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Kanye West Disrespects
Obama brings the Olympics to the White House Our Website -
Washington Post
By Patricia Zengerle (Front King Juan Carlos of Spain is
Row Washington) traveling to Denmark to argue on (Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:22:02 PM behalf of Madrid. Brazilian Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:20:11 PM
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
President Obama deeply Silva is making the case for Rio. Kanyelicio.us is a site with one
disappointed his hometown Japan is sending its new prime purpose: To make Kanye West
Chicago when he announced that minister and its royal family for insult your own site. Simply type
he would not go to Copenhagen Tokyo, backers of Chicago’s bid in the URL "http:// kanyelicio.us/"
next month to personally make note bitterly. and after the final "/" put in your
the city’s case for hosting the “U.S. organizers have Michelle own domain. For example, here's
2016 Olympics, so he and first Obama and are working on Oprah Kanye insulting TechCrunch.
lady Michelle Obama, who is Winfrey — two of the most Hours of endless fun.
going in his stead, on Wednesday popular women on the planet,” the You may recall that back in
brought the Olympics to the Chicago Tribune wrote in an May, West wrote a long,
White House instead. editorial.“Still, it would escape no capitalized, rant against Twitter.
Former Olympic and one’s notice if Barack Obama He was mad about people
paralympic athletes, Chicago took a pass on securing the pretending to be him on the
officials and local schoolchildren Olympics for his hometown. service. I'm not sure if he ever got
attended the event on the White “Mr. President, you need to be his own name, but that account is
House lawn, where the president there,” the newspaper wrote. now suspended. Poor Kanye.
and first lady both spoke and PHOTO CREDITS: U.S.
watched judo and gymnastic President Barack Obama is joined
demonstrations. The president Committee, but offered an excuse. and it is speculated that she may by first lady, Michelle Obama, BusinessEurope slams
even joined in with some of the “The good news is I’m sending a make the trip to Copenhagen with and Olympic gold medalist Jackie German Opel rescue
athletes, earning a gentle jibe more compelling superstar to Oprah WInfrey, the Chicago talk Joyner Kersee (R) as they watch a
from his wife. Judo demonstration during an (Financial Times - US
represent the city and country we show host and media magnate homepage)
“You should have seen the love, and that is our first lady, who is consistently rated one of Olympic Games event on the
president in there fencing,” she Michelle Obama,” he said. the most popular and admired South Lawn of the White House Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:29:47 AM

said. “It was pathetic, but he Michelle Obama is hugely Americans. But proponents of the in Washington, September 16,
passed the baton really well.” 2009 and Obama uses a plastic BusinessEurope slams German
popular — her approval ratings city’s bid worry they will not be Opel rescue
Obama said he was too busy exceed her husband’s, which have enough, as the other three finalists saber to show his fencing stance.
working on healthcare reform to Both from REUTERS/Larry By Tony Barber in Brussels
sunk as he works to push through are all sending their heads of state Published: September 17 2009
travel to Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to his sweeping healthcare plan — to make their cases to the IOC. Downing
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17 2009 13:29
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After much delay, Baucus unveils healthcare plan


By David Alexander (Front plan. on healthcare. protecting our economy for future purchase a plan through an
Row Washington) Baucus predicted it would Julius Hobson, a policy adviser generations of Americans,” insurance exchange.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:14:32 AM ultimately garner Republican at the Bryan Cave law firm, noted Representative Stephanie Herseth The insurance exchange would
votes. it “not only lacks Republican said in a statement on behalf of include plans by private insurers
After weeks of delay as he “This is a good bill. This is a support but it is not clear if it even the Blue Dogs. as well as a public insurance
n e g o t i a t e d f o r R e p u b l i c a n balanced bill. It can pass the has ‘full’ Democratic support.” The Baucus plan would require option. Obama argues a public
s u p p o r t , S e n a t e F i n a n c e Senate,” he said. But the Blue Dog coalition — all U.S. citizens and legal plan is needed to provide effective
Committee Chairman Max “It is fiscally responsible,” he an important grouping of fiscally residents to have health insurance. competition to drive down costs.
Baucus Wednesday unveiled a 10- added. “It reduces the deficit in 10 conservative congressional Subsidies would be provided on Opponents fear it would drive
year, $856 billion plan to overhaul years. And it controls healthcare Democrats — praised the measure a sliding scale to help low-income private insurers out of the market.
the U.S. healthcare system. spending in the long run.” as “an important step forward” people purchase insurance. Some The public insurance option has
The measure still has no Early reaction was not great. because it would not add to the 46 million people in the United been strongly opposed by
promise of Republican support, HuffingtonPost.com headlined it federal deficit and would take States have no health insurance Republicans. Hoping to
even though Baucus dumped the “Baucus Bill Bust” because of the steps to reduce long-term coverage. circumvent opposition, the
public insurance option favored lack of Republican support. healthcare costs. Under the program envisioned Baucus plan proposes the creation
by most Democrats and agreed to Consumer Watchdog charged it “Meeting these standards, also by President Barack Obama, of non-profit cooperatives to offer
other Republican changes in would force middle class families set forth by the president, is people who do not have insurance
hopes of producing a bipartisan to pay 20 percent of their incomes critical to reining in deficits and through their employers could AFTER page 4
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Protests against Obama: race or What does Palin no show at


policy? “Values Voter” summit say
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
about her 2012 intentions?
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:52:10 AM
By Ed Stoddard (Front Row
Washington)
Former President Jimmy Carter Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:01:08 PM
said out loud what Democrats had
been whispering for a while, that Why is former Alaska governor
the protests against the country’s and Republican vice presidential
first black president are tinged candidate Sarah Palin passing on
with racism. the summit of self-styled
Carter’s forceful words threw conservative Christian “Values
the issue into the forefront of Voters” this weekend?
public debate. It’s a question worth asking
“I think an overwhelming because the annual meeting of
portion of the intensely “Religious Right” activists has
demonstrated animosity toward become a “must attend” on the
President Barack Obama is based political calendar of any
on the fact that he is a black man, Republican who is serious about
that he’s African American,” running for the party’s
Carter said in an i nterview on presidential nomination in the survey found she was ranked
NBC. next election cycle. highest among conservative
While others had raised the Former governors Mike leaders by conservative
issue, it wasn’t until Carter’s blunt statement that said: “President Obama doesn’t believe the Huckabee and Mitt Christian activists with 86
words that it reached a crescendo Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t criticism is racist. “The president Romney– frequently mentioned as percent viewing her in a favorable
as loud as the protests. about race. It is about policy.” does not believe that it’s based on 2012 heavyweight Republican light.
Carter mentioned his southern Steele accused Democrats of the color of his skin.” contenders — will be there. So Does her no-show suggest
roots in saying ”that racism trying to shift attention away from Is there an objective barometer will Minnesota Gov. Tim something about her political
inclination still exists” in the the president’s unpopular for whether a protest is based on Pawlenty, who many pundits see intentions or lack of them for
country and many white people healthcare plan. racism or policy? as another possible candidate for a 2012?
believe African Americans are not “Characterizing Americans’ What do you think? Are the White House run in 2012. ((PHOTO: Sarah Palin delivers
qualified to be president. disapproval of President Obama’s protests about race or policy or But the moose-hunting hockey her final address as Alaska
Critics of Obama have protested policies as being based on race is both? mom who makes liberals see red governor in Fairbanks, Alaska,
at town hall meetings around the an outrage and a troubling sign Click here for more Reuters remains the favorite with this J u l y 2 6 , 2 0 0 9 .
country, rallied in Washington, about the lengths Democrats will political coverage crowd. A recent Bliss Institute REUTERS/Nathaniel Wilder))
and even yelled out on the floor of go to disparage all who disagree Photo Credit: Reuters/Eric and Public Religion Research
the House of Representatives with them,” he said. Thayer (Carter at 2008
(Congressman Joe Wilson’s “you Obama did not respond to a Democratic National
lie”). shouted question by a reporter Convention), Reuters/Molly Riley
Michael Steele, the first black about Carter’s racism comments. (Steele after being elected RNC
chairman of the Republican UPDATE: White House chairman in January)
National Committee, issued a spokesman Robert Gibbs says that
i-mate Briefly Reappears On Everyone's Radar, Just to Die [Cellphones]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo) posted a story on i-mate, a once- restructuring, moving, layoffs,
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:22:55 AM hopeful early player in the missed orders and debt. And now,
Windows Mobile handset field. has been one of slow decline: at long last, death. [ ITP]
Oct 23 2007: The last time we Since then, the company's story
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AFTER
Senate battle brewing: surveillance continued from page 2
insurance in competition with than the Democratic measures

vs privacy private insurers.


In a speech to Congress
recently, Obama said he favored a
already introduced in the House
and Senate? Or does it still
contain elements that will
By Jeremy Pelofsky (Front public option. But he urged liberal generate wide opposition?
Row Washington) Democrats to be open to other For more Reuters political news,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:57:48 PM ideas, like cooperatives, that could click here.
achieve the same goal of Photo credit: Reuters/Jim
A battle appeared to be emerging improving competition. Young (Baucus after a healthcare
in the U.S. Senate over extending A pdf of the plan, the meeting on Tuesday)
terrorism surveillance methods “America’s Healthy Future Act of
versus bolstering privacy 2009 is available here.
protections. What do you think?
The Obama administration Does it have broader appeal
wants to extend three key
surveillance techniques adopted in
the Patriot Act law after the Sept.
11, 2001 attacks to track terrorism Police arrest lab
suspects.
They are roving wiretaps to
track multiple communications
technician in Yale student
devices an individual may
use; access business records; and
what’s known as the “lone wolf”
murder - Reuters
provision to watch an individual (Most Popular - Google News) and requires ID swipe cards to
who may be hatching terror plots Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:05:42 AM access buildings.
but isn’t part of a bigger group. Le's body showed marks of
Those three expire Dec. 31. BOSTON (Reuters) - Police strangulation or some other kind
However, some Senate “I believe Senator Leahy will hoped to add stronger privacy arrested a Yale University lab of neck compression. After an
Judiciary Committee members, submit a bill that does some other protections in any extension of the technician on Thursday in the intensive five-day search, police
including chairman Patrick Leahy, things as well.” three provisions. They also want murder of a graduate student found her carefully hidden body
want to add more privacy Mueller offered a staunch to address so-called National whose body was found inside a on the day she had planned to wed
provisions. Any changes also defense for the techniques, noting S e c u r i t y L e t t e r s w h i c h a r e w a l l o n t h e N e w H a v e n , her college sweetheart.
have to go through the Senate that the roving wiretaps were essentially subpoenas for personal Connecticut, campus the day she Clark had worked at the Yale
Intelligence Committee which essential since individuals can records and have been used in was to be married. campus for several years and was
could raise more hurdles. have several cell phones at once larger numbers but have been Raymond Clark, 24, was taken in the same building where Le,
“It was my thinking simply to and switch quickly. He also said harshly criticized for being away in handcuffs a day after also 24, carried out her research,
that while the “lone wolf” overused.
extend those three provisions until police grilled him over the killing but it was not clear whether they
the Patriot Act is up for tracking had not yet been used, it For more Reuters political news, of Annie Le, a pharmacology were acquainted.
reauthorization, which is three was important to have that click here. student who was found on Sunday Clark's bond was set for $3
years hence,” Dianne Feinstein, capability available. - Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri in the basement of the laboratory million, Lewis said.
head of the Senate Intelligence Senators Richard Durbin and Gripas (Mueller testifies before building where they both worked. Students at Yale have left
Committee, said during a hearing Russ Feingold said in their own Congress) Police used DNA testing in the flowers and lit candles near the
with FBI Director Robert Mueller. statement on Tuesday that they investigation and New Haven laboratory.
Police Chief James Lewis said (Reporting by Catherine Bremer;
Videos of 1930s Surgeries on the Brain, Tonsils and Belly there were no other suspects. Editing by Doina Chiacu)
The case has shocked students © Thomson Reuters 2009 All
By Hadley Leggett (Wired Top drill into a skull, remove a pair of they give a glimpse into what at the Ivy League university, rights reserved
Stories) tonsils and deliver a baby. These operating rooms looked like whose campus is secured by
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 PM historical videos were recently nearly 80 years ago. dozens of surveillance cameras
released to the public by the
Watch surgeons from the 1930s Wellcome Library in London, and
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DeLay injures foot while dancing for Yale worker charged


TV show with murder
By Deborah Charles (Front (BBC News | Americas | World arriving but not leaving.
Row Washington) Edition) After repeated searches, a
Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:36:40 PM Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:17:12 AM sniffer dog discovered her body
five days later - on the day she
Remember Tom DeLay? Well, A Yale University laboratory had been due to marry Colombia
“The Hammer” has pounded too technician has been charged with University graduate student
hard this time. murdering student Annie Le, US Jonathan Widawsky.
The former House Majority police say. The office of the state chief
leader, who earned his nickname Raymond Clark was arrested at medical examiner, Dr Wayne
for keeping lawmakers in line on a motel where he had been staying Carver, said the death of Ms Le
Capitol Hill, injured his foot while since being released by police on w a s c a u s e d b y " t r a u m a t i c
practicing for his “Dancing With Wednesday, following DNA a s p h y x i a d u e t o n e c k
the Stars” debut. testing. compression".
DeLay, a Republican who The body of Ms Le was found The suspect, 24-year-old
resigned from Congress in 2006 on Sunday - which should have Raymond Clark, was taken into
after he was charged in Texas been her wedding day - in a wall custody on Wednesday after
with trying to violate campaign cavity on campus. She had been police obtained a warrant to
finance laws, announced his missing for a week. search his house in Middletown,
injury via Twitter. He has set his website up as feet will be ready for the show on A post mortem report confirmed Connecticut.
“Old age is catching up to me, a“fan site”– “Dancing with Monday. 24-year-old Ms Le had been Police said he voluntarily
may have a stress fracture in my DeLay” – where people can sign For more Reuters political news, strangled. submitted to DNA testing, the
foot. no worries, it’ll take more up for show updates. He has also click here. New Haven Police Chief James r e s u l t s o f w h i c h w o u l d b e
than that to keep me off the dance p o s t e d l i n k s t o p h o t o s o f Photo credit: REUTERS/Evan Lewis said "an arrest warrant was compared with more than 150
floor,” DeLay wrote on Tuesday. rehearsals on his Twitter page. Sisley (DeLay in Canon Office signed... charging Clark with the pieces of evidence taken from the
Just a couple of hours later, After his participation in the Building on Capitol Hill on June murder of Annie Le". scene.
DeLay eased the concerns of his show was announced, DeLay 9, 2006, on his last day in Mr Lewis said Mr Clark and Ms US media report that he was
2,142 Twitter followers: ”No mused about his possible partner. Congress), REUTERS/Marcos Le worked in the same building, kept under surveillance after
stress fracture! It is a pre-stress “Hoping its not Nancy Pelosi :),” Brindicci (couple competes but would not say whether they leaving the police station, and
fracture. I live for another day.” he wrote last month. i n d a n c e c o m p e t i t i o n i n knew each other. He called the spending the night at a Super 8
DeLay seems to be taking this Let’s see if DeLay’s dancing A r g e n t i n a ) killing "an issue of workplace motel in Cromwell, Connecticut.
“Star” stuff seriously. violence". Police moved in and arrested Mr
Sniffer dog Clark at the motel on Thursday
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(Financial Times - US American’s shares soared by ducts run between floors - of a have been leaving flowers and
homepage) more than 23 per cent on research building where she candles near the laboratory where
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Mary Travers of 1960s folk anthem trio dies at 72 (AP)


(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) same building as the Travers Blowin' in the Wind" at the March "Blowin' In the Wind" became Over the years they enjoyed
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:58:00 AM family. on Washington in August 1963. another civil rights anthem, and several reunions, including a
With a group called the Song And they were vehement in Peter, Paul and Mary fully performance at a 1978 anti-
BOSTON – Mary Travers, one Swappers, Travers backed Seeger their opposition to the Vietnam embraced the cause. They nuclear benefit organized by
part of the folk trio Peter, Paul, on one album and two shows at War, managing to stay true to marched with the Rev. Martin Yarrow and a 35th anniversary
and Mary, who used beautiful, Carnegie Hall. She also appeared their liberal beliefs while creating Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., album, "Lifelines," with fellow
tranquil harmonies to convey the (as one of a group of folk singers) music that resonated in the and performed with him in folkies Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
angst and turmoil of the Vietnam in a short-lived 1958 Broadway American mainstream. Washington. Dave Van Ronk and Seeger. A
antiwar movement, racial show called "The Next President," The group collected five In a 1966 Times interview, boxed set of their music was
discrimination and more, died starring comedian Mort Sahl. Grammy Awards for their three- Travers said the three worked released in 2004.
after a yearslong battle with It wasn't until she met up with part harmony on enduring songs well together because they They remained politically active
leukemia. She was 72. Yarrow and Stookey that Travers like "Leaving on a Jet Plane," respected one another. "There has as well, performing in 1995 on the
The band's publicist, Heather would taste success on her own. "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and to be a certain amount of love just anniversary of the Kent State
Lylis, said Travers died Yarrow was managed by Albert "Blowin' in the Wind." in order for you to survive shootings and performing for
Wednesday at Danbury Hospital B. Grossman, who later worked in At one point in 1963, three of together," she said. "I think a lot California strawberry pickers.
in Connecticut. the same capacity for Bob Dylan. their albums were in the top six of groups have gone down the Travers had undergone a
Bandmate Peter Yarrow said In the book " Positively 4th Billboard best-selling LPs as they tubes because they were not able successful bone marrow
that in her final months, Travers Street" by David Hajdu, Travers became the biggest stars of the to relate to one another." transplant to treat her leukemia
handled her declining health with recalled that Grossman's strategy folk revival movement. With the advent of the Beatles and was able to return to
bravery and generosity, showing was to "find a nobody that he It was heady stuff for a trio that and Dylan's switch to electric performing after that.
her love to friends and family could nurture and make famous." had formed in the early 1960s in guitar, the folk boom disappeared. "It was like a miracle," Travers
"with great dignity and without The budding trio, boosted by the Greenwich Village, running Travers expressed disdain for folk told The Associated Press in
restraint." arrangements of Milt Okun, spent through simple tunes like "Mary -rock, telling the Chicago Daily 2006. "I'm just feeling fabulous.
"It was, as Mary always was, seven months rehearsing in her Had a Little Lamb." News in 1966 that "it's so badly What's incredible is someone has
honest and completely authentic," Greenwich Village apartment Their debut album came out in written. ... When the fad changed given your life back. I'm out in
he said. "That's the way she sang, before their 1961 public debut at 1962, and immediately scored a from folk to rock, they didn't take the garden today. This time last
too honestly and with complete the Bitter End. pair of hits with their versions of along any good writers." year I was looking out a window
authenticity." Their beatnik look a tall blonde "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon But the trio continued their at a hospital." She also said she
Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's flanked by a pair of goateed Tree." The former won them success, scoring with the tongue- told the marrow donor "how
other member, praised Travers for guitarists was a part of their Grammys for best folk recording in-cheek single " I Dig Rock and incredibly grateful I was."
her inspiring activism, "especially initial appeal. As The New York and best performance by a vocal Roll Music," a gentle parody of But by mid-2009, Yarrow told
in her defense of the defenseless." Times critic Robert Shelton put it group. the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 WTOP radio in Washington that
"I am deadened and heartsick not long afterward, "Sex appeal as "Moving" was the follow-up, and the John Denver-penned " her condition had worsened again
beyond words to consider a life a keystone for a folk-song group including the hit tale of innocence Leaving on a Jet Plane" two years and he thought she would no
without Mary Travers and was the idea of the group's lost, "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" later. longer be able to perform.
honored beyond my wildest manager ... who searched for which reached No. 2 on the They also continued as boosters Travers lived for many years in
dreams to have shared her spirit months for `the girl' until he charts, and generated since- for young songwriters, recording Redding, Conn. She is survived
and her career," he said. decided on Miss Travers." discounted reports that it was an numbers written by then-little- by her husband, Ethan Robbins,
Mary Allin Travers was born on The trio mingled their music ode to marijuana. known Gordon Lightfoot and and daughters, Alicia and Erika.
Nov. 9, 1936, in Louisville, Ky., with liberal politics, both onstage Album No. 3, " In the Wind," Laura Nyro. ___
the daughter of journalists who and off. Their version of " If I featured three songs by the then- In 1969, the group earned their Associated Press writer Polly
moved the family to Manhattan's Had a Hammer" became an 22-year-old Dylan. "Don't Think final Grammy for "Peter, Paul and Anderson and AP Music Writer
bohemian Greenwich Village. She anthem for racial equality. Other Twice, It's Alright" and "Blowin' Mommy," which won for best Nekesa Mumbi Moody
quickly became enamored with hits included " Lemon Tree," " in the Wind" both reached the top children's album. They disbanded contributed to this report from
folk performers like the Weavers Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff 10, bringing Dylan's material to a in 1971, launching solo careers New York.
and was soon performing with (The Magic Dragon.)" massive audience; the latter Travers released five albums that
Pete Seeger, a founding member They were early champions of shipped 300,000 copies during never achieved the heights of their
of the Weavers who lived in the Dylan and performed his " one two-week period. collaborations.
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Lab tech arrested in Yale killing arrives at court (AP)


(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) League campus, where Raymond off toward the highway, and contact with Le, who worked for a told a detective that she had been
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:23:34 AM Clark III got a room shortly after arrived at the New Haven police Yale laboratory that conducted in a sexual relationship with Clark
being released from police department about an hour later. experiments on mice. She was and that he once forced her to
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A lab questioning in the death of 24- Lewis said Clark was arrested part of a research team headed by have sex. The relationship
t e c h n i c i a n c h a r g e d w i t h year-old Annie Le. without incident. her faculty adviser, Anton continued after that incident,
murdering a Yale grad student is Clark was expected to be Clark's attorney, David Bennett, that focused on enzyme according to the Independent, a
in court for arraignment. arraigned Thursday afternoon or Dworski, did not immediately research that could have news Web site.
Raymond Clark III arrived at Friday morning on a murder return calls seeking comment on implications in cancer, diabetes The young woman did not
court in New Haven just after 10 charge, New Haven Police Chief Thursday. He has previously said and muscular dystrophy. pursue the case, and no charges
a.m. escorted by police with his James Lewis said. He would not Clark is "committed to proceeding Members of the team have were filed. The Independent
hands cuffed behind his back. rule out the possibility of appropriately" with police. declined to comment on the case reported that Clark was warned in
Clark was arrested Thursday at a d d i t i o n a l c h a r g e s . The Rev. Dennis Smith, a or their work. 2003 that police could pursue
a hotel and charged with "It is important to note that this spokesman for the Le family, said As a technician at Yale, Clark criminal charges against him if he
murdering Annie Le, whose body i s n o t a b o u t u r b a n c r i m e , on NBC's "Today" show helped clean the cages of research contacted the girl.
was found stuffed in the wall of a university crime, domestic crime Thursday that an arrest would animals used by labs and had Branford Police Lt. Geoffrey
research building on what would b u t a n i s s u e o f w o r k p l a c e help give the family closure. other janitorial duties, police said. Morgan told The Associated Press
have been her wedding day. violence, which is becoming a "It's such a terrible thing to have The technicians help tend to on Wednesday that his department
Police say it was a case of growing concern around the lost Annie as they have and not rodents, mostly mice, used in would not release the
workplace violence, but didn't country," Lewis said. know who did it. That adds to the experiments and can help with unsubstantiated 2003 report.
elaborate. Le was found dead on Sunday, grief," he said. paperwork. Clark, his fiancee, his Morgan would neither confirm
Police had been waiting outside her body hidden in the basement FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz sister and his brother-in-law all nor deny the news report, citing
the Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, wall of a building where she acknowledged the assistance of work for Yale as animal lab cooperation with police
about 25 miles north of the Ivy worked as a medical researcher, the FBI's polygraph and technicians. investigating the killing.
League campus, where Clark got on the day she was to marry her behavioral analysis units, but Clark and Le were both 24 years Clark played baseball at
a room shortly after being college sweetheart, Columbia declined to answer questions old, but Clark has a muscular Branford High School, where
released from police questioning University graduate student about what exactly the units did. build that contrasts sharply to Le's longtime athletic director Artie
in the death of the 24-year-old J o n a t h a n W i d a w s k y . T h e Authorities released no details 4-foot-11, 90-pound frame. Clark Roy remembered him as a quiet
student. Connecticut medical examiner on how she died, but traumatic also reportedly had a troubling student who threw a mean
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS said Wednesday that Le died of asphyxiation could be consistent brush with the law in high school knuckleball.
UPDATE. Check back soon for "traumatic asphyxiation." with a choke hold or some other after being accused of harassing a "He was a seriously good pitcher
further information. AP's earlier Clark was under constant form of pressure-induced girlfriend. and a good infielder," Roy said.
story is below. surveillance after he was released, asphyxiation caused by a hand or Until recently, Clark's family "He wasn't a typical off-the-wall
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A and police spent Wednesday night an object, such as a pipe. lived in nearby Branford, a small knucklehead kind of kid who
Yale lab technician was arrested and Thursday morning staking out The investigation has centered middle-class suburb of New bounced all over the place," he
Thursday at a hotel and charged the Super 8 hotel where Clark was on Clark, the only person publicly Haven. In September 2003, when said. Clark also participated in
with murdering a graduate student staying. named by New Haven police in he was a senior at Branford High clubs that raised money for
whose body was found stuffed in Shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday, the case. Authorities served four School, Clark reportedly upset a charity and the Asian Awareness
the wall of a research building on police moved closer, shutting search warrants this week to girlfriend so much that police group, according to the school's
w h a t w o u l d h a v e b e e n h e r down the highway outside the compare DNA taken from his warned him to stay away from 2004 yearbook, the Milestone.
wedding day. hotel and blocking the road hair, fingernails and saliva with her. On her MySpace page, Clark's
Police said it was a case of leading into the hotel as they more than 250 pieces of evidence The New Haven Independent fiancee, Jennifer Hromadka, calls
workplace violence, but didn't made the arrest. Clark was collected at the crime scene and reported that when the girl tried to Clark was a "wonderful
elaborate. wearing a white shirt and tan from Clark's Middletown, Conn., break up with Clark, he attempted boyfriend." She added that she's
Police had been waiting outside pants as police ushered him into apartment. to confront her and wrote on her not perfect, but cautioned people
the Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, the back of a dark sedan with Clark's job as an animal services locker. not to judge her.
about 25 miles north of the Ivy tinted windows. The car then sped technician at Yale put him in The girlfriend and her mother
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Proxy wedding means Marine's widow, baby unwelcome (AP)


(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) town of Maryville. Robin and legally free to marry and register Renison, who advocates for having sexual intercourse out of
Submitted at 9/17/2009 2:38:32 AM Michael Ferschke Sr., who are at a Japanese municipal foreign spouses of American wedlock to be just fornication."
fighting for their daughter-in-law government office, according to citizens, said the widow ran into a Historian Nancy Cott, who
MARYVILLE, Tenn. – Hotaru to stay, have emblazoned their the U.S. Embassy. Hotaru complicated and confusing set of wrote a book called "Public
Ferschke just wants to raise her 8- son's picture on everything from a Ferschke said she and her immigration rules regarding Vows: A History of Marriage and
m o n t h - o l d s o n i n h i s blanket draped on the back of the husband got their proxy marriage marriage to foreigners. the Nation," said proxy marriages
grandparents' Tennessee home, couch to a waving banner on the simply by completing the The Immigration & Nationality have been commonly used by
s u r r o u n d e d b y p h o t o s a n d fence outside. paperwork and their marriage was Act says that, for the purposes of Japanese and Korean immigrants
memories of the father he'll never The 22-year-old Marine radio final on July 10, one month before immigration law, the definition of to America. But Cott said U.S
meet: a Marine who died in operator met the young Japanese he was shot during a house spouse does not include a "wife or immigration authorities have
combat a month after marrying woman at a party while he was search. husband by reason of any never liked this type of marriage
her from thousands of miles away. stationed in Okinawa. Though The U.S. military recognizes marriage ceremony where the "because it is inconsistent with
Sgt. Michael Ferschke was neither knew much of the other's proxy marriages for couples contracting parties thereto are not Western Christian ideas of how
killed in Iraq in 2008, leaving his language, something clicked. separated by war and helps physically present in the presence marriage takes place."
widow and infant son, both "He called me after they met and facilitate them. The Marines are of each other, unless the marriage The Ferschke family is hoping a
Japanese citizens, in immigration he goes, 'Mom, I am in love,'" paying survivor benefits to shall have been consummated." private bill introduced by U.S.
limbo: A 1950s legal standard Robin Ferschke said. Ferschke and her baby. A number of immigration laws Rep. John Duncan this summer
meant to curb marriage fraud The couple were together about Proxy marriages are legal in at passed in the 1940s made it easier will allow Hotaru to stay in the
means U.S. authorities do not 13 months before he left for Iraq least four U.S. states. One of the for brides of American GIs to U.S., but each setback has become
recognize the marriage, even in April 2008. He had proposed most famous proxy weddings in immigrate, but a consummation a reminder of their loss. A private
though the military does. and they were trying to conceive a recent history was that between requirement passed in 1952 for bill affects the case of just one
Ferschke and his bride had been baby before he deployed, Hotaru Ekaterina Dmitriev in Texas to proxy weddings was designed to person, rather than changing the
together in Japan for more than a Ferschke said. Russian cosmonaut Yuri curb marriage fraud. law as a whole.
year, and she was pregnant when About two weeks after he left, Malenchenko in 2003 as he was "It's supposed to prevent people "We still have a hard time
he deployed. They married by she found she was pregnant. He floating in the international space from marrying somebody they are accepting this," Robin Ferschke
signing their names on separate wanted to get married quickly so station. not really intending to have a life said. "We're trying to go forward,
continents and did not have a she could start getting health Pregnant and alone in Japan, with. The law essentially requires celebrate his life, but then every
chance to meet again in person benefits as the spouse of an Ferschke tried to apply for them to have met after the time we turn around we get a
after the wedding, which a 57- American soldier, she said. permanent residency in the United marriage," said Margaret Stock, a constant reminder."
year-old immigration law requires They agreed on a proxy States and was denied. lawyer who assists military The private bill was referred to
for the union to be considered wedding, which has a long history Kenneth Sherman, a field office families through the American a subcommittee of the House
consummated. in the military and in some other director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Lawyers Judiciary Committee in July but
"She is being denied because cases where bride and groom can't Immigration Services who Association. will likely need a Senate co-
they are saying her marriage is not be in the same place for a handled the Ferschke case, "What's odd about this case is sponsor to move forward. With
v a l i d b e c a u s e i t w a s n o t ceremony. declined to answer questions from that it appears the consummation Congress facing a massive health
consummated despite the fact Procedures for a proxy marriage The Associated Press about it. In part of the law was already met, care reform package as it goes
that they have a child together," vary by country. Some take place a letter to the widow, Sherman but it was prior to the marriage." back into session this month, there
s a i d B r e n t R e n i s o n , a n by phone while others require a said he believed that U.S. law There's no mention of may not be enough time to get the
immigration lawyer in Oregon proxy to physically stand in for required the denial, although he consummation prior to the legislation passed before Hotaru
who has advised the family. the absent partner during a found the situation "personally wedding in the statute, which Ferschke leaves in January.
Hotaru Ferschke and the baby, ceremony. distressing." Renison considers outdated and in "She's like my daughter," Robin
Michael "Mikey" Ferschke III, are Japan doesn't require a wedding "You have already sacrificed so need of reform. Ferschke said. "I know my child
staying for now on a temporary ceremony, and couples getting much for your country and your "Well, 1952 was a different chose the perfect wife and mother
visa at the home of her parents-in- married only have to complete soon-to-be born son has lost a time," Renison said. "And back of his child."
law, in the Smoky Mountains sworn affidavits proving they are father," Sherman wrote. then, I'm sure they considered
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Uganda cricketers
Identified amnesia patient doesn't know who he is go missing in
(AP) Canada
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) distinctive handlebar mustache. made. unhappy childhood with an (BBC News | Americas | World
Submitted at 9/17/2009 3:09:38 AM Seattle Detective Tina Drain of "I'm living in this state of alcoholic father and a mother who Edition)
the police missing persons unit confusion because I've got this used prescription painkillers. But Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:10:30 AM
SEATTLE – It was seven weeks said an estranged sister of knowledge, but where has it been he says he doesn't recognize his
ago that Edward Lighthart walked Lighthart provided an expired used, where is it going to be used, parents' names and has no The disappearance of seven
out of a Seattle park with no idea passport and driver's license, and am I going to be able to retain recollection of an estranged sister Ugandan cricketers in Canada
of who he was and how he got Social Security card and other it?" he said. in Las Vegas who contacted The may make it more difficult for
there, the apparent victim of a identification that have since been Lighthart's history shows a man Times. athletes to get visas, a Ugandan
bizarre case of amnesia. given to Lighthart. who worked as an international Drain said the sister told her that cricket official says.
He says some memories have The investigation has left "no business consultant after Lighthart had stayed with her for Latimer Mukasa told the BBC it
since been slowly trickling back, doubt" that the mystery man is advanced education at a number a year and a half before she asked would have "far-reaching
including slight recollections of Lighthart, Drain said. of U.S. schools and who lived in him in May to leave because he consequences".
living in China and Europe. But But that hasn't sunk in yet for Paris, Vienna, Sydney, Shanghai wasn't working or paying rent. The players disappeared from
Lighthart still doesn't know who Lighthart. and Slovakia. The sister said Lighthart their hotel last week, two days
he is, and is frightened over Since his discharge from the He readily acknowledges this disappeared in late July, leaving before they were due to return
whether he will ever be reconciled hospital Aug. 24, he says he has makes sense; he's fluent in French his belongings behind. home.
with the man people say he is. been receiving counseling through and German, and has memory A message left with the sister Canada refused to grant visas
"The crux of the matter of who I Harborview Medical Center and fragments of living in Shanghai, through Drain to contact the AP for the Sierra Leone team to play
really am isn't there yet," he said living in a respite home. That Paris and Vienna. was not immediately returned. in the under-19 qualifying
in an often-emotional interview temporary housing ends this But that life "feels superficial" Records show Lighthart was in tournament for next year's World
with The Associated Press on week, he said, and although he is he says, and something within Calgary in December 2007, but Cup in New Zealand.
Monday. "And I'm not sure that looking at another possible him resists wanting to be was told to leave Canada four Uganda failed to qualify.
its going to come back. This is residence, he doesn't know where Lighthart. He doesn't recognize months later after officials The seven left their passports in
one of the frightening things." he will stay after that. the name, and for reasons he contended he was trying to abuse the team hotel in Toronto but
Police say the 53-year-old man "I'll probably be going back to doesn't know, he says it brings up the social system to obtain food Canada's National Post newspaper
emerged from Discovery Park in Discovery Park," he said. "I've "this sense of failure and and lodging. He said he has no reports they had six-month visas
Seattle early on July 30 knowing talked to the social worker at rejection." He prefers to go by memory of that, but denied he is and so have not committed any
he didn't live in the Seattle area, Harborview and the only thing John Doe and not Lighthart. trying to scam the system here. crime.
but unsure of everything else. He she's suggesting is a shelter and I He thinks the negativity "I understand there are detractors It says that police are not
flagged down a bus driver, who said that I am terrified of the idea, surrounding the name might stem and it's something that needs to be looking for them.
called police for help. I am terrified of being assaulted." from his guilt over a brief said, but definitely no," he said. "This kind of incident will have
Officers said the neatly dressed Harborview spokeswoman marriage that ended in 1985 when "This is not fun." far-reaching implications for
man had $600 hidden in his sock. Susan Gregg-Hanson said his wife died of a miscarriage and He has been reluctant to contact sportsmen getting visas to go and
He says he still has no idea how Lighthart is continuing to receive he discovered her body in their people who say they know play in outside countries," Mr
he got to Seattle, only recalling outpatient care at the hospital and Chicago apartment. The civil Lighthart. He cites many reasons Mukasa, the Uganda Cricket
several peaceful days in the park that it is working with him to find marriage was never officially difficulty getting numbers, not Association spokesman, said.
spent gazing at the trees and sky. a solution for housing. She registered, he said, and was knowing them or whom he can He also said he was worried for
He spent nearly a month at declined to comment further, hidden from friends and family. trust. their safety as they are "young
Swedish Medical Center, where citing federal privacy laws. That vivid, troubling memory "I think in most cases it's been and cannot look after themselves".
doctors told him he has a rare Neatly dressed in the same blue was one of the first that returned, that I don't recognize them," he Two years ago, two Ugandan
form of dissociative amnesia. blazer and khaki pants in which and he suspects he may have said. "It's just been fear of the cricketers went missing after
After The Seattle Times published he was found, he spoke at length started having other brief episodes unknown." playing a tournament in Australia.
an article about him Aug. 20, of the frustration, panic attacks, of amnesia shortly after her death. Print Sponsor
friends and relatives who saw the an overwhelming feeling of being Lighthart grew up in Tucson,
story identified him as Lighthart, perpetually lost, and fear of again Ariz., but he says he has few
easily recognizable by his losing the few connections he's memories of that, other than an
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US to shelve Europe missile plan


(BBC News | Americas | World cautious foreign policy under under President Bush, said the were waiting for official
Edition) President Obama. move was "unambiguously a bad confirmation from the US. Oracle meets earnings
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:05:32 AM The Russians will be pleased by decision". "It's like having a decomposing
the news and therefore relations He said: "This gives away an corpse in your flat - and then the expectations, but
T h e U S i s t o s h e l v e i t s will be eased. But they might also important defensive mechanism mortician comes and takes it
controversial plan to build a feel triumphant and conclude that against threats from countries like away.
misses on revenue
missile defence system in Poland their tough approach is one that Iran and other rogue states, not "This means we're getting rid of By Tom Taulli
and the Czech Republic, US brings respect and results. only for the US but for Europe as one of those niggling problems (BloggingStocks)
officials have said. The move might also indicate well. which prevented us from doing Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:00:00 AM
Reports say the US will switch that the Obama team will be "It is a concession to the the real work," he said.
to defence against short- and looking sceptically at claims Iran Russians with absolutely nothing In November, Russia moved its Filed under: Yahoo! (YHOO),
medium-range missiles as Iran's is developing an actual nuclear in return." own ballistic missiles to AT and T (T), Sun Microsystems
long-range missile plans have weapon. There will also be Iran says its missile Kaliningrad, between Nato (JAVA), Oracle Corp (ORCL)
advanced less than thought. debates about the long-term US development programme is solely member states Lithuania and Through aggressive M&A,
The US decision marks a major c o m m i t m e n t t o E u r o p e . for scientific, surveillance or Poland to "neutralise - if Oracle(NASDAQ: ORCL) has
foreign policy shift which could Meanwhile, on the military side, defensive purposes, but there are necessary - the [US] anti-missile expanded its software into areas
impact on its dealings with this decision would herald a shift concerns in the West and among system", President Dmitry like enterprise resource planning
Europe, Russia and Iran. of emphasis in the whole US anti- Iran's neighbours that the rockets Medvedev said at the time. (ERP), customer relationship
Russia, which saw the missile missile defence strategy. could be used to carry nuclear Mr Medvedev also said Russia management (CRM) and
plan as a threat, welcomed the He told the BBC that Mr Obama weapons. would jam the US anti-missile middleware. But the fact remains
news. phoned him late last night to As part of long-running efforts system electronically. that the company still has a
However, the change has i n f o r m h i m t h a t h e h a d to tackle the issue, Iran will hold The two countries are currently tremendous franchise in the
already been heavily criticised in "reconsidered" the missile plan. talks on its nuclear programme on in talks about reducing their database market. And the nature
conservative circles in the US. The US had said the missile 1 October with the UK, China, nuclear weapons stockpiles, and of this market is awesome. For
The US signed a deal in August shield would be fully operational France, Russia and the US - the the US move could influence example, Oracle has recently
2008 with Poland to site 10 by 2012 to protect European allies five permanent UN Security Russia to be more co-operative, implemented a 250 terabyte
interceptors at a base near the and US forces in Europe from Council members - and Germany. our correspondent says. database for AT&T(NASDAQ: T)
Baltic Sea, and with the Czech Iran or other countries. 'Rogue' states Nato Secretary-General Anders and one for 700 terabytes for
Republic to build a radar station However, the Wall Street The Wall Street Journal said the Fogh Rasmussen said the US Yahoo!(NASDAQ: YHOO).
on its territory. Journal, quoting unnamed Obama administration "was move was "a positive step", It certainly makes for a highly
President Barack Obama earlier sources, said the White House expected to leave open the option Associated Press reported. profitable business. In Oracle's
this year ordered a review of the was now to order "a shift towards of restarting the Polish and Czech What is your reaction to this fiscal Q1 report issued
defence system, which was the development of regional system if Iran makes advances in announcement? How will it affect Wednesday, the company posted
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US housing starts
Carter's Courage - FOXNews rise to 9-month high
(Most Popular - Google News) Although the language of race animus and vile ad hominem against Obama to date. It is for (Financial Times - US
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:35:20 AM has rarely been explicitly invoked, attacks. In the case of Obama, this reason that Representative Joe homepage)
terms like "Marxist," "Nazi," however, many citizens are Wilson could heckle Obama Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:32:44 AM
In the past few days, former "extremist," and "foreigner" have closing ranks around racial anger during his Congressional address
President Jimmy Carter has been used to smuggle racism and and fear rather than a principled and only be challenged for his New US residential building
caused a national firestorm by xenophobia into the public and unified political vision. rudeness rather than his racism. picked up in August, rising to a
remarking that much of the conversation without political Still, despite mounds of Although he has received a formal nine-month high on the back of a
current opposition to President consequence. evidence, the left has refused to reprimand from the House of surge in multi-family home
Obama is rooted in racism. As Of course, this is not to suggest substantively address the racist Representatives (the political construction and adding to
expected, the racist wing of the that everyone who opposes dimensions of the current assaults equivalent of an after-school evidence that the housing market
GOP quickly dismissed Carter's President Obama is a racist. To on Obama. This is largely due to detention) such a punishment is slump is abating.
comments as wrongheaded and the contrary, there have been the Republican Party's masterful nothing more than a badge of Separately on Thursday the
divisive. In truth, however, numerous legitimate reasons to manipulation of our nation's racial honor that enhances Wilson's labour department said that the
President Carter was merely challenge the president's policies anxieties. As soon as Obama street cred amongst those who number of US workers claiming
identifying a political reality that and plans since the beginning of became the Democratic nominee, were happy to see the nation's unemployment benefits fell more
many of us have been unable or his term. Unfortunately, even the Right-wingers began complaining first black president "put in his than expected last week, offering
unwilling to recognize: much of most legitimate critiques have too that they could not critique place." This type of political hope that businesses have eased
the current anti-Obama sentiment often been cloaked in a deeply President Obama without being cowardice from Democrats only the pace of job cuts.
has little to do with policy and racidicalized veil that appeals to labeled racist. Despite being emboldens the right to continue
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President Obama has been the at several of the health care town of race except under extreme dimensions of the current political
victim of the most racist smear halls, where angry white citizens political duress-- such arguments moment, President Carter has
campaign in American political gathered not to talk about policy have placed Democrats in an all- pointed out a huge elephant in the I'm working on an EC2 image
history. From the xenophobic details, but to vent their anger that too-familiar defensive and room. Until the rest of the that, when you boot it up, is a
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background to the moonbatish country" by trying to give health speaking out aggressively against courage to do the same on a outside any firewall or NAT, it's
birther controversy, the right-wing care to "those people." racist tactics, they opt to say regular basis, President Obama ready to wire into the realtime
political machine has gone to While strong opposition to nothing to avoid being accused of will continue to take unnecessary feed network. Cloud-enabled
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US abandons plans for massive Rio massacre police


ground-based missile defense system sentenced
(BBC News | Americas | World
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Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:19:54 AM
those whose job should have been
to guarantee order and protect
human life.
(Most Popular - Google News) Such theater missile defense U.S. officials said today that the Prosecutors say a group of
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:10:04 AM systems are thought to be viewed decision was driven by shifting Two ex-police officers in Brazil police officers opened fire on
by Moscow as less of a threat. But intelligence on Iran's missile have been given lengthy jail pedestrians, customers in a bar
Reporting from Washington - Morrell insisted the shifts were capabilities. sentences for their involvement in and a crowd in a public square.
The Obama administration will b a s e d o n l y u p o n s h i f t i n g Installing a nuclear warhead on the killing in 2005 of 29 people Two former officers, Julio Cesar
significantly alter plans to create a intelligence estimates of the a long-range missile is a difficult on Rio's outskirts. de Paula and Marcos Siqueira
massive missile defense system in Iranian threat. task, and intelligence officials The two men were sentenced to Costa, were given terms of 480
Eastern Europe, abandoning "This has nothing to do with have determined that Iran is around 500 years, but the term is a n d 5 4 3 y e a r s i n p r i s o n
blueprints for a large ground- Russia and everything to do with making quicker progress with its l a r g e l y s y m b o l i c a s u n d e r r e s p e c t i v e l y .
based radar and interceptors based Iran," Morrell said. short- and medium-range missiles. Brazilian law no-one can serve But under Brazilian law no-one
in the Czech Republic and Poland. Still, shelving the system will A senior administration official more than 30 years in prison. can serve more than 30 years, and
The European missile defense h e l p i n t h e O b a m a said the White House decision Passing sentence, the judge said penalties are often reduced to take
system was a thorn in the side of administration's efforts to "reset" was driven by new advances in the crimes had shocked not only account of factors such as whether
U.S. relations with Russia, which the relationship with Moscow. U.S. capabilities and technologies. local people but Brazilian society. they involve a first offence.
viewed the radar and interceptors U.S. officials have tried for years, "Our approach has been focused Defence lawyers say they will Their lawyers said they intended
as a threat to its strategic nuclear without success, to convince on deploying technologies that are contest the sentences, as the trial to appeal as the evidence was
force, a contention that the U.S. M o s c o w t h a t t h e E a s t e r n proven and cost-effective, counter was unfair. improperly presented.
has long denied. European defenses were no threat current threats, and provide the It was in March 2005 that 29 For many in Brazil the
The decision by the White to them. flexibility to upgrade and adjust people, including women and sentences will be regarded with
House reverses a major Bush Installing the radar in the Czech f u r t h e r a s t h e t h r e a t a n d children, died in two poor scepticism; it is one of the most
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n i n i t i a t i v e t o Republic and interceptors in technology continue to evolve," neighbourhoods on the outskirts commonly heard complaints here
counter the threat of Iranian long- Poland has been controversial in the official said. of Rio de Janeiro in what became that those accused of major
range missiles by extending the those countries, but support Upgrading easily deployed, known as the Baixada massacre. crimes rarely actually have to face
ground-based interceptor system solidified after Russia's invasion mobile systems such as Patriot The exact reasons behind the a severe punishment, especially if
to Europe. of Georgia last year. After that antimissile batteries, Theater High k i l l i n g s w e r e n e v e r f u l l y they have access to influence or
Instead the Defense Department conflict, Poland quickly signed -Altitude Area Defense missiles explained, but one possible money.
will announce plans to deploy a the agreement to build the and sea-based interceptors is far motive was anger among police Two other police officers have
different missile defense system, interceptors. easier and less expensive than officers over the arrest of some of already been given lengthy
likely including Aegis-radar, sea- B u t P r e s i d e n t O b a m a upgrading the ground-based their colleagues accused of sentences in the same case, while
based interceptors and other short- campaigned on a pledge to review interceptors. i n v o l v e m e n t i n t w o e a r l i e r another was killed on his way to
range interceptors. the missile defense system, and Because the ground-based m u r d e r s . make a statement at a local police
"We are not abandoning missile many Democrats in Congress interceptors are fixed, some Judge Elizabeth Louro said the station.
d e f e n s e , " P e n t a g o n P r e s s have been skeptical of the need military experts contend that they attacks caused panic and despair Print Sponsor
Secretary Geoff Morrell said. "We for the European site. are more vulnerable to attack. because they were carried out by
are adjusting and enhancing the The move to cancel the ground- julian.barnes@latimes.com
system to protect us and our based radar and interceptor site Times staff writer Christi
friends from a short- and medium- was first reported today by the Parsons contributed to this report.
range threat." Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street set for shaky start
(Financial Times - US US stocks were set for an uneven anticipated a pull-back after benefits dropped to 545,000 from rise to 555,000.
homepage) opening on Thursday in spite of Wednesday’s rally. a revised 557,000 in the previous
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:05:27 AM encouraging data on The number of Americans filing week. Analysts had been
unemployment, as investors fresh claims for unemployment expecting initial jobless claims to
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China in huge Venezuela


oil deal
(BBC News | Americas | World developing heavy crude oil
Edition) resources in the Orinoco River
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:55:37 PM belt.
For President Chavez it is part
Venezuela has announced a of a wider effort to increase his
$16bn (£10bn) investment deal base of bilateral partners in the oil
with China for oil exploration in industry.
the Orinoco river. The socialist leader often speaks
The move comes shortly after of what he calls a "multi-polar
Venezuela signed a similar world" in which Latin American
agreement with Russia, which is countries are less dependent on
estimated to be $20bn (£12bn). Washington.
President Hugo Chavez said the However, US companies and

Peter, Paul & Mary's Mary Travers deals would boost oil production
in Venezuela by about 900,000
barrels per day.
the US government are still the
mainstay of the Venezuelan
energy industry.
Dies at 72 - People Magazine Investors in Venezuela's oil
industry have complained for
months that a lack of government
The Venezuelan leader will
hope that these multibillion dollar
deals, signed with countries which
(Most Popular - Google News) a message of peace and harmony. human beings, and those targeted investment in infrastructure has are more friendly to his "21st
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:38:09 AM Their music also brought them by racism and discrimination; the hurt production. Century Socialist Revolution",
five Grammys, 13 Top-40 hits powerless, the infirm, the poor … Multi-polar world will give him further economic
At their peak in the early 1960s, (six of them in the Top 10), and Mary helped awaken mainstream Speaking on state television, Mr
P e t e r Y a r r o w , N o e l " P a u l " eight gold and five platinum independence from Washington.
America to the humanizing Chavez said the deal with China Print Sponsor
Stookey and Mary Travers were albums. message of folk music. She was over three years and that the
affectionately referred to as "Two In a message posted on her Web reached millions of people in the investment would go towards
Beards and a Blonde," but site, "family, friends and loving struggle to guarantee social justice
everyone knew Peter, Paul and associates" of Travers and her
Mary as the socially active, soft- former bandmates delivered the
for all and has left a profound and US to shelve European missile shield
lasting impact on all of us. Each
singing, guitar-strumming trio following message, which reads of us, many in profoundly (Financial Times - US diplomatic sources have
behind such folk hits as "If I Had in part: personal ways, will deeply miss homepage) confirmed to the Financial Times.
a Hammer," "Lemon Tree," "Mary Travers fought cancer and her and the gifts she has given us Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:59:21 AM In a decision that will
"Blowin' in the Wind," "Leaving its consequent illnesses with an – as an artist, as a triumphant role significantly boost US relations
on a Jet Plane" and "Puff, the i n s p i r i n g s t r e n g t h a n d model, and as a dear, beloved The Obama administration is set with Russia, the White House will
Magic Dragon," among others. determination, maintaining a friend." to announce on Thursday that it drop the Bush-era scheme, which
Now, the blonde is gone. Mary p o s i t i v e o u t l o o k a n d Kentucky-born and Greenwich will drop plans to build a missile- Moscow has described as a threat
Travers, 72, died Wednesday in a uncomplaining spirit throughout. Village-raised, Travers was a defence system in Poland and the to its security.
Connecticut hospital after a long Mary's life and legacy remain a longtime resident of Redding, Czech Republic, western
battle with leukemia. great American treasure. She was Conn. Her husband, Ethan Out of this world
With songs that existed on a passionate singer of songs, Robbins; daughters, Alicia and
several levels – "If I Had a songs that have enlightened us Erika; sister Ann Gordon, Ph.D,; By Fiona Miller (Flickr Blog) making photo management an
Hammer" and "Blowin' in the and moved us to action as citizens and granddaughters, Wylie and Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:12:35 AM easy, natural and collaborative
Wind" were interpreted as pleas of America and the world. She Virginia, survive her. process. Get comments, notes,
for racial equality – Peter, Paul never failed to champion those • About Flickr and tags on your photos, post to
and Mary brought beatniks into most in need, those most deprived Flickr is a revolution in photo any blog, share and more!
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14 World/ Internet News Record

Obama abandons missile defence shield in Europe


By Luke Harding, Ian Traynor decision as a "major adjustment" Alexandr Vondra – a former up with a successor treaty to Start Rasmussen, in his first big
(World news and comment that would better protect US Czech deputy prime minister and 1 by December, when the current speech, is to call tomorrow for a
from the Guardian | forces and allies in Europe from ambassador to Washington agreement expires. new relationship between the
guardian.co.uk) Iranian missile attacks. intimately involved in the "Hardliners in Russia don't want western military alliance and
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:10:01 AM "We are adjusting our system to negotiations with the Americans – an agreement on Start. It will be Russia, taking more account of
make sure our forces and our said he was surprised. "This is a U very difficult now for Russia to Moscow's security and strategic
Cautious welcome in Russia, allies are protected from that -turn in US policy," he said. "But avoid an agreement," said Ruben interests.
which vehemently opposed the changing and growing threat. Just first we expect the US to honour Sergeyev, a defence analyst in Russian experts said Obama's
scheme, but dismay from Poland as the threat has developed, so too its commitments. If they don't Moscow. "It [the decision to drop decision could only be seen as an
and Czech Republic has our technology. We believe they may have problems the US shield] creates a very unambiguous concession to
Barack Obama has abandoned we have a more flexible, capable generating support for positive ambience, despite the fact Moscow, adding that it would
the controversial Pentagon plan to system to deploy to protect our Afghanistan and on other things." it was really an artificial thing." severely disappoint the new Nato
build a missile defence system in forces and friends in Europe," he Under the Bush administration The decision strengthens Dmitry countries of eastern Europe.
Europe. The move has prompted said. the Pentagon spent years planning Medvedev, the Russian president, Yevgeny Miasnikov, a senior
accusations of betrayal from "This improvement to the system and negotiating to place 10 silos who is due to make his first research scientist at Moscow's
Washington's eastern European has nothing to do with Russia and with interceptor rockets in presidential trip to the US next Centre for Arms Control, said the
allies but delighted the Kremlin. everything to do with Iran." northern Poland and to build a week for the G20 meeting in US administration would now
In one of the sharpest breaks yet Russia hinted that Obama's large radar station south of Prague Pittsburgh. The Obama consider ways of assuaging the
with the policies of the Bush decision would not be met by any to defend against a perceived administration has been keen to Poles and Czechs, which might
administration, Obama phoned the swift or generous concessions. ballistic missile threat from Iran. boost Medvedev's standing and include providing Poland with
leaders of Poland and the Czech The country's foreign ministry The central European countries authority at home, seeing him as a Patriot interceptors capable of
Republic last night to tell them he spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, were keen to acquire the US more moderate and less hostile shooting down short- and medium
had dropped plans to site missile described the move as "obviously installations and other military interlocutor than Putin. -range missiles.
interceptors and a radar station in a positive sign for us" but made hardware as partial security Today the Nato secretary "Obama has taken a step in the
their respective countries. Russia clear the decision had been a guarantees against a resurgent general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, direction of improving US-
had furiously opposed the project, unilateral one taken by Russia. Moscow claimed the said Obama's decision was "a Russian relations. This will
claiming it targeted Moscow's Washington alone. He suggested project was aimed against Russia positive step". Rasmussen said he definitely help build a
nuclear arsenal. there had been no deals with and threatened to deploy short- had been briefed by the US envoy partnership," Miasnikov said.
Obama is to announce the Moscow on Iran or other issues. range nuclear weapons in the to Nato about it. "Russia will also now make some
reversal officially at a news "That would disagree with our Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, But the timing of the concessions, maybe on strategic
conference today. This morning policy of resolution of any which sits inside the European announcement is regarded as talks over nuclear arms reduction
the Czech prime minister, Jan problems in relations with any Union. disastrous by the Poles. Eugeniusz or maybe over Iran.
Fischer, revealed that Obama countries, no matter how difficult Obama's climbdown is likely to Smolar, a former chief of "Moscow will try to catalyse the
phoned him about it last night. or sensitive they may be." be seen by Russia as a victory for Warsaw's Centre for International process of improving US-Iranian
During a visit to Moscow in The US decision will cheer its uncompromising stance. Relations, said: "We are relations and will facilitate
July the US president indicated he many in government in western Today, however, analysts disappointed." But he added that dialogue between the two sides. I
was ordering a 60-day review of Europe who believed the scheme pointed out the decision would the Polish government had been don't think threatening Iran is the
the scheme. According to today's was an unnecessary provocation help Obama secure Moscow's co- assured by the Americans that way to solve this problem."
Wall Street Journal, the findings, to the Russians. But today the operation on a possible new promises of training with Patriot • Obama administration
to be released next week, Czech Republic and Poland sanctions package against Iran missile batteries and help in • Nuclear weapons
conclude that Iran's long-range expressed disappointment at the and would further his desire to modernising the Polish military • United States
missile programme is progressing White House's decision to reverse "reset" relations with Moscow remained valid. • Russia
more slowly than previously track after six years of difficult following a dismal period under A few weeks ago, in a cri de • Poland
thought. Citing US officials, the negotiations. Senior sources in the Bush administration. coeur to Washington, several • Czech Republic
paper says the White House Warsaw and Prague said they It would significantly boost the senior eastern European officials Luke Harding Ian Traynor
believes Iran's short to medium- would insist on the Americans chances of a new treaty on and public figures wrote a public guardian.co.uk© Guardian
range programme poses a more honouring pledges they made to strategic nuclear arms reduction letter to Obama complaining that News & Media Limited 2009 |
potent and immediate danger. the Nato allies in return for between Washington and their security interests were being Use of this content is subject to
A Pentagon spokesman, Geoff agreeing last year to the plan for Moscow, they said. Both the US ignored by the west in order to
Morrell, described Obama's missile defence deployments. and Russia have agreed to come improve relations with Moscow. OBAMA page 15
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Failed execution 'traumatises' prisoner


(World news and comment those executions have always thinking it should be having an unconstitutional.
from the Guardian | proceeded the same day. impact at this late date." In 2007, the Georgia execution
guardian.co.uk) Shank said one option was to Broom, 53, has been placed in a of inmate John Hightower was
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:28:21 AM ask Strickland to consider a cell in the infirmary at the delayed for several minutes while
request for clemency and to Southern Ohio Correctional officials struggled to find a
Romell Broom's lawyer may ask commute Broom's sentence. Facility in Lucasville, where he is suitable vein in his left arm.
governor to consider request for Strickland said he is reviewing on close watch. "It was the right Florida halted executions after
clemency the incident and consulting prison place to keep him," Walburn said. the death of Angel Diaz in
An inmate whose execution was officials and others about the next "The less we can transport an December 2006 was delayed for Before the bell: Stock
halted when executioners failed to step. offender, the better." 34 minutes because needles were
get the needle into a vein after an "That does not mean there will The night before his scheduled accidentally pushed through his futures higher ahead
unprecedented two hours of trying be a review of the larger issue of execution, Broom told his brother veins, causing the chemicals to go
is traumatised, and trying to put lethal injections," Strickland said. over the phone that he was ready into his muscles instead. Florida of housing, jobs data
him to death again in a week "That's been settled. Obviously, to die. resumed executions in 2008 under By Melly Alazraki
could spell disaster, his lawyer yesterday demonstrated that we "He is tired of being in prison new procedures. (BloggingStocks)
said. have a problem with this and having people tell him what Ohio has executed 32 men since Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:40:00 AM
R o m e l l B r o o m i s s t i l l particular set of circumstances." to do every day," according to the Wilford Berry in 1999, an
recovering from Tuesday's A prison log released yesterday prison log. execution also slightly delayed Filed under: Before the bell,
prolonged execution attempt and blamed Broom's past drug use for Broom was sentenced to die for because of problems finding a International markets, Market
is physically and emotionally problems finding a usable vein. the rape and murder of 14-year- vein. matters, Oracle Corp (ORCL),
spent, his lawyer, Adele Shank, T h e l o g i n d i c a t e s t h a t old Tryna Middleton after Elsewhere in the US, a man Economic data U.S. stock futures
said yesterday. executioners made the abducting her in Cleveland in convicted of killing a suspected climbed Thursday morning ahead
"It went so badly when he was observation at 3.11pm, more than September 1984 as she walked drug dealer during a robbery 18 of housing and employment data
walking in without injured veins, an hour after first trying to find a home from a Friday night football years ago was executed yest erday set to be released before the
to go forward so soon afterward vein. game with two friends. evening in Texas the 17th this opening bell. Meanwhile, stocks
just seems to be inviting disaster," "Medical team having problem Richard Dieter, director of the year in the country's busiest death climbed Wednesday on optimism
Shank said. maintaining an open vein due to non-profit Death Penalty -penalty state. over the global economic
Ohio governor Ted Strickland's past drug use," said the log Information Centre, said he • Capital punishment recovery, but this morning
d e c i s i o n t o s t o p T u e s d a y ' s reviewed by the Associated Press. knows of only one inmate who • Ohio Oracle's revenue miss caused
execution and grant a one-week Broom said at one point that he was subjected to more than one • United States some caution on the Street.
r e p r i e v e a p p e a r e d t o b e was a heavy heroin user, but then attempted execution. guardian.co.uk© Guardian The DJIA nearly hit 9,800 on
unprecedented since capital said at another time that he wasn't, A first attempt to execute Willie News & Media Limited 2009 | Wednesday, closing just above
p u n i s h m e n t w a s d e c l a r e d a prison spokeswoman, Julie Francis in 1946 by electrocution Use of this content is subject to 9,791, within shot of the 10,000
constitutional and the US resumed Walburn, said. in Louisiana did not work. He was our Terms & Conditions| More mark, a level it has not been
executions in the 1970s. Shank said she was unaware of returned to death row for nearly a Feeds above since last October. Since
Inmates in several states have any such drug use. "If there's such year while the US Supreme Court bottoming at multi-year lows in
experienced delays with the a thing, it's got to be at least 25 considered whether a second March, the Dow has gained 47%,
injection of lethal chemicals, but years old," she said. "I don't electrocution would be the S&P 500 has gained 55% and
the Nasdaq has gained 65%.
OBAMA
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Yale lab worker charged over murder Six Italians dead in


By Daniel Nasaw (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Afghan suicide attack
hours of video surveillance.
Clark was arrested on Tuesday
night while investigators searched
surveillance cameras during her
final walk to the facility where her
body was found on Sunday.
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:46:49 AM his home and took a DNA sample Access to the basement (World news and comment vehicles burned, including an
and then released. He was arrested laboratory where Le's body was from the Guardian | Italian Humvee, and two burned
• 'Workplace violence' blamed again without incident on the found is tightly controlled and guardian.co.uk) bodies that were later covered
by police in US university killing warrant early this morning. Police workers can only enter by ID Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:13:09 AM with plastic sheets.
• Bride-to-be's corpse was found have described him as generally swipe cards, limiting the pool of A Defence Ministry spokesman,
hidden in utility duct co-operative. potential suspects. The pavement Afghan official says six Italian General Mohammad Zahir Azimi,
Police in New Haven have In a case that has horrified the outside the building is closely soldiers were killed alongside at said that at least 10 Afghan
charged the laboratory technician university community and gripped monitored by surveillance least 10 Afghan civilians in Kabul civilians were killed and 52
Raymond Clark with murdering the US, the body of Le, 24, was cameras. attack wounded.
Annie Le, the Yale University found in a utility shaft in a heavily By early this week police had A suicide car bomber attacked Feraudin Ansari, a shopkeeper,
student found dead this week. secured research building on the narrowed their focused to Clark an Italian military convoy on a said he felt the blast in his store
The warrant charging 24-year- campus on the day she was to be and ultimately searched his road in Afghanistan's capital about 50 metres from the site.
old Clark is sealed and police married. vehicle and his apartment. today, killing six Italian soldiers Windows were broken in all the
have declined to discuss the Clark worked as a custodian at Investigators tested DNA taken and 10 Afghan civilians, officials shops on the street. He said he
evidence against him. But t h e l a b o r a t o r y w h e r e L e from Clark against evidence said. was angry at Nato forces for
officials have previously indicated conducted research. One of his collected from the scene. The suicide bomber rammed his patrolling in downtown areas.
the case turns on DNA and other duties was cleaning the cages On the day Le's body was found explosives-filled car into two "Why are you patrolling inside
forensic evidence collected from a where the experimental rodents she had been due to marry Italian military vehicles about the city? There is no al-Qaida, no
utility shaft behind a wall in a lived, an occupation that is likely Jonathan Widawsky, a 24-year- midday, Italy's defence minister, Taliban here," 25-year-old Ansari
research facility where Le was to have brought him into contact old physics student at Columbia Ignazio La Russa, said in Rome. said. "My shop is destroyed and
found strangled, four days after with Le. Police have declined to University in New York. The He said six of those in the my head hurts from the blast."
her disappearance. discuss the relationship between couple met as undergraduates at vehicles were killed and four The explosion was the fourth
The New Haven police chief, the two. the University of Rochester in wounded. major attack in the capital in five
James Lewis, told reporters: "This Friends and neighbours western New York state. Le was A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah weeks.
is not about urban crime, it's not described Clark as an animal from California. Mujahid, claimed responsibility, In the latest, a car bomb
about university crime, it's not l o v e r w h o l i v e d w i t h h i s Widawsky is not a suspect in saying in a text message that the exploded on 8 September near the
about domestic crime, but about girlfriend. "He was a nice kid, he the case. Taliban had carried out the entrance to the military airport in
workplace violence, which is was a jokester, everybody knew • United States suicide attack against foreign Kabul in an attack on a Nato
becoming a growing concern him," high school friend Lisa Daniel Nasaw forces. convoy, killing three civilians.
around the country." Heselin told CNN. guardian.co.uk© Guardian The explosion shattered T h e T a l i b a n c l a i m e d
The FBI said lie detector Le went missing on Tuesday News & Media Limited 2009 | windows in buildings about half a responsibility for the blast.
specialists and its "behavioural morning of last week, having left Use of this content is subject to mile away and shook offices and • Afghanistan
analysis" teams played a key part her wallet, keys and purse in her our Terms & Conditions| More homes throughout the central • Taliban
in the investigation. Nearly 300 o f f i c e i n a m e d i c a l s c h o o l Feeds Afghan neighbourhood, which • Global terrorism
items were seized in the case and building about a mile from Yale's houses a number of embassies and • Italy
investigators viewed hundreds of main campus. She was filmed by military bases. • United States
Charred vehicles littered the guardian.co.uk© Guardian
Jupiter's Magnetic Moon Generates Spectacular area around the blast site, a road News & Media Limited 2009 |
Light Show just off a main traffic island that Use of this content is subject to
leads to the airport. An Associated our Terms & Conditions| More
By Hadley Leggett (Wired Top radiating from its largest moon, Press reporter saw at least six Feeds
Stories) Ganymede. Slight variations in
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:01:00 PM the aurora's brightness give clues What's wrong with this picture?
to how Ganymede is interacting (Scripting News) With a hat-tip to David
Scientists discover that the with its mother planet. Rowland, iPhone developer, who
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:46:32 AM
auroral light shows on Jupiter are sent it to a mail list I'm on.
caused in part by magnetic forces It took me a few minutes staring at it to figure it out.
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Mary Travers dies aged 72 'Australian Fritzl' accused


(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
1963 march on Washington.
They were vehement in their
opposition to the Vietnam war,
folkies Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
Dave Van Ronk and Pete Seeger.
A boxed set of their music was
of raping daughter and
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:27:53 AM managing to stay true to their
liberal beliefs while creating
Singer with hugely popular music that resonated in the
released in 2004.
They remained politically active
as well, performing at the 1995
fathering four children
By Toni O'Loughlin (World children were born with birth
1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and American mainstream - the group anniversary of the Kent State news and comment from the defects in Melbourne hospitals
Mary dies in Connecticut after collected five Grammy awards. shootings and performing for Guardian | guardian.co.uk) and none had a father listed on
having leukemia At one point in 1963, three of California strawberry pickers. Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:25:47 AM their birth certificates. One of the
Mary Travers: the singer who their albums were in the top six in Travers had undergone a children died from severe
used pop stardom for the greater the US charts as they became the successful bone marrow The allegations cover a 30-year developmental problems soon
good biggest stars of the folk revival transplant to treat leukemia andperiod stretching back to when the after birth.
Mary Travers, one-third of the movement. was able to return to performingvictim was 11 The mother said her daughter
hugely popular 1960s folk group It was heady stuff for a group after that. "It was like a miracle,"An Australian man has been had been vague whenever she
Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. that had formed in the early 1960s she said in 2006. "I'm just feeling
charged with raping his daughter asked about the identity of the
The band's publicist, Heather in Greenwich Village, running fabulous. What's incredible is over a 30-year period and is father.
Lylis, said Travers died yesterday through simple tunes such as someone has given your life back.
accused of fathering her four "She used to say something
a t D a n b u r y H o s p i t a l i n Mary Had a Little Lamb. I'm out in the garden today. This
children. about going out to nightclubs and
Connecticut. She was 72 and had In a 1966 New York Times time last year I was looking out a In a case which appears similar meeting a fella, but then she
had leukemia for several years. interview, Travers said they window at a hospital." to that of Austria's Josef Fritzl, would clam up," the mother said.
Travers joined forces with Peter worked well together because But by mid-2009, Yarrow told who had seven children with his While the mother said her
Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in they respected one another. WTOP radio in Washington that daughter, the alleged victim's husband was moody and abusive
the early 1960s. "There has to be a certain amount her condition had worsened againmother, who shared a house with she said she never suspected that
They mingled their music with of love just in order for you to and he thought she would no h e r d a u g h t e r , h u s b a n d a n d he was sexually assaulting her
liberal politics onstage and off. survive together," she said. "I longer be able to perform. grandchildren until 2005, said she daughter.
Their version of If I Had a think a lot of groups have gone • Folk music was unaware of any abuse. "We lived in a big house, so I
Hammer became an anthem for down the tubes because they were • United States The rapes allegedly began in the wouldn't have known," she said.
r a c i a l e q u a l i t y . O t h e r h i t s not able to relate to one another." guardian.co.uk© Guardian 1970s when the victim was about "He had a very sharp tongue. He
included Lemon Tree, Leaving on Over the years they enjoyed News & Media Limited 2009 | 11 and continued until 2007, two was a drinker. One day she just up
a Jet Plane and Puff the Magic several reunions, including a Use of this content is subject to
years after she first sought help and left and I haven't seen her for
Dragon. performance at a 1978 anti- our Terms & Conditions| More from the police. years. The first I knew of all this
The band were early champions nuclear benefit organised by Feeds The woman first approached the is when they came and arrested
of Bob Dylan and performed his Yarrow and a 35th anniversary police about the alleged abuse in (my husband)," the mother said.
Blowin' in the Wind at the August album, Lifelines, with fellow 2005 but no charges were laid. The man has denied raping his
She was reportedly too afraid of daughter.
Overstock Told That 'Browserwrap' Agreement Is her father to co-operate with an • Australia
investigation, but welfare • Josef Fritzl
Unenforceable advocates attacked the police for Toni O'Loughlin
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) agreement page itself, may be someone's going to have to make failing to pursue the case. guardian.co.uk© Guardian
Yet, according to the mother, News & Media Limited 2009 |
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:49:32 PM enforceable. But the latest case, it clear what sorts of online terms the family had been in contact Use of this content is subject to
i n v o l v i n g o n l i n e r e t a i l e r are actually enforceable (if any).
It's still not entirely clear what Overstock went in the other Until then, we're going to see a lot with welfare workers for more our Terms & Conditions| More
online agreements are actually direction. A court found that more lawsuits like this one. than 30 years. Feeds
enforceable and which aren't. O v e r s t o c k ' s a r b i t r a t i o n It was alleged that all four
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We've seen cases go both ways, requirement was unenforceable, This Story
with a recent ruling even noting because, as "browserwrap," the
that terms that are a hyperlink user was not adequately notified.
away, rather than on the Eventually, it seems that
18 Finance/ Economy/ Internet News Record

Cramer on Options Update: United States


BloggingStocks: Missing Natural Gas Fund options
active
the big picture By Paul Foster
(BloggingStocks)
contracts trading. UNG October
option implied volatility of 66 is
By Jim Cramer
(BloggingStocks) Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:30:00 AM near its 26-week average
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Options
according to Track Data.
Financial Select Sector( XLF)
Goldman or
Filed under: Ford Motor (F), United States Natural Gas Fund overall volatility at 39; 26-week Apple: Which Will
(NYSE: UNG) closed at $11.75. average is 50 according to Track
Home Depot (HD), Market
matters, AutoNation Inc (AN), The investment objective of UNG Data. Hit $200 First?
Black and Decker (BDK), Fortune is for the changes in percentage Option Update is provided by (Financial Sector and Stocks
Brands (FO), KB HOME (KBH), terms of the unit's net asset value Stock Specialist Paul Foster of Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
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Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:43:30 AM
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BloggingStocks From natural gas delivered at the Henry Natural Gas Fund options active Apple ( AAPL) and Goldman
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GMAC September 16 with of 222,361 Permalink| Email this| Comments tracked each other over the last
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer six months. We don't know how
says don't heed the pundits --
allow yourself to believe things pundits/media/money managers
Dress Barn beats in Q4, but many people have told us that
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Kingdom come
(The Economist: News government have deteriorated Buganda caucus is a substantial the lands bill coupled with an an astute political operator and it
analysis) badly during the past year over force in parliament. However, increase in public funds directed would be folly to write him off.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:25:18 AM differences on a proposed lands with the memory of suppression towards the kingdom's dilapidated He has presided over 20 years of
bill. The kingdom views the bill under previous regimes fading-- infrastructure. stability and uninterrupted
Sep 16th 2009 as a government scheme to gain Mr Museveni has ruled for 23 Running for election in 2011 is economic growth, an immense
From the Economist control over its land resources years--and with the allocation of looking like an increasingly achievement for a country
Intelligence Unit ViewsWire while the administration argues senior government positions (at daunting prospect for Mr emerging from years of misrule in
Uganda's president faces serious that it will simply improve land some stage the prime minister, Museveni, who has become the 1980s. Some of the posturing
opposition from a region that was security. vice-president and finance accustomed to winning fairly from Buganda would die down if
once the bedrock of his support The confrontation acquired minister have all been Baganda) easily. The battle with Buganda they were given assurances about
The Ugandan president, Yoweri fresh impetus in August, when the insufficient to appease hard-line will remain the epicentre of control over their land and
Museveni, who has held power king repeated calls for the Buganda nationalists pressing for opposition to an extension of his persuaded that a re-elected NRM
since 1986, is facing serious reintroduction of "federo"--a quasi more autonomy, a showdown is rule, but other factors add to his government would direct more
opposition from a region that was -federal system of government looming. Valuable voting block troubles. The discovery of large resources towards them,
previously the bedrock of his that existed before the kingdoms The fracture is growing in oil reserves in the kingdom of something Mr Museveni has the
support. were abolished in 1966. This significance as elections are only Bunyoro (discovered oil reserves ability to do given that oil revenue
A row with the Buganda region would give the kingdom the 18 months away and the Baganda are estimated at 2bn barrels, with will be coming on stream during
over aspirations of self- ability to raise its own resources, people are the most valuable less than one-third of the oil the next presidential term. If the
government boiled over in mid- tax its subjects and reduce its voting block in the country. The region explored) raised the spectre Baganda are not persuaded by
September. At least 15 people reliance on the central political atmosphere has become of further ethnic unrest in August, this, Mr Museveni has total
died and hundreds were arrested government, but is not generally increasingly febrile, with anti- as representatives called for the control of the Ugandan army and
during two days of rioting sparked popular outside Buganda. Thus, government sentiment fed by return of land expropriated under a Presidential Guard which is
when police stopped the Buganda while the riots were partly a show Baganda-owned local radio colonial rule and the reservation effectively his own personal
king, Ronald Mutebi, from of Buganda force, they were also stations. Otherwise ineffectual of political positions. Opposition army, while he has strengthened
attending a rally in the Kayunga borne out of fear of the opposition politicians, eager to politicians branded Mr Museveni his grip on the police force. The
district, an area where the Banyala secessionist desires of districts find a vehicle to tap anti- a tribalist when his preference for opposition parties remain
ethnic group is seeking to secede such as Kayunga, which would government public sentiment, a compromise--involving ring- fragmented and their ability to
from the Buganda kingdom. The diminish the kingdom's influence have allied themselves with the fencing top political positions for harness the full backing of the
violence reflects an increasingly and reduce its overall power if Buganda cause. Meanwhile the ethnic Banyoro--was leaked. Buganda authorities to pose a
fraught struggle between the federo was restored. president is reluctant to cede Adding to his troubles are famine serious threat will recede as long
Buganda authorities and the These events represent a large anything, aware that to do so conditions in the north and west, as cross-party bickering over
Ugandan government over access reversal in popularity for the would make him look weak at a where his inability to bring a final positions continues. Mr Museveni
to land and its concomitant power. Ugandan president, Yoweri time when he is already under end to the brutal Lords' Resistance therefore remains the favourite for
Of Uganda's four historical Museveni, who has previously pressure from potential successors Army detracts from any other the 2011 election, but much will
kingdoms which were restored in enjoyed the strong backing of the in the NRM. Following the riots achievements there. The high depend on his ability to mollify
1993, Buganda is by far the most country's largest ethnic group. He the government shut down four food inflation of the past two the Buganda in what will be a
popular among its subjects and, came to power with the help of local radio stations supportive of years has led to deterioration in contentious, and perhaps bloody,
from the ruling party's viewpoint, Baganda peasants that had the Buganda cause, while Mr living standards for most process.
the most dangerous threat to the suffered during the Amin and Museveni summoned Baganda Ugandans, and the combination of Back to top ^^ Readers'
National Resistance Movement Obote regimes, and he shored up legislators to State House and increasing urbanisation, youthful comments
(NRM)'s political hegemony. The this support by granting the wish called on the king to avoid population and lack of jobs is The Economist welcomes your
kingdom has a constitutional of traditionalists for the return of a meddling in politics. However, it creating urban conditions views.
monarchy, a local parliament, monarchy to the Buganda is likely that Mr Museveni will conducive to civil unrest and open
regional assemblies and, crucially, kingdom in 1993. Since then, make more concessions to to exploitation by opposition
about 17% of the Ugandan most Baganda have cast their vote appease the Baganda, possibly parties. Fighting back?
population. Relations with the for the NRM, and the party's involving some watering-down of Nevertheless, Mr Museveni is
20 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

War crimes in Gaza: Crimes of war


(The Economist: News international legal action not only Israel conducted the military on the credibility of the whole 575 In its formal reaction, Israel
analysis) against Israel, but also against operations,” the Goldstone -page report. Israel refused to co- declares itself “appalled” at the
Submitted at 9/16/2009 12:01:10 AM Hamas, for war crimes and mission concludes. It accuses operate with the mission report. Officials say privately they
possible crimes against humanity. Israel of “indiscriminate attacks” (although individual Israelis did had expected a tough document
War crimes in Gaza It has recommended that the that resulted in civilian deaths and testify), noting that the UN accusing the army of a
Sep 16th 2009 | JERUSALEM findings are handed to the injuries, and also, on several Human Rights Council, which disproportionate response to the
From Economist.com A UN prosecutor of the International occasions, of deliberately established it, has a long record of years of incessant but largely
mission concludes that war crimes Criminal Court (ICC) in The targeting civilians. egregious bias against the Jewish ineffective firing of rockets and
were committed in Gaza Hague and also urged the UN It also concluded, among other state. In correspondence with mortars from Gaza into Israel.
ISRAEL is reeling from the Security Council and, separately, findings, that 240 Palestinian Justice Goldstone, Israel noted They were shocked, they said,
accusations of a UN fact-finding the General Assembly, to ensure policemen were killed unlawfully, pointedly that other eminent that the mission accused Israel of
mission that it deliberately sowed that those responsible for the 99 of them in bombings on the jurists had declined to serve on deliberately targeting the
death and destruction among crimes are brought to justice. In first day of the operation, even the mission because of its Palestinian civilian population.
civilians in the Gaza Strip during particular the mission would like though some of them may have provenance. The prime minister, Binyamin
a three-week military operation to see the Security Council set up been Hamas fighters. The Israel’s government argues, too, Netanyahu, has given orders for a
ending in January. a committee of experts to monitor bombing of public buildings, that one of the mission’s four diplomatic campaign to discredit
The mission was chaired by a w h e t h e r I s r a e l a n d H a m a s including the parliament and the members, Professor Christine the report and counter the
respected South African judge, conducts domestic investigations main prison, was found to be Chinkin of the London School of mission’s effort to have Israelis
Richard Goldstone and published and, if so, to see how thorough unlawful. Israel’s warnings to Economics, had expressed charged with war crimes.
its report on Tuesday September these are. It also urges that, if the civilians to flee targeted areas “prejudgmental assertions, The Israelis dismiss the
15th. It concludes that “While the experts are not satisfied, the were described as inadequate. The including that ‘the rocket attacks mission’s ostensible
Israeli government has sought to Security Council should refer the report notes that the mission on Israel by Hamas do not amount evenhandedness in recommending
portray its operation as essentially matter to the ICC prosecutor. found no evidence of the to an armed attack entitling Israel that the Palestinians, too, be held
a response to rocket attacks in The death toll in Israel’s Palestinians firing from mosques, to rely on self-defence’.” The to account for firing rockets at
exercise of its right to self- “Operation Cast Lead”, between hospitals or UN facilities, other two mission members are Israeli civilians and for acts of
defence, the Mission considers the December 27th and January 18th, although “this might have Hina Jilani, a Pakistani jurist and brutality and repression against
plan to have been directed, at least i s p u t a t a r o u n d 1 , 4 0 0 b y occurred”. The mission also Desmond Travers, a retired Irish their own people. In the prevailing
in part, at a different target: the Palestinian sources and non- concludes that “It may be that the army officer. atmosphere at the UN, they say,
people of Gaza as a whole.” governmental aid agencies. Israel Palestinian combatants did not at Justice Goldstone, who was a this will remain a dead letter
The purpose, the mission added, estimates the toll at 1,166. Three all times adequately distinguish prosecutor at the international while the recommendations
w a s “ p u n i s h i n g t h e G a z a Israeli civilians were killed by themselves from the civilian criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia against Israel will be assiduously
population for its resilience and rocket fire into Israel, and ten population.” In addition it and Rwanda, insists that his followed up.
for its apparent support for soldiers were killed during the concluded that repression within mission had “unbiased and even- Back to top ^^ Readers'
Hamas”. It held that Israel’s fighting, four of them by “friendly Israel fosters “a political climate handed terms of reference” and comments
partial blockade of the Gaza Strip fire”. in which dissent with the functioned as a “completely The Economist welcomes your
since Hamas took power there “The data provided by non- government and its actions in the independent body.” Israeli views.
t h r e e - a n d - a - h a l f y e a r s a g o governmental sources with regard Occupied Territories is not officials wondered privately
a m o u n t e d t o c o l l e c t i v e to the percentage of civilians tolerated.” yesterday whether he had set the
punishment and violated the among those killed are generally Israeli officials argue that the tone of the report, or was swept
Geneva Conventions. consistent and raise very serious last two points are so patently along by other mission members
The mission recommends concerns with regard to the way biased that they ought to reflect and staffers.
Pentax K-x officially out; specs and price confirmed
By Devin Coldewey early, so you can head over to the solid little camera, and that’s the complicated to operate, more so
(CrunchGear) earlier post to get the specs. The lowest price for decent DSLR than the competition anyway.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:59:29 PM news here is that it’s going to be video I can think of as well.
$600 with a kit lens (18-55 f/3.5- Aha — looks like PDN has a
All this info got released a little 5.6). There are a couple more pictures as well. Looks like a hands-on. Seems it’s a bit
Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ 21

Europe.view: Not good enough


(The Economist: Daily It starts with the location. Big scenic, Krynica’s buildings minutes, a two-hour session is
columns) international conferences are best mostly are not. Ugly communist- almost over, leaving little time for
Submitted at 9/17/2009 12:38:43 AM staged in locations with good era structures overwhelm the interaction with the audience.
transport links. Poland has plenty handful of old ones. The Good conference panels require a
Europe.view of them, but Krynica is not one of configuration is awkward. Big lot of planning. At Krynica, the
Sep 17th 2009 them. The nearest international rooms are divided into smaller panellists typically meet for the
From Economist.com East airport is three hours away, on a ones by billowing fabric first time in the few hurried
Europe's premier economic forum winding narrow road. The railway partitions. That looks nice, but minutes before the session. Daily Crunch: The
could be much better service is dismal. The time and does not create functional sound- Poland gets away with
KRYNICA is Poland’s Davos. energy involved simply getting to proofing. At one particularly Krynica’s failings because it is the Zune Strikes Back
And in some respects last week’s Krynica can easily make first- embarrassing session last week biggest and most important Edition
annual economic forum held in timers into last-timers. Vladimir Bukovsky, a a giant in conference in the east European
the mountains of southern Poland It gets worse. The hotels are the Soviet dissident movement, region. People can’t afford to miss By Bryce Durbin (CrunchGear)
is just like the World Economic nowhere near the level needed. struggled to make his voice heard it, but it could be much better. Submitted at 9/17/2009 12:00:56 AM
Forum, the plutocrats’ Swiss get- For the pampered international over a deafening blast of rock The conference organisers could
together. It is scenic, fun and guests that Krynica wants to music from the event next door. take a lesson from Estonia’s Zune Originals artwork now
prime networking territory; attract, internet access, hairdryers, At the main plenary session, a annual Lennart Meri security available for the Zune HD
meetings that would otherwise a n d n o i s e - p r o o f r o o m s a r e scintillating discussion on world conference, which is flawlessly Zune HD’s UI: the full tour
take months to arrange can necessities, not luxuries. Such economics between Edmund organised and with highly coveted Ribcage pulled out by a bear?
happen over a quick coffee. Late guests also prefer quick and Phelps, a Nobel-prize-winning invitations. A good start would be There’s an app for that.
at night, formality disappears as hassle-free meals. But the handful economist (pictured above); Peter to find another venue, with These are the worst sci-fi
drinks flow and tongues loosen. of restaurants in the conference Schiff, an American pundit; and accommodation, catering and costumes ever
But Krynica is a poor showcase z o n e s e e m c o m p l e t e l y Poland’s razor-witted finance transport that impress visitors Japanese company sells carports
for Poland. The country’s high- overwhelmed by the sudden minister, Jacek Rostowski, the positively, rather than confirming with solar panel roofs
tech, world-class dynamism is influx of customers. Many don’t venue was painfully overcrowded. outdated stereotypes about Polish
barely visible; rather, outside take credit cards. The waiters A good rule of thumb for backwardness and
guests, especially those visiting don’t speak English. That’s not conference organisers is that the disorganisation.
Poland for the first time, notice its wholly surprising: for most of the main auditorium should roughly Back to top ^^ Readers'
nerve-wracking side, with rickety year Krynica is a mid-level resort match the number of participants. comments
infrastructure and a tiresome with a largely Polish customer That discussion was excellent, The Economist welcomes your
dependence on improvisation. base. All the odder, therefore, to but many weren’t. Krynica’s views.
This is not a display of charming h o l d a m a j o r i n t e r n a t i o n a l panels are huge, sometimes with
Polish idiosyncrasy. It is just c o n f e r e n c e t h e r e . ten or more participants. By the
sloppy. Though the mountains are time everyone has spoken for ten

HP outs new ‘DreamScreen’ photo frames with Facebook and Pandora


features
By Doug Aamoth pricing is concerned, although • HP SmartRadio – live • Alarm clock and weather
(CrunchGear) you do get a few more bells and streaming audio from over 10,000 functions
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:01:46 AM whistles than you’d get with a radio stations Here’s a thorough review from
standard digital photo frame. • Facebook status updates, DigitalPictureFrameReview.com
HP has released a new line of Features include the following: photos, and upcoming events if you’re interested.[Thanks for
wireless photo frames; the 10.2- • 2GB of built-in memory with • Snapfish access sending this in, Ben]
inch DreamScreen 100 and 13.3- expansion via USB and flash • Touch controls and remote (not HP DreamScreen 100[HP Store]
inch DreamScreen 130, priced at memory cards a touchscreen, but the outer frame HP DreamScreen 130[HP Store]
$250 and $300, respectively. • Wireless photo and music network itself features touch-sensitive
That’s a spicy meatball as far as streaming over your home • Pandora streaming buttons)
22 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Five Questions for William K. Black As the Economy


(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:05:07 AM
Suffers, Private Equity
mismanaged. Third, they should
be shrunk to the point that they no
longer endanger the global
Mr. Black: My crucial CLGs
(”career limiting gestures”) were
being a serial whistleblower and
William Black is the author of Steps Upeconomy.
#2) Adam: Do you think it is
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to likely that meaningful reforms
helping to cause two presidential
appointees (i.e., my bosses) to
resign in disgrace. I also played
O w n O n e : H o w C o r p o r a t e will be passed under the current some role in Speaker Wright’s (Financial Sector and Stocks form of warrants, they are going
Executives and Politicians Looted administration? decision to resign in disgrace and Analysis from Seeking Alpha) to rake it in once the economic
the S&L Industry. Mr. Black: I think it remains the embarrassment of the Keating Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:30:10 AM machines start churning again and
He is an expert on white-collar “likely” (i.e., >50% chance), but I Five. Pointing out that Geithner asset prices start rising from a
crime and former financial think it is only barely likely and I was selected because he was a As a follow up to my post very small base.
regulator. He played a key role in think the odds of meaningful perennial failure and moral on"Blackstone Group: A High When equity markets recover
r e s o l v i n g t h e S & L c r i s i s . reform are falling. I think the two cripple, not despite these defects, Beta Play on Recovery", news and IPOs become a regularity
Currently he teaches economics hopes for fundamental reform pales in comparison to those came out that Kodak ( EK) is again, these private equity firms
and law at UKMC. See his full under this administration are the CLGs. going to raise $700 Mil through a will get their lucrative exits
bio here, his Huffington Post new “Pecora commission” which #4) Adam: If offered a top series of transactions, Also take note that KKR is
pieces here, and definitely watch should document the compelling government regulatory post, including$400 Mil from secured planning to list in October in
his Bill Moyers interview if you need for change and the fact that would you consider taking it? debt issued to private equity firm Amsterdam, and are in a hurry to
haven’t yet. the problems at the giant zombie Mr. Black: Yes. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. get it done. They plan to use this
On to the interview: banks are so great that there will #5) Adam: What are your (KKR)( KFN). In exchange for as a stepping stone to eventually
#1) Adam: If you were advising be another crisis within the next thoughts on Ron Paul’s bill to funding, KKR gets two seats on (about a year later) list in the
President Obama on financial four years. (I explained this point audit the Federal Reserve? EK's board. NYSE, which has higher
reform, what would your first in more detail in my recent piece Mr. Black: I’m an original In my previous post I talked corporate governance standards.
priority be? in the NYT’s “Room for Debate” signatory of one of the petitions about how private equity fills a Why are they in such a rush to
Mr. Black: Containing, and on this subject.) supporting the critical need to big need during hard times like settle on listing in Amsterdam
beginning to end, “too big to fail.” The odds of meaningful reform pass legislation opening the the current recession (is it still?), first? Some speculate they need
Financial institutions that are too are substantially higher under Federal Reserve to audit, and these firms are gonna make the listing to attain currency for
b i g t o f a i l a r e n o t , a s t h e President Obama than they were particularly on its massive, tons of money out of it. The EK attracting and retaining talent and
administration has rebranded under President Bush or would unprecedented exposure to credit capital raising is just one of many for more acquisitions.
them: “systemically important” — h a v e b e e n u n d e r P r e s i d e n t risk to foreign entities. deals to come. Banks are reluctant All in all, I think private equity
they are systemically dangerous M c C a i n . ~End to lend, the government is head firms, whether it be BX or KKR
institutions (SDIs). First, they #3) Adam: Do you feel that your Thanks to Mr. Black for taking over heels in deficit so companies are worth watching as future
should not be allowed to grow. outspoken views preclude you the time to answer my questions. which need funds to reorganize competitors to the likes of
Second, their managements f r o m f u t u r e g o v e r n m e n t and shore up balance sheets turn Goldman. Competitors like
should be removed if they were a p p o i n t m e n t s ? to private equity. Many private weakened investment banks and
equity firms are liquid enough to more tightly regulated hedge
be sources of credit at this stage, funds will be late to the game.
and since most of these are in the
form of convertible debt or some

R.I.P. i-mate, we barely knew ye


By Tim Stevens (Engadget) its US staff is totally going away? Oops. The company has already be fulfilled.
Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:24:00 AM We can live with that. It seems i- been delisted from stock markets Filed under: Cellphones
mate's remaining employees in around the world, and this abrupt R.I.P. i-mate, we barely knew
Oh, global economic crisis, Dubai Internet City were told closing has left a number of ye originally appeared on
when will you stop claiming our yesterday that they had to take an retailers hanging as orders for the Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009
favorite companies? Oh, wait, it's unpaid two-month leave. That, 810F are apparently still pending. 08:24:00 EST. Please see our
just i-mate folding this time? So, apparently, was a typo, as the Now they, just like our hopes of a terms for use of feeds. Read|
the company that already laid off people were actually supposed to take an indefinite unpaid leave. Dirty Dancing sequel, will never Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Is WFC Playing a Mortgage Shell


Game?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:15:47 AM

Jingle mail, Jingle Mail, Jingle


all the way.....
This borrower couldn't pay and
thus stopped doing so. This
should generate a "NOD" (Notice
of Default) and ultimately lead to
foreclosure, right? It should result
in an impaired asset which might
be sold to some other company (at
a discount), right?
It got sold all right - right at the
"120 day" late point where Wells
REITs Ready to
counts a loan as "defaulted."
But look at who it got sold to.....
(click for a larger copy)
Reclaim Losses?
Yes, Wells ( WFC) bought the (Financial Sector and Stocks decline about 10 percent,
loan from.... itself? Analysis from Seeking Alpha) according to the quarterly
Yep. Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:24:34 AM PricewaterhouseCoopers Korpacz
playing this shell game? And if Doesn't anyone remember that Real Estate Investor Survey,
I have the original purchase so, how many more "performing" the S&Ls did this same sort of
documentation on the mortgage A few weeks ago we featured released today.
loans does Wells have now that crap (with the twist that in many REITs as part of a post entitled: Yet the action of the market
from July 21st 2008, when it was they haven't been "non-paying" cases they colluded with each Six of the World’s Dumbest appears diametrically opposed to
bought (by Wells in Frederick for at least 90 days (having "just other to shuffle them around Trade Ideas. Since the post it “popular” opinion. The REIT IYR
MD) from the original funding been acquired")? between institutions) as they seems that the bears have become looks as bullish as an angry
company in Tempe AZ. • Was it sold at Par? swirled the bowl?
Now, when the borrower even more resolute of the bleak commodity could ever be. It
• Was this accounted for as a Inquiring minds want to know outlook for real estate stocks. We appears that real estate stocks will
defaults, Wells buys the loan from "true sale" when it was in fact the answers to the above three could not help but notice the claw back all their post Lehman
itself? "sold" from and to the same questions, and if we had honest f o l l o w i n g h e a d l i n e f r o m collapse losses within days.
For what purpose? company in a different office regulators they'd be demanding Bloomberg: U.S. Commercial
The obvious questions that arise There may well be more to the
location? answers to those questions too. Property Won’t Recover Until rise in REIT stocks than rents. We
are: You don't think there might be a
• Is this loan "suddenly new and 2012, Survey Says. think that investors are missing
little shell game going on here do Below is an excerpt from the the main driver of REIT stocks
thus not yet non-performing" after you? article: and that is property as a hard
What Lies Ahead on the New Season of 'CSI'? The U.S. commercial real estate asset. REIT stocks are probably
market is unlikely to recover rising on the back of rising gold
(ETonline - Breaking News) gets all the grizzly details from body up," Marg tells Mary. before 2012 and office rents in and silver prices than any outlook
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:00:00 AM the series' stars Marg The "CSI" cast is happy to be in New York and San Francisco may for rentals.
Helgenberger, Laurence an air-conditioned studio, because drop 20 percent through next year, When everyone thinks alike the
"CSI: Crime Scene Fishburne, George Eads and Eric their roles take them to some a survey of property investors opposite is most likely to happen.
Investigation" returns for its 10th Szmanda on the ET stage. gritty locations: strip clubs, seedy found. REITs are a resident of our global
season next Thursday with a serial "He does things with the internal motels and roadside diners, Suburban office rents could fall long term contrarian portfolio.
killer who does horrible things to organs that we don't necessarily among others. as much as 20 percent, while Disclosure: Long IYR
people's bodies -- and Mary Hart find out about until we open the downtown office rents may
24 Gadgets/ Entertainment Internet News Record

Review: HTC Hero from Sprint


By John Biggs (CrunchGear) defect.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:20:30 PM Battery life has been a mixed
bag but with email and messaging
It was written that a great Hero running I’ve seen about a day per
would rise from the East. He charge.
would be clothed in the sun and The rest is just gravy. The
his unique user-interface would Hero’s social networking
redefine the user experience for integration is its most important
countless fans of social feature and the speed with which
networking and his majesty would the Hero links Facebook and
reign over all over Android Twitter profiles is impressive.
phones forever. That Hero is here, Unlike the Pre, which chokes on
and he’s on Sprint. anything more than a few hundred
I love the Hero, even in the contacts, my entire 300+ contact
form that the phone took in library was sucked in from
Sprint’s able hands. While the Google and easily connected with
comparisons to another Sprint the attendant Facebook contacts.
phone will be rampant, I’m here The Hero is the future of feature
to tell you that this isn’t the Palm cellphones. It is well-built, runs a
Pre and that this phone is my free and customized operating
favorite phone, other than the system, and it does everything the
phone that starts with “i” and average user could need. It’s not
rhymes with iPhone. The Hero, in the perfect smartphone – like the
this incarnation, is a perfect mix iPhone it doesn’t quite play well
of form and function. with corporate Interwebs in its
First, for an earlier look at the current incarnation – but that will
Hero drop over here for my change. Android, too, is the future
original review. network. There is no SIM card have the Amazon MP3 store. E v e n t h e t o u c h s c r e e n i s of feature phones, something
The old Hero, the same as the slot – don’t ask if it will run on The phone runs on Sprint’s high responsive and bright. The Microsoft and Nokia will ignore
new Hero AT&T or T-Mobile – and it has a -speed network; browsing was keyboard, however, takes a little at their peril. Your Mom’s next
When we looked at the Hero a MicroSD card for expansion. pleasant and email a breeze. A getting used to if you’ve been phone, even if she doesn’t know
few months ago it was very Sprint is famous for stuffing all certain subset of users will also using the iPhone or another what she’s getting, will probably
similar in size and shape to the T- sorts of extraneous stuff onto their notice that the traditional rooting A n d r o i d m o d e l . I n s h o r t , be an Android phone. The OS is
Mobile MyTouch. The first thing phone decks and this phone is no and tethering systems are disabled however, this is a nice phone. that versatile.
you’ll notice about this version is different. The kit includes an NFL on this phone. The camera and camcorder are Bottom Line
that the chin is gone, replaced by widget, exclusive to Sprint, along As for the old Hero lag, I’m fairly standard but the autofocus The Hero is Android perfected
a jowl. The jowl bumps out with Sprint’s Navigator and proud to report that this phone is is quite nice. I did have a problem and it is an excellent phone. I
delicately, tipped in a white NASCAR apps. Luckily, or now a monster. The screens, even with the model I received. The would recommend it over the
trackball, and the buttons have unluckily, depending on your with a few hearty widgets like focus was fairly poor and it Palm Pre and, dare I say it,
been integrated into the phone’s position on extraneous junk Twitter and email, are snappy and seemed that there was some sort something like the iPhone 3G.
metallic base. programs, Sprint TV is missing all of the apps respond with an of film over the lens. This was, $180 isn’t too much to pay for the
The phone has a 5-megapixel from the front page along with intensity thus far reserved in however, an early model and best Android phone on the
camera and runs on Sprint’s 3G Sprint’s media store. Instead you bellboys at major luxury hotels. could have suffered a factory market.
The Fashion Event of the Season: The Sizzlin' Looks of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week!
(ETonline - Breaking News) Kardashian! Courtney Love! Lady who's who of the fashion world Fashion Week. See which of your
Submitted at 9/17/2009 3:13:00 AM Gaga! Tori Spelling! Kirsten have descended upon glittering favorite stars' personal styles
Dunst! New York City for the style event dazzled and which of them looked
Lindsay Lohan! Kim Celebs, fashionistas and the of the season, Mercedes Benz frazzled? Take a look!
Internet News Record Gadgets/ 25

Micro Sports MP3


Player Helps Up the
Douche Quotient [Mp3]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:50:00 AM

You want to pull off John


Mayer's DoubleDouche, but you
only have one Bluetooth headset.
Don't fret, because this MP3
player from Thanko fits right in
your ear.
Less than an inch at its widest
point, the .28 ounce Micro Sports
MP3/WMA/WAV player comes
ready to store 2GB ($55) and 4GB
($75) of tracks. Syncing and
charging over micro USB, the
Micro Sport can run for about 4
hours before giving in. But
honestly, if you're enjoying
outdoor activity for more than 4
The xpPhone runs Windows XP and will probably hours at a time, chances are you're
taking part in risky activities that
could lead you to fall on your
be produced head and have this thing
permanently wedged into your ear
canal. During the next several
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) of all, the company lets you select approach. If the device was called The xpPhone could totally make
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:25:13 AM the 3G module needed for either a UMPC with a 3G connection, it to market. Now this market years of painful, costly operations,
AT&T, Vodafone, or Orange. there probably wouldn’t be as could be a tiny, niche market of even a 24 hour battery would have
There is a good amount of quiet That is, of course, assuming the much hesitation. nerds and a select group of proven inadequate in
hesitation about the xpPhone x p P h o n e w i l l a c t u a l l y b e But when you compare specs, inventory control types, but let’s overpowering the cacophonous
a r o u n d t h e i n t e r w e b s t h i s produced even though you can pre the xpPhone is really a Viliv S5 not forget that this device is buzz of saws grinding against
morning. It seems that everyone -order one today. with a physical keyboard, a 0.2- simply a UMPC with a phone your skull, let alone the very sad,
wants to believe that the xpPhone Maybe everyone, including us, inch smaller screen, and probably functions. And it’s going to take a very internalized song that is your
will make it to market, but it are approaching the xpPhone a special software suite for the special someone to carry the life. [ Geek Stuff 4 U via
almost seems to good to be true. slowly because it seems too good phone functions. The Viliv S5 beast. Akihabara News via UberGizmo]
The specs list an unspecified to be true. This “phone” would also has a 3G modem, runs XP off [ xpPhone via SlashGear via
A M D S u p e r M o b i l e C P U probably be the most powerful on of a mobile CPU, and great Gizmodo]
powering the system and it will be the market. But it’s almost like battery life though. The only thing
configurable with a wide range of that because the device is called a it’s lacking is a microphone and it
SSD and HDD options. But best phone, some are taking a different too could be a phone.
26 Gadgets/ Picture Internet News Record

HDI concocts 100-inch laser-


based 3D HDTV, calls rivaling Pro Golfer
technology child's play Advertising with LCD
-Loaded Bag [LCDs]
Video: Tachyon XC helmet cam, By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:48:00 AM
"no longer needs to flash from
one eye to the other," and no By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
and its Siamese 3D sibling, now Look, we've seen an awful lot of
flashing should equate to no
headaches. Too bad there's no
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:43:04 AM

HDTVs in our day -- one lap planned release date, but we're
shipping to headgear worldwide around the average CEDIA show still cautiously optimistic for a
It's a marketing ploy that may
quickly spiral into Rodney
By Tim Stevens (Engadget) like fields of dots but explode into floor makes your local Best Buy sneak peek (in addition to the Dangerfield's legacy.
shapely images of naked ladies look awfully small -- and to this video past the break) at CES Pro Bag Ads is a company
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:59:00 AM
when you focus right. Sure, day we've yet to put our peepers 2010. installing sun-resistant HD LCD
The world is an ever more gluing two separate cameras on a more stunning set than [Via OLED-Display] displays into the bags of pro
extreme place -- and ever more together is perhaps a bit of a crude Mitsubishi's LaserVue HDTV. Continue reading HDI concocts golfers. These LCDs then play
safety conscious too. That means way to enter the third dimension, Sure, it's fat, ugly and expensive, 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV, advertisements for companies like
more helmets per capita and and strictly VGA recording is but the image is otherworldly. calls rivaling technology child's "19th Hole Wines" during
thusly more helmet cams. The decidedly disappointing, but Before Mitsu can even take the play tournaments—we assume without
Tachyon XC is the latest, shipping check out the video results below logical next step, a California Filed under: Displays, HDTV, sound—while the caddies enjoy
in not one but two flavors. First in cross-eyed mode before you startup has arisen to introduce Home Entertainment the extra heft of a TV and batters
up is the standalone model for write this off as an over-priced what it calls the world's first laser- HDI concocts 100-inch laser- on a midsummer day.
$180, which packs a couple of novelty. based 3D HDTV. We're talking based 3D HDTV, calls rivaling So far, they've only signed up
batteries and an SDHC card into a Continue reading Video: 1080p 3D like you've never seen technology child's play originally one guy, 2009 Senior PGA
lightweight, durable, fully Tachyon XC helmet cam, and its before, with CTO Edmund appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Champion Michael Allen. The
waterproof case. Rather more Siamese 3D sibling, now shipping Sandberg noting that this Sep 2009 08:48:00 EST. Please chief flaw, beyond the general
interesting is the $380 XC 3D, a to headgear worldwide production is smoother than see our terms for use of feeds. tackiness, can be seen in the lead
pair of the cams joined at the hip Filed under: Digital Cameras RealD, Dolby, film and pretty Read| Permalink| Email this| shot. Stitched logos appear
that record simultaneously and Video: Tachyon XC helmet much every other 3D solution. Comments brighter than that screen.
ship with software to join the cam, and its Siamese 3D sibling, The secret here is in the speed; Oh, and when Tiger misses his
fruits of their sensors into one now shipping to headgear this set is so fast that the image first put because a Cialis ad enters
mind blowing segment. 3D worldwide originally appeared on his periphery, trust me, these guys
footage can be displayed in a Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 are finished. [ Pro Bag Ads via
variety of formats, including the 07:59:00 EST. Please see our gizmo watch via DVICE]
red/blue standard style that rocked terms for use of feeds. Read|
the '60s or cross-eyed mode, like Permalink| Email this| Comments
those magical posters that look
This may not end well
By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) Photos from starvingpilot, The
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:30:35 AM Maclac Show, chrisbarber1610,
briantemple, ModernDayGilligan, van de Vorst.
(It ended ok.) merriewells, kisluvkis, and_Hans
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Navigon adding live traffic to iPhone


navigation app, asks 'TomTom who?'
By Darren Murph (Engadget) doubt here until we can test it
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:12:00 AM ourselves. Best of all, it'll only
cost MobileNavigator users
Practically all summer, the buzz (priced at $89.99) a one-time fee
surrounding TomTom's of $24.99 for lifetime traffic, and
forthcoming iPhone GPS app was if you snag it within the first four
near deafening. But said noise weeks after it goes on sale, that
apparently didn't penetrate the rate drops to $19.99. So, TomTom
labs at Navigon, as that very outfit -- what now?
has produced what's easily the Filed under: Cellphones, GPS,
most full-featured option on the Software
market today. Just a week after Navigon adding live traffic to
updating the already-great app iPhone navigation app, asks
Hercules eCAFÉ Netbook Comes with text-to-speech, iPod controls
and location sharing, the company
'TomTom who?' originally
appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17
From Nowhere with Windows 7, is now proclaiming that live
traffic will splash down in information in order to alert you
Sep 2009 09:12:00 EST. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
October (at least in North of slow-downs and re-route you Read| Permalink| Email this|
250GB Hard Disk [NetBooks] America). The update will enable when necessary. We've personally
seen live traffic functions fail
Comments
By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) • Windows 7 Starter operating the software to utilize real-time
speed data from drivers currently more often than not, but we're
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:14:49 AM system with Windows Live® giving Navigon the benefit of the
Suite: Messenger, Mail, Photo en route as well as historical
A netbook from Hercules? Gallery, Movie Maker & Media
T h e y ' r e b e t t e r k n o w n f o r Player
multimedia peripherals, but • 10.1" high-brightness screen
Gyration Air Mouse Elite gets your hands in
apparently the 10.1-inch (1024 x (1024x600)
600) EC-1000W isn't their first • Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz the air, like you just don't care
effort. This one looks good, Processor By Darren Murph (Engadget) suite of tools for customizing
though. Windows 7 and netbook- • 1GB Ram Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:58:00 AM gestures, and if the $99.99 critter
specs aside, it has 802.11n Wi-Fi, • 250GB HDD Storage + an just isn't enough, you can spring
and 50GB online storage. extra 50GB of online storage Look out, y'all -- Movea's back. for a $149.99 bundle that throws
For $400, 250GB is also a good • Comfortable chiclet keyboard Almost a year to the day after the in a low-profile wireless
amount of hard disk space, and with separated flat keys outfit introduced its air-lovin' keyboard.
Windows 7 (Starter) is a plus, • WiFi N technology Gyration Air Mouse, the Air Gallery: Gyration Air Mouse
though that means it won't be • 6-Cell 4400 mAh battery Mouse Elite is stepping in to take Elite gets your hands in the air,
available until late October. • Built-in webcam with its rightful place atop the range. like you just don't care
There are some nice design m i c r o p h o n e As with the prior iteration, this Filed under: Peripherals
touches, too: a glossy motif on the • Connections: 1x VGA, 3x one also responds to natural hand Gyration Air Mouse Elite gets
lid, chiclet-style keys, and custom U S B , 1 x h e a d p h o n e s , 1 x movements and enables your hands in the air, like you just
s o f t w a r e t o m a n a g e d r i v e r microphone, 1x LAN RJ45, 1x presenters (or FPS players) to get don't care originally appeared on
updates, Webcam, and Wi-Fi DC-in 12V, 1x card reader: far, far away from the mousepad. and it can do so up to 100 feet Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009
management. OpenOffice.org V3 SD/MMC/SDHC/MS Put simply, the built-in motion away from the PC that it's 09:58:00 EST. Please see our
is also pre-installed. Not bad at sensors enable it to receive wirelessly attached to. The 3.3- terms for use of feeds. Read|
all. [ Hercules] commands via "slight wrist ounce device also ships with a Permalink| Email this| Comments
movements performed in the air,"
28 Gadgets/ Tech/ Entertainment Internet News Record

Epson blows the roof off of your house party More Research On The
with two new projectors Importance Of
By Laura June (Engadget) The MovieMate 60 retails for
$650 -- and both are available
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:36:00 AM

Epson's just announced two new


now.
Continue reading Epson blows
Connecting With Fans
additions to its home theatre the roof off of your house party By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) YouTube to promote an artists
lineup which should make your bi with two new projectors Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:27:40 PM music did not correspond to a
-weekly showing of House Party Filed under: Displays, Home dramatic increase in artist
even more of a success than usual. Entertainment Dave Carter writes in to share earnings. In fact, as a whole, users
First up, the PowerLite Home Epson blows the roof off of some recent research that he was of Myspace or Triple J's popular
Cinema 705HD boasts a 720p your house party with two new involved in, examining how well Unearthed website actually
resolution, a brightness of up to projectors originally appeared on different promotions strategies received proportionally lower
2,500 lumens, and 1.2x optical Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 w o r k e d f o r 9 9 d i f f e r e n t returns than the median. However
zoom. The 705HD is an entry- 09:36:00 EST. Please see our i n d e p e n d e n t m u s i c i a n s i n higher levels of fan or audience
level HD projector, so its pricing - housing a 16:9 native resolution- terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Australia. All the typical caveats engagement -- for example in the
- $750 -- is a bit less than some having projector, plus a built-in Email this| Comments apply -- including that this was form of Blog coverage, YouTube
other models. The other model the dvd player and two 10 watt just limited to Australian artists, views, Facebook fans or Myspace
company's outing is the speakers. The projector has a and plenty more research needs to friends -- tended to correspond to
MovieMate 60, a combo affair brightness of up to 2,000 lumens. b e d o n e t o s h o w a c a u s a l proportionally higher artist
relationship -- but the initial earnings inclusive of services
Gyration Air Mouse Elite Wants You To Wave It results certainly support the view whose users tended receive lower
that many of us have been returns overall.
Around Like You Just Don't Care [Air Mouse] espousing: that bands who really • Finally, the level to which
connect with their fans get a real higher earnings corresponded to
By Joanna Stern (Gizmodo) actions and gestures for different boost in actual revenue. And, online activity appears relative to
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:10:00 AM W i n d o w s a p p l i c a t i o n s ( i . e . really connecting means actually artists off-line profile. That is,
Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, doing some work -- not just artists who perform and tour
Until I can get a laser mouse etc.). The mouse will also work tossing up a MySpace page. Some regularly, receive radio airplay
embedded in my fingertip on your desk and actually looks summaries of the findings: and off-line press and media
Gyration's new Air Mouse Elite pretty comfortable. It just blows • The highest proportional c o v e r a g e t e n d t o r e c e i v e
will have to do. The Elite should that Mac support is limited. You returns to artists corresponded significantly higher returns and
respond better to in-air can catch the Air Mouse Elite for with the use of multiple inter- appear more likely to benefit from
movements and gestures than the $100 or $150 with a wireless linked sites, including a dedicated online promotional activities.
last version with improved motion presentations, but maybe the Elite keyboard. [ Gyration] website or blog as well the use of Most of this should be pretty
-sensing software. provides better precision with its mailing lists and the provision of obvious -- the more you connect
I've never had much control of bundled MotionTools application. free content. Of the artists studied, with fans, and the more you do to
air mice when giving It let's you configure certain few had developed this type of get heard, the better off you're
Stars Remember Patrick Swayze in New York integrated or strategic web likely to be -- but it's amazing that
presence and many of the artists so many musicians still don't
(ETonline - Breaking News) Swayze passed away after a the opportunity to meet him, but studied could be making more b o t h e r w i t h p u t t i n g i n t h e
Submitted at 9/17/2009 3:45:00 AM battle with pancreatic cancer on his sweetness just jumps off the effective use of the tools available n e c e s s a r y e f f o r t .
Monday and everyone from screen. You can just tell he is to them. Permalink| Comments| Email
Celebs remembered actor Patrick C h r i s t i e B r i n k l e y t o E l l e every bit as sweet as the character • When viewed in isolation, the This Story
Swayze as they stepped out in MacPherson to Martha Stewart h e p l a y e d i n ‘ G h o s t . ’ " use of popular web services such
New York on Wednesday night had thoughtful words to express MacPherson commented that he a s M y s p a c e , F a c e b o o k a n d
for US Weekly's 25 Most Stylish over Swayze's passing. was "courageous till the end."
New Yorkers party. Brinkley told ET, "I never had
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At TechCrunch50, sexy yields to sensible


By Caroline McCarthy some restraint. There was plenty
(Webware.com) of excitement over AnyClip, a
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:28:00 PM new database site that indexes and
deep-tags short clips from movies,
Outside the TechCrunch 50 but the judges rightfully expressed
conference in San Francisco concerns over the difficulty of
earlier this week.(Credit: Josh wrangling with copyrights and
Lowensohn / CNET) content owners.
SAN FRANCISCO--At some It's a far cry from the days
point during the TechCrunch50 when, even in the post-Napster
conference it became evident that era, millions of dollars were
the Web 2.0 floodgates are no pumped into music- and video-
longer open. sharing start-ups that weren't
Maybe it was when conference prepared to deal with the
co-organizer Jason Calacanis intricacies of big media. And
asked one of the panels of judges likewise, VC dollars were once
what they'd thought of a round of flooding into start-ups that hoped
pitches from just-launched social- to be the biggest social network in
networking start-ups like inbox the world. The economy put a
aggregator Threadsy and photo- damper on this, for sure, but so
sharing iPhone app Clixtr. Sean did the increasing dominance of
Parker, the Napster co-founder the likes of Google, Facebook,
and former Facebook exec who and to a lesser extent Twitter and
will be portrayed as a "Silicon Digg. The big news in venture
Valley bad boy" in the film capital on the Web these days is
adaptation of Ben Mezrich's dot- Twitter's alleged billion-dollar
com scandal tome "The valuation and Facebook's
Accidental Billionaires," leaned employee stock trading, not in a
his elbows on the onstage table, huge rush of investors heading for
slouched, and declared, "I'm a possibly make money--achieved a up landscape was dotted with concepts, not creating something the next big thing on the Web--
little bit bored with social media." cash-flow positive status for the dozens of small companies with a off-the-wall new. ToyBots, a new which is exciting nonetheless,
Maybe it was when the first time in the second quarter of legitimate shot at getting huge. As Web-connected toy company, because it wasn't all that long ago
TechCrunch50 conference this year, earlier than its 2010 recently as last year, it wouldn't takes the kiddie Webkinz craze that these companies were just as
winners were finally announced goal. have been entirely ludicrous for from a few years ago and infuses small as those presenting onstage
and the grand prize went not to a Web 2.0 has grown up, after an ambitious entrepreneur to take it with the thinking behind at TechCrunch50.
slick and shiny app filled with three years of investment, start- the stage at TechCrunch50 and "hackable" household gadget For now, if we want genuine,
Ajax interfaces and social-media ups, and media hype, and it announce that he or she was Chumby. Winner RedBeacon, as holy-crap excitement in the tech
mashups, but to RedBeacon, a couldn't have been more evident hoping to build a new start-up into well as used-car marketplace industry, perhaps we should be
mundane-looking local services at TechCrunch50, a two-day the next Facebook. But the big M o t a a n d j o b - h u n t s i t e looking at hardware, green tech,
start-up that aims to offer an parade of start-up launches that guys have gotten bigger, and L o c a l B a c o n , a l l p i t c h e d edgy mobile innovations like
alternative to Craigslist and the sometimes feels less like a everything in comparison appears themselves as better options than augmented reality, or perhaps
Yellow Pages if you're looking for conference and more like a to be niche, peripheral tools. traversing the Craigslist jungle. even enterprise technology.
somebody to paint your house or fraternity reunion. By this point Innovation on the Web these iMo and Spawn Player are both TechCrunch50 seemed to have the
cater a party. just about everybody knows just days comes in the form of fine- add-ons for gamers, the former an right idea by devoting a category
Or maybe it was when several about everybody else; the launch tuned features and tweaks, not big iPhone controller app and the of pitches to new hardware
Facebook execs took the stage to demos were just as likely to come a n d l o f t y n e w s c h e m e s . latter a Slingbox-like place- companies--but the judges, whose
announce, among other things, from established industry players TechCrunch50's lineup showed shifter. backgrounds were in Web and
that the social network--the as from hopeful young that while there are very And when something popped up software investments, admitted
subject of perpetual hand- newcomers. promising ideas out there, the new at TechCrunch50 that was pretty
wringing over how it would Not so long ago, the Web start- stuff is about improving existing darn original, it was met with TECHCRUNCH50, page 34
30 Tech/ Internet News Record

Dear Newspapers: Time To Focus Twitter to raise funding


On Enabling The Community; Not at $1 billion valuation?
By Don Reisinger
Limiting It (Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:39:00 PM
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) view the whole "participation" news. Instead, it's seen as a bad
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:31:08 PM thing as a pain to be dealt with. thing that it's "not news." Twitter is attempting to raise
Very few look for ways to better Furthermore, rather than being funding at a $1 billion valuation,
As we keep hearing from enable the community -- most seen as a way to enable the according to a TechCrunch post
newspaper execs (and sometimes, seem focused on how to prevent community, comments are Wednesday.
reporters) insisting that paywalls t h e c o m m u n i t y f r o m d o i n g reduced to a way to attract more The blog cited unnamed sources
or micropayments are the solution something bad, or looking for visitors. If you're just looking to claiming that Twitter CEO Evan
to what ails the industry, we keep other ways to somehow limit the attract more visitors, there are all Williams announced the valuation That could have a major impact
asking why people will pay. The community. sorts of things you can do. If you in a recent meeting. According to on its valuation, regardless of the
whole reason why newspapers And then you have situations want to enable the community, it TechCrunch's sources, Twitter figure.
used to work as a business model like this: Finding newsworthy takes a different mindset. plans to raise about $50 million That said, Twitter co-founder
w a s t h a t t h e y c o l l e c t e d a material in contributions from the Of course, not every newspaper during the financing round. The Biz Stone said in an interview
community around news. But, public is a challenge. In his study person thinks that way. Techdirt company has already raised about with VentureBeat last month that
these days, there are much better about Dutch newspapers and reader Shane Richmond, who is $55 million in funding. his company will implement a
communities out there. The UGC presented at the conference, the head of technology for the Twitter hasn't immediately revenue model by the end of the
newspapers haven't kept up. And, Piet Bakker found that there was Telegraph, has written up a report responded to requests for year. He wouldn't dig too deep
when it comes to news, people little news contained in comments for the Nieman Foundation, comment. into details, but he did say it
want to participate. They're not on stories. discussing the various ways that In February, Twitter co-founder would incorporate paid accounts
passive. That might mean From the point of view of the paper is looking to enable the Biz Stone announced in a blog for businesses that want to use the
contributing to the news or traditional journalist, the amount community. As you read through post that his company raised platform for marketing and
commenting on the news, but just o f n e w s i n c o m m e n t s w a s it, it's not about page views or approximately $35 million in a customer relations.
as likely it means sharing and minimal. Instead, comments were having the community submit Series C round of funding led by But just how those paid
spreading the news, as well. But seen as a way to attract more stuff for journalists to do the real Benchmark and Institutional accounts will impact Twitter's
nearly every proposal from visitors and increase loyalty, but work on, it's actually all about Venture Partners. At the time, it growing user base is up for
newspapers looks to limit that t h e s e b e n e f i t s w e r e enabling the community: enabling was reported that Twitter's debate. Will companies go
ability, which only makes it less counterbalanced by problems with them to have a voice, enabling valuation for the round was about elsewhere to promote their
valuable to the very community abusive comments, a lack of them to connect with one another $250 million. Assuming that both brands? Will they pay Twitter's
the newspapers need, driving contributions, and the cost of and even enabling them to have reports are true, Twitter is fees? All that can impact the
them elsewhere. We've been moderation. They're viewing the an audience. As Richmond notes, contending that it's now worth company's real value.
saying for years that newspapers entire thing backwards. First, there's still a lot more to do, but it four times as much as it was just So as Twitter possibly heads
n e e d t o f o c u s o n e n a b l i n g they're complaining that there's looks like the Telegraph is seven months ago. into another round of funding, it's
communities, but that still seems " l i t t l e n e w s c o n t a i n e d i n approaching this with the right Of course, determining the real important to remember that
to be the last thing on most of comments." But who said there mindset. It would be great to see value of a company is a subjective valuations are fluid numbers that
their minds. was supposed to be? It's the basic more newspapers follow the same practice. And most times, those are easily changed. It's also
For example, this rather difference between reporting and path. figures change rapidly as important to note that so far,
depressing discussion of research a discussion. But the newspaper Permalink| Comments| Email economic factors impact the Twitter hasn't confirmed that $1
p r e s e n t e d a t t h e F u t u r e o f folks are so focused on having to This Story company's operation. billion valuation. So maintain
Journalism conference concerning be "reporters" that they're missing Twitter, which has yet to turn a some skepticism, as we do, until
participatory media suggests that the fact their community wants to profit, still hasn't implemented a we hear from Twitter.
many in the newspaper business have a discussion around the profit-making business model.
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Report: Google considering book It just works. Usually.


By Mel Martin (The Unofficial
settlement tweaks Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:00:00 PM
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) as a gatekeeper for other
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:30:00 PM companies that wish to scan and Filed under: Analysis / Opinion,
distribute books. Software, Software Update, Bad
Google is in talks with the Google CEO Eric Schmidt Apple, Snow Leopard The latest
Department of Justice and the expressed frustration with the festival of issues with Snow
plaintiffs in its book search critics of the settlement earlier Leopard alongside a round of
settlement over possible today in an interview with Search people unhappy with the latest
modifications to the deal that Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, iPhone update both suggest that
could assuage the concerns of the complaining that those criticizing Apple might need to work a little
Justice Department, according to the settlement aren't putting harder on pre-release testing. Leopard was released. I'm not
a report. Department, according to the forward their own solutions to One thing Microsoft does rather alone in this, but not everyone has
Bloomberg reported late report, which doesn't specify create what all parties to the well is gets a lot of people testing the problem.
Wednesday that Google, a group which provisions of the agreement settlement agree would be a software releases in extended Most of the people I know had
of plaintiffs that sued it in 2005, are subject to change. tremendous asset: a public betas. Of course that didn't flawless upgrades, and of course
and the Justice Department are in A Google representative comprehensive digital library. go so well for Vista, which was a here at TUAW we are more likely
talks over the settlement, which declined to comment on any "I'm open to a better solution," mess for many people, but it to hear about problems, which is
gives Google the legal standing to possible negotiations with the Schmidt told Search Engine Land. seems to have gone better for also true of the Apple forums
digitize out-of-print books that are p l a i n t i f f s a n d t h e J u s t i c e "You will recall, we had our Windows 7. where people are able to report
still protected by copyright law. Department but said of the solution, and we were sued over Apple, secretive as always, the smallest or the largest bugs.
Google was sued by numerous settlement "if approved by the it. And we then had a-god-knows- doesn't get really wide testing of Therefore, from my perspective
groups including the Authors court, this settlement stands to how-many years of negotiations new software builds, and when it's hard to say for certain if things
Guild and several publishers after unlock access to millions of books with 27 parties, and we've actually those updates finally get released are slipping away from Apple
it began scanning that type of in the U.S. while giving authors produced a deal," he said. there seems to be an ever quality control, but it's starting to
book, and came away with the and publishers new ways to Google was ordered Wednesday increasing, ever louder response look that way. Apple was quick to
right to present those books in distribute their work." by Judge Denny Chin, who is from customers that things aren't release 10.6.1, which was a good
Google Book Search following an One possibility is that the overseeing the settlement, to going swimmingly. effort, but it is not quieting down
October 2008 settlement. Justice Department is concerned respond by October 2 to the wave Snow Leopard was supposed to the roar of users who don't think
But that settlement has about the Books Rights Registry, of comments he has received be a cleanup of Leopard, but it that this latest release of Snow
provoked strident dissent from which under the settlement has r e g a r d i n g t h e s e t t l e m e n t . appears that some people are Leopard 'just works.' What's your
several authors, libraries, and the power to negotiate deals with Supporters and objectors had until having lots of issues. In my own perception? Does Apple have
privacy advocates concerned other companies, distribute last week to file comments with case, some fonts were pretty some work to do?
about Google's unique license to payments to books rights holders, the judge, who will consider them messed up, and Keychain was TUAW It just works. Usually.
those out-of-print books. Google and represent the interest of before holding a final hearing on jumbled pretty badly. The fixes in originally appeared on The
has promised to act responsibility, authors and publishers. The October 7 to decide whether to both cases weren't onerous, but Unofficial Apple Weblog
and notes that any other company registry has been criticized as a approve the settlement. they were nasty enough that it (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Sep 2009
can negotiate scanning deals with "cartel" by Google's detractors, Originally posted at Relevant made me wonder how thoroughly 17:00:00 EST. Please see our
the Books Rights Registry set up who believe that although it is a Results the release had been tested. I still terms for use of feeds.
as part of the settlement, but the nonprofit run separately from don't hear new mail sounds from Read| Permalink| Email this|
deal as structured is apparently Google it will essentially function MobileMe, a problem that has Comments
not enough to satisfy the Justice been going on at least since
3rd rally the charm as Red Sox tip Angels in 9th
By Associated Press Fast Facts lowest number in MLB. starts. • Brian Fuentes blew his seventh
(ESPN.com) • The Red Sox won in walk-off • Joe Saunders (5.2 IP, five runs) • Boston improved to just 5-12 save of the season.
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:58:40 AM fashion for just the fourth time struggled after entering 4-0 with a against the Angels in the regular -- ESPN Stats & Information
this season, which is the third 1.85 ERA over his previous four season over the past two seasons.
32 Tech/ Internet News Record

Near-instant book printer adds Google Books titles


By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) institutions around the globe. form, the Espresso Book Machine
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 PM The machine has been around allows authors and publishers to
for a while, earning a"Best reach an audience that isn't ready
A morning's worth of output Invention of the Year" award for a digital book reader without
from the Espresso Book Machine, from Time Magazine in 2007. having to spend the money
which used Google Books as the And the concept of using smaller required for a full-scale printing
source of the data.(Credit: Tom on-demand printers is also old: run of a book with limited appeal.
Krazit/CNET) Barnes and Noble was playing Of course, Google's
Google is hell-bent on digitizing around with the idea 10 years ago, participation in On Demand
the world's books, but it's also and publishers have long wanted a Books' service only involves
aware that sometimes you just system that would allow them to public domain books, which don't
want to turn the pages. match book supply and book inspire nearly as much
On Demand Books, makers of demand more closely. controversy as the out-of-print yet
the Espresso Book Machine, are A few publishers, such as copyright protected books at issue
expected to announce Thursday Lightning Source, a division of in Google's settlement with book
that they have been granted access Ingram Book Group, have signed authors and publishers. It's not
to Google's library of public up with On Demand Books to clear whether if the proposed
domain digital books for use with allow their titles to be printed by settlement is approved in October,
their product. The Espresso Book the machine, but adding Google's by Google, while On Demand businesses around new ways of On Demand Books (and other
Machine can print a 300-page p u b l i c d o m a i n l i b r a r y Books offers 1.5 million titles distributing and consuming books, such publishers) will have access
book in four minutes, complete dramatically increases what is through its existing agreements. since a digital book is nothing but t o t h o s e b o o k s ; a G o o g l e
with a cover and a bound edge. It available through one of the One way of thinking about a large file. While things like the representative said that would be
ranges in price from $75,000 to machines, said Dane Neller, chief Google's Book Search project is Kindle show that people are "speculation" at the moment.
$ 9 7 , 0 0 0 , d e p e n d i n g o n t h e executive officer of On Demand that it creates opportunities for interested in acquiring and Originally posted at Relevant
configuration, and is found mostly Books. Around 2 million public other companies to develop reading digital books in digital Results
at universities, libraries, and domain works have been scanned

Skype founders file copyright suit against Skype


By Michelle Meyers Court, seeks an injunction and Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom filing regarding the sale of Skype
(Webware.com) damages, which Joltid retained the rights to Skype's key says "consummation of the deal
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:16:00 PM "reasonably believes are amassing peer-to-peer technology--Global was subject to 'no settlement of
at a rate of $75 million daily," Index Software--via the Joltid the pending litigation with Joltid
Updated at 5:10 p.m. PDT with according to the suit. company they formed. Limited having been effected
eBay comment. Also listed as defendants are Joltid terminated its license for without the consent of the Buyer
Joltid, a peer-to-peer software Skype's current owner eBay, as "Their allegations and claims are the software after learning that (subject to certain limitations).'"
company established by Skype's well as investors in a consortium without merit and are founded on Skype had allegedly acquired The other defendants in the suit
founders, filed a copyright suit that earlier this month signed a fundamental legal and factual unauthorized versions of the filed Wednesday are Silver Lake
against Skype Wednesday deal with eBay to acquire a 65 errors," eBay spokesman John source code, made unauthorized Partners, Index Ventures
alleging Joltid's technology is percent stake in Skype, with eBay Pluhowski said in a statement. modifications, and disclosed the Management, Michaelangelo
being infringed on by Skype users retaining 35 percent. The lawsuit has the potential to s o f t w a r e t o t h i r d p e r s o n s , Volpi, Andreessen Horowitz, and
"in the United States at least "Skype has infringed Joltid's at least complicate the ongoing a c c o r d i n g t o t h e l a w s u i t . the Canada Pension Plan
100,000 times each day." copyrights," a company sale of Skype. In the past, The two companies have been Investment Board. This lawsuit
Just the latest in an ongoing spokesman said in a statement. however, eBay has said it's involved in a separate lawsuit in was first reported Wednesday by
license dispute between the "Joltid will vigorously enforce its working on its own software to t h e U . K . o v e r t h a t l i c e n s e The Wall Street Journal.
popular VoIP service and its copyrights and other intellectual replace what it gets from Joltid. termination, but the case isn't set
developers, the lawsuit, filed in property rights in all of the In 2006, eBay bought Skype for to go to trial until June 2010.
Northern California U.S. District technologies it has innovated." $2.6 billion, but co-founders Referring to that suit, eBay's SEC
Internet News Record Tech/ Entertainment 33

Live Traffic comes to Mobile DreamScreen: HP Beats


Navigator Apple to the Punch
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial Traffic Live, will be available as
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:00:00 PM
an in-app purchase for US$19.99
for the first 4 weeks it is offered,
With Sleek Tablet
then it will cost $24.99 as a one By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Filed under: Software, iPhone, time purchase with no other Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:31:58 PM
App Store It's coming! Navigon, month to month service fees.
maker of the iPhone Mobile The software, which will run Originally it looked as if the
Navigator app [ iTunes link], will inside the $89.99 Mobile much-rumored and highly
announce a live traffic feature Navigator software, requires anticipated Apple Tablet would
tomorrow that will be rolled out iPhone OS version 3.0 or greater. make its debut this month. That
next month. The update is only Navigon has been very never came to fruition though, and
for the North American version of aggressive with this product, recent rumors pin the launch date
the software. raising the bar every couple of somewhere in February 2010. and a $299 version (13.3 inches),
Our readers have absolutely weeks with some substantial free That delay could cost Apple, making it cheaper than all of the
lusted after this feature for iPhone updates, and now some significant though. Hewlett Packard (HP) has projected prices of the Apple
navigation, and now, after already optional services. It will be now revealed DreamScreen to the Tablet/ In fact, it’s cheaper than
adding text to speech in an update interesting to see how Tom-Tom world, a touchscreen tablet the iPhone.
earlier this month, Navigon has and some of the other navigation computer that lets you log into Still, without Internet browsing,
pulled ahead of the pack again. providers respond. The AT&T Facebook, view your photos, the DreamScreen isn’t a full-
According to the company: Navigator[ iTunes link] app listen to Pandora streams, and fledged competitor to Apple’s
The system 'uses real-time sensors and conventional traffic already includes real time traffic, more, all on either a 10.2 or a 13.3 upcoming touchscreen device. It
speed data from over one million messages coming through a radio but it is available only with a -inch screen. Oh, and it launches looks slick and seems useful, but
drivers across North America network. In addition, the system $9.99 a month subscription fee. on October 11th, not February a lack of web browsing may be its
including commercial fleets such includes historic traffic data to TUAW Live Traffic comes to 2010. Achilles Heel. So while HP may
as trucks and taxis but also regular assist with the prediction of road Mobile Navigator originally HP’s new DreamScreen Tablet have beaten Apple to the punch,
drivers with a GPS system. So if conditions when calculating a appeared on The Unofficial Apple is some type of hybrid between a the Mac maker will likely still get
for example several vehicles on a route. This includes information Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Sep computer, a digital photo frame, millions of people to line up for
road report slow speed, the system about traffic conditions on certain 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see and a music player. It has touch its newest device.
r e c o g n i z e s c o n g e s t i o n a n d h o l i d a y s o r y e a r l y e v e n t s , our terms for use of feeds. screen controls and a remote for If you want to buy the
provides an alternate and faster allowing the driver to avoid Read| Permalink| Email this| easy use of pre-installed apps. DreamScreen right now, you can
route. taking routes that traditionally are Comments These apps are simple: music, pre-order the device on HP Direct,
The feature also uses an congested on a regular basis. Facebook, weather, photos, and Amazon and Best Buy’s website.
intelligent fusion of information Navigon has announced that the video, among others. It doesn’t [via VentureBeat] Reviews:
from traffic cameras, speed traffic info, which they call seem capable of full web Facebook, Pandora
browsing, but it gets the job done. Tags: apple, Apple Tablet,
The new slate, which comes DreamScreen, HP
with 2 GB of space and several
USB and SD card ports, comes in
a $249 flavor (10.2 inch screen)
Susan Boyle Performs on Season Finale of ‘America’s Got Talent’
(ETonline - Breaking News) "America's Got Talent." The show ears--of Americans following her In addition to the $1 million in October, the stage production
Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:20:00 AM named singer Kevin Skinner the breakout performance on grand prize, Skinner will headline will be hosted by the show's
winner of the fourth season of the "Britain's Got Talent." She sang a an "America's Got Talent" show former television host, Jerry
Scottish sensation Susan Boyle talent competition. cover of the Rolling Stones' ballad at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Springer.
performed on the finale of NBC's Boyle captured the hearts--and "Wild Horses." Casino in Las Vegas. Set to open
34 Tech/ Internet News Record

New iMacs and


MacBooks coming soon?
By Mike Schramm (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:00:00 AM

A walk through iTunes history Filed under: Analysis / Opinion,


Desktops, Rumors, iMac,
By Mike Schramm (The history of iTunes over at If you'd told the SoundJam guys MacBook Maybe so, if you
Unofficial Apple Weblog Mac|Life. that their software would one day believe the predictions of some
(TUAW)) The program actually started as revolutionize the music and analysts at Wedge Partners. They
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:00:00 AM a W i n a m p - s t y l e ( o h m a n , smartphone industries, not to proclaim in their neverending
r e m e m b e r W i n a m p ? J u s t i n mention be at the center of a analyst-y wisdom that in the next
Filed under: Software, Cult of Frankel's now doing stuff with multimillion dollar software few weeks, Apple will again
Mac, Odds and ends, iTunes, Reaper, which is the app artists delivery system, they'd probably refresh its lines of iMacs and
Apple History will use to release their songs in have told you to keep dreaming. MacBooks, including a slimmer
Recognize the software above? Rock Band. But I digress...) And we're only at version 9. iMac and an only slightly updated
The brushed steel, the rounded media management application, Who knows what we'll see in the MacBook. Why would Apple
buttons, the liquid digital-style and it's really interesting to see next ten years of iTunes? announce such a thing, especially
display. If you said SoundJam, how it turned into a real keystone TUAW A walk through iTunes so soon after the recent June
you're right. But if you said of Apple's media plans over the history originally appeared on The revamp? Windows 7 is apparently
iTunes, you're right, too -- years, from the "Rip. Mix. Burn." U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g the answer -- Apple wants to You have to think that if Apple is
SoundJam is the app that Apple idea to the home base for the (TUAW) on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 distract from Microsoft's big doing one more update before the
originally bought to turn into the iPhone, up into the current iTMS 09:00:00 EST. Please see our release, according to the analysts holidays, it really will come up in
multimedia/handheld software (complete with music, movies, terms for use of feeds. Personally, it all sounds kind of the next few weeks, so by the time
juggernaut we know today. This is TV shows and even audiobooks) Read| Permalink| Email this| hokey to us -- Apple's already got Halloween candy starts dropping
the first (public) iteration of the and of course the game-changing Comments their back-to-school lineup all set, in pillowcases, we should know
software, as told in this interesting App Store. and while there probably is room for sure.
for one more update before the
TECHCRUNCH50,
continued from page 29
holiday season, it's hard to believe
[via PC World]
TUAW New iMacs and
they're going to announce some MacBooks coming soon?
that this wasn't their area of who, in fact, did more or less simply don't need another news extremely minor updates in a
expertise. leave Twitter for FriendFeed, aggregator, another discovery desperate grab against Windows originally appeared on The
There were blunt words for which had impressive technology engine, another question-and- 7. Unofficial Apple Weblog
s o m e o f t h e c o m p a n i e s a t but little mainstream appeal when answer service, another blogging (TUAW) on Thu, 17 Sep 2009
And not even the analysts will 08:00:00 EST. Please see our
T e c h C r u n c h 5 0 , e s p e c i a l l y Facebook purchased it this platform, or heaven forbid, guess at a netbook or tablet
community-based sites that summer. another social network. This is release -- they say neither one of terms for use of feeds.
require a critical mass of users to The next big game-changer in good. It's a sign of industry t h o s e i s c o m i n g u p f o r a n Read| Permalink| Email this|
s t a y a f l o a t ; j u d g e s s e e m e d social media might be out there maturation. Comments
announcement any time soon.
skeptical that the social-media already, and we haven't even seen And it's certainly not a bad thing
fever of the past few years can it coming yet. But watching more that Silicon Valley's elite finally
still pack enough of a punch. than four dozen start-up pitches in seem to be catching on to that.
"Why would I leave Twitter for a row made it pretty clear that Originally posted at The Social
this?" asked Robert Scoble of one most of the biggest splashes of
start-up--the same Robert Scoble Web 2.0 have come and gone: we
Internet News Record Tech/ 35

Making the most of Preview.app for Oneok Sues Twitter For


image editing Trademark Infringement
By Sang Tang (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/17/2009 10:00:00 AM
[Update: Dropped]
By Stan Schroeder
Filed under: Software, Tips and (Mashable!)
tricks, Graphic Design Submitted at 9/17/2009 3:34:13 AM
Inspired by Bear Grylls's(of
Discovery's Man vs. Wild) "make *Update: The lawsuit has been
the most out of your situation" quickly dropped by Oneok,
scenarios, I present you with a probably because Twitter simply
tutorial for making the most out of removed the account in question.
Preview.app. While not as Natural gas distributor Oneok
powerful as graphics editing Inc. has sued Twitter for
powerhouse Adobe Photoshop, trademark infringement. The I’ve found three accounts; one
Preview can oftentimes get you lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in U.S. contains no tweets, another has
from Point A to Point B -- and District Court in Tulsa, said that been suspended(possibly as a
sometimes quicker too. Twitter had allowed an result of this lawsuit), and a third
Like Bear Grylls, you'll need to anonymous user to use the user account contains some corporate
formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, among editing name ONEOK, a company’s
parachute out of a plane and into them, and even PSD and AI files), TUAW Making the most of news.
the house of a friend who doesn't trademark. While Oneok’s lawsuit seems a
Preview can also open PDF files Preview.app for image editing It’s hard to expect Twitter – or
have Photoshop -- just kidding. natively. I actually prefer it over originally appeared on The bit far-fetched, this is precisely
First, a little bit of background. any other online service – to why Twitter had launched verified
Adobe Acrobat for opening PDFs, Unofficial Apple Weblog police the usernames of its users,
Preview comes pre-installed on as I find that they open much (TUAW) on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 accounts, but the feature is only
Mac OS X, and it's the default forbidding the use of every open for public officials, public
quicker using Preview. And like 10:00:00 EST. Please see our copyrighted and trademarked
image viewer on the system. For Adobe Reader, Preview contains terms for use of feeds. agencies, and well known
PC-to-Mac converts, you could word out there. However, in the individuals. It’s not open for
advanced features, such as Read| Permalink| Email this| lawsuit, Oneok claims that the
think of it as the Microsoft Paint annotating. Comments businesses yet, probably because
of OS X; except that it can do a Oneok Twitter account holder has Twitter has other plans when it
Continue reading Making the on at least two occasions
whole lot more. Besides the most of Preview.app for image comes to business accounts. But
ability to open a host of image file generated tweets containing they’ll have to hurry it up if
information about the company, lawsuits such as this one keep
which can be potentially harmful coming. Reviews: Twitter
for the company’s reputation. Tags: lawsuit, Oneok, twitter
Searching for Oneok on Twitter,

Poynt registers 1 million BlackBerry app downloads


By Don Reisinger tools to help them find mobile devices, Poynt also boasts said that it would be made fewer applications. And as a
(Webware.com) establishments in and around their people-search features, allowing available toward the end of the BlackBerry owner that uses
Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:27:00 PM area. They simply need to search users to find folks in their area. year. Poynt, I can say that although the
for a specific location, and Poynt So far, Poynt's application is Although a million downloads product works well, there aren't
Multiplied Media's local-search will display contact information only available for BlackBerry is a milestone for any developer, a many other viable alternatives to
BlackBerry app Poynt hit the 1 and plot its position on a map. owners, but the company was certain level of measured make me want to switch.
million-download mark this week. The app even provides directions quick to point out in a statement excitement should go along with Poynt's real battle might begin
Poynt, which is similar to Yelp's on how to get there. that a version for the iPhone is on this announcement. The when the company takes on Yelp
local app for the iPhone, provides Unlike many of the local-search its way. A previous BlackBerry App World isn't and the others on the iPhone.
users with a series of local-search services currently available on announcement from the company Apple's App Store. There are far
36 Tech/ Internet News Record

Wild Horses: Susan Boyle Michael Robertson Wants To


Crowdsource Proof Of EMI's Lies:
Returns on America’s Got You Lie EMI Bookmarklet Available And Influence
Video Games
Talent [VIDEO] By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) c o u r t , M P 3 T u n e s h a s b e e n
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:04:46 AM looking for more evidence of By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
By Ben Parr (Mashable!) authorized EMI mp3s, and Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:35:00 AM
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:53:13 PM EMI has been involved in a Michael Robertson has announced
lawsuit with MP3Tunes for a t h e " Y o u L i e E M I " In our recent post about some
The world’s biggest YouTube while now. The whole lawsuit bookmarklet(found via Hypebot), old rockers complaining about
sensation has stepped back into seems weird, since MP3Tunes is that lets anyone help MP3Tunes music video games being no
the spotlight, and she’s already about creating a storage locker for find more authorized EMI mp3s. substitute for actually playing
making waves on the web. Yes, I the songs you already have. But Basically, as you surf around, if instruments (not that anyone
am talking about none other than one of the points that MP3Tunes you come across authorized songs claimed it was), one of our
Susan Boyle. made in response to EMI's claims that are available, you can click commenters, Comboman, made a
It’s nearly impossible to forget is that EMI was lying in saying the bookmarklet, and it checks to rather amusing point concerning
her. The plain-looking singer that it has never authorized MP3s see if the artists is an EMI artist, complaints against video games:
from Scotland racked up hundreds to be available online. Yet, and then lets you submit the Video game critics claim violent
of millions of YouTube views as MP3Tunes had found plenty of details. Whatever happens with games will make kids want to
she stunned the world with her promotional tracks that EMI had the lawsuit itself, it's cool to see imitate the game and do real
voice. tweets are rolling in on Twitter violent acts. Now they're
(again, should we be surprised by clearly put online, and it was someone crowdsourcing data for
Since the May finale of wondering why others were their defense. complaining that music games
Britain’s Got Talent, Boyle has now?). allowed to link to them, but EMI Permalink| Comments| Email will make kids NOT want to
stayed out of the spotlight and, We expect the video of Susan imitate the game and do real
claimed it was infringement for This Story
more importantly, off the stage. Boyle’s latest performance to MP3Tunes to point to those same music? To be fair, it's a different
But she has made her g e n e r a t e m i l l i o n s o f h i t s , group of people complaining this
songs. In presenting this point in
reemergence on the season finale especially as most won’t watch time, but it is rather amusing.
of America’s Got Talent, and it’s the finale. Luckily, we have the Permalink| Comments| Email
already creating buzz. Wild Horses video in its entirety This Story
If you’re curious, the song she below:
sang at the finale was “Wild Are you a fan of the social
Horses.” She did it to the cheers media phenomenon? Let us know
and cries of admiration of the in the comments. Reviews:
c r o w d ( w h a t e l s e d i d y o u Google, Twitter
expect?). She’s already getting Tags: susan boyle, youtube
heavy searches on Google and the

Another Reason to Switch to Chrome: Good Old NES Games


By Stan Schroeder The Legend of Zelda. and choose a ROM. I’ve tried out *Update: for all you Linux folks,
(Mashable!) What does all that have to do a couple of games and gotten an I’ve tried JSNES out in the latest
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:13:31 AM with Google’s web browser, average FPS of around 50, version of Chromium, and it
Chrome? Well, a chap named Ben compared to an unplayable 5 in works with some minor problems.
Remember NES (Nintendo Firshman ported a NES emulator Firefox. Reviews: Chrome, Firefox,
Entertainment System)? It’s an 8- called vNES into JavaScript, Besides helping you kill some Google, Safari, linux
bit video game console released creating JSNES. Yes, it works in time, this exercise is cool because Tags: google chrome, javascript,
back in 1985. Besides being a Firefox 3.5 and in Safari 4, but it really makes you see that all NES
solid gaming system, NES thanks to its JavaScript those under the hood
brought us legendary games such optimizations, it runs about 10 To play, you only need to open optimizations in the new Chrome
as Super Mario Bros, Tetris, and times faster in Chrome. this address in Google Chrome, aren’t just hype.
Internet News Record Tech/ Sports 37
Giants' rally falls
short as Rockies
Skype Tech Licensing Soap Opera right ship
By Associated Press
Continues: Founders Sue eBay, New (ESPN.com)
Buyers For Copyright Infringement Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:28:29 AM

By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) copyright infringement lawsuit Fast Facts


Submitted at 9/17/2009 12:27:32 AM against eBay and the list of • Jorge De La Rosa got the win.
investors who recently bought out After starting the season 0-6, he is
Over the summer, we wrote a big chunk of Skype from eBay. 15-3. He's just the third pitcher to
about the bizarre and protracted The thing that still amazes me is get 15 wins after dropping at least
legal dispute concerning whether t h a t p r e t t y m u c h e v e r y o n e his first six decisions.
or not eBay actually had the rights realized right away that it made • Troy Tulowitzki went 3-for-4
to the core technology in Skype. no sense for eBay to buy Skype. with his 27th homer run for the
Skype's founders, Janus Friis and That was a bad idea from the very Rockies.
Niklas Zennstrom, claim that they beginning. But finding out that the • The Rockies snapped a four-
retained the right to the core purchase price didn't even include game losing streak and expanded
technology in a separate company the core technology, and that their wild-card lead to 3½ games.
called Joltid, and that they Joltid had the ability to revoke the -- ESPN Stats & Information
terminated eBay's license to that license, makes the purchase
technology. There's a legal battle almost monumentally bad.
already underway about that, but Permalink| Comments| Email
Free iPhone Keynote and apparently that's not enough, as This Story
Joltid has now filed a separate
PowerPoint templates help get See HD Trailer for Upcoming Michael Jackson
you from thought to finish Documentary on MySpace
By Sang Tang (The Unofficial After mapping out your concept
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) on Keynote, you could then pitch By Stan Schroeder Music Awards on September 14th
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:00:00 PM it to others in a Keynote (Mashable!) (luckily, it wasn’t interrupted by
presentation. The Keynote and Submitted at 9/17/2009 12:58:59 AM Kanye West)
Filed under: iWork, Developer, PowerPoint templates include Now, MySpace has debuted a
iPhone alerts, the iPhone keyboard, arrow Michael Jackson’s death came at HD version of the trailer. We’ve
Mockapp.com has created both icons, buttons, as well as a host of a time when the singer was embedded it below, but for a
K e y n o t e a n d P o w e r P o i n t other UI elements. preparing for one of the biggest choice between several
templates of iPhone UI elements, TUAW Free iPhone Keynote endeavors of his career: a series of resolutions, including 1080p,
and has made them available as and PowerPoint templates help 50 final concerts called This Is It. check out MySpace’s Trailer
free downloads. Say you had a get you from thought to finish It was supposed to be one final Park.
dream in the middle of the night originally appeared on The crescendo in Jackson’s career, but documentary called Michael MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS
about the most awesome iPhone U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g due to his untimely death, it Jackson’s This Is It. The trailer IS IT
app that, to your surprise, no one (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 wasn’t meant to be. for the upcoming movie, slated Reviews: MySpace
has thought of yet. Instead of 21:00:00 EST. Please see our However, the footage from the for an October 28 release, was Tags: michael jackson,
waking up in a deep sweat and terms for use of feeds. preparation for this event was first shown at the MTV Video myspace, This Is It
scribbling said ideas on paper, Read| Permalink| Email this| collected and turned into a
you could dream them up on Comments
Keynote.
38 Tech/ Tech News/ Internet News Record

The Jay Leno Show Has Super Filtering the Real-Time Web
Targeted Online Ads [PIC] By Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
where possible, assigning
categories and embedding within
By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) content structures and
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:30:33 PM
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:56:08 PM
navigational systems. Then the
The massive flow of information social challenge becomes making
Generally speaking, online ads delivered by the emerging real-
are fairly easy to tune out. That’s it accessible (search, browse, and
time web has some important categorization) and making it
why they’re becoming bigger, inherent value, but building added
more interactive, and social. socially interesting (lists,
value through intelligent rankings, votes, etc)."
They’re also becoming extraction of information from resembles what we're hearing
incredibly well-targeted. This ad Chan's full post goes into
that flow is the next step that from others we're talking to - greater detail about both the value
for The Jay Leno Show caught online services are beginning to
our attention this evening while ads for TV shows that remind you take. Social interaction design filtering to add value is going to of the whole stream and what
browsing Yahoo Sports. to tune in at 10pm ET/7pm PT, be key. filtering could look like.
specialist Andrian Chan explored We're big believers in the value Chris Messina told us
It’s a countdown to when the but an actual countdown when the what this might look like in an
show begins, which, is interesting show is minutes from airing is a excellent article today titled of the full, noisy flow as well- but something similar in an interview
because in order for it to work much stronger call to action. Activity Streams: Content and the value latent in filtering is just today. "The river of news model
properly, it needs to know what Another small leap forward from Flow that we'd like to highlight as as important. doesn't have the handles regular
time zone I’m in. And, it works – the days of “punch the monkey” our Real-Time Web Article of the "We can easily imagine a wide people can grasp," he said. "It
those of us on the east coast all advertising. range of activities that are needs to be delivered in a way
saw a correct countdown. Tags: advertising, jay leno Day. currently page or site-based being that respects your time, enhances
"I think there are two distinct
Mind you, it’s not an incredible s h o w , o n l i n e a d v e r t i s i n g , trends at work here," Chan writes. handled instead by the stream," the content or makes it easier to
technological feat, but it is smart t e l e v i s i o n Chan wrote today."Invitations, consume the content. My mom
"One, the popularity and adoption meeting requests, buying and w o u l d l i k e i P h o n e p u s h
advertising. There are plenty of of the stream as a form of social selling, questions/answers -- these notifications of pictures of me, for
WorkSnug: Augmented Reality conversation. And the other, the a n d m u c h m o r e c o u l d b e example, so she could comment in
c o n v e r s i o n o f r e a l t i m e transacted by means of messages reply immediately. I hope this
information into value that can be 'off the page' and extracted or information can be made more
for Coffee Shop Web Workers consumed outside the stream. Or sorted out of streams by smart actionable."
By Marshall Kirkpatrick to put it another way, the value of clients or aggregators. Analytics How do you picture services
(ReadWriteWeb) being in the flow, and of watching companies will have a gold mine applying or enabling filtering to
it from the river's edge." of relationship data to scrape and add value to the flow of the real-
Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:43:33 PM
Sponsor visualize, for example, for use by time web? Maybe you're a service
Walking down the street, I n p r e p e r a t i o n f o r o u r those who want to see how provider working on this and
The app isn't available yet but is
looking for a place to open your coming to the iPhone, presumably forthcoming ReadWrite Real- influencers reach their audiences, m a y b e y o u ' r e a
laptop and work? Before you when Apple offers the full support Time Web Summit on October around what topics, how quickly, consumer/participant excited
commit to buying a cup of coffee for AR that countless developers 15th and the publication of a with what redistribution, and so about the possibilities. Let us
at the first spot you come across, are waiting for. WorkSnug seems major research report on the topic, on." know in comments, and if you can
m a y b e y o u ' d l i k e a l i t t l e very handy and it's a good we're highlighting one great " T h e p r i m a r y g o a l s o f we'd love for you to join us for
Augmented Reality tour of the example of a one-off AR app that article on the topic each day and interaction models used around face-to-face conversations like
closest options and reviews of could serve people well outside briefing key companies working the flow involve separating this at the ReadWrite Real-Time
their power outlet, noise level and the full AR platforms like Layar in this space. Chan's articulation content from the conversational Web Summit. Discuss
c o f f e e q u a l i t y ! A u g m e n t e d and Wikitude- but the simple fact of the things made possible by stream, extracting meta data
Reality (AR) applications place of the matter is that it's just plain systems that filter the flow closely
layers of data on top of our view cool.
of the physical world and Sponsor
WorkSnug has built an AR app Discuss
just for coffee shop web workers.
Internet News Record Tech News/ Tech Tips/ 39

Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today's


Web
By Sarah Perez was performed, OPA introduced - up 24% since 2003. Time spent
(ReadWriteWeb) the new category in 2008 at which on these sites has increased
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:35:02 AM point they were able to see the dramatically, too, with an 88%
impact the social networks had on increase since 2003. Today,
According to recent analysis by the habits of online users. While Internet users spend an average of
the Online Publishers Association obviously it's not just Facebook younger generations, specifically 6:58 hours on content sites per
(OPA), more people than ever are which is to blame for the Generation Y and Z, don't use month. Search and Commerce
spending their time online visiting declining use of email and IM, email. " Email is unfashionable round out the categories OPA
Remains of the Day:
content sites which provide news, there's no doubt that the world's and outdated," claims a recent studied with search seeing an Google Uses You to
information, and entertainment. largest social network plays a ZDNet headline pointing to a increase from 3% to 5% and Read Books Edition [For
Despite the emergence of social more significant role than the r e c e n t s t o r y a b o u t B o s t o n commerce seeing a slight decline
networks, and in particular the others here. Why Social Networks College's decision to stop handing from 16% to 13%. What It's Worth]
rapid growth of Facebook, it's are Replacing Email out email addresses to incoming OPA's Internet Activity Index By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
content sites which engage web As to why social networking students. These types of stories (IAI), as the research is called, is Submitted at 9/16/2009 4:00:00 PM
surfers' attention the most these sites have led to declining use of are barely even news anymore as conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings.
days - time spent on these sites is other communication tools, Pam the common perception is that It tracks usage across all the Google acquires reCaptcha, the
up 88% from only five years ago. Horan, president of the OPA, communication among these above mentioned categories but coolest human-assisted book-
That's not to say social speculates that it's because people younger groups takes place via excludes .gov and .edu domains digitizing technology on the
networking community sites can conduct the same activities on social networks (and, of course, as well as adult-oriented sites. planet, CNET helps you use the
haven't grown too, it's just that the social networks as they did text messaging). An interesting side note here is Zune with your Mac, and Opera
their growth hasn't come at the before via email, IM, and other Oddly enough, the belief that that the IAI shows the time spent Turbo gets a good workout.
expense of content. Instead, communication properties, but Gen Y hates email seems to be using communications sites is • Teaching computers to read:
people are using traditional now they can do so more somewhat contradicted by the late 4:54 hours per month while Google acquires reCAPTCHA In
communication sites and efficiently. -breaking news that, out of all community sites are at 3:01 hours. an effort to boost their book-
services(think webmail, IM, and While we would argue that in other demographic groups, it's That actually contradicts Nielsen's reading and -digitizing abilities,
discussion groups) less and less the business world, emailing is Gen Y which is most likely to opt earlier findings from March of Google purchases reCaptcha, my
and choosing to use Facebook and still an essential, "can't live -in for email marketing messages. this year which claimed that favorite ingenious technology of
other social networks instead. without it" tool, it's not so far- Still that doesn't show that email social networks and blogs were the decade. [Official Google
Sponsor fetched to say that Facebook and is their preferred medium, only now more popular than email Blog]
Email and IM Decline Thanks the like have changed mainstream that they're more open to using it b a s e d o n t i m e s p e n t . T h i s • How Good is Opera Turbo?
to Social Networks users' online behavior. Want to for less-than-personal types of discrepancy in data means we're When you're browsing the
In 2003, people spent 46% of share a funny video? Post it to communication. That trend that taking these latest findings and internet on a slow connection,
their time online using sites which your profile. Have new pictures makes sense as they probably those that came before it with the Opera Turbo aims to keep your
fall into the "communications" from your vacation? Upload them don't even think of email as the proverbial grain of salt and you browsing fast. Cybernet News
category - that is, sites whose core to an online album. These are place to connect with friends and should too. However, what we takes a look at how well it works.
capabilities are email and instant precisely the sorts of online family - that's what social can take away from both reports is [Cybernet]
messaging. By 2009, that usage activities that only a few years networks are for - so why not use that, numbers aside, email is • Dark Grid Mod for iTunes 9 If
dropped to 27% or a 41% decline ago took place primarily via email it for collecting coupons instead? definitely being impacted by the you miss the dark background
in overall use. messages. Social networking has Other Findings social networking trend. Discuss grid of album view in iTunes 9,
Although "community" sites undoubtedly changed that. And OPA's research also revealed this tweaker brings it back... in
like Facebook, MySpace, and Gen Y Hates Email, Right? that visits to content sites have OS X.
LinkedIn weren't measured back Then there are the constant increased over the past five years • Use the Zune HD with a Mac
in 2003 when the first analysis news stories about how the Got a Zune but no Windows OS
to sync that bad boy to? CNET
looks at how to overcome that
problem. [CNET]
40 Tech News/ Entertainment Internet News Record

5 Apps Tap the Internet's Infinite On Twitter: What's


Playlist Valuation Got to Do
By Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Wired Simple profile pages services other than imeem and
Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:00:00 PM
facilitate playlist-sharing. Reports
recently played songs to
YouTube. Playlist appears on
profile page and RSS feed.
With Revenue?
FriendFeed, RSS, or just your Tired Only one playlist per user. By Dana Oshiro
It used to be you needed a profile. Shuffle function. Spotify (ReadWriteWeb)
ginormous hard drive to build and Tired Bare-bones user profiles A P2P streaming architecture Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:09:22 PM
s t o r e y o u r d i g i t a l m u s i c limit social utility. lets users in supported countries
collection. But now that most Muziic create collections from a massive While it's unlikely that Twitter
songs exist somewhere in the Developed by high schooler in-house music archive. CEO Evan Williams was wearing
cloud—on YouTube, one-stop David Nelson with help from his Wired Fast, free playback a Dr. Evil costume when he
streaming sites like imeem, or dad, this upstart accesses the through an efficient interface that delivered the news, he had the
blog aggregators like Hype songs on YouTube via an iTunes- rivals iTunes. Smooth, robust pleasure of announcing his
Machine—services have emerged like interface. streaming. Live tech support. $14 company's $1 billion dollar
that help you squeeze the Internet Wired Makes the music on per month removes ads. valuation today at an all hands
for any track you need. Wherever YouTube feel local. Sharing Tired Currently restricted to meeting. According to
music lives, you can now play, feature helps you add your own Europe (a US rollout is being TechCrunch, the company has
collect, and share it without MP3s to the cloud. negotiated). Requires software raised a $50 million dollar
downloading any audio files. Tired Requires Windows XP or installation. funding round and the money will
None of these sites is pitch- Vista. Seizure-inducing design. be in the bank shortly. Given the trackers, emergency alert services,
Twones news feeds and brand monitoring
perfect, and their fidelity isn't as Catalog limited to what's on Prefer to use iTunes or other fact that Twitter turned down an
high as your meticulously YouTube. Special software offer to be purchased by tools. As the infrastructure and
downloadable software for your search have improved, Twitter has
encoded lossless library. But in i n s t a l l a t i o n n e c e s s a r y . local playback? Twones has you Facebook earlier in the year, it
these lean times, free jams are appears the two are about to become the go-to site for real time
Songza covered. It also tracks your media. But can the company make
sounding better by the minute. 5 Songza wraps the music of activity on multiple online tango.
Sites That Tap the Music in the imeem and YouTube in a sweet, Sponsor a Facebook-like leap?
services and offline players In late May, Facebook had a
Cloud simple Web interface, the work of through a single Web interface. Yesterday Facebook announced
Fizy reaching the 300 million user valuation of$10 billion dollars
Scott Robbin and Aza Wired Small-fry sites can sign based on a $200 million
This Turkish site compiles R a s k i n — w h o s e f a t h e r , J e f up to be included in the search, mark. The company's success has
audio from around the Net into a R a s k i n , s i r e d t h e A p p l e been credited to its ability to investment from Digital Sky
theoretically giving you access to Technologies. And like Twitter,
database from which you can M a c i n t o s h . a wider variety of tracks. transform from a basic life
curate your own playlists. It's fast streaming service into a platform. while we've seen huge traffic
Wired With a click, Play, Share, Tired Limited playback on the numbers, Facebook only
as blazes (for now, anyway) and Rate, and Add to Playlist tools site itself. After Twitter rejected the
boasts a fat catalog. company's acquisition offer, it yesterday announced becoming
unfold like a clover. Can use cash-flow positive. If Twitter is
was no coincidence that real time
attempting to become the "pulse
Who Will Get Patrick Swayze's Fortune? updates, friend following and
improved activity streams were of the planet" as suggested by the
(ETonline - Breaking News) married for 34 years to the same addition to royalties from his incorporated into Facebook's widely criticized leak of the
woman, he had no children, he upcoming memoir, music ("She's redesign. This new round of company's internal documents,
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:20:00 AM
was a very bankable movie star Like the Wind" from the 'Dirty funding suggests that Twitter is then perhaps $1 billion dollars
Now that Patrick Swayze has for the '80s and the '90s," says Dancing' soundtrack was an '80s taking a page out of the Facebook isn't entirely off. Does Twitter
passed away, who will get his Nass. "I suspect he's worth more hit), movies like 'Ghost' and his playbook and attempting to have the assets to warrant such a
fortune in earnings and assets? than a couple million, probably final TV series, "The Beast," increase its abilities as a platform. high valuation, or are we looking
Attorney Herb Nass, author of closer to $10 million." Swayze also reportedly owned In the past, ReadWriteWeb has at the makings of a speculative
Wills of the Rich and Famous, Nass says that Swayze and his 20,000 acres of land in New looked at Twitter's platform investment disaster? Let us know
weighs in. wife, Lisa Niemi, established a Mexico and was fond of potential. The service has already your thoughts in the comments
"Patrick Swayze probably died trust in 2004 and he "definitely collecting horses. been used to create meme below. Discuss
quite a wealthy man: He was had his legal affairs in order." In
Internet News Record Tech News/ Entertainment 41

Is This a Joke? eBay and Verizon Shouldn't Schools Have


Win Privacy Award Embraced Second Life
By Dana Oshiro sharing crackdowns, in recent
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:34:24 PM
years the company has come
under fire for its own privacy
By Now?
offenses. In early 2009, the By Dana Oshiro
In a surprise announcement, company was ordered by the FCC (ReadWriteWeb)
eBay, and Verizon have been to stop its aggressive marketing Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:00:00 PM
awarded the top titles of "Most practices. When customers were
Trusted Companies for Privacy" porting from phone to cable When it first launched, the tech
by the Ponemon Institute and services Verizon was illegally and business worlds were All teaching processes and design
TRUSTe. According to a recent using proprietary client transfixed on Linden Labs' processes will be documented for
survey, these companies were information in its last chance to Second Life as a new future use by similar educational
shown to offer clear privacy retain fleeing customers. marketplace. Science fiction fans institutions.
statements, customer-friendly Meanwhile, in March the flocked to the site for its Snow ReadWriteWeb has already
notices, great access to company was widely criticized in Crash and Matrix-like neo- written about data visualization
i n f o r m a t i o n , s o l i d c o o k i e partner TOM Online. Not only the blogosphere for its efforts to apocalyptic feel. And finally, capabilities in sites like Second
management and sound data was the company discovered to be share customer info with affiliates educators arrived to build Life. Due to a fledgling economy,
sharing practices. While the filtering out and saving politically through an overly complicated 45 inexpensive and immersive many suggested that these
companies may excel on paper, charged messages containing day opt-out campaign. The learning environments. While the institutionally-branded education
it's hard to believe these are the words like "Dalai Lama" and information to be shared with hype has certainly dissipated with initiatives may also become
top privacy-related companies "Tibet", but a security breech affiliates included services Second Life, the librarian and popular. Nevertheless, apart from
based on public sentiment alone. allowed others to gain access to p u r c h a s e d ( i n c l u d i n g c a l l educator community remains. this recent endorsement by the
It appears that the Ponemon those messages on TOM's servers. records), billing info and location Today Linden announced the first University of Texas, mainstream
Institute's expert panel and the A Citizen Lab report entitled info. statewide roll out of a virtual educators still don't have the
6,486 US consumers surveyed Breaching Trust went so far as to Although eBay and Verizon do learning environment. Funded by green light to teach in virtual
h a v e l o s t t h e i r l o n g t e r m accuse TOM Online of complying have their merits as service a grant from the University of worlds. Many argue that video
memories. to government surveillance. While providers, they hardly deserve to Texas State's Transforming teleconferencing and instant
Sponsor some of these actions may be receive today's accolades. It looks Undergraduate Education messaging have replaced the need
When it comes to privacy, eBay considered necessary to offer as if these announcements are Program the company will for virtual world interaction.
h a s h a d i t s f a i r s h a r e o f services in a foreign country, US more about rewarding privacy provide a huge space for faculty, However, neither of these offer
controversies. Despite the fact privacy advocates are adamant policies rather than practices. students and researchers to the same immersive experience.
that it recently announced plans to against all those who comply with Photo Credit: Rob Pongsajapan explore a virtual undergrad degree While we know that face-to-
sell the majority of Skype, it was the "Great Firewall of China". Discuss program. face learning is currently the most
under eBay that the internet While Verizon was one of the Sponsor successful teaching method, if
telephony company admitted to a first companies brave enough to This latest launch will include you had to choose an online
privacy breach by its Chinese stand up against the RIAA's file the design of 9 academic learning environment, would you
campuses and 6 health and
Report: Avril Lavigne Dumps Deryck Whibley science campuses. The combined
consider a virtual world? Let us
know in the comments below.
sites will occupy over 50 Second
(ETonline - Breaking News) for three years, have split. "She will be filed any day now." Life regions and will be available
Discuss
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:43:00 AM dumped him and told him she was The Sum 41 rocker is said to be to students 24 hours of the day.
leaving him. She wants to move "crushed" by the turn of events,
Avril Lavigne has allegedly on," a source tells the news according to a friend who talked
kicked hubby Deryck Whibley to source. The source claims that the to Us.
the curb, according to a report. 25-year-old punk pop princess
Usmagazine.com says the threw him out of their Bel Air
couple, who have been married estate, saying, "Divorce papers
42 Tech Tips/ Tech Blog Internet News Record

From the Tips Box: Two-Dollar Bills, Neater Writing, and Car
Stereo Codes [From The Tips Box]
By Dustin Luck (Lifehacker) Recording in Windows Vista
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:00:00 PM Jaime lets us know where to go
in Vista to allow recording
Lifehacker readers share tips for whatever is playing through your
quickly becoming a "regular", speakers:
improving your writing on Vista blocks the WaveOutMix
unlined paper, and unlocking your by default. So using a program
car stereo. like Audacity you can't record
Don't like the gallery layout? streaming audio like I'm able to
Click here to view everything on using XP. The simple fix is going
one page. to the control panel. Click sounds,
About the Tips Box: Every day then go to the Recording tab.
we receive boatloads of great Right click and check show
reader tips in our inbox, but for disabled devices. Now the
various reasons—maybe they're a WaveOutMix shows and all you
bit too niche, maybe we couldn't have to do is enable it. Now you
find a good way to present it, or can use any recording device to
maybe we just couldn't fit it record what is playing back on
in—the tip didn't make the front your computer.
page. From the Tips Box is where Jeffersons. You might be the As a result the car radio required a notepad is a blank one, and then Cut Brownies with a Plastic
we round up some of our favorites "Two-Dollar-Bill Guy," but that security code to be put the torn off sheet on top of the Knife
for your buffet-style consumption. also means you're no longer entered—which I didn't have. A notepad, and clip it with my Photo by jessicafm.
Got a tip of your own to share? "Anonymous Customer Number quick call to the original clipboard so that the lines from Renee offers a tip for cutting
Add it in the comments or email it Three-Hundred." showroom service department, the blank sheet underneath come brownies:
to tips at lifehacker.com. Just make sure—whatever you where they often record the code through halfway between the lines This works for homemade
Use Two-Dollar Bills to Be do—don't be "Cheap Tipper Guy, before servicing, saved paying an on the page I'm writing on. This brownies or store-bought,
Remembered Who Now Gets Spitty Food." independent person to decode it. lets me see a 'fake' line that I can especially warm and right out of
Brian shares a way to help Recover Your Car Stereo Use a Clipboard to Write More use for the tops of my letters and the oven: Use a plastic knife. If
restaurant servers remember you: Security Code Neatly helps me keep my handwriting you order take-out enough, save a
Next time you go to the bank, Photo by Ubi Desperare Nescio. Photo by In Veritas Lux. from getting out of control (too knife and keep it handy for
ask for two-dollar bills in place of Colin wrote in with a tip for Jake tells us how to write neater big). brownie emergencies.
your normal cash-back fare. The recovering a car stereo security by writing smaller: You could also put a sheet of Apparently, the brownies don't
next time you eat out or enjoy a code: If I am writing on a notepad for lined paper behind a blank piece stick as much to the plastic, so
happy-hour with friends, you can The car I'd bought second hand a task list or whatever, I will tear of paper to keep your writing you get better looking brownies
pay a normal, standard tip recently had the battery off the sheet I am writing on, lined up. that aren't shredded on the edges.
amount, but pay it with Thomas disconnected during repair work. make sure the first sheet on the Enable Streaming Audio

Do you have a cloud-enabled feed?


(Scripting News) there that are now cloud-enabled, wing or right, it doesn't matter -- together now. So if you know of
actually a few million.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:10:42 PM what matters is that they are some, either post a link as a
If you know of any especially interesting and that they're real- comment here or send me an
It's been over a week since interesting ones, news-oriented time. email with a link to the email
Wordpress shipped their plug-in feeds that are frequently updated - I'm looking for feeds to include address in the right margin on
that added rssCloud capability. - they could be pro or amateur, in the default set of the next scripting.com.
There are a bunch of feeds out bloggers or BigPubs, commercial, academic or open source, left- release of River2 which is coming
Internet News Record Tech Tips/ Sports 43

Don't Panic! Hides Windows From


Onlookers [Downloads]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:30:00 AM

Windows: Have some windows


you might need to stash in a
hurry? Don't want your boss to
catch you goofing off? Everyone
needs a break now and then and
Don't Panic! will help you keep
your breaks discreet.
Gist Filters Your Inboxes
While most "boss-key"
applications limit themselves to
simply hiding specified
by Contact Importance
applications at a keystroke, Don't
Panic! strives to avoid being a one
[Aggregation]
-trick pony by offering a wide By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) which you can then apply to your
variety of options for you to hiding the application from the limited to changing things at the Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:30:00 AM ultimate inbox. That "importance"
toggle. Task Manager, or it can close the workstation you are sitting at. If rank can be adjusted, and good
You can activate Don't Panic! application either by terminating your company, for example, Lots of people can get ahold of thing, too—Gist thinks senders
by either keyboard shortcut or, as the process or closing it properly. enforces internet usage policies by y o u i n m u l t i p l e w a y s , a n d from Google.com are my most
seen in the screenshot here, by You can also have Don't Panic! monitoring the traffic coming sometimes it's all too much. Gist important contacst, but only
hitting the Don't Panic! button in delete all the shortcuts in the from your terminal Don't Panic! grabs your Gmail or Outlook because calendar.google.com
the lower right corner of your recent files folder, dump your won't do anything to stop The messages, Linkedin, Facebook, mails my schedule every day,
monitor. You can adjust the Internet Explorer history and Man from putting the brakes on and Twitter pings, and other data which is filtered to be auto-
transparency of the button or temporary files, and purge the your cubicle party. and sorts it by contact and archived if there's nothing in it.
disable all together and stick to Recycle Bin. Don't Panic! is open source, importance. If you tend to look at your
the keyboard shortcut. One thing to keep in mind when Windows only. Don't Panic![via ] Gist is really just a series of messages contact-by-contact
Don't Panic! can simply hide the using an application like Don't smart filters for the massive rather than last-in, first-out, Gist
windows you have specified, even Panic! is that all of its powers are contact list you've built up in your is just the tool for you. It's a free
email and social network services. service (at least while in beta),
Torii Hunter Calls Out Halos for 'Choking' The organizer looks to see how and requires authentication with
often your contacts appear in other services to pull in data,
By Ed Price (FanHouse) Hunter said after a 9-8 loss on two news articles, how many times unless you happen to have all
Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:09:00 AM runs in the bottom of the ninth you've gone back and forth with your social back-and-forth in tidy
inning at Fenway Park. "You play them, what companies they're CSV files. Gist[via CNET]
by Ed Price nervous, you're going to make affiliated with, and other criteria
Filed under: Angels BOSTON - mistakes. to assign an importance rank,
- Mike Scioscia was perfectly "Show some nuts."
happy to rip the men in blue for Torii Hunter Calls Out Halos for
the Angels' loss to the Red Sox on 'Choking' originally appeared on
Wednesday (and he had good Fanhouse MLB Blog on Thu, 17
reason to do so). Sep 2009 01:09:00 EST . Please
Torii Hunter preferred to "You don't change nothing see our terms for use of feeds.
question the men in red. Angels because it's the Red Sox, or the Permalink| Email this| Linking
red. Yankees, or whoever it may be," Blogs| Comments
44 Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews Fashion Internet News Record

Get Eight Windows 7 Licenses for 'Silicon ink' for solar


$19 If You're a Student Anywhere cells glides toward
[Dealhacker] production
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) (CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:30:00 AM Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:10:00 AM

Not every university has a deal JA Solar, one of the big players
with Microsoft to provide cheap in the solar industry, is working
product licenses to students, and with Innovalight to commercialize
high schools are generally on their the latter's method for making
own. There is, however, a way for silicon-ink-based, high-efficiency
any math, science, or tech- solar cells, the companies said this
inclined student to score some week. and the Fraunhofer Institute for
slick deals. Innovalight first got noticed in Solar Energy Systems in Germany
The CyberNet blog points any 2007 for perfecting a process in confirmed that its silicon ink-
student with an interest or which it could essentially ink-jet- based cells "demonstrated a
inclination toward the "science, manufacture solar cells using a record 18 percent conversion of
technology, engineering, and proprietary silicon ink it had efficiency."
mathematics fields" to check out developed. The solar cells are Shanghai, China-based JA Solar
the Association for Computing created by pouring an ink solution said the process will lower its
Machinery(ACM), where a sweetens the deal by noting that provable interest in the math, i n c o r p o r a t e d w i t h s i l i c o n production cost for this type of
membership is $19 and one of picking up eight separate keys for science, or tech fields. If you nanoparticles and then decanting solar cell.
membership's key perks is access 3 2 - a n d 6 4 - b i t v e r s i o n o f happen to be that, though, there the excess liquid to leave behind a "Innovalight's silicon ink in
to Microsoft's MSDN Academic Windows 7 in four different are eight license keys with your crystalline silicon structure. conjunction with JA Solar's
Alliance catalog. That lets you languages gives you eight keys name on them, each costing less This is Innovalight's crystalline leadership in high-volume solar
snag Office and other normally that work on any installation. than a tall latte. Students: Get 8 s i l i c o n s o l a r c e l l . ( C r e d i t : cell manufacturing with
high-priced products for very low That's a seriously cheap family Windows 7 Professional Keys for I n n o v a l i g h t ) demonstrated yield, conversion
prices, and Windows 7 upgrade pack. $19[CyberNet News] At the time of the 2007 efficiency, and low production
Professional licenses for free, The catch, of course, is that the announcement, Sunnyvale, Calif.- costs, provides a very promising
minus the cost of membership. A ACM has to approve your based Innovalight claimed its solution to enhance the
single validation key for Windows membership, and that requires method not only resulted in solar conversion efficiency of solar
7 Professional at the cost of a being a high school or college cells that were cheaper to produce cells utilizing our existing solar
pizza is pretty good, but CyberNet student with some kind of by as much as half, but that the cell manufacturing lines,"
crystalline structure resulting Qingtang Jiang, JA Solar's chief
This Just In: Keds x Opening Ceremony from the process made its cells technology officer, said in a
By blogeditor1 (Material much. OC's piled detail on detail, more efficient at converting statement Tuesday.
Interest on Men.style.com) from nautical laces to a mod-ish electricity. JA Solar plans to further
Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:03:11 PM yellow footbed to red bandana- Those claims now appear to be develop the process at its research
printed lining for maximum validated. and development plant in
Not sure exactly when it effect. And somehow, oddly—it On Tuesday, Innovalight Yangzhou, a city on China's coast
happened, but suddenly, works. Too much, in this case, announced that an independent about 630 miles south of Beijing.
everywhere you look, there are turns out to be just enough. study of its method by the U.S.
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Build a Vertical Pot Rack from Spare IKEA Pamela Love's Crush-Worthy Claws
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Parts [DIY Creations] Blog)
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Court rejects 'my GPS told me to do it' argument


(CNET News.com) You see, when Jones' GPS court a stirringly self-aware
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:15:15 AM suggested he drive down a defense: "I might have been an
narrow, unpaved, cliffside lane, idiot for taking the wrong road or
It appears that, strangely, some you might have imagined, given carrying on, but I have not driven
BMW drivers are actually that he is an experienced driver, without due care or attention."
submissive. that he would have experienced a Unfortunately, the police officer
In what may be the first case of little doubt. who first appeared at the scene in
its kind, Robert Jones was found You might have also imagined Todmorden, West Yorkshire,
guilty this week of what they call that bears only use lavatories in chatted with the farmer upon
in the U.K. "driving without due large country homes. whose land Jones had strayed.
care and attention" for daftly Does the small print say, The farmer told him he wouldn't
following the orders of the "Please disengage your even take his horses down the
soothing voice of his GPS when brain"?(Credit: CC path.
the more urgent voice attached to Cpchannel/Flickr) Jones, however, chose to take
his brain cells might have According to the Daily Mail, his considerable horsepower
suggested he, um, think. Jones kept on going until his car seemed to foster a certain glee in his eyes and his brain must have down there because his Tom Tom
You may be rendered made the intimate acquaintance of describing Jones' actions. been telling him otherwise to such stood over him in tight leather
temporarily numb, when you hear a wire fence and became stuck at "The path was not designed for a degree he was not exercising garb brandishing a whip.
the details of this story, to the edge of a drop of some 100 motor vehicles, yet Mr. Jones proper control of the vehicle," Oh, when will humanity ever
discover that Jones delivers cars feet. slavishly continued to follow the Raja told the court. learn to think for itself?
for a living. The prosecutor, Waseem Raja, satnav system to the point where For his part, Jones offered the
Tom Ford, coming soon to a theater near you
By blogeditor1 (Material Not bad for the first one out of actor honors at the Venice Film movie out in NYC and L.A. [via Variety] COREY
Interest on Men.style.com) the gate: Ford's debut film, A Festival—has been picked up for before the year's end for Oscar S E Y M O U R
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:03:12 AM Single Man—just a few days after distribution by the brothers qualification, but if you can't wait
lead Colin Firth took home best Weinstein. They're rushing the that long, here's the trailer.
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Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share


(CNET News.com) becomes a bunch of money," said receive money from TV and
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:00:00 AM Rick Carnes, president of the films. Say, for example, a TV
Songwriters' Guild of America. show licenses a popular tune from
Songwriters, composers, and "Yesterday, I received a check for singer Aimee Mann or the rock
music publishers are making 2 cents. I'm not kidding. People band The Fray. Those acts would
preparations to one day collect think we're making a fortune off likely be paid both sync and
performance fees from Apple and the Web, but it's a tiny amount. performance fees. But the person
other e-tailers for not just We need multiple revenue streams who writes the little-known
traditional music downloads but or this isn't going to work." background music heard during a
for downloads of films and TV An Apple spokesman declined fight scene may not see any sync
shows as well. Those downloads to comment. money. That's because
contain music after all. ASCAP and BMI have their traditionally, composers of this
These groups even want sights set on collecting fees from kind of production music gave
compensation for iTunes' 30- three main areas: downloads of away sync rights in the hope they
second song samples. music; downloads of films and would make money from
In the future, Apple may be TV shows, and 30-second song performance fees.
required to pay licensing fees to samples. "This is really a fight about the
ASCAP and BMI for the In case you don't know the lingo future," Israelite said. "As more
downloads of TV shows and films of music licensing, here are some and more people watch TV or
it sells.(Credit: Apple) important definitions. When movies over an Internet line as
At a time when many iTunes music is performed in public, say opposed to cable or broadcast
shoppers are still fuming over at radio stations, restaurants, or signal, then we're going to lose
Apple's first-ever increase in song sports stadiums, groups such as the income of the performance.
prices, the demands by the ASCAP and BMI collect fees and Taking their case to Congress Potter is executive director of For people who do production and
American Society of Composers, pass it on to composers and Apparently, the music industry the Digital M e d i a background music, that's how
Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), songwriters. This is different than can't obtain the fees through Association(DiMA), a trade group they make their living."
Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), and a "mechanical" licensing fee, negotiations. They have begun that represents Web music Potter's is very sorry for those
other performing-rights groups, which is paid for the right to lobbying Congress to pass services and media companies, people, but if their income is
would likely lead to more price record or distribute a song legislation that require anyone such as RealNetworks, Pandora, drying up, the second major point
hikes at iTunes. This would also (ASCAP and BMI don't collect selling a download to pay a and Apple. he wanted to make was that their
undoubtedly confirm the mechanical fees). performance fee, according to He stresses two points. troubles are not the fault of
perception held by many that "In the U.S. while we do get paid David Israelite, president and First, publishers, composers and iTunes, Amazon, or consumers.
those overseeing the music a mechanical (licensing fee) from CEO of the National Music songwriters do get paid for music "These guys are afraid that the
industry are greedy. ITunes, we are not getting any Publishers Association. inserted into TV shows and business model is shifting away
For those reasons, composers performance income from Apple "If you watch a TV show on movies. A production company from public performances to a
and songwriters will struggle to yet," David Renzer, chairman and broadcast, cable or satellite TV must pay a "synchronization" fee model of private performances,"
sell their case to the public. But CEO of Universal Music there is a performance fee for the right to include a song in Potter said. "This is a turf battle.
these royalty-collection groups Publishing Group, said in collected," Israelite said. "But if any show or film. Once the show They are saying, 'The songwriters
say they're at the bottom of the interview late last month with that same TV show is downloaded airs or the film is screened, the aren't getting paid.' Baloney.
music-sector food chain and aren't entertainment-industry over iTunes, there's not. We're music guys will require payment Songwriters are getting paid.
trying to gouge anyone. They say publication, Encore. "(On iTunes) arguing that the law needs to be from TV networks or the studios They're paid sync rights and
their livelihoods are threatened you can stream radio, and you can clarified that regardless of the for performing the music publicly. (mechanical) rights. They aren't
and wonder why movie studios, preview (tracks), things that we method by which a consumer Israelite confirmed this. getting paid for the public
big recording companies, TV should be getting paid watches the show there is a Critics argue this is most performance in a download
networks, and online retailers are performance income for. performance right." certainly double dipping. because there is no public
allowed to profit from their work "Also, if you download a film or Israelite acknowledges that the Israelite makes no apologies. He performance in a download."
but they aren't. TV show," Renzer continued, legislative efforts to this point says that synchronization and Downloading count as a
"We make 9.1 cents off a song "there's no performance have produced little. And they performance fees cover very performance?
sale and that means a whole lot of (payment) and typically there's no won't produce a thing if Jonathan different rights. To illustrate the
pennies have to add up before it mechanical (payment) either." Potter gets his way. point, he says not all composers MUSIC page 48
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IBM data center gets deep energy retrofit Google gets


(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:00:00 AM
number of applications.
IBM's tech staff did what many
Operators can get a "thermal
map" of the data center based on
applications used by thousands of
people. a patent on
others in their position have done: the sensor data to help find And the investments IBM made
SOUTHBURY, Conn.--IBM's
"green" data center here is kind of
they consolidated their computing
workload with virtualization and
trouble spots. They are also beta
testing an upcoming version of
in making the center more
efficient are "very cost justified,"
reading lists
like a techie version of the "This upgraded to new, more energy- IBM's Tivoli Energy Management said Patrick Toole, the company's (Scripting News)
Old House" television show. But efficient hardware. software, which will be able to newly named chief information Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:08:13 AM
in this case, the project was to But packing more servers--each incorporate the sensor data into officer, in an interview. IBM as a
build a showcase for energy- with multicore processors--into the systems management company has wrung $3 billion in Google will probably protest that
efficiency computing, rather than smaller spaces creates more heat, program. costs over the past year, which it the patent they filed on reading
construct a new addition for a exacerbating the challenge of "The bright idea is not so much plans to continue, he said. lists was defensive. But it's a bad
suburban home. keeping the space cool. IBM is putting the sensors in. It's what But the company measures the patent, based on an "invention"
IBM's main problem was data using a number of techniques to you do with the data--you get "payback" from upgrading its data that was already out there, being
center sprawl. Five years ago, cool efficiently, but the guiding reams of information so you have center not only with energy discussed openly on Scripting
internal IT staff could barely keep principle is to match the cooling to try to figure out what's savings and environmental News at least a year before they
up with growing demand for with the required heating load. important and not," Guasti said. benefits. It's also measured in filed it. If you can subscribe to a
computing resources from "You have to physically Air flows along a predetermined business process improvements, feed, why not subscribe to a
employees, causing an expansion integrate the IT and physical path with "cold aisles" pumping Toole said. collection of feeds? And when an
from one data center location to (cooling) equipment so you can cooled air to the front of For example, the data center item is removed, you no longer
four--a situation that was costly adjust the air conditioning to equipment from the floor and hot allows IBM to operate an internal are subscribed to it, and when one
and inefficient. match the thermal load--the air behind server fans being "cloud computer." Employees can is added, you are now subscribed
Now, those four data centers system should be very dynamic," sucked upward from the ceiling in procure computing resources-- to it.
have been consolidated into a said Peter Guasti, program "hot aisles." server processing and storage Google should explain to the
single spot with the latest in director for IBM's Green To lighten the overall cooling space, for example--for a certain RSS community how they
energy-efficient tech gear, Innovations Data Center. load, IBM is using its liquid- amount of time on a subscription supposedly invented this and what
including a network of 200 Just office buildings or hotels cooling systems, originally code- basis. In the past, employees their process was. If it turns out
sensors and water-cooled servers. heat or cool rooms even when named Cool Blue, which fit onto asked the IT group to install a that we had prior art, they should
It also uses what are considered there are no people in them, many the back of server racks. These server for each new application, tear up the patent and apologize
the best practices for physically data centers operators don't have heat exchangers cool the hot air which is less efficient than a from trying to hijack something
laying out a data center, with fine-grained control over cooling coming from servers' fans by shared-resources model. that doesn't belong to them.
close attention to everything from systems. That means the circulating cold water through Also, the influx of data on I worry about big companies
cabling to air flow. temperature can be set lower than coils, which absorb the server heat energy use lets data center doing awful things because they
Making data centers more it needs to be or a "hot spot" and then are cooled using the managers better track related do them. It's dangerous to have
energy efficient has been a emerges when one piece of building's chiller. costs. Google control so much of the
growing priority for technology equipment has a heavy computing IBM is looking at a variety of "The instrumentation we have RSS infrastructure, from
managers for the past few years, load. other ways to lower energy with what is going on is so much Feedburner to Google Reader to
as companies seek to trim Combining IT and building consumption, including using more granular than before. We Blogger. They could easily pass
spending on electricity and reduce architecture solid-state hard drives and using haven't had dashboards with information between those
their environmental footprint. The To keep the air conditioning outside air--filtered to clean out regard to the green aspects systems without sharing the
Environmental Protection Agency well tuned, IBM is gathering lots contaminants and humidity--to before," Toole said. "Now we can information publicly. They could,
in 2007 estimated that data of data. Sensors are placed cool the building, Guasti said. see things like energy on a right now, deliver features to
centers alone use about 1.5 behind, in front of, and top of Saving green or green PR? smartphone and we're able to users that competitors would be
percent of all electricity in the server and storage racks to The Green Innovation Data manage that." locked out of. All this built on
U.S. and are on a pace to double monitor the temperature. The data Center was designed for tours so Updated at 7:15 A.M. PT with ideas, formats, protocols and
consumption in the coming years. is collected and analyzed so that customers can get some ideas on corrected title for Toole and video know-how that were contributed
In IBM's case, it deals with high the air and water cooling systems how to lighten their own data added. by others without any limits on
volumes--its wikis are used by can be automatically adjusted as centers' energy load. But it's not how they could be used. And now
365,000 people--and a growing needed, Guasti explained. just for show--the center runs this patent.
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PandoraBox uncovers iPhone apps TAB Welcomes:


on sale Alfredo Padilla
(CNET News.com) details about an app. You'll see free (normally 99 cents) to keep By Alfredo Padilla
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:49:28 AM the full description, screenshots, tabs on my battery power, and (TheAppleBlog)
ratings, and stats. If you want to another one called iProRecorder Submitted at 9/16/2009 3:34:03 PM
Like products in the real world, read the user reviews or download Premier for $2.99 (normally
iPhone apps often go on sale. But a program, PandoraBox will lead $4.99) to record high-quality Where to begin? I didn’t always
those deals are hard to find and you straight to the App Store audio. aspire to write about technology,
usually don't last long. itself. Compatible with both the but my complete lack of interest
Free iPhone app PandoraBox The real secret inside iPhone and iPod Touch, in a real social life got me noticed
can help you track down the latest PandoraBox is its virtual sales PandoraBox was developed by a on a discussion forum about three
and greatest sales on iPhone bin. The On Sale section in small German company called years ago and led to a job offer.
software. PandoraBox uncovers all apps AppZap. Led by IT consultant I’ve been slaving over a keyboard
On the surface, PandoraBox is that have dropped in price or are Dmitriy Glebenok, the AppZap ever since.
similar to the App Store. You can now free. Updated several times a team is composed of young I became a Mac user just before
search for software by name or day, the On Sale page shows you developers who have designed that, purchasing the first
browse by selecting among the original price crossed out and other iPhone apps. generation Intel Macbook. I’ve
categories. The New Apps section the new sale price. You can even Released in March, PandoraBox never looked back, and just
points you to the latest software, switch the list between paid and has captured around 70,000 recently upgraded to the new 13-
while the What's Hot and Wish free apps as you browse the sales downloads. The AppZap team has inch Macbook Pro (which I love).
List sections display cool and bin. already updated the program since I also picked up an iPhone when it and wife). I also love baseball, Go
popular apps. You can keep tabs I've found a lot of great apps on its debut and promises more was first released and have Mariners! I just moved to South
on an app by adding it to a sale through PandoraBox, both changes in the near future. upgraded every year, although I America and am improving my
Favorites menu. PandoraBox also free and low cost. I just picked up have to admit that I’m not happy Spanish skills and exploring my
provides most of the standard one app called Battery Magic for with Apple’s app store policies new home.
and have strongly considered
MUSIC switching to an Android or S60
I’m very excited to be writing
continued from page 46 for TheAppleBlog. When it was
device. time to look for a new gig I
Whether downloading a song " T h e s o n g w r i t e r g e t s a acquired licenses to offer the My favorite Mac programs
f r o m t h e W e b s h o u l d b e performance fee if the song is previews but hasn't paid anything include 1Password, Fluid and started by asking those sites that I
considered a performance is much streamed without the video," for them. According to Renzer's iBank. On the iPhone side I’m loved reading the most, and
contested. So far, the courts have Carnes noted. "But if it is comments, music publishers want partial to Kindle, Fieldrunners and imagine my surprise when my
s i d e d w i t h d i g i t a l m e d i a downloaded within an audio- that to change. number one choice was willing to
Byline(iTunes links). I have an take on silly old me? I’ve always
companies. visual work like a movie we don't Potter from DiMA argues that absolute obsession about to-do
In 2005, ASCAP entered into a get a performance fee--same song, copyright law protects Apple and applications and have tried them been impressed by the high
rate-court proceeding to set no money." music stores from being charged all on both the Mac and the quality of writing on this site and
licensing fees for the music ASCAP has appealed the performance fees for in-store iPhone. I hope I can continue that
services of Yahoo, AOL, and decision and arguments in the sampling. tradition.
Aside from Technology and If you want to learn more about
RealNetworks. A U.S. district case will be heard later this year. "They are picking on Apple Apple, I love hiking, reading and
judge for the Southern District of Of all of the efforts to collect because they say Apple is making spending time with my family me (lord help you) find me on
New York delivered a blow to performing-rights fees, few will a bundle of money," Potter said. (which consists of a beagle, cat Twitter@ AlfredoJPadilla.
composers and songwriters by likely be more controversial than "But these companies should be
ruling that downloading music trying to charge for 30-second thrilled that Apple and the other
from a Web store was not a music samples. These are the previews services are selling music and
performance. On the other hand, iTunes offers so users can test generating millions, maybe tens
the judge found that streaming drive a song and hear what they're of millions, in royalties."
m u s i c w a s s u b j e c t t o a buying. According to sources
performance fee. close to the company, iTunes has
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Retro Gaming Roundup: 40 iPhone Games to Take You Back


in Time
By Andrew Bednarz Price:$4.99 iTunes Price:$5.99
(TheAppleBlog) Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Adventures Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:11:26 AM iTunes The classic point and click iTunes
Missile Command adventure games let you guide Flight of the Amazon Queen
There are few iPhone games that Release Year: 1980 your character around a scene, Release Year: 1995
I will immediately buy. Most of Original Platform: Arcade interacting with computer Original Platform: Amiga, PC
the ones I do, however, are the Price:$4.99 characters and objects by either Price:$4.99
classic games I played as a Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, entering text or clicking on action Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
teenager. iTunes words. Sierra and Lucas Arts were iTunes
The iPhone/iPod touch is more PAC-MAN the kings of this genre until the Shooters
than powerful enough to handle Release Year: 1980 3D graphics revolution when they The memories of borrowing my
these games and it seems that Original Platform: Arcade seemed to die out. Myst took a school’s greyscale brief-case
there are many people like me Price:$5.99 different take on the genre while sized 386 for the weekend to play
who are keen to experience these Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, InfoGames was one of the the shareware version of
classics again. So, here’s a iTunes original companies where text Wolfenstein 3D are still with me.
roundup of modern ports of Ms. PAC-MAN adventures all started (Frotz is an It started a new era of gaming can
classic games. Only official ports Release Year: 1981 open source interpretor of text now be fondly relived on the
of classic games are detailed here Original Platform: Arcade adventure games and includes the iPhone. Duke Nukem 3D is
— clones and the like do exist but Price:$5.99 M.I.T version of Zork). Zork another old favorite, athough ID
I had to draw a line in the sand. Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, (available in Frotz) was clearly the leader. Wolf 3D
I’ve also included links to iTunes Release Year: 1977 Release Year: 1992
Wikipedia for those interested in Galaga Original Platform: DEC PDP-10 Original Platform: PC
the history of the games. Classic Release Year: 1981 Price: Free Price:$1.99
Arcaders Original Platform: Arcade Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
The Video Arcade is where Price:$4.99 iTunes iTunes
mainstream gaming began, and Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Mystery House Duke Nukem 3D
there are plenty of original ports iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1980 Release Year: 1996
from this era to re-live your youth Frogger Price:$1.99 Original Platform: Apple II Original Platform: PC
shoving coins into cabinets. I’d Release Year: 1981 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$5.99 Price:$2.99
still like to see BubbleBobble Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Links: Wikipedia, Webpage,
make an appearance here to Price:$1.99 Space Ace iTunes iTunes
completely satisfy my urges. Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1984 Secret of Monkey Island Platformers
Space Invaders iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1990 While the original jump’n'run
Release Year: 1978 Dig Dug Price:$4.99 Original Platform: Atari ST, platformer Super Mario Bros isn’t
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Macintosh and PC available (yet?), Sega’s main
Price:$4.99 Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Price:$7.99 competition Sonic The Hedgehog
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$4.99 Time Crisis Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, is, as well as other classic
iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1995 iTunes variations of platform games
Super Breakout iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Simon The Sorcerer (including hack’n’slash
Release Year: 1978 Pole Position Price:$5.99 Release Year: 1993 platformers like Golden Axe).
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: PC Golden Axe
Price:$1.99 Original Platform: Arcade iTunes Price:$4.99 Release Year: 1989
Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Price:$2.99 Alpine Racer Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: Arcade
iTunes Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Release Year: 1995 iTunes Consoles (Sega System 16)
Centipede iTunes Original Platform: Arcade Myst Price:$4.99
Release Year: 1980 Q*Bert Price:$1.99 Release Year: 1993
Original Platform: Arcade Release Year: 1982 Links: Wikipedia, Webpage, Original Platform: Mac RETRO page 51
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iTunes UI: Deconstructing 8 to 9


By Chris Ryan (TheAppleBlog) “adding to shopping cart” versus specific episodes. When syncing
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:31:25 AM buying with Amazon’s licensed 1- photos, users can take advantage
Click technology. Added is an of the iPhoto ‘09 Faces and Places
The one thing many people did option to use the full window aspect to sync photos of particular
not expect with a new version of when browsing the iTunes Store. people or a particular place. Many
iTunes was that Apple would use iTunes 9 Store Preferences of these areas also provide a
the opportunity to cause dissent iTunes 8 Store Preferences search field, making it easier to
among its fanbase by introducing Browsing Content
another new user interface. Some Browsing content within iTunes
quickly narrow down and select
the specific content you’re
Top Chef:
classify the new styling as has also received a refresh. While
“ n e e d e d ” a n d “ e l e g a n t a n d browsing music in List Mode, the
looking for.
Syncing TV Shows
Camping
r e f i n e d ” w h i l e o t h e r s h a v e artists have been grouped along Syncing Ringtones By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)
resorted to a variety of hacks to the left, making it easier to narrow Syncing iTunes U Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:13:00 AM
return to the UI of yesteryear. down your selection rather Syncing Music
We’ve gone through every quickly. them a more glossy, shiny three Syncing Photos (S0605) Last week was a big
corner of iTunes we could find iTunes 9 Music List Mode dimensional look. The toolbar has The biggest feature in the one, with two contestants being
and dug up all of the major When browsing in Grid View, also been realigned, removing the redesigned sync options is the eliminated. I'm all for double-
changes in the interface. Here’s the first thing you will notice is ‘View’ label and moving the ability to organize your iPhone eliminations, since the fewer
what we found. Welcome to that the dark black background is ‘Search’ label instead the Search and iPod touch apps directly contestants there are, the easier
iTunes 9 gone and now albums are field. The information area has within iTunes. Check the ones my job generally is. Though
The first thing many noticed is scattered amongst an off white also been updated, providing you wish to add, highlight to Mattin was spared, he is
that iTunes 9 now launches with a background. Badged content, such more useful information during select them and drag them to understandably a little
Welcome to iTunes screen, as Podcasts, TV Shows, iTunes U syncing and downloading of whichever home screen you embarrassed, since he's from
offering quick links to videos and Movies feature blue badges content from the iTunes Store desire. Selecting multiple apps is France and completely biffed the
showcasing some of iTunes instead of the original red. Gone (such as time remaining). a cinch and moving them between French cuisine challenge. I mean,
features. Similar to apps like from this view are the tabs to sort iTunes 9 also brings about many home screens is equally easy. you don't see Kevin screwing up
iPhoto and iWeb, users can content within an area (such as refreshed icons, including many Syncing Apps Everything Else barbecue or anything.
disable this by ticking a checkbox. Music) by Albums, Artists, of the icons in the sidebar. Upon a user’s first visit to a Tim Love is the guest judge;
iTunes Preferences Genres and Composers. This can Specifically, playlist icons have section, such as creating a new he's one of those rough-and-
iTunes Preferences also featured be re-enabled via the View menu. gotten the most attention, while Playlist, or visiting the Podcast tumble types who infuses rustic
a few notable changes, ITunes 9 Podcasts TVs, Movies, Audiobooks, and area, they are greeted with a new food into fine dining. So I love the
specifically adding support for Cover Flow view is pretty much Applications have seen slight UI that discusses how that idea of letting the audience
grouping iTunes U content. the same, with the refining of the refreshes as well. particular concept works. choose this week's Quickfire
iTunes 9 General Preferences “full screen” icon. Syncing iTunes 9 New Playlist Challenge, but the fact that Top
iTunes 8 General Preferences iTunes 9 CoverFlow Syncing is by far the area that While this overview is fairly Chef is trying to make me believe
Parental Control also received a The iTunes 9 Equalizer also received the most attention in this exhaustive, there are likely many that with cactus, snake, and
new icon (matching the icon in received a refresh, styling the revision. Specifically, users now other features that users will kangaroo as choices, 57% of the
Snow Leopard) as well as some control knobs with blue accents. have the ability to sync content continue to discover. If there’s people asked for cactus?
slight rewording. iTunes 9 Equalizer more selectively. When choosing one we’ve missed, please use the Shenanigans! You know that vote
iTunes 9 Parental Controls iTunes 8 Equalizer Icons & a TV show, for instance, they can comments to let us know! was for Kangaroo Jack to bite the
iTunes 8 Parental Controls Buttons sync specific seasons or specific big one. I simply will not believe
Removed from iTunes 9 are Buttons and displays in iTunes 9 episodes. When syncing a otherwise.
references in the Store section to have been overhauled to give podcast, they can choose to sync Continue reading Top Chef:
Camping
One More Thing... Filed under: Episode Reviews,
By blogeditor1 (Material When you're a stylish band forthcoming album? A cute girl in Top Chef
Interest on Men.style.com) beloved (and occasionally an RL polo, of course. STAFF Permalink| Email this| |
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Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Sim City and Civilisation are Price: Free Pinball Dreams
Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum,
DOS
two of the most well known and
loved strategy simulation games
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iTunes
Release Year: 1992
Original Platform: Amiga
Jimmy Choo
Price:$1.99 and of course they make a Bomberman Price:$4.99 menswear: better in
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iTunes love to see the old Bullfrog Original Platform: MSX, NEC iTunes
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America's Got Talent: And the winner is... (season finale)


By Isabelle Carreau (TV Cirque du Soleil, Rascal Flatts, competition, it's time to click
Squad) and Shakira. Sadly, none of the elsewhere now!
Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:00:00 AM previous AGT winners performed. Continue reading America's Got
Based on the TV Squad poll I've Talent: And the winner is...
(S04E26) This is it, people. The included in my review of the Top (season finale)
time has come to name the winner 10 performance show, 35.1% of Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler
of America's Got Talent, the the voters, including myself, said Talk, Episode Reviews, America's
world's biggest talent search. The Barbara Padilla would win. Kevin Got Talent
two-hour (!) final results bash Skinner received 22.2% of your Permalink| Email this| |
included performances from votes, while Recycled Percussion that these results were accurate at coming up! Comments
Britain's Got Talent sensation placed third in our poll with the beginning of the results show.) If you haven't watched the
Susan Boyle, The X Factor's 19.4%. The other contestants all Did the TV Squad poll results finale yet and do not want to be
Leona Lewis, Thelma Houston, got under 7% of your votes. (Note match reality? Official results spoiled as to who won the
52 Apple Tech Blog Media Internet News Record

Name That Cat: What Breed Should I need a Domain Name


OS 10.7 Be? Server with a REST
By Charles Moore verified.
(TheAppleBlog) interface
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:00:44 AM
Perhaps the most likely not-yet-
used for an OS X version would
be Cheetah, with the positive (Scripting News)
OS X Liger? association of being the fastest Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:41:29 PM
Now that Snow Leopard is on animal on the planet. Running flat
the prowl, thoughts turn to what out, the fastest horses might hit Here's what I need:
Mac OS 10.7 might be called. about 43 miles per hour, while a 1. A server I can use to manage
When it was announced that cheetah can touch 70 MPH in hosts for a domain that I own that
Mac OS 10.6 would be christened short bursts. Earlier this month a am currently not using. I have
“Snow Leopard,” there was some cheetah named Sarah, whose many. I will pick one.
speculation that Apple was home is the Cincinnati Zoo & 2. Ideally I don't even want to
running out of big cat names for Botanical Garden, broke the run the server myself. Someone
its OS X versions. OS X 10.1 was world cheetah speed record in the from the community of people
Puma, 10.2 Jaguar, 10.3 Panther, 100-meter dash, covering the who read this blog who are
10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, and distance in 6.16 seconds — .06 interested in distributed realtime
10.6 is Snow Leopard. Jaguarundi, anyone?). seconds off the previous record message systems and want to play
More likely is that Apple set in 2001 by a cheetah living in a role in their development. This their cloud-enabled feed. So
One cat name I like is Cougar, george.loose.ly would be the
wanted to emphasize that 10.6 although an objection might be South Africa. project will not use a lot of
would not be a major new features Other Mac OS name candidates bandwidth or server resources. It's name of George Metesky's
that it’s a synonym for Puma, realtime feed. If you want to
upgrade (hence the relatively which has already been used for would be Ocelot, a primarily primarily for development. The
modest price of $29.95), but South and Central American cat other users will be geeks like you follow him, you wouldn't have to
OS 10.1, but then so is Panther in use his feed address you'd use
rather pretty much a code- its North American context. The that also ranges into Mexico and and me.
slimming and streamlining as far north as Texas, and the 3. The server must have a REST george.loose.ly. The client would
largest wild cat species on this just do a DNS lookup to find his
revision of OS 10.5 Leopard, with continent is variously known as medium-sized North American interface. I need at least one call.
Power PC support excised. That Lynx and Bobcat. There’s It takes three parameters (that I feed.
Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion, 4. If no one is willing to operate
would make a name somewhat Panther, Painter, and Catamount Wildcat too, a name used by can think of, there may need to be
similar to OS 10.5 logical Grumman for a World War II more). The three parameters are: the server, I'll operate it. It must
plus reportedly several dozen be something that runs on EC2.
(although the Snow Leopard is other less-widely used names that vintage naval fighter aircraft, and name of sub-domain (something
actually a completely different of course “the king of beasts” — like george), record name (I'll 5. I need it soon. I want to start
have been recorded across North developing a prototype.
species from Leopard). and South America. Lion, which for some reason explain below) and the value. The
There’s no danger of Apple hasn’t been used on an OS X same call can be used to change Tomorrow? Friday? Please, no
If Apple wanted a particularly later than Monday. It seems like a
running out of cat names anytime exotic variant, they might version yet. the value. Probably should send a
soon. According to one wild cat Still plenty of cat names to string that's a MD5 hash of all the fairly easy thing to do.
consider Eastern Cougar, Anyway that's the idea.
species resource site, there are 36 referencing cats some contend chose from. What’s your parameters plus my password.
distinct species of non-domestic preference for OS 10.7? Something like that. You can tell Comments welcome of course.
still range in small numbers east And DNS gurus if I've made some
cats, although some are of the Mississippi River in the Photo courtesy of allwest44. me what it should be, but nothing
concededly so obscure that they too fancy. egregious errors, please let me
U.S., and Canada — an assertion know, gently.
wouldn’t be suitable for an that remains to be scientifically The record name is a DNS
operating system moniker ( record name. Not A or MX maybe
TXT. The value is the address of
MediaDailyNews: '09 Creative Media Awards Winners To Be Unveiled
(MediaPost | Media News) 2009 Creative Media Awards will York. Awards will be given in 17
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:30:16 AM be unveiled during a ceremony categories, plus a "Best of Show."
the evening of Tuesday, Sept. Briefs describing finalists in each
Winners of Media magazine's 23rd at the Yale Club in New category can be viewed here.
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Rumor Has It: New iMacs and MacBooks


Coming Just in Time for Windows 7
By Darrell Etherington The iMac is also well behind its
(TheAppleBlog) PC counterparts in terms of
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:18:03 AM internal specs, so the prediction
that it could see the introduction
Apple beat Microsoft to market of Core i5 or i7 processors is
in terms of new operating systems probably not too far off base. We
(although “new” doesn’t really may also see Apple’s first move Happy Birthday,
apply in the case of either 10.6 or away from NVIDIA’s GeForce
Windows 7), but that means 9400M as the fallout from GPU- Moo! Yay,
Microsoft will have the spotlight
uncontested when it launches
gate continues. Expect any
internal hardware changes to
PhotoJoJo!
Windows 7 on Oct. 22. That’s specifically compliment user By Tara Kirchner (Flickr Blog)
why one research firm, Wedge experience with the new Snow Submitted at 9/16/2009 5:18:57 PM
Partners, is predicting new Leopard operating system.
MacBook and iMac hardware in While some point to the The wonderful people at Moo
the coming weeks. significance of the recent iPod are celebrating their 3rd birthday!
A significant hardware upgrade event as evidence that Apple Woo hoo, Moo! They’re giving
on Apple’s core lineup of iMac would not make another major away 10,000 packs of Moo
desktops and the lone MacBook announcement so closely on its business cards for free (you’ll pay
notebook would indeed go a long heels, it was only last year that shipping). You’ll get 50 cards in a
way towards stealing the wind Apple’s “Let’s Rock” iPod and pack, and each card will have a
from Microsoft’s sails. Especially me at the beginning of September has been in play since August of music special event in September Moo watermark and discount
if it prices the new models lower, that new iMacs were definitely on 2007, and the white plastic was followed immediately in code for your friend. Hurry!
as the same research firm suggests the horizon, and that retail MacBook case goes back to May October with its major notebook We also wanted to extend a
it may. management was being prepared 2 0 0 6 . T h e s p e c i f i c d e s i g n event, at which it introduced the hearty congrats to Amit and Kelly
Normally, I don’t have much for a major launch of the updated predictions made by Wedge new unibody MacBook and at PhotoJojo. Their beautiful book
patience for the ramblings of computers. partners stand little chance of MacBook Pro design. Clearly, it’s is available now, chock-full of
those soothsayers in the so-called No mention was made of the being accurate, but a new look historically possible, and Apple great photo projects.
“analyst” line of work, but this MacBook, but it, like the iMacs, would definitely be in order. has seen the financial sense it C’mon people! Make something
r e p o r t s t r u c k a c h o r d w i t h are definitely due for a refresh, Expect Apple to leverage its makes in the sales numbers it with your photos!
something I heard earlier in the and, as Wedge Partners predicts, a unibody construction method for recorded last holiday season. Photo by JKonig and
month, which alone wasn’t visual design change as well. The b o t h , s i n c e i t r e p r e s e n t s acappella05.
substantial enough to write up. A aluminum and glass iMac design significant investment on its part.
source who works for Apple told

Laugh-In's Henry Gibson dead at 73


By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) credits on that resume was Rowan him from his many appearances Continue reading Laugh-In's
Submitted at 9/17/2009 2:00:00 AM and Martin's Laugh-In, the as a judge on Boston Legal and Henry Gibson dead at 73
influential 60s comedy show that his voice work on King of the Filed under: Celebrities,
For some reason I thought that no one under 30 has ever seen. He Hill(he played Bob Jenkins). He Obituaries, Reality-Free
Henry Gibson was a lot older than also appeared in shows like was also in several movies, Permalink| Email this| |
73, but the character actor with Bewitched, The Beverly including Magnolia(he played Comments
the huge resume passed away Hillbillies, Deep Space Nine, Thurston Howell???), The Nutty
from cancer at that age yesterday Coach, MacGyver, Evening Professor, Nashville, The Blues
in Malibu. S h a d e , S i s t e r s , N e w h a r t , Simon. Brothers, Wedding Crashers, and
One of the more famous TV Magnum, P.I., and Simon and More recently, TV fans know a ton of others.
54 TV Sports Internet News Record

The Newlywed Game to host


its first ever gay couple
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/17/2009 10:01:00 AM

Not only is The Newlywed


Game hosting its first ever gay
couple. It's hosting its first ever
gay celebrity couple. At least, one
of them is a pretty well-known
celebrity. George "Mr. Sulu" Starting Five: Honoring
Takei and his partner Brad Those Who Brought the
Altman will be appearing on the
program. Although they've been Game to the Fans
together for over 20 years, they By Ed Price (FanHouse)
were only legally married last Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:00:00 AM
year (before all that Proposition 8
hoopla nullified gay marriage in by Ed Price
California).
In case nobody remembers the
question. Hopefully it won't lead
to a divorce. The most interesting
Glee: Acafellas Filed under: Phillies, Rangers,
Reds, Royals, Tigers, Yankees,
rules to game: each partner is answers in the game will come By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) this episode, but Kurt had some of MLB Injuries, Starting Five
given a question about the from any question about "making Submitted at 9/17/2009 3:12:00 AM the best, including this one about Starting Five is our wrapup of the
relationship without the other whoopee". his car: "My dad got it for me for previous day's baseball action,
partner present. If each member of Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, (S01E03) "I'm gay." - Kurt to my 16th birthday if I swore to with a quick nod to what is ahead.
the couple give the same answer, Reality-Free Mercedes stop wearing form-fitting sweaters You Oughta Know ...
they win points. Considering that Permalink| Email this| | We're three episodes into Glee, that stop at the knee. What he The names Hal McCoy and
they've been together for 20 years, Comments and we continue to learn more doesn't know won't hurt him." Ernie Harwell.
somebody is going to be pretty about the characters' angst, drama, (He's wearing a red form-fitting Both were honored at ballparks
pissed off if one or the other gives dreams and passion. Kurt told sweater that stops at the knee.) on Wednesday, and their absence
a different answer to the same Mercedes he'd never said those C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g G l e e : from the game will be felt by fans
words out loud, but -- like the rest Acafellas in Cincinnati and Detroit.
of us (excluding Mercedes) -- he Filed under: OpEd, Episode Harwell, the long-time Tigers
must have realized he was gay. I Reviews, Reality-Free, Glee radio announcer, has inoperable,
mean, come on, the kid is clearly Permalink| Email this| | terminal cancer. So the team
gay. Comments chose Wednesday night to honor
There were a lot of great lines in him at Comerica Park, and after a
video tribute in the third inning,
Jenna Elfman is pregnant on TV and off he thanked the fans:
By Allison Waldman (TV gotten pregnant because, as she of a kid named Story..."? More Coverage: Scoreboard|
Squad) put it, "My character's pregnant Continue reading Jenna Elfman Standings| Statistics
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:00:00 AM the whole first season, so I said, is pregnant on TV and off Starting Five: Honoring Those
'It's a good time to have another Filed under: Other Comedy Who Brought the Game to the
On her new CBS sitcom, baby, because we won't have to Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality Fans originally appeared on
Accidentally on Purpose, Jenna hide it." -Free Fanhouse MLB Blog on Thu, 17
Elfman plays a woman who picks Isn't that a good reason to have Permalink| Email this| | Sep 2009 06:00:00 EST . Please
up a guy, has a one-night stand a baby? Elfman, who's married to Comments see our terms for use of feeds.
and winds up pregnant. It may be actor Bodhi Elfman, is already a Hmm, you think they're ever Permalink| Email this| Linking
a case of being overly practical, mommy. She and Bodhi have a tempted to sing, "Here's the story Blogs| Comments
but in real life Jenna Elfman has two-year old son named Story.
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A Unique Brand of Broke Baseball in Texas


(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) lately. “From a business Florida and Tennessee is the Manny Pacquiao/Miguel Cotto
Submitted at 9/16/2009 9:16:38 AM perspective, the choice would be week’s most anticipated college- match, is a self-styled throwback,
an easy one: Sit him down and football game, and justifiably so. and the subject of a nice profile
The Texas Rangers enter avoid saddling the club with a big But Yahoo’s Matt Hinton argues by the Newark Star-Ledger’s
Wednesday’s action 5.5 games and unnecessary salary for 2010,” that the matchup between Oregon Jerry Izenberg.
behind the Boston Red Sox in the Grant writes. “But, now, the issue and Utah may actually wind up “There is so much more to
American League Wild Card race, has become more complicated being the weekend’s most Foreman’s story than his long-
but miles ahead of even the most because it might just be in the best important contest — if not in the shot chances,” Izenberg writes.
optimistic preseason expectations. interest of the Rangers’ 2009 BCS race, at least because it could “Never (David vs. Goliath doesn’t
The Rangers’ 80 wins (over 144 season.” him work his way back up be a make-or-break game for two count) has a potential rabbi taken
games) already puts them ahead That the debate is even through the minor leagues in a suddenly shaky-seeming a week off Talmud study to come
of their season total from 2008. happening at all is a testament to series of rehab starts, and there programs. to a place where victory goes not
The Rangers’ next victory will just how strange things have were questions about whether “The winner still has a chance necessarily to the guy who can
guarantee them their highest win become. Team president Nolan he’d be able to help the team (with apologies to Dennis Green) quote the Psalms but to the guy
tally since 2004. But while Texas Ryan engineered an amazing again this year, or possibly ever. to be who it thought it was, with the strongest left hook.
has been one of the season’s most turnaround of the team’s culture Those questions were answered, moving on into their respective Welcome to the strange odyssey
striking stories, there’s a unhappy in general and pitching staff in in the short term, on Wednesday conference schedules with visions of a bicycle-riding, yeshiva-
subplot to this tale. Despite their particular. Gary Thorne lauded night, when a commanding of the top-20 and possibly a shaped Jew who breaks every
on-field success, the Rangers are the team’s stepped-up Matsuzaka fired six shutout darkhorse BCS bid intact,” Hinton stereotype you ever heard about
an economic mess, and essentially conditioning in USA Today, innings against the Los Angeles writes. “At the very least, this his ethnicity.”* * *
in receivership. Getty Images If while ESPN’s Tim Keown wrote Angels in his first big-league start kind of win assures them of some Close your eyes and imagine the
only there were some brash, an in-depth feature on the team’s since June. respectability. The loser slinks basement of an NFL defensive
sports-loving, super-rich guy in new attitude. But Ryan doesn’t “He was Dice-K, which means away virtually guaranteed of back. Do you see a game room? A
the Dallas area to help the have an actual contract, and is he was unlike anyone else,” the landing in a second or third-tier THX-equipped home theater? A
Rangers and their owner, Tom operating under a handshake Boston Globe’s Bob Ryan writes. bowl game, with the added shrine-like collection of that
Hicks (right). agreement with Hicks. And while “Pitching from behind on the uncertainty of losing one of the player’s lifetime of football
“Owner Tom Hicks essentially the team’s television ratings and count doesn’t faze him, any more key, winnable games that can memorabilia? There are surely
has lost fiscal control of the team, attendance are up, the sense than pitching ahead of the count make the entire season.” Hinton many such cellars in the NFL, but
which has had to borrow at least persists — witness the Montreal emboldens him. First-pitch strike, may be overstating things they’re worlds away from the
$15 million from major league Expos comparisons in this post by no first-pitch strike, it didn’t somewhat, as it’s still September. basement-bound personal project
baseball,” the Fort Worth Star- Cory Dunlap of Dallas Sports matter. He was in charge, In the Washington Post, Steve of Baltimore Ravens cornerback
Telegram’s Jim Reeves reported Fans — that the team’s newly continually coming up with the Yanda reports on a very serious Domonique Foxworth, who has
Saturday. “MLB is making many found success is tenuous. right pitch for the occasion.” early-season challenge facing all used the millions he has made in
of the calls regarding Rangers’ In Forbes, Mike Ozanian argues The Red Sox would have some college teams this season. That the NFL to fund a personal
moves, including the one that cost that Congress needs to investigate truly intimidating postseason would be swine flu, which is museum of memorabilia from the
them the ability to sign No. 1 draft what’s going on with the team. pitching depth with a dialed-in currently sweeping campuses and American civil-rights movement.
pick Matt Purke.” The report led No, seriously. It’s that bad.* * * Dice-K slotting in at the back of has already sickened scores of Surprising? Maybe, but so is
to speculation that the Rangers Daisuke Matsuzaka’s the rotation, Danny Knobler players in different major-college Foxworth. In the New York
might shut down starting pitcher unconventional approach and writes at CBS Sports. “This is a locker rooms.* * * Times, Alan Schwarz profiles the
Kevin Millwood — who is 4 1/3 unusual pitches made him a guy who has started seven Yes, there is a long history of speedy young star, who comes
innings shy of triggering a $12 smashing success in 2007 and postseason games the last two Jewish boxing champions. It just across as one of the most self-
million option for next season — helped him win 18 games in 2008. Octobers, with the Red Sox happened to unfold in the three aware, self-effacing and
in the heat of a pennant race due In those years, he was better than winning six of them,” Knobler decades before World War II. The intelligent athletes to come down
to the unwillingness of the team’s most pitchers in the game. This writes. “This is a guy who was ring has been the property of the pike in quite awhile.* * *
de facto owners to absorb that year, Dice-K put up an 8.23 ERA named the Most Valuable Player various ethnicities in the decades Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily
cost. What is going on here? for the Red Sox through June 19, in the World Baseball Classic — since, but Russian-born, Brooklyn News spent 37 years of his life
Millwood’s case is complicated, which — by the numbers, at least both of them. And this, right now, -based middleweight Yuri covering the Cincinnati Reds,
as Evan Grant writes in D — made him worse than just is the Red Sox’s fourth starter Foreman, who will fight for the which is a half-dozen more years
Magazine, by the fact that the about any starter in baseball. The come playoff time.”* * * WBA super welterweight title on
veteran starter has been terrible Red Sox shut him down and had Saturday’s clash between the undercard of November’s UNIQUE page 57
56 Sports Internet News Record

The Count: Clijsters, Not a Tantrum, Dad for a day: Vince


Decided Semifinal Young surprises Steve
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) both, so without the foot fault she
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:25:21 AM McNair's sons had less than a one in 12 chance
of winning the match — or about
Before it’s written in history that 8%. That’s how much the foot By ESPN.com news services actions.
Serena Williams lost her U.S. fault call plus her outburst cost (ESPN.com) "It was a great, great gesture,"
Open semifinal match Saturday to her. Suppose the call had been Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:44:04 AM Dilworth told the Tennessean.
Kim Clijsters because of a made but Williams hadn’t yelled "All the kids had been talking
questionable foot-fault call and at the lineswoman. Then she For one day at least, Vince about the dads' breakfast and
the over-the-top outburst by would have had less than a 3% Young stepped up to try to fill the [ T r e n t o n a n d T y l e r ] w e r e
Williams the call provoked, Williams would have had a 37% chance of winning the match. void for the late Steve McNair's wondering what was going to
historians should check with chance of winning the point to Morris acknowledges that these two young sons, the Tennessean happen with them.
Harvard University statistician push the score to 30-30 — which assumptions vastly simplify the reported Thursday. "They were thrilled ... the boys
Carl Morris. Based on his quick- is effectively the same as deuce. situation. For instance, he doesn’t Young surprised 11-year-old came to school with huge smiles
and-dirty calculations, the whole Had Williams lost the point, a take into account that Clijsters Trenton and 5-year-old Tyler on on their faces."
episode cost Williams about 8% scenario with a probability of had the upper hand to that point, Wednesday by showing up at Young had a close relationship
of the match; her own play cost 63%, she then would have had to and therefore could have been a their house and taking them to with Steve McNair, even before
the rest. Getty Images Without win the next two. Since her better than 50% bet to win the t h e i r s c h o o l ' s " D e a r D a d s the latter was drafted by the
tantrums from her opponent, no chance of winning each of those t i e b r e a k e r o r a t h i r d s e t . Breakfast" at a local restaurant. Titans four years ago. He attended
o n e d i s p u t e d w h e t h e r K i m points was 54%, her overall Conversely, it’s certainly possible “ McNair's football camps when he
Clijsters won her final match or probability of falling behind by 15 that if Williams had forced the Those are my boys. I wouldn't was young. McNair was shot and
had it handed to her. -40, then saving two match points tiebreaker, she would have raised say it was to pay anyone back; it killed July 4.
To arrive at that figure, Morris to reach deuce, was 19%. Add her level of play. The last eight was just out of love. Steve would Besides being there for
c o u l d n ’ t r e l y o n t h e w i n - that to 37% — her chance of times before the Clijsters match do it for me. He pretty much did it McNair's sons, Young gave other
probability calculators that are reaching 30-30 — and Williams that Williams had dropped the for me when I was growing up. I kids at the school jerseys and
available for other sports such as had a 56% chance of forcing first set of a match and reached 5- have a history with the boys and I autographs.
baseball, which could have told deuce. From there, because of 5 in the second set, she’d won a want to do anything I can. I am "It was a surprise, and just to see
him what percent of the time a W i l l i a m s ’ s 5 4 % w i n n i n g remarkable seven times. their big brother.”-- Vince Young the excitement on their faces, it's a
player down a set and 5-6, 15-30, probability on points on her serve, “Even though we’ll never know "Those are my boys," Young great feeling," Young told the
on a second serve goes on to win. she would have had a 59% chance how to compute the ‘actual’ told the Tennessean. "I wouldn't Tennessean. "We had a good time
So he looked at Williams’s of winning the game. Multiplying probability of who would have say it was to pay anyone back; it eating pancakes. I had an omelet.
success on her own serve in the both probabilities, since first w o n , w e c a n r e a l i z e t h a t was just out of love. Steve would "Overall they are doing cool,
match. She had won 37% of her Williams would have to force 30- Clijsters’s position was quite do it for me. He pretty much did it doing good. Just talking to their
points on her second serve — 30 or deuce and then she’d have a d v a n t a g e o u s a n d t h a t s h e for me when I was growing up. I mom, I think they are going to be
which is what she hit in play to win from that situation, she had probably would have won even have a history with the boys and I all right. I am always going to be
when the foot fault was called — slightly less than a one in three without that abrupt ending,” want to do anything I can. I am here for them, always."
and had won 54% of all her chance of winning the game. Morris said. “Kim Clijsters their big brother." McNair also had two older
service points. The lineswoman That would have forced a deserves to be remembered for Julie Dilworth, admissions teenage sons.
c a l l e d t h e f o o t f a u l t w h e n second-set tiebreaker, which her great performance in that director at St. Paul Christian
Williams was serving at 15-30, Williams would have needed to match, and not for its ending. She Academy, lauded Young's
with Clijsters leading 6-5 in the win to force a decisive third set. went on to win the finals and the
second set and having won the Assuming the players were evenly championship, so her great
first set. So Clijsters was just two matched, Williams would have tournament should stand foremost
points from winning the match. had a one in four chance of doing in peoples’ minds.”
Without the foot-fault call,
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Gilbert Arenas says he's ready to go; Big East Set for Major
criticizes Washington Wizards Proving Ground
By Brett McMurphy
By ESPN.com news services wouldn't say his condition was the and they did what they did." (FanHouse)
(ESPN.com) most severe, I wouldn't say it was Arenas has worked hard this Submitted at 9/17/2009 2:45:00 AM

Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:10:52 AM the best. ... But if I were to summer to try to get back on the
classify it on a scale of one to 10 court. by Brett McMurphy
Gilbert Arenas says he's back to with 10 being the most extreme, "It was a pretty extensive Filed under: Cincinnati,
h i s e x p l o s i v e s e l f b u t i s I'd say he was definitely in the process," Grover told the Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers,
wondering if it's the Wizards' fault seven, eight category." newspaper. "We had to get his West Virginia, Big East West
that it has taken him so long to get Grover has several high-profile range of motion back in the leg, Virginia coach Bill Stewart,
back to normal. NBA clients, including Dwyane did a lot of acupuncture, a lot of whose club visits Auburn this
Arenas, who worked with Wade, O.J. Mayo and Tracy work. We put a game plan weekend, said he's never been to
trainer Tim Grover in Chicago McGrady. Arenas has resisted together and attacked it from as historic Jordan-Hare Stadium.
t h i s s u m m e r , t o l d T h e overtures to work with Grover in many angles as we could. Gil UConn will be making its first
Washington Times that his the past, but finally decided to would work with four or five visit to Waco, Texas, in what will
injuries are in the past. give it a try this year. individuals from my staff each be longest road trip in school
“ While Arenas praised Grover day. ... It was, 'OK, Gil, you're history when the Huskies play
If you have a kid that loves for saving his career, he blamed going to be spending a good six to Baylor.
basketball, that eats, sleeps, drinks the Wizards for giving him too seven hours a day in here and a lot And then there's the Cincinnati
and thinks basketball and all he much control over his failed of treatment, and it's all pieces of Bearcats, who head to the Left
knows is basketball and he gets comebacks from surgery the past the puzzle to putting you back Coast to visit Oregon State. after this weekend's games.
hurt and he's your franchise two seasons. together to being the player you Earlier this week, Cincinnati Big East Set for Major Proving
player, you need to hold him back "If you have a kid that loves were before -- and better.' " coach Brian Kelly joked that a Ground originally appeared on
from himself.”-- Gilbert Arenas basketball, that eats, sleeps, drinks Arenas averaged 27.7 points per couple of his players "would have Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog
"Nobody could guard me before, and thinks basketball and all he game from 2004 until 2007, a hard time finding Oregon on the on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:45:00
and can't nobody guard me now," knows is basketball and he gets becoming one of the NBA's most map." EST . Please see our terms for use
Arenas told the newspaper. "If I hurt and he's your franchise dynamic players. But he has Big East teams might be of feeds.
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percent chance that I'd be sitting newspaper. "If I'm saying I feel Arenas said his goal isn't to be have a better idea where they're
out more games. ... [Tim Grover] good and you know it's supposed an All-Star player this season. located on the national landscape
saved my career." to take six months, instead of Instead, he has loftier goals.
Coming off three knee surgeries letting me at four months run ... "All-Star's not my goal. I never
UNIQUE
continued from page 55
in 1½ years, Arenas played in they should have held me back. wanted to be an All-Star. All-Star
only two games last season. Rather than saying, 'Let's let this is the 24 hottest players at that than your Fixer has spent Aaron Boone for a pep talk that
Grover painted a grim picture of guy do what he wants and use him time. All-League? That's my breathing. That tenure earned prolonged the writer’s career.
A r e n a s ' h e a l t h w h e n t h e to sell tickets' -- sometimes you goal," Arenas told the newspaper. McCoy, who will retire at the end — Tip of the Fix cap to reader
W a s h i n g t o n W i z a r d s g u a r d have to protect players from "All-League is only 15 players. of this baseball season, a berth in Fred Sternburg.
arrived at his training complex in themselves. I don't feel like I got So All-League and to play as the writer’s wing of the Baseball Found a good column from the
Chicago this July. that type of protection. But, I many games as possible. That's Hall of Fame, and he will be world of sports? Don’t keep it to
"A lot of things weren't firing -- don't judge them for that. Some it." honored in a pregame ceremony yourself — write to us at
his glutes, his hips, thighs," things just happen. I told them I before Wednesday’s Reds game. dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Grover told the newspaper. "I felt OK because I wanted to play, In the Daily News, Tom consider your find for inclusion in
Archdeacon pens an appreciation the Daily Fix. You can email
of his colleague, while McCoy David at droth11@gmail.com.
himself delivers a column that
thanks former Reds infielder
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Referees reject latest NBA offer, Myles Leaves Indelible Brand


on NCAA
prepare counter By Kevin Blackistone
(FanHouse)
By Chris Sheridan Labor talks had broken down from our standpoint. I just need
Submitted at 9/17/2009 1:21:00 AM
(ESPN.com) acrimoniously eight days earlier the league to move a little with
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:01:53 AM when NBA commissioner David us." by Kevin Blackistone
Stern accused the union of The NBA was not immediately Filed under: NCAA Basketball
NBA referees voted 57-0 reneging on an earlier agreement available for comment.
Wednesday night to reject a new regarding changes to contract As a college coach friend and I
The referees claim they have were being seated for an early
labor agreement offer, saying they language. At the time, McMorris agreed to $2.5 million of the $3.2
p l a n n e d t o p r e s e n t a said the sides were only $600,000 dinner in a mostly empty hotel
million in concessions the league restaurant overlooking the Detroit
counterproposal to the league to $700,000 apart -- an amount was seeking. The NBA believes
Thursday. River on the eve of the last Final
the league disputes. McMorris did the gap is more significant, and Four, we spied Myles Brand and
The vote came about an hour not put a dollar figure on where has made the case that it make a
before midnight CT at a meeting things stand now following the his wife, Pat. They were sitting
substantial concession in agreeing alone at a table tucked deeper into
of the referees outside Chicago. leaguer's latest offer. to the union's request for a two-
Their labor pact expired Sept. 1, the quietude of this large dining
McMorris said the referees year deal to bridge the league's room with sweeping windows
and the prospect of a lockout planned to work into the early economic crisis. Traditionally, the
looms if a new agreement is not in hours of the morning formulating from which we could all watch
NBA has negotiated five-year the sun set. Myles Leaves Indelible Brand
p l a c e p r i o r t o t h e s t a r t o f their counterproposal. The sides labor pacts with the referees. on NCAA originally appeared on
exhibition games Oct. 1. And we knew Brand was
are facing a deadline of sorts this McMorris would not disclose counting the sunsets then. It had Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone on
"We are still meeting, we've weekend, with the annual referees' what adjustments the league made Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:21:00 EST .
been here since 4 p.m. and they training camp scheduled to begin been just a couple of months since
to its proposal. he publicly disclosed that he was Please see our terms for use of
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us to get on the phone with the possible," McMorris said. away a quarter of the rest of his
the referees' long-term retirement life.
league in the morning to try to Asked his level of optimism, benefits, McMorris alleged the
make a deal and work something McMorris replied: "Well, I'm very NBA was trying to purge older
out," lead negotiator Lamell proud. This is a tremendous referees by asking for systemic
McMorris said. demonstration on the part of these contract language concessions
McMorris said the league's new folks. I don't know what else they that would shield the league from
proposal was presented earlier can do to show that they want a age discrimination laws.
W e d n e s d a y . T h e r e f e r e e s deal done; they're not leaving. "It's the entire deal as it's
deliberated its merits for about 6½ They're not going back to their currently presented. They [the
hours before the offer was families. They're staying here and referees] just could not agree to
u n a n i m o u s l y v o t e d d o w n . showing they clearly want to get that deal as currently presented,"
McMorris said the NBA had back to work, and they're willing McMorris said.
made some movement from its t o s t a y h e r e t o r a t i f y a n Chris Sheridan covers the NBA
prior offer, but he would not be agreement, but the league has to for ESPN.com NBA Insider.
specific. meet us halfway. So I'm hopeful
Blake Lively's Marchesa Moment
By ELLE.com (ELLE News today wearing a jacket and shorts two neutral-and-black looks that —Violet Moon Gaynor
Blog) look from the latest collection, represent Marchesa's clever mix Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:45:25 PM paired with Christian Louboutin of drop-dead-gorgeous glamour
for Marchesa heels. It's easy to and sly sex-appeal. Which dres
A radiant Blake Lively showed imagine Blake, and her TV alter- confections on display. Below, (long or short) do you think best
up to the Marchesa presentation ego, wearing any one of the frothy suits Serena, or Blake, best?
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Rockies Hold On, Deal Final Why the Grudges? MJ Being


Blow in Heavyweight Bout Himself
By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse)
With Giants Submitted at 9/16/2009 10:11:00 PM

By Jeff Fletcher (FanHouse)


by Jay Mariotti
Submitted at 9/17/2009 2:36:00 AM
Filed under: NBA What, you
by Jeff Fletcher expected him to suddenly morph Wii's Call of Duty 4
Filed under: Giants, Rockies into Meryl Streep or Beyonce or
Barack Obama, gracious and
now dubbed 'Modern
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hours
before the Giants and Rockies met classy in victory? Michael Jordan Warfare: Reflex'
on a baseball field for the final was a basketball killer. He thrived
on humiliating those who even By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
time this regular season, Rockies Submitted at 9/17/2009 10:00:00 AM
manager Jim Tracy was remotely doubted him, be it a
comparing the matchup to a bout player or coach or someone such
as me. I won't forget standing in a Activision: Yeah, we think we're
with a couple fighters slugging Rockies a 3 1/2-game lead in the going to call the Wii game just "
away at each other. parking lot by a gym on Chicago's
National League wild-card race. west side, watching his neck veins Modern Warfare," so people
Lots of blood, but no knockout. Rockies Hold On, Deal Final know it's the same game you guys
The game on Wednesday night bulge as he screamed at me for Himself originally appeared on made a couple of years ago.
Blow in Heavyweight Bout With slamming his impending NBA Fanhouse - Jay Mariotti on Wed,
fit right in with the pattern, Giants originally appeared on Infinity Ward:... Huh. Do you
although the Giants are now comeback. 16 Sep 2009 22:11:00 EST . r e a l i z e t h a t w e h a v e a n
Fanhouse MLB Blog on Thu, 17 "I hang those [bleeping] articles Please see our terms for use of inexhaustible amount of cash, a
perilously close to being down for Sep 2009 02:36:00 EST . Please
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see our terms for use of feeds. them every morning,'' he said, scary amount of weaponry
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times in the ninth and put the Testarossa.
tying run on third, gave the Why the Grudges? MJ Being

Fan releases trailer for feature-length Sonic film


By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) got the know-how to make it Needlemouse.
Submitted at 9/17/2009 7:00:00 AM work. The project is currently in Continue reading Fan releases
the " storyboarding stage," with a trailer for feature-length Sonic
Sonic fans are notoriously planned crew of nearly 60 people. film
devoted to Sega's hedgehog The film will be hand-drawn Fan releases trailer for feature-
mascot, sticking with the u s i n g a p r o g r a m c a l l e d length Sonic film originally
franchise in spite of Sega's best ToonBoom, and will be animated appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17
efforts to run it into the ground. by an unnamed studio in Miami. Sep 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please
However, it's arguable that no one Kuta plans on releasing the film in see our terms for use of feeds.
is more dedicated to Sonic than 2011, in time for Sonic's 20th Read| Permalink| Email this|
Rich Kuta. Why? He's making a anniversary, for free. Granted, he Comments
feature-length Sonic film-- and may come into a pretty major copyright laws." We're going to grab our Sonic PJs
paying for it with his own money. hiccup, as he admits, " We do not Should Sega avoid slamming a and dust off our DVDs of SatAM
It sounds absurd; impossible, h a v e S E G A ' s e n d o r s e m e n t , C&D on Kuta and co., then this while we join the legions of Sonic
even. However, Kuta has recently permission, or authorization to do film may become one part of the nerds that are now anticipating
released a trailer to prove that he's so, and it is a clear violation of rebirth of the fastest thing alive. this film in addition to Project
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WII'S
continued from page 59
supply of night vision goggles
and, as of November 11th, all the
free time in the world?
Acti:... You know, we talked it
over --
IW: What, just right now?
Acti: Yeah, yeah, just right now,
just this second. And we decided
we should call it Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare: Reflex, just so
there's no confusion.
IW: Well, if you're sure.
Fin.
[Via CVG]
Wii's Call of Duty 4 now
Australia's turn to 'boycott' Left WB thinks Scribblenauts will dubbed 'Modern Warfare: Reflex'
originally appeared on Joystiq on
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST.
4 Dead 2 have 'Layton appeal' Please see our terms for use of
feeds.
By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) can turn this ban into a marketing
bullet point. The first game By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) argument until dropping this bon Read| Permalink| Email this|
Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:00:00 AM
received a MA15 rating, meaning Submitted at 9/17/2009 8:30:00 AM mot: "Many forum users are Comments
Gabe Newell may be going to Left 4 Dead 2 must have a totally saying the game is the biggest
Australia, but his latest game, Left noticeable and sequel-worthy Warner Bros. says it's counting incentive they've had to revisit
4 Dead 2, is not. The Australian increase in violence. Doesn't that on Scribblenauts to start a new their dormant DS in a long time."
g o v e r n m e n t h a s r e f u s e d warrant another $60 purchase (for puzzle franchise, getting a taste of So ... umm ... did they not know
classification to the upcoming those of you outside Australia)? the same success that a certain top P r o f e s s o r L a y t o n a n d t h e
zombie shooter's "realistic, [Thanks, Jake and Dai!] -hatted DS puzzler has enjoyed. Diabolical Box was out or what?
frenetic and unrelenting Australia's turn to 'boycott' Left "What Scribblenauts offers is WB thinks Scribblenauts will
violence." Because the Australian 4 Dead 2 originally appeared on something akin to Nintendo's have 'Layton appeal' originally
ratings system doesn't offer an Joystiq on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 Professor Layton - an addictive appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17
18+ rating for games, Left 4 Dead 06:00:00 EST. Please see our and challenging game that has Sep 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please
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upon this decision favorably, it manager Phil Lamb.
He seems to be making a logical

Crackdown 2 Zune HD (and other styles) available at Zune Store


By Alexander Sliwinski podcast, got folks in a tizzy when The "Xbox Series" features Crackdown 2 Zune HD (and
(Joystiq) he tweeted about the Crackdown Halo ODST, Gears of War 2 and other styles) available at Zune
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:30:00 AM 2 Zune HD. We got in touch with Forza 3, along with a few others. Store originally appeared on
Noonan, who let us know that this There doesn't appear to be an Joystiq on Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Microsoft's John Noonan, who is laser-etched model -- along with extra charge for the advertising 09:30:00 EST. Please see our
currently working on Crackdown many others sporting Xbox- fan appreciation, so the only thing terms for use of feeds.
2 and is co-host of Microsoft exclusive brands -- are available you'll pay for is the Zune -- Read| Permalink| Email this|
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Model Hot Seat: Regina


Feoktistova
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Have:"Red Bull."
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:42:12 PM
Favorite Part About Fashion
Spotted at: Michael Kors Week:“I like hanging out with my
Birthplace: Russia friends and the designers. It’s so
Age: 19 fun, you know? Because you’re
Review: Mario and Luigi: Fashion Week Hair Saver:“I use
shampoo and conditioner and a
always meeting new people.”
Least Favorite Part About
Bowser's Inside Story different leave-in spray every
time—I have a lot of stuff! My
Fashion Week:“Too many
appointments at one time! I’m
By David Hinkle (Joystiq) the series. hair gets really damaged during always rushing. Sometimes I
Submitted at 9/17/2009 9:00:00 AM Gallery: Mario and Luigi: Fashion Week. When it’s all over wake up at six o’clock and I don’t
Bowser's Inside Story (DS) I have to cut it two or three get home until two o’clock in the
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Continue reading Review: inches.” morning.”
Story doesn't put on airs about Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Fresh-Faced Secret:“I use Stay-Fit Secret:“I bike along the
itself. Up until now, the series has Story Shiseido’s face wash and West Side Highway in New York
been a collection of chuckle-filled Review: Mario and Luigi: moisturizer—I don’t remember City, where I live. When the Street Chic: New
titles, with light action and RPG Bowser's Inside Story originally the names of them—and I also use weather is cold, I go to the gym.”
elements designed to make the appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17 a Dior eye cream.” Post-Fashion Week Plans:“I’m York Fashion Week
game accessible to just about Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please Best Backstage Pastime:“I play going to go on vacation. I don’t By ELLE.com (ELLE News
everyone -- and this latest game is see our terms for use of feeds. games on my phone! Usually card know where, but maybe the Blog)
no different. It's plain and direct P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | games. Poker is my favorite. I Dominican Republic. Someplace Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:00:00 AM
in what it wants to be, but it's set Comments play on pokerstar.com. It’s my close to New York.”
apart from its predecessors in a favorite place to play!” —Emily Hebert Who: Camille of Childhood
deepening of the core aspects of Fashion Week Survival Must- Follow ELLE on Twitter. Flames
What: A slouchy sweater,
Datebook: 9.17.09 skinny jeans, and an artfully
draped tank are the perfect trio.
By blogeditor1 (Material the lamentations—you've still got Professional Football Wear: Forever 21 cardigan, T
Interest on Men.style.com) to come back tonight to check out Association—the precursor to by Alexander Wang tank, Tarket
Submitted at 9/17/2009 4:50:00 AM our coverage of the week's final today's NFL—was founded in sandals, BDG for Urban Outfitters
show, Tommy Hilfiger. Ohio. Fashion and football? What jeans
Five things worth knowing today - The reasons to visit Stockholm, can we say, we're men of many Photo by Kelly Stuart
- One of the many consolations one of Europe's most beautiful interests. Think you are Street Chic? E-
of fall, despite the summer's end? cities, are many. Today, they're - And today in 1931, the late, mail us your photo and you could
The return of great TV. First up: many +1: The Stockholm Beer & great Anne Bancroft was born. Or appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic
The Office, which begins its sixth Whiskey Festival—because, you should we say—no other Daily.
season tonight. know, as peanut butter is to jelly, introduction necessary—Mrs. Follow ELLE on Twitter.
- Speaking of endings, today's and leather to lace, so beer is to Robinson? See below.
also the last day of New York whiskey—begins today. MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Spring 2010 Fashion Week. Hold - Today in 1920, the American
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Around the Net In
Media: Universities Try
a Different Media
Strategy
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:58:58 PM

About three dozen of the nation's


top universities will start feeding
news about their scientific
discoveries directly to top news
sites on the Internet, rather than
going through traditional media
outlets. Princeton, Yale, Duke, the
Footwear Watch: Marc by Marc Jacobs University of Chicago, Stanford
and UC-Berkeley are among the
By blogeditor1 (Material few pairs of suede and leather low schools that are participating.
Interest on Men.style.com) -tops in neutral tones. As if even The universities have essentially
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:56:29 AM seeing the laces would be too formed their own nonprofit wire
much of a distraction, they were service, called Futurity, to provide
With the riotous colors and covered up with panels secured by
patterns on the runway at Marc by articles to Web sites such as
crisscrossing leather straps. Yahoo News, Google News,
Marc Jacobs yesterday, we were MATTHEW SCHNEIER Photos:
glad to see the shoes strike a more MySpace and Twitter. Yahoo will
Marcio Madeira include Futurity content with
restrained note—in particular, a
other news items from sources
like The Associated Press, New
York Times and San Jose
Mercury News. Google has
similarly said it will capture the
Futurity content for its news
Street Chic: New York Fashion Week section.
"Independent, objective
By ELLE.com (ELLE News Wear: Marc Jacobs pants, YSL coverage of what we are doing
Blog) heels has been declining at major news
Submitted at 9/16/2009 6:00:00 PM Photo by Kelly Stuart organizations, which no longer
Think you are Street Chic? E- have the resources," says Lisa
Who: Lauren Ale mail us your photo and you could Lapin, communications executive
What: Up your style quotient appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic at Stanford. In many cases,
with high-waisted jeans and leg- Daily. reporters covering medicine,
lengthening platforms. Follow ELLE on Twitter. space and environmental issues
have taken buyouts or been laid
Street Chic: New York Fashion Week off at newspapers and TV outlets
By ELLE.com (ELLE News splash of color to a black Daily. across the nation, she notes.
Blog) ensemble. Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:30:00 PM Wear: Stella McCartney bag,
dress from own line
Who: Vika Gazinskaya Photo by Kelly Stuart mail us your photo and you could
What: Turquoise pumps add a Think you are Street Chic? E- appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic
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The Bill Clinton Tapes


By stylemens (GQ: The historic eight years. Branch sat on what a tremendous
Editors) down on the sprawling porch of commitment that meant for him.
Submitted at 9/16/2009 1:30:08 PM his Victorian home in Baltimore Because the only time he could fit
to discuss the project, the me in was when he was tired.
A Q&A with Taylor Branch, experience, and the book.— WIL There were stunning moments; I
author of 'The Clinton Tapes' S. HYLTON would be talking to him late at
It has been nearly forty years Let’s start in the fall of 1992. night and his eyes would go up,
since three young Democratic Out of nowhere, the president- just roll back in his head. He
activists named Bill Clinton, elect calls you up and invites you would fall asleep in the middle of
Hillary Rodham, and Taylor to a dinner party at Katherine a sentence.
Branch moved into a small Graham’s house. What happened? At the end of each session,
apartment together in Austin, It was bizarre. When we were sometimes late at night or even
Texas, to wage a presidential kids, we were buddies down in early the next morning, you would
campaign for George McGovern. Texas, trying to get McGovern drive home to Baltimore and talk
In the decades since, the Clintons elected. We lived together, but I into a tape recorder the whole
have taken that political fire to the hadn’t seen him in twenty years, time. It must have been
center of American political life, and I had no idea why he asked exhausting for you as well.
while Branch has chosen a quieter me to dinner. I had kind of I would do those dictations until
course, writing three definitive reprocessed him out of my I dropped. I would sit here outside
volumes on the life of Dr. Martin friendship, into being a politician. the house and dictate notes until I
Luther King Jr. and winning both This is a guy who’s run off to run fell asleep in the truck. Because I
the Pulitzer Prize and a for Congress in Arkansas, when felt that it was a significant
MacArthur “genius” grant. Yet at all the rest of us were very experience that I should preserve.
the height of Bill Clinton’s alienated, and had this pile-driver But on the tapes, there are a few
ascent—for the full eight years of political career, and so I had times where it’s amazing: I would
the presidency—the historian and reprogrammed him away from yawn involuntarily four times a
the politician reunited for a secret somebody that you could know as minute! Because my workday on
project, hidden from even a regular person. This is a the King books always started at
Clinton’s closest aides. Meeting president of the United States! He five in the morning, and
late at night and sometimes may just be all greed and sometimes I wouldn’t know I was
through the night, Clinton and selfishness. I was definitely going to go down to the White
Branch embarked on a series of tamping down my expectations. House until six at night. They
seventy-nine conversations about Had you been a supporter in the been Richard Nixon or George W. working all night, then being would call up and say, “Can you
politics, the presidents, the campaign? Bush, I would have been floored onstage with no seat or anything, come down at eight?” And I’d
Whitewater investigation, and No! I thought his “forgotten that he was thinking about that just crouched down. And after the scramble and go down there, have
yes, even Monica—recording middle class” sounded like already. This guy who hadn’t parade, he said, “Come on, let’s this session with him, and it’d be
every word for posterity. Acutely Nixon’s “silent majority.” It was a even taken office yet is thinking go to the White House!” So it was two o’clock in the morning, and
aware that their tapes could be formula—part of being a member about raw material for historians just the three of us walking in, he I’d be driving and dictating, then
subpoenaed at any moment and of this species called “politician.” fifty years later. and Hillary and me! I mean, he wake up the next morning again.
desperate to avoid making them But within twenty seconds, I Within weeks, you were swept literally didn’t know where the But having that drive home to
public, Clinton squirreled away completely reconnected with him. u p i n a w h i r l w i n d w i t h Lincoln Bedroom was. We were Baltimore for dictation was a
the cassettes in his sock drawer He just knocked me over him—staying up all night to write wandering around, poking in forced habit that turned out to be
and has never spoken of them nor intellectually. He comes up and the inaugural address, being closets. very good.
made them public. But this out of the blue asks me all these onstage during the ceremony, and How did you decide to begin The level of detail in your
month, Branch releases a 670- questions about historic then actually entering the White recording interviews for history? conversations is overwhelming.
page mammoth tome, The Clinton preservation, saying, “I read your House for the first time with Bill He was angling to get me to You discuss the most minute
Tapes, that mines those footnotes, and I want to make sure and Hillary. move into the White House as foreign-policy details, political
conversations and delves into there are things like that for The day before, I thought I was house historian. But I responded calculations. Did you need to
Clinton’s presidency and state of historians in fifty years.” Even if I going down to hear a final reading more to the notion of preserving
mind through a tumultuous and hadn’t known him, even if it had of the inaugural and wound up his thoughts. I only realized later
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expand your reading habits to And he paid for it, and maybe it I couldn’t communicate with was that it was a real lapse of you do that, we’re leaving.” I
keep up with him? was a mistake, because it certainly people, because I felt like I was in feeling sorry for himself. He said didn’t do anything. I was
Not really, because I actually hurt him in the 1994 a different galaxy. I just dropped it had to do with politics. Now, paralyzed. And in retrospect, if
didn’t know a lot of that stuff! I congressional elections. But he out. I didn’t see a way of fighting most people think that these Clinton was cynical about
would just set a subject out there did stick to his guns, as it were. it that didn’t endanger the project. compulsions have to do with more women, I would think he would
and say, “This seems to be a He took risks. On I couldn’t challenge my friend [ fundamental human things. I have been more like that guy.
significant topic.” I didn’t know Haiti—restoring Aristide. I would Washington Post critic] Jon don’t know whether that’s true. Now, maybe he developed it later.
the background and the hear him say it: “This is going to Yardley, who would sit around All I know is that he said it I really don’t know.
parameters; he would explain hurt my presidency.” Or, “I could and bitch and moan about happened when he thought he was It was interesting to read your
those. And sometimes I would set go down the tubes for this.” Clinton: “He’s no good, he doing a good job and got sucker descriptions of Bill and Hillary.
a subject out there and he would In all the Kennedy and Johnson doesn’t care about anything, he punched. I didn’t read the Halfway through the
give me what was already in The tapes you’ve listened to, do you doesn’t believe in anything.” I Lewinsky stuff until I was impeachment trial, the doorman at
New York Times. Sometimes he hear the same resolve? couldn’t say, “Jon, I know that’s working on the book. It was so the White House refused to let
would say, “We’re going to In some ways, Kennedy was not true.” I couldn’t start that tawdry. It was depressing to me. you in because they were making
appeal. End of story.” And we’d just the opposite. People would conversation, because the only It’s fervid and tormented and out in a hallway.
move on. idealize him, but then on the way I could combat it would be to brief. There were two bookends to Well, that only happened once. I
The Bill Clinton in this book is tapes, you hear him trying to kill say, “I’ve been around Clinton a it: He had these trysts with her don’t know if their relationship is
very different than the version we Castro and all this other stuff. It’s lot, and my experience is totally during the shutdown and then romantic, but it’s not cold.
came to know in the press. You disillusioning. And Johnson does different.” And then some story banished her to the Pentagon or Sometimes when I tell people that
describe a guy who was steadfast the Civil Rights bill, but then he would come out that he had these wherever the hell she went, and they finish each other’s sentences,
and idealistic, very different from does the Vietnam War—and you tapes, and they would get then she came back in that period people say, “That’s because it’s a
the wishy-washy, flip-flopping hear them saying essentially, “We subpoenaed. So I just basically right after the ’96 election, when power alliance.” Like a medieval
caricature who let Dick Morris know this is not going to work, had to be quiet and not talk to he thought [the Whitewater marriage between the prince of
tell him what to do. but we’re going to do it anyway.” people. investigation] was going to go Spain and the queen of Austria.
It was almost like a credential Then Nixon promises to end the There are several parallels away and it didn’t. He says he But there’s warmth there. There’s
for old liberals to look down on war, and four years later the war between Clinton and Martin was feeling sorry for himself communion. They would hold
Clinton, because if you looked is still going. Then you have Luther King—both are southern, because of what was going on in hands. How much eroticism is in
down on Clinton, you could say, Watergate. So it was kind of like same generation, men of faith, politics, and that he just lost it. there, I have no idea. But it was
“He’s betrayed liberalism,” but we had this post–World War II orators. But then there’s adultery. That’s what he said. striking.
you didn’t have to uphold optimism about politics that was How did you process that? Was he a Lothario in 1972? Have you shown them the
anything yourself. All you had to yanked out of our generation by Very painfully. I can’t say I’ve No, and I was sharing an book?
do was talk about what a shit he hard experience. In some ways, got any great answers. I think apartment with he and Hillary. I I just took two copies up to
was or what a sellout he was and Hillary and I were more typical of King got something good out of had just separated from my wife, Chappaqua last week. Hillary has
you could get this cheap our generation than Bill. We were it, in a perverse way. He was had virtually no social life, and it in Africa now, and he’s been off
credential. bruised and disillusioned with driven to seek penance by public they were all over each other. The on this North Korea thing. But he
Meanwhile, you’re seeing this politics. We had more in common sacrifice for private failings. He only story was that we were did call. He’s called a couple of
guy whose face is red with with each other politically than would preach about the mystery having a hard time getting this times to fuss about things. But he
allergies, he’s so tired that his either of us had with Bill. He of evil: Why could we not cast out woman politician to endorse has enormous tolerance for honest
eyes are rolling back in his seemed to be on automatic pilot: this demon? But you know, with McGovern, and the McGovern criticism. I think he can take it
head.… He’s the last fighting “I’m going to run for office!” At Clinton, I just had this assumption campaign sent in a guy who had raw, as long as he doesn’t detect
baby boomer. the time, I didn’t connect that to that when you hear all this, some worked for Jack Kennedy. So he that it’s done for malice. I was
Well, yeah. For example, I idealism. I connected it to of it’s true. I assumed that he had met her, and came back and said, trying to show him the way he
admire Obama greatly, but if you ambition. The notion that it came resolved to make it true no longer. “She just needs to get laid. I know really is, and I think he respects
compare Clinton and Obama on from a sense of idealism didn’t Which is pretty much what King just the guy.” We were stunned. that.
the National Rifle Association, rear up for me until I was able to did. He resolved openly to his And then we realized he was wil s. hylton is a gq
Obama said, “It’s not worth it.” watch him in the White House, aides, “There’s too much at stake serious! He went to the phone to correspondent.
Right from the get-go. “You can’t seeing why he would do things. here. I’ve got to stop this.” And call this guy in Boston and bring
win.” And Clinton was going after How did you contain that for some of the greatest regret in him down to Texas! And Clinton
the NRA and assault weapons and eight years, listening to people say King’s life was that he couldn’t took the phone from him and said,
cop-killer bullets the whole time. the opposite about him? do it. With Clinton, what he said “We’re not gonna do that, and if
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Around the Net In
Swayze In Excelsis: A Remembrance Media: 'WSJ' to Launch
Online Video News Hub
By stylemens (GQ: The howl, "Your ass is MINE, boy!"
Editors) before having at him. A movie in (MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/16/2009 11:43:48 AM which heterosexual sex was either Submitted at 9/16/2009 7:57:29 PM
punishing (the remarkably
Some say the greatness lay in the unpleasant sequence in which Today, The Wall Street Journal
oxymoronic premise of its hero: Swayze belied his assertion that is unveiling The News Hub, a live
Dalton, "legendary bouncer." (The pain don't hurt by pummel- video series, which will be
idea being that when he walked fucking Kelly Lynch against a streamed every weekday at 8:30
into a bar, any bar, he was known, rough-hewn stone wall) or a.m. and 4:00 p.m. It will run
and every head turned, because, punished (the scene in which across the company's digital
yeah, he was *THAT GOOD*.) A Swayze came upon a bouncer dog network, including WSJ.com,
legendary bouncer who, still more -humping what the man had Barrons.com, Marketwatch.com,
oxymoronically, came with a dubbed his "Saturday night thing" Dow Jones Newswires and
philosophy degree from NYU and in the broom closet and fired him AllThingsD.com.
a penchant for such Zen for it). A movie in which one of The morning edition of the
pronouncements as "Pain don't Wesley's boys got Dalton in a video series is being hosted by
hurt" and "Nobody ever wins a seemingly unbreakable headlock Journal economic reporter Kelly
fight." A legendary bouncer who, and hissed, "I used to fuck guys Evans and focuses on the day's
like Bono or Sting or Attila, like you in PRISON!" A movie in key economic news. The
needed no surname. which Dalton, after breaking the afternoon edition is hosted by
Some say the greatness lay in its prison-fucker's headlock and Dow Jones Newswires columnist
villain, the evil small-town ripping his neck out, swivel- Simon Constable and WSJ.com
overlord, Brad Wesley (Ben kicked him into a lake—and was staffer Kelsey Hubbard and
Gazzara), who dressed like Tom response. the eyeballs after closing," into a clearly sporting an erection (or at covers business news.
Wolfe and whose pastimes TRAINEE BOUNCER: What if safe and happy place. But in the least a cod piece) as he did so. The Journal is competing for
included frightening horses with somebody calls my mama a end, the element that made Patrick What's that, you say? Top Gun online eyeballs with CNBC and
his helicopter and smiling whore? Swayze's Road House truly great is the homoerotically superior several other fledgling live series.
beatifically as his minions DALTON: Is she? was the homoeroticism that film? Granted, that film, like For example, last February,
screamed monster trucks over the Or: throbbed with third-rail intensity Road House, was uncircumspect sibling Fox Business Network
merchandise of uncooperative HOT MEDIC: Do you always through its every cel. Here it is: in its glorification of oiled male introduced a one-hour daily Web
local car salesmen. carry your medical records around R o a d H o u s e w a s — a n d torsi. (The famous volleyball series. Dow Jones executives say
Some say its greatness lay in the with you? remains—the most leeringly, scene, soundtracked by Kenny they are betting on their
screenplay. To wit: DALTON: Saves time. queasily, triumphantly gay action Loggins' piping-high yawpings company's journalistic reputation
AWED FEMALE BARFLY: HOT MEDIC:…What [is your film of all time. about "playin' with the boys!") to help the new series stand out.
You got a name? degree] in? This was a movie in which But in the prolonged sequence in
DALTON: Yeah. DALTON: Philosophy…man's ostensibly straight men greedily which Swayze—his rippling,
Or: search for faith. That sort of shit. eyed Dalton from head to toe and hairless, oiled torso glistening in
DALTON: If somebody gets in ***** proclaimed, "I heard you had balls dawn light—performed slow-mo
your face and calls you a There was greatness in each of big enough to come in a DUMP t'ai chi while Ben Gazarra
c o c k s u c k e r … b e these elements, yes there was, and TRUCK!" and "I've always watched smirkingly, lovingly,
*nice*…remember that it's a job. in the very notion of a kind of Jedi wanted to *try* you" and "I through binoculars, Road House
It's nothing personal. bouncer brought from out of town thought you'd be…*bigger*" and achieved something Top Gun
TRAINEE BOUNCER: Being to turn a wretched hive of scum "I see you've found my trophy never could: pure creaminess.—
called a cocksucker isn't personal? and villainy like the Double room...the only thing that's andrew corsello
DALTON: No. It's two nouns Deuce bar, "where they sweep up missing is your ASS!"—and then
combined to elicit a prescribed
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GQ Hits ATP New York Marketing Budgets
Cutting Customer
By stylemens (GQ: The backstage fist-pumping in delight
Editors) during their 45-minute set of acid- Incentives
Submitted at 9/16/2009 8:46:49 AM rock goodness. Take a look at
their performance of "New Age" (MediaPost | Media News)
Yes, festivals like Coachella, for more proof. Submitted at 9/17/2009 6:16:00 AM

Bonnaroo, and SXSW attract The rest of the evening,


legions of fans and some of Wayfarer-wearing cool kids ate According to the 2009 Promo
music's biggest names year after free Ninja Turtle ice cream bars, Premiums and Incentives survey
year. But there's something to be drank Bud, and played table from Promo Magazine, 38.6% of
said for New York's yearly three- tennis in anticipation of one of the the companies polled in this year's
day All Tomorrow's Party festival's headlining acts, Animal survey said they offer a
festival, which holds a couple Collective, who started promptly promotional incentive program to
thousand folks rather than the on schedule at 12:15. Their show, customers or sales prospects,
150,000 that packed into this mostly songs from their most down slightly from the 42.1%
year's Coachella. Held in the recent Merriweather Post Pavilion who ran such programs last year.
Catskills (about two hours from album, was no different than their That slippage in promotional
Manhattan) at Monticello's others, in that it was, simply put, program offerings was echoed
Kutschers Country Club—a the kind of experience that through three of the four industry
kitschy, '70s-style joint complete reminds you why you're verticals tracked in the survey:
with an indoor pool, a lake, and compelled to see live music in the • 48.6% of goods manufacturers
multiple bars—ATP New York first place. There are no polled in 2008 ran a customer
gathers indie rock's biggest wallflowers. No crossed-arms. No incentive program, but this year,
heavyweights and most promising posturing. Just bands of folks, only 42.4% of those respondents
newcomers to play shows in arms in the air, moving like said the same. (9% in this
banquet halls so intimate they feel there's no tomorrow to some of category "do not know")
a little like the coolest prom ever. the noisiest, mind-rattlingly good • Retailers offering customer
We stopped by on Saturday to music you could hope for. And incentives declined to 50% of
witness the fuss first-hand and it around 1:30, as glowsticks respondents this year from 52.9%
was an all-out sensory overload. predates his Illinois success. Criterion screenings of cultish streamed through the air during in the last survey
The day was ushered in by the Instead of rocking out with a full film classics If… and Paris, their final song, "Fireworks," we, • Marketing agencies offering
crooning of indie heartthrob orchestra and that massive set of Texas, and performances by dead tired and sufficiently drunk, such programs slid from 34.3% in
Sufjan Stevens—he of the wings he's infamous for, he Black Dice, the Melvins, and one gave a few last hollers before 2008 to 31.9% this year
admittedly impossible vow to delivered a restrained, mostly of our latest favorites around the loading out and heading home for • Providers of branded services
release an album inspired by acoustic set with the help of three office, Sleepy Sun, whose debut some shut eye. showed a slight increase in
every state and likely the most bandmates, all dressed in over- album Embrace we urge you to A few days later, our ears are customer incentives in this year's
earnest act on the hipster- sized tie-dye tees from a local gift download right now. It's moody, still ringing a little, but we're all survey, up to 50% from 47.5%
endorsed music scene—who shop. sexy, slightly ominous, and totally the better for it. And we'll be last year.
nursed a room full of hangovers In the afternoon and early worth the $7.92 iTunes will down for it again this time next 60% of those with no current
from the previous night's Feelies evening, attendees took breaks charge you, but don't just take our year, if the party's still on.— incentive program for customers
and Drones performances with the f r o m t h e i r m i d - d a y n a p s , word for it. Wayne Coyne from andrew richdale said they had no plans to offer one
entirety of his Seven Swans, a afternoon swims, and lakeside The Flaming Lips—who curated in the next year, says the report.
banjo-strummin' folk album that b e e r s t o c h e c k o u t o n - s i t e t h e t h r e e - d a y e v e n t — s t o o d 17% would launch a premium
program, and 22% are undecided.
A vertical look at those who say
they'll institute such a program in
the coming year shows that goods
manufacturers dominate (25%),
followed by retailers (21.4%).

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The largest proportion of only 9.5% said the same this year dining and entertainment • Marketing agencies were off
respondents to this year's Promo • Retailers expecting to keep vouchers and certificates turned more than half, declining to
P&I Survey (15.5%) said they promotional spending below out to be the second most popular 23.3% this year from 54.2% in
expect to spend less than $5,000 $5,000 grew from 16.7% in the reward format, with just more 2008
on customer promotions this year, 2008 poll to 35.7% this year than 10% of the respondents • Premiums handed out at retail
comparable to last year's result of More than 50% of respondents naming them as their preferred saw an increase of almost five
13.6%. However, while the 2008 answered that they "do not know" form of customer incentive. percentage points
P&I Survey found only 6.4% how much their companies will Hard cash dropped far down in 51.8% of respondents cited
forecasting $5,000 to $24,999 for spend on customer incentives this popularity as a premium, with incremental sales as their measure
premiums, this year the $5,000 to year, higher than the proportion in only 10% of those polled dolling of return on investment from their
$24,999 category almost doubled past surveys who were unable to out money as an incentive, off customer incentive programs, off
to 11.8%. project spending. Possibly from the 15.4% who opted for from the 60.4% last year who
And marketers expecting to indicating that marketers are dollars in 2008. Gift certificates, looked to sales growth to validate
spend $25,000 to $99,999 more keeping the door open for travel, and refillable stored value their premium spending. In the
than doubled to 6.4%, equal to the incentives launched on the fly as cards remained fairly steady. place of incremental sales as a
percentage who expect to spend needed to stimulate business Last year, 44% of respondents measure of promotional
nothing this year. during the second half of 2009, said that they hand out premiums performance, long-term or
Looking at 2009 spending posits the report. at events or on marketing tour lifetime value increased slightly to
projections by verticals: Poll respondents were less campaigns, while only 25% of 27.3%.
• Last year 17.6% of goods optimistic than a year ago about those brands polled said they The number of marketers polled
manufacturers surveyed said they what will happen to incentive distribute premiums in that way, who report incentive programs
expected to spend $100,000 to spending in 2010. This year about The apparent pullback from live within their own companies has
$249,000 on customer incentives, a third said they expect their events as distribution channels dropped from about one-quarter
while 5.9% anticipated spending budgets for customer premiums to plays out across the vertical last year to one-fifth this time.
$25,000 to $99,999. grow, less than the 38.5% who segments in this year's poll. And only about 10% of the
• This year only 7.1% of goods foresaw budget growth in the • Goods manufacturers said last holdouts say they plan to launch a
makers say they will spend the 2008 poll. The numbers who year that 41.2% of them handed workplace rewards program in the
higher amount, while 14.3% expect budgets to stay flat year to out premiums at these events; this coming year. Notably, notes the
expect to keep their premium year were almost identical. But year, that proportion is only study, more marketers say their
spending in the lower bracket those who expect to spend less on 28.6% companies are using incremental
• Manufacturers predicting customer premiums in 2010 • Service providers handing out productivity and employee
premium spending of less than increased to 17.3% of the premiums through events and attitude surveys as gauges for the
$5,000 grew from 11.7% in last response group, from 7.7% in the tours dropped from 52.6% last impact of their internal incentive
year's survey to 21.4% this time last survey. year to 28.6% programs.
around Gift cards rank as the top • Retailers using events and tours For more information about the
• In 2008, 15.8% of service giveaway among almost one- to incentivize customers fell from study, please visit Promo
providers polled said they would fourth of respondents, about the 38.9% in 2008 to 14.3% in this Magazine here.
spend $5,000 to $24,999; this year same proportion as in 2008. But year's study
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Online Media Daily: Dave Morgan


Discovers TV, Wants To Help
Viewers, Programmers Do The Same
(MediaPost | Media News) estimated that the number of TV the banner ad of 1996."
Submitted at 9/17/2009 5:30:16 AM programming options is growing Morgan, who is a regular
"five times faster" than the contributor to MediaPost's
Dave Morgan, who helped spark "attention" viewers pay to the "Online Spin Board," and will
a revolution in behaviorally-based medium. host next week's OMMA Global
audience targeting online, went "It is virtually, if not absolutely conference in New York, said a
public Wednesday with his plans impossible for viewers to know "team of scientists" working for
to do something similar for all of the programming that is Simulmedia have spent the past
television. Morgan, who sold available for them today to "eight to nine months" analyzing
pioneering behavioral targeting enjoy," Morgan said, equating aggregate set-top TV viewing
firm Tacoda to AOL in 2007 for television's "discovery" problem data, and have developed methods
$275 million, told TV and with what happened with the for dramatically improving the
advertising executives attending Internet's explosion of content way TV programmers target
one of MPG's Collaborative during the 1990s. potential viewers with their promo
Alliance meetings in New York Morgan noted that the average spots.
how his new venture Simulmedia, clickthrough rate for an online He said on-air promos currently
will help programmers, banner was a relatively healthy are the primary way that
distributors, advertisers and, 4% in 1996, and said that consumers currently decide what
ultimately, viewers, manage an applying enhanced targeting programs they are going to watch,
ultra fragmented television techniques to on-air promo spots and that if they are not exposed to
marketplace. for TV programs can now a promo, it is unlikely they will
"All you have to do is watch generate conversion rates that are watch a show. Based on
television to know that it has a similar or better than that. Simulmedia's current targeting
discovery problem," Morgan said, "On-air program promotions techniques, Morgan said TV
describing the phenomenon as presented to people on the basis of programmers generate an average
"eye-glazing," and asserting, "this general interest today is delivering 62% life in the response rate of
problem is getting worse, not a response rate of about 4% or "core" vs. non-core audiences.
better." sometimes as much as 10%,"
At its current rate of Morgan said. "It's not like the
"fragmentation," Morgan banner ad of 1996. It's better than

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