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Thursday, October 31, 2013

WORLD SERIES WATCH: Red Sox lead 6-1 in Game 6

BOSTON (AP) — A look at Game 6 of the World Series at Fenway Park on Wednesday night as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Boston Red Sox:

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THREE OUTS AWAY: Brandon Workman pitches a perfect eighth inning to protect a 6-1 lead for the Red Sox.

Singing, chanting crowd can hardly wait.

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JOB WELL DONE: John Lackey exits with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, tips his cap to the cheering crowd at Fenway.

Cardinals had cut it to 6-1 on Carlos Beltran's run-scoring single, but Junichi Tazawa keeps it right there by retiring Allen Craig on a grounder.

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RUNNING OUT OF TIME: Matt Holliday flies out with runners at the corners to end the fifth, and the Cardinals are 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position tonight. That makes them 6 for 40 (.150) in the Series. They've stranded six overall tonight.

St. Louis caught a break in the fourth when Gold Glove second baseman Dustin Pedroia botched a grounder that should have been an inning-ending double play. John Lackey, however, pitched out of trouble again by retiring Matt Adams on a liner to left and throwing a called third strike past David Freese.

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OPENING UP: Even slumping Stephen Drew gets in on the act with a home run on the first pitch of the fourth. Red Sox lead 4-0 against Michael Wacha.

Jacoby Ellsbury also tees off for a rocket that hits the low wall in right-field near the 380-foot sign. It's a double, and Wacha gets pulled after an intentional walk to Big Papi that puts runners at the corners with two outs.

It's the third walk for Ortiz tonight — two intentional. Cardinals have obviously seen enough of him in this Series.

Ellsbury scores on Mike Napoli's single off Lance Lynn, and a walk to Jonny Gomes brings up Shane Victorino with the bases loaded again. Just an RBI single this time to make it 6-0.

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BOBBY V: Wonder what Bobby Valentine is thinking tonight. Bet he's watching, maybe at his restaurant in Connecticut?

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BAGS FULL: Shane Victorino does it again with the bases loaded.

His three-run double high off the Green Monster gives Boston a 3-0 lead in the third inning. It was Victorino's first hit since that go-ahead grand slam in the ALCS clincher against Detroit.

Victorino was 0 for 10 in the Series before connecting. He sat out the previous two games with a stiff back, but returned for this one and was dropped from his regular No. 2 spot to sixth in the lineup.

Jonny Gomes was hit by a pitch to load the bases — the first batter rookie Michael Wacha had ever hit in his career.

Victorino, the master of getting hit by pitches, standing almost on top of the plate. He gets ahead 2-0 in the count before pouncing on a 2-1 fastball.

Wacha doesn't have it tonight. In truth, his stuff didn't look as sharp in Game 2 at Fenway as it did during the NL playoffs, but he held Boston in check and won 4-2.

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DIDN'T MISS A BEAT: Is anyone else amazed at how consistently hard Allen Craig has hit the ball in this Series after missing so much time with that sprained foot? DH, pinch-hitting, hasn't mattered. He's been right on Red Sox pitching. Now 2 for 2 in Game 6 and 6 for 14 in the Series.

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QUICK WORK: John Lackey needs only five pitches to get through the third inning — even though Matt Carpenter singled with one out.

Daniel Descalso looked at three straight strikes to start the inning. After the single by Carpenter, Carlos Beltran grounded into a double play.

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EARLY ESCAPES: Both starters pitch out of trouble in the second inning.

St. Louis put two on with none out but failed to score. John Lackey threw a two-out wild pitch that pushed the runners to second and third, then struck out Jon Jay.

That left the Cardinals 6 for 36 with runners in scoring position during the Series after setting a franchise record with a .330 mark in those situations during the regular season.

You get the feeling if the Cardinals can break through for one big hit at the right time in this game, the floodgates might open. But without it, they'll go home lamenting their lack of clutch hitting in this Series.

Matt Adams flied out to deep left, but David Freese skied to shallow center on a hittable breaking ball. Tim McCarver on Fox notes Freese, the hometown star for St. Louis in the 2011 Series, has stranded 15 runners this postseason.

Forgive us, but Freese has looked frozen all Series.

Lackey and Boston manager John Farrell all fired up.

Boston put two on to start the bottom of the second and failed to score, too. Chose not to bunt with rookie Xander Bogaerts. Not a surprise — the Red Sox don't like to sacrifice.

Wacha got two foul popups and a strikeout to keep it scoreless.

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PACKED HOUSE: Man, oh man, are they fired up in Boston.

Red Sox looking to clinch a World Series title on their own field at fabled Fenway Park for the first time in 95 years, a stretch that's lasted from Babe Ruth to Big Papi.

Needless to say, tickets have been going for quite a pretty penny.

To do it, Boston will have to overcome rookie sensation Michael Wacha, who is 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in four postseason starts. Can the kid do it again — under save-the-season pressure in this electric environment — and force a Game 7?

Red Sox right-hander John Lackey is trying to become the first pitcher to start and win the clinching game of a World Series for two teams. He won Game 7 of the 2002 World Series for the Anaheim Angels as a rookie against San Francisco.

And we're underway in Game 6. Lackey works a 1-2-3 first inning, helped out by a tough play from second baseman Dustin Pedroia in short right field.

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BALLPARK BUZZ: Fenway Park was jumping early as fans poured into the old yard, hoping for a big night. Program vendors loudly reminded folks to pick up their souvenirs on the way in.

The ballpark organist tried to set a lucky tone, playing "This Magic Moment" and "Daydream Believer" and "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" during batting practice.

Great version of the national anthem by local band The Dropkick Murphys. Felt like last call at a packed Irish pub.

That came right after Red Sox greats Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant threw out the first balls. Fisk, still a king at Fenway for the home run that won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, got right in the spirit that has taken over this team — before his toss, he put on a playful beard for the ceremonies.

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Cloudera pitches Hadoop for everything. Really?

When you have a big enough hammer, everything begins to look like the same kind of nail.

That's one of the potential problems with Hadoop 2.0, the greatly reworked big data processing framework that's been at the center of a whole storm of developer and end user interest. Cloudera in particular has plans to make it into a hammer for all kinds of nails.

There's no question that Hadoop 2.0 is a major leap over its predecessor. Instead of being a mere batch data processing framework for MapReduce jobs (limited, boring), it's now turned into a general framework for deploying applications across a multi-node system, with MapReduce just being one of the many possible things that can be run across those nodes (flexible, exciting).

Cloudera's clearly excited by the possibilities inherent in such an arrangement. During a keynote presentation at the O'Reilly Strata-Hadoop World conference in New York City this past Tuesday, the company described an "enterprise data hub" powered by Hadoop, one where all manner of data could be funneled in, processed in place, and extracted as needed.

Sounds great, but how feasible is it? Especially given Hadoop's status as the shiny new big data toy on the block? Such a hub may be a long way off for any company that's late to the big data party and has only just now found a place forits multi-mega-terabyte data farms to live. Turning those "silos" (as Cloudera refers to legacy data repositories, with a near-audible sniff) into Hadoop installations isn't trivial.

The single biggest obstacle to making all that happen isn't Hadoop itself, although that's still a fairly major obstacle. In talking with vendors and users alike at Strata-Hadoop, it's clear Hadoop is still seen on all sides as a bucket of parts that needs major lifting and welding to be fully useful.

The most fruitful uses of Hadoop have been through the third parties that turn it into a ready-to-deploy product -- not just Cloudera or its quasi-rival Hortonworks, but cloud providers like Microsoft (a major Hortonworks partner), Amazon, SoftLayer, Rackspace, and just about every other name-brand cloud outfit. And few of them have yet to offer the kinds of really high-level abstraction we associate with powerful software tools, where the likes of Puppet or Python scripting are options rather than requirements.

The sheer number of moving parts and pointy edges that pop up out of Hadoop, even for smaller deployments, is still intimidating. A panel given by Dan McLary (principle product manager, Oracle) about Oracle building Hadoop appliances shed a lot of light on how much blood has to be shed, even by the likes of Oracle, to make Hadoop into a deliverable product. McLary was fairly sure over time Hadoop's rough edges would get sanded down by back-pressure from the community and vendors alike, but that time had definitely not arrived yet.

But the single biggest obstacle remains moving apps into Hadoop. The new infrastructure within Hadoop for applications, YARN, is far more open-ended than before, but it isn't trivial to rewrite an application to run there. It's not impossible there could be jury-rigs to accelerate that process -- e.g., some kind of virtualization wrapper that would allow apps to be arbitrarily shoehorned into the framework -- but that's not trivial work either.

Small wonder, then, that a great deal of work right now is being done to make Hadoop play well with existing apps -- connectors, data funnels, and the like. Very little of the discussion I encountered focused on moving existing apps into Hadoop, although few disagreed that it would happen eventually; most of it revolved around taking one's existing analytics and connecting them to Hadoop. There are, I imagine, far more people who want to do that than there are people who want to scrap everything and start over.

That said, the sheer level of bustle at the O'Reilly conference was a tipoff as to how soon that might happen. By this time next year, when the conference moves to the far-larger Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, some of Cloudera's pronouncements may seem a little less wildly optimistic. But until then, the trend right now is toward using Hadoop as a complement to existing big-data systems, not as a forklift upgrade for them.

This story, "Cloudera pitches Hadoop for everything. Really?," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.

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Kerry Washington Is Pregnant!

The actress is expecting her first child! Plus, see more pregnant stars.

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Christina Ricci's Wedding Gown: See Her Gorgeous Givenchy Haute Couture Look!

Another childhood star, all grown up! Christina Ricci, who married James Heerdegen on Saturday, Oct. 26 in New York, shared photos of her gorgeous custom-designed Givenchy Haute Couture gown with Twitter fans on Wednesday. "I'm sorry," wrote the bride in one post. "I have to share what @riccardotisci made for me!! #iloveyouricky!"

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No need to apologize! Riccardo Tisci, the creative director of Givenchy, created for Ricci, 33, a stunning and sophisticated gown with sheer, lace sleeves and cutouts at the shoulders to add enough flare to a delicate, ethereal look. The dress was comprised of white silk tulle, Chantilly lace, embroidered pearls, and satin. The lighting in one photo captured the Addams Family star's gorgeous, sheer, lace veil that cascaded from her side bun to her legs.

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Tisci, a close pal of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, created Kim's pregnant Met Gala look. He also designed Kardashian's show-stopping, cleavage-baring dress for her recent post-baby jaunt to Paris for Fashion Week.

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As exclusively revealed by Us Weekly, Heerdegen and Ricci wed in an intimate ceremony at the Harold Pratt House on the Upper East Side surrounded by friends and family. The couple first met in 2011 on the set of the now-canceled series, Pan Am and Us broke news of their relationship in Feb. 2012. "My only regret was Karen's absence," said Ricci of her chihuahua, Karen; She shared another image while posing for photographer Anthony Vazquez against the backdrop of the city.

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Early HIV antiviral treatment found to be cost-effective in South Africa, India

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"Treatment as prevention" early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected individuals with uninfected sexual partners to prevent viral transmission appears to make economic sense, along with meeting its clinical goals of helping infected patients stay healthy and reducing transmission. A model-based analysis of data from an important clinical trial projected that early ART for such patients in both South Africa and India would be very cost-effective over the lifetime of patients. In fact, early ART in South Africa would actually save money during the first five years. The report appears in the October 31 New England Journal of Medicine.

"By demonstrating that early HIV therapy not only has long-term clinical benefits to individuals but also provides excellent economic value in both low- and middle-income countries, this study provides a critical answer to an urgent policy question," says Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Disease, corresponding author of the NEJM report. "In short, early ART is a 'triple winner': HIV-infected patients live healthier lives, their partners are protected from HIV, and the investment is superb."

In 2011 the HIV Prevention Trials Network an international research collaborative published results of a trial showing that treatment as prevention dramatically reduced the risks of viral transmission and also substantially cut the time to AIDS-related events and infections like tuberculosis in the HIV-infected patients. Called HPTN 052 and conducted at sites in nine countries, that trial was led by Myron Cohen, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and subsequently was named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. In the current National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)-supported study, the researchers worked in collaboration with the HPTN 052 trial team to analyze the trial data focusing on sites in India and South Africa, countries with the world's highest rates of HIV infection to determine whether those clinical benefits were worth the costs of ART on both short- and long-term bases.

HPTN 052 participants in the early-ART group started treatment at CD4 T cells a measure of immune system function between 350 and 550, while the control group did not start therapy until their CD4 cells dropped below 250, which was in line with World Health Organization treatment guidelines at the time. In their current analysis, the researchers used a mathematical model simulating HIV treatment and transmission and its associated health and economic outcomes to make projections for two years (the time period covered by HPTN 052), five years, and the expected lifetime of the infected participants.

The results indicated that, during the first five years, 93 percent of patients receiving early ART would survive, compared with 83 percent of those whose treatment was delayed. Life expectancy for the early-treatment group was almost 16 years, compared with nearly 14 years for the delayed treatment group. During the first five years, the potential costs of infections that were prevented by early treatment in South Africa particularly tuberculosis would outweigh the costs of ART medications, indicating that the strategy actually would save overall costs. While this was not the case for India, where costs of care for opportunistic infections are less, early ART in that country was projected to be cost-effective, according to established standards. Across patient lifetimes, early ART was determined to be very cost effective in both countries. Most of the clinical benefits were seen in the infected patients fewer illnesses and deaths and there were also added clinical and economic benefits from reducing HIV transmission.

"The reason early ART doesn't save money in the long term is actually due to its success," explains Walensky, who is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Patients will live much longer and take these effective medications for many years. Now that we know that early ART not only improves clinical and prevention outcomes but also is a great investment, we need to redouble international efforts to provide ART to any HIV-infected person who can benefit from it."

"Some people have questioned whether providing early ART to all who need it would be feasible in resource-limited countries," adds Kenneth Freedberg, MD, MSc, director of the MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center and professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "We've shown that in countries like South Africa, where it actually saves money in the short-term, the answer is 'yes.' We believe that continued international public and private partnerships can make this true in other countries as well. With this kind of investment, we foresee dramatic decreases in infections and illness that could save millions of lives over the next decade."

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Additional co-authors include members of the Cost-effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications International team, as well as Cohen; Marybeth McCauley, MPH, FHI 360; and other members of the HPTN 052 trial team. In addition to NIAID, supporters of the study include the HIV Prevention Trials Network and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

Massachusetts General Hospital, founded in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $775 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.

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Early HIV antiviral treatment found to be cost-effective in South Africa, India

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"Treatment as prevention" early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected individuals with uninfected sexual partners to prevent viral transmission appears to make economic sense, along with meeting its clinical goals of helping infected patients stay healthy and reducing transmission. A model-based analysis of data from an important clinical trial projected that early ART for such patients in both South Africa and India would be very cost-effective over the lifetime of patients. In fact, early ART in South Africa would actually save money during the first five years. The report appears in the October 31 New England Journal of Medicine.

"By demonstrating that early HIV therapy not only has long-term clinical benefits to individuals but also provides excellent economic value in both low- and middle-income countries, this study provides a critical answer to an urgent policy question," says Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Disease, corresponding author of the NEJM report. "In short, early ART is a 'triple winner': HIV-infected patients live healthier lives, their partners are protected from HIV, and the investment is superb."

In 2011 the HIV Prevention Trials Network an international research collaborative published results of a trial showing that treatment as prevention dramatically reduced the risks of viral transmission and also substantially cut the time to AIDS-related events and infections like tuberculosis in the HIV-infected patients. Called HPTN 052 and conducted at sites in nine countries, that trial was led by Myron Cohen, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and subsequently was named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. In the current National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)-supported study, the researchers worked in collaboration with the HPTN 052 trial team to analyze the trial data focusing on sites in India and South Africa, countries with the world's highest rates of HIV infection to determine whether those clinical benefits were worth the costs of ART on both short- and long-term bases.

HPTN 052 participants in the early-ART group started treatment at CD4 T cells a measure of immune system function between 350 and 550, while the control group did not start therapy until their CD4 cells dropped below 250, which was in line with World Health Organization treatment guidelines at the time. In their current analysis, the researchers used a mathematical model simulating HIV treatment and transmission and its associated health and economic outcomes to make projections for two years (the time period covered by HPTN 052), five years, and the expected lifetime of the infected participants.

The results indicated that, during the first five years, 93 percent of patients receiving early ART would survive, compared with 83 percent of those whose treatment was delayed. Life expectancy for the early-treatment group was almost 16 years, compared with nearly 14 years for the delayed treatment group. During the first five years, the potential costs of infections that were prevented by early treatment in South Africa particularly tuberculosis would outweigh the costs of ART medications, indicating that the strategy actually would save overall costs. While this was not the case for India, where costs of care for opportunistic infections are less, early ART in that country was projected to be cost-effective, according to established standards. Across patient lifetimes, early ART was determined to be very cost effective in both countries. Most of the clinical benefits were seen in the infected patients fewer illnesses and deaths and there were also added clinical and economic benefits from reducing HIV transmission.

"The reason early ART doesn't save money in the long term is actually due to its success," explains Walensky, who is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Patients will live much longer and take these effective medications for many years. Now that we know that early ART not only improves clinical and prevention outcomes but also is a great investment, we need to redouble international efforts to provide ART to any HIV-infected person who can benefit from it."

"Some people have questioned whether providing early ART to all who need it would be feasible in resource-limited countries," adds Kenneth Freedberg, MD, MSc, director of the MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center and professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "We've shown that in countries like South Africa, where it actually saves money in the short-term, the answer is 'yes.' We believe that continued international public and private partnerships can make this true in other countries as well. With this kind of investment, we foresee dramatic decreases in infections and illness that could save millions of lives over the next decade."

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Additional co-authors include members of the Cost-effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications International team, as well as Cohen; Marybeth McCauley, MPH, FHI 360; and other members of the HPTN 052 trial team. In addition to NIAID, supporters of the study include the HIV Prevention Trials Network and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

Massachusetts General Hospital, founded in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $775 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.

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Lyoto Machida's camp doubtful Vitor Belfort will fight him

Lyoto Machida made a booming statement at UFC Fight Night 30, finishing off a flawless victory over teammate Mark Munoz with a first-round head kick KO for his middleweight debut.

The win marked the last bout on Machida's contract and rocketed the former UFC light heavyweight champion into an immediate top-5 ranking in the UFC's 185-pound division. Afterward, with his eyes planted firmly on a title, the reinvigorated contender called out Vitor Belfort, the division's No. 2 ranked fighter who's currently slated to fight at light heavyweight against Dan Henderson.

"Vitor Belfort is the best option for me right now," Machida (20-4) told MMAFighting.com. "I want to fight him. It would be the best fight for me right now because he's well ranked in the middleweight division.

"Even if Vitor loses to Dan Henderson, I'd want to fight him in our weight class."

It's a match-up that certainly makes sense. UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman and the division's former kingpin Anderson Silva are tied up until December 28, at the earliest, while Belfort (23-10) is the owner of what may be the division's most impressive current streak, having knocked out Michael Bisping and Luke Rockhold in back-to-back spectacular performances.

Nonetheless, Machida's management voiced doubts about the potential bout on Wednesday's episode of UFC Tonight.

According to Ariel Helwani, Machida's manager Jorge Guimaraes believes the match-up won't take place, simply because Belfort won't accept the fight.

Belfort has turned down fights in the past, with the most recent example being a proposed match-up against Tim Kennedy. It's largely the reason he's fighting Henderson at light heavyweight, as Belfort voiced hesitance about relinquishing his status as No. 1 middleweight contender, much to the displeasure of UFC President Dana White, who recently said that the Brazilian "drives me crazy."

Even still, Machida continues to await his next marching orders while Belfort and Henderson are set to square off in the main event of UFC Fight Night 32 on November 9, 2013 at the Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil.

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House Republican backs Dem immigration bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats pushing a comprehensive approach to overhauling the nation's immigration system picked up the support of a third Republican on Wednesday.

Freshman Rep. David Valadao of California said he would back a measure that would provide a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally and tighten border security. Valadao joins Republicans Reps. Jeff Denham of California and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida in announcing support for the Democratic bill.

Valadao signaled that his support for the measure was meant to increase pressure on House Republican leaders to act before year's end. The Senate passed a comprehensive bill in June, but prospects remain murky for any House vote with just a few legislative weeks left.

"I have been working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to find common ground on the issue of immigration reform." Valadao said in a statement. "Recently, I have focused my efforts on joining with likeminded Republicans in organizing and demonstrating to Republican leadership broad support within the party to address immigration reform in the House by the end of the year."

Valadao said the House cannot wait on dealing with immigration.

Most House Republicans reject a comprehensive approach as well as the Senate bill, with many question offering citizenship to people who broke U.S. immigration laws to be in this country. The House Judiciary Committee has moved forward with individual, single-issue immigration bills.

Although House Republican leaders say they want to resolve the issue, which has become a political drag for the GOP, many rank-and-file House Republicans have shown little inclination to deal with it. The bitter standoff with President Barack Obama on the budget and near default further angered House Republicans, who have resisted any move that might give Obama an immigration overhaul, the top item on his second-term domestic agenda.

Numerous House Republicans are wary of passing any immigration legislation that would set up a conference with the Senate, fearing that they would lose out in final negotiations.

The Senate bill, strongly backed by the White House, includes billions for border security, a reworked legal immigration system to allow tens of thousands of high- and low-skilled workers into the country and a 13-year path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants already here illegally.

The bill from House Democrats jettisoned the border security provision and replaces it with the Homeland panel's version. That bill, backed by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, would require the homeland security secretary to develop a strategy to gain operational control of the border within five years and a plan to implement the strategy. It calls on the Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing and investigative arm, to oversee the steps being taken.

The bill doesn't call for new spending, in contrast to the Senate bill, which includes $46 billion in new spending on drones, helicopters and other technology, a doubling of agents patrolling the border with Mexico and hundreds of miles of new fencing.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she was optimistic, although there has been no overt effort by House Republican leaders to move toward a vote.

"If this bill were brought to the floor, or a bill that is positive goes in a forward direction, while it might not meet every standard that we have in our bill, but takes us to the conference table in a positive way, we would be very enthusiastic about that," Pelosi told reporters. "So as I said to the speaker: 'However you want to do it, let's just do it.'"

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Red Sox win WS title, beat Cards 6-1 in Game 6

Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Koji Uehara and catcher David Ross celebrate after getting St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter to strike out and end Game 6 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. The Red Sox won 6-1 to win the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Koji Uehara jumps into David Ross's arms after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. The Red Sox won 6-1 to win the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina looks back as home plate umpire Adam Wainwright call Boston Red Sox's Jonny Gomes safe on a three run RBI double by Shane Victorino during the third inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. Left is Jacoby Ellsbury, Xander Bogaerts, center and second right, David Ortiz. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Boston Red Sox's Shane Victorino hits an RBI ingle during the fourth inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

BOSTON (AP) — There hasn't been a party like this in New England for nearly a century.

Turmoil to triumph. Worst to first.

David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox, baseball's bearded wonders, capped their remarkable turnaround by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 on Wednesday night to win their third World Series championship in 10 seasons.

Shane Victorino, symbolic of these resilient Sox, returned from a stiff back and got Boston rolling with a three-run double off the Green Monster against rookie sensation Michael Wacha.

John Lackey became the first pitcher to start and win a Series clincher for two different teams, allowing one run over 6 2-3 innings 11 years after his Game 7 victory as an Angels rookie in 2002.

With fans roaring on every pitch and cameras flashing, Koji Uehara struck out Matt Carpenter for the final out. The Japanese pitcher jumped into the arms of catcher David Ross while Red Sox players rushed from the dugout and bullpen as the Boston theme "Dirty Water" played on the public-address system.

And the Red Sox didn't have to fly the trophy home. For the first time since Babe Ruth's team back in 1918, Boston won the title at Fenway Park. The 101-year-old ballpark, oldest in the majors, was packed with 38,447 singing, shouting fans anticipating a celebration 95 years in the making.

There wasn't the cowboy-up comeback charm of "The Idiots" from 2004, who swept St. Louis to end an 86-year title drought. There wasn't that cool efficiency of the 2007 team that swept Colorado.

This time, they were Boston Strong — playing for a city shaken by the marathon bombings in April.

After late-season slumps in 2010 and 2011, the embarrassing revelations of a chicken-and-beer clubhouse culture that contributed to the ouster of manager Terry Francona, and the daily tumult of Bobby Valentine's one-year flop, these Red Sox grew on fans.

Just like the long whiskers on the players' faces, starting with Jonny Gomes' scruffy spring training beard.

Across the Northeast, from Connecticut's Housatonic River up to the Aroostook in Maine, Boston's eighth championship will be remembered for all the beard-yanking bonding.

Ortiz, the only player remaining from the 2004 champs, had a Ruthian World Series. He batted .688 (11 for 16) with two homers, six RBIs and eight walks — including four in the finale — for a .760 on-base percentage in 25 plate appearances.

Even slumping Stephen Drew delivered a big hit in Game 6, sending Wacha's first pitch of the fourth into the right-center bullpen.

By the time the inning was over, RBI singles by Mike Napoli and Victorino had made it 6-0, and the Red Sox were on their way.

The win capped an emotional season for the Red Sox, one heavy with the memory of the events that unfolded on Patriots Day, when three people were killed and more than 260 wounded in bombing attacks at the Boston Marathon. The Red Sox wore "Boston Strong" logos on their left sleeves and erected a large emblem on the Green Monster as a constant reminder.

A "B Strong" logo was mowed into center-field grass at Fenway.

Among the players blamed for the indifferent culture at the end of the Francona years, Lackey took the mound two days shy of the second anniversary of his elbow surgery and got his first Series win since the 2002 clincher. He pitched shutout ball into the seventh, when Carlos Beltran's RBI single ended the Cardinals' slump with runners in scoring position at 0 for 14.

Junichi Tazawa came in with the bases loaded and retired Allen Craig on an inning-ending grounder to first. Brandon Workman followed in the eighth and Uehara finished.

St. Louis had been seeking its second title in three seasons, but the Cardinals sputtered. Symbolic of the team's struggles, reliever Trevor Rosenthal tripped while throwing a pitch to Ortiz in the eighth, balking Dustin Pedroia to second.

Pedroia had brought back memories of Carlton Fisk's 1975 Game 6-winning home run, sending a first-inning drive about 10 feet foul of the Green Monster foul pole — and waving his left arm once to try to urge the ball fair as he came out of the batter's box.

Lackey escaped a two-on, none-out jam in the second when he retired Matt Adams and David Freese on flyouts and, after a wild pitch, struck out Jon Jay.

Boston wasted a similar threat in the bottom half, then went ahead on the third.

Jacoby Ellsbury singled leading off and went to second on Pedroia's grounder. Ortiz was intentionally walked, Napoli struck out and Gomes was hit above the left elbow with a pitch, loading the bases.

Victorino, wearing red, white and blue spikes with an American flag motif, had been 0 for 10 in the Series and missed the previous two games with a bad back.

Dropped from second to sixth in the batting order, he took two balls and a called strike, then turned on a 93 mph fastball and sent it high off the Green Monster, the 37-foot-high wall in left. Gomes slid home as Yadier Molina took Matt Holliday's one-hop throw and applied the tag, then argued with plate umpire Jim Joyce.

Victorino, pumped with emotion, went to third on the throw and pounded his chest with both fists three times.

After Drew's homer, Lance Lynn relieved Wacha with two on, and RBI singles by Napoli and Victorino boosted Boston's lead to 6-0. Wacha entered 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in his postseason career but gave up six runs, five hits and four walks in 3 2-3 innings, the shortest start of the 22-year-old's big league career.

Boston was a 30-1 underdog to win the World Series last winter but joined the 1991 Minnesota Twins as the only teams to win titles one season after finishing in last place. Now, the Red Sox will raise another championship flag before their home opener next season April 4 against Milwaukee.

The Red Sox had not played a Series Game 6 since that infamous night at New York's Shea Stadium in 1986, when Bill Buckner allowed Mookie Wilson's 10th-inning roller to get through his legs. And there had not been one at Fenway since Fisk's 12th-inning home run off the foul pole atop the Green Monster.

Following consecutive late-season skids, the Red Sox parted with Francona at the end of the 2011 season and reports emerged of players drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the clubhouse during games.

Valentine took over as manager, injuries caused Boston to use a club-record 56 players, and the Red Sox skidded to a 69-93 record, their poorest since 1965.

John Farrell, Boston's pitching coach from 2007-10, was hired after a pair of seasons as Toronto's manager.

A roster turnover began in August 2012 when Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and their big-money contracts were traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a deal that saved Boston just more than $261.66 million through 2018. The Red Sox restocked during the offseason by signing seven major league free agents for contracts of three years or fewer at a total of $100.45 million: Victorino, Napoli, Gomes, Drew, Uehara, Ryan Dempster and Ross.

After losing closers Joel Hanrahan and Andrew Bailey to injuries early in the season, the Red Sox remained relatively healthy: Seventeen players wound up on the DL, down from 27. They finished 97-65 — matching St. Louis for the best record in the major leagues — and made the playoffs for the first time since 2009. They also became the first team since the 2005 Cardinals to navigate the season without losing more than three in a row.

After falling behind 2-1 in the Series, the Red Sox ended with three straight wins.

NOTES: Boston also won the Series at Fenway Park in 1912. The Red Sox won the first World Series in 1903 at the Huntington Avenue Grounds and in 1916 at Braves Field. ... Catfish Hunter and Jimmy Key each won Series clinchers for two clubs, as a starter and reliever. ... Freese, the 2011 World Series MVP, hit .158 (3 for 19) with no RBIs.

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UN: US says it doesn't, and won't, spy on UN

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Wednesday it has received assurances from the U.S. government that U.N. communications networks "are not and will not be monitored" by American intelligence agencies. But chief U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky would not comment on whether the world body had been monitored in the past, as reported recently by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Nesirky said the United Nations had been in contact with Washington about the reports that surfaced two months ago and has received a U.S. guarantee of no current or future eavesdropping.

"Back in August when these reports first surfaced, we said we would be in touch with the relevant authorities," he said. "And I can tell you that we were indeed in touch with the U.S. authorities. I understand that the U.S. authorities have given assurance that the United Nations communications are not and will not be monitored."

Nesirky would not elaborate on whether spying had taken place and declined to answer related questions. For emphasis, he held up a piece of paper that said: "No comment."

A U.S. official told The Associated Press that "The United States is not conducting electronic surveillance targeting the United Nations headquarters in New York." The official, who was not authorized to be named, spoke on condition of anonymity.

It was not clear whether foreign U.N. missions in New York could be monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies.

Former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who held the post at the United Nations from 2005-2006, would not comment on "what may or may not have gone on in the past" because he's no longer in government.

"That said, it seems to me that the United Nations and everybody walking through the U.N. building are perfectly legitimate intelligence targets, and I think any decision by any president to say we are not going to eavesdrop on U.N. headquarters is a mistake," he told the AP.

"There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says you may not eavesdrop on the U.N.," Bolton said. "Silence and a deeply emphasized 'No comment' is how you should deal with all these intelligence questions."

Der Spiegel reported that documents it obtained from U.S. leaker Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.'s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it last year.

Der Spiegel quoted an NSA document as saying that within three weeks, the number of decoded communications had increased from 12 to 458. Der Spiegel also reported that the NSA installed bugs in the European Union's office building in Washington and infiltrated the EU's computer network.

The United Nations lodged objections. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in August that international treaties protect U.N. offices and all diplomatic missions from interference, spying and eavesdropping.

"The inviolability of diplomatic missions, including the United Nations, has been well-established in international law, and therefore all states are expected to act accordingly," Nesirky said Wednesday.

The 1961 Vienna Convention regulates diplomatic issues and status among nations and international organizations. Among other things, it says a host country cannot search diplomatic premises or seize its documents or property. It also says the host government must permit and protect free communication between the diplomats of the mission and their home country.

However, wiretapping and eavesdropping have been used for decades, most dramatically between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

'Blurred Lines' Lawsuit: Marvin Gaye Family Now Claims Robin Thicke Stole Two Songs (Exclusive)

Marvin Gaye's family is responding in a major way to Robin Thicke's lawsuit claiming that "Blurred Lines" wasn't stolen from Gaye's "Got to Give It Up."

On Wednesday, the family went nuclear with counterclaims that allege that Thicke stole the summer mega-hit and also committed copyright infringement on Gaye's "After the Dance" to create his song, "Love After War." What's more, the new legal papers obtained by The Hollywood Reporter suggest that Thicke's "Marvin Gaye fixation" extends further to more songs in the Thicke repertoire.

Perhaps even more consequential, Gaye's family also has set its sights on EMI April, the song publisher now owned by Sony/ATV that has business relationships with both sides. According to the counterclaims, EMI has breached a contract and its fiduciary duty by failing to protect Gaye's songs, attempting to intimidate the family against filing any legal action, failing to remain neutral when faced with a conflict of interest and attempting to turn public opinion against the family. The penalty for those acts, says the Gaye family, should be that EMI loses all profits on "Blurred Lines" as well as rights to administer the song catalog of Gaye, known as the "Prince of Soul."

EARLIER: Robin Thicke Sues to Protect 'Blurred Lines' from Marvin Gaye's Family

This court battle was triggered in August when Thicke and his producers Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris Jr. went to a California federal court with the aim of preemptively protecting "Blurred Lines" from allegations that it was illegally derived from Gaye's song as well as Funkadelic's "Sexy Ways." Requesting declaratory relief, the plaintiffs stated that "being reminiscent of a 'sound' is not copyright infringement."

In the latest court papers, Frankie Gaye and Nona Gaye say that not only does the lawsuit concern "blatant copying of a constellation of distinctive and significant compositional elements of Marvin Gaye's classic #1 song," but that Thicke himself candidly admitted as much.

The Gayes point to pre-litigation interviews given by Thicke to GQ and Billboard. To the first publication, Thicke said:

"Pharrell and I were in the studio and I told him that one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give it Up.’ I was like, ‘Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.’ Then he started playing a little something and we literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it."

But Thicke's tune supposedly changed after the lawsuit was filed. Here is a TMZ interview with the singer, quoted in the latest legal papers:

"Q: So, so, when you, when you wrote ["Blurred Lines"], do you like think of Marvin Gaye like when you write the music?

A: No."

The Gaye family quotes music critics at The New York Times, Vice, Rolling Stone and Bloomberg Business Week who have remarked about the Marvin Gaye resemblance in "Blurred Lines." The countersuit also presents an expert report by musicologist Judith Finell detailing "at least eight substantially similar compositional features" with Gaye's original. The similarities are said to encompass the signature phrase, vocal hook, backup vocal hook, their variations, and the keyboard and bass lines -- "far surpassing the similarities that might result from attempts to evoke an 'era' of music or a shared genre," according to the court papers.

While the countersuit makes the case that the public has detected Gaye in Thicke's other songs -- "including the similar bridge and identical lyrics from Marvin Gaye’s 'I Want You' in Thicke’s similarly-themed work, 'Make U Love Me'" -- it brings a second copyright infringement claim only over Thicke's "Love After War." That song is said to share a similar chorus, hook melody and more with Gaye's "After the Dance." (Listen below.)

If the countersuit against various parties including Universal Music and Geffen Records stopped there, it would be a noteworthy example of the legal issues that arise in copyright law in controversies over songcraft. But the Gaye family, represented by attorneys Richard Busch and Paul Duvall at King & Ballow, add more. In fact, what makes the case possibly precedent-setting is the allegations lodged against EMI.

EMI is the co-publisher of producing superstar Williams and is said to co-own and control "Blurred Lines." The Gaye family owns rights to "Got to Give It Up" and "After the Dance," but says it has assigned the rights to administer and protect those copyrights to EMI. Hence, a claimed conflict of interest.

According to the countersuit, EMI's "misconduct" includes failing to identify and raise claims based on entrusted Marvin Gaye copyrights, and after allegedly admitting that a claim was viable, "subsequently instructing its litigation attorney to intimidate the Gaye Family from filing an action by antagonistically warning that any lawsuit would be frivolous."

The Gaye family asserts that not only did EMI refuse to bring counterclaims after seeing a "renowned musicologist's report," but that it gave "strong biased support to the Blurred Writers."

To support the claim that EMI has breached its legal, contractual and ethical obligations, the Gaye family says that the chairman of EMI contacted its legal representative and accused the family of "ruining an incredible song," "killing the goose that laid the golden egg" and being responsible for "Blurred Lines" not receiving an MTV Video Music Award. He also allegedly complained that the lawsuit might kill any chances that Thicke would win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

The Gaye family also accuses EMI and representatives of Williams and Thicke of "the planting of a knowingly false story in the press that the Gaye Family supposedly turned down a “six figure settlement,” (no such offer was made) in order to make them appear unreasonable."

This is intolerable, say the counter-claimants.

"Not only did EMI fail to bring this action, which is necessary to carry out EMI’s duties to protect the Gaye Family’s copyrights," says the countersuit, "EMI attempted to dissuade the Gaye Family from pursuing this action by repeated threats and tactics to intimidate the Gaye Family and its representatives."

Now a contractual rescission is demanded in light of EMI's alleged decision to take no action on the "golden goose" that is Robin Thicke's hit. (Sony/ATV is one of the counter-defendants.)

"The EMI Defendants control approximately thirty percent (30%) of the music publishing market throughout the world," says the family's court papers. "Accordingly, there is a strong likelihood that conflicts of interest, such as the one in the present case, will arise again between the EMI Defendants and the Gaye Family. Based upon the blatant and egregious breach of the EMI Defendants’ fiduciary duty and their covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the EMI Defendants have proven that they cannot be trusted to remain neutral and impartial, and that they are unworthy of the level of trust and professional conduct which is required of a copyright administrator charged with protecting the Gaye Family’s important interests in copyrighted works created by Marvin Gaye."

The countersuit adds, "The Gaye Family should not be compelled to remain in this contractual relationship."

We'll add responses by the Thicke camp and EMI as they come.

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NSA Infiltrates Google And Yahoo Networks, Report Says

The National Security Agency has secretly taped the networks of Google and Yahoo to monitor real-time communication, according to newly revealed documents from whistleblower, Edward Snowden [PDF].

“The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials,” according to The Washington Post, which obtained the hand-scribbled documents.

Both Google and Yahoo maintain expensive fiber-optic data linkages in strategic data centers around the world to optimize the flow of information. This infiltration would allow the NSA to know “who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.”

Upon learning about the NSA tapping into their networks, Google released a statement, saying the company is “troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers, and we are not aware of this activity.”

Codenamed, MUSCULAR, the surveillance project is operated jointly with British Intelligence agency, GCHQ.

While the NSA already had access to communication through court-sanctioned collection program PRISM, the agency may prefer international territory because it permits them to subvert American privacy law. The NSA is forbidden from spying on Americans without stringent court oversight; international law may be less restrictive.

The Post reports that upon showing this information to two engineers familiar with Google’s system, they “exploded in profanity” and said “I hope you publish this.”

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Microsoft to Windows XP users: your operating system is a major security risk

Microsoft isn't kidding when it says that people need to ditch Windows XP and has released alarming security numbers to prove its point. XP systems are indeed markedly more likely to fall prey to malware than later versions of Windows.

According to the firm's SIR (Security Intelligence Report) for the first half of 2013, Windows XP SP3 32-bit suffered a malware infection rate of 9.1 systems per 1,000 computers, which sounds modest until you read that the equivalent number of Windows 7 32-bit was 5.0 and for Windows 8 64-bit it was 1.4.

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To eliminate the possibility that this difference was caused by the behaviour of XP users, the firm correlated the number of infections to the encounter rate, in other words the number of systems in each OS version that met malware requiring intervention by Microsoft's security products.

Here, the different incarnations recorded roughly similar encounter rates, with XP at 16.3 percent, Vista at 16.5, Windows 7 at 19.1 percent, and Windows 8 RTM at 12.4 percent. Apart from underlining that Windows 7 is now probably the most targeted OS, it is clear that with Windows XP the ratio of encounters to infections is unflattering.

As the report's authors admit, that XP should be more vulnerable 12 years after its release than newer Windows versions is hardly surprising; malware creators have had longer to craft attacks, spot software flaws, and exploit the weaker security protection in the OS. But the point, Microsoft argues, is that the XP hardcore are taking a risk using the operating system in 2013, something that will only increase as an issue after the end of support in April 2014.

"Computers running Windows XP in 1H13 encountered about 31 percent more malware worldwide than computers running Windows 8, but their infection rate was more than 5 times as high," is the dry but accurate summary from the report authors.

Of course, all of this fits with Microsoft's earnest wish to see the back of XP and shift seats on to Windows 8. The other perspective is that Microsoft has drawn these numbers from its vast global database of systems running Windows operating systems and for this reason the numbers deserve to be taken seriously. Anyone who wants to be frightened some more might want to read a summary of the above points by Microsoft's director of trustworthy computing, Tim Rains.

For firms not able to abandon XP in 2014 for technical reasons (i.e. the need to support inhouse applications), the options are to use XP in a desktop virtualisation environment, adopt a policy of OS isolation (locking down applications, disconnecting USB ports, limiting Internet connectivity) or even buy a probably very expensive third-party support agreement.

One other interesting snippet from the report is the apparently shockfinding that running real-time antivirus software seems to be a good idea, or at least greatly reduces infection rates; malware infection rate is 7.1 times higher for those systems running real-time antivirus compared to those that don't.

This doesn't mean that when antivirus fails, it doesn't fail spectacularly -- and often enough to cause major concern about its effectiveness against targeted attacks -- but does underline that rumours of its imminent death are exaggerated.

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DreamWorks to Adapt Doris Kearns Goodwin's Teddy Roosevelt Book 'Bully Pulpit'

DreamWorks has preemptively picked up the film rights to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin’s soon-to-be-released book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

The story tracks Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the birth of muckracking journalism, and follows the studio's Fifth Estate. Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln was the basis for DreamWorks’ Oscar-winning Abraham Lincoln biopic, Lincoln.

Goodwin has been working on the book for seven years and the book will be released Nov. 5, 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

According to DreamWorks, the book “tells the riveting story of two longtime friends who become bitter political opponents. Roosevelt’s fighting spirit and impulsive temperament stood in counterpoint to Taft’s deliberative, conciliatory disposition. Yet, their opposing qualities proved complementary, allowing them to create a rare camaraderie and productive collaboration until their brutal fight for the presidential nomination in 1912 divided them, their families, their colleagues, and their friends. It split the Republican Party in two, and altered the course of American history.”

EARLIER: Lincoln Would Be a Democrat Today, Say Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tony Kushner

“Doris has once again given us the best seats in the house where we can watch two dynamic American personalities in a battle for power and friendship,” said Steven Spielberg in a statement.

“Working with Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks on Lincoln seemed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Doris Kearns Goodwin. “I cannot imagine anything better than the prospect of working with them again, this time to bring Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft to life.”

The book buy continues DreamWorks’ fascination of American historical figures. Apart from the Lincoln, which received 12 Oscar nominations and grossed over $270 million, the company is developing a Martin Luther King biopic and a project on the Chicago 7 (which may have cooled recently as it lost its director, Paul Greengrass).

Goodwin was repped by ICM in the deal.

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Rumor: Amazon’s Smartphone Could Have Gesture-Recognizing 3D Cameras

From its growing app ecosystem to its well-received tablet line-up, a smartphone is the missing link in Amazon’s arsenal at the moment. And, if rumors are to be believed, it seems the online retail giant won't be content to just follow the crowd when it comes to interface design.

Good cop, bad cop… Morocco's make-believe cops

Good cop, bad cop Morocco's make-believe cops

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New Dartmouth book explores authoritarian regime's pioneering use of mass media to reform police image

Facing rising demands for human rights in the early 1990s, Morocco's authoritarian regime sought to reform the image of its national police, who symbolized state repression during the period known as the "Years of Lead."

So, the regime created something new in the Arab world: An authoritarianism that was less violent, corrupt and intimidating and a mass media revolution that recognized the value of public opinion and public demand for the rule of law. Toward that end, the regime first under King Hassan II and since 1999 his son King Mohammed VI has fostered a commercial, non-state media industry that caters to the general public rather than elite citizens. These media focus on previously taboo subjects, especially sensational crime, in pulp novels, true-crime journalism, tabloid newspapers, television movies and advertising. And the central figures in these stories are none other than the police both fictional and real-life who are portrayed not as human rights abusers but as crime-fighting heroes: Think Serpico meets "CSI: Casablanca." The police have cooperated in their image makeover by making some actual reforms and by supplying crime reports, interviews and other material on which the media base their sensational narratives that blend reality and fiction.

Rather than crude authoritarian propaganda, it is a highly sophisticated, unpredictable and at times contradictory engagement driven by the regime's image management goals, the commercial media's profit needs and reform agenda, and the public's appetite for sensational entertainment , says Dartmouth Professor Jonathan Smolin, whose new book, "Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture," demonstrates how popular culture can illuminate contemporary Arab politics.

"Current analyses of the changing nature of authoritarianism in today's Arab world have focused on elections, privatization and the political elite," Smolin says. "Moroccan Noir is the first work to show how mass media images of the police the direct symbol of the country's brutal decades of authoritarianism have reinvented the relationship between citizen and state in the new era. These images display how the state has turned away from the routine coercion and violence of the past to public relations and opinion management in an attempt to maintain its legitimacy in an evolving era."

Smolin says public perception of Morocco's police has improved dramatically, which is a key reason why the Arab Spring protests didn't hit Morocco harder. King Mohammed VI allowed a new constitution and elections that were won by a moderate Islamist party, but he retains most of the power in the country, which is an important U.S. ally in a troubled region.

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