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By Dong Ngo (Webware.com) CNET's Dong Ngo reports from social network. But is the Digital Media
Submitted at 12/9/2009 1:00:00 PM
Hanoi on troubles that local users government to blame?
have been facing in accessing the Originally posted at News -
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Dell's Adamo XPS now shipping to some (and we've got pics
to prove it)
By Darren Murph (Engadget) happened over at Adam's office. feel free to cheer yourself up by Dell's Adamo XPS now shipping
Submitted at 12/10/2009 10:47:00 AM
In fact, those ordering one of perusing the gallery below. Or to some (and we've got pics to
these slimsters today won't see it slip into an infinite loop of prove it) originally appeared on
Dell's 9.99mm thin Adamo XPS until mid-January, but if you got depression -- your call. Engadget on Thu, 10 Dec 2009
wasn't supposed to ship to even in early, there just might be hope [Thanks, Adam] 10:47:00 EST. Please see our
the earliest orderers until for you yet. Oh, and if you're Gallery: Dell's Adamo XPS now terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
December 22nd, but it seems as pretty certain that your order will Old Man Winter holds you down, shipping to some (and we've got | Email this| Comments
if a minor Christmas miracle has simply be delayed indefinitely as pics to prove it)
Google Mobile app for iPhone gets an update Our Trains Are Very
(CNET News.com) According to the company, the version. Users can change the Delicate Okay?
improved application features a color of Google Mobile and turn
Submitted at 12/10/2009 8:57:00 AM
redesigned search results page, on a moving waveform when
[Nature's Fury]
Google Mobile App receiving with more results than in the users search by voice. By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
s e a r c h f r o m v o i c e . ( C r e d i t : previous version. The app also fivefilters.org featured article: Submitted at 12/10/2009 8:45:48 AM
Google) opens Web pages from those Normalising the crime of the
A new version of Google Mobile results within the program, which century by John Pilger Today in 'Things That Can Shut
for the iPhone is now available in Google says should help users Down the NYC Subway System:'
Apple's App Store, the search get where they want to go sooner. has also made its Bells and Delicate fallen leaves.
giant announced in a blog post T o m a k e t h e a p p m o r e Whistles feature more prominent
Wednesday. customized to the user, Google in the new Google Mobile
E-reader Newspaper Tech/ Entertainment/ 21
That was Qik! After Ustream's debut in App offer fans a rare peak into the
lives of the traditionally private
famous family in "The Jacksons:
Store, Qik submits streaming app A Family Dynasty." Jackie,
Jermaine, Tito, and Marlon
By Steven Sande (The video apps would ever be jailbroken iPhones will certainly celebrated the launch of their
Unofficial Apple Weblog approved for the iPhone platform open up a new chapter in the reality show on Wednesday night
(TUAW)) due to AT&T's reluctance to have iPhone story. in Los Angeles.
Submitted at 12/10/2009 8:35:00 AM their network overwhelmed by TUAW That was Qik! After Marlon told ET that Michael is
self-produced live vidcasts of Ustream's debut in App Store, with them "always in spirit."
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, e m o g u i t a r p l a y e r s the app store, which allows Qik submits streaming app Jermaine said the late King of
Video, Odds and ends, " b r o a d c a s t i n g " f r o m t h e i r recording and eventual uploading originally appeared on The Pop "would be very, very proud
Developer, iPhone, App Store unheated rent-controlled flats. of video to their site, but not live U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g because we kept it real."
We were all a bit surprised when No sooner had the Ustream app video streaming. According to a (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 To get a glimpse of the
Ustream's free Live Broadcasting magically appeared than we blog post on the Qik site, the app 08:35:00 EST. Please see our dynamics of the brotherly love,
iPhone app [ iTunes Link] was began to receive emails from Qik has been resubmitted and the terms for use of feeds. we asked which brother takes the
approved by Apple and tossed stating that they were submitting wait is on. Read| Permalink| Email this| longest to get ready. Marlon
into the App Store yesterday. their streaming video app for Having a choice of legal video Comments ragged on Jermaine, saying,
After all, it wasn't that long ago approval. Qik currently has Qik streaming apps that don't require "Jermaine takes three hours. He's
that it seemed that no streaming for 3GS [Free, iTunes Link] in worse than a female."
28 Tech/ Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ E-reader Newspaper
up the fastest, smallest news blazing new trails with its new
are a Changing organization on the planet. The
American Red Cross watches
real-time ActivityStreams feed
normalization API. The API
By Alex Williams information and applications. BNO closely for notices of new means activities from 70 different
(ReadWriteWeb) Serving as a police agency is natural disasters. MSNBC paid social services can be read in a
Submitted at 12/10/2009 9:15:30 AM
ineffective. The real answer is to what have been a hefty sum for common language and 3rd party
develop a cooperative culture. control over the Breaking News services can slice and dice them
Look at how smart phones are F o r e x a m p l e , M o b i l e I r o n Online Twitter account this to create new user experiences.
reaching into the enterprise and provides the capabilities for an month, but the organization's Several high-profile applications
same time creating a cooperative
it's clear a cultural shift is taking enterprise to establish its own iPhone app lives on in the hands have already begun consuming
environment with users.
place that is transforming the "app stores." IT can manage what of the original organization. activity feeds republished
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MobileIron uses the data from keep you on top of world events says many more consumers are in
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Smart phones in the enterprise The MobileIron methods allow around the clock like nothing the works. This is the stuff that
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People buy smart phones to do Costly roaming charges can be iPhone's new Push feature, platforms are built on, where
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histories and SMS messages are
IDC is estimating that by 2013, a MobileIron demonstrates how Aardvark is a social search economies of scale.
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continued from page 38
We've just heard from our Apple’s posted job listings seem
friends at Google that their to provoke no end of exciting
mobile app is now available in speculation, and one of its latest
the App Store for iPhone users open calls for applications is
everywhere. certainly no exception. New job
In the new version of Google postings call for a software
Mobile, everyone's favorite engineer for the iPhone Gaming
search company has redesigned Group, and a video game artist.
their results display to show more Last month’s call for a
results at one time. Also, users game/media software engineer on interactive multimedia implementing new features in
will be able to open web pages was somewhat open to experiences on the iPhone and existing applications as well as
from search results from inside interpretation, but this time iPod touch. The position on the developing complex applications
the app. Other new features are around, there’s no ambiguity team is to help design, visualize, from top to bottom (user
pretty impressive, too. involved. enable and implement interface, interface design to design and
Sponsor 3-D characters/environments, implementation of supporting
engineer Alastair Tse, "if you're Not that Apple hasn’t made animation, texturing as well as frameworks.)
Users can now customize the Australian but live in London, games in the past, as The iPhone
application by any color they original concept artwork. Two job calls does not exactly a
you can improve the recognition Blog points out. Texas Hold’Em Requirements also include the gaming studio make, but it shows
choose. Users with speedy accuracy by selecting Australian is a game, after all, if not a
iPhone models can also choose to particularly ambitious one. But “ability to model, animate, that Apple is thinking about that
in the Voice Search settings." texture and produce area. And how could it not,
turn on a moving waveform for Google has also added such that casual game was a one-off,
voice-activated searches. These bump/normal maps for 3-D scene really? It’s been pushing the iPod
languages as Mandarin and and was probably designed more graph environments.” The touch as a gaming device, and
mods are available under a "Bells Japanese to its list of supported to get the ball rolling for third-
and Whistles" setting for fancy party developers than as a software engineer position is less witnessed first-hand the success
languages. obviously game-related, but the of games on both it and the
gizmodgery. For more information about the meaningful entry point into the
And speaking of searching by description does specifically iPhone, so it knows that’s a space
Google iPhone app, check it out gaming industry for Apple itself. mention the iPhone Gaming where money can be made. I still
voice, Google has worked out a at Google's page or download it The new job postings, however,
special sort of magic for sussing Group, and lists “experience with believe the primary purpose of
free from the App Store. Discuss seem to indicate that Apple wants game development” as an asset: any software effort on Apple’s
out not only the language but to start taking gaming much more
also the accent of the speaker. seriously. The skill sets asked for Please join us in taking the part is selling hardware, so I’d
"For example," writes software definitely go beyond what’s revolutionary iPhone to the next expect to see new games from the
required to create a simple video level. The iPhone Games Group company to make especially
poker simulator, at least. From is looking for a proactive, highly good use of the newer hardware
the call for an artist: motivated engineer with 5+ years and software features of the
The interactive media group is experience, to share their iPhone and iPod touch, including
looking for a skilled artist who expertise in application and peer-to-peer networking.
wants to work as part of a small framework development…You
highly motivated team to work will be responsible for
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LeAnn Rimes vs. Shanna Moakler: Stars Show Off Same Sexy
Style
(ETonline - Breaking News) It's a fashion face-off for style- beauty queen Shanna Moakler's stopping ensembles, see which
Submitted at 12/10/2009 6:40:00 AM
savvy celebs! From country revealing mini-dresses, to Fergie stars are working the red carpet
crooner LeAnn Rimes and former and Gwyneth Paltrow's show- in a similar fashion.
E-reader Newspaper Apple/ Sports/ 43
buy yourself this holiday season replacement. Looks like Finder, a WYSIWYG editor, broadcast widget.
them using Twitter, and also keep • Machinarium– The much- Filed under: Predators, Western,
(or someone else, I suppose, b u t f e a t u r e s n u m e r o u s
an eye on auctions you’re loved Mac puzzle/adventure NHL Fans Going into the season,
though I never find that people enhancements, including a dual
bidding on. PayPal support is game. You’re a robot who has to the NHL's Central Division was
much like software gifts), the p a n e f i l e b r o w s e r , t a b b e d
also built-in. assumed to be the league's
MacUpdate Holiday Bundle has browsing, easy Mac package travel through a world of robots
• D r a g T h i n g – A n O S X to find your robot lover. On the toughest. We're past the quarter
just arrived and is well worth navigation, disk image creation
launcher. It’s a dock, but more way, you’ll run into countless pole, and the teams who emerged
considering. Like MacHeist and and OS X command line access.
versatile than the one that ships puzzles and brain teasers. as playoff teams last year --
many other software bundles, • S o c i a l i t e – U s e d t o b e
with OS X, and you can have • iRip– A utility for getting Columbus and St. Louis -- are
MacUpdate’s offers a heaping EventBox. It’s an aggregator for
more than one using DragThing. music from your iPod onto your floundering. Meanwhile, the
helping of software at a bargain your social networks and news
Billed as a way to keep your Mac. This is the one that made Nashville Predators, underfunded
basement price. sources, including Google
desktop clean, so that you can headlines a little while ago when and probably underappreciated in
The bundle includes 11 quality Reader, Facebook, Twitter and
have your files available without it had to change its name to iRip their home market, keep on
Mac apps, including both utilities RSS. Learn more in our recent
wasting all that space and because Apple took issue with its playing solid, competitive
and games, and if you’re lucky article about the program.
memory. hockey.
enough to be one of the first • Yep– PDF and document original name, “iPodRip.”
• Speed Download– Download To find out how they're doing it,
10,000 buyers, you also get three management app. It’s described
manager and accelerator. I’ve That’s the basic bundle, but as we figured we'd ask someone
additional pieces of software at by the developers as an iPhoto or
never used one of these, but this mentioned, you also get three who knows. Dirk Hoag writes the
no extra charge (around 1,200 iTunes for your iWork, Office
one does have the advantage of other apps if you buy it soon. popular On The Forecheck blog,
had been sold at the time of this and PDF files. You can navigate
doubling as a full-featured FTP T h o s e and he joins us to discuss the
writing). Best of all, if you’re your file structure to find them three are
client, which is good enough for PowerTunes(manage multiple chances of Nashville being a
unsure about any of the apps and move them, and also preview
me. legitimate playoff threat in the
included, you can download a them within the app. iTunes libraries), Holiday DVD
• HealthNut– Calorie tracker and Templates(self-explanatory) and Western Conference.
preview package that includes • Radio Gaga– Nothing to do
food diary. Just in time for FlagIt!(flag add-on for Apple Listen to the podcast above, or
trial versions of each. with the Lady of the same name.
helping exacerbate the guilt of Mail). The MacUpdate Holiday click here to download the file.
The total cost of the Holiday It’s an internet radio player and
Bundle is $49.99, which is a recorder. You can add your own stuffing your face over the Bundle is only available for
nearly 90 percent discount from stations or use the built-in holidays, and helping you stay on around 12 more days, so if you’re
the cumulative regular price of directory of more than 10,000. track with your consequent New going to bite, you’ve got less
$446.77. Even if two of the apps • Garage Sale– eBay auction Year’s resolution to lose weight. than two weeks to do it.
o n o f f e r a r e p a r t o f y o u r creator and client. You can build • PCalc– Scientific calculator
because what could be more Lady. Not cool: Moms are Chef and certainly not by the Michael won in a way that was Injured in Chicago
devastating to a child than to be a civilians. logic to which the show itself so clearly at odds with both
loser in the eyes of his parents? As for their food, the best I can supposedly clings. I'm not quite reality and the completely High-Rise Fire
But his eyes are dead to you, remember: Kevin's red balls in sure now, sorting through my isolated but nonetheless self- (FOXNews.com)
glazed over by one too many yellow custard was the best Mom gripes, which ones are valid and contained terrarium of reality Submitted at 12/10/2009 7:48:44 AM
rounds of Street Fighter, and you dish. Toby Young liked Bryan's which ones aren't. I suppose, for television is a gripe that has the
exhale as you walk away and sardines but that's because he's an example, that it doesn't matter added, if coincidental, value of CHICAGO Hundreds of
walk towards the Wall because asshole. No one really liked that Mike is a dickhead for this being true. Is it only the Chicago firefighters worked to
Ugly Kid Joe has a new single Mike's broccoli. For the second is, after all, a cooking show. He $125,000 prize awarded to the put out a high-rise fire that left
you want to get on cassette. And course, Kevin's dish was, again, isn't, in the reality tv show cliche, wrong Voltaggio that so irks me? one person dead and 12 people
then the word "Loser!" hits you the clear favorite except he "there to make friends." On the No, it is not. The crushing injured.
like shrapnel, peppering your botched his mushroom. Bryan's other hand, character is the moment isn't when Michael wins The fire sent flames shooting out
skull. Your palms sweat and the was bland and Michael won by currency and the bungee that but from when his mother from of the condo building in the city's
cookie scent piped out of Mrs. default. Third dish, Bryan's bind us week after week to the the shadows comes to embrace Streeterville neighborhood. More
Fields is now mixed with the venison was hands down the show's and Padma's heaving her son, the winner, while Bryan, than 200 residents ran out into a
acrid tingle of fear. But you don't favorite and for dessert, his again bosom even though, increasingly, back to the camera, with his neck bitterly cold Chicago morning
dare turn around because for all was the only offering both well other things happening at stiff—for heavy is the crown and after the fire broke out shortly
your mother knows, that "loser" executed and well thought out. Wednesday night at 10 pm seem heavier is not having one- before 1 a.m. Thursday.
wasn't meant for you but some Kevin's was lacking a central more appealing [cf. toe clipping, watches stoically at a distance. The 12 people injured included
other loser, hopefully a Momless focus and Michael's flavors, looking for an accountant, Though it is Michael Mama five firefighters, but authorities
one. You are still simply the though bold and strong, were reading up on circumcision.] Voltaggio embraces, it's to Bryan say none of the injuries appear to
Secretary of the Key Club, well offset by an over and improperly Furthermore, character, as much her eyes turn and there they stay. be life-threatening.
loved and eager to please. Or at cooked cake. The breakdown of as salt and pepper, is what gives And as Mother and Sons leave Authorities say the fire started
least you hope you are. judges' opinions is illustrated in food flavor. In dinner too, the studio, the thunderous fact on the 36th floor in the unit of
To lard the good cheer of this amateur grid below. character is the narrative. But that one's a loser, no matter how the woman who died. Fire
unexpected mom presence, that As the diagram makes good artists are often crummy unjust the outcome or the panel Commissioner John Brooks says
fortifying maternal element, the heartbreakingly clear, Bryan people. Alexander Pope was a deciding it, surely crashes heavy she was found near the front door
judges demand the contestants should have been the winner. bitter little man. Picasso was no on Bryan's soul, sweeping him of the apartment, apparently
create a fourth dish: A Mom Kevin pulled a Casey, great shakes himself. Celine was and us out to sea. trying to get out.
Dish. Sigh. Let's cut the crap and unfortunately, and though he a fucking Nazi for Christ's sake. I This is Joshua David Stein. The cause of the blaze is under
skip ahead. could blame Preeti he doesn't love Roald Dahl but he wouldn't Thank you for reading. I'll see investigation.
The producers have now roped and, furthermore, shouldn't have. love me because I'm a Jew but do you next year and thank you to More from MyFoxChicago.com.
in a Voltaggio Mom as an The fault was his own. He had, I still read The Wonderful Story Yoni Lotan, again, for your fivefilters.org featured article:
anabolic boost to a fading season by his own admission, a bad day of Henry Sugar? I do. wonderful work. Normalising the crime of the
and a fraternal rivalry on the worst day to have one. I suppose, therefore I can century by John Pilger
assiduously cultivated at great Instead the winner is Michael, dismiss that gripe. Though if I
cost. This brings the body count the Roman-looking one. see Andy Cohen, I'll tweak his
that has fallen victim to this Certainly a good chef, Michael nads (in a not nice way) for cross
belabored narrative to two: Voltaggio, but not worthy of the contamination of two currencies
Jennifer Carroll and now this by now dubious honorific of Top in a single market. But that
E-reader Newspaper Entertainment/ Economy/ 53
nationalized your friends list, like on an investor website published all this; it certainly makes it
Backchecking With ...
some Cuban sugar plantation,
and published it to people who
hate you. You have no choice.
a list of his Facebook friends,
presumably for hate-mailing.
Former Gawker editor Doree
easier to hunt down people
willing to confirm gossip about
their acquaintances. And it's
Claude Giroux
By Christopher Botta
That's because the social Shafrir blogged this morning satisfying to have our conspiracy (Fanhouse Main)
network has codified this new about how her once-hidden theories confirmed— and quoted
Submitted at 12/10/2009 4:00:00 AM
state of affairs right there into its friends, network and fan-page by civil libertarians at the
written "Privacy Policy." A subscriptions have suddenly been Electronic Frontier Foundation Filed under: Flyers We get to
comparison of the new and old published. who, along with the ACLU, have know NHL players with some
policies reveals this addition: I've now set my privacy settings raised serious objections these quick questions. Today's subject:
Certain categories of information so that only friends can search "privacy" changes. Flyers forward Claude Giroux,
such as your name, profile photo, me [ and find out you're a fan of But there's something the highly-skilled second-year
list of friends and pages you are a Howard Kurtz! Oy! - maddening about watching right wing who's a big part of
fan of, gender, geographic Ed.]…which seems sort of Facebook bumble its way into Philadelphia's present and future.
region, and networks you belong counterproductive to the whole another privacy debacle, one What is your first hockey
to are considered publicly enterprise, doesn't it? approaching in its disastrousness memory?
available to everyone, including Indeed it does, and it's scant the launch of the Beacon Winning the championship game month. I had headaches. There
Facebook-enhanced applications, protection: Shafrir's friends are advertising/stalking system a few in the Pee Wee provincial were a few days when I just felt
and therefore do not have privacy still listed to strangers on her years back. If only Facebook's tournament in Burlington, lost. That was horrible. I would
settings. You can, however, limit profile page, if you can find it. investors agreed. But then they're Ontario as a ten-year-old. My not wish it on anybody.
the ability of others to find this There's a way to turn this off, too, not exactly a pack of civil town -- Hearst, Ontario -- is very Do you have any game-day
information through search using according to Salmon (see update liberties advocates, now are they? small, so winning that rituals?
your search privacy settings. to his column), but anyone who (Top pic: Facebook CEO Mark tournament was a big surprise for If I have a good game, I'll wear
Facebook users have just begun shares a friend with you will still Zuckerberg, by Simon Doggett) a lot of people and an incredible the same suit, shirt and tie to the
to realize this is happening. be able to see all your friends thing for the town. next game. I'll have everything
Reuters' aggressive financial (I'm looking at Salmon's now, What's your favorite thing about cleaned, don't worry. I'm very
columnist Felix Salmon took and we're not friends). playing in the NHL? superstitious.
note of this exciting new Really, as gossip bloggers, we at My first pre-season game in the If you could hit one opponent
"privacy" feature when his critics Gawker should be happy about NHL was against New Jersey. with a clean, hard check, who
The Devils started Martin would it be?
France to impose tax on bank Brodeur, which blew me away. Georges Laraque. It's not like I
He was one of my favorite don't respect him or anything. I
bonuses players growing up. Playing with do. It's just that he's a real big
(Financial Times - US working out the details, but so many great players and guy who plays hard and I'm not
homepage) intends to bring Paris in line with playing against the best in the the biggest guy. If I could get
London by forcing banks to pay world like Brodeur...that was him with a good hit, I think that
Submitted at 12/10/2009 8:03:51 AM
50 per cent in tax on bonus pay- always the dream for me. We kid would be fun.
President Nicolas Sarkozy is to outs for 2009 above €27,000. around about this, but I really am If you could be one of your
follow Britain’s lead and impose fivefilters.org featured article: living the dream. teammates, who would it be?
a one-off tax on bonus pay-outs Normalising the crime of the What's the toughest aspect of life Simon Gagne. Sick hair.
by banks operating in France. century by John Pilger in the NHL?
The French government is still Last season I suffered a
concussion and I was out for a
56 Sports/ E-reader Newspaper
about John Wall,'' he said. "We psyche. What came out when it required to pay back $800 in who will knock down the shot.
UFC 107
didn't make three passes in the
first half.'' At one point, Calipari
was looking for a straitjacket,
mattered was Wall's
extraordinary poise and desire to
have the ball in the crunch.
expenses after he took unofficial
visits to schools with an agent.
The fans simply don't care. At
John wants the ball. We get it to
him.''
Whenever he is asked to assess
Workout
unable to handle this team of kids
who are learning not only to play
"There's no one who works
harder,'' Calipari raved. "He
Lexington bars, they order a
drink called the "John Wall,'' a
himself, Wall rarely does.
Wisely, he deflects the attention
Photos
the game but simply perform the hasn't missed a class, hasn't blend of blue raspberry vodka, to the team or toward his own By FanHouse Newswire
fundamentals with common missed a tutorial. No one works sour mix and Sprite. There's also deficiencies. How did he feel (Fanhouse Main)
sense. harder in the weight room. No a Wall Dance, based on his little about playing so well in the Submitted at 12/9/2009 2:42:00 PM
"I'm gonna look like Dick Vitale one works harder in practice. All manuever during the Big Blue Garden? "It feels good,'' he said.
by the time the season is over,'' of that is building his self-esteem Madness coming-out party. Seen "In the first half, I was struggling Filed under:@gallery
he said. "Or I'll be solid gray and and confidence,'' the show "Cougar Town'' on and trying to do my thing. I made http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlp
look like Bobby Cremins. We do The arrival of Wall coincides ABC? turnovers and got into foul ublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=ex
stuff and I'm like, 'What are you with the Calipari experience, Actor Josh Hopkins, a Kentucky trouble. In the second half, I ran pand_relative_urls&dataUrlNode
doing?' We got up and one point which is greeted with glee in fan, performed the Wall Dance the plays.'' s=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizati
and celebrated like we won the Bluegrass country despite his on the show recently. He did so much more than that, onConfig,entry&id=795764&pid
national title. Are you kidding? I dubious record of dirt: He's the All of which compelled Calipari of course. What he managed was =795763&uts=1260417715
told them, 'Guys, if we don't start only coach who had to vacate to ask his players a question the a shout-out to a sports world that http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media
getting better, we're setting two Final Four berths, at other day: "Anyone got a will be admiring him for, oh, the _gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wr
ourselves up.' '' For what, John? Memphis, pending appeal, and problem with John Wall getting next 20 years. We just wish apper.swf KE Media Gallery
It's the second week of Massachusetts, because of all the press?'' He looked at big Calipari would leave him alone Feed
December, three months before wrongdoing in his programs. Of man Patrick Patterson, an All- sometimes. Cheerleaders perform during an
March Madness. That's what course, the UK faithful don't American and prime NBA If not, the stinkeye awaits. NFL football game between the
Wall seemed to be conveying care, having dismissed their own prospect in his own right. Follow Us on Twitter Friend Us San Francisco 49ers and
with his eyes when he stared scandals -- academic fraud and "Patrick, you have a problem not on Facebook Jacksonville Jaguars in San
down his coach, who said recruiting under Eddie Sutton in being talked about?'' Nope. "He's Francisco, Sunday, Nov. 29,
afterward that his 9-0 team the late 1980s and a 1949 point- phenomenal, one of the best 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
should be "4-5.'' Sheesh. shaving scandal in the Adolph basketball players out there,'' AP PHILADELPHIA -
But in his quirky way, Calipari Rupp era. Even Wall was nailed, Patterson said. "If we need a UFC page 61
got to his star and penetrated his suspended for a game and crunch-time basket, we know
NOVEMBER 29: A Philadelphia Falcons performs during the in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday
Jack Nicklaus wants to
Eagles cheerleader performs
during a game against the
Washington Redskins on
game against the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers at Georgia Dome on
November 29, 2009 in Atlanta,
Nov. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/David
Duprey) AP DENVER -
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respect Tiger Woods'
November 29, 2009 at Lincoln
Financial Field in Philadelphia,
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Interview: Blizzard's
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Submitted at 12/10/2009 11:00:00 AM
Ranking the Players
Blizzard's Frank Pearce has been
In the Private Race
with the company since co- to Space
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disobeying her friend Simon running around at fashion week my personal favorites; their intellectually, as say, a column in windows of Barney’s right after
Doonan’s advice to never earn a tend to be quite smart, fretfully Madison Avenue space was so the Politics section of the paper? the Obama election. Most of the
living as a writer. beautiful girls who are perhaps a over-the-top, it inspired a really Well, fashion isn’t an obviously looks during the last
She’s been one of the most little more tightly-wound and bonkers, somewhat ecstatic piece brainy thing to write about--it is a administration were very
influential writers in my short insecure than their less-fabulous of writing, which was also fairly hermetic world that exists buttoned-up, Barry Goldwater-
career as a fashion journalist, and counterparts. It seems they’re informed by a certain paranoid, in its own froofy bubble. I think revisited, modest suits and
fortunately, she agreed to open rather cruelly competitive with political edginess that was in the homophobia and sexism may dresses that were direct visual
up a little about herself, whether each other, which I presume is a air at the time (it was written play a role in the trivializing of quotes from the non-hippy,
she actually likes shopping, and motivational habit they picked up shortly before the 2008 fashion; I think it is regarded as establishment-wife looks of the
what we can look forward to back in the nation’s top prep presidential election.) being something of a feminine mid-60’s. It seemed like the
reading from her in the near schools. The people I really enjoy Lately I am enjoying the pieces I ghetto, to the extent that it is very minute Obama won, Simon
future. and admire, on the scant get to write about stores that have tethered to the beauty industrial Doonan splashed out and filled
Because your Critical Shopper occasions I happen to be hanging a lot of history to chew on, like complex and women’s magazines the Barney’s windows with big
column often features fashion- around the fashion scene, are the Beretta or Tiffany. (the stock in trade of which tends dopey flowers, Women’s Lib-
forward clothing boutiques, hardcore fashion lifers like Lynn When you go to a store in to be largely inane articles about type images of female rock stars
readers tend to assume you’re Yaeger and Mr. Mickey preparation for writing the How Getting My Teeth Veneered like Carly Simon, and various
really into the stuff. Are you? [Boardman]. They have a great column, do you ever tell the Helped Me Have Better other peacenik, free love, flower-
I’m crazy about fashion, and if I way of metabolizing fashion people working there who you Orgasms, etc.) But I think it’s a power symbols. Fashion had
had the means, I’d follow ideas with their own creative are and what you’re up to? mistake to write off fashion as been repressing its anti-war,
Daphne Guinness around like a enzymes. I mostly succeed in doing it being devoid of intellectual hippy protest looks before the
toddler and imitate everything Which has been the most fun anonymously, but sometimes I content. 2008 election. Previous to the
she does. But I am an underpaid Critical Shopper installment to have no choice. You can’t really Do you think it’s at all an administration change, designers
writer, so I really can’t afford any write? The one you’re most hang around high-end jewelry important subject to write about? seemed to be collectively
of that stuff. I try to keep impulse proud of? stores trying on $37,000 tennis I don’t see fashion as separate drawing their inspirations from
-purchases under control. Even Writing that column is always bracelets and jotting down notes from the rest of society; it’s a socially conservative looks that
the occasional, smart, very fun for me. The structure of for hours when there’s three very eloquent voice in the represented the other side of the
“investment” buys I justify for the column is pretty tight and nervous attendants, you’re the cultural dialogue and a really Vietnam conversation -- the dress
myself have been quite debt- specific, but since it is critical only person in the store, and you strong indicator of what direction code of the ruling powers, as
enhancing. and therefore subjective, there is don’t seem particularly interested the socio-politico-economic opposed to the style of the
I think of fashion as a very a certain contained rumpus area in buying anything. Sometimes I winds are blowing. All of our opposition. Things look a bit
immediate and fluid art form, so I where I am allowed to really fool lie to people and give them a fake most immediate feelings about more loose now than they did
try to look at top-shelf, couture around with language. I try to name, since there aren’t a whole the world we live in are reflected just over a year ago.
boutiques the same way I look at open myself completely to the lot of Cintras running around, but in fashion, so yes, I do think it’s What is the best advice you’ve
art galleries - I don’t need to own experience when I go to the that always feels dirty to me. If I important. ever gotten from someone on
the stuff to appreciate what it different boutiques, take in as really go nuts for a store, I will You can pick up a surprising making it as a professional
means, and what it makes me much information as I can, and sometimes tell them who I am amount of social information writer?
feel. let the spaces themselves dictate before I leave, because I know from the runway. It actually came from Simon
What about fashion girls, in the column--so they’re all very they’ll be happy with the review. The prevailing themes in new Doonan, who said, “Have a real
general? What is your impression different to me, and I like Whenever someone tells me designs can be read like texts - job on the side.” It’s a great
of women in the industry? different pieces I’ve written for fashion/style writing is inherently they contain quotes from history; piece of advice that I’ve never
Honestly, I am such a weird, different reasons. vapid, I always forward your shapes and cuts from the past that followed. Writing is a terrible
rogue anomaly in the fashion But certain stores have inspired latest column to them. How are intended to evoke the cultural way to make a living.
world. I barely know any of those me to get into rhapsodic fugue would you respond to someone attitudes of certain eras that seem Any upcoming projects you can
chicas. In my very limited states. I’d have to say the Dolce who tried to tell you what you to be repeating themselves. SARTORIAL page 66
experience, the girls you see & Gabbana article remains one of write isn’t as elevated, A good example of this was the
66 Fashion/ Popular News/ E-reader Newspaper
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continued from page 65
share? learned over the past 12 months, sensible, indestructible thing that
Actually, I am very excited if any? (yes, that is a leading I thought would last the rest of
about a new book I am working question) my life for about 2K… and then
on. It’s called I think it really began to make I’d buy all my Christmas
Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling more than just abstract sense to presents.
the Belt Regions to Expose me that if you stare at anything If there was a gun to my head
America’s Fashion Destiny. long enough you will eventually and I was forced to be frivolous
It’s going to be a big road-trip see the face of God. Everything and self-indulgent, I’d head right
fashion research project about the becomes everything and nothing for the Rick Owens, Lanvin and
Bible Belt, Rust Belt, Frost Belt, simultaneously if you zoom in or Givenchy and probably end up
Sun Belt, Cotton Belt, etc. It’s out on it enough. Does that with a long, bruise-colored
about how a region’s political sound like I’ve been drinking the garment, platform bondage boots
economy is reflected in its wrong kombucha? and/or some tarted-up variation
fashion, and how fashion affects No more than usual, but let’s on a big black bowling bag.
how people feel about themselves
and their possibilities for the
talk about something more
concrete: you have 5K to blow at
Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Redacto Obama defends war at
future. It’s about “fashion
determinism”: you are what you
wear.
Barneys—where do you go first,
and how do you spend it?
For the record, I have never in
Nobel award
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President Obama receives his when he was named as the He said the US "must remain a There has been some
Nobel Peace Prize medal - winner of this year's prize, standard bearer in the conduct of disappointment in Norway at Mr Batters U.S.
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2009/NRK president to be given the honour. vicious adversary that abides by one day, even though Nobel
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President Barack Obama has Mr Obama's elevation to the no rules". ceremonies are usually held over
said the US must uphold moral rank of fellow laureates such as Mr Obama also emphasised three, and decline a traditional DES MOINES, Iowa Frigid
standards when waging wars that Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa alternatives to violence, stressing lunch with the king. temperatures iced the Upper
are necessary and justified, as he and Martin Luther King, before the importance of diplomacy and At a news conference with Midwest on Thursday as a deadly
accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. he has even spent a year in office, sanctions to confront nations like Norwegian Prime Minister Jens massive storm that dumped more
In his speech in Oslo, he has sparked fierce debate. Iran and North Korea over their Stoltenberg, Mr Obama said he than a foot of snow in several
defended the US role in Critics also said it was nuclear programmes. and his wife wished they could states from Iowa to New England
Afghanistan, arguing the use of inappropriate for the honour to While Russia and America were stay longer. neared the end of its cross-
force could bring lasting peace. go to the commander-in-chief of working to reduce their nuclear In the evening, Mr Obama is due country trek.
He also said his a country involved in conflicts in stockpiles, he said the to wave to a torchlight procession The storm was blamed for at
accomplishments were slight Iraq and Afghanistan. international community must from his hotel balcony and attend least 17 deaths, most in traffic
compared with other laureates. Acknowledging the controversy, ensure Tehran and Pyongyang a banquet. accidents, in the Upper Midwest
Mr Obama was given the prize Mr Obama said he accepted the did not "game the system". The Nobel Prizes for chemistry, and New England. Hundreds of
in October for his "extraordinary award with humility, adding: "Let us reach for the world that literature, medicine, physics and schools were closed, power was
efforts to strengthen international "Compared to some of the giants ought to be," Mr Obama said. economics are also being knocked out to thousands of
diplomacy and co-operation of history who have received this "We can understand that there presented, in the Swedish capital people from Missouri to New
between peoples". prize... my accomplishments are will be war, and still strive for Stockholm. York and hundreds of flights
Thursday's ceremony in the slight." peace." Each laureate, including Mr were canceled.
Norwegian capital came days He could not argue with those He paid tribute to anti- Obama, receives a diploma, a Commuters from Des Moines to
after Mr Obama announced he who said many previous laureates government demonstrators in medal and 10m kroner ($1.4m; Chicago were warned of morning
was sending 30,000 extra US were "far more deserving" of the Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, and £865,000). temperatures reaching 10 degrees
soldiers to the war in honour than him, he said. said the US would always stand Coinciding with the Nobel at best and icy roads. Wind chill
Afghanistan. Defending his Afghan troop on the side of those who sought ceremony, a statue of Mr Obama values could dip to as low as
He is careful to say that America deployment, Mr Obama said freedom. as a young boy was unveiled in minus 25 in parts of Wisconsin,
respects the cultures and there were times when "the use Protests the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, at Iowa and Illinois, according to
traditions of others - again, trying of force [was] not only necessary Some anti-war demonstrators a park, near where the president the National Weather Service.
to project the US as a defender but morally justified," as long as gathered outside city hall, where lived between 1967 and 1971. "It's already very cold across the
not an aggressor. force was proportionate and the ceremony was held. Print Sponsor entire region," said Casey
But he also wants to stand up for civilian casualties minimised. "We are protesting against him fivefilters.org featured article: Sullivan, a weather service
"universal values". It is a difficult "Instruments of war do have a because... we don't think he is a Normalising the crime of the meteorologist in Romeoville, Ill.,
balancing act. role to play in preserving the man of peace," one of them told century by John Pilger adding that parts of northern
His statement that "America has peace", he said. AFP news agency. Illinois may hit only 2 degrees.
never fought a war against a "A non-violent movement could Amid high security, the US Des Moines, which saw 16
democracy" might raise the issue not have halted Hitler's armies," president earlier signed the Nobel inches of snow by Wednesday,
as to whether it has fought on the he added. "Negotiations cannot Prize book of previous laureates could see a high near 9 degrees
side of non-democracies. convince al-Qaeda's leaders to after arriving in Oslo with his but wind chill values could make
temperatures feel like negative
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The Copenhagen
climate talks: Filthy
lucre fouls the air
(The Economist: News specific actions taken by
analysis) developing countries to curb
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emissions. Embarrassed Danes
said the text was one of several
The Copenhagen climate talks unofficial papers that had been
Dec 10th 2009 | floated, not a basis for real
COPENHAGEN bargaining. The lead negotiator
From The Economist print for the “G77 plus China” group
edition Arguments over money o f d e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s ,
dampened the euphoria at the L u m u m b a D i - A p i n g , w a s
start of the Copenhagen climate unsoothed. “This text…is a major
talks violation that threatens the
DESPITE the gloomy talk that success of the Copenhagen
p r e c e d e d t h e U N c l i m a t e negotiations,” he fumed, saying
conference, the opening was two years’ work had been swept
Heavy snowfalls blight US towns upbeat. Most big countries had aside.
vowed to cut or limit emissions Can there still be a deal? The
(BBC News | Americas | a snowstorm. (50mph) created snow drifts of during the previous few weeks. m a i n o b s t a c l e m a y n o t b e
World Edition) Blizzards, which are heading 4 . 5 m ( 1 5 f t ) , t h e N a t i o n a l As delegates arrived, America’s emissions cuts, which will not
eastwards, have been blamed for W e a t h e r S e r v i c e s a i d . E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n change much, but the closely
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at least 16 deaths, most in traffic In northern Arizona, officials say Agency announced that carbon- linked issues of the shape of a
Please turn on JavaScript. Media accidents. they are searching for some 25- dioxide emissions were an deal and how much money it
requires JavaScript to play. Trapped 30 hunters trapped by up to 3ft of “endangerment” to health. This involves.
Heavy snowfall has caused In one such incident, a 28-year- snow that fell earlier this week. allows Barack Obama to regulate Everyone agrees that poorer
chaos across America's Midwest old woman was killed in Omaha, Across the country, flights have them, whatever Congress does. countries, including India and
states Nebraska, on Tuesday night been cancelled, roads closed and The happiness did not last. On China, need cash for climate
Blizzards in the Midwest of the when a lorry ploughing snow in a power cut off to thousands of December 8th a draft agreement “mitigation”—adopting green
U S h a v e b r o u g h t r e c o r d car park backed into her, police people. which had been discussed some technology and new approaches
snowfalls, burying cars, closing said. The snowstorm is forecast to weeks ago was leaked to the t o l a n d u s e a n d f o r e s t
schools and causing power cuts. In Iowa, meteorologists recorded continue eastward on Thursday, Guardian, a British newspaper. It c o n s e r v a t i o n — a n d f o r
Wisconsin declared a state of the highest snowfall there since bringing 3 to 5 inches of snow to caused a furore. The “Danish “adaptation”: coping with the
emergency after being hit by up 1988, which left motorists New England and the north-east. text” had been circulated by the anticipated effects of climate
to 48cm (19in) of snow on stranded. Print Sponsor hosts, but not to all parties; and it change, some of which (like a
Wednesday, while Iowa recorded Meanwhile in Madison, the fivefilters.org featured article: seems to confirm the futility of degree of sea level rise) look
its worst snowfall for 20 years. University of Wisconsin was Normalising the crime of the moves towards the legally unavoidable. America has joined
Illinois was also hit, and in forced to cancel classes for the century by John Pilger binding treaty that many still the list of countries accepting
Arizona, in the south-west, up to first time since 1990. want. such transfers, saying it will pay
30 hunters have been stranded by In Illinois, gusts of 80km/h It also seems to link any rich-to- COPENHAGEN page 74
poor transfers of money to
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ones, creating a “green fund” to extent will obligations under the China—saw the text before it
Research Brief: No
jump-start mitigation. The IMF’s
gold reserves could pay the
(small) interest amounts that poor
Kyoto protocol be extended
beyond the developed countries
to developing ones? Rich
was leaked. They have more to
gain from keeping the onus of
action and payment on the
Apocalypse For Global
countries would otherwise owe.
Other proposals abound. The
countries account for most of the
past emissions that now fill the
developed world alone.
These countries have produced
Newspapers
REDD initiative on forestry air, but less than half the world’s their own draft document, which (MediaPost | Media News) will have to be invented."
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Yet "Despite the endless
countries which avoid felling Settling this question will mean into the existing Kyoto predictions about the death of
trees. If emissions from ships and some differentiation between framework. If the leak serves to According to the World newspapers, they actually
aircraft are cut, using a tax or an developing countries, a term that firm up resistance to a deal that Association of Newspapers and continue to grow, at least on a
emissions market, that could includes both industrial giants spreads the duties of reduction News Publishers, in its annual global scale... the global
provide cash. Less promisingly, and hapless victims, whose wider, China and other large world press trends update, at no newspaper industry is far from
France wants a levy on financial interests are very different. Some developing states may be the time in the foreseeable future will facing an apocalypse," Mr
transactions. And the European people think this was the reason gainers digital advertising Balding said.
Climate Foundation, a think-tank, for the leaking of the Danish text. Back to top ^^ Readers' revenues replace those lost to The survey showed that
says more could be taken from Those most offended by it are the comments print, making the search for new newspaper circulation grew, on a
existing carbon markets: cash smallest, weakest countries, The Economist welcomes your business models, including paid- global scale, by 1.3% in 2008,
could be winkled from traders which are vulnerable and emit views. for online access for news, a the last full year for which data
who arbitrage the price difference very little. They are more fivefilters.org featured article: pressing concern for the exists, and almost 9% over five
between green projects in poor interested in strong action than in Normalising the crime of the news publishing industry. years. The data shows consistent
places and the “allocation” paid who pays for it or who has to century by John Pilger In a 182-billion dollar press newspaper growth in Africa, Asia
by rich-world emitters. make the cuts. The calculus is advertising industry, digital and South America, a long-term
The question of who gets paid different for the larger, more revenues of newspapers slowdown in the US and
what, and how, feeds back into industrialised emerging markets, accounted for less than 6 billion European markets. Over five
the main issue in these and at least four of which—Brazil, dollars last year and are forecast years, according to our survey,
inevitable future talks: to what India, South Africa and by PricewaterhouseCoopers to newspaper circulation increased
grow to no more than 8.4 billion in 100 of the 182 nations
through 210, were 12.6% lower. Change -25.0% for example, is less than 3% over • The US market has been
One lesser hit TV area was Spanish Language Cable TV B-to-B Magazines five years. hardest hit, with advertising
Spanish-language network TV, 36.7% -33.1% Some of the highlights from the revenues in the third quarter
down 4.6%. FSI Coupon Local Sunday Supplement presentation: of 2009 falling nearly 29% in
Radio generally fared a bit better 11.2% -48.3% • Globally, 1.9 billion people print and nearly 17%
than TV. Spot radio was down Cable TV Grand Total choose to read a newspaper every on digital platforms over the
9.6%, while network radio was 9.0% -11.5% day, or 34% of the world same quarter in 2008. But
off 10.2%. Internet** Source: The Nielsen Company population, while 24% use the revenue declines
Nielsen says many of the same -0.5% * All data from non-Internet internet. mirror declines in other
declining advertising categories Spanish Language Network TV media pulled from Nielsen's • The biggest newspaper industries.
continue to hurt media sales -4.6% Ad*Views database market in the world is India, with
results. Spot Radio ** Internet advertising 107 million daily sales. India, "....there still remains outside
Automotive factory/dealer -9.6% expenditures pulled from China and Japan account for forces, namely the economy, that
advertising was chopped 30.9% Network Radio AdRelevance database and more than 60% of the world's we have little control over,"
to $5.4 billion, and local auto ad -10.2% account for CPM-based, image- newspaper sales, with the USA concluded Mr. Balding.
dropped 26.9% to $2.4 billion. Spot TV 101-210 DMAs based advertising. These taking 14%. For more information from
Wireless phone media lost 5.4% -12.6% reported estimated expenditures • In terms of sales per 1,000 WAN-IFRA, the organization
to $2.5 billion; pharmaceutical National Sunday Supplement do not account for paid search adult population, Japan leads the created by the merger of the
was down 4.6% to $3.2 billion; -13.6% advertising, text only, paid fee world with 612, followed by World Association of
and motion picture advertising Network TV services, performance-based Norway with 576, and Finland Newspapers and IFRA, the
slipped 1.7% to $2.5 billion. -13.9% campaigns, sponsorships, with 482. In terms of research and service
Local Newspaper barters, in-stream ("pre-rolls") reach, 91% of Japanese continue organization for the news
Improving categories included -14.0% players, messenger applications, to read a newspaper daily, publishing industry, please visit
fast -food restaurants, up 1.8% to Outdoor partnership advertising, remarkable in such a them here. Or, access the
$3.1 billion and direct response -15.1% promotions and email campaigns, technologically advanced and magazine here.
commercials, 3.3% improved to Syndicated TV or house advertising activity. wired society. fivefilters.org featured article:
$1.8 billion. The overall top 10 -15.9% fivefilters.org featured article: • Advertising revenues fell an Normalising the crime of the
categories have fallen 12.7% to Spot TV Top 100 DMAs Normalising the crime of the estimated 20% in North America, century by John Pilger
$25.7 billion. -16.0% century by John Pilger 19% in eastern Europe, 16%
Year-to-Year Change in Ad National Magazine in western Europe, and 11%
Spend, by Media -21.4% in the Asia Pacific in 2009,
Media Category* National Newspaper according to PwC.
1Q-3Q 2009 -21.6%
vs. 1Q-3Q 2008 Local Magazine
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periodicals alone is a huge on. In my week of tests, with software, so far, only for the
drawback. One day, I suspect wireless on constantly, I had to iPhone and PC.
both of these products will look charge it three times. Amazon But, while Amazon will
like a 1996 Palm (PALM) PDA rates the Kindle at 14 days of synchronize your last page read if
does compared with an Apple typical use with wireless off and you switch from reading a book
(AAPL) iPhone. seven days with wireless on, on one device to using another,
The Nook is a bit shorter and which squares with my own Barnes & Noble lacks that
narrower than the Kindle, but it is Kindle experience. capability yet, though it says it
an ounce heavier and The Nook beats the Kindle in a will have it soon.
significantly thicker. It has a few areas. Lending is a key one, One more thing: The latest
cleaner look, because the bezel though only about half of the standard-size Kindle allows
around the screen is narrower and commercial titles are eligible for wireless book purchasing in
there is no physical keyboard. lending, you can lend each one multiple countries. The Nook
The touch screen adds a dash of only once to a given person, and does so only in the U.S.
color, though it often goes dark loans expire after two weeks. In My recommendation on the
to save battery life. my tests, lending worked OK Nook is to wait, even if you
Like the Kindle, the Nook has
built-in cellular connectivity with
after a couple of false starts.
Another is that Barnes & Noble
prefer its features to the Kindle’s.
It’s not fully baked yet.
Upper-Income Spending
no monthly charges. But it also
adds Wi-Fi, which is free at
Barnes & Noble stores, though
takes advantage of its stores. In
addition to getting free Wi-Fi,
Nook owners who enter a Barnes
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PRINCETON, NJ -- In a sign Self-Reported Spending Down
would allow you to log in. The Unlike the Kindle, the Nook also Normalising the crime of the
that the new normal in consumer Across Incomes
Kindle has a crude Web browser, has a slot for expandable memory century by John Pilger
spending continues unabated, Consumers' self-reported
but no Wi-Fi. cards and a replaceable battery.
upper-income Americans' self- spending on discretionary items
Speaking of battery life, the Barnes & Noble also has
reported average daily spending among middle- and lower-
Nook’s is worse than the companion PC, Mac, iPhone and
in stores, restaurants, gas income Americans (those making
Kindle’s. It claims about 10 days BlackBerry software for reading
stations, and online fell 14% in less than $90,000 a year) was
of typical use with wireless off, e-books, even if you don’t own a
November, reverting to its down 20% in November from the
and just two days with wireless Nook. Amazon has such
relatively tight ($107 to $121) depressed spending levels of a
UPPER-INCOME pre-October 2009 average year ago. As expected, this
continued from page 79 monthly range. Middle- and percentage decline from
a "new normal" spending pattern, Spending among upper-income upper-income consumers to l o w e r - i n c o m e c o n s u m e r November 2008 is more modest
staying within a tight $4 consumers (those making at least abandon the 2009 spending new discretionary spending increased than the year-over-year declines
spending range that has persisted $90,000 a year) had reached its normal. November's results by 7% last month but remained of earlier in the year as year-ago
during the past four months. highest level of 2009 in October dashed these hopes, as upper- in its tight 2009 average monthly comparables have become easier
"While the spending 'new normal' and had closed the gap to -6% income consumers joined their range of $52 to $61. Still, to match. Although average daily
may not be good for the larger compared to the same month a m i d d l e - a n d l o w e r - i n c o m e consumer spending by both spending among this group was
economy in the short-term, it year ago. The hope was that the counterparts in spending 20% income groups continues to trail technically at its high for 2009
may be seen as a strong positive surge on Wall Street and the less than they had during the year-ago levels by 20%, even as last month, it continues to reflect
for individual consumer seeming stabilization of housing those comparables have gotten
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households." values had encouraged some
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financial crisis days of 2008 and Overall, men claim greater break out of their year-long and and people-related adjustments. Get Gallup news on Facebook
returning to the relatively tight average daily spending than relatively tight spending range. The U.S. economy is designed to and Twitter
2009 daily spending range for women, possibly as a result of Instead, November's results show allow the private sector to make Survey Methods
this group prior to October. having higher average incomes that upper-income spending such adjustments in order to For Gallup Daily tracking,
Self-Reported Spending Down and perhaps tending to more reverted back to its new normal optimize performance when Gallup interviews approximately
Across Age Groups aggressively report joint range. Given the greater faced with such a rapidly 1,000 national adults, aged 18
Consumers in the child-rearing spending. Men also report a discretionary spending flexibility changing business environment. and older, each day. The Gallup
ages of 30 to 49 showed the larger decline in discretionary of upper-income Americans, this Of course, the same does not consumer spending results are
smallest November-over- spending, at 27%, compared to reversion to the pre-October apply to maintaining the social based on random half-samples of
November discretionary the 17% self-reported by women. spending range tends to give safety net, particularly in the face approximately 500 national
spending decline at 15% -- Spending New Normal added face-validity to the of double-digit unemployment adults, aged 18 and older, each
possibly because they have the Overall self-reported consumer argument that a consumer and even higher day. Results for November are
least ability to downshift their discretionary spending has been spending new normal exists -- underemployment. based on telephone interviews
spending as the holidays essentially flat on a monthly independent of the job situation - While the spending "new with more than 14,000 adults.
approach. Younger consumers basis throughout 2009 even when - as 2010 approaches. normal" may not be good for the For these results, one can say
aged 18 to 29 experienced a broken out by age, income, On a national level, the spending larger economy in the short-term, with 95% confidence that the
larger decline of 23%. Those 50 region, and gender. It has also new normal suggests slower it may be seen as a strong maximum margin of sampling
to 64 years of age reduced their been down significantly economic growth than otherwise positive for individual consumer error is ±1 percentage points.
year-over-year spending by 29%, compared to the same months in might be expected in the years households. Consumers, like Results for the various breakout
while those 65 or older had a 2008. The year-over-year ahead. In turn, reduced consumer their business and banking reported here are based on
decline of 32%. Overall, those in differences have declined spending will complicate the job- counterparts, would be well- interviews with more than 1,000
the 30 to 49 age group had the somewhat during recent months, creation problem, not to mention served to de-leverage by respondents with a maximum
highest average daily spending but much of this closure in the fiscal and monetary policies. For spending less, saving more, margin of error of ±3 percentage
level in November ($81), while 2008-2009 spending gap is a example, one might argue that reducing their use of credit, and points.
those 65 or older spent the least result of the easier spending the federal government and thereby strengthening their Interviews are conducted with
per day ($52). comparables from last year's monetary authorities (the Fed) personal balance sheets. While respondents on land-line
Self-Reported Spending Down financial crisis. need to take emergency actions this may not provide the telephones and cellular phones.
Across Regions Gallup's analysis of the to offset a temporary spending immediate-term returns to the In addition to sampling error,
Year-over-year consumer relationship between job creation shortfall due to job losses, but the economy of the over-leveraging question wording and practical
spending declined the least on the and consumer spending suggests same arguments do not of recent years, a financially difficulties in conducting surveys
two coasts, with the East cutting that these lower spending levels necessarily hold true when the stronger U.S. consumer implies can introduce error or bias into
average daily spending by 13% are attributable, at least in part, to spending reduction results from a only good things for the longer- the findings of public opinion
and the West cutting spending by today's dismal job-market new normal spending pattern -- term well being of both the U.S. polls.
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