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Apple's iPad may be taking the world by storm and have overtaken Microsoft in market cap, but some things regarding Apple aren't changing: Apple products are still banned in the home of Bill and Melinda Gates. Melinda confirmed in a New Times interview last week the same family policy in place in March 2009. In March last year Melinda addressed the issue in an interview with Vogue Magazine:
"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household," said Melinda Gates, who has three children, Jennifer, 13, Rory, 10, and Phoebe, seven, with husband Bill.
"But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids," she said.
Gates, 44, admitted that she would love to own Apple's addictive, application-loaded iPhone, despite her obvious loyalty to the Microsoft brand.
"Every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone,'" she told Vogue.
In last week's interview, Melinda was less positive about Apple and emphatic about their family loyalty to the Zune. Her responses to the interviewer are in bold below:
Do you own an iPod, which is made by Apple?
No, I have a Zune.
What if one of your children says, "Mom, I have to have an iPod?"
I have gotten that argument — "You may have a Zune."
Do you have an iPad?
Of course not.
Is it true that Bill works on an Apple laptop?
False. Nothing [made by Apple] crosses the threshold of our doorstep.
Isn't there room in this world for both Apple and Microsoft?
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. Go talk to Bill.
If my kids wanted a Microsoft product, like a Zune or a Windows laptop, I'd certainly try and buy one for them. That hasn't happened to date, however. We do own a Dell Mini10 laptop in our home which can boot into three operating systems, including Windows 7, but none of my kids like running it with Windows. Of course, they haven't had nearly as many experiences with Windows operating systems… in general I think it's a good thing to avoid environments where malware is rampant. I understand (I think) why it would be a PR-gaffe for the Gates children to use and love iOS devices. I feel a little sad for them, however. Apple products are so much more fun, cool, and SAFE to use. 🙂
Hat tip to my Mom for mentioning this article last week.
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UPDATE: Amazon has made it official. Createspace is closing in a few weeks. The migration process is now more streamlined and those with big catalogs can port everything across in one go. More here.
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Createspace is rumored to be closing soon – meaning all users will be forced to transition to KDP Print (or use an alternative service). I decided to get ahead of the move to scout out any potential issues, and there are a few for you to watch out for – meaning, somewhat paradoxically, that you may wish to make the leap sooner rather than later.
I know, I know, it sounds like a big plate of hassle with little upside. But the process might be easier than you think, and could save you bigger problems in a few months. On top of that, this could be a good opportunity to update those old paperback files, clean up your metadata in line with current best practices (hellooooo 2012 keywords), and perhaps consider some distribution alternatives. Let's get to it!
Createspace is Closing?
Ever since the launch of KDP Print, it has been rumored that Createspace is closing – after all, it doesn't make sense to maintain a second, off-brand POD service, especially one where the architecture is creaking and security issues are multiplying.
I spoke to one of the senior Createspace people at NINC last year, and he explained that the two services have been slowly folding together at the back end for quite some time, and that they were now working out of the same building. What we've seen more recently is the gap between the two closing at the front end, with Createspace killing off extraneous services like copy-editing, and KDP Print replicating the last few features of Createspace it had been missing – things like author copies and Expanded Distribution.
Bar some minor kinks to be ironed out, and a couple of international issues, that process is pretty much complete. Outside of Amazon, nobody knows when Createspace will actually shut its doors, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens over the next few months. Which means you are going to have to move soon anyway. But should you do it now, or wait? Is the process tricky? I decided to find out.
Switching to KDP Print
It's mostly good news on this front. The process for transitioning existing Createspace titles to KDP Print is really simple – it basically involves a few clicks, inputting your ISBN number, and then reviewing the new files in the previewer.
First, you click the "Create Paperback" button in your KDP Dashboard beside the desired title. Yes, this is the same process if you are making a KDP Print paperback from scratch – you will just skip a bunch of steps if you already have a Createspace edition of that title. However, you may wish to review your keywords and categories at this point.
The system will pull through the metadata attached to your ebook edition, rather than your Createspace edition. Which may be a good thing anyway, as it is probably more up-to-date/optimized, but give it a once over. You get more keywords and the like with KDP Print so make sure you are maximizing the opportunities here in line with current best practices.
Once your metadata has been reviewed you'll get asked at the bottom of the page if this title was previously published by Createspace.
Assuming you select Yes, you will then be prompted to input the ISBN number for your Createspace edition – which will either be the free ISBN number that Createspace assigned you on publishing, or your own ISBN number if you went that route. The system will then pull through all the information about your paperback – trim size, paper type, cover finish, bleed settings, and then the interior and cover files also.
Warning: as soon as you input your ISBN number here, your Createspace edition will vanish from your Createspace interface, so make a note of anything you need before it disappears. Don't worry about the customer side though. Your book will remain on sale during the transition, even if you are caught up in approvals for some reason (more on that in a moment).
You can make changes to the interior or cover files at this point, after you pull them through, and this may be a good time to update anything. Then you are asked to review the book in the previewer before saving and moving to the final page: pricing.
This part is quite different from Createspace in that you have a little more freedom when it comes to territorial pricing, and can set separate prices for Amazon US, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Japan. The interface also handily displays the final selling price after local sales taxes are applied, as well as what your own royalty per sale will be, so you can tailor that as you desire and have it all neat on the customer side, if that's important to you.
There is a big Publish button at the bottom, but you may wish to first order a proof if you have made significant changes to your files during the transition. One big advantage of KDP Print for "international" types like myself is that we can now get proof and author copies sent to us from Europe rather than America, greatly reducing both cost and shipping time, making it much more economical to sell by hand at cons or to bookstores.
One minor disadvantage is that proof copies now have a rather ungainly PROOF emblazoned upon them so can't be reused, but this is where you order one of those, if needed. Author copies are ordered elsewhere (and don't have that PROOF printed on them), but you'll have to wait for approval first. Those author copy orders go via your regular Amazon shopping cart, so the shipping options and costs should be familiar to you.
Then when you hit the Publish button, your files will get sent for review. There is a human layer to the reviewing process and they seem to be reviewing things quite closely and finding some minor errors that Createspace missed.
For example, in a paperback I had on sale since 2012, KDP Print was unhappy that a small excerpt in the back restarted the pagination rather than continuing from the main text. A relatively easy fix, and the old edition stayed on sale throughout, so no real hassle – just something to watch out for.
The real problems come when you have a more serious issue, because support is now handled by KDP rather than Createspace. The support from Createspace was generally excellent, augmented by the availability of good phone support and well trained staff who understood issues on the spot, and who generally had the expertise/authority to resolve them.
The same cannot be said for KDP Print support. Questions seem to go into the general KDP customer support system, which is… uneven at the best of times, and fairly terrible for anything remotely complicated.
My issue seemed relatively straightforward, if a little odd. My bestselling paperback – Let's Get Digital – went through the review process just fine. But when it went live on the customer side, I noticed something weird. Digital is now only purchasable by Amazon Prime subscribers.
Here's where the wheels come off. I emailed KDP support about this in late July. They then replied on August 1 saying they were going to have to consult with the relevant team (because why would the person with expertise actually be answering the emails?), and get back to me on August 5. That never happened. I've sent five emails over the last ten days asking what the situation is with no response whatsoever.
So now I'm stuck. Welcome to KDP customer service.
Should you transition now?
Despite these hiccups, I think so, yes. The review process is relatively quick – it took less than 24 hours for each of my titles done at various times over the last few weeks. However, I wouldn't be surprised if that changes considerably when hundreds of thousands of titles need to be reviewed simultaneously.
Support is abysmal, true, but I don't see it getting any better when thousands and thousands of support requests flood the system, so you might want to get ahead of that rather inevitable clusterfudge.
What about other services?
Reedsy has a good breakdown here of Createspace/KDP Print v Ingram Spark v BookBaby v Blurb. I'd agree with them that services like BookBaby and Blurb are sub-optimal ways to do your paperbacks. (I'm not even including Lulu here who should be avoided for a whole bunch of reasons, not least their tawdry links with Author Solutions.)
I'd also agree that – ideally – you should probably use Createspace/KDP Print to reach Amazon customers and Ingram Spark for non-Amazon distribution, particularly if you are a wide author who sells a bit of print. If you are a KU author who sells little in print it might not be worth the hassle, and you can just use Amazon's Expanded Distribution network if you wish to reach somewhat outside of Amazon.
Up until now, I've always used that Expanded Distribution network, and made a decent chunk from it, but it does have disadvantages. Aside from restricting you somewhat on price on Amazon itself, you are giving up a big portion of royalties (around 20%) to access the same Ingram network that you could access directly, but without the ability to offer the level of discounts (or returns) that will attract real orders from that network, so Ingram Spark is something I'm looking at longer term for that. And then of course there are some stores and institutions who despise Amazon so much they won't even order Createspace books.
However, going via Ingram involves a bit of extra hassle: fresh files with my own ISBNs and slightly tweaked cover files, etc. A job for Captain Tomorrow.
But if that is something you are considering yourself, you may wish to opt out of the Expanded Distribution Network for KDP Print when transitioning your files from Createspace to reduce some messiness when you do get going at Ingram Spark. And if you want a proper guide to Ingram Spark, this post from ALLi is a good basic primer, with links to more detailed resources. Just keep in mind it has costs where KDP Print has none, and is not recommend for beginners at all as the process is quite convoluted.
- Createspace is closing soon, possibly in the next few months
- Transitioning to KDP Print is (largely) painless
- Customer service is terrible – be warned
- Perhaps do it now to avoid delays when everyone switches over
- Use this opportunity to update any files and clean up metadata.
UPDATE: Some good info popping up on social media in response which I'll copy here:
1. There are some issues with author copies where big orders (like 20 books or so) will get split into 4 or 5 separate packages which arrive at different times – a pain if you have to trudge 40 minutes away to the post office, like me.
2. Amazon have said privately that they are working on automating the migration process. So you could just do nothing and let that happen. However, given they have 2m titles to migrate, I'd personally want to avoid that and get ahead of it, given possible backlog with approvals and support, even if there are no issues with the migration process itself (and I suspect there will be with that many titles).
3. People generally seem to think this is happening soonish. Fall comes up a lot in rumors. No firm date I know of, but that sounds about right to me, if I had to guess.
4. Workflow-wise, especially for those of you with lots of titles. This will be a pain one way or the other, but if you can arrange the transition for when you are updating files that will be most efficient. But I recommend doing it like this: don't update the file before the migration. Start the process, and then before you approve the interior and cover files that KDP Print pulls across from Createspace, insert your new updated files. Then submit for review. Your old CS file will stay on sale until it's approved, which means you'll have no downtime.
And I'll just add this: my Prime-only issue (screenshot above) has now been resolved. It only affected that one title, so appears to be a one-off glitch.


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Yesterday we heard that Tom Cruise's former auditor, an ex Scientologist and former second in command of the entire organization, Marty Rathbun, had predicted an early settlement in Cruise's divorce. Rathbun had posted an entry to his blog on Sunday detailing the way Scientology head and close friend of Cruise's, David Miscavige (shown above), regularly handled PR crises for the cult. This was their biggest to date, and Rathbun knew that a settlement was forthcoming and that Cruise would pay whatever it took to make it go away. He was right of course, and the way he called it all was kind of amazing.
Rathbun even predicted that Scientology would then play the victim and "make the media and their sources wrong for having allegedly jumped the gun to insinuate Scientology into the matter." Lo and behold, Tom Cruise's lawyer just issued a statement this morning that. "The Church of Scientology played absolutely NO ROLE in the divorce settlement talks at all. Period. The mere suggestion that the Church was involved in any element of the talks and ultimate settlement is categorically false. Anyone suggesting otherwise is just wrong."
This means that Rathbun called Tom Cruise's divorce playbook ahead of time, down to each point. (You can read more on the Village Voice's blog.) Kudos to him, really. It just goes to show how deep Cruise is involved with this cult and how he follows their guidance in all matters.
Rathbun just did a radio interview for political talk show host Michael Smerconish. He explained how the cult operates under David Miscavige, about Cruise's position in Scientology, and about how Miscavige brought Cruise back into the fold after he was "out" of the cult during his marriage to Nicole Kidman. Rathbun also discussed the way that Scientologists harassed and stalked him daily for about a year after he left. I was so impressed with how calm and well spoken he was. You can listen to the interview here and I've transcribed some of it below. This guy sounded very intelligent and his story was fascinating.
On how Tom got enticed to come back into Scientology
It was just prior to that [2004] when I left the organization. I was Tom's auditor, or Scientology counselor, for the last 6 or 8 years that I was there. I worked recovering him back to Scientology, he had about an 8-9 year period where he was… out of communication with Miscavige.
On how Miscavige was obsessed with Tom Cruise
One of the things that was really bothersome to me around 2004 when that award was bestowed [a Scientology "Freedom medal of valor award," video below] was just how much Miscavige was making it an obsession to become Tom's best friend and to go into his circles and get into that celebrity high life of going over to Tom's house on movie night to watch movies, going to his premieres, going to parties…. He had this obsession with the guy.
On if Miscavige wooed Tom to assist with recruitment
That was the organizational motivation, with him it was something beyond that. He's very into power and image and he was very into Tom Cruise in particular. He loved to mingle with the celebrities, but Tom was his boy. Tom was his obsession.
On what auditing means in lay terms
I like to use this paradigm, the U2 song "Stuck in a Moment." Auditing is simply a one-on-one counseling technique where the auditor directs the person's attention towards incidents in his past… so that he frees his attention to the present and he wakes up spiritually.
There's supposed to be absolute trust in order for the process to work.
On if he'll ever reveal what Tom Cruise told him in auditing sessions
[No] There's been many enticements for me to do otherwise. I posted on my blog an offer from the National Enquirer to give me $20,000 plus promotion for my book if I just disclose a few secrets, but I just won't do it.
On how Scientologists stalked him for a year
Last year they spent nearly the entire year tracking every single literal footstep that my wife and I made. They had teams in our hometown, on our doorstep, any time we went somewhere there was teams of private investigators picking us up. We sort of broke the back of that through media exposure, but that went on for an entire year, 2011.
On why he left Scientology: violence and beatings
There's been tremendous efforts by the Church of Scientology to suppress this information, but at the international base where Miscavige hangs out near Riverside, California, the highest levels of Scientology degenerated into this sort of culture of violence. Miscavige began beating people, punching people, physically punishing them to the point where he was requiring it of others. It was a widely spread practice at the international base.
One evening Miscavige made a show of beating up a close friend of mine and that was sort of the last snapping straw for me.
On if he's disillusioned with Scientology's management or their beliefs or both
I question everything, but I still find a lot of good in Scientology. I wrote a book called… What is Wrong with Scientology, and I break it down and try to differential for people between the religion, philosophy on one hand and the organization, Miscavige on the other hand. And I think that different ion had to be made…
One of the things the outside public has trouble grasping is one of the reasons people put up with it is they do get something out of it… I still think the philosophy has a lot to offer, but the abuses of the organization are way over the top.
On Xenu, thetans and the galactic confederacy story
Well you know, a lot of people are making an analogy of what's going on in Scientology over the last three years with the reformation, because it's essentially in a way we're reforming the church of Scientology, but we're following the path of the reformation… It's to say, the Bible is not a monopoly. You don't have to follow all this kooky, spooky liturgy to study the Bible and practice it the way you want to.
On if Scientology is a cult
The church of Scientology most absolutely is a cult and it was what provoked me to leave it. But when I left I never really doubted the benefits I got out of the auditing process and the study of the actual philosophy… I draw that line.
On independent Scientologists
There's a burgeoning movement of independent Scientologists who find all these organizational policies and practices abusive… I just literally practice out of my house.
On Tom Cruise's position in Scientology
Tom is what we call a public Scientologist, he's not a staff member. The organization I was in… you sign a billion year contract to signify your commitment. That's the priesthood. Tom is a parishioner.
On Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce settlement
On Sunday I did a blog post where I predicted this would happen. They did it almost precisely… The amount of media attention that was focused on the Church of Scientology was just way too intense. It was clear to me they were going to have to punt and punt quick.
On if Cruise was pressured by Scientology to settle the divorce
I don't think he was… I think it was a mutual thing. I think it was Miscavige and Tom making a decision [together]. I think he's self-motivated and he's in a complete alignment and thinks parallel with Miscavige now.
The violence and psychological abuse that Rathbun talks about were covered in a series of articles in the Tampa Bay Tribune which ran in 2009, we covered it at the time and you can read it here. At that time, Rathbun also claimed that Scientology coordinated Tom's divorce from Nicole Kidman, declaring her an impediment to his commitment to Cos and encouraging Tom and Nicole's split. Rathbun's version of this story is consistent with at least two other ex-Scientologists who have spoken to the press, actor Jason Beghe and now ex Scientologist Nancy Many, who recently spoke to Radar Online. Nancy told Radar that "They had this wonderful anniversary then as far as I am concerned, he gets work done one on one and is told 'You've got to get back into the fold, Nicole is stopping you,' all this was manipulation."
So according to at least three known Scientologists who have spoken on the record, Cruise was told to dump Nicole Kidman because Miscavige wanted him as his boy and Kidman wasn't committed to the cult. I love that Katie was able to blindside him and get out on her own.
You can purchase Rathbun's book, What is Wrong With Scientology, on Amazon.com. The image on the cover is of Scientologists coming over to Marty's house to "bust" him, they call themselves "squirrel busters," for practicing their religion outside of the cult. You can watch a video of that below. Marty loses his cool and takes
their camera, but can you blame him? (Update: he apparently just threw down the guy's sunglasses. No biggie.)
The "Squirrel Busters," aka Scientologists, visit Marty's house to harass him.
Here's Tom Cruise accepting the "Freedom Medal of Valor" Award in 2004, along with some segments of his Scientology promotional video:
Here are some new photos of Cruise on the set of Oblivion in June Lake, California yesterday. Got to keep up that action hero image. The Sun notes that he's not wearing his wedding ring, but he's on set it's hard to tell if he's taken it off for good. He is divorced now though.
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The Post's "Top Secret America" series has spurred a great deal of debate in national security circles -- but it has also been a topic of discussion among designers and new media observers intrigued by the series' use of databases and interactive elements to help tell the story.
Many have praised the series:
• The New America Foundation's Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age blog: "It's no secret that we live in a time when the news most likely to be consumed is that which is served bite-sized to readers, ideally in 140 characters or, if necessary, 140 words...With this in mind, the form and delivery of this week's Washington Post investigation, "Top Secret America," has piqued my interest even more than the content of the story itself (although perhaps my colleagues at New America's Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative will feel differently). That the Post had the financial resources to support a two-year-long investigative project is reassuring for the state of journalism, but not shocking; after all, it's still one of the country's top newspapers. As others have begun to note, the Post's editors broke with convention by publishing the series on Monday, instead of in the Sunday paper, to reach a broader national audience who read The Post online. Even more, it's the form of Dana Priest and William M. Arkin's Post investigation that shows the potential for something new: It takes years of research and turns it into digestible pieces for the click-happy dilettante readers of the Internet. This is in no way to suggest that the form is dumbing down the meat of the argument; rather, it gives readers the news they need in the medium they want."
• Silicon Cowboy: "The Washington Post today revealed a smart new online interactive investigative report called Top Secret America. It's brilliant not only for its content, but for its stunningly effective use of a variety of online media tools....Importantly, the Washington Post chose not to simply throw the investigation into cyberspace and hope it got read. Realizing that a journalistic investigation of this magnitude - with results this stunning - should be given as much chance for exposure and interaction as possible, they've incorporated a variety of social media tools into the report itself to enhance the user experience. Each of these is a gem, but in it's entirety the project is a storehouse of media best practices."
• Information Aesthetics: "The project ... seems to put the newspaper on the data-visualization-as-journalism map, still dominated by the New York Times infographics department."
• Fast Company Design blog: "You could spend hours trolling the site, and that's precisely the point. The Post has a rich tradition of crack investigative journalism, but it's been slow to deepen its storytelling through digital tools. This is by far the most detailed, comprehensive online data visualization we've seen from a newspaper. Hat's off to the Post for finally figuring out how to exploit, instead of feel exploited by, the Internet."
But others have raised questions about the presentation of information, the business model underlying the presentation and whether the data -- even though obtained from public sources -- could represent something newly in need of being classified:
• Flowing Data: "Of main interest: a network diagram shows organizations and their top secret activities and a map shows the geographic distribution of government organizations and companies within Top Secret America. Click on a specific organization for within group breakdowns. At this point it gets a little confusing with drill-down pie charts, especially if you're just browsing, and a spiral view is also offered which feels extraneous. The overall story and heavy research, however, makes it worth clicking through the clunky at times set of interactives."
• Michael Roston at True/Slant: "Maybe the Washington Post wants to preserve some modicum of purity in its Pulitzer Prize-grade coverage of duplication and mismanagement in the intelligence community. If that's why the 'immersive reading experience' is ad-free, it's reminiscent of the 'news under glass in a museum' approach that I've criticized before. If you spend all this time and effort preparing a big story that isn't controlled by the vagaries of the meme-chasing internet news cycle, and even come up with an innovative way to deliver it, you should also find a way to pay for it. If shows prepared in the public interest for PBS can have underwriters, surely the Post could have selected a suitable, conflict-of-interest-free advertiser for the scores of repeat visitors reading this story yesterday, today, tomorrow, and in the weeks ahead."
• The Christian Science Monitor: "In recent years the US has consistently pushed a "mosaic theory" of intelligence gathering. This holds that individually harmless pieces of information, when combined with other pieces, can produce a composite picture that reveals national security vulnerabilities....if a government organization had used the same declassified information to produce the same database as "Top Secret America," that database could be classified and withheld from the public, under the mosaic theory."
• The National Security Archives: "Something continues to nag me about The Post's project: In an editorial note, The Post states that it originally included additional "data points," and later eliminated them after "one government body" objected. ("Another agency" objected to the entire website -Fortunately for us, The Post decided not to pull the plug!!)."
Garance Franke-Ruta
July 22, 2010; 2:25 PM ET
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This is just sensationalist reporting and a bad idea at best. Perhaps we should start a web site with the reporters who are taking credit for this. We can publish their names, addresses and phone numbers, all the addresses of property that are titled in their name, their license tags of automobiles that they own. We can put their relatives names and addresses, what they do for a living and what they do in their free time and their observed schedules. Perhaps where their children go to school. All of this would be 'public information' and a one stop shop for people to 'get to know them'. An involuntary public facebook if you will. I suspect the Post and reporters might see this differently.
Posted by: fixerup914 | July 22, 2010 11:11 PM | Report abuse
The Post can congratulate itself about this totally misguided series until the cows come home.
What's been most noticeable about the "interactive setup" of the web design is the way that it has, until now, kept people from posting remarks and interacting with each other about the story. Every one that I know who has read the story and has an opinion about the story wonders first and foremost what the national security implications are with publishing all this data about our intelligence community in one place.
But then, the Post didn't really want to know what people thought about this story, did they?
Posted by: tacheronb | July 22, 2010 11:20 PM | Report abuse
ok lets all step back for a second and regroup...the post reports that the intellegence community has grown out of control since 911...why after all the unconstitutional legislation passed, orders for torture and rendition given by both of the last two administrations does this surprise anyone? should we be concerned about this? hell yes!!! this exactly what happened in 1933 germany after the reichstag fire. same exact playbook, fascism out of control and lets not beat around the bush this is what fascism and corporatism. this is just one more reason to be concerned with where our federal government is taking us, unwillingly and unknowingly...this kind of governemental secrecy is unconstituional and dangerous...and if all of you out there really believe that we need this kind of intelligence operations INSIDE the u.s. to protect us from terrorist half wau around the world living in caves and craping in buckets, then this is no longer the home of the brave and therefore no longer the land of the free...but dont take my word for it here are some experts warnings...
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" James Madison
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation" James Madison
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition. Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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Posted by: abntemplar1508 | July 23, 2010 12:29 PM | Report abuse
On the contrary - the intelligence community draws notice for use of web tools!
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Posted by: novaloka | July 23, 2010 12:37 PM | Report abuse
What amazes me the most is the repeated bashing of this work by those who either don't understand it or lack the skills to compile this level of information themselves.
Without a doubt, it will go down in the history books as one of the most important pieces of journalism of all times, Pulitzer Prize or not. I would venture to say that if it doesn't win, that is the biggest proof of how true it is.
People still refuse to grasp, or maybe they are not capable of grasping, the full ramifications and implications of this series. Doing that requires your OWN critical thinking and analysis.
If people don't care that virtually everything they write, say or look at is being recorded, along with their dr. tests and naked body scans from the airport, then by that measure ALONE, this series has made a statement that is profound beyond all words.
Hats off for tackling a difficult, controversial and elusive topic that is reported and written masterfully.
Posted by: Tar1 | July 23, 2010 4:20 PM | Report abuse
Tar1 write:
"If people don't care that virtually everything they write, say or look at is being recorded..."
Look here Tar1, we are talking about the most prestigious article at one of the most prestigious independent newspapers of the world, and how many comments do you count?
3 per day! Would this have happened in the sixties?
The rest of the human race must have decided wisely that they do care about what's being recorded about their activities on the web and keep their mouth shut...
You don't need a dictatorship to subdue the people.
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For geography reason South America is always been an unknown and unfamiliar market for our company range, though we know more about North America market as well. Luckily this time we took the opportunity to visit Brazil and attended the GO-TEX SHOW held in Sao Paulo, hoping to find some chance of future cooperation in our textiles business.
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It was with the title, 'The return of a legend on ECM' that the venerable French jazz magazine Jazz Hot greeted the arrival of saxophonist Charles Lloyd onto the ECM label with the official campaign advertising in 1989 and it is difficult now to fully appreciate what an event this was since from the early 1970s onwards, and with the notable exception of a couple of albums on Blue Note and Elektra ('A Night in Copenhagen' being especially noteworthy for the pairing of Lloyd and then upcoming young turc, Michel Petrucciani), Lloyd had become something of a recluse and his early retirement from the jazz scene had been considered almost inevitable. This magnificent new box set celebrates the first period of what has proved to be an illustrious second half of career with five albums recorded between 1989 and 1996. Equally important, however, the collection enables the listener to be taken on a journey of rediscovery of Charles Lloyd's craft over an intense eight year period when his standing internationally soared and he became rightly perceived as one of the remaining titans of the saxophone colossus and a direct guardian of the classic tradition of the 1960s.
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$CYCC now spiking big, uhhhh so many plays!
Bought in on Tims alert about rumours $HIMX @10.65 will supply iphone sensors. Didn't breakout. I got out @ 10.39. Small position 100 shares. $INO had good news this morning about peer reviews and had a huge spike pre market then dipped. I felt pretty good about the rise of the dip bought 100 shares at $6.22 with the intent to hold over night if finished strong. 3:30 price dipped lower support. Got out at $6.30. I feel very confident about this trade. I made the decision myself not on alerts or wims. :) $CYCC has increasing trend all day and will finish the day really strong. I want to go in but I am going to hold my self back. Still too new to make decisions like this. But i will be following it tomorrow
Trading Diary: April as been so slow, trying to just sit back and learn. This is the first time I've been in a trade for a whole week, YAWN, waiting for gravity to come back. $CYCC
Morning panic to 6.03 is common last few day, may get out if it doesn't go lower than that.
your killing me! damnit man get out! just do it! lol its at 6.00 at 7:25 pm est today.
I have a stop order in for 6ish so it "should" get me out in the morning, we'll see.
lol I ended up changing the limit order to 5.85 and I got it!
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"What do you look for when shorting?" asked many many times in this, always answered by "i look for momentum shift"
Awesome webinar - thanks Dux. Took a ton of notes from every minute of this
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So if I make mistakes, I'm all about learning from them, I technically took my first loss on a week this week, due to a stupid trade early on with $SHIP and I immediately realized that losses like this were turning into a trend. I was telling myself it was part of my education, and it was needed to learn how to get better at going long. I'm glad I woke up because the losses were starting to add up. The attached picture is going on my board and will be an integral part of how I approach going long in the future. Fortunately I'm up $300 thanks to the China Sector going bonkers today and wins on HTGM and DFFN which got close to me breaking even but I'm still holding short on $CCCL and on $CYCC 's rediculous rise Thursday.
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@timothysykes Tim, I could have made 7000 Dollars today. I bought 7000 $ADPT @1.09 and It went to 1.35 but I sold out at 1.04 because I got scared. I bought 1400 $CYCC @8.44 and it went to $10+ but I got scared and sold out at $8.6. I bought DFFN at 2000 $4.10 but it went to $4.35 but I got scared and sold out at $3.99. In total, I could have made over 7000 Dollars. My brain tells me its the right deal but I get really scared after watching the level 2 data constantly and I end up losing. What can I do about this Tim? My execution judgment is so poor.
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Because we live in NC, he doesn't get to see his beloved Detroit Lions often, so sometimes we'll head out to a local bar to watch them play and have a few wings and beers [I'm no salad eating date!]. Just because we're going to a bar to watch sports, doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity to be fashionable!
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Today, the final day of our novena, is the International Day for Tolerance. Tolerance for others who think or act differently than we do is certainly an important step toward living in peace with one another. As we continue to heal from any spiritual ills we have endured, tolerance is a good thing to strive for.
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We are delighted to be bringing an all-Canadian portrait concert to the Spitalfields Winter Festival, featuring music by Christopher Mayo, Richard Reed Parry, and Nicole Lizée. Canada is the home of some of the world's most exciting new music right now, so it is a real thrill for us to be able to perform these three composers.
Lizée's Black MIDI was written for the Kronos Quartet and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, but we will be presenting it here in a new version for ensemble, alongside Mayo's Beast (for Hugo Ball) and Reed Parry's Music for Heart and Breath.
Tim Rutherford-Johnson: Let's begin with the piece of yours we are going to play, Black MIDI. Where did you first encounter black MIDI music? What drew you to it particularly, and what compositional potential did you sense it had for you?
Nicole Lizée: I came across it maybe three or four years ago – probably in a software forum (nerd alert). I was drawn to its beauty, audacity, and mysticism – and because it is so esoteric. It is limited as a genre as it's really just one thing: the process of entering thousands of notes with the sole goal of crashing one's system. Its limitations made it perfect to create a new work from. There are so many unknowns about it – and my mind started looking to the darkness and spirituality of it, even if it doesn't actually exist. It's also rooted in malfunction, which is always exciting to me.
TR-J: Did that sense of its potential change in the course of your composing?
As I was writing the piece I began to completely immerse myself in interpreting the genre in my own way and sort of transforming it beyond any sonic or visual preconceptions. It quickly evolved into an idea of designing a TV series or a documentary fictionalizing Black MIDI. Creating scenarios and writing scripts – completely fabricating the social, cultural, and possibly spiritual, implications.
TR-J: One of the most interesting aspects of your piece, I think, is that it goes beyond a, let's say, ethnographic study of the black MIDI phenomenon (analogous to Bartók and his folk tunes, for example), and extrapolates a whole narrative scenario in which a mysterious 'black MIDI' plays a central role. What process led you in this direction? When did you decide to include film alongside the music, for example?
I knew right away it was going to be a multimedia piece – I wanted to tap into the visual iconography inherent in the genre. The appearance of black MIDI is distinctive and immediate and I wanted to play with the semantics of it, in tandem with the sonics.
The integrating of visuals with a music score – where the two completely coexist – is something I've been developing for a while. I'm looking to bring film/video/animation into concert music, where it doesn't exist passively or as eye candy, but is integral to the work and is treated like an instrument itself. I look at this piece as Season 1 of Black MIDI – and imagine subsequent seasons, with the characters continuing their experiences with black MIDI.
TR-J: Much of your work engages with audio technology pushed to or beyond its breaking point – creating glitches and other similar phenomena. Could you start by describing what is the fascination for you of such sounds, on both a sonic and a semantic level?
This fascination began when I was young. My father is an electronics repairman, salesman, collector – he's been a kind of beta tester for electronic devices since the 1960s – so I was born into a house of machines, most of which were malfunctioning. He never throws anything away, even if it doesn't work properly. But, as opposed to digital, which generally just dies, analogue machines continue to work; just not in the way in which they were intended to. So these machines – and their damaged sounds and visuals – became my instruments, alongside the acoustic ones. It feels natural for me to include these sounds within an ensemble and notate for them, treating them as instruments; and also allowing them to affect the acoustic writing.
I refer to this state as the purgatory for technology. When machines or media stop functioning the way they're supposed to for the consumer, they're no longer useful. So they begin their new life. It's a type of freedom. Sometimes they do die in a way – they end up in junkyards and landfills or tossed aside and forgotten, in favour of the digital device.
There's also a darkness to pushing technology beyond its limits – the unknown. This in turn affects the way I write for live musicians, in terms of emulating glitch and malfunction and the extreme precision and minutiae that goes with it. I often treat the score like a schematic, looking for ways to rewire or circuit bend it. There's also the process of transcription of the glitches – which I've spent a whole lot of time doing. Scrubbing, zooming in, and transcribing my findings – without ever quantizing – is a way to delve into sound and illuminate hidden gestures, rhythms, artefacts, and so on.
TR-J: Are you a techno-optimist or a techno-pessimist?
Both I think. It's an exciting time for tech. But it's also a frightening one. Certainly in terms of privacy, big data, and the notion that data and information don't actually exist and could disappear at any time. If I think about this from an artistic perspective – in terms of music and books/print, for example – I become an optimist. This may mean we go back to analogue. I recognize the environmental advantage and convenience to books and music as downloads only – but I think people are losing sight of the impermanence of digital archiving and how fleeting it is on larger timescales. When the grid goes down we lose everything. But we can still read sheet music at a piano or hand crank a Victrola to listen to a record.
But the problem with analogue is that people don't know how to fix these devices anymore – and the people who do aren't going to be around for that much longer. The art of technology repair is dead and it is more cost effective to just 'throw it away and buy a new one' rather than fix it. This is where I become pessimistic.
I recently read about the first work of AI-generated art sold at Christie's for a large sum of money. This is also where I become pessimistic.
I see massive potential in technologies like VR. This is a way for people to experience art in new ways and to experience different types of art when it is not immediately at their disposal. This is something to think about now that we are in the age of post-recording. I think people still want to buy recordings – I know I do – but I think maybe they want to buy experiences.
I become a bit of a pessimist when I think about the problem of not knowing what is actual fact. While the internet and its vast wealth of information is nothing short of incredible – the source of the information could be from anywhere – it's a bit out of control, and there are factual errors everywhere.
TR-J: Many composers I have spoken to have a somewhat relaxed attitude to the obligations and expectations of European or US musical tradition. Linda Catlin Smith, for example, says that one of nice things about being Canadian is that 'you don't feel examined'. Is this something you recognise? And, like Linda, do you find this liberating?
I think that expectations do exist but I can say that I've never tried to adhere to any. I've always found this resistance to 'obligations' and 'procedure' extremely important and integral to being an artist, even from a young age. As soon as something became trendy or derivative I would abandon it and look for something creative and inspired.
I've read analyses of my music that mention my escaping McGill University without ever having written spectral music. There were certainly expectations in the 1990s during my time at McGill. It was very rooted in the European tradition. I, of course, respected it from a historical perspective but in no way was I interested in devoting my time and energy to something that had already been done. I kept completely true to what I had set out to do, even though it came with a certain amount of obstacles. My thesis was a work for turntables and orchestra – with every aspect of the turntable part notated, as well as every vinyl excerpt determined and notated. This was not immediately embraced in the university at the time – in fact it divided the faculty. But I believed in it and that was everything. It still is.
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Anyone champing at the bit for the start of The Thick of It's fourth series will relish this new taster of the show, which features actor Roger Allam on top form.
Having taken over the ramshackle Department for Social Affairs and Citizenship from Nicola Murray, world-weary Ken Clarke-alike MP Peter Mannion (Allam) has been lumbered with some of the department's incompetent old staff and a stack of unconvincing policies to sell to the public.
In the clip, Mannion's off to a school to outline a policy to a group of children – a task he's not especially keen on carrying out. Indeed, upon being told that he's got to speak in front of a crowd of youngsters, Mannion says: "I hate school children. They're volatile and stupid, and they haven't got the vote. I might as well be talking to f***ing geese."
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The Tampa Bay Lightning's prospects have had their seasons come to an end, despite the fact that the Syracuse Crunch looked like they were poised for a lengthy AHL playoff run. A first round loss to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins sent many of them home prematurely.
In the CHL, one of the organization's top prospects, Anthony DeAngelo, helped to lead an offensively-stacked Sault Ste. Marie team to the league semi-finals—though he ultimately fell short in helping the team capture its first-ever OHL Championship. Nevertheless, it was a successful season across the board, and the future looks bright.
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Hardest Worker: Cristiano DiGiacinto, LW, Windsor Spitfires (OHL)
The phrase "hard worker" is unavoidable when describing Cristiano DiGiacinto's game. It might even be a little cliché, but it's accurate—the 5'11, 196 pound winger plays a hard-nosed, rugged game and has had to put in incredible effort in the past two years simply to make the OHL. He was passed over twice in the OHL Priority Selection, but was given an opportunity in Windsor a month into the 2013-14 season. He parlayed that opportunity into a solid rookie season in which he garnered the attention of the Lightning scouts and was selected in the sixth round of the 2014 NHL Draft.
This season, DiGiacinto finished third in scoring on the rebuilding Spitfires with 45 points in 63 games, eclipsing last season's total of 28. He also accumulated 100 penalty minutes, successfully getting under the skin of the opposition on a nightly basis.
Hardest Shot: Jake Dotchin, D, Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
Syracuse Crunch rookie defenseman Jake Dotchin has been improving his offensive game since being drafted by the Lightning in 2012. He scored 11 goals last year in his final year of junior, thanks to his booming, accurate shot from the point—despite scoring just seven goals throughout his first two seasons.
He has been an effective weapon on the point for the Crunch, scoring six times this season, which leads all Syracuse defensemen. At 6'3 and 207 pounds, he gets a lot of leverage into his shot, which is improving game-by-game.
Best Defensive Prospect: Nikita Nesterov, D, Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
Partly due to injuries in Tampa, but a lot to do with his sound defensive game, Nikita Nesterov has played 26 games in the NHL this season, his second in North America since arriving from Russia. He isn't the biggest defender, but he plays a simple and aggressive game—combined with incredible skating ability. He has looked comfortable playing against the top players in the world.
With Tampa Bay, the Russian defender has scored twice and added four assists, while enjoying a plus-five rating. His strong play as a rookie is a carry-over from his performance in the AHL, where with the Crunch, he recorded 14 points in 32 games. Given the injury situation in Tampa Bay, he may see some—perhaps even significant—ice time in the post-season.
Fastest Skater: Matt Peca, C, Quinnipiac University (NCAA)
A diminutive yet skilled and speedy center, Matthew Peca recently wrapped up an impressive four-year campaign at Quinnipiac. Despite his 5'9 frame, Peca's quick feet and decision-making ability helped him finish amongst the team's top two scorers in three out of the four seasons he played. Throughout his four-year career, in 157 collegiate games, the Petawawa, ON native recorded 143 points.
Peca was recently signed by the Lightning to a two-year entry-level deal and has begun his pro career with the Syracuse Crunch. He picked up his first AHL point on Apr. 4, recording an assist on a Kevin Lynch goal in a 3-2 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
Prospect of the Year: Anthony DeAngelo, D, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)
It's hard to ignore the feats of American defenseman Anthony DeAngelo this season; he may not be the most complete defensive prospect, but he led all OHL defenders this season with 89 points in the regular season—despite missing time due to his making the American World Junior team.
After being acquired by the Greyhounds from the Sarnia Sting prior to the OHL's trade deadline, DeAngelo recorded 51 points in 26 games, including 15 goals, just two of which were scored on the power-play. He failed to record a point in his first game with the Greyhounds, but did so in the next 25 games, ending the season with the longest active point streak in the league. In 13 playoff contests, DeAngelo recorded 16 assists. He'll turn pro next season.
Breakout Player for 2015-16: Vladislav Namestnikov, C, Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL)
After two impressive AHL seasons, Russian pivot Vladislav Namestnikov again started his season in Syracuse, where he recorded 35 points in 34 games. He has proven he doesn't have much more to learn in the minors, and because of that has spent the majority of this season in Tampa Bay. In 42 games, he has recorded 16 points.
A former first round pick in 2011, Namestnikov has steadily improved over the past three seasons and has finally proved his worth alongside Tampa's young talent. Namestnikov's emergence might make a player like Alexander Killorn expendable in the off-season. The Russian's two-way play should cement his spot in Tampa Bay next season, and his offensive ability should allow him a significant rise in ice-time.
Most Improved Prospect: Tanner Richard, LW, Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
Naturally, in his second season as a pro, the Swiss-born Tanner Richard was given a more significant role on the Syracuse Crunch this season. The scrappy winger not only showcased his ability to get under the opponents' skin with 129 penalty minutes through 64 games, but his offensive production took a dramatic spike.
In 65 games as a rookie, Richard scored just twice and recorded 17 points; this season, he has put himself back on the Lightning's radar with 12 goals and 37 points, to go along with a plus-eight rating. With key contributors like Vladislav Namestnikov and Mike Blunden playing just 30-odd games with the Crunch this season, Richard stepped up to provide extra offense, finishing fourth on the team in scoring.
Overachiever: Yanni Gourde, LW, Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
Undrafted and undersized Yanni Gourde exceeded any and all expectations this season with the Syracuse Crunch. The 5'9 Quebec City native split the 2013-14 season between the ECHL and AHL, so it is not as though he was going to be relied upon to lead the charge offensively for the Crunch this season—but that's just what he did.
Gourde is second in team scoring behind fellow undersized forward Jonathan Marchessault; through 70 games, he has 27 goals (first on the team) and 27 assists. His offensive performance alone has, at the very least, put him on the Lightning's radar heading into next season, though he's still far from being considered a high-end prospect.
Underachiever: Dominik Masin, D, Peterborough Petes (OHL)
High expectations were placed upon 2014 second round pick Dominik Masin, but the Czech defender struggled to find his form through the 2014-15 campaign. Playing for a rebuilding Petes team, he was a minus-13, while recording 26 points in 48 games. As a high pick in the CHL Import Draft, big things were expected from Masin, but he fell short of expectations.
Still, the 19 year old is eligible to play one more season in the OHL, and he will likely do so as part of an improving Petes squad, one that also features impressive defensive prospect Matthew Spencer (2015). The pair should lead the charge from the back-end next season for the Petes, and we'll get a more accurate assessment of Masin's value.
Highest Risk/Reward Prospect: Slater Koekkoek, D, Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
A very strong AHL rookie season has revitalized Slater Koekkoek's career, which is a strange thing to say about a 21 year old former first round pick. Koekkoek suffered multiple shoulder injuries over the past few seasons and the fact that he was able to stay healthy this season alone is a feat in itself. Add in the fact that, through 66 games, he has led the Crunch defensemen in scoring, and he's done plenty to re-emerge as a top prospect.
In fact, Koekkoek was recently recalled to the Lightning and played three games, showcasing his high-end skating ability. He didn't look uncomfortable by any means. Still, because of his injury history, concerns will follow Koekkoek for at least another season. He has the talent to become a top-four defender at the NHL level, but must continue to stay healthy.
Player of the Month – Adam Erne
The Quebec Remparts, the 2015 Memorial Cup hosts, survived a potential first-round upset and have advanced to the league finals. For this, the team can thank Lightning prospect Adam Erne—and, to a lesser degree, Zach Fucale (MTL).
Erne, who is in his last year of junior eligibility before he turns pro next season, scored 13 goals in 12 April playoff games, including four in a crucial Game 6 and 7 in the first round comeback. A winger who often takes faceoffs, Erne recorded a 57 percent success rate at the dot during the month as well. If the Remparts are going to compete with the strong Western and Ontario teams in the Memorial Cup, they'll need Erne to continue elevating his game going forward.


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Der Rabe by Edgar Allan Poe (German)
February 23, 2012 in Inquisitor News, Lovecraft Video Library
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Make no mistake, whatever IT is, Didier Drogba still has it.
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Khalil Fong - 15 (Album)
This is my very last post =) A perfect last post with the brand new album of one of my favorite artist, Khalil Fong. For this album Khalil amplified his desire to go for something with more guitars/rock sounds. Listening to this album is a little like listening to a live album version. For the first time I told myself, it's Khalil and his musicians. The album really give that feeling. Even with a more acoustic sound and guitars, there is still that Soul feeling in his music, that's what I really love with Khalil, even though it's not as R&B as his first albums, but It doesn't bother me at all. And of course his voice and singing interpretation skills still makes me melt. It's once again a very good album from Khalil Fong and I'm glad he's back. I'm also posting two music videos from the album ;) ENJOY !
● Artist: Khalil Fong
● Title: 15
● Type: Album
● Release Date: 2011/04/21
● Genre: Pop / Soul / Acoustic / Pop-rock
● Language: Mandarin
● Bitrate: 320kbps
● Rating: 8.5/10
- TRACKLIST01 - Gotta Make A Change
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03 - Zhang yong cheng (feat. Ghost Style)
04 - Yin wei ni
05 - Qing sheng ce lue
06 - Wu gu peng you
07 - Zi yi wei (feat. Lala Xu)
08 - Er ren you
09 - Over
10 - Take Me
11 - Hao bu rong yi
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It was a record-setting night at the 67th Golden Globe Awards as Mad Men became the first drama series to three-peat and Meryl Streep picked up her record seventh Globe trophy to become the winningest performer in the history of the ceremony.
James Cameron's epic blockbuster Avatar was named best drama picture, and Cameron earned the best director prize. The Hangover won best comedy picture and is the first film since Babe, 14 years ago, to win the category without any other nominations. Dexter's Michael C. Hall, who announced recently he's battling cancer, received some welcome news: He won in the best dramatic TV actor category and his co-star, John Lithgow, won for supporting dramatic TV actor.
Winning for Julie & Julia in the film comedy actress category, Streep beat three other actresses and herself in It's Complicated. Her It's Complicated co-star, Alec Baldwin, earned his third trophy for TV comedy actor for 30 Rock.
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"It means a great deal to have the admiration of the people in my film community. I don't live in the glare of the spotlight. I come from my little outside life and I come into this room with every person I've ever worked with," Streep said. "It's like a little homecoming."
Streep's co-winner at the Critic's Choice Awards, Sandra Bullock, won her own Golden Globe for film drama actress for The Blind Side, while Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) was named film drama actor and Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) won his third Golden Globe for film comedy actor.
On the TV side, newcomer Glee, which led all TV nominees with four nominations, won the biggest one: TV comedy series.
Despite its three-peat in the best dramatic series category, Mad Men's leads, January Jones and Jon Hamm, came up short. Jones lost to Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) for TV drama actress and 2008 TV drama actor Hamm was bested by Dexter's Michael C. Hall.
Hall wore a black head covering as he won his first Globe in four nominations. "I think a matter of personal health is personal ... Because the award shows were imminent, I thought I had to make a statement," Hall said backstage, explaining why he chose to announce his cancer diagnosis."
Hall said of his headwear: "It's nice to have a justifiable excuse for accessorizing."
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Mo'Nique won the first award of the night — best supporting actress in a film — for her turn as an abusive mother in Precious.
"Thank you God for this amazing ride that you're allowing me to go on," she said in her speech. "I celebrate this award with everyone who's ever been touched," she added, referring to the film's exploration of sexual abuse. "It's now time to tell."
Toni Collette won for TV comedy actress in United States of Tara, while Chloe Sevigny (Big Love) won TV supporting actress and Christoph Waltz was named film supporting actor for his villainous turn in Inglourious Basterds.
Other winners included Up for animated feature, Drew Barrymore (Grey Gardens) for TV movie/miniseries actress and Kevin Bacon (Taking Chance) for TV movie/miniseries actor. Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, now have his-and-hers Golden Globes. Sedgwick won for The Closer four years ago.
Martin Scorsese received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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Mad Men
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Best Actor-Drama:
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Best Actress-Drama:
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Best Actor-Comedy/Musical:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Actress-Comedy/Musical:
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Best Actor-TV Movie/Miniseries:
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Best Actress-TV Movie/Miniseries:
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Best Supporting Actor:
John Lithgow, Dexter
Best Supporting Actress:
Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
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Best Comedy/Musical:
The Hangover
Best Director:
James Cameron, Avatar
Best Lead Actor-Drama:
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Lead Actress-Drama:
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Up Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon, Germany