sentence, his
which includes polos, jeans, and T years later in 2001, Odom was lawyer has indicated.
-shirts. "Remember when Jay-Z suspended while playing with the The charges stem from an
wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Clippers for violating the NBA's incident at a New York nightclub
Nobody knew who Che was. Then drug policy – he reportedly in November 2008, when Burress
J a y - Z w e a r s i t a n d i t ' s admitted to smoking marijuana – accidentally shot himself in the
thigh with a handgun for which he
did not have a license.
fund has pocketed a $1.6bn profit bank. conversion, on September 11, of Print Sponsor
after selling half of the 9 per cent In an unexpected announcement its $6.8bn of convertible preferred
stake in Citigroup it acquired on Tuesday, the Government of stock for Citigroup common stock
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led refinancing of the troubled said that the sale followed the
12 Top News/ Finance/ Tech News/
Brady, Bundchen Sued By
Photographers - Washington Post
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:57 PM
Brady, Bundchen Sued By
Photographers
UPDATED (4:44 p.m.)...
According to a report by
Reuters, New England Patriots
quarterback Tom Brady and his
wife, model Gisele Bundchen,
were sued by two photographers
and a news agency over an
allegation that a bodyguard fired
gunshots at the photographers'
vehicle at a party two months
after the couple's wedding.
The lawsuit, filed in New York,
accuses Brady and Bundchen of
carelessness and negligence and
seeks at least $1 million in
damages, according to Reuters.
The incident allegedly occurred
at Bundchen's holiday home in
Costa Rica.
Microsoft increases search share
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 6:24:26 AM
Microsoft's Bing search engine
is making inroads into Google's
dominance of the search market
according to data from US net
measurement firm ComScore.
Its latest figures show
Microsoft's share of the search
market has grown from 8.9% in
July to 9.3% in August.
The news saw Microsoft's
shares rise while Google's dipped
slightly.
Microsoft's modest 9.3% share
The Associated Press, which
also reported that the lawsuit had
been filed, reported that the
incident is alleged to have
happened in April.
According to Reuters, the
lawsuit by Agence France Presse
and the two photographers,
identified by Reuters as Costa
Rican citizens Yuri Cortez and
Rolando Aviles, says that
bodyguards demanded the
photographers' cameras and
memory cards after the
photographers took pictures of the
event.
When the photographers
refused, the lawsuit alleges, the
incident became more heated and
one of the bodyguards fired a
pistol at the photographers'
vehicle, with one shot shattering
the rear windshield, then hitting
the front windshield and narrowly
of the US search market is small
but is a significant increase for a
new entrant, say analysts.
The Bing search engine was
launched by Microsoft in June
2009 and was followed in July by
a search tie-up with rival Yahoo.
Google is still far and away the
search leader, with 65% of the US
market.
Tiny ripple
The fact Google is losing any
market share to Microsoft could
indicate that it is no longer the
immediate choice for everyone,
thinks search expert John Batelle.
"I think the service is starting to
missing the heads of the
photographers on the ricochet,
according to Reuters.
The AP reported that
representatives for Brady and
Bundchen declined to comment.
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22, 2009; 4:30 PM ET
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22, 2009 5:22 PM
gain footholds with users who see
it as a regular alternative to
Google," he wrote in his blog.
He is a fan of Bing's newly-
released visual search interface.
"I think it augurs some serious
new - and useful - approaches to
sifting through massive amounts
of related data," he said.
In the UK, Bing has also made
small inroads into Google's
market share.
In August the number of
searches on Bing increased by
5%, while Google searches were
down 1.7%, according to UK
online measurement firm Nielsen.
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Cablevision is getting its
business right, one customer
at a time
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:40:00 PM cable t.v. subscribers); included in
that are about 2.8 million
Filed under: Stocks to Buy It premium cable t.v. subscribers,
looks like Cablevision Systems called iO Digital; nearly 2.5
Corporation(NYSE: CVC) is million high-speed internet
starting to get-it-in-gear. Hence, subscribers; and 1.9 million
I'm reiterating my Buy rating for i n t e r n e t v o i c e ( t e l e p h o n e )
CVC, first recommended on May s u b s c r i b e r s .
29, 2009 at a price of $19.03. If
Continue reading Cablevision is
you purchased CVC then, you're getting its business right, one
up about 30%.
customer at a time
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lot of marketing around it and that Stories)
people are curious about anything Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:12:00 PM
new that is launched," said Alex
Burmaster, communications We may have been looking for
director at Nielsen. extraterrestrial life in all the
Google is already working on an wrong places, say a group of
update to its current search Austrian astrobiologists who are
engine. studying non-water solvents that
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Kennedy successor to be
appointed
(BBC News | Americas | World a full complement of senators,
Edition) passing a healthcare reform bill
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:33:48 PM would be more difficult.
Mr Kennedy campaigned
The Massachusetts state senate throughout his career for universal
has voted to allow the state's healthcare, and did not want his
governor to pick an interim death to jeopardise prospects for
replacement for the late US reform.
Senator Edward Kennedy. Massachusetts's current rule
Under current rules, Mr requiring a special election to fill
Kennedy's seat would remain a Senate vacancy was only
vacant until a special election brought in in 2004 by the state's
could be held. Democrats.
Massachusetts Governor Deval They feared that if then-
Patrick is expected to approve the presidential candidate John Kerry
r u l e - c h a n g e a n d p i c k M r had won that year's presidential
Kennedy's successor this week. e l e c t i o n , t h u s v a c a t i n g h i s
Former Massachusetts senator Massachusetts senate seat, his
a n d p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e replacement would have been
M i c h a e l D u k a k i s i s t h e chosen by then-governor Mitt

Deadly floods hit south-east US f r o n t r u n n e r f o r t h e j o b . Romney, a Republican.

Healthcare fears The current proposed rule-
The rule-change was one of Mr c h a n g e i s l i k e l y t o b e
(BBC News | Americas | World the past two days. On Tuesday morning, the body Kennedy's last wishes. accompanied by a resolution
Edition) Flooding has also affected of a teenager was recovered from If his seat remains vacant, the strongly urging the appointed
Submitted at 9/22/2009 8:11:55 AM Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky the Chattooga River, several Democrats will only have 59 senator not to run in the 2010
and North Carolina. hours after being carried away. votes in the Senate, one short of special election, which will
Please turn on JavaScript. Media Forecasters are warning of more The boy and a friend were the 60 needed to overcome the d e t e r m i n e w h o w i l l b e M r
requires JavaScript to play. heavy rain and possible flash swept up away by fast-moving Republicans' procedural blocking K e n n e d y ' s p e r m a n e n t
Floodwaters left cars completely floods. water as they tried to reach tactics. replacement.
submerged and many houses Among the worst-hit areas was someone trapped in a vehicle, the The late senator feared that if Print Sponsor
swamped Douglas County in Georgia where Atlanta Journal-Constitution his fellow Democrats did not have
Floods set off by torrential rain four people died in separate reported.
are now known to have left at incidents. A woman died in
least eight people dead in the Gwinnett County when she was
The second boy was quickly
rescued.
Fed increases scrutiny over bank bonuses
south-eastern US, including seven swept away. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, a (Financial Times - US than unrealised gains that might
in Georgia. In Carroll County, heavy rain man was presumed drowned in an homepage) never materialise.
Rescuers found the body of a 15 turned a small stream into raging overflowing creek, officials said, Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:24:37 PM Walll Street executives said that
-year-old boy early on Tuesday, waters that ripped apart a mobile while an Alabama man drowned regulators, led by the Federal
several hours after he was swept home where a two-year-old boy when a pond bank gave way, the US regulators have intensified Reserve, have been asking major
away by floodwaters. lived. Associated Press reported. efforts to gather intelligence on banks to provide a detailed break-
Georgia Governor Sonny His father clung on to him but Print Sponsor banks’ trading positions, in a down of their balance sheets, with
Perdue has declared a state of the boy was pulled away, his body move that could herald a new particular attention to their trading
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nearly 600mm (2ft) of rain fell in said. are based on real profits rather
14 World/ Finance/ Internet News Record

'It was filthy, but it was our only hope'

By Angelique Chrisafis (World Like others in "the jungle", for Afghan migrants, many of it.
news and comment from the Gulem, a 35-year-old tailor from whom sleep rough in the Reza, a student in his 20s from
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) southern Afghanistan, had paid a surrounding streets. northern Afghanistan, had been
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:22:39 AM vast sum to be smuggled through Those who had left Calais to sleeping rough in and around the
Pakistan, Iran and Turkey and into
Afghans who fled the migrant Europe, but got stuck at the no
seek temporary shelter were more
than ever at the mercy of people
Paris park for six months and
preferred it to the limbo of Calais.
Aflac is in an
camps in Calais before police man's land of migrants outside
raids are waiting until it is safe to Calais port. Many talk of paying
traffickers, keen to make money
by helping them back to the coast.
He had noticed the new arrivals
who had fled the "jungle" in uptrend
go back and try again €10,000 to reach Europe. Gulem As a group of Afghans, including recent days in fear of the police. By Joseph Lazzaro
Crouched beside the public tap said only: "It was the equivalent several teenagers under 18, played "Here, we've got nothing, we're (BloggingStocks)
in Villemin park near Paris's Gare of an entire eight years' salary, basketball on the park's court, two forced to sleep like alcoholics Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:00:00 PM
de l'Est, Gulem was rinsing his plus contributions from my people traffickers approached under bridges. We try to get
socks and hanging them on a brothers and my whole family." with offers to get people back to papers in France and are just left Filed under: AFLAC Inc (AFL),
fence to dry. Beside him, Ali, 13, He had been squatting in a small Calais at the right moment. Some hanging on. A lot of people want Stocks to Buy It appears the
was washing his hair, bent over "jungle" camp of mainly Hazara Pashtuns were fuming at being to get back to Calais to try their market is finally starting to see the
under the ice-cold water as an and Tajik Afghans away from the exploited for more money. luck." v a l u e i n A f l a c
older migrant squeezed him a main Pashtun area that was raided Some migrants in the park said Isarullah, 21, a former student, Incorporated(NYSE: AFL), hence
ration of shampoo. this morning. that in the run-up to this showed knife scars on his it goes without saying that I'm
Hours after the raids on the His camp, rebuilt after a raid morning's raid in Calais, it had stomach and chest, saying reiterating my Buy rating for
Calais migrant squatter camp three weeks ago, was so far still become slightly easier for people violence had made him leave his company, first recommended on
known as "the jungle", Gulem standing. Earlier this month t50 to slip into England, stowing village outside Kabul. He had May 28, 2009 at a price of $36.07.
described how he and other people had been living there. This away under lorries and avoiding been sleeping in and around the Aflac is another one of those
homeless Afghans had fled to morning there were five after checks. "In our camp, two seemed park for a month. insurers that was rudely treated by
Paris by train to avoid being most left to avoid the police, but to get through in one week," "The conditions here are a Wall Street during the panicked
caught. He had lived in one of the several hoped to go back and Gulem said. "In the Pashtun camp nightmare," he said. "I had a frenzy that gripped markets with
"jungle" camps for a month, under chance their luck again. If their it seemed more, maybe 15 a blanket, it was stolen. I sleep in the onset of the financial crisis.
pieces of ramshackle plastic camp is destroyed as raids week." my clothes, under bridges, under And it was rude: the Street took
sheeting set up under trees on continue in coming days, they Charities and NGOs in Calais buildings, moving from night to AFL's shares from a high of $68
sand dunes near Calais port. From plan to build it again somewhere confirmed there had been a wave night. We've got nothing to eat to about $11, basically on the fear
there, he had made repeated else. of stories of successful passages except a bit of bread we get as that Aflac would incur major
attempts to stow away to England. Like the "jungle" in Calais, to England. People traffickers had hand-outs. If we see food, we fall losses from European bank hybrid
"It was filthy. We had nothing – Villemin park has become a already begun using the rumours on it like animals, we're so bonds, including the threat of
no water, little food – but it was symbol of the failure of France as "a marketing ploy" to lure more hungry. I can't go back to bank nationalization.
our only hope," he said. and Britain to tackle the migrant migrants to pay up for help in Afghanistan, it's too dangerous. Continue reading Aflac is in an
With other Afghan migrants, he crisis since the closure of the reaching England. We're afraid of the French police. uptrend
was now calculating when it Sangatte Red Cross camp in 2002. The French government knew There's a whole generation of Aflac is in an uptrend originally
would be safe to return to Calais Today, the Afghans gathered that announcing the raids in young Afghans here who just appeared on BloggingStocks on
to set up again. "We're just there suggested the Calais raid advance would mean that police want papers and a chance to work, Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST.
waiting to get back to Calais. would not solve their problems would find only a few hundred at but it seems more and more Please see our terms for use of
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sleeping rough in Paris, amid the back. had moved to the port of Dunkirk. News & Media Limited 2009 |
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Middle East talks fail to produce hope
By Ewen MacAskill, Ian Black
(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:46:02 PM
Setback for Barack Obama's
peace initiative as Israel rejects
call for settlement freeze
Barack Obama failed to achieve
a hoped-for breakthrough aimed
at the resumption of Middle East
negotiations today during a three-
way meeting with the Israeli and
Palestinian leaders in New York.
The president had only one
success to show for months of
effort: a tentative handshake
between the Israeli prime
minister, Binyamin Netanyahu,
and the Palestinian president,
Mahmoud Abbas, who met for the
first time since the Israeli leader
took office in March. The two
appeared reluctant to shake hands,
smiling hesitantly and having to
be coaxed by Obama.
A final burst of White House
activity over the preceding 24
hours failed to close the
diplomatic gap between Abbas
and Netanyahu. The Israeli prime
minister rebuffed a US call for a
total freeze on Jewish settlement
on the West Bank. Abbas refused
to resume negotiations without
such a freeze.
Each blamed the other for the
stalled Obama peace initiative.
America's frustration showed
when Obama told reporters the
two sides had to stop stalling.
"Permanent status negotiations
must begin and begin soon. It is
past time to talk about starting
negotiations. It is time to move
forward," he said.
The US negotiator, George
Mitchell, who spent a fruitless
week in the Middle East last week
shuttling between the Israeli and
Palestinian sides, is to return next
week to the region for further
talks. Obama said he asked the
secretary of state, Hillary Clinton,
to report back on progress in the
middle of next month.
The failure to have anything
significant to announce today was
a setback for Obama, who hoped
for a diplomatic triumph after
weeks on the defensive on
domestic policy. But it
represented a success, at least in
the short term, for Netanyahu,
who had been resisting US efforts
for a settlement freeze.
Having succeeded in publicly
snubbing pleas from Obama,
Netanyahu was in a magnanimous
- albeit slightly patronising -
mood at a press conference
afterwards, saying: "The
importance of the meeting was
actually its existence."
Referring to Obama's plea for
urgency, Netanyahu, said: "There
was general agreement, including
on the part of the Palestinians,
that the peace process has to be
resumed as soon as possible with
no preconditions."
The Israeli foreign minister,
Avigdor Lieberman, who sat in on
the talks, was more combative,
saying the Israeli government had
been ready to sit down but the
Palestinians had demanded all
sorts of preconditions.
The failure of the summit was
as big a setback for Abbas as it
was for Obama. Abbas had been
reluctant even to attend the
tripartite talks without a
settlement freeze. His advisers
made clear that the New York
encounter was a meeting, no
more, an act of deference to a US
president who aroused such high
hopes. By attending, he opened
himself to attack from opponents
such as Hamas, who had already
criticised him for taking part in a
photo opportunity without
receiving anything in return.
Speaking after today's talks the
Palestinian president said Israel
must honour agreements on
borders and the future of
Jerusalem, which he said its
government made in 2008 talks
with the Palestinians, if stalled
peace negotiations are to resume.
He also repeated Palestinian
insistence that Israel halt
settlement building in the
occupied territories, including
East Jerusalem.
He had put these points to
Obama. "We believe the
American administration will
review the positions of the two
sides in the coming weeks to
make it possible for us to renew
peace talks based on our stated
position," Abbas said.
Although Obama emphasised
today that he was in for the long
haul, it was an inauspicious start,
failing to secure even a
confidence-building deal that
would have opened the way for
the resumption of negotiations.
Obama, speaking at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel, where he has set up
temporary headquarters, said that
since his administration took
office in January there had been
progress toward laying a
foundation for the resumption of
peace talks "but we still have
much further to go". He called on
the antagonists to show "the
flexibility, common sense and
compromise which is necessary to
achieve our goals".
The meagre results of the
meeting made a gloomy
comparison with the excitement
generated by Obama's election
and then his long-heralded speech
in Cairo last June. Its messages to
the Muslim world included his
insistence that Israeli settlements
must stop.
Netanyahu has refused to give
enough ground on a settlement
freeze to allow Mitchell to play a
genuine bridging role. Talk about
"natural growth" of the
settlements may play well with
the Likud's leader's supporters and
partners at home. On the
diplomatic front it spells impasse.
Abbas has learned the lesson of
negotiations that go nowhere
slowly. Even if the economy of
the West Bank is improving and
some Israeli roadblocks have been
removed, an "economic peace"
that does not end the occupation
will not do. Hamas in the Gaza
Strip, still in place despite the
winter war, opposes talks.
The question for Obama is how
long he can go without having
something tangible to show.
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• Middle East
• Barack Obama
• Obama administration
• Israel
• Binyamin Netanyahu
• Palestinian territories
• Hamas
• United States
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Thomas Friedman:
Be brave U.S. --
tax gasoline more
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 6:00:00 PM
Filed under: Politics, Oil New
York Times(NYSE: NYT)
Columnist Thomas Friedman
returned to the subject of the
United States' inordinate use of
oil, and the problems it creates.
Friedman asks: are we really
that tough a people? If we were,
we'd tax gasoline much more,
build many more nuclear power
plants (like France), and store
waste deep in Yucca Mountain,
which is totally safe -- all with the
goal of propelling, basically, a
paradigm shift in the nation's
energy policy -- one that would
feature dramatically less oil
consumption.
Continue reading Thomas
Friedman: Be brave U.S. -- tax
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Crime fears grow ahead of World Cup

By David Smith (World news South Africa's crime rate is being trained as we speak. This is Mthethwa told parliament in
and comment from the among the highest in the world in addition to 700 police officers Cape Town that small businesses
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) and remains one of the chief in the vicinity of the stadiums. We and informal traders had seen a
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:25:46 PM anxieties overshadowing the maintain and remain confident rise in violent robbery. Overall,
biggest sporting event to be held that the World Cup will be safe." business thefts have soared by
• Fans' safety doubted as theft on the African continent. Last week Nathi Mthethwa, the 41% over the past year. Bank
and sex offences rise Dianne Kohler Barnard, shadow police minister, signalled that the robberies dropped by 29%, and
• 41,000 security staff promised police minister and an opposition government was ready to enforce cashpoint attacks by 10%, but
for tournament Democratic Alliance MP, said: zero tolerance policing. The new residential burglaries climbed by
Crime is rising in South Africa "With the 2010 World Cup fast national police commissioner, 27%. "It is one of the crimes that
less than nine months before the approaching, the usual rhetoric Bheki Cele, has called for officers are most intrusive," Mthethwa
country hosts the football World and empty promises must once to have the right to "shoot to kill". said. "We simply cannot tolerate a
Cup, casting doubt on official and for all be brought to an end.
p r o m i s e s t h a t t h e t e n s o f We need more police, and better
The crime statistics for the 2008
-09 financial year, the last to be
situation where people do not feel
safe in their homes." General Mills
thousands of fans heading there training; we need to deal with the published before the World Cup, Mthethwa said the police had
next summer will be welcome and backlog of 20,000 forensic showed that 2.1m serious crimes begun an audit of how they 1Q earnings
safe. laboratory samples; we need the were recorded. Violent crime in deployed their resources. Critics
Despite a 3% drop in the murder reconstitution of specialised units, general was down 2.8%, but the say a lack of personnel and preview
rate, police statistics revealed an and an end to cadre deployment overall crime level rose by 0.2%. resources has compromised the By Michael Fowlkes
increase in sex offences, including within our police service." While the murder rate fell by police service and justice system, (BloggingStocks)
rape, as well as a dramatic rise in Britain's Foreign Office says 3%, this still represented 18,148 allowing many criminals to evade
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:20:00 PM
burglaries. there were cases in 2007 and 2008 killings a year, one of the worst prosecution, with courts often
In Rustenburg, tipped to be the of foreigners being followed from rates in the world. Street robbery dismissing cases because of poor Filed under: International
England squad's base, cases of sex Johannesburg airport then robbed, was also down, by 7%, and police investigations. markets, Earnings reports,
crimes, assault, robbery with often at gunpoint. common assault by 4%. Sexual • South Africa Forecasts, Products and services,
aggravating circumstances and tonight local officials brushed offences rose by 10%, which the • World Cup 2010 General Mills (GIS), Recession
kidnapping all increased on the off the figures and insisted government partly attributes to the David Smith Minneapolis based General Mills,
previous year. visitors would be secure. Rich inclusion of attacks on men for guardian.co.uk© Guardian Inc.(NYSE: GIS) will be
Reported sex crimes also Mkhondo, a spokesman for the the first time. News & Media Limited 2009 | reporting its fiscal first quarter
increased in the police precincts 2010 local organising committee, Many football fans are likely to Use of this content is subject toresults Wednesday morning
of Cape Town central, Durban said the belief was that the hire vehicles when they get to our Terms & Conditions| More before the market opens.
central, Johannesburg central, government and security forces South Africa. Carjackings, Feeds The last time that General Mills
N e l s p r u i t , P o l o k w a n e , a n d would reduce the level of crime. according to the data, show an 8% reported earnings was on July 1
Pretoria central, which are all "We concentrate on event security increase compared with the when the company outpaced
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China nudges forward on UN climate change

treaty
By Damian Carrington (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:46:35 AM
Hu Jintao promises target for thanked Hu for his "important
reducing rate of emissions, but commitment" but Hu failed to set
Happy 3rd
"Out of a sense of responsibility
to the world and its people," Hu
future generations to an
irreversible catastrophe," he said.
science leaves us with no room
for inaction now."
birthday
said, China has tackled climate
change and will continue to do so.
"The time we have to reverse this
tide is running out."
Yesterday, India's environment
minister, Jairam Ramesh, told the
Engadget HD!
UN secretary Ban Ki Moon Observers had hoped the United Guardian his government planned By Ben Drawbaugh
States and China — the world's to make "aggressive" cuts in (Engadget)
biggest polluters — would inject India's emissions, placing Submitted at 9/22/2009 6:02:00 PM

fails to deliver major measures a figure for the intensity cut, or a momentum, just over two months additional pressure on rich nations
that could reinvigorate stalling date by which China's total before 190 nations gather in to respond by agreeing deep cuts. Yes we can't believe it either, but
talks emissions would start falling. Hu Copenhagen aiming to complete a Today's UN summit and the as of today Engadget HD is
Chinese president Hu Jintao reiterated China's goal of 15% of climate treaty. G20 summit in Pittsburgh later officially done with the terrible
today broke new ground in his its energy to be renewable by Moon, who called the this week have been seen as a last twos. The EHD crew's made us
nation's action on climate change, 2020, to plant 40m hectares of unprecedented meeting, said talks chance for world leaders to proud ever since their first post 36
but failed to deliver measures that trees and to offer aid to the were moving too slowly. "Failure accelerate the complex months ago by bringing all of you
would significantly stir up the poorest developing nations facing to reach broad agreement in negotiations. These resume next the best HD news coverage they
stagnant negotiations towards an the impacts of climate change. Copenhagen would be morally week in Bangkok, where officials can, and in that time they've
international treaty to fight global A few moments before, US inexcusable, economically short- will aim to turn 200 pages of draft written over 11,672 posts and
warming. President Barack Obama had sighted and politically unwise," agreement, heavily caveated, into recorded 125 podcasts, which is
For the first time, Hu promised spoken strongly on the need to act Ban said. more meaningful document. pretty crazy. We're looking
to set a target for reducing the rate on global warming but offered no But Michael Levi, from the • Copenhagen climate change forward to many more years of
at which China's greenhouse gas n e w p r o p o s a l s t h a t c o u l d Council on Foreign Relations in summit 2009 HD goodness, but of course none
emissions are rising. The pledge jumpstart stalled talks on a UN the US, was disappointed with • United States of this would be possible without
to reduce China's so-called carbon climate pact. He faces severe Hu's speech. "Doesn't seem that • Carbon emissions all of you Engdaget HD readers,
intensity means total emissions opposition at home against he made the much-anticipated • China so go ahead and give yourselves a
will still grow, but the fossil fuel p r o p o s e d l a w s t o c u t U S significant announcement that • New York pat on the back -- and then get
burned for each rise in economic e m i s s i o n s . people were hoping for," he • Climate change back to reading.
growth will fall by a "notable In his speech, Obama said time tweeted. Damian Carrington Filed under: Announcements
margin" by 2020, compared with was running out to address the Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of guardian.co.uk© Guardian Happy 3rd birthday Engadget
2005 levels. It represents a p r o b l e m . " O u r g e n e r a t i o n ' s the UN Intergovernmental Panel News & Media Limited 2009 | HD! originally appeared on
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Meizu M8 Second Edition rights all of the M8's wrongs, or not

By Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:30:00 PM
You could fault the infamous
M8 for being eons late; you could
fault it for shipping without a
quadband EDGE / WiFi / 3G
version; you could fault it for
dancing in and out of the straight-
up iPhone ripoff arena from its
very inception; you could fault it
for being really hard to find and better signal strength, an easier-to Meizu M8 Second Edition
buy outside of China. Most of that -use SIM slot, new firmware, and rights all of the M8's wrongs, or
bellyaching can't be solved with a new packaging, just to name a not originally appeared on
few tweaks here and there, but few. Sounds like it'll be shipping Engadget on Tue, 22 Sep 2009
that's not stopping Meizu from for 1,999 yuan (about $293) in 17:30:00 EST. Please see our
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remake we've all been waiting for, model fresh for a while longer: Filed under: Cellphones,
rather just a handful of minor Handhelds
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EU fails to ban on bluefin tuna

fishing
By Ian Traynor (World news supported by 21 EU governments, Stocks of the fish in the
and comment from the would go ahead, the move was Mediterranean have hit almost
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) blocked at a Brussels meeting late extinction level, according to
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:13:59 AM yesterday by Malta, Cyprus, experts, with bluefin tuna thought
Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal. to be below 18% of the total in
Malta, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, "Deplorable," said Xavier Pastor, 1970.
France, and Portugal block ban at head of the Oceana fisheries "As a result of both legal and
Brussels meeting despite support conservation lobby group in illegal catches, over the past
from 21 EU governments Europe. "They are pushing tuna to
The "Club Med" of southern the point of no return."
decades the species has
experienced a sharp decline and Unorthodox stop-motion
European Union countries came "Enough is enough," said Aaron its conservation status is now very
under attack f r o m McLoughlin, head of the WWF
environmentalists today for European marine programme. "It
poor," the European commission
has said.
music video uses Canon
defying the campaign to ban trade i s o n c e a g a i n l a r g e - s c a l e
in bluefin tuna, Japan's highly Mediterranean fishing interests
prized sushi fish, whose stocks are trying to gang up against the long-
• Fishing
• Marine life
• Conservation
1D and 16,000 flashes
dwindling dangerously low. term survival of Atlantic bluefin • Oceans By Devin Coldewey Lash a few of these together (as
A fortnight ago the European tuna." • Endangered species (CrunchGear) well as a complicated sync setup,
commission agreed, after weeks French opposition was a • European Union Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:00:40 PM RedRock mount, and a grip of
of argument, to back a proposal particular surprise as President Ian Traynor batteries) and it’s possible to
Normally stop motion is a essentially strobe all the lighting
from Monaco to ban trade in Nicolas Sarkozy made a speech in guardian.co.uk© Guardian
laborious process of setting up the you need, which in this case
bluefin tuna. If the EU had voted Brittany in July calling for the News & Media Limited 2009 |
scene, adjusting the lighting and they’ve set at 10 frames per
for the ban at an international tuna ban, which is backed by Use of this content is subject to
focus, taking the shot, and then second. Fill in the gaps with black
forum next March, fishing for Britain, Germany and most EU our Terms & Conditions| More
starting all over again. But this frames or secondary video and
bluefin tuna would have been states who support Monaco, the Feeds method, where they’re essentially you’ve got yourself a pretty neat
effectively outlawed, at least first country to ban trading in subtracting frames from a motion stop-motion effect.
temporarily. bluefin tuna because it is video, while not properly stop-
Despite optimism that the ban, e n d a n g e r e d . In case you’re wondering, they
motion, certainly creates that couldn’t have done this with a 5D
December 17: Tron Legacy in IMAX 3D effect. Instead of lighting the guys or other DSLR video mode,
and asking them to move into because the rolling shutter would
By Nicholas Deleon Tron: Legacy. Considering my Disney release will be 3D from each next position before they have caused a really ugly effect
(CrunchGear) only knowledge of Tron comes here on out, so sooner or later the take a shot, they’ve got an array with the flash — it would only
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:30:34 PM from that one Simpsons episode, headline “ Movie to be released of fast-recycle flashes synced to a cover part of the screen; you can
I’m not going to pretend to be on IMAX 3D!” will be pointless. 1D mk III shooting at 10FPS, see this in the behind the scenes
When in doubt, make a sequel. excited. But maybe some of you Let’s see… I’ve never seen which produces the frames used video.
When in doubt in the year 2009, are! Tron, I’ve never seen a 3D movie, in the video. The band is an Iranian one
tack on 3D. That’s the mentality Even if the movie is garbage, I don’t really even like movies all Check it out: called Hypernova; the song is
o f H o l l y w o o d t h e s e and I have every expectation that that much… yeah, I was the It’s made possible by the “Sinners” and the director is
days—“remakes” are another in it will be, it will be on IMAX, so perfect guy to write this today, ProFoto flash, which has an Richard Patterson.
thing—and it looks like will be in that sorta makes up for it. rofl~! excellent 0.9-second refresh rate.
theaters on December 17, 2010 It turns out that every major Feds Loan Fisker $528M to Build a Plug-In
Shooting for 365 MPH on Two Wheels By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired The California startup says the
By Dave Eyvazzadeh (Wired Denis Manning is either crazy or wants to do. Top Stories) "affordable" plug-in hybrid sedan
Top Stories) committed. Maybe he's both. Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:43:00 PM could be on the road by 2012.
You'd have to be to do what he
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FactSet Research Systems, Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 08/31/09)
Earnings Call Transcript
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:01:12 PM
FactSet Research Systems, Inc. (
FDS)
F4Q09 Earnings Call
September 22, 2009 11:00 am
ET
Executives
Peter G. Walsh - Chief
Financial Officer
Philip A. Hadley - Chief
Executive Officer
Michael D. Frankenfield –
Director, Global Sales
Analysts
Gregg Moskowitz - Auriga
USA
David Lewis - J.P. Morgan
Jonathan Maietta - Needham &
Company
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
Chris Kennedy for Glenn
Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the FactSet
Research Systems fourth quarter
fiscal 2009 quarterly earnings
conference call. (Operator
Instructions) Now I will turn the
call over to Mr. Peter Walsh,
Chief Financial Officer.
Peter G. Walsh
Good morning and thanks to all
of you for participating today.
Welcome to FactSet’s fourth
quarter earnings conference call.
Joining me today are: Phil
Hadley, Chairman and CEO;
Mike DiChristina, President and
Chief Operating Officer; and
Mike Frankenfield, Director of
Global Sales.
This conference call is being
transcribed in Real Time by
FactSet’s Call Street service and
is being broadcast live via the
Internet at www.factset.com. A
replay of this call will also be
available on our Web site.
Our call will contain forward-
looking statements reflecting
management’s current
expectations based on currently
available information. Actual
results may differ materially.
More information about factors
that could affect FactSet’s
business and financial results can
be found in FactSet’s filings with
the SEC.
In an effort to provide additional
information, our comments may
include non-GAAP measures such
as free cash flow. Any non-GAAP
measures discussed today have
been reconciled to the related
GAAP measure in our earnings
press release and our SEC filings.
Lastly, FactSet undertakes no
obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements as a
result of new information, future
events or otherwise.
On our agenda today, we will
cover three topics. First, we will
review fourth quarter results.
Then I will cover guidance for the
upcoming first quarter of fiscal
2010. Finally, we will close with
our management team addressing
your questions.
Before covering results, I would
like to take a moment to highlight
three items. One, FactSet's
acquisition of a copy of the
Thomson Fundamentals database
was completed in Q4 last year. At
that time we estimated that our
investment would dilute earnings
by $0.16 a share in fiscal 2009.
We are proud that actual dilution
was $0.09 in fiscal 2009,
including $0.01 in the just
concluded fourth quarter.
More importantly, FactSet
Fundamentals is now break-even
on a run-rate basis. This will be
the last quarter in which actual
revenues and earnings of FactSet
Fundamentals are included in our
press release.
Looking ahead, and consistent
with our presentation of other
products, we will continue to
provide color and discuss FactSet
Fundamentals when it's a driver of
quarterly ASV change.
Two, like last year, we added a
supplementary schedule in today's
press release that summarized
revenues related to FactSet
services are not included in our
calculation of ASV. This revenue
is not material, but historically it's
been disclosed to aid in investors'
ability to make more precise
interpretations and forecasts of
FactSet's revenue.
Given the immaterial size of this
revenue stream, and to simplify
analysis, we plan to include the
trailing 12 months of non-
subscription revenue in future
calculations of ASV. The
effective date of this change will
be November 30, 2009, and the
trailing 12-month amount was
$4.0 million as of August 31,
2009.
Three, in conjunction with the
management changes announced
in August, Rachael Stern will be
responsible for investor relations
effective October 1. Please direct
any follow-up questions on this
quarter to me and as a part of the
process I will also introduce you
to Rachael. Rachael's contact
information can be found in the
Investor Relations section of our
Web site.
Moving on to fourth quarter
results. Our performance was
solid in Q4. ASV grew by $4.0
million, operating margins were
35%, EPS grew 10% year-over-
year, and our business, again,
generated more than $60.0 million
of free cash flow.
Each of our key metrics
improved from the third quarter.
ASV, clients, and users all grew
in Q4. Our investment
management business proved its
resiliency and was the primary
driver behind the positive
sequential changes. It's premature
to classify this as a recovery for
our industry, but we see it as a
step in the right direction.
To accelerate future growth we
have been both deliberate and
aggressive on investing for the
future. Over the past 12 months
our head count increased 25%,
even after normalizing for ending
in a BPO relationship in Q3. Our
philosophy of reinvesting in the
business is not new and will
continue. Our current headcount
plan for 2010 reflects a double-
digit employee growth rate.
We believe that one of FactSet's
strengths has been our ability to
invest during the recent market
downturn. Our aim is not just to
grow but to execute in the
marketplace to cause a return to
our historical double-digit
Economy/ 19
revenue growth rate. We believe
our investments will help
accelerate this outcome.
Let's begin the highlight of the
quarter with free cash flow. Free
cash flow captures all the balance
sheet and P&L movement. As a
reminder, we define free cash
flow as cash generated from
operations, which includes the
cash cost for taxes and changes in
working capital, less capital
spending.
During the last year, free cash
flow rose to $184.0 million, up
71% over the last 12 months. Free
cash flow over the last year
exceeded net income by 27%. We
believe this is illustrated by the
high quality of our earnings.
For the fourth quarter, free cash
flow doubled to $60.0 million
compared to the year-ago period.
Drivers of free cash flow during
Q4 were increased levels of net
income and non-cash expenses,
positive working capital changes
and lower capex.
The improvement in working
capital was driven by an 11%
decrease in accounts receivable
during the quarter. Over the last
12 months accounts receivables
have decreased 16% while ASV
increased 1%, a 17% spread.
DSO at quarter end is now a
record low 37 days, down from 44
days a year ago.
Our ending cash and marketable
security balance was $216.0
million at quarter end, up 13%
sequentially, and a 51% increase
over the last year.
During Q4 we invested $33.0
million to repurchase common
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continued from page 19
stock, paid a quarterly dividend of
$9.0 million, and incurred capital
expenditures of $5.0 million.
There is $102.0 million in
remaining share repurchase
authorization.
Now moving to the P&L.
Revenues were $155.5 million, up
1% versus a year ago. Operating
income advanced 8% to $54.0
million. Net income also rose 8%
to $36.0 million. EPS was $0.74 a
share, a year-over-year increase of
10%.
Let's look at the revenue drivers
during Q4. ASV increased $4.0
million organically. The increase
during the quarter was the result
of improved performance from
both the U.S. and non-U.S.
investment management
businesses. At August 31, 2009,
ASV was $619.0 million, up 1%
from a year ago. As a reminder,
we define annual subscription
value, or ASV, as forward-
looking revenues for the next 12
months from all subscription
services currently being supplied
to our clients.
Let's highlight some trends we
see in our client base. Compared
to Q3 there was an improvement
in all key metrics. ASV, users,
clients, all showed progress on a
sequential quarterly basis. Our
buy side business stabilized
during the quarter and was the
catalyst behind the ASV growth
in Q4. The sell side business
improved from Q3 but we have
not seen a step up in spending by
investment banks. At quarter end
the buy side accounted for 82% of
our total ASV.
As you know, FactSet enables
clients to change services on a
monthly basis. This quarter
represented a stabilization of
cancellation rates since the credit
crisis emerged last fall. Annual
client retention rate was greater
than 95% of ASV in 87% of
clients. Professionals using
FactSet increased to 37,300, up
200 users, the best quarterly
performance of our fiscal year.
Q4 was also the best quarter in
the fiscal year in terms of tracking
new clients and top-line
performance from our suite of
portfolio products. The client
count rose by 12 to 2,045 as of
August 31, 2009. The increase in
new clients is a function of
FactSet's ability to consolidate
applications and data into the
single platform.
Improved performance around
the PA suite is evidenced by the
reduction in the cancellation rate
of the quantitative and risk
products and growth in the
number of PA 2.0 subscribers. PA
2.0 users rose by 40 during the
quarter while the number of
clients remain the same.
We were also pleased with the
adoption rate of FactSet content
by both new and existing clients.
Client use of proprietary content
decreased the loss in earning
solution from our investment in
FactSet Fundamentals. The
investment in FactSet
Fundamentals diluted earnings by
only $0.01 a share, an
improvement for the second
consecutive quarter. The quarter's
operating loss decreased 58%,
$700,000, from $1.6 million last
quarter. FactSet Fundamentals is
now break-even on a run-rate
basis.
Demand for FactSet Estimates
also continues to ramp up nicely.
Estimates is a data set desired by
a high percentage of existing and
prospective users. The quality of
our offering has improved from
expanded coverage in textual
research. We believe this
expansion has made our product
more competitive in the
marketplace.
Usage of FactSet Global Real
Time News and Quotes continues
to be strong. This deployment is
wrapping up nicely with user
growth of 27% off a difficult
comparable last year. Real Time
users have increased during every
month of this just-completed
fiscal year. Since our Real Time
offering is relied upon on a daily
basis, this statistic is significant
and means to us the overall
engagement level of product
existing users is increasing.
As we see it, the fact that Real
Time users increased during a
shrinking environment also tells
us the marketplace recognizes the
compelling value proposition of
our Real Time offering.
Turning to geographic
performance, the U.S. business
produced revenues of $106.0
million, the same as the year-ago
quarter. Revenues from overseas
increased 3% to $50.0 million.
By region, quarterly revenues
from our European and Pacific
Rim operations were $39.0
million and $11.0 million
respectively. ASV by non-U.S.-
based clients grew to $200.0
million, representing 32% of the
company-wide photo.
Moving to expenses for the
quarter, operating expenses were
$101.0 million, down 2% from
the year-ago quarter. The source
of this decline was favorable
currency movement and a
successful cost-savings plan.
As we covered on last quarter's
call, our annual expense base has
been reduced by $16.0 million, or
$4.0 million per quarter, due to a
strong U.S. dollar compared to
last year. This didn't change from
Q3 because we hedged the
majority of currency exposure for
Q4 early in the calendar year.
Looking ahead, the Euro and
pound had gained on the U.S.
dollar over the past six months.
We are currently insulated
through mid-January 2010 from
hedging 90% of our Euro and
pound exposure last spring.
Assuming no further hedging
activity, when the hedge expires
in early 2010, quarterly operating
income would decrease by $1.2
million, based on today's rates.
Our operating margin was 35%.
The margin increase is temporary
and primarily the result of work
stations sold to summer interns in
the fourth quarter. Fiscal 2009
operating margin was 34% and
we believe the better metric to
gauge the profitability of the
business in future quarters.
Turning to the specifics of the
quarter. Cost of sales as a
percentage of revenues increased
by 90 basis points over last year.
Higher compensation and
computer maintenance was
partially offset by lower data
costs.
Higher compensation is a result
of expanding the number of
employees, particularly outside
the U.S.
Computer maintenance begins
one year after mainframe servers
are deployed and increased due to
capacity expansion during fiscal
2008.
The decline in data costs was
the result of adding a BPO
relationship during Q3 and lower
royalty payments because of
increased content use of FactSet
proprietary content.
SG&A expenses expressed as a
percentage of revenues declined
3.1% year-over-year. This
decrease is driven by lower
compensation in T&E, offset by
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higher occupancy costs.
Lower compensation is driven
by favorable currency rates and
T&E declined due to a prudent
approach to interoffice travel.
Occupancy costs increased
because of the expansion of our
office space, primarily in offshore
locations.
Our employee count was 3,000
as of August 31, 2009, an increase
of 400 employees during the
quarter. The rise in headcount was
driven by expansion of FactSet's
proprietary content operation. The
majority of the new employees
are members of FactSet
Fundamentals collection team.
Lower interest rates caused
interest income to decline by 89%
and earnings per share to decrease
by $0.01.
The average annualized return
on cash and cash equivalents was
just 20 basis points during the
quarter.
Our effective tax rate for the
quarter was 33.4%. This rate is
consistent with Q3 and down 80
basis points compared to the
fourth quarter of last year.
EPS was $0.74 in Q4, a growth
rate of 10% year-over-year.
Let's move to our outlook for
the first quarter of fiscal 2010.
The projected revenue range for
Q1 is $152.0 million to $157.0
million. EPS should range
between $0.73 and $0.75. A 2010
guidance for capital expenditures,
net of landlord contributions, is
$20.0 million to $26.0 million.
To sum it up, both the fourth
quarter and fiscal 2009
demonstrate the strength of
FactSet's business model. In our
view, our stability was evident by
sequential quarterly growth in
ASV, users, and clients during
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FACTSET
continued from page 20
Q4.
Against the most difficult
operating environment on record,
we delivered double-digit EPS
growth in every quarter during
this completed fiscal year. At the
same time, we continue to invest
for the future. Our headcount
grew 25% over the last year and
our plan is for double-digit
increase in fiscal 2010.
Last week we announced the
release of the company's newest
product platform. We believe this
release will expand our
competitive position through a
strong improvement in the user's
experience be it new
functionality, greater ease of use,
and an appealing new interface.
We have a lot of work ahead but
we are excited and focused on a
forward opportunity that we
believe is enormous relative to
our current size.
Thank you and we are now
ready for your questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your
first question comes from Gregg
Moskowitz - Auriga USA.
Gregg Moskowitz - Auriga
USA
I was wondering if you could
talk to user count. It's the first
time that we've seen user count
growth sequentially since the
November 2008 quarter. Do you
think we're at a potential point of
stabilization? Or how should we
be thinking about that?
Michael D. Frankenfield
I think it's early in the cycle to
really definitively say that
headcount has been stabilized. As
we look back over what happened
when we first went into this
downturn, the first thing that
happened was our cancellation
rate went up and then only later
did the rate of adds begin to
decline.
Now that we think things are
beginning to stabilize, the
evidence we have of that is that
our cancellation rates have
stabilized and it is our expectation
that the adds will then follow on a
forward-going basis.
But your typical money
manager, even though equity
returns are positive, I still think
we have a lot of time to go
throughout the end of this year
before we can definitively say that
the markets have stabilize and
we're ready to move forward.
Gregg Moskowitz - Auriga
USA
In terms of ASV, obviously up
1% sequentially and year-over-
year, and you had referenced, I
believe, both international and
domestic, investment
management business kind of
showing some improvement there.
From a sell-side perspective, how
did ASV do overall, kind of on
those similar metrics?
Michael D. Frankenfield
The IV business remains a
challenging market. The sell-side
firms are strong managers of their
costs. They have a very, very
organized procurement process.
It's global. They track their
spending very, very closely. And
they probably adjust their
workforce more quickly and are
more nimble in the way they
adjust the size of their business
than the buy side.
So we've seen a big headcount
reduction on the sell side. It's very
difficult to predict the trends
going forward, but like the buy
side, with the equity markets
being up, we have also seen a
recent increase in capital market
transactions, M&A, filings for
IPOs, but many of those deals,
while announced, haven't actually
closed so it still remains to be
seen what happens with that
business going forward.
Gregg Moskowitz - Auriga
USA
How are you planning to
manage operating margins over
the next 6 to 12 months or so?
Peter G. Walsh
Our [approach to] operating
margins consistently remain the
same. It's just [inaudible] FactSet
with flat operating margin. It's
best to utilize the fiscal 2009
operating margin as a guide for
the future and we will balance our
investments for the future based
on whatever our ASV growth rate
is going forward.
Operator
Your next question comes from
David Lewis - J.P. Morgan.
David Lewis - J.P. Morgan
Can you talk about what pricing
expectations are for this coming
fiscal year? Should we expect a
similar modest 3% increase to the
buy side, in line with the previous
two years?
Michael D. Frankenfield
We are currently evaluating our
strategy when it comes to price
for this upcoming fiscal year, or
this next calendar year, and we
have not made a decision yet. We
do know that we have pricing
power in the marketplace and the
question will be whether we
decide to go ahead with a
traditional price increase or if we
adopt a different strategy.
David Lewis - J.P. Morgan
With regard to Fundamentals,
you have made great strides in all
the proprietary content, but could
you provide more color on what
the win rate has been there,
currently versus your
competitors?
And related to that, how is it
priced differently and when you're
not winning what is the feedback
you're getting in response from
some customers?
Philip A. Hadley
I think you can tell from the
color that Peter gave you in the
dialogue that the Fundamental
product is doing very well in the
system, as to be expected.
Fundamental is definitely a core
content for us. For it be successful
it is certainly a gaining share on
the system. We have known for a
long time what features are in the
marketplace that we want to put
into that product and have
continued to invest heavily in that
product.
I would say that on a
competitive basis there is no such
thing as a 100% win rate, but
within the context of the FactSet
system and the value that we can
create, it's been very, very
successful.
David Lewis - J.P. Morgan
The ASV average, ASV was
roughly equal this quarter versus
last quarter. What should we read
into that other the fact that users
have now turned and have
increased, so lower rate users
have, I think, caused that metric to
stabilize. The average revenue per
user per quarter, it's stable this
quarter versus last quarter.
Anything more to that than just
the sequential improvement in
users?
Philip A. Hadley
I think that certainly the
stabilization of client growth and
the user count is a positive
indicator in the marketplace. I
think that Mike was giving in a
little bit earlier color that to try
and predict the future at this point
is a little vague based on we come
from a place we've never been
before. But we are certainly
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optimistic about how we can
execute against our plan. As Peter
highlighted, we've got,
Fundamentals is a great
opportunity for us along with
other FactSet content. An addition
for us, a new interface for a
FactSet work station is a very
exciting opportunity for us to
deliver to the marketplace.
Operator
Your next question comes from
Jonathan Maietta - Needham &
Company.
Jonathan Maietta - Needham &
Company
Mike Frankenfield, I was
wondering if you could comment
on just kind of what you're seeing
in the sales pipeline. It sounds like
you're probably seeing more in
the way of deals moving through
the pipeline, whereas maybe three
months ago or so things were kind
of frozen in the pipeline. Is that
kind of an accurate
characterization?
Michael D. Frankenfield
I think that's an accurate
characterization. Our traditional
product pipeline is very strong
and we have new opportunities
now with FactSet content, fixed
income, and the deployment of
the new FactSet, which is very
exciting for clients, and quite
frankly, very exciting for the sales
force. So there is a lot of good
sales activity going on.
Jonathan Maietta - Needham &
Company
Peter, I couldn't quite hear you
in your prepared remarks. Did you
say after the hedge expires in mid-
January you would expect op
income to increase by about $1.2
million each quarter?
Peter G. Walsh
The way to analyze FactSet's
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FX exposure is that we are
insulated through January 2010. If
you use today's rates, our
quarterly operating income would
decrease by $1.2 million. If you
were going to calibrate our overall
FX exposure as it relates to the
pound and the Euro, for every 1%
change the pound and the Euro
would have against the dollar, our
operating income would change
by $800,000 in annual terms and
$200,000 in quarterly terms.
Jonathan Maietta - Needham &
Company
Tax rate, is this Q4 rate a good
proxy for fiscal 2010?
Peter G. Walsh
Yes, it is.
Operator
Your next question comes from
John Neff - William Blair &
Company.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
Fundamentals' revenue was up
$200,000 sequentially, the
operating loss was down
$900,000 sequentially. I was
wondering if you could explain
that dynamic and also remind us
of when the TSA payments
expire.
Peter G. Walsh
As Phil mentioned,
Fundamentals is a product that's
selling well for us, both to
existing and new users. When
existing users convert to FactSet
Fundamentals it is a positive
impact on operating income and
can come from either higher
revenues or lower expenses.
Many clients who switch to
FactSet Fundamentals, it causes
us to reduce our payments to
vendors that we pay out for client
use of their content over our
platform. So for fiscal 2009 this
reduced our annual expense base
by $7.0 million. Obviously this
was a significant contributor to
making FactSet break even on a
run-rate basis.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
$7.0 million in lower third-party
royalty fees?
Peter G. Walsh
Right. In annual terms.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
The 412 employees that you
hired this quarter, can you give us
a sense for were they hired
relatively evenly, early or late in
the quarter, how many of those
are sort of content-oriented hires
versus sales and product
development, and sort of
digesting that, the ASV per
employee down this quarter to
about $209,000. Historically it's
been around $300,000—is that a
metric you even consider as
you're managing the business, and
if so, do you envision an eventual
return to that kind of level?
Peter G. Walsh
As it related to employee
headcount, the overall large
majority of our hiring related to
offshore employees to support our
content operations, particularly
FactSet Fundamentals. The hiring
happened evenly over the quarter.
We do focus historically on
revenue per employee. We just
have to adjust our historical trends
because of the build out of an
investment in proprietary content
collection, particularly offshore.
We just have to adjust that metric
to pick up our investment in high-
level growth offshore.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
An update on the fixed income
product. I know you turned some
customers in recent months. Just
curious how those were
progressing.
And how is that offering
benefiting, if at all, from the new
platform?
Michael D. Frankenfield
We're very pleased with our
progress in fixed income. The
problems we're trying to solve are
very complicated and they're well
suited to what we do well. The
problems are complicated because
there are a large number of fixed
income instruments and it's very
difficult to model their valuation.
For anyone to be successful
delivering valued clients, you are
going to need a strong
combination of computing power,
data expertise, and data
integration. And we feel those are
our core competencies.
We are very encouraged by the
early success we've had in some
of the larger institutions that are
our clients and it is our
expectation to continue to refine
our process, to build a scalable
offering that we'll be able to
deploy widely to all of our clients.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
Peter, if you could comment on,
if I heard you correctly, why the
change in the treatment of non-
subscription revenue now on a
trailing 12-month basis being
included in ASV. And I think you
mentioned it was $4.0 million
trailing in the fourth quarter, was
that part of the reported ASV this
quarter?
Peter G. Walsh
The $4.0 million was not
included in the ASV change for
the quarter. The reason for our
change there is just really due to
the size and to make things more
simplistic. The $4.0 million
number is less than 1% of total
ASV and by adding it into our
methodology for future ASV
calculations, starting on
November 30, we just feel like it's
a simpler, more straight-forward
presentation.
Operator
Your next question comes from
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
Could you go into why the
RDSO dipped so much in the
quarter? Is there someone who
had an unusual payment? Is this
going to snap back in the next
quarter more into the 40s?
Peter G. Walsh
AR is an area that we are
continually focused on. As it
relates to the quarter, it declined
by 11% in the fourth quarter.
That's a significant movement. It
wouldn't surprise me at all to see
our AR increase during Q1. Our
real focus is to make sure our rate
of AR growth is less than our rate
of ASV growth. We have been
consistently delivering on that
year-in and year-out. AR is an
area where it takes consistency to
have a superlative record over the
long term.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
So you have like a normalized
level that you expect? Do you
think you're breaking new ground
here in general, or is it sort of a
one-time thing?
Peter G. Walsh
What our expectations are is our
AR should never grow more than
our ASV growth rate. So I
wouldn't say that we've broken
new ground but it's something that
we continually work on and we
focus on because [inaudible].
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
Can you go over the FactSet
Fundamentals metrics again? The
revenues and the losses over
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there.
Peter G. Walsh
I think if you look at FactSet
Fundamentals, the revenue for the
quarter was $1.5 million, a loss of
$700,000, a dilution in EPS of
$0.01. Over the last 12 months, its
dilution to EPS was $0.09 versus
an estimate when we made the
acquisition of $0.15. FactSet
Fundamentals is now break-even
on a go-forward basis.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
What was the growth in your
fixed income product? You know
we talked about that a lot over the
last two quarters. Are you giving
specific growth rates for that?
Philip A. Hadley
That's something we
[inaudible].
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
Client retention just seemed to
dip a little bit sequentially, 88% to
87%. Is there anything to read
into that?
Peter G. Walsh
I think the only thing to read
into that is that this is a
calculation that we used the last
trailing four quarters to calculate,
so when you see the dip, Q3
versus Q4, that you're pointing
out, Q3 last year included the
fourth quarter of 2008, which was
one quarter prior to the credit
crisis. So when you replace that
quarter with a comparable adapted
to the credit crisis, that's why I
adjusted.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
Could you break out the
international operating margin
between Europe and Asia?
Peter G. Walsh
The operating margin is
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something that we really manage
FactSet on a worldwide basis. The
reason why we don't have any
further detail is because we would
have to go through a massive
comp out on Asia based on the
way FactSet is operated and run.
In order to get an accurate
operating margin. We just feel
like the informational benefit,
even internally, is very low versus
all the effort to allocate costs to
try to refine that calculation to
where it would have value.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
What about the numbers that are
going to show up in the 10-K?
Peter G. Walsh
We do break those down in the
10-K, as we do in the segments,
and if you look at that in the
bottom of the segment disclosure,
we always have a paragraph that
has some cost sharing which
basically explains to the reader
that we haven't gone to the
exercise of allocating costs but are
centralizing the U.S. that benefit
the entire world.
Shlomo Rosenbaum - Stifel
Nicolaus
And the gross margin down
sequentially, that was primarily
hiring, is that the way we should
understand that?
Peter G. Walsh
Again, we manage FactSet on
an overall basis, but if you're
looking at that, it's hiring and
higher computer maintenance
costs, because computer
maintenance costs kick in a year
after we purchase a mainframe
system, and we purchased several
of them in 2008.
Operator
Your next question comes from
Analyst for Chris Kennedy for
Glenn Greene – Oppenheimer &
Co.
Chris Kennedy for Glenn
Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Any update on the competitive
environment, what you're seeing
from Thomson as they kind of
integrate themselves?
Michael D. Frankenfield
The competitive landscape
hasn't changed materially. Our
industry is really dominated by a
few significant players and our
opportunity is very significant
relative to their size.
I think the challenge for all of
the suppliers in this industry is
that the client is more cost-
conscious and that's putting a
burden on everyone to deliver
more value.
We continue to be increasing
the value of FactSet through our
proprietary content and our new
FactSet initiatives and I think
that's improving our competitive
position relative to the other
players in the industry.
Chris Kennedy for Glenn
Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Can you give us some type of
preview on the upcoming
management transition?
Peter G. Walsh
First off, it's important to note
that I'm very fortunate to follow
Mike. His record at FactSet
speaks for itself. He built FactSet
from the ground up. And I will be
working with a well-organized
and experienced group of very
competent players, in both content
and engineering.
Looking ahead, I've worked
with Phil and Mike and we've
collaborated on a very aggressive
and achievable agenda. My teams
will continue to focus on
improving the utility of FactSet
for existing users, developing
applications to solve problems for
large institutions, and expanding
our investment in proprietary
content.
Given our [inaudible] to work
side by side with clients, there is
certainly a long list of
opportunities we will focus on
that impact our existing users.
And I feel like we're fortunate that
we don't have to reinvent
ourselves or assume the risk of
trying to create success in a new
marketplace.
Operator
Your next question comes from
Kevin Doherty - Banc of America
Securities.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
Looking back over the last year,
the revenue base is pretty stable
from quarter to quarter but yet
you ended the year down with
about 3,000 fewer users. So I
wanted to see if you could put that
in perspective, how you are able
to keep the revenue flat.
And if you are seeing some of
this continued stabilization in the
subscriber count, why shouldn't
we expect the revenues to move a
little higher?
Philip A. Hadley
For those of you who aren't
familiar with our revenue model,
we get revenue from multiple
dimensions. There is a base client
relationship where the core
product that two users get that's a
substantially higher number on a
per-seat basis. And then we also
sell content and applications
above that as revenue dimension.
And the third is seats.
The seat count for us is only one
dimension of our revenue. We
don't break out exactly how much
it is, but obviously you can tell
that there are other ways for us to
grow than just to grow seats. So
that would be the explanation of
how you're able to grow revenue
without growing seats.
As to the trends, I think it's
definitely one of those where if
you took the color of Peter, Mike,
and I, you kind of get the feel for
it. It's a greater forward view for
us than it has been historically. I
think probably that's true of
everyone on this call. But at the
same time, the fact that seats have
stabilized and the client count has
stabilized certainly puts us in a
better position than we were a few
quarters ago.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
And as we think about the
stabilization out there right now,
how much would you say is more
broad-based industry-wide versus
some of the share gains that
you've seen over the last few
quarters, specific to FactSet?
Philip A. Hadley
It's hard to break out. It
certainly is a contracting industry,
I think. Data on a whole industry
is hard to figure out but you
definitely get the feeling that at
least for several quarters there,
client spend was not going in a
positive direction for anyone. At
the same time, I think our future
opportunity is ripe because we're
still really a small player in this
industry, with potential upside,
and our goal is to just focus on the
things that we know we can
control and good things will
happen.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
And you talked a little bit about
the new software platform, is
there going to be an incremental
revenue opportunity from that?
Meaning is that going to be a
premium product or is that
something that would more or less
be included under existing
contracts?
Michael D. Frankenfield
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The new FactSet is an exciting
initiative for FactSet. Clients have
told us for a long time that we
have great functionality but that
they would deploy more FactSet
if it were easier to use. And that's
really the goal of the new FactSet.
And the early feedback from
clients indicates that we are
solving the ease of use question.
It will take a long time for us to
roll that out. We have 38,000
users and those users are used to
using our existing products. And
our job is to improve client
workflow so it will take a while
for these users to adopt the new
FactSet into their workflow.
If you really think about it as
sort of an evolutionary process,
the success of the initiative will be
back-end loaded, towards the end
of the year. But we're very, very
excited about it.
The new FactSet consolidates
three platforms that are in the
marketplace today, Directions,
Marquee, and IV Central. And it
combines the three applications
into a single application that can
be personalized to meet a specific
user's needs.
It gives us a great benefit to
leverage our internal development
efforts and really focus on
building one excellent product.
And from the clients' perspective
it's going to unlock a lot of hidden
value and it gives clients a
tremendous opportunity to
explore FactSet and help them
discover ways that FactSet can
address their problems in ways
they haven't done before.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
So is that a product where the
client will actually make the
initiative to upgrade to this? And
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again, will there be any
incremental cost to the client, over
time?
Michael D. Frankenfield
We have built a roll out plan
and based on multiple criteria, put
each client into an individual slot,
when we think will be the best
time to upgrade them and the
sales force will be working with
clients on an individual basis to
determine what's going to be the
best time to receive the upgrade,
as well as discuss any cost
implications.
Kevin Doherty - Banc of
America Securities
Peter, you obviously talked
about maintaining the strategy of
flattish margins. If we're assuming
no benefit from FX and if
environment of roughly flattish
revenue continues, do you think
you can keep those margins flat
without further cost savings and
do you think some of the cost
savings that you rolled out over
the past year are pretty much
behind you?
Peter G. Walsh
As we look ahead, I think the
beauty of our ASV model is the
visibility that it provides us. And
we will always adjust our
investment levels up or down to
correlate our investment levels to
keep our margins flat. And most
of those investments come in the
form of headcount. So while we
have based our headcount plans
on conservative ASV
environment, it's certainly more
constructive that it has been in the
past.
Our cost savings initiatives,
while successful, this will be the
year where we get a full year
value of the cost savings
initiatives. We don't have any
material new initiatives planned
for fiscal 2010.
And finally, our headcount plan
has an offshore tilt, which is more
cost efficient on a per person
basis.
Operator
Your next question comes from
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray.
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray
Peter, can you remind what the
seasonality around passwords is,
and specifically how many fourth
quarter passwords are there
associated with the summer
internist associate classes?
Peter G. Walsh
Historically, seasonality for Q4
has been our strongest quarter,
primarily due to college hiring by
investment banks. I would say
that that's probably not the case
this year, just because their hiring
plans were impacted by the credit
crisis.
As it relates to summer interns,
we do not include summer interns
in our user counts for any periods.
And so that's why we have
just—it does impact revenues.
The summer intern revenue is this
quarter about $900,000 and that's
something that won't repeat itself
in Q1.
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray
So based on that, do you think
then that the fourth quarter will
mark the bottom in terms of
password count?
Peter G. Walsh
I think what we really saw there
in the quarter was a stabilization
of the cancellation rate, which we
see as a prerequisite to—in client
demand, improving to buy new or
subscribe to new services.
There is a long way to go from
the buy side perspective. You
know, this thing of paper profits
and the calendar year needs to
turn before it translates into
flexibility at a budget level.
On the sell side, there are lots of
recent articles, but it is very recent
over the last couple of weeks
about increasing capital markets
activity, but as you know, banks
don't get paid until deals closes.
Or IPOs are launched. And there's
still a long way to go there, too.
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray
And to follow on to the prior
question, you have done a
masterful job in managing the
cost side of the equation in the
past year, and I'm just wondering
from your perspective, has there
been any deferral of cost that you
might have to play catch-up here
in the next year in terms of
marketing, T&E, etc.?
Peter G. Walsh
From our cost-savings plan
strategy was long in the offing, so
when we started on cost savings
we started last summer. The way
we started was we engaged a
management group that I call the
operating committee. We asked
that group to submit ideas on how
to make FactSet more efficient
and we got a more than 100 ideas
and we narrowed them down to
45 we wanted to execute. The
beauty is that it takes time to
make yourself more efficient and
because we gave ourselves time,
we were able to execute
successfully.
The second benefit is that these
are things that pay dividends not
just last year but in the years
going forward. So our approach
hasn't been rationed in any way
and we haven't been deferring on
key investments that are important
for FactSet to grow its top line.
Peter Appert – Piper Jaffray
And for fiscal 2010, the double-
digit increase in staff that you're
tentatively thinking about, is that
still primarily in data-oriented
positions or relatively low-cost
headcount?
Peter G. Walsh
Yes, it is.
Operator
Your final question is a follow-
up from John Neff - William Blair
& Company.
John Neff - William Blair &
Company
The double-digit employee
increase that you're anticipating
this year and the comments you
made about ASV providing the
kind of visibility you need to plan
for those investments, does that
mean we should expect, or that
you're expecting a double-digit
growth in ASV and that employee
count approximating what you
expect in ASV growth.
Peter G. Walsh
As you know, we give revenue
guidance that goes out a quarter.
Historically, when all our hiring
was done onshore, there was a
stronger correlation between ASV
growth and the growth of our
headcount. Just this year is a great
example where that historical
trend has been broken, where our
headcount was up 25% but our
ASV growth was up a percent. So
as we continue to invest offshore
that historical measure isn't as
useful as it once was.
Operator
There are no further questions in
the queue.
Philip A. Hadley
Thank you, everybody.
Operator
This concludes today’s
conference call.
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from this recession is likely to crash. The IMF also finds that If firms cut spending on research effects of macroeconomic policy, Battery Doubles As An
take several years, says the IMF recessions (such as this one) that and development during the concluding that bigger increases
WHEN the chairman of the are associated with banking crises downturn that is likely to result in in government spending help to iPhone Dock [IPhone]
Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, lead to output declines that are slower productivity growth limit the medium-term damage By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
told a Washington think-tank this about three times as large in the later—nor does it help that many from recessions. Thus decisions
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:40:00 PM
month that “the recession is very medium term as those that follow productive firms go bust because taken to prime the fiscal pump
likely over at this point”, he was currency crises (222 of which the of credit shortages. The IMF during this crisis, despite the Dexim's new P-Flip line allows
careful to add that the American f u n d ' s e c o n o m i s t s a l s o concludes that falling enormous increases in traveling iPhone or iPod Touch
economy would remain weak for s c r u t i n i s e d ) . productivity, the employment government debt in rich countries, users to juice up their devices and
some time yet. Analysis released None of that bodes well for the rate, and the amount of machinery may turn out to have been the prop them up at the same time.
on Tuesday September 22nd by recovery of the global economy and equipment available to right ones. The 2000mAh battery should be
IMF economists who have been today. Part of the problem is that workers each accounts for about a Still, deciding when to end good enough to for 1.5-2 charges
studying the aftermath of 88 it is a long and messy task to third of the medium-term output fiscal and monetary stimulus is and the whole thing folds up for
banking crises over the past four clean up a banking system. While losses. tricky. Doing so too early risks easy transport. The basic P-Flip
decades, supports Mr Bernanke's this is being done, many people All this is what happens in a making the green shoots of retails for $55 so don't be fooled
c a u t i o u s t a l k . W h i l e m o s t lose their jobs and drop out of the typical crisis. The conditions, and recovery wither; waiting too long by the ridiculous "Brookstone
discussion of the worst recession l a b o u r f o r c e a l t o g e t h e r . I n the effectiveness of policy, differ means even more debt to deal exclusive" that goes for $70—it
since the Depression looks at the America, for example, the Bureau in each particular instance. For with. Governments and central appears to be the same dock.
immediate pain from lost jobs and of Labour Statistics said that in this case, the findings of the banks have the difficult task of Alternatively, you could always
shuttered shops, the IMF analysis August 758,000 people were fund's economists are hardly ensuring that their actions do not bring along your own cord and
suggests that the effects of the “discouraged workers”—people cause for cheer. They estimate nip in the bud what in any case is make this DIY cardboard dock for
downturn will be felt long after it who have given up looking for that countries where an unusually likely to be feeble growth. nothing. [ Dexim via Slashgear
is technically over. work because they believe there high proportion of income was Back to top ^^ Readers' via CrunchGear]
It is not surprising that trouble are no jobs for them. That is invested before a crisis (for comments
in the banks results in big drops in nearly double the figure of a year example, by borrowing abroad to The Economist welcomes your
GDP: the IMF finds that output earlier. Even those who keep speculate in assets, such as views.
per head falls steadily for three looking may find that their skills housing) are worse off in the
years after a typical banking have grown rusty by the time a medium term. As most rich
FACTSET
continued from page 24 Motorola CLIQ promotional material surfaces, confirms October
Thank you!
19th pre-order start
By Darren Murph (Engadget) upcoming CLIQ, and interestingly Filed under: Cellphones
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:19:00 PM enough, the whole brochure is in Motorola CLIQ promotional
the shape of the phone it's material surfaces, confirms
Can you feel it? Can you feel advertising. You won't learn much October 19th pre-order start
M o t o r o l a r u s h i n g b a c k t o from flipping through the pages originally appeared on Engadget
relevance? If you're still in need (though the screengrabs are on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:19:00
of a bit more encouragement, appreciated), but you will notice EST. Please see our terms for use
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26 Economy/ Gadgets/ Picture/
Funding FDIC: Why Banks Should
Pay
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:57:21 AM
The banking system is still
suffocating under the weight of
bad loans, and it’s well known
that the FDIC doesn’t have
enough cash to deal with the
problem.
What to do? According to a plan
floated in the New York Times,
FDIC may borrow from the banks
themselves in order to replenish
its Deposit Insurance Fund.
The optics may be good, but
don’t be fooled. The plan would
be another balance sheet gimmick
to paper over losses.
The FDIC itself is throwing cold
water on the idea. Andrew Gray,
FDIC’s director of public affairs,
says that “although this plan is an
option, it’s not being given
serious consideration.”
That leaves Sheila Bair with two
unpopular options to replenish the
Deposit Insurance Fund, which
had just over $40 billion in
reserve at the end of the second
quarter.
One approach — the right one
— would be to charge special
assessments on banks themselves.
FDIC insurance is the best
marketing tool in American
finance, and for too long banks
paid next to nothing for it.
The other option is to borrow
from taxpayers. Earlier this year
the FDIC secured a $400 billion
emergency line of credit at
Urban Cowboy
By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:24:26 AM
Treasury to go with the $100
billion line it already had.
To her credit, Sheila Bair has
been very reluctant to tap
Treasury. She’d prefer that bank
shareholders and creditors absorb
the cost of failure. In the
meantime, she’s charging banks
special assessments to replenish
the insurance fund.
Before the end of September,
Bair has to decide whether she’ll
charge banks another special
assessment in the third quarter.
Banks would prefer that she not
do so, and have apparently floated
a plan to offer themselves as
lenders to the FDIC as an
alternative.
It’s an accounting gimmick, and
a pretty simple one at that. Banks
would replenish the Deposit
Insurance Fund, but from the asset
side of their balance sheet, buying
bonds issued by the FDIC, rather
than paying large “special”
assessments directly out of
earnings.
Theoretically, banks themselves
would pay back the FDIC’s
bonds, but in smaller amounts that
FDIC assesses over time. In the
meantime, because their capital
levels aren’t reduced, banks can
continue to lend. More lending
will spur “recovery,” and banks
will eventually earn their way out
of trouble. Or so their argument
goes.
The idea that more lending is
going to help us recover from a
credit binge is itself laughable.
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But the bigger issue is the size of
losses that are festering on bank
balance sheets. The losses are so
large that normal assessments are
unlikely to be able to cover them.
But banks don’t want to admit
to their losses. They’d prefer to
extend and pretend in order to
avoid the kind of wholesale
restructuring that is necessary to
repair the financial system’s
balance sheet.
And in any case this plan most
The Dervish Ceiling Fan
likely wouldn’t spur lending into
the real economy. It may actually
Lamp Could Probably
cause lending to contract.
Right now banks have hundreds
of billions of excess reserves
Wash Your Car [Lighting]
parked at the Fed earning an By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp
interest rate of just 0.25 percent. Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:40:00 PM could use this whimsical feature
Presumably FDIC-backed bonds to direct light, from a tube of light
would pay better. If you have ever been to an to a cone, to an open light source.
So besides avoiding the pain of automatic car wash, it should be The contraption, with its spinning,
special assessments, banks would pretty easy to figure out where w o u l d p r o d u c e a r a t h e r
have a new, more profitable place designer Philippe Malouin found considerable amount of wind.
to park reserves. his inspiration for the Dervish Ceiling fans have not changed in
Sheila Bair should ignore such ceiling fan concept. the slightest ever since their
delaying tactics floated by banks While borrowing a friend's car introduction. Apart from finishes
and order them to pay more for the day, I decided to have it and rotation speed, they have
special assessments into the washed to show my gratitude. I always remained rather dull.
Deposit Insurance Fund. pulled into an automated carwash, I have to agree with that last
To emerge from the financial and while inside, I couldn't help point—anyone who has shopped
crisis in better shape, we need to but notice how the carwash for a ceiling fan probably knows
shrink the financial sector. An brushes completely alter their that it takes a lot of searching to
important way to do that is to shape from flimsy drooping hair find something that's stylish and
reduce the return on equity covered rods to massive powerful unique. However, I have to
available to bank shareholders. beams. Could this quality of wonder whether or not Dervish
Charging banks appropriate fees transformation be applied to the would really be functional as a
for deposit insurance can help home sector? Where would a fan. [ Phillipe Malouin via
achieve that. transforming apparatus find use in dornob]
the home?
The carwash brushes go from
making photo management an and tags on your photos, post to
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AIG Needs Dissolving

(Financial Sector and Stocks The former MetLife chief and Government Reform, who
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) executive seems to act as if he has once sat on the board of subprime
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:32:47 PM taken over a financial company mortgage lender MortgageIT,
that's simply made one or two bad should not be taking Greenberg's
The federal government's $180 decisions -- not one that nearly calls either.
billion effort to prop up American brought the global economy to its It's odd that the Brooklyn
International Group ( AIG) has knees. Democrat is taking a tough stance
worked, averting an even bigger Benmosche's plan to take his with Bank of America ( BAC)
financial catastrophe. Now it's sweet time in selling off AIG's over its questionable acquisition
time for the Obama administration assets might make sense if the of Merrill Lynch, but is fielding
to oversee the dismantling of the insurer could someday stand on ideas from the man who oversaw
failed insurance giant with all due its own without the government's AIG's transformation into a
speed. help. financial behemoth.
A report this week from the But the GAO report raises The time for kowtowing to
Government Accountability serious doubt about whether AIG Greenberg must end. All this is
Office makes clear that AIG will ever be self-sufficient again,
would crumble and likely reignite n o t i n g t h a t " t h e c o m p a n y
financial fears around the world continues to rely heavily on the
doing is giving false hope to those
investors who've been snapping
up AIG's shares on the belief the
Sony may get exclusive
without the government's massive federal government as its source
support. of liquidity and capital."
insurer can turn itself around. AIG
can't and it won't.
Dreamcast titles
And the report says it's Worse, Benmosche is taking With the worst of the financial By Doug Aamoth MCV. As someone who owns an
"unclear" whether AIG will ever counsel from Hank Greenberg, crisis now past, it's time to break (CrunchGear) Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii, the
pay back the $121 billion in AIG's former longtime CEO, up AIG and move on. AIG Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:00 PM soul-punching feeling – a feeling
government assistance that's still whose only concern is protecting rightfully deserves to join Bear I’ve somehow crumpled into a hot
coursing through its balance his still significant equity stake in Stearns and Lehman Brothers on The year was 2003. Two friends ball of anguish and stuffed
sheet. the de facto taxpayer-owned the ash heap of history. and I had just finished moving waaaaay into the bottom of my
The GAO report should provide insurer. A dissolution of AIG would into a swanky three-bedroom stomach – is now beginning to
the administration will all the Now Greenberg is trying to get serve as an important reminder to affair a block away from Lake stir.
ammunition it needs to get tough Representative Edolphus Towns Wall Street and giant banks Calhoun in the trendy Uptown Rumor has it that “Sony is
with AIG. The report's to take up his cause of around the world, that there's a area of Minneapolis. Upon currently cherry picking its
conclusions should stiffen the r e s t r u c t u r i n g A I G ' s b a i l o u t price to be paid for becoming too waking up after a blowout house preferred titles from Dreamcast’s
spine of regulators in their package to make it easier for the big to fail -- and then failing. warming party with what seemed back-catalogue,” meaning that
dealings with Robert Benmosche, insurer to live on. like 500 of our closest friends, I some Dreamcast titles may indeed
AIG's new $9 million chief But Towns, the chairman of the found my SNES, Genesis, and make their way to other consoles,
executive. House Committee on Oversight Dreamcast covered in beer and provided Sony doesn’t want them.
orange juice. I haven’t felt So all the good games go to the
Mac 101: Using Home Sharing in iTunes 9 complete since that very moment. PlayStation Network and we get
If you could punch someone’s Crazy Taxi. And the Simpsons
By Megan Lavey (The after the software was released. QuickTime X, which proved to be soul, that’s how it feels. version of Crazy Taxi.
Unofficial Apple Weblog Sang Tang showed us how to use extremely easy and useful. Now it appears that Sony’s Dreamcast games coming to
(TUAW)) FireWire to speed up transfers TUAW Mac 101: Using Home “currently in discussions to bring PS3[MCV via G4]
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:00:00 PM over your network, but this is a Sharing in iTunes 9 originally a number of Dreamcast titles
basic overview of how Home appeared on The Unofficial Apple exclusively to PSN,” according to
Filed under: Video, iTunes, Mac Sharing works and how you can Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 22 Sep
101 use it to easily share media files to 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see
Home Sharing is one of the different computers in your our terms for use of feeds.
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28 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Stuffing Uncle Sam: Is More Trouble

Coming for Mortgage Market?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:46:49 PM

In financial market parlance

"getting stuffed" is being left with
a losing position in a trade
because the counterparty to the IR technology would prevent
transaction claims to not
recognize it (also known as DK,
or Don't Know). It's equivalent to
in-theater video recording
someone dropping their trash on
By Nicholas Deleon Informatics in Japan, along with
your doorstep and walking away,
(CrunchGear) Sharp, has developed some sort of
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:00:20 PM IR-based anti-piracy measure that
claiming it's not theirs. makes it impossible to record a
So with mortgages, who do you There’s an old Seinfeld episode movie theater screen. Quick
think is left holding the bag of the where Jerry agrees to become a pulses of light are blasted onto the
toxic mortgages? Why, you and bootlegger. His skills at recording screen from behind that, while not
me and our collective Uncle Sam, the screen with a tiny, hand-held noticeable to the human eye,
of course. Between the end of camera are top-notch, so he’s render a video camera’s recording
2005 and the first quarter of 2009 roped into helping out the little unwatchable. Filters on the
mortgages increased by $2.5 kid on the street who can’t get camera could try to filter out the
trillion to a total of $14.6 trillion. into R rated movies. You know light, but the picture would be
Owners of Mortgages in the the episode I’m talking about, the quite blurry.
USA breakdown in 1Q 2009; a massive rose from 3.9% to 6.3% but
41% of all mortgages outstanding mortgage delinquencies actually one where Elaine dances all No, I have no idea what the
Out of that $2.5 trillion increase, weird. (Here comes the horrible included pic is supposed to
$1.65 trillion or 65% was are now directly owned or fell, and kept falling even further
guaranteed by Uncle Sam, since after that. That was due to s e g u e - w a y ! ) I f t h i s n e w represent.
accounted by mortgage pools or technology is widely adopted, “First you cry, then you cry
trusts issued and backed by Fannie and Freddie have been Greenspan's slashing rates to
placed into federal create the real estate bubble, now episodes like that won’t ever again.”
Government Sponsored happen again.
Enterprises (GSEs) like Fannie conservatorship. bursting so spectacularly. Could it
In other words, Sam - i.e. all of be that we are in for a long period The National Institute of
Mae ( FNM), Freddie Mac ( FRE)
and Ginnie Mae (mostly by the us - is getting "stuffed". Why? of "pent-up" mortgage defaults,
first two), plus some direct Because mortgage delinquencies above and beyond what would be
ownership of loans by the same are soaring along with normally correlated with
agencies. Fannie Mae pools grew unemployment. unemployment?
by 40%, Freddie Mac by 38% and Delinquencies and Are we going to be "getting
Ginnie Mae by 67% (the latter Unemployment stuffed" for years to come?
accounts for a small portion of the In the last chart there is an
total mortgage pie, however). interesting divergence: between
The following chart gives the 2001 and 2003 unemployment
Which Flavor of Wi-Fi Do You Use? [Question Of The Day]
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) the spec has finally been around despite the fact that I have You Use?( surveys)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:00 PM approved, and we shall soon see been using it for years. But what
wireless N coming to the Xbox about you? What Wi-Fi standard
The 802.11n spec has been in the and maybe even the iPod Touch. wireless N is finally coming do you use at home?
news a lot lately. After six years, It seems funny to me that What Wireless Standard Do
Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech Reviews/ 29
Photos: Start-ups
Morgan Stanley Breaks Through Key Levels step up DemoFall
(Financial Sector and Stocks resistance zones as potential
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) objectives. There is a bullish (CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:24:56 PM technical pattern now in progress Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:23:02 PM

that is a bit easier to see on the

Earlier this month I wrote about
how the $32 area had acted as a
cap to the stock's price for several
months. When it was announced
John Mack would be replaced as
CEO on Sept. 11, I posited that a
breach of the $32 level might well
be a vote of confidence for new
management.
Whether that proves to be the
case in the long run is something
we cannot know. The shares did,
however, take out the $32 level
this morning. That now becomes a
key support level for the stock
going forward.
Breakouts that take many
months to develop can often have
very strong price reaction in the
same direction. Rather than
discounting future prospects as
being worth no more or less than
$32, investors see better prospects
for the company and are willing to
pay a premium now for what they
believe will be even higher
returns later.
What the $32 level may
represent is an zone where short-
sellers have been active. With
price now above this area, they
may scramble to cover, which
provides the equivalent of a boost
in demand for the shares. When
longs pile on, prices can go higher
with relative ease as long as the
$32 area remains below as
support.
Where the stock goes now is a
matter of looking at major
weekly chart shown on the second
chart at right, which I have plotted
on a three-year time frame. It
suggests there could be
substantially more upside to
come.
The bullish ascending triangle
pattern, which has $32 as its top,
shown by the horizontal yellow
line, has upside potential to the
$42 area over time. The key for
the shares is maintaining the $32
area and higher as support.
Drifting back below now would
be bearish, with a probable
resumption of the existing trading
range as the next step.
(Chart data provided by
Thomson Reuters)
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Video: Intel-powered set-top box running Flash, decoding HD

video
By Nilay Patel (Engadget) fantastic -- some of the best big- send video to a PS3. Video after
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:51:00 PM screen YouTube we've ever seen the break!
actually. That's all the software Continue reading Video: Intel-
Intel's making a big TV push was optimized for, however -- powered set-top box running
here at IDF, and a lot of it centers older content that required Flash, decoding HD video
around the CE 3100 Media software decoding looked much Filed under: Home
Processor, which combines an worse, and playback wasn't Entertainment
800MHz Pentium M core with a s t e l l a r . T h a t ' s d o w n t o Video: Intel-powered set-top
proprietary video processing core optimization, though, and we're box running Flash, decoding HD
all on one chip. That's about as willing to forgive it, especially video originally appeared on
much power as a 1.2GHz Atom, since the demo was put together Engadget on Tue, 22 Sep 2009
and it's enabled some pretty cool in two weeks or so. Of course, the 16:51:00 EST. Please see our
demos, like this box that's running big question when you're looking optimistic: it's technically possible see a set-top box with some actual terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
a custom Flash Lite UI on top of at an IA core running Flash is and even somewhat easy, but as processing power, and Intel's got Email this| Comments
L i n u x . T h e v i d e o s i l i c o n whether or not this rig can do usual it all comes down to Hulu some more interesting demos for
accelerates H.264 playback, so Hulu on a big screen, and the allowing it. (What else did you us coming up, including a three-
newer YouTube content looked a n s w e r w a s c a u t i o u s b u t expect?) Still, it's interesting to tuner Tru2Way HTPC that can
30 Gadgets/ TV/
SGI releases first new product since
bankruptcy, Octane III
By Dave Freeman
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:30:27 PM
SGI has been quiet as of late, in
fact we haven’t heard much since
they declared bankruptcy and
were bought by Rackable Systems
back in April. Apparently since
then they’ve been waiting for the
dust to settle and release a new
workstation, the Octane III
supercomputer.
It’s good to hear from SGI.
Their new system looks pretty
sweet too, with the potential of up
to 80 cores, and 1 TB of memory.
Of course, this is not meant for
the casual user, but rather
someone working on high end
graphics or animation, just like
the old SGI workstations. The bad
news is, you’re going to pay for
this power. The Octane III starts
at the in yo’ face price of $7999,
and goes up from there.
Admittedly, the system has the
computing power of something
typically found on a rackmount
system, but it’s still pretty
impressive.
from the press release:
Supercomputing Gets Personal
Octane III takes high
performance computing out of the
data center and puts it at the
Katie Couric's new web show debuts tonight
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:02:00 PM
Glenn Beck hates the
mainstream media, but not
enough to ignore it when he has a
new book coming out like he does
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results for over 50 HPC
applications and supports the
latest Intel® processors to
capitalize on greater levels of
performance, flexibility and
scalability. Pre-configured with
system software, cluster set up is
a breeze.
* Octane™ III Datasheet ( PDF
203K)
Plug It In and It Works
Octane III is office ready with a
pedestal, one foot by two foot
form factor, whisper quiet
operation, ease of use features,
low maintenance requirements
and support for standard office
power outlets. A single,
d e s k s i d e . I t c o m b i n e s t h e conveniently placed button turns
immense power and performance it on and off. Octane III enjoys the
capabilities of a high-performance s a m e c o s t s a v i n g p o w e r
cluster with the portability and efficiencies inherent in all SGI
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In contrast with standard 2P computing requirements and ships
versions of McSweeney's or The
workstations with only eight cores as a factory-tested, pre-integrated Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:00:00 PM
Believer or a short video from
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McSweeney's, the publishing Wolphin. This weekly content is
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performance cores and nearly for a smooth out-of-the-box Quarterly, The Believer, Wolphin of their publications.
1TB of memory. Octane III experience.
as well as the awesome website The price of $6 for six months
significantly accelerates time-to- and a slew of books, now has an seems pretty reasonable to me,
iPhone app. especially for casual fans of the
The McSweeney's app is McSweeney's output who don't
essentially a mini-subscription to have the time/energy for the
this week. He's the first guest Watch CBS Videos Online a variety of McSweeney's content. normal subscriptions. Think of it
tonight on Katie Couric's new Filed under: News, Video, Web, It gives you access to the free as a best-of subscription, I guess. [
web show, which will debut at 7 Celebrities, Reality-Free stuff that the website posts every McSweeney's App (iTunes Link)
PM. In this preview, Beck reveals Permalink| Email this| | day, but then every week you get via McSweeney's]
who he would have liked to have Comments a "Small Chair" update. These
seen in the White House (and who
would have been worse).
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Intel Atom dev program launched, seeks to inspire
netbook-centric applications
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:48:00 PM
So, here's the situation. The
current fleet of netbooks would be
rendered next to useless with
Vista loaded on, but having
Windows XP on there forces
manufacturers to regurgitate
specification lists. Rather than
using the introduction of
Windows 7 to fully pursue a
world where netbooks can
actually run around freely with
2GB (or even 3GB!) of RAM and
chipsets powerful enough to open
seven Excel sheets
simultaneously, Intel is today
sparking up its Atom Processor
Developer Program. The reason?
To "spur a new wave of
applications for... netbooks, with
support for handhelds and
smartphones available in the
future." Call us calloused, but that
sounds a lot like a company
pushing for "lite" software that
Puma Index Application Strips Girls as Stocks Go Down [IPhone]
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:20:00 PM
Your Apple stock has taken a
dive because His Steveness got a
What's Your Favorite Writing Utensil? [Ask The Readers]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:35:00 PM
Yesterday I rounded up 20+ of
our favorite office supplies and
accessories, but there's one
category I steered clear if almost
entirely: writing utensils. Being a
personal, passionate topic, we
Gadgets/ Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews/
merits, such as striving to "reduce
overhead and streamline the
creation of new applications" for
smaller devices -- something that
would benefit every user
regardless of processor. So far,
both Acer and Dell have voiced
their support for the program,
giving us at least a modicum of
reassurance that the Aspire One
and Mini lines aren't vanishing
anytime soon. Hit the read link for
the glorified details, if you're into
that type of thing.
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Granted, we know that's not than innovating its chips to work -centric applications originally
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even we wouldn't argue that some There's no doubt that this feeling Sep 2009 15:48:00 EST. Please
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again? Fret not, because the Puma [ iTunes Store]
Index iPhone application is here
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want to hear all about your do a fair bit of writing, you've
favorite scribbling tool. probably got a favorite pen, be it a
Photo by lilit. preferred disposable you buy by
For all the digital know-how the box, or a durable, refillable,
and tinkering tips we try to impart serious writing pen with all kinds
here, we know that, for many of style.
readers, nothing beats pen and Rocking a pencil instead of a
paper for writing down ideas, yourself notes that can't be easily pen? Work only in digital with a
drafting up to-do lists, and leaving deleted or swept off-screen. If you beloved tablet stylus? We'd like to
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Podcast: MySpace
working on movie
download service
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:15:00 PM
In today's podcast we talk about
a concept laptop that has four
screens, as well as new SSDs the
size of business cards that should
make for even smaller notebook
computers. We also get CNET
News reporter Greg Sandoval in
the studio to talk about MySpace's
upcoming movie download
service. Listen now: Download
today's podcast
Today's stories:
HP unveils Skyroom video
collaboration tool
Netflix awards $1 million for
outdoing Cinematch
Toshiba brings out business-
card-size solid-state drives
Sony catalog comes to Amie
Street--with fine print
Intel debuts concept notebook
with four displays
Official Gmail push comes to
iPhone, Windows Mobile
MySpace, Hulu working on new
video service
hear about any of them. Leave the
what and why of your favorite
writing device in the comments,
and you might just inspire a few
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4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business
By Soren Gordhamer
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:08:31 PM
Soren Gordhamer writes and
consults on ways we can more
creatively and effectively use the
technologies of our age, including
social media. He is the author of
“Wisdom 2.0 (HarperOne, 2009).
You can follow him on Twitter
at@SorenG.
Social media is helping to forge
a new era in business
transparency and engagement,
creating both new challenges and
opportunities. Gone are the days
when companies could rely on
carefully crafted press releases or
flashy ad campaigns to
communicate with their
customers, often in an attempt to
convince people that their
products are the best in the field.
In the age of social media, the
rules have changed radically, and
people today demand a more
honest and direct relationship with
the companies with which they do
business.
Companies now face a clear
choice: wall themselves in and
become increasingly controlled
and hidden, or use social media
and other means to reveal their
human side, welcome
transparency, and forge new
relationships with their customers.
The old game is undoubtedly
over, and the question now is,
“what can businesses do to
transition and succeed in this new
era?”
Below are the top four broad
shifts that social media is causing
in business. Please feel free to
share any others you have
observed in the comments. 1.
From “Trying to Sell” to “Making
Connections”
In order to change the context of
customer relationships from
trying to sell to seeking to engage
and connect with customers,
companies need to use various
means, including sites like
Facebook and Twitter, to socially
interact with people. The most
popular brands in social media
tend to post less about their
products or services and more
about things that help their
customers get to know the people
and personality of a company.
Their goal is less about “selling”
and more “engaging” — and, as a
result, through such engagement
people feel more comfortable
doing business with those
companies.
Jeff Swartz, who is the
President and CEO of the
Timberland Company, is a great
example of this. Swartz uses his
Twitter account to show his
personality by tweeting about his
life and the social issues he is
passionate about, rather than the
shoes his company makes. He
also links from his Twitter bio to
Timberland’s Earthkeeper project
that supports environmental
awareness, rather than to the
company homepage, in an effort
to make a connection with people
around something that goes
beyond just the products
Timberland sells.
Lesson: Release fewer “official
statements” and more personal
ones that help you make a
connection to your customers and
audience. 2. From “Large
Campaigns” to “Small Acts”
With sites like Facebook and
Twitter, we all essentially have
our own broadcasting network,
and businesses are beginning to
see that rather than spending
millions of dollars on traditional
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authentic, helpful relationships photo manipulation — but he
and communication the new doesn’t post solely about Adobe
campaign. 3. From “Controlling products. Many of the interesting
Our Image” to “Being Ourselves” art projects and articles he links to
Of course companies need to have nothing to do with Adobe
have employee policies, and there and some may even have been
is such a thing as bad press, but created using software from
look at the most popular competing companies.
companies in the era of social Lesson: Forget the unified
media, and you’ll generally find company image, give staff the
ad campaigns, small acts can be the ones that give their employees freedom to be themselves, and
more valuable because people will freedom to be themselves in trust that the relationships that
inevitably share such experiences online spaces. The goal should no they build will help the company
through the social web. longer be to create a very in the long run. 4. From “Hard to
In the past, if we had a very bad controlled and polished image that Reach” to “Available
or very good experience with a everyone in a company tries to Everywhere”
company, it could take days or reinforce, but rather to give To engage with customers, it is
weeks to tell all of our friends and employees the means necessary to no longer enough to have an email
relatives about it. Today, in a be human beings that can put a address and customer service
matter of minutes, we can let all friendly face on the corporation. number on one’s website. Today,
our friends on Facebook or I am not sure how NBC directs people want to interact with and
followers on Twitter know about the social media efforts of their engage businesses via their
what happened. When every employees, but in watching NBC chosen means of communication,
customer experience can be easily n e w s c a s t e r A n n C u r r y whether that is Twitter, Facebook,
and widely broadcast, small issues (@AnnCurry) on Twitter it is discussion forums, or a feedback
become super important. clear that she is not simply trying site like Get Satisfaction.
Loic Le Meur, CEO of startup to get people to watch her shows. If I want to communicate with a
software company Seesmic, once Curry is someone who speaks out company, I tend to look them up
told me that one of the most about women’s rights, deeply on Twitter first. Knowing that I
important jobs of a CEO today is cares about justice, and likes to can communicate with a company
to hear what people are saying quote the Persian poet, Rumi — on the networks upon which I am
about the company’s product there is a person there, not a already most active makes me feel
across social media channels, and company representative, and as more comfortable doing business
to respond to them directly. In such, I am much more likely to with them, because I know that if
fact, much of his Twitter stream is pay attention when and if she does I have an issue, there is someone
@replies to people commenting talk about any of her television at the company I can
on his company’s product. shows. communicate with through those
Bigger companies, such as John Nack, the Principal means.
Southwest Airlines and Comcast Product Manager for Photoshop at Companies like Dell, for
are using Twitter in the same way, Adobe, offers another great example, have fully embraced
making sure customers’ concerns example. Adobe is a company that multiple channels of support.
are addressed. Because bad smartly encourages and provides Their community site lists all the
experiences are broadcast just as the means for their employees to ways customers can connect with
fast and just as easily as the good, blog, and anyone who reads them through Twitter, Facebook,
it pays for companies to pay Nack’s blog will notice that Flickr, YouTube, forums, blogs,
attention to the one-on-one A d o b e d o e s n ’ t p u t m a n y email, and more. Dell wants
customer relationships forged via restrictions on what people write people to be able to connect with
social media. about. Nack’s blog is focused them through whatever channel is
Lesson: Instead of only relying almost exclusively on his area of
o n b i g c a m p a i g n s , m a k e interest — graphic design and WAYS page 41
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Mark Helprin: All The Reviews Of My Book
Sucked Because Publishers Assigned The People
I Insult To Review It
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:39:39 PM
Mark Helprin, the well-known
American author of many popular
novels which are reasonably
beloved, has painted himself into
something of a corner, and now
he seems to be lashing out at,
well, everyone. You may recall
that he wrote a silly, uninformed
and downright ignorant op-ed
piece calling for infinite
copyright, a couple years ago. Of
course, now he claims he wasn't
calling for any such thing, but the
original piece shows otherwise.
He was so upset that tons of
people showed up to prove him
wrong, that he ended up writing
an entire book on the subject. Yet,
his real complaint in the book
wasn't so much to push for
infinite copyright (which, again,
he insists everyone misread in his
original column), but to smack
around some silly commenters on
blogs that made fun of him. He
actually spends a lot of time
dissecting anonymous comments
right here on Techdirt in his book
-- carefully selecting some of the
more idiotic ones, while taking
others completely out of context.
He used that to support his thesis
that those calling for weaker
copyright laws were idiotic digital
barbarians. Yet, of course, anyone
could pick and choose some
idiotic comments from copyright
supporters and make the same
silly argument.
Besides, there were many other
problems with Helprin's book. It
came across much worse than
many of the commenters he
attacked. It was filled with ad
hominem attacks against these
"digital barbarians" and
repeatedly got basic facts wrong.
Amusingly, considering he spends
so much time mocking people for
not understanding what he really
was saying, the most incredible
thing is that he does the exact
same thing to almost everyone he
criticizes. But, in the end, the
biggest problem with Helprin's
book was that it just wasn't very
good. He gets so focused on his
own use of language, that he fails
to make a very strong point.
And... nearly every single review
of the book found exactly that.
But, Helprin is apparently not
one to back down. Rather than
respond to any of the complaints
against his book -- including the
massive factual errors -- Helprin
has written up a 2,400 word
screed slamming everyone for the
poor reviews of his book. You
see, it wasn't that the book was
bad, but that, once again, no one
actually understood what he was
writing. And why? Well,
according to Helprin, because
every publisher assigned the book
to the very "barbarians" he was
trying to insult with the book.
And, since we're all so clueless
and inbred, of course we couldn't
understand it: Nearly every
publication, left, right, and center,
assigned the book, with digital in
its title, to a resident digeratus, a
member of the very tribe I
provoke, and thus it was that I
came to sell rosaries in Mecca.
Again, he fails to respond to a
single point raised by any of the
reviews. Instead, he just whines
that people thought he was
clueless, but he insists he's not.
How could he be clueless? He
quoted famous people! It is why
in making my argument I cite, and
count as allies, Churchill, Thomas
Hardy, Flannery O'Connor,
Shakespeare, Yeats, Montaigne,
and even Charles de Gaulle,
among others. But, the most
ridiculous part of Helprin's whiny
defense of how every single
reviewer got his book wrong is his
reference to one particular
passage that many reviewers
pointed to: It would be one thing
if such a revolution produced
Mozarts, Einsteins, or Raphaels,
but it doesn't. It produces mouth-
breathing morons in backwards
baseball caps and pants that fall
down; Slurpee-sucking geeks who
seldom see daylight; pretentious
and earnest hipsters who want you
to wear bamboo socks so the
world doesn't end; women who
have lizard tattoos winding from
the navel to the nape of the neck;
beer-drinking dufuses who pay to
watch noisy cars driving around
in a circle for eight hours at a
stretch; and an entire race of
females, now entering middle age,
that speaks in North American
chipmunk and seldom makes a
statement without, like, a question
mark at the end? This bit of
luddism provoked a bunch of
responses, suggesting that Helprin
was reaching the "get off my
lawn, kids!" stage of life.
However, the real problem wasn't
just Helprin being an old fuddy-
duddy, but the fact that he's flat
out wrong. Mozart, Einstein and
Raphael did what they did without
copyright for the most part.
Mozart's best works were actually
highly derivative and he created
his music at a time when
copyright did not cover musical
works. Raphael lived in a time
before copyright. And Einstein's
works had nothing to do with
copyright at all.
Perhaps there's a simpler
explanation for why no one liked
your book, Mr. Helprin: it's just
no damn good.
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Elton John Flip Flops:
Kicking People Off The
Internet Is Good! No,
Bad! No, Good!
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:58:00 PM
Sometimes you have to wonder
if certain celebrities even know
what they're talking about half the
time. A few years back, Elton
John went on an anti-internet
tirade, where he suggested
shutting down the entire internet
for five years for the sake of
saving music. So, it was a bit of a
surprise a few weeks back to see
him among the list of big name
rockstars coming out against
kicking people off the internet for
file sharing. Apparently, though,
no one told Elton John that he was
on that list, because now he's
switched positions again and is
saying that he's all for Peter
Mandelson's proposal to kick
people off the internet. Yes, just a
couple weeks after his name was
on a document against the very
same proposal. Perhaps we
shouldn't take much of what his
opinion is this week seriously,
when even he doesn't seem to
know what it is.
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34 Tech/ TV/ Internet News Record
And now, Mary Ann
Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition to the desktop from Gilligan's Island
shows you how to peel a
By Josh Lowensohn for faces. It also had my processor is, unless you have a camera with
(Webware.com) humming, since it was doing all GPS (which most people don't). potato
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:00:00 PM the work on my machine instead One big thing Google is
of Google's giant server farm. bringing to the table with this By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Hot on the heels of rolling out That's not to say Google hasn't release over something like Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:09:00 PM

facial recognition on its Picasa included a few things to help your photos to add tags is better Apple's iPhoto (at least for Mac
Web Albums site, Google on speed up the process. For one, if Hey, it's National Potato Month!
organization, which for a massive users) is the capability to tag If you find yourself making potato
Tuesday is introducing an updated you've got photos that are both library of old, archived shots can items that are spread out across
version of its Picasa software that hosted online and on your hard -oriented meals and you just hate
be hugely helpful. And unlike your entire computer, as well as peeling the spuds, Dawn Wells
can recognize faces in photos drive--and that have already been Picasa's albums feature, name tags external drives. In that regard, it
stored on users' computers. scanned for faces, the Picasa from Gilligan's Island is here to
let you quickly sort all of your does a much better job than help. In this video, she shows you
Just as it does on the Web, software can grab that information photos by who's in them--not i P h o t o w h e n i t c o m e s t o
Picasa scans your photos for and add it to your local library. how to peel a potato quickly and
when they were taken or how automatically importing and without jamming a peeler into
faces, then groups together photos This saves it from having to scan you've personally organized them. organizing photos--all without
of specific people. It's then your the same photos twice. your thumb. Though I think
It also continues to do this with disturbing where they're stored. peeling one would be faster.
job to tell it who they are as well And for photos it thinks contain any photos you add to your library Considering it now does much of
as confirm its guesses. If someone people you've verified as contacts, what iPhoto is able to do with [via Boing Boing]
in the future. Filed under: Food/Home/DIY,
you're tagging is in your Google it gives you quick "yes" and "no" Along with facial recognition, faces, with the added bonus of
address book, you can also look buttons that can add or reject Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free
the new version of the software grabbing that contact information Permalink| Email this| |
them up very quickly with auto- name tags. Oftentimes, clicking integrates Google Maps--a much- from your Google address book, it
complete. Otherwise, Google " y e s " a d d s a f e w m o r e Comments
wanted feature among geotagging makes for a very seamless
gives you the option to add them suggestions for photos of that fans. Just as you're able to do in experience.
as someone new; this information person that the program feels is Picasa Web Albums, you can The new version of the software
then gets synced back up your safe enough to recommend. search for a location in Google should appear as an update for
Google address book. There's also a way to group accept Maps, then amend that geographic users of Picasa v3.1 the next time
Picasa's software can now scan or group decline its suggestions, data to your photo. You can also they start the program. It can also
f o r f a c e s , a n d o f f e r u p which saves time you would have view groups of photos by place by be forced to update by clicking
recommendations of people it otherwise spent clicking the clicking on little red map markers the "check for updates online"
thinks are your contacts.(Credit: buttons one at a time. that show where individual photos option in the help menu.
CNET) Users can now geotag their have been placed. Unlike the Previously: Revamped Google
The system worked very well photos right in the Picasa, just like facial recognition feature though, Picasa site identifies photo faces
for me, but it was slow going. I t h e y c a n i n P i c a s a W e b this is still largely a manual Originally posted at Web
had to leave the program running A l b u m s . ( C r e d i t : C N E T ) process of doing a search for each Crawler
overnight for it to finish As with Picasa Web Albums, location then adding it to a photo,
processing my 3,700 or so photos your reward for trudging through or group of photos, at once. That

Betty White stops by 30 Rock for a visit

By Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:28:00 PM
I'm sure she'd say she's too old
for regular television work, or that
she's having too much fun guest-
starring on every television show
and half of the movies, but I just
can't get enough of Betty White
on TV. With it coming out now
that Betty White has signed for a
guest spot on NBC's 30 Rock, she
might as well start making room
on the mantle for her latest
Emmy.
After all, 30 Rock gets all the
nominees for guest star in a
comedy (though White did get
nominated for My Name Is Earl
this past year). Reportedly White
would play herself, which works
well considering the premise of
the show. 30 Rock does amazing
comedy with their guest stars, and
when you get someone as brilliant
and talented as White, can it be
anything but perfect?
Luckily, White wouldn't have to
compete for that Emmy with
another hot prospect for the folks
at 30 Rock. After his Emmy-
winning turn hosting Saturday
Night Live, why wouldn't they
want to nab Justin Timberlake as
well?
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Live, Celebrities, 30 Rock,
Casting, Reality-Free
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Parties seek Google Books hearing
delay; new deal brewing
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:42:00 PM
Updated 2:18 p.m. PDT with
comment from Google.
The parties involved in the
Google Book Search settlement
have asked a federal court to
postpone an October hearing to
approve the proposed settlement
while they work out a new deal
When the Department of Justice
made it clear last Friday that it
could not support the settlement
as written--which would give
Google unique rights to scan out-
of-print books still protected by
copyright law--it said the parties
were in talks to amend the
settlement. In a joint brief ( click
for PDF), lawyers the Authors
Guild, the Association of
American Publishers, and others
asked Judge Denny Chin to delay
a hearing on whether to approve
the settlement while the parties
work out the new terms of the
settlement with the DOJ.
"Because the parties, after
consultation with the DOJ, have
determined that the Settlement
Agreement that was approved
preliminarily in November 2008
will be amended, plaintiffs
respectfully submit that the
Fairness Hearing should not be
held, as scheduled, on October 7,"
the plaintiffs in the case said in a
briefing. They said Google had
given them permission to indicate
that the company was not opposed
to the motion.
The Open Book Alliance, a
scan those books, raising
anticompetitive fears and
provoking strong opposition from
authors, academics, privacy
advocates, and some libraries.
Judge Chin had been scheduled
to decide whether or not the
settlement should go forward in a
hearing at the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of New
g r o u p o f c o m p a n i e s a n d York. The parties asked for a
organizations opposed to the November 9 status conference to
settlement, declared victory. discuss the modifications they
"This is a huge victory for the plan to make to the settlement.
It's not clear whether Judge
many people and organizations
who raised significant concerns Chin will automatically approve
that this settlement did not serve the request. He could still hold the
t h e p u b l i c i n t e r e s t , s t i f l e d hearing as scheduled and make
i n n o v a t i o n , a n d r e s t r i c t e d his own decision about whether or
competition. It's also an enormous not to approve the settlement,
loss for Google, which had been although that seems highly
saying for months that no changes u n l i k e l y g i v e n t h e r e c e n t
were necessary to the settlement. developments, especially the
Now, that settlement, as we know involvement of the DOJ.
It's likewise not clear what types
it, is dead," the alliance said in a
blog post Friday. of modifications to the deal are
In a statement, Google has this being discussed. The DOJ's main
to say: "The plaintiffs moved for objection to the deal was that "the
an adjournment of the final Proposed Settlement seeks to
Fairness Hearing, currently implement a forward-looking
scheduled for October 7. We are business arrangement rather than
considering the points raised by a settlement of past conduct,"
the Department of Justice and which is not what class-action
others, and we look forward to suits are designed to do, it said in
addressing them as the court a filing with the court last Friday.
proceedings continue." It is also concerned about
The parties had originally potential violations of antitrust
settled in October 2008, ending a law, concerns that Google has
dispute over Google's legal right grown accustomed to hearing with
to scan copyright protected out-of mounting government scrutiny
-print books. But the settlement this year.
gave Google the sole legal right to Originally posted at Relevant
Results
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Lily Allen, Don't Apologize
To Me, Apologize To
Everyone Else
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) no apology is necessary to me.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:36:00 AM My post wasn't about you trying
to pass off my words as your own,
It seems that a few folks but recognizing that even you,
misunderstood the point of my Lily Allen copy other people's
post yesterday in joking about work all the time, even without
Lily Allen's double standard in realizing it.
ranting against unfair copying And, yet, in the very same
while copying blog posts from breath, you want to kick people
other sites. And Lily herself off the internet for doing the same
appears to be among those people. thing?
She's posted an apology, though, a If anyone deserves an apology,
bit petulantly, starting in all it's all the people you've been
capital letters: I THINK ITS blasting with this complaint that
Q U I T E O V I O U S T H A T I it's "piracy" that's somehow
WASNT TRYING TO PASS OF harming artists, when the actual
THOSE WORDS AS MY OWN , evidence shows no such thing.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE Plenty of artists have learned to
WEBSIITE I ACQUIRED THE embrace file sharing and used it to
PIECE FROM . Apologies to their advantage, suggesting it's not
M i c h a e l M a s n i c k W h i l e I piracy that's the problem -- it's
appreciate the "apology," that's artists unwillingness to adapt and
really missing the point. First, the put in place smarter business
reason TorrentFreak and I both models. Running to the gov't and
brought it up wasn't because I was asking them to kick your fans off
upset about her using the post. As the internet isn't a new business
I clearly said in my response, I model. So, don't apologize to me.
thought it was great that she We're happy for you to use
wanted to use our post, and I Techdirt posts however you want.
encouraged her to do so. The We just thought it was worth
point, though, was that it was a bit calling your attention to the fact
hypocritical of her to be going on that even you seem to have no
and on about how evil it is to copy problem copying stuff when
another's work without their convenient, so maybe you should
permission, when she went and t h i n k t w i c e a b o u t b l a s t i n g
did the same thing. Furthermore, everyone else for doing the same
the point is that when it's natural thing.
and easy for people to copy like Permalink| Comments| Email
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and use it to your advantage. So,
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What You Missed Last
Digsby unveils new Twitter features Night: Chelsea Handler
ticked off at Neil Patrick
By Seth Rosenblatt using doesn't strike me as
(Webware.com) particularly logical. There's no Harris
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:38:00 PM option for altering the defaults in
the timeline or the quick-look By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Multiprotocol-messaging client pane. Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:01:00 PM

Digsby has announced new Twitter account options in

features at DemoFall focusing on Digsby.(Credit: Screenshot by During his Emmy hosting duties
a completely revamped Twitter Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) the other night, Neil Patrick
interface. In Digsby build 67, users get Harris sang an opening number
At the time of writing, users two methods for updating their that included the names of many
must download Digsby build 65, tweets. They can use the text field TV networks. Not just the major
which will then auto-update to at the bottom of the Twitter ones but also several cable outlets.
build 67, which includes the new timeline pane, or use the global There's one particular network he
features. status updater available from the forgot to mention though, and last
The new Twitter timeline drop-down menu at the top of the night Chelsea Handler talked
window in Digsby features new Buddy List. It comes with a about it.
posts at the bottom, plus a character counter, useful, even Filed under: Late Night, Video,
Favorites option.(Credit: though the global updater can be Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-
Screenshot by Seth toggled to work for other social- Free
Rosenblatt/CNET) networking statuses. The Twitter Permalink| Email this| |
Once logged in, users, set to timeline text field and the global- Comments
follow Digsby on Twitter by status updaters will both
default, are given two ways to automatically shorten URLs and
manage their tweets. The tweet automatically upload photos. Auto
timeline is a single-window -shortening can be toggled in the
column that starts with the oldest drop-down menu by clicking on
ones at the top. It is accessible character count.
only by double-clicking on the Some users have been
Twitter bar in the Digsby Buddy complaining about stability
List pane. tweet. Mouse over a tweet, and as well as group creation and problems that are probably related
Running the oldest tweets on Twitter functions such as Reply, editing. to the untested nature of programs
top runs counter to the Twitter ReTweet, and Direct Message Digsby's mouse-over Twitter that debut at DemoFall. If you
Web site, as well as just about will appear. stream.(Credit: Screenshot by don't mind the unusual flow of the
every other Twitter client around, There's also a new option that Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) timeline window, or if you're a
and already, there's a heated should be familiar to Internet Mouse over the "quick look" Digsby user to begin with, this
debate over the tweet order in the Explorer users: Favorite. Mark a Twitter pop-up window that's part Twitter implementation isn't
Digsby blog post announcing the tweet as Favorite, and when you of the Digsby Buddy List, and the perfect, but it's a strong step
new feature. switch the view to Favorites-- t w e e t t i m e l i n e r u n s i n t h e forward for a program that
Most recently received tweets accessible behind the drop-down traditional direction. Although a l r e a d y s u p p o r t s M y S p a c e ,
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Push for Gmail: it's here, it works,
and it's limited
By Michael Jones (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:00:00 PM
Filed under: Internet Tools,
iPhone If you use Gmail, you
have something to be excited
about today, because you can
finally have new email messages
pushed directly to your iPhone
when they arrive.
For many users, however, their
first response is "it's about time!"
and others have even gone as far
as saying "it's finally here, no
thanks to Apple." This new
feature, unveiled this morning by
Google, has even been called a
"workaround" to Apple's alleged
refusal to support push email, but
in reality this isn't the case.
Push: What is it, and how does
it work?
To understand why push
services have not been available
before, let's first discuss what
exactly push is. When a client (be
it a mail program, Twitter client,
or web browser) needs to notify a
user when new content or
information is available, it has to
periodically connect to the server
and check for changes.
This is the way email clients
have worked for years: the client
checks with the server at a defined
interval (usually every 5-15
minutes), downloads any new
messages, and notifies the user
that new mail has arrived. Many
other services, such as RSS feeds,
Twitter, Facebook, and even the
Gmail website work the same
way; they just check the server
more often, which gives the
appearance of real-time
notifications.
Other services, such as instant
messaging clients, maintain a
constant, active connection to the
server at all times. When new
information is available for the
client, the server sends, or "
pushes" the information directly
to the client as soon as it is
available. In corporate
environments, mail services such
as Microsoft Exchange have
paved the way for push email, by
having the mail client (usually
Outlook, Entourage, or other
clients that support Exchange)
maintain an active connection to
the mail server, which allows the
server to notify the client
immediately when new mail
arrives.
Read on to find out how Gmail
push works, and what you need to
know to get it set up on your
phone.
Continue reading Push for
Gmail: it's here, it works, and it's
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Deadbeats, Freaks, and
Creeps: Your Dating
Days Are Numbered
By Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:59:35 PM
Imagine this. It’s Friday night
and you’ve had a few cocktails,
you’re feeling flirty, fly, and
making a real impression on the
ladies (or gents). You give out
your number, but soon notice the
mood changing for the worse, and
your would-be conquest is now
completely disinterested. So, what
went wrong?
Now that there’s DateCheck (by
Intelius), an iPhone app launched
at DEMO for instant social web
and background checks, situations
like the one we painted above
could become quite common
place. The free mobile app that
advises you to “look up before
you hook up” conducts a
comprehensive background check
using just a name, a phone
number, or an email address.
DateCheck is practically
omniscient, working not only to
weed out the real creeps, but to
alert you to deadbeats, and even
help you find compatible matches.
The search application filters
social web and public record
results for the following factors:
Sleaze Detector, Compatibility,
Net Worth, Living Situation, and
Interests.
The Sleaze Detector will show
you whether the person in
question has any criminal records,
DUIs, sexual offenses or the like.
The Compatibility screen grabs
the subject’s birth date and
astrological sign to draw
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conclusions around compatibility.
Net Worth highlights a subject’s
assets, including property
ownership, and can even go into
as much detail as bed/bath
numbers, and square footage
details for a purchased house.
Unfortunately for those who
live at home, the Living Situation
view will pull data from social
sites like MySpace, Facebook,
and Flickr to determine if you live
alone, have roommates, or bunk at
your parents’ pad. Basically, if
there’s a public record of any bad
behavior, whether social or
criminal, your potential dates will
know within seconds of looking
you up.
DateCheck users can also rate
their prospects, save notes, and
add photos, which makes it both a
single person’s best friend and
worst nightmare. Good luck
deadbeats, cheapskates, and
creeps, DateCheck is coming soon
to an iPhone near you.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
RyanJLane.
Tags: background checks, date
check, dating, demo09, Mobile
2.0
38 Tech/
Google’s Plan to Kill Internet
Explorer? Google Wave
By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:20:24 PM
Earlier today, we informed you
about Google Chrome Frame, a
Google plug-in for Internet
Explorer that “seamlessly brings
Google Chrome’s open web
technologies and speedy
JavaScript engine to Internet
Explorer.” It seemed logical, but
we wondered what would
motivate IE users to install it.
Google has a plan for that as
well, it seems. Their ace in the
hole? None other than Google
Wave, the highly anticipated real-
time communication platform that
will launch to the public next
week.
Today, on the Google Wave
Developer Blog, the company
essentially said this: if you want
to use Google Wave, Install the
Chrome Frame or drop
Microsoft’s browser.
The reason is actually one the
company alluded to when they
first announced their new
communication tool: IE6 doesn’t
have JavaScript and HTML5
support to handle Google Wave.
Apparently the team tried but is
going to give up on providing
support for the rival browser. In
their words:
“Google Wave depends on
strong JS and DOM rendering
performance to provide a desktop-
like experience in the browser.
HTML5’s offline storage and web
workers will enable us to add
great features without having to
INVISIBLE: New
Technology Turns TV
Screens into Speakers
By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:56:25 PM
We’re quickly becoming a
society of audiophiles. Just think
about the social media tools
revolutionizing audio like Last.fm
and Pandora, or the giant surround
-sound systems we love to install
in our homes.
But while audio is becoming
more dynamic, the actual speaker
hardware hasn’t changed much in
years. This is a problem as
computers get smaller, TVs get
thinner, and phones get more
multimedia focused.
One company making some big
buzz at the DEMO 2009
compromise on performance. could continue in this fashion, but conference is Emo Labs, which
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer, using Google Chrome Frame revealed their “invisible speakers”
still used by the majority of the instead lets us invest all that to the applause of the audience.
Web’s users, has not kept up with engineering time in more features The concept: instead of sound
such fairly recent developments in for all our users, without leaving emerging from giant speakers,
Web technology. Compared with Internet Explorer users behind.” they come from thin, clear
other browsers, the JavaScript It looks like Google Wave is the membranes that could completely
performance is many times slower reason that Google decided to redefine how you watch TV or
and HTML5 support is still far launch the Chrome Frame. It use a computer.
behind. Likewise, the many makes sense for furthering The technology they’ve
different versions of IE still in use adoption of Chrome while also developed is nothing short of
— each with its own set of CSS keeping the Wave as feature-rich i m p r e s s i v e . D u b b e d “ E d g e
quirks and layout limitations — as possible. In short: Wave is Motion,” (the long form of Emo),
further complicates building rich Google’s newest weapon in the the technology makes sound with
Web applications. browser wars. Reviews: Chrome, sideways forces on an invisible
In the past, the Google Wave Google, Google Wave, Internet membrane. This vibration creates
team has spent countless hours Explorer a full range sound that, from our
solely on improving the Tags: Google, Google Wave, v a n t a g e p o i n t , i s n ’ t
experience of running Google internet explorer distinguishable from even the
Wave in Internet Explorer. We
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regular speaker.
We actually asked Jason
Carlson, the CEO of Emo Labs, to
give us a video demo. Be sure to
have your audio on for the full
effect:
Our inner geek couldn’t help but
be excited. Imagine a notebook or
a tablet with this technology. No
need to have a speaker, yet you
could integrate full-featured
sound. The rumored Apple Tablet
could play rich audio right in your
hands without any plugs or
headphones. TV sound quality
could be vastly improved, as
many flatscreen TVs today have
tiny speakers with limited
strength.
We are impressed with Emo
Labs and their invisible speakers
and hope we see these things on
the market.
Tags: demo, Emo Labs, sound,
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Microsoft's new retail hiring policy:
shop at Apple
By Michael Rose (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: Apple Corporate,
Retail
If you're an Apple retail
employee, you might want to keep
an eye out for coy glances across
the Genius Bar or little notes
emailed to your iPhone --
someone may be trying to offer
you a job. Word comes via The
Loop, citing anonymous sources,
that Microsoft's ramp-up process
to launching its new line of retail
stores has resulted in the harvest
& hiring of some Apple Store
managers, who in turn are making
offers to their hand-picked lists of
colleagues with the promise of
higher wages in Microsoft's mall
outposts. Some managers have
been offered relocation assistance
to go along with their salary
boosts.
You can't blame Microsoft for
going after the best in the effort to
build out a retail presence (and
apparently this kind of
Mackenzie Phillips: My Father Shot Me Up For the
First Time
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:44:00 PM
In a new tell-all interview, "One
Day at a Time" child star
Mackenzie Phillips discloses to
Oprah Winfrey shocking details
of her unhealthy relationship with
her father, her drug use and an
bodysnatching goes on all the
time in the retail sector), but one
does wonder how well the Apple
team members will make the
transition over to working for
Microsoft -- it's a bit more of an
adjustment than going from
Victoria's Secret to Lady Foot
Locker.
It might not just be the lure of
more money that draws the iCrew
over to the new shops; some may
be profoundly dissatisfied with
their current working
environment, according to an
ifoAppleStore report noted by
AppleInsider. Frustrations
alleged sexual encounter with The
Rolling Stones' frontman Mick
Jagger.
"My father shot me up for the
first time," Phillips reveals on a
promo for "The Oprah Winfrey
Show." She recalls her father only
being slightly nervous when he
injected her with cocaine, saying
between employees and
management at the Alderwood
Mall store in Washington have led
to the threat of a walkout
scheduled for October 3rd, which
would be the first such
demonstration of labor power by
Apple retail employees, according
to the post.
If you're an Apple Store
employee and you've been
approached by Microsoft directly
or by colleagues who are jumping
ship, drop us a line at
tuaw.com/tips and let us know
what's going down.
Illustration via the Iconfactory,
in belated honor of International
Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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it seemed to be the "next logical
progression."
"I remember going into my
room, I was crouched on the floor.
... He put the needle in my arm
and put the plunger in and he
missed. He missed the vein and
my whole arm went numb."
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Twitter: No
Commenting on
Retweets at Launch
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:37:05 PM
One of the questions that’s
remained surrounding Twitter’s
upcoming Project Retweet is how
exactly (or if) it will be possible
to add commentary to retweets
under the new functionality.
In one of today’s developer
panels at 140TC with Alex Payne,
the Platform Lead at Twitter
clarified the plan to accommodate
this type of annotation.
Responding to a question from
Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani,
Payne confirmed that at launch,
adding commentary to retweets
will not be possible. Essentially,
using an official retweet will more
like marking something as a
favorite.
However, people will still be
encouraged to use the “classic”
retweet format for items they
specifically want to add
commentary to. And in the future,
the ability to add annotations will
most likely be added as a feature
to the new retweet system.
Payne said the reasoning behind
excluding the feature at launch
was primarily to get people
comfortable with the concept of
retweeting in general. Once the
feature is ingrained, he said,
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adding in commenting
functionality to the native retweet
function is a very high probability
for Twitter down the road.
It also posed some user interface
issues to be contended with,
particularly with mobile interfaces
which always has to be Twitter’s
lowest common denominator. But
once the company has had time to
work through those and has given
the userbase some time to get
used to the retweet functionality,
it’s very likely we’ll see this
ability come to Project Retweet
natively.
What do you think: do you see
yourself continuing to use the
“classic retweet” syntax even after
the new format launches? Can
both forms co-exist, or do you
think it will end up creating more
confusion than Project Retweet
solves? Reviews: Lifehacker,
Twitter
Tags: Project Retweet, retweets,
twitter
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'Grey's Anatomy': Sex &

Death in the Season
Scribd Lawsuit Even More Bizarre: Premiere
It's The Filter That Infringes? (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:12:00 PM
would be a more moving moment
if it was actually George. So they
shot us separately. They shot my
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) It's a tool that isn't used for really do any of those things. You
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:46:00 PM infringement, but to prevent could somehow try to interpret When "Grey's Anatomy" returns reaction to Denny, and they shot
infringement. Perhaps I'm missing "reproducing" in such a way to on Thursday, the staff of Seattle T.R.'s reaction when I wasn't
We already wrote about the the point on how Scribd's filter claim that Scribd does that with Grace Hospital is dealing with the there. I was nervous about it. I
somewhat odd class action lawsuit works, but most filtering tools its filter, but even that seems like aftermath of George's ( T.R. wasn't sure how it was going to
against Scribd, but it turns out it's work on the principle of someone a stretch. The only reason that the Knight) death, especially Izzie ( feel. I felt, 'I wasn't there for T.R.
even more bizarre than we first c o m p l a i n i n g a b o u t t h e work is being reproduced is to Katherine Heigl), who had a near- and he wasn't on the other side
thought. That's because not only unauthorized work being on the stop any distribution or display of death experience herself and saw when I shot my stuff. Now it is
is the lawsuit complaining about site, thus alerting the service the work. No one actually gets to his spirit in the brief moment going to look weird.' When I saw
authors works appearing on the provider of the need to filter. That see it. before she was revived. that scene, I just started balling."
site without authorization, but, seems like an authorization. But, Still, it's quite a bizarre lawsuit "Last season we leave her Meredith ( Ellen Pompeo) and
according to Wired, the lawsuit more importantly, it's difficult to that not only sues Scribd for flatlining," Katherine says. "She Derek's ( Patrick Dempsey)
also claims that Scribd's own see how such a filter could be failing to block an uploaded book, has that death-death experience, reaction to George's death is not
filtering system infringes. Yes, the seen as infringing even absent but at the very same time also where she sees George on the an uncommon one: They use sex
very system that it uses to try to such an authorization. sues the company -- under the other side. It is interesting because as their proof of life. However in
prevent works from being Copyright law grants five same law -- for trying to block an when we shot that scene, it was this case, they are taking it to the
u p l o a d e d i s b e i n g c a l l e d different exclusive rights to the uploaded book. Hopefully this actually Denny ( Jeffrey Dean extreme, consummating their Post
infringing, because it stores a copyright holder: the right to one gets tossed out quickly. Morgan) on the other side. Then -it note marriage anywhere and
copy to pattern match against reproduce, to prepare derivative Permalink| Comments| Email Shonda[ Rhimes], our creator, everywhere.
uploads. I can't see how it's works, to distribute, to perform This Story watched it in dailies and felt it
infringing in any way whatsoever. and to display. A filter doesn't

AT&T poised to roll out 3G MicroCell service

By Steven Sande (The able to get a full 5 bars on 3G on calls through the device for an At the present time, AT&T is
Unofficial Apple Weblog the top floor of my house and extra $20 per month, so if you testing the 3G MicroCell service
(TUAW)) about 3 bars on the lower floor. primarily use your iPhone in one in Charlotte, NC. You can check
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:00:00 PM Unless you're fortunate enough location, it might be cheaper to availability of the service by
to have a similar miracle take get the minimum service plan for visiting the AT&T site.
Filed under: Hardware, Wireless, place near your home, you may the iPhone and just use the 3G TUAW AT&T poised to roll out
Odds and ends, Internet, iPhone need to take advantage of AT&T's MicroCell unlimited plan for your 3G MicroCell service originally
For many iPhone owners in the upcoming 3G MicroCell service. calls. appeared on The Unofficial Apple
U.S., the fact that you're tied to This service literally puts a tiny AT&T's rollout of the 3G Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 22 Sep
AT&T as the wireless carrier has Internet-attached cell tower in MicroCell service will make the 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see
been a serious problem. As an your home or office, blasting out iPhone available to a wider our terms for use of feeds.
example, until this week, I was 5 bars of 3G goodness to about a audience of potential users, and Read| Permalink| Email this|
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strength on EDGE at my house The 3G MicroCell comes at a will be no monthly charge if you AT&T network by decreasing the
and I never had 3G service. Now, price, of course -- the device is wish to use your existing minutes. number of voice and data calls
for some inexplicable reason, I'm rumored to cost $150 and there You can also add unlimited phone using the regular cell towers.
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Google plug-in builds Chrome
browser into IE
By Stephen Shankland
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:30:00 AM
(Credit: Google)
Google released an Internet
Explorer plug-in Tuesday
designed to let Microsoft's
browser use the features and
performance of Google's own
Chrome browser.
The software, called Google
Chrome Frame, lets IE 6, 7, or 8
use Chrome to render Web pages
and execute their JavaScript
programs, Google said. To use it,
people must install the open-
source plug-in, currently in the
developer preview stage, and Web
developers must insert a line of
code onto their Web sites that
engages Chrome Frame when a
person visits the site.
"For users, installing Google
Chrome Frame will allow them to
seamlessly enjoy modern Web
apps at blazing speeds, through
the familiar interface of the
version of IE that they are
currently using," said Google
programmer Alex Russell and
product manager Mike Smith in a
blog post.
But the plug-in might needle its
rival more than revolutionize Web
Katie Holmes, Julie Andrews, Robin Wright Penn and More to Be Honored
by ELLE
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:13:00 PM
ELLE magazine has announced
its eight honorees for this year's
16th Annual Women in
Hollywood Tribute.
browsing. For one thing, it takes a
long time to get a lot of Web
developers to update their sites.
For another, how many people
dissatisfied with IE's performance
haven't already installed a higher-
powered browser?
Google argues that the feature
will appeal to some folks, though,
including people in corporate
settings who might not have a
choice of browser and people who
prefer IE's interface, said
spokesman Eitan Bencuya. And
Julie Andrews, Emily Blunt,
Katie Holmes, Julianne Moore,
Zoe Saldana, Robin Wright Penn,
Renee Zellweger and casting
director Bonnie Timmerman are
the honorees for this year's event,
to be held at the Beverly Hills
people are familiar with plug-ins
as a way to expand what browsers
can do.
"It's a much lower barrier to
entry than switching browsers,"
Bencuya said.
He added that Google has built
support for the feature into one of
its own Web sites, the Google
Wave project that's a hybrid of e-
mail, instant messaging, and wiki
collaboration.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
Four Seasons Hotel.
ELLE editor-in-chief Roberta remarkable contribution to the
Myers said of this year's list: industry."
"This is an incredibly strong,
distinguished group of women,
many of them icons, or icons to
be. We are so proud to bring them
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most comfortable.
Lesson: Rather than expect
customers to communicate
through your chosen means, allow
them to do so through their
chosen means. The New Business
Paradigm in the Age of Social
Media
In this new era of social media,
companies are asked to be
increasingly transparent and
personal. Of course, traditional
advertising and press releases will
still have their place, but social
sites such as Twitter and
Facebook allow a whole new type
of communication to take place
that has previously been unknown
to most businesses. Possibly more
important for businesses than
getting a large number of
followers on social media sites, is
following through on the
opportunity to forge more genuine
and direct connections with their
customers.
Businesses who choose not to
adapt to the new culture will be at
an increasing disadvantage, as
their customers slowly build
together and celebrate their
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personal relationships with their
competitors. We are now in the
age of open communication,
engaged dialogue, and
transparency, and business
success may now have less to do
with the size of ad budgets, but on
the quality of interactions with
customers. More business
resources from Mashable:
- Top 5 Business Blogging
Mistakes and How to Avoid
Them
- 5 Social Media Lessons
Learned From Whole Foods
- 6 Must-Follow Steps for
Selling in Any Economy
- 5 Easy Social Media Wins for
Your Small Business
- HOW TO: Use Twitter
Hashtags for Business
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Flickr, Get Satisfaction, Seesmic,
Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto
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First Look: Get
airborne with
Aera for iPhone
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple
Filed Weblog (TUAW))
under: iPhone, App Store,
iPod touch,
Submitted atFIRST First
page
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Review Aera is a new flight game
[ iTunes store] from iChromo
with beautifully rendered graphics
and some challenging game-play.
I wouldn't exactly call it a flight
simulator, as your control of the
aircraft is limited. You can't bank
left or right, but you do control
your up and down pitch. The
game is priced at US$2.99 for the
iPhone and iPod touch.
Think of Aera as a 2D shooter
with exceptionally good graphics
and addictive missions that can
draw you deeply into the game.
There are several different
mission types. In some, you
collect points by flying the plane
into floating objects, and in others
Buddhist Leader Says Playing Video
you need to avoid those floating
objects. There are also missions
where you have to do both, as
well as dogfights and aerobatic
flights.
Because the controls do not
work in the way other flight
games work, it's helpful to go
through the quick in-game tutorial
so you know how the game
works. If you try to exit the
tutorial and just start playing,
you'll be brought back to the
tutorial until you have finished it.
It really is necessary, because
you'll never be able to fly
successfully without going
through it.
The game also features
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multiplayer options for other
Explaining the Real-
owners of the sim who are on the
same wireless network. Aera also
features video replay, allowing
Time Web in 100
you to watch yourself crash and
burn.
Continue reading First Look:
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Get airborne with Aera for iPhone By Marshall Kirkpatrick
TUAW First Look: Get airborne (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:23:49 PM
with Aera for iPhone originally
appeared on The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 22 Sep Here's a challenge - can you
2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see explain the phenomenon of the
Real-Time Web in simple terms periodically for updates. It can be
our terms for use of feeds. enabled in many different ways
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to the New York Times to blogs and can require a different
Comments technical architecture. It's being
and geeky tech infrastructure, it
seems like everyone's exploring implemented in social
networking, search, news and
the Real-Time Web paradigm
these days. It's not easy to elsewhere - making those
explain, though. experiences more like Instant
Messaging and facilitating
Below we offer our working
explanation of what the real-time
web is and why it's important, in
unpredictable innovations. Early
benefits include increased user

Games Lets Out Aggression; Better exactly 100 words. We challenge

you to offer a better (short)
explanation.
engagement ("flow") and
decreased server loads, but these
are early days. Real-time

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By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:36:37 AM
While other religious and
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around violent video games, it
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feels quite differently about them.
The third ranking Buddhist,
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apparently sees video games as
therapeutic and a way to let out
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Point of Wealth: The reverse ATM Travolta Extortion Trial Begins in

By Rafe Needleman Bahamas
(Webware.com) (ETonline - Breaking News) the actor paid him $25 million,
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:14:15 PM Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:24:00 PM according to the Associated Press.
Travolta was expected to testify
Point of Wealth co-founder Trial witnesses took the stand at the trial but was not present at
David Prehn (left) pitches to USA Tuesday morning in a Bahamian Tuesday's hearing. "Contact was
Today writer Ed Baig. The POW courtroom for the beginning of an made with certain persons to
system lets employees who are extortion trial tied to the death of communicate a threat to John
paid in cash deposit their money, John Travolta's teenage son Jett. Travolta," chief prosecutor in the
pay bills, and top off pre-paid Prosecutors alleged that the B a h a m a s , B e r n a r d T u r n e r ,
credit cards.(Credit: Rafe paramedic who treated Jett, 16, reportedly said in his opening
Needleman/CNET) threatened to go public with argument.
At DemoFall 2009, one of the confidential information unless
few hardware companies
launching is Point of Wealth, Christina Aguilera
which makes a bank machine. It's
like an ATM, but in reverse: You Sings Out Against
keep whatever cash they want in generally don't serve the
can only put cash in, not get it out.
The kiosk is designed to be their pocket, too. "unbanked," like this business Hunger
placed in businesses where CEO and bar owner Doug does. Point of Wealth is a very (ETonline - Breaking News)
employees are paid mostly in Lindstrom told me that the kiosk solid concept with a strong Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:00 PM
cash. The idea is that the can also be used by business business model: The machines are
employees, when they're paid, can owners to pay their employees, by free to the establishments that ET has the latest...
then deposit their cash in the transferring funds from their bank install them, and Point of Wealth Christina Aguilera is lending
machine and distribute it as they account to their employees' pre- takes small fees for each her voice to a good cause!
wish -- to pay bills, put money paid debit card accounts. transaction. The Grammy award winner is
into IRAs, or top off debit cards Full-service ATMs do many of Originally posted at Rafe's now the global spokesperson for
for use later. Of course they can the same things, but they Radar World Hunger Relief Effort and
ET has your first look at her new
Google SketchUp Release Enables Faster Modeling public service announcement.
"I think that this day in age, it's
completely unacceptable that
By Dana Oshiro to geo-locate your model you can Upload Component: Rather than
(ReadWriteWeb) digitally remodel almost any going through the process of there are more than one billion
mapped structure. selecting and identifying people hungry around the world
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:39:49 PM
Sponsor individual buildings from your and many of them are children,
If you've ever used AutoCAD, Get Photo Texture: If you're model to upload to the 3D which being a mom hits close to
y o u ' l l k n o w w h y G o o g l e ' s working on a model that exists in warehouse, Google has simplified home," she says. "The problem is
SketchUp is a pleasure to work Google Street View, rather than the process. Users can simply worse than ever and that's why
with. The latest 7.1 release of rendering your own textures, you right click their model and select raising awareness is so important
SketchUp includes Get Photo can skin your building with Street upload. to me."
Texture, Nearby Models and a View imagery. Rather than To view some of Google's
new Upload Component. Using painstakingly tiling windows and buildings for your model. After featured modelers, visit the
Google Earth, SketchUp and bricks, you've suddenly got a you've found the location of your Google Earth 3D Building Tour
Google Maps, the company offers chance to manipulate an entire project, select the nearby building layer or to try your hand at
a number of quick modeling building face with a simple copy you'd like to include and they'll SketchUp, download it here.
solutions. After importing a and paste. automatically appear as nearby Discuss
Google Earth snapshot and Nearby Models: This automates buildings in your file.
allowing Google's 3D warehouse t h e t a s k o f f i n d i n g n e a r b y
44 Tech News/ Sports/ Fashion/ Internet News Record
Washington Redskins'
Gelato: The FriendFeed of Dating Robert Henson quits
Twitter following 'dim
By Sarah Perez instant dating profile on Gelato. friendships work on the site. As
(ReadWriteWeb) (You can select and deselect with Facebook, you can send wits' post
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:40:00 PM which items you want to import, friend requests to other users and
too). they must accept your request By Associated Press
Dating sites haven't changed However, Gelato doesn't stop before you can be friends. This in (ESPN.com)
much over the years. Oh sure, with just Facebook - the site Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:16:14 PM
and of itself isn't so bad...or all
there are new matchmaking actually supports eight social that different from how many
algorithms that claim to have a services in total and has more on Mike And Mike: Greeny Snaps
other sites work for that matter. On 'Skins LB Mike And Mike:
better shot at connecting you to the way. Obviously, there's However, since a lot of online
that "special someone," but a few Twitter support, a key component conversation with you. Real-Time dating interaction is typically of Greeny Snaps On 'Skins LB
basic concepts remain. You still to any good lifestream, but there's Search ASHBURN, Va. -- Now that
the "try-before-you-buy" sort (live he's apologized for calling fans
have to upload a photo, fill out a also Last.fm, Netflix, Flickr, A real-time search feature, chats, email messages, etc.), it
profile, list your likes and Hulu, Amazon, and Seesmic. By another borrowed idea from c o u l d l e a d t o s o m e s t i c k y "dim wits," Washington Redskins
dislikes, and so on. Doesn't adding a mix of these sites to your FriendFeed, helps you find topics situations when you decide that rookie Robert Henson is
everyone enjoy "long walks on profile, it's much easier for you're interested in. For example, the person you "friended" isn't apparently done with Twitter.
the beach" and "playing with their someone to get an idea of what if you're looking for someone someone you want to get to know NFC East blog
dog?" How does that help you sort of interests you have than by who's talking about the latest better after all. To get them out of ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes
really get to know who someone reading some sort of self-created Harry Potter movie, you can your friends list, you have to about all things NFC East in his
is? Gelato thinks they have a profile list. Think about it: you search for that using keywords. Of unfriend them and they will know division blog.
better way. Using concepts may have a rather typical list of course you're also able to filter you've done so. Considering all • Blog network: NFL Nation
happily copied from FriendFeed, favorite movies which include your searches by age, sex, and the other smart features in Gelato, Anyone clicking on Henson's
the social site that seems to be the everything from "Forrest Gump" location, too, so you can find it would have been nice if they Twitter account Tuesday got a
inspiration for all, Gelato brings to "The Godfather," but your someone local to chat with. message saying "Sorry, that page
could have come up with a less doesn't exist!"
the lifestreaming concept into the recent viewing of Dollhouse L e g i t A c c o u n t s a n d hurtful way of saying"I'm just not
world of online dating. By Season 1 on Hulu will out you as "Friendships" On Sunday night, Henson fired
that into you." off many tweets at fans who
connecting you with your social the sci-fi geek you are at heart. One unique feature to Gelato Still that's a minor complaint in
networks, site users can get to that didn't come from elsewhere is what is, overall, a unique entry to booed the Redskins during their 9
Your updates on these social -7 win over the St. Louis Rams.
know each other in much more networks are combined to form a w h a t t h e y ' r e c a l l i n g y o u r the billion dollar marketplace that
natural ways. "SCOOP" rating, aka the "social is online dating. Despite the fact Henson called the fans "dim wits"
lifestream of your activities, just and asked how people who "work
Sponsor like they would on FriendFeed. confidence of online profile." The that much of the site's inspiration
Gelato: Bringing the Social to Also like FriendFeed, you can higher the "SCOOP" rating, the comes from FriendFeed, we won't 9 to 5 at Mcdonalds" could know
Online Dating better chance you're legit. This hold that against them. In fact, we what's best for the team.
"like" and comment on the items Henson apologized Monday
Gelato is the kind of web site posted. And if you don't know feature is designed to combat applaud them for it. Taking
that's going to make married and what to say, various "icebreakers" those who post fake profiles on FriendFeed's innovations and during a brief session with
attached folks almost wish they are available to help you be witty dating sites. To bump your rating applying them to a marketplace reporters.
were single again - it's that much on the fly. However, because up, you can post to Twitter or d e c i d e d l y l a c k i n g i n s u c h A Redskins spokesman said
fun to use. Getting started is one Gelato is focused on making one- Facebook and ask your friends to technical innovation is a brilliant Henson took down the Twitter
of the simplest processes we've to-one connections, those likes, confirm who you are. Obviously, idea. account on his own and was not
ever seen. Not only does it offer c o m m e n t s , a n d i c e b r e a k e r s this isn't foolproof, but it should ordered to do so by the team.
If you're ready to give the Henson, a sixth-round draft
F a c e b o o k C o n n e c t a s a n remain private. The only person help highlight legit accounts as "stream dating" of Gelato a try,
alternative to creating an account, who can see them is the recipient. being so. pick, has been yet to play this
you can join now at ge.la.to. season.
it actually imports your Facebook They can then respond to your The only area that may need a Discuss
profile information to create an comment if they want to start a little finessing is the way Copyright 2009 by The
Associated Press
Street Chic: London Fashion Week
By ELLE.com (ELLE News Shorts transition into autumn appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic
Blog) with tights and a one-sleeve top. Daily.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:00:00 AM Photo: Stylesight mail us your photo and you could Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Think you are Street Chic? E-
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MoLo Rewards: Making Mobile

Coupons a Reality Google Chrome Frame Turns Internet
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
spending habits and your physical
location. As you use the mobile
Explorer into a FrankenChrome
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:00:00 PM coupons, you earn MoLo points,
which can then be redeemed for "
Browser [Downloads]
If you're a smart shopper (and rewards" which include things By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) allow users to install a new
these days, who isn't?), then you like laptops, game consoles, Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:00:00 PM browser; Ars wonders whether
probably check the weekly if you have multiple coupons bikes, gift cards, and so on. NFC such restrictive IT departments
circular for deals and clip out available, you only have to scan vs RFID Google today released a new would be any more likely to
coupons so you can save at the your phone once, not one-by-one One drawback to this program - browser plug-in called Google approve this plug-in. If nothing
store. Or maybe your coupons as with paper-based coupons. at least here in the U.S. - is its use Chrome Frame that creates an else, it's a pretty bold move on the
arrive digitally, through emails The process works not only with of NFC technology. NFC is much unholy union between Internet part of Google.
and text messages. But wouldn't it traditional coupons but with more popular in European and Explorer and Google Chrome, The other obvious question:
be better if your phone itself could customer loyalty cards, too, which Asian markets where it's already rendering web pages in IE using H o w d o I g e t i t w o r k i n g ?
function as the coupon? That's the are typically used for in-store u s e d f o r e v e r y t h i n g f r o m Chrome's rendering engine. Actually, you don't have to do
promise of MoLo Rewards, a discounts, points, and other micropayments to file sharing. That rendering technology a n y t h i n g — i t ' s u p t o w e b
wireless coupon application special offers provided by the With this in mind, MoLo Rewards includes Chrome's support for developers to throw a single tag
which lets you scan your phone at retailer to regular customers. also offers RFID as an alternative. HTML5 and its lightning-fast on their pages to ask Internet
the point of sale to instantly Since most stores already run This allows the application to JavaScript engine. How does it Explorer to render a page with the
redeem all your coupons or their own in-house programs for work with any phone as all the turn IE into Chrome? By creating Chrome Frame, if it's installed.
loyalty rewards using either Near t h i s , M o L o R e w a r d s i s consumer needs to do is attach the a new frame inside of Internet We're pretty sure it'll only be a
Field Communication (NFC) or introducing a way to link the company's RFID tag to their Explorer that basically embeds the short while until someone comes
Radio Frequency Identification existing programs to their mobile phone in order to participate. Also Chrome browser. It's sort of like up with a tweak to make Chrome
(RFID). platform. The incentive on the available are "show and go" the previously mentioned IE Tab Frame a default rendering tool on
Sponsor retailers' part, says the company, coupons, which are basically a tool that embed IE in Firefox, so every page, but until then, it's up
Today at the DEMOfall 09 is that a mobile system such as l o w - t e c h f e a t u r e o f t h e i r users can access the now-rare IE- to the web building community to
conference in San Diego, MoLo this would dramatically cut down application that lets you show the only sites. In this case, though, it's take notice.
Rewards demonstrated their on fraud while also cutting costs coupon on your phone's screen to embedding Chrome in IE instead The Google Chrome Frame plug
technology, already patented here associated with mailings and the cashier so they can then enter of the other way around, for the - i n i s a f r e e , o p e n - s o u r c e
in the U.S. The system, which printings. They can also use RFID it manually into their system. much more common dilemma of download for Windows only, and
works via a mobile application, tags on store shelves to distribute MoLo Rewards is currently in sites that won't render correctly in works with IE6, 7, and 8. It's
interacts with a reader installed at coupons to customers walking the beta as they work to add more Internet Explorer. currently in its early stages, so
the point of sale (POS). Without aisles. retailers to their system. In the The (most) obvious question: expect an occasional bug or two.
any user intervention, the In addition to the coupon meantime, those interested in Why would I install this plug-in Google Chrome Frame[Google
a p p l i c a t i o n a u t o m a t i c a l l y processing, the MoLo Rewards registering can do so here. rather than switch browsers to Code via Ars Technica]
determines what coupons are system tracks your purchases on Discuss Chrome? The folks at Google
valid at that store based on your the backend in order to provide point to IT lockdown that won't
p u r c h a s e s a n d s e n d s t h o s e you with targeted coupons and
coupons over to the retailer. Even other offers based on both your
Golden Tate on Celebration: 'I Forgot That Was Michigan State's Band'
By Michael David Smith Filed under: Notre Dame, Video everyone talking about Tate three Golden Tate on Celebration: 'I EST . Please see our terms for use
(FanHouse) Notre Dame wide receiver days later isn't the score itself, it's Forgot That Was Michigan State's of feeds.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:00:00 PM Golden Tate scored the winning the way he celebrated afterward: Band' originally appeared on Permalink| Email this| Linking
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46 Tech News/ Apple/ Media Internet News Record

Micello: Google Maps for the New Pioneer In-Dash

Indoors
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:51:22 PM
Looking for a new company to
get excited about? Look no
In addition to navigating the
maps, aided by the iPhone's GPS
to show you where you are,
Micello users can also locate their
Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone
converting an online PDF, for c o n t a c t s w i t h i n t h e m a p
Nav Units Get Hardware
Specific iPhone App
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:10:54 PM

further than mobile mapping
startup, Micello. Their new
mapping solution is basically
"Google Maps for the indoors."
What that means is that instead of
focusing on streets and terrain,
they're mapping the insides of
buildings like shopping malls,
convention centers, theme parks,
college campuses, and more. And
because Micello is a mobile
solution, you not only see what's
where, you can see where you are,
too.
Sponsor
Announced today at the
DEMOfall 09 conference, Micello
is initially going to be offered as
an iPhone application. It should
become available in the iTunes
App Store within the next couple
of weeks.
To generate the maps, the small
team of Micello users, which
numbers only about a dozen
employees, takes whatever maps
of various businesses, colleges,
and other large indoor locations
are available and manually maps
them out for use in the mobile
application. The process of
MediaDailyNews: Waters To CEO, Aegis Asia-Pacific
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:27:54 PM
Aegis Media named Nick Waters
as CEO, Aegis Media Asia-
Pacific.
Currently CEO, EMEA for
example, to a mapped locale in community and share their stories,
Micello takes a couple of hours, feedback, and other notes about At least one company is taking
explains Micello co-founder Anil the places they visit. Users can the hardware integration features
Agarwal. submit error reports, too, if of iPhone OS 3.0 seriously.
To start, Micello will provide something isn't accurate and the Pioneer, which announced A/V
maps for the San Francisco Bay Micello team will make the home theater receivers with some
area where they already have 150 correction. Premium Offerings serious iPhone connectivity in
indoor locations mapped. They and Future Plans June, has just revealed an iPhone
will then proceed to map the rest Further down the road, premium app(iTunes link) designed to
of California and, following that, features will be available to integrate with two of its brand
they'll move onto other major b u s i n e s s e s a n d o t h e r new in-dash navigation units.
metropolitan areas in the U.S. By organizations which will allow While the iPhone app doesn’t
the end of next year, they plan to them to annotate their listings provide iPod control without a
have over 5000 places mapped with additional information, hardware cable connection, it
across the country. whether that's what speaker does allow you to search for
An interesting side note about begins his presentation at the points of interest or trip
Micello is how fast they've convention hall downtown or destinations on the iPhone, which
managed to create this new and what Macy's will have on sale then communicates said diner isn’t a POI, cool though it
incredibly useful resource. They today. The application may even information to the navigation unit. might have been.
revealed their alpha only months tap into the "alerting" feature of Basically, it’s like having an If you’re in the market for an in-
a g o a t t h e 2 0 0 9 J a v a O n e mobile devices to pop-up optional advanced, user-friendly remote dash nav system, and you already
conference held in June. At the alerts to customers informing for your GPS unit instead of own an iPhone, then there’s really
time, the founders were simply them of a special event or sale. having to fumble with clumsy on- not much of a downside to going
looking for feedback as to device controls. with these Pioneer models. The
Versions of Micello for entry-level AVIC-U310BT will
whether people thought this Blackberry, Android, and WebOS You can also access any POI
would be an application worth platforms are only months away information on the nav system set you back $699, while the
pursuing. The response was as is a Facebook application. For over Bluetooth via your iPhone, much snazzier AVIC-Z110BT has
overwhelmingly positive, leading more information, stay tuned to so it’s a two-way conversation. a $1,799 price tag. The more
the company to move forward micello.com for updates. Discuss Also, the app automatically expensive model will get you a
with their plans to create what is searches your device for motorized screen, rear cam
Micello today. geotagged photos taken with the readiness, voice control, and
iPhone’s camera and uses those as A2DP stereo Bluetooth support.
custom POI entries. I can see this Forgive me for also wanting it to
drive the car for me at that price.
becoming annoying, since every
M i n d s h a r e , W a t e r s h a s operating profit more than three- photo I take with my iPhone has Subscribe to GigaOM Pro and
considerable experience in the fold, according to the company. geographic information associated gain access to our Webinar, "
region, previously serving as He is retiring to pursue a non- with it. The neat spider I saw Biggest Opportunities in the
Mindshare's CEO, Asia-Pacific. industry career. when we stopped at that roadside Smart Grid," on Oct. 7, 2009.
Waters takes over from Patrick
Ståhle, who almost doubled
regional revenue and increased
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Picasa 3.5 Organizes Your Photos
with Facial Recognition [Downloads]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:05:00 PM
Windows/Mac: Google's free
desktop photo organizer is
stepping up to iPhoto's killer
feature by adding face recognition
and syncing it with Picasa Web
Albums, making it easy to send
Uncle Bob every single photo
you've got of Aunt Marla.
The new Picasa 3.5 contains a
facial recognition feature similar
to the one already present on
Picasa Web Albums, but letting it
run over your likely vast
collection of assorted photos
stashed on your hard drive is a lot
more convenient. Picasa creates a
new sidebar menu list of
"People," and asks you to name
the folks it finds in its main
"Scanning" menu. If you're signed
into Web Albums with a Google
Tech Tips/ Tech Blog/ 47
The SUL as a tool to
control news?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:29:43 AM
list. And TechCrunch was one of
them until something happened in
July as is evident in this
SUL is Twitter's Suggested T w i t t e r C o u n t e r g r a p h .
Users List. Compare this to the graph for
It's a group of approximately Mashable, over the same period.
account stuffed with contacts, people, dates, or other search 500 Twitter users who are And plotted on the same graph.
that's pretty easy, actually—just parameters. "suggested" to new users when It's pretty clear something
start typing a name, then select H e r e ' s G o o g l e ' s v i d e o they create an account. The stated happened in July.
the contact that pops up as you demonstration of how name purpose is to provide people to We know this much --
type. tagging works in Picasa 3.5: watch when you're starting out. TechCrunch was dropped from
You'll probably have to leave As noted in the video, the other But are there other purposes? the Suggested User List, right
Picasa running a long time to get additions to Picasa 3.5 are a tool Could it be used to reward around the time their follower
through everything—after 20 to use integrated Google Maps positive coverage and punish count started heading down. As to
minutes, it's about 9 percent pickers to geo-tag photos, and an negative coverage? I think we why, we can only speculate that it
through with 13.8GB of photos on option to import photos from a now have some data on that. was because they ran a piece that
my laptop. As you might guess, camera card onto Picasa Web There's no doubt that Twitter Twitter didn't like.
some of the facial matching is hit Albums directly. Neat features, has received a lot of help from the 7/16/09: Twitter's Internal
and miss, but you get to approve but kind of underwhelming paired press, and much of it is genuine Strategy Laid Bare: To Be "The
any of the picks Picasa isn't w i t h s o m e t h i n g l i k e f a c i a l enthusiasm for a communication Pulse Of The Planet."
absolutely sure of, and if recognition, no? tool that at least hints at the future People have always questioned
someone's in your photo library Read up on Picasa's name tag of news. whether there was a connection
who you don't want to take the features, grab it at the link, and Many of the suggested users are between being on the list and not
time to tag, you can send them to tell us how well facial recognition news organizations, reporters, being too critical of Twitter. At
the "Ignored People" pile. All this is working, or not, with your own columnists, marketers, and as a this point, there isn't much doubt
is in service of a better search photos in the comments. Picasa result, most have over a million that the connection is there.
function, so you can more easily 3.5, now with name tags and followers. Almost all of the top
find photos of yourself and your more[Official Google Blog] tech news organizations are on the
spouse, your spouse and her
friend, or any combination of
48 Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

The Best Cheap Office Upgrades [Organization]

By Dustin Luck (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:00:00 PM
Sometimes the best way to give
your workflow a boost is to give
your workspace a makeover. Even
if money's a bit tight right now,
there are cheap ways to spruce up
the place where you're earning
your keep.
Photo by hejgustav
Organize Your Workspace
You can't work at your peak if
you're constantly searching for the
tools you need to get your job
done. Whether it's making sure
the basics are close at hand or
keeping the non-essentials tucked
away, finding a home for
everything is a good place to start.
First, get your pens, pencils, paper
clips, rubber bands, etc. off the
desk and into some hanging
buckets. Then move some of your
oft-reached-for items to the front
of your desk drawer or filing
cabinet with magnets. Finally,
USB hubs, routers, power strips
and more can go right under your
desk and out of your way
mounted to pegboard.
Cable Management
Once all of the office supplies
and computer equipment are
where they're supposed to be, all
the cables that connect them need
to be dealt with. Rather than have
them in a tangled mess on the
floor, mount them under the desk
with an IKEA coat hanger or
some rain gutters.
Laptop/Monitor Stand
For ergonomics, as well as
getting things off the desk, using a
stand to elevate your laptop or
monitor just makes sense if you're
going to sit in front of it for eight
hours a day. However, there's no
need to go out and buy a fancy,
expensive stand. With a little DIY
ingenuity, almost anything can be
used to get your screen up to eye
level. PVC or metal pipe can be
used to make a functional,
minimalistic stand. Even
cheaper—absolutely free by
repurposing an old cardboard
box—is the cardboard laptop
stand. For a more polished look, a
shelf with door stoppers as feet
makes for an inexpensive, yet
good looking stand.
Jazz up the comments with your
own ideas for upgrading your
office. If you've got some pictures
of your handiwork, we'd love to
see them too.

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 Available for Download [Downloads]

By Azadeh Ensha (Lifehacker) an edited shortlist of notable new Improved Gmail Integration: search filtering, that also seems
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:30:00 PM features and improvements: Better recognition and integration like an area a desktop client like
New Search with Advanced of Gmail's special folders such as Thunderbird can succeed in leaps
Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla Filtering Tools: Search results Sent and Trash including non- and bounds past webmail
has released a new preview now include advanced filtering English versions of Gmail. interfaces, if you invest the time
version of their desktop email tools. You have the option to filter Thunderbird also uses All Mail as to learn them.
a p p l i c a t i o n i n t h e f o r m o f your results by sender, tag, the Archives folder. Check out the release notes for
Thunderbird 3 Beta 4, adding a attachments, people, folder, and Improved Gmail integration is more details as well as the known
new email search, smart folders, mailing list. You can also filter definitely a welcome issues for a list of reported bugs.
and more. your email using the timeline tool. improvement, as Thunderbird is Thunderbird is a free download
If you're a Thunderbird user, Smart Folders: The folder pane one of the best ways to access for Windows, Mac OS X, or
you're probably familiar with offers a Smart Folders mode Gmail when the web version is Linux. Thunderbird 3 Beta
w h a t t h e o p e n - s o u r c e m a i l w h i c h c o m b i n e s s p e c i a l multiple accounts. Smart Folders down. And while we haven't had 4[Mozilla via gHacks]
manager can already do, so here's mailboxes, like Inbox, from is now on by default. much time to play with smart
Internet News Record
Tab Toolkit brings guitar tabs to
iPhone
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:59:41 PM
Agile Partners, best known for
creating an exceptionally
useful$9.99 iPhone application
called Guitar Toolkit that packs in
a guitar tuner, a metronome, and
fantastically detailed chord and
scale charts, on Monday released
its first follow-up app.
Tab Toolkit, also available via
Apple's App Store for $9.99,
enables users to read and listen to
real-time synthesized versions of
guitar tablature charts on their
iPhone or iPod Touch.
Here's Kirk Hammett's guitar
solo from "Master of Puppets,"
displayed in tablature and regular
notation on an iPhone with Tab
Toolkit. Hit "play," and it'll scroll
by in (very fast) real time, with a
synthesized version playing
through the headphones.
Tab Toolkit won't have as large
an audience as Guitar Toolkit,
which is immediately useful to
players of all levels, as it assumes
that you have (or can get) tab
charts--and that you know how to
read them. But if you're a serious
guitarist, $9.99 is a fair deal for a
very sophisticated app that
performs well--no freezes or
stutters, as I've experienced with
some other music-oriented apps.
(If you're just learning about
tablature, the $2.99 iPractice is
probably a better first download.)
So where do you get tab files? If
you're a songwriter, you can use
Power Tab Editor(freeware,
Windows-only) or Guitar
Tech Reviews/ TV/ 49
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
talks about Modern
Family
By Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:02:00 PM
Jesse Tyler Ferguson found
success on Broadway originating
the role of Coneybear in The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee. He stood out, too, in his role
in The Class, but the show didn't
stick around too long. Now he's in
one of the most buzzed about
sitcoms on the fall schedule,
Modern Family, co-starring with
Ed O'Neill, Sofia Vergara, and Ty
Burrell.
Ferguson plays Mitchell, half of
a gay couple with Eric
Pro($59, for Macs and Windows the correct tempo, displaying both Songstreet's Cameron, who are
PCs) to create your own. There traditional and tab notation, with a raising an adopted Vietnamese
are also online libraries of tab metronome and synthesized girl. O'Neill plays his father, Jay,
files for popular songs and artists- version of the instrument to keep who is newly married to a woman
- GProTab has a particularly you on target. It fully supports half his age, Gloria, who is played with Ferguson by phone during a
extensive collection of Guitar Pro multitrack tabs for the same song- by Vergara. There is also his morning long press session of
files--though copyright holders -for example, I was able to sister Clarie (played by Julie interviews to talk about the buzz
periodically crack down on these download all three guitar parts, Bowen) and her husband Phil for the show, his character, and
sites, which generally operate bass, and drums for Metallica's (Burrell) who thinks he'll be cool his Tweet that he's planning to
outside their approval. "Master of Puppets," and follow to his kids if he learns all of the dress as Lady GaGa from the
Once you have some tab files on through each individually--and dance routines from High School VMA s for Halloween.
your computer, Tab Toolkit lets you can stop the automated Musical. Continue reading Jesse Tyler
you transfer them to your iPhone playback and scroll through the The family looks like a Ferguson talks about Modern
directly over your home wireless c h a r t m a n u a l l y t o l e a r n wonderfully funny mess, and Family
network. It also includes an particularly tricky parts like Kirk Ferguson says they'll add their Filed under: Video, Interviews,
embedded version of Safari so Hammett's guitar solo. You can share of guest stars in the coming Reality-Free
you can download tabs directly display either a guitar fretboard or weeks with Elizabeth Banks, Permalink| Email this| |
from the Web. Tab Toolkit does piano keyboard on the screen to Edward Norton, and Shelly Long Comments
support PDF and rich-text tabs, help you with fingering, and can making appearances. I caught up
but you get the most results if you even flip the guitar upside-down
use PowerTab or Guitar Pro files. if you're a lefty.
At last, once you have some
PowerTab or Guitar Pro files on
your iPhone, the fun begins. Tab
Toolkit scrolls through the song at
50 Tech Reviews/ Sports/
Bank debuts solar-powered electric
car charge spots
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:21:00 PM
A bank chain in California will
combine PV and EV--that is, an
electric vehicle charge station
equipped with solar photovoltaic
panels.
Solar installer SolarCity and
Rabobank on Tuesday unveiled
the charge point at a bank branch
of in Santa Maria, California.
An electric car charging point
fed by solar panels.(Credit:
SolarCity)
The bank plans to build a
network of four charging stations
from Los Angeles to San
Francisco and is considering
putting solar panels on the
buildings, according to SolarCity
CEO Lyndon Rive. SolarCity,
which installs and provides
financing for solar panels, owns
the panels at the Santa Maria
location and sells the electricity
they generate to the bank.
Because charge times could be
an hour or two, the charge point
locations were chosen with other
retail outlets and restaurants
nearby. The bank doesn't plan to
charge customers to access the
charge points.
The site at Santa Maria has a
solar array able to generate 30,000
watts and a net meter that runs
backwards when the panels
produce more electricity than the
bank is consuming. An array that
large could theoretically charge
roughly two thousand cars a year,
Rive calculated.
The limited range of battery-
electric, or all-electric, vehicles is
a serious barrier to adoption,
which has led to some states and
communities to invest in charging
infrastructure. The Rabobank
charge spots were funded by
California Air Resource Board, a
SolarCity representative said.
SolarCity last week announced
that it bought two Los Angeles
companies that operate solar-
powered charging stations, which
is a new division in the company.
Rive said the company envisions
installing solar panels and fast-
charging equipment in homes of
people who are seeking a "carbon-
free lifestyle."
"These bank branches are what I
call enabler locations because
they allow EV drivers to take
longer trips and thereby use the
EV as their primary car," said
Tom Dowling, electric vehicle
charging infrastructure manager
for the Electric Auto Association
in a release. "Solar-powered
charging stations mean true zero-
emission driving, from well to
wheels."
Internet News Record
Source: Dallas Cowboys
running back Marion Barber
gets treatment, hopes to play
By Matt Mosley (ESPN.com) go, second-year player Tashard
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:58:47 PM Choice will take on a larger role
on the offense. When Barber and
Nursing a strained quadriceps Felix Jones were out with injuries
muscle in his left leg, Dallas last December, Choice stepped in
Cowboys running back Marion and made a very favorable
B a r b e r r e c e i v e d t r e a t m e n t impression.
Tuesday morning and hopes to Jones tied a career high with 96
play against the Panthers on rushing yards and scored a
Monday, a league source told touchdown on seven carries
ESPN.com on Tuesday. Sunday.
An MRI taken Monday morning Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
confirmed the strain. Coach Wade questioned Barber's toughness
Phillips said the Cowboys would w h e n h e w a s i n j u r e d l a s t
have to "wait and see on that" D e c e m b e r , w h i c h s e e m e d
when asked about Barber's status completely out of place for one of
d u r i n g M o n d a y ' s n e w s the most punishing runners in the
conference. The Cowboys will see league. Jones attempted to retract
how Barber's quad responds to his comments later, but it still
treatment over the next few days made for a bizarre situation.
and then make a decision. To add depth, the Cowboys
Barber pulled up lame at the end signed running back Chauncey
of a 35-yard run in the fourth Washington to their practice
quarter of the Cowboys' 33-31 squad on Tuesday.
loss to the Giants on Sunday Washington played in six games
night. for the Jacksonville Jaguars in
Television station KXAS-TV in 2008 as a rookie seventh-round
D a l l a s - F o r t W o r t h c i t e d draft pick out of USC. He only
anonymous sources in reporting had four carries for 9 yards and
on Tuesday that Barber will miss one catch for 9 yards.
one to two weeks, but the To make room on the practice
Cowboys initially said the running s q u a d f o r W a s h i n g t o n , t h e
back was "50-50." Now, it Cowboys released fullback Julius
appears to be a waiting game. Crosslin.
Having one extra day certainly Matt Mosley covers the NFC
helps the running back's situation. East for ESPN.com. Information
But if Barber, who ran for 124 from The Associated Press was
yards on 18 carries Sunday used in this report.
against the Giants, isn't ready to
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Point of Wealth: The reverse ATM
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:14:15 PM
Point of Wealth co-founder
David Prehn (left) pitches to USA
Today writer Ed Baig. The POW
system lets employees who are
paid in cash deposit their money,
pay bills, and top off pre-paid
credit cards.(Credit: Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
At DemoFall 2009, one of the
few hardware companies
launching is Point of Wealth,
which makes a bank machine. It's
like an ATM, but in reverse: You
can only put cash in, not get it out.
The kiosk is designed to be
placed in businesses where
employees are paid mostly in
cash. The idea is that the
employees, when they're paid, can
then deposit their cash in the
machine and distribute it as they
wish -- to pay bills, put money
into IRAs, or top off debit cards
for use later. Of course they can
keep whatever cash they want in
their pocket, too.
CEO and bar owner Doug
Lindstrom told me that the kiosk
can also be used by business
owners to pay their employees, by
transferring funds from their bank
account to their employees' pre-
paid debit card accounts.
Full-service ATMs do many of
the same things, but they
generally don't serve the
"unbanked," like this business
does. Point of Wealth is a very
solid concept with a strong
business model: The machines are
free to the establishments that
install them, and Point of Wealth
takes small fees for each
transaction.
It's a Dirty Job, but Someone Has
to Win $11.35 million
By Mick Elliott (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:50:00 PM
by Mick Elliott
Filed under: FedEx Cup
ATLANTA -- Water hazards at
East Lake Golf Club are full to
the brim and mud oozes from
under foot with every step taken,
the results of 10 inches of rain
that has fallen on the grounds in
the past week. Although the sun
tournament.
broke through early Tuesday It's a Dirty Job, but Someone
afternoon, more rain -- as much as
Has to Win $11.35 million
five inches -- is forecast for the originally appeared on Fanhouse
coming days.
Golf Blog on Tue, 22 Sep 2009
Whatever goes down this week 17:50:00 EST . Please see our
at the FedEx Cup playoff-ending
terms for use of feeds.
Tour Championship will be dirty. Permalink| Email this| Linking
"It's just going to be a soggy
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What a week for a golf

Google Sync Gets Push Gmail Support on the iPhone

By Darrell Etherington push support, the trifecta of basic already been using it. If you have,
(TheAppleBlog) services is now complete. check out these instructions to get
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:10:11 AM True, MobileMe users still get Gmail’s push features working for
some questionable value-add you. Gmail push also works on
Oh, MobileMe, how will you services like photo and video Windows Mobile devices, which
deal with this latest threat to your media-sharing via their MobileMe no one in their right mind should
iPhone feature dominance? First it gallery, online disk storage space, be using anymore, unless forced
was improved Exchange support, cloud data backup, and Find My to by the company they work for.
and now it’s push Gmail using iPhone and other remote anti-theft Also, I’d like to take this
Google Sync. and security features, but will opportunity to thumb my nose at
Remember Google Sync? It’s those be enough to stop people BlackBerry users. Read our latest
the service from Google which from switching over to Google’s analysis piece, " Will Apps.gov
allows you to synchronize your free, just-the-basics service? Time and match, so you don’t have to disarray, but who often uses Raise the Bar for Cloud
contacts and calendar with your will tell. I know I’m thinking enable all three of the syncing Google Calendar and Gmail. Providers?" Only on GigaOM
iPhone or iPod touch, in much the seriously about not renewing my services. That’s a good thing for You can get set up with Google Pro.
same way that MobileMe users MobileMe subscription at this people like me whose Google Sync by following the instructions
can, only using a free service point. Contacts is in a state of utter posted here, if you haven’t
instead of a paid one. With Gmail Google Sync allows you to mix
52 Apple/ Internet News Record

Nine iPhone Apps for Cricket Lovers

By Peter Venero current and some recent matches. answered, one by one with the The features of the application
(TheAppleBlog) Clicking through on an individual developed (launched in February final score presented at the end. are relatively basic and, apart
Submitted at 9/22/2009 6:56:04 AM match opens the match details on 2009), provides ICC rankings in Navigation through each question from some minor design
the Cricinfo website — which is addition to the live scores and is a bit rigid, with the user unable inconsistencies between different
This round-up of Cricket apps is not easily viewable on the iPhone news. Live scores and recent to skip a question or go back to it. screens, is reasonably functional.
dedicated to all of the Cricket screen. scores are both accessible via Upon the completion of each test, Though not feature-rich, there are
lovers around the world. With the Overall, the application doesn’t different main menu options, the score is then added to a table no flaws in the application,
I C C C h a m p i o n s T r o p h y provide much more than what a which can make it awkward to that allows you to keep track of though for a dedicated news
beginning today, I thought it’d be visit to the Cricinfo website find details on a particular match your performance. While this application, it would have been
a great opportunity to cover and would provide and may make if it finishes earlier than expected. provides an element of game play better if it had a wider range of
review the Cricket apps that are some people wonder if paying for However, a full scorecard for each to the applications, there’s no news sources, apart from the usual
available on the App store. the application is justified, match is provided within the ability to enter your name next to suspects.
D e s p i t e t h e w o r l d w i d e especially seeing that there are application, which is a score or to compare scores ECB Cricket(Free)
popularity of cricket, the market free applications that offer similar commendable despite the tad- online, although both features are The official application of the
for cricket applications on the functionality. unpolished design. The ICC available in many similar games English & Wales Cricket Board
iPhone is nowhere near the Cricket Live (iCricket)(99 rankings section shows the current offered today. was released in time for the 2009
saturation point of some of the cents) standings of teams and players in This applications seems to be English summer. The application
other popular sports. While this is A relatively new cricket tabular format — however, no more suitable to an iPod than to opens on the main scores screen
most likely due to cricket’s a p p l i c a t i o n f o r t h e i P h o n e additional player or team statistics iPhone since quitting the and lists the current England
limited appeal to the American (released in February 2009), it’s are available. Still yet, this is a application (e.g. to answer a international and English County
market, there is still a fair amount primary feature is a simple, yet nice addition that isn’t provided phone call) results in the quiz Cricket (ECC) matches. Clicking
of competition abroad — and functional news aggregator and by other applications, but as with being interrupted. The application on a match displays the score
some interesting innovations viewer which pulls articles from the scores section, the design is would benefit from a free-flow summary. Rotating the device
being put forward by iPhone several major news sources. The somewhat mediocre. mode where the user is able to horizontally displays the full
developers. titles of stories, along with the Overall, the application has a answer, skip or revisit questions scorecard for the match, with each
As more and more people get first few lines of the text as well comprehensive set of features for as they are asked. There is also innings on a separate screen — a
their hands on these devices, as the date and time, are listed on the small price. Although it was room for the interface design novel approach which maximizes
cricket fans from around the the main application screen. developed by a company that features to be improved. Unlike the amount of data that can be
world have a choice between nine Clicking on a story launches a develops a range of other iPhone other trivia quizzes where answers shown on a single screen. The
applications, most of which can new screen with a summary and applications, one would have remain relatively unchanged, the interface of the main news screen
be downloaded for less than US$1 an ability to open the full story on thought that more effort would cricket statistics are in constant is reminiscent of the album
for both the iPhone and iPod the relevant website (similar to have gone into the interface flux and one presumes that the selection screens on iPods and
touch. Cricket, reviewed above). The design. Apple’s products in app would need to be regularly displays headlines, photos and the
Cricket(99 cents) settings screen provides end users general are renowned for having updated to keep up with these truncated descriptions for each
Now in version 1.2, when the with some control over which intuitive user interfaces, however, changes. news item. Clicking on an item
application is loaded, the news news sources are polled. this application contradicts that, CricketRSS(99 cents) reveals the full article inside the
screen displays a list of headlines While the application is elegant resulting in a less than impressive While its name is more accurate application itself with the photo
f r o m a r t i c l e s p u b l i s h e d o n in its simplicity, the same interface that detracts from the in regards to what to expect when section working in a similar way.
E S P N ’ s C r i c i n f o w e b s i t e . functionality is also offered in usability. you come across it, CricketRSS is The ECBtv section is a list of
Clicking on a headline opens a other free cricket applications. Cricket Trivia(99 cents) functionally similar to the Cricket video podcasts from YouTube
new screen which shows a Alternatively, spending a couple Released in April 2009, the Live (iCricket) application streaming the external YouTube
summary of the article and a link of dollars on a good quality, Cricket Trivia quiz is a relatively reviewed above. The main screen player.
to open the full story on the commercial RSS reader would simple application with a few shows a list of news headlines and The major, though
Cricinfo’s website. The same provide the ability to keep up to added features to tailor it more truncated descriptions, understandable, limitation of the
news stories can be filtered on a date with more than just cricket towards today’s gamers. After conveniently grouped by date. app is that it only shows the
p e r - c o u n t r y b a s i s v i a t h e news and provide additional launching the application, the user Clicking on any one of the news scores for the ECC and the
Countries screen, which arguably control over the display of the selects the number of random items opens up the details page England international matches. As
makes the default news screen news. questions that will be included in which shows the full description such, the market is somewhat
redundant. The Live screen shows Cricket Live-007(99 cents) the test. Each question is then and the ability to open the full
at-a-glace summaries of all Another application recently source website. NINE page 54
Internet News Record Apple/ 53

Apple’s HD Cinema Display: Or, How I Overcame Monitor

Envy
By Liam Cassidy amazing displays. Perhaps they Apple’s own Mini-DV standard on the market. It makes me
(TheAppleBlog) haven’t always been the first isn’t supported without an wonder what might be happening
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:30:22 AM choice of graphics professionals, adapter. with the ageing 30 inch line.
but at least they’ve been But by far the biggest problem A quick visit to both the
In 1999 I was building websites consistently better than the cheap with the 30 incher is its price. At American and UK versions of the
with UltraDev and Drumbeat. I m o n i t o r s o f f e r e d b y P C $1,799 it’s a fantastically Apple website revealed that, at
was playing with DHTML and a manufacturers. So early this year, expensive monitor. Our own some point since April this year,
cool new thing called CSS. I was as I switched completely from PC James Dempsey compared Apple quietly removed the
dropping the word “recordset” to Mac, I made sure I bought the Apple’s behemoth with Dell’s 30 dedicated microsite for the 30
into conversations with other geek biggest and best displays Apple inch UltraSharp Widescreen and inch display. The only link you’ll
friends via the just-released MSN could offer. And that meant the concluded he preferred the Dell. find now is to its product page in
Messenger Service. I considered g a r g a n t u a n , b e a u t i f u l , Read the article to see his reasons the online store. My old
myself pretty technologically breathtaking 30 inch Cinema HD why, but I’ll tell you now that bookmarks no longer work. So —
accomplished. But then one day a Widescreen Displays. Two of price was an important factor. what’s happening? Is Apple
friend visited and used my them, as it happens. than one monitor? The answer But I have no regrets — and a discontinuing the 30 inch Cinema
computer to check his email. As And they are amazing. falls conveniently down to a good job, too, considering how HD Display, perhaps planning to
he took his seat before my beige Positioned side by side before me, single word: productivity. Quite expensive these things still are. replace it with a refreshed new
plastic 15 inch CRT he mumbled I practically swim in Cinema simply, people who (properly) use Whether you buy from Apple or line based on their LED monitors?
“Ugh! It’s so small.” Display goodness. To clarify; multiple monitors work more elsewhere, they’ll set you back a I emailed no fewer than four of
I was crushed. My monitor was when I work on my 15 inch efficiently and productively. painful $1,799 each! Personally, my contacts at Apple who, two
smaller than his monitor. How Macbook Pro, despite the beauty Don’t take my word for it — look however, these displays are by far weeks later, have remained utterly
embarrassing! of that glossy screen, I’m acutely at this report(PDF) from Pfeiffer, t h e m o s t i m p r e s s i v e n o n - silent on the matter.
Since that day I have always aware that it provides a limited, which goes into extraordinary television panels I’ve had the But I’ve never quite gotten over
strived to use the largest monitor narrow view of the digital world, depth examining the virtues of pleasure of using. Call me insane, that brief period of monitor envy
possible, and usually two of ‘em a little like peering through the extensive screen-space. There’s but I enjoy needing to slide my in 1999. I’ve always hated it when
side by side. And while dual mail slot in my front door. With Always a Down Side chair a little to the left to more I’ve walked into a room and
monitor setups are not so common these enormous cinema displays, I The Cinema HD Display isn’t comfortably see what’s going on discovered, to my silent horror,
in most homes, at least we’ve don’t need to peer through the perfect. Sure, Apple generously on my other screen. The Future bigger and better monitors than
come a long way since the mail slot because the door has endowed it with two USB ports As with all things Apple, there’s my own. So I’m going to enjoy
primitive days of 15 inch CRTs. b e e n t h r o w n w i d e o p e n . and two Firewire 400 ports within the knowledge that what’s top-of- my beautiful cinema displays
The first flat panels ordinary Sometimes, it feels like the door easy-reach, and if you’re using a the-line today will be old-hat while I still can, because I know
people could afford were tiny, low has been taken off its hinges. And M a c P r o , t h o s e p o r t s a r e tomorrow. Buy a brand new it’s only a matter of time before
resolution, low color saturation, sometimes, I feel a little silly fantastically useful, saving you MacBook Pro and enjoy the Apple makes them feel like that
low-light things. The contrast having all this display. In fact, f r o m m a k i n g t r i p s t o t h e pleasure of being at the cutting- old, beige 15 incher that started it
(pun intended) to today’s cheap, u n l e s s I ’ m d o i n g s o m e mysterious, cable-strewn world edge while it lasts — because new all. Read our latest analysis piece,
bright and capable LCD screens is graphics/video work, I don’t Beneath the Desk. But FW400 is models will be out before you " Why Startups Aren’t Changing
remarkable, but it has been a very maximize windows. Doing so old now, and since these displays know it. Well, the 30 inch Cinema the World." Only on GigaOM
short journey from one to the feels… I don’t know… over the were launched they haven’t been HD Displays have yet to be Pro.
other. top, somehow. refreshed. Newer standards, such surpassed. But Apple does have
I always knew that Apple made So why does anyone need more as HDMI, are unsupported. Even some very nice new LED screens
54 Sports/ Game/
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continued from page 52
limited to the UK and
international ECC fans only. The
other notable absence is the
running commentary for the
matches or the ability to see the
past match scores or team
standings. Overall, the application
is extremely well polished, even
though some of the elements may
appear a bit gimmicky at times.
iCricket(Free)
When this application was first
released in October 2008, it
started out as just a free RSS
reader for Cricinfo’s news feeds.
Since then it has grown to also
include links to match scores. The
main screen lists various
categories of news and scores in a
standard scrollable view, though
there’s no grouping of sections,
which often makes it confusing to
determine where to go to access
the information you’re after. This
is particularly awkward in relation
to the match scores and
commentary — links to
scorecards on the Cricinfo website
appears in one section of the
application while the running
commentary (for selected matches
only) appears in a completely
different section. The news part of
the application is relatively
standard, broken down into per-
country categories. Clicking on a
Mark Martin Racing Time, Chasing History
By Holly Cain (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:00:00 PM
by Holly Cain
Filed under: Mark Martin, a n y
Chase for the Sprint Cup, " o v e r w h e l m i n g . "
Hendrick Motorsports Mark
M a r t i n l e a n e d i n t o t h e clinched a spot in NASCAR's
m i c r o p h o n e a t R i c h m o n d Chase for the Championship.
category takes the user to the list
of headlines with truncated
descriptions. Clicking on the
article opens the Cricinfo website
for the full article, skipping the
news detail page common to the
other applications.
The application is functional,
though it generally takes a lot of
clicking around to find the
information you want to access.
The logic behind the layout of the
sections leaves a lot to be desired.
However, for a free app and an
amateur fan effort, it is cute and a
better effort than some of the
commercial cricket applications
reviewed.
MobiCast(Free)
This anticipated app was
released in October 2008. The
opening screen of the application
lists the current, upcoming and
recent matches. Clicking on a
match displays Cricinfo’s famous
ball-by-ball commentary and
gives access to the full scorecard
for the match. Clicking on a news
item displays the full story on the
iPhone itself, without opening the
external website. The photos
section shows photos that do not
appear to be linked to any current
matches nor do they behave like
standard iPhone photos — they
cannot be zoomed or scrolled
International Raceway two weeks
ago and, as if daring you to think
otherwise, proclaimed his season
already "icing on the cake," and
future success
A day later the 50-year-old
through using the standard
gestures. The podcast section is a
useful bookmark of the podcasts
by Cricinfo’s commentators.
There’s no question that the
q u a l i t y a n d t h e
comprehensiveness of Cricinfo’s
data is top rate, however the
resulting application is both
confusing and extremely
frustrating to use. For example,
throughout the match detail
screens, notification icons for “4,”
“6” etc popping constantly,
regardless if matches being played
or not. Even more confusingly,
the “Matches” tab shows the same
type of information as the main
screen — only presented in a
different format. One certainly
expects more from professional
developers backed by ESPN and
it is hard not to dismiss this as a
token effort in the also-ran
category of the App Store.
Virtual Cricket($1.99)
While the final application,
Virtual Cricket, was only recently
released, it’s clear that the
developer has addressed the
shortcomings that have been
identified with the other
applications. The matches screen
displays a list of current,
upcoming and recently completed
matches, with single-line match
He scored a Sprint Cup Series
best fifth victory in New
status and the time of the last
update. Clicking on a match
shows the match summary with
current score and the most recent
commentary highlights (4s, 6s,
wickets, etc). The news section
follows the familiar pattern of
listing headlines and truncated
descriptions. Clicking through
shows a summary of the news
item, with a link to open the full
article. The main difference here
is that the headlines are
aggregated from around 20
different news sources, grouped
by source and country and
catering to each user’s local
preferences. The feeds also
include leading cricket blogs as an
alternative to the traditional news
sources, as well as several video
channels.
Clearly, this seems to be the
most comprehensive application
currently available. It takes many
of the best features of every other
application reviewed and presents
these features in a professionally
polished package. In a quest for
features, it doesn’t forget the
details and implements niceties.
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Hampshire on Sunday, extending
his championship lead to 35
points over three-time reigning
champ Jimmie Johnson with nine
races remaining in stock car's
version of the playoffs.
Overwhelmed it is.
Mark Martin Racing Time,
Chasing History originally
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Brutal Legend video
explores game
world's art style
By Alexander Sliwinski
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:57:00 PM
The latest Brütal Legend video
has Art Director Lee Petty
describing the style and artistic
influences for the game's world.
Most of it is interesting to those
out there with an art degree, but
we certainly got a giggle out of
one of game's factions being
inspired by 15th century art and
"[Double Fine's] tremendous
amount of research into the S&M
scene." We wonder if those toys
like "leather straps" and "ball
gags" were brought into the office
and purchased with the company
credit card for "research" ... and
whether Tim Shafer now keeps a
dungeon for employee use?
... Hey, the game is M-rated, this
is a perfectly appropriate question
to ask. What?! Stop looking at us
like that.
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Here Are More Apps for That: Three New iPhone
Commercials From Apple
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:51:11 AM
It’s fall premiere season, and that
means new shows. But it also
means sparkly new ads to fill all
those commercial breaks. New
Apple ads for the iPhone provided
pleasant relief for me yesterday
from the tedium of the two-hour
Heroes premiere. On a side note,
the Castle premiere was pretty
good.
But back to those commercials.
All three highlight popular and
unique iPhone apps, some of
which have already been featured
in previous commercials. Let’s
take a look at the apps featured in
each commercial. Dine
The first ad is called Dine and
features a smattering of apps
covering a range of different
topics, including travel, dining,
working and shopping. Here’s a
breakdown of the apps featured.
TripCase(Free) — Flight
tracking, info and travel itinerary
management app. Quite a few not
so great reviews on this one, but it
is free.
New York Subway 09($4.99) —
Navigate the labyrinth of the New
York City subway system with
painstakingly hand drawn maps.
Also not very favorably reviewed.
Epicurious Recipes & Shopping
List(Free) — Access
Epicurious.com’s database of
great recipes. I actually use and
love this app, since it lets me
indulge the amateur chef in me.
Zagat To Go ‘09($9.99) — You
like restaurants? Zagat ratings will
help you know what you’re
getting in to. Is it worth $10? It
Apple/ Game/ 55
Fandango(Free) — The online
ticketing service has created this
app to help you find info about
movies and buy tickets to see EA confirms The
them.
G-Park($0.99) — Find your car Beatles: Rock Band
in that ridiculous infinite field of SingStar mic pack for
concrete outside the local Costco.
Those colored, numbered pillars
UK, other territories
do nothing. By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
VocabWiz College Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:59:00 PM
Vocabulary($4.99) — Use this
app to show up snooty college The Beatles: Rock Band
guys in bars, just like Matt SingStar bundle has arrived at UK
Damon. retailers for £49.99 ($81.87). Only
365 Crosswords($4.99) — Fight after being half-announced by
off boredom with word games. MTV Games, showing up on an
That’s what I do. Or else Sudoku, Australian retailer website, and
which is like this but with less then vaguely detailed in a press
hard brain thinking. release from today, are we able to
Classics($2.99) — Public bring you this news. Is it coming
may depend on how much you 12-inch PowerBook G4, this was domain books made to look very, to other territories? That's a good
value your meals out. one of my staples. Now it’s a cool very pretty on the iPhone. One question!
Quickoffice Mobile Office $10 home screen icon. reviewer faulted it for not We asked EA, who gave us a
Suite($9.99) — Check out my Lonely Planet Mandarin including Twilight. That’s the laundry list of launch dates for
thoughts and impressions here. P h r a s e b o o k ( $ 9 . 9 9 ) — A primary reason to buy, in my various European and African
Gap StyleMixer(Free) — globetrotter’s best friend. Or opinion. countries (listed after the break).
Coordinate Gap clothes. Could be maybe just if you order a lot of ABC Animals($1.99) — Amuse Unfortunately, we were told that
useful if you want to outfit Mandarin food. and educate the kids, or help the exclusion of North America
yourself entirely in Gap. Nature i Bird Explorer Plus($19.99) — eliminate the secret shame of your from the list means that the
Money, learning, nature and I’m not a particularly avid birder, illiteracy. Not that you’d be publisher currently has no
pizza predilections are at the core but I’ve still been tempted to pick reading this if you were illiterate, intention of bringing the
of this ad. I’m starting to see the this up. Just think of how many I suppose. microphone bundle Stateside.
pattern here. Weird pairs tied b i r d s y o u c o u l d r a n d o m l y Oh, and in case you weren’t Sorry, aspiring North American
together by linguistic or thematic identify. Now that’s an app. aware, Apple makes sure to crooners!
similarity. Pizza Hut(Free) — Order pizza mention in each of these adds that Continue reading EA confirms
iXpenseIt($4.99) — Watch without using your vocal chords there are now over 75,000 apps The Beatles: Rock Band SingStar
what you spend by tracking or a computer! Truly, the future is available in the App Store. mic pack for UK, other territories
expenses and preparing a monthly upon us. Pass Nothing like sheer volume to EA confirms The Beatles: Rock
budget. There’s also a free Lite Use your iPhone to help you outshine the competition without Band SingStar mic pack for UK,
version available. find things, pass things(that mentioning them directly. Read other territories originally
DailyFinance(Free) — AOL sounds bad), read things and learn our latest analysis piece, " Why appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 22
helps stock market junkies stay up how to read to begin with. They Startups Aren’t Changing the Sep 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please
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Plaxico Burress sentenced to two years in prison on firearms
charge
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:25:30 PM
Plaxico Burress Begins Prison
Sentence Plaxico Burress Begins
Prison Sentence VIDEO
PLAYLIST
• Plaxico Burress Begins Prison
Sentence Plaxico Burress Begins
Prison Sentence
• Burress' Attorney Addresses
The Media Burress' Attorney
Addresses The Media
• Cossack: Burress Faces Tough
Two Years Cossack: Burress
Faces Tough Two Years
• Plaxico Behind Bars Plaxico
Behind Bars
NEW YORK -- One-time Super
Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was
sentenced to two years in prison
Tuesday for violating New York's
stringent gun laws and was
immediately taken into custody
following his hearing.
Burress agreed to a plea deal
last month and pleaded guilty to a
lesser firearms charge. The
charges stemmed from an incident
late last fall, in which Burress
accidentally shot himself in the
thigh at a Manhattan nightclub
with a gun that had not been
licensed in New York.
He is expected to serve about 20
months with credit for good
behavior -- meaning he could be
released as early as the spring of
2011 -- followed by two years of
probation.
Burress arrived at the
courthouse at 9:41 a.m. ET on
Tuesday wearing a jeans and a
long-sleeved T-shirt, a stark
contrast to the dark blue suit he
wore last month when he entered
his guilty plea.
He was accompanied by his
pregnant wife, Tiffany; his almost
3-year-old son, Elijah, whom he
carried; his father, grandmother
and stepmother.
Before the sentencing began,
Burress asked for and was granted
permission by Judge Michael
Melkonian to say one last
goodbye to his wife and family,
seated in the fifth row of the
courthouse.
The hearing was brief, as the
prosecution and defense told the
judge they had previously agreed
to the guilty plea and two-year
sentence.
A soft-spoken Burress then
apologized to his family and fans
and thanked them for their
support. "We will all get through
this," he said.
He was then taken into custody.
The Giants, through spokesman
Pat Hanlon, said, "This has been a
tragic, sad, disappointing situation
from the beginning. Our concern
has always been for Plax's
welfare, and for his family, and
that continues to be our overriding
feeling."
Michael Strahan, a former
Giants teammate who is now an
NFL television analyst, used his
Twitter account to support
Burress: "My Thoughts and
Prayers are with my man Plaxico
and his family today!!!"
Antonio Pierce, also a former
Giants teammate who was with
Burress the night of the incident,
and former Giant linebacker
Kawika Mitchell, now with the
Buffalo Bills, re-tweeted the
Strahan comment.
Burress was transported to
Rikers Island jail in New York,
where he arrived at 1:20 p.m. ET,
according to Steve Morello, a
deputy commissioner with the
New York City Department of
Corrections. He will later be
transferred to another correctional
facility for processing before
being sent to one of New York
state's 34 medium-security prisons
to serve out his sentence.
Afterward, his defense attorney,
Benjamin Brafman, called the
case "terribly sad and very tragic."
"This has been a very emotional
experience for him," Brafman
said. "He's sad about what he's
done to his life, his career, and
more importantly to his family.
He's a fundamentally good man
who has used bad judgment and is
going to pay a very, very severe
penalty."
The case went to a grand jury
after months of negotiations
between prosecutors and Burress'
defense attorney broke down,
apparently because Manhattan
District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau insisted that the
former New York Giants wide
receiver serve at least two years in
prison for violating the city's strict
gun laws. Mayor Michael
Bloomberg had also publicly
called for Burress to be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.
On July 29, Burress took the
rare and risky step of testifying
before the grand jury, hoping to
convince the panel that the gun
was not used in the commission of
a crime and that he was the lone
victim. But days later, Burress
was indicted on two counts of
criminal possession of a weapon
and one count of reckless
endangerment. He faced a
minimum sentence of 3½ years if
convicted at trial.
On Aug. 20, the day he was to
be arraigned, Burress agreed to a
plea deal and pleaded guilty to
attempted weapons possession in
the second degree.
Hours after Burress pleaded
guilty, the NFL announced that
commissioner Roger Goodell had
suspended the receiver and said
Burress is ineligible to sign with
any team until he completes his
prison term. After that, Burress
may sign with an NFL team
without further review.
Burress, a nine-year veteran
with the Giants and Pittsburgh
Steelers, became a Super Bowl
hero when he caught the winning
touchdown pass in the last minute
of the Giants' 17-14 upset win
over the previously unbeaten New
England Patriots in Super Bowl
XLII.
Burress and Pierce were at the
Latin Quarter nightclub in
Manhattan in late November 2008
when a gun tucked into Burress'
waistband slipped down his leg
and fired, shooting him in the
right thigh.
The bullet narrowly missed a
nightclub security guard who was
standing inches away, prosecutors
said. It lodged in the floor and
was recovered by a bartender.
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The gun was not licensed in
New York or in New Jersey,
where Burress lived. His license
to carry a concealed weapon in
the state of Florida had expired in
May 2008.
Prosecutors said Pierce drove
Burress to a hospital, then took
the gun to his own home in New
Jersey. It was later delivered to
Burress' home. Pierce, who also
testified before the grand jury,
was not charged.
The Giants released Burress in
April, but the 32-year-old told
ESPN he hopes to resume his
NFL career when he completes
his sentence.
"When I get out, I'll be 33, not
43," Burress said in an interview
broadcast in August. "I'll still be
able to run and catch. I'll still have
the God-given ability to snag
footballs; that's what I love to do.
Of course, I want to play again."
Gil Brandt, an analyst on NFL
Sirius Radio and the former head
of player personnel for the Dallas
Cowboys, said Burress won't be
too old for a comeback when he's
released from prison.
"First of all, Plaxico is a guy
who keeps himself in pretty good
shape," Brandt said. "Lots of
times guys get heavy in the
offseason. He is not a guy who
has done that."
ESPN reporter Sal Paolantonio
and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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Dolphins Dominate All Stats but Final Score
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:52:47 AM
Winning the time-of-possession
battle in a football game can be
about as valuable as the $10 you
collect for winning second prize
in a beauty contest in Monopoly.
It doesn’t hurt, but as the Miami
Dolphins can attest today, it
doesn’t necessarily help much,
either. Getty Images Peyton
Manning takes time from his busy
schedule filming commercials to
steer the Colts to victory.
The Dolphins controlled the ball
for over 45 minutes out of 60 yet
lost 27-23 to Indianapolis on
Monday, thanks to Peyton
Manning’s quick-strike
capabilities. The Colts
quarterback threw a TD pass on
the game’s opening play and
another late in the fourth quarter
to beat Miami. Those drives
required all of 44 seconds
combined. The Dolphins also
rushed for an impressive 239
yards on 49 carries, another stat
that won’t make them feel any
better about dropping to 0-2.
“The point is that the view from
two losses in the first two games
of any NFL season isn’t a pretty
one,” Greg Stoda writes in the
Palm Beach Post. “Jacksonville,
Tennessee, Cleveland, Kansas
City and the Dolphins are
working from that AFC
perspective at the moment;
Carolina, Tampa Bay, Detroit and
St. Louis are the NFC
counterparts. How’s that for a
miserable bunch of teams? If
there’s a championship contender
among those groups — or, for that
matter, a playoff participant —
it’s pretty well-disguised.”
“Despite what the clock might
lead you to believe, Manning was
the more efficient quarterback on
Monday night,” Vinnie Iyer
writes for the Sporting News.
“You can’t ‘fault’ him for
[Dallas] Clark and [Pierre]
Garcon making great moves to
score in a blink. That’s just the
nature of having explosive
playmakers.”
The Indianapolis Star’s Bob
Kravitz imagines Johnny Unitas
in football heaven celebrating
Manning’s efficiency and his
119th victory, breaking the
legendary quarterback’s franchise
record. “Seriously, did you see
my boy, 18? Is that kid a leader,
or what?” Kravitz writes,
channeling Unitas. “He spent
more time on the sideline talking
to Tiger Woods than he did on the
field. Seemed like he needed 10
plays to score 27 points. That, my
friends, is more than quarterback;
that’s a leader.”
While the Dolphins are winless,
division rival New York is 2-0.
But don’t celebrate too early, Jets
fans, Jeff Pearlman warns at
Sports Illustrated.
In Washington, the Redskins
needed an ugly 9-7 win over St.
Louis on Sunday to get to 1-1
before displeased fans.
Afterwards, a tweet from
linebacker Robert Henson led to a
torrent of criticism of the rookie
Monday, Dan Steinberg writes in
the Washington Post. It’s never a
good thing to refer to your own
Sports/ 57
spectacularly,” Justice fumes. New York Times. A country
“Had Dave Clark, who managed stereotypically known for its
six years in the minor leagues and polite citizenry is suddenly
is held in high esteem in the fighting accusations of poor
clubhouse, gotten a chance earlier, sportsmanship.* * *
a cloud of doubt and negative Some message Formula One
emotions would have been lifted.” sent Monday. The sport’s
Sports Illustrated’s Ted Keith governing body gave Renault a
thinks the Astros will be hard- two-year suspended sentence for
fans as “dim-wits.”* * * pressed to contend next year even its role in Nelson Piquet Jr.’s
The community-owned Packers with the managerial change. “The deliberate crash at last year’s
thrive in Green Bay, the NFL’s Astros are old and it shows,” Singapore Grand Prix. While
smallest market. But it’s a Keith writes. “They have only two team boss Flavio Briatore was
different story in Jacksonville, position players younger than 29, banned for life and engineer Pat
where the Jaguars likely will not and when veterans like Miguel Symonds was banned for five
sell out any games this season. Tejada and Lance Berkman years, Renault didn’t even get a
For Sunday’s home opener, a 31- stopped producing as they did in hefty fine.
17 loss to Arizona, the Jags their prime, their offense was “The governing body of motor
announced attendance of 46,520 rendered largely punchless.”* * * sport has failed in its duty
but the crowd appeared much Most baseball teams run sufficiently to penalize Renault
smaller. High unemployment and academies in the Dominican and its Formula One team for one
foreclosure rates and little Republic, injecting over $100 of the worst acts of cheating in
corporate support are major m i l l i o n a n n u a l l y i n t o t h e sporting history and allowed
reasons Dan Wetzel of Yahoo economy, because of the wealth commercial considerations to
Sports labels this small-market of talent they reap from that cloud its judgment,” Edward
NFL experiment a failure.* * * investment — the most of any Gorman wonders in the Times of
The Houston Astros surprised foreign country. But the game in London.
no one by firing manager Cecil the D.R. is rife with steroids, In the New York Times, Rob
Cooper on Monday. Afterwards, fraud and kickbacks, Kevin Hughes writes that Briatore’s
Cooper’s replacement, third-base Baxter writes in the Los Angeles suspension poses a problem for
coach Dave Clark, watched the Times.* * * British soccer, too.
Astros fall to their eighth straight Canada and the U.S. usually – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
defeat, 7-3 to St. Louis. have an amicable relationship. Don Hartline.
Poor signings and a weak minor The two countries share the Found a good column from the
-league system contributed to the world’s longest undefended world of sports? Don’t keep it to
Astros’ early elimination from the border and are each other’s largest yourself — write to us at
playoffs, the Houston Chronicle’s trading partners. But things aren’t dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Richard Justice writes. But they hunky-dory as Canada prepares consider your find for inclusion in
aren’t the biggest reason for for the Winter Olympics in the Daily Fix. You can email
Houston’s failures, at least February. Hoping to sit atop the Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
according to Justice. “Cooper was medal standings and win its first
a huge part of the problem. In gold medal as host, Canada is
almost every way a manager can l i m i t i n g t r a i n i n g a c c e s s t o
b e m e a s u r e d , h e f a i l e d American and other foreign
athletes, John Branch writes in the
58 Sports/ Fashion/ Internet News Record

Notre Dame Fighting Irish QB Marion Barber Reportedly Out

1-2 Weeks
Jimmy Clausen has turf toe By Matt Snyder (FanHouse)
By Associated Press only two plays after being injured Weis said. Floyd had a plate put Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:00:00 PM

(ESPN.com) Saturday against Michigan State. in his shoulder.

He has been seen walking around Weis joked that Floyd, a by Matt Snyder
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:51:14 PM
campus in a protective boot, and sophomore, thinks he's a coach Filed under: NFL Injury Report
Jimmy Clausen Injury Update will have a plate placed in his now. Marion Barber is a beast when
Jimmy Clausen Injury Update shoe that lifts the toe up to take "He's been all over everyone. He he's on the field. We know that.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre pressure off the injured area, Weis was in the training room this We've seen him take on defenders
Dame, already without its most said. morning hammering on Clausen, as the aggressor. Unfortunately,
prolific pass receiver, could face Weis said the plan is to give 'Get out of that boot. Let's get having to fight injury woes comes
Purdue on Saturday with its backup Dayne Crist, who did not going,'" Weis said. "He was with the territory of being such a
quarterback and leading rusher play as a freshman last season, the getting on Armando for wanting a bruising runner. Barber wore
both hobbled. majority of the time in practice on day off today." down toward the end of last
Coach Charlie Weis said Tuesday, but also give third- Weis said doctors have told him season after a monstrous start.
Tuesday that Jimmy Clausen, stringer Evan Sharpley-- the that Floyd coming back in two This year, his injury has come
second in the nation in pass backup the past three years -- months would be "optimistic," early.
efficiency with a rating of 188.55, some plays "to knock off a little saying there's an "outside shot" he According to NBC Dallas-Fort
would miss practice Tuesday with bit of the rust." could be back before a possible Worth, Barber is out for 1-2 Marion Barber Reportedly Out
turf toe on his right foot. Tailback The plan is to practice Clausen bowl game. weeks with a quadriceps injury. 1-2 Weeks originally appeared on
Armando Allen Jr., who has some on Wednesday and for him Weis agreed, when asked, that it Being a quad injury on a running Fanhouse Fantasy Football on
r u s h e d f o r 1 0 0 y a r d s i n to take the majority of the snaps is unlikely Floyd would seek a back, it's easy to see this thing Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EST .
consecutive games, is expected to on Thursday. Weis plans to take a medical redshirt because of his lingering for a few extra weeks as Please see our terms for use of
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nation blog. Brian Bennett Weis has said he has confidence more years, let alone three more
provides the latest Irish updates as in Crist. Crist is 3-of-4 passing years. If you give me him for two,
part of ESPN.com's blog network. this season for 16 yards and an I'd sign up for that right now."
As he did Sunday, Weis tried to interception on a long bomb to Weis also said fullback James
make light of the Clausen injury. end the first half against Michigan Aldridge, who missed the past
"Rumors of him having a broken State. two games with a sprained right
foot and being done for the year The surgery on star receiver shoulder, likely will be out until
are incorrect," he said. "But he Michael Floyd, who was second the game against USC on Oct. 17.
does have a turf toe." in the nation in receiving yards Copyright 2009 by The
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Jimmie Johnson says caution should
have been called earlier in final lap
of race
By David Newton (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:55:17 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Three-
time defending series champion
Jimmie Johnson says NASCAR
should have called a caution
earlier on the last lap of Sunday's
Chase for the Sprint Cup opener
at New Hampshire Motor
Speedway.
The governing body waited
until the leaders were between
turns 3 and 4 to throw the caution
with A.J. Allmendinger's car
stalled on the front stretch. That
left many drivers, including
Johnson, wondering whether to
race back to the line.
Johnson said that created an
unsafe situation.
"It should have been called a
little bit earlier," Johnson said
during a Tuesday conference call.
" ... On the last lap, when you take
into consideration how fired up
everybody is to get back to the
start-finish line and wondering
where the last scoring loop was or
what's the point you race to, that
bit of hesitation in all the drivers'
minds leads to an unsafe
situation."
Johnson, who finished fourth,
said he checked up coming off
Turn 4 and nobody passed him,
but he noticed not everybody
slowed as the rules require.
Among those, he said, were
drivers trying to catch eventual
race winner Mark Martin.
"When I saw the replay, granted
the first couple of cars was pretty
hairy," Johnson said. "But there
were a lot of close calls deep in
the pack."
Martin said he got hit from
behind when he checked up. He
didn't disagree with the call to
delay calling the caution, echoing
NASCAR's argument that
Allmendinger could have gotten
restarted.
He also didn't dispute the
potential for danger.
"Somebody came up there and
ran into the back of me, and of
course I went back to
accelerating," Martin said. "I
knew the race was supposed to be
over, but I've done lots of stupid
stuff and I didn't want to lose this
race.
"I was under the impression that
when a caution [was] called, the
race was over. I don't think the
guys [who] gave up the race
behind me quit, so it caused a
little bit of chaos."
Four-time Cup champion Jeff
Gordon, further back in the field
in 15th, said he never got word
that the caution was out.
"All I know is my spotter was
saying there was a car down low
on the front straightaway stopped,
and I never heard them say,
'Caution,' " Gordon told reporters
after the race. "So everybody was
still going, and I saw the caution
out of the corner of my eye. I said,
'I never heard the caution' and
[my spotter] said, 'That's because
it didn't come out until just now,'
and I was surprised by that."
NASCAR spokesman Ramsey
Poston said Allmendinger was
given every opportunity to clear
the track so the race could be
completed under green, which is
the ultimate goal.
Allmendinger's did not create
unsafe racing conditions, Poston
argued.
"We waited as long as we could
so we could complete the race,
but when the 44 didn't move in
time we had to display the yellow
between turns 3 and 4," he said.
"We were able to let the guys race
it out as much as possible while
keeping everyone safe."
David Newton covers NASCAR
for ESPN.com. He can be reached
at dnewtonespn@aol.com.
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Coach Killer, Week 2: Ted
Ginn Jr.
By Tom Mantzouranis
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:05:00 PM
by Tom Mantzouranis
Filed under: Dolphins Every
week, NFL FanHouse hits the
lowlights from Sunday's action,
looking at those players who did
the most to move their head
coaches that much closer to
returning to the Bed and Breakfast
business.
After Monday night's 27-23
Colts win over the Dolphins,
Chad Pennington had this to say:
"It's not about statistics, it's about
scoring points and winning
football games." He was referring receiver," Ted Ginn Jr.
Coach Killer, Week 2: Ted Ginn
to the now-infamous advantage in
time of possession the Dolphins Jr. originally appeared on
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DICE founder forms

Antic Entertainment,
unveils Junk: Battles
FireCore console pre-loaded By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:29:00 PM

with Genesis games, plays DICE founder Fredrik Liljegren

Tiga calls UK tax support carts has his sights set on free-to-play
games, as he's revealed (via
Gamasutra) his new studio, Antic
'incoherent,' seeks national By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:29:00 PM
developed "Truecolor" games.
Innex is also releasing a very Entertainment. He's joined by
cool portable system with 20 Digital Extremes alum Mark
solution We don't do usually cover plug-
and-play consoles, but this one
Genesis games playable on a 2.4- Mikulec and Jeff Evans at the
inch LCD screen. You can get a London, Ontario-based studio,
By Alexander Sliwinski Relief" program, rather than the was too cool to pass up. While look at it right after the break. which features talent from a
(Joystiq) current system, which favors Innex and AtGames' Firecore Continue reading FireCore variety of titles such as Dark
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:58:00 PM certain locales over others. Classic Console is pre-loaded console pre-loaded with Genesis Sector, BioShock and DICE's
Tiga believes the national relief with 30 Genesis games like Sonic games, plays carts Battlefield series.
We're starting to notice that tax will create 1,400 jobs over and Knuckles and Ecco the FireCore console pre-loaded In fact, the team's already got a
Tiga, the UK's trade association five years and increase investment Dolphin, it can also play all your with Genesis games, plays carts title underway called Junk:
for the video game industry, is in a sector that'll likely continue old Genesis carts. We're not sure originally appeared on Joystiq on Battles(Seriously? You named
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latest warning from Tiga urges the 'incoherent,' seeks national buy them separately, and newly they progress. While the game is
English government to stop its " solution originally appeared on in its earliest stages, feel free to
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Where Richard, Olafur, Murakami, Jude Law’s Latest Film

and Marc meet is All the Rage
By blogeditor1 (Material on). Each project is lavishly By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Interest on Men.style.com) illustrated and accompanied by an Blog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:20:37 AM essay (O'Brien's on Prince and Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:41:32 PM
Sprouse are alone just about
In the spirit of full disclosure worth the price of admission). Last night Jude Law, Steve
(and getting it out of the way): And while there's a hagiographic Buscemi, Lily Cole, Bob Balaban,
Yes, Rizzoli's mammoth new tinge to the whole, we might just Patrick Adams, and John
Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and as well call it giving credit where Leguizamo gathered at downtown
Architecture has a lot of handbags credit is due. It's hard not to be nightspot The Box to celebrate the
in it. Keep reading anyway. The glad that Vuitton supports the premiere of Rage, an
encyclopedia (it's alphabetized) of artists, designers, and architects it experimental work by British
the brand's collaborations with does, especially when few seem director Sally Potter. The
artists, architects, and other inclined to either half-ass their minimalist murder mystery, which
designers goes far deeper than just contributions or rest on their sees the aforementioned actors as
purse projects and testifies to the laurels after cashing their checks. fashion-industry personalities,
house's long-standing support of Take Prince's project. It worked. follows a week in the lives of a
the arts. LV has deep pockets and (The bags sold out.) He didn't cross-dressing supermodel (Law),
good taste; it can make the kind of retire. critic (Judi Dench), photographer
offers not many can refuse. ("If $85, available today at Rizzoli (Buscemi), and catwalk darling
this works, I can retire," Richard stores and rizzoliusa.com and at (real-life model Cole). Rage has
Prince tells Glenn O'Brien of his these projects, which include store Louis Vuitton boutiques; for the singular distinction of being
2008 collaboration with creative design and merchandising (by Jun locations, visit louisvuitton.com the first film released via mobile message: the themes Rage
director Marc Jacobs on show Aoki, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita MATTHEW SCHNEIER Photo: Web (starting this week, viewers explores include, in Potter’s
invitations, installations, and an Fernández) and limited-edition © Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, can access daily episodes through words, “the power of the internet;
enormously popular line of, well, product designs (by Murakami, and Architecture, Rizzoli New the service Babelgum). the reversal of power into the
bags; one of his acrylics pictured, Prince, Stephen Sprouse, Zaha York, 2009. But straight–to–cell phone was hands of the young, who know the
left.) The book catalogs all of Hadid, Rei Kawakubo, and on and not how Potter initially imagined internet much better; the effect of
the project. “I wrote a script about globalization on the lives of
Gentlemen, Raise Your Bidding Paddles ten years ago,” she told me. “But I
didn’t really ever feel that it was
individuals; and the relationship
between the world of appearances
By stylemens (GQ: The a car engine—and all of the quite working the way I had and the inner self.” Or as Buscemi
Editors) money raised for this item conceived it. And it was only after observed, “It’s not about fashion,
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:58:37 AM benefits research for Duchenne having a website and blog myself it’s about human nature.”
Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic that I began to really understand —Erin Clements
It’s not everyday that our disorder that causes rapid the power of the internet. And that Photo: Patrick McMullan
accessories editor tells us, “This is muscular degeneration in 1 out of gave me a clue about how to re- Follow ELLE on Twitter.
one of the coolest watches I have every 3,500 boys. The one-of-a- conceive the film.” And of course,
ever seen.” Even less often is it kind piece is being auctioned off the medium is part of the
that 100% of the proceeds for said this Thursday by Patrizzi & Co.
timepiece go toward a good cause. Auctioneers. And while you
Which is why the "Only probably can’t be there for the
Watch"—the latest from luxury actual event in Monaco, you can
watchmaker MB&F—turned our wire design by artist Sage place a bid at the auctioneer’s web
heads. It’s got more bells and Vaughn, automatic winding site in real-time.— andrew
whistles than you could hope double-dials, and Swiss richdale
for—an 18-karat gold, barbed- movement so complex it runs like
62 Fashion/ Internet News Record

Lara Stone, Backstage at

Jaeger London
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:00:42 AM

We've been on a Lara Stone high

all year, so when I caught up with
her just as she finished the Jaeger
show (she was still out of
breath!), I seized the opportunity
to say hello. And she was beyond
gracious and smiled her famous
gap-toothed smile. Her hair was
back in the tight do used for the
show, exposing her sharp bone
structure and deep-set eyes.
She was as excited as everyone
else for the 25th anniversary of
LFW: "Its such a big season. Lots
of people are here, a lot of shows
are going on, and I think it's a
great venue here at Somerset
House," she said.
She still isn't sure if the Milan
shows are on her schedule but
she's definitely going to Paris,
where she lived for seven years.
For her, "It's like going home."
But everyone seems to think
modeling is this super-easy gig,
just looking pretty and walking.
Having been backstage to enough
shows to know these ladies
sometimes put their bodies
through torturous activities in the
name of fashion, I wondered what
the most difficult thing about the
job for Lara is. "What I dislike
the most, I think, is when people
grab you. It's just kind of rude,"
she said. "And there is a lot flying
and jetlag, which I hate. But I
really don't have that much to
complain about; I think it's a great
job."
Finally, one-stop shopping for your yacht and
—Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin
Follow ELLE on Twitter. your watch
By blogeditor1 (Material (basically every one you could have picked out their three
Interest on Men.style.com) want, from Audemars to Zenith favorites (including the
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:34:11 PM [pictured]) designed one-of-a-kind HM2—this might get interesting).
pieces, the proceeds from which Prices are sure to be plutocrat-
Astonishingly, we're not making will support research on muscular level, but hey, compared to those
our usual trip to Monaco this year. dystrophy, and bids can be made of the yachts on offer, they'll
But luckily that doesn't forestall in real time on the auction house's practically be bargains.
u s — o r , f o r t h a t m a t t e r , Web site. Anticipation's building, Auction begins at 12 p.m. EST
you—from bidding at Patrizzi & and everyone's got their eye on a Thursday, September 24, at
Co.'s Only Watch auction, which particular specimen or two: Our patrizziauction.com MATTHEW
will be held at the principality's friends at The Q are into MB&F's SCHNEIER Photo: Patrizz & Co.
yacht show on Thursday. For the HM2 by artist Sage Vaughn,
a u c t i o n , 3 4 m a j o r h o u s e s while the devotees at Hodinkee
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MediaDailyNews:
Enterprise: Canoe Uses
EBIF Launch To Propel
Interactive Advertising
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:58:22 PM

The acronym may never be as

well-known as CPM or GRP. But
Horns aplenty EBIF is starting to find its way
into industry vernacular. It refers
By blogeditor1 (Material clothing (leather, suede, shearling, to a tech function, but Canoe
Pringle of Scotland and Tilda Interest on Men.style.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:52:14 AM
and fur) as well as plywood, Ventures execs might be wise to
m a r b l e , a n d a f e w n a t u r a l brand it as "Extended Brand
Swinton products. More antlers? Well, we Inventory Fulfillment" -- a
We're not sure when he finds might've been a little weary of r e f e r e n c e t o e x p a n d i n g
By ELLE.com (ELLE News life. It was haunting, showing the time to do it—what with a men's those in the past, but if anyone's opportunities it can provide
Blog) actress trying to enter a castle on a line, a women's line, a fur line, capable of breathing new life into advertisers.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:24:29 AM shore and finally squeezing and two diffusion lines—but an overused design detail, our Canoe was founded by the six
through a tiny crevice in a wall to s o m e h o w R i c k O w e n s a l s o money's on this guy. leading cable operators to develop
It was all glamour last before the emerge into the darkness within. designs furniture. And as a new T h r o u g h S e p t e m b e r a t new revenue streams by providing
Pringle show. Calling the tony After an intense search inside the London gallery show of his Sebastian+Barquet London, 19 advertisers with cutting-edge
galleries of Saatchi and Saatchi walls of the building, the short interior work makes clear, he's got Bruton Pl., London, 011-44-20- o p t i o n s . T h e c o m p a n y i s
home for the evening, the event film ends with Tilda walking into plenty to fall back on if he ever 7 4 9 5 - 8 9 8 8 , scheduled to launch a national
s t a r t e d w i t h a c h a m p a g n e the ocean, and then disappearing decides this fashion thing's for the sebastianandbarquetlondon.com interactive advertising system --
reception to premiere Tilda into it. birds. Owens' pieces range from [ v i a W W D ] M A T T H E W driven by the EBIF platform -- by
Swinton's short film with the Once the film ended, we all sat chairs and sofas to lamps and SCHNEIER Photo: Courtesy of the end of this year.
company. Everyone in town for down for the runway show, and lo tables, using some of the same Sebastian+Barquet "As traditional media starts to
LFW was here for Pringle—I and behold, the clothes were quite materials he's worked with in diminish, the operators and
mean everyone, from Tilda covetable. programmers are going to need to
herself to Colette's Sarah Lerfel. —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin find ways to create new
The film showed on two giant See more Pringle of Scotland inventory," said Mark Janes,
walls on either sides of the room, fashion. marketing director at Alcatel-
which projected Tilda larger than Follow ELLE on Twitter. Lucent. Janes, who is involved in
Alcatel's interactive TV
applications, delivered the user-
friendly twist on EBIF's phrasing
last week at an industry event.
In fact, EBIF signifies Enhanced

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Binary Interchange Format.
Simply put, it allows digital set-
top boxes to offer advanced
advertising. For Canoe,
interactive advertising is the first
planned use of the EBIF platform.
Down the road, viewers could be
offered the chance to participate
in voting and polling. And
ultimately, EBIF software can
trigger "t-commerce," allowing
for direct purchases of products
via the remote control.
When Canoe taps EBIF, it will
serve as a lead-generation engine
for advertisers. Five seconds into
a 30-second spot, the system will
allow an overlay or banner to
appear along the bottom of the
screen. The drop-down would
offer a viewer the opportunity to
have a coupon or brochure sent to
them with just several clicks of a
remote control. That's known as a
request for information (RFI). A
positive response can lead to a
dialogue with a consumer.
EBIF-enabled set-top boxes
would facilitate the ads running in
homes served by all six MSO
members. But each operator is
moving at a different pace in
deployment, so launching the
national iTV platform remains a
challenge. For example, Comcast
is moving faster than Charter. The
four other Canoe members are
Time Warner Cable, Cox
Communications, Cablevision and
Bright House Networks. Comcast
COO Steve Burke has been
outspoken about the potential for
iTV ads to increase the bottom
lines for Canoe members, and the
need to move quickly. "It's a big
opportunity, so we're pushing
hard," he said at an industry
event.
Rolling out EBIF software is
made easier since the MSOs don't
have to install new boxes. The
code was written so boxes already
in the field can be EBIF-enabled
electronically, without home-by-
home visits. But with the MSOs
using various systems, questions
remain about a national launch
date and the number of homes
advertisers will initially reach.
Canoe's lead-generation offering
is not markedly different from
other iTV applications already
launched. Satellite operators
DirecTV, Dish Network and TiVo
offer RFI programs. Members of
the Canoe consortium, such as
Comcast and Time Warner Cable,
have used it in local markets. Last
week, Cablevision said it will
launch a program this fall in and
around New York.
But Canoe promises advertisers
a chance to run spots on national
cable networks in tens of millions
of homes. EBIF-enabled boxes
would allow a Procter & Gamble
to run an ad offering a coupon for
Scope on ESPN or HGTV.
"Anything moving to national is
a great starting point," said Jen
Soch, vice president and
activation director for advanced
TV at MediaVest.
Canoe says it will provide some
details by late October or early
November, though the murkiness
frustrates ad executives. And
there is some skepticism, in light
of Canoe's failed attempt to offer
addressable advertising earlier
this year.
"We never know what the
timetable is with Canoe, and that's
been a concern," said Mitch
Oscar, executive vice president of
televisual applications at MPG.
Last week, Oscar organized a
Collaborative Alliance meeting,
where there were several
introductory presentations about
EBIF.
Among the six Canoe operators,
Comcast appears to be the furthest
along with EBIF deployment.
EBIF-enabled boxes are allowing
the MSO to sell RFI advertising in
2 million-plus homes in Chicago
and San Francisco. More homes
are being added in Detroit.
Time Warner Cable has run an
iTV ad trial in more than 1
million boxes in New York. And
it is now converting them to the
EBIF platform. It is also dropping
the EBIF agent into boxes in
upstate and New York and
Hawaii.
Among the other four Canoe
members, Cox wouldn't comment
on EBIF deployment. A
representative for Charter said the
operator is looking for a "healthy"
EBIF rollout in early 2010. Bright
House Networks says it will have
200,000 EBIF-enabled boxes
ready to go by the end of the year.
Cablevision is expected to have
EBIF boxes synched with Canoe,
but the iTV system it announced
last week will use proprietary
technology. The company
declined further comment.
Comcast COO Burke said he
expects the six Canoe operators to
have a combined 10 million EBIF
-enabled boxes deployed soon,
and 25 million by the end of 2010.
Potentially, Canoe could use all of
them to flow its iTV ads, but how
many it can access is unclear. (
MediaPost incorrectly reported
Burke suggested Canoe would
launch in 25 million homes by the
end of this year.)
While Canoe will bring
revenues to the MSOs, EBIF also
could help markedly strengthen
their flagging local sales. Comcast
has had some success in attracting
advertisers to use its iTV platform
in San Francisco and Chicago.
And it is running an EBIF-based
"t-commerce" offering in
partnership with HSN.
Beyond advertising, EBIF
allows operators to offer a range
of iTV functions -- from caller ID
on the screen to restarting
programs to setting DVRs. "If
Canoe didn't exist, all six MSOs
would be using EBIF to set up
their own interactivity within their
own footprints," said Arthur
Orduna, Canoe's chief technology
officer.
Still, the operators believe there
is certain imperative in turning
Canoe into a needle-moving
success. Potential subscribers to
their core TV business may have
peaked, while local ad sales may
continue to suffer. Burke expects
Canoe to yield some revenue in
2010 and to "become more
material in the future."
Interactive advertising, he said,
can offer "the kind of target-
ability and measurement" the
Internet does, helping operators
stem dollars flowing to the Web.
An RFI platform can bring
advertisers a form of customer
contact that can also compete with
direct mail. But while Canoe tries
to muscle together its national
footprint, it faces another
potential obstacle in getting its
interactive platform launched:
cable networks.
At some level, networks will
have to be convinced it is worth
their time and money to cut deals
with Canoe for rights to sell the
interactive spots. Are advertisers
eager enough for RFI capabilities
to pay a USA or MTV a premium
to run one of the ads? A top
executive at a cable network said
he doesn't think the current
climate would permit such
experimentation.
"If I were spending a $1 million
on all my cable networks," said
MPG's Oscar, "and then to do
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this, they wanted to charge me $1
million more? They make it
financially impossible, so that's an
issue." Canoe would not comment
on revenue models. Comcast's
Burke said the consortium has
some "general ideas" about
pricing, but would "evolve as we
get closer" to launch.
Earlier this year, Time Warner
Cable rolled out a lead-generation
interactive application --- not with
EBIF -- in Los Angeles. The
pricing structure would seem to
be enticing to a network.
Advertisers such as Carl Jr.'s pay
once to run a 30-second spot; a
second time to integrate the RFI
function; and again per lead
received.
When Canoe does debut its
EBIF system, it will act as a
middle man in producing and
serving the ads. In-house
campaign managers will use both
a Web interface and one-on-one
communication to activate the
spots. RFI spots can run only 30
seconds and an EBIF trigger
drops the interactive banner down
5 seconds into the commercial,
which continues to run behind it.
After a network and agency reach
a deal to run one of the ads, they'll
designate a "creative lead" (an
account manager) to work with
Canoe.
A phone conversation between
the two follows, where they
would explore several generic
templates for the ad on a secure
Web site. When a version is
selected, the creative provides
RFI material: copy, graphics,
logos, etc. The Canoe manager
will essentially build the spot.
The creative and Canoe
manager will then reconvene over
the phone and review the
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TV Board: The Weapon of Mass Fascination Has Gone

Missing
(MediaPost | Media News) suggested that examination of resolutions. to regulate, de-regulate and/or re- ¨ enforcing cable card
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:45:38 AM briefs is not the issue but possibly Across the political spectrum regulate the media that might deployment
women's brassieres might lead us government officials have been make a significant contribution to ¨ must carry broadcast
Sept. 15 newsflash: The day closer to the truth. Majority and supportive of the agency's the freedom of media transmissions for all digital
after the Federal Communications minority whips from both parties position and have come out in consumption and quality of life terrestrial channels
Commission (FCC) reasserted its are cautioning their constituencies favor of breasts though a very issues in the U.S., such as the ¨ program availability via fair
power to regulate fleeting nudity to withhold comments until the vocal, small minority have denied following unresolved biggies (in and equitable licensing
and said it wanted to further breast is returned to its rightful their existence while others have non-hierarchical order): arrangements
i n v e s t i g a t e " w h e t h e r C B S ' owner, the American people. taken the position that they should ¨ multiple ownership of TV ¨ the sanctity of copyright
indecency violation [in the 2004 >Which of Janet's breasts was it. only be searched for in the stations in the same market ¨ the efficacy of the Digital
Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake The investigative records seem privacy of one's home. Although ¨ national television station Millennium Copyright Act
Super Bowl "breast" reveal] was unclear. Though the right is the Housing Authorities have not ownership (single market and ¨ cable subscription pricing: a
willful" the weapon of mass favored and often sighted in the officially weighed in on exposure multiple) la carte vs. package
fascination has gone missing. past, can we make a positive, within an abode, the Housing ¨ dual broadcast network ¨ internet access pricing by
Note: Janet Jackson is safe. She definitive identification at this Commissioner did suggest that ownership bandwidth usage and justification
most recently appeared on the juncture. Will the disappearance housing properties do augment in ¨ broadcast/newspaper/radio of pricing tiers
V i d e o M u s i c A w a r d s , i n a of the video breast be milked for value when there is a presence of cross ownership ¨ "White Space" exploitation
stunning, yet simplistic, high political gain at Town Hall breasts in the domicile. ¨ v-chip utilization/parental and interference with broadcast
collared ensemble, singing a meetings. It is our understanding that controls signals
tribute to her brother, Michael: "I The transcripts indicate that it YouTube content will be ¨ radio station group ¨ personal identifiable
nnow he was watching." was round, firm though supple, subpoenaed, TiVo graphs of the ownership (single market and information transgressions both
Fantastical but true. All video perky, light brown with darker replay viewership of the multiple) online and television
exposure from the 2004 Halftime nipple hue. A generic description occurrence will be confiscated, ¨ cable systems operators ¨ remote programming
incident has disappeared. A at minimum. One best answered YouPorn free memberships will ownership of programming on storage
catastrophic anomaly. The FCC is when in cups. Also, from an be extended to all members of the their systems ¨ global warming
groping for answers. The FCC anatomical viewpoint, political special committee and Justin ¨ cable systems operators and ¨ universal healthcare
chairman has called for the analysts have chimed in with Timberlake has volunteered to broadcast station cross ownership ¨ ballistic shield defense
formation of a special committee "pairs of breasts have been known cancel any golf dates that would ¨ cable systems operators ¨ airline passengers
to solicit information pertaining to to be asymmetrical." Furthering conflict with the committee penetration of national viewership transporting liquids on planes
the whereabouts of the video the complication of the folly of a hearings. ¨ satellite operators ownership ¨ budget deficits
breast. Its significance and h a s t y i d e n t i f i c a t i o n . T h e In our opinion, hopefully, when programming on their system ¨ completion of the rebuild of
pursuance has highly divided the committee members have stated, President Elect Obama takes ¨ satellite operators and the World Trade Towers
agency commissioners along for the record, that they will not office and replaces FCC broadcast station cross ownership ¨ weapons of mass
conservative and liberal partying rush to conclusions for political Chairman Kevin Martin, the ¨ satellite/cable/broadcast destruction
lines. New briefs have been expediency and will be hands on administration can spend time cross ownership ¨ death panels
requested; however, some examining every piece of focusing on more pressing issues ¨ telco/cable/satellite cross ¨ Second Coming - the other
politicos, who did not wish evidence thoroughly, avoiding and concentrate on the litany of ownership one
attribution for this article, have a r b i t r a r y a n d c a p r i c i o u s attempts by the governing parties ¨ net neutrality
66 Media Internet News Record

MediaDailyNews: Fox Is A 'House' On Fire

(MediaPost | Media News) show its colors after the "Leno" House
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:03:17 PM premiere week. The season 6.9/16
premiere on this Monday of "CSI: 17.25
Starting the new season, Fox's Miami" posted a 4.3/11 rating, CBS
"House" picked up right where it winning the frame (though down Two and a Half Men
left off -- and then some. versus last season's starting 4.4/10
On the first night of the new episode), with ABC's "Castle" 13.59
s e a s o n , a s p e c i a l t w o - h o u r having a low-ish 2.3/6. ABC
"House" on Monday rocketed to a NBC's "The Jay Leno Show" Dancing With the Stars
Nielsen preliminary 6.6 rating/16 sank to a 1.8/5 down two-thirds Viewers (Millions) 4.2/10
share among 18-49 viewers, up from its big start a week ago. That 8:00 17.64
14% from a year ago -- easily the said, most analysts, including FOX NBC
top performing show of the night. those at NBC, were figuring on a House Heroes
This carried Fox to an opening 1.7 rating or so for the show to be 6.2/16 2.7/6
night win among all 18-49 a success. NBC says the 1.8 rating 15.76 5.77
viewers, with a 6.5/16. was over the 1.4 average rating ABC CW
CBS' came next with its strong "The Tonight Show with Jay Dancing With the Stars Gossip Girl
comedy lineup, earning a 4.0/10 Leno" received for a 2008-2009 4.0/10 1.1/3
among 18-49 viewers on the season. 17.43 2.09
night, now featuring "The Big While "Leno" numbers were CBS 9:30
B a n g T h e o r y " a s i t s b e s t expected, what happened to How I Met Your Mother CBS
performer, on this particular N B C ' s " H e r o e s " w a s n ' t . I t 3.5/9 The Big Bang Theory
Monday. It earned a 4.6/10 at 9:30 dropped a massive 46% at 9 p.m. 9.22 4.6/10
p.m., its new time period, up 28% versus last year's debut; it's now a NBC 12.83
from a year ago. middling 2.7 rating/6 share among Heroes 10:00
This bested usual comedy leader 18-49 viewers. 2.8/7 CBS
"Two and a Half Men," which CW's "One Tree Hill" and 6.27 CSI: Miami
earned a 4.4/10. At 8:30 p.m. new "Gossip Girl" mostly survived CW 4.3/11
CBS comedy "Accidentally on under all the fresh competition -- One Tree Hill 13.73
Purpose" did a decent, but not getting a 1.2/3 and a 1.1/3 among 1.2/3 ABC
stellar, 3.2/8. 18-49 viewers. For is key women 2.48 Castle
Another big hitter of the night, 18-34 viewers, both shows each 8:30 2.3/6
ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," earned a decent, but not great, CBS 9.43
posted a decent 4.1 rating/10 2.4/6. Accidentally on Purpose NBC
share -- but it was down a sizable Time 3.2/8 The Jay Leno Show
24% from its fall premiere of a Network 8.99 1.8/5
year ago. Show 9:00 5.67
The real 10 p.m. hour began to Adults 18-49 Rating/Share FOX Source: Nielsen Media Research
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requested changes would be made
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platform, Verizon has 2.5 million
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(MediaPost | Media News) halves. trendcentral.com obsessively, by Canoe until the advertiser and deployed for its FiOS TV service.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:48:34 PM sacked Rome again. Apparently, network are satisfied. Last summer, the company ran a
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I know why you're all so giddy. o v e r s h a r i n g , b e s i e g e d b y because there was another sack in through its EBIF-enabled system Portland, Ore., during the Beijing
Someone gave you tickets to the impersonal personal pleas and 455, by the Vandals this time (not and send the finished product to Olympics. On-screen overlays
Facebook GenerationNext Wrap hounded by false Friends. Now the punk rock group). the network, which will insert it allowed viewers to click on
Party on Thursday night. that I know what people I know into its pre-recorded broadcast prompts to view athlete bios,
Only a parade of college do every second of every day, I Wait, there's more: a particularly stream. The network provides medal counts and latest news.
students making beer money by don't want to know them. vicious sack in 1527 (France Canoe with a schedule of when Now, Verizon is conducting
dressing up in silly icon costumes Moreover, how is a blogger I again), which began with Imperial the spot(s) are slated to run, so it tests to also launch lead-
and parading down a New York have never met writing about one troops rampaging through the can ensure its system delivers generation ads. The spots could
C i t y s t r e e t r i v a l s t h a t f o r of my columns and talking about streets of the Eternal City and t h e m o v e r t h e l e n g t h o f a run in individual markets, or on
excitement, I think. what "Jack thinks" any less ended with the pope in prison, the c a m p a i g n . national networks across its
But won't it be strange seeing all impersonal than getting a letter city in ruins and the population Viewers of the RFI spots expanding footprint that now
y o u r o n l i n e B F F s i n t h e addressed to "Dear Occupant?" downsized with extreme prejudice encounter a so-called double opt- stretches from Tampa to Seattle.
disgusting flesh? Don't you prefer And why is ceding complete to 10,000 raped and pillaged in. A person responding yes to an NBCU could use the system for
getting up close and personal control of your communications zombies. offer is sent to another screen next year's Winter Olympics. "We
without ever actually being up to nerds, retirees and trolls a good And that's what social media asking if he or she indeed wants expect to be available for
close and personal? idea? By what alchemy does a has made the Internet and its to receive something in the mail. advertisers and programmers
Social media memes about Web browser turn every user into virtual citizens -- serial sack In order to protect privacy, Canoe shortly," said Jason Malamud,
community and human expression David Ogilvy? victims beaten so senseless they then sends the positive responses director of ad sales for FiOS.
are such an Orwellian crock. In We need to log off and put hallucinate an online utopia where to a traditional fulfillment house -
the history of the world, nothing down the Kool-Aid. none exists. - the kind used in direct mail -- to
has divided people more than the If you think these networks will Some savvy marketer is going
Internet. And yet here you are, ever evolve to deliver on their to figure this out and create a
chasing consumers all over social hype, I refer you to the Gauls who campaign that disdains the idea
networks like busy little digi- sacked Rome in 390 BC. It took that social networks unite us.
beavers oblivious to the giant over 300 years to set that one Instead, it will celebrate the fact
redwood you just chewed through right when Caesar, who today that by using them, we don't ever
that's about to come crashing would write a snarky political have to come face to face with
down and turn you into beaver blog and go strapped to town hall another human being.
borscht. meetings, took his army to France I'd do it myself, but I need to
Giving everybody a voice and deballed the country. make a few tweets and see if I
doesn't make anybody worth But then 410 AD rolled around, can't score an invite to that
listening to, my puckish little and Alaric the Visigoth, who Facebook party.
cyber-slaves. And that's why I t o d a y w o u l d b e a d i g i t a l
know which half of your online marketing executive posting
advertising is wasted --both insincere C-tweets and checking