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The First Draft: US healthcare reform as a tale of

two cities
By David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:57:37 AM
it was the spring of hope, it

was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had
nothing before us, we were all
going direct to heaven, we were
all going direct the other way
Charles Dickens never met U.S.
senators Chuck Schumer of New
York and Kay Bailey Hutchison
of Texas. But he may have
inadvertently captured the
partisan spirit of the U.S.
healthcare reform debate when he
published his novel, A Tale of
Two Cities, with its famous
introduction, 150 years ago.
Democrat Chuck and
Republican Kay made clear on
NBCs Today show how many
in their respective parties see the
sweeping overhaul legislation
that reached the U.S. Senate floor
over the weekend. And by the
sound of things, Washington
could be two different cities.
Chuck seemed to present
healthcare reform as a
vehicle for economic salvation:
The future of the country
depends on getting something
done or the government will go
broke, private businesses will go
broke and people will go broke.
Or could reform lead in that
other direction?
Heres Kay: We are in a jobless
situation in our country, an
economic crisis. You are going to

put taxes and mandates on
business that are going to make
that situation even worse. One in
10 people in America today do
not have a job. Now youre
putting mandates and taxes on
every individual who doesnt
have healthcare and every
business that we want to ask to
hire people. And yet youre
putting taxes and mandates on

them that makes this
unaffordable. This is a terrible
idea at this time.
Of course, partisan differences
will mean little if Democrats can
retain the same 60-vote,
Republican-filibuster-proof sense
of community that got the bill to
the floor in the first place.
Chuck seems confident: We
will come together for this
reason. The healthcare system is
broken in this sense: Medicare
will be broke in seven years,
private insurance doubles every
six years (and) tens of millions
will lose it. If we dont do
anything, that is the worst
situation. And we have a good
bill that cuts costs, reduces the
deficit and covers more people.
Either way, its bound to be
one dickens of a debate.
Photo credits: Reuters/Chip East
(Schumer); Reuters/Jonathan
Ernst (Hutchison)
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Ringz: First (free)

Android app with
in-app purchase
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:20:31 AM
Apple made it possible for

iPhone developers to offer in-app
purchase five weeks ago, an
option Android devs currently
don't have. But now Shanghaibased mobile technology
company Urbian found a workaround to enable in-app purchase,
saying they're the first developers
that did. The app in question is
Ringz, a puzzle game that's
available for free on the Android
market (the iPhone version is in
review by the way).
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The sacred social contract | Adrian Tippetts

By Adrian Tippetts (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:01:36 AM
Loving couples should have

access to marriage, regardless of
their sexuality: this is one
institution that has never been
static
Tom Freeman and Katherine
Doyle, from Holloway, London,
hope to make history tomorrow
morning by becoming the first
straight couple to apply for a civil
partnership in Britain. Their
application is a protest against
discriminatory UK laws that
segregate couples by their
sexuality, banning same-sex
couples from marrying and
heterosexual couples from
forming civil partnerships.
The 2005 law enabling civil
partnerships was a milestone, as
it finally gave legal recognition
to gay and lesbian relationships.
But getting it through parliament
required a deal to be struck with
religious and conservative
lobbyists: "Call it what you like,
just don't call it marriage!"
While the legislation gave gay
couples almost the same rights as
straight couples, it reinforced
separation and exclusion and
legitimised differential treatment
on account of sexual orientation.
It also attacked the faith of
religious gay couples by denying
them the right to include any
religious content in the

ceremony.
It may sound absurd to complain
about something as seemingly
trivial as the official name of a
relationship. After all, a rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet. It hardly affects the
quality of life, so why make such
a fuss?
But we attach meaning and value
to such names. Society generally
considers marriage to be the gold
standard relationship; anything
else is counterfeit. While this
view is arguably unfair, it is
equally unjust to decree that gay
people, no matter how
committed, faithful or enduring
their relationships may be, are
unable to attain this standard. As
a result, this legislation denied
the one benefit to gay people that
is cherished above all: social
acceptance.
The arguments against gay
marriage are flimsy.
Traditionalists argue that
marriage is a sacred institution,
which can only be entered into by
couples with complementary,
rather than matching genitalia.
This is the way it has always
been. But just because that
institution has served society so
well, it is a fallacy to suggest that
heterosexual marriages are
devalued by the existence of gay
marriages.
First, marriage has never been a
static institution. In Biblical
times, women were regarded as

possessions. Historically,
polygamy was the norm, even
from a Biblical perspective. In
the book of Genesis, for instance,
Jacob, the father of all Israel, had
two wives, and another two
sexual partners. Abraham was
richly rewarded for pimping his
wife (who also happened to be
his cousin) to the Pharoah.
Marriage transformed from a
patriarchal system to secure
property rites, to an egalitarian
one based on love and
commitment. The definition has
evolved, in tandem with our ideal
of morality, and we should be
thankful for this.
Another misconception is that
marriage is a special institution
for bringing children into the
world. Yet we are happy to
celebrate to unions of those who
are too old, infertile or simply
unwilling to have children.
Furthermore, ever more same-sex
couples have children of their
own, and make excellent parents,
too.
It is ironic that the greatest
obstacle in the fight for marriage
comes from religious quarters,
especially the Church of
England, which owes its
existence to Henry VIII's serial
womanising. Even so, there is no
need to force churches to hold
gay weddings against their will.
Religious institutions should be
able to allow or deny gay
marriages according to their

interpretation. The church is
welcome to its own view of
morality, but that definition must
stay within the church gate and
not be imposed on the rest of
society.
The current divisive law no more
than tolerates gays and lesbians.
To create a cohesive society,
government should be promoting
wellbeing, not determining the
value of personal relationships.
Research clearly shows that
people in stable, committed
relationships are happier,
healthier, wealthier, more
productive and less likely to
place demands on the state.
Marriage is not just a contract of
rights and responsibilities
between two people. The contract
also involves a relationship
between the couple and the rest
of the community. We are all
social animals, and society's
wellbeing depends on everyone's
mutual support and participation.
That is why, on wedding days,
we invite almost everyone who is
special to us in our lives.
Regardless of our orientation, we
depend not on their tolerance, but
on their approval, their
acceptance and encouragement.
Our relationships define us, and
they should be recognised for
their true value. For that reason
especially, all couples, regardless
of sexuality, deserve equal access
to the most sacred of institutions.
In reality, gay people have been

undermining institution of "civil
partnership" from day one.
Practically all gay couples in
civil partnerships call themselves
married phrases like "civilly
partnered" or "just partnered"
sound ridiculous.
The best solution is to let all
couples decide the type of
partnership that is suitable for
them. If people wish to not to call
their relationship "marriage" it is
for no one else to judge. But
everyone in society should have
the right to aspire to it if they so
wish. Rather than devaluing an
institution, it would be a great
step towards creating the kind of
society which values inclusion
and solidarity, instead of
division, prejudice and exclusion.
Therefore, I say to Gordon
Brown: "Tear down this
imaginary wall!"
As for the couple in question,
I'm buying them a beer, and so
should the nation.
Marriage
Gay rights
Law
Adrian Tippetts
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About medical malpractice | Michael Tomasky

By Michael Tomasky (World
When Barack Obama informed

congressional Republicans last
month that he would support a
controversial parliamentary move
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:46:31 AM
to protect health-care reform
There's a lot of dispute about from a filibuster in the Senate,
whether "medmal" reform really they were furious. That meant the
produces significant cost control. bill could pass with a simple
I'm told that in Michigan, where majority of 51 votes, eliminating
these reforms are law, it hasn't the need for any GOP support.
really changed much. Last Where, they demanded, was the
month, at the request of Orrin bipartisanship the President had
Hatch, the CBO issued a report promised? So, right there in the
o n e s t i m a t e d s a v i n g s o f a Cabinet Room, the President put
medmal reform package that a proposal on the table, according
would cap real damages at to two people who were present.
$250,000 and punitive damages Obama said he was willing to
a t $ 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 , a m o n g o t h e r curb malpractice awards, a move
provisions. Result: a savings of long sought by Republicans that
$54 billion over 10 years, $41 i s c e r t a i n t o b r i n g s t r o n g
billion of that from savings and opposition from the trial lawyers
$13 billion from increased who fund the Democratic Party.
revenues.
What, he wanted to know, did
That's hardly nirvana. But it's not the Republicans have to offer in
nothing, either. Those are awfully return? Nothing, it turned out.
low damage figures, though, Republicans were unprepared to
especially the punitive number. make any concessions, if they
It's about nine years of an had any to make.
average US wage, maybe 10. If There's pretty clearly no reason
s o m e o n e h a s t r u l y b e e n to think the Senate Republicans
incapacitated to the point that she would be any different. They're
can't work anymore, is that really just voting no, and that's all there
a fair number?
is to it, and they've known from
But alas, substance isn't the the beginning they're voting no.
problem here. The following is Obama could probably push the
from a piece that appeared way recent House GOP alternative bill
back in May by Time magazine's word-for-word, and they'd be
excellent Karen Tumulty:
against it because he put his
name it. That's where we are. If

you don't think that's where we
are, I'm sorry to say you're being
delusional.
Nevertheless, I continue to
believe it might make political
sense for Obama to insist on a
more modest medmal package.
It's not aimed at the Republicans.
They're hopeless. I mean, it
might help get him Snowe, but
no one else.
To me, medmal inclusion would
be aimed at the media and all the
officially nonpartisan close
observers of this process. It
would give the Democrats high
and dry rock to stand on in the
coming p.r. war over cost
control. Democrats are already
taking on unions (taxing the
Cadillac plans). If they do this,
and take on trial lawyers, they
can say: look, we're taking on
two of our most valued
constituencies here for the sake
of the national interest. An
argument like that might
persuade the Broders of the
world, and it will be important to
get them on board to the extent
possible.
Speaking of Broder, I see some
of you mentioned his column
over the weekend. It was
misleading about cost. He took
spending into account but not
revenues. Ezra sliced and dices it
here. The poll he cites does

present a problem for reform, in
that it shows that few people
believe the government is
capable of spending money that
will in the long run save money.
Liberals hate Broder, and while I
have real respect for his overall
career, I would say this. He pines
for the days when legislators
really did work across party lines
from time to time to do big
things. As I've written several
times, so do I.
The problem with Broder's
analysis is that, at least to my
reading, he blames both parties
equally for our current rot. It's
simply objectively wrong. The
Democrats aren't blameless by
any means. They play games too,
on judgeships and things. But the
permanent campaign culture of
Capitol Hill, the politics-aswarfare-by-other-means
mentality, is something the GOP
is at least three-quarters
responsible for.
US healthcare
US Congress
United States
Michael Tomasky
Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious

By Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
A n e w i P h o n e w o r m i s unlike the previous one, is

impacting jailbroken iPhones and extremely serious.
iPod Touch devices. The threat, Originally posted at The Digital
Home
Options Update: JP
Morgan volatility
near 15-month lows
By Paul Foster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: JPMorgan Chase

(JPM), Options
JP Morgan(NYSE: JPM) closed
at $42.46. December option
implied volatility is at 39;
December is at 37; below its 26week average of 44, according to
Track Data, suggesting
decreasing price movement.
UltraShort Financials
ProShares(NYSE: SKF) is an
exchange-traded fund seeking
daily investment results that
correspond to twice (200%) the
inverse (opposite) of the daily
performance of the Dow Jones
U.S. Financials Index. SKF is
recently down 59 cents to $24.12
in pre-open trading. Overall
option implied volatility of 62 is
below its 26-week average of 73,
according to Track Data,
suggesting decreasing price
movement.
Option Update is provided by
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High School Musical gets Chinese remake

By Tania Branigan, Esther
Addley (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
plans for a theme park in

Shanghai.
High School Musical, the first
film in the series, was launched
as a made-for-TV movie by
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:50:59 AM
Disney in January 2006 and has
Disney co-production said to be been seen by an estimated 225
inspired by original High School million viewers in about 100
Musical, rather than a direct countries and in more than 30
translation
languages. It has spawned two
One has millions of devoted successful sequels and a vast
adherents, a doctrine of clean-cut array of merchandising.
conformity and an unstoppable, The Chinese movie is said to
culture-changing momentum; the have been inspired by the
other is communist China. Now, original, rather than being a
in a particularly fitting match, s t r a i g h t t r a n s l a t i o n o f i t s
two of the most persuasive screenplay. It will focus on an
ideologies of recent times are to unlikely couple from seemingly
unite: the Disney franchise High opposite school cliques a
School Musical is being remade basketball jock and a science
for a Chinese audience.
nerd brought together in an
Four years after the first film in entirely chaste romance by their
the series ushered in its own love of singing.
cultural revolution, achieving a Although the US film features a
staggering popularity among pre- song urging teenagers not to
t e e n s w o r l d w i d e , t h e U S "stick to the status quo", its brand
e n t e r t a i n m e n t g i a n t h a s of rebellion encourages nothing
announced that it is remaking the more risque than auditioning for
film with Chinese partners for the end-of-term school musical,
release next summer. The news with the doctrine "We're all in
comes weeks after Disney said this together". It seems unlikely
Chinese authorities had approved that Disney's Chinese partners
will attempt anything more edgy.

Jason Reed, general manager of
Walt Disney Studios
international production, told
Variety that Disney had initially
contemplated making martial arts
the main sport in the film, rather
than basketball. Its Chinese
partners pointed out that
basketball was vastly more
popular among Chinese
teenagers.
Disney said the Chinese version,
featuring six newcomers, would
be shot in Shanghai. The
company is working with the
Shanghai Media Group and
Huaiyi Brothers Media
Corporation on what will be its
third co-produced film in China,
and its sixth international coproduction.
The director, New York-based
Chen Shizheng, is best known for
his stage work. In 1999 he
mounted a 20-hour production of
the classic Chinese opera piece
The Peony Pavilion, and more
recently he created the opera
Monkey, persuading Damon
Albarn to write the music.
His first feature film was Dark
Matter, loosely based on the true

story of a troubled Chinese
astrophysics student studying in
the US. It starred Meryl Streep
and China's Liu Ye.
Disney announced last year that
a fourth English-language film in
the series was being written,
featuring none of the original
characters. Provisionally titled
High School Musical: East Meets
West, the film will not feature a
controversial interracial romance
or explore the challenges of
clashing cultures in a globalised
world, but instead centre on the
interschool rivalry between East
High Wildcats and West High
Knights.
Walt Disney Company
Musical
China
Tania Branigan Esther Addley
Must-have: Illuminated JetBib Feeding System

By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:01:56 AM
My son never really cared if his

baby food was inbound on a
plane or train. That doesnt mean
I wont try the same trick on my
daughter. Maybe this illuminated

bib and airport spoon will
complete the illusion and allow
me to feed her therefore making
me feel like an accomplished
parent.
The system isnt available
right now, but some are expected
within 1-3 weeks according to

Think Geeks website. Little
Lillian isnt on solid food yet, but
as soon as she is, shes going to
start her pilot lessons. Thats for
sure.
China Mobile
starts selling
Dell Mini 3i
By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:12:45 AM
Dost thou desire an Android

phone in Red Passion or Oiled
Bronze? Begin thy journey, brave
Sir Knight, to China where you
will be able to purchase the Dell
Mini 3i with 3.5-inch
touchscreen for a few coins of the
realm. The Mini 3i, as you'll
recall, is Dell's first smartphone
in almost half a decade and runs
the Ophone platform, an Android
-based system that will
eventually brand most of China
Mobile's phones.
Nov. 23, 1963:

Doctor Who
Materializes on BBC
By John Scott Lewinski (Wired
Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 9:00:00 PM
Doctor Who's on first this date in

1963. Who can explain it. Who
can tell you why.
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Man in coma for 23 years was conscious

By Kate Connolly (World news
and comment from the
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:13:59 AM
Paralysed patient could not

move or communicate with
doctors until Belgian neurologist
tested new brain scanner
For 23 years Rom Houben was
trapped in his own body, unable
to communicate with his doctors
or family. They presumed he was
in a vegetative state following a
near-fatal car crash in 1983.
But then doctors used a state-ofthe-art scanning system on the
brain of the martial arts
enthusiast, which showed it was
functioning almost normally.
"I had dreamed myself away,"
said Houben, now 46, whose real
"state" was discovered three
years ago and has just been made
public by the doctor who rescued
him.
Steven Laureys, a neurologist at
the University of Lige in
Belgium, has published a
scientific paper saying Houben
could be one of many falsely
diagnosed coma cases around the

world.
Houben is being cared for at a
facility near Brussels and now
communicates via a computer
with a special keyboard activated
with his right hand, which is
capable of minimal movement.
He said his body was paralysed
when he came round after his
accident. Although he could hear
every word his doctors spoke, he
could not communicate with
them.
"I screamed, but there was
nothing to hear," he said, via his
keyboard.
Houben then suffered years of
being effectively trapped in his
own body as care personnel and
doctors at the hospital in Zolder
tried to communicate with him,
but eventually gave up hope that
he would ever come round.
The moment it was discovered
he was not in a vegetative state,
said Houben, it was like being
born again. "I'll never forget the
day that they discovered me, it
was my second birth."
Experts say Laureys' findings are
likely to reopen the debate over

when the decision should be
made to terminate the lives of
those in comas who appear to be
unconscious but might have
almost fully-functioning brains.
Belgian doctors used an
internationally accepted scale to
monitor Houben's state over the
years. Known as the Glasgow
Coma Scale, it requires
assessment of the eyes, verbal
and motor responses. But they
failed to assess him correctly and
missed signs that his brain was
still functioning.
Laureys, who is head of the
coma science group and
neurology department at Lige
University hospital, concluded
coma patients are diagnosed
falsely "on a disturbingly regular
basis". In around 40% of cases
diagnosed as vegetative, more
careful examination shows there
is still some level of
consciousness. He examined 44
patients believed to be in a
vegetative state, and found that
18 of them responded to
communication.
"Once someone is labelled as

being without consciousness, it is
very hard to get rid of that," he
told Spiegel magazine, calling for
a systematic overhaul of the
methods of diagnosis.
Laureys said patients who are
not fully unconscious can often
be treated and are capable of
making considerable progress.
Around a fifth of patients who
suffer serious head and brain
injuries spend more than three
weeks in a coma. Of those,
between 15% and 25% are,
technically speaking, still alive
but remain in a state of
unconsciousness, never to wake
up.
Belgium
Doctors
Drobo S: A Faster,
Fatter Storage Robot
With eSATA [Storage]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:11:52 AM
What's the 'S' stand for in Drobo

S? Speed. Uh, more speed. And
more storage. Specifically, a fifth
drive bay for more redundancy,
faster FireWire and a new
eSATA port. As always, it's not
cheap$800 sans drives. [
Drobo]
Kate Connolly
Swine flu tests after death of boy aged five

(World news and comment
from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:40:31 AM
Emberton school in
Buckinghamshire temporarily
shuts after death of pupil who
may have contracted swine flu
A primary school closed today
after the death of a pupil who

may have contracted swine flu.
Tests were being carried out to
determine whether the five-yearold boy died from the H1N1
virus. He died early yesterday at
Milton Keynes hospital.
Emberton school, near Olney,
Buckinghamshire, a village
school for children between the
ages of four and seven, placed a

message on its website this
morning informing parents of the
temporary closure.
Dr Diane Gray, deputy director
of public health for Milton
Keynes, said: "My sympathies go
out to his parents, family and
friends. We don't yet know the
cause of this boy's death. At this
stage, there is no need to change

normal behaviour you should
continue to go to school, work
and any social activities."
Steve Dunning, the school's
headteacher, told the BBC the
boy's death had come as a shock.
Swine flu
Primary schools
Schools
Health
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Albums of the decade No 9: Salif Keita Moffou

By Charlie Gillett (World news
and comment from the
led to expectations that perhaps

Keita could be something more
than the most famous singer in
west Africa what about
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:13:06 AM
conquering the rest of the world?
West Africa produced many I n 1 9 8 7 , t h e a l b u m S o r o ,
outstanding releases during the expensively and elaborately
noughties, but the Malian singer's produced in Paris, announced
stark and haunting album was the Keita's arrival in the Englishmost remarkable
speaking world.
By normal industry standards, For the following 15 years, it
waiting until you're 53 to make was almost as if he wilfully
the best album of your career is defied the hopes and expectations
perhaps leaving it a bit late. But of those who had supported him,
then not much about Salif Keita's insisting on electric guitarists and
story is normal.
synthesiser players in his
Was it a blessing or a curse for recordings and for his live shows,
this Malian teenager already despite entreaties that his music
singled out for being albino, and should sound less like Phil
of royal descent to find that he Collins and Peter Gabriel and
had one of the most remarkable more Malian.
v o i c e s a n y b o d y i n t h e Finally, astonishingly, in 2002
neighbourhood had ever heard? Keita relented and delivered the
On the one hand, it set him apart a l b u m M o f f o u , w h i c h w a s
and ahead of the competition to exactly what his fans had been
be invited to sing with two praying for. First impressions
leading west African bands were that this change of tack was
during the 1970s. On the other, it mostly acoustic, but there are
many subtle interventions of

electric guitar and electronic
effects. Moffou might feel like a
natural, spontaneous recording,
but clearly a lot of thought went
in at every stage, from
songwriting to arrangements and
post-production and, of course,
the singing. If the plan was to
deliver a classic album, it
succeeded.
One of Keita's distinctive
qualities as a songwriter is to set
his own voice against female
vocalists, and virtually every
track here showcases this skill,
starting with Yamore, a duet with
the Cape Verdean singer Cesria
vora. The combination of the
two
voices
seemed
counterintuitive, with Keita being
typically extravagant and vora
being laidback. But it works
brilliantly, and behind them both,
those gorgeous backing vocals
answer and comment.
Two other tracks stand out as the
high points of a consistently
lovely record. On Moussolou,

Keita's tribute to women, his
gentle vocal is carried along by
rippling guitars and percussion.
On the haunting Baba, a
traditional instrument plays an
echoing melody in the
background.
Moffou signalled what was to
become a hugely successful 10
years for Malian music in fact,
the decade would end with a raft
of pop and indie acts looking to
the country for inspiration. West
Africa provided several
outstanding albums during the
noughties, but most musicians
would surely tip their hat to
Keita's album as being the
pinnacle.
World music
Charlie Gillett
The Cell Processor

Is Going Extinct
[Processors]
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:34:19 AM
IBM's shitcanning the Cell

processor lineyou know, the
chip that's in the PS3 and uh,
Toshiba laptops and TVs
according to their VP of Deep
Computing, making the current
PowerXCell 8i the last of its ilk. [
Fudzilla via MaxConsole]
Odds'n'ends (lost time is not found again) | Michael Tomasky

By Michael Tomasky (World
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:27:07 AM
Here is a rather vicious attack on

Rich Rod from a cbssports.com
analyst. It seems that Michigan's
worst back-to-back seasons in
nearly 50 years are ... Lloyd
Carr's fault!
Here is a video of one of the

more interesting trick plays you'll
ever see, from a Nov. 14 game
between two small colleges. The
no-look pass. And yes, this is
football, not basketball.
Apropos the headline, you are
aware by now I assume that Bob
Dylan is releasing a Christmas
album. I haven't been able to
bring myself to listen to any of
the released track snippets.

Please don't tell me.
As one of you pointed out last re
my Fox News doctored-footage
video, I misspoke when
discussing which events Fox had
fibbed about. I said the 9-12 tea
party march and a recent Palin
book-tour event. It was actually
the Michelle Bachmann Capitol
Hill event and a Palin book-tour
stop. Sorry about that. As for our

joke footage, we were originally
hoping to use footage of girls
screaming at the Beatles, which I
think would have been pretty
hilarious. But we weren't
allowed. The redoubtable Glenn,
our video man, did quite nicely
under the circumstances with the
"soccer" footage.
US sport
Bob Dylan
Pop and rock
Fox News
United States
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Sanofi

has lots of upside catalysts
By Jim Cramer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Analyst reports,

Pfizer (PFE), Market matters,
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY),
Merck and Co (MRK), Lilly (Eli)
(LLY), Deere and Co (DE),
Stocks to Buy, Potash Corp. of
Saskatchewan (POT) From
TheStreet.com Network
Dollar Store: Early Volume
Plays
Dollar Could Steer Stocks in
Coming Week
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer
says it looks like the patent
worries aren't so dire after all.
Now that we see that health care
reform is not going to bring price
caps or socialization of medicine,
we are beginning to see some real
- Sanofi Aventis ( SNY) (

Cramer's Take), the French
vaccine and pharmaceutical
maker run by Christian
Viehbacher. The resistance is
obvious, as his biggest two drugs
are coming off patent very soon,
and his hope is that by 2013 the
company might again reach 2008
levels.
Sounds like there's no reason to
buy this one. Sounds like its 4%
dividend isn't safe.
Continue reading Cramer on
BloggingStocks: Sanofi has lots
of upside catalysts
Cramer on BloggingStocks:
expansion in the drug stocks,
Sanofi has lots of upside catalysts
including Merck ( MRK) (
Cramer's Take), Bristol-Myers (
BMY) ( Cramer's Take) and Lilly
( LLY) ( Cramer's Take). But
there is one drug stock that is
continually met with skepticism -
Onion: Boy Finds Own E.T.

(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 12:33:28 PM
Today Now! is one of the

Onions more brutal media
parody shows, and this is one of
their
more
brutal
episodes.[Video]
Before the bell: Stock futures

higher as gold sets another
record, dollar slumps
By Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:45:00 AM
Filed under: Before the bell,

International markets, Market
matters, Economic data,
Commodities, Oil U.S. stock
futures rose Monday morning as
investors reacted to rising
commodity prices, including a
new record for gold, and the
dollar's retreat. Further,
economists expect job losses to
peak in the first quarter. It seems
Wall Street is about to join the
world markets rally.
The U.S. dollar fell against the
euro and the yen Monday,
following some escalating
tensions with Iran and after
Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis President James Bullard
said the central bank should
continue its asset-buying
program beyond its current cutoff date. The Dollar Index fell for
the first time in three days.
Three-iPhone Ocarina Much More Expensive

Than No-iPhone Ocarina [Instruments]
By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:10:36 AM
Do you have three iPhones
kicking around that you aren't

using? If so, you could make an
insanely expensive ocarina out of
them using some laser-cut
why you would do such a thing. [

Make]
plastic. But the real question is
What's more, forecasters predict

that it will continue sliding, even
when the Fed begins to raise
interest rates based on supply and
demand forces.
Continue reading Before the
bell: Stock futures higher as gold
sets another record, dollar slumps
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Microsoft and News

LDK Solar posts
Corp talk about pushing stronger-than-expected,
Google aside
third-quarter earnings
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
By Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:00:00 AM
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:30:00 AM
yanking its news sites from

Filed under: Internet, Google Google ( GOOG) ... for a fee, of
(GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), course. This would cost the
News Corp'B' (NWS), Media search engine giant -- which is
also a news aggregation giant -World
Often, we confuse winning with a c c e s s t o s o m e h e f t y
being the best. This isn't always publications, including the Wall
the case. There are plenty of Street Journal, the Sun and the
ways to get ahead when you don't New York Post.
have the top product on the Continue reading Microsoft and
m a r k e t . T h e s m o k e - f i l l e d News Corp talk about pushing
backroom meetings may be a Google aside
thing of the past, but the net Microsoft and News Corp talk
effect lingers. This is exactly about pushing Google aside
what went down, according to a o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n
Reuters report, when Microsoft ( BloggingStocks on Mon, 23 Nov
MSFT) had a chat with News 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see
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relationship with News Corp
which would involve the latter's
Filed under: Earnings reports

Talk about stocks that have fallen
far and fast. LDK Solar ( LDK)
was looking to add a bit of
momentum with its earnings
report, as the stock is battling
overhead resistance from its 20week moving average. This
trendline has pushed the stock
lower for a majority of 2009 and
2008, during which LDK has
dropped from its late-2008 high
of $52.40 to its current perch
near the $8 level.
The good news is that a news
event like an earnings report
could lend momentum to any
squandering stock, so let's see
what LDK reported. The solar
panel producer earned 27 cents
per share in the third quarter, far

worse than last year's samequarter earnings of 77 cents per
share. Quarterly revenue was
nearly halved, as LDK brought in
$281.9 million compared to $542
million.
Continue reading LDK Solar
posts stronger-than-expected,
third-quarter earnings
LDK Solar posts stronger-thanexpected, third-quarter earnings
Astronaut Self
-Portrait
[Image Cache]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:00:00 AM
Some time during a six-hour

space walk last week, astronaut
Robert Satcher managed to
capture this shot of himself...via
himself. Today, the STS-129 will
be completing their third and
final space walk. [ NASA]
New 'Twilight' movie dominates weekend box office

By Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
Twilight Saga: New Moon would

be the number one movie this
weekend, there was just a
Submitted at 11/23/2009 8:30:00 AM
question about how much the
Filed under: Time Warner movie would gross. We now
(TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), have the answer: a real, real lot.
Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Film, According to early estimates at
Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) Box Office Mojo, New Moon
There was never any question made $140 million at domestic perspective, this means that the
that Summit Entertainment's t h e a t e r s . T o p u t t h i s i n vampire flick now occupies the
third spot on the chart of best

opening weekends(behind Dark
Knight and Spiderman 3). Truly
impressive, especially when you
consider that we're not in the
summertime.
Continue reading New 'Twilight'
movie dominates weekend box
office
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Roku announces Roku Channel Store, adds Facebook and

Pandora (and maybe porn!)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 5:59:05 PM
Your Roku box just got a whole

lot more interesting. Roku, if you
remember, makes the Roku
player, a small device that sits
next to your TV and plays
Netflix, Amazon Video, and
MLB selections. Roku has just
added ten new channels to that
line-up and built a fascinating
platform for adding more down
the line.
The current channels will
include: blip.tv, Facebook
Photos, Flickr, FrameChannel,
Mediafly, MobileTribe,
Motionbox, Pandora, Revision3
and TWiT. More channels will be
available here shortly.
The channels require you to
authenticate with the service
provider you dont enter any
passwords on the Roku box, at
least in most cases and will
eventually allow protected and
pay-per-view access to channel
providers. Roku spokesperson,
Brian Jaquet, also mentioned at
some providers could protect
their content behind a hidden pay
wall, like Netflix, and offer
delightful content like distance
learning and pornography. While
both of those are self
explanatory, it behooves us to
note both modes of content are He said:
the interface between or among While the Roku Channel Store
two or more individuals centered wont distribute porn publicly,
on a shared goal.
there are some hidden channel
features whereby partners can

make a channel available using a
code. This could be used for
things like distribution to vertical
markets like education and

training videos that can be
pushed to private groups for
viewing on the TV on demand
instead of having to set up a

satellite feed or send DVDs.
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ROKU
continued from page 9
The upgrade will hit in the next

two weeks and will work on all
Roku boxes including the SD,
HD, and HD-XR.
How does it work? I tried the
Facebook was request a token
from Facebook for login. You
then typed the token into the
Roku box and all of your photo
albums appeared on the browser,
available for playback in
whatever resolution you
uploaded.
Roku Creates Open Platform for
Delivery of Content to the TV;
Announces 10 New Content
Channels
Blip.tv, Facebook Photos, Flickr,
FrameChannel, Mediafly,
MobileTribe, Motionbox,
Pandora, Revision3 and TWiT all
now available on the Roku player
Saratoga, Calif. November 23,
2009 Roku, Inc., maker of the
popular and award-winning
family of Roku players,
announced today the Roku
Channel Store and the addition of
10 new FREE channels for Roku
customers to enjoy on their TVs.
From internet audio to video
podcasts; professional web
content to photo sharing;
personal video content to
childrens entertainment, the

Roku Channel Store provides an
open platform for delivering
quality content to the TV. The
new channels now available for
customers to add to their Roku
experience via the Roku Channel
Store include: blip.tv, Facebook
Photos, Flickr, FrameChannel,
Mediafly, MobileTribe,
Motionbox, Pandora, Revision3
and TWiT. For a complete list of
channels and specific channel
descriptions and features, please
g
o
t
o
www.roku.com/channelstore.
Our customers now have more
choice in content and even
greater control over their Roku
player experience with the
introduction of the Roku Channel
Store and our 10 new content
partners, said Anthony Wood,
founder and CEO of Roku, Inc.
The Roku Channel Store already
includes a robust offering of
content that will appeal to a wide
variety of customer tastes, which
in turn will open new customer
acquisition avenues for Roku.
Because we have created an open
platform for development,
customers can expect even more
new content channels in the near
future making the Roku player an

even more valuable component
of a customers home
entertainment system.
To access the Roku Channel
Store and subsequently add or
remove channels from the home
screen, customers will need to
create a Roku account. With a
Roku account, customers now
also have the ability to manage
their channels and personalize
their entertainment options in a
way that has not been possible
before. Roku customers can add
as many channels as they want.
Conversely they can also remove
all channels that do not interest
them, leaving only the channel or
channels they access on a regular
basis. And because it is a channel
store, new channels will arrive all
the time for customers to
consider.
All Roku players, including the
Roku SD, Roku HD and Roku
HD-XR, are compatible with the
Roku Channel Store. Our
flagship content partners, Netflix
(NASDAQ: NFLX), Amazon
(NASDAQ: AMZN) Video On
Demand and MLB.TV, will
continue to be available to
existing customers regardless of
whether or not they set up a Roku

account. However, in order to
browse the Roku Channel Store
and add and remove channels
from the Roku player, customers
first must create a Roku account.
Pricing and availability
The Roku Channel Store will be
delivered as an automatic and
free upgrade to all existing Roku
customers over the course of the
next two weeks. New customers
will automatically be upgraded
when they first install their Roku
player. To browse and use the
Roku Channel Store, existing
customers will be prompted to
create a Roku account. Existing
customers who do not want to
wait for their Roku player to
update automatically can
manually update their Roku
player immediately. Detailed
instructions can be found in the
Help section of Rokus website
under the Roku Channel Store
t
a
b
a
t
http://www.roku.com/support/faq
s.
ESPN Writer Suspended From Twitter

By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:20:44 AM
Earlier this year, we noted that

ESPN had come out with rules
on how its staff could (and could
not) use Twitter. Apparently,

Bill Simmons broke those rules,
and has been suspended from
Twitter for two weeks. His
crime? Apparently calling radio
station WEEI, a partner of ESPN,
deceitful scumbags. That does

seem a bit over the top, but why
should ESPN have a say in how
Simmons uses a totally unrelated
service in which he speaks his
mind? If he's going to say
something dumb, isn't that his

decision?
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Spotify Now
Works on Symbian
Smartphones
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 12:30:56 AM
Spotify, the European music

service that attracted attention by
launching the first streaming
music app for the iPhone, now
has a version for Symbian
smartphones. Spotify is a
fantastic app, offering access to
over 6 million tracks;
unfortunately, its available only
in certain European countries,
with the US version pending.
Some of the smartphone models
Spotify now works with are
Nokia 6220 Classic, E71 and
5800 XpressMusic models, as
well as some non-Nokia phones,
like the Samsung GT-I8910
Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson
Satio.
Spotifys Symbian application is
available on m.spotify.com;
alternatively, Symbian
smartphone owners can enter
their phone number on this page
to receive SMS installation
instructions. Reviews: Spotify
Tags: spotify, Symbian
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Data Robotics introduces 5-bay Drobo S, enterprise-ready

DroboElite
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
2.0 port. Users will also be able

to switch between single- and
dual-drive redundancy via the
Data Robotics has been quietly software control panel, though
raking in the dough (and trying to you should be warned that the
match up supply with demand) DroboShare NAS adapter will
ever since it launched its 8-bay not work on the Drobo S. We
DroboPro back in April, and now spoke with Mark Fuccio, the
the company is making yet firm's senior director of products
another bold move: doubling its and marketing, who told us that
product line. Starting today, the the functionality was left off due
traditional 4-bay Drobo will be to the possibility of a "bad
joined by the quicker Drobo S, customer experience." In essence,
and the DroboElite will be added the network throughput would
at the high end for those in the crawl compared to a direct
enterprise. The Model S ups the connection, so the company
ante by adding a fifth drive bay simply opted to avoid the
in order to allow for two drives to headaches rather than cater to
fail without any data being lost -- those of you who demand NAS
a feature that was previously functionality on every external
reserved for the aforesaid Pro. It's HDD to hit the market.
also boasting an ARM chip with Moving on, the DroboElite is
a 5 0 p e r c e n t f a s t e r c l o c k carving a new path for the
( c o m p a r e d t o t h e D r o b o ) , company, one that caters to highenabling the FireWire 800 maintenance enterprise users
performance to see a 20 to 25 looking to serve up to 16 hosts
percent boostt; moreover, an while providing up to 255 smart
eSATA socket has been added volumes. The Elite is basically a
alongside the tried-and-true USB Pro on steroids, with room for 8
Submitted at 11/23/2009 8:30:00 AM
hard drives, single- or dual-drive

redundancy and an all-new
connection method. If you'll
recall, the Pro provided a single
gigabit Ethernet port (iSCSI),
FireWire 800 and USB 2.0; the
Elite ships with two gigabit
Ethernet sockets and nothing
more (aside from a USB port

used only for device
management), so it's pretty clear
that this one isn't looking to
satisfy the home consumer
market.
Both devices are shipping out
today, with the Drobo S starting
at $799 (with no HDDs) and

being sold at the same outlets as
the Drobo (which isn't vanishing,
by the way). The DroboElite gets
going at $3,499, though it'll only
be sold through outlets such as
CDW and the like who specialize
in medium-to-large business
sales. Oh, and just in case you're
curious, the existing Drobo will
continue on at its$399 price
point(MSRP), though we're told
that smart shoppers should find it
for less near Black Friday and
throughout the holiday season.
Gallery: Data Robotics
introduces 5-bay Drobo S,
enterprise-ready DroboElite
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Apple Announces Special Black Friday Shopping Event

By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
beginning of the Christmas

shopping craze.
Capitalizing on one of the
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:34:36 AM
busiest shopping days of the
The day after Thanksgiving, year, Apple has announced a
w h i c h t h i s y e a r f a l l s o n special Apple one-day shopping
November 27th, is also known as event on November 27. The
Black Friday, and it marks the company posted a teaser saying
the following:
Come back to the Apple Online
Store this Friday for a special one

-day-only shopping event. Youll
find lots of great iPod, iPhone
and Mac gift ideas all with
free shipping.
So there you have it; if you dont
know what to do with your extra
cash, heres a chance to blow it
all on Apples gadgetry

(hopefully at a good discount).
Tags: apple, black friday
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It's Official: Samsung Omnia II Is $200 on

Verizon [Samsung]
By Danny Allen (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:00:01 AM
Last Friday's tipster was right on

the money: The Omnia II lands
December 2 for $200 on contract
(after $100 mail-in rebate). It
runs WinMo 6.5, but that sweetlooking 3.7-inch AMOLED
touchscreen gets the 3D cube
TouchWiz 2.0 UI.
As we noted when we first saw
the ai.rs video below, the
TouchWiz 2.0 UI looks nice, but
the resistive touch lag is a shame
given the 800Mhz processor.
Key features:
3.7-inch ultra-brilliant (Wide
Video Graphics Array ActiveMatrix Organic Light-Emitting
Diode) responsive touch screen
Virtual QWERTY keyboard
with Swype technology: input
text faster and easier with one
continuous finger or stylus
motion across the screen
keyboard
Windows Mobile 6.5
Professional, which keeps
customers connected with
corporate and personal e-mail
and synchronization of schedules
Email and Corporate Email

Access to social networking
applications, including YouTube,
Facebook and MySpace, with
Samsung's TouchWiz 2.0 user
interface
5-megapixel camera with flash
and auto-focus and camcorder
and decoder with DNSe
technology and on-device editing
capabilities
802.11b/g Wi-Fi (no N)
Support for Divx and Xvid
movie files
8 GB internal memory and
expandable memory of up to 16
GB with microSD memory card
(card sold separately)
Bluetooth profiles supported:
headset (mono and stereo), hands
-free (car kits), object push for
and contacts
widgets
vCard, basic imaging, phonebook
Microsoft Office Mobile: Supports Verizon Wireless access profiles. Also supports
m a n a g e W o r d , E x c e l a n d services, including V CAST serial port, dial-up networking,
PowerPoint documents
Music with Rhapsody, V CAST object push for vCalendar, file
E n h a n c e d 3 D c u b e u s e r Video on Demand, V CAST transfer, basic printing and
interface
Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, human interface device profiles
Full HTML Web browsing VZW Tones, VZ NavigatorSM, Available Colors: Black with red
capabilities with Opera 9.5 Mobile IM and Mobile Email
accents on the battery cover
enhanced browser
Additional specifications:
One-touch access to social Full messaging suite, including
networking sites via shortcut SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile
The LGF
2010 Photo
Calendar
Submitted at 11/22/2009 5:22:41 PM
Now available at Lulu.com in

time for Christmas and the New
Year the Little Green
Footballs 2010 Calendar,
featuring 13 beautiful high
resolution versions of
photographs Ive posted at LGF.
It's $24.99, Lulu.com handles all
the printing and shipping, I get
10 bucks, and they get the
difference. Not a bad deal for all
involved.
Lulu.com also has excellent
tools for publishers; for example,
this embedded preview of the
LGF 2010 calendar:
Senate Video
Dems Get Votes Needed to Begin Health Care Debate

Submitted at 11/22/2009 9:41:14 AM
An interesting development in
the health care reform battle, as
the Democrats get the 60 votes
they need to begin the debate

after Thanksgiving: Sen. Blanche
Lincoln also on board, 60 in
hand.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for
debating health reform, but a no
for the public option, and she and

fellow centrists are making clear
they expect Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid to scrap his
current plan for a governmentrun insurance program.
Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced

Saturday that shed deliver the
deciding vote to push forward
with a sweeping health reform
plan, ending days of speculation
over whether President Barack
Obamas signature priority would

proceed to the Senate floor or
suffer a debilitating blow.
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Sergey Brin: Android and Chrome OS 'will likely converge

over time'
By Thomas Ricker (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:59:00 AM
When it comes to nerd

obsessions, the only thing that
can trump a fictional tablet
developed by battling left-coast
legends is the promise of a
revolutionary OS from Google
that relies upon nothing but a
browser and the dreams of a
young Larry Ellison. Don't even
start with your Korean product
waifs as we're trying to keep the
discussion in the realm of
possibilities. Now, with the
weekend over, you've probably
experienced the same sense of
ennui we've all felt at having
downloaded and tested a copy of
Chrome OS. To be fair, that mehness is kind of what you'd expect
from a browser-based OS that's

meant to get out of your way.
Still, it's hard not to wonder
where Android and its growing
application base fits into
Google's long-term OS strategy
especially after seeing several
ARM-based smartbook
prototypes running Google's
smartphone OS. Fortunately,
Google co-founder Sergey Brin
shed some light on this topic in a
candid statement following the
Chrome OS event. According to
CNET, Brin said that Android
and the Chrome OS "will likely
converge over time," noting the
common Webkit and Linux
foundation of both operating
systems. It's unclear when this
might occur however. In fact,
listening to Google CEO Eric
Schmidt attempt to downplay the

difference between Google's
operating systems in a recent
CNET interview leaves us
wondering if Google has a clear
idea of its target markets as
smartphone and laptop
functionality continues to
converge across devices. Schmidt
concedes that it's too early to tell
how the OSes will be used and
prefers not to "prejudge the
success" of each. "The future will
unfold as it does," he says, and
Monday Giveaway: Viper SmartStart iPhone Kit,

Brought to you by Gas Cubby
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:35:09 AM
Using the Gas Cubby iPhone

app to increase your fuel
economy and keep your vehicle
properly maintained can save you
money and help the
environment but, if youve
learned anything from
CrunchGear, its that saving
money isnt much fun unless you
can blow it on something cool
and completely over the top.

Well, one lucky CrunchGear
reader gets to have their cake and
eat it too. App Cubby, the
developer of Gas Cubby, is
giving away a Viper SmartStart
kit to one lucky CrunchGear
reader. If you own a car and an
iPhone, surely youve heard
about and have been lusting after
Vipers new technology that
allows you to lock/unlock, open
the trunk, and even start your car
right from your iPhone.

And for those still behind the
curve on using your iPhone to
improve fuel economy and keep
track of maintenance, Gas Cubby
will be on sale for only $4.99
until Cyber Monday.
To enter, leave a comment
below with your vision of car
2.0. How can mobile apps
better integrate with vehicles to
make your driving experience
more fun, safe, efficient, and
economical?
Note: CrunchGear and App
Cubby will be awarding the
winner a $500 gift certificate (the
retail price of Vipers SmartStart
kit) to Best Buy. The winner will
be have to handle compatibility,
installation, etc.
Well pick a winner on
Wednesday.
the open-source community will

determine the natural fit. Check
the interview after the break -the Android vs. Chrome OS
waffling begins at the 16:30
remaining mark of the 19 minute
and 11 second interview.
Continue reading Sergey Brin:
Android and Chrome OS 'will
likely converge over time'
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Celebs Go Glam
for American
Music Awards
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:00:00 PM
ET is at the AMA's! The "2009

American Music Awards" are
underway and we have all the red
-hot red-carpet arrival pics,
including Nicole Kidman and
Keith Urban, Rihanna, Adam
Lambert and more!
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Engadget Podcast 172 - 11.23.2009

By Trent Wolbe (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:40:00 AM
It's been a crazy weekend, and

we'll have the latest episode of
The Engadget Show up to prove
it soon enough, but for now we
thought you might still be
interested in the podcast we did
live on Friday from within the
hazy mist of show prep and
Chrome OS assessment. Sure,
you might not be used to getting
a new podcast on a Monday
morning, but we've heard that a
technology podcast replete with
bizarre exchanges with live
audience members via chat and
many vitamins and minerals can
be a vital part of a healthy, wellbalanced breakfast.
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay
Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Bit.shifter- The World
Has Turned And Left Me Here
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Verizon's Map for That campaign
with an 'ad' of its own
34:20 - Welcome to the next
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Chrome OS and Android

Are Destined to Merge,
Somehow [Google]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:49:55 AM
"Android and Chrome will likely

converge over time," says
Google's Sergey Brin, echoing
the cryptic sentiment first
mentioned by a reluctant Eric
Schmidt back in July. Today, it's
exactly as confusing as it was
four months ago.
Google, asked how on earth this
slow-motion, oddly-planned
scenario would play out, gives
mixed responses. The official PR
line, when asked about the
merger:
[W]e're reaching a perfect storm
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deny any specific plans. But what
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about when CNET asks Schmidt
Contact the podcast
directly? Observe:
The future will unfold as it does.
There it is! When these guys are
talking about Chrome and
Android merging, they're not
talking about any kind of

roadmap, they're just speaking in
obvious, unusually long-term
truisms, like they've been doing
an awful lot lately: Two Linuxbased operating systems from
one company are bound to
develop similarities; eventually,
our computing usage will be
totally centered around the web;
in a decade, our notebooks and
cellphones will probably be one
device; the future is awesome;
etcetera.
This Zen futurism is charming
and all, but Chrome OS and
Android aren't uncontrollable
entitiesthey don't need to be
crudely estimated, or attributed
some kind of autonomy,
especially by the people that
make them. Specifically, they
need to be planned. [ CNET via
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British surgeons using

radiation beams to halt
macular degeneration
Missouri
GOP Calls for
Revolution
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:28:00 AM
We've seen more eyesight

restoration efforts than we could
easily count, but rather than
tooting their horn about some
theoretical discovery, boffins at
Kings College Hospital in
London are actually putting their
hard work to use on real, live
human brings. The new process,
which goes by the name
brachytherapy, is a one-off
treatment for macular
degeneration. In essence,
surgeons carefully light up a
beam of radiation within the eye
for just over three minutes, which
kills harmful cells without
damaging anything else. A trial is
currently underway in order to
restore eyesight in some 363
patients, and everything thus far
leads us to believe that the
process is both safe and effective.

As for costs? The procedure
currently runs 6,000 ($9,889),
but that's still not awful when
you consider that existing
treatments involving injections
run 800 per month. Hop past the
break for a video report.
Continue reading British
surgeons using radiation beams
to halt macular degeneration
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Astronauts take spacewalk No.

3 after suit snag (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:52:53 AM
Kris buzzed up: Kennedy

dispute reveals divide among
Catholics
(AP)
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We're also hearing that this same r e p l a c e s
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before seeing this thing in the curious to see what a Touch Pro2 More billboard bad craziness:
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h o s t e d u p a n i n f o r m a t i v e giant Touch Pro2
unboxing video to show it off. Eking's tilting, sliding S515
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A Safety Primer for

Thanksgiving Turkeys
[Thanksgiving]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:00:00 AM
Nintendo Japan launches (paid) on-demand video

service for Wii
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:40:06 AM
Nintendo started offering a video

distribution service for Japanese
Wii owners this May, attracting
about 800,000 customers by late
September in this country. In the
same month, Nintendo promised
their free channel will be made
available to Non-Japanese Wii
owners next year, at the same
time announcing theyll start

offering paid content (in Japan)
very soon. And since the
weekend, we have that fee-based
streaming video service[JP] over
here.
A lot of the content is still free,
but the new service makes it
possible to view popular TV
programs and some Wiiexclusive content on your
console. Wii users can now
watch Disney and Pokemon

anime, Sesame Street, movies,
soccer games and other content.
Wii-exclusive content includes a
bunch of educational programs.
Nintendo initially managed to
gather 15 content providers, for
example Warner Entertainment
and Disney, that will deliver
about 250 different programs by
next month. By next year, Wii
owners are supposed to be able to
choose between a total of 1,000

titles. Prices vary heavily, with
titles costing between $0.11 and
$11 (10 yen and 1,000 yen).
Its not yet clear whether
Nintendo will offer those paid
services outside Japan next year
as well.
Planning on doing the big turkey

thing this week? Cooks
Illustrated, a prime source of
heavily-tested recipes and tips,
offers a quick (1:38) video
primer on safely cooking your
bird. You don't even have to skip
the stuffingjust heat it in a
microwave to a prep temperature
of 120-130 degrees before
putting it inside the bird, just
before cooking. [ Cooks
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Verizon announces
Samsung Omnia II:
December 2 for $200
Google Maps
Navigation hacked for
extra-American use
Help save a
BusinessWeek
blog
By Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
By Vladislav Savov
(Engadget)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:39:26 AM
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:00:00 AM
As expected, Verizon has chosen

December 2 as the Samsung
Omnia II's date with destiny,
bringing an interesting full-touch
WinMo alternative to the HTC
Imagio that launched back in
October alongside Windows
Mobile 6.5. Speaking of 6.5,
there were some early concerns
that Verizon's version of the
Omnia II would launch on stale
6.1 code, but fear not -- it's now
confirmed that you'll be looking
at Microsoft's latest and greatest
stuff when you gaze upon that
3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA
display. It's also got a 5
megapixel camera with autofocus
and flash, WiFi, and 8GB of
internal storage along with
microSD expansion -- good news
for anyone who plans on making
much use of that cam, especially
in video mode. Verizon's site and
retail locations both take delivery
of the device on the same 12/2
date, pushing it for $199.99 after
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:19:00 AM
Guess what, prospective

Milestone owners, the Droid's
one major advantage over its
Euro cousin has just been coded
out of existence by those
proactive, un-American XDA
Developers. The free Google
Maps Navigation service, whose
US announcement was so
shocking as to decimate the stock
prices of satnav purveyors
Garmin and TomTom, has now
been ported to work outside the
land of the free as well. Not only
that, but you can use the app on
other Android devices, meaning
a $ 1 0 0 m a i l - i n r e b a t e . your old G1 can get a breath of
Considering the pricing, we've fresh air for absolutely free. That
gotta ask: Droid or Omnia II? is if you don't count the time it
Verizon announces Samsung takes you to learn how to insert
Omnia II: December 2 for $200 all the code properly and the risk
originally appeared on Engadget of bricking your device. But we
on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 know our readers eat iron nails
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(Scripting News)
Jay Rosen sent a link to a post

on a BusinessWeek blog: "Does
anyone know how to preserve
and store our four and a half
years of blog posts and
comments?"
Not sure what kind of blog it is,
but saving the posts to a PDF (as
mentioned on the site) isn't much
of a solution.
We hope each of us is creating a
record. The time to think about
how your words will last over
time is before you're leaving the
elegantly optimized code before
job. Think about it and do
lunch, so we expect all of you to
something while you're writing.
be using this by day's end, you
Choose software that's easy to
hear?
archive. Ideally you should just
Google Maps Navigation hacked
have to make a copy of a folder
for extra-American use originally
to back it up. Most bloggiong
appeared on Engadget on Mon,
software is nowhere near that
23 Nov 2009 09:19:00 EST.
simple.
Please see our terms for use of
If you have any ideas how to
feeds. Permalink Gadget Venue|
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XDA Developers Forum| Email
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this| Comments
Update: The blog is in
archive.org.
Jon Gosselin Brings Kate a Peace Offering

Submitted at 11/22/2009 4:08:00 PM
Jon Gosselin arrived at his and

Kates divorce arbitration
meeting in Pennsylvania on
Saturday bearing an apparent
peace offering for his estranged
wife.
ET special correspondent Diane
Dimond says that Jon, who's

back from his solo vacation in
Hawaii, arrived to the meeting
site at 9:45 a.m. with a bouquet
of red roses in hand. The
flowers are to end this war of

roses, his lawyer Mark Heller
said.
Jon told Diane he hopes he and
Kate can iron out their financial
issues, and added that hell be

spending Thanksgiving with his
parents.
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Phil Schiller Grants Interview About

Apples App Store, Claims Devs
Actually Like Approval Process
Carrie Underwood, Kate

Hudson & Celebs Honor
CNN's Everyday Heroes
By Jason Kincaid
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 6:16:00 PM
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:22:07 AM
The Internet Weighs

About 1,098,868,920,000
Pounds [Internet]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Blackberries/iPhone/iPod touches
to worry about. Plus, there's a
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:40:00 AM
9,320-mile transatlantic cable
How did Crave UK ever come connecting one half of the digital
u p w i t h t h a t n u m b e r ? world to the other (it in itself
Multiplication and addition, of weighs 191,802,168 pounds) to
course.
account for.
570,937,778 computers are Anyway, the final number they
online, with the average weight c o m e
up
with
is
of 88 pounds, with monitors, 1,098,868,920,000 pounds (or
p r i n t e r s , a n d a n y o t h e r just over a trillion pounds, for
peripherals. Ehhh...I'm still a bit those too lazy to count commas).
skeptical of that number, given To put that number in better
the popularity of laptops, but let's perspective, it's about the same
keep coming because this is fun! w e i g h t a s 2 5 , 0 0 0 c l o n e d
T h e r e a r e a n a d d i t i o n a l Sears/Willis Towers. [ Crave UK
175,480,931 servers, and about and image]
1 0 0
m i l l i o n
Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of

Worldwide Product Marketing, is
back on his one-man crusade to
defend the App Store from the
latest wave of criticism pointed
in its direction. This time, Apple
is having to battle the news of
Facebook's all-star developer Joe
Hewitt quitting the platform,
more high profile app rejections,
and the rise of Android as an
increasingly viable alternative to
the iPhone. Schiller has granted
BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl
what the publication says is his
first " wide-ranging interview on
the matter". Unfortunately,
Schiller doesn't really say
anything to quell the growing
unrest in the developer
community instead, he's
offered some finely-tuned PRspeak that will placate the vast

majority of iPhone users, who are
only vaguely aware of the App
Store controversies and just need
a reminder that Apple is still one
of the good guys. But it may
only make developers angrier.

The "CNN Heroes: All-Star
Tribute" recognized those that
inspire and impact others on an
everyday basis. ET's Kevin
Frazier joined celebs Carrie
Underwood, Neil Patrick Harris,
Kate Hudson, Eva Mendes and
many more as they honored these
influential men and women.
"These are the people that make
the world better, they inspire,"
Underwood told ET Saturday
night.
"There's an award show every
month it seems now in
Hollywood. So, it's nice to be
involved in one that introduces
the world to people that really,
really truly deserve awards, that
are sort of unsung heroes," Harris
said of the honorary evening.
Night of 'American Idol' Alumni on

AMA Red Carpet
Submitted at 11/22/2009 11:21:00 PM
As a testament to the success of

many "American Idol"
contestants since the show's
inception, artists from a wide
range of seasons descended upon
the "2009 American Music
Awards"' red carpet in Los
Angeles on Sunday night.

Carrie Underwood took notice of
the "Idol" presence at the awards
show. She told ET, "'American
Idol' and the people that have
come off the show have had a
huge impact on the music
industry and I am so thankful and
so glad to see so many people
doing well and we're all here and
it's just about the 'Idol' show

tonight"
She was joined by fellow
winners Kris Allen and Kelly
Clarkson, along with runner-up
Adam Lambert and finalist Chris
Daughtry. Lambert took the stage
to perform his single "For Your
Entertainment" off his debut solo
album.
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Alternate-reality games flourish at the grassroots

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:00:00 AM
A photo of a meeting between a

participant in Must Love Robots,
a small-scale alternate-reality
game put on recently by the New
York duo, Awkward Hug, and
the game's signature
robot.(Credit: Flickr user Tim
Scribbles)
For Kiaya Steele, the men in
suits and dark glasses who
appeared suddenly through the
raindrops of a New Hampshire
morning were the first sign that
something very unusual was
going on.
One of the men stood under an
umbrella next to the car Steele
and her friend Kellin had been
riding in moments earlier and
delivered a message. As Kelli's
sister Jenna was brought out of a
second car that had pulled up
mysteriously behind them, Steele
was told that if she couldn't
quickly prove that she was "the
real Kiaya," the bomb planted
inside Jenna would explode.
And this was just the tip of the
iceberg of a day spent driving all
around the countryside, complete
with vans, staple guns,
cameramen in trees, threats, red
phone booths, and a series of
hidden clues.
But this wasn't a situation for the
FBI. Rather, it was a very smallscale--and low-tech--version of
what is known as an alternatereality game, an entertainment
genre that has grown in
popularity in recent years,
especially because its traditional

use of mixed-media--the Web,
cell phones, social media, and
others--can allow large numbers
of people to play together
collaboratively.
Over the years, the games have
become a favorite marketing tool
of large companies like
Microsoft, which has
commissioned huge ARGs, as ARG was called The Beast, and

they're known, for the launches was used as a promotion for the
of things like the video game release of the Steven Spielberg
Halo 2 and Windows Vista.
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film "AI: Artificial Intelligence."

Those versions of ARGs have
seven-figure budgets and allow
thousands of people to
participate. Yet while they get
most of the ink written about
ARGs, there has long been a
steady stream of games built for
very small audiences or, as in the
case of Steele and the friend with
a "bomb" insider her, an audience
of one. It turned out that the
intrigue was all part of a day-long
mystery concocted by Steele's
boyfriend, and involving several
of their friends, as part of an
elaborate marriage proposal.
"We use a lot of fictional
analogies in our lives--gangsters
in an alley (and) later in the quest
there was a Soviet scientist, all
themes that had played out in our
courtship," Steele recalled. "We
would write stories of sorts to
one another before we dated.
We'd take an image and run with
it until it was too tired to move
anymore. The whole thing was
kind of a collaboration of our
lives together."
Given that the game Steele's new
fiance planned for his proposal
had such a small audience, it was,
to be sure, at the extreme end of
the size and complexity spectrum
for ARGs. But at any given
moment, there are several ARGs
being played that have slightly
larger, yet still very small,
numbers of participants. And it is
these games, usually carried out
at minimal expense and with no
deep-pocketed sponsor, that may
well be the true lifeblood of the
increasingly popular world of
ARGs.
And while there are practical
limits to the kinds of interactions
that are possible between the
people running the larger games-the so-called puppetmasters--and
the players, these smaller
adventures offer everyone
involved a much greater chance
at direct communication.
"There are quite a few people
making [small] ARGs, either
without profit in mind or
marketing [who are] saying,
'Look at me, I can do this,'" said
Michael Andersen, who runs
ARGNet, the leading source for
news and information about the
genre. "The motivations for a lot
of these things vary. [One]
advantage of doing these
grassroots games is working for
yourself. [And], it becomes a lot
easier to have those one-on-one
interactions [and the] feeling that
not only can you communicate,
but you can change what's going
on" for fans.
Robot love
Earlier this year, a New York
duo calling themselves Awkward
Hug built and pulled off a smallscale ARG called Must Love
Robots, which was centered
around the idea of helping make
love connections between people
and robots.
Through a series of Web sites,
social media, YouTube videos
and more, Awkward Hug
founders Jim Babb and Tanner
Ringerud turned a $3,000 budget
into a 3-month-long game with at
least 300 participants.
Babb said that the project, which
was entirely self-funded, came

out of an original desire to create
a Web series about a robot. But
when the two realized that they
could "make it so much more" by
adding the various multimedia
elements, they set out to build a
bona fide ARG, one that would
allow them to communicate
directly with almost anyone who
wanted to talk with them, even to
the point of playing online games
of Scrabble. And, of course, there
were real-world meetings
between prospective "dates" and
the game's signature robot (see
video below).
Given the huge gap in size
between a large-scale ARG and
something like Must Love
Robots, it might be surprising
that many of the ultimate goals
are the same. It certainly was to
Babb.
"What surprised me the most,"
Babb said, was that "players want
more and they want to do things
with you. It becomes a
collaboration. The audience
becomes characters."
And while it's not always
possible for everyone to
participate in person--Must Love
Robots attracted players from
around the world--one of the
great things about the ARG genre
is how many people who play do
participate directly in one way or
another. In Babb and Ringerud's
game, for example, 20 people
created costumes related to the
story line and sent in pictures of
themselves wearing the outfits,
all of which were intended to be
folded into the larger story line.
Kids creators
A different kind of small-scale
ARG was Find Chesia, a project
put on by the Finksburg, Md.,
library on behalf of its local
schoolchildren and their summer
reading program.
The story, said organizer
Heather Owings, was centered on
the story of Chesia, a 14-year-old
girl whose parents have gone
missing on an archaeological dig
and who sets out to find them.
The game was designed by five
small teams of 11- to 15-yearolds.
Like with many small-scale
ARGs, Find Chesia encountered
a series of structural problems,
most notably, Owings said, the
fact that the kids turned out to be
resistant--mainly due to regular
conditioning about the dangers of
online anonymity--to the idea of
posting information in character
to the game's Web site. In
addition, there was the
unforeseen problem that almost
none of the kids were old enough
to drive to the game's real-world
locations.
This bracelet is an important
element in the ARG, Finding
Chesia, which was put on by a
Maryland library on behalf of a
town's schoolchildren and their
summer reading program.(Credit:
Finding Chesia)
Still, the game was successful
enough for Owings to want to
run the game again next summer,
incorporating some of the lessons
they learned this year. And
despite the problems, Owings
said that she came away with an
appreciation for what the ARG

genre can offer its organizers and
participants.
"I like that ARGs use tools that
were set up to do something else,
and they're used to create
something new," Owings said.
"It's the taking of something and
changing it and using it for
something it wasn't intended [for]
in a new and creative way."
Plus, she said, Finding Chesia
turned out to be a perfect way to
get the kids in on the enjoyment
of building their own game, even
though they lacked many of the
skills generally considered
necessary for such a task.
"It's a way for teens to create
their own game," Owings said,
"and we really enjoyed that
aspect of it...They don't need to
be computer programmer [and]
here is a way for them to take
ownership for creating a game on
a fairly small level. [As well, it]
helps them to realize how much
the Internet does facilitate
networking within the
community, as well as outside the
community."
These days, said ARGNet's
Andersen, there are at least as
many small, grassroots ARGs
being produced as the larger,
corporate-backed games. And
those numbers could grow as an
increasing number of people
become versed in the tools for
building them. According to
Andersen, teachers at the
University of Texas at Dallas and
the University of Mary
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Pearltrees Visualizes How You Organize the Web

By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
favorite websites, organizing

what you find interesting, and
even seeing what others are
This post is part of Mashables s a y i n g a b o u t s p e c i f i c w e b
Spark of Genius series, which d e s t i n a t i o n s .
highlights a unique feature of
Signing up for Pearltrees is
startups. If you would like to simple, but getting used to the
have your startup considered for interface and all of its features is
inclusion, please see the details not as easy. Once you add your
here. The series is made possible personal information, you are
by Microsoft BizSpark.
presented with a display
Name: Pearltrees
connecting you to a web of
Quick Pitch: Pearltrees is a new circles, which are called pearls.
visual way to organize content on In this system, you add websites
the Web and connecting peoples you find interesting (either
interests.
manually, via a browser
Genius Idea: How do you e x t e n s i o n , o r t h r o u g h
organize the web on the browser? bookmarklets) into your profile.
Since the time of Netscape, You also have control over where
weve been using bookmarks and the pearls are placed on the page.
a wide series of folders to Now for the organization part:
manage our favorite websites and you can create complex systems
web pages. Perhaps in some of pearls, known as pearltrees.
instances you use something like These complex trees are like your
Google Reader to organize your bookmark folders and subfolders,
articles and favorite things on but visually represented. If you
YouTube, but the result is the create a pearl for YouTube, you
same: its a messy affair.
could create a tree filled with
Pearltrees is nothing less than a n o t h i n g b u t y o u r f a v o r i t e
reinvention of how we organize YouTube videos. The same goes
the web. The service provides a for articles or any other type of
completely unique and visual web content. You can collapse
e x p e r i e n c e t o s a v i n g y o u r or expand trees at will.
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:01:39 PM
understands what users want and

need. Spark of Genius Series
Sponsored by Microsoft
BizSpark
BizSpark is a startup program
that gives you three-year access
to the latest Microsoft
development tools, as well as
connecting you to a nationwide
Clicking on a pearl gives you a n e t w o r k o f i n v e s t o r s a n d
range of options that go beyond incubators. There are no upfront
visiting your favorite website. It costs, so if your business is
provides a preview of the page privately owned, less than three
and offers options to share it via years old, and generates less than
social media. The most unique U.S.$1 million in annual revenue,
aspects are the connections and you can sign up today.
discussions, however. You can
Entrepreneurs can take
see how others have organized advantage of the Azure Services
any website within the pearltrees, platform for their website hosting
along with their notes on that and storage needs. Microsoft
website. In a way, its like recently announced thenew
Delicious, but more in-depth and CloudApp() contest use the
visually rich.
Azure Services Platform for
P e a r l t r e e s t a k e s a t i m e hosting your .NET or PHP app,
investment to make it useful. and you could be the lucky
Once youve spent some time winner of a USD 5000* ( please
with it though, its easy to get see website for official rules and
addicted. Its more intuitive than guidelines). Reviews: Delicious,
bookmarks and provides a social Google Reader, PHP, YouTube
context comparable to Delicious. Tags: bizspark, Pearltrees
Its still in Alpha too, meaning
that you can expect it to evolve
significantly as its team better
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Adam Lambert Locks

Lips with Dancer During
AMA Performance
Submitted at 11/22/2009 11:09:00 PM
Adam Lambert joined ET

backstage after his lip-locking
performance at the "2009
American Music Awards" on
Sunday night.
In his performance of his single
"For Your Entertainment," Adam
shared a kiss with one of his male
back-up dancers. He said, "We
were all just kind of expressing
ourselves."
"We just wanted to really honor
the lyrics of the song and I feel
like we did that," explained the
break-out star of his
choreography.
ALTERNATEcontinued from page 20
Washington are both teaching

classes about ARGs.
But the real upside in the genre's
growth will come naturally, as
more people in more local
communities get exposed to
ARGs and discover the joy of
playing something truly

interactive and truly
collaborative.
And while it's true that most
small ARGs quickly peter out as
players and organizers discover
that they don't have the time or
energy to follow through, there

are those who feel that the
ultimate payoff of participating is
there for anyone with the stamina
or commitment to grab it.
"For an independent ARG, the
most successful thing you can do
is complete it and have your core

audience go all the way through,"
said Awkward Hug's Babb. "It's
such a cool format, and the
people who can make it through a
whole one of these get an
experience that no other media
can provide."
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Dear Rupert: You Don't Succeed By Another iPhone worm,

Making Life More Difficult For
but this one is serious
Users
(CNET News.com)
Sophos wrote that the worm

attacks users on several ISPs,
including UPC in the
will signal incredibly short- aggregates both Microsoft and Another iPhone worm has been Netherlands, Optus in Australia,
sighted thinking on the parts of Google results (2) technology spotted in the wild.
and T-Mobile in several countries
everyone who participates. The hacks that will allow you to Unlike the previous exploitation, worldwide. Worse, the worm
i n i t i a l r e a c t i o n w o u l d b e combine the two results in one or w h i c h m e r e l y c h a n g e d a s p r e a d s f a s t e r o n a W i - F i
significantly less traffic to any (3) Google realizes that it has jailbroken iPhone's wallpaper to connection than a 3G connection.
site that agrees to participate, copyright law fair use on its site a picture of Rick Astley of Users with affected devices
considering that Google still a n d k e e p s i n d e x i n g s i t e s "Rickrolling" fame, this new might notice extremely short
drives a ton of traffic to most anyways. I'm not sure Google threat allows hackers to steal battery life while on Wi-Fi.
major sites. Simply giving that would take that last step, but if sensitive information.
According to Sophos, that's
up for a chunk of cash is a very things go nuclear, it might make
According to security firm mainly due to the worm engaging
risky proposition. Second, in the most sense.
Sophos, which wrote about the in "so much network activity."
factionalizing the web, it harms But the key thing is that none of exploitation after a Dutch ISP When a device is infected, it's
everyone. No one wants to have this does anything to help users. spotted it late last week, the assigned a unique number so that
to think about which sites are And that's the problem. It's not worm attacks jailbroken iPhone the attackers can easily pinpoint a
included in which search engine, adding even the tiniest sliver of and iPod Touch devices only.
single device. It also looks for
and if the battle begins in earnest, additional benefit to users. And The worm "uses command-and- authentication systems that use
then you have a situation where these days, that's a strategic error. control, like a traditional PC SMS, better known as mTANs.
you end up in an inevitable If your business is focused on botnet," Sophos wrote in a blog mTANs are frequently used by
stalemate, with certain sites in making life more difficult for a post on Saturday to warn users banks that send an SMS message
Google's search engine, but not competitor, rather than adding about the exploit. "It configures with a password to mobile
in Microsoft's, and others in just more value to users, you're doing two startup scripts, one to phones, allowing people to log in
Microsoft's but not Google's -- the wrong thing. Microsoft and execute the worm on boot-up, to their online accounts, Sophos
and no one wins. Third, the cost News Corp. should be trying to a n d t h e o t h e r t o c r e a t e a wrote.
of this program to a company provide more value to users, and connection to a Lithuanian server In essence, this threat is serious.
l i k e M i c r o s o f t t o m a k e i t instead, they seem to be plotting to upload stolen data and cede Sophos recommends that people
meaningful is huge. It's much ways to make consumers' lives control to the bot master."
with infected iPhones and iPod
bigger than the numbers that m o r e a n n o y i n g a n d m o r e Jailbreaking, which has been Touch devices restore them back
were being tossed out before. difficult. They may think that's around for about two years, is a to Apple's most recent firmware
Finally, all this would really do is smart, but in the long term, such hack that enables iPhone and update. For now, there is no other
open up new opportunities for strategies always backfire.
iPod Touch users to download way to fix the problem.
o n e o f t h r e e t h i n g s ( o r a Permalink| Comments| Email applications unavailable through This content has passed through
combination) to happen (1) a new This Story
Apple's App Store.
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meta search engine shows up that
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:09:25 AM

Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:06:00 AM
Well, look at that. Last week it

was just a silly suggestion from
some netheads, and now come
reports that Rupert Murdoch is at
least in the early stages of
considering opting out of Google,
with Microsoft paying it to be
"exclusive" on Bing. Apparently,
Microsoft has actually
approached a few publications
about doing similar deals. It's no
surprise that Microsoft and
Murdoch would explore this.
Microsoft has experimented for
years with programs to bribe
people to use its search engine
over Google's -- but it hasn't done
much to help. Meanwhile,
Murdoch continues to not
actually understand how the
internet or copyright law works,
and has some oddly misplaced
dislike for Google (despite the
fact that Google alone is pretty
much what kept Murdoch-owned
MySpace alive for years, and
Murdoch owns a bunch of sites
that aggregate info just like
Google).
Still, if this does go forward, it
Twitter launching paid business accounts - Telegraph

By twitter:@mclayson
(TweetMeme)
Twitter's cofounder Biz Stone

said the microblogging service
would start charging companies
for using the platform from next www.telegraph.co.uk

year.
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Dell Mini 3i smartphone ready for

China launch
(CNET News.com)
netbook for the Chinese market.

With more than 500 million
customers, China Mobile is the
Dell and China Mobile on
world's largest mobile service
Monday offered up more details
provider, according to Dell.
about the Dell Mini 3i
Dell was initially mum on details
smartphone, which will be going
when it first mentioned the Mini
on sale in China later this month.
3i about 10 days ago. But the
Dell's
Mini
3i
company did reveal that China
smartphone(Credit: Dell)
Mobile and Brazil's Claro would
The Android-based device,
be the first global providers to
Dell's first smartphone, will
carry its new smartphone.
support e-mail, instant
Like China Mobile, Brazil's
messaging, and both MMS and
Claro boasts a huge subscriber
SMS messaging. It will include
base, with 42 million customers
Bluetooth and GPS capabilities
in Brazil alone. By selling the
and a Mini USB connector, and
Mini 3i through both providers,
will accommodate Micro SD
Dell can potentially capture a
cards up to 32GB.
much larger mobile audience
The quadband GSM/EDGE
than it could through any U.S.
phone weighs 105 grams and Mini 3i will provide access to an carriers.
includes a 3-megapixel camera online store, in this case, China Arriving in China Mobile stores
with zoom, auto-focus, flash, Mobile's Mobile Market, where by the end of November, the
video capture, and photo-editing people can download apps, Mini 3i will shortly thereafter be
capabilities. The touchscreen has games, wallpaper, and ringtones. sold directly from Dell. For those
a 640x360 resolution. Dell had Users will be able to run different interested in color schemes, the
already confirmed earlier this widgets on the home screen to Mini 3i will be available in Red
month that the Mini 3i would keep on top of the news, weather, Passion and Oiled Bronze--the
have a 3.5-inch high-definition stock prices, and sports scores.
image below shows the Red
D e l l s a i d i t h a s b e e n Passion treatment:
screen.
Under the hood, the device is collaborating with China Mobile Dell Mini 3i smartphone(Credit:
running China Mobile's OPhone f o r a b o u t a y e a r o n t h e Dell/China Mobile)
software, a customized version of development of the phone. The This content has passed through
Google's Android operating two companies teamed up earlier fivefilters.org.
in the year to integrate a 3G data
system.
Like other Android phones, the card for Dell's Inspiron Mini 10
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Roku Adds Channel Store

with Facebook, Flickr,
Pandora, and More
By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:53:33 PM
Internet-enabled set-top box

makers Roku (who we wrote
about in our top 10 gadgets for
social media addicts feature
recently) have some welcome
announcements today about 10
new, free content partners being
added to the platform in an also
new Roku Channel Store section.
Coming to the new App Storestyle store are popular video
providers blip.tv, independent
netcasters Revision3 and This
Week in Tech, photo browsing
from both Flickr and your
Facebook photos, music from
recommendation engine Pandora,
plus content FrameChannel,
Mediafly, MobileTribe, and
Motionbox.
As internet-based television and
other video content marches into
the living room, were seeing a
number of different approaches
to bringing online video to the
big screen. Some, like Boxee,
began as a software interface that
makes hooking up your computer
to your TV an easier experience
and later began pursuing a
dedicated hardware solution.
Roku began initially as a
hardware solution an
alternative to (or addition to) the
set-top box that powers your
cable subscription.
Roku has several different

players available including a
standard definition model and
two flavors of high-definition
boxes. Existing content partners
will of course remain, with
Netflix, Amazon Video on
Demand and MLB.TV also
available for streaming video to
the devices. The new Channel
Store represents a shift towards
building an open platform model
to allow new channel partners to
more easily make their content
available via the Roku box.
How do you watch internet
video in the home? Do you have
a setup that brings online
television to your actual
television? Reviews: App Store,
Boxee, Facebook, Flickr,
Pandora
Tags: facebook, flickr, ONLINE
VIDEO, pandora, revision 3,
roku, Twit, video
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Nintendo launches paid video

content for Wii
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:00:00 AM
The Nintendo Wii remains a

force to be reckoned with in the
video game world and new
survey statistics along with new
revenue streams suggest that
Nintendo has still has something
up it's sleeve.
Wii 'Theater no Ma'(Credit:
Nintendo) New survey data from
Lottay, an online wish-list and
gift giving site, shows that the
Wii and its associated accessories
will regain momentum during
this year's holiday season.
The Wii and Wii-related gear
were wished for twice as much as
the Sony PS3 and Xbox 360
combined though 38 percent of
people wanted something other
than products--namely cash, and
in one case, Satan (I assume for a
visit, not as a full-time family
member.)
And while a wish, or a request
for a gift, is no guarantee that a
product will actually sell, there is
a dearth of exciting gifts for this
holiday season, leaving room for
the Wii and other less-new
products to be successful.
Just a few weeks ago, Electronic
Arts CEO John Riccitiello
commented that the "Wii
platform has been a little weaker
than we had anticipated" but
Nintendo of America's executive
Microsoft and News Corp in

Discussions to Remove
Newspaper Content from Google
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 4:51:19 PM
Yes, really. Rupert Murdochs

crusade to blame Google for the
failing newspaper business model
continues today, as it emerges
that News Corp has conducted
talks with Microsoft about deindexing the companys sites
from Google and (presumably)
being paid to include them in
Bing instead.
vice president of sales and directly to their front door.
The concept makes sense only if
marketing Cammie Dunaway This weekend Nintendo added to you buy Murdochs claims that
was extremely positive about the the Wii's variety of interactive Google is stealing content
current sales and the future offerings, with a paid video rather than simply helping people
growth.
download service for Japan. find it.
But, the focus in the U.S. "Theater no Ma" will offer a The revelation comes from the
remains on selling more titles and range of movies, anime and other Financial Times, which has a
accessories, not branching out paid content from providers strong track record for accurate
into additional services such as including Walt Disney and reportage this is unlikely to be
we've seen with Microsoft's Sesame Workshop.
a fluffy rumor. The piece reads,
Xbox Live, which provides Downloading rental content onto in part:
access to Facebook, Twitter, and game consoles and set-top boxes Microsoft has had discussions
Last.fm through the console.
has been common in the U.S for with News Corp over a plan that
Services supporting the Wii are awhile, but the reason this service w o u l d i n v o l v e t h e m e d i a
much more sophisticated in could prove meaningful in Japan companys being paid to deNintendo's home country of is because Nintendo researchers index its news websites from
Japan, where the company previously found that 87 percent Google, setting the scene for a
p r e v i o u s l y l a u n c h e d a n of Wii users use the console on search engine battle that could
advertising program to turn the biggest screen in the house, offer a ray of light to the
family time into a commercial which is still the one in the living newspaper industry.
endeavor and a catering channel room.
The impetus for the discussions
that lets users order food from a This content has passed through came from News Corp, owner of
variety of vendors directly fivefilters.org.
newspapers ranging from the
through the console, delivered
Wall Street Journal of the US to

The Sun of the UK, said a person
familiar with the situation, who
warned that talks were at an early
stage.
However, the Financial Times
has learnt that Microsoft has also
approached other big online
publishers to persuade them to
remove their sites from Googles
search engine.
News Corp and Microsoft,
which owns the rival Bing search
engine, declined to comment.
I say go for it. So, Im sure, do
all the other web publishers who
see that removing many of the
major news sites from Google
will provide even more traffic for
the upstarts. News Corp is
merrily making itself irrelevant to
web consumers, while continuing
to use Google as its punch bag
rather than addressing the radical
transition of media into the
online world. Reviews: Bing,
Google
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Drobo supersizes product line with

the new, faster Drobo S and
DroboElite
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
interface provides data transfer

up to 50% faster than what was
available with FireWire 800, or
about 90 MB per second.
Submitted at 11/23/2009 8:30:00 AM
Earlier in 2009, the DroboPro
Filed under: Enterprise,
brought even more expandability
Hardware, Peripherals, Xserve
to the Drobo line with eight
This morning, Data Robotics
available drive bays and an iSCSI
doubled the size of their Drobo
(Gigabit Ethernet) interface.
storage line with two new
While the DroboPro had
products equipped with the
immediate success in locations
p r o p r i e t a r y B e y o n d R A I D capacity, the Drobo S has five with a single server, it couldn't
technology -- the Drobo S and drive bays instead of the four on multi-host -- in other words, it
the Drobo Elite.
the original device, while still couldn't be used by multiple
The Drobo S (at right) is a maintaining a small desktop servers simultaneously.
performance storage device f o o t p r i n t . T h e d u a l - d r i v e
Continue reading Drobo
designed to answer the question r e d u n d a n c y o p t i o n c a n b e supersizes product line with the
"Why isn't there a Drobo with an switched on or off at any time. n e w , f a s t e r D r o b o S a n d
eSATA interface?" Not only does As with the DroboPro, the new D r o b o E l i t e
the Drobo S have the eSATA member of the Drobo family has
TUAW Drobo supersizes
i n t e r f a c e t h a t m a n y h a v e self-healing technology built-in. product line with the new, faster
requested, but the device is now The device constantly examines D r o b o S a n d D r o b o E l i t e
equipped with an even faster the blocks and sectors of all originally appeared on The
ARM processor for enhanced drives, and flags questionable U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
FireWire 800 connectivity.
areas. By scrubbing the drives, (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Nov 2009
Like the DroboPro, the Drobo S data is only written to "healthy" 08:30:00 EST. Please see our
can offer protection from two areas on drives in the array.
terms for use of feeds.
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School Can't Handle Critical

Community Message Board;
Sends Legal Nastygram
board operator).
But, really, this is why lawyers
still send bogus cease-and-desist
PopeHilarius writes in to alert us letters: all too often they work.
to an unfortunate situation. Having been on the receiving end
Apparently the private school of a few such letters, it's pretty
Adelphi in Bay Ridge, New damn scary to know you might
York, couldn't handle the fact get sued, and even if you know
that there was a Bay Ridge you're right, the whole concept of
messageboard that had a critical having to fight it can be scary
t h r e a d a b o u t t h e s c h o o l , (and expensive) unless you can
including links to some news find a good lawyer to represent
articles that were highly critical you pro bono -- which isn't easy
of the school.
for many to do. It's legal
Rather than respond to those bullying at its finest, but it works
claims, the school sent the way too often. This is one
messageboard owner a cease and reason, by the way, that we really
desist letter, demanding the entire could use a strong, federal, antithread be removed. Tragically, SLAPP law, that would help sites
t h e m e s s a g e b o a r d o w n e r understand that they can't be
apparently was unfamiliar with silenced just because someone
Section 230 of the CDA and the doesn't like what they say, and
rights of a service provider to gives those sites an easy, clear
resist such efforts, and just took and inexpensive way to get any
down the whole thread. This is such cases dismissed quickly.
unfortunate, though, commenters Permalink| Comments| Email
on the thread appear to be This Story
reposting the same articles (and
explaining section 230 to the
Submitted at 11/23/2009 2:10:30 AM
Bengals' fumble hands Raiders last-second win

By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:53:37 AM
Fast Facts
The Raiders tied the game on a
5-yard TD pass from Bruce

Gradkowski to Louis Murphy
with 33 seconds left, then won it
18 seconds later on a gamewinning field goal by Sebastian
Janikowski.
Oakland scored 10 points in the

fourth quarter after scoring a
combined 6 fourth-quarter points
in their previous seven games.
Gradkowski finished 17 for 34
for 183 yards with an INT and
two touchdowns, his first TD

passes since 2006.
Filling in for an injured Cedric
Benson, rookie Bernard Scott
rushed for a game- and careerhigh 119 yards on 21 carries.
Rapid Reaction
-- ESPN Stats & Information
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The Barcodescan Pro app helps you

find the best price
By David Winograd (The
(TUAW))
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone, App

Review Barcodescan Pro[ iTunes
Link] is an app that uses the
autofocus camera of an iPhone
running OS 3.1 or better to scan a
bar code and provide a variety of
information on the product
including pictures, high and low
prices and more depending upon
how much information is in the
Barcodescan database.
To scan a barcode, you just hold
the iPhone so that the barcode
appears in a highlighted window
and as soon as the image is
steady enough, the app
automatically takes a picture,
compares it to its database, and
renders your results. Another
way of getting information into
the app is typing in the numbers
of the barcode into an oversized
numeric keyboard.
I had it scan the CD of Tommy
and it came back with a picture
of the album cover, a prices line
showing the lowest to highest
found price which when tapped
upon, showed the underlying five

vendors, another tap gets you to
the selected vendor's site to buy
it. You can also choose a tab to
get to Google for a standard
search and another for Amazon
where you can log-in and put it
on your wish list or purchase the
item. The vendors in the low to
high price list never included
Amazon, which I thought odd
since Amazon was a persistent
button on each search.
You can check If the item is
found on iTunes. If so, you are

presented with a contextual
service option which brings in
iTunes information. Instead of
giving me one entry for the
album of Tommy, it gave me
many instances that contained the
word Tommy.
Results are saved to lists. The
Recent list shows the last thing
you searched for, the History list
shows everything you've
searched for. You can create
custom lists and easily move any
searches between lists. Results
can also be shared allowing you
to email the search.
So, is it any good? Read on...
Continue reading The
Barcodescan Pro app helps you
find the best price
TUAW The Barcodescan Pro
app helps you find the best price
originally appeared on The
(TUAW) on Mon, 23 Nov 2009
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A New iPhone Worm is

Here, And This Time its
Malicious [WARNING]
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:15:37 AM
A couple of weeks ago, the first

iPhone worm appeared,
spreading on jailbroken devices
with the SSH application
installed (vulnerability being the
fact that many users havent
changed the default root
password). As far as worms go,
this one was quite benign, merely
rickrolling users; i.e., changing
the background image on the
device to an image of Rick
Astley.
Now, according to early reports
of strange activity by Dutch ISP
XS4ALL, and later confirmed by
Sophos, theres a new worm in
the wild, and this one is far more
malicious.
The new worm is called Duh
or Ikee.B, and it uses the exact
same vulnerability as the first
one. The fix is thus identical
change the root password in the
SSH application to something
other than the default, which is
alpine.
Street Chic: New York

By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:00:00 AM
A slouchy blazer adds polish to

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Photo: Kelly Stuart
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mail us your photo and you could
appear in ELLE.com's Street

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Failing to do so might result in

very serious consequences.
According to Sophos, Ikee.B is
designed to connect to a server
in Lithuania and to follow orders
from remote hackers. It can find
vulnerable iPhones on a wide
range of IP addresses, including
IPs in several different countries,
for example the Netherlands,
Portugal, Australia, Austria, and
Hungary. Furthermore, it changes
the root password on the iPhone
to ohshit (as discovered by
Paul Ducklin, head of technology
in Sophos Asia Pacific.)
Users who havent jailbroken
their iPhone or havent installed
the SSH application are not
affected by this vulnerability.
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Roku adds Flickr, Facebook, Pandora, and more video

channels
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:49:00 AM
The new Roku Channel Store

now has 13 free content
channels.(Credit: Roku)
Aiming to expand beyond
movies and baseball, set-top box
maker Roku is adding 10 new
content channels ranging from
social networking to music and
podcasts.
Roku, which makes a small,
wireless device that can stream
content from the Web direct to
any TV screen, is expanding
from 3 channels to 13, as
expected. Channels for Blip.tv,
Facebook Photos, Flickr,
FrameChannel, Mediafly,
MobileTribe, Motionbox,
Pandora, Revision3, and TWiT

will join the current lineup of
Netflix, Amazon Video On
Demand, and, more recently,
MLB.TV. All of them will be
available in the newly christened
Roku Channel Store.
Similar to the app stores
currently popular among mobile
platform providers, Roku users
can choose what apps they want
on their home screen of their
Roku via the Channel Store.
Content is sortable by "new,"
"most popular," and "top-rated."
But unlike most app stores, these
are all free. Access to the
Channel Store and the new
content will be rolled out
automatically to existing Roku
box owners over the next two
weeks. New customers will need

to sign up for a free Roku
account to be able to download
and manage their chosen
channels.
Roku representatives say that 13
channels in the store is just a start

and that there will be a steady
stream of new channels showing
up between now and the
Consumer Electronics Show in
January. While this is a good
start to compete with the growing

wave of Web-connected home
gadgetry (HDTVs, Xbox, PS3,
Blu-ray players, TiVo, and
more), the sweet spot for Roku
would be a Hulu channel or even
dedicated content channels from
cable and broadcast networks.
Until then, the main selling point
of Roku over those other devices
is its price: of the three models,
the lowest starts at $80,
significantly cheaper than a new
TV or Xbox, and all but the most
baseline model Blu-ray players.
Be sure to check back later this
week for CNET's official review.
fivefilters.org.
Gameloft backs iPhone and backs away from Android

By Ken Ray (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone To iPhone

or not to iPhone? That is the
question on which a number of
high-profile app developers are
weighing-in. A couple of weeks
ago it was Facebook app
developer Joe Hewitt and
software maker Rogue Amoeba
saying they'd had enough of
jumping through hoops to be on
the iPhone and that they'd be
working on other things.
Last week, Instapaper webservice and iPhone app [ iTunes

link] developer Marco Arment
said, "Go if you want to, but
there are more than enough
people in the App Store to keep
me fat and happy and not nearly
enough in any other mobile app
ecosystem to draw me away." I'm
paraphrasing of course.
Now, French mobile phone
game developer Gameloft has
given its two cents. According to
a company exec, Gameloft and
other software developers are
drawing down the resources
Rochefort, like Instapaper's

Arment, says the people just
aren't there for the Android. "It is
not as neatly done as on the
spent on developing applications iPhone," says the exec. "Google
for Google's Android platform. has not been very good to entice
Gameloft finance director customers to actually buy
Alexandre de Rochefort said at products. On Android nobody is
an investor conference late last making significant revenue."
week, "We have significantly cut Meanwhile on the App Store,
our investment in Android money flows like water for
platform, just like ... many Gameloft and the water's fine.
Games for Apple's handhelds
others."
Did he say what others? No. Did generated 13% of Gameloft's
revenue last quarter. According
he say why? Yes.
to Rochefort, Gameloft is selling
400 times as many games for the

iPhone and iPod touch as it is for
the various Android powered
phones.
[via Reuters]
TUAW Gameloft backs iPhone
and backs away from Android
(TUAW) on Mon, 23 Nov 2009
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Mobile shopping's first Christmas

By Mike Schramm (The
(TUAW))
see how much this changes the

experience. When I was a kid,
you planned out your route ahead
of time and hit what few stores
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:00:00 AM
you could, but between Twitter,
Filed under: Software, Odds and
apps, and all the other
ends, Freeware, Deals, iPhone,
information available on a phone,
App Store I don't know that I
shopping during the holiday
completely agree with this article
season might be very different
over
at
Business
this year.
Week(technically, last year was
Although you can be sure there
our first Christmas with the App
will still be lines, parking
Store), but I think the concept is
frustrations, and lots and lots of
fascinating. Lauren Sherman and
people buying junk just because
her interviewee Retails Systems
it's cheap. Then again, maybe it's
Research managing partner Paula Christmas. You'll see people better to use that slightly older
Rosenblum reason that this sending texts to each other, piece of technology, the desktop
coming Christmas season -- playing games while in line, and browser, and just do the shopping
surprise, we're only five days even scanning coupons in at the from home.
away from Black Friday 2009-- register -- all with their phones. [via MacBytes]
will be the first where mobile As I said, this was all possible TUAW Mobile shopping's first
s h o p p i n g a p p s ( a n d t h e last Christmas, but since then, Christmas originally appeared on
smartphones that can run them) we've seen non-iPhones like the The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Pre and the Droid drop, and the (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Nov 2009
will be generally ubiquitous.
Not only will people have access iPhone itself has claimed a lot 07:00:00 EST. Please see our
to apps on their iPhone that help more customers than Black terms for use of feeds.
them find deals, stores, and Friday 2008. These people won't Read| Permalink| Email this|
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connected phones as well, which obviously, but they will be using
many of them actually got last them, and it'll be interesting to
American Music Awards

Pre-Show Streaming Live
on Facebook Now [AMAs]
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 3:58:11 PM
For those whod like to turn the

American Music Awards into a
more social experience, dont
forget that the pre-show is
streaming live on Facebook
today, with full integration of
Facebook status updates.
As a viewer, you can post your
own live commentary into your
Facebook news feed and read
status updates on the event from
everybody or just your friends.
As we wrote of the event earlier
this week:
Facebook is teaming with
Ustream and fans at home will
have a chance to post questions
for the hosts which include
Facebooks Randi Zuckerberg
and Brandee Barker to ask the
music artists as they prepare to
enter the award show.
The AMAs air Sunday night on
ABC from 8-11 EST. The preshow will start at 6 p.m. EST.
You can tune in at Facebooks
Chiefs stun Steelers; Big Ben suffers hit to head

By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 9:52:48 PM
Fast Facts
Ryan Succop's 22-yard field
goal in overtime lifted the Chiefs
and helped them pass their win

total from last year.
The Steelers allowed the
opening kickoff to be returned
for a touchdown and have now
allowed a return TD in an NFLrecord eight straight games.
Kansas City snapped a 10-game

home losing streak.
Ben Roethlisberger threw for
398 yards, the third-highest total
of his career.
Kansas City's Chris Chambers
had 119 receiving yards, his 1st
100-yard game since Week 3 of

the 2007 season.
Rapid Reaction
fivefilters.org.
Celebs Page, the AMAs

Facebook Page or via Ustream or
ABC.com.
What do think of Facebooks
latest live streaming partnership?
Let us know in the comments.
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The cow says mooooo! Zoowawa, an Finder icon birthday

app for toddlers and their parents
cake will make your day
By David Winograd (The
(TUAW))
big things and dividing the screen

to make each animal half of the
screen size was probably not the
best idea. Even at full size, a
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:00:00 PM
picture may not attract the
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch,
attention of a toddler for too
App Review Zoowawa[US$0.99,
long.
iTunes Link] is a cute app
I also had a bit of a problem with
targeted for toddlers between the
the quality of the animal sounds.
ages of two and three. Your child
Most are not digitized animal
is presented with a split screen
sounds, but rather a recording of
displaying two animals. Tapping
someone making the sound with
on one of the animals plays the
his voice. Since for many kids
sound that the animal makes.
this app might be their first
Each half of the screen can be
introduction to animals, I think
swiped individually to reveal 14
that sound accuracy should be
animal pictures per half, or 24
important.
animal pictures in all. The
Continue reading The cow says
pictures are brightly colored and of the animal should be shown. mooooo! Zoowawa, an app for
the app has a very clean look to My daughter told me that for toddlers and their parents
it. Zoowawa runs on any iPhone most kids in the targeted age TUAW The cow says mooooo!
or iPod touch using OS 3.1.2 or range, adding the text would be Zoowawa, an app for toddlers
better.
too complex since reading often and their parents originally
My daughter is finishing a doesn't start until a child is three appeared on The Unofficial
masters in education and has years old or older.
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun,
familiarity with very small She did have few problems with 22 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST.
children, so I asked her about the the size of the pictures, saying Please see our terms for use of
appropriateness of this app. My that they may not hold a child's feeds.
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Comments
By Mike Schramm (The

(TUAW))
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:00:00 PM
Filed under: Humor, Cult of

Mac, Odds and ends, Found
Footage
If there's one thing I like better
than pie, it's cake. And if there's a
best kind of cake, it's definitely
one that's shaped in the form of
something geeky. Which means
the video above, which shows
what seems to be a tasty
confection in the form of Apple's
Finder icon, hits the spot
perfectly. David B.'s wife made it
for him for his birthday earlier
this week, he says over on his
Twitter account. He doesn't say
what kind of cake it is, but given
that it's Finder, I'm going to
guess chocolate. An iTunes icon
Download Google
Chrome OS and Run
it from a USB Drive
Celebs Support Michael J. Fox's Charity for a

Night of Music & Comedy
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:21:00 PM
Stars collided with rock n' rollers

on Saturday night for a night of
comedy and music to benefit The

Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinson's Research.
"It's like Thanksgiving or a
holiday, you always look forward
to it," Fox said of the evening.

TV star Denis Leary came out
for the event and talked to ET
about his friend's charity. "It's
obviously a great cause and a lot
cake would give off a more

"vanilla" vibe to me.
We've also, you'll remember,
seen this Finder icon parading
around on pillows as well. Which
isn't too surprising -- who could
pass up a face like that? Not only
is he a handsome dude with a
mischievous smile, but he's got
access to all your files and
passwords. That's the kind of guy
you'd better get along with.
Thanks to Chris Pirillo for the
tip!
TUAW Finder icon birthday
cake will make your day
(TUAW) on Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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By twitter:@deepikasuren
(TweetMeme)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:02:08 AM
How To Run Google Chrome

OS From A USB Drive
[Windows] http://bit.ly/8GptNz
of fun. ... One of the highlights,
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Fox gets up on stage to play with
the rock n' roll hall of famers."
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Talkcast tonight: Holiday gift suggestions

By Michael Rose (The
(TUAW))
Submitted at 11/22/2009 6:30:00 PM
Filed under: TUAW Business,

Podcasts
You can catch last week's show,
the deep dive on the Psystar
summary judgment with Lauren,
via iTunes or Talkshoe. Granted,
it was a bit single-minded
compared to our usual attention
deficit-driven topic hop, but I
enjoyed it!
Tonight, we're going to cover the
week in review as we often do;
plus we'll take your calls and
suggestions for our holiday gift
guide choices. It's a great time to
drop hints to family and friends
about what you're hoping to get
(for the record, the entire TUAW

staff looks good in cashmere).
Do join us.
To participate on TalkShoe, you
can use the browser-only client,
the embedded Facebook app, or
the classic TalkShoe Pro Java
client; however, for maximum
fun, you should call in. For the

web UI, just click the"TalkShoe
Web" button on our profile page
at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on
regular phone or VoIP lines (take
advantange of your free
cellphone weekend minutes if
you like): dial (724) 444-7444
and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 - during the call, you can request
to talk by keying in *-8.
If you've got a headset or
microphone handy on your Mac,
you can connect via the free
Gizmo or X-Lite SIP clients;
basic instructions are here. Talk
with you then!
TUAW Talkcast tonight:
Holiday gift suggestions
(TUAW) on Sun, 22 Nov 2009
Comments
QuirksBlog: Apple is
not evil. iPhone
developers are stupid.
By twitter:@ppk (TweetMeme)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:36:19 AM
In his Apples mistake essay

Paul Graham makes an
unwarranted assumption; an
assumption everybody whos
currently involved in the Great
App Store Debate seems to be
making.The fundamental
problem on the iPhone is not
Apples App Store approval
policies, but the iPhone
developers arrogant disdain for
Web technologies.It was only last
Friday I told a roomful of Web
developers that
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Glenn Beck's Racist Friends

Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:19:34 AM
If you want to know if

someones blowing a dog
whistle, ask the dogs.
Beck insists his critics are
imagining things, that he does
not engage in racial fearmongering, that a string of guests
with ties to hate groups do not
form a meaningful pattern, and
that hes not a racist. It occurred
to me the other day that if you
really want to know whether
Beck and his guests are blowing
racial dog-whistles, its best to
ask a dog.
I decided to reach out to Don
Black, the avowed white

nationalist who runs the Web site
Stormfront.org, the countrys
leading Discussion board for
pro-White activists and anyone
else interested in White
survival. But Black hung up on
me. I next tried to get in touch
with David Duke, the former
gubernatorial candidate and
current head of the European
American Unity and Rights
Organization. Duke, too, had
little interest in talking to me,
likely because of my past
association with the Southern
Poverty Law Center, which
tracks the activities of white
supremacist groups.
Unable to get through to the

highest-profile spokesmen of the
racist grass roots, I took a page
from the other side and trawled
their Web sites for insight. I
scanned Davidduke.com and
Stormfront.org to see what they
had to say, if anything, about
Beck. Admittedly, this method is
not scientific, and certainly folks
on the left dont like it when
righties cherry-pick an extreme
comment from Daily Kos or the
Huffington Post and pretend the
whole site can be summed up by
such extremism.
On the other hand,
Stormfront.org isnt a media
organization but a self-described
discussion board. And when it

comes to Beck, the discussions
are fairly positive. On both David
Dukes Web site and Stormfront,
Becks July 28 claim that
President Obama harbors a deep
-seated hatred of white people, or
the white culture was met with
attention and appreciation.
Duke was heartened by the
discussion it generated, and
placed it in a larger context. A
lot of stuff is happening in the
world of race relations and little
of it points towards a post-racial
society, Duke noted. Beck is
steadily losing advertisers, but
his viewers seem to be sticking
with him White desperation is
manifesting itself in various

forms.
Becks charge that the president
hates white people sparked a
more expansive discussion at
Stormfront.org. Some
participants saw Beck as an
important ally in the White
Nationalist cause. Others were
skeptical, viewing him as a
clueless conservative version of
Lenins useful idiot. But some
of Stormfronts most active
members generally agreed that,
whether he was fully conscious
or not, Beck was nudging his
audience toward an embrace of
racial consciousness.
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The Scientific Scandal

of the Millennium
Submitted at 11/22/2009 5:02:50 PM
A new release of private

scientific correspondence reveals
an astonishing conspiracy to
manipulate and suppress
evidence by top researchers in
the field of Newtonian physics:
Newtongate: the final nail in the
coffin of Renaissance and
E n l i g h t e n m e n t
&##x2018;thinking&##x2019;.
If you own any shares in
companies that produce
reflecting telescopes, use
differential and integral calculus,
or rely on the laws of motion, I
should start dumping them
NOW. The conspiracy behind the
calculus myth has been suddenly,
brutally and quite deliciously
exposed after volumes of
Newtons private correspondence
were compiled and published.
When you read some of these

letters, you realise just why
Newton and his collaborators
might have preferred to keep
them confidential. This scandal
could well be the biggest in
Renaissance science. These
alleged letters supposedly
exchanged by some of the most
prominent scientists behind really
hard math lessons suggest:
Conspiracy, collusion in
covering up the truth,
manipulation of data, private
admissions of flaws in their
public claims and much more.
But perhaps the most damaging
revelations are those concerning
the way these math nerd
scientists may variously have
manipulated or suppressed
evidence to support their cause.
Read the whole sorry tale of
Newtonian malfeasance.
Use Oats to Make Great

Faux-Meat Veggie
Burgers [Health]
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Police Use Pepper

Spray to Break Up
High School Fight
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:32:18 AM
OVERLEA, Md. Baltimore

County police say two girls are in
custody after an officer used
By Sarah Rae Trover
one that truly succeeded, I turned pepper spray to break up a fight
(Lifehacker)
to this recipe from weblog Food at Overlea High School.
Police spokeswoman Susan
Wishes.
Submitted at 11/22/2009 3:00:00 PM
Hunt
says the fight between the
The key to the recipe is
two
girls
started around 7:45 a.m.
Turkey's traditional, but it's oatstheir main purpose to
smart to have a meat-free absorb excess moisture from the Monday and an officer used
alternative on the backburner at mix, without stealing any from pepper spray to break up the
Thanksgiving. Veggie burgers the mushrooms that are added in. fight.
are quick and easy, but also If you're looking for a pre- or Hunt says the two girls were
typically dry or mushy. Try even post-Thanksgiving snack taken into custody and five other
adding oats to keep things moist that doesn't involve turkey, give students are complaining of
and meaty.
these a try. The oats make things discomfort from exposure to the
Although I live in Kansas City, hearty without a sign of beef, pepper spray.
She says county schools usually
Missourihome to the best meat pork, or lamb in sight.
options aroundI'm not a huge
D o y o u h a v e a p o s t have one or two school resource
meat eater, truth be told. Still, Thanksgiving snack that takes it o f f i c e r s o n c a m p u s , b u t
vegetarian fare always leaves me easy on the turkey? Share your additional officers are at the
feeling unsatisfied. I've tested recipe in the comments. Meaty school Monday to make sure
more than my share of veggie Mushroom Veggie Burger - The everything stays calm.
burger recipes, all promising to Least Terrible Veggie Burger This content has passed through
create something that has the heft Ever![Food Wishes via Social fivefilters.org.
and tenderness of a proper Workout]
hamburger. Never having found
Opera 10.10 with Unite Media Server Released [Downloads]

Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:00:00 AM
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's
out with a 10.10 final release, and
this one includes the Opera Unite
personal media server we've
previously toured in beta. A few
other features, like built-in
BitTorrent, make Opera 10.10

worth a look.
Unite is an intriguing step
forward for Opera, bringing an
entirely new sub-set of powers to
a platform that's already known
for its built-in email client and
FTP package. While some may
question why you'd use a browser
-to-browser connection to share
pictures, videos, documents, or

chat in the age of ubiquitous web
services that do the same or
similar things, Opera's always
been about doing things a bit
differently. And if you want a
better sense of security, it's bets
to let your own system do the
sharing, rather than another firm's
servers.
Opera 10.10 is a free download
for Windows, Mac, and Linux
systems. If you're running it and
see something we missed that's
new, tell us about it in the
comments. Opera Web
Browser[via Kabatology]
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White Space and LEDs [Featured Workspace]

By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 4:00:00 PM
Today's featured workspace is an

example of how you don't have
to spend a fortune to have a fun
and functional workspace with a
solid dose of style.
Obviously Apple products don't
come cheap, so we'll discount the
presence of a gorgeous and
pricey Apple screen as part of the
total cost of the space. The rest of
the space is composed of simple
and inexpensive items, like $89
IKEA Vika Gruvan desktop and
a comically large clothespin for
temporally stashing important
papers.
A bedroom corner that serves as

my home office. IKEA's VIKA
GRUVAN lets me keep my tools
of the trade for easy access under
the glass desktop. The farther
half holds type specimen books
and magazines. The large clip is
for bills/papers that need urgent

attention. The fliptop picture
holder holds a monthly calendar
and my various cheat sheets for
easy flipping.
The unified color scheme and
the attention to personal details
like the inclusion of artwork and

personal effects highlighted by
small LED spotlights really make
the small space appear interesting
and larger than it is.
If you have a workspace of your
own to show off, throw the
pictures on your Flickr account
and add it to the Lifehacker
Workspace Show and Tell Pool.
Include some details about your
setup and why it works for you,
and you just might see it featured
on the front page of Lifehacker.
White
Spaces
and
LEDs[Lifehacker Workspace
Show and Tell Pool]
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:30:00 AM
Storing hoses and cords can pose

a challenge. They're long, prone
to kinking and retaining the
"memory" of how they were
stored, and consistently storing
them in an improper manner
hastens their demise. Store them
properly with these three
techniques.
Carpenter Tucker Windover has
a guide at Fine Homebuilding to

storing your electrical cords,
heavy-guard cords, and air hoses
properly. While geared towards
someone working in construction
who would be frequently packing
and unpacking gear, the
principles of proper storage apply
for any cords or hoses you put
into storage around the home.
The some of the same techniques
Tucker advocates make their used to keep your headphone
appearance in less bulky places cord kink-free and undamaged.
too. The under-over wrap can be For step by step instructions you
What designers think of AOL's new logo | Technology | guardian.co.uk

By twitter:@guardiantech
(TweetMeme)
What designers think of AOL's

new logo http://bit.ly/4OabBB
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By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 2:57:01 AM
Youve probably already seen it

on Sunday Night Football or one
of about 13,586 other blogs, but
just in case.
With under 2 minutes left in last
nights game between the Eagles
and Bears, Devin Hester had his
pants pulled down by Eagles
cornerback Dimitri Patterson in
what wound up an incomplete
pass.
Heres a still and a YouTube
can check out a video of the three video. And no, views of the
different techniques heresorry, YouTube video will not be
it's non-embeddable!or visit counted in the Nielsen ratings!
Fine Homebuilding at the link If there is an Emmy Award for
below to see the steps laid out in nonchalance during a sports
a photo tutorial.
broadcast, Chris Collinsworth
Have a technique for storing and Al Michaels deserve it.
awkward stuff like cabling or This content has passed through
Christmas lights? Let's hear fivefilters.org.
about it in the comments.
Wraping Cords and Hoses[via
Unclutter]
Wrap Hoses and Cords Properly to Avoid Tangles

and Damage [Household]
By Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Devin Hester gets

pantsed; has wardrobe
malfunction during
Sunday Night Football
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Op/Tech Wraps Protect Any Size

Camera or Other Gadgets [Stuff We
Like]
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:30:00 AM
When you've got a decent DSLR

or video camera, it's tempting to
shell out notable bucks for single
-use bags and covers to protect
them. As an alternative, Op/Tech
makes soft, protective, easily
secured wraps for just about any
gear.
The intended use is for cameras,
long lenses, and other gear with
fragile glass and electronics
inside, and for those items,
Op/Tech's wraps seem like a
cheap and clever solution. They
wrap around your gear like a
burrito, fasten with Velcro and
latches, and can be used to make
smaller lenses and cameras fit
inside bags and cases intended
for bigger and wider items.
But given their open-ended

nature, these wraps seem like
they could work around just
about anything that needs a little
extra paddingan external hard
drive with sensitive data, laptops
that don't fit right inside certain
bagsyour imagination, or
gadget needs, can fill out the rest.
The wraps come in 12, 15, and
Back Up Any
Smartphone's Contents
[Backup]
19-inch sizes, with $10-$13 price

tags at Amazon and elsewhere.
Op/Tech 15" Velcro Soft Wrap
with extra 5" removable
Pad[Amazon.com via Cool By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Tools]
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:30:00 AM
A lot of contacts, documents,

text messages, games, and other
data live on your smartphone, but
manufacturers and service
carriers aren't going out of their
way to make backing up easy.
Gizmodo, however, has you
covered on nearly any platform.
organizations from covering John Herrman runs down the
Palin's appearance, though the best, easiest, and cheapest
restrictions were later dropped. methods for backing up iPhones,
Fort Bragg spokesman Tom Android units, BlackBerries,
McCollum tells WTVD-TV that Windows Mobile, and Palm
sales of Palin's book at the post smartphones. Some involve
backing up right to your
store have been weak so far.
This content has passed through computer's hard drive (which you
can then back up to an online
fivefilters.org.
Army Asks Palin Not to Make A Speech at

Book Signing
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:14:31 AM
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin promises to limit her
enthusiasm during her visit to
North Carolina's Fort Bragg.
The former Republican vice
presidential candidate planned to
sign copies of her new memoir at
a post store Monday. Army

officials say Palin will not make
a speech, pose for photos, or
personalize notes in the books
she signs.
The Army worried Palin's
appearance would prompt
political grandstanding against
President Barack Obama. That
fear initially led post
commanders to keep news
service or elsewhere), while

others drop your data onto SD
cards or onto free or cheap web
cloud storage space. Not every
platform supports every kind of
data backup, but most allow you
to put enough aside that a lost,
stolen, or memory-wiped phone
wouldn't cost you a whole day's
worth of re-configuring.
Hit the link for Gizmodo's full
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Don't Assume China Mimics US-Style Social Media

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Submitted at 11/22/2009 12:00:55 PM
China enjoyed center stage this

week thanks to President
Obama's visit. Naturally, trade
relations were on the agenda.
For Internet companies sitting in
the US, news reports that
chronicled the President's every
move in China were a visible
reminder of the business
opportunity that may seem a
click away.
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So, why not export social media
to China just like KFC and
American Idol? After all, seeing
Yao Ming, arguably China's
grandest international star, on
Facebook and Twitter, one
naturally figures, aside from the
language and periodic blocking
of websites, "What's the diff?"
But Facebook has gained little
traction in China (with only
390,000 users), and tweets have
virtually ground to a halt since
the government started blocking
Twitter, and these factors point to
the "diff."
Simply flinging an American
product into the Chinese market
won't succeed, because every
social media category has a
Chinese equivalent that is tuned
to the particular needs of the

mainland Chinese market.
One of China's "Facebooks,"
Kaixin001.com, has already
secured over 40 million users
since launching only last year.
The platform gained its initial
popularity through applications
that you would recognize from
the real Facebook, such as
"Friends for sale" and "Parking
wars" - but with a Chinese twist.
Take, for example, the
application called "Xingming
Yuanfen," in which you type in a
friend's name to test your "
yuanfen" (i.e. your predetermined
relationship with that person).
Another application explains who
you were in your previous life. It
turns out I was a bandit, much to
the chagrin of my parents.
These "fortune-telling"
applications enjoy incredible
popularity on computers and
mobile phones. While fortunetelling jars Western sensibilities,
it remains a part of Chinese
culture. The B-B-what?
But the best example of China
walking to the beat of its own
drummer is the continued
popularity of the BBS.
That's not a typo.
That is the same bulletin board
system that went by the wayside
in the US with dial-up modems
and US Robotics. Chinese
students - who, like their
counterparts in the US, are more

open to experimentation than
other segments - established the
foundation for BBS' to flourish in
China.
All major universities operate
their own BBS. Peking
University and Tsinghua
University (which are the
Harvard and MIT of China) host
the Weiming BBS (named after
Weiming Lake at Peking
University) and Shuimu
Tsinghua BBS, respectively.
With 10+ years' worth of
graduates who grew up on BBS'
now driving the Chinese Internet
market, these same people have
fueled a range of BBS sites tied
to their interests and professions.
According to the latest CINIC
(China Internet Network
Information Center) report,
roughly 30% of Chinese Web
users spend a significant amount
of time on a BBS. So, these sites
certainly transcend geekdom.

55BBS, for example, is an
online community where users
share discount information,
coupons and other creative ways
to land a good deal. Users also
share news of what they got from
their latest shopping spree,
showing off a photo of skin care
products as if it were a trophy.
Perhaps the most unique
phenomenon in China is Tianya,
the #1 BBS, with almost 30
million users.
What is Tianya? Think of it as a
gathering place for an eclectic
blend of intellectuals, journalists,
freelancers, professors,
researchers, gadflies, etc. Users
write on and comment about
sensitive social issues that may
be off-limits to mainstream
media. People also head to this
forum to gossip about celebrities
(okay, some things don't change
between cultures).
A Chinese word has been coined
for BBS evangelists: "Da'rens,"
which roughly means "people
who really know how to do
something." We're now starting
to see some "Da'rens" parlay
their popularity into commercial
success. The famous makeup
Da'ren known as Arora started
out writing about cosmetics on a
BBS before launching a blog for
the mega-portal Sina.com.
From a Chinese perspective, the
fundamental difference between

a blog and BBS is that a BBS
allows for anonymity, which
appeals to the introversion of
many Chinese. Blogging is also
more of a solitary activity, with
readers chiming in with
comments later. The BBS, on the
other hand, is more of a
collaborative undertaking, which
also appeals to the Chinese.
This all means that Internet
companies from the US looking
to crack the mainland Chinese
market need to do their
homework and tailor their
products accordingly.
Here's an easy litmus test when
planning your market entry in
China: "What's the difference
between the US and Chinese
version of your product?"
If the answer takes more than 60
seconds to explain, then you've
got a fighting chance.
Wei Wang is a digital consultant
with The Hoffman Agency, a
communications consultancy
with offices in Beijing (where
Wei is based) and Shanghai, as
well as throughout Asia, the US
and Europe. She can be reached
at WWang@Hoffman.com.
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The "2009 American Music

Awards" boasted many amazing
performances by the biggest
musicians of the year, including
headline-grabbing ladies Fergie,
Rihanna and Whitney Houston.
ET has all the AMA details after
the jump...
Tonight was a good night for
Fergie's group the Black Eyed
Peas, as they won the first award
of the evening for best Pop Rock
Group. The awards show
featured performances by Janet
Jackson, Daughtry, Kelly
Clarkson, Shakira, Timbaland,
Nelly Furtado, Adam Lambert
and Keith Urban.
Kate Hudson and her boyfriend
Alex Rodriguez took the AMA
stage separately. The New York
Yankees player introduced Jay-Z
and Alicia Keys' performance of
their hit song "Empire State of
Mind." Jay-Z won his second
AMA of his career for Rap/HipHop Male later in the evening
and thanked the great city of
NYC. "Men lie, women lie,
numbers don't," he said when
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Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: E-commerce

By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:36:29 PM
Over the past decade,

Amazon.com and eBay have
continued to dominate the online
retail market in the United States.
However, there have been signs
that more social and distributed
forms of online shopping are
gaining traction. eBay, in
particular, is beginning to lose
ground.
In this post, we review the past
decade of e-commerce and the
key trends. Advances in
recommendations technology,
together with the emergence of
social media and mobile
commerce, have combined to
change the way e-commerce is
transacted.
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This is the third in a
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the past 10 years. We previously
covered the online music industry
and the democratization of news
media. Recommendations
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Over the past decade the online
retail industry has seen great
strides in the use of
recommendations technology.
Amazon has consistently led the
field in this, with its sophisticated
blend of personalized, social and
item recommendations.
Many of the retail
recommendations in use today
rely on implicit user data. These

systems typically track user data,
which is then analyzed with a set
of usually proprietary algorithms.
T h e
e n d
r e s u l t :
recommendations for users.
Earlier this year we looked into
Baynote's recommendation
system:
"Baynote observes real-time user
behavior on a site and looks for
implicit, emergent patterns. It
uses collective intelligence and
an affinity engine to analyze the
data. Common behaviors which it
tracks include page refers,
queries, mouse movement, time
spent on a page, peer behavior."
Other similar recommendation
technologies we've profiled
include MyBuys, ATG and
richrelevance. Social Media
Takes Retail to Blogs, Social
Networks
As with nearly every other
industry, shopping sites have
increasingly used social media to
promote their wares.
According to Shop.org's recent
eHoliday Study, 47.1% of
retailers surveyed will be
increasing their use of social
media this holiday season.
Specifically, more than half of
retailers have "added or
improved their Facebook page
(60.3%) and Twitter pages
(58.7%)" this year. Nearly twothirds (65.6%) have "added or
enhanced blogs and RSS feeds"
over the same time period.
One result of this has been a big
mobile commerce will finally

gain traction in the coming
decade. Mobile payments firm
Billing Revolution found that onthe-go consumers are happy to
purchase small ticket items like
pizza and movie tickets, for
example.
One market that has shown
increase in implicit social
recommendations data across strong signs of mobile commerce
growth is Japan, according to
social networks and blogs.
Another trend with ecommerce Morgan Stanley.
sites is distributed sales. Anyone See also our analysis of mobile
can embed an Amazon store into payments. Conclusion
New recommendations
their blog or social network these
days. As Kurt Collins of social technologies make it easier every
commerce vendor Cartfly told us year for consumers to find what
in December, this won't replace they want, social media has
"end destination e-commerce" - driven a lot of retail activity to
but it will "augment sales s m a l l w e b s i t e s a n d s o c i a l
tremendously" at the edge of the networks, and mobile commerce
network. Mobile Commerce has slowly but surely gained a
foothold in e-commerce.
Arrives, Albeit Slowly...
The growth of mobile phones These are just some of the trends
has been a big trend this decade. in e-commerce over the past 10
However, as Sarah Perez wrote in years. While Amazon.com and
September, mobile commerce in eBay continue to be the giants of
the U.S. market has struggled for online retail, the Social Web and
advances in web technology have
momentum.
A c c o r d i n g t o d a t a f r o m both had a big impact this
eMarketer, more than 70 million decade.
U.S. mobile phone users will See also:
access the internet from their Top Internet Trends of 2000devices this year. Despite this, 2009: Online Music
the m-commerce market remains Top Internet Trends of 2000immature. In an April 2009 2009: Democratization of News
survey by RIS News, privacy and Media
security concerns are still at the
forefront of both shoppers' and Discuss
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There is some promise that
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Colts overcome
TOs, Ravens to
climb to 10-0
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:03:12 AM
Fast Facts
Ed Reed's fumble on a punt
return with less than 30 seconds
on the clock sealed the game for
the Colts, who improved to 10-0.
Indy recorded its 19th straight
regular-season victory, the
second longest streak in NFL
history.
Peyton Manning threw for 299
yards and a touchdown, but had
two INTs for the second straight
game. He recorded his 41st
career game-winning drive in the
fourth quarter or OT, tying Brett
Favre for the most among active
quarterbacks.
The Ravens had 354 total yards,
including a season-high 9 catches
and 142 yards for Derrick
Mason, but settled for five Billy
Cundiff FGs as they went 0 for 4
in the red zone.
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Love it or Loathe It? AOL Reveals New Branding

(POLL)
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:11:26 AM
Late last night, AOL revealed a

sneak peek at their new branding
campaign for their soon-to-be
standalone content-focused
business. The rebranding effort
will officially launch on
December 10th when AOL
begins trading on the New York
Stock Exchange as a separate
company from Time Warner, its
current owner. The new logosyes, there are more than one feature a lowercase "aol" on top
of various colorful images that
range from an orange goldfish to
a green scribble. The odd designs
are definitely different than
AOL's "running man" or
"triangle with swoosh" logos of
years past - logos that became
synonymous with the service that
a large part of America once used
to go online. But are the new
logos any good? Or do they look
more like the joke that AOL
hopes it's not becoming?
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In order for AOL to survive,

they've had to focus on becoming
a content business instead of an
internet provider and that's
exactly what the new branding is
designed to reflect. Gone are the
all-capital letters ("AOL") which
remind people of what they stand
for ("American Online"). Now,
there's an uppercase "A"
followed by lowercase letters and
a period. This is meant to remind
people that "there's always
something behind AOL," says
CEO Tim Armstrong in an
interview with PaidContent. "The
AOL brand is composed of many
different things. The
nomenclature of the dot is what
comes after the dot." In other
words, AOL no longer stands
alone. It's Aol.music,
Aol.Mapquest, Aol.Shopping,
etc.
The new logos are just a preview
of AOL's revamped look and are
meant to replace AOL's swoosh
triangle for good. The AOL
"running man," however, will
stick around the brand in some
form, although the company isn't
shouts the logo, but it reminds us

more of a middle-aged heavy
metal fan reminiscing about their
youth than the young, hip
company AOL desperately hopes
to become.
Then there is the pink glob. The
best way to describe this logo is a
fluffy wad of bubble gum. A
green scribble looks like
saying exactly where he will someone had trouble getting their
ballpoint ink pen going and a
show up.
But the updated logos are a little generic blue swirl seems to
off-putting to some. Noted signify nothing but a lack of
technology blogger Om Malik of imagination. What content sites
GigaOM posted his gut reaction are these logos even associated
Sunday night, calling them out as with? Your guess is as good as
"lame," "ambiguous at best," and ours.
"as sexy as the obese, shapeless CNET calls the goldfish logo
humans living on Axiom, the "cute"(sarcastically?), but AOL
flagship of the BnL fleet in Pixar isn't trying to build the next
LOLcats empire, so maybe they
movie WALL-E." Ouch!
But it's easy to see where he's should have forgone "cute" for
coming from. After all, some of s o m e t h i n g a l i t t l e m o r e
the logos look more like the sorts m e a n i n g f u l a n d m o d e r n .
But that's just our opinion.
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Splits widen for

Democrats over
health reform
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:44:34 AM
President Barack Obamas

mission to reform US healthcare
vaulted another legislative hurdle
over the weekend, but the
scramble to secure his own
partys votes sheds light on the
messy compromises that may be
needed to get it to the finish line.
Fissures between liberal and
centrist Democrats cracked open
on Sunday in the aftermath of a
procedural vote, which paved the
way for the estimated $848bn
(570bn, 514bn) draft Senate
bill to be debated on the floor.
Leaders hope there will be a vote
on the bill by Christmas. If
passed, the House and Senate
versions will have to be mashed
together.
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Three Mile Island Radiation Leak Called Not Significant

(FOXNews.com)
Mile Island nuclear power plant

is not significant.
Specialist John White has told
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. The U.S. ABC News that there is no
Nuclear Regulatory Commission indication that radiation at the
says the small amount of p l a n t e x c e e d e d o r e v e n
radiation detected at the Three approached regulatory limits.
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:56:34 AM
The commission sent

investigators to the central
Pennsylvania plant after a small
amount of radiation was detected.
About 150 employees were sent
home Saturday afternoon, but
officials say there is no public
health risk.
Exelon Nuclear spokeswoman
Beth Archer says the radiation
was quickly contained.
The unit has been shut for
refueling and maintenance since
Oct. 26. Workers are being tested
for radiation exposure.

A partial meltdown occurred in
Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor
in 1979.
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Taptu Brings Real-Time Search to

Android
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
the 20 million or so who have

downloaded the toolbar to date.
Meanwhile, they're indexing
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:06:15 AM
around 20,000 links from Digg
Having just launched a new realand 5 million from Twitter.
time mobile search engine in
It's this data which powers
conjunction with OneRiot only
Taptu's "buzz" section where you
w e e k s a g o , m o b i l e s e a r c h However, nearly everything else can find breaking news and other
c o m p a n y T a p t u i s n o w a b o u t t h e n e w A n d r o i d currently "hot topics" being
expanding their revamped service application is the same as its discussed on the web. And unlike
to the Android platform. Today, mobile counterpart, including its Twitter's trending topics, for
t h e y ' r e l a u n c h i n g a n e w s e a r c h v e r t i c a l s o f " w e b , " instance, OneRiot doesn't link to
application designed specifically "images," and "buzz" which sit raw tweets but to the actual news
for Android phones running above Taptu's search box on the stories and blog posts that are
version 1.5 and above. Like their app's main screen.
sharing the information.
brand-new mobile website, Taptu The "buzz" section contains real- The main Taptu homepage also
for Android includes real-time time results pulled from sites like links to these trending items by
search results thanks to OneRiot Twitter and Digg as well as from way of a tag cloud whose
integration. It also offers a other social sharing websites, colorful blue bubbles take you
touchscreen interface for viewing blogs, and data pulled from select directly to the buzz section when
the results without having to panel of internet users who have tapped.
pinch, resize, or refocus the downloaded the OneRiot toolbar If you're interested in trying the
screen.
and are anonymously sharing new Android application, you
Sponsor
their web-browsing data with the can download a free copy from
The new application is the first c o m p a n y . T h i s a g g r e g a t e the Android Market on your
Taptu app for Android which is information is actually the most mobile phone. If you don't own
why it doesn't include the social prominent source of real-time an Android device (or iPhone),
sharing features (share to Twitter data for OneRiot's search service. you can still use Taptu via its
and Facebook) that the iPhone As of September of this year, mobile website available at
app currently offers. Those will OneRiot claimed to have 3 www.taptu.com. Discuss
be added in a future release, million active toolbar users out of
notes the company.
JPMorgan hires Linklaters lawyer to head China unit

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Submitted at 11/23/2009 12:16:25 AM
JPMorgan on Monday
announced the hiring of one of
Asias leading corporate lawyers
to head its China business and

expanded the role to lead the
banks ambitious plans in the
country.
The US financial services group
has recruited Zili Shao, Asia
managing partner of Linklaters,
the international law firm, who

will become chairman and chief
executive at the end of January.
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Cartoon: Head Count

By Rob Cottingham
(ReadWriteWeb)
Sponsor
One of the reasons social media
can be so challenging is that it
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:30:40 AM
often challenges hierarchies...
A few weeks ago, I spoke to and people at the top of those
someone who had finally reached h i e r a r c h i e s h a v e g r o w n
the end of her rope with an comfortable there. Some see the
obdurate boss. Having suggested potential advantages of an
a s e r i e s o f s o c i a l m e d i a engaging, open online presence,
initiatives, only to see them but others feel threatened and
wither on the vine as he refused vulnerable. They have a wide
to either push them forward or range of hostile responses at their
cancel them, she was ready to disposal: from the passivemove on - not just to another job, aggressive (my friend's boss) to
b u t a w h o l e d i f f e r e n t the outright belligerent (see
organization. (Possibly the mob. below).
She has recently dreamed up What's your experience? Have
s o m e i n n o v a t i o n s o n t h e you found yourself inadvertently
homicide front that she's eager to threatening the powers that be?
try.)
More Noise to Signal. Discuss
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Tech News/ TV/ Economy/
E-reader Newspaper
Zoho Makes Another Move to be the TLC Orders New

IT of the Small Business Market
Series, Mall Cops:
Mall of America
By Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:30:28 AM
Zoho is making another move to

serve as the IT department for the
small business market. Its latest
offering is a service for staffing
agencies and human resources to
automate the process for hiring
people.
The new service, available now,
is an applicant tracking system
that helps staffing agencies and
recruiting departments track job
openings, resumes and
candidates. The enterprise is stil
heavily dependent on email and
manual processes for any number
of practices with human
resources being no exception to
the rule.
Sponsor
Zoho's strategy is to create a
level of automation that makes a
human resources functions
manageable, a model they have
used for the services they offer
for sales, marketing and other
functions in the enterprise.
Zoho Recruit has a number of

features including web forms; the
ability to aggregate resumes from
social sites and ways to track the
status of a client within the
application.
Activity streams are emerging as
a standard for new social
enterprise products. In Zoho
Recruit, though, the activity
streams look more like simple
views into the status of a job
opening, profiles of other people
on the team and the interviews on
schedule for the day.
Here's an overview of Zoho
Recruit:
It's clear that Zoho s gunning for
the enterprise market with a
focus on the small business
sector. The company is
increasingly perceived as a
competitive threat to larger, more

established companies. This is
illustrated by a Microsft
executive's remark earlier this
month that Zoho is a"fake"
Microsoft office.
Zoho responded with
FakeOffice.org, featuring a video
they made in September,
renaming it "Fake Office - the
Movie."
Zoho is a challenger to
Salesforce.com in the small
business market, whic has moved
up market in the past few years.
That approach has worked for
Salesforce but in these markets
the company faces deep pressures
from larger competitors such as
Oracle.
Zoho faces its own competition
but it has a unique approach. Its
products are varied, giving
customers the feeling that they
are using a service that is
customized for their particular
needs.
Plus, we like their videos. :)
They explain their products. How
about that? Discuss
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

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Submitted at 11/22/2009 3:01:48 PM
Microsoft has had discussions

with News Corp over a plan that
would involve the media
company being paid to de-
index its news websites from

Google, setting the scene for a
search engine battle that could
offer a ray of light to the
newspaper industry.
The impetus for the discussions
came from News Corp, owner of
newspapers ranging from the
Wall Street Journal of the US to

The Sun of the UK, said a person
familiar with the situation, who
warned that talks were at an early
stage.
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By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
performance secured the series

order.
Mall of America in
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:59:33 PM
Bloomington, Minnesota, is, at
via press release:
4.2 million square feet, the
TLC ORDERS NEW SERIES largest mall in the U.S. With over
M A L L C O P S : M A L L O F 500 stores, a 7-acre indoor theme
AMERICA
park, a 1.2 million gallon
TLC today confirmed that it has aquarium, a secondary school, a
started production on the new w e d d i n g c h a p e l a n d h u g e
series MALL COPS: MALL OF celebrity events, Mall of America
A M E R I C A . P r o d u c e d b y is a mini city and needs to be
September Films, the series protected as one. Cameras will
shares the story of the men and take viewers behind the scenes as
women who work the security the malls cops handle the tasks
team at Mall Of America , both routine and extraordinary as
which welcomes more than 40 t h e y w o r k i n g i n s u c h a
million visitors a year.
remarkable setting.
Twelve half-hour episodes have
MALL COPS: MALL OF
been ordered.
AMERICA is produced by DCD
Earlier this fall, the network Media-owned September Films.
premiered a one-hour special, Executive producers are Peter
also titled MALL COPS: MALL Davey and Sheldon Lazarus.
OF AMERICA, which achieved This content has passed through
an average HH rating of 1.0 and fivefilters.org.
was viewed by an average of 1.2
million P2+ viewers. This strong
Apple/
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Apple Speaks: Schiller Defends App Store Approval Process

By Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Most [apps] are approved and

some are sent back to the
developer. In about 90% of those
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:03:32 AM
cases, Apple requests technical
In what BusinessWeek is fixesusually for bugs in the
describing as his first extensive software or because something
interview on the subject, Phil d o e s n t w o r k a s e x p e c t e d .
Schiller, everyones favorite Developers are generally glad to
S e n i o r V i c e P r e s i d e n t o f have this safety net because
Worldwide Product Marketing usually Apples review process
for Apple, has defended Apples finds problems they actually want
application approval process.
to fix.
Ive read through it a few times, Heres what TechCrunchs Jason
and Id hardly call it extensive. Kincaid had to say about that:
I think its more accurately This is a laughable statement.
described as PR spin more than Developers may like the concept
anything else. Schillers opening of having an external QA safety
s a l v o i s a c t u a l l y a n net that helps catch bugs, but not
advertisement.
one thats incredibly inconsistent
Weve built a store for the most and penalizes them with extended
part that people can trust. You delays and notoriously bad
and your family and friends can communication.
download applications from the Schiller does manage to admit
store, and for the most part they that Apple has made mistakes.
do what youd expect, and they Sadly, he doesnt say it loudly
get onto your phone, and you get enough. In a Social Networking
billed appropriately, and it all just era when transparency is not only
works.
beneficial to a company but
Its obviously going to transmit almost essential to maintaining a
good vibes to the majority of happy customer base, Apple still
BusinessWeek readers (who c a n t m a n a g e g e n u i n e
likely werent even aware of an openness where it most counts.
application approval process in Im sure Misters Jobs and
the first place, never mind a Schiller grudgingly decided this
problem with it) but its unlikely interview was a necessary (if
t o s m o o t h t h e f e a t h e r s o f bitter-tasting) step in damagefrustrated, angry developers. See, control. But its dripping with
Mr. Schiller not only defended c o n v o l u t e d a n d d o w n r i g h t
the approval process, but said unfriendly corporate-speak.
that developers actually like it. Here are Schillers comments on
the matter of Apples recent

inconsistent approach to
trademark protection (brief recap;
Rogue Amoebas Airfoil
Speakers app displayed a tiny
icon of the remote computer to
which the app was connected
Apple initially approved the app,
and it proved very successful.
Then someone noticed the icons
were of Macs, and Apple pulled
it for trademark violation).
[Schiller] says Apple is trying to
make trademark guidelines more
sophisticated. We need to
delineate something that might
confuse the customer and be an
inappropriate use of a trademark
from something thats just
referring to a product for the sake
of compatibility, he says.
Were trying to learn and
expand the rules to make it fair

for everyone.
In a twist I didnt see coming,
BusinessWeeks Arik Hesseldahl
adds that Rogue Amoeba will
soon submit a version of the app
with the Apple images intact.
Thats good to know, since it was
almost universally agreed (except
perhaps by the most fundamental
fanbois) that Apples actions
were not only inconsistent and
hypocritical they were just
plain stupid.
Kincaid summarises:
Schillers interview highlights
how badly Apple is
underestimating the negative
impact the App Store is having
on its reputation in the developer
community Apple may not
care about losing a handful of
developers to Android, but their
shortsighted strategy of
answering developer complaints
with PR spin rather than
transparency and action may hurt
them in the long run.
Ill give Apple this; its learning.
Slowly, painfully slowly,
continental-drift-slowly, but
remember that the iPhone is not
yet three years old, the
application store even younger.
In a sense, Apple is making this
up as it goes, and its bound to
take some wrong turns along the
winding path toward approval
process nirvana. Developers
dont expect Apple to be perfect;
they will tolerate and forgive

occasional missteps, but only if
the channel of discourse between
them significantly improves
beyond where it stands today;
which, so far as I can see, is a
slightly updated status page on
the Apple Dev Center website
and, when developers get rowdy
enough, the occasional
intervention by Phil Schiller.
Do we need Apple to act, as Joe
Hewitt put it, as Gatekeepers?
Apple doesnt vet the quality and
functionality of applications built
for the Macintosh; though, I
wonder were the Mac to be
invented today, would Apple
insist on an Application Store for
the desktop Mac OS X? If so,
would it offer the same reasoning
for its draconian regulation of its
software ecosystem?
Everyone has an opinion on how
best to solve the problem; I
suspect its all about balance. An
approval process is fine so long
as Apples rules are fair, practical
and consistently applied across
all apps, all the time. And if or
when it screws up, Apple should
admit it instantly and correct its
error. So, riddle me this if its
so easy for the community to
offer reasonable solutions, why is
it proving so hard for Apple?
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Apple/ TV/
Rumor Has It: Camera Still Bound

for iPod Touch
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
in the current iPod nano, not that

found in the iPhone. Presumably,
that means that the new touch
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:08:31 AM
wont be able to shoot still
At the Apple iPod event this past
photos, which is something the
September, the iPod nano got a
nano camera isnt able to do.
video upgrade, but despite
This newest claim about the iPod
rumors to the contrary, the iPod
touch are backed up by earlier
touch didnt get a similar
reports of production problems
treatment. The internet was
just ahead of the September
ablaze with expectation thanks to
event, which were said to have
the appearance of a number of
frustrated Apples launch plans.
iPod touch cases with camera
The nature of the problem wasnt
holes built-in, all positioned the
specified, but it was reported to
same, which seemed like a fair
have affected the first dozen of
indicator that video was coming
thousands units produced by
to the touchscreen iPod.
French Apple news site
Even after the newest touch
HardMac.
model was released, teardowns
Spring 2010 makes sense as a
revealed what looked like a space
launch time frame, too, because
reserved for the camera
Apple did upgrade the iPod touch
internally. Apple seemed to be
alongside the other iPod models
holding back for some reason,
in September, even without the
and recently reports have been source who claims the camera addition of a camera. Even if it
made that that is indeed the case, version of the iPod Touch 3G resolved production issues
and that a camera-wielding iPod will be released this Spring. The quickly, because it went ahead
touch will appear in Spring of source confirms to us that the and launched the product without
iPod Touch 3G with camera had the component, the Mac-maker
2010.
The news comes via The actually been planned for release will have to wait a decent amount
Examiner, which ascribes the this past September, but had of time before introducing
information to sources within problems passing quality control. another new model in order to
Apple. They claim that as most Unlike Samsung, Apple actually clear on-hand stock and defer
people suspect, a camera was h a s a Q u a l i t y C o n t r o l u n n e c e s s a r y p r o d u c t i o n
indeed planned for release this d e p a r t m e n t .
reconfiguration costs.
fall, but the product failed to The article goes on to say that
meet Apples exacting standards: the camera going into the iPod
We have heard from an inside touch will be the same as the one
E-reader Newspaper
American Music Awards:

J.Lo falls, Adam Lambert
freaks out parents
By Kona Gallagher (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 10:04:00 AM
I had the American Music

Awards on last night in the
background, and for the most
part it looked like a pretty
standard awards show: People
wore pretty dresses, played
pianos suspended by wires, wore
more makeup than their wives
(I'm looking at you, Keith
Urban), and simulated oral sex.
Wait-- what?
Yeah, so for once, Lady Gaga's
performance, which involved
smashing a plate-glass window
and setting a piano on fire wasn't
the most interesting performance
of the night. Instead, everyone is
talking about two people:
Jennifer Lopez and Adam
Lambert. Lopez's unfortunate fall
during her performance of
"Louboutins" probably mortified
her, but it wasn't the most
awkward thing to happen during
the ceremony. That distinction
goes to American Idol runner-up

Adam Lambert's decidedly nonfamily-friendly performance.
You can check out both videos
after the jump.
Continue reading American
Music Awards: J.Lo falls, Adam
Lambert freaks out parents
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Reporters accepting freebies

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:55:33 AM
A few notes about the propriety

of reporters accepting free
followers from Twitter.
1. On Friday, in an interview
with Twitter COO Dick Costolo
at a TechCrunch conference,
Mike Arrington observed that
when TechCrunch ran a piece
about Twitter Corp they didn't
like, they were taken off the
Suggested User List. I wrote this
up here on Scripting News.
Costolo didn't comment, but the
issue is clearly on Arrington's
mind, as it should be. They're
back on the list. Does this
influence their coverage and if so
how? (TechCrunch people should
note this is a question, not a
statement.)
2. Will a NY Times columnist be
more likely to write about
Twitter, if they've got a million
followers from placement on the
SUL? Is there an appearance of
impropriety? Is appearance
enough of a reason to opt out? In
an article in today's NY Times,
they say that Times reporters are
not allowed to accept free trips to
cover production of a television
show in Bora Bora. "The New
York Times and many other

media outlets ban the acceptance
of these freebies on ethical
grounds, because there could be
an appearance of buying
favorable coverage." To me, the
free placement on the SUL and
the benefits it bestows, are
exactly equivalent. Elsewhere in
the Times, and in many other
media outlets, the number of
followers is treated as a measure
of relevance.
Pieces like this always provoke
challenges from people at the
publications such as the Guardian
and the Times. So be it. I think
they are clearly wrong in
accepting the free boost from an

important and growing media
network like Twitter. In the old
days they were gatekeepers and
could suppress a story like this if
they didn't like it. Thankfully we
don't live in the old days.
Further, I think political
candidates who accept promotion
from Twitter are going to have
problems down the road. They
operate under special rules, and
I'm sure that there will eventually
be a monetary value placed on
SUL placement and it will count
as a campaign contribution. Imho
there will be even more serious
consequences for incumbents
who accept free followers from
Twitter and other networks.
Think about how handicapped
the news organizations are going
to be in covering this story when
they have their own issues
around placement on the SUL.
The only ones who will be able
to cover this story without the
appearance of being in Twitter's
pocket are ones who opted out.
As far as I know, no reporters,
columnists or news organizations
have opted out.
Jeana says goodbye to

Real Housewives of
Orange County
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:03:00 AM
I haven't been as interested in

The Real Housewives of Orange
County this season, and now I'm
about to check out permanently.
My favorite wife has left the
show. Jeana Keough said an on
screen "adios" to the Real
Housewives of Orange County.
She's not actually moving, but
she's off the show by choice.
Jeana Keough has always
impressed me as the smartest,
most normal and down-to-earth
housewife of the bunch. She had
a completely insane marriage to
Matt Keough, an ex-Major
League Baseball pitcher for the
Oakland A's, but she worked to
keep it together. Her kids were a
handful.
They were all grown up and in
high school or post-high school
life, but Jeana was supportive and
interested and tried to be a
positive role model. In her finale,
she was able to show her kids
Gold hits fresh high amid rising political tension

homepage)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:47:11 AM
14:45 GMT. Gold powered to

another high on Monday as
softness in the dollar and raised

tensions between Iran and the
west encouraged traders to opt
for the vehicle with strong
momentum.
A tentative session on Asian
equity markets, following a

global stall over recent days, had
earlier added to the view that the
trend higher in bullion faced the
least resistance among major
assets in a week that may feature
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lighter, holiday-affected trading.

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pursuing their lives and bringing

her pride. I think Jeana's "pal"
Vicki Gunvalson wishes her
children were as loving to her as
Jeana's are to her.
Continue reading Jeana says
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Orange County
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Tech Blog/ TV/ Economy/
E-reader Newspaper
How Hollywood portrays bloggers

(Scripting News)
but it seems that if it did she

would have used it.
Julie used blogging, but Julia
I've now seen two movies that
was a natural-born blogger.
had bloggers in leading roles.
The dishonesty in the story was
1. State of Play. A remake of a
how they portrayed Julia Child's
brilliant BBC series that was so
reaction to Julie Powell's writing.
bad, that portrayed the blogger in
They didn't explain why she
such a superficial and humiliating
disapproved. If you just went by
fashion, that I actually walked
what the movie said you could
out in disgust. (A movie has to be
easily think she was bitter or
very bad for me to walk out on
closed-minded or jealous of
it.)
young Julie. Luckily the archive
2. Julie and Julia. I saw it last
is still on the web, and a simple
night, and stayed to the end. I
Google search turned up the
was just as angry at the way they
answer. Julia Child considered
portrayed the blogger, but it turns
The Julie/Julia Project a stunt.
out for an opposite reason. In this
She said of Powell: "She would
case the dishonesty was reversed,
never really describe the end
the blogger wasn't at all heroic,
results, how delicious it was, and
and they misrepresented the hero,
what she learned." There's a lot
Julia Child, who was, in many
more in a Publisher Weekly
ways more of a true blogger than
interview with Judith Jones,
the blogger! Kind of funny how
Child's editor at Knopf. Now,
that works.
begs to be solved, and because that makes sense!
A blogger isn't just someone the tools are so inexpensive that I'd love to see a movie that
who uses blogging software, at they no longer present a barrier, captures the heroic spirit of
least not to me. A blogger is they are available to the heroic blogging. Like all inspiration, it's
someone who takes matters into individual. As far as I can tell, rare, but that's why it's worth
his or her own hands. Someone Julia Child was just such a making a movie about. The story
who sees a problem that no one is person. Blogging software didn't of the nobility of blogging
t r y i n g t o s o l v e , o n e t h a t exist when she was pioneering, largely remains, imho, untold.
desperately needs solving, that
Submitted at 11/22/2009 2:54:52 PM
Lloyds draws strong demand for hybrid debt

homepage)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 12:43:04 AM
Lloyds Banking Group is to

issue 7bn in enhanced capital
notes (ECNs), a new form of
hybrid debt, it announced on
Monday, as the first part of its

plans for a 22.5bn ($37.1bn)
capital raising. The group also
increased the amount it said it
would raise from US investors in
the hybrid debt from $800m to
$986m.
Demand for the new credit notes
was high, with Lloyds receiving

offers to exchange in excess of
12.5bn.
fivefilters.org.
Review: Curb Your

Enthusiasm - Seinfeld
(season finale)
By Jonathan Toomey (TV
Squad)
for me and write up last week's

penultimate ep and I actually
waited until last night to see that
Submitted at 11/23/2009 8:38:00 AM
one as well -- I watched them
( S07E10) "It's the Seinfeld back to back. I was struck by
reunion! That's a big deal!" - how well it all flowed together;
Cheryl
how much it actually felt like we
Yes, it is a big deal. A little over were watching a real episode of
eleven years after we saw Jerry, Seinfeld, even during the table
Elaine, Kramer, and George read. However, seeing it play out,
behind bars, the reunion we've all scene by scene, in the finale?
been waiting for has finally Talk about nostalgia.
arrived. I'm not sure if this even Continue reading Review: Curb
counts as a category to classify Your Enthusiasm - Seinfeld
TV shows, but last night's Curb (season finale)
Your Enthusiasm season finale Filed under: OpEd, Curb Your
was easily the best "show within Enthusiasm, Episode Reviews,
a show" episode I've ever seen... Reality-Free
of any show.
Jane was kind enough to step in C o m m e n t s
TV/
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Week-long coverage of MLS Cup 2009 Culminates tonight on

ESPN with Real Salt Lake FC vs. Los Angeles Galaxy
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 12:48:40 PM
via ESPN press release:

ESPN at MLS Cup 2009: Los
Angeles vs. Salt Lake City
Beckham and Donovan lead Los
Angeles vs. Kyle Beckerman and
Real Salt Lake Sunday on ESPN
HD
Week-long Coverage Across
ESPN Media Platforms
Western Conference Finals Set
MLS Viewership Record on
ESPN2
ESPNs week-long coverage of
MLS Cup 2009 will culminate
with the live, high definition
telecast of Real Salt Lake FC vs.
the Los Angeles Galaxy Sunday,
Nov. 22, at 8:30 p.m. ET, from
the Xbox Pitch at Qwest Field in
Seattle. The title match,
available on ESPN360.com, will
feature a Los Angeles team, led
by Landon Donovan and David
Beckham, in his first U.S. title
match since joining Major
League Soccer in 2007 from
soccer powerhouse Real Madrid
FC, vs. Real Salt Lake FC,
captained by U.S. national team
player Kyle Beckerman.
Veteran soccer play-by-play
commentator JP Dellacamera
will call the match with soccer
Hall of Famer and former captain
of the U.S. Mens National Team
John Harkes providing analysis,
and Allen Hopkins and Rob
Stone on the sidelines.

Stone will also host on-site
studio segments before and after
the match and at halftime, joined
by former U.S. Womens
National Team captain Julie
Foudy and former U.S. Mens
National Team player Alexi
Lalas as analysts. Lalas is a
former president and general
manager of the Galaxy at the

helm when Beckham arrived at
the team.
MLS Cup 2009 TV highlights:
19 cameras, including two
super slo-mo cameras, steadicam,
and skycam;
ESPN Axis, a U.S. domestic
soccer virtual replay technology
that allows analysts to use the
telestrator to highlight the

locations and movements of
players on the field; and the
Offside Line, which displays a
virtual line affixed to the last
defender to show viewers
whether the referees offside
decision is accurate on replays;
Unique graphicheat maps
tracking star player movement
during the match, measuring

speed and total distance run by
every player on the field;
With the MLS Cup in Seattle,
the home of one of the most
vibrant MLS fan-bases, ESPNs
telecast will pay homage to MLS
Supporter Groups, a
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celebration of the fans who

passionately follow their teams
throughout the season. Using
Follow your Heart as the
theme, highlights and footage of
the Seattle FC Alliance, the host
clubs supporters group marching
into the stadium on match days,
will be interspersed into the event
telecast.
ESPN Digital Media
T h i s
w e e k ,
ESPNSoccernet.com, the leading
English-language soccer news
and information site in the world,
features daily MLS Cup stories,
matchup analysis and previews
through post-match reports
Monday by writers Ives
Galarcep, Steve Davis and Jeff
Carlisle. In addition, there will be
extensive video highlights and
analysis leading up to and after
the
match.
For
ESPNSoccernet.coms coverage,
c l i c k
h e r e :
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/sect
ion?id=mls&cc=5901
ESPNdeportes.com features
daily MLS Cup stories, matchup
previews and post-game reports.
In addition, chats with players,
blogging and columns by
Fernando Palomo; video preview
and post-match reports; MLS
Cup gamecast; and more. For
ESPNdeportes.com coverage,
c l i c k
h e r e :
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/f
utbol/liga?league=USA.1
Additional ESPN News and

Information Programming
The 2009 MLS Most Valuable
Player will be announced
exclusively on ESPNEWS, the
nations only 24-hour television
sports news network, Thurs.,
Nov. 19. The top-three finalists:
Jeff Cunningham (Dallas FC),
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles
Galaxy) and Shalrie Joseph (New
England Revolution). In addition,
the network will air segments
previewing the 2009 MLS Cup
matchup as well as the
presentation of Fridays pregame press briefings by the
teams;
News and information
programs
such
as
SportsCenter(ESPN) and First
Take(ESPN2, 10 a.m. 12 noon) ESPN International
will feature MLS Cup news and ESPN International will televise
highlights.
the MLS Cup 2009 in 122
countries via coverage on ESPN

Dos/Dos Mexico, ESPN+,
ESPN+ Andina, Australia HD,
ESPN Atlantic, ESPN Middle
East, ESPN Pacific Rim, Latin
North/South; Latin/Caribbean
and Latin/Brasil regions.
ESPN Classic Presents History
of the MLS Cup, Saturday at 6
p.m.
For the first time, ESPN Classic
will feature a special presentation
of the History of the MLS Cup, a
star-studded documentary that
travels from the birth of the
league in North America through
2008. The two-hour program,
which takes viewers onto the
field for the best action from the
first 12 MLS Cup matches,
includes never-before-seen
footage, off-the-field and insidethe-locker room access with
players and coaches, exclusive
interviews, and more. Interviews
include players and coaches who
have starred on the biggest stage
of the premier soccer league in
the U.S., the MLS Cup, such as
Landon Donovan, Brian Ching,
Bruce Arena, Cobi Jones,
Dwayne De Rosario, John
Harkes, Jeff Agoos, Pat Onstad,
and Eric Wynalda.
Beckham and Donovan Propel
ESPN2 to Record MLS

Viewership
ESPN2s live coverage of the
2009 MLS Western Conference
Finals Friday, Nov. 13, a 2 0
extra time victory by the Los
Angeles Galaxy over the
Houston Dynamo, was seen in an
average of 538,000 television
homes (700,000 people 2+),
based on a 0.5 rating, making it
the most-watched MLS telecast
ever on the network.
The previous record was on
Thurs., Aug. 23, 2007, in a
regular-season match between
Chivas USA and Los Angeles,
seen in an average of 532,000
television homes (658,000 P2+),
a 0.6 rating.
Additionally on ESPN Deportes,
the match was seen in an average
of 73,000 Hispanic television
homes (121,000 Hispanic P2+), a
1.6 Hispanic coverage rating.
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Around the Net In

Media: 'St. Pete Times'
Sells Magazine to
Scientology Publisher
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:24:30 PM
The St. Petersburg Times in

Florida is in the midst of selling a
magazine they own in
Washington, D.C., to a
Scientology publisher located in
Folsom, Calif. The St. Pete's title,
Governing, is being acquired by
e. Republic, which has four
publications, including one called
Government Technology.
The Web site that included the
story about the sale in last week's
St. Petersburg Times also
included a video ad for
Scientology that cost an
estimated $1 million.
Interestingly, the St. Petersburg
Times has been running several
hard-hitting exposes about abuses
in Scientology this year.
"What the heck is going on
here?" asks The Hollywood
Reporter. "Are publishers so hard
up for cash that they'll take
money from the subjects of their
exposes?"
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Around the Net In Media: Vivendi Holds Up Comcast Takeover of NBCU

Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:18:34 PM
Comcast's plan to take control of

NBC Universal this month has
encountered a roadblock. The
cable operator's acquisition of a
51% stake in NBCU is being

held up because Vivendi and GE,
the joint owners of NBCU, are
$500 to $900 million apart in
agreeing on a value for Vivendi's
stake.
General Electric owns 80% of
the company, and France's

Vivendi owns 20%. GE needs to
reach an agreement with Vivendi
before it can sell majority control
to Comcast. GE has placed a
value on NBC Universal of $27
billion to $30 billion, say
insiders.
Negotiations could drag on until
Dec. 10, when Vivendi's window
to exercise its option to sell its
stake officially closes. After that
time, Vivendi wouldn't have the
opportunity to sell, perhaps even
through an public offering, for

another year.
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Series Craving Comfort; Hosted by
Oprah Chef, Art Smith
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:06:07 PM
via press release:

TLC ORDERS NEW SERIES
CRAVING COMFORT
TLC today announced that it has
ordered the new series
CRAVING COMFORT (wt),
which explores the obsessions,
triumphs, and secrets behind
some of Americas favorite
comfort foods. The series is
produced by True Entertainment,
and has already begun shooting.
TLC has ordered eight half-hour
episodes.
Hosted by chef Art Smith, each
episode of CRAVING
COMFORT will travel the
country, exploring variations of
the simple, sumptuous dishes that
everyone craves. Not just a
cooking series, CRAVING
COMFORT is about the
experience shared with favorite
foods, and the stories they
embody. Each episode will focus
on one specific comfort food from fried chicken to apple pie
and uncovers three different tales
that reveal the passion behind the

plate.
CRAVING COMFORT
celebrates the great personal
stories behind Americas classic
comfort foods. Art Smiths
passion for great food and its
ability to bring people together
makes him the perfect host for
this journey, said Nancy
Daniels, SVP of Production &
Development, TLC.
Art Smith is a two-time James
Beard Award-winner and
bestselling cookbook author, who
has devoted his life to bringing
back the symbolism and meaning
of the kitchen table in the
family home, and is a believer
that food should unite families
and friends through the sharing
of meals.
In addition to hosting
CRAVING COMFORT, Art
continues his role as specialty
chef for many of Oprah
Winfreys most talked-about
events, and runs his restaurant,
Table Fifty-Two, serving locallysourced and seasonal home
cooking inspired by his familys
farm on the Florida-Georgia
border. He also recently opened

the Washington DC-based
restaurant Art and Soul.
The chef devotes much time to
community service through his
nonprofit organization Common
Threads that teaches low-income
children to cook wholesome and
affordable meals as a way to
prevent childhood obesity and
reverse the trend of generations
of non-cookers, while celebrating
the things people all over the
world have in common.
CRAVING COMFORT adds to
TLCs slate of food
programming, joining fanfavorite CAKE BOSS, currently
airing its second season,
ULTIMATE CAKE OFF,
currently in production on its
second season, and the upcoming
BBQ PITMASTERS, which
premieres December 3.
True Entertainment, an Endemol
company, was founded by
Glenda Hersh and Steven
Weinstock.
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Live-action Ben 10: Alien Swarm on

Cartoon Network is part of networks
plan to attract older viewers
By Robert Seidman
(TVbytheNumbers)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 12:39:32 PM
I know live-action on a network

called the Cartoon Network rubs
some people the wrong way.
But, its just more of the ratings
grab we have seen from almost
all the cable networks. In this
case Variety suggests its the rare
case of network attempting to
attract an older audience(older
boys and teens):
Further milking and aging the
Ben 10 franchise into teen
territory, Cartoon Network has
churned out a second live-action
movie infused with a slick
comicbook feel while at times
feeling more like product

placement for cars and
motorcycles than a movie. Still,
Ben 10: Alien Swarm has
upped Ben 10s game in terms
of visual effects, and it races
along briskly enough that it
should connect with the older
boy/younger-teen audience that
the Turner-owned channel is
cultivating (actually, pandering
to) with a slew of live-action
reality shows. Read the whole
review on Variety.
Ben 10: Alien Swarm premieres
Wednesday, November 25 at
7pm.
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Mall Cops coming to

TV
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 9:29:00 AM
Review: Dexter Hungry Man

By Danny Gallagher (TV
Squad)
Passenger," this week's episode

dove head first into his family
who aren't as Norman Rockwell
Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:59:00 AM
as Arthur Mitchell might want
(S04E09) "Everything is exactly Dexter and the rest of the world
the way it should be. Perfect." - to believe. It turns out they are
Rita Morgan
probably the most interesting
The season is almost over and aspect of Mitchell's twisted life
that means things are bound to and could turn out to be a huge
ramp up as Dexter moves in asset to bringing the man down,
closer to kill the Trinity Killer. now that he no longer has them
But this week, we get treated to a in his upper hand.
special Thanksgiving episode.
Continue reading Review:
Think of it as a sordid cross Dexter - Hungry Man
between the "Thanksgiving Day" Filed under: Dexter, Episode
episode from Father Knows Best Reviews, Reality-Free
mixed with the director's cut of
any episode of Twin Peaks.
Comments
After explaining his identity,
background and own "Dark
I am sorry to report that Kevin

James in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
and Seth Rogen in Observe and
Report have started a
phenomenon, because a new
reality series called Mall Cops:
Mall of America is coming to
TLC. This is what happens when
two movies that are superficially
related to each other get released
in close chronological proximity.
Granted, the Mall of America is
one of the biggest (if not the
biggest) malls in America and
there is likely more than a fair
share of crimes that go on there
during any given day. I just
wonder if the show is going to
hire its own criminals to commit
felonies in the mall just to keep
things interesting.
I can see it now: the season deals
with standard problems like
shoplifters and lost children until
the season finale which ends in a
Valve selling Team

Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead
-themed greeting cards
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 11:59:00 PM
We know how boring most holly

jolly holiday cards can be, so we
were glad to see that a handful of
Valve-ified greeting cards are
now available for purchase at the
game maker's online store.
Featuring characters from Left 4
Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team
Fortress 2 in compromising
holiday situations, there's no
doubt that we'll actually - finallysend out greeting cards this year
hostage situation cliffhanger.
to everyone in our little black
Want to see the footage of how it
book. We're quite partial to the
turns out? Wait until season two.
handful of TF2-themed images
Filed under: Programming,
you see above (just look at The
OpEd, Pickups and Renewals,
Spy, back with The Scout's
Reality-Free
mother!), but we're sure there's
something for everyone in your
Comments
list of Source Engine-loving
holiday card receivers.
[Via Big Download]
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Left 4 Dead-themed greeting
cards originally appeared on
Joystiq on Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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NintendoWare Weekly:
Bit.Trip Void, Super
Mario Kart, A Boy and
His Blob
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 10:00:00 AM
Nintendo celebrates
Thanksgiving by dropping a
massive feast onto the table of
every Wii and DSi owner in
North America. The next Bit.Trip
game is now available on
WiiWare, DSiWare receives
another heaping serving of
By Allison Waldman (TV
game-changing episode and he
Electroplankton, and Virtual
Squad)
delivered it with a whopper of a
Console welcomes ... Super
wrap up. Actually, nothing was
Submitted at 11/22/2009 4:03:00 PM
Mario Kart. We guess when
really wrapped; it was more like By Jackie Schnoop (TV
c l u e s , a n d h o w w e l l t h e y Nintendo said " by year's end" it
Thanksgiving is coming and for the cards have been dealt and Squad)
complete the tasks. While getting meant "next week." See the full,
many of us it's time to eat, drink we're still waiting to see how the Submitted at 11/23/2009 1:25:00 AM
along with the other teams is seasonally appropriate bounty
and watch football. It's also a hands are played.
always a good thing, there's no after the break.
time to reflect on the things Continue reading What Allison (S15E10) I mentioned last week popularity vote at the finish line. Continue reading NintendoWare
you're grateful for and since TV is thankful for
that the remaining teams on The B u t t h e y a r e c o m p e t i n g . Weekly: Bit.Trip Void, Super
Squad is all about television, Filed under: Other Comedy Amazing Race are really feeling Sometimes some sneakiness just Mario Kart, A Boy and His Blob
here's what I'm grateful for this Shows, Programming, OpEd, the pressure as they're getting sneaks on in.
NintendoWare Weekly: Bit.Trip
holiday season, with regard to the The Closer, Friday Night Lights, closer to the win. Well, there Continue reading Review: The Void, Super Mario Kart, A Boy
tube.
Breaking Bad, Reality-Free, Mad were no fisticuffs, no elbowing, Amazing Race - We're Not and His Blob originally appeared
Mad Men season finale
Men, Burn Notice, Glee
but there was an underhanded Working With Anybody, Ever, on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Nov 2009
There was really nothing as
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Anymore!
satisfying in the entire year for C o m m e n t s
Unlike Survivor, this show
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me. Matt Weiner promised a
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scheming. In the end, it's how
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well they run the race around the C o m m e n t s
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for
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NFL Diary: Colts 17, Ravens 15

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:51:04 AM
Associated Press Derrick Mason

(85) had a game-high nine
catches for 142 yards for the
Ravens, who were held without a
touchdown by the Colts.
The Journal provides minute-byminute analysis of the
Indianapolis Colts 17-15 victory
over the Baltimore Ravens at
M&T Bank Stadium in
Baltimore. Journal staffer Peter
Sanders offers commentary on
the game and the CBS telecast.
11:45 am | Pregame | by Peter
Sanders
The last time I visited Baltimore,
sometime around the beginning
of this decade, the city put a
beating on me after a bit too
much fun wining and dining at
various establishments around
the Inner Harbor.
The last time Peyton Manning
and the Indianapolis Colts visited
Baltimorein December 2007 -they put a beating on the Ravens,
with Manning throwing for four
touchdowns. Final score: 44-20.
The birds didnt fare much better
last year against the ponies in
Indianapolis, where Manning led
the Colts to their first win at their
new stadium in a 31-3 drubbing.
Today, when the erstwhile
Baltimore Colts take on the
Ravens, they do so with a 9-0
record after barely squeaking by
New England last week, helped
by the Patriots patriarch -- Bill
Belichick -- miscalculating on a
late fourth-down play call.
Belichicks folly was all

Manning needed to rally the
Colts for a come-from-behind
one-point win and the
preservation of an unbeaten
record.
Now, the Colts are trying to stay
a few steps ahead of the AFC
rival Cincinnati Bengals to
determine home field advantage
throughout the playoffs.
Meantime, the Ravens (5-4) are
looking for a big-time upset even
though they havent beaten the
Colts since 2001. Look for
Manning to try to dominate, Ray
Lewis to entertain and make
some big hits and look for me
rooting around my cabinets for
some Old Bay seasoning and a
few crabs that need steaming.
1:07 pm | First quarter | by Peter
Sanders
OK...here we go. For starters,

Dan Dierdorf looks about how I
feel this morning. The loss of
Terrell Suggs last week is what is
going to doom the Ravens, say
Greg Gumbel and Big Dan. Also,
Peyton is a genius, they say.
The sun is shining in Bawlmer.
CBS is ready and so am I.
Sanders
Manning takes the ball around
his own 13 yard line. On third
down, he gets himself out of a
jam by completing a first-down
pass to Reggie Wayne. Ray
Lewis got his first lick in and
hammered Peyton after the pass
got off. Colts take it at their own
29.
And then...first and goal. Just.
Like. That. Long bomb to Pierre
Garcon that almost went all the
way. Colts trying to push it into

the end zone on their first series.
Sanders
An unreal one-arm
catch....Dallas Clark wide open in
the corner of the end zone. Clark
reels it in for a 3-yard touchdown
and, in the process, passes John
Mackey for the alltime Colts
record for receptions by a tight
end. That didn't take long as the
Colts go up 7-0 less than four
minutes in.
Sanders
The Ravens return the kickoff
back to about their own 20 but
Lardarius Webb appears to have
fumbled the ball as he was
tackled. Colts recover. But it's a
close call and like a dutiful
coach, John Harbaugh threw the
challenge flag. Let's hope

Webb's knees were down,
otherwise Peyton is going back to
business at the Ravens' 20.
Sanders
And the play is reversed after
review. Harbaugh keeps a
timeout and Joe Flacco takes
over with 11:14 left in the first
quarter.
Sanders
Flacco, like Peyton before, gets
out of his first third-down jam.
Ray Rice is already carrying a
load for the Ravens as Flacco
tries to move them downfield to
answer the Colts' first score.
Sanders
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Flacco and the Ravens get

confused in the bright sunlight,
which is probably why Peyton is
wearing a baseball cap on the
sidelines. The Ravens' efficient
drive downfield is getting a bit
jammed up by the Colts defense.
Timeout Ravens with just under
seven minutes in the first.
Sanders
Joe Flacco was 4-for-4 in the air
until just now, when Colts rookie
Jacob Lacey broke up a pass
intended for Derrick Mason.
Then on third down, Flacco
overthrows to Mason...here
comes the field-goal unit. Billy
Cundiff snuck one in on a 46yard FG attempt. 7-3 Colts with
under six minutes left in the first.
Sanders
You know what you get as a
reward for a Ravens' field goal?
You get to watch a dude talk to
himself in a series of officebuilding windows. His alter ego
is convincing him to talk to his
doctor about Viagra. The mirror
says it is. But the dude in the
voiceover is talking about all the
bad things that can happen to
you when you take it. Clearly, the
man in the mirror can't hear the
voiceover.
Sanders
Manning and the Colts take over
at their own 24. Manning throws
and it's popped up and grabbed
by the Ravens. One play, one
interception. Dawan Landry with
the pick. Flacco takes over at the
Colts' 29. Eighth pick for
Manning of the season,

according to Greg Gumbel.
Sanders
Solid Colts defense batting and
swatting footballs out of the air.
Flacco can't convert the pick into
a TD. Cundiff back in the game
and nails another 40+ yarder. It's
a 7-6 game with four minutes left
in the first.
Sanders
Apparently, the word "Colts"
isn't used in Baltimore. Indy, is
the preferred nickname. Hard
feelings last decades up there.
After a penalty on the kickoff
return, Colts start at their own 11
with under four minutes to play.
Sanders
That interception? Yeah, that's
ancient history. Two passes to
tight end Tom Santi and the
Colts are on the move again. At
the Ravens' 45 with just over a
minute to play in the quarter.
Sanders
Colts go for it on fouth and 1 but
Manning can't get things sorted
out with his audibles. He's
forced to take a timeout and
we're forced to watch another
commercial.
Sanders
Colts center Jeff Saturday gets
flagged for holding and will
bring back Joseph Addai's firstdown effort, turning the Colts'
fourth down into a punt. Fair
catch for the Ravens. Sidenote,
Gumbel and Dierdorf gave
Saturday's hold high marks for

an open-field tackle. Ravens take
over and get one play off before
the
quarter ends with
Indianapolis up 7-6.
1:54 pm | Second quarter | by
Peter Sanders
I'm no ref, but even I saw
Ravens right tackle Michael Oher
jump that ball. Flacco and Ray
Rice can't get things going.
Ravens will have to punt from
their own end zone at the start of
the second quarter. T.J. Rushing
doesn't get much on the return
and a 10-yard penalty will push
the Colts back to about the 50
when they take over.
Peter Sanders
Even though he sounds like he
should be waiting tables at some
bistro in Paris, Pierre Garcon is
pulling down balls tossed his way
by Manning. But so far, the
Colts haven't been able to get
much going on the ground. That
Baltimore defense can still bring
the stifle.
Peter Sanders
Manning just went over the
3,000 yard passing mark for the
season. The rest of the Colts
must have been digesting that
because Manning again took a
timeout as his audible wasn't
getting processed fast enough.
Third and 1 and Donald Brown
gets the short-yardage first down
with nine minutes left in the half.
Peter Sanders
Another big INT by the Ravens.
Manning went deep for Reggie
Wayne, but Ed Reed stepped in

and picked it off around the 10
yard line, returning it back
towards midfield. Meantime, Ray
Lewis gets off the field three
plays after his right ankle
appeared to get caught in the
scrum and dialed him down a
notch or two.
Manning's gonna need the time
to get his head straight. Lewis
will try to get his ankle straight.
8:33 left in the half.
Peter Sanders
After grinding out a dozen or so
runs, Ray Rice finally breaks one
open -- if just a bit. Gets
Baltimore another first down. At
the Colts 22, Flacco will try to
move the Ravens into the end
zone for the first time today with
5:40 left in the half.
Peter Sanders
Third and 7 and the Colts bring
the blitz. Flacco dumps one over
the middle and Billy Cundiff
comes out for his third kick of
the day. So the Ravens take the
lead 9-7(all on field goals; this
time a 38-yarder ) with a little
over four minutes left in the half.
Volkswagen really wants to sell
cars. Also, Sony dropped some
serious cash on its HDTV
commercials. Justin Timberlake
and Peyton Manning in the same
spot. Funny, my Sony HDTV
doesn't really make the
commercial all that much better.
Peter Sanders
The Colts bright spot so far
today is their tight ends: Dallas
Clark and Tom Santi. Santi has

pulled in three receptions today,
including a body-twister just now
to put the Colts well into fieldgoal range. No good deed goes
unpunished, however, as Santi is
doubled over on the sidelines
trying to get some air.
Reggie Wayne grabs a diving
catch inside the Ravens' 20 yard
line. Colts get a first down as we
approach the two-minute
warning. But Harbaugh goes and
spoils the fun, he throws the
challenge flag as........wait. No,
he takes it back. First down,
Colts.
Peter Sanders
The NFL has an official air
freshener. It's Febreze, if you
were wondering.
Peter Sanders
Joseph Addai charges five yards
into the end zone with 1:30
remaining in the half. Extra point
is good and it's 14-9 Colts. Ray
Lewis gets juked hard, by the
way.
Ravens are pushing hard as the
half winds down. Flacco airing it
out and giving the ball to Ray
Rice, as they try to push things
into field-goal range, once again.
Nice strike just now to Derrick
Mason to get the ball within
range. Timeout with 29 seconds
left.
Poor Billy Cundiff. He's
stretching again. Reminds me of
that awesome Keanu Reeves
movie, "The Replacements." I've
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never met Billy Cundiff, but I

like to think he's like the Rhys
Ifans character. You know, the
cranky English footballer called
on to kick the football between
smoke breaks.
2:31 pm | Halftime | by Peter
Sanders
And Cundiff is 4-for-4 after a 36
-yarder. Makes it 14-12 Colts and
Cundiff will go for the old
onsides kick with two seconds
left. Colts recover and after a
bunch of dancing the Ravens
bring down the kick returner and
they head for the locker rooms.
2:47 pm | Third quarter | by
Peter Sanders
Second half gets underway and
Flacco and Ray Rice go to work.
We'll see if either team can break
something out, or if we're gonna
grind it out for another two
quarters. Looked like Gary
Brackett picked it off from the
first camera angle, but it clearly
bounced off the ground before he
picked it up.
Ravens go four-and-out. T.J.
Rushing takes a fair catch at the
Colts' 32-yard line and Manning
will try to redeem his shaky firsthalf performance.
Peter Sanders
Not gonna say I understand the
GoDaddy.com commercials. But
I am also not going to say I don't
like them. I do cringe a tiny bit
for Danica Patrick every time
though.
Peter Sanders
Tom Santi found his wind again
and grabs another pass from
Manning for a Colts first down.

So far, it's been the Wayne-Addai
-Santi show. "It's an orchestra
and in every chair sits someone
who has to play and play well,"
says Dierdorf.
First and 10 with 10:54 left in
the third quarter.
Peter Sanders
Ouch. That is one for
SportsCenter. Tom Santi, we
come to praise thee, not to bury
thee. But Ray Lewis buried his
helmet right into Santi's shoulder,
spinning him around and
knocking the ball loose. What
was almost a guaranteed Colts
touchdown turned into a fumble
and Ravens recovery.
That's three turnovers for the
Colts today and Flacco gets the
ball back around his own 7-yard
line.
Peter Sanders
Flacco nearly gets sacked in his
own end zone, but lofts a bomb
to Derrick Mason, who pulls it in
and the Ravens get a 45-yard
gain. But on the very next
play.....CONFUSION! Willis
McGahee appears to get stripped
after a solid first-down run and
the Colts recover, but it's out of
bounds. So, it's ruled Ravens
ball. But Harbaugh challenges
the entire play saying McGahee
was down before he got stripped.
Gumbel is confused, Dierdorf is
very confused...that means I am
totally lost.
Peter Sanders
Harbaugh gets another big
decision. McGahee was ruled

down before he got stripped and
it's like all those shenanigans
never even happened. Ravens go
first and 10 on the Colts 32 with
7:10 left in the third.
Ray Rice breaks through, gets
inside the 20 on a quick run and
the Ravens make a charge for
their first end-zone visit of the
day.
Peter Sanders
The Ravens just can't seem to
find the end zone today. Even
with being gifted three turnovers.
Poor Billy Cundiff. Apparently,
four field goals is his limit. He
kicks his fifth attempt
"juuuuuuust a bit outside," as
Bob Uecker would say. Score
stays 14-12 Colts and Tom Santi
apparently tweaked his neck on
that nasty hit. So we'll see if he
comes back today.
Peter Sanders
Scratch that. Santi is back in the
game. Dallas Clark lets one slip
through his hands and it nearly
turned into Manning's third INT.
Colts go four-and-out. Ed Reed
gets nothing. Ravens take over at
their own 32 with about three
minutes left in the quarter.
Peter Sanders
Derrick Mason. You know you
should never take your eyes off
the ball. Even if Colts rookie
Jacob Lacey is bearing down on
you like a derailed freight train.
Especially if you're that wide
open. You'll drop the ball every
single time.
You redeemed yourself on the

next play, Mason, a nice first
down reception. It had the
distinction of exciting Gumbel
and the Dorf because they could
hear the ball striking your
shoulder pads. Hard.
Peter Sanders
That's the end of three. Colts still
holding on, 14-12. Manning
looks sad and frustrated. He
knows he's got one more quarter
to break this thing open or risk
his unbeaten season. The Ravens,
well, you can tell they smell
blood, but they need to find that
big open space of grass that sits
just beyond the 1-yard line.
Old Billy Cundiff looks like he's
ready for a pint or two.
3:26 pm | Fourth quarter | by
Peter Sanders
Greg Gumbel welcomes us all
back to crab-cake country. Joe
Flacco and Rice are slowly
moving the ball downfield. The
Dorf read my mind when he said
"we're reaching that magical
point on the field" where the
Ravens drives come to "a
screeching halt."
Mason probably heard the Dorf
too. Mason burns Jacob Lacey
and grabs a nice ball just
inbounds. Ravens march on
down from the Colts 13-yard line
with 12:30 left in the fourth
quarter.
Peter Sanders
Flacco can't quite sneak it in on
first and goal. Willis McGahee
can't sneak it in on second and
goal. Gary Brackett turns into a 5
-foot-11-inch brick wall. Third

and goal, even worse than
second.
Dorf says it was a busted play.
Whatever it was, Cundiff is back
on field for his sixth try. And a
20-yarder is good. Cundiff is 5for-6 and Ravens take the lead 15
-14.
3:35 pm | by Editor
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problem. The live blog will
resume once we get it worked
out.
Peter Sanders
Ravens nose tackle Haloti Ngata
may have just caught a lucky
break. After his unnecessaryroughness penalty against Pierre
Garcon, it looked like Manning
was going to march the Colts
right into the end zone. But the
Ravens D held tough, limiting
the Colts to only a 25-yard field
goal for former Raven Matt
Stover. 17-15 Indy with about
seven minutes to play.
Peter Sanders
Between Viagra and Flomax and
a ton of old-people CBS shows I
don't ever watch (except for Big
Bang Theory on airplanes), I do
not feel that I'll be watching more
CBS anytime soon.
Peter Sanders
With just over six minutes left,
Flacco and Ray Rice are trying to
get something going. Cundiff
could be the hero here if he gets
another shot at the uprights. It's
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Submitted at 11/23/2009 6:30:01 AM
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Jimmie
Johnson was chasing much more
than a championship.
He was also chasing NASCAR
history.
The most dominant driver of this
decade won a record fourth
consecutive championship
Sunday night at HomesteadMiami Speedway, where he
raced hard to finish fifth when
25th-place would have gotten the
job done.
RAREFIED AIR
Jimmie Johnson's record fourth
straight Sprint Cup title moved
him into a tie with teammate Jeff
Gordon on the list of all-time
champions.
In doing so, Johnson joined
Richard Petty (7), Dale Earnhardt
(7) and teammate Jeff Gordon(4)
as the only drivers to win more
than three titles.
"The cool thing is, we're not done

yet," he warned.
All he ever wanted was a chance
to race against the very best.
Maybe even win a race or two.
Never did he expect to be a
champion.
Especially four times over.
"I grew up on two wheels in the
dirt," the 34-year-old Californian
said. "I had no clue I was going
to end up here racing stock cars
and doing something that had
never been done before. To do
something that's never been done
in the sport, and love the sport
like I do and respect it like I do
and the greats -- Petty, Earnhardt,
Gordon -- to do something they
have never done is so awesome.
"And to win four championships
in eight years, what this team has
done -- this is unbelievable."
Johnson bulldozed his way into
the record books, pouncing when
the 10-race Chase for the Sprint
Cup championship began to pull
team owner Rick Hendrick into
the record books with him.
Johnson's title gave a record 12th
overall championship to
Hendrick, who was in North
Carolina with a niece who was
undergoing an emergency liver
transplant.
Mike and Mike in the Morning
NASCAR driver Jimmie
Johnson describes the joy and
relief of winning his fourth
consecutive championship.
Johnson says he's truly humbled
by what his team has
accomplished and he's honored to
represent the sport.
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In his absence, Johnson, Mark
Martin and Gordon celebrated a 1
-2-3 finish in the final points
standings, the first time in
NASCAR history a team owner
has swept the standings with cars
he has solely owned the entire
season.
"Heavy hearts and prayers with
the boss man and the family,"
Martin said, paying homage to
Hendrick. "That sort of takes a
little bit of the shine off of it. But
congratulations to Hendrick
Motorsports, to Jimmie Johnson - Superman -- and to my team."
Superman, indeed.
Johnson now stands atop
NASCAR as a one-man dynasty,
much like Tiger Woods, Roger
Federer and Lance Armstrong in
their sports.
Only Johnson hasn't been feted
under a blizzard of confetti by
himself. His mighty Hendrick
team rules NASCAR the way
UCLA Bruins once dominated
the hardwood or Michael
Jordan's Chicago Bulls reigned
supreme.
There's seemingly plenty of
chances left for Johnson's tagteam with crew chief Chad
Knaus to keep Hendrick and the
No. 48 in the title hunt for
another decade.
Johnson signed a five-year
contract extension to drive for
Hendrick through 2015, and
Knaus has insisted the No. 48
team can keep this pace for the
next several years.
Johnson doesn't want to take
anything for granted along the

way.
"I don't know if we'll win another
championship," he said. "I feel in
my heart we'll be competitive,
but at some point in time, we
won't be that team."
That's why Johnson never let up
in pursuit of the championship.
He raced hard for wins in nine of
the 10 Chase races, and for all
400 miles at Homestead, where
he threatened to try to run down
the leaders to better his eventual
fifth-place finish.
It made for a sometimes testy
drive into history for Johnson,
who was at times annoyed at
rival drivers and even Gordon,
the mentor and teammate who
helped him land his job with
Hendrick Motorsports.
Nobody gave Johnson anything,
either. The other drivers raced
hard around him all day, making
Johnson earn every point in a
race won by Denny Hamlin, who
established himself as a driver to
watch in 2010 by winning a
career-high four races this
season.
Hamlin also managed to keep
pace with Johnson at times but
fell out of contention with three
DNFs.
"We're going to be there, I
promise you," Hamlin said. "I
promise you, the next couple
years, we're going to win the
championship. But right now,
there's no one more deserving
than Jimmie."
Johnson won seven races this
season, four after the Chase
began in September. In fact,

since the Chase format began in
2004, Johnson has won 18 of 60
Chase races.
Homestead Results
Denny Hamlin won at
Homestead, his fourth victory of
the year, and put his name atop
the list of 2010 challengers for
Jimmie Johnson's crown.
Complete results
He's done it by almost never
choosing the safe route. He did it
just once this year, at Talladega
when he ran near the back of the
field most of the day to avoid the
trouble at the Alabama track.
Only the joke was on him when
his problems popped up a week
later, at Texas, where he was
wrecked on the third lap and lost
111 points from his cushion over
Martin. It still left him with a
cozy 78-point margin headed into
last weekend's race at Phoenix,
where he probably could have
laid back and protected his lead.
Instead, he pounced and earned a
dominating victory that set the
stage for an easy Sunday.
"The pressure of winning the
fourth didn't really hit me until
hitting the wall at Texas," he
admitted. "And then it was like
'Oh, man.' It was a great reality
check."
Of course, he couldn't get off the
gas.
After several tense laps chasing
Gordon for fifth place -- Johnson
at one point complained over his
radio "I let him go, now why
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Charlie Weis says indeed, 6-5 not good enough

for Notre Dame Fighting Irish
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
had of returning to the sideline

next year, writes Brian Bennett.
Blog
Submitted at 11/22/2009 9:54:45 PM
Big East blog
Weis Won't Step Down Weis At the time, Weis said: "You are
Won't Step Down
what you are, folks, and right
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Charlie now you're a 6-5 football team.
Weis wouldn't blame Notre And guess what? That's just not
Dame for firing him.
good enough. That's not good
"If they decide to make a change, enough for you, and it's certainly
I'd have to say I'd have a tough not going to be good enough for
time arguing with that. If they me."
decide to make a change, I'd have Weis' 35-26 record gives him a
a tough time arguing that because .573 winning percentage. That's
6-5 is not good enough," the worse than the .583 winning
Fighting Irish coach said Sunday. percentage that got Notre Dame's
"Especially when you've lost five t w o p r e v i o u s c o a c h e s ,
games by a touchdown or less Willingham and Bob Davie,
and several three-point games fired.
that went right down to the wire. Weis declined to answer most
"My intent is to be here. But if questions about how the Irish
that were the rationale, I mean it have done in his five years,
would be tough for me to argue saying he's too busy getting ready
with that point," he said.
for Stanford (7-4) to think about
Notre Dame lost its third straight that. He said he'll answer those
game and fell to 6-5 on Saturday questions in the future.
with a 33-30 loss in double "I'm going to need significant
overtime to Connecticut on time to get to that point," he said.
senior day in South Bend.
Athletic director Jack Swarbrick
He made the comments after said again Sunday, after Weis
being asked about his quote when spoke, that he will decide on
he was hired five years ago after Weis' future after Saturday's
Tyrone Willingham was fired game at Stanford, saying nothing
with a 6-5 record.
Weis said had changed that.
Bennett: This is It for Weis
"It's still status quo. That's not to
Everything after this will be a say something couldn't happen,
mere formality. Don't make any but I don't foresee it," he said.
mistake: Notre Dame's loss to When asked to characterize his
Connecticut on the Irish's senior relationship with Swarbrick, who
day ended any hope Charlie Weis was hired in July 2008, Weis said
it has been "fair and cordial the

whole time we've worked
together."
Weis, who has a contract that
runs through the 2015 season,
said he couldn't envision any
scenario where he would resign.
"No, that's not happening," he
said.
Weis conceded that he's
responsible for any shortcomings
of the program.
"Who else is responsible? Now, I
could sit there and try to blame
everybody else, but ultimately, it
falls on my shoulders," he said.
Weis was generally in an affable
mood Sunday. A reporter was
talking about his tie when Weis
came in and Weis quipped: "a
Kmart special." When asked if he
was gong to be the whipping boy
on Sunday, Weis joked:
"Welcome to my world."
He also pretended to be ignorant
when first asked about his 6-5
quote from five years ago,
saying: "I might have short-term
memory here, if you're going to
reminisce at this point."
He did get terse when a reporter
asked whether coaches or players
were to blame for the team's poor
defensive play, an area where the
Irish have struggled since Weis
arrived.
"Do you really expect me to
come up and throw people under
the bus. Is that what you think?"
he said.
Irish players said after the game

that they were at a loss to explain
how they've gone from being a
team with Bowl Championship
Series aspirations and two
players, Jimmy Clausen and
Golden Tate, being talked about
as potential Heisman candidates,
to losing three straight.
"You kind of step back and look
at it all and you don't think this is
where we should be. But it is,"
linebacker Harrison Smith said.
"We can't change anything now."
The Irish players say they
support Weis. The captains stood
beside Weis as they led the team
out of the tunnel Saturday with
their arms linked in a show of
support.
Tate said he wants Weis back
because they have such a good
relationship on and off the field,
saying he wouldn't be the
receiver he is without Weis.
"But it's not up to me," Tate said.
Swarbrick said he couldn't
speculate on whether Notre
Dame will go to a bowl until he
knows the team's final record and
what bowls are available.
"There's a myriad of factors," he
said.
Swarbrick said what players
want to do "will play a big role in
our decision."
Copyright 2009 by The
Associated Press
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Media: Bill Moyers To
Retire From Weekly TV
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:23:08 PM
Bill Moyers will be retiring from

regularly weekly reporting on TV
next year. Moyers, 75, received
the highest award bestowed by
the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences in
2006 -- it's Lifetime
Achievement Emmy. His weekly
show on PBS, "Bill Moyers
Journal," will end on April 30,
2010.
Early in his career, Moyers
worked as press secretary for
fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson
when Johnson was president.
Since then, he has done
thousands of hours of TV
programming, many of them
focusing on various aspects of
the humanities, such as his
famous interviews with Joseph
Campbell about the power of
mythology that first ran on PBS,
Moyers' home for many years.
During the summer of 2007,
Moyers delivered a prophetic
speech about the importance of
journalism at a conference about
education. In the speech, he said,
"The job of trying to tell the truth
about people whose job it is to
hide the truth is almost as
complicated as trying to hide it in
the first place. One of my
mentors told me that 'news is
what people want to keep hidden;
everything else is publicity.' "
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second and 10 from the Ravens

own 45.
Rice peels off a big one, gets to
the Colts 35 yard line on a 22yard carry.
Peter Sanders
Ray Rice has 138 combined
yards so far and both sides get a
quick breather as Colts DB Tim
Jennings leaves the field after
getting shaken up.
It's third and long for the Ravens
and Flacco connects with Mason
at the Colts' 17. First and 10.
Manning looks concerned from
the sidelines.
Peter Sanders
Rice just gets pushed way back
and the debate is on: How much
time do you give Manning?
That's assuming Cundiff makes
his kick or Flacco gets a TD in
the next two plays.
Uh oh. Flacco throws it right to
Gary Brackett and the Colts get
the INT. There was a false start
that went uncalled and now
they're wishing it had. First
Ravens turnover at the worst
time.
Manning takes over with 2:42
and a two-point lead.
Peter Sanders
Manning appears to have gotten
the first down after a nice catch

by Reggie Wayne. The officials
bring out the chains...this could
be the game if the Colts get the
first down...and by a nose, it's a
first down. Refs will review the
spot....Harbaugh's gotten a lot of
use out of that red flag today.
Peter Sanders
The Dorf and Gumbel are
making french jokes about
Garcon and the word "derriere." I
like it.
Peter Sanders
Harbaugh's first failed challenge
of the day, and it's costly. Ravens
lose their final timeout of the
game and Manning gets the ball
again for at least four more
downs. 2:19 left in the fourth.
Colts take it at their own 31.
Quick false start on the offense
and the Colts will back it up.
That one is on Santi.
Peter Sanders
Two minutes to go. Manning
gives it to Addai and keeps it on
the ground. The Colts are going
to "slow-play" them, my friends.
Peter Sanders
Ack! Now there's a Lipitor
commercial on. After the game,
I'm going to run a 10K and
maybe swim a few miles....Is

CBS trying to give me a heart
attack AND a small bladder
AND erectile dysfunction? I
thought when I woke up this
morning I was perfectly healthy.
A few hours later, I'm
questioning everything!
Peter Sanders
The Ravens will get it back for
one more shot....Cundiff might
be the hero as the Colts ready to
punt it away. Ed Reed will
receive it for the Ravens. The
punt will go off with around 25
seconds to go.
Peter Sanders
Dear Ed Reed. That was really
stupid. Tried to lateral it to a
teammate but ended up with a
fumble. Colts recovered. The
Dorf agrees with me.
Peter Sanders
Again, it's all about the knees.
Was he down, or not? Ruling on
the field is a fumble, with the
Colts recovering. Even if it's
down and the Ravens keep it,
they've still got to get Billy C.
into field-goal range.
4:13 pm | Final | by Peter
Sanders
That's all she wrote, folks.
Manning gets it back and he'll
take a knee. The Ravens scored

15 points on field goals and the
Colts' 17 weren't much prettier.
The Colts, who win 17-15 to
squeak another one out, and the
New Orleans Saints (Geaux
Saints!) are the two remaining
unbeaten teams in the NFL.
4:29 pm | Postgame | by Peter
Sanders
The Colts and their QB Peyton
Manning (he of recent Sports
Illustrated cover-story fame)
came into Baltimore undefeated
though shaky. Manning threw
two picks but almost had 300
yards in the air. Manning can
thank his defense for the win, as
the unit kept the Ravens out of
the end zone the entire game.
As for the Ravens, Joe Flacco
was solid until the very end,
when he threw a most
inopportune interception. Ray
Rice was tasked with carrying the
load and did so, though he never
found the end zone.
Apparently, the Ravens will
have to wait another year to
break their losing streak against
Indianapolis, which now
stretches back to 2001.
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Media: McClatchy
Launches Digital Papers
on the Kindle
Submitted at 11/22/2009 7:25:56 PM
McClatchy is announcing on
Facebook that five of its papers
are available on the Kindle: The
Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte
Observer, the Ft. Worth StarTelegram in Texas, the
Anchorage Daily News and the
News & Observer in Raleigh,
N.C.
The Kindle editions are
delivered wirelessly once a day
in the early morning, but will not
be a complete version of the print
edition or even the Web site of
each paper. The editions will not
have advertising and are free for
a two-week trial. The monthly
subscription price is $6.99 a
month. Amazon is said to take a
70% cut of subscription revenue
from newspapers.
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Submitted at 11/23/2009 4:34:51 AM
The day after Thanksgiving,

which this year falls on
November 27th, is also known as
Black Friday, and it marks the
beginning of the Christmas

shopping craze. Capitalizing on
one of the busiest shopping days
of the year, Apple has announced
a special Apple one-day

shopping event on November
27. The company posted a teaser
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won't he just go somewhere!" -he asked Knaus if he had enough

time to catch Hamlin and the
leaders.
Johnson didn't like being told no
by his crew chief.
"Is that a dare?" he asked Knaus.
"No. That is a fact," Knaus
replied.
So is Johnson's place in history,
which seems to be undervalued
despite 47 victories since 2002.
He's never finished lower than
fifth in the final standings and
actually had a shot at winning the
championship in 2004 and 2005 - only to fall short in the finale.
Chase Standings
Jimmie Johnson earned his
fourth consecutive title, and took
nothing for granted. He could
have won by finishing at least
25th, but Johnson pushed to earn

a top-five finish.
"Jimmie is an incredible,
incredible talent. He is the most
underrated driver in this garage,"
Knaus said. "That guy can do
things in a race car that I've never
seen before. I hope this proves it
to everybody."
His competitors insist time will
take care of Johnson's legacy, but
they continue to marvel at his
success.
"If you would have told me four
years ago that someone would
win four championships in a row,
I would have told you you were
crazy," said Jeff Burton, who
finished second in Sunday's race.
Even Gordon, who won four
quick titles early in his career but
has been shut out since 2001, is
impressed.
"As a competitor, that Johnson
ticks me off. As a friend,
teammate, fellow car owner,
they're amazing," Gordon said. "I
never thought in my career, in
my lifetime, I'd see somebody
win four in a row. To see it
happening right in front of your
eyes makes it even more
extraordinary."
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Associated Press was used in this
report.
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Real Salt Lake Beats the Odds Again, Wins MLS

Cup on Penalties
By Brian Straus (FanHouse)
there was any way the upstarts

from Salt Lake City could find
their way back into Sunday
by Brian Straus
night's MLS Cup final.
Filed under: MLS SEATTLE -But Morales' replacement,
Real Salt Lake's playmaker, American soccer's prodigal son,
Javier Morales, was lost in the Clint Mathis, and striker Robbie
22nd minute, the victim of a hard Findley led the way. Real Salt
tackle from David Beckham. Lake has been beating the odds
Nineteen minutes later, Beckham for more than a month now,
and Landon Donovan combined qualifying for the postseason on
to create a goal by midfielder the final weekend despite an 11Mike Magee that put the favored 12-7 record and defeating two
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Sunday they again made the

impossible possible, tying the
game at 1-1 on a second-half goal
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Confirms Idiocy
By Clay Travis (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 9:45:00 PM
by Clay Travis
Filed under: LSU, Mississippi,
SEC On Saturday, LSU's Jordan
Jefferson made the inexplicable
decision to spike the football
with only one second remaining
in the game. Spiking the football
ended the game and negated two
miraculous Milacles: first, Les
Miles' Tigers recovered an onside
kick and then they completed a
46-yard Hail Mary. In his
postgame news conference Miles
claimed that he didn't know who
had instructed Jefferson to spike
the football. "I do not know who
told him to clock [spike] it,"
Miles said.
Except, you guessed it, Miles
himself was displaying his
uncanny acumen by calling for
the ball to be spiked with one
second remaining on the clock.
That's something that you can
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Johnson's Reign May
Continue
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- With two
laps to go, pop star Nick Lachey
clearly see on this video after the
began clapping and cheering on
jump. And yet another reason
his good friend. The back slaps
why LSU fans are still staring
and handshakes among crew,
morosely at the waters on the
family and friends started coming
bayou, shaking their heads,
like a slow wave picking up
drinking Jax beers, and cursing
speed as Jimmie Johnson slid his
the day that Les Miles didn't
Chevy out of the final turn and
leave for Michigan.
approached the last checkered
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-Bird Tale
By David Steele (FanHouse)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 2:15:00 AM
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CITY, Mo. -- The National
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By Thomas George
(FanHouse)
go-wrong game for the Jets that

revealed their warts and
showcased the Patriots' muscle.
Submitted at 11/22/2009 11:30:00 PM
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by Thomas George
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Filed under: Jets, Patriots, NFL essentially pointed to one fact:
A n a l y s i s F O X B O R O U G H , the Jets are frauds.
Mass. -- It was a what-else-can- They talked a big game before
the first snap of the season and

more smack when they toppled
the Patriots 16-9 back in Week 2.
They were throwing a rookie
quarterback sensation at
opponents, combined with a
defense designed to growl and
intimidate.
They sped to three straight

victories -- but have since lost six
of seven games. And those six
losses have come in a pair of
three-game losing skids,
including the current one. They
are a 4-6 team steamrolling to a 7
-9 or 6-10 season.
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not many upsets -- outside of the
consecutive losses have dropped
Wild, Wild West Conference or
the once impressive Denver
better known as the Pac-10 -- the
Broncos into the middle of the
top nine teams in my Associated
Press Top 25 ballot remained the pastime has already begun. No, AFC pack.
same as last week.
not figuring out who will be The San Diego Chargers(7-3) all
So unless Alabama loses to Notre Dame's next coach, but but ensured they will win the
Auburn, Florida loses to Florida lobbying for the best possible AFC West with a 32-3 rout
Sunday at Denver's Invesco
State or Texas loses to Texas bowl berth.
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Fame inducted eight new

members Sunday night, and
nearly half of the two-hour
ceremony was devoted to two of
them. Not that it wasn't deserved:
from the moment the list of
enshrinees for the Hall's fourth
class was announced, it was
universally known that it would
be a Magic-Bird celebration.
Earvin "Magic'' Johnson and
Larry Bird did not disappoint, as

they served up memories of the
moment they shared 30 years ago
in the NCAA championship
game, spoke of the legacies they
carved out in basketball at every
level -- and remained in their
easily-recognizable characters
almost as if they were scripted
for the event.
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Was the past week good for
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every foreign sales post we do
somehow references football (or,
as our primitive North American
minds have designated it, soccer)
-- including the post you're
reading right this hot second. The
terrifically named, PSP-exclusive
J. LEAGUE Football Club
Tsukurou! 6 Pride of J took top
honors in the Japanese charts this
week, pushing the portable
platform to a first-place finish
over its ill-equipped, football-less
competitors.
We know better than to stand in
the way of progress -- so, from
henceforth, Joystiq will be
changing its focus from video
games to the foot-centric sport
which half of our posts tend to be
about anyways. Yes, we know
very, very little about the game,
but we don't really think that's
too important. You know what is
important? Choosing a new name
of our blog, which we've already
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As usual Big Download had a
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news items and downloads for
any PC gaming fan. Let's take a
look back at the last seven days:
Exclusive Features
Left 4 Dead 2: Check out our
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Valve's shooter. Plus you still
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Steam download codes for the
full game.
Interviews: This week we
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Mac Monday: This week we
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Soccer 2010.
Boot Disk: This week our retro
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Fallout 2.
Big Ideas: Our weekly look at
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anything, could be considered
taboo in games.
All You Need To Know: Our
weekly 411 on a game titles gives
you the info you need on
Assassin's Creed 2.
Freeware Friday: Our popular
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the browser-based Captain
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that's solid gold.

We know this transition will be
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Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:00:00 PM
Remember that silly, insane

rumor from back in 2008 about
Diablo 3 being released by
Blizzard before StarCraft 2?
Turns out that Blizzard's Rob
Pardo thinks that's a bunch of
hogwash. Rather, that's at least
what we can infer from his recent
conversation with Techland on
the subject. "We always
announce all of our games too
early," he says. "I think it's safe

to say that, yeah, [ Diablo 3] is
not going to be out next year."
Considering StarCraft 2's delay
to 2010, we think it's fair to
assume that Diablo 3 will in fact
not be arriving before a StarCraft
sequel. Pardo adds that it's not a
question of lacking resources, as
"each game has individual
development teams; it's just that
the way that we develop games,
we develop them very
iteratively." Worse yet, there
doesn't seem to be a finish line in

sight for D3. "Now when we
announce [a game] we just go,
'Here's the game we're working
on, we're going to start talking

about it and who knows when it
ships.'" If any of you were still
holding your breath for Diablo
3's release, now might be a good

time to exhale.
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bundles containing pre-installed bundles, so we're guessing the by a recent patch. The update
software to the value of $20. The units will retail at the normal includes fixes for an error which
metallic blue DSi bundle (a new $170 price. Of course, it is Black i m p e d e d m a t c h m a k i n g f o r
color for the States) will feature Friday, so check various retailers players looking for higher
Mario-themed DSiWare, while for the best deals.
difficulty games, for a bug which
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passion for brain teasers."
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bitter dispute over abortion that
prompted Rhode Island's Roman
Catholic bishop to ask Rep.
Patrick Kennedy not to receive
Holy Communion has revealed
the depth of the divide among
Catholics over how politicians
should reconcile their faith with
their public duties.
Bishop Thomas Tobin on
Sunday said he made the request
because of the Democratic
lawmaker's support for abortion
rights. The news prompted
debate among Catholics around
the country and within Rhode
Island, the nation's most Catholic
state, about whether it was right
for Tobin to publicly shame
Kennedy for breaking with the
church on what its leaders
consider a paramount moral
issue.
Angel Madera, 20, a Marine
visiting his home in Providence
for Thanksgiving, said before
attending Sunday evening Mass
that Tobin was wrong to assail
Kennedy's faith.
"If they believe they're a true
Catholic, who's to say that they're
not?" he said.
Others, like Kay Willis, of
Smithfield, applauded Tobin for
calling Kennedy to account over
the conflict between his
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Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers (AP)

Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:22:48 AM
LAREDO, Texas A U.S.

program that offers trusted
trucking companies speedy
passage across American borders
has begun attracting just the sort
of customers who place a
premium on avoiding
inspections: Mexican drug
smugglers.
Most trucks enrolled in the
program pause at the border for
just 20 seconds before entering
the United States. And nine out
of 10 of them do so without
anyone looking at their cargo.
But among the small fraction of
trucks that are inspected,
authorities have found multiple
loads of contraband, including
nearly 13 tons of marijuana
seized in a three-week period last
spring.
Some experts now question
whether the program makes sense
in an environment where drug
traffickers are willing to do
almost anything to smuggle their
shipments into the U.S.
The trusted-shipper system "just
tells the bad guys who to target,"
said Dave McIntyre, former
director of the Integrative Center
for Homeland Security at Texas
A&M University.
The program works like this:
Participating companies agree to
adopt certain security measures
in exchange for fast entry into the
U.S. They are required to put
their employees through

background checks, fence in their
facilities and track their trucks.
They also must work with
subcontractors who also have
been certified under the program,
which is run by the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection agency.
The government keeps the list of
participants secret, citing national
security and trade secrets. But
some of the 9,500 companies
who are part of the system
advertise their membership to
drum up business, making them
targets for smugglers, who can
then threaten drivers or offer
them bribes.
More than half of all U.S.
imports now come from
companies in the program, called
the Customs-Trade Partnership
Against Terrorism, or C-TPAT.
Mexican trucking companies
make up only 6 percent of global
membership in the system, but
they account for half of its 71
security violations during the past
two years.
Mexican trucking companies
face higher scrutiny than others.
They get a full customs
inspection every year, instead of
every three years like other
participating companies.
The most common contraband is
marijuana, officials say.
In March, a driver from Tijuana,
Mexico, offered inspectors at the
U.S. border paperwork showing
his truck was filled with toilet
paper. But a drug-sniffing dog
alerted authorities to five tons of

marijuana in a hidden
compartment.
A week later, customs officers
found three tons of marijuana in
trucks carrying auto parts and
racks. Five days after that, agents
in El Paso, Texas, found more
than four tons of marijuana in a
tractor-trailer hauling another
load of auto parts.
Stephen Flynn, senior fellow for
Counterterrorism and National
Security Studies at the Council
on Foreign Relations, said
truckers do not feel safe rejecting
bribes, no matter what
agreements their companies have
made with the U.S. government.
"The basic vulnerability for a
truck driver remains the 'plata-orplomo' dilemma," Flynn said,
using Spanish shorthand for
taking a bribe or a bullet.
John Chaffin, a trade lawyer
near San Diego, said he had
worked with one Mexican
trucking company that wanted to
join the program, but then pulled
out. He suspects participating
companies feel pressure from
drug gangs to help them smuggle
drugs into the United States.
"Some Mexican truckers have
figured out, 'I don't want
someone thinking I'm a better
target than someone else,'"
Chaffin said.
Mexican authorities suspect a
man who owned a participating
trucking company in
Aguascalientes, Mexico, was
killed by drug gangs in July

2008. The slaying of Gerardo
Medrano Ibarra is unsolved.
In Laredo, the border's busiest
crossing, nearly 700 trucks a day
pass through the lane at the
World Trade Bridge reserved for
trucks that are certified by the
trusted-carrier program, each one
pausing only for a matter of
seconds.
Trucking companies have to
electronically submit a list of
each vehicle's cargo to customs
officials at least 30 minutes
before arriving at the bridge.
Customs agents review them for
risk factors that could trigger an
inspection. Customs will not
reveal those factors, but people
familiar with the program say
potential risks are judged based
on the factory that is sending the
goods, its location, the truck's
route and other matters.
Required cable locks on the
trailer doors are also checked, but
smugglers have been known to
cut them and carefully glue them
back together or take the trailer
doors off at the hinges without
disturbing the locks.
Mexican trucking company
owner Leonardo Varela
Resendez joined the program
because he did not want to lose
clients.
At first glance, Autotransportes
Varela Davila, a family trucking
business with 54 tractor-trailers
in Reynosa, Mexico, seemed the
sort of low-tech operation
smugglers would target. Then

Varela pointed out the security
cameras surrounding the yard,
the guard at the front gate who
took down a visitor's license plate
number and the woman who
tracks his trucks' whereabouts by
computer.
"I have learned good things from
the U.S. like this, and we
understand it benefits companies
and the U.S. too," Varela said.
Nearby Varela is building a new
yard for his trucks. It is larger,
modern and will include 128
mounted security cameras, as
well as an infirmary for giving
drug tests to drivers.
Varela, the local delegate for the
national trucking advocacy
group, said he does not fear being
targeted by drug smugglers.
"They dedicate themselves to
their thing, and we do ours," he
said.
Daniel B. Hastings Jr., owner of
a customs house with offices at
five ports of entry on the TexasMexico border, thinks the
customs program works. He cited
cases where a Mexican trucking
company tracking a truck noticed
an unscheduled stop en route to
the bridge and phoned to alert
U.S. customs.
"I think they're doing as good as
they can with what they have to
work with," he said.
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professed faith and voting record.

"If you're going to be a Catholic,
be a Catholic," she said.
The fight began escalating
shortly after the death of
Kennedy's father, Sen. Edward
Kennedy of Massachusetts, and
came to a head on the 46th
anniversary of the assassination
of his uncle, President John F.
Kennedy.
Tobin told The Associated Press
in an interview Sunday that he's
praying for the younger
Kennedy, who has been in and
out of treatment for substance
abuse, and said Kennedy has
been acting "erratically."
"He attacked the church. He
attacked the position of the
church on health care, on
abortion, on funding," Tobin
said. "And that required that I
respond. I don't go out looking
for these guys. I don't go out
picking these fights."
Their simmering dispute
escalated in October when
Kennedy criticized Catholic
bishops for threatening to oppose
an overhaul of the nation's health
care system unless lawmakers
included tighter restrictions on
abortion, which have since been
added to the House version of the
bill. Tobin said he felt Kennedy
made an unprovoked attack on
the church and demanded an

apology.
Since then, their feud has played
out in public. Tobin, who has
said he might have gone into
politics were he not ordained, has
written sharp public letters
questioning Kennedy's faith and
saying his position is scandalous
and unacceptable to the church.
Kennedy has said his
disagreement with the church
hierarchy does not make him any
less of a Catholic.
Two weeks ago, after a planned
meeting between the two fell
through, Kennedy said he wanted
to stop discussing his faith in
public. But then he told The
Providence Journal in a story
published Sunday that Tobin
instructed him not to receive
Communion. He also claimed the
bishop had told diocesan priests
not to give him Communion.
Kennedy and his spokespeople
did not return repeated requests
from the AP seeking comment.
Tobin said he wrote to Kennedy
in February 2007 asking him not
to receive Communion, but never
formally banned Kennedy from
receiving Communion nor
instructed any priest not to give it
to him.
Kennedy said this month that he
receives Communion, but he did
not say whether his priest is in

the Diocese of Providence. Tobin
only has authority over priests in
Rhode Island, which has a higher
percentage of Catholics than any
other state.
The bishop said he would
probably not personally give
Kennedy Communion and might
have "a little conversation" with
any priest who regularly gave
Kennedy the sacrament.
Tobin would not say Sunday
whether he had sent similar
letters to other pro-choice
Catholic politicians, including
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. Reed said
in a statement that he respected
Tobin's authority on matters of
faith but added that "any
discussions we've had are
between the two of us."
Catholics nationally have been
spit over the issue.
Michael Sean Winters, author of
"Left At The Altar: How the
Democrats Lost the Catholics and
How the Catholics Can Save the
Democrats," said he found the
public dispute unseemly, even
though he opposes abortion and
thinks Kennedy is wrong. He
said bishops are not making
appropriate distinctions when
penalizing people over abortion.
There's "a difference between
being an abortion doctor,
procuring an abortion for

yourself or your spouse and
saying, 'I don't think abortion
should be illegal,'" he said.
Abortion is a major concern for
Catholic bishops because
opposition to the procedure is
based on the church's earliest
teachings on preserving human
life, which have not changed. By
comparison, church teaching on
the death penalty is not as
definitive and has changed over
time, making it difficult for
church leaders to demand that
Catholic lawmakers agree.
A small number of prelates have
publicly asked a Catholic
politician to voluntarily abstain
from the sacrament.
Mark Silk, director of the
Greenberg Center for the Study
of Religion in Public Life, said
statements made in 2004 by St.
Louis Archbishop Raymond
Burke, who threatened to deny
Communion to Democratic
presidential candidate John
Kerry, intensified the debate.
"There's real disagreement as far
as anybody can tell among the
bishops, but they don't like to
publicly criticize each other,"
Silk said.
Other Catholic politicians have
wrestled with the same issue
Kennedy faces.
In 1984, former Democratic

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a
Catholic who supported abortion
rights and was at the time a
potential presidential candidate,
delivered a speech at the
University of Notre Dame
explaining that Catholic
lawmakers shouldn't be pressured
by church leaders to work for
anti-abortion legislation. He said
Sunday it's dangerous for the
church to pressure politicians
because of the potential for
unintended consequences.
"If you're required (by the
church) to make everybody
follow your Catholic role, then
nobody would vote for Catholics
because it's clear that when you
get the authority, you're going to
be guided by your faith," the
former governor told the AP.
___
AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll
in New York City and Associated
Press writers Rik Stevens in
Albany, N.Y., and Michelle R.
Smith in Providence contributed
to this report.
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Medical marijuana finds social outlet in Ore. cafe (AP)

Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:51:09 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. At the

newly opened Cannabis Cafe,
people sit around taking tokes
from a "vaporizer" a
contraption with a big plastic bag
that captures the potent vapors of
heated marijuana. Glass jars hold
donations of dried, milky-green
weed, and the cafe serves up
meals and snacks for the hungry.
It's all perfectly legal and, for
cancer patient Albert Santistevan,
it's about time.
"It's a very positive atmosphere.
We could use more places like
that," the 56-year-old former
jewelry shop owner said.
A few weeks ago, Santistevan
would have had no place to go.
But with the Obama
administration's decision last
month to soften the federal stance
on medical marijuana, the
Cannabis Cafe and a lounge
across town popped up, bringing
a little bit of pot-friendly
Amsterdam to this working class
corner of Portland.
The idea could catch on in the
roughly dozen other states with
medical marijuana laws. Allen St.

Pierre, spokesman for the
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws, or
NORML, said the organization
has already gotten inquiries from
Washington state, Michigan,
Montana and Maine.
Portland police have not
received any complaints about
the cafe and it is not under any
special scrutiny, officials said.
Jan Clutter lives about a block
from the cafe and knows the
owners well. She said many
neighbors would probably prefer
it was somewhere else, but there
has been no push to have it
moved. For some, things could
be worse than having a pot cafe.
"It's better than having a sex
club, a strip joint or a bar full of
drunks open down the street,"
neighbor Claudia Nix said.
Oregon became the second state
to pass a marijuana law in 1998,
following California. There are
nearly 24,000 patients with
medical marijuana cards in
Oregon. Only state residents can
obtain the card after registering
as a patient in the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Program with
a qualifying debilitating medical

condition diagnosed by a doctor.
Even though they have a card,
medical marijuana patients have
had to confine their smoking to
their homes for fear of getting
busted.
"We have no place of our own.
So this is the place," said
Madeline Martinez, executive
director of the Oregon chapter of
NORML, which operates and
monitors the cafe.
Volunteers gave a reporter and a
photographer a tour of the cafe.
No marijuana is sold in the cafe.
Patients bring marijuana grown
by themselves or by their
designated caregivers. They also
donate marijuana for other
patrons to use. The cafe has a
pool table and comfy couches.
Martinez demonstrated the
"Volcano," a vaporizer that
collects marijuana fumes into a
clear plastic pouch with a valve
that releases the fumes for
patients to inhale.
People who want to use
marijuana at the cafe can't get
inside until Martinez or other
NORML members check their
IDs to make sure they are
patients registered with the state.

The patients also have to be a
member of Oregon NORML to
use the cafe, pay a $20 a month
fee, and a $5 coverage charge at
the door. The money goes toward
operating costs.
In another part of the city is
Highway 420 a number pot
users have used as code for
marijuana a small lounge in
the back room of Steve Geiger's
pipe shop. Rules for using the
lounge are similar to those at the
Cannabis Cafe. Geiger opened it
in late October. Eight to 10
people come in on a given day.
People sit around, talk and watch
TV while smoking marijuana.
Geiger said it's only fair for
medical marijuana users to have
a place where they can socialize
and use their medicine.
"The truth is that nobody that
takes medication every day
would be told you have to take
that at home," said Geiger, who
spent about 30 years working
with computers before opening
the shop.
One of the state's staunchest law
-and-order figures Oregon
Anti-Crime Alliance President
Kevin Mannix said he wishes

there had been more public
discussion about the cafe before
it opened. He worries Oregon's
law could be stretched beyond
the original purpose of personal
use for relief from disease or
chronic pain, and said lawmakers
need to weigh in before more
cafes open.
"I'm not going to cast judgment
on whether or not there should be
a cafe," Mannix said. "But I do
think legislative policy makers
need to take a good hard look at
where we are headed."
St. Pierre, the national NORML
spokesman, argued that the
Cannabis Cafe and the Highway
420 lounge show that medical
marijuana can be part of
neighborhood community life.
"I can tell you had they done this
three years ago, they'd be gone,"
he said. "If they'd done it 10
years ago, there would be yellow
tape around them. If they'd done
this 20 years ago, they might
have gone in there with guns
blazing."
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(AP)
Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:38:33 AM
JACKSON, Miss. Over the

last three years, the FBI scoured
faded documents, interviewed
aging lawmen and tracked down
witnesses from killings that
occurred decades ago, many of
them involving white police
officers who shot black men or
teenagers.
Now, the agency is at a dead end
in the search for relatives in at
least 33 civil rights-era cases, and
the FBI needs the public's help.
Agents are appealing for relatives
of the victims to come forward,
the latest challenge in a threeyear-old effort to right historical
wrongs.
"We have done everything we
can to find those families and
we've run out of leads," said
Cynthia Deitle, unit chief for the
FBI's civil rights division.
"Whether it's a spouse, child or
parent. We've even gone as far as
locating cousins who are the next
of kin."
In some cases, the FBI is
looking for family members to
provide any evidence or details
about the crimes. In others,
agents want to give a status

update or simply tell the relatives
the FBI's investigation has ended.
Among the cases is Johnny
Robinson, a black teen shot by
police in 1963 in the aftermath of
the 16th Street Baptist Church
bombing in Birmingham, Ala.
Another case is the killing of
John Earl Reese, a 16-year-old
who died in 1955 when two men
fired shots on a black cafe in
Gregg County, Texas.
The Civil Rights-Era Cold Case
Initiative began in 2006 with a
solemn charge: Reopen long
dormant cases from a period in
America's history when blacks
and whites were killed in the
South's bloody fight to maintain a
segregated society.
The unit had 108 cases under
investigation, including the
infamous Ku Klux Klan slayings
of three civil rights workers
found buried in an earthen dam
in Mississippi in 1964. A parttime Mississippi preacher was
convicted of manslaughter in
2005 in the case, and the
investigation continues.
The FBI said those identified as
suspects in nearly half of the
homicides are now dead. Federal
officials also have determined

about 20 cases were not racially
motivated homicides.
Successful prosecutions cited by
the FBI include the 2003
conviction of Ernest Avery
Avants, found guilty of federal
charges of aiding and abetting in
the 1966 Klan killing of Ben
Chester White, a black handyman
shot to death to possibly lure
Martin Luther King Jr. to
Natchez, Miss.
Another was the 2007
kidnapping conviction of James
Ford Seale, a reputed Klansman.
Authorities said Charles Moore
and Henry Dee were kidnapped,
beaten and thrown, possibly still
alive, into a Mississippi River
backwater in 1964.
Charles Moore's brother,
Thomas Moore, was instrumental
in getting that case reopened.
Thomas Moore said he took FBI
records he obtained to
Mississippi U.S. Attorney Dunn
Lampton, who then looked into
the case.
Though the FBI's effort has been
applauded, some believe the
pursuit comes too late.
"I think the window has been
closing for a couple of years
because many of the potential

defendants are dying or have
died. This was an effort that
would have been wonderful
about 15 years ago," said Susan
Glisson, director of the William
Winter Institute for Racial
Reconciliation at the University
of Mississippi.
Southern Poverty Law Center
president Richard Cohen said his
organization has turned over
information to the FBI in hopes
someone will be prosecuted in at
least a few of the remaining
unsolved killings.
"The justice that is achieved in
those few is going to have to
serve as symbolic justice for the
whole," Cohen said.
Deitle said the investigations are
"incredibly labor intensive."
Agents who can't get in touch
with relatives seek sheriffs or
deputies
and
comb
neighborhoods where the crimes
occurred. If that fails, they turn to
grand jury dockets.
"We've dug that deep to just find
anybody," she said.
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Insanity Defense
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Submitted at 11/23/2009 12:19:04 AM
The defense attorney for the

Army psychiatrist charged with
killing 13 people at Fort Hood
reportedly has said his client will
probably plead not guilty and that
an insanity defense is possible.
"I anticipate that the plea will be
not guilty," Retired Army Col.
John Galligan told ABC News.
Maj. Nidal Hasan will be
confined until his military trial,
initially staying in a hospital
where he is recovering from
gunshot wounds, the attorney
said. Hasan has no feeling from
the chest down and has limited
movement in his arms.
When asked if he would enter an
insanity plea for Hasan, Galligan
said, "I'm fairly confident that
that's going to have to at least be
examined. And that's
problematic. But we haven't
reached that stage yet."
During a hearing in Maj. Nidal
Hasan's room in a Texas hospital
on Saturday, a magistrate ruled
that there was probable cause that
Hasan committed the Nov. 5
shooting spree at Fort Hood, said
his civilian attorney, John
Galligan.
Hasan has been at Brooke Army
Medical Center since the
shooting, and his attorney said
Hasan has been told he has
permanent paralysis.
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Indian PM Singh begins US visit

(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:47:34 PM
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has

begun a visit to the US for talks
expected to be dominated by
Afghanistan, climate change and
nuclear energy cooperation.
Mr Singh has said that a victory
for the Taliban in Afghanistan
would be a catastrophe for South
and Central Asia.
He said he was concerned about
the spread of Taliban and alQaeda terrorism to Pakistan's
heartlands.
India hopes the summit talks will
see the finalisation of the civilian
nuclear deal with the US.
During his visit, Mr Singh will
hold meetings with business
leaders and foreign policy
scholars.
He will meet US President
Barack Obama on Tuesday.
"It is very important that both the
US and the global community
stay engaged in Afghanistan," Mr

Singh told The Washington Post
newspaper and Newsweek
magazine ahead of his arrival on
Sunday.
Mr Singh urged the Obama
administration to put pressure on
Pakistan to crack down on
militants in the country.
'Nothing to fear'
"We have been the victims of
Pakistan-aided, abetted and
inspired terrorism for nearly 25
years. We would like the United
States to use all its influence with
Pakistan to desist from that path,"
Mr Singh said in the interview.
"Pakistan has nothing to fear
from India. It's a tragedy that
Pakistan has come to the point of
using terror as an instrument of
state policy."
Mr Singh expressed doubts over
whether Pakistan and the US had
similar objectives in Afghanistan.
"I don't see Pakistan
wholeheartedly in support of
action against the Taliban in
Afghanistan. They of course are

taking action against the Taliban,
but only when it threatens the
supremacy of the army," he said.
In a separate interview, Mr
Singh also said that he hoped that
the Obama administration would
complete the finalisation of the
deal on nuclear energy which
Delhi struck with former
President Bush.
India and the US have forged
closer defence and economic ties
in recent years.
Last year they signed a civilian
nuclear co-operation accord to
end 34 years of US sanctions.
India gains access to US civilian
nuclear technology and fuel in
return for inspections of its
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Four US soldiers have been

killed in Afghanistan in the past
24 hours, military forces say.
Three of the Americans were
said by Nato to have died in
southern Afghanistan on Sunday
and the other in the east in a
bomb explosion on Monday.
Three Afghan soldiers were also
killed in a separate incident on

Sunday by a roadside bomb in
Helmand province.
This has been the deadliest year
for foreign troops since the USled invasion overthrew the
Taliban.
In a statement released on
Monday, Nato's International
Security Assistance Force (Isaf)
said that of those who died in
southern Afghanistan, two US
soldiers had been killed by a
Morphine 'might spread

cancer'
World Edition)
MNTX inhibited the apparent

tumour-promoting effects of
opiates, and reduced the spread
Submitted at 11/22/2009 5:40:55 PM
of cancer in the mice by 90%.
L a b o r a t o r y t e s t s s u g g e s t "If confirmed clinically, this
morphine could in fact encourage could change how we do surgical
the spread of cancer, for which it anaesthesia for our cancer
is routinely prescribed to relieve patients," said Dr Singleton,
pain from surgery and tumours. assistant professor of medicine at
US scientists say the opiate t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o
promotes the growth of new Medical Center and principal
blood vessels which deliver author of the research.
tumours oxygen and nutrients. "It also suggests potential new
Speaking at a meeting of the applications for this novel class
American Association for Cancer o f d r u g s w h i c h s h o u l d b e
Research in Boston, they also e x p l o r e d . "
claim to have found a drug which The tests were started after his
counters this effect.
colleague, anaesthetist Jonathan
Cancer Research UK said more Moss, noted that several patients
tests were needed before any receiving this kind of opiate
changes in treatment.
blocker survived longer than
Dr Patrick Singleton from the might be expected after surgery.
University of Chicago told the
Dr Laura Bell of Cancer
meeting of experts that in Research UK said the drugs had a
laboratory tests, morphine not l o n g h i s t o r y o f p r o v i d i n g
only strengthened blood vessels e f f e c t i v e p a i n r e l i e f .
but also appeared to make it "Research in this area is in the
easier for cancers to invade other early stages, so it's too early to
tissues and spread.
tell whether opiate-based
bomb attack and the other in a
But he said this could be painkillers have an effect on
separate firefight with insurgents. o v e r c o m e b y a d r u g - cancer growth.
Revised strategy
methylnaltrexone or MNTX - "Much more research would be
Afghanistan's Ministry of developed in the 1980s to prevent needed to justify changing the
Interior said two other Afghan morphine-related constipation but way opiates are used to treat
National Army soldiers had been only recently approved in the US. people with cancer."
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'Long history'
It also said six soldiers in Kunar
In mice with lung cancer,
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"In the 36 years I've dealt with

military justice cases," Galligan
told ABC, "this is the first time I
have ever had to go to an ICU to
conduct a hearing. We could
have conducted this hearing next
week. He is paralyzed. He is not
going on leave."
Galligan told The Associated
Press in a telephone interview
that the judge also ordered Hasan
to pretrial confinement, which
usually means jail, until his court
-martial. The military justice
system does not have bail for
defendants.
The magistrate ruled that Hasan
will initially remain in the
hospital, where he is in intensive
care, Galligan said.
Saturday's hearing was closed to

the media. Officials at Fort Hood
declined to comment.
Hasan was shot by civilian
members of Fort Hood's police
force after the shooting spree in a
crowded building where soldiers
must go before they are deployed
to finalize wills, update
vaccinations and get vision and
dental screenings.
Hasan has been under guard at
the hospital, Galligan said, and
military officials have not told
him how the pretrial confinement
status will change anything.
"I don't know what rights and
privileges he had that will now be
changed, such as visitors of if
they'll open his mail," Galligan
said. "There are still many issues

that haven't been addressed. I feel
like I just wasted a day."
Hasan has been charged with 13
counts of premeditated murder.
Authorities have not said whether
they will seek the death penalty,
his attorney said.
Galligan said he is concerned
about where Hasan will be
moved once he's released from
the hospital, but he does not
know when that will happen.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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with police
World Edition)
Menezes family are pleased to

announce that all litigation
between them arising out of the
Submitted at 11/23/2009 7:06:01 AM
tragic death of Jean Charles de
The Metropolitan Police has Menezes has been resolved," it
reached a compensation deal with said.
the family of Jean Charles de "The members of the family are
Menezes, mistakenly shot dead pleased that a compensation
by officers in July 2005.
package has been agreed which
Relatives of the Brazilian, who enables them to put these events
was gunned down at Stockwell behind them and move forward
Tube station in south London, with their lives."
had been locked in a legal battle It said in the best interests of the
with the force.
family, there would be no further
The amount of compensation the statements about the settlement
family will receive has not been a n d w e n t o n t o a p o l o g i s e
disclosed.
"unreservedly" for the death of
Firearms officers from the Met's Mr Menezes.
CO19 unit thought Mr Menezes, "The commissioner would like...
27, was failed suicide bomber to reiterate that he (Mr Menezes)
was a totally innocent victim and
protested on Sunday.
"lending legitimacy" to Mr Hussain Osman.
In a joint statement, the family in no way to blame for his
World Edition)
'Lends legitimacy'
Ahmadinejad.
It is the first visit by an Iranian Israel too called it a "mistake" and Scotland Yard said "all untimely death."
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Iranian President Mahmoud maintains close ties to the US, reports.
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delegation of business leaders. But Brazilian President Lula has build ties with leftist south FOUR
He is due to meet President Luiz said he opposes further sanctions American leaders.
Inacio Lula da Silva and sign on Iran, and called for diplomacy His five-nation tour also takes
province and one in Kandahar more troops to Afghanistan,
trade deals before visiting instead.
him to Venezuela and Bolivia, had been injured in incidents in following a report by General
Congress and speaking at a US State Department spokesman with stops in the West African
the past 24 hours.
Stanley McChrystal, the
university in Brasilia.
R o b e r t W o o d d e c l i n e d t o countries of Senegal and Gambia The ministry did not give any commander of Nato forces there,
Brazil backs Iran's right to a comment on the meeting, but said on the way home.
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confirmation of any connection countries make up Nato's force of
members of the US Congress. New York congressman Eliot
between the US and Afghan nearly 110,000, two-thirds of
Around 500 people from gay, Engel said President Lula was
deaths.
them from the US.
Jewish and Christian groups making "a serious error" by
US President Barack Obama is
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US health-care reform: Proceed with caution

(The Economist: News
analysis)
November 7th, although there are

differences. The Senate bill, for
instance, relies much more on
Submitted at 11/22/2009 10:14:53 PM
expanding Medicaid, the system
US health-care reform
of provision for the poor. As in
Nov 23rd 2009
the House, the Senate legislation
From Economist.com A health- creates insurance exchanges
care reform bill gets to the floor and a government-run insurance
of the Senate. A rowdy debate scheme that would compete with
will follow
private plans, but it allows for
DEMOCRATS in the Senate states to opt out. Ms Landrieu
defeated a Republican attempt to and others would like to go
Research Brief:
block their health-care bill on further and adopt a trigger that
Saturday November 21st, just would implement a public plan in
Measurement:
days after Harry Reid, the Senate five years, but only if private
Newspaper Readers or
majority leader, unveiled the long plans are no more affordable by
Circulation?
-awaited legislation, which t h e n . J o e L i e b e r m a n , a n
amalgamates proposals from independent Democrat, has
various Senate committees. insisted he will vote against any
Submitted at 11/23/2009 5:15:06 AM
R e p u b l i c a n s t r i e d , w i t h a final bill that contains a public
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e l a t e s t filibuster, to stop the measure o p t i o n a s a m a t t e r o f
Integrated Newspaper Audience from even proceeding to the c o n s c i e n c e .
f i n d i n g f r o m S c a r b o r o u g h floor, providing an early test of The Senate bill would raise the
Research, in its recently released Democratic resolve. To get the payroll tax for Medicare paid by
Scarborough USA+ Study, 74% 60 votes he needed, Mr Reid had the wealthiest Americans from
of U.S. adults, or nearly 171 t o c a j o l e t h r e e w a v e r i n g 1.45% to 1.95%, put a tax on
million people, read a newspaper, DemocratsMary Landrieu of Cadillac insurance plans (the
in print or online, during the past Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln of most expensive policies) and levy
week. The study examined Arkansas and Ben Nelson of a 5% charge on non-essential
newspaper readership, which Nebraskaand their support c o s m e t i c s u r g e r y . T h e
captures media patterns and other came at a price. Republicans are Congressional Budget Office
consumer behaviors of adults calling an extra $100m doled out (CBO) estimates that the bill
across the country. Newspapers i n f e d e r a l m o n e y f o r M s would cost $848 billion, less than
are still read in print or online by Landrieu's state the Louisiana the $1 trillion price-tag it
a critical mass of adults in the purchase. All three have since attached to the House bill, and
U.S. on a daily and weekly basis, pointed out that a final yea is would yield a net reduction to the
far from certain.
federal deficit of $130 billion
says the report
The
Senate
bill
is
similar
in
between 2010 and 2019. On
Gary Meo, Scarborough
Research's Senior Vice President scope to the measure passed by Friday the CBO revised its earlier
of Print and Digital Media the House of Representatives on estimate of the House bill and
Services, notes that "While our
data does show that print
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forecast that it would cut $138

billion from the deficit, rather
than the $109 billion it estimated
two weeks ago.
Republicans insist that the health
reforms would end up costing
more. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a
former director of the CBO and
an adviser to John McCain, told
Congress recently that every
budget gimmick in the book is
being used to dampen the
estimated fiscal damage: leave
out inconvenient spending, backload spending to disguise the true
scale, front-load taxes, let
inflation push up tax revenues,
promise spending cuts that have
never materialisedthe list goes
on.
Republicans will use his words
to chip away at hesitant
Democrats when the Senate
debate begins after Thanksgiving.
Polls show that Americans are
becoming more wary of
increased government spending,
and do not think current
proposals are helping.
Conservatives are preparing for a
rowdy fight in the Senate and
millions of dollars are being
spent on advertising in the states
of wavering Democrats.
Conservative groups are shrill in
their contention that health care
will be rationed. They have
sought to link the debate about
government interference in
health to recent controversial
advice from a quasigovernmental panel that said

women should delay having a
mammogram until into their 50s,
reversing long-standing guidance
that they are screened for cancer
in their 40s. Another contentious
issue will be abortion, as the
Senate bill does not include the
amendments to restrict the
procedure that were inserted into
the House bill.
The Senate debate is likely to
last until Christmas, at least. Mr
Reid stresses that the road ahead
is a long stretch. It is hard to say
how much the legislation will
change during that time, but
amendments are bound to come.
Some think it will compare to the
debate in the 1960s when civilrights legislation was passed,
with senators arguing about the
essence of the American
republic. Whether they reach that
standard, and whether Mr Reid
will be able to give Barack
Obama an early Christmas
present, will become clearer after
the Thanksgiving turkeys have
been digested.
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declining... given the
fragmentation of media choices,
printed newspapers are holding
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well... "
The analysis of Scarborough
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that newspapers are being read
by a majority of adults in print
and online, but also that these
Integrated Newspaper Audiences
continue to attract educated,
affluent readers. In an average
week:
79% of
adults employed in
white collar positions read a
newspaper in print or
online
82% of
adults with
household incomes of $100,000
or more read a printed newspaper
in print or online
84% of
adults who are
college graduates or who have
advanced degrees read a
printed newspaper in print or
online
which is audited and reported by

Integrated Newspaper Audience the ABC, refers to the number of
is the percentage of adults in the printed newspaper copies sold.
market who have read the printed John F. Sturm, president and
newspaper over 5 week days or C E O o f t h e N e w s p a p e r
on Sunday, or visited the A s s o c i a t i o n o f A m e r i c a ,
newspaper's website(s), or did concludes that "For media
both during the past seven days. buyers, analysts and others who
" P r i n t e d n e w s p a p e r s h a v e evaluate the health of newspapers
continued the tradition (as trusted and the value of (the) medium's
sources of news and information) advertising, audience is a far
by successfully extending their more meaningful way to measure
brands into the digital space," newspapers' ability to attract a
said Mr. Meo... "(the recent growing audience across multiple
study) is noteworthy in the wake platforms... (and) this data... also
of... reported significant declines provides further evidence that
in weekday and Sunday printed newspapers reach a highly
newspaper circulation... (as) educated, affluent audience."
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read the newspaper. Circulation,
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Nation (Forbes)
for e-readers)
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technology, the Kindle has
changed the game for book
publishers and media outlets. The
evolution will likely continue,
with book-selling companies
getting their own e-readers,
publishers and media outlets
adjusting to the change and new
technologies emerging. Buy
Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.
Amazon.com( AMZN- newspeople) is advertising the Kindle
as the No. 1 "bestselling, most
wished for and most gifted item"
on its Web site. The Kindle,
which was created about three
years ago, did face some
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who preferred paper books and
feared straining their eyes. Since
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impact on CD purchases as well
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other
historical
transformations such as digitizing
records, Internet sales, online
media, et cetera, for pre-existing
protocol," says Matt Lloyd, chief
investment strategist of Advisors
Asset Management. The Kindle's
readability has recently improved
and its priced has been lowered.
(See"The Coming E-Book
Boom"). Forrester Research(
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technology analysis firm,
recently projected that 1.2
million digital readers would be
sold in the U.S. in the fourth
quarter. That would bring total
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magazine and book industries, if
not make them extinct altogether.
"Newspapers, books and DVDs
will eventually become
obsolete," says Gerard Klingman,
head of Klingman & Associates.
Ronald Roge, chief executive
officer of R.W. Roge & Co.,
agrees. "It is really an instrument
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E-readers: The price might entice readers, author

notes (The Sacramento Bee)
for e-readers)
and feel and smell of a book, but

U.S. consumers are increasingly
willing to commit to the expense
Submitted at 11/22/2009 6:38:48 PM
of the technology.
You won't catch New York "For every 100 books we sell in
Times best-selling author and physical, we sell 48 Kindle
Davis resident John Lescroart books," said Cinthia Portugal, a
reading an electronic book spokeswoman for Amazon.com.
anytime soon.
"This is up from 35 books for
"I'm a hold-a-book-in-your-hands e v e r y 1 0 0 i n M a y . O u r
kind of guy and likely will customers tell us they read more
remain that way," Lescroart said with Kindle because they never
in a recent interview.
have to worry about running out
Yet that doesn't mean this of books."
technological revolution and the Gayle DeForest of Sacramento a
economics of it are lost on him. retired computer trainer for the
"Hardcover sales of my last book state is one of them.
were down 20 percent, while e- "I bought a Kindle e-reader last
book sales were up 300 percent," year and really love it," she said
he said. Of course, Lescroart via e-mail. "I can adjust the text
explains, that doesn't necessarily size, (the screen) causes no eye
mean a huge jump in royalties. strain, it's lightweight and very
He receives $1 to $1.50 from a portable. And it's almost too easy
$10 electronic download and to buy a new book. I will never
a b o u t $ 2 . 5 0 f r o m a $ 2 5 go back to paper books."
hardcover purchase.
Retired librarian Nancy Pifer of
Lescroart and several other R o s e v i l l e , t h o u g h , i s i n
authors interviewed by The Bee L e s c r o a r t ' s c a m p .
haven't embraced electronic "I cannot bear the thought of
readers, but they and their technology to read a book," she e
publishers are definitely using the -mailed. "I love bookstores and
technology to attract and build an libraries too much. Ingesting the
a u d i e n c e t h r o u g h s p e c i a l words off the pages and enjoying
promotions, sales of out-of-print even the smell of books are
works, and links to their Web- wonderful sensations. Truly,
based content.
books rule!"
Many of these authors do not Yet market researchers expect
own a Kindle e-reader, finding it electronic readers to attain a
difficult to leave behind the heft break-out success this holiday
season.
In a recent holiday outlook
report, Sarah Rotman Epps of
Forrester, a research and business
-consulting firm, predicted yearly
sales of 3 million e-readers by the
end of 2009, noting that e-reader
sales reached 1 million in 2008.
"With 30 percent of sales
occurring in the holiday season,"
Forrester's report added, "we
expect sales in 2010 to double."
Potential buyers of e-readers can
choose from Kindle (the latest
model, the DX, retails for $489),
the Sony Digital Reader Touch
Edition ($300) and the brandnew Nook ($259) from Barnes &
Noble.
As numbers fly and statistics
mount, a realistic Lescroart sees
the trend as a logical step from
the Internet.
"Much of my advertising has
shifted from print to Net-based,"
he said. "I think the jury is still
out on which is more effective.
But certainly, publishers and
authors who ignore the Internet
do so at their own peril."
Cara Black of San Francisco,
author of the Aime Leduc
mystery series, set in Paris, saw
the power of Kindle when her
publisher offered her first book,
"Murder in the Marais," along
with her latest book, "Murder in
the Latin Quarter," in a special
promotion.
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of creative destruction. Out with

the old books and newspapers
and in with the new e-ink," he
" 'Marais' shot to No. 3 on the says.
Despite these notions of
Amazon Kindle List of Movers
and Shakers best-sellers," she newspapers and magazines
disappearing because a
said. "It was amazing."
Still, Black doesn't have an e- technological competitor came to
reader. "I have so many things town, these companies are
that need recharging, I don't need holding their own. For instance,
another one," she explained. "I'm The McClatchy Company( MNIr e a d i n g b o o k s I b u y i n newspeople), the third-largest
independent bookstores, and U.S. newspaper company, had
have a huge to-be-read pile at my $23.6 million in net income for
bedside. Very comforting in a the third quarter, up from $4.2
special way, knowing I can just million in the third quarter of
2008. The Kindle hasn't put these
reach out and grab a book."
Although there have been media outlets or book publishing
doomsday reports that e-books companies out of business yet;
will result in paltry advances for instead, many of these companies
authors, Eileen Rendahl of Davis a r e b e g i n n i n g t o e m b r a c e
producing content in a variety of
isn't seeing the results.
"Based on what I see on my ways, including for the e-readers.
royalty statements, (e-books) Newspapers have a love-hate
aren't exactly putting traditional relationship with the Kindle as
books out of business yet," said the larger, broadsheet-readable
Rendahl. "E-readers make it a version of the e-reader isn't as
little more affordable to purchase p o p u l a r a s i t s s m a l l e r
a book that would otherwise have counterpart, says Seth Jayson,
to be purchased in hardcover or analyst at The Motley Fool.
trade paperback. Also, they might Without the broadsheet style, the
make it more tempting (for newspaper looks very different
readers) to try a new author or than its print sister and it doesn't
offer all of a physical paper's
new genre."
Call The Bee's Allen Pierleoni, design aesthetics. These e-readers
also can't run advertisements in
(916) 321-1128.
This content has passed through the same way that they can run
online, Jayson adds.
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For book publishing companies,
e-readers present another way to
sell their products and a way to
get things to print faster, as an ebook can be distributed faster
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KINDLE,
than a paper copy.

E-readers have been gaining
traction because they're easier to
maneuver and carry than a book
or broadsheet newspaper. Roge
was sold on the Kindle after
recently taking a long flight and
struggling to manage 12
magazines and two books on the
plane. He likes the e-reader
because of the vast number of
newspapers and magazines
available on the Kindle, which
means no more trips to the "out
of town" newspaper stand, and
"you can even close your eyes,
plug in your headset and it will
read the book or article to you."
The Kindle isn't just affecting
newspapers and your favorite
books; it's also reaching into your
kid's backpack. The Kindle Store
has more than 30,000 textbooks
and case studies. There's a pilot
program at seven universities and
colleges this school year, with
more than 600 students and
professors participating. Arizona
State University, UVA's Darden
School of Business, Reed
College, Pace University, Case
Western Reserve University,

University of Washington and
Princeton University are
participating in the pilot program
with classes in political science,
business and biology, among
other subjects.
Mickey Cargile, managing
partner at Cargile Investments,
notes that the e-book revolution
is continuing through an Apple(
AAPL- newspeople) iPhone
application, called Books.app,
which is an e-reader. He foresees
the iPhone application really
taking off, as the iPhone is
already popular.
Barnes & Noble( BKS- newspeople) launched its own e-reader
called the Nook last month.
"Barnes & Noble feels like they
have to get into this market
before they become irrelevant,"
Jayson says.
Jayson recommends buying
Amazon stock based on the
Kindle's success. He says the
Kindle has made him change his
mind about the stock, which he
otherwise says is expensive.
Amazon is trading at about $129.
Because of the Kindle, Jayson

classifies Amazon as "a good
investment even when it's
expensive."
The real future of book and
media could be in Microsoft's(
MSFT- newspeople) Xbox,
Jayson says. Though he says the
gaming system was a "money
burner" for Microsoft for a while,
Twitter, Facebook and Netflix(
NFLX- newspeople) are now
available on it. Having Netflix
through your Xbox is easier than
getting videos streamed on your
television or in the mail, Jayson
says. "Game consoles will be the
media hub of the future," he says.
If you believe that's the case, buy
Microsoft.
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earlier this week.

Amazon started selling the first
version of the Kindle in late
2007. The latest version appears
to still be in stock.
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Some Nook e-readers

won't make it for the
holidays either (ARNnet)
for e-readers)
prices, more content and plenty

of attention are contributing to
higher-than-expected sales for eSubmitted at 11/22/2009 5:48:18 PM
readers, according to a recent
Just two days after Sony said Forrester report. The report,
that its wireless e-reader, the issued in early October, boosted
Daily Edition, might not make it projections that analysts there set
to buyers before the end of the earlier this year for e-reader
year, Barnes & Noble said its sales. Forrester expects sales of
Nook e-reader is sold out.
900,000 units during November
T h e N o o k h a s n t s t a r t e d and December for a new 2009
shipping yet, but the bookseller total of 3 million units, more than
now says that preorders have the initial 2 million projection.
consumed stock available for the While Sony and others have
holidays. Anyone ordering the been selling e-readers for years,
Nook now will have to wait until Amazon jump-started the market
after Jan. 4, when Barnes & when it added wireless access to
Noble expects to ship additional its Kindle. Users dont pay a
readers.
monthly fee or a transaction
Anyone who has already ordered charge but can buy and download
the device will get it in time for b o o k s o v e r t h e w i r e l e s s
the holidays, said Mary Ellen connection. Sony's Daily Edition
Keating, a Barnes & Noble and the Barnes & Noble Nook
spokeswoman.
adopted a similar model.
Hoping not to miss out on Sonys Daily Edition, its first
potential sales, Barnes & Noble with a wireless connection,
is encouraging people to preorder o p e n e d f o r p r e o r d e r s o n
the Nook to give as a gift Wednesday. Sony said it couldnt
anyway. The bookseller promises guarantee a delivery date and that
to send an elegant Nook holiday devices would ship Dec. 18
certificate that will arrive by through Jan. 8.
Dec. 24 and that buyers can give
More people than expected
as a placeholder until the real signed up to find out about the
Nook arrives.
Daily Editions availability, and
Although neither company is the company will deliver as many
saying how many preorders as it can in time for the holidays,
theyve gotten for their devices, a company spokesman said
analysts have been expecting
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Most Urgent U.S. Health Problem Still Access to Healthcare

(All Gallup Headlines)
Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:00:00 PM
PRINCETON, NJ -- For the

third straight year, access to
healthcare leads the list of issues
Americans name as the "most
urgent health problem" facing the
U.S., now cited by 32%. At 18%,
the cost of healthcare is also
widely mentioned, but to a lesser
degree than it was a year ago. As
a result, after many years when
healthcare costs ranked as the
bigger top-of-mind health
problem, access now leads costs
by 14 points, its widest margin.
Gallup first asked Americans to
name the "most urgent health
problem facing this country at the
present time" in 1987, and has
repeated the question annually
since 1999. The latest findings
come from Gallup's 2009
installment of its annual Health
and Healthcare poll, conducted
Nov. 5-8.
Amid the worldwide H1N1 flu
pandemic, Americans' mentions
of flu as the nation's most urgent
health problem have zoomed to
16%, up from minimal
percentages citing it each of the
last several years. The flu thus
roughly ties healthcare costs for
second on the list this year,
followed by cancer and obesity.
No other issue is named by more

than 2% of Americans.
Several previous health scares -such as the bird flu in 2005 and
bioterrorism in 2001-- resulted in
those specific issues' appearing
prominently one year on the list
of "most urgent health
problems," only to nearly
disappear the next. On the other
hand, AIDS received widespread
mentions for a sustained period.
A striking 68% of Americans

perceived AIDS as the most
urgent problem in 1987. While
mentions of the disease tapered
off in subsequent years, they
remained high through 2000,
dropping below 10% in 2001.
Today's 1% is the lowest on
record.
This year's increased focus on
flu may be displacing public
concern about cancer and obesity
-- both of which show slight

declines since 2009. However, at
9% and 8%, respectively, today's
mentions of cancer and obesity
still outnumber mentions of other
leading public health problems,
including heart disease (2%),
diabetes (1%), and smoking
(named by less than 0.5% of
Americans).
Bottom Line
Media reporting on healthcare
issues in 2009 has focused

heavily on two very different
types of concerns: the policy
issues around healthcare reform,
and the medical issues around the
H1N1 or swine flu. Both sets of
concerns are evident in
Americans' top-of-mind
responses to the "most urgent
health problem" facing the
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MOST
country today. Healthcare access

and costs are perennial public
concerns that have dominated the
Gallup "most urgent health
problem" list since concern about
AIDS dropped off in the early
1990s. More recently, mentions
of healthcare costs have ebbed -a finding consistent with separate
Gallup research showing
increased public satisfaction with
the cost of healthcare-- while
concern about access has
remained high.
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and Twitter
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with 1,008 national
adults, aged 18 and older,
conducted Nov. 5-8, 2009. For
results based on the total sample

of national adults, one can say
with 95% confidence that the
maximum margin of sampling
error is 4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with
respondents on land-line
telephones (for respondents with
a land-line telephone) and
cellular phones (for respondents
who are cell-phone only).
In addition to sampling error,
question wording and practical
difficulties in conducting surveys
can introduce error or bias into
the findings of public opinion
polls.
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