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Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his life, since the age of three, he has been readied for the day when he will succeed his mother. It could happen maybe next week, maybe next year, maybe not for another 20 years. The Queen is fitter than her mother was at the same age, and she lived on to be 101.Abdication is not written into the royal DNA and so, barring accidents or long-term, incapacitating illness to the Queen, Charles also serves by only standing and waiting. He is already the oldest Prince of Wales and third-longest serving heir-apparent and, in another five years, he would be the oldest person to become king.Meanwhile, he is carrying on: last month there was a lengthy tour to east Asia (Japan, Brunei and Indonesia). This week, remembrance services in London and Verdun, dinner with the Sarkozys in Paris, receptions for insurers and a British Antarctic expedition and a comedy gala starring John Cleese, Robin Williams, Rowan Atkinson and Joan Rivers.Last night the Queen gave a private dinner for 170 guests at Buckingham Palace with the Philharmonia providing the music. Today will entail visits to Prince's Trust projects and a party at Highgrove, his country estate in Gloucestershire, where 75 close friends and celebrities will be serenaded by Rod Stewart. Apparently - and since it has been in the tabloids, the royal papers of record, it must be true - Camilla is planning to surprise him with 60 little gifts, one for every year of his life: a pair of walking boots, a personalised fishing rod, CD copies of the Goon Show, the sort of things any chap his age might relish. What else do you give a man with a £16m annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall's ancestral estates - 135,000 acres (54,521 hectares) spread across 23 counties - and a personal staff of 35?Charles may reflect that this milestone birthday should be more settled and satisfying than any for 30 years: 20 years ago he was in the midst of a marriage breakdown, 10 years ago he was reviled as the heartless, adulterous brute who had cast Princess Diana adrift. But now the turmoil is over: he has married the woman he loved all along, his sons are grown and tucked away in the armed services, his charities flourish and, mention it gently, some of his pet causes - the environment, organic farming, human-scale architecture, improving interfaith relations - no longer seem quite so wacky after all.One former palace adviser said: "He is in a much better place than he was five, certainly 10 years ago. He has moved towards the position of a king in waiting and there's a greater sensitivity to the public implications of his role. He used to rather enjoy going out on a limb and irking people to differentiate himself from the Queen, but I think he has realised that is not consistent with his role."And yet the moment for which his whole life has been a preparation eludes him. Robert Lacey, a historian and author, said: "I think he is finally coasting home, perhaps coming to the realisation that he will never be king or, if he does, he'll be like one of those elderly leaders at the end of the Soviet era - a sort of royal Andropov, with only a few years. His significance will lie in what he has accomplished as Prince and what he does to get the next king ready."Staff talk of a constant stream of handwritten notes - Charles, unlike his father and sister, does not generally use a computer - and of telephone calls worrying into the night. One who has worked for him for 20 years says: "He is computer illiterate so we get an unbelievable quantity of stuff. He spends an enormous amount of time writing notes: 'I have had a thought ...' followed by 10 pages in black ink. When you get your own memos back they are marked in red Pentel to suggest amendments. "In my area, I should think he spends 25 to 30 hours a week. It is micro-management: he has never learned to manage things. He rings up a lot but personally I try to discourage being called late."Senior advisers describe an ascetic lifestyle: one meal a day, working through lunch, and in the evenings on official papers. The money does not go on clothes, they say, pointing to frayed shirt cuffs and an overcoat he has had for years. There is wincing at mention of the famous allegation that Charles has a man to squeeze out his toothpaste for him - no, no, no, that was just once after he had broken his wrist. Jeremy Paxman's allegation that he has seven eggs boiled for him in the morning so he can choose the one best to his liking, is, alas, denied too: "Paxman got that third-hand," they say.As an alternative narrative, they cite the prince's compassion: the letters to relatives of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the visits to wounded troops in hospital and the invitations to the families of victims of crime, such as the parents of the girls murdered in Soham, to have tea with him at Clarence House. There are also issues he takes up: "If I don't raise it, who else will?" in all those letters that irked ministers a few years ago.And there are the causes, non-partisan but occasionally veering towards the deeply political: the environment, organic farming, modern architecture, education. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Taverne, complained in the Guardian recently that the prince should not make his views known, but if he kept his mouth shut, the complaint would be that he was vacuous or indolent. He knows he would not be able to do it if he becomes king, so he feels he must take the opportunity while he can. And he does feel very strongly in a conservative, old-fashioned way that the world is in danger of going to hell in a hand basket. Hence one of his most recent initiatives, conserving rain forests.His sense of noblesse oblige comes out in the Prince's Trust, the venture to help disadvantaged youngsters that he launched in 1976 in the face of official opposition - it really took off only during the unemployment years of the Thatcher government. Last year it supported 40,000 young people in training and helping them launch their own projects and companies.Martina Milburn, the trust's chief executive said: "He is particularly keen that we should work with disadvantaged young people. He'll say things like: are we accessible enough to young Muslims? He knows a lot more than people might think about what it's like to live on benefits, or to leave schools unable to read or write, because he speaks to people. He does not go for popular causes: it is not like we are raising money for cancer, animals or children."Charles's championing of organic farming is also now more than 25 years old, a cause taken up long before it became fashionable. Signs around Highgrove evangelically proclaim "This is a GM-Free Zone". Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association and a long-term friend, says: "I think he has been totally outstanding. He's a global leader of the movement and he's not had the recognition he deserves. He runs one of the best organic farms in the country and, since he has travelled so much, he is in a better position than most to know what has been destroyed."He is very intuitive in the way he comes at things, ahead of the curve. He's been proved right and, if he feels something strongly, he doesn't let go easily. Thank God for the Prince of Wales. Who else is there? Even David Attenborough came later."Others take less kindly to his interventions. A senior teachers' leader expressed exasperation at the prince's occasional forays against declining standards in state education - on one occasion fulminating about the spelling and grammar of secretaries working for him, most of whom had turned out to have been privately educated. "I think he listens to people who would have a traditional view of education - the Chris Woodheads - and the rest of us generally ignore him. He does absolutely sod all for state education. I am pretty certain he doesn't often visit state schools though if you browse through Headmasters' Conference publications you will see quite a lot of pictures of royalty opening buildings."Or take Professor Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School attached to Exeter and Plymouth universities - a post created partly because of the prince's support of the discipline - who claims to have been harassed because of his scepticism about some treatments. Ernst says: "He took great interest when my chair was set up but I have only met him twice, to shake hands, for half a millisecond, not to have a dialogue. He stands for implementing complementary medicine at all costs, whereas I stand for therapies which can be proved by sound evidence."His influence and energy could be used so much better. As it is used now it is detrimental to progress. He has started a discipline but he doesn't seem to have any understanding of the need for evidence. I have repeatedly been told he cannot tolerate advice which is not 100% in line with his opinion ... I think his advisors are all sycophants."Or take some architects. Sunand Prasad, current president of the Royal Institute for British Architects, still winces at the "monstrous carbuncle" speech in 1984: "It was very wounding and not justified. It closed down debate and was destructive of individual careers," he said. "Everyone got cast into the same liberal mould. The prince has championed sustainability and stewardship of resources and it is fantastic that someone in his position should do so. But the debate has moved on: there's huge public interest in architecture, but people are buying modernist products, not classical ones."The prince is constrained in what he can say not just by the institution, but also by his background and inclinations. He has no real power, just the hope of wielding influence by what he says. When he does so and the columnists and newspaper-reading public merely snigger he finds it deeply frustrating. All very well, some say, for a prince - who has valets to pick up his discarded clothes - to tell others how they should live, how much space they need and what they should eat. It is particularly hard to tell those taking foreign holidays that they should fly less, given his chartered flights around the world and up and down Britain. Galling if you're a commuter squashed on a late, uncomfortable, rush-hour service to read of his use of the royal train, which costs thousands on the rare occasions it leaves the sidings: £18,916 for his jaunt from Gloucestershire to Cumbria last year to inaugurate a country pub project."He lives in a way most of us never could," one senior figure concedes. "But it goes with the job. It is a bit like criticising Gordon Brown for living in a tied house in central London." There is little denying that the prince's concept of real life is not quite as ordinary people's. Even those who have known him for years and count themselves as friends are deferential. Holden says: "I call him sir. I can see it's an anachronism but it is necessary to have protocols. If you demand respect based on birth, that's a sin, but I don't believe he does that."And then there is the media, with which his largely loathe-hate relationship has been mutual for many years. Understandable perhaps, given that the prince's whole life in every aspect, trivial and significant, has been lived so publicly - it is part of the job. But watch the prince on tour glaring at photographers or turning his head away - woe betide any hapless reporter trying to strike up a conversation or ask a question. There was that famous aside in 2005 at a press call during a skiing holiday when the BBC's Nicholas Witchell, one of the royal pack's most deferential correspondents, got both barrels: "These bloody people. I can't bear that man ... he's so awful." Such things get remembered and do him no favours when he has something he wants to say. Charles has been treated much worse by the tabloids, which took sides during the war with Diana, and have excoriated and mocked him ever since. "He is very thin-skinned. He knows all those 'dotty prince' headlines. He calls the Daily Mail the Daily Dementer," says an advisor. Holden's views are similar: "He is more thin-skinned than people realise, he feels issues are not taken seriously and his views are not heard. He is remarkably vulnerable and sensitive to criticism. And, it is quite hard to be told you are wrong, whoever you are." Two factors indicate new calm in Charles's life: his marriage three years ago and a household under more discipline than before. The days of spin doctoring and near-open briefings against other members of the royal family are past. His private secretary, the urbane Sir Michael Peat, and communications secretary, the former Financial Times reporter and Manchester United PR, Paddy Harverson, run a tight ship. Those who see him daily say the frustrated bouts of temper are less frequent and he is more content than before. There are still volcanic explosions and petulance, impatience and exasperation, but his wife has had a calming effect. "Charles and Camilla argue and fight a lot but they end up laughing," said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. "Diana would go off and sulk for days, but these two have their fights and they're laughing 10 minutes later."Now he has given up polo, Charles's energy is expended on long walks around Balmoral and bouts of hedge-laying at his farm at Highgrove, a passion which his security men, enlisted to help, have to endure.Lacey said: "Curiously I think the Duchy Original brands are rather appropriate for him: widely available in Waitrose, expensive, good quality and slightly old-fashioned. I think that symbolises what he has made of his career."The prince's weekSundayPrince Charles (and most of the rest of the family) attended the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, then went on to the Guards Chapel in his capacity as colonel of the Welsh Guards and laid another wreath at the Guards MemorialMondayCharles and Camilla attended a private dinner hosted by President Sarkozy at the Elysée Palace in ParisTuesdayAt Verdun for French ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the first world warWednesdayThe prince met insurance industry leaders at Clarence House, then as patron of The British Army Antarctic Expedition, was at a reception to thank supporters at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich. He and Camilla went on to attend the comedy gala, We Are Most Amused, and met the performers at the New Wimbledon TheatreThursdayAs founder of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign and Patron of The Academy of Culinary Arts, Charles received the first Renaissance Mutton of the season, from Cumbria, presented by butcher Andrew Sharp at Clarence House. Reception and private dinner at Buckingham Palace, with music by the Philharmonia FridayAt the launch of Youth Week meeting youngsters participating in The Prince's Trust Team Programme at Beckton Community Centre, London. Then, as president of the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, attended a concert for nearly 200 children from schools across the country at the Royal Opera House, LondonSaturdayParty at Highgrove, the prince's country estate in Gloucestershire, that will host 75 guests including Meera Syal, Jilly Cooper and Edward Fox. Musical entertainment will be provided by Rod Stewart, who has waived his $1.85m (£1.26m) performance feePrince CharlesMonarchyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Milestone for a prince whose life has been a waiting game {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - For many men, a 60th birthday is a time for reflection; a winding down of activities, handing over to the kids (passing on the family firm, perhaps), looking forward to retirement. Not so for the Prince of Wales, whose birthday it is today. All his life, since the age of three, he has been readied for the day when he will succeed his mother. It could happen maybe next week, maybe next year, maybe not for another 20 years. The Queen is fitter than her mother was at the same age, and she lived on to be 101.Abdication is not written into the royal DNA and so, barring accidents or long-term, incapacitating illness to the Queen, Charles also serves by only standing and waiting. He is already the oldest Prince of Wales and third-longest serving heir-apparent and, in another five years, he would be the oldest person to become king.Meanwhile, he is carrying on: last month there was a lengthy tour to east Asia (Japan, Brunei and Indonesia). This week, remembrance services in London and Verdun, dinner with the Sarkozys in Paris, receptions for insurers and a British Antarctic expedition and a comedy gala starring John Cleese, Robin Williams, Rowan Atkinson and Joan Rivers.Last night the Queen gave a private dinner for 170 guests at Buckingham Palace with the Philharmonia providing the music. Today will entail visits to Prince's Trust projects and a party at Highgrove, his country estate in Gloucestershire, where 75 close friends and celebrities will be serenaded by Rod Stewart. Apparently - and since it has been in the tabloids, the royal papers of record, it must be true - Camilla is planning to surprise him with 60 little gifts, one for every year of his life: a pair of walking boots, a personalised fishing rod, CD copies of the Goon Show, the sort of things any chap his age might relish. What else do you give a man with a £16m annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall's ancestral estates - 135,000 acres (54,521 hectares) spread across 23 counties - and a personal staff of 35?Charles may reflect that this milestone birthday should be more settled and satisfying than any for 30 years: 20 years ago he was in the midst of a marriage breakdown, 10 years ago he was reviled as the heartless, adulterous brute who had cast Princess Diana adrift. But now the turmoil is over: he has married the woman he loved all along, his sons are grown and tucked away in the armed services, his charities flourish and, mention it gently, some of his pet causes - the environment, organic farming, human-scale architecture, improving interfaith relations - no longer seem quite so wacky after all.One former palace adviser said: "He is in a much better place than he was five, certainly 10 years ago. He has moved towards the position of a king in waiting and there's a greater sensitivity to the public implications of his role. He used to rather enjoy going out on a limb and irking people to differentiate himself from the Queen, but I think he has realised that is not consistent with his role."And yet the moment for which his whole life has been a preparation eludes him. Robert Lacey, a historian and author, said: "I think he is finally coasting home, perhaps coming to the realisation that he will never be king or, if he does, he'll be like one of those elderly leaders at the end of the Soviet era - a sort of royal Andropov, with only a few years. His significance will lie in what he has accomplished as Prince and what he does to get the next king ready."Staff talk of a constant stream of handwritten notes - Charles, unlike his father and sister, does not generally use a computer - and of telephone calls worrying into the night. One who has worked for him for 20 years says: "He is computer illiterate so we get an unbelievable quantity of stuff. He spends an enormous amount of time writing notes: 'I have had a thought ...' followed by 10 pages in black ink. When you get your own memos back they are marked in red Pentel to suggest amendments. "In my area, I should think he spends 25 to 30 hours a week. It is micro-management: he has never learned to manage things. He rings up a lot but personally I try to discourage being called late."Senior advisers describe an ascetic lifestyle: one meal a day, working through lunch, and in the evenings on official papers. The money does not go on clothes, they say, pointing to frayed shirt cuffs and an overcoat he has had for years. There is wincing at mention of the famous allegation that Charles has a man to squeeze out his toothpaste for him - no, no, no, that was just once after he had broken his wrist. Jeremy Paxman's allegation that he has seven eggs boiled for him in the morning so he can choose the one best to his liking, is, alas, denied too: "Paxman got that third-hand," they say.As an alternative narrative, they cite the prince's compassion: the letters to relatives of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the visits to wounded troops in hospital and the invitations to the families of victims of crime, such as the parents of the girls murdered in Soham, to have tea with him at Clarence House. There are also issues he takes up: "If I don't raise it, who else will?" in all those letters that irked ministers a few years ago.And there are the causes, non-partisan but occasionally veering towards the deeply political: the environment, organic farming, modern architecture, education. The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Taverne, complained in the Guardian recently that the prince should not make his views known, but if he kept his mouth shut, the complaint would be that he was vacuous or indolent. He knows he would not be able to do it if he becomes king, so he feels he must take the opportunity while he can. And he does feel very strongly in a conservative, old-fashioned way that the world is in danger of going to hell in a hand basket. Hence one of his most recent initiatives, conserving rain forests.His sense of noblesse oblige comes out in the Prince's Trust, the venture to help disadvantaged youngsters that he launched in 1976 in the face of official opposition - it really took off only during the unemployment years of the Thatcher government. Last year it supported 40,000 young people in training and helping them launch their own projects and companies.Martina Milburn, the trust's chief executive said: "He is particularly keen that we should work with disadvantaged young people. He'll say things like: are we accessible enough to young Muslims? He knows a lot more than people might think about what it's like to live on benefits, or to leave schools unable to read or write, because he speaks to people. He does not go for popular causes: it is not like we are raising money for cancer, animals or children."Charles's championing of organic farming is also now more than 25 years old, a cause taken up long before it became fashionable. Signs around Highgrove evangelically proclaim "This is a GM-Free Zone". Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association and a long-term friend, says: "I think he has been totally outstanding. He's a global leader of the movement and he's not had the recognition he deserves. He runs one of the best organic farms in the country and, since he has travelled so much, he is in a better position than most to know what has been destroyed."He is very intuitive in the way he comes at things, ahead of the curve. He's been proved right and, if he feels something strongly, he doesn't let go easily. Thank God for the Prince of Wales. Who else is there? Even David Attenborough came later."Others take less kindly to his interventions. A senior teachers' leader expressed exasperation at the prince's occasional forays against declining standards in state education - on one occasion fulminating about the spelling and grammar of secretaries working for him, most of whom had turned out to have been privately educated. "I think he listens to people who would have a traditional view of education - the Chris Woodheads - and the rest of us generally ignore him. He does absolutely sod all for state education. I am pretty certain he doesn't often visit state schools though if you browse through Headmasters' Conference publications you will see quite a lot of pictures of royalty opening buildings."Or take Professor Edzard Ernst, the world's first professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School attached to Exeter and Plymouth universities - a post created partly because of the prince's support of the discipline - who claims to have been harassed because of his scepticism about some treatments. Ernst says: "He took great interest when my chair was set up but I have only met him twice, to shake hands, for half a millisecond, not to have a dialogue. He stands for implementing complementary medicine at all costs, whereas I stand for therapies which can be proved by sound evidence."His influence and energy could be used so much better. As it is used now it is detrimental to progress. He has started a discipline but he doesn't seem to have any understanding of the need for evidence. I have repeatedly been told he cannot tolerate advice which is not 100% in line with his opinion ... I think his advisors are all sycophants."Or take some architects. Sunand Prasad, current president of the Royal Institute for British Architects, still winces at the "monstrous carbuncle" speech in 1984: "It was very wounding and not justified. It closed down debate and was destructive of individual careers," he said. "Everyone got cast into the same liberal mould. The prince has championed sustainability and stewardship of resources and it is fantastic that someone in his position should do so. But the debate has moved on: there's huge public interest in architecture, but people are buying modernist products, not classical ones."The prince is constrained in what he can say not just by the institution, but also by his background and inclinations. He has no real power, just the hope of wielding influence by what he says. When he does so and the columnists and newspaper-reading public merely snigger he finds it deeply frustrating. All very well, some say, for a prince - who has valets to pick up his discarded clothes - to tell others how they should live, how much space they need and what they should eat. It is particularly hard to tell those taking foreign holidays that they should fly less, given his chartered flights around the world and up and down Britain. Galling if you're a commuter squashed on a late, uncomfortable, rush-hour service to read of his use of the royal train, which costs thousands on the rare occasions it leaves the sidings: £18,916 for his jaunt from Gloucestershire to Cumbria last year to inaugurate a country pub project."He lives in a way most of us never could," one senior figure concedes. "But it goes with the job. It is a bit like criticising Gordon Brown for living in a tied house in central London." There is little denying that the prince's concept of real life is not quite as ordinary people's. Even those who have known him for years and count themselves as friends are deferential. Holden says: "I call him sir. I can see it's an anachronism but it is necessary to have protocols. If you demand respect based on birth, that's a sin, but I don't believe he does that."And then there is the media, with which his largely loathe-hate relationship has been mutual for many years. Understandable perhaps, given that the prince's whole life in every aspect, trivial and significant, has been lived so publicly - it is part of the job. But watch the prince on tour glaring at photographers or turning his head away - woe betide any hapless reporter trying to strike up a conversation or ask a question. There was that famous aside in 2005 at a press call during a skiing holiday when the BBC's Nicholas Witchell, one of the royal pack's most deferential correspondents, got both barrels: "These bloody people. I can't bear that man ... he's so awful." Such things get remembered and do him no favours when he has something he wants to say. Charles has been treated much worse by the tabloids, which took sides during the war with Diana, and have excoriated and mocked him ever since. "He is very thin-skinned. He knows all those 'dotty prince' headlines. He calls the Daily Mail the Daily Dementer," says an advisor. Holden's views are similar: "He is more thin-skinned than people realise, he feels issues are not taken seriously and his views are not heard. He is remarkably vulnerable and sensitive to criticism. And, it is quite hard to be told you are wrong, whoever you are." Two factors indicate new calm in Charles's life: his marriage three years ago and a household under more discipline than before. The days of spin doctoring and near-open briefings against other members of the royal family are past. His private secretary, the urbane Sir Michael Peat, and communications secretary, the former Financial Times reporter and Manchester United PR, Paddy Harverson, run a tight ship. Those who see him daily say the frustrated bouts of temper are less frequent and he is more content than before. There are still volcanic explosions and petulance, impatience and exasperation, but his wife has had a calming effect. "Charles and Camilla argue and fight a lot but they end up laughing," said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. "Diana would go off and sulk for days, but these two have their fights and they're laughing 10 minutes later."Now he has given up polo, Charles's energy is expended on long walks around Balmoral and bouts of hedge-laying at his farm at Highgrove, a passion which his security men, enlisted to help, have to endure.Lacey said: "Curiously I think the Duchy Original brands are rather appropriate for him: widely available in Waitrose, expensive, good quality and slightly old-fashioned. I think that symbolises what he has made of his career."The prince's weekSundayPrince Charles (and most of the rest of the family) attended the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph, then went on to the Guards Chapel in his capacity as colonel of the Welsh Guards and laid another wreath at the Guards MemorialMondayCharles and Camilla attended a private dinner hosted by President Sarkozy at the Elysée Palace in ParisTuesdayAt Verdun for French ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the first world warWednesdayThe prince met insurance industry leaders at Clarence House, then as patron of The British Army Antarctic Expedition, was at a reception to thank supporters at the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich. He and Camilla went on to attend the comedy gala, We Are Most Amused, and met the performers at the New Wimbledon TheatreThursdayAs founder of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign and Patron of The Academy of Culinary Arts, Charles received the first Renaissance Mutton of the season, from Cumbria, presented by butcher Andrew Sharp at Clarence House. Reception and private dinner at Buckingham Palace, with music by the Philharmonia FridayAt the launch of Youth Week meeting youngsters participating in The Prince's Trust Team Programme at Beckton Community Centre, London. Then, as president of the Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, attended a concert for nearly 200 children from schools across the country at the Royal Opera House, LondonSaturdayParty at Highgrove, the prince's country estate in Gloucestershire, that will host 75 guests including Meera Syal, Jilly Cooper and Edward Fox. Musical entertainment will be provided by Rod Stewart, who has waived his $1.85m (£1.26m) performance feePrince CharlesMonarchyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Sold for sex: tale of 16-year-old girl trafficked into Britain http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/sold-for-sex-tale-of-16-year-old-girl-trafficked-into-20081165512.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/sold-for-sex-tale-of-16-year-old-girl-trafficked-into-20081165512.htm Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:04:55 GMT 'I thought I was coming to England to work in a bar. I was excited. I had finished school, and ... what was I going to do in my country?After a week they took me and the girl who came with me to a coffee shop. There were three Albanians there. We knew they were talking about us because they were looking and talking, looking and talking. We went out into the car park and I saw one of them give the man who brought me to England a lot of cash. I thought maybe they owed him money. But then he sent me away with him, and I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I was sold". I had only heard of such things on TV. I never thought it could happen to me. I couldn't believe it. I said in my head, "No Jana, what have you done?"I blamed myself. Of course I did. I'd gone myself. I was lying to my mum.Claude, the man who bought me, took me to a shopping centre in west London and bought me make-up and new clothes: a mini-skirt, underwear. When I saw the stockings, oh my God, I said, "No way". I didn't understand what the clothes were for - I was thinking, "It is cold, why is he buying me these things?"But when he took me to a brothel, I did understand. It was in a flat. A lady with the same funny clothes opened the door and took me upstairs. There was some kind of beating things, and handcuffs on the table and pictures of naked people. There was a double bed in the room. Then I realised. How was I feeling after? Dirty. And still I'm feeling it. Never in my life had I thought about doing something like that. I was only 16. I never thought I would go to England and it would be like this. Never.Back home I just liked going out with my friends. But not this kind of thing. We sometimes went to the disco. I like music, R&B. We had discos ourselves in the house, and have fun, but this ... this life is shit.How was I treated by Claude? Hah. Chicken and chips every day. A beating. I never saw any of the money I made. He bought me maybe £50 worth of clothes and he said "all the money for clothes is gone". And I was making him a lot of money. He bought me some boots that came up over the knee. Oh my God, they were horrible. I hated them. I thought about trying to escape, but how? Where do you go? You don't have no money, you don't want to go back to that work. You don't have no friends, nobody, no speak English, no nothing, where do you go? You end up on the street. And I was scared he would find me. He would do it easily. I didn't know anything about England. I didn't even know where I was at first.I couldn't tell my mum anything on the phone because Claude understood. I told her I was working in the pub. I never will tell her this. No way.Then I was sold again, to Martin. He treated me badly as well. Stole from my purse. He took me to work at a brothel in Luton. The boss of the brothel wanted to help me, to take me away from him. He asked me "do you want me to buy you?", and I said yes.But one day Claude came and took me off the street and brought me back to London. Later, Mario was my pimp. I ran away and after he found me he beat me. One time I said to him "watch what I will one day do to you. Watch."Once, I told him I would call the police. You know a man's belt with a big buckle? He slapped me with that. The day I finally did call them, it was because my money had been stolen by someone else.I called back and said "don't come", but they did. Before they arrived there was a knock on the door. It was Mario. He kicked the door in and it hit my head and I hit the wall. I was knocked unconscious.I woke up in an ambulance. I was going crazy at the hospital, I saw Mario everywhere. A police officer was standing in front of me and I was saying "that's Mario, that's Mario". I was scratching my face, crying, shaking. I was thinking I would lose my mind.I didn't know what to do. And I thought the police will help me, and I just told them everything.I had to go to court. They have to pay for what they have done because they will continue, even when they come out. I'm not the first, or last, who will end up like this. We are all people, but these kind of people, they are animals. Now it's totally different. Before, when I was talking to the police, everything was stuck in my head. After the court case, I have told everything, bye bye. I feel 100% better now.I can't believe what happened to me. When I was in my country and people who lived in England came back to Slovakia for holidays they said England was so good. Yeah, very good.'Human traffickingProstitutionCrimeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Sold for sex: tale of 16-year-old girl trafficked into Britain {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - 'I thought I was coming to England to work in a bar. I was excited. I had finished school, and ... what was I going to do in my country?After a week they took me and the girl who came with me to a coffee shop. There were three Albanians there. We knew they were talking about us because they were looking and talking, looking and talking. We went out into the car park and I saw one of them give the man who brought me to England a lot of cash. I thought maybe they owed him money. But then he sent me away with him, and I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I was sold". I had only heard of such things on TV. I never thought it could happen to me. I couldn't believe it. I said in my head, "No Jana, what have you done?"I blamed myself. Of course I did. I'd gone myself. I was lying to my mum.Claude, the man who bought me, took me to a shopping centre in west London and bought me make-up and new clothes: a mini-skirt, underwear. When I saw the stockings, oh my God, I said, "No way". I didn't understand what the clothes were for - I was thinking, "It is cold, why is he buying me these things?"But when he took me to a brothel, I did understand. It was in a flat. A lady with the same funny clothes opened the door and took me upstairs. There was some kind of beating things, and handcuffs on the table and pictures of naked people. There was a double bed in the room. Then I realised. How was I feeling after? Dirty. And still I'm feeling it. Never in my life had I thought about doing something like that. I was only 16. I never thought I would go to England and it would be like this. Never.Back home I just liked going out with my friends. But not this kind of thing. We sometimes went to the disco. I like music, R&B. We had discos ourselves in the house, and have fun, but this ... this life is shit.How was I treated by Claude? Hah. Chicken and chips every day. A beating. I never saw any of the money I made. He bought me maybe £50 worth of clothes and he said "all the money for clothes is gone". And I was making him a lot of money. He bought me some boots that came up over the knee. Oh my God, they were horrible. I hated them. I thought about trying to escape, but how? Where do you go? You don't have no money, you don't want to go back to that work. You don't have no friends, nobody, no speak English, no nothing, where do you go? You end up on the street. And I was scared he would find me. He would do it easily. I didn't know anything about England. I didn't even know where I was at first.I couldn't tell my mum anything on the phone because Claude understood. I told her I was working in the pub. I never will tell her this. No way.Then I was sold again, to Martin. He treated me badly as well. Stole from my purse. He took me to work at a brothel in Luton. The boss of the brothel wanted to help me, to take me away from him. He asked me "do you want me to buy you?", and I said yes.But one day Claude came and took me off the street and brought me back to London. Later, Mario was my pimp. I ran away and after he found me he beat me. One time I said to him "watch what I will one day do to you. Watch."Once, I told him I would call the police. You know a man's belt with a big buckle? He slapped me with that. The day I finally did call them, it was because my money had been stolen by someone else.I called back and said "don't come", but they did. Before they arrived there was a knock on the door. It was Mario. He kicked the door in and it hit my head and I hit the wall. I was knocked unconscious.I woke up in an ambulance. I was going crazy at the hospital, I saw Mario everywhere. A police officer was standing in front of me and I was saying "that's Mario, that's Mario". I was scratching my face, crying, shaking. I was thinking I would lose my mind.I didn't know what to do. And I thought the police will help me, and I just told them everything.I had to go to court. They have to pay for what they have done because they will continue, even when they come out. I'm not the first, or last, who will end up like this. We are all people, but these kind of people, they are animals. Now it's totally different. Before, when I was talking to the police, everything was stuck in my head. After the court case, I have told everything, bye bye. I feel 100% better now.I can't believe what happened to me. When I was in my country and people who lived in England came back to Slovakia for holidays they said England was so good. Yeah, very good.'Human traffickingProstitutionCrimeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - After altering photos to smear New York Times journalists, Fox & Friends featured segment criticizing Newsweek's choice of Palin photo as unflattering http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/after-altering-photos-to-smear-new-york-times-journalists-20081024510.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/after-altering-photos-to-smear-new-york-times-journalists-20081024510.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:31 GMT On the October 9 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said of the cover photo of Gov. Sarah Palin, which appeared on the October 13 edition of Newsweek, "You know that I thought for a story, there was a reason why they sucked half her face in, there was a reason why they closed up on her eye, but it has nothing to do with the story at all. ... But don't you want to sell magazines? Why would they put an unattractive shot of an attractive person?" Later in the segment, Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News' Red Eye, said: "But the rest of the world gets airbrushed. She doesn't get a break?" Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin added: "I don't think there's anything these mainstream photographers can do to make Sarah Palin look awful. She is a gorgeous woman, there's nothing they can do about it, and this is why the left is so deranged that they resorted to Photoshopping her in bikini pictures." Left unmentioned during the Fox & Friends discussion of the Newsweek cover photo was the fact that the July 2 edition of Fox & Friends featured photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered, during a segment in which co-host Steve Doocy claimed that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings was a "hit piece." Specifically, in the photos Fox & Friends aired, the Times journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and Reddicliffe's hairline receded. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered at the time. Also during the October 9 segment, Gutfeld aired the following Reuters photo: Mediamatters.Org After altering photos to smear New York Times journalists, Fox & Friends featured segment criticizing Newsweek's choice of Palin photo as unflattering {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - On the October 9 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said of the cover photo of Gov. Sarah Palin, which appeared on the October 13 edition of Newsweek, "You know that I thought for a story, there was a reason why they sucked half her face in, there was a reason why they closed up on her eye, but it has nothing to do with the story at all. ... But don't you want to sell magazines? Why would they put an unattractive shot of an attractive person?" Later in the segment, Greg Gutfeld, host of Fox News' Red Eye, said: "But the rest of the world gets airbrushed. She doesn't get a break?" Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin added: "I don't think there's anything these mainstream photographers can do to make Sarah Palin look awful. She is a gorgeous woman, there's nothing they can do about it, and this is why the left is so deranged that they resorted to Photoshopping her in bikini pictures." Left unmentioned during the Fox & Friends discussion of the Newsweek cover photo was the fact that the July 2 edition of Fox & Friends featured photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered, during a segment in which co-host Steve Doocy claimed that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings was a "hit piece." Specifically, in the photos Fox & Friends aired, the Times journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and Reddicliffe's hairline receded. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered at the time. Also during the October 9 segment, Gutfeld aired the following Reuters photo:
Media Matters - After altering photos to smear New York Times journalists, Fox & Friends featured segment criticizing Newsweek 's choice of Palin photo as unflattering {...} Fox & Friends criticized Newsweek for publishing an unaltered cover photo of Gov. Sarah Palin, three months after airing altered photos to smear New York Times journalists for an article about the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings. {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - The future of mobile http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-2008109232.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-2008109232.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:38:16 GMT The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director Blogger.Com The future of mobile {new window}   Www.Blogger.Com - The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - Lovely Oakland Hills 3 bdrm, 2 bthrm home with BIG backyard! (oakland hills / mills) $3000 3bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/lovely-oakland-hills-3-bdrm-2-bthrm-home-with-big-20080927545.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/lovely-oakland-hills-3-bdrm-2-bthrm-home-with-big-20080927545.htm Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:26:36 GMT Come live in the Oakland Hills! Remodeled home with new kitchen, bathrooms, living room and family room. Three bedroom, two bathroom home in a beautiful neighborhood off of Keller Avenue, two streets below Skyline Blvd, in the Oakland Hills. The home is 1941 square feet, and the lot is 9,170 square feet. Available in 30 days, but you can move in earlier if the need is urgent. Non-smokers with no pets please. Amenities: Completely remodeled kitchen with two state of the art ovens, a fridge, a new dishwasher, a new sink with In-Sink-Erator, new cabinets, etc. Completely remodeled family room with a wall-mounted Flat Screen LCD 50 inch TV, that will remain in the home. The 50 inch TV moves and allows you to watch TV while cooking dinner in the kitchen. Fireplace in family room. Completely remodeled living room with new hardwood floor. Completely remodeled guest bathroom. Partially remodeled master bathroom with new shower and new floor. Walk in closet in the master bathroom. Laundry room with new washer and drier. Separate pantry with ample space. New doors and windows. Two car garage and plenty of free street parking. Outdoor sink and cabinets in garage. Big backyard with Japanese garden, perfect for entertaining family and friends. Family friendly neighborhood where kids play in the street and your neighbors know you and say hello. Quiet street and neighborhood. 5 minutes from the 580 Freeway. One exit from Highway 13 and 10 minutes from the 880 freeway. 15 minutes from UC Berkeley. 1/2 hour from San Francisco by car. 12 minutes from the closest Bart Station (Coliseum). Close to Holy Name, Mills, and Merritt Colleges. A car is necessary to get to and from the Hills. I look forward to meeting you - non-smokers with no pets. Please call 510-414-3829 for more information. Open house will be on Sundays from noon to 3:00 p.m. 7836 Surrey Lane, Oakland, CA 94605. If you cannot make this time but would like to see the house, please call and I will try to accommodate you. If you are interested in the home there is a rental application and non-refundable fee of $20.00. Total move in cost is $6,000 (one month's rent and security deposit of $3,000). To see additional pictures of the home please go to http://houserental79.shutterfly.com?a=1. You do not have to sign up to view the pictures, just click on the album under "recent pictures." Please note that new doors and windows have been installed since the pictures were taken. If you want to learn more about the home, please read on for a tour ... ... You walk up the path to your new rental home and you are greeted by an inner courtyard with flowers. When you enter the home you see a completely remodeled living room on your right,with beautiful, bright hardwood floor. On your left is the dining room with new light fixtures and big windows. You walk past the dining room and enter the completely remodeled kitchen with two state of the art ovens, a fridge, a new dish washer, a new sink with incinerator, new cabinets, etc. From here you move into the family room with its new beautiful, bright hardwood floor. You sit down and relax in front of the 50 inch television, which as an added bonus will left in the home, or you sit and enjoy the beauty of the garden you see clearly from here. As you sit on the sofa you notice that the TV can be turned and you can actually watch the news while cooking a meal in the kitchen. On cold evenings you can put logs in the fire place and let the warmth of the fire embrace you and your loved ones. You walk outside and pause to enjoy the garden's beauty. You come back to the patio and sit a while in silence as you listen to the crickets, birds and other creatures welcoming you home. As you sit there, you realize that this big, beautiful back yard is perfect for family barbeques and entertaining your friends and colleagues. And as you listen to the sound of running water from the nearby stream, you realize how perfect a spot this is for meditation, reading a book, relaxing with a glass of wine after a hard day's work, or just enjoying nature. On your way to the master bedroom you pass by the first guest bedroom, the completely remodeled guest bathroom, and the second guest bedroom. From the second bedroom you have a view of the beautiful garden outside and at times you may even see a deer behind the fence. As you enter the master bedroom the first thing you see is the beauty of the garden outside, and, you have your own entrance to the garden. You can choose to go outside and again experience nature's beauty, or you can walk to the remodeled bathroom, or veer to the left and enter the walk in closet. Did you enjoy the tour? I hope so. I hope you will come to see the house and experience what awaits you, in person. I look forward to meeting you - non-smokers with no pets. Please call 510-414-3829 for more information. Open house will be on Sundays from noon to 3:00 p.m. 7836 Surrey Lane, Oakland, CA 94605. If you cannot make this time but would like to see the house, please call and I will try to accommodate you. If you are interested in the home there is a rental application and non-refundable fee of $20.00. Move in for first month's rent and security deposit of $3,000. Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Lovely Oakland Hills 3 bdrm, 2 bthrm home with BIG backyard! (oakland hills / mills) $3000 3bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Come live in the Oakland Hills! Remodeled home with new kitchen, bathrooms, living room and family room. Three bedroom, two bathroom home in a beautiful neighborhood off of Keller Avenue, two streets below Skyline Blvd, in the Oakland Hills. The home is 1941 square feet, and the lot is 9,170 square feet. Available in 30 days, but you can move in earlier if the need is urgent. Non-smokers with no pets please. Amenities: Completely remodeled kitchen with two state of the art ovens, a fridge, a new dishwasher, a new sink with In-Sink-Erator, new cabinets, etc. Completely remodeled family room with a wall-mounted Flat Screen LCD 50 inch TV, that will remain in the home. The 50 inch TV moves and allows you to watch TV while cooking dinner in the kitchen. Fireplace in family room. Completely remodeled living room with new hardwood floor. Completely remodeled guest bathroom. Partially remodeled master bathroom with new shower and new floor. Walk in closet in the master bathroom. Laundry room with new washer and drier. Separate pantry with ample space. New doors and windows. Two car garage and plenty of free street parking. Outdoor sink and cabinets in garage. Big backyard with Japanese garden, perfect for entertaining family and friends. Family friendly neighborhood where kids play in the street and your neighbors know you and say hello. Quiet street and neighborhood. 5 minutes from the 580 Freeway. One exit from Highway 13 and 10 minutes from the 880 freeway. 15 minutes from UC Berkeley. 1/2 hour from San Francisco by car. 12 minutes from the closest Bart Station (Coliseum). Close to Holy Name, Mills, and Merritt Colleges. A car is necessary to get to and from the Hills. I look forward to meeting you - non-smokers with no pets. Please call 510-414-3829 for more information. Open house will be on Sundays from noon to 3:00 p.m. 7836 Surrey Lane, Oakland, CA 94605. If you cannot make this time but would like to see the house, please call and I will try to accommodate you. If you are interested in the home there is a rental application and non-refundable fee of $20.00. Total move in cost is $6,000 (one month's rent and security deposit of $3,000). To see additional pictures of the home please go to http://houserental79.shutterfly.com?a=1. You do not have to sign up to view the pictures, just click on the album under "recent pictures." Please note that new doors and windows have been installed since the pictures were taken. If you want to learn more about the home, please read on for a tour ... ... You walk up the path to your new rental home and you are greeted by an inner courtyard with flowers. When you enter the home you see a completely remodeled living room on your right,with beautiful, bright hardwood floor. On your left is the dining room with new light fixtures and big windows. You walk past the dining room and enter the completely remodeled kitchen with two state of the art ovens, a fridge, a new dish washer, a new sink with incinerator, new cabinets, etc. From here you move into the family room with its new beautiful, bright hardwood floor. You sit down and relax in front of the 50 inch television, which as an added bonus will left in the home, or you sit and enjoy the beauty of the garden you see clearly from here. As you sit on the sofa you notice that the TV can be turned and you can actually watch the news while cooking a meal in the kitchen. On cold evenings you can put logs in the fire place and let the warmth of the fire embrace you and your loved ones. You walk outside and pause to enjoy the garden's beauty. You come back to the patio and sit a while in silence as you listen to the crickets, birds and other creatures welcoming you home. As you sit there, you realize that this big, beautiful back yard is perfect for family barbeques and entertaining your friends and colleagues. And as you listen to the sound of running water from the nearby stream, you realize how perfect a spot this is for meditation, reading a book, relaxing with a glass of wine after a hard day's work, or just enjoying nature. On your way to the master bedroom you pass by the first guest bedroom, the completely remodeled guest bathroom, and the second guest bedroom. From the second bedroom you have a view of the beautiful garden outside and at times you may even see a deer behind the fence. As you enter the master bedroom the first thing you see is the beauty of the garden outside, and, you have your own entrance to the garden. You can choose to go outside and again experience nature's beauty, or you can walk to the remodeled bathroom, or veer to the left and enter the walk in closet. Did you enjoy the tour? I hope so. I hope you will come to see the house and experience what awaits you, in person. I look forward to meeting you - non-smokers with no pets. Please call 510-414-3829 for more information. Open house will be on Sundays from noon to 3:00 p.m. 7836 Surrey Lane, Oakland, CA 94605. If you cannot make this time but would like to see the house, please call and I will try to accommodate you. If you are interested in the home there is a rental application and non-refundable fee of $20.00. Move in for first month's rent and security deposit of $3,000.
Lovely Oakland Hills 3 bdrm, 2 bthrm home with BIG backyard! {...}
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - The future of mobile http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-20080975236.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-20080975236.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:10:48 GMT The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director Blogger.Com The future of mobile {new window}   Www.Blogger.Com - The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {INTERNET > GOOGLE} - The future of mobile http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-20080966239.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/internet/searching/search-engines/google/the-future-of-mobile-20080966239.htm Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:33:58 GMT The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director Googleblog.Blogspot.Com The future of mobile {new window}   Googleblog.Blogspot.Com - The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked ten of our top experts this very question, and during September (our 10th anniversary month) we are presenting their responses. As computer scientist Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it, so we will be doing our best to make good on our experts' words every day. - Karen Wickre and Alan Eagle, series editorsThere are currently about 3.2 billion mobile subscribers in the world, and that number is expected to grow by at least a billion in the next few years. Today, mobile phones are more prevalent than cars (about 800 million registered vehicles in the world) and credit cards (only 1.4 billion of those). While it took 100 years for landline phones to spread to more than 80% of the countries in the world, their wireless descendants did it in 16. And fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead (somewhere Chester Gould is wondering how he got it backwards). So it's safe to say that the mobile phone may be the most prolific consumer product ever invented.However, have you ever considered just exactly how powerful these ubiquitous devices are? The phone that you have in your pocket, pack, or handbag is probably ten times more powerful than the PC you had on your desk only 8 or 9 years ago (assuming you even had a PC; most mobile users never have). It has a range of sensors that would do a martian lander proud: a clock, power sensor (how low is that battery?), thermometer (because batteries charge poorly at low temperatures), and light meter (to determine screen backlighting) on the more basic phones; a location sensor, accelerometer (detects vector and velocity of motion), and maybe even a compass on more advanced ones. And most importantly, it is by its very nature always connected.Project out these trends another ten years. You will be carrying with you, 24x7 (a recent study of Chinese mobile customers showed that the majority of them sleep within a meter of their phones), a very powerful, always connected, sensor-rich device. And the cool thing is, so will everyone else. So what are you going to do with it that you aren't doing now? Here are some possibilities:Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. This is already happening today -- eBay can text you when you've been outbid, and alert services (such as Google News) can deliver news, sports, or stock updates to you. In the future these applications will get smarter, patiently monitoring your personalized preferences (which will be stored in the network cloud) and delivering only the information you desire. One very useful scenario: your phone knows that you are heading downtown for dinner, and alerts you of transit conditions or the best places to park.Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. For example, do you really want to know how much is that doggy in the window? Your phone, with its GPS and compass, knows what you are looking at, so it can tell you before you even ask. Plus, what breed it is and the best way to train him.Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. When everyone else is doing the same, you have a world where people from every corner of the planet are covering their experiences in real-time. That massive amount of content gets archived, sorted, and re-deployed to other people in new and interesting ways. Ask the web for the most interesting sites in your vicinity, and your phone shows you reviews and pictures that people have uploaded of nearby attractions. Like what you see? It will send you directions on how to get there.Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.Tool for development: Your phone may be more than just a convenience, it may be your livelihood. Already, this is true for people in many parts of the world: in southern India, fishermen use text messaging to find the best markets for their daily catch, in South Africa, sugar farmers can receive text messages advising them on how much to irrigate their crops, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa entrepreneurs with mobile phones become phone operators, bringing communications to their villages. These innovations will only increase in the future, as mobile phones become the linchpin for greater economic development.The future-proof device: Your phone will open up, as the Internet already has, so it will be easy for developers to create or improve applications and content. The ones that you care about get automatically installed on your phone. Let's say you have a piece of software on your phone to improve power management (and therefore battery life). Let's say a developer makes an improvement to the software. The update gets automatically installed on your phone, without you lifting a finger. Your phone actually gets better over time.Safer software through trust and verification: Your phone will provide tools and information to empower you to decide what to download, what to see, and what to share. Trust is the most important currency in the always connected world, and your phone will help you stay in control of your information. You may choose to share nothing at all (the default mode), or just share certain things with certain people -- your circle of trusted friends and family. You'll make these decisions based on information you get from the service and software providers, and the collective ratings of the community as well. Your phone is like your trusted valet: it knows a lot about you, and won't disclose an iota of it without your OK.Now, if we can just train it to do your laundry ...Posted by Andy Rubin, Engineering Director
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]]> Computers > Internet > Searching > Search Engines > Google {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Conservative radio hosts seize on Obama comment to revive false rumors about his faith http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/conservative-radio-hosts-seize-on-obama-comment-20080929416.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/conservative-radio-hosts-seize-on-obama-comment-20080929416.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:04:15 GMT Conservative talk radio hosts have recently seized on comments Sen. Barack Obama made during a September 7 appearance on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos in order to suggest that the comments prove Obama is really a Muslim, not a Christian. On This Week, Obama discussed, in host George Stephanopoulos' words, Republicans who have "suggested" he had "Muslim connections" and claimed that such suggestions are "promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators, who are closely allied" with Sen. John McCain's campaign. After Stephanopoulos asserted that McCain "said that's wrong" to question Obama's faith, Obama replied: "[Y]ou're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith." Stephanopoulos interjected, "Your Christian faith," to which Obama replied: "My Christian faith. Well, what I'm saying is he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign, upper echelons have not either. What I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith, something which I find deeply offensive. And that has been going on for a pretty long time." Following Obama's appearance on This Week, numerous conservative talk-radio hosts have selectively highlighted Obama's assertion, which he immediately clarified, that "John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith" to revive rumors that he is a Muslim. Moreover, most hosts did not air Obama's clarification: that "what I'm saying is he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim." For instance: Chris Baker: On the September 8 broadcast of his Minneapolis radio show, Chris Baker claimed that Obama's comment was "obviously a Freudian slip" and stated, "He confessed. It's over." Baker later referenced comments he made earlier in the show and said, "I don't care" if Obama is Muslim, and, "[I]f he is, then why couldn't he just admit it?" Baker also asserted, "There are some questions about it. I mean, look, you know, he was -- lived in Indonesia, went to one of those madrass-deals, whatever, OK? You got pictures of him in the costume." He also claimed that when Obama is asked about his purported connections to Islam, "He'll say no, but he doesn't explain anything. Well, wait a minute. Didn't you go to that madrassa thing there in Indonesia?" As Media Matters for America has previously documented, allegations that Obama attended a "madrassa" have been disproved by CNN, the Associated Press, and the Chicago Tribune. Baker also repeatedly played a truncated portion of Obama's This Week appearance in which he omitted Obama's explanatory comment: "Well, what I'm saying is he [McCain] hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim." He aired only the following portion of Obama's exchange with Stephanopoulos: OBAMA: What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that has not come -- STEPHANOPOULOS: Your Christian faith. OBAMA: My Christian faith. Further, responding to Obama's assertion that "coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith," Baker claimed that "the only people that ever bring this up is him." In fact, Media Matters has repeatedly noted that media figures and politicians have repeatedly suggested that Obama was not a Christian, but, in fact, a Muslim. Michael Savage: On the September 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage aired a similarly truncated clip and stated of Obama's This Week remarks: "Obama has admitted he's a Muslim." Savage described Obama as a "Muslim stealth candidate" and stated: "I have nothing against moderate Muslims. ... The question is, why is he covering up his Muslim faith? Is he, in fact, a member of the moderate Muslim wing of the Muslim religion? I would hope so." Later, he said, "The question is, though, how did Muslim Obama get this far? How did a Muslim stealth candidate manage to become the anointed candidate of one of the two major parties in the Unites States of America?" Savage also said that "if you listen to that clip, George Step-on-all-of-us, a hack for Bill Clinton, immediately says to him, 'You mean your Christian faith?' He didn't even realize he had slipped the tongue -- he was telling you what he was thinking." Savage vowed to "play the clip of this Mohammedan slip again and again and again until America realizes that it is too dangerous to vote for Barack Hussein Obama." Later in the show, he also claimed that "we have a unknown factor, who is a Muslim and a Christian, and we do not know where his true loyalties lie. There's no question we don't know where Hussein's loyalties lie." Quinn & Rose: On the September 8 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Jim Quinn repeatedly highlighted Obama's "my Muslim faith" remark and stated: "[W]hy is he trying to cover this up? Reverend Wright was a Muslim. He was part of the Nation of Islam. And this guy here has got long connections back to Louis Farrakhan. This whole notion that we're all slurring him by suggesting that he might be -- why is being Muslim a slur?" Co-host Rose Tennent went on to read from an article published on the conservative news website Newsmax.com that claimed, in Tennent's words, "Well, this guy Amir ... he's an Iranian-born head of Radio Israel's Persian-language service. And he said Iranian leadership likes Obama mainly because he's Muslim. And then he goes on to talk about his name. His first name, Barack, comes from al-Buraq, which is the name of a horse that Muslims believe Muhammad rode on his way to paradise. And his middle name, Hussein, is also a Muslim name. And he was born in a Muslim family." Quinn responded by saying: "How come everybody in the world knows he's a Muslim but us?" KSFO: On the September 8 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Program, guest host Brian Sussman aired a portion of Obama's This Week appearance, including Obama's comment that "what I'm saying is that he [McCain] hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim," and commented: "[T]here's a part of me that says, 'Hmm. Was that really a slip?' When he says 'my Muslim faith,' was that really a slip? I don't know. I'm looking at all the evidence, and I've got news for you. If I were on a jury trying to convict this guy of his Christian faith, I'd have a hard problem with all the evidence out there suggesting that there may be something to a Muslim faith. It's just me." Co-host Tom Benner, referred to on-air as "Officer Vic," also said of Obama's comment: "You can also break it down into that old thing: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. You know?" After the This Week clip, Sussman said, "OK, walks like a duck," to which Benner replied, "Quacks like a duck." Sussman responded: "Poops like a duck." Also on the broadcast, Sussman said, "So when you have Muammar Qaddafi coming out on state TV saying, "Barack, he's a Muslim. He's an African. Oh, yes, he's an American national, but he was schooled in Indonesia, in an Islamic school. And he's going to bring change to America." I'm telling you, I don't want that kind of guy to be my president. I don't want that guy to even be in my Senate. That guy is suspect." In fact, according to the BBC, far from "endorsing" Obama in the June 11 speech Sussman was discussing, Qaddafi repeatedly attacked Obama for his policies regarding Israel and the Middle East. According to a June 12 BBC article, Qaddafi said of Obama, "The statements of our Kenyan brother of American nationality Obama on Jerusalem ... show that he either ignores international politics and did not study the Middle East conflict or that it is a campaign lie. ... We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites." G. Gordon Liddy: On the September 8 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, G. Gordon Liddy aired an audio clip of Middle Eastern-sounding music and said, "[Y]ou're listening to our secret taping of a Obama family meeting, and we're -- just kidding." Liddy then aired a truncated version of Obama's This Week appearance, in which he omitted Obama's full explanation of his remarks: OBAMA: Let's not play games. What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that has not come -- STEPHANOPOULOS: Your Christian faith. OBAMA: My Christian faith. Liddy followed by saying, "Whoops." Later in the broadcast, during an interview with Floyd Brown -- author of Obama Unmasked and creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad, which targeted 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis -- Liddy asserted that Obama's comment was a "slip of the tongue, if you will" and a "Freudian slip." Liddy has previously suggested that Obama is a Muslim on his show, as Media Matters has noted. On July 14, he said that by publishing a controversial cover depicting Obama in Muslim dress, "The New Yorker finally got it right." From the September 7 broadcast of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos: STEPHANOPOULOS: You mentioned your Christian faith. Yesterday, you took off after the Republicans for suggesting you have Muslim connections. Just a few minutes ago, Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, said they've never done that. "This is a false and cynical attempt to play victim." OBAMA: You know what? I mean, these guys love to throw a rock and hide their hand. The -- STEPHANOPOULOS: The McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections. OBAMA: No, no, no. But I don't think that when you look at what is being promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators, who are closely allied to these folks -- STEPHANOPOULOS: But John McCain said that's wrong. OBAMA: Well, look, the -- listen, you and I both know that the minute that Governor Palin was forced to talk about her daughter, I immediately said, "That's off-limits." And -- STEPHANOPOULOS: And John McCain said the same thing about questioning your faith. OBAMA: And what was the first thing that the McCain campaign went out and did? They said, "Look, these liberal blogs that support Obama are out there attacking Governor Palin." Let's not play games. What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that has not come -- STEPHANOPOULOS: Your Christian faith. OBAMA: My Christian faith. Well, what I'm saying is he hasn't suggested -- STEPHANOPOULOS: His connections, right. OBAMA : -- that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign, upper echelons have not either. What I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith, something which I find deeply offensive. And that has been going on for a pretty long time. From the September 8 broadcast of 100.3 KTLK-FM's The Chris Baker Show: BAKER: And you know, this is the part that annoys me about this guy, is he's going to the "well, Republicans are trying to say that I'm a Muslim." No, they're not. The only people that ever bring this up is him. LANGDON PERRY (host of KTLK's The Langdon Perry Show): And the whack-jobs do. BAKER: And some paranoids. PERRY: Yeah. The paranoids and the whack-jobs do. BAKER: There are some questions about it. I mean, look, you know, he was -- lived in Indonesia, went to one of those madrass-deals, whatever, OK? You got pictures of him in the costume. So, I -- PERRY: Not everybody who goes to Catholic school is Catholic. Not everybody who -- BAKER: I got it. I -- calm down, Langdon. PERRY: No, I'm not -- it's -- BAKER: Calm down. I'm -- all I'm saying -- answer the damn questions. OK? He doesn't ans-- see, this is the problem. This is how this stuff festers. He never answers the questions. He'll just say, "Well, I don't believe that that is relevant, and no." And then he just -- that's it. He'll say no, but he doesn't explain anything. Well, wait a minute. Didn't you go to that madrassa thing there in Indonesia? "Well, that is the politics of division." Shut up. Answer the question. [...] BAKER: Barack Obama over the weekend makes a stumble and calls himself a Muslim. I thought that was really, really funny. I don't know -- PERRY: And that is hilarious, I'm sorry. BAKER: It is. It's hysterically funny. But then also, at the exact same time, obviously a Freudian slip. PERRY: See? BAKER: That's it. Right there. In fact, here he is right now. [begin audio clip] OBAMA: What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you're absolutely right that that has not come -- STEPHANOPOULOS: Your Christian faith. OBAMA: My Christian faith. [end audio clip] BAKER: Yeah. George Stephanopoulos was there to save him. He confessed. It's over. [...] CALLER: You know what? As a Muslim, I don't think there's anything wrong with being a Muslim. BAKER: Well, I said the same thing, and I'm not a Muslim. CALLER: Yeah, you said the same thing, but then you keep playing this tape saying, "I just wish he would admit that he's a Muslim." I would -- BAKER: I -- no, sir. What I said is, which -- earlier in the radio show, is that I don't care, and if he is, then why couldn't he just admit it? CALLER: Because you know he's not. Why do you keep saying -- BAKER: I don't know what he is, sir. That guy never answers a question. From the September 8 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation: SAVAGE: It's the lead story. Obama has admitted he's a Muslim, and you've got cover-up artists like Lou Dobbs saying that we shouldn't be facing -- we shouldn't be talking about a slip of the tongue. Look, the fact of the matter is, if you investigate Obama's background, he was raised both as a Muslim and as a Christian. Now, that's well and good. He should just come out and admit it. I have nothing against moderate Muslims. They're part of the domestic tapestry and th