All about silence

Microsoft working to fix NXE audio issues

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Silence (and applause and on-stage banter) isn't always golden. Learn how to easily remove bits of unwanted audio.br style=clear: both;/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:5c20ce6b70247570602bb98b5ab1e31e:P6hJnqJSdWhM2%2BCe2Y5vIYXN0DXHmbBWnDlm4BL7jNCM%2B9PL3ZJyjWMpZKd%2BjnX8XMwe4zlJYuhn'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3eb59eabdb85fed52f8d8146a382212b:qNhcqYrBC8xEGeRPvwvOKpUEmxoUOUzGKcUHgK0b1X67u4rAR2Pw3lYy0c174Io5bTPLoiniZGeV'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:3f1fd43113c7684e1aa34bb67e943732:b%2BSXMiyRax0myAFC8BSmGN8aH7Ymf14Y9GnLnUEfQd1eYdP3qpeLRhTwup%2Bm%2FwJIdgRu3zISF6TFKA%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Slashdot' alt='Add to Slashdot' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/slashdot.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:ff7875bd4df777532a7cdf786c5d1b76:yt6ip5zhOPCkeN%2BttD%2Fdfq%2FpBjHoOnbGFDgEGTteSVeUq2MHaRFRd4BRSo9lzIIgeSNnZ3jiPQc5'img border='0' title='Email this Article' alt='Email this Article' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/emailthis.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:fe30731aad622b1b146f2c03580a6eb0:dXq45WkFfRWA87qklODoR55EovLzDHbEYfl%2FvD5kRL02CLhydCdSH7yZzAN6xrcczj7zSvdSaugTPw%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to StumbleUpon' alt='Add to StumbleUpon' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/stumbleit.gif'//a br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=65a3e1f752488b370a3e169ba1045504p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=65a3e1f752488b370a3e169ba1045504p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=65a3e1f752488b370a3e169ba1045504 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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Silence Is Sexy – Where Were You

Portishead Pick "Magic Doors" for Third Third Single

Pitchfork: Today

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pemsmallPhoto by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadd/sets/"/aa href="http://www.kardosphotography.com/"strongNatalie Kardos/strong/astrong/strong/small/embr /br /Just in time for brooding season, a href="http://www.portishead.co.uk/"strongPortishead/strong/a have once again opened up their exemplary a href="/article/record_review/50072-portishead-third"emstrongT/strong/em/aema href="/article/record_review/50072-portishead-third"stronghird/strong/a/em. With the help of a little prestidigitation, they have come upon yet another single. "Magic Doors" will be the third such thing from emThird/em, due in a couple different formats December 15 from a href="http://www.islandrecords.com"strongIsland Records/strong/a. You can land "Magic Doors" on a one-sided, etched 12" (just like a href="/article/news/51321-portishead-ready-the-rip-single"strong"The Rip"/strong/a and a href="/article/news/49348-portishead-reveal-ithirdi-single-box-set-details"strong"Machine Gun"/strong/a), or grab a downloadable version that features "Magic Doors" and live takes on "Silence", "Threads", and "Mysterons" from Portishead's a href="/article/feature/50260-live-coachella-2008"strongtriumphant Coachella set/strong/a.br /br /Beyond mining emThird/em's riches for singles, things have been fairly silent on the spaghetti-western front for Portishead lately. Apart from the recent opening of a href="/article/news/147119-portisheads-geoff-barrow-opens-art-gallery"strongGeoff Barrow's very small art gallery/strong/a, there's no live dates to speak of, and no new jams to report. Let's hope these "Magic Doors" lead us not into another ten-year hibernation, yes?/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FRy9IfVaGbo7kN4Zz0SaByVJMQ8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FRy9IfVaGbo7kN4Zz0SaByVJMQ8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/ANKBZof8Qyc" height="1" width="1"/

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IRRUPTION POLICIÈRE DANS DEUX ÉCOLES DU GERS

LaTéléLibre.fr

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MÉTHODES POLICIÈRES INDIGNES Il y a trois jours, un témoignage anonyme était posté sur le fil de commentaires d’un article de LaTéléLibre, le post 23, ici même. Sur LaTéléLibre, une discussion s’engageait sur ces méthodes policières péremptoires et violentes. Au même moment, notre confrère de Libération Vittorio de Filippis, ancien directeur de la publication et journaliste à Libération subissait un traitement dégradant lors d’une arrestation à son domicile. Depuis, c’est la cacophonie à la tête de l’Etat, Michelle Alliot-Marie et Rachida Dati justifiant l’arrestation de Vitorio de Filippis, et Nicolas Sarkozy demadant à travers un communiqué de l’Elysée, une mission de réflexion visant à définir «une procédure pénale plus respectueuse des droits et de la dignité des personnes».
Nous publions donc aujourd’huiÂ l’intégralité des témoignages que nous avons reçu sur ces interventions policières à l’intérieur de deux établissements scolaires du Gers. Si la lutte contre l’usage du cannabis dans les collèges et lycées est une préoccupation légitime de tous les parents, les méthodes utilisées, et justifiées depuis, par les forces de l’ordre, ne sont pas dignes de notre démocratie. Première descente de gendarmes à l’école des métiers d’Auch. 16 gendarmes et 2 maîtres-chien ont fouillé les élèves.

Lundi 17 novembre 2008, 10h30, un prof raconte.

Témoignage d’un prof de l’école des Métiers (Auch), sur le répondeur de “la-bas, si j’y suis”, France Inter

(Ce témoignage audio reprend le texte que nous avions reçu samedi dernier)

Ecole des Métiers du Gers. Descente musclée de la gendarmerie dans les classes.

Je fais cours quand, tout à coup, sans prévenir, font irruption dans le lieu clos de mon travail 4 gendarmes décidés, accompagnés d’un maître-chien affublé de son animal. Personne ne dit bonjour, personne ne se présente. Sans préambule, le chien est lancé à travers la classe. Les élèves sont extrêmement surpris. Je pose des questions aux intrus, demande comment une telle démarche en ce lieu est possible. On ne me répond pas, j’insiste, on me fait comprendre qu’il vaut mieux que je me taise. Les jeunes sont choqués, l’ambiance est lourde, menaçante, j’ouvre une fenêtre qu’un gendarme, sans rien dire, referme immédiatement, péremptoirement.

Le chien court partout, mord le sac d’un jeune à qui l’on demande de sortir, le chien bave sur les jambes d’un autre terrorisé, sur des casquettes, sur des vêtements. La bête semble détecter un produit suspect dans une poche, et là encore on demande à l’élève de sortir. Je veux intervenir une nouvelle fois, on m’impose le silence. Des sacs sont vidés dans le couloir, on fait ouvrir les portefeuilles, des allusions d’une ironie douteuse fusent.
Ces intrusions auront lieu dans plus de dix classes et dureront plus d’une heure. Une trentaine d’élèves suspects sont envoyés dans une salle pour compléter la fouille. Certains sont obligés de se déchausser et d’enlever leurs chaussettes, l’un d’eux se retrouve en caleçon. Parmi les jeunes, il y a des mineurs.

Dans une classe de BTS, le chien fait voler un sac, l’élève en ressort un ordinateur endommagé, on lui dit en riant qu’il peut toujours porter plainte. Ailleurs (atelier de menuiserie-charpente), on aligne les élèves devant le tableau. Aux dires des jeunes et du prof, le maître-chien lance : « Si vous bougez, il vous bouffe une artère et vous vous retrouvez à l’hosto ! »Il y a des allées et venues incessantes dans les couloirs, une grande agitation, je vois un gendarme en poste devant les classes. J’apprendrais par la suite qu’aucun évènement particulier dans l’établissement ne justifiait une telle descente.

La stupeur, l’effroi ont gagné les élèves. On leur dira le lendemain, dans les jours qui suivent qu’ils dramatisent. Ils m’interrogent une fois la troupe partie, je ne sais que dire, je reste sans voix. Aucune explication de la direction pour le moins très complaisante. Je comprends comment des gens ont pu jadis se laisser rafler et conduire à l’abattoir sans réagir : l’effet surprise laisse sans voix, l’effet surprise, indispensable pour mener à bien une action efficace, scie les jambes. Ensuite, dans la journée, je m’étonne de ne lire l’indignation que sur le visage de quelques collègues. On se sent un peu seul au bout du compte. Certains ont même trouvé l’intervention normale, d’autres souhaitable.
Je me dis qu’en 50 ans (dont 20 comme prof), je n’ai jamais vu ça. Que les choses empirent ces derniers temps, que des territoires jusque là protégés subissent l’assaut d’une idéologie dure.

Ce qui m’a frappé, au-delà de l’aspect légal ou illégal de la démarche, c’est l’attitude des gendarmes : impolis, désagréables, menaçants, ironiques, agressifs, méprisants, sortant d’une classe de BTS froid-climatisation en disant : « Salut les filles ! » alors que, bien sûr il n’y a que des garçons, les félicitant d’avoir bien « caché leur came et abusé leur chien ». A vrai dire des marlous, de vrais durs n’auraient pas agi autrement. C’est en France, dans une école, en 2008.

Une autre affaire de “prévention” musclée, est rendue publique, toujours dans le Gers, mais cette fois au collège de Marciac.

Source: Nogaro Journal

J’ai eu cette semaine un mail concernant une descente de police dans un lycée du Gers... On a pu entendre aussi le témoignage sur France inter. J’étais absolument abasourdi par les méthodes utilisées... Mais vous savez parfois on se dit que les gens exagèrent dans leur témoignage.... Bref, je reste interrogateur !

Mais voilà que ce WE, j’accueille ma fille Zoé -elle a 13 ans- de retour du collège de Marciac. Elle me raconte son mercredi au collège... colère à l’intérieur de moi... révolte... que faire???
J’ai demandé à Zoé d’écrire ce qu’elle me disait là. Elle a accepté.
Voici donc son témoignage, avec ses mots à elle :

«Â Il nous l’avait dit, le CPE, que des gendarmes allaient venir nous faire une prévention pour les 4ème et les 3ème.
Ce mercredi là (19/11/2008), toutes les classes sont entrées en cours comme à leur habitude, en suivant les profs.
A peine 10 minutes plus tard - nous étions assis-, deux gendarmes faisaient déjà le tour de la salle où nous étions. La prof avec qui nous étions, les regardait en nous disant « Ils font leur ronde!?? » . Elle n’était à priori au courant de rien bien sûr. Soudain , la porte s’est ouverte, laissant entrer deux gendarmes... Enfin non, pas exactement!!! Il y avait un monsieur chauve habillé en militaire ( le dresseur de chien en fait!) et un gendarme très gros.

Le chauve nous a dit: « Nous allons faire entrer un chien! Mettez vos mains sur les tables, restez droit, ne le regardez pas! Quand il mord, ça pique! »
Enfin il a dit ça, à peu près... Je me rappelle surtout du « Quand il mord, ça pique! »

Après, il est sorti deux minutes et est revenu avec deux autres gendarmes et le chien. Les gendarmes se sont placés aux deux extrémités de la classe tandis que le dresseur regardait son chien déjà à l’Å“uvre. Le chien s’appelait Bigo. Bigo s’est acharné sur plusieurs sacs, en mordant et arrachant tout ce qui dépassait. Quand à la prof, elle restait derrière son bureau bouche bée.
Le chien s’est attaqué au sac de mon amie, à coté de moi. Le dresseur a claqué des doigts en disant: « Sortez mademoiselle, avec toutes vos affaires! » Elle a rangé son sac, s’est levée et s’est apprêtée à sortir mais le dresseur l’a repris vite: « Et ton manteau! » Elle a rougi et emporté aussi son blouson.

Plusieurs personnes de la classe sont ainsi sorties. Le chien vient alors sentir mon sac. Voyant que le chien ne scotchait pas, que rien ne le retenait là, le dresseur lui a fait sentir mon corps avant de s’empresser de me faire sortir. Dehors m’attendait une petite troupe de gendarmes... Enfin, non, pas dehors: nous étions entre deux salles de classe.
Me voyant arriver, ils se dépêchèrent de finir de fouiller une autre fille. Mon amie était déjà retournée dans la classe. Quand ils eurent fini, ils s’emparèrent de mon sac et le vidèrent sur le sol. Un gendarme me fit vider les poches du devant de mon sac. Il vérifia après moi. Je n’étais pas la seule élève. Avec moi, il y avait une autre fille qui se faisait fouiller les poches par une gendarme.
Ils étaient deux gendarmes hommes à la regarder faire. Le Gendarme qui fouillait mon sac vida ma trousse, dévissa mes stylos, mes surligneurs et cherchait dans mes doublures.
La fille qui était là fouillée elle aussi, se fit interroger sur les personnes qui l’entouraient chez elle. Elle assurait que personne ne fumait dans son entourage. Ils la firent rentrer en classe.

C’était à mon tour! La fouilleuse me fit enlever mon sweat sous le regards des deux autres gendarmes.....
Je décris: Un gendarme à terre disséquait mes stylos, un autre le surveillait, un autre qui regardait la fouilleuse qui me fouillait et le reste de la troupe dehors. Ne trouvant rien dans ma veste, elle me fit enlever mes chaussures et déplier mes ourlets de pantalon. Elle cherche dans mes chaussettes et mes chaussures. Le gars qui nous regardait, dit à l’intention de l’autre gendarme: «Â On dirait qu’elle n’a pas de hash mais avec sa tête mieux vaut très bien vérifier! On ne sait jamais... » Ils ont souri et la fouilleuse chercha de plus belle! Elle cherche dans les replis de mon pantalon, dans les doublures de mon tee shirt sans bien sûr rien trouver. Elle fouilla alors dans mon soutif et chercha en passant ses mains sur ma culotte! Les gendarmes n’exprimèrent aucune surprise face à ce geste mais ce ne fut pas mon cas!!!!!!

Je dis à l’intention de tous « C’est bon arrêtez, je n’ai rien!!!! »
La fouilleuse s’est arrêtée, j’ai remis mon sweat et mon fouilleur de sac m’a dit: « tu peux ranger! ».

J’ai rebouché mes stylos et remis le tout dans mon sac et suis repartie en classe après avoir donner le nom du village où j’habite.
De retour en classe, la prof m’a demandé ce qu’ils ont fait. Je lui ai répondu qu’ils nous avaient fouillé. Je me suis assise et j’ai eu du mal à me consacrer au math!

Tout ça c’est ce que j’ai vécu mais mon amie dans la classe à coté m’a aussi raconté.
Le chien s’est acharné sur son sac à elle et elle a eu le droit au même traitement. Mais ses affaires sentaient, alors ils l’ont carrément emmené à l’internat où nous dormons. Le chien s’est acharné sur toutes ses affaires m’a t-elle dit. Le gendarme lui a demandé si elle connaissait des fumeurs de hash, vue qu’ils ne trouvaient rien. Elle leur a simplement répondu que le WE dernier elle a assisté à un concert!
Le CPE l’a ramené ensuite au collège et elle m’a raconté.

Après les cours, le principal a rassemblé tous les élèves et nous a dit que bientôt allait avoir lieu une prévention pour tout le monde.

Une prévention? Avec des chiens? Armés comme aujourd’hui?

Une élève de 4ème nous a dit que le chien s’est jeté sur son sac car il y avait à manger dedans. Elle a eu très peur.
Les profs ne nous en ont pas reparlé....Ils avaient l’air aussi surpris que nous!
Tous les élèves de 3ème & 4ème ont du se poser la même question: Que se passe t il?
Et tous les 6ème et 5ème aussi même si ils n’ont pas été directement concernés! »

Zoé.D.R

Qu’en pensez vous? Que dois je faire ? Qui parle de violence ?
Il me semble important d’écrire ici que ni personne du collège a juger important de communiquer sur ces faits( ???). Nous sommes lundi 24/11/2008, il est 15h30 et si Zoé ne m’en avait pas parlé, je n’en saurais rien. Combien de parents sont au courant ?
Les enfants « victimes » -et je pèse ce mot- de ces actes sont en 4ème et 3ème.
Ils ont donc entre 12 et 14 ans ! Je n’en reviens pas....

Frédéric

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Les problèmes sonores du NXE reconnus par Microsoft

Worker suspended for silence on Burress injury

Test d'un ordinateur silencieux, à base d'ATOM

I sold my Wow account

Jury clears judge of libelling mother

Guardian Unlimited

- 1 days and 19 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/75507?ns=guardianpageName=Books%3A+Jury+clears+judge+of+libelling+mother+in+%27misery+memoir%27ch=Booksc3=The+Guardianc4=Books%2CLaw+%28News%29%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Rachel+Williamsc7=2008_12_02c8=1127197c9=articlec10=GUc11=Booksc12=Lawc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBooks%2FLaw" width="1" height="1" //divpA judge who was sued for libel by her mother over allegations of childhood cruelty and neglect in her bestselling "misery memoir" won her case yesterday./ppConstance Briscoe burst into tears at the high court in London as a jury unanimously cleared her and publishers Hodder Stoughton over the claims in Ugly, which her mother Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, had alleged were a "piece of fiction"./ppDuring the 10-day trial, Briscoe, 51, who was one of the first black women judges in the UK, told the court her mother repeatedly beat her with a stick for bed-wetting and called her a "dirty little whore", a "potato-head" and "miss piss-a-bed"./ppShe described trying to kill herself by drinking diluted bleach after failing to get taken into care, and told the jury she used a university grant to have plastic surgery to remove the "ugliness" her mother had taunted her over./ppBriscoe, of Clapham, south London, also said that when she was nine, her mother had deliberately cut her on the inside of her arm with a knife in a row over the preparation of a chicken. /ppUgly, published in 2006, has sold more than 400,000 copies in the UK. Briscoe and Hodder Stoughton had denied libel and said the book was substantially true. Andrew Caldecott QC, for Briscoe, said the events occurred between 1964 and 1975./ppBriscoe-Mitchell, from Southwark, south-east London, left court without making any immediate comment about her legal defeat. During the trial she had denied all the allegations of verbal and physical abuse and claimed she and her daughter had enjoyed a loving relationship within a happy family. /ppHer counsel, William Panton, told the jury Briscoe was "spinning a yarn", claiming his client had struggled to bring up her 11 children and had provided for them equally to the best of her ability./ppOutside court, Briscoe told reporters she was "very happy" with the jury's verdict, which came after more than a day of deliberation. /pp"It is sad that my mother still feels the need to pursue me," she said. "Now I just want to get on with my career. I would like to thank all my readers who have sent me messages of support, including the very many children who provided helpful advice. /pp"I can quite understand why my family went into collective denial but whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors it should never be swept under the carpet." /ppHodder Stoughton said it was pleased with the verdict. "We are very proud to be Constance Briscoe's publisher," a statement said. "Her books Ugly and Beyond Ugly have touched hundreds of thousands of readers, many of them children. Sadly, as we know from the news over the past few weeks, child abuse is all too common and nothing and no one should ever stand in the way of the truth." /ppAsked during the trial why she wrote the book, Briscoe said: "I didn't believe for a split second that I owed my mother a bond of silence. I don't. I had a story to tell and that story really is that I, someone who from dirt poverty, from absolutely nowhere, with absolutely no assistance whatsoever, who faced adversity at every turn, could come through."/ppThe court heard she had cleaned offices for two hours every day before school until her studies took her to Newcastle University, the criminal bar and, eventually, to become one of the country's few black women judges. /pp"I wanted to say to whoever read the book ... you can be whatever you want to be," Briscoe said. "You just have to believe in yourself ... you do not have to be posh or privileged to be at the Bar. /pp"You just need to believe in yourself and I truly, truly believe that my book has done an enormous amount of good."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/law"Law/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WGWpHr4UnGiu_cKWMxoubnNBir0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WGWpHr4UnGiu_cKWMxoubnNBir0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Rob Zombie Returns to Haddonfield for 'Halloween 2'?

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How Rupert Made His WSJ Offer

Silicon Alley Insider

- 1 days and 22 hours ago

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47a93a104b543772005e7184maxX=300maxY=241" border="0" alt="murdoch.jpg" title="murdoch.jpg" width="300" height="241" /In the emGuardian/em's a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch"excerpt/a from Michael Wolff's new bookem The Man Who Owns The News/em, it's April 2007 and News Corp. (NWS) Rupert Murdoch wants to buy emWall Street Journal/em parent company Dow Jones. The family that owns the paper, the Bancrofts, won't talk to him, but he's developed a relationship with Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino. Murdoch has decided to make him an offer:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"During most of the winter, Murdoch's people (his "henchmen", they tended to call themselves) had continued to analyse the Dow Jones business. The company was trading no higher than the mid-30s; Murdoch had heard about Rich Zannino's estimate of getting the share price to, tops, $45. Nobody at News Corp thought Dow Jones could be worth, most optimistically, more than $50./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"But Murdoch insists they should offer $60 - and because he's Murdoch no one is going to tell him he's a fool. Dow Jones management and the Bancroft family may act sanctimonious and high and mighty, but $60 [which values the company at $5bn], Murdoch knows, will call their bluff./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"In early April he makes the call./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"He's apologetic when Zannino, on vacation at the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, calls him back, sorry to disturb, but it's important, he says, that he see Zannino as soon as he gets back. Suspecting something large, Zannino might here, too, have consulted with others at the company. But he doesn't tell anyone - he persists in allowing himself to believe that seeing Murdoch, even urgently, could be about many things./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"After 45 minutes in which they talk again about American Idol, Murdoch says: "Well, I'm thinking about making an offer to buy Dow Jones."/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Zannino demurs a bit: "You know Rupert, you know as well as anybody, this isn't my call, it's the family's call. And the family has consistently - and Rupert, even as recently at our last board meeting - said that they're committed to the independence of Dow Jones and they have no interest in selling the company."/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Murdoch: "I know that. I was thinking I'd take the offer directly to the board. I know the family feels that way. I've called [Michael] Elefante in the past. He won't even take a number. The number I'm thinking of is ... 60."/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Zannino: (internally) Holy Shit! (externally) Silence./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Murdoch: "So I'm thinking I'll just take that directly to the board to try and get that through the board ... So that's what I'm going to do - I'm going to make an offer to the board. Did I just make an offer to you?"/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Zannino: "No you didn't. You mused about wanting to buy Dow Jones. I told you the family has the call and it's not for sale, and you told me you were going to contact the board."/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Zannino is trying to find his balance - he's walked out to the furthest point and now, teetering on the precipice, he's trying to come back. Zannino tells Murdoch he isn't going to tell his board about the offer, because it's really not an official offer, suggesting to Murdoch that if anybody asks him about it, he should say he was just joking about the $60./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"But, in the car, Zannino understands that the breach has just occurred - that he's let Murdoch in. He breathlessly calls Joe Stern, the Dow Jones general counsel, and tells him: "He gave me a number." Back at the Dow Jones office, each successive person let in on the news understands that the breach is real - and that they can't close it./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Murdoch has correctly analysed that Zannino, who might have blocked his access to the board, has not./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"[a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch"Continue reading at the Guardian./a]/p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/new-york-times-nyt-now-losing-business-to-wall-street-journal"br /New York Times (NYT) Now Losing Business To Wall Street Journal/a/p p /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DXG-iNVd6sMIFqdSKc90_unyrtU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DXG-iNVd6sMIFqdSKc90_unyrtU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=SMukVMhx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=SMukVMhx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ttNOtWLJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=V0FicYx4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=uNV9EWQZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=uNV9EWQZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pJflhJi5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=nFuDMZpW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=9DPCku5F"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=bjYrEn7O"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/MAhEHRHikMw" height="1" width="1"/

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How Murdoch Wooed The Journal, and Zannino's Role

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- 1 days and 23 hours ago

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/wolffbook.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="130" height="191" /Michael Wolff's much anticipated a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Owns-News-Murdoch/dp/0385526121/" title="book about Rupert Murdoch"book about Rupert Murdoch/a, which comes out tomorrow, is all the rage on this media Monday, and is at least something better to distract us from the depressing news all around us. Reviews are a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/books/01masl.html?_r=1" title="coming"coming/a a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088sid=aw9uBrEvK070refer=home" title="in"in/a a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rupert-murdoch-explained-newsers-michael/story.aspx?guid={BAA9A961-D720-40C2-BD5D-57C0A62EA02C}" title="fast"fast/a, a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4AR6KS20081128" title="and"and/a a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/12/01/1227979890212.html" title="most"most/a have their own judgments about Murdoch, not so much about the book. /p p Our parent iGuardian/i is the only one to run an extract (outside of Vanity Fair's a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/12/murdoch200812" title="long extract this month"long extract this month/a) of the book, and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch" title="this one is about"this one is about/a the time when Rupert met then Dow Jones (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=NWS" class="ticker" title="NWS"NYSE: NWS/a) CEO Rich Zannino, when the wooing began. Some doubts will always be cast on Zannino's role in this, and as former CEO Peter Kann questions in the book: "Why the fuck was Rich going for breakfast with Murdoch?" /p p From the extract: Murdoch: "I know that. I was thinking I'd take the offer directly to the board. I know the family feels that way. I've called [Michael] Elefante in the past. He won't even take a number. The number I'm thinking of is ... 60." Zannino: (internally) Holy Shit! (externally) Silence. /p p For a official version of how these meetings went about, read the old SEC filing which we pointed a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-news-corps-buyout-of-dow-jones-the-gory-details-in-s-4/" title="out here last year"out here last year/a. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=gvxIny"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=gvxIny" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=aocsO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=aocsO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9GeTO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9GeTO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IBX1o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IBX1o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=LmgoO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=LmgoO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=prH4O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=prH4O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/471550386" height="1" width="1"/

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A Great Servant; An Evil Master

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- 2 days and 5 hours ago

pIt's a question you've probably asked. Why is it that when you are looking for a house, driving slowly down a darkened street straining to see the numbers on the fronts of the homes or on the mailboxes at the end of the driveways, you automatically turn down the car radio? Why do you need silence when focusing, concentrating? You do so, I suppose, because you instinctively know that music and voices are a distraction. You know on a subconscious level that you cannot focus as well on the task at-hand when there is noise in the background. Noise is a distraction./p pI find that when I am writing, and especially writing something that requires deep thought and consistent logic, I need to remove background distractions, whether that means I turn down the music playing from my computer or close the door to my office to drown out the sounds of squabbling or playing children. I do this without thinking about it. As I strain to collect my thoughts and to put words to them, I automatically turn down the music (as I did just now). I am often surprised, when I have finished my writing, to find that the music has been turned off or the door has been closed. I may have no recollection of doing so. It must be a natural reaction./p pMany years ago I heard a sermon, one of the few I remember from my younger days, in which the pastor suggested that we try turning off the stereos in our cars, especially when we are driving alone, and spend the time thinking or praying. He had apparently developed the practice of praying aloud when driving alone. It earned him some bemused looks from other drivers who saw him talking, apparently to himself, but because he found it a beneficial practice he swallowed his pride and continued to talk to God. I guess this was in the day before bluetooth headsets; today it seems as if every driver is talking to himself. I often make a decision--and it has to be a deliberate decision since I am accustomed to pressing the "play" button immediately after starting the car--to turn off the radio or MP3 player when I drive. I have found such times extremely valuable. My mind can process things and mull things over far better where there is silence. This is particularly true if the song I might be listening to is one that is familiar to me as then, whether I am aware of it or not, I tend to sing along. It is hard to think deeply when singing!/p pIn our culture we have allowed ourselves to become notoriously busy. And all the time, while we are busily going through life, there is a great deal of "noise" in the background of our lives. It may be music that plays when we drive, when we work and when we play. It may be a television that is turned on every time we have a few minutes to spare. Perhaps when we find fifteen empty minutes between picking the kids up from school and beginning to cook dinner we watch an episode of emJudge Judy/em or catch a re-run of emThe Simpsons/em. The background noise may be a Blackberry that constantly beeps and buzzes as it receives emails or stock quotes, even when we are far away from the office. It may be a cell phone that keeps customers or employees in contact with us even on weekends and holidays./p pIt seems to me that, as society continues to move in its current direction, and as we become ever more "wired," Christians have to be increasingly deliberate about moderating and perhaps removing some of this ever-present background noise. If we are to be thinking people, people who think deeply and deliberately about spiritual matters, we simply cannot allow our lives to be overshadowed by the noise of technology./p pI wonder how much we miss because of our busyness. I am often challenged to think just how much of life I miss while I check my email for the seventh time in a given evening or while I follow along online with a football game that I really don't care about. Technology, it seems, is a great distractor. Technology sticks its foot in the door of so many areas of my life. When I sit down to read to my children we may be interrupted by a phone call. As we head outdoors to play, I may do a quick check of my email and spend fifteen minutes typing out a reply that could easily wait until the next day; and then, while I play with the children, I am distracted, mulling over what I might have or should have said. Maybe we duck out of church before the time of fellowship is complete so we will have time to get home, make a sandwich and fluff the cushions on the couch before kickoff time./p pTruthfully, I cannot think of anything that distracts us so fully and completely and consistently as technology. For too many of us, technology is a master and not a servant. It is our owner, not our possession. We let it run and rule our lives. We allow technology to determine the course of our lives, taking us where it leads. We determine our schedules with TV Guide in one hand, a Blackberry calendar in the other. We invest countless hours in online friendships, many of which are shallow and insignificant, while ignoring people in our local churches and communities. Perhaps while ignoring even our own families./p pTechnology is a great servant but an evil master. Technology is proof of the greatness and grace of God and something we ought to be thankful for. But why, then, have so many of us allowed it to rule and govern our lives? Why do we allow it to play such an important, transcendent role in our lives and in our families?/p pIt may be as simple as escapism. Technology, and especially its many applications to entertainment, provide unparalleled opportunities to escape from reality, even if only for a few minutes. Through technology we can leave the drudgery of our lives to listen to music that glorifies freedom or to watch television or film where what happens is far more thrilling than what we experience at home and in the office. The purpose of much of modern technology is to allow us to take our entertainment with us no matter where we go. MP3 players allow us to take thousands or tens of thousands of songs with us in the car or on the train. Video iPods allow us to escape from work or school for a few minutes by watching (ironically enough) emThe Office/em or unlimited amounts of pornography. Portable DVD players allow us to keep the children quiet in the car while we take a vacation. No matter who or where we are, we can use technology as a brief escape./p pPerhaps we use technology to hide. Maybe we hate to be alone with our thoughts. We have become so accustomed to constant noise that, like a baby who can only sleep in a room with a white noise machine softly humming, we can barely stand the sound of silence. Maybe we have lost the ability to think or even the desire to think, and so we anesthetize our intellects, we lull them into inactivity, by replacing them with noise./p pMaybe we need constant noise from the cell phone or laptop so we feel like we are accomplishing anything. Perhaps we have bought into the lie that we need to be accomplishing something significant--something that either pays the bills or leaves us with another bill to pay--at all times. And so we take phone calls during dinner and answer emails in church. We check email compulsively and work while we should be resting./p pOr it could be that we prefer the anonymity and safety of online relationships, relationships that allow us to be almost exhibitionist in what we reveal about ourselves, all the while hiding behind a mask of secrecy. We would rather tell our deepest secrets to strangers on the other side of the continent, strangers we know only by their online personas, than find and nurture deep and lasting friendships close to home./p pWe are busy. We are distracted. Too often we hide behind the noise. As Christians we need to ensure that we are mastering the noise, not allowing it to master us. We need to be in control of our cell phones, Blackberries, laptops and inboxes. We can and often should use this technology, but we must now allow it to control us./pa href="http://www.monergism.com/freeshipping.html"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/mbbanner468.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=zJ8GO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=zJ8GO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=wKZ4o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=wKZ4o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=cUuMo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=cUuMo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/471340698" height="1" width="1"/

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