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Rick Warren Gets Tepid Response he hasn't yet taken his oath of office. So
says the Constitution, anyway. History is
made, even if the proceedings are running
By Liza Porteus Viana (Political espouse any perceived "anti-gay" message. a tad behind schedule.
Machine) In fact, as he prayed, you saw people with 12:05 And now the oath has been
hands outstretched, crying. They were administered, albeit clumsily. Did they
Submitted at 1/20/2009 4:02:00 AM
taken with the moment. It was a testament rehearse that? Oh well, I'm sure nobody
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, to Obama's inclusion of people of all will ever replay that moment on television
Barack Obama, Gay Rights, Obama views. again.
Administration, Inauguration About, oh, Follow all our inauguration coverage on Anyway, remember where you are and
maybe 10 people eventually clapped when Watch Live Video of the Event what you're doing, because you'll need that
Rev. Rick Warren was introduced to give Obama is Now President Even Though information when future generations ask
the invocation during Barack Obama's He Has Not Taken the Oath you.
inauguration today. It did seem, however, Rick Warren Gets Tepid Response And check out the first image on the
that he got more claps than former Photos updated White House website.
President Bush. Will the Inauguration be the Most Follow all our inauguration coverage on
The founder and senior pastor of the Watched Event in TV History? Watch Live Video of the Event
Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA, Voices Raised in Opposition Obama is Now President Even Though
no doubt took the podium with at least a A new Gallup Poll just out shows that percent approval compared to 10 percent Send Us Your Pictures He Has Not Taken the Oath
little trepidation, given the outcry over his most Americans either approve of Warren disapproval. Among liberals, the numbers Cheney to Attend Inauguration in Rick Warren Gets Tepid Response
selection by the gay community. Even giving the invocation or don't even know are similar with 39% approving and 16% Wheelchair Photos
though the Warren dustup wasted several he was doing so, while just 9 percent disapproving. Approval is obviously Liberals, Start Your Gloating Will the Inauguration be the Most
days' worth of headlines after Obama disapprove of Warren's role. Even among higher among Republicans and Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Watched Event in TV History?
announced his selection, it appears now no liberals, support for Obama's choice far conservatives. Comments Voices Raised in Opposition
one cares too much and people just want to outweighs disapproval, 39 percent to 16 As many have said, Warren just prayed, Send Us Your Pictures
revel in the moment. percent. Among Democrats, there is 37 he wasn't trying to convert anybody or Cheney to Attend Inauguration in
Wheelchair
Moonlight Allows Inauguration Streaming on Linux, PPC Macs [Linux] Liberals, Start Your Gloating
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By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) ensure that Moonlight, their open-source Firefox. [ via]
Comments
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implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight,
will allow streaming from the official Mac users, and others systems with
Novell programmers worked overnight to inauguration page for Linux, PowerPC
Daily Digital Newspaper Politics Tech* International* 3
More Silly Restrictions
Will Limit Team Obama's
Ability To Communicate
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/20/2009 8:08:00 AM
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) "With regards to the music business we By Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) There's a new report out that highlights
Submitted at 1/20/2009 6:36:00 AM
can say that downloaded recordings are not Submitted at 1/20/2009 4:33:01 AM that there were fewer IP related lawsuits in
necessarily a lost sale" the US in 2008 than in 2007. The drop was
Stanley de Vries wrote in to let us know "Lot's of people download for free to MusicShake, an LA-based startup that
offers a music and sound effect mixing about 10%: from 10,276 to 9,210.
that TNO, a respected Dutch research firm learn about new music and eventually buy However, the reasoning given in the report
has come out with a large, 142-page, report when they like it" service for amateurs that goes by the same for the decline is difficult to square with
about piracy, commissioned by the "The calculations of the industry [about name, has completely redesigned its reality. It claims that: "The trend reflects
government, where it noted that piracy the losses caused by illegal downloads] are website and added a couple of features to the success of the recording industry in
appeared to be net beneficial for the not necessarily correct because they are make the service more social and fun to
use on a regular basis. protecting its copyrights, leading the
economy -- as opposed to some other based on a lot of assumptions and contain a industry to bring fewer lawsuits in the past
studies you may have heard about from the lot of uncertainties because underlying MusicShake offers a free desktop few years." That isn't even close to
entertainment industry. You can download data is not known with any accuracy" application (unfortunately, Windows only the service using the promotion code “ accurate. The RIAA has had very little
the full report as a PDF, but it's in Dutch. (So far we were still only on page 3) for now) that lets users create personalized, PROMOTC” get access to 3 free mp3 success protecting its copyrights. The legal
Some translated news stories cover the "Downloading goes hand in hand with professional sounding music using a downloads (worth $3.00 each).
variety of modules and pattern- strategy has been a colossal failure,
high points. The report notes that there's buying" The new website comes with a without a single legal win that held up, and
little evidence that downloading is the "Among downloaders of music and combination methods, which is quite redesigned UI and color scheme, and also file sharing has only grown over time.
cause of CD sales falling -- noting movies, the percentage of buyers is as high addictive once you get the hang of it (takes adds a social layer on top of the online part Hell, the RIAA has admitted failure in
indications that downloaders actually buy as among non-downloaders and with about 10 minutes and there are templates of MusicShake: direct communication their lawsuit strategy, hence the decision to
more music on average, and that a much games the percentage of buyers is even to help get you started). You can convert between members, a dedicated page that
music you make to mp3 and download cut back on them (not end them,
more likely reason for CD sales declining higher" gives an overview of users’ profiles, completely, as was originally claimed). So,
was that people had finished "re-buying" "People that download music visit them to your computer, or convert them forums, a way for registered users to build it's difficult to see how anyone could
all the CDs they had owned on cassette concerts more often and buy more into a personalized ringtone. You can also and share their own playlists etc. Music conclude that the program was a success,
before that format was killed off. Stanley merchandise" show off music you create to your friends tracks created through MusicShake can and resulted in fewer lawsuits. And, of
was also kind enough to translate a few "The practice of file sharing implicates and place it in charts to promote your work also easily be shared via Facebook, Imeem,
to others. course, the aggregate numbers may not be
excerpts from the first 5 pages (meaning that the producers [their definition is a bit YouTube, and other communication all that telling, either. In the past, patent
there's still plenty more to go vague here] need to change their business So far, there have been close to 50,000 channels. system defenders have noted a drop in
through):"The economic effects of file model" music tracks created with the service, The service was launched in September cases filed recently, but they fail to note
sharing short- and long term are strongly "That is why innovation of the business which can individually be purchased in the 2007 at the TechCrunch40 conference- see that it was because more patent litigation
positive" [Interesting approach here: They model is now of the utmost urgency" MusicShake store; revenues are split 50/50 video below - when the company was still
with the creator. There’s also a these days is filed against a long list of
give the well-being of people also Permalink| Comments| Email This Story based in South Korea. MusicShake has companies, rather than just one or two. So,
economic value...] subscription option that gives you a month raised$3.5 million in two funding rounds. in actuality, more companies are getting
of unlimited MP3 downloads and ringtones CrunchBase Information Musicshake sued for patent infringement, even if there
in exchange for 1,499 in “Shake Cash” (or Information provided by CrunchBase are fewer overall lawsuits.
$14.99). Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over
TechCrunch readers are in for a treat Permalink| Comments| Email This Story
the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
today: the first 1,000 readers to sign up for
This Land is Your Land
Can You Spell “Barack Obama”? (Scripting News)
Submitted at 1/19/2009 5:13:47 AM
By Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) research and found at least 60 million misspelling Obama’s name, although they
Submitted at 1/20/2009 8:03:33 AM
pages on the Internet with Obama’s first fail to note the fact many will probably For me this was the most emotional
name misspelled. “Barak” is the most also search for the wrong terms and that moment of yesterday's concert at the
Many Americans and others are still common misspelling, followed in close search engines already take the Lincoln Memorial: Pete Seeger and Bruce
unable to spell Barack Obama’s first name second by “Barrak”, and finally “Barrack”. misspellings into account when serving up Springsteen leading a chorus of This Land
correctly. At least that is the conclusion of It’s one “r”, a “c” and a “k,” for those still about 101 million pages on Google with results. is Your Land.
the folks at GooseGrade, a service that having trouble. The startup even counted the correct name (results may vary Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile All those people singing, and Pete Seeger
allows readers to post corrections for web sites intentionally placing misspelled depending on your location). Gadgets and Applications, Delivered after all these years -- he can still lead a
grammar, spelling and factual errors on ‘meta-tags’ or keywords into the site code GooseGrade points out that thousands of Daily. crowd in song.
blogs and other online media outlets using of their pages to pick up traffic from bloggers and other online authors will miss
a free widget. misspelled searches. out on incoming search traffic by
GooseGrade did some quick and dirty In case you were wondering, I can find
Daily Digital Newspaper Tech* International* 5
Don't Tell American Idol
You Can't Make Money
From Free Content
By Carlo Longino (Techdirt)
Submitted at 1/19/2009 11:08:14 PM
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) execs where some execs jokingly talked Scred, a Finnish startup that lets friends Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie set the
about how piracy was good for musicians track and manage their shared expenses shutterbugs ablaze in Germany on
Submitted at 1/20/2009 5:00:00 AM
because it would reduce money for rock and debts, has come up with a new twist to Monday.
A few different readers sent in the latest stars to spend on cocaine. Apparently, its app which may also help out young Paypal, which seems limiting for now but
at least it makes it pretty accessible. The stunning couple was snapped at the
on the lawsuit that the major record labels obviously joking comments are being used startups. With its MiniCorps app (as in Berlin, Germany premiere of Brad's
have filed against Irish ISP Eircom. While to establish intent these days. Either way, ‘mini-corporation’) you can track the Suddenly amateur rock bands everywhere Golden Globe-nominated film, 'The
the adversarial relationship between ISPs this seems like a weak case for the record income and expenses for a whole group, can rejoice. The question is whether Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'
and the recording industry has been labels. Plenty of people encourage piracy. work out if you are making a profit or loss, Scred’s apps will get any traction against Both Brad and Angelina wore suits to the
discussed for years, this is the first case in It's not going to go away if all those people and know how much revenue you’ve US competitors BillMonk, Buxfer, and
Obopay. event -- Angelina looking radiant in winter
which the labels are directly suing an ISP shut up. The industry needs to stop made. Via a lightweight storefront white, and Brad dressed up in chic, classic
for copyright infringement. Their freaking out over the fact that piracy MiniCorps can also receive money and sell Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free black.
argument, similar to the "inducement" rule happens, and start focusing on actual items online, with all of it tracked by Scred database of technology companies, people,
that the US courts made up (it's not solutions in the market. without anyone having to touch an Excel and investors
actually in any US law) is that Eircom was Permalink| Comments| Email This Story document. All the cash is handled via
actively encouraging piracy. In the case,
they used internal emails from Eircom
LG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D
MySpace CEO and Paris Hilton Caught
Canoodling At Sundance Xcanvas plasmas in Korea
By Darren Murph (Engadget) three weeks for $1,460 / $1,022,
By Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) respectively.
Submitted at 1/20/2009 11:33:00 AM
Submitted at 1/20/2009 7:55:05 AM [Via Slashgear]
Don't bet the farm on it just yet, but given Continue reading LG gets official with
The New York Post buried the lead in the FCC filing that outed these sets at the 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas
today’s Page 6 column about Paris Hilton’s tail end of December, we'd say it's safe to in Korea
adventures at the Sundance Film Festival. assume that the panel you see above (and Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home
The Post spends five paragraphs babbling after the break) will be headed to America Entertainment
about Hilton’s BFF status before in short order. Made official today in South LG gets official with 50PQ60D and
mentioning this sighting: Korea, LG's Xcanvas 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea
. . . while Paris hung out with MySpace 42PQ60D plasmas sport a sleeker, more originally appeared on Engadget on Tue,
CEO Chris DeWolfe at the MySpace Cafe. started dating). fully integrated design that conceals the 20 Jan 2009 11:33:00 EST. Please see our
They were later seen sucking face at a Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free enables portable media to be loaded on for
speakers within the border. The TV itself all to see. Few other details about the pair terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink|
party. database of technology companies, people, also detects ambient light and Email this| Comments
Glad to hear the Hollywood couple is and investors are being released, but you can expect 'em
automatically adjusts brightness in order to on sale halfway across the world in around
still together.(The picture here is from a conserve energy, and the built-in USB port
TV clip from last summer when the two
Atari Touch
Tablet unboxed 25
years after the fact
By Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/20/2009 10:40:00 AM
When evaluating
economic polls,
subtract 15-20%
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 1/20/2009 1:10:00 PM
HP Mini 2140 "business" place in global handset shipments sector, and the lowest job creation of any
eight-year president in the modern era, the
poll found that:
By Darren Murph (Engadget) Samsung are still holding down the top
netbook now available Submitted at 1/20/2009 12:57:00 PM
two spots, but it's the continued slippage of
Motorola that's most significant here. You
• 23% of the American people said they
would miss Bush, 25% said Bush managed
government effectively, and about a third
By Laura June (Engadget) we've seen are options for XP and Vista Half a year ago, Motorola was still know what they say about being on rock said he would go down in history as a good
Submitted at 1/20/2009 12:15:00 PM
materialize, but we'll keep our eyes peeled. clinging tight to the number three spot in bottom, right? We bet Motorola's president.
Prices start at $499 for the base model, but terms of worldwide handset shipments, but wondering if that mantra applies here. Roughly a third of Americans viewing
HP's very recently announced Mini 2140 run up to $799 for the tricked out Vista boy -- what a difference six months makes. [Via phonescoop] Bush as a good president?, with 25%
is available now for you to get one of your version. Now get back to work, slacker. According to numbers compiled by Filed under: Cellphones saying he managed the government
very own if you so please. The handsome [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] DigiTimes, LG Electronics managed to LG overtakes Motorola for third place in effectively? What's going on here?
fella's just been unleashed on the world, Continue reading HP Mini 2140 ship just over 100 million mobile phones global handset shipments originally Who are these people? Upper-income
and if you don't remember his stats, well, "business" netbook now available in 2008, while Moto checked in with "just" appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 Americans or strong Republicans?
that's what we're here for. The business- Filed under: Laptops 99.9 million shipped. That makes LG the 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use Exactly: either, or possibly both, which
aimed netbook features a 1.6GHz Atom HP Mini 2140 "business" netbook now third largest handset maker in terms of of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| is why you need to deduct 15-20% when
CPU, with options for either an 80GB or available originally appeared on Engadget shipments, barely beating out Moto and Comments reading a poll, to gauge a president's
160GB hard drive, up to 2GB of RAM, on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please Sony Ericsson who placed fourth and fifth, support, particularly on economic issues.
and resolution options of 1366 x 768 and see our terms for use of feeds. Read| respectively. As expected, Nokia and Continue reading When evaluating
1024 x 567 for the 10-inch screen, and of Permalink| Email this| Comments economic polls, subtract 15-20%
course the ExpressCard / 54 slot. Though a When evaluating economic polls,
Linux OS has been announced, so far all subtract 15-20% originally appeared on
BloggingStocks on Tue, 20 Jan 2009
Windows 7 install roundup 13:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use
of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
By Paul Miller (Engadget) much anything they could find. Most roundup
Submitted at 1/20/2009 11:01:00 AM
installs went off without a hitch, and Windows 7 install roundup originally
BSoDs were fairly few and far between. appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009
After resting up and settling into our post- You can check out all our various first 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use
CES golden desk chairs, team Engadget impressions after the break... the names of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
got busy at installing Windows 7 on pretty aren't made up, but the stories are true. Continue reading Windows 7 install
Before the call: IBM Q4 Big reason to buy gold Ben Affleck, Stars
By Connie Madon (BloggingStocks) Turn Out to D.C.
earnings Submitted at 1/20/2009 11:50:00 AM
Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Would you buy gold now? South African As President-elect Barack Obama spent
International Business Machines (IBM) gold production has dropped 14% to 232 the day before his historic inauguration
International Business Machines tonnes, down 38 tonnes from 2007 levels. visiting homeless youth and doing service,
Corp.(NYSE: IBM) is scheduled to release This is the lowest production level since some celebrities are following suit. Ben
fourth-quarter 2008 results today at 4:30 1901! Reasons for the slump included a Affleck, among a list of other stars, came
PM Eastern. Results will be p resented by lack of skilled labor, severe power supply together Monday in Washington, D.C., for
The consensus recommendation of limitations and an overhaul of mine safety
Mark Loughridge, senior vice president analysts remains to buy IBM, and the long- a good cause.
and chief financial officer. To view the procedures. Affleck, joined by Martin Luther King
term EPS growth forecast is 11.2%. The China has now taken the number one
webcast of the report, see IBM 4Q08 share price is up slightly from the U.S. interest rates and the printing of new III, actor David Arquette and musicians
Earnings Presentation. spot as the world's largest gold producer, Herbie Hancock and Josh Groban, turned
beginning of the year, but about 18% lower with output up 3% to 285 tonnes. U.S. gold money for various stimulus packages.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters than it was a year ago. Do you plan to buy gold or silver this out to the National Hunger Rally hosted by
expect IBM to report a fourth-quarter output dropped 2% to 234 tonnes. Global Feeding America.
See BloggingStocks' IBM coverage for production is down 3.6% to 2,385 tonnes, year?
profit of $3.03 per share, 7.6% higher than more information concerning Big Blue. Big reason to buy gold originally The national rally against hunger, which
in the year-ago period. Revenues for the the lowest level since 1995. took place at the Martin Luther King
Visit AOL Money & Finance for more With big increases in the cost of appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 20
quarter are expected to have fallen 2.5% earnings coverage. Jan 2009 11:50:00 EST. Please see our Library on Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,
from a year ago to $28.2 billion. IBM production to over $500 per ounce, there is featured a joint performance by Hancock
Before the call: IBM Q4 earnings little likelihood of new mine production terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink|
earnings have beaten estimates in the past originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Email this| Comments and Groban.
five quarters. this year. Gold prices are expected to reach
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see $1000 per ounce in the first half of 2009.
For the full year, analysts are looking for our terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
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$104.8 billion, up from $7.13 per share and
$98.8 billion in the previous year. ET's Kevin Frazier Gets Details
Will Obama's decision-making style work? Behind Inauguration Security
(ETonline - Breaking News) entire metropolitan D.C. area. With the
By Peter Cohan (BloggingStocks) thinking. At the end, he sums up what he's help of the security cameras that have
Submitted at 1/20/2009 11:30:00 AM
learned and what decision he is leaning Submitted at 1/19/2009 5:52:00 PM
zoom abilities, D.C. police plan to closely
towards. So far he's staffed a diverse team; As millions are estimated to be at the monitor activity in the streets -- and if
Filed under: Boeing Co (BA), Politics let one of his nominees, Bill Richardson, nation's capital for the historic presidential necessary, they will send officers to any
I am arranging my day around watching go; lobbied Congress to release the second inauguration of Barack Obama on location.
President-elect Obama's inauguration. But $350 billion in financial bailout money; Tuesday, ET's Kevin Frazier gets the Watch the video to see one security
as I think about the two wars and economic and started negotiating an $825 billion details on how Washington D.C. police are camera catch Kevin as he is on the street
collapse that his weepy, self-pitying spending and tax break package. heavily involved in keeping everyone safe. talking to a police sergeant -- and then the
predecessor leaves in Obama's lap, I am Continue reading Will Obama's decision- ET paid a visit to the Joint Operations ET crew is filmed by security cameras as
wondering whether Obama can fix what making style work? Command Center, where rows of monitors they make their way back to their car!
ails us. The way he makes decisions Will Obama's decision-making style show a live video display of nearly the
suggests that he'll get good ideas and pick work? originally appeared on
the best. But it will be a while before we wants answered, and expects those people BloggingStocks on Tue, 20 Jan 2009
know whether those ideas work. to argue for different answers to the 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use
Obama surrounds himself with the best questions. He probes each person to of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
people, starts meetings with questions he understand the logic and data behind their
America. Many have called Mr. Obama the hour a week learning what is going on in my energy consumption? What are " green Filed under: Features, How-tos,
Internet President because of the America and around the world. 2. Join the homes"? Which products are green? What Developer, iPhone Welcome to the iPhone
unprecedented way his campaign used the Conversation is the state of the solar energy industry? Dev 101 series. This series on TUAW is
medium to raise funds, raise awareness, Obama is not a one-way president. If he The web is full of green tech information; designed to tell readers about iPhone
and ultimately outmaneuver John McCain. was, he would never have assembled such you just need to pick a source to start development, and give potential iPhone
But what can we do now to help turn this a diverse, opinionated cabinet. Mr. Obama learning. And for a deeper look at the developers a look at the iPhone. In this
country around? Read on for 7 things knows that our strength is in our diversity, profound issues facing us, read Thomas introductory post, I'll walk you through
every one of us can do on the Internet to and he wants to hear from you. We've been Friedmans' Hot, Flat, and Crowded. 7. some of the most asked questions about the
help Obama restore America. living in the age of the read/write web for Engage Locally iPhone & App Store. These posts will be a
Sponsor the past 5+ years, and we have recently that all of us should turn to in tough times. There is one place where Obama needs little geeky, but I will try to explain
As Obama rolls into a very tough job to seen a decline in user participation. The A good starting point is the Wikipedia your help more than anywhere else: your anything that you might not already know
restore America, it is very clear that the time is now to re-engage, particularly page on American history, packed with community. Federal government can't about.
Internet is going to be the #1 channel for around the conversation on how to turn links to historical figures and events. reach out to each corner of America, and Where do I start?
read/write communication with the people. this country around. You can directly help About.com features a whole subdomain frankly, that is not its job. This is why you If you already have an Apple ID (either
Change.gov not only features an elegant shape the future of America, one comment dedicated to American history. You can can really make a difference by engaging from iTunes/MobileMe/.Mac/etc.), then
design, but has useful content that connects at a time. Find the blogs and online find articles on subjects ranging from the in local politics, buying regional produce, the first place to start would be to join the
you to the President-Elect and solicits your newspapers that you like and comment on Civil War to presidential elections to taking your kids to a local history museum. iPhone DevCenter. The basic (free) access
opinion and ideas. And the seemingly the issues that matter. 3. Spread the News biographies. For more in-depth learning, Every township is online these days. You will allow you to download the SDK
small things like the iPhone application or The social explosion on the web created head over to Kindle books on Amazon. can connect through the Internet and (Software Development Kit), look at
support of OpenID and Creative Commons a wonderful way to disseminate news. Over four thousand books on American engage in local issues. From spring to fall, documentation, download example code,
show that people on Obama's team are Before, news was broadcast through history come up. 5. Get Your Finances in you can shop at your local farmers' market, and test your applications in the iPhone
intimately familiar with the latest centralized hubs; now, through Twitter, Order helping make things a little greener. Simulator (a Mac application that emulates
technologies and trends on the web. Facebook and other social networks, the Let's face it, the latest financial crisis is Stepping up and doing just a little locally the iPhone OS).
If Obama and his team are going to use news is spread by individuals. The partially our fault. Sure, Wall Street execs really goes a long way. Conclusion You will not be able to test and debug
the Internet to help change America, so implication is that your tweet matters. were greedy and went too far, but so did We are living in troubled yet exciting your application on your actual iPhone or
should we. The Internet is the most When you tweet news, it does not matter if we. Many people were not disciplined and times. Electing Barack Obama was only a iPod touch hardware, however. For that
powerful information technology ever it reaches thousands or dozens of people. lived beyond their means. If you haven't first step to turning America around. Now you will need to purchase a paid
invented, and it has already changed the What matters is that it reaches the people yet, start using financial software such as the tough work, the heavy lifting, begins. development membership.
way we elect the President of the United who want to hear the news from you. By Mint and Wesabe, and get your finances Mr. Obama is ready, but he needs your Once you attempt to sign in to the
States. Next, it just may help us restore spreading the news, you are leveraging our under control. Getting organized is the help. Take the time to think about things DevCenter with your Apple ID, you will
America to its true self. How? One person social fabric, helping the right information most important step to getting your you can do on the Internet to help The be presented with some terms and
at a time, starting with you and then travel through the right channels. 4. Learn finances in order. And like news Change. It's patriotic, it is right, and it is a conditions that you will need to accept.
passing it along. Here are 7 things you can American History dissemination, fixing the financial crisis is lot of fun. Ready? Let's do this together! Once you accept them, you will be taken to
do on the Internet to help President Obama To change the future, it is important to also done one person at a time. 6. Learn See also: ReadWriteWeb Guide to the main DevCenter -- this is the place
turn this great country around. 1. Read know the past. Even if you are well versed about Green Tech Celebrating Inauguration Day Discuss where you will be able to download the
About and Know the Issues in American history, there is always more The issues of global warming and green SDK and access some other important
The least you can do is be aware. In this to learn. Learning history is both technologies are going to be at the information about iPhone development.
day and age, ignorance cannot be excused. educational and patriotic. It is the subject Read on to learn more about iPhone
development.
Continue reading iPhone Dev 101:
Introduction
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2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms
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Public Sentiment: Taking the True Pulse Finally - Get RSS Support
of the Public with Farewell W, Aloha for Google Chrome
By Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Obama Submitted at 1/20/2009 7:06:54 AM
Journalist and human rights lawyer shot iLife '09 hardware up-to-date
program
by masked gunman in Moscow By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW))
By Oliver Luft (World news | mid-20s, had worked for the Novaya Kungayeva's father, Visa Kungayev, who
Gazeta newspaper, also Politkovskaya's has taken refuge in Norway with his Submitted at 1/20/2009 8:00:00 AM
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/20/2009 3:27:00 AM
employer. family, said Markelov told him last week Filed under: iLife, Software Just as we
Andrei Lipsky, a deputy editor with the he had been threatened with death if he saw them do in 2007, Apple has instituted list of qualifying refurbished machines.
A Russian freelance journalist was killed paper, told AP that Baburova tried to refused to drop the case, the Interfax news an up-to-date program for iLife '09. This offer will end on March 28, 2009,
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Obituary: Martin Luther King's genius was to waken the energy that Editorial: In
slumbered in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi and send it out into praise of ...
the streets of the South, marching for justice and social change
By Jonathan Steele (News: Main
section | guardian.co.uk)
three hundred and forty years for our
constitutional and God given rights." "Yes,
disagreed with his tactics of direct action
in the street:
Negro community was angry. King found
himself leading a modest campaign for
Pete Seeger
Lord." "History is the long and tragic story of the decent treatment on the buses. After more By Editorial (News: Main section |
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And the church doors would open and fact that privileged groups seldom give up white provocation and more Negro arrests, guardian.co.uk)
"He was the first Negro minister whom I the crowd would surge out into the hot and their privileges voluntarily. Individuals including that of King himself, the Submitted at 1/19/2009 4:01:00 PM
have ever heard who can reduce the Negro dusty Southern street, and down to the may see the moral light and voluntarily campaign grew into a mass boycott of the
problem to a spiritual matter and yet court house in the city hall with its give up their unjust posture, but groups are buses, with the demand for total Moments of historical symbolism do not
inspire the people to seek a solution on this petitions, its banners and its faith that more immoral than individuals." desegregation. rate higher than Barack Obama's
side of the Jordan not in life after death." change at last was on the way. When he was 15 King went on to The boycott lasted for several months, inauguration in Washington today. Yet on
So wrote the Negro author Louis Lomax, What a contrast this was to the old-style Storehouse, a Negro college in Atlanta. received world-wide publicity, and ended Sunday, with Obama listening,
catching the crucial spark that made Martin Southern minister. I remember going with There he read Henry Thoreau's "Essay on in victory. King founded the Southern Washington witnessed another small sign
Luther King, jun., stand out head and other student workers on the Mississippi Civil Disobedience," written in 1846 when Christian Leadership Conference, to rally of the mood of change and hope that will
shoulders from his fellow-ministers in the summer project in 1964 to a tiny, white- Thoreau was protesting against American his fellow-Negro ministers throughout the swathe the US Capitol today. More than 50
South and step into the ranks of the world's washed, wooden church on the edge of a intervention in Mexico. It made a great South. After that he led march after march, years ago, the leftwing folk-singer Pete
martyrs. cotton field on the first Sunday after the impression on him, as it had done on in Albany, Georgia, in 1861; the March on Seeger was - a bit like many African-
King was above all a man of the Negro 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, the Act Gandhi and Tolstoy. Washington, in 1963, and in Birmingham, Americans - a second-class citizen in his
South. He knew for himself the deep and that outlawed segregation in public Nonviolence as a philosophy and a Alabama later that summer; Selma to own land. Summoned to give evidence
hopeless fatigue, the age-long tiredness, facilities throughout the country. We strategy for social change is often thought Montgomery in 1965; and the March about his political leanings and contacts to
that hangs like a dark cloud over the whole thought there must be some reference to of as a late import into American-life, through Mississippi after James Meredith the House Un-American Activities
communities in the black belts of Georgia, this historic milestone In the sermon; but brought there by Martin Luther King. But was shot in 1966. He spent the next few Committee, Seeger refused to testify. This
Alabama, and Mississippi. He knew the the minister only touched on it once and just as violence runs deep in the American months in the suburbs of Chicago, his first led to an indictment for contempt, a prison
energy and power that slumbered there, but then merely to dismiss it as a mundane system, so too does the tradition of major project in the North. He opposed the sentence and a travel ban. In America's
which only made itself felt in the feet of irrelevancy: "And they can pass Civil nonviolence. There is a distinctive war in Vietnam, and the cuts in the poverty cold war blacklisting and red-baiting years,
the few who migrated to the North in the Rights Acts from now until kingdom American tradition which runs back to the programme which it inevitably brought. Seeger was unable to perform in many
hope of better things, or the voices that come, but our faith In the Lord is the Quakers in the seventeenth century. From And later this month he was to have led a halls, was excluded from college campuses
turned to the blues and the hymns and the same." The small congregation called out them it goes to the abolitionists and peace march of poor people on Washington. and banned from the airwaves. All the
spirituals. King's genius was to waken that "Amen" as they had done all along, and crusaders of the years before the Civil Death was always near him, and he while, though, he kept writing and singing,
energy and send it out into the streets of stumbled out again into the sunshine , and War, the anarchists and pacifists at the survived several previous attempts on his mostly for good causes and sometimes,
the South, marching for justice and social off to their pitiful homes until next Sunday. beginning of this century, the sit-down life. But he never let this weigh too long on naively, for less defensible ones. He sang
change. Unforgettable King came from a family of ministers strikers of the 1930s and the conscientious his mind. He had, as he said, to go on. His with Woody Guthrie at the start, then with
To anyone who was ever there when himself. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, objectors of two world wars. King knew last sentence to the crowd before he swung the Weavers, later in the 1960s folk revival
King spoke, the experience was on January 15, 1929. His parents were this, as he knew his Hegel, Kant, and out on the first Selma march, in defiance of with Bob Dylan and, more recently, with
unforgettable. A small man, barely five comfortably off, but during his late teens Gandhi. a court injunction and in the teeth of a Bruce Springsteen. This week, the 89-year-
foot seven, he dominated the pulpit or the he took a job, against his father's wishes, in King was ordained, did a doctoral degree hostile police force, was this: "I would old Seeger stood on the steps of the
podium. In a slow but sonorous voice, the a factory that hired both Negroes and at Boston University, and then in 1955 rather die today on the highways of Lincoln Memorial singing Guthrie's This
biblical cadences rolled out, and the crowd whites. "Here," he wrote later, "I saw became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Alabama than make a butchery of my own Land is Your Land with Springsteen at the
would sway with them, and punctuate economic injustice at first hand, and Baptist Church, an upper-income Negro conscience." pre-inauguration concert. Seeger's
them with the answering calls that are the realised that the poor white was exploited church in Montgomery, Alabama. It was In cold print, that reads, histrionically, judgment on politics and music has not
special feature of Negro churches. "There as much as the Negro. Through these early here that almost by chance he was given perhaps. King knew, and has now made always been right, but he is a man of his
comes a time when the cup of endurance experiences I grew up deeply conscious of the opportunity to put his study of others know, that it was a real and times and he has been the troubadour of
runs over" ... "Amen" from the crowd, " ... the varieties of injustices in our society." nonviolence into action. For the civil rights conscious choice. the American left for more than half a
and men are no longer willing to be Thus early In his life King saw, beyond movement began by accident. Modest • Martin Luther King century. His return to the spotlight is
plunged into an abyss of injustice where the issue of individual need, the larger campaign • Race issues another sign that things are changing for
they experience the bleakness of corroding problem of group injustice. He was fond of A Negro seamstress, Mrs Rosa Parks, • United States the better in America this week.
despair ... " " Yes, Lord." " ... For years quoting the words, "A religion that ends was going home one day. She was tired, guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & • Obama inauguration
now we have heard the word 'wait' ... 'help with the individual, ends." And he wrote and sat down in the bus, and when asked to Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is • United States
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Ian Black: Gaza has exposed the Arab leaders to fury Vengeance and 4 Months,
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and contempt By Paul Howlett (From the
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By Ian Black (News: Main section | Israel's Operation Cast Lead. But the crisis though this time he kept his powder dry. horrify Arab viewers - and the largest US
has put it on cruel and very public display, Islamists elsewhere mocked the impotence military base in the Middle East. Submitted at 1/19/2009 4:01:00 PM
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drawing the contempt and fury of what is and passivity of "treacherous" Arab So against this complex, deeply fissured Rob Roy
so condescendingly called the "street" from governments they scorn as US puppets or background, whither Israel and the Arab 8.05am & 7.35pm, Sky Movies Action
It was Monday, so it had to be Kuwait. Algeria to Yemen. The league may be a Zionist stooges. world after Gaza? Israel makes much of Thriller
And there they were, 17 leaders and five bad joke, but its members still represent Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has been the Saudi and other conservative Arab fears of (Michael Caton-Jones, 1995)
senior representatives of all 22 members of 320 million people. "In the fog of war," target of much fury. Now 80 and serving a Iran's nuclear ambitions and its promotion, Historical romance as meaty as a good
the Arab League, gathered to discuss the commented the Egyptian scholar Mamoun pharaonic fifth consecutive presidential in Iraq, Lebanon and beyond, of Sunni- haggis, seasoned with a salty, intelligent
impact of the global economic crisis, Fandy in the Saudi-owned daily al-Sharq al term, he has been attacked for refusing to Shia divisions. But this ignores the crucial script. Based loosely on the Highland
though the original agenda was hijacked by -Awsat, "everything was suddenly crystal open the Gaza border. It has all been grist importance - symbolic and real - to all legend, it pits Liam Neeson's noble crofter
the end of Israel's devastating three-week clear". to the mill of the Muslim Brotherhood, Arabs of finally resolving the Palestinian against Tim Roth's effete Cunningham, a
onslaught against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Anger with Israel and solidarity with the Egypt's largest (but outlawed) opposition issue. rapier-sharp English gentleman-rapist:
Yesterday's summit of kings, presidents Palestinians are still natural instincts across movement and supporter of the like- Yehoshafat Harkabi, a former head of glorious landscapes, and powerful
and emirs did produce one piece of good the Middle East and North Africa. The minded Hamas - whose election was so Israeli military intelligence, wrote a classic performances from Jessica Lange, John
news for the battered Palestinians: a Saudi memory of the 1948 nakba (catastrophe) uncomfortable for Cairo. But criticism of and deeply pessimistic book in the 1960s Hurt and Brian Cox.
cheque for $1bn that will certainly help has never faded; the humiliation of the Egyptian policy has been spun as an suggesting Arab attitudes to Israel were Lady Vengeance
rebuild bombed mosques, schools and 1967 defeat lives on. Yet sympathy for the affront to the nation, reviving the argument immutably hostile. But he revised his view 11.05pm, Film4
homes. But it raises the wider question of martyred children of Gaza does not equate that, in four wars with Israel, Egypt made after the 1967 war to insist that a (Park Chan-wook, 2005)
what Arabs can and should do to help the automatically with support for Hamas, great sacrifices for the Palestinians. It was withdrawal from the occupied territories In this final part of Park's revenge trilogy
cause they hold so dear - when they cannot which is often attacked for recklessly Mubarak who inherited the original "sin" and the creation of a Palestinian state a beautiful young woman (Lee Yeong-ae)
even agree an agenda and when or where believing it can defeat Israel. of recognising Israel from his predecessor would turn the tide. The brief blossoming is released after serving 13 years for the
to meet. Very few imagine a return to the unified Anwar Sadat, gunned down in 1981 by of Israeli ties with Arab states after the kidnap and murder of a boy, and sets about
On Sunday the heads of state of Egypt Arab military efforts of the past. Most homegrown jihadis who emerged from the 1993 Oslo agreement with the PLO proved finding and killing the paedophile who
and Jordan, both stalwarts of the so-called Arabs, including most Palestinians, accept torture chambers to found al-Qaida a few his point. framed her. The convoluted flashback
moderate or western-backed camp, were Israel as a reality, though there are those - years later. Saudi King Abdullah told the Kuwait structure and funereal-dark photography
the only Arabs to attend the Sharm el- with whom Ahmadinejad agrees - who In the same boat is Jordan's King summit that the 2002 Arab League add disquieting tones to a gruesome,
Sheikh conference. take the longer view. That sees Israel as a Abdullah, the other Arab neighbour with a initiative, offering Israel the recognition of gripping tale.
Last Friday there was an Arab majority modern Crusader state that may yet endure peace treaty with Israel - though like his all 22 Arab states in return for a return to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
in the Qatari capital Doha - though still not for a century or more but is an artificial, father Hussein, Abdullah is ever mindful the 1967 borders and the creation of an 12midnight, Sky Movies Premiere
the required two-thirds quorum for a colonialist implant that is destined to of the Palestinians who make up the independent Palestinian state, remains on (Cristian Mungiu, 2008)
formal Arab League summit. Bashar al- wither. This may be no more than wishful majority of his subjects. the table, but warned that it will not remain This riveting Romanian drama is set
Assad, Syria's president, was the star of thinking. But it ignores Israel's evident Facing them is the canniest, but perhaps there indefinitely. The Arab "refusers" during one day in 1987, at the end of the
that show, along with the leaders of Hamas strengths and the fact that the majority of also the most pliable, of the "refusers", wanted it withdrawn after the pounding of Ceausescu era, with Otilia (Anamaria
and Islamic Jihad, his Palestinian guests in its now native-born, Hebrew-speaking Syria's Assad, a weaker version of his Gaza. It is hard to see it surviving another Marinca) agreeing to help her fellow
Damascus. Non-Arab Iran's President Jewish citizens have no other homeland to famously iron-willed father Hafez. Hopes bloodletting like that. student Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) seek an
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the other go "back" to. Still, the perception that it is of seeing him press Hamas or Hezbollah or ian.black@guardian.co.uk abortion. It's illegal and dangerous, and as
special invitee. This is the core of jabhat al a fundamentally illegitimate entity abandon his alliance with Iran ensure a • Gaza Gabita puts herself in the hands of a cold
-mumana'a - the Arab "refusal front". combines with resentment at its steady stream of western supplicants to his • Israel and the Palestinian territories doctor (Vlad Ivanov), the tension grows
Thursday saw leaders of the smaller Gulf unassailable (nuclear-armed) regional Damascus palace. Barack Obama's envoy • Middle East unbearably.
states summoned to the Saudi capital hegemony. may well be next. Another semi-partner is guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & • TV pick of the week
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would be "a good idea" too. blundered into war with Israel in 2006 and Jazeera TV - whose images of death and Feeds
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Rugby union: Bath's England prop Matt Cricket: England captain Andrew
Stevens fails drug test Strauss encourages players to
By Paul Rees (The latest football sitting there with an illness."
Stevens, who struggled to get out a
Stevens is a member of the 32-strong
England elite squad, but a ban would see
take more responsibility
news and comment plus rugby, (The latest football news and Strauss was confident that he would score
tennis, cricket and horse racing | number of words during the interview, his contract torn up. "millions of runs" for England. He has not,
went on: "It started off a couple of times The RFU said in a statement: "The comment plus rugby, tennis, cricket
guardian.co.uk) and horse racing | guardian.co.uk) however, been named on the team's
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not a big deal, but the problem with drugs aware by European Rugby Cup (Ltd) of Submitted at 1/20/2009 8:42:30 AM
against West Indies, which will instead
Matt Stevens was today suspended by is that it quickly becomes a big deal. I owe the positive doping test given by Matt Andrew Strauss has urged England to comprise Andrew Flintoff, Paul
Bath and withdrawn from the senior it to everyone to admit that and I want to Stevens following the Heineken Cup "think on their feet" as his team prepared Collingwood, Alastair Cook and Stuart
England squad after failing a drug test. The say I am truly very sorry. match against Glasgow Warriors in to leave for a tour in the West Indies. Broad, with Pietersen coming in for the
26-year-old, who has won 32 caps, "I had a few counselling sessions before December 2008. "We want to get back to doing what do ODIs when Cook goes home after the
admitted that he was hooked on a the drugs test result came out but I was not "The procedure for potential doping we best, playing cricket and winning Test Tests.
recreational drug and said he had started serious about it. I had a session with a offences is clearly laid out in the ERC matches," said Strauss, who was appointed "Kevin was his normal self when we met
counselling. counsellor today and I am going to a Regulations and as such the player is captain this month after the debacle up," said Strauss. "I've never seen Kevin
The former Australia wing Wendell meeting tonight. immediately provisionally suspended from involving the former captain Kevin show a negative side to him since the first
Sailor was banned for two years after a "This is something I am serious about all competition. Matt has been removed Pietersen and sacked coach Peter Moores. day I met him. He's very positive, he
drug test showed he had been taking changing. I want to change my life and get from the England Elite Player Squad and "My belief is we want to see players think doesn't dwell on the past and I'm sure he's
cocaine and Stevens faces a lengthy period back the faith that people had in me." will not travel to the training camp in on their feet out in the middle, take already plotting ways of spanking the West
on the sidelines after failing a test His club issued a statement that ran: Portugal on Sunday or be involved in the responsibility for the situation and not Indies bowlers all over the place.
following a Heineken Cup victory over "Bath Rugby has been made aware of the squad until the resolution of the case when leave it to someone else. "We want to win both the Test and one-
Glasgow last month. initial positive test given by Matt Stevens a further decision on his inclusion in the "The only way we can do that is to give day series and start building some
"I was tested for a prohibited substance," following the Heineken Cup match against England squad will be made. them more responsibility off the field as momentum before an important summer.
said Stevens on Sky Sports News. "It was Glasgow Warriors in December. The "A decision on a replacement for Matt in well. I'm challenging my players to start The West Indies are now a very dangerous
not a performance-enhancing substance: procedure for potential doping offences is the EPS squad is being considered by the thinking a bit more about what they need side. The likes of Ramnaresh Sarwan,
you can make of that what you will. It is a clearly laid out in both the player's contract England team manager Martin Johnson to do in terms of preparation and I'm Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle and
very serious substance and something that and the European Rugby Cup Regulations. and an announcement will be made in due giving them a lot more flexibility to do Fidel Edwards are all very dangerous
over a period of time I have realised that I The player is immediately suspended from course." that." cricketers."
have an issue with. It is something that has competition and has been suspended by • Bath England fly to the West Indies without a • Andrew Strauss
basically ruined my life up until this point. Bath Rugby until the case is resolved. • England rugby union team head coach, with Andy Flower – formerly • Kevin Pietersen
"It is pretty distressing talking about this "Bath Rugby condemns the use or • Guinness Premiership assistant to Moores – acting as a stand-in, • Peter Moores
when I think how much time and effort so distribution of prohibited substances or • Rugby union and supported by the operations manager, • England in West Indies 2009
many people have put into my career. I methods as defined by the World Anti- guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Phil Neale. • England Cricket Team
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behaviour. Like any drug problem, you do Rugby is considering the implications and subject to our Terms & Conditions| More an advisory or consultancy role," Strauss guardian.co.uk© Guardian News &
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Rugby union: Bath's England prop Matt Cricket: England captain Andrew
Stevens fails drug test Strauss encourages players to
By Paul Rees (The latest football sitting there with an illness."
Stevens, who struggled to get out a
Stevens is a member of the 32-strong
England elite squad, but a ban would see
take more responsibility
news and comment plus rugby, (The latest football news and Strauss was confident that he would score
tennis, cricket and horse racing | number of words during the interview, his contract torn up. "millions of runs" for England. He has not,
went on: "It started off a couple of times The RFU said in a statement: "The comment plus rugby, tennis, cricket
guardian.co.uk) and horse racing | guardian.co.uk) however, been named on the team's
after big nights out with friends ... It was Rugby Football Union has been made management committee for the Tests
Submitted at 1/20/2009 9:18:54 AM
not a big deal, but the problem with drugs aware by European Rugby Cup (Ltd) of Submitted at 1/20/2009 8:42:30 AM
against West Indies, which will instead
Matt Stevens was today suspended by is that it quickly becomes a big deal. I owe the positive doping test given by Matt Andrew Strauss has urged England to comprise Andrew Flintoff, Paul
Bath and withdrawn from the senior it to everyone to admit that and I want to Stevens following the Heineken Cup "think on their feet" as his team prepared Collingwood, Alastair Cook and Stuart
England squad after failing a drug test. The say I am truly very sorry. match against Glasgow Warriors in to leave for a tour in the West Indies. Broad, with Pietersen coming in for the
26-year-old, who has won 32 caps, "I had a few counselling sessions before December 2008. "We want to get back to doing what do ODIs when Cook goes home after the
admitted that he was hooked on a the drugs test result came out but I was not "The procedure for potential doping we best, playing cricket and winning Test Tests.
recreational drug and said he had started serious about it. I had a session with a offences is clearly laid out in the ERC matches," said Strauss, who was appointed "Kevin was his normal self when we met
counselling. counsellor today and I am going to a Regulations and as such the player is captain this month after the debacle up," said Strauss. "I've never seen Kevin
The former Australia wing Wendell meeting tonight. immediately provisionally suspended from involving the former captain Kevin show a negative side to him since the first
Sailor was banned for two years after a "This is something I am serious about all competition. Matt has been removed Pietersen and sacked coach Peter Moores. day I met him. He's very positive, he
drug test showed he had been taking changing. I want to change my life and get from the England Elite Player Squad and "My belief is we want to see players think doesn't dwell on the past and I'm sure he's
cocaine and Stevens faces a lengthy period back the faith that people had in me." will not travel to the training camp in on their feet out in the middle, take already plotting ways of spanking the West
on the sidelines after failing a test His club issued a statement that ran: Portugal on Sunday or be involved in the responsibility for the situation and not Indies bowlers all over the place.
following a Heineken Cup victory over "Bath Rugby has been made aware of the squad until the resolution of the case when leave it to someone else. "We want to win both the Test and one-
Glasgow last month. initial positive test given by Matt Stevens a further decision on his inclusion in the "The only way we can do that is to give day series and start building some
"I was tested for a prohibited substance," following the Heineken Cup match against England squad will be made. them more responsibility off the field as momentum before an important summer.
said Stevens on Sky Sports News. "It was Glasgow Warriors in December. The "A decision on a replacement for Matt in well. I'm challenging my players to start The West Indies are now a very dangerous
not a performance-enhancing substance: procedure for potential doping offences is the EPS squad is being considered by the thinking a bit more about what they need side. The likes of Ramnaresh Sarwan,
you can make of that what you will. It is a clearly laid out in both the player's contract England team manager Martin Johnson to do in terms of preparation and I'm Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle and
very serious substance and something that and the European Rugby Cup Regulations. and an announcement will be made in due giving them a lot more flexibility to do Fidel Edwards are all very dangerous
over a period of time I have realised that I The player is immediately suspended from course." that." cricketers."
have an issue with. It is something that has competition and has been suspended by • Bath England fly to the West Indies without a • Andrew Strauss
basically ruined my life up until this point. Bath Rugby until the case is resolved. • England rugby union team head coach, with Andy Flower – formerly • Kevin Pietersen
"It is pretty distressing talking about this "Bath Rugby condemns the use or • Guinness Premiership assistant to Moores – acting as a stand-in, • Peter Moores
when I think how much time and effort so distribution of prohibited substances or • Rugby union and supported by the operations manager, • England in West Indies 2009
many people have put into my career. I methods as defined by the World Anti- guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Phil Neale. • England Cricket Team
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