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Michael Moore takes aim at money men - BBC News

(Most Popular - Google News) going to continue as they were, Out of work Americans, Moore still manages make more movies and not be
Submitted at 9/7/2009 2:45:08 AM and principally the upper 1% was He adds: "I think that we must to inject some comedy into his beholden to them. I have my own
getting away with murder. change the fundamental things documentary. money to make my own movies
Agitator supreme Michael "They were collecting more and about how our economy is run At one point, he tries to make a and so this will be the last time
Moore is back with a new target - more of what exists and people in and how it works or we are going citizen's arrest on some of the hopefully that they will give away
and this time he wants the world the bottom 50% were struggling to continue to have problems and banks chief executives and any of their money."
to rebel against it. to get by." it is going to get worse." demands back the money given to Another way?
In his sights is the American Moore says he has been making Capitalism: A Love Story takes them in the bail-out. Moore is adamant that
banking system and the people movies about the subject for more a look at the government's multi- Asked how he could justify capitalism is not the way forward,
who run it. than 20 years, starting with his billion dollar bank bail-out, and railing against capitalism while but struggles to offer a real
Capitalism: A Love Story is debut Roger and Me in 1989. compares it with how workers in being backed by big film studios alternative for how the economy
Moore's latest documentary, In his latest film he revisits his small companies found and distributors, Moore had a could be run, or a way to convince
examining some of the many first target, General Motors, themselves out of jobs without typically belligerent answer. people they do not need so much
things he thinks are wrong with which had a huge operation in his severance pay. "Why have these companies money to buy "stuff".
his country. home town of Flint, Michigan, He was heartened by the show given money to a guy who is He does advocate shared
His previous offerings have until it shut its factory, decimating of solidarity by the workers in a diametrically opposed to ownership of companies in the
seen him attack the health care the local economy. window and door factory, who everything they stand for? form of co-operatives, showing a
system, gun culture and the war With his usual ire, Moore says refused to leave the building until "I take advantage of one of the handful of businesses where this
with Iraq. the problem goes back almost 30 they received the wages they were beautiful flaws of capitalism has been a success.
"I had been wanting to do a years ago with the introduction of owed. Their sit-in protest was which is that the capitalist will So with so much information
movie about capitalism and about "Reaganomics", which led to tax ultimately successful. sell you the rope to hang himself thrown at the audience in the film,
a year and a half ago, I finally cuts for the highest earners and an Moore also uncovered a if he can make a buck. and giving only his side of the
started," he says. "I saw a lot of easing of banking regulations. shocking practice of big "So they only think about money argument, what does Moore hope
things happening in terms of "I think we have an economic companies taking out life - they do not really care what I people will take away from the
people losing their jobs and system that is unfair, it is unjust, it insurance policies on their believe, which is upsetting on movie?
foreclosures. is undemocratic and goes against workers, with one company some levels. "I hope the people will start to
"So I decided to get going on the principles we say we believe benefiting to the tune of $5m "So I was thinking why not wake up a bit and see that they are
this film because I thought we had in - democracy and ethical (£3m) when one employee died, make a movie that will guarantee participating in something that is
an economy built on sand, a house behaviour that says we have a while his family received nothing. that they will never give me causing them a lot of harm."
of cards. responsibility to those who are the Despite the enormity of the another dime again. Print Sponsor
" P e o p l e w e r e d e l u d i n g have nots and people that have subject and the profound effect "I have saved my money to get
themselves thinking things were less than we have." the downturn has had on many to this day, where I will be able to
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Obama Faces a Critical Moment for His Presidency - New
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WASHINGTON President
Obama returned to the White
House from his summer break on
Sunday determined to jump-start
his struggling presidency by
reasserting command of the health
care debate and recalibrating
expectations that some advisers
believe got away from him.
With his honeymoon seemingly
over and his White House on the
defensive, Mr. Obama faces what
friends and foes alike call a make-
or-break moment in his young
administration. Because he has
elevated health care to such a
singular priority, advisers said he
must force through a credible plan
or risk crippling his presidency.
“It goes without saying that a lot
is riding now on his ability to re-
energize the health care debate
and bring it home to a successful
conclusion,” said John D.
Podesta, who ran Mr. Obama’s
transition and still advises him on
health care, energy and other
issues. “Nothing will influence
the perception of the presidency
more than whether he can be
successful in getting a health care
bill through the Congress.”
Recognizing the stakes, Mr.
Obama has worked on a strategy
for autumn to regain the initiative.
He talked on Thursday from
Camp David with Nancy Pelosi,
the House speaker, and Harry M.
Reid, the Senate majority leader.
He spent part of Sunday working
on this week’s speech to the
nation and dispatched top
surrogates to the talk shows to try
to reframe the health care debate.
And he has two meetings
scheduled for Monday with his
health policy and political
advisers planned around a trip to
Cincinnati to observe Labor Day.
As much as health care has
consumed the president, other
vexing issues await him in the
fall. In the coming weeks, he will
decide whether to order thousands
more troops to Afghanistan and
pursue new sanctions against Iran.
He will host a meeting of the
Group of 20 nations to spur the
world economy and push forward
with arms control negotiations
with Russia.
Now, as he prepares for
Wednesday’s address before a
joint session of Congress, Mr.
Obama and his team are
simultaneously trying to figure
out how they got into this
dilemma and how to get out of it.
An administration that swept into
office just seven months ago on a
wave of hope and optimism has
burned through good will and
public patience in swift fashion
and now finds itself under fire
from both the left and the right.
He faces a crisis of expectations
tough to manage. Can he form a
health care compromise that
satisfies both his liberal base and
fiscal conservatives in his own
party, much less the other one?
Can he stanch the slide in support
for the war in Afghanistan even as
he considers sending more troops?
Can he soothe discontent with an
economy that appears to have
bottomed out but remains
moribund? Can he change the
tenor of debate in a capital that
seems as polarized as ever?
“To govern is to make choices,
and to make choices is to make
some unhappy,” David Axelrod,
the president’s senior adviser, said
in an interview. “He made some
very tough decisions that pulled
us away” from a new Great
Depression. “But he had to
expend some political capital to
do that. He’s expending some
capital to do something that’s
very important, which is to bring
security and health care to people
who don’t have it.”
Some Republicans said Mr.
Obama’s fundamental mistake
was believing his election
presaged a larger ideological shift
in the country. “If they thought
that his popularity and the good
will he had would support liberal
policies, they were wrong,” said
Charles R. Black, a Republican
strategist who worked last year
for Senator John McCain of
Arizona, Mr. Obama’s
Republican presidential opponent.
White House officials have
signaled that they are prepared to
scale back their aspirations for the
health care legislation. In private
conversations, some said they
would be happy even if they end
up with a pared-back program that
can serve as a basis for future
efforts.
One element clearly on the table
is a proposed government-backed
health insurance plan to compete
with private insurers. Just as they
have in recent weeks, White
House officials indicated Sunday
that Mr. Obama would continue to
push for the so-called public
option but they did not make it a
condition of signing whatever bill
lands on his desk.
Mr. Axelrod, appearing on
NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the
public option “is a valuable tool”
but added that “it shouldn’t define
the whole health care debate.”
Robert Gibbs, the White House
press secretary, said on ABC’s
“This Week With George
Stephanopoulos” that Mr. Obama
would “draw some lines in the
sand” on Wednesday but “I doubt
we’re going to get into heavy veto
threats.”
The conundrum for the
president, though, was on display
during a roundtable discussion
later on the same program. Robert
Dole, the former Republican
senator from Kansas and onetime
presidential nominee, said a
public option would never pass
the Senate. Representative
Maxine Waters, Democrat of
California and a leader of
Congressional liberals, said no
plan could pass with House
without a public option.
Mr. Obama is hardly the first
president to run into trouble after
the bunting and balloons have
vanished, but his slipping support
has fueled a narrative about a
young and relatively
inexperienced president who
overinterpreted his mandate and
overreached in his policies. His
job approval rating has fallen to
56 percent from 62 percent since
February in polls taken by The
New York Times and CBS News.
Other surveys register an even
sharper drop.
But his overall standing with the
public is still healthy, and his first
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seven months have not been as
rocky as those of Bill Clinton or
Gerald R. Ford. Mr. Clinton, at
least, later recovered enough to
win re-election. And Mr. Obama
showed during last year’s
campaign that he has the capacity
to ride out rough moments. If he
ultimately gets some form of
health care program passed that
he can call a victory, this
turbulence may ultimately be
forgotten.
Vin Weber, a former
Republican congressman from
Minnesota, said the backlash to
Mr. Obama’s spending and health
care proposals had eroded his
support but not fundamentally
shifted the nation’s politics. “The
American people are sort of
returning to where they were,” he
said. “I don’t think they’ve made
a big swing to the right. They’re
returning to their centrist
moorings.”
Of all the challenges Mr.
Obama faces this fall, health care
has come to dominate so much
that the fate of the rest of his
domestic program, particularly
climate change legislation and
new regulations on the financial
industry, may depend in part on
whether he wins this fight.
“He’s gone all in,” said Matt
Bennett, vice president of Third
Way, a Democratic-oriented
advocacy organization, using a
poker term. “Everyone’s
watching. The bets are all on the
table. And we’re just waiting to
see what the cards say.”
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Airliner bomb plot: profiles of the defendants - guardian.co.uk
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Assad Sarwar, Abdulla Ahmed
Ali and Tanvir Hussain were all
found guilty of conspiring to
murder crew and passengers on
the transatlantic flights.
Photograph: Metropolitan
police/AP ABDULLA AHMED
ALI
The 28-year-old, also known as
Ahmed Ali Khan, grew up as one
of eight children, five of them
boys. His parents moved to
Britain in the 1960s from
Pakistan. In the 1980s the family
went back there for six years
before returning to east London in
1987.
In court in the first trial Ali
recalled seeing images of
"concentration camps" in Bosnia
when he was 15 or 16 and being
"aware they were Muslims".
In his "suicide" video Ali said
that he had aspired to martyrdom
since the age of 15 and described
himself as the leader of the
"blessed" operation.
He studied computer systems
engineering at university where he
became actively involved in
politics, joining demonstrations
and handing out leaflets. After
graduation he began volunteering
with an Islamic charity in east
London.
In January 2003 he travelled to
a refugee camp for Afghans in
Pakistan, where he felt "emotions
that I had not felt before".
Convicted of conspiracy to
commit murder at the first trial.
ASSAD SARWAR
Sarwar, 29 and married, was
said by the prosecution to be the
quartermaster of the plot,
purchasing and storing bomb-
making materials, with terrorist
ambitions that were "limitless".
He was "too precious" for the
cause so was not intended to die,
hence the absence of a
"martyrdom" recording by him,
the court heard. But he claimed he
was not involved in a terrorist plot
and described al-Qaida as
"deviant" in court.
After dropping out of Brunel
University, Sarwar met Ali while
doing charity work in Pakistan.
They visited refugee camps
housing Afghans who had fled the
US invasion of their country.
He returned to Britain in May
2003 and drifted through two
short-term jobs as a postman with
Royal Mail and for BT. He said
he again met up with Ali, who he
described as having "leading
characteristics", compared to his
own "weak character", in 2003
and again in 2006 at lectures in
east London.
In between, Sarwar returned to
Pakistan for two months in
October 2005 to help survivors of
the earthquake in Kashmir.
Sarwar said that in 2006 Ali
invited him to his flat and they
chatted about UK foreign policy
before hitting upon the idea of a
"publicity stunt".
But the prosecution alleged he
had links with terror chiefs in
Pakistan. Sarwar claimed detailed
flight lists found on a computer
memory stick at his home were
just "holiday destinations in
America".
The memory stick also had
information on improvised
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Following several years at
college experimenting with drink,
drugs and girls, Hussain worked
in a sexual health clinic.
In 2005 he reinvented himself as
a devout Muslim after entering
into an arranged marriage.
Hussain was caught on a bug
discussing popular holiday
destinations for British travellers
with Ali.
The two men applied for fast-
track passports after deliberately
losing their originals, which
contained Pakistani visas. He was
followed by surveillance teams as
he bought essential items for the
plot, including surgical needles
and syringes. Convicted of
conspiracy to commit murder at
the first trial. UMAR ISLAM
Umar Islam, in a video still shown
to the jury, was found guilty of an
alternative charge of conspiracy to
murder. Photograph: PA
Islam, 31, from Plaistow, east
bombs, attacking aircraft, details London, was a convert to Islam.
of the nuclear catastrophe at He was formerly a Rastafarian.
Chernobyl and information on He changed his name from Brian
British nuclear power stations. Young and was employed as a bus
Convicted of conspiracy to conductor in London at the time
commit murder at the first trial. of his arrest.
TANVIR HUSSAIN He met Ali while working for
Hussain, 28, from Leyton, east an Islamic charity and travelled to
London, was described as a gifted refugee camps in Pakistan with
s p o r t s m a n b y A l i . I n h i s Ali and Sarwar.
"martyrdom" video Hussain, a He said he was planning to
part-time postman, said: "People e m i g r a t e t o P a k i s t a n w h e n
are going to die but it's worth the arrested. He is married with two
price". A loyal and enthusiastic children, the second one being
participant in the operation, he born after his arrest. The jury was
spent hours with Ali at the Forest unable to reach a verdict about
Road bomb factory adapting and Islam's role. However, he was
experimenting with soft drink found guilty of an alternative
bottles. charge of conspiracy to murder.
It was this evidence that forced
him, like Ali and Sarwar, to admit
to conspiring to cause explosions.
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Cadbury snubs Kraft's $16.7bn bid
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Submitted at 9/7/2009 5:30:04 AM
Cadbury shares surged 40% after
it rejected a £10.2bn approach
from Kraft Foods, sparking talk of
a bidding war.
Kraft said that the purchase of
the maker of Dairy Milk would
protect jobs in the UK - including
saving a factory earmarked for
closure.
But Cadbury, said the approach
"fundamentally" undervalued the
firm.
Analysts say Kraft may sweeten
its offer. Others could enter the
fray, with the prospect of Nestle
and Hershey making a joint move
being mooted.
Kraft said it wanted to create "a
global powerhouse in snacks,
confectionery and quick meals".
As well as Dairy Milk, Cadbury
also owns the Green & Black's
chocolate brand and Halls
lozenges, Trident and Dentyne
gum brands, and liquorice allsorts
maker Bassett's. It span off its
drinks division as a separate
business last year.
It is seeing much of its growth
in emerging markets such as India
and Russia.
And Cadbury said its "strong
brands, unique category and
geographic scope" left it confident
of its future as a standalone firm.
Distribution savings
Kraft's brands include Kenco
and Maxwell House coffee, Oreo
biscuits, Jacobs, Terry's Chocolate
Orange and Toblerone as well as
cheese products such as
Philadelphia and Dairylea.
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Bournville
The proposed deal would allow
up to $625m a year to be saved in
distribution, marketing and
product development costs, Kraft
said.
Cadbury's brands were "highly
complementary" to its portfolio, it
added, saying the UK firm "would
benefit from Kraft Foods' global
scope and scale and array of
proprietary technologies and
processes".
"As we have done, Cadbury has
built wonderful brands by
focusing on quality, innovation
and marketing, but we believe the
next stage in Cadbury's
development will be challenging,
given the increased importance of
scale in the industry," said Kraft
chairman Irene Rosenfeld.
"We are eager to build upon
Cadbury's iconic brands and
strong British heritage through
increased investment and
innovation. We have great respect
and admiration for Cadbury, its
employees, its leadership and its
proud heritage."
'Iconic brands'
Industry analysts have been
speculating that there could be
consolidation in the food sector.
Evolution Securities said that
Nestle and Hershey could come
together to make a counter-bid for
Cadbury, with Nestle taking on
the chewing gum business and
Hershey running the chocolate
division.
Kraft said its possible offer -
based on paying 745 pence for
every Cadbury share - was a 31%
premium to its closing price last
week and 42% more than the
firm's shares were worth in early
July, when speculation about
possible deals in the sector
intensified.
In a letter to Cadbury's, Ms
Rosenfeld said it would be able to
continue to operate its Somerdale
factory in Keynsham, near Bristol,
which is set to be closed, and also
invest in its plant in Bournville,
Birmingham, "thereby preserving
UK manufacturing jobs".
Last year Cadbury announced
plans to slash 15% of its
workforce and factory numbers
worldwide - equivalent to 7,800
jobs - as it looked to cut costs.
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jon buzzed up: Moore premieres
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Chargers LB says he
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Tropical depression forms
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Michael Moore in Venice
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Documentary maker pours scorn
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Capitalism: A Love Story at the
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Trade raises options for Wilfork - Italian accused of Brazil

Boston Herald groping
(Most Popular - Google News) contract? Does that mean the pivotal without Seymour taking (BBC News | Americas | World It appears the couple who made
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:28:22 AM former Pro Bowl nose tackle will up space at one end. Edition) the allegations did not know that
get his wish of a long-term As of yesterday, however, there Submitted at 9/6/2009 6:06:22 PM the man was with his daughter.
F OXBORO - Adalius Thomas contract extension to remain a was nothing new on talks for a The north-east of Brazil has for
was caught completely off guard. Patriot for the foreseeable future? contract extension for Wilfork. There is growing controversy in some years had a problem of
He didn’t know Richard On a lot of levels, it sure makes That doesn’t mean the Pats won’t Brazil over the arrest of an Italian paedophiles travelling to the area,
Seymour[ stats] had been traded sense. drop a dime on Kennard McGuire, tourist held after kissing his eight- often from overseas, and strongly-
to Oakland when he walked into In terms of bookkeeping, who represents Wilfork, in the year-old daughter in public. worded warnings about the
the Patriots[ team stats] locker Seymour was due to make $3.685 coming weeks. We’ll have to see Witnesses told police the man penalties for exploiting children
room yesterday, and had no million this season. That money if that’s the desired goal, and if allegedly touched the girl in an are posted in most hotels.
answers for the rationale behind now comes off the Patriots salary not, where Belichick believes the intimate way. However the wife of the
the move. cap. extra cash may be better allocated. Under a strict new law partly arrested tourist says it was all a
“I’m dumbfounded,” the stunned While re-signing the five-time For his part, a glum Wilfork designed to combat child sex misunderstanding by witnesses
linebacker said. “I don’t know Pro Bowl end wasn’t likely and yesterday voiced more concern abuse in South America's largest who had misinterpreted seeing a
what to say.” getting a value pick in return was about the break-up of one of the country, he faces eight to 15 years foreign white man with a young
W h e n a s k e d h o w m u c h a smart business move, perhaps in best defensive lines in the NFL, in jail if convicted. darker-skinned girl.
Seymour meant to the defense, the big picture, keeping Wilfork and having the ability to move on. The unnamed man has been in She told the Brazilian state news
Thomas turned to sarcasm. and not allowing him to reach free “We’re all professionals. Change custody for almost a week. A new agency if there was any
“Obviously nothing. He’s gone,” agency is the greater prize. Along happens all the time. Every year, attempt to secure his release this suggestion the claim was true she
Thomas grumbled. “That’s the with having an extra first-round you have change, you have roster weekend failed. would not hesitate to take her
business. That’s how it goes. I bargaining chip to use in 2011, or change, you have everything His Brazilian wife says the case daughter's side, and recalled that
really don’t know what to say perhaps using it if a rookie cap is change,” Wilfork said. “This is is all a misunderstanding, while she had been present the whole
without saying too much. I have in place at that point, that’s where another change and we’re going staff at the resort where the time.
no idea (what they’re thinking).” the “long-term interest” is better to have to deal with it. I don’t care incident took place have been The woman said the allegations
So, what are they thinking? served. how you feel about it. You got to reported as saying they saw had the potential to destroy her
Let’s just say Bill Belichick is The loss of Seymour actually deal with it and move on.” nothing unusual. family.
not one to make a stunning move enhances Wilfork’s value and Moving on means a front line 'Misunderstanding' Under strict new legislation
like this without having a clear worth. It can be argued Wilfork that won’t be nearly as good in The Italian tourist, a 48-year-old passed only last month the
plan not only for this season, but becomes more vital to the defense the immediate future. The businessman, was arrested on 2 offence of molesting a child under
for several beyond. In the team’s and its success. Even though Seymour-Wilfork- Ty Warren[ September in the coastal city of the age of 14 can carry a penalty
press release announcing the Seymour wasn’t the dominant stats] trio stood as the strength of Fortaleza, in the north-east of of between eight and 15 years in
trade, the Patriots coach indicated force he was in earlier years, he the defense. While the Pats do Brazil, where he was on holiday jail.
securing a first-round draft pick in still took up two blockers and have excellent depth on the line, with his wife and daughter. The arrested businessman - who
2011 for the defensive lineman opened lanes for others, especially with Wilfork, Warren, Jarvis He was reported to the police by had been due to return to Italy
brought “sufficient value and is in on the pass rush. Green, Mike Wright and rookies a Brazilian couple who claimed with his family last week -
the long-term interest of the club.” With him gone, Wilfork now is Ron Brace and Myron Pryor, they he had been touching a young girl remains in custody, and it is
Does that long-term interest the only one left who merits that won’t scare anyone, especially inappropriately and had kissed her thought another attempt to secure
mean now having the cash to pay kind of attention. He’s the most against the run in a 4-3 alignment. on the mouth while they were his release will be made on
Vince Wilfork[ stats], who is important player in a 3-4 defense, both at a swimming pool close to Tuesday.
entering the final year of his and in a 4-3, he’s even more the beach in full view of other Print Sponsor
tourists.
Gutted Classic Game Boy Made Into 80GB Hard Drive [Mods]
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) modders take classic video game I'm taking solace in the fact that And no, it no longer plays
Submitted at 9/6/2009 1:00:00 PM consoles like this Game Boy here this mod might be used to store games—that's a sticker. [
and gut it to produce something Game Boy ROMs for an Hackaday via Kotaku]
While I generally weep when less important, like a hard drive, emulator. I hope.
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Three guilty of airline bomb plot Leibovitz sued by

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Baroness Neville Jones, former
chairwoman of the Joint
Intelligence Committee, told the
London.
The jury heard that, at the time
of the men's arrest in August
photographer
BBC: "This has brought home to 2006, Ali had identified seven (BBC News | Americas | World had been used, with models
Three men have been found us how potentially vulnerable flights leaving from Heathrow to Edition) superimposed on it.
guilty of plotting to kill thousands travel and communication is." North American cities. Submitted at 9/6/2009 4:44:43 AM A comparison of the Piazza San
of people by blowing up planes But she added: "What this all Sarwar, meanwhile, was Marco photo shows "the same wet
over the Atlantic with home-made shows is that with care, with described as the plot's Celebrity photographer Annie weather conditions, cloud
liquid bombs. vigilance, with the expenditure of "quartermaster", securing bomb Leibovitz is being sued by an formation and the same bird in the
A Woolwich Crown Court jury e f f o r t a n d f o c u s a n d ingredients from his home in High Italian photographer who says she upper left portion of the
convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, concentration, the country can Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. used his pictures without photograph," Mr Pizzetti said in
Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad overcome this threat to us." A flat in the Walthamstow area permission. the complaint.
Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat of east London became the bomb Paolo Pizzetti claims Ms "It is clear that the Leibovitz
activate bombs disguised as Khan, 28, Waheed Zaman, 25, factory, where the men put Leibovitz used photos he took in defendants copied the Piazza
drinks. and Donald Stewart-Whyte, 23, together a special mixture of Venice and Rome, and passed work authored by Pizzetti and
Four other men were found not were all found not guilty of chemicals. them off as her own in a 2009 edited it," he said.
guilty of involvement in the conspiring to murder by blowing They planned to take this calendar for a coffee company. He added that Ms Leibovitz at
airline plot. up planes. mixture, sealed in ordinary sports He is seeking a court order to no point told him she planned on
The men's arrests in 2006 led to Mr Stewart-Whyte was also drinks bottles, on board flights in stop the images from being used using his photographs in the
new airport restrictions on liquids cleared of a general charge of hand luggage. and $300,000 (£183,000) for calendar, nor requested his
and brought chaos to travellers. conspiracy to murder. The men told the court that they copyright infringement. permission to do so.
The plot's ringleader Ali, along The jury failed to reach verdicts had been planning a political A spokesperson for Ms Mr Pizzetti is also seeking other
with Hussain and Sarwar, was on general conspiracy to murder stunt, including small explosions Leibovitz declined to comment. unspecified damages as well as
p r e v i o u s l y f o u n d g u i l t y o f charges against Mr Savant, Mr only intended to frighten people at According to legal papers filed requesting the photographs to be
conspiracy to murder involving Khan and Mr Zaman. airports. at a New York federal court, Mr destroyed.
liquid bombs - but that jury could An eighth man, Umar Islam, 31, The world's aviation industry Pizzetti said Ms Leibovitz, 59, The legal case is the latest to hit
not decide whether the three was convicted of conspiracy to was thrown into chaos in 2006 hired him to scout locations in Ms Leibovitz, who is also
m e n ' s p l a n s e x t e n d e d t o murder, but the jury failed to after their arrests, as security Italy for an advertising campaign currently being sued for
detonating the devices on planes. reach a verdict on whether he was experts immediately introduced for Lavazza coffee in April 2008. defaulting on a $24m (£14.6m)
Now a second jury has decided involved in a plot to blow up restrictions on liquids in hand He said he photographed the loan secured against the rights to
that such a terror plot did exist. aircraft. luggage. Trevi Fountain in Rome and the her entire collection.
With thousands killed in the air, Bomb factory Print Sponsor Piazza San Marco in Venice as If she does not pay back the
the explosions could have caused The court was told MI5 officers well as other images which he loan to the Art Capital Group by 8
m o r e d e v a s t a t i o n t h a n t h e uncovered the plotters as they sent to her digitally, but was later September, she is in danger of
September 11 attacks. followed cells of extremists in informed Ms Leibovitz would not losing the copyright to the
be travelling to Italy for the photo thousands of her negatives it has
shoot. in storage, as well as her three
'Same bird' properties in New York.
Mr Pizzetti said that in October, Print Sponsor
when the calendar was released,
he noticed two of his photographs
Japan commits to greenhouse gas target
(Financial Times - US vowed to stick by his Democratic the developing countries build election, the decade-old
homepage) party's manifesto goal of slashing low-carbon economies. opposition said it would aim to
Submitted at 9/7/2009 4:39:41 AM greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 In an election manifesto issued cut emissions of the gases blamed
and has promised to draw up a before the DPJ toppled the long- for global warming by 25 per cent
Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s “Hatoyama Initiative” laying out ruling Liberal Democratic party in from 1990 levels by 2020.
incoming prime minister, has how rich nations should support last month's historic general
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Van Jones, School Speech Top List Easter Island hat

of Distractions for Obama - ABC mystery 'solved'
(BBC News | Americas | World
News Edition)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 3:56:32 PM
heads of the famous statues all
around the coast of the island.
Precisely how and why the hats
(Most Popular - Google News) not look into the past statements widely on YouTube, making were attached is unknown.
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:48:25 AM of people the way they would derogatory comments about Archaeologists have solved an Like an altar
have for top-level people, and Republicans. ancient mystery surrounding the An axe was found in pristine
As President Barack Obama what we saw here, the right, if "You've never seen a Columbine famous Easter Island statues. condition next to the hats. The
prepares to address Congress and they focus on a specific person, done by a black child," Jones, At 2,500 miles off the coast of scientists think it might be an
the nation this week on his goals can do real damage." who's African-American, said in Chile, the island is one of the ancient offering.
for health care overhaul, he's "I understand he was pretty good the 2005 video. "Never. They world's most remote places Dr Richards told BBC News:
facing fire on several fronts -- the at it, but it came back to haunt always say, 'We can't believe it inhabited by people. "These hats run all the way down
unexpected resignation of his him," Allen said on "Good happened here. We can't believe Up to 1,000 years ago, the the side of the volcano into the
"green jobs" adviser Anthony Morning America" today. these suburban white kids.' It's islanders started putting giant red valley.
"Van" Jones and his speech to Jones, 40, had been hailed by only them." hats on the statues. "We can see they were carefully
school children Tuesday that has many influential politicians such The environmental advocate The research team, from the placed. The closer you get to the
sparked outrage from the right. as Al Gore for his efforts to create apologized for his remarks, which University of Manchester and volcano, the greater the number.
The White House tried to put jobs related to renewable energy conservatives labeled racist, and University College London, think "It's like a church; you can't just
the Jones controversy behind it as such as wind and solar power. But White House officials said he had the hats were rolled down from an walk straight to the altar.
q u i c k l y a s p o s s i b l e . H i s it was his comments and activities not properly read the statement on ancient volcano. "The Polynesians saw the
resignation was released in the outside his official position that 9/11 before signing it. But with Dr Colin Richards and Dr Sue landscape as a living thing, and
middle of the night, just after made him fodder for attacks by Republicans seizing on the Hamilton are the first British after they carved the rock the
midnight, on a holiday weekend. Republicans, and eventually cost evidence mounting against him archaeologists to work on the spirits entered the statues."
But it hasn't been able to quell him his job. and the president already falling island since 1914. Dr Richards and Dr Hamilton
questions about the behavior of In 2004, Jones signed a petition in his approval ratings, Jones' They pieced together a series of are joint directors of the "Rapa
Obama's special adviser at the called the "911 Truth Statement, a defense was not enough. clues to discover how the statues Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of
C o u n c i l o n E n v i r o n m e n t a l call for immediate inquiry into "We have told you he's an got their red hats. An axe, a road, Construction Project". They will
Quality. evidence that suggests high-level avowed radical communist, and an ancient volcano led to their be working on the island over the
"This shows a real weakness in government officials may have revolutionary," conservative findings. next five years.
the vetting of lower-level d e l i b e r a t e l y a l l o w e d t h e commentator Glenn Beck, who Dr Richards said: "We know the Dr Richards added: "We will
officials," said Mike Allen, chief September 11th attacks to occur." rallied against Jones last week, hats were rolled along the road look to date the earliest statues.
p o l i t i c a l c o r r e s p o n d e n t a t The best-selling author of "The said on his cable TV program. m a d e f r o m a c e m e n t o f Potentially this could rewrite
Politico.com. "They were so Green Collar Economy" was also compressed red scoria dust." Polynesian history."
interested in filling jobs they did caught on tape, now circulating Each hat, weighing several Print Sponsor
tonnes, was carved from volcanic
rock. They were placed on the

Unemployment numbers suggest we need a job stimulus program

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that we lost 216,000 jobs in • The number of discouraged 16.3% in July. suggest we need a job stimulus
8 World/ Internet News Record

Libya will resist IRA victim compensation

By James Sturcke, Andrew Today, Downing Street would "Of course." minister sent to Jason McCue, the said. "Some victims were killed
Sparrow (World news and not back what Balls said about Gaddafi spoke out as Downing lawyer representing the families directly by British agents, others
comment from the Guardian | ministers not wanting Megrahi Street said Foreign Office of IRA victims, in September and by their surrogates. British state
guardian.co.uk) released. officials would act as October last year. forces have also killed or injured
Submitted at 9/7/2009 8:06:31 AM Asked whether Brown agreed "facilitators", helping the families The letters reveal that Brown many citizens."
with Balls on this issue, a of IRA victims in their legal quest ruled out direct government-to- Adams claimed Britain had also
Schools secretary contradicts s p o k e s m a n s a i d t h e p r i m e for compensation from the government talks with Libya on collaborated with unionist
earlier David Miliband statement minister had made his views clear Libyans, but would not the issue but also promised other paramilitaries to bring illegal
that UK did not want Lockerbie last week when he said he "negotiate". support to the relatives. shipments of arms into Ireland,
bomber to die in jail respected the decision to release Yesterday, Gordon Brown In his interview on Today this including from the apartheid
Ed Balls reignited the Megrahi on compassionate announced that he was setting up morning, Balls said it would be regime in South Africa.
controversy over the release of the g r o u n d s . a dedicated Foreign Office team "wrong" to jeopardise Britain's "Gordon Brown's position is
man convicted of the Lockerbie Hague said the confusion to assist victims of the IRA who relations with Libya by totally inconsistent, but this is in
bombing today when he claimed reinforced the need for an inquiry want compensation from the aggressively pursuing the case for keeping with London's long-
British ministers wanted him to – which the Tories have been Libyans because Libya provided compensation. standing game-playing on this
stay in jail. demanding – into Megrahi's arms to the organisation. He said the government had important matter," he added.
The schools secretary made his release. The prime minister made the tried unsuccessfully to get the "The fact is the British
comment – which contradicted "This is a classic example of the offer after being criticised for Libyans to provide compensation government is a player in all of
what other ministers said last right hand having no idea what refusing to seek a formal some time ago, and had now these issues. It is not, and cannot
week – as he defended Gordon the left hand is doing," he said. agreement between the British concluded that it was time to be, an objective or neutral referee.
Brown's decision not to offer full "We have yet to hear two and Libyan governments on move on. "The British government was a
government backing to an attempt government ministers agree on a compensation. "There was an attempt to get a one of the combatant forces in the
by the relatives of IRA victims to single aspect of the decision to The government has been under government agreement at that conflict. Its position and Gordon
get compensation from Libya. release Mr al-Megrahi. fire for weeks over the Megrahi time for compensation, not just Brown's stance flows from this
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's "But this is not surprising affair, but the focus shifted to the for the Lockerbie victims but also reality. So, too, does the position
T o d a y p r o g r a m m e , B a l l s considering the lack of leadership issue of compensation to IRA for the IRA victims," he said. of some unionist leaders."
criticised the shadow foreign the prime minister has shown victims after the Sunday Times "That couldn't be negotiated, and • Foreign policy
secretary, William Hague, for throughout this whole affair. Only reported that Brown had ruled out the judgment the government • Libya
attacking the government over the an independent inquiry will clear making this the subject of formal made, and still makes, is that to • Northern Ireland
release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. up this mess and muddle." negotiations between London and attempt to do so now would both • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
"As for William Hague's In a separate development, Saif Tripoli. not succeed and sour and damage • Lockerbie plane bombing
c o m m e n t [ a b o u t ] t h e al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Last night, in response to the a relationship which is not about • Global terrorism
government's failure of judgment L i b y a n l e a d e r , M u a m m a r story, Brown said the Foreign economics or oil, it is actually • UK security and terrorism
to release al-Megrahi, I have to Gaddafi, said his country would Office team dealing with the IRA about working together to make • Terrorism policy
say that none of us wanted to see fight demands for compensation victims would be accompanied by sure British people are safe from • Northern Irish politics
the release of al-Megrahi, but that from the relatives of IRA victims. representatives of the British international terrorism. • Defence policy
wasn't a judgment made by He said any compensation embassy in Tripoli in negotiations "The important thing is to be James Sturcke Andrew Sparrow
British government, it was a arising from alleged Libyan arms with the Libyan authorities, which open and honest about the guardian.co.uk© Guardian
decision made by the Scottish supplies to the IRA would be a are expected within the next difficult foreign policy judgments News & Media Limited 2009 |
executive," he said. matter for the courts. fortnight. that are being made here." Use of this content is subject to
This contradicted what the "Anyone can knock on our door. His announcement was seen as a The government faced further our Terms & Conditions| More
f o r e i g n s e c r e t a r y , D a v i d You go to the court. They have U-turn, coming after reports that pressure on compensation after Feeds
Miliband, told the BBC about the their lawyers. We have our he had personally vetoed official the Sinn Féin president, Gerry
case last week when he said: "We lawyers," Gaddafi told Sky News. pressure on Libya over the issue Adams, said all victims should
did not want him to die in prison. Asked whether his answer to the for fear of jeopardising relations. receive compensation. "Sinn Féin
We were not seeking his death in compensation demand would be But Downing Street has would certainly support
prison." no in the first instance, he replied: released two letter the prime compensation for all victims," he
Internet News Record World/ Finance/ 9

Sudan trousers woman escapes lash Leibovitz sued for

By James Sturcke, Matthew
Weaver (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
said justifies "abhorrent"
penalties.
Earlier, Hussein's supporters
banner and ripped it to pieces.
Riot police beat back the
protesters and later loaded dozens
$300,000 over copyright
guardian.co.uk) were beaten by riot police armed of women into a van and drove By Aidan Jones (World news last October, including one on the
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:15:23 AM with batons and shields outside off. and comment from the front cover, prompting the legal
the court. Dozens of people were "They are beating us. They are Guardian | guardian.co.uk) action.
Former UN worker escapes detained. trying to provoke us into violent Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:48:07 AM Documents filed with the court
flogging but says she would rather Hussein, a former reporter, was action so they can react and clear say a comparison of the Venice
go to jail than pay fine imposed working for the UN at the time of us off the streets," said Nahed Italian claims she passed off his photo shows "the same wet-
for breaching decency laws her arrest. Goubia, a surgeon in a white pictures as her own for Lavazza w e a t h e r c o n d i t i o n s , c l o u d
A Sudanese woman said today The case is being seen as a test trouser suit, before police cleared coffee company advertising formation and the same bird in the
that she would continue her of Sudan's Islamic decency the area. campaign upper left portion of the
campaign of defiance after being regulations, which many female Hussein's lawyer, Nabil Adib The travails of celebrity p h o t o g r a p h " . L e i b o v i t z ' s
convicted by a court of indecency activists claim are too vague and Abdullah, has said the law on photographer Annie Leibovitz spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, told
for wearing trousers in public. give undue latitude to individual indecent dress is so wide that it have intensified after an Italian Bloomberg News : "Since we
Lubna Hussein said she would police officers to determine what contravenes a person's right to a photographer filed a $300,000 have not yet seen the filing, we
refuse to pay the 500 Sudanese is acceptable clothing. fair trial. Hussein challenged the lawsuit claiming she passed off have no comment."
pound (£127) fine imposed on her "Lubna has given us a chance. charges, arguing that her clothes his pictures as her own for an Leibovitz was granted another
by a judge who ruled that she She is very brave. Thousands of were respectable, so she did not advertising campaign. month to respond to a claim from
should not face a punishment of girls have been beaten since the break the law. Paolo Pizzetti, a photographer the Art Capital Group that she had
40 lashes. 1990s, but Lubna is the first one The judge adjourned Hussein's from Siena, reportedly alleges breached the terms of the $24m
Hussein was among 13 women not to keep silent," one protester, last court session to investigate Leibovitz breached his copyright loan. She is due to repay the sum
arrested in July during a raid at a Sawsan Hassan el-Showaya, told whether she was immune from by reproducing photos he took in by tomorrow amid rumours that
party by the police in Khartoum. Reuters. prosecution because she was Venice and Rome for a calendar she risks losing her homes and the
Ten of the women were fined and About 150 protesters – most of working as a UN press officer. commissioned by the Lavazza rights to a lifetime of work.
flogged two days later. But them women, including some in Hussein has said that she coffee company. The parlous state of her
Hussein and two others decided to trousers – had gathered on a resigned from her UN job to give The lawsuit – worth £183,000 – financial affairs has captivated
go to trial. traffic island to wave banners up any legal immunity so she can was lodged last Friday and hinges New York's celebrity scene,
"I will not pay a penny," said outside the court, hemmed in by continue with the case, prove her on claims that the American used where Leibovitz is as much a
Hussein, who stated last week that security guards and riot police. innocence and challenge the images of the Trevi Fountain in fixture as many of her subjects.
she would rather go to jail than The women were later decency law. Rome and Piazza San Marco in She has earned a reputation for
pay any fine. "I won't pay, as a confronted by dozens of men in • Sudan V e n i c e w i t h o u t P i z z e t t i ' s lavish tastes and finds herself
matter of principle. I would spend traditional Islamic dress who • Islam permission. mired in financial troubles despite
a month in jail. It is a chance to shouted religious slogans and James Sturcke Matthew Weaver O n a n o t h e r l e g a l f r o n t , enjoying a reported $2m salary
explore the conditions of jail." denounced Hussein and her guardian.co.uk© Guardian Leibovitz is already struggling to from Condé Nast, publishers of
Amnesty International has supporters, describing them as News & Media Limited 2009 | contain a welter of claims against Vanity Fair.
c a l l e d o n t h e S u d a n e s e prostitutes and demanding harsh Use of this content is subject to her estate, including a complaint • Annie Leibovitz
government to withdraw the punishment for Hussein. our Terms & Conditions| More she has broken the contract terms • United States
charges against Hussein and Scuffles erupted, in which one Feeds of a $24million loan taken out last • Italy
repeal the indecency law, which it bearded protester grabbed a paper year. • Art
Pizzetti says he was instructed • Photography
Three British men guilty of airline bomb plot to scout locations for the calendar Aidan Jones
shoot and sent Leibovitz the guardian.co.uk© Guardian
(Financial Times - US thousands of people by blowing operation according to British images, only to be told she would News & Media Limited 2009 |
homepage) up transatlantic airliners bound for detectives, had huge worldwide not be travelling to Italy to Use of this content is subject to
Submitted at 9/7/2009 8:00:17 AM North America, in mid-flight ramifications leading to tight complete the assignment. But he our Terms & Conditions| More
suicide attacks using bombs made restrictions on the amount of later saw his images in the Feeds
LONDON, September 7 – Three from liquid explosives. liquids passengers could take on calendar, which was published
Britons were found guilty on The suspected al Qaeda plot, board aircraft.
Monday of plotting to kill just days from being put into
10 World/ Finance/ Internet News Record

Woman saved 30 hours after ferry Airline flies empty

sank planes across Atlantic
(World news and comment investigation would begin this Huey helicopters, two assault By Dan Milmo (World news by Delta's Boeing 777 jets
from the Guardian | week to find out why the vessel navy boats arrived about two and comment from the operating the Los Angeles to
guardian.co.uk) sank off the southern province of hours later and began to take Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Sydney route summed up the
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:28:39 AM Zamboanga del Norte, but he said survivors from the ferry and the Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:08:48 AM "wanton" attitude of airlines
there was no sign that terrorism sea. towards global warming.
Air force rescues woman from played any part in the sinking. The regional military Environmental campaigners "It symbolises their cavalier
choppy seas after sinking of 7,269 Abu Sayyaf militants bombed commander, Major General attack Delta Air Lines over 'ghost' approach to the environment,"
-ton vessel another Superferry in Manila Bay Benjamin Dolorfino, said: "When flights to meet Australian said Richard George, a
A Philippine air force helicopter in 2004, setting off an inferno that our assets arrived, people were quarantine regulations campaigner at CBT.
has plucked to safety a woman killed 116 people. floating everywhere. The presence A major US airline has been Delta is planning to stop its
who drifted for about 30 hours in Superferry 9 had set sail on of many military assets in the area attacked by environmental disinfection trips to Heathrow at
choppy seas after the sinking of a Saturday, heading from General was a big factor." A military pilot campaigners for flying empty the end of the month, but is
ferry that left nine dead. Only one Santos in the south of the has reported what appears to be an planes across the Atlantic to be expected to switch to a Chinese
person from almost 1,000 on Philippines to Iloilo city in the oil slick near where the ferry disinfected. airport.
board is now unaccounted for. central region. sank. It was reportedly carrying Delta Air Lines has admitted Aviation is under pressure as a
Lita Casumlum, 39, was found Officials said the rescue was 250 tons of fuel and lubricant oil. running "ghost" flights from the prominent producer of greenhouse
bobbing with a lifejacket about largely due to help given by two Last year, a ferry rapidly US to Heathrow to meet gases and the industry has been
eight miles from where the 7,269- passing cargo ships and military overturned after sailing towards a Australian quarantine regulations. the subject of a number of "ghost
ton Superferry 9 sank on Sunday. bomber planes and gunboats, powerful typhoon in the central Authorities in Australia require flight" stories. BMI, Heathrow's
Rear Admiral Alex Pama, who which are used to fight al-Qaida- Philippines, killing more than 800 inbound aeroplanes to be sprayed second largest carrier, admitted
helped supervise the rescue, linked militants and are based people on board. with insecticide to ward off flying empty planes from
called it a miracle. "She has been about 43 miles (70km) away from In December 1987, the ferry malaria and dengue fever. Delta is Heathrow to Cardiff to retain its
drifting amid huge waves for a where the ferry sank. Dona Paz sank after colliding not allowed to carry out the lucrative takeoff and landing slots
long time without any food or Captain Jose Yap, who was with a fuel tanker in the treatment in the US and the under "use it or lose it"
water," he said. among the survivors, issued an Philippines, killing more than nearest airport with facilities guidelines. Flybe, the Exeter-
Casumlum, who was reported to order to abandon ship when the 4,341 people in the world's worst sanctioned by the Australian based regional airline, admitted
be weak and sunburned after her ferry started listing. The vessel, peacetime maritime disaster. quarantine and inspection service advertising for actors last year to
ordeal, was taken to a military built in 1986 in Japan, sank six • Philippines (AQIS) is Heathrow, requiring the boost passenger numbers and
hospital for treatment. hours later, the coastguard said. guardian.co.uk© Guardian carrier to make a number of trips ensure it met an airport quota.
An air, land and sea search will Passengers leapt into the dark News & Media Limited 2009 | to the airport over the past two • Air transport
continue for the lone missing sea and parents dropped children Use of this content is subject to months. • Airline industry
passenger and a special coast into liferafts. The passing ships our Terms & Conditions| More A Delta spokeswoman said: • Australia
guard ship has been deployed to arrived less than an hour after Feeds "Materials used for this process • Climate change
check signs of an oil spill. receiving a coastguard emergency are approved and available for use • Carbon emissions
Coastguard chief Admiral call for assistance. Guided by two in the United States; however, • United States
W i l f r e d o T a m a y o s a i d a n OV-10 bomber planes and two according to US regulations, these Dan Milmo
treatments must be carried out at guardian.co.uk© Guardian
EU opens door to ending US trade row designated AQIS locations News & Media Limited 2009 |
(Financial Times - US long-running trade battle over maintained competitive aircraft outside the United States." Use of this content is subject to
homepage) state aid to their respective industries despite the dispute The Campaign for Better our Terms & Conditions| More
Submitted at 9/6/2009 2:35:16 PM aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and between Boeing and Airbus now Transport, an environmental Feeds
Boeing. before the World Trade group, said the round-trip taken
The European Union has opened Baroness Ashton, the EU’s trade Organisation.
the door to negotiations with the commissioner, said the US and
US as a way to bring an end to the Europe needed to ensure they
Internet News Record
Time Warner and Death
rule box office again
By Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Time Warner
(TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Sony
Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B'
(NWS), Film, Marvel
Entertainment (MVL), Lions Gate
Entertainment (LGF)
Time Warner(NYSE: TWX)
was tops at the multiplex yet
again with a scary horror
franchise that the teens seem to be
enjoying. The Final Destination,
according to Boxofficemojo,
grossed $12 million at domestic
theaters over the three-day
weekend, as of early estimates
available at the time of this
writing. I'm sure Destination will
retain its number-one status once
Labor Day is figured into the
equation.
All About Steve, from News
Corp.(NASDAQ: NWS), was the
second-place film. It actually
came close to Destination's take,
bringing in about $11 million.
Inglourious Basterds, distributed
by The Weinstein Company, was
third, and Gamer, an interesting
sci-fi flick courtesy of
Cadbury rejects £10.2bn move by Kraft
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:46:53 AM
Kraft Foods on Monday went
Lionsgate(NYSE: LGF), was
fourth. Sony's (NYSE: SNE)
District 9, which came in fifth,
has now gone beyond $100
million in total take.
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public with a £10.2bn ($16.75bn,
€11.7bn) cash and shares offer for
Cadbury after the UK’s best-
known confectionery brand
rejected the US foods group’s
G-20 fails to reach accord
capping banker pay, bonuses
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: International
markets, Financial Crisis Finance
ministers for both France and
Germany claimed credit Sunday
for what they argue was their
successful effort to get the G-20
to limit bankers' pay.
However, it remains to be seen
if their claim will become an
international regulation: the G-20
left it to a Financial Stability
Board, the Basel-based panel of
international regulators, to flesh-
Entrepreneur's Journal: Is it possible to grow your
business now?
By Tom Taulli
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 6:10:00 PM
Filed under: Competitive
strategy, Intuit Inc (INTU), Small
business
By any historical standard, it's
been a horrible recession. Just
surviving has been a big
accomplishment.
However, this "survivor
mentality" can be a problem. If
proposal.
The proposed offer comprised
300p a share in cash and 0.2589
new Kraft shares for every
Cadbury share, valuing the UK
Finance/ 11
G20 calls for better
capital buffers at
banks
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 11:54:56 AM
out the details of the proposal at European banks face pressure to
the head of state G-20 summit on issue far more shares in order to
September 24-25 in Pittsburgh, meet a tough new global
Bloomberg News reported regulatory framework outlined at
Sunday. the weekend by finance ministers
Continue reading G-20 fails to of the G20 group of nations which
reach accord capping banker pay, calls for much bigger and better
bonuses capital buffers against shocks,
G-20 fails to reach accord analysts warned on Sunday.
capping banker pay, bonuses The move follows criticism that
originally appeared on some banks have relied too
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Taking a look at the recent
economic indicators, it does look
like the economy is on the mend.
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Journal: Is it possible to grow
your business now?
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Investigating alleged oil price Liz Claiborne hires bankruptcy

manipulation firm as turnaround consultant
By Connie Madon By Zac Bissonnette
(BloggingStocks) (BloggingStocks) with The New York Post. "In the
Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:00:00 AM Submitted at 9/7/2009 9:00:00 AM spirit of that, we said we would
hire a consultant."
Filed under: Insiders, Filed under: Liz Claiborne (LIZ) Continue reading Liz Claiborne
Competitive strategy, Oil, Struggling retail giant Liz h i r e s b a n k r u p t c y f i r m a s Injectable brain gel may
Technology name of this company? It's called Claiborne(NYSE: LIZ) has hired
Optiver, and it employs about 600 turnaround consultant Alvarez & turnaround consultant save soldiers' lives,
How do they do it? How is the Liz Claiborne hires bankruptcy
people.
price of oil manipulated? Marsal to help it cut costs and
Continue reading Investigating stem losses at the insistence of its firm as turnaround consultant zombify them, or both
The New York Times offers a o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n By Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
look inside a company that alleged oil price manipulation creditors.
Investigating alleged oil price BloggingStocks on Mon, 07 Sep Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:29:00 AM
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Forum is discussing the use of an
injectable hydrogel for the
The coming days: The week ahead treatment of traumatic brain
injury, which -- unlike our ability
(The Economist: News for bipartisan lawmaking on that, third annual meeting of “New endemic in Taiwanese politics, is to do push-ups -- is no joke. The
analysis) climate change and other matters. Champions” begins in Dalian in being attacked and that a former fertilizer part comes from the gel's
Submitted at 9/6/2009 5:01:46 AM See article China on Thursday September president can stand trial like a ability to stimulate the growth of
• THE board of governors of the 10th. The “summer Davos” is a common citizen. neural stem cells within the brain,
The coming days International Atomic Energy shadow of the winter meeting in See article which are then capable of
Sep 6th 2009 Agency meets in Vienna from Switzerland, but with China • FRIDAY September 11th repairing damaged nerves and
From Economist.com Congress Monday September 7th. Under emerging from the economic marks eight years since the preventing the spread of harm to
reconvenes, Barack Obama gives discussion will be the nuclear crisis so clearly strengthened, it attacks by al-Qaeda on New York o t h e r c e l l s . " B r a i n t i s s u e
a speech on health-care reform, programmes of Iran and Syria as may excite particular interest this a n d W a s h i n g t o n , D C . T h e regeneration" might not be the
and other news well as nuclear security and year. The meeting will focus on memory of the attacks is still wisest name for it, but tests on
• ON TUESDAY September 8th nuclear terrorism. A recent IAEA ways of relauncing economic potent, but the anniversary will r a t s h a v e s h o w n s u s t a i n e d
Congress and President Barack report on Iran said that it had growth. only briefly serve as a reminder of functional recovery, and we
Obama return to business after slowed its production of enriched See article why America and its allies are at understand that with enough Igors
their August break. Mr Obama is u r a n i u m . A m e r i c a w i l l b e • A TAIWANESE court will rule war in Afghanistan. on the job, this could be put into
scheduled to address both houses w a t c h i n g t h e I A E A ' s in a corruption case against Chen See article use within the next three years.
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Despite the increasingly bitter tougher sanctions on Iran later in corruption and embezzlement, on The Economist welcomes your Injectable brain gel may save
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Obama shows no sign so far of See article the outcome, many have been both originally appeared on
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The risk of another downturn
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 3:21:48 AM
Sep 7th 2009
From the Economist
Intelligence Unit ViewsWire
Germany's economy is on the up,
but it could yet tip back into
recession
The performance of the German
economy appears to be
improving—the country emerged
from recession in the second
quarter and signs from the third
quarter are generally positive.
Although Germany's exporters
have been hit hard by the global
crisis, domestic demand has held
up well. However, there are
reasons to doubt that the recovery
will be sustainable. A double-dip
recession for the global economy
would drag down Germany's
exports again. The banking sector
was heavily exposed to US-
originated toxic assets, and a
credit crunch could yet kick in.
And unemployment has been slow
to rise, partly because of
government incentives, but is sure
to increase as firms start to
address over-capacity. There is
therefore a considerable risk that
the economy will tip back into
recession.
The German economy pulled
out of recession in the second
quarter, growing by 0.3% quarter-
on-quarter. Indicators suggest that
the recovery may have gathered
pace in the third quarter.
Manufacturing orders, although
still down sharply in year-on-year
terms, have picked up from the
highly depressed levels of the
early months of the year. The
Munich-based Ifo institute's
business climate rose for a fifth
consecutive month in August, to
90.5, from 87.4 in July, taking it
to its highest level since
September 2008, before the
collapse of Lehman Brothers. The
Nuremberg-based GfK group's
consumer confidence index,
meanwhile, rose in August to its
highest level since June 2008.
In some respects, moreover,
Germany has displayed resilience
in the face of the global crisis.
The deep drop in global demand
has unsurprisingly resulted in a
sizeable contraction for Germany,
where exports account for an
unusually large proportion of
GDP (the country is the largest
exporter of goods in the world).
Real GDP was down by 6.7%
year on year in the first quarter
and by 5.9% in the second. But
private consumption has held up
far better than in other major
developed economies. Germany
has not suffered from either a
credit or house-price boom, and
households' finances are robust.
Relatively resilient private
consumption helps to limit the
strain of the downturn on the
fiscal position, as Germany has
not suffered from the collapse in
revenue seen in, for example, the
UK (although stimulus measures
and automatic stabilisers still
mean that the German
government deficit has swollen
considerably). Renewed
recession?
Nevertheless, there are major
risks to the sustainability of
Germany's recovery. The first is
that the global economy
experiences a double-dip
recession—the Economist
Intelligence Unit sees this as a
strong possibility, as the current
upturn is strongly dependent on
stimulus measures and may not
prove self-sustaining once the
effects of such measures wane.
This would hit the export revival
on which Germany's recovery
depends. There are already
concerns that the upturn in
German output in recent months
has been flattered by a rebound in
inventories from their extremely
low levels in the first quarter.
The second danger is from the
domestic banking sector. It is
becoming increasingly clear that
Germany's banks are among the
worst affected by the global
financial crisis—not because of
domestic developments, but
because of the huge income flows
that accrued to the country from
its export boom being invested in
a range of most US-originated
financial instruments whose value
has collapsed and which are now
illiquid. The German financial
supervision authority, BaFin,
estimated earlier this year that
German banks were still sitting on
over €800bn of toxic assets.
The government has been
reluctant to discuss the measures
needed to stabilise the sector
ahead of the general election due
in September 2009, owing to fear
of admitting to voters the size of
the potential losses they may have
to bear. A "bad bank" scheme
approved in July falls far short of
what is required. There are fears
however that a serious credit
crunch could begin later in 2009
and into 2010 once moves to
clean up the sector start in earnest.
Finally, employment trends
could weigh on the economy. A
government scheme that allows
firms to put underused employees
on short-time working, and which
subsidises their pay, has stopped
unemployment rising
sharply—around 1.4m workers
are currently in the scheme. There
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are also suspicions that large
firms keen to avoid a swing to the
left are striving to keep job losses
to a minimum ahead of the
election in September.
Unemployment has therefore
crept up only modestly, by around
a quarter of a million, to a rate of
8.2%.
However, even if the global
recovery continues, German firms
will still find themselves with
excess capacity, as it will take
years for world trade to recover to
previous levels. Unemployment in
manufacturing is therefore bound
to rise further. If the external
environment remains favourable,
some of the rise could be
absorbed by an expansion of
employment in services. But
labour market developments will
still dampen the economy's
performance, and in the context of
a double-dip recession even
higher unemployment could
reinforce the downward trend in
GDP.
The Economist Intelligence Unit
is already cautious about the
sustainability of a recovery in the
German economy. Assuming that
the worst is indeed over for this
year, we forecast that real GDP
will contract by 5.3% for 2009 as
a whole. However, we expect a
further modest contraction, of
0.2%, in 2010. The risk is that,
under the impact of further shocks
from global demand, the banking
system and the labour market, the
weakening expected in the final
quarter of 2009 and into 2010
could be greater than forecast.
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Toshiba develops
advanced pedestrian
detection system for cars
By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 1:01:18 AM
Toshiba has reportedly
developed a pedestrian detection
technology for use in vehicles that
helps to warn drivers of nearby
people with an accuracy of more
than 99% during the day. It’s
about time tech companies
become active in the car safety
area: The National Safety Council
recorded 39,800 motor vehicle-
related deaths in 2008 in the USA
alone.
The Toshiba system is based on
two cameras mounted on the
vehicles in question. The
company claims its system can
distinguish people from objects
with an error rate that stands at
less than 10% of that of pedestrian
detection systems currently in use.
Toshiba developed a piece of
software that can analyze pictures
taken by the dual cameras from
several meters away.
The company plans to sell the
system to automakers by 2011 or
2012 (the technology is expected
to be integrated into LSI chips
that are installed in vehicles).
Via Nikkei[registration
required, paid subscription]
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Life Settlements: Still No Dice
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 10:28:14 AM
The NYT has an excellent article
on the life settlement industry,
explaining its pros and cons in a
balanced and clear-eyed manner.
If you’re interested in such things,
you should read it: it was written
by Charles Duhigg, and published
in December 2006. He mentioned
that Wall Street was getting
interested in such things:
Trading in life insurance
policies held by wealthy seniors
has quietly become a big business.
Hedge funds, financial institutions
like Credit Suisse and Deutsche
Bank, and investors like Warren
E. Buffett are spending billions to
buy life insurance policies from
the elderly…
This nascent market illustrates
one way that investors are hoping
to make money from a large and
wealthy generation of Americans
as they reach retirement age.
Today, Jenny Anderson covers
most of the same ground but adds
little in the way of actual news.
What she does add is a much
more ominous tone:
Wall Street is racing ahead for a
simple reason: With $26 trillion
of life insurance policies in force
in the United States, the market
could be huge…
If a small fraction of policy
holders do sell them, some in the
industry predict the market could
reach $500 billion…
Some financial firms are
moving to outpace their rivals.
Credit Suisse, for example, is in
effect building a financial
assembly line to buy large
numbers of life insurance policies,
package and resell them — just as
Wall Street firms did with
subprime securities.
If Wall Street is really “racing
ahead”, it’s been doing so for well
over a decade now, and doesn’t
seem to have got very far. There
have been people on Wall Street
trying to securitize and trade life
settlements for as long as I can
remember, and nothing much ever
seems to happen. Is anything
different now? Not really:
Anderson has managed to find
exactly one securitization of life
settlements, and even that one she
only mentions in passing:
Standard & Poor’s, which rated
a similar deal called Dignity
Partners in the 1990s, declined to
comment on its plans.
In fact, Dignity Partners
launched in March 1995, and was
the grand total of $35 million in
size. “Could” the market “reach
$500 billion”, as “some in the
industry predict”? Well,
anything’s possible. But so far it’s
managed to go from $35 million
to zero over the course of the past
14 years. Wake me up when
something happens: for the time
being there’s nothing at all.
None of the big three ratings
agencies is involved right now:
the closest thing to a news hook in
Anderson’s story is that DBRS,
which she describes as “a little
known rating agency in lower
Manhattan”, is thinking about
applying ratings to these things. Is
there any evidence that investors
are going to trust DBRS on this
one, in the event that anything
gets off the ground? No.
In general, Anderson seems to
be at pains to overstate the degree
to which there’s anything to
worry about here. Not only does
she repeatedly say that life
settlements could be the next
subprime, she also says that they
could be damaging to America’s
seniors:
“Predators in the life settlement
market have the motive, means
and, if left unchecked by
legislators and regulators and by
their own community, the
opportunity to take advantage of
seniors,” Stephan Leimberg, co-
author of a book on life
settlements, testified at a Senate
Special Committee on Aging last
April.
The quote could have used a bit
of context. Leimberg thinks that
life settlements are a good thing,
in principle, and is looking for
legislation to ensure that the
industry grows up in a healthy and
well-regulated manner, rather than
being rife with predators. (And
please, NYT, if you’re going to
quote Senate testimony, would it
kill you to link to it?)
The fact is that life settlements
can be wonderful things for
seniors who get seriously ill. At
the same time, however, that’s not
what life insurance was designed
to do, and trying to make it
perform that function has a raft of
nasty potential consequences. For
one thing, it could mean life
insurance premiums rising
substantially, since the price of
life insurance currently is kept
down by people who let their
policies lapse. If they sell those
policies instead of letting them
lapse, that’s very expensive to the
insurer.
But there’s another reason, too,
why life settlements are
potentially very bad for the
insurance industry — and neither
Duhigg nor Anderson mentions it.
Life insurers, unlike most
investors, pay no tax on their
investment gains. That’s why
buying a life insurance policy is
generally a very tax-efficient way
to invest money you want to leave
to your heirs. But if these policies
start being traded on the
secondary market, with the
benefits going not to heirs but
rather to hedge funds and traders,
then there’s a serious risk that the
life insurance industry will lose its
tax-sheltered status. The Wall
Street banks looking at
securitizing life settlements
should be very worried about this:
if they start showing signs of
success, Congress could, at a
stroke, kill their golden goose.
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Buffalo stuffs 500GB
into ultraslim HD-PVU2
portable hard drive
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 8:31:00 AM
With a few external hard drive
outfits pushing out 640GB models
this past week, a simple half-
terabyte edition now seems mildly
inadequate. That said, Buffalo's
latest gets brownie points for
being almost impossibly thin. The
HD-PVU2 lineup is barely thicker
than the 2.5-inch HDD within,
with 320GB and 500GB versions
available. Both black and white
flavors will be shipped out to
stores, and as expected, they'll get
all the juice they need through
USB 2.0. Check 'em out soon
(assuming you can locate one) in
Japan for ¥10,500 ($112) and
¥15,330 ($164), respectively.
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A Radical Solution for America's Insolvent
Financial System
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:11:33 AM
A plan for the resolution of the
insolvency of the U.S. banking
system:
The core problem of the U.S.
banking system (and maybe the
world's banking system) is not
liquidity but insolvency. The
liabilities of the U.S. banking
system exceed the value of its
assets. The issue is not only the
toxic assets (toxic mortgage
backed securities, toxic
commercial real estate loans, sub-
prime mortgages, alt-A loans,
adjustable loans likely to go bust,
increase in prime mortgage
default rates, etc) but also off-
balance sheet liabilities (such as
expected, huge-unaccounted-for
future derivatives losses).
This means that bailouts are just
beginning and will require bigger
and bigger sums of taxpayer
money as time goes on. The
government will resort to
borrowing more and more and
eventually to printing money
when treasury debt auctions start
failing. The end result of this path
is a currency collapse and
probably total chaos as expected
by gold bugs.
One other way to deal with this
issue is to stop the bailouts and let
the dominoes fall. Defaults and
cross-defaults will cause many,
many depository institutions
(even very large ones) to collapse,
leading to an extreme decrease in
money supply as bank deposits
are destroyed. Deposits of failed
banks cannot be used to pay bills,
make purchases and/or service
debts.
Which will probably lead to
even more defaults as
unemployment increases and
debtor's are unable to service their
debts. This process will probably
cause extreme deflation as
businesses lower prices in a bid to
survive. This will also lead to
wage cuts, increased
unemployment and a deflation
spiral and much chaos. But
probably less chaos than a
currency collapse.
Is there a better way?
Here is my idea:
1) We essentially need an
orderly bankruptcy and
liquidation of the U.S. financial
system.
2) I suggest we create a
government owned bank and
transfer all deposits of the private
commercial banking system to the
new government owned bank.
This "transfer" is really just new
money creation. This new money
will be digital cash (electronic
version of physical paper cash).
Very much like reserves at the
Fed.
3) Note that the plan will not
create net new money since we
will be destroying all deposits of
the commercial banking system in
the process.
4) All assets of the commercial
banking system will be transferred
to the government and auctioned
off in an orderly manner over the
next 10 years. The proceeds from
the sale would go the United
States treasury and not the
commercial banks. The
assumption here is that
commercial banks deserve
nothing since the entire industry
would have been most likely
destroyed any way. Even good
banks would have been destroyed
due to bank runs and defaults if
the government had allowed the
dominoes to fall. Of course bank
shareholders, bank bond holders
and counter parties of bank
derivatives would not receive
anything.
5) After the transfer FDIC
protection will be removed for
any private bank which wishes to
remain in business or any new
private depository institution or
bank. From that point on the
government should make it
absolutely clear that there will be
no more bailouts and no more
conversions. This will discourage
(but not completely eliminate)
fractional reserve deposit banking
and private money creation that
results from pyramiding of
government created money. This
will also limit debasement of the
currency that results from
fractional reserve deposit banking.
In fact, we can have "free
banking" from that point on and
not even have reserve
requirements or capital
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requirements. All depositors who
use private banks will be fully at-
risk. The industry will have to set
the interest rate high enough to
attract depositors.
6) The new government bank
will act as an electronic "piggy
bank" only. All deposits will be
100% reserve and it will make no
loans. Loan making will be left to
the private banking system (with
no deposit insurance or a
possibility of a future bailout).
The new government-owned bank
exists only as a "safe" money
storage and a payment clearing
system so the public does not
have to carry around physical
paper cash to make purchases and
pay bills.
6) Of course this plan is not
without pain or cost. Cost of
funds for banks and borrowers
will probably rise as bank
deposits are a source of very low
cost money for the banks. Nothing
is free. We are just exchanging
higher cost of funds for removal
of systemic failure risk.
Economically we are recognizing
that when money is loaned there
is always credit risk.
7) We are just separating the
payment and clearing transaction
system which is absolutely
necessary for day-to-day
commerce (no credit risk) from
the loan banking and investment
system (has credit risk).
15
You're No Invisible
Pedestrian While
Wearing Black
Diamond Sprinter
Headgear [Running]
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 2:00:00 PM
The Black Diamond Sprinter is
designed with the adventurous
night runner in mind, but I can
just as easily see this headgear
transitioning into a lightweight
spelunking role... and, yes, there it
is—I think I just invented cave
running.
However, as has been noted,
this rechargeable $80 gadget may
have been designed with the best
intentions in mind (i.e. protect
you from becoming a bug on
someone's windshield), but it
looks a bit big and unwieldy for
running. Perhaps the LED, which
casts light a respectable 54 feet
ahead, is more suited to the
slightly more leisurely pace of the
ambitious cave running circuit I'm
currently selling incredibly hard
right now?
In any event, it's due out in
October. The headgear, I mean. [
Black Diamond via BBG]
16 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Financial reform and the G20: A hard climb

(The Economist: News do not make for stirring significant chunks of bonus for resolving the problem of
analysis) communiqués. payments should be deferred and global finance is critical.
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:15:49 AM On financial reform, too, there that “clawback” provisions should Synthetic though the row over pay
was little really to catch the eye. enable firms to reduce variable has been, it has underlined how
Financial reform and the G20 The build-up to the London pay if risk-taking positions go difficult it is for any one country
Sep 6th 2009 meeting was dominated by noisy wrong. to press ahead alone with
From Economist.com The G20 E u r o p e a n c a l l s , l a r g e l y
meeting in London marked a step orchestrated by the French and
The building-blocks of financial measures to constrain the CrunchDeals:
reform—higher capital, a focus on industry.
along the way, not a summit Germans, to rein in bank bonuses systemic risk, countercyclical There are dangers, too. 1TB WD external
WHEN G20 leaders met in a f t e r a r o u n d o f b o o m i n g rules to build bank buffers during Agreeing the detail of reform is
Washington, DC, in November quarterly profits. Ministers duly good times, better harder than setting the direction. HDD for $65
and then in London in April, fear put compensation and governance incentives—have been known The build-up to this weekend’s By Devin Coldewey
and uncertainty reigned. Ringing reform at the top of their list of since the Washington meeting. A meeting revealed worrying (CrunchGear)
statements that the big economies reform priorities. The Financial host of initiatives are under way fractures between the Americans Submitted at 9/6/2009 3:44:03 PM
would do whatever it took to Stability Board (FSB), a Basel- in each of these areas. Some have and British, on the one hand, and
shore up the system had real based body of regulators, is to started to yield solid results—on the continental Europeans, on the There’s a hell of a deal going on
value. The crisis required clarity. report to the Pittsburgh meeting higher capital charges for other, on how much tighter rules over at Best Buy, where you can
The latest round of talks, a with detailed proposals on global instruments such as collateralised- on bank capital need to get. pick up a terabyte of extra storage
meeting of G20 finance ministers standards of pay disclosure and debt obligations (CDOs), for Sensible calls to improve the for about $70 shipped, or $65 if
and central-bank governors in structure. A more radical French instance. But swift progress is supervision and resolution of you feel like driving out and
London on September 4th and suggestion to impose absolute difficult. Many topics are fiddly large, cross-border institutions picking it up. The Western Digital
5th, took place against a different caps on bonus amounts seems to and technical, so rule-making have yet to produce really MyBook series has been good to
backdrop. be headed for the long grass. takes time. And many initiatives meaningful change. What’s more, me and others I know, so it gets
The world economy is still None of this is exactly new. The would have the effect of the things that really need to the CG thumbs up as far as that
fragile but far more stable than it need to overhaul compensation dampening lending growth and so change in finance are as dry as goes.
was six months ago. Questions on structures has been part of official will not be implemented while they come: it is far easier to It’s the “Mac” edition, which
how to withdraw fiscal and thinking since the Washington economies are weak. channel public outrage about pay probably just means it’s formatted
monetary stimulus compete with summit. Even perfidious Anglo- All of which meant that this than it is about Tier-1 capital in HFS+ instead of NTFS or
discussions on what more needs Saxons agree on the need for weekend’s gathering struggled to ratios. If momentum matters to FAT32. Reformat at will.
to be done. Ministers and bank change. The Financial Services find anything new to say. The financial reform, this month’s Order away, though it is
governors, whose meeting set the Authority in Britain came out same will be true of Pittsburgh, meetings keep the ball rolling, not backordered at the moment. This
stage for a pow-wow for national with guidelines on compensation although governance reform at the much more. is the cheapest storage I’ve seen
leaders later this month in policy in August that adhere to IMF may provide world leaders Back to top ^^ Readers' in a while, though, so it may be
Pittsburgh, promised decisive principles set out by the FSB in with at least one headline- comments worth picking up even if you
implementation of expansionary April. The Americans have grabbing agreement. Does that The Economist welcomes your don’t have a need for it right now.
p o l i c i e s “ u n t i l r e c o v e r y i s moved less quickly on pay to date matter? In one sense, no. views. They make great presents, too.
secured” and transparent plans to but there is broad consensus Reforming the world’s financial [via 9to5Mac]
withdraw those programmes when among international regulators, system is bound to take time. And
the time is right. Periods of limbo and most of the industry, that an ongoing international process

The Leica M9 leaks out early which is probably for the best
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) also has a presser booked for the • 18.5 MP CCD rundown over at Photography
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:40:19 AM same day, along with a bunch of • DNG RAW file format Bay. We’re just glad that at least
companies at the audio video • SDHC card slot one of the mystery cameras
Leica has a big event scheduled expo, CEDIA. So it’s probably • 80 - 2500 ISO leaked out early. Now, how about
for this Wednesday where the M9 best for Leica that a Photography • 32 s to 1/4000 s shutter speed that big X1 that was spied a few
was likely going to be announced. Bay tipster sent the site an official • 2.5-inch rear LCD days ago?
But it just so happens that Apple -looking brochure that lists all the specs of unannounced M9. Be sure to check out the full
Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ 17

Viatical Life Insurance: Allowing Someone to

Berlin Tower Blasts
Profit from Your Death Off Into Space
(Financial Sector and Stocks payment, although it is often a may conclude a parent with My problem occurs when
[Architecture]
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) family agreement for the parent to feckless offspring would not make someone obtains a viatical
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:10:05 AM gift the premium payment amount such arrangement in the first settlement and there is some By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
to each child every year. This is place. uncertainty when the insured's Submitted at 9/6/2009 2:15:00 PM
An article in the New York almost always less than the annual This process allows the demise might occur. Maybe he
Times today ( here) brought to gift tax exemption amount. $500,000 death benefit to be isn't even ill. It seems that this I don't know if Fabian
mind a question I have had for a It is also possible for the parent removed from the taxable estate. process is circumventing the Tischer—the author of this
l o n g t i m e a b o u t v i a t i c a l to gift to the children the cash This a lot of trouble, but it keeps insurable interest concept which is cleverly made video that mixes
s e t t l e m e n t s . T h e s e a r e value. If that were $160,000, as in $200,000 or more (depending on fundamental to the insurance laws architecture and space—loves or
arrangements where the owner of the hypothetical example, and if the size of the estate) payable to of most states. Under these laws, a hates the Berliner Fernsehturm
a life insurance policy sells that each of the four children are heirs that would otherwise be person is not permitted to buy a tower. No matter what, the fact is
ownership (and therefore the right married, and if the parent is taken in taxes by Uncle Sam. Of life insurance policy on a that he decided to launch it into
to name the beneficiary) to a third married, the gifting can be course, the parent could just die in stranger's life. The reason for this space.
party. There are reasons for doing arranged so that it is 16 times the 2010, when there is no estate tax, is obvious. It could become a The 365-meter high Berlin TV
this that do not cause me concern. individual annual exemption. If and resolve this in a much simpler profitable population control tower was built by the communist
But in other cases, I have always the individual exemption is manner. program by the mob. government of the German
felt there was something a little $12,000, that means a total of Now, back to the Times article So now we are going to Democratic Republic. I don't
queasy in the deal. $192,000 can be gifted each year by Jenny Anderson. She writes securitize these and put them out know if I hate it or love it myself.
One case for which I have no with no gift tax incurrence, well about a new process for in world markets. Would you I like the sci-fi retro look very
personal reservations is a parent above the $160,000 in our case securitizing viatical settlements. want someone out there in the much, but I hate what it
selling a policy to his child. This study. If you do not understand Viatical settlements involve the world to profit from your early represents. Then again, it's an
can be done for the current cash how I got to the factor of 16, sale of a life insurance policy to a demise? Would it make you feel integral part of a city I love very
v a l u e w i t h o u t a n y g i f t t a x consult an estate attorney. As a stranger. They are often used by better that someone on Wall much, so better leave it where it is
complications. If the seller matter of fact, you should consult people with a terminal illness and Street collected a big fee for and don't shoot it into space. [
survives the transfer date by three an attorney in any event. As they short life expectancy (typically putting the arrangement together? Dark Roasted Blend]
years and a day, the death benefit say on TV, don't try this at home. less than a couple of years), in The Times article mentions that
is removed from the insured's These types of transfers are situations where the death benefit there may be problems getting
estate. often done with life insurance is much greater than the cash these new securities rated. So
Here's a hypothetical example. trusts. This adds another layer of value. A buyer will pay much maybe they will not become
If the death benefit on a policy is complication to the arrangement, more than the cash value, but still widely implemented. Maybe you
$500,000 and the cash value is but allows the parent to have significantly less than the death will not have to live in fear of
$160,000, a parent can transfer greater assurance that the policy benefit. The seller receives much mobs touring the streets looking
ownership of the policy to his will be kept in force. After all, he more than he could by cashing in for marks identified by investors.
children. If there are four children might be concerned that the the policy (the cash value). The Note: After I wrote this, Ricard
who will be equal joint owners, children would take the annual money can be used by a dying told me of an article Tom
each would pay $42,000. From g i f t s a n d g o o n e x p e n s i v e person to make his final days Lindmark published yesterday on
the date of transfer, the children vacations each year, allowing the more comfortable and leave his the same subject here.
become responsible for premium policy to lapse. Of course, you affairs in good order.
Woot! New 8.9-inch Eee for $150
By Doug Aamoth only. That’s a pretty good price perhaps you’ve got a little spot for I n t e l M o b i l e
(CrunchGear) on a non-refurbished portable one of these on your couch. Processor[Woot.com]
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:00:13 AM computer, if you’re in the market. These are the Linux versions,
Granted, they’re not the most available in black, white, or
Woot.com is selling new 8.9- powerful machines on the planet SSD, 512MB of RAM — but purple.
inch Eee netbooks for $150, today — 900MHz Celeron CPU, 4GB Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with
18 Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech News/
Confectionery: Hovering Kraft
(The Economist: News
analysis)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 3:28:28 AM
Confectionery
Sep 7th 2009
From Economist.com America’s
Kraft Foods will have to sweeten
its offer to acquire Cadbury, a
British confectioner
EATING comfort food at home
and, if all else fails, gorging on
chocolate seem to be the simplest
ways for consumers to lighten the
mood in the dark days of
recession. Revenues grew in 2008
at both Kraft Foods, an American
giant, and the latest morsel that it
wants to gobble up, Cadbury, a
British confectioner. The slump-
defying strength of Kraft
convinced it to make a £10.2
billion ($16.7 billion) cash-and-
shares bid for Cadbury, which it
made public on Monday
September 7th in the hope that
Cadbury’s shareholders might see
sense in the proposal. The board
of the British maker of chocolate
and gum quickly rebuffed the bid
as “fundamentally undervaluing”
the company.
Kraft has its sights on the
world’s second-largest
confectionery-maker to form a
Epson's Endeavor Na02mini-V netbook won't excite many
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:58:00 AM
Epson's Endeavor Na01 shipped
with an astoundingly predictable
set of specifications last
November, and lo and behold, the
unit's successor has a BOM that's
equally guessable. If you're not in
the mood for playing games (and
be honest, you aren't), we'll
“global powerhouse in snacks,
confectionery and quick meals”
with combined revenues of some
$50 billion. Analysts agree that
the firms would make an excellent
fit. Kraft has little presence in
Britain’s confectionery market,
where Cadbury is strong, but it
has thriving businesses in
Scandinavia and Brazil, where
Cadbury has made few inroads.
Particularly attractive to Kraft is
Cadbury’s strong showing in
chewing gum, an area where Kraft
has little expertise, particularly in
Europe and Latin America.
Getting its hands on Cadbury
would also allow Kraft to
compete more closely with Mars.
The American confectionery giant
has plenty of clout with retailers
since it controls 14% of the global
confectionery market after its
purchase in 2008 of Wrigley, a
gum-maker, for $23 billion. A
combination of Kraft and Cadbury
would result in a firm with a
similar portion of the world
market. In the wake of the
Mars/Wrigley deal many industry
-watchers expected that Cadbury
might make acquisitions of its
own to take on the new market
leader.
Cadbury was even touted as a
inform that this bugger touts a
10.1-inch display, 1,024 x 600
resolution, 1.66GHz Atom N280
processor, 1GB of memory, a
160GB hard drive, WiFi, a trio of
USB 2.0 sockets and a multi-card
reader. It's also sporting one of the
classier cases out there, and the
built-in VGA / Ethernet ports are
also handy. The included Li-ion
isn't anything special, but we're
possible buyer of Kraft’s
confectionery arm. The British
firm had bulked up by buying
Adams, a big gum-maker, in 2003
to recover the number-one spot
among confectioners that it held
until the Mars/Wrigley tie-up. But
attempts to streamline its business
by selling the Dr Pepper Snapple
Group, its American soft-drinks
arm, coincided with the credit
crunch. Cadbury was unable to
make a lucrative sale to a private-
equity firm, instead spinning off
the business and raising rather
less than it had once hoped for to
fill its coffers for acquisitions.
Cadbury is rumoured to have eyed
Hershey, America’s dominant
chocolate-maker. But any
potential deal would probably
have failed to win the support of
the trust which controls Hershey
and which is fiercely independent.
Cadbury’s success in realigning
its business makes it a tasty target.
Kraft estimates that it can wring
out annual savings of $625m by
the third year and has cannily
promised to keep open a factory
in Britain that was destined for the
chop. But that is probably not
enough. Cadbury’s shares leaped
by over 40% on Monday morning
after investors digested the news
told an extended cell that offers
up ten hours of life should be
of the potential takeover,
somewhat in excess of the 31%
premium offered by Kraft over
Friday’s closing price.
It seems likely that Kraft will
return with a better offer.
Cadbury’s mainly British
investors are likely to want to see
more cash in the takeover offer
rather than shares in Kraft. But
opinion is divided over how much
more it can afford given its debt
pile of $20 billion, a hangover
from its purchase in 2007 of the
biscuit business of Danone, a
French food firm. Another
possibility is that Hershey may
team up with Nestlé for a joint bid
that would split Cadbury between
the two with the American firm
swallowing the chocolate business
and the Swiss one walking away
with the gum side. What seems
certain is that, amid the
consolidation among
confectionery businesses,
Cadbury’s days as an independent
company are drawing to a close.
Back to top ^^ Readers'
comments
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views.
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hardly wait, it should be ready to
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Cartoon: Heir
eParent
By Rob Cottingham
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:25:24 PM
Funny how digital technologies
that can connect us over huge
distances can also distract us from
the people closest to us. I'm as
guilty of that as anyone... and
probably a lot more than most.
Case in point: I lost count of the
number of times I rebuffed my
daughter while drawing this
cartoon.
Sponsor
Then again, we re-bonded
afterward over WALL-E for the
Wii and "Spider: The Secret of
Bryce Manor" on my iPhone. So
don't hold your breath waiting for
me to go off the grid quite yet.
More Noise to Signal. Discuss
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Government Policies to Correct

'Unfairness': Inherently Unfair
(Financial Sector and Stocks Billions of dollars in textiles are producers from more efficient
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) legally imported each year. But foreign competitors, and unfairly
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:30:08 AM some rogue producers are force Americans (millions of
smuggling their goods into the consumers and hundreds of
In a previous CD post, I market, thereby avoiding the clothing-producing companies) to
suggested that the words "fair" (or tariffs and quotas designed to
"unfair" or "unfairly") and keep foreign-made goods from
"fairness" are two of the most unfairly competing against U.S.
pay higher prices for textiles and
clothing.
By using government force to
Real Estate Recovery in
dangerous words in the English products.
language, for reasons including: Notice how the assumption of
As surely as night follows day, "unfair foreign competition" has
correct the "unfairness" suffered
by domestic producers, we have
created an even greater level of
the Twin Cities
people who insist on using those been followed by protectionist "unfairness" for domestic (Financial Sector and Stocks year, and by 23.1% from two
words (e.g. "fair trade," "fair trade policy to correct the consumers, since economic theory Analysis from Seeking Alpha) years ago (see middle chart
wages") almost always follow "unfairness" by favoring domestic and empirical evidence show that Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:27:38 AM above).
w i t h s o m e p r o p o s a l f o r producers with tariffs and quotas the cost of trade protection are • Closed sales in July were
g o v e r n m e n t i n t e r v e n t i o n , on foreign textiles. But what As I reported previously based almost 26% higher than July
almost always greater than the on the June report, it's still 2008, and almost 16% higher than
g o v e r n m e n t r e g u l a t i o n , o r about the inevitable unfairness benefits, leaving the country
government force of some kind to now for domestic consumers, who looking like the real estate market July two years ago.
worse off. in the Twin Cities reached bottom
c o r r e c t s o m e p e r c e i v e d are forced to pay higher prices That's why "fair" and "unfair" • The average sales price in the
"unfairness" and impose their because of the protectionism? earlier this year and is in a period Twin Cities area increased in each
are dangerous - the public policies of solid recovery, according to the of the last three months.
notion of "fairness." And Thomas Here's an alternative version of designed to correct the
Sowell has pointed out another the last sentence: July report from the Minneapolis • The current 7.2 months supply
"unfairness" actually increase the Area Association of Realtors.
danger - "fair" and "fairness" are But some rogue producers are overall amount of "unfairness" of inventory is more than 3
two words that can mean virtually smuggling their goods into the Consider the following: months lower than last year at this
and lower our sta ndard of living. • After falling pretty consistently time (10.5 months).
anything to anybody. market, thereby avoiding the How can that be "fair?"
Here's a case in point from tariffs and quotas designed to during almost every month during • The current Supply-Demand
yesterday's Parade Magazine: the last two years, the median Ratio ( SDR) of 4.88 homes for
unfairly protect domestic textile home price in the Twin Cities area sale per buyer is 35% lower than
Labor Day holiday means no Talkcast this week has increased by almost 17% last year's SDR of 7.48 homes per
since February, and by almost buyer (see bottom chart above).
By Michael Rose (The You can download previous $25,000 in dollar terms (see chart (Note: The SDR is calculated by
Unofficial Apple Weblog shows from Talkshoe or subscribe above, click to enlarge). Despite a comparing the number of homes
(TUAW)) in iTunes. small decrease in the median for sale at the beginning of each
Submitted at 9/6/2009 4:00:00 PM TUAW Labor Day holiday home price for July, there has month with the number of total
means no Talkcast this week been a definite positive trend this pending sales for the month. The
Filed under: TUAW Business, originally appeared on The year since the bottom in February. higher the SDR, the more supply
Podcasts As this is the unofficial Unofficial Apple Weblog • Pending sales in July are up by there is relative to demand.)
last weekend of summer here in (TUAW) on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16% from the same month last
the USA (due to the Monday 16:00:00 EST. Please see our
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Microsoft Wants You to Vote Which Children's Hospitals Will
Be Denied the Ultimate Gameroom [Rant]
By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 2:30:00 PM
Microsoft's "Ultimate
Gameroom Giveaway" is charity
turned into a gimmick as voters
decide which Children's hospitals
receive prize packages. I'm all for
charity, but was it really necessary
to guarantee a let down for kids in
the 167 "losing" hospitals?
The three hospitals to receive an
Ultimate Gameroom through
Microsoft's partnership with the
Children's Miracle Network are
chosen by a very public popular
vote. Not a random raffle, not a
secret vote, but a public popular
vote with results regularly
updating on the CMN's website.
As I'm writing this, there is an
eight-way tie for last place, with
each hospital having one measly
vote. The hospitals currently in
the top three have a lead of
several thousand votes over the
rest, but that can and probably
will change quickly. How will
those kids feel when they miss out
on the gamerooms after thinking
they could win? How do the kids
at the hospitals with barely any
votes feel? While I'm sure that all
the kids at the winning hospitals
(or at least those who enjoy Xbox-
based games) will be as giddy as
can be, charity isn't about making
167 hospitals full of kids feel like
losers in the process.
Looking at the premise of the
giveaway, it's like Christmas gone
oh-so-very wrong: They'll give
some Children's hospitals about
ten thousand dollars worth of
equipment which could include
several 42" Plasma TVs, a pair of
Xbox consoles, some Zunes, four
computers, oodles of games, and
associated furniture. Microsoft is
even throwing in delivery,
installation, and "reasonable
labor," while the hospitals cover
any construction costs. Pretty fair.
Except that the world is voting on
where Saint Microsoft will bring
Xboxes.
I truly hope this is just a one-
time bad decision, especially
since Microsoft is normally rather
good about charities, this one
included. They've helped raise
$1.3 million of the incredible $3.2
billion total which the Children's
Miracle Network has raised for
Children's hospitals around the
world. Microsoft has also
contributed an Xbox kiosk to each
of the 170 hospitals in the
Network and been an all-around
great partner to the CMN. It's
truly sad that they've chucked
away any milligram of character
with the Ultimate Gameroom
Giveaway. This vile competition
is on the level of tearing a teddy
bear out of a child's arms and then
ripping it apart into a pile of fuzzy
remains on the spot.
It's almost sad the mess
probably started with good
intentions. Perhaps someone truly
struggled to find a way to cajole
his or her boss into approving
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to Microsoft that's .6%, point
freakin' six percent, of the cost of
a single ad campaign.
That perspective aside, no one is
demanding that Microsoft give
away $1.7 million. Charity is
charity, and it is wonderful that
they're giving as much as they are.
But they're toying with the hopes
of children at 170 hospitals and
frankly, I would really love to
find whoever decided on this
messed up vote-based competition
approach and tear any Birthday,
Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter,
Summer Solstice, and un-freakin'-
Birthday gift right out of his or
her cruel, little claws. If you're
going to contribute to a charity,
especially a children's charity, you
shouldn't turn it into a game with
winners and losers.
Even without spending more
than $30,000, this situation
could've been handled differently.
I understand that some sort of
public announcement is needed in
order to justify the spending, so I
don't really expect Microsoft to
g i v i n g a w a y $ 3 0 , 0 0 0 i n just quietly pick a few hospitals
equipment. Maybe turning it into for these donations. But the
a marketing scheme was the only money could've been used for a
way to cover or justify the smaller campaign encouraging
expense, but if that's the case then others to give. Or if someone's
I'm even more disappointed. really stuck on having a public
Microsoft has spent hundreds of vote then choose the hospitals
m i l l i o n s o n i n d i v i d u a l a d without a spectacle and keep the
campaigns, some of which barely rankings hidden. Those kids have
made sense and were ridiculed, enough sadness in their lives and
while this act of charity had the really don't need to be yanked
potential for a lot of positive back and forth while watching a
publicity. And even if Microsoft ranking of just how much the
went as far as outfitting each of public cares about them or their
the 170 hospitals with the same particular hospitals.
Ultimate Gameroom, it would've The Abridged Version for
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HP dm1 and dm3 ultraportables
leaked, Pavilion dv8 to pack Core i7?
(Updated with Mini 311 specs)
By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) the dm3 will also offer a cheaper
Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:16:00 AM AMD Neo flavor. Another three
models, a TM2 tablet and Mini
Eager HP fans have been doing 210 and 311 netbooks, are also
some digging around and have known by name if not spec. While
uncovered details on the the usual pinch of salt is
company's Fall updates. Heading advisable, a Dutch website
the pack will be the 18.4-inch already has the new laptops listed
dv8, set to feature a quad-core in its price comparison engine,
Core i7 720QM CPU, 640GB of corroborating the specs and the
storage and 4GB of memory. The e x p e c t e d a r r i v a l a l o n g i s d e
processor formerly known as Windows 7's October 22 release.
Clarksfield has 6MB of onboard Update: We've also come across
cache and can be Turbo Boosted the specs for the Mini 311.
to 2.8GHz, which should do Apparently, it'll be an 11.6-inch
justice to the gargantuan screen NVIDIA ION machine, with the
size and included Blu-ray drive. Microsoft-mandated Atom N270,
If, on the other hand, you want to 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD spec
be able to move your laptop, and a six cell battery. See it in the
there's the CULV-powered 11.6- flesh after the break.
inch dm1 or 13.3-inch dm3 [Via Liliputing and Notebook
(pictured). Both will come with Spot]
1366 x 768 glossy displays, while Read- HP Softpaq update
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NAVIGON dizzies with
navigation options, then gets us
pointed in the right direction again
By Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:14:00 AM
and 2410, which sport up to four
hours of battery life when
wandering untethered around the
Do you like having a plethora of city, while the 1400 and 1410
navigation choices, Jefe? You'll models round out the lineup on
reveals new models love NAVIGON's offerings the low-end. The two Live
Read- Pavilion dv8 listing - unveiled at last week's IFA, then, models, the 8450 and the 6350,
€1,426.81 / $2,040 a suite of devices that spans from offer wireless traffic, weather, and
Read- Pavilion dm3 listing - the low end to the high, all even speed camera updates across
€677.11 / $968 featuring pedestrian navigation -- 32 nations in Europe; a tidy
Read- Pavilion dm1 listing - in case you don't already look bundle for those exploring the
€481.89 / $689 enough like a tourist. The most continent, but at €79.95 ($115)
Read- Mini 311 specs affluently wealthy sightseers will per year you're certainly paying
Continue reading HP dm1 and be nervously clutching the 8410 for it. On the hardware side prices
d m 3 u l t r a p o r t a b l e s l e a k e d , or 8450 Live models, both of start at €129 ($185) for the 1400,
Pavilion dv8 to pack Core i7? which offer 5-inch capacitive then run all the way up to €499
(Updated with Mini 311 specs) displays made of honest to gosh ($715) for the 8450 Live.
Filed under: Laptops glass, Real City3D offering Filed under: GPS
HP dm1 and dm3 ultraportables "photo-realistic" navigation, and NAVIGON dizzies with
leaked, Pavilion dv8 to pack Core optional DVB-T reception to navigation options, then gets us
i7? (Updated with Mini 311 catch some Simpsons re-runs pointed in the right direction
specs) originally appeared on when you get lost. On the next again originally appeared on
Engadget on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 step down are the 4.3-inch 6310 Engadget on Mon, 07 Sep 2009
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Recommended Reading For Prof. Dealzmodo's Exclusive!
Smart Gadget Shopping 101 [Prof. Dealzmodo] (ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 12:03:00 AM
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Don't be tricked into buying a memberships and equipment. Boost Home Values and Reduce know if they say that, but it
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manufacturer. Doing the upgrades Spend Less and Get More: Saving upgrades for your home can
yourself can offer lots of value. money doesn't always mean actually be profitable in the long

Got lag? Controller latencies of popular games compared

By Devin Coldewey shots correctly or calculate the be machine-limited to three playing under the same handicap,
(CrunchGear) time until a rocket would hit, frames, or 50ms. That’s an so it comes to nothing, but who
Submitted at 9/6/2009 4:20:20 PM you’d be in pieces mighty quick. eternity for PC gamers inured to hasn't raged thus after a hotly-
They’ve since changed how the contested race or battle: "What the
Back when I played a lot of netcode handles that stuff, but it’s It sounds like gamer uber- hell?! I pressed the button but it
original Half-Life online (robots interesting to see that controller pedantry, but really, a 100ms didn't go!"
versus scientists on Gasworks), I lag is still at large despite difference in input can make all I'd be interested to see how an
got real good at anticipating lag. everything else having advanced the difference between the SNES or something else fares. I
On a server with 200 ping, you so far. controls of a car feeling snappy or remember the controls for Super
would click to fire your grenade Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry mushy. Or, say, a fighting game Mario Kart and Street Fighter II
or crossbow rail, and then, a fifth decided to take a semi-scientific — why should your character's being pretty damn responsive, but
of a second later, it would actually approach to find out which games player input. The minimum time reflexes be so much worse than maybe that's just nostalgia.
do that. If you couldn’t lead your were the slowest to respond to for a game to respond turns out to your own? In the end, everyone is [via HardOCP; image credit]
IFA 2009: Gadget-fest in Berlin
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Those Strapped for Time:
I like charity. I personally
donate both time and money to
various causes and I encourage
others to do the same. I applaud
Microsoft for everything they've
done in the past and continue to
do. Hell, I'm even secretly a
Microsoft-fangirl (but lets not go
there, because this isn't about the
company). What this rant is
complaining about is the game-
like approach taken with this
particular donation.
Ask the Commenters
Roundup [Hive Mind]
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 12:00:00 PM
• Out of curiosity, how much
space do Lifehacker readers
dedicate to music and movies on
Aiptek's tiny PenCam HD Trio their hard drives?
• Schools starting again. Any
pointers on keeping my backpack
camcorder looks more like a highlighter from breaking my back?
• I've got some extra income that
By Tim Stevens (Engadget) It'll shoot video at 720p30, price, either. But, that we can't say I'd like to invest. Any advice for a
Submitted at 9/7/2009 9:36:00 AM capture 5 megapixel stills, and for sure, nor when these will be first-time investor?
record them both to 4GB of available. • I've poured all over
Peoples' pants must be getting internal memory -- good for about Gallery: Aiptek PenCam HD productivity and life systems, but
smaller, because so too are pocket two hours' worth of footage. You Trio camcorder how do I actually integrate them
camcorders shrinking down. can upload to YouTube straight [Via OLED-Display.net] into my life?
Despite not making any dubious " from the camera's (Windows- Filed under: Digital Cameras • When I search in my address
world's smallest" claims, Aiptek's only) software, or spin it to your Aiptek's tiny PenCam HD Trio bar, sometimes it will bring me to
latest is one of the most slender TV through the integrated HDMI camcorder looks more like a a website rather than a search
we've seen that's able to shoot port. It sounds like quite a nice highlighter originally appeared on
high-def video, and quite possibly little package, and while we Engadget on Mon, 07 Sep 2009
the first with a 1.1-inch OLED wouldn't expect the video quality 09:36:00 EST. Please see our
screen on the back for previewing to knock anyone's proverbial terms for use of feeds. Read|
what your footage might look like socks off, given the brand we Permalink| Email this| Comments
on a First Class Forever stamp. wouldn't expect a shockingly high
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Whether you agree or disagree
with any or all of the points, or
have thoughts on a better
approach: The comments are here
for a reason, so please let your
opinions be known. If a few good
ideas, a constructive discussion,
or maybe a few extra donations
come out of things then all the
better. [ Children's Miracle
Network via TeamXBox]
results page. Where can I check
settings to make sure it always
goes to a search rather than to a
site?
• Can anyone recommend a good
alternative to iTunes which will
work well with music stored on a
network drive?
• I've recently started running,
but my shins are killing me! Any
pointers on avoiding injuries?
• I've started learning javascript,
and jQuery looks really nice - is
there any reason I shouldn't use it,
or anything I should use instead?
• I'm looking for a good hex
editor for Windows, any
recommendations?
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Required Reading: The 10 Social

Media Stories You Might Have
Missed
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:09:01 PM

eBay announced it was selling

Victrola-Inspired Aesthesis Speaker
Is an Astronomical $85,000
[Speakers]
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 12:00:00 PM
Aw, grandpa! Could you please
take my $85,000 speaker out of
your ear? For the last time my
Aesthesis speakers are not your
old timer's hearing aid horn!
But seriously, earwax additions
aside, these extremely limited
edition (only 100 are being made)
speakers are made from many of
the same components as a
supercar from Swedish automaker
Skype, while Disney announced it
was buying Marvel this week.
Meanwhile, thieves cleared out
an Apple store and aliens
descended on Google. The People
of Walmart discovered their
friends were Facebook quitters,
and we all got ready to ride the
Google Wave.
Without further ado, here are
the highlights of a topsy-turvy
week in social media.
It’s Not Just You: Gmail Not
Working For Most Users– Gmail
down! Gmail down! A major
outage at one of the web’s biggest
email services forced some to
contemplate what they did before
email.
5 Things to Do While Gmail is
Down– Realizing you may know
little about the world outside your
inbox, Barb Dybwad serves up
some alternative activities.
and purported Saab savior BREAKING: eBay to
Koenigsegg. Announce Deal to Sell Skype–
Boasting carbon fiber, stainless Ending months of speculation,
steel and an unapologetic attitude eBay announced this week that it
about their $85,000 asking price, is selling Skype to a group of
these speakers deliver the "full investors. The company conceded
audio spectrum" all the way down that there were few synergies
to 37Hz, courtesy a coaxial two- between Skype and its core
way driver. auction business.
There's only 100 out there WordPress Attack Underway:
though, so get buying! [ Aesthesis WordPress Users Must Upgrade
via Luxist via DVICE] [ALERT]– WordPress users were
encouraged to upgrade this week
after it emerged that old versions
of the software were vulnerable to
a very nasty attack.
VIDEO: Thieves Clean Out an
Apple Store in 31 Seconds– An
Apple store in Marlton, New
Jersey was emptied in a matter of
seconds by a gang of fast-fingered
thieves. Security cameras
captured the raid, reports Ben
Parr.
Facebook Quitters: Find Out
When Someone De-Friends You–
A new script lets you find out
when someone removes you from
their Facebook friends, reports
Adam Ostrow.
BREAKING: Disney to Buy
Marvel for $4 Billion– Geeks
reeled back upon hearing the
news that Spider-Man is now
owned by Mickey Mouse. And
soon social media users were
mashing up Disney and Marvel
characters…with intriguing
results.
Google Wave Arrives This
Month: Are You Ready?– It’s
almost here: the Google service
that could change the way we
communicate online. Ben Parr
gives more insights from his
extensive testing of the product.
Unexplained Phenomenon
Google Logo: Can You Explain
It?– Google had some fun this
weekend with a cryptic message
hidden in its logo. Mashable
readers attempted to solve the
mystery, while Stan Schroeder
later claimed he had the
answer…maybe.
People of Walmart: Viral Blog
Showcases Retailer’s Clientele–
A new blog shines a light on the
fashion sense of Walmart
shoppers. It’s not pretty.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
AndrewJohnson
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Mashable’s Weekly Social Media & Marketing Event Guide
By Tamar Weinberg
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 8:09:37 AM
It’s a brand new week, which
means it’s time for Mashable’s
guide to upcoming social media
and web events, parties, and
conferences. For more upcoming
event listings, check out
Mashable’s Events section.
Is your event not on this list?
Contact us and let’s establish a
media partnership.
Mashable’s Weekly Social
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Guide is proudly supported by
Eventbrite, the Web’s Event
Marketplace.
September 8, 2009, Washington
DC: Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase is
the one-day event previewing the
larger Gov 2.0 Expo scheduled for
May 2010. The practical, cutting-
edge efforts it highlights, married
with a profound shift in thinking
across the government,
underscore the growing power of
“government as a platform.” Be
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September 9, 2009, Houston,
TX: Houston Interactive
Marketing Association presents
the 3rd Annual Interactive
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speakers ranging in topics like
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September 10, 2009, Boston,
MA: Cool Twitter Conferences
provides an environment for
developers, people in business,
and enthusiasts from multiple
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power of Twitter, the chance to
contribute to the discussion and
tap into this real-time use of the
web. This forum is ideal for
advertising, marketing
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Use the code: mashable to save
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September 12, 2009, Los
Angeles, CA: WordCamp is a
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WordPress. Everyone from casual
end users all the way up to core
developers show up. This event is
highlighted by speeches and
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info visit wordcamp.la.
September 13-14, 2009,
Toronto, Canada: FITC Mobile
brings together the leaders in
mobile design and development
for two full days of presentations
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Sessions cover a variety of topics
related to mobile platforms
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September 14-17, 2009,
Chicago, IL: Attend the Advanced
Learning Institute’s 11th Forum
on Social Media for Government:
How To Engage Your Employees
And Citizens By Using The Latest
Web 2.0 Technologies To Drive
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how to capture the power of social
media in your organization, along
with helpful tools, tips and
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Health; Court Services &
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University of Wisconsin –
Madison; Houston Public Library;
San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission, and more, on how to
engage your employees and
citizens by using social media.
Mention Mashable when
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September 15, 2009, Austin,
TX: PlaySpan hosts Monetization
2.0 Forum. Senior-level
executives will present on a wide
range of topics including success
stories about monetization within
casual games, virtual worlds, and
social networks, and what pitfalls
to avoid. The forum will also
address several key issues such as
the move from subscriptions to a
free-to-play business model and
how to protect customers from
fraud. Attendees will take away
critical insights needed to make
games into money makers.
Registration is free for GDC
registered attendees.
September 15–16, Atlanta, GA:
At LIFT: The B2B Social
Commerce Summit business-to-
business (B2B) marketing and
advertising professionals will
share real-world examples of
social commerce strategies and
tactics that have driven sales lift,
increased customer loyalty, and
produced actionable metrics and
measurable ROI. The LIFT
Summit will address the very
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September 16-17, 2009,
Chicago, IL: Cusp isn’t a
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innovators, skeptics, believers,
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September 17, 2009, New York
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-followed bloggers, twitters, and
digital influencers will gather to
Tech/ 25
judge five-minute auditions from
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Your taste and discernment make
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imagine… Tickets are free for
those who qualify.
September 17, 2009, Appleton,
WI: Bring your laptops to SOHO
naked biz growth Social Media
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and leave with an understanding
of how implementing a social
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September 18, 2009, Virginia
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Conventions is an exciting day
that brings together professionals
from many industries to discuss
and learn about social media
networking and new media
tactics. Come learn the right way
to achieve success with your
business from many of the experts
that live in social media today at
this how-to event. Agenda: Social
Media Yesterday, Today &
Tomorrow by Keith Parnell, CEO,
JASE Group Marketing &
Advertising; Role of Public
Relations in Social Media by
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Michelle Rogerson, Owner, Reina
Communications; Successfully
Monetizing Your Blog by Julie
Maloney, Owner, Momspective;
How to Benefit from the Power of
Google by Kurt Noer, Owner,
Customer Magnetism; Successful
Social Media Marketing
Campaign, 140 Characters at a
Time by Renee Alexander
Hamilton, Social Media
Strategist, Operation Smile.
September 19, 2009, Atlanta,
GA: Atlanta Linux Fest is a
grassroots conference for the open
source community to gather and
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The most popular Linux
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Ubuntu project. Registration is
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September 21, 2009, New York
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September 22, 2009, Mountain
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amarketing2
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Conferences provides an
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people in business, and
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September 26, 2009, Seattle,
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those who have yet to join or
found a tech startup. If you have
an idea but are unsure of the steps
it takes to succeed, this is the
conference for you. StartupDay
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will include a full-day of talks
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September 29-October 2, 2009,
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Mashable readers get a discount.
October 3, 2009, New York
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in New York City and will be
featuring pop artist Natasha
Wescoat and another local artist
who will be creating original
work live in person and live
streaming video with new media
sponsor, Justin.tv. Through the
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Tila Tequila choked by football star
By Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:03:00 AM
I'm not a fan of Tila Tequila
(actual name: Tila Nguyen) or her
MTV programs A Shot At Love
With Tila Tequila or its sequel,
but that doesn't mean I want her to
get hurt. Sadly, it looks like she
was allegedly restrained and
choked by Shawne Merriman, a
linebacker with the San Diego
Chargers. Charges have already
been pressed.
Since she did call and press
charges, I'm going to assume this
isn't one of those cases of erotic
CBE. The deadline for GREEN
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asphyxiation gone wrong and
assume Mr. Merriman was
(allegedly) trying to prove his
manhood somehow. In which case
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international social gurus and hear
Facebook Fan Check
from regional corporations, who
are already using social media
marketing successfully in
Virus: Something Fishy
December at this two day event.
Through practical examples and
case studies detailing successful
is Going On
campaigns and their results you’ll By Stan Schroeder
leave with the tools you need to (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:14:24 AM
use social media marketing to
grow your business. Mashable
users can save 10% by using code We’ve received tips about a
Mash09. Facebook application called Fan
The Mashable Weekly Social Check; reports say this application
Media and Marketing Event is actually a virus, and should be
Guide is proudly supported by avoided at all costs. We’ve dug a
Eventbrite, the Web’s Event bit deeper, however, and it seems
Marketplace. more likely that the rumor about but there lies the problem; if you
Eventbrite is an online events Fan Check (even if the actual actually try to search for this
marketplace where tens of virus exists, which we’ve found phrase, you’ll be bombarded by
thousands of individuals, no proof of) has been used to lead sites containing malware.
businesses and organizations of users to various malware and We believe that this is merely a
all sizes manage, promote and sell spyware ridden sites. two part hoax: on one hand, you
tickets to their events. Make your This alleged virus has only been have a defunct application that
event a success on Eventbrite. described on a couple of blogs, allegedly lets you see who’s been
Tags: conferences, Events, such as this one, but we’ve found visiting your Facebook profile –
mashable no reports about it on sites of which cannot work due to
security firms such as McAfee or Facebook’s policies, and all
Symantec. applications claiming to do so are
The virus supposedly acts in the scams. On the other, spammers
following way: if you try to and malicious hackers are feeding
access a Facebook application the rumors around this application
l o c a t e d
apps.facebook.com/fancheck/(pre
a t to lead people to search for a
solution, and getting their
he's a cad and a beast and there viously called StalkerCheck), computers infected by malware in
are more promising men out there. you’ll get this message: return.
In fact, since Ms. Nguyen is “FanCheck is adding new In any case, this is what you
allegedly bisexual (she claimed to features and new capacity. This should do: stay away from Fan
be on her show, but I've always could take a few days. Check application – or any other
had my doubts about that) she has Please become a fan, and we’ll Facebook application that hints at
an even bigger batch of better send you an update when we’re being able to tell you who’s been
options to choose from. back online” visiting your profile. Furthermore,
Is this going to be another case According to sources, merely don’t search for the “Fan Check
of Rihanna and Chris Brown? I becoming a fan will “infect” your Facebook virus,” as it is most
certainly hope not. Facebook account, which is likely a hoax. Reviews: Facebook,
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, highly unlikely. All other reports Google
Reality-Free about the virus seem to be created Tags: facebook, Fan Check,
Permalink| Email this| | by spammers themselves. Google hoax, virus
Comments lists the phrase “facebook fan
check virus” as a popular trend,
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Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Are You a Twitter

Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber Oversharer? Beware,
By Stan Schroeder Twitter is a much simpler, more
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:07:17 AM
You Might Get Twaxed streamlined service. Does that fact
alone makes it detrimental to your
working memory? Dr. Alloway By Stan Schroeder
Of course, it’s not that simple; claims:“On Twitter you receive an (Mashable!)
but if you believe Dr Tracy endless stream of information, but Submitted at 9/7/2009 1:05:03 AM
Alloway from the University of it’s also very succinct. You don’t
Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and have to process that information. Lately we’ve received tips about
Facebook are very different beasts Your attention span is being several different sites with the
when it comes to improve your “ reduced and you’re not engaging same purpose: finding
working memory“, which relates video games, especially those that your brain and improving nerve embarrassing tweets or Facebook
to “the structures and processes involve planning and strategy, can connections.” That may be true, posts for everyone to laugh at.
used for temporarily storing and also be beneficial. and while looking at Twitter like a Many users seem to forget (or
manipulating information in short As with any such study, one zombie for the better part of the perhaps they just don’t care) the funny, some are just too much; it
-term memory.” needs to take the results with a day is probably bad for you, if fact that tweets are (by default) really depends on your tolerance
Dr. Alloway has developed a grain of salt. Without going into you mix it up with other online public, and decide to share…well, level for talk about private parts
w o r k i n g m e m o r y t r a i n i n g the benefits of training working activities – such as Facebook – I a little bit too much about as well as peeing and similar
programme for slow-learning memory for improving your IQ doubt you’ll see any negative themselves. activities. And while I’m sure that
children aged 11 to 14 at a school results, it’s obvious that Facebook effects. Two such sites that feed on the most users that tweeted them
in Durham, and she found out that and Twitter are hard to compare. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, silly, embarassing, weird, or just knew they were public, when you
F a c e b o o k d i d w o n d e r s f o r Facebook is extremely versatile: mpabild Reviews: Facebook, plain funny tweets are Twaxed put the tweets into the context of a
working memory, improving the you can play games there, chat Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto and Oversharers(beware, both wall of shame, many users would
kids’ IQ scores, while YouTube with your friends, view photos Tags: facebook, IQ, memory, links contain some very graphic probably prefer if they had kept
and Twitter’s steady stream of and videos; you can even take IQ twitter tweets). silent.
information was not healthy for tests. While Oversharers is just a blog What do you think? Is it evil to
working memory. Also, playing (with funny titles for each tweet make fun of people’s embarassing
or Facebook post), Twaxed goes a tweets? Were services like these
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz on Moving step further and enables users to
submit and vote for tweets.
inevitable, given the nature of
Twitter and its one-to-many
into the New ' Melrose Place' Interestingly enough, it relies
solely on Twitter for both
communication? Should Twitter
users just be careful if they don’t
(ETonline - Breaking News) Cassidy, tell ET's Kevin Frazier submitting and voting (which is want to end up on one of these
Submitted at 9/7/2009 12:01:00 AM they’ve both enjoyed catching up done with the help of hashtags sites? Let us know in the
on classic episodes of the original #thumbsup and #thumbsdown), comments.
ET sits down with Ashlee "Melrose Place," because they which once again shows the Reviews: Facebook, Twitter
Simpson-Wentz and Katie were too young to watch the show versatility of Twitter as a service Tags: Oversharers, sharing,
Cassidy, two of the sexy tenants when it began airing in the early to build upon. Twaxed, twitter
of the new "Melrose Place." How '90s! And what about the tweets
did they like acting alongside "It's such a great show," Ashlee themselves? Well, some are
some the "MP" originals on the says. "There's so much fun drama.
pilot? And has Ashlee's baby boy But we have our whole new thing
Bronx paid a visit to the set yet? going on with our show. It's new
Click the video to watch! and it's revamped and it's gritty."
Ashlee, 24, and Katie, the 22-
year-old daughter of David
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Snow Leopard Services in practice:
Amazon S3 uploader
By Brett Terpstra (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 9/6/2009 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: Cool tools, Snow
Leopard
I stumbled upon a great example
of the Snow Leopard Services that
I've been drooling over. The S3
Upload Service by August
Lilleaas is available as a
workflow which can be opened in
Automator, so you can examine
its inner workings. It uses
AppleScript and Ruby, easily
passed back and forth thanks to
Automator's building-block-style
workflow. It lets you upload a
publicly-accessible file to an S3
bucket, and copies the URL into
your clipboard upon successful
upload.
The workflow requires that you
at least have RubyGems installed,
and have an Amazon S3 account
set up, but it will handle the rest.
It asks for your S3 credentials
with an AppleScript popup, which
has the unfortunate side effect of
not being able to be forced to the
front very easily and tends to get
lost behind other windows. There
are workarounds to that, but no
Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane [Fun]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 1:00:00 PM
A few years back we pointed
you toward the world's "best"
paper airplane, and while we
couldn't entirely back up the
"best" claim, this Sky King paper
way to keep it on top once it's up.
It looks possible to build custom
nibs for your services, so I might
play around with making a
general-purpose utility panel
popup to fill the void in my own
projects.
In the process of rolling my own
Services in Snow Leopard, I've
definitely found some limitations,
but I'm having fun working
around them. This one is a great
example of passing results --
returned from different languages
-- and processing them, all within
airplane is a legitimate world-
record holder. This video shows
us how to make it ourselves.
Wired's video demonstrates the
build from start to finish, but if
you'd prefer a more barebones
schematic, head over to the Wired
page for a nice step-by-step in
Automator. It's not super-polished
-- your mileage may vary -- but a
big thanks to August for putting it
out there for the rest of us to play
with!
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plane into flight, but it looks more
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Dual-Screen E-Reader
Is Going to Be
Awesome, Super Cheap
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 1:33:56 AM
There’s something about dual-
screen gadgets that makes any
geek warm and fuzzy inside.
Take, for instance, the latest
announcement from Asus: they’re
planning to release an e-book
reader with two distinguishing successful Eee line of products,
characteristics: two screens, and will probably cost around £100
low price. ($163), which would make it one
Adding another screen to an e- of the cheapest such devices on
reader makes perfect sense on the market. However, it’s possible
paper; after all, who doesn’t want that we’ll see several versions
to be able to read an e-book the
(just try to count all the versions
way you read a real book, with of the Eee netbook, and you’ll get
two pages visible at all times? In
the general idea about Asus’
practice, I’m not so sure; strategy when it comes to these
personally I’ve always preferred a
things), with the more expensive
single page view in all the version of the device adding
applications (various comic
support for 3G and more storage.
readers, Adobe Acrobat, etc) that With the e-book wars heating
offered me the choice. But who
up, we’re really excited to see a
cares – if you don’t like the device that innovates in this space
double page view, you can just
while keeping a reasonable price;
use the extra screen real estate for according to Engadget, we could
something else: browsing the
see one on the market soon,
web, tweeting, updating your before the year’s end.
blog; the possibilities are endless.
Tags: Asus, dual-screen, e-
Asus’ e-reader, which will also reader
fall under the company’s
you fared better in the comments.
Fold Your Own Sky King Paper
Airplane[Wired]
like a matter of an unbalanced
build than a flaw with the design.
If you give it a try, let's hear if
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Nike+ iPod equals a weight

loss success formula
By Sang Tang (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/6/2009 1:00:00 PM

Filed under: Accessories, iPod

Family
(As a follow up to Tim Big Brother 11:
Wasson's' An Apple a Day' fitness
plan, I thought I'd share my Nominations #10
experience on how the Nike+
iPod kit helped me lose weight.)
Widget Watch: stay on top By Jackie Schnoop (TV
Squad)
It's high noon in Los Angeles on
a late May Sunday. But this isn't
with Reminder Submitted at 9/7/2009 1:12:00 AM

your typical Sunday. You see, I'm
about to finish my first ever
marathon. As I make my way
toward the finish line, I hear the
roar of thousands of spectators
cheering me on. For those who
have yet to experience this, I tell
them that there's no other feeling
like it -- one where thousands of
people, who know nothing about
you, are willing you to finish the
final meters of a 26.2 mile race.
As I make my way toward finish
line, I think of everything that led
up to this moment, and how much
running has changed my life.
But I don't think I'd have made
it this far had it not been for the
Nike+ iPod kit; for by changing
the running experience, it's also
changed my feelings about
running.
Continue reading Nike+ iPod
equals a weight loss success
formula
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weight loss success formula
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Unofficial Apple Weblog software projects such as Tags, frightening. Natalie is the head of
(TUAW)) Searchlight and SofaControl. household this week in the Big
Submitted at 9/6/2009 3:00:00 PM These guys have been doing a Brother 11 house. I can deal with
great job providing software tools that ... sort of, kind of. I don't care
Filed under: Widget Watch to meet a wide range of needs, for her and I don't want her to win
Gravity Applications recently and have proven to be eager and the half-million. But I can cope
updated their Reminder widget, determined developers. The polish with her winning HoH once this
and I'm finding it quite useful. they push for on every application season. What I can't abide by is
Now that my Dashboard isn't apparently shows up in their the outfit. We're talking
taking eons to load -- thanks to Dashboard widgets as well. funkadelic gone horribly awry.
Snow Leopard-- it's really nice to TUAW Widget Watch: stay on Continue reading Big Brother
be able to pop it up and with a top with Reminder originally 11: Nominations #10
few clicks set an iCal alarm for 5 appeared on The Unofficial Apple Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother
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What's On Tonight: Jonas, Masterpiece Mystery, Robot Chicken

By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) • CNBC has the NBC Prime • PBS has a new Masterpiece Check your local TV listings for
Submitted at 9/6/2009 4:07:00 PM Time Preview Show at 8. Mystery! at 9. more.
• Nickelodeon has a new Nick • WE has a new Bridezillas at 9. Filed under: Programming,
• At 5, TV Land has an Andy News at 8. • At 10, AMC has a new Mad What To Watch Tonight, Reality-
Griffith Show marathon. • CMTV has the original The Men. Free
• At 7, NBC has a new Dateline. Longest Yard at 8. • There's a new Design Star on Permalink| Email this| |
• At 7:30, ESPN has the Sprint • Also at 8: Style Network has a HGTV at 10. Comments
Cup: Labor Day Classic 500 race. new Ruby. • History Channel has a new
• At 8, CBS has a new Big • At 8:30, Disney has a new Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon( Pawn Stars at 10.
Brother, followed by a new There Jonas. check local listings). • At 11:30, Cartoon Network has
Goes The Neighborhood. • At 9, various stations have The a new Robot Chicken.
34 Tech News/ Tech Tips/
Apple's iPhone Not Profitable for Carriers?
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:57:04 AM
According to a research report
released by Denmark's Strand
Consult, the iPhone is not the
profit-generating machine that
people have made it out to
be...that is, unless you're Apple.
For carriers, however, gaining the
exclusive rights to sell the iPhone
isn't exactly a winning situation.
The report says that the hidden
costs of the phone, which include
things like the subsidies and the
revenue share Apple demands,
have actually hurt rather than
helped mobile operators' earnings.
Sponsor
iPhone: Bad-for-Business?
According to a Sunday article in
The Guardian, the report states
that the iPhone isn't all that it's
cracked up to be, at least from the
carriers' perspective. Because
Apple requires carriers to pay
subsidies and, in some markets
they demand revenue share, the
carriers don't make as much on
phone sales as you may think.
"We have not found one operator
which has created shareholder
value with iPhone," notes the
report.
Not only does the report state
that the phone isn't as profitable
for carriers as you may think, it
argues that it might actually be a
hindrance. "A lot of competitors
are actually doing better," it says
when referring to the carriers who
don't offer the Apple device in
their lineup. An earlier press
release from the company even
went so far as to claim that
"operators that choose not to carry
iPhone products have an increased
probability of serving their
shareholders interests."
Also mentioned is something
called the "iPhone effect," a coin
termed by a chairman of a
multinational operator. "The
iPhone effect is the effect that
comes from moving our
management's focus away from
the 99% of our customers that
generate the cash flow that pays
our bills," claims the unnamed
chairman.
In addition to these issues,
Strand Consult also notes that the
iPhone only attracts a limited
market segment and one in which
customers already were heavy
data users...so they're not actually
bringing in that much new
revenue via their iPhone data
plans. Meanwhile, flat rate data
plans mean that the "high data
consumption results in high
production costs without the
corresponding increased revenue."
Although not mentioned in the
Guardian piece, we're currently
seeing the problems AT&T has
encountered here in the U.S.
thanks being the only network
that provides the phone in this
market. The company has
struggled to provide coverage in
heavily populated urban areas,
like New York and San Francisco,
where iPhone users are plenty.
The issue went beyond just being
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ever had. They also gained more
than 2.4 million customers this
past quarter, 35% who were new Design Your Own
to AT&T. They noted that more
than 80% of the upgrades were Exercise Program Using
from a non-iPhone device or a 2G Seven Key Moves [DIY]
iPhone, increasing ARPU
[average revenue per unit]. And as By Azadeh Ensha (Lifehacker)
for the iPhone owners themselves, Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:00:00 AM
the company says their ARPUs
are significantly above the Some people have the luxury of
company's post-paid average, a personal trainer to create their
churn is much lower, and exercise routines for them. For the
recurring margins continue to be rest of us, web site Dumb Little
hearsay to warranting a public high. Man has outlined seven key
shaming in a recent New York Another carrier, U.K.-based O2, movements worth considering
Times article. According to the did comment on the report. They when designing a fitness program.
article, the company has been told the Guardian they disagree Photo by whyid.
working on expensive upgrades to with the findings, saying that According to the post, any good
those data-heavy networks to help they've benefitted from the so- exercise program should
ease the traffic burden which has called "iPhone effect." Although incorporate the following seven
led to dropped calls, slow speeds, the article didn't go into specifics movements: squats, lunges, bends,
and often a lack of signal. as to what those benefits are, it's twists, pushing, pulling, and
Problems like these have angered likely they're seeing much of the walking/running.
consumers and have given AT&T s a m e a s A T & T . F i n a l l y , The key step is deciding how
a bad name in many circles. The according to Reuters, Japan's much and which movements to
company has also had to delay the exclusive iPhone carrier, the #3- implement. To get you started,
launch of new iPhone features ranked in the country, passed the Dumb Little Man suggests the
like MMS and tethering since number one carrier in August in following:
their network again had to be terms of new subscriber sign-ups. To give you an idea, that
prepared to handle the additional Perhaps the truth here is in the maximum you'd get out of this
data traffic. Some Carriers middle. Maybe Strand is right in program would be to perform 3
Disagree saying that carriers don't benefit groups of each exercise (sets),
While AT&T never directly from iPhone sales. However, they with each group containing
commented on the report, they've could benefit simply from having between 8 and 15 repetitions. To
been consistent in touting the iPhone customers who stick with keep it interesting, and also to
positive benefits of the phone the company for long periods of maximize energy and fat loss,
with every release of their time, paying for hefty data plans perform one group of each
quarterly earnings. For example, along the way. Discuss exercise back-to-back with no
in their latest earnings rest, take a 2 minute break, and
announcement, AT&T revealed then repeat two times.
that the iPhone 3GS launch was Browse the full post for more
the "best sales day" the company details on how to design your own
program and, if you exercise, let
us know if your routine involves
any of the above seven moves in
the comments. How to Design
Your Own Fail-Safe Exercise
Program[Dumb Little Man]
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Google Chrome Privacy Policy Changes Hint at

Public Launch of Mac, Linux Versions
By Sarah Perez Chrome Privacy Policy were machine's IP address and one or
(ReadWriteWeb) revised. The old and new versions more cookies. On Google Chrome
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:39:24 AM are provided below with bold
indicating the changes: OLD:
for Windows, You can configure
Google Chrome to not send
Mad Men: The
It's been just over a year since The Privacy Policy below
Google surprised the world with a applies only to Google Chrome
cookies to Google or other sites as
explained here. Google Chrome Arrangements
release of their very own web for Windows. For the Developer for Mac and Google Chrome for By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
browser, Google Chrome, now the c h a n n e l r e l e a s e s o n o t h e r Linux currently do not allow this Submitted at 9/7/2009 12:48:00 AM
basis for the company's upcoming platforms see the privacy policies level of configuration. What Do
operating system. Despite its for Mac OS X and Linux. The You Think? (S01E04) "He has no idea how
flaws (lack of RSS support, no Google Privacy Policy describes Maybe we're grasping at straws confused America is going to be
extensions), the browser soon how we treat personal information here, after all, the change could be about that J.- Don, about jai alai
became a hit among the niche when you use Google's products referring to the developer builds In the late 80s, when I was
crowd of early adopters...at least a n d s e r v i c e s , i n c l u d i n g The Google Privacy Policy of the browser and they're simply doing sales and marketing for a
those running Windows. Why information provided when you describes how we treat personal cleaning up the language for national music magazine, the staff
Windows? Because Google has use Google Chrome. In addition, information when you use simplification. Still, that would be played a joke on one of the new
yet to publicly release versions for the following describes our Google's products and services, odd considering that they salespeople. We had to get a
either the Mac operating system privacy practices that are specific including information provided removed the reference to the certain number of sales per day
or Linux. However, a recent to Google Chrome. Google will when you use Google Chrome. In developer builds' privacy policy, and she wasn't having any luck, so
update to their Privacy Policy notify you of any material addition, the following describes wouldn't it? Or then again, maybe I called her phone and pretended
hints that may be about to change. changes to this policy, and you our privacy practices that are Google is just consolidating the to be a customer. I think I told her
Sponsor will always have the option to use specific to Google Chrome. privacy policies for both the I was going to buy thousands of
In June of this year, Google the browser in a way that does not Google will notify you of any developer and public builds. A dollars worth of magazines.
finally released the first official send any personal information to material changes to this policy, third option is that Google could Looking back now it was an
beta versions of the Chrome Google or to discontinue using it. and you will always have the be getting a little of the immature, cruel thing to do, but I
browser for Mac and Linux. The Information Google receives option to use the browser in a way administrative work out of the thought of that during tonight's
builds were made available in the when you use Google Chrome that does not send any personal way before they make the Mac scene with the Sterling Cooper
developer channel, but Google You do not need to provide any information to Google or to and Linux builds public. gang calling "Margaret" and
warned users that they were not personally identifying information discontinue using it. Information Testers have been reporting that pretending to be a potential
ready for public consumption, in order to download and use Google receives when you use the developer builds have been roommate. People are such jerks.
only testing. Since it took nearly a Google Chrome. When you Google Chrome seeing steady improvement and But this episode was mostly
year to get the point of beta download Google Chrome or use You do not need to provide any the Chromium builds (the open about what happened to Gene...
releases, can it even be possible it to contact Google's servers, personally identifying information source project that serves as the Continue reading Mad Men:
that Chrome for Mac and Linux is Google receives only standard log in order to download and use testing ground for Google The Arrangements
now ready for a public debut? information including your Google Chrome. When you Chrome) have been shaping up on Filed under: OpEd, Episode
Not to get your hopes up, but a machine's IP address and one or download Google Chrome or use a daily basis, too. Maybe a public Reviews, Reality-Free, Mad Men
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wonder. A few days ago, the first cookies to Google or other sites as information including your hope. Discuss
two opening paragraphs of the explained here. NEW:
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Tyra Banks to
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data Reveal Her Real
By Richard MacManus However over the past few particular, Yahoo was an early
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:30:00 AM
years, we've seen that there are
many other ways to structure data
leader. Example 3: Wolfram
Alpha
Hair!
and enable others to build off it. Ever since Wolfram|Alpha's (ETonline - Breaking News)
This week ReadWriteWeb will The best current example is surely much hyped launch in May, we've Submitted at 9/7/2009 3:07:00 AM
run a series of posts detailing T w i t t e r , w h o s e A P I h a s been tracking this innovative
what we think are the 5 biggest, historically been responsible for product closely. It's a self- Emmy-winning talk show host
most cutting edge Web trends to around 90% of Twitter's activity- described "computational Tyra Banks has declared Tuesday,
come out of 2009. We'll be via third party apps. knowledge engine" and while it's Sept. 8 "National Real Hair Day."
posting one trend analysis per The basic principle of the Web not quite the Google killer some The date also marks the fifth
day. Then at the end of the week of Data is still the same as what predicted, it has many potential season premiere of "The Tyra
we'll publish a major update to A l e x I s k o l d a r t i c u l a t e d o n uses. Banks Show," and Lady T says
our standard presentation about ReadWriteWeb back in March Wolfram|Alpha has a search she will be rocking her real hair
web technology trends. 2007: "unstructured information engine-like interface, allowing that day!
The first major Web trend we're will give way to structured April 2009. I also explained the you to type natural language "This is fake hair," Tyra tells ET,
looking at is Structured Data. In information - paving the road to background and benefits of statements into it. But the main indicating her long locks. "I've
prior presentations, this has more intelligent computing." Linked Data in a May '09 post p a r t o f t h e p r o d u c t i s t h e shown myself with no makeup,
sometimes been referred to under Example 1: OpenCalais entitled Linked Data is Blooming: computations you can do on data. cellulite on my butt, untouched
the umbrella term of 'Semantic Our first example product, Why You Should Care. The product is premised on using photos, but I haven't shown my
Web'. However the way 2009 has OpenCalais, is probably the best Example 2: Google Rich and computing data. If Web 2.0 hair. It's a mystery. People are,
panned out so far, it's become current example of Linked Data. Snippets was about creating data (a.k.a. 'Does she have any hair?'"
clear that this trend is much more T h o m s o n R e u t e r s , t h e In May this year, Google added user generated content), then the On Tuesday's show, Tyra will
than the Semantic Web. In this i n t e r n a t i o n a l b u s i n e s s a n d structured data to its core search, next generation of the Web is all really let her hair down, and she
p o s t , w e ' l l a n a l y z e t h e financial news giant, launched an in the form of a feature called about using that data. Conclusion says she is doing it for the young
developments in Structured Data API called OpenCalais in Feb '08. 'Rich snippets.' Essentially this We can see from the above girls who come up to her
this year and provide you with 3 In a nutshell, OpenCalais turns feature extracts and shows useful three examples that structured constantly and tell her that they
product examples: OpenCalais, u n s t r u c t u r e d H T M L i n t o information from web pages, by data is rapidly becoming a feature want to look like her.
Google, Wolfram Alpha. semantically marked up data. It way of structured data open of today's Web. Companies like
Sponsor orders data into groups such as standards such as microformats Thomson Reuters and Google are
Web of Data, Not Documents 'people,' 'places,' 'companies' and and RDFa. On launch in May, enabling data to be structured, and
Tim Berners-Lee said in more. This way, third party Google invited publishers to mark new types of products (like
February this year that we're now applications and sites can build up their HTML. While it will take Wolfram|Alpha) will make use of
in a Web of Data, rather than a interesting new things from that a while for this markup to become structured data in ways we
W e b o f D o c u m e n t s . T h e data - one of the defining widespread, the fact that a huge perhaps can't imagine right now.
organization that Berners-Lee p r i n c i p l e s o f L i n k e d D a t a . company like Google Next in our 'Top 5 Web Trends
heads, the W3C, has heavily For a full explanation of Linked i m p l e m e n t e d i t s h o w s t h e of 2009' series: The Real-Time
promoted two key initiatives that Data, read Alexander Korth's i n c r e a s i n g i m p o r t a n c e o f Web Discuss
are helping to build this Web of technical introduction The Web of structured data on the Web.
Data: the Semantic Web and more D a t a : C r e a t i n g M a c h i n e - Other big companies are also
recently Linked Data. Accessible Information from heading in this direction - in

For Starters: 5 Greatest Point Guards

By Matt Steinmetz (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:30:00 AM
by Matt Steinmetz
Filed under: Jazz Who doesn't
like a list, especially on a Monday
morning when that's about all you
can handle? That's almost fitting because if Guards originally appeared on
This one's for John Stockton, there was ever a player who didn't Fanhouse NBA Blog on Mon, 07
who is going into the Basketball seek out the limelight or look to Sep 2009 10:30:00 EST . Please
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Would You Moonlight for Broncos Bring Brandon Marshall

Technorati?
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 8:30:00 PM
Once considered the leading
search engine for blog-related
queries, Technorati has fallen by
the wayside in recent years. With
no known strategy around new
forms of media, the company
quickly began to lose ground as
Twitter and other conversational
tools grew in popularity. In early
July when the company launched
Twittorati, it already seemed too
late. However, in a surprising
move, Technorati is switching
gears again with an invitation for
writers to join the Technorati
blogging network.
Sponsor
In an email to members, the
company is encouraging users to
Back
By Chris Burke (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 11:40:00 PM
basis, we stopped counting static
blogroll links, and these links by Chris Burke
have now aged out of the Filed under: Broncos Maybe
authority calculations." Brandon Marshall's finally ready
become Technorati writers. While If this tells us anything, it's that
it may seem like a natural fit for in this new environment of to play team-ball in Denver. Or
maybe the Broncos have realized
members to write about their conversational media, many have
b l o g g i n g e x p e r i e n c e s , t h e abandoned their blogs for less exactly how much they need him.
Whatever the case, the
company appears to want to l a b o r i n t e n s i v e f o r m s o f
expand beyond that by offering expression. We just hope the disgruntled wide receiver is back
with his team-- Sunday, Denver
members a chance to state their company has some form of
favorite topics and interest areas. compensation for contributors. coach Josh McDaniels lifted the
suspension imposed on Marshall
While it seems like a strange and It'll be tough convincing bloggers
cannibalistic move, it will be an to contribute posts and patch on August 28 after an outburst at
a camp workout. Marshall Back originally
uphill battle to persuade regular holes in what might already be a
bloggers to double up on their sinking ship. Nevertheless, if The Broncos received a one-day appeared on Fanhouse NFL Blog
exemption from the league, on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:40:00
posts and contribute. you're the type of person who
Earlier in the email Technorati likes a challenge and you've got allowing them to keep their roster EST . Please see our terms for use
at 54 briefly. They must get down of feeds.
addresses why member authority the energy to increase your posts,
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is to measure the influence and Broncos Bring Brandon
attention received on an ongoing

Weebiz: The €1 Million Challenge Is On!

By RWW Sponsor companies around the world have a little competition certainly
(ReadWriteWeb) registered and started to use doesn't hurt.
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10. Light up your yard with
mason jars
Buy a mess of ground-staked,
solar or battery-powered yard
lights from your local big box
store, and people might be
impressed at your ability to space
the sticks you plunge into the
ground. Convert some run-of-the-
mill mason jars into hanging
votive lanterns, battery-powered
backyard lights, or go the way of
weekend editor Jason and make
your own solar-powered sun jars,
and you'll get some real kudos,
and have a nicer looking yard, to
boot.
9. Make your patio a Wi-Fi
hotspot
Three different solutions of
varying DIY-ness can get your Wi
-Fi out to your grassier spaces. A
self-powered solar extender is the
ultimate in techno/eco-cred. If
that kind of cost, soldering, and
circuit knowledge is a stretch too
far, you can install DD-WRT or
boost your household router with
Tomato to boost its signal
strength and, in the case of DD-
WRT, turn an old or spare router
into a dedicated repeater. That
still involves a bit of installing,
though, so for a casual shot at
backyard Wi-Fi, try a tinfoil
parabola, a wok-style strainer, or
a dollar's worth of extender parts.
8. Build a backyard pizza oven
If you've had wood-fired pizza
before, you know it's notably
different and tasty, and almost
always pricey. You can have the
good stuff whenever you feel like
building a fire, however, with two
different Lifehacker readers' brick
-by-brick instructions. Kevin
Lester showed us his fourth pizza
oven build, while Mike Wilkie
based his two-level oven on Forno
Bravo's extensive wood-fired
guide. You can do the same, and
become the grill party invitation
nobody turns down.
7. Assemble an outdoor movie
theater
Your couch can only seat so
many people. Your yard or patio,
however, can fit as many folks as
feel comfortable, and offers a
much nicer environment to eat,
drink, watch, and enjoy the
waning bits of summer air,
whether for the kids or with
friends. Wired.com has hit upon
this project twice, once with a
house-mounted sheet and
DVD/projector. Then the Geek
Dad tackled the idea with a stand-
alone outdoor screen, built with
PVC pipe, mounted in cement,
and ready for easy setup and take-
down. You'll need a decent
projector for either setup, but
often times, nobody at work
minds if the presentation room is
a little de-stocked on weekends.
6. Power up your Wii
You can't pull off the total
renovation that an XBox Media
Center, but your Wii can do a lot
more than let you play tennis
against the in-laws. You can surf
the web with the recently-made-
free Opera browser, and once
that's installed, a free Orb
software package lets you used
your Wii as a media center. These
days, opening your Wii to the
Homebrew channel doesn't even
require the purchase of a
(admittedly great) Twilight
Princess game and extensive
hacking, and once that's done, you
can back up and load games from
a hard drive, play old-school
games in an emulator, and much
more.
5. Build yourself a serious knife
block
Two or three good, sharp knives
are really all you need, but you've
probably got more than that. If
you bought them piece by piece,
or don't want to shell out for a
generic hunk of wood, consider
making your own wall-mounted
magnetic holder for easy access
and visual appeal, or cut a holder
out of a counter for super-quick
access. We're also partial to Chris
DiClerico's DIY universal knife
block, which requires only a few
bucks of wood, dollar store
bamboo skewers, and access to a
table saw.
4. Get creative with enhanced
paints
Go beyond the color spread at
your local paint store, and you'll
likely find a good deal of neat
paints that can inspire some
awesome projects. Dry-erase or
"whiteboard" paint lets you jot
down your ideas anywhere, and
that inspired reader Chris Burke
to make this awesome wall-size
speech "bubble". He also layered
some magnetic paint underneath,
the kind that lets you hang posters
without nails or tacks. If school-
style chalkboards are more your
speed, you can grab a bucket of
chalkboard paint, or make your
own, and then craft a erase-as-you
-go wall calendar, or a kid-
friendly table or, or wall
mural(sorry, original link is
apparently dead). If they made
tinfoil-based Wi-Fi boosting
paint, we'd simply declare the
whole house in need of a new
look.
3. Fold and cut your own
furniture
You only occasionally need an
extra seat or two for groups of
guests, or maybe you just need
cheap place to sit when working
in the garage. The Evil Mad
Scientist blog suggests buying a
few sheets of paperboard or
plywood and crafting some flat-
packing but sturdy stools. If it's
little ones you're looking to seat,
and entertain while you do so, the
FoldSchool tutorial site details
how to help kids make their own
stepladders, creative kids table
seats, and much more. ( Original
post)
2. Add rope lights for cheap
ambient improvements
Gina's father-in-law used rope
lights (and a nifty reverse circuit
switch) to craft an automatic
pantry light system. Jason added
an eye-pleasing and light-
improving touch to his extreme
home office makeover with
strategic rope lights. Other crafty
folks have found rope lighting
useful for kitchen looks and
ridiculously awesome home
theater setups. It's inspiring,
illuminating stuff, and fairly easy
to get started with.
1. Spruce up a bare wall
Not every notably blank wall in
your dwelling requires custom-
framed artwork or expensive
prints. Gina combined her Flickr
account and a few dollars of craft
store hardware to craft a sleek
wire photo wall, inspired by this
wood block example(original link
down). Adam found his
inspiration in used record stores
and great album art, crafting an
album art wall on the cheap. If
great-looking books are what you
want to show off, you can get by
with very little by converting a
colored wire hanger.
What projects are you planning
for your next all-to-yourself day
off? Have you nailed down any of
these projects with photo-worthy
results? Tell us all about your
goals and past glories in the
comments.
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Converted Photo
Bench Helps Extend
Attendance Record
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 8:45:11 AM
The U.S. Open set a single-
session attendance record this
year for the 13th straight year,
with at least three day sessions
selling out at 37,388 tickets.
Record crowds are a recurring
theme of print and television
coverage each year. But this
record beat last year’s by a margin
similar to that of a match decided
in a fifth-set tiebreak.
This latest widely reported
record tops last year’s record
attendance by just eight. Last
year’s record, meanwhile, topped
the previous year’s by just 30.
These small leaps in attendance
records reflect just how packed
the USTA Billie Jean King
National Tennis Center is. It’s a
point brought home when the day
session overlaps with the night
session and working through the
crowd becomes its own sport, as
has happened repeatedly during
this year’s tournament.
To continue to set new records
compared to sold-out sessions in
prior years, the Open’s organizers
have to find more seating
capacity. This year they did so in
Ashe, converting a photo bench
near the court into eight additional
seats, according to a United States
Tennis Association spokesman —
hence the increase by eight in the
record. Those seats were filled
with vociferous Andy Murray
supporters during his first-round
night match against Ernests
Gulbis.
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Do You Watch TV While You Surf
the Internet? [Reader Poll]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 10:00:00 AM
Everyone's trying to fit more
time into their busy schedules, so
it's no surprise that a recent report
found that 57 percent of internet
users are watching TV while they
surf. Are you one of them?
Photo by stickwithjosh.
From Ars Technica:
A full 57 percent of US Internet
users reported browsing the
Internet and watching the TV
simultaneously—an activity that
was largely unheard of in your
average home even five years ago,
but is relatively common these
days. On average, these people
spent about 2 hours and 39
minutes per month doing these
activities together, with almost a
third of their Internet time being
spent in front of the TV.
It's not surprising, and I'm sure
these numbers have been growing
ever since laptops and wireless
internet became ubiquitous, and
small and lightweight netbooks
and cellphones have made it even
Blanket Coverage: Week 1 in Review
By John Walters (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:00:00 AM
by John Walters
Filed under: Virginia Tech,
ACC, General CFB Insanity,
Daily Domer Just So You Know
...
My editor told me to spend an
hour or two on this piece, but I
put in four because I want to be
the best.
Conference Calls
Maybe Virginia Tech would
easier to have the internet at your
fingertips at all times. So how
about you:
Do You Watch TV While You
Surf the Internet?( survey)
We've seen a lot of research that
says multi-tasking makes you less
productive, but a lot of times
consuming media doesn't require
your full attention, anyway.
I'm all for some internet time
when I'm passively enjoying
have played better against
Alabama Saturday night if the
entire fate of the ACC had not
been resting on its shoulders. Or
Tech Tips/ Tech Reviews Sports 39
Google's mystery UFO
doodle finally explained
(CNET News.com) tweet on Friday: "1.12.12
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:55:00 AM 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5
2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19."
I know there are some people Well, it was revelatory to those
who have not slept for fear that who think in a certain way, one to
Google had finally committed which I can only aspire.
itself to some alien culture. "Yes, of course," those who
Well, some outerworldly alien think that way said to themselves,
culture. Well, some outerworldly while simultaneously slapping
alien culture where all beings their heads with a fly-swatter. "It's
were green and no one used a reference to that wonderful
p h r a s e s l i k e " m a r k e t Japanese video game of the
segmentation" and "41 shades of 1980s, Zero Wing."
blue." Now, look, I've heard of Vera
You see, a mysterious doodle Wang. But somehow Zero Wing
appeared on the Google home passed me by, though I think it
p a g e . I t s h o w e d a n a l i e n would be an excellent name for a
something on TV that I'm not all spacecraft making off with the fashion designer.
that engaged in, but I also unplug second "O" in the word "Google." However, those on the inside (of
completely when I'm going to Were we really expected to the spacecraft) tell me that Zero
watch something really good. merely gogle now? Didn't that Wing is terribly cool and features
How about you? Let's hear more sound uncomfortably close to extremely characteristic English
about your surf-the-internet-while ogling? translations.
activities in the comments. Though there were no Apparently, Cats, a villain even
Watching TV while surfing the references to the Church of greater than the Andrew Lloyd
Internet? You're not alone[Ars S c i e n t o l o g y , G o o g l e ' s f i r s t Webber musical, makes this
Technica] pronouncement on the subject did declaration at the beginning of
not quell the concern. Zero Wing: "How are you
The questionably benign gentlemen. All your base are
company declared: "We consider belong to us."
the second 'o' critical to user Well, when you take all those
recognition of our brand and numbers in the Google tweet and
pronunciation of our name. We turn them into the corresponding
at least that's how Commissioner are actively looking into the letters of the alphabet, you get:
John Swofford and too many m y s t e r i o u s t w e e t t h a t h a s "All your O are belong to us."
ABC and ESPN commentators appeared on the Google twitter Why would some Googlies
made it sound. stream and the disappearance of want to feature Zero Wing now?
Blanket Coverage: Week 1 in the 'o' on the Google home page. W e l l , i t ' s t h e g a m e ' s 2 0 t h
Review originally appeared on We hope to have an update in the a n n i v e r s a r y .
Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog coming weeks." So there. The problem is solved.
on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:00:00 T h e w o r l d c o n t i n u e d The world is safe. Google has not
EST . Please see our terms for use experiencing the occasional been taken over by aliens.
of feeds. shudder, until Google's Twitter Or can we really be sure of that?
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Perfect Your Grilled Cheese with Protein Shawne Merriman Proclaims

Innocence
and Heat [Food] By Tom Herrera (FanHouse)
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:00:00 AM

Submitted at 9/6/2009 11:00:00 AM

Two slices of Wonder Bread and
yellow cheese make for a stupid-
easy and quick lunch, but they can
be so much better. Professional
chef Jennifer Iserloh offers ideas
for balancing and making the
ultimate comfort food a smidge
healthier.
Photo by FotoosVanRobin.
Iserloh suggests adding non-
salty protein to your sandwich to
make it filling and offset the
gooey-ness of the cheese, and
going beyond white breads and
cheap cheese as components.
We're gravitating toward this idea,
though:
Add Tang or Heat
Coat one slice of the bread with
one tablespoon of honey mustard,
sweet pickle relish, a sliced
jalapeno or sliced sweet
peppadew peppers or jarred
by Tom Herrera
Filed under: Chargers, NFL
Police Blotter It was only a matter
of time before Shawne Merriman
spoke out against the allegations
he choked and restrained reality
TV star Tila Nguyen (aka Tila
Tequila). Merriman was accused
of battery and false imprisonment Shawne Merriman Proclaims
through a citizen's arrest warrant Innocence originally appeared on
signed by Nguyen, but the Fanhouse NFL Blog on Mon, 07
Chargers star claims he is Sep 2009 07:00:00 EST . Please
innocent and says he "in no way see our terms for use of feeds.
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kimchi. made of, in the comments. More From TMZ: Photos of
While you're assembling your Seriously. We're more than a little Couple at Nightclub
no-stress lunch, keep in mind our hungry at the moment, for some
previous advice on cheese grillin': reason. Build a Better Grilled
toast the bread slices, then turn Cheese[Slashfood]
them over and put the cheese on
that just-grilled side for evenly-
melted cheese.

Google's gourmet embarrassed on 'Top Chef'

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:38:00 AM
September 11, 2001, gave many
people pause for thought. But how
many can say that such a dark day
made them want to cook?
That was the interesting claim
made by Preeti Mistry, the 33-
year-old executive chef with
Google's Bon Appetit
management company. She made
her declaration on the latest
episode of Bravo TV's "Top
Chef," in which she was a
contestant.
Was.
For Mistry was removed by the
judges after serving a paltry pasta
salad to the brave and hungry
airmen and women at Nellis Air
Force Base.
You see, the judges, led by the
bald, lip-twitching Tom Colicchio
(he of New York's Craft
restaurant), weren't merely upset
that she had prepared something
that a bankrupt British public
school might offer its pupils
during a power outage.
They were distraught that, even
when challenged, she thought the
dish was good.
When all around her blanched at
the blandness, Mistry was
unbowed. So for her stubborn
myopia, she had to hear the words
that lead so many young chefs to
tears, recriminations, Xanax and a
job at the Outback Steakhouse:
"Please pack your knives and go."
Mistry's reactions lay
somewhere between blase and
Buddhist. But she had already
proved that she was incapable of
shucking clams. Now here she
was shirking criticism.
Regretfully, this was not the Shuttle crew in
finest advertisement for the
Google brand. Nor for the Google home stretch of
canteen.
After Woz's demise on ABC's
"Dancing with the Stars," the tech
station resupply
world continues its search for a (CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 11:01:00 AM
reality TV breakthrough.
It is a troubling situation, one
that should surely be discussed at JOHNSON SPACE CENTER,
the highest levels. Houston--Sailing into the home
stretch of a busy space station
resupply mission, the shuttle
Discovery astronauts worked

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Sunday to wrap up equipment and
supply transfers before taking a
half day off to relax and enjoy the
view.
Overnight, engineers
successfully tested a new motor-
driven bolt in the berthing
mechanism holding the shuttle-
delivered Leonardo cargo module
in place on the Earth-facing port
of the lab's Harmony module.
Astronauts Nicole Stott and
Danny Olivas retrieve
experiments from the Columbus
module during a spacewalk last
Tuesday.(Credit: NASA)
The bolt, one of 16 in the
complex interface, jammed during
earlier tests and flight engineers
Timothy Kopra and Robert Thirsk
carried out a lengthy replacement
procedure Saturday.
"The checkout activity went
perfectly fine, the bolt that
jammed on us the other day when
we tried to drive it out of the
interface...we worked it this
evening and it worked just fine,"
station Flight Director Royce
Renfrew said early Sunday.
The testing confirmed the
astronauts will have no trouble
detaching the Leonardo module
Monday so it can be stowed in the
shuttle Discovery's cargo bay for
return to Earth.
It also cleared the way for the
arrival later this month of Japan's
new HTV cargo ship, scheduled
for launch Thursday, the same day
Discovery returns to Earth. The
HTV cargo craft will be docked at
the same port used by Leonardo.
After the bolt was replaced,
flight engineers Michael Barratt
and Frank De Winne carried out
another lengthy procedure to
replace a filter in the U.S. oxygen
generation system. Based on a
performance degradation,
engineers suspected the filter was
clogged and sure enough, Barratt
and De Winne reported it was 70
percent to 80 percent blocked by
debris. A replacement was
installed.
Astronauts move new
equipment into the Japanese Kibo
module. The shuttle Discovery
delivered more than 7.5 tons of
equipment and supplies to the
station.(Credit: NASA)
As of Sunday morning, the
combined 13-member shuttle-
station crew had completed about
85 percent of the required
logistics transfers to and from the
station.
The Leonardo module was
loaded with some 7.5 tons of
equipment and supplies, including
two science racks, an experiment
sample freezer, a crew sleep
station, a carbon dioxide removal
assembly, a stowage rack, food,
clothing, and other gear.
During three spacewalks on
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday,
John "Danny" Olivas, Christer
Fuglesang, and Nicole Stott
replaced a 1,800-pound ammonia
coolant tank, retrieved two space
exposure experiments, deployed a
cargo mounting mechanism,
installed two GPS antennas, and
replaced a blown circuit breaker
and a rate gyro assembly that
helps determine the station's
orientation in space.
The only problems of any
significance other than the stuck
docking system bolt and the
clogged filter in the oxygen
assembly were two external
wiring problems.
During the crew's second
spacewalk, Olivas was directed to
hook up two power cables to drive
heaters in pressurized mating
adapter No. 3, a docking port
currently mounted on the multi-
hatch Unity module's left port.
The idea was to open the docking
adapter later to temporarily store
supplies.
But Olivas was unable to make
the required electrical connections
because the cables were not in the
correct position. As it turns out,
the wiring bundles were attached
to PMA-3 assuming the module
would be oriented, or "clocked,"
in a specific way, putting the
connectors within reach of their
counterparts on the Unity module.
When PMA-3 was docked to
Unity's nadir, or Earth-facing
port, the cables and connectors
were in the expected orientation.
But when PMA-3 was recently
moved to Unity's left-side port, it
was clocked 180 degrees from the
orientation the installers of the
wiring bundle apparently
expected.
Robert Thirsk, foreground, and
Discovery pilot Kevin Ford
operating the space station's robot
arm from a work station in the
Destiny lab module.(Credit:
NASA)
The module was in the correct
orientation, officials said, but the
cables ended up 90 degrees away
from the corresponding
connectors.
PMA-3 is scheduled to be
moved back to Unity's nadir port
in December and in the long term,
the wiring issue will have no
impact. But in the near term, the
stubby module will not be used to
store supplies because without
heaters, condensation control
could prove difficult.
The other wiring problem
encountered by Discovery's crew
occurred during the third
spacewalk Saturday.
Olivas and Fuglesang routed
two 60-foot-long cable bundles to
deliver power and data to a new
module--node 3, or "Tranquility"-
-scheduled for launch next year.
Seven of eight connectors hooked
up properly, but one power cable's
connector could not be plugged
in. Engineers are looking into
possible work arounds.
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How Metallica helped
sell Paul McCartney on
The Beatles: Rock Band
By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 9:00:00 AM
If you come down with a chronic
case of Beatlemania on Sept. 9,
you could have someone unlikely
to thank for it: Metallica.
Speaking with The Guardian, Paul
McCartney describes how
Harmonix first started pitching
him on the product way back in
2007, using Metallica(presumably
one of the band's songs running in
an earlier Guitar Hero title) as an
example of what could be done
with The Beatles: Rock Band.
There were "a couple of grown-
ups standing looking very foolish
with these little plastic guitars
playing to a screen", McCartney
says. "And we're going, 'Yeah, all
right... It just looks like a really
bad band.' They said: 'We really
can do a great one with the
Beatles, and we'll show you.' So
Ringo and I got a bit intrigued."
So, when McCartney says they
looked like a really bad band ... is
he talking about the people
playing or the guys on the screen?
Because, yes.
How Metallica helped sell Paul
McCartney on The Beatles: Rock
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Apple offers sleek cachet for
clunkers
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:50:00 AM
Imagine consumers en masse
dumping their old PC clunker for
a svelte MacBook Air running the
sleek, new Snow Leopard
operating system. An implausible
Orwellian vision but probably not
that far removed from Apple's
marketing aspirations.
In short, walk into any Apple
Store in any tony neighborhood
and the message is: relieve
yourself of those old bulky PCs
and flip phones and we'll give you
smaller, more stylish computing
with the Apple cachet.
Ford Fusion: Ford is
emphasizing smaller, more
efficient designs, like
Apple(Credit: Ford)
The analogy may be a bit
strained but imagine trading in a
14 mpg Hummer H2 for a 45 mpg
hybrid Ford Fusion. The point:
smaller is better. And it's not just
Apple hardware. Apple's new
Snow Leopard operating system is
smaller too. About 7GB smaller
than the version it replaces.
As This New York Times
review graphically shows, making
software smaller violates a basic
tenet of operating system
upgrades: more is better.
Historically, Windows has been
the most egregious example of
this immutable law of software
marketing. This trend culminated
in the fiasco that was Windows
Vista--at least the dysfunctional
version of Vista that appeared in
early 2007.
At General Motors, this trend
culminated in the H2: a car too
big even by Detroit's standards.
(GM subsequently struck a deal to
sell Hummer to China-based
Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy
Industrial Machinery Company
and is trying to make the electric
Chevrolet Volt into its marquee
model for the Chevrolet
nameplate.)
Are those days over? No, but it's
safe to say that at an even more
profound level, personal
computing is moving to smaller
gadgets that, by necessity, use
efficient operating environments
running on efficient silicon. The
iPhone comes to mind. Tiny
Netbooks are another good
example. In short, despite the
obvious compromises that small
size imposes, many consumers are
realizing that they can do what
they need to do with less.
Even Microsoft has figured this
out, albeit slowly. Microsoft's
Windows 7, based on preliminary
reviews, is leaner, faster than
Vista. And Intel too. Its Atom and
ultra-low-voltage (ULV)
processors both offer significant
power savings over standard Intel
chip designs.
Apple wants to go a lot further
than "Wintel" has gone, however.
Just as Ford wants to out-mpg
GM in the fuel-efficiency race.
The argument can be made that
Cupertino is offering a sleeker
operating system in preparation
for devices to come. Maybe a
tablet. Maybe something that has
yet to be reported. What is clear is
that Apple is focusing a lot of its
in-house development on small,
efficient technology. Both silicon
and software.
The same thing can be roughly
said about Ford. Its highest profile
cars these days are the Fusion,
Focus, and Escape--all relatively
small, fuel-efficient cars (two are
sold optionally as hybrids). All
the polar opposite of the most
popular cars in its gas-guzzler
heyday: the Explorer, Expedition,
and Excursion.
No Orwellian vision here, just
smaller, more efficient computing
devices (and cars) that make a
clean break from an obsolete past.
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Gone Too Soon: Andy
Richter Controls the
Universe
By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) that well again, and we got Better
Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:03:00 AM Off Ted, another comedy with
absurdist tendencies set in a
When Andy Richter left Late massive corporation with a small
Night With Conan O'Brien to cast. Like Andy, it eked out a
establish his own career in acting, second season based more on
nobody knew that he'd come full critical acclaim than ratings. As
circle and rejoin O'Brien years someone who enjoys both shows,
later. At the same time, nobody I find myself worrying that Ted
knew that creator Victor Fresco will share Andy's ultimate fate,
would do much the same thing. cancellation after the second
Andy Richter Controls the season.
Universe was one of those quirky Continue reading Gone Too
shows that most people, who Soon: Andy Richter Controls the
enjoy a dash of nonsense in their Universe
comedy, really dug. It was a very Filed under: Other Comedy
playful show about a guy working Shows, Late Night, OpEd, Talk
in a massive company. It featured Show, Reality-Free, Gone Too
a small ensemble with great Soon
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iTunes 9 Wishlist: 10 Ways Apple Can Improve Its Media
Organizer
By Chris Ryan (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:22:15 AM
With Apple’s music oriented
media event right around the
corner, everyone is abuzz with
thoughts about new iPods, Apple
TV updates, tablet rumors and
more. The one thing we can all
but guarantee besides new iPods
is an update to iTunes. But what
will this version bring? Social
aspects have been rumored, but
there is still room for
improvement. So, here’s my Top
10 wish list for iTunes 9. 1. More
Stable & Efficient On Windows
This particular point doesn’t
apply to me, as I am a Mac user,
but I do know that the Windows
version of iTunes has suffered in
comparison to its Mac brethren.
Though some of the programming
technologies in the Windows
world are not as robust as their
Mac equivalents, I do hope Apple
will continue to optimize iTunes
as it adds new features. Currently,
it’s just a resource hog. 2. Better
Audiobook Support
iTunes is a great application to
manage your audiobooks and
Apple’s partnership with Audible
makes it even easier to buy them.
What really strikes me as
problematic though is how
cumbersome it is to sync specific
audiobooks to your iPod or
iPhone. At the moment, it’s either
“all” or “none.” When you
consider that some audiobooks
have multiple files and some users
have insanely huge collections of
audiobooks, it really seems like an
issue Apple would have refined
already. Due to their length, most
users listen to one or two
audiobooks at a time and don’t
need to bring their entire
collection with them. The only
solution to this dilemma is
creating playlists for specific
audiobooks and that’s more time
consuming than it should be. 3.
Better File Organization for Large
Libraries
As our libraries of media
content grow and grow, Apple is
focused on being center stage in
helping us organize it all. iTunes
is a powerful application and
supports a wide gamut of different
file types (music, movies, TV
shows, audiobooks, podcasts,
etc.). It would be ideal for Apple
to allow users to manage those
specific areas on different hard
drives since some of us have
iTunes libraries that are growing
too fast to store on just one drive.
We can work around this at the
moment by turning off the “Keep
iTunes organized” feature when
adding new content, but a more
elegant solution would be
welcome. 4. Ability to Import
Unencrypted DVD & Blu-ray
Content
We all know there are licensing
issues to work out, but since
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shows twice (one in HD and one have risen up to provide this
in SD). They could just download service again. While
the HD file and be ready to rock. SimplifyMedia is great, a more
6. More Robust Tagging ideal solution would show you
There are lots of apps available your entire iTunes library, with
(like MetaX) that give users the podcasts, audiobooks, TV shows,
ability to tag their content with and the like. To be honest, if
more useful information than Apple even rolled this out as a
what iTunes allows them to do on feature exclusive to Mobile Me
their own. Content from the users, and allowed the ability to
iTunes Store features some of this view this content streamed via
useful information (like movie me.com, that would be enough to
director, actors, etc.). Why can’t I justify a membership to me. 9.
edit this for my own content Music Videos
Apple feels its the company’s lot directly within iTunes? Why can’t Probably the smallest of all the
in life to manage all of my digital I tag my own music as clean or content types in my library, music
content, why not figure out a way explicit from within iTunes? 7. videos are just lumped together in
to manage all of the physical Lyric & Metadata Lookups my main library. How come there
content I have laying around too? iTunes has the ability to lookup isn’t a separate section for music
If I can “find a way to decrypt my artwork for our own music that videos? 10. Easier Syncing
DVD” (hello VLC), then iTunes may be missing covers, but now Between Multiple Macs
can make a copy of it. This has that iPhones and iPods support At the moment, I sync my
actually been rumored and I lyrics, wouldn’t it be great if iPhone on my iMac, where the
would love to see it come to iTunes could search, download bulk of my media is stored
fruition. 5. Support for HD and tag your files with the (simply because it has the biggest
content on iPhone & iPods appropriate lyrics? Better yet, it hard drive). It would be great if I
While at first this really doesn’t would be even better if iTunes could sync my iPhone or iPods
seem like an iTunes feature, I could fill in missing metadata there for some content, but sync it
personally hate having to maintain information like some third-party to my laptop for contacts,
two copies of content with apps do. 8. More Robust Sharing calendars and iPhone apps as that
compatible versions for my Apple Support content changes more frequently.
TV and Mac (HD content) and my iTunes 4 brought about the In short order, we’ll actually see
iPods and iPhone (SD content). ability to stream playlists to other what Apple announces at its
For some cases this isn’t a iTunes users on a local network. media event. In the meantime,
problem, but I find myself This feature was hacked to allow what features would you like to
watching a lot of HD podcasts and users to stream across the Internet see added to iTunes 9?
they simply will not sync. If and Apple quickly released a
Apple could resolve this issue, patch to fix this. Since then,
users wouldn’t have to download s e v e r a l v e n d o r s , f i r s t a n d
iTunes Store content like TV foremost being SimplifyMedia,
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An rssCloud case study: Brizzly & Wil Wheaton to guest star on

Seesmic The Big Bang Theory
By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)
(Scripting News) without having to wait for Submitted at 9/7/2009 9:03:00 AM
Submitted at 9/6/2009 7:46:35 AM Twitter.
1. Allow your users to subscribe It's a match made in geek
There's a lot of sides to a to cloud-enabled feeds. Right heaven: Wil Wheaton has just
bootstrap. The idea is to take a now, most of those are the 1151 announced via Twitter that he is
something that's highly integrated feeds of the people I subscribe to. going to guest star on an episode
and break it into pieces. Connect But soon (knock wood) there will of The Big Bang Theory this
the pieces with open formats, and be many thousands more, content season. Wheaton, who is currently
then show people how to that you can't get from Twitter. So attending PAX(The Penny Arcade
compete. Then each of the pieces supporting cloud-enabled feeds Expo), tweeted, " An
becomes a market where users now could buy you a head-start on announcement of extraordinary
have choice. And when users have your competition in October or magnitude: I will be on an episode
choice, competitors must work November. of#thebigbangtheory this season.
hard to please them. 2. Publish each user's stream of That's all I'm allowed to say.
It's how we got RSS going in 140-character messages as cloud- GLEE!"
the first place. Netscape got a few enabled feeds, in addition to It's not every day we get to
content companies to create feeds. pushing them through Twitter. review a TV episode that a former
They created an aggregator, Several reasons to do this. You Squadder is guest-starring on, so
which we competed with. Two provide them a backup, which I'm eagerly awaiting his Big Bang
aggregators, that meant more, for may be a feature that's of value to Theory appearance. As Wheaton
sure. And then we made our them. And they might be able to is a self-proclaimed geek, he's season premiere. So could Wil
blogging software produce feeds competition, so improvements share their content with 140- obviously going to fit in great Wheaton be one of the things that
a n d w o r k e d w i t h l o t s o f come slowly. Our goal is to character networks formed by with Leonard, Sheldon, and the continues to keep them apart? If
p u b l i s h e r s . N o w b l o g g i n g change that. others, including Facebook, rest of the crew. The big question, so, is that such a bad thing?
software updates millions of feeds Now, two excellent examples of Yahoo, Google, who knows who. of course, is what about Penny? Filed under: Celebrities,
every day. But at one point there clients are Seesmic and Brizzly. Open formats and protocols create Will he be another rival for her Casting, Reality-Free, The Big
were just a half-dozen feeds and There are many others but these lots of options. Maybe you want affection? We left off last season Bang Theory
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There's lots of competition in most familiar with them. Here are users independent of Twitter. I separating Leonard and Penny, Comments
the market for Twitter clients. screen shots of the two products. can tell you -- I do! (And will.) and I doubt that they'll just run
There's a raging battle between a (Click on the thumbs to see larger Brizzly and Seesmic may not into each others' arms in the
dozen teams all of whom are versions.) want to do this now. After all it is
vying for your attention. Each of There are two ways they can a holiday weekend in the US. But
them wants to produce the support rssCloud, and help the you never know what the future
product that attracts the most bootstrap give more choice to holds, and it doesn't take much
users. However at the center of u s e r s , a n d p o t e n t i a l l y f r e e time to think about it.
t h e m a r k e t t h e r e i s n o themselves to create more features
NintendoWare Weekly: Contra ReBirth, Super Return of the Jedi
By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Labor Day is about, right? Doing (WiiWare) Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:15:00 EST.
Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:15:00 AM as much labor as possible? Continue reading NintendoWare Please see our terms for use of
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U.S. Open: No. 3 Venus Williams taken out by Kim Clijsters;
Serena Williams advances
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/6/2009 9:31:28 PM
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Venus Williams Kim Clijsters
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NEW YORK -- A half-hour
after getting past Venus Williams
in a three-set tussle at the U.S.
Open, Kim Clijsters had her hands
full again.
Juggling an energy drink, a
bottle of water and a snack,
Clijsters was trying to keep an eye
on her 18-month-old daughter,
Jada, as the tyke scurried around
the players' lounge.
Better keep the nanny on call:
Mommy's got more work to do at
Flushing Meadows.
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Playing by far her biggest match
since coming back after 2 1/2
years away from tennis, Clijsters
knocked off the No. 3-seeded
Williams 6-0, 0-6, 6-4 Sunday in
a match of wild momentum
swings to reach the U.S. Open
quarterfinals.
"It's still kind of hard to believe.
But then again, I'm not trying to
get carried away with it all," the
26-year-old Belgian said. "Just
trying to focus on what I have to
do, because the tournament's still
going. I just want to keep
focusing on my tennis."
And some tennis it is. Against
Williams, a seven-time major
champion, Clijsters displayed the
same sort of booming
groundstrokes and all-over-the-
place court coverage that helped
her win the 2005 U.S. Open and
briefly reach No. 1 in the rankings
before leaving the tour.
Only two mothers have won a
Grand Slam singles title; the last
was Evonne Goolagong Cawley at
Wimbledon in 1980. Clijsters will
be in the semifinals if she beats
No. 18 Na Li of China.
"With the kind of training that
she's put in, I knew this wasn't
just for fun," said Clijsters'
husband, Brian Lynch, an
American who ended his
professional basketball career in
Belgium when she decided to
unretire. "She was trying to make
something happen here."
Consider that done, even if
Williams appeared slightly
hobbled at times by her heavily
bandaged left knee, and her
mother, Oracene Price, said
afterward: "We all know she's just
trying to go as far as she can. I
don't know if she should have
done that."
"I wasn't able to play 100
percent," Williams said.
Still, she went back out on court
later Sunday, teaming with her
younger sister Serena to win a
third-round doubles match.
Serena is still waiting for her
first true test of this U.S. Open.
The defending champion's
fourth-round match was
competitive for all of four games,
before Serena Williams took 10 in
a row to beat No. 22-seeded
Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 6
-2, 6-0.
Serena, who is seeded second at
the Open, has reached the
quarterfinals at 11 of the past 12
major tournaments and won the
title at three of the past four.
"I just want to keep this level
and just stay focused," Serena
said.
With the score 2-all against
Hantuchova, Williams hit three
aces to hold for a 3-2 lead -- and
she wouldn't lose a game the rest
of the way.
She has won all eight sets she's
played this year at Flushing
Meadows.
"I tried to relax," Serena said
after improving to 8-1 against
Hantuchova over their careers.
"Sometimes I'm such a
perfectionist, I put too much stress
on myself. I was like, 'Serena,
relax!'"
She finished with eight aces and
a 27-9 advantage in winners in
Sunday's first match in Arthur
Ashe Stadium.
Serena's bid for a 12th Grand
Slam title will continue with a
quarterfinal against No. 10 Flavia
Pennetta of Italy, who saved six
match points en route to
eliminating No. 7 Vera Zvonareva
3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-0 at night.
No. 1 Dinara Safina was upset
in the third round Saturday night,
meaning Serena is the highest-
ranked woman left in the field.
Safina will remain atop the
rankings, though, even if the
younger Williams were to win a
second consecutive U.S. Open
title and fourth overall.
"I didn't even see that result until
this morning, so I haven't thought
much about it," Williams said.
"I'm not focused on who wins and
who loses. I'm just focused on
hopefully what I can do."
Clijsters stepped away from the
game in May 2007 after a series
of injuries. She got married later
that year, and gave birth to Jada in
February 2008.
"I'm glad I made that choice,"
she said Sunday, "because a lot of
beautiful things came out of it."
To hear Clijsters tell it, she
never gave a shred of thought to
ending her retirement until being
asked to participate in exhibition
matches under the new roof on
Wimbledon's Centre Court in
May. Eager to acquit herself well,
she began working out and
practicing -- and the desire to
compete for real came surging
back.
Her first official match came
Aug. 10 -- a win over 2007
Wimbledon runner-up Marion
Bartoli-- and because Clijsters
only entered two tournaments
before arriving in New York, she
still isn't ranked by the WTA. She
needed a wild-card invitation to
be able to play in the U.S. Open,
and now is the first such woman
to make the quarterfinals.
"She's come back fresh,
rejuvenated and just ready to play
and eager to play," observed
Price, "and seeing the value of it
more so than she did when she
left."
Clijsters credits her time away
with improving her mental
strength on the court, and it came
in handy on a cloudy, windy
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afternoon.
Venus got off to an inauspicious
start, putting in only 3 of 12 first
serves in the opening game, in
which she double-faulted twice
and sprayed shots wildly. Clijsters
took the first six games, Williams
took the next seven, then Clijsters
the next three.
"Very weird, right?" is how
Clijsters described those ebbs and
flows.
Indeed, there hadn't been a 6-0,
0-6 start to a women's match at
the U.S. Open since 1975.
Clijsters' forehand went away in
the second set, then returned with
great effectiveness in the third.
Consecutive winners off that wing
helped her gain the only service
break of the final set, one that put
her up 2-1 when Williams double-
faulted.
With the crowd pulling for the
Belgian more than the American,
Clijsters erased two break points
while serving for the match, then
ended it with a 101 mph service
winner.
Yes, Mom's still got it.
"Tennis is a great sport, but I'm
just happy that we have a family
and I can balance both," Clijsters
said in an on-court interview,
drawing a roar from fans.
After noting that Jada isn't
concerned with her wins or losses,
Clijsters elicited more yells of
support when asked about
changes she noticed when
returning to the sport.
"I only just started watching
tennis at the start of this year, to
be honest," she replied. "I didn't
really have that much time with a
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San Diego Chargers' Shawne Merriman accused of choking

female acquaintance Tequila
By ESPN.com news services conference. Ms Nguyen, however, paramedics which ran for two seasons on manager A.J. Smith said in
(ESPN.com) Merriman's attorney, Todd were called and she was examined MTV. The bisexual dating show statement. "We'll continue to
Submitted at 9/7/2009 6:19:51 AM Macaluso, disputed Tequila's but no injuries were reported. She featured men and women vying monitor the situation and let the
story and said he's confident was released and has since for Tequila's affections. She has legal process run its course."
Clayton On Merriman Arrest Merriman won't be charged by the returned to Los Angeles, also modeled for Playboy and Smith didn't return a call
Clayton On Merriman Arrest District Attorney's Office. California. There have been no other men's magazines. seeking further comment.
VIDEO PLAYLIST "There was absolutely no charges filed against me. I want to Scott E. Leemon, an attorney for Smith often speaks of signing
• Clayton On Merriman Arrest wrongdoing on the part of Mr. thank the San Diego Sheriffs Tequila, said in a statement that "character" players, yet the
Clayton On Merriman Arrest Merriman," Macaluso told The Department for their neither she nor her representatives Chargers have had their share of
• Merriman's Lawyer Speaks Associated Press by phone. "He professionalism. I will continue to would comment publicly. embarrassing off-field problems
Merriman's Lawyer Speaks essentially was doing what was cooperate fully with the Merriman's agent, Tom Condon, in recent seasons.
• Merriman Arrested, Charged a p p r o p r i a t e u n d e r t h e Department and I look forward to said he hadn't heard about the In 2006, there were seven run-
With Battery Merriman Arrested, circumstances in trying to protect clearing my name regarding these arrest when contacted by The ins with the law by San Diego
Charged With Battery the safety of Miss Tequila. There false allegations. I want to put this Associated Press. players, including linebacker
SAN DIEGO -- San Diego were numerous eyewitnesses that behind me so I can continue to There had been considerable Steve Foley's shooting by an off-
Chargers star outside linebacker will support his version of the focus on a successful season for Twitter chatter between Tequila duty police officer who suspected
Shawne Merriman was arrested events that transpired at his the San Diego Chargers." and Merriman during the last two him of drunken driving.
Sunday and accused of choking home." Caldwell said deputies months. She tweeted several times Merriman was suspended four
and restraining reality TV star Merriman, 25, was taken into determined Tequila had been about going to the Chargers' game games for testing positive for
Tila Tequila as she tried to leave custody and booked into the drinking. Friday night and a party she held steroids in 2006, and linebacker
his suburban home. central jail at about 8:30 a.m. He "She was able to talk," Caldwell afterward at a downtown club, Stephen Cooper was suspended
Tequila, 27, signed a citizen's was released shortly after 11 a.m. said. "She was able to walk. She including "Im the Head by the NFL for the first four
arrest warrant, charging Merriman Tequila was taken to Pomerado was mobile. She did not have any Cheerleader Prom Queen and games of the 2008 season after
w i t h b a t t e r y a n d f a l s e Hospital and left at 7:36 a.m. serious injuries that our deputies @shawnemerriman is the Prom testing positive for a banned
imprisonment, San Diego County Sunday, Dominguez reported. She saw." King! hahaha! LETS GOOO! stimulant.
Sheriff's Lt. Gary Steadman said. was observed and treated, but not Asked if Merriman was trying LIGHTS OUT! SAN DIEGO I Smith reportedly has been
Both are felonies. Tequila was admitted. Her stay at the hospital to keep Tequila from driving WILL SEE U TOMORROW!" unhappy with Merriman's
r e p o r t e d t o b e M e r r i m a n ' s was approximately two hours. drunk, Macaluso said: "We don't Merriman was the 12th overall extracurricular activities, and
girlfriend, but Merriman told Merriman issued a statement want to comment on her conduct. pick out of Maryland in the 2005 there's been speculation the
ESPN's Colleen Dominguez in a late Sunday. The bottom line is, he did draft, and had 39½ sacks in his Chargers will let him leave when
text message that Tequila is only a "The San Diego Sheriffs everything in his power to ensure first three seasons. The three-time he's eligible to become an
female acquaintance. Department responded to a her safety. He hopes she comes Pro Bowl selection has been unrestricted free agent. Merriman
AFC West blog citizen's complaint that was forth and tells the truth." getting back into shape after has various business ventures and
ESPN.com's Bill Williamson initiated by Tila Nguyen [aka Tila Caldwell said she wasn't sure if missing nearly all of last season is enamored with the Los Angeles
writes about all things AFC West Tequila]. I was taken into custody Merriman had been drinking. following knee surgery. social scene. While on injured
in his division blog. based upon that complaint. At the Macaluso said witnesses he spoke The Chargers, picked by some reserve last year he flew back and
• Blog network: NFL Nation time, I was concerned about her with said Merriman had ordered as Super Bowl favorites, open the forth to Los Angeles once a week
Deputies responded about 3:45 welfare given the intoxicated state water three or four times when his regular season a week from to appear on a football preview
a.m. local time to Merriman's she appeared to be in and I group was at a downtown San Monday night at Oakland. Players show.
house in Poway, north of San encouraged her to stay until safe Diego club before going to his had been off since after Friday Information from The
Diego, after a woman called to transportation could be provided. house. The attorney said none of night's preseason finale against Associated Press was used in this
say she was choked by the player We would all do our best to help a Merriman's teammates were at his San Francisco. They are due back report.
and thrown to the ground when friend if we considered their house. at practice on Monday.
she tried to leave, Sheriff's actions to be detrimental to their Tequila, whose real name is Tila "It's disappointing to hear about
D e p a r t m e n t s p o k e s m a n J a n personal safety. Nguyen, is best known for "A the issue involving Shawne
Caldwell said at a news "I in no way caused any harm to Shot at Love with Tila Tequila," Merriman," Chargers general
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New England Patriots deal Richard Seymour to Oakland

Raiders
By ESPN.com news services Raiders owner Al Davis wanted the Patriots continue to get success and we wish him the very Tommy Kelly are the tackles, but
(ESPN.com) immediate help for a defense that younger on defense. best during the rest of his career." Kelly has experience at end as
Submitted at 9/6/2009 4:50:41 PM has struggled to stop the run in Linebacker Mike Vrabel was Seymour goes from a team that well.
recent seasons. Since going to the traded to Kansas City in the has gone 77-19 the past six The Raiders had the worst run
Richard Seymour Traded To Super Bowl following the 2002 offseason, safety Rodney Harrison seasons to one that is an NFL- defense in the NFL in the
Raiders Richard Seymour Traded season, Oakland has had the worst retired, and more recently Tedy worst 24-72 over that span. The preseason, allowing 192 yards per
To Raiders run defense in the NFL, allowing Bruschi officially called it a Raiders became the first team to game. They had hoped to have
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The 141.7 yards per game on the career after 13 seasons. Seymour lose at least 11 games in six fixed their problems against the
Oakland Raiders took a big step ground and 122 touchdowns was the last member of the 2001 straight seasons when Seymour run by bringing in coordinator
toward improving their struggling r u s h i n g . T h e R a i d e r s h a v e Super Bowl championship and the Patriots beat them 49-26 John Marshall, who put a heavy
run defense by acquiring five-time allowed a 100-yard rusher in more defense still with New England. last December. emphasis on fundamentals.
Pro Bowl defensive lineman than half of their games the past Earlier this summer, Oakland The addition of rookies Myron But after watching the
Richard Seymour from the New three years. sent two-time Pro Bowl defensive Pryor and Ron Brace to a preseason, the Raiders decided
England Patriots on Sunday. "It shows the commitment of this end Derrick Burgess to New defensive line that also includes they needed an upgrade in
The move does not come organization," defensive end Greg England for a pair of mid-round veterans Vince Wilfork, Ty personnel as well and made the
without its risks as the Raiders Ellis said. "You can't guarantee draft picks. The Patriots also Warren, Jarvis Green and Mike move for Seymour.
gave up a first-round pick in we're going to have a great, great acquired receiver Randy Moss Wright made Seymour "He brings a lot of versatility to
2011, which could be in the top s e a s o n t h i s y e a r . B u t t h e from Oakland in 2007 for a fourth expendable. the defense. Plus, I mean, if we
10 based on Oakland's recent commitment is definitely there so -round pick, and the teams have "It's the nature of the business," can't stop the run now?" Kelly
history, to acquire a lineman who players don't have to question that swapped draft picks in recent said veteran running back Kevin said. "It definitely upgrades us."
turns 30 next month and is in the when you're making those kinds years. Faulk, the longest-serving player Oakland released defensive
final year of a contract paying him of moves to make something "Any transaction we make is on the team after Bruschi's tackle William Joseph to make
$3.685 million this season. happen and hopefully win right with the goal of what is best for departure. "They have an agenda room for Seymour.
Reaction To Seymour Trade now." our team and, as difficult as it is upstairs, and the coaches decide In a corresponding move, the
• Tim Graham, Seymour has been a stalwart in to part ways with a player of who comes and goes. You can't Patriots reached agreement
AFC East blogger: The Patriots New England since being drafted Richard's stature, many factors do nothing about it." Sunday with free-agent guard
are stronger in the long term by sixth overall in 2001. He played were taken into account when we Faulk said the team will miss Kendall Simmons, a source close
sacrificing for the short term. on three Super Bowl winners with considered this trade," Belichick the way Seymour carried himself to the player told ESPN NFL
• Bill Williamson, the Patriots, recording 39 career said. as a person and a player. Insider Adam Schefter. Simmons
AFC West blogger: The Raiders sacks and being selected to the Sack Machine "He was a quiet leader," second- will fill the roster spot vacated by
are in an inescapable rut and had Pro Bowl for five straight seasons Richard Seymour is off to year linebacker Jerod Mayo said. Seymour.
to take a risk to try and get better. beginning in 2002. Oakland after tying a career best "He led by his actions. He'll be A former first-round pick of the
• Adam Schefter, "From nearly the day he arrived with eight sacks in 2008. Here's a dearly missed as a teammate and Steelers, Simmons appeared in
ESPN NFL Insider: The Patriots i n 2 0 0 1 , R i c h a r d S e y m o u r look at Seymour's best seasons in as a player on the field. But we four games for Pittsburgh last
did what? Schefter was flooded established himself as one of our terms of sacks: have players that are ready to step season. He worked out for New
with swift and sharp reaction from premier players for nearly a "As an organization, we feel the up." England last week.
around the league. decade," Patriots coach Bill trade with Oakland brings It's not immediately clear if Simmons was expected to sign
• Christopher Harris, Belichick said Sunday. "His sufficient value and is in the long- Seymour will play defensive end later Sunday.
ESPN.com Fantasy: The value presence has been felt as a force term interest of the club," he or tackle for the Raiders, who lack Information from The
of New England's defense isn't as on the field, a respected man off it added. "We are extremely grateful a run-stuffer at end. Ellis and Associated Press contributed to
strong today now that Richard and a multiyear champion." for the huge impact Richard's elite Trevor Scott started during the this report.
Seymour's a Raider. The move is only the latest as level of performance had on our preseason. Gerard Warren and
U.S.
continued from page 45
baby running around, and I was sleeping." The Associated Press
happy just to sleep when she was What parent can't relate to that? contributed to this story.
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Oudin, Isner Serve Up Very Different Upsets

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) It was fitting that No. 1 Dinara 7% of their second serves. and 65th, respectively, at 12% and
Submitted at 9/6/2009 5:29:08 AM Safina saw her match pushed back Sharapova did so on a whopping 11%. Meanwhile, every woman
and moved to Louis Armstrong 40% of her second serves on ranked in the top 100 had won at
Melanie Oudin and John Isner, Stadium, because her six-foot Saturday, and won just 30% of least 25% of her opponent’s
winners of colossal U.S. Open frame didn’t protect her from the second serve points. She and service games.
upsets of former champions in evolution of the women’s game Oudin broke each other six Other Saturday tidbits:
consecutive Arthur Ashe Stadium that has seen the return game consecutive times heading in to There were 40 women entered Guitar Hero: The Beatles
m a t c h e s o n S a t u r d a y , m a y outpace the serve. She was broken the decisive game of the third set, in the women’s singles draw sends us into a terrifying
represent the future of American a whopping 16 times in three forcing spectators to adjust whose last name ended in “-a,” alternate universe
tennis, a designation inevitably matches, including twice in the expectations and their definition and Oudin will play at least four
slapped on anyone under 25 with decisive third set against Petra of a “break.” Heading into the of them. After defeating Anastasia By JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
a breakthrough at Flushing Kvitova, who upset her early Open, Sharapova’s rate of Pavlyuchenkova, Dementieva and Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:00:00 AM
Meadows. They may also S u n d a y m o r n i n g ( a f t e r winning second-serve points was Sharapova, Oudin faces her fourth
represent the sharply divergent tournament officials had upset her 41.4%, the fourth-lowest among Russian opponent in four rounds, Have you ever wondered why
futures of the men’s and women’s late Saturday night). One wonders the top 75 women. 13 seed Nadia Petrova. If she single-band Guitar Hero games
game. how much worse Safina’s serving John Isner, who towers over wins that matchup, Russian meet with a chorus of groans, but
Much has been made of Oudin’s statistics would have been at the Oudin by more than 15 inches, Svetlana Kuznetsova likely awaits when Rock Band does it, it's
small stature. And indeed her Open had she had to face Oudin. hasn’t even faced as many break in the quarterfinals. Fresh off her assumed to be the best thing ever?
weak serve has been a liability at Oudin’s opponent Saturday, points in his three matches at the upset of Safina, Kvitova of the This video depicting a fictional
the Open. She’s been broken 14 Sharapova, is one of the few top Open as the number of times she’s Czech Republic looks like a Guitar Hero: The Beatles captures
times in her last two matches, in a women to try to wield her serve as been broken. Overall, the 69 Isner candidate to reach the semifinals it perfectly. We don't even want to
whopping 44% of her service a weapon. Her average first serve has been broken just four times. — it would take just two wins explain the joke(s) -- experience
games. But then height doesn’t topped 100 miles per hour against His arrival in the top 60 this over unseeded opponents to make the train wreck in real time after
suffice to hold serve in the Oudin, and her average second summer and 610 Ivo Karlovic’s it there. Should Oudin reach the the break.
women’s game. Oudin gave up at serve topped 95 miles per hour. top 30 ranking for the last two finals, one of the two American The Guitar Hero: Whoever
least five inches to each of her last That second serve, in particular, is years show that tall men with women ranked above her — the series reached its ridiculous
two opponents, No. 4 Elena about as fast as the typical one huge serves can succeed on the Williams sisters — is likely to extreme with the recent
Dementieva and 29th-seed Maria f r o m t h e r a c q u e t o f R o g e r men’s tour, even with a below- await, but seeded players Vera announcement that the Van Halen
Sharapova, but she broke them 15 Federer, who preceded her at average return game. Isner’s Zvonareva (Russia), Flavia game would be given away as a
times, fully half of their service A r t h u r A s h e S t a d i u m ; h i s opponent Saturday, Andy Pennetta (Italy) and Daniela freebie with Guitar Hero 5. While
games. Her blistering ground opponent, Lleyton Hewitt, hits a Roddick, also excels mainly Hantuchova (Slovakia) remain we appreciate it as a deal, it shows
strokes and mediocre serve second serve that’s nearly 10 because of his rocket serve, possible opponents. just how much even Activision
combine to make her almost as miles per hour slower than though his return game had Federer’s streak of futile thinks of it.
dangerous when she’s returning Sharapova’s. improved before it betrayed him challenges of calls extended to 15 [Thanks, Jeff]
serve than when she’s holding it But Sharapova’s results show against Isner. But then over a year in his match against Continue reading Guitar Hero:
— putting every game up for the danger of that approach. The expectations are different on the Hewitt. Federer likely was The Beatles sends us into a
grabs and explaining why her last second serve is a balancing act men’s tour. Before the Open, consoled by extending his longer terrifying alternate universe
two matches lasted about six between aggression and caution, Roddick ranked 58th among 65 streak of not losing a match at the Guitar Hero: The Beatles sends
hours, combined, each time and Sharapova’s balance is far out Tour regulars by winning 19% of Open since 2003. us into a terrifying alternate
pushing the night session at least of whack. Federer and Hewitt his opponents’ service games; universe originally appeared on
two hours late. combined to hit double faults on Isner and Karlovic ranked 64th Joystiq on Mon, 07 Sep 2009
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Oklahoma Sooners QB Sam Bradford to have

shoulder evaluated
By ESPN.com news services The injury to Bradford's right, through this before. Starting freshman Landry Jones had little
(ESPN.com) throwing shoulder has been called quarterback Jason White got hurt chance for success while
Submitted at 9/6/2009 7:13:35 PM a sprained AC joint. Purdue in both 2001 and 2002, prior to replacing Bradford in his college
quarterback Curtis Painter missed his Heisman Trophy run. Adrian debut. He guided Oklahoma on
The Latest On Sam Bradford's two games last season and played Peterson was a season and a half five drives, netting only one field Kick your WoW
I n j u r y T h e L a t e s t O n S a m as a reserve three weeks after removed from being the Heisman goal.
Bradford's Injury injuring the joint. runner-up when he broke his Even when Bradford was in the habit with
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Before Bradford has already begun collarbone in 2006 and missed game, Oklahoma was outgained
the season started, Oklahoma's physical rehabilitation and hopes seven games. by BYU 245 yards to 164 in the ReSTART clinic
offensive coordinator talked about to avoid surgery, two people Two of those three seasons first half.
preparing the Sooners to deal with familiar with the situation told By Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
ended with Oklahoma still "If we go out there and play
Submitted at 9/7/2009 9:35:00 AM
an injury to Heisman Trophy ESPN's Joe Schad on Sunday winning the Big 12 championship behind chains and our protection
winner Sam Bradford. night. and going to a BCS bowl. is not clean ... or our receivers are
The worst case scenario became Just when you think this kind of
Wilson said a similar process is "We do have a track record dropping balls or we're having thing can only happen in the
reality Saturday night and the ongoing for second-team All- here," Wilson said. "We've lost penalties or balls on the ground,
result was a season-opening 14-13 America tight end Jermaine Netherlands, along comes
some guys through the years. It is like any quarterback, he's not ReSTART, a Washington state-
upset at the hands of BYU. Gresham, who has cartilage a part of the game. You don't going to play good," Wilson said.
Now, with no timetable for their damage in his right knee and based rehab center that offers a 45
want it. You don't want it for Wilson said he's most -day course of treatment crafted to
star quarterback's return, the didn't play against BYU. anyone, but I do think we've disappointed that the sloppy play
Sooners are looking for Plan C -- help you kick your internet or
"Those are not just necessarily shown that we do have the ability came from veterans who'd played World of Warcraft addiction. Oh,
or at least a revised Plan B. for our team, but those are two to adjust and we do have a bunch in big games before, although
Big 12 blog and it's all offered at the bargain
tremendous players that have of good players here that will rally they were reserves instead of price of $14,000!
ESPN.com's Tim Griffin writes great futures. We want to make and pick it up." starters at the time.
about all things Big 12 in his sure their best interest is taken "We've been doing this for years
If Bradford is unable to return in "We're not going to make on an outpatient basis," Hilarie
conference blog. into consideration with what's time for this Saturday's home wholesale changes but right now,
• Blog network: Cash, the center's director, told
being done," Wilson said. opener against Idaho State -- and [Saturday] night is what we are. the AP. "Up until now, we had no
College Football Nation "There's no rush. There's no more importantly for games That was evident. That's what we
"Whether he is here or is not judgments." place to send them."
against Tulsa on Sept. 19 and at are," Wilson said. "We need to Of course, if you want to kick
here for this week and the weeks Only four days before he was Miami on Oct. 3 -- the Sooners make some significant
to come, we're sitting right here at hurt, Bradford described how he'd your WoW addiction for just a
have more issues to deal with than improvement to be the team that little bit less cash, the serious
0-1 and we've got to buckle it up taken out an insurance policy after just the loss of their star we're capable of being. Right
and get moving in a quick he decided to pass up the chance professionals of the Joystiq
quarterback. now, it's disappointing to play that Internet Rehabilitation Clinic
direction and a positive direction," to be a first-round pick in this A rebuilt offensive line with way."
offensive coordinator Kevin year's NFL draft and instead Staffed By Serious Professionals
four new starters committed nine Information from ESPN college have some fine replacement
Wilson said Sunday. pursue a national championship at penalties as part of what Wilson football reporter Joe Schad and
Oklahoma's medical staff was Oklahoma. therapies to recommend.
called "a tremendous comedy of The Associated Press was used in Kick your WoW habit with
still taking a look at treatment The Sooners have no such errors." With so much going this report.
options for Bradford on Sunday. policy, but they have been ReSTART clinic originally
wrong around him, redshirt appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07
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Tennessee Titans' LenDale Although He May Miss

White says he'd stomp on Chase, Kyle Busch Still
Terrible Towel again Making NASCAR History This Wednesday:
By ESPN.com news services Bulluck celebrated clinching the By Jerry Bonkowski Sonic and Knuckles
(FanHouse)
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/7/2009 7:53:26 AM
AFC's top seed by stomping on
the Terrible Towel. Defensive end Submitted at 9/7/2009 10:30:00 AM
rush XBLA
Jevon Kearse also was caught on By Alexander Sliwinski
Apparently, LenDale White camera pretending to use one to by Jerry Bonkowski (Joystiq)
doesn't think stomping on the blow his nose. Filed under: Kyle Busch, Chase Submitted at 9/7/2009 11:25:00 AM
Terrible Towel last season was so, The Titans face the Steelers at for the Sprint Cup NASCAR
well, terrible. Heinz Field in the NFL's season statisticians have some newly- With Major Nelson taking this
White, who was among several opener on Thursday, Sept. 10. released numbers that are day of labor off, we look across
Titans who stomped on the And while White told reporters he guaranteed to get die-hard race the pond for word on this week's
S t e e l e r s ' s i g n a t u r e t o w e l expects the atmosphere to be a fans talking. Xbox Live Arcade title. As
following last year's 3114 rout of "loud one, a loud, mean, evil Those numbers concern the previously noted, it appears Sonic
Pittsburgh at LP Field, said he do one," Kearse said it's time to sport's top drivers and how many and Knuckles will be this week's
it again given the chance. move on. all-time combined wins they have release at 400($5). The good word
"If it happens to be there, I'm "Im not even paying attention to across the three major racing comes from European Xbox
going to stomp all over that that anymore. It happened. Its in series (Sprint Cup, Nationwide community manager "
[pause], man," the running back the past," Kearse said, according and Camping World Trucks). AceyBongos," which just doesn't
told reporters after practice to The Nashville City Paper. At first glance, the list looks have the same ring as "Major
Sunday. "If there's a towel in the "That was last season. It happened rather typical. The usual names - Nelson." Could Microsoft at least
stands, I will stomp on it. I don't last season, so what? If they want Petty, Allison, Yarborough, make the guy a general or
care who gets mad. ... If they to use that as motivation, let them Pearson, Waltrip, etc., are on it. career. But look at who is No. 9 captain?
throw a towel at me, I'm going to g o a h e a d a n d u s e t h a t a s That's not surprising, given their on the all-time combined wins This Wednesday: Sonic and
kick it and stomp all over it. If motivation. I mean, rah, rah, rah. prowess in the Cup Series, where list: Kyle Busch. Knuckles rush XBLA originally
they don't want their towel We stomped on a towel, so what? they all earned most of their Although He May Miss Chase, appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07
stomped on, keep it out my face." Thats what we were supposed to career triumphs. K y l e B u s c h S t i l l M a k i n g Sep 2009 11:25:00 EST. Please
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Starting Five: Rays' Season Slips Away

By Andrew Johnson ahead. inning, but then the bullpen came on Fanhouse MLB Blog on Mon,
(FanHouse) You Oughta Know ... unraveled. Tampa Bay manager 07 Sep 2009 06:00:00 EST .
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The Best of Big Download: August

31-September 6
By Joystiq Staff (Joystiq) Monolith's first person shooter. games.
Submitted at 9/6/2009 10:30:00 PM • Hearts of Iron 3 Review: We • Boot Disk: Our weekly retro
let you know what we think of games column looks at the classic
Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta Paradox's latest historical strategy strategy Heroes of Might and
(about Joystiq) game. Magic 3.
First QuakeCon, then BlizzCon • The Top 10 PC Game News • All You Need To Know: A
and now PAX 2009- It's been a Stories for August 2009: We look new feature at Big Download, we
packed month for Big Download. back at the big PC game news look at what you need to know
Let's look at the past seven days events for last month. about the upcoming PC port of
before things calm down ... a • Steam's new hardware survey Batman: Arkham Asylum.
little: before Windows 7: What does • Playing For Free: Our new
Exclusive Features Steam's hardware survey show we column on free-to-play online
• PAX 2009: We've been all over have in our rigs before next games continues with a look at
this year's Penny Arcade Expo in month's launch of Microsoft's Battlefield Heroes.
Seattle. Check out our primer for next OS? We have the info. • Freeware Friday: Our weekly
the show, a chat with show • Other PC Games Due In Fall look at free PC games checks out
organizer Mike Fehlauer, pictures 2009: We look at a lot of the open-source shooter
from the show floor and pictures upcoming downloadable PC game OpenLieroX.
of the cosplayers and booth titles due out in fall 2009. Continue reading The Best of
models. Plus hands-on and eyes- • Quick Hit Football: We chat Big Download: August 31-
on PAX 2009 impressions of with the head of a PC game September 6
games like Star Trek Online, Left developer planning to launch a The Best of Big Download:
4 Dead 2, James Cameron's web browser based pro foootball August 31-September 6 originally
Avatar The Game, Serious Sam game with current and former appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 06
H D T h e F i r s t E n c o u n t e r , NFL players and coaches. Sep 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please
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• F.E.A.R 2 Reborn Review: We Deluxe
give our final word on this week's • Big Ideas: Our weekly look at
new single player expansion to game themes looks at villains in