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INSERT INTO `articles` VALUES ('1', 'UK
minister: Basra is \'transformed city\'', '1', '2012-10-23', 'Britain\'s
defense secretary has declared that the once war-torn southern Iraqi city
of Basra is now a \"transformed city.\"Des Browne, who made an
unannounced visit<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.check.afp.gi_806001748.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.check.afp.gi_806001748.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"UK minister Basra is transformed
city\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>Britain\'s defense
secretary has declared that the once war-torn southern Iraqi city of Basra
is now a \"transformed city.\"<br><br>Des\r\n Browne,
who made an unannounced visit to Basra on Thursday, comes two \r\nmonths
after Iraq\'s government launched a recent offensive in the \r\nlargely
Shiite city against what they call criminal elements.<br><br>A
\r\nBritish military news release said Browne \"engaged with local
residents\"\r\n as he talk a stroll in a neighborhood. He saw
\"market stalls, craftsmen\r\n and shoppers\" in what was a
\"previously hazardous area.\"<br><br>\"As I
\r\nwalked through Basra\'s streets today, chatting to people, it was clear
\r\nto everyone that Basra is a transformed city. I felt an enormous sense
\r\nof pride in what the Iraqi forces have achieved with our help,\"
Browne \r\nsaid, according to the news
release.<br><br>\"Mid-afternoon I sat in a \r\nBasra
street cafe and had a cup of tea with General Mohammed Juwad \r\nHuwaidi,
commander of the Iraqi forces in Basra. All around us were the \r\nsigns of
a city returning to normality -- shop keepers working away, \r\nwomen
walking around wearing head scarves and children playing on their
\r\nbikes.\"<br><br>Maj. Tom Holloway, the British
military spokesman, told \r\nCNN on Friday that Browne discussed security
plans with British \r\ncommanders and met with local Iraqi military
officials during the \r\nthree-hour visit.<br><br>British
troops had been based in Basra city \r\nsince the Iraq war began in 2003.
The country handed over security \r\ncontrol to Iraqis late last year, but
still maintains a presence in \r\nBasra province.<br><br>The
defense ministry says there are 4,000 British\r\n troops in southern Iraq,
and they are focused on training and mentoring\r\n and \"carry out
tasks in support of the coalition.\"<br><br>Iraqi Prime
\r\nMinister Nuri al-Maliki in late March launched the offensive targeting
\r\nan outlaw element that had been holding sway in city
neighborhoods.<br><br>Many\r\n observers believe the fighting
reflected the country\'s intra-Shiite \r\nrivalries. Much of the fighting
pitted Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr\'s \r\nMehdi Army militia against the
government security forces dominated by \r\nmembers of a rival Shiite
group, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.<br><br>The\r\n
offensive sparked fighting in other Shiite towns and in Baghdad\'s
\r\npredominantly Sadr City, where troops fought Shiite militants until a
\r\ncease-fire was recently forged.<br><br>Gen. David Petraeus,
the top U.S.\r\n military official in Iraq, mentioned the Basra offensive
during \r\ntestimony on Thursday at a hearing before the Senate Armed
Services \r\nCommittee.<br><br>He said the operation -- which
was criticized for its \r\nhasty planning and initially seen by some
observers as a government \r\nfailure -- \"did have a shaky
start.\" The Senate hearing was over his \r\nnomination to head U.S.
Central Command.<br><br>Petraeus said the operation has since
had \"enormous progress that has produced very positive tactical and
strategic results.\"<br><br>\"The\r\n tactical
results are the return of control to legitimate security \r\nforces in
Basra, something for which the .... people of that city and \r\nprovince
are quite grateful and they\'re pleased
about.\"<br><br>Browne said it was his ninth visit to
Basra over the past two years.<br><br>\"In that time there
have been highs and there have been lows. I have seen progress and I have
seen that progress stall.<br><br><br>\"But\r\n never
have I seen the Iraqi army operating with such confidence and \r\nenjoying
such support from the local people. This would not have been \r\npossible
without the hard work of the British military,\" he
said.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('2', 'Imams in Iraq denounce Quran shooting', '1', '2012-10-23',
'Imams delivering their Friday sermons in Iraq are denouncing the shooting
of a Quran, the holy book of Islam, by a U.S. soldier.\"If we
were<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.quran.kiss.cnn_842448355.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.quran.kiss.cnn_842448355.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Imams in Iraq denounce Quran
shooting\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Imams delivering their
Friday sermons in Iraq are denouncing the shooting of a Quran, the holy
book of Islam, by a U.S. soldier.<br><br>\"If\r\n we were
strongly united from the beginning, that silly-minded American \r\nsoldier
wouldn\'t have used the Quran as a target,\" said Sheikh Ahmed
\r\nAbdul-Ghafour al-Samarie, delivering a sermon at Um al-Qura Sunni
Mosque\r\n in Baghdad.<br><br>The U.S. military and President
Bush have \r\napologized, but it did not stem the violent protests in
Afghanistan and \r\ncalls from both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis for the soldier
to be severely \r\npunished.<br><br>Muslims around the world
were angered when it came to \r\nlight last week that an American staff
sergeant -- a sniper section \r\nleader -- had used a Quran for target
practice in Iraq.<br><br>Imams at mosques in the largely Sunni
cities of Falluja and Mosul, and in Baghdad, condemned the
act.<br><br>The Baghdad mosque prayer was broadcast live on
state TV.<br><br>\"This\r\n soldier put the head of his
state in embarrassment that he had to \r\napologize to the prime minister.
We call upon this soldier to be \r\npunished. This act, we reject and we
stand against it,\" al-Samarie said.<br><br>He said if a
similar incident happened again, \"the world will turn upside down and
things will not go back to how they
were.\"<br><br>Sayyed\r\n Muhanned al-Mossawi, a Shiite
imam at al-Hakma mosque, said: \"We \r\ncondemn and denounce the
criminal act by the American soldier in \r\nRadhwaniya in tearing the Holy
Quran and using it as a shooting
target.\"<br><br>Friday\'s prayer service is the most
important Muslim event of the week.<br><br>The U.S. commander
in Baghdad issued a formal apology Saturday and read a letter of apology
from the shooter.<br><br>The\r\n sergeant has been relieved of
duty as a section leader, officially \r\nreprimanded by his commanding
general, dismissed from his regiment and \r\nreassigned to the United
States, the U.S. military said.<br><br>Iraq\'s \r\nmost
powerful Sunni Arab party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, has demanded \r\nthe
\"severest of punishments\" for the American
soldier.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('3', 'Twisters sweep across nation\'s midsection, killing eight',
'1', '2012-10-23', 'Tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday, killing
seven people in \r\nIowa and a toddler in Minnesota.A tornado touched down
in the \r\nnorth-central Iowa town<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.tornado.horse.ap_277419324.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.tornado.horse.ap_277419324.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Twisters sweep across nations midsection killing
eight\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>Tornadoes swept through
the Midwest on Sunday, killing seven people in Iowa and a toddler in
Minnesota.<br><br>A\r\n tornado touched down in the
north-central Iowa town of Parkersburg at \r\nabout 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET),
killing five before moving 10 miles east to \r\nNew Hartford, where two
others died in the storm, said Troy Price, a \r\nspokesman for Gov. Chet
Culver.<br><br>Spotters also reported a tornado \r\nnear
Dunkerton -- about 40 miles east of Parkersburg -- that they said
\r\ncaused considerable damage and flung debris as the storm moved at 23
\r\nmiles per hour. Marble-sized hail fell over Waterloo, where authorities
\r\nreported significant damage to homes, trees and power
lines.<br><br>\"Early\r\n reports indicate that these
communities have suffered severe and \r\nwidespread damage, and I plan to
visit the region very soon to offer my \r\nsupport to those
affected,\" Culver said in a prepared statement. He \r\ndeclared
disaster areas in three counties.<br><br>Meanwhile, a
Minnesota\r\n twister killed a 2-year-old child and seriously injured nine
other \r\npeople -- including another child -- in suburban Minneapolis-St.
Paul.<br><br>The\r\n tornado struck Hugo, about 25 miles north
of the Twin Cities, \r\ndestroying 50 homes and damaging another 150, city
manager Mike Ericson \r\ntold CNN.<br><br>The National Weather
Service confirmed the tornado in \r\nHugo that touched down just after 5:30
p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), and \r\nauthorities reported twisters in nearby Coon
Rapids and Blain.<br><br>Video\r\n from the scene showed
chairs, televisions, shingles and other debris \r\ntossed into the streets
of the 11,500-population Hugo. Nickel-sized hail\r\n and larger pelted the
suburb.<br><br>Sgt. Rick Boone of the Coon Rapids\r\n Police
Department said a twister cut through the middle of town, \r\ndowning trees
and causing minor damage to several homes. No fatalities \r\nor injuries
were immediately reported.<br><br>Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
planned to meet with local authorities Monday afternoon and tour the
affected areas.<br><br>Earlier\r\n in the day, authorities in
Moore County, Texas, reported sightings of \r\nthree twisters, though
details were not immediately available.<br><br>On\r\n Saturday,
tornadoes formed over northern Oklahoma, skipping across the \r\nrural
landscape and severely damaging a hog farm about an hour northwest\r\n of
Oklahoma City. There were no reports of injuries, officials
said.<br><br>However,\r\n two people were found dead in
south-central Kansas on Saturday in a car\r\n accident that authorities
said was caused by a
tornado.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('4', 'Probe lands on Mars, NASA says', '1', '2012-10-23', 'The
first pictures from NASA\'s Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched
down near Mars\' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as
far<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.mars.surface.nasa_351504358.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.mars.surface.nasa_351504358.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Probe lands on Mars NASA
says\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>The first pictures from
NASA\'s Mars Phoenix Lander, which \r\nsuccessfully touched down near
Mars\' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern\r\n of brown polygons as far as
the camera could see.<br><br>\"It\'s \r\nsurprisingly
close to what we expected and that\'s what surprises me \r\nmost,\"
said Peter Smith, the mission\'s principal investigator. \"I
\r\nexpected a bigger surprise.\"<br><br>The landing on
the Red Planet\'s \r\narctic plains -- which ended a 296-day journey -- was
right on target, a\r\n feat NASA\'s Ed Weiler compared to landing a
hole-in-one with a golf \r\nball from 10,000 miles.<br><br>The
landing -- dubbed the \"seven minutes \r\nof terror\" -- was a
nerve-wracking experience for mission managers, who \r\nhave witnessed the
failure of similar missions.<br><br>In mission \r\ncontrol at
NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, \r\nthey
celebrated the lander\'s much-anticipated
entry.<br><br>\"It was better than we could have
imagined,\" Barry Goldstein, project manager for the Phoenix mission,
told CNN.<br><br>The Phoenix\'s 90-day mission is to analyze
the soils and permafrost of Mars\' arctic tundra for signs of past or
present life.<br><br>The\r\n lander is equipped with a robotic
arm capable of scooping up ice and \r\ndirt to look for organic evidence
that life once existed there, or even \r\nexists
now.<br><br>\"We are not going to be able to answer the
final \r\nquestion of is there life on Mars,\" said principal
investigator Peter \r\nSmith, an optical scientist with the University of
Arizona. \"We will \r\ntake the next important step. We\'ll find out
if there\'s organic material\r\n associated with this ice in the polar
regions. Ice is a preserver, and \r\nif there ever were organics on Mars
and they got into that ice, they \r\nwill still be there
today.\"<br><br>The twin to the Mars Polar Lander
\r\nspacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars
\r\nSurveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the \"better,
faster, \r\ncheaper\" program, formulated by then-NASA Administrator
Dan Goldin to \r\nbeef up planetary exploration on a lean
budget.<br><br>But Polar \r\nmalfunctioned during its descent
into Mars\' atmosphere in 1999 and \r\ncrashed. An investigation concluded
that as many as a dozen design flaws\r\n or malfunctions doomed the
spacecraft.<br><br>The failure of that \r\nmission, as well as
another spacecraft called the Mars Climate Orbiter \r\nthe same year, led
to NASA to put future missions on hold and rethink \r\nthe \"better,
faster, cheaper\" approach. Mars Surveyor went to the
\r\nwarehouse.<br><br>But all was not lost. In 2003, Smith
proposed a plan \r\nto re-engineer the Mars Surveyor and fly it on a
mission to look for \r\nsignatures of life in the ice and dirt of Mars far
North. Mars Phoenix, \r\nliterally and figuratively, rose from the ashes of
Surveyor.<br><br>Engineers\r\n set to work, testing and
retesting the onboard system to ferret out and\r\n fix all the flaws they
could find. iReport.com: Send your photos, video\r\n of
space.<br><br>\"We always have to be scared to
death,\" Goldstein \r\nsaid. \"The minute we lose fear is the
minute that we stop looking for \r\nthe next
problem.\"<br><br>The team was concerned about the Phoenix
\r\nlanding system. NASA had not successfully landed a probe on Mars using
\r\nlanding legs and stabilizing thrusters since the Viking missions in the
\r\nlate 1970s. The other three successful Mars landings -- Pathfinder in
\r\n1997 and the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004 -- used massive
\r\nairbags that inflated around the landing craft just before landing to
\r\ncushion the impact.<br><br>The Phoenix doesn\'t have
airbags because the lander is too big and heavy for them to work
properly.<br><br>Its\r\n landing site was targeted for the far
northern plains of Mars, near the\r\n northern polar ice cap. Data from the
Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate \r\nlarge quantities of ice there, likely
in the form of permafrost, either \r\non the surface or just barely
underground.<br><br>\"Follow the water\" has become
the unifying theme of NASA\'s Mars exploration
strategy.<br><br>In\r\n 2004, the rover Opportunity found
evidence that a salty sea once lapped\r\n the shores of an area near Mars\'
equator called Meridiani Planum. \r\nAstrobiologists generally agree that
it\'s best to look for life in wet
\r\nplaces.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('5', 'Obama: Florida, Michigan are Clinton\'s \'last slender
hope\'', '1', '2012-10-23', 'Sen. Barack Obama accused Sen. Hillary Clinton
of stoking anger in \r\nFlorida and Michigan over the Democratic Party\'s
decision not to \r\nrecognize the states\' primary <br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.obamaplane.ap_115644714.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.obamaplane.ap_115644714.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Obama Florida Michigan are Clintons last slender
hope\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>Sen. Barack Obama accused
Sen. Hillary Clinton of stoking \r\nanger in Florida and Michigan over the
Democratic Party\'s decision not \r\nto recognize the states\' primary
votes.<br><br>\"They weren\'t stirring it\r\n up when they
didn\'t need the delegates,\" he said. \"Let\'s not sort of
\r\npretend that we don\'t know what\'s going on. This is, from their
\r\nperspective, their last slender hope to make arguments about how they
\r\ncan win.<br><br>Obama, speaking to reporters on his
campaign plane late \r\nSaturday, also took on Sen. John McCain\'s
suggestion that Obama\'s lack \r\nof military service makes him unqualified
to criticize him on veterans \r\nissues.<br><br>\"I will
cede to no one the ability to talk about veterans\r\n issues,\" Obama
said. \"My grandfather was a veteran. Those veterans \r\nbenefits
helped my grandparents to raise my mother. I have veterans \r\nthroughout
the state of Illinois that I\'ve been fighting for since I \r\ncame into
the United States Senate.\"<br><br>Obama returned to his
home \r\nbase of Chicago, Illinois, Saturday night after a campaign swing
through\r\n in Puerto Rico, which holds its primary June 1, and spending
three days\r\n in Florida.<br><br>Obama said he wants a
resolution of the controversy \r\nover the seating of the Florida and
Michigan delegations so that they \r\n\"feel that they\'ve been
treated fairly and they\'re seated.\"<br><br>\"I want
to be looking at them when I\'m standing on the stage in Denver in
August,\" Obama said.<br><br>He said the \"anger will
go away once it\'s resolved\" and it will not be a deciding factor in
the November general election.<br><br>\"I\r\n think the
Democrats are going to be focused on who\'s going to stop the \r\nwar,
who\'s going to be making Supreme Court appointments, who\'s going to\r\n
have a serious energy policy, who\'s going to bring good jobs and good
\r\nwages, who\'s going to continue the Bush tax cuts and who\'s going to
give\r\n a middle class tax cut,\" Obama
said.<br><br>\"The notion that the folks \r\nin Florida,
who are trying to struggle with $4 gas and not being able to\r\n get
property insurance for their house during hurricane season, are \r\ngoing
to be making a decision based on a political tempest that occurred\r\n
during a primary, I don\'t see it,\" he said.<br><br>Obama
said he \r\npredicted a \"substantive debate\" with McCain during
the general election\r\n over veterans issues, especially if McCain
continues to oppose the \r\nexpansion of the GI
Bill.<br><br>\"John McCain will have to decide \r\nwhether
he thinks that the current level of benefits or the current \r\nperformance
of the VA is sufficient,\" Obama said.<br><br>After Obama
\r\ntook to the Senate floor last Thursday to criticize McCain\'s
opposition \r\nto legislation, which passed by a 75-22 vote margin, McCain
quickly \r\nresponded that Obama was taking \"cheap shots\" on an
issue that \"he has \r\nless than zero understanding
of.\"<br><br>\"I will not accept from Sen. \r\nObama,
who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country \r\nin
uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did,\" McCain said
in\r\n a written statement.<br><br>Asked to respond Saturday,
Obama said \"the \r\nnotion that somehow I can\'t speak out on behalf
of veterans because of \r\nthe fact that I didn\'t serve makes no sense
whatsoever.\"<br><br>Obama \r\nsaid that he, and many
others his age, did not serve in the military \r\nbecause the Vietnam War
-- and the draft -- ended before he was of draft\r\n
age.<br><br>\"Obviously, I revere our soldiers and want to
make sure \r\nthey are treated with honor and respect,\" he said.
\"I think the GI Bill \r\nis one way to do that. I hope that John
McCain and George Bush decide \r\nthey believe the same
thing.\"<br><br>The updated version of the GI Bill,\r\n
which has now passed the Senate and House, proposes to essentially
\r\nprovide a full scholarship to in-state public universities for members
\r\nof the military who have served for at least three
years.<br><br>McCain \r\nsupports enacting legislation to
expand education benefits for veterans,\r\n but he, as well as President
Bush and much of the military brass, \r\noppose this specific measure
because they worry it will deplete \r\nretention rates among those
currently serving in the military at a time \r\nwhen recruitment efforts
are already struggling.</span>\r\n							</div><br>',
null, null, null, null), ('6', 'Nearly complete Pentagon memorial tells
story of 9/11', '1', '2012-10-23', 'As president of the Pentagon Memorial
Fund, Jim Laychak has been involved in nearly aspect of the project\'s
planning.The only thing he has not done<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.pentagon.cnn_700122187.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Nearly complete Pentagon memorial tells story of
911\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n       
                        \r\n								<span>As president of the
Pentagon Memorial Fund, Jim Laychak has been involved in nearly aspect of
the project\'s planning.<br><br>The\r\n only thing he has not
done is visit the bench dedicated to his brother,\r\n Dave Laychak, who
died on September 11, 2001, when a passenger airplane\r\n hit the
Pentagon.<br><br>\"I want to hold off and go and see his
bench \r\nand touch his bench that day,\" said Laychak. \"I
wanted to save something\r\n special for me personally on September 11 when
we dedicate the \r\nmemorial, so I can spend some time with it
then.\"<br><br>Laychak is one \r\nof many looking forward
to the dedication of the memorial, which is \r\nbeing built to honor the
184 people killed when American Airlines Flight\r\n 77 crashed into the
Pentagon.<br><br>\"This is hallowed ground for a lot\r\n
of the family members, and the essence of this place will be about
\r\nthem, those that we lost,\" Laychak said.<br><br>After
more than five \r\nyears of fundraising, the organizers are about $13
million short of \r\ntheir goal. They plan to have the memorial finished
and dedicated on the\r\n seventh anniversary of the
attacks.<br><br>The park, which cost $22 \r\nmillion to build,
needs another $10 million in endowment funds to make \r\nsure it\'s always
properly maintained. So far, the Pentagon Memorial Fund\r\n has raised $19
million from sources as diverse as former Defense \r\nSecretary Donald
Rumsfeld, NBA star [and Navy veteran] David Robinson \r\nand the government
of Taiwan.<br><br>The focus of the memorial is 184
\r\ncantilevered benches built over a pool of lighted water. Each bench is
\r\nengraved on the end with the name of one of the 184 people who died on
\r\nboard Flight 77 or in the Pentagon that day.<br><br>The
benches are \r\narranged by age, with the bench of the youngest victim,
3-year-old Dana \r\nFalkenberg, in the far southeast corner and the bench
honoring \r\n71-year-old John Yamnicky in the northwest
corner.<br><br>For Wendy Ploger, whose father and stepmother
died aboard Flight 77, the benches add special meaning to the
memorial.<br><br>\"I\r\n don\'t know how to describe it,
but it tells the story of what happened,\r\n which is sort of what helps me
to heal,\" said Ploger, whose relatives \r\nwere on their honeymoon
when they died.<br><br>The benches for the 59 \r\nvictims on
board the plane are arranged so that someone reading the name\r\n on the
end of the bench will face the sky where the plane came from. \r\nThe 125
benches for the victims inside the Pentagon face the opposite
\r\ndirection, so someone reading the name will look up and see the south
\r\nfacade of the Pentagon, where the jet hit that
day.<br><br>\"The way the \r\nbench is facing, my
father\'s bench, if you read his name on the end of \r\nit, you are facing
the same direction that the plane was flying [from] \r\nas it impacted the
Pentagon,\" said Ploger, whose parents were originally\r\n scheduled
to take a different flight but changed their
plans.<br><br>\"At\r\n first I felt a little strange
sitting on it. But then, it\'s comfort and\r\n it feels good and I feel
like I\'m close to my loved one,\" she
said.<br><br>Some\r\n of the original plans have changed since
construction started in June \r\n2006. Originally, the benches were to be
made of aluminum. But aluminum \r\ncan oxidize, leaving pits and white
residue. The builders chose to use \r\nmarine-grade stainless steel, which
won\'t rust and can withstand the \r\nelements.<br><br>The
benches are inlaid with black and gold granite \r\nmined in Spain and cut
in Canada. A perimeter wall around the park is \r\nbuilt of the same
Spanish granite.<br><br>Black granite was originally \r\nchosen
for the top of a perimeter wall around the park, but builders \r\nlearned
the hard way that on warm and sunny days, the black granite gets\r\n so hot
\"it could burn your tuchis,\" one worker
said.<br><br>Ploger and Laychak say they are not sure how
others will respond to the memorial, but for them, it brings a sense of
peace.<br><br>\"For me, it just makes it so real,\"
Ploger said. \"This is sort of the closest I\'ve been to the event and
to that day.\"</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null,
null, null, null), ('7', 'Weather helps firefighters get control of
wildfire', '1', '2012-10-23', 'Days of moist, cool weather helped
firefighters get a handle on a destructive wildfire in the Santa Cruz
Mountains that scorched 3,900 acres and at<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.wildfire.kgo_660932793.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.wildfire.kgo_660932793.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Weather helps firefighters get control of
wildfire\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Days of moist, cool
weather helped firefighters get a handle \r\non a destructive wildfire in
the Santa Cruz Mountains that scorched \r\n3,900 acres and at least 29
homes.<br><br>Easing winds and lower \r\ntemperatures helped
keep the blaze from spreading and fire crews had the\r\n blaze mostly
contained early Monday, according to the California \r\nDepartment of
Forestry and Fire Prevention.<br><br>\"It\'s really not
moving at all,\" said David Coursey, a department
spokesman.<br><br>The\r\n 6-square-mile fire was expected to be
fully surrounded by Tuesday, fire\r\n officials said. The blaze still
threatened 550 homes and 20 commercial
\r\nbuildings.<br><br>While some evacuees were let in on an
hour-by-hour \r\nbasis to survey the damage, hundreds of residents were
told to stay away\r\n following the outbreak of the fire in the mountainous
region about 15 \r\nmiles south of San Jose.<br><br>Five
firefighters have suffered minor injuries.<br><br>In\r\n a
community meeting at a church Sunday afternoon, residents eager to
\r\nsleep in their own beds were given bad news. Officials said a quick
turn\r\n in weather could re-ignite the blaze, and that they would have to
wait \r\nuntil Tuesday to return home.<br><br>Meanwhile, nearly
3,000 personnel \r\nworked to cut fire lines through centuries-old redwood
forests as a \r\nswarm of helicopters and air tankers doused flames from
the sky.<br><br>Gov.\r\n Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state
of emergency for Santa Cruz and \r\nSanta Clara counties to allow access to
state funds. The firefighting \r\neffort has cost $6.1 million so far,
Coursey said.<br><br>Smoke from the\r\n wildfire has left a
haze over the San Francisco Bay area that was \r\nexpected to linger
through the Memorial Day weekend.<br><br>Investigators\r\n are
still probing the cause of the fire, which broke out just as the
\r\nstate\'s unofficial fire season got under way in mid-May. The blaze
\r\nerupted following the state\'s driest two-month period on
record.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('8', 'Midwest tornadoes kill 7, including toddler', '1',
'2012-10-23', 'Seven people died in tornadoes that blew through the
Midwestern United States on Sunday, with six reported dead in Iowa and a
toddler in Minnesota<br>',
'<div>\r\n								\r\n									<div>\r\n										\r\n         
                                      \r\n                                 
          \r\n										<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.storm.aerial.ap_609333893.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.storm.aerial.ap_609333893.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Midwest tornadoes kill 7 including
toddler\">\r\n										\r\n									</div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Seven people died in
tornadoes that blew through the \r\nMidwestern United States on Sunday,
with six reported dead in Iowa and a\r\n toddler in Minnesota, authorities
said Monday.<br><br>Authorities in \r\nIowa had reported that
seven people died in Sunday\'s storm but lowered \r\nthat total to six on
Monday, said Bret Voorhees, a spokesman for the \r\nIowa Department of
Homeland Security and Emergency Management.<br><br>A
\r\ntornado touched down at about 6 p.m. Sunday in the north-central Iowa
\r\ntown of Parkersburg before moving 10 miles east to New Hartford,
\r\nVoorhees said.<br><br>Spotters also reported a tornado near
Dunkerton --\r\n about 40 miles east of Parkersburg -- that they said
caused \r\nconsiderable damage and flung debris as the storm moved at 23
mph. \r\nMarble-size hail fell in Waterloo, where authorities reported
\r\nsignificant damage to homes, trees and power
lines.<br><br>\"Early \r\nreports indicate that these
communities have suffered severe and \r\nwidespread damage, and I plan to
visit the region very soon to offer my \r\nsupport to those
affected,\" Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said in a statement. \r\nHe declared
disaster areas in three counties.<br><br>Meanwhile, a
\r\nMinnesota twister killed a 2-year-old and seriously injured nine others
\r\n-- including another child -- in suburban Minneapolis-St.
Paul.<br><br>The\r\n tornado struck Hugo, about 25 miles north
of the Twin Cities, \r\ndestroying 50 homes and damaging another 150, city
manager Mike Ericson \r\nsaid.<br><br>The National Weather
Service confirmed the tornado in Hugo \r\nthat touched down just after 5:30
p.m. Sunday, and authorities reported \r\ntwisters in nearby Coon Rapids
and Blaine.<br><br>Video footage from the\r\n scene showed
chairs, televisions, shingles and other debris tossed into\r\n the streets
of Hugo. Nickel-size hail and larger pelted the
suburb.<br><br>Sgt.\r\n Rick Boone of the Coon Rapids Police
Department said a twister cut \r\nthrough the middle of town, downing trees
and causing minor damage to \r\nseveral homes. No fatalities or injuries
were immediately reported.<br><br>Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
planned to meet with local authorities Monday afternoon and tour the
affected areas.<br><br>Also Sunday, authorities in Moore
County, Texas, reported sightings of three
twisters.<br><br>On\r\n Saturday, tornadoes formed over
northern Oklahoma, skipping across the \r\nrural landscape and severely
damaging a hog farm about an hour northwest\r\n of Oklahoma City. There
were no reports of injuries, officials said.<br><br>However,
two people were found dead Saturday in south-central Kansas in a car
accident that authorities said a tornado
caused.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('9', 'First MLK grandchild born', '1', '2012-10-23', 'The first
grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Sunday in Atlanta.The
girl, named Yolanda Renee King, is the daughter of Martin
Luther<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.king.ap_277500991.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.king.ap_277500991.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"First MLK grandchild
born\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>The first grandchild of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Sunday in
Atlanta.<br><br>The\r\n girl, named Yolanda Renee King, is the
daughter of Martin Luther King \r\nIII and his wife, Arndrea Waters King,
the family said in a statement.<br><br>The newborn weighed in
at 7.5 pounds. Her birth comes two years and two days after her parents
were married.<br><br>\"We\r\n are excited about our
precious gift from God and cannot express how \r\nfortunate we feel to have
our beautiful baby girl. It is truly the \r\nhappiest day of our lives. I
know my parents are smiling down from \r\nheaven,\" the new father
said in the statement released by Matlock \r\nAdvertising and Public
Relations, which works with the King family.<br><br>The girl
carries the first name of her father\'s sister, the oldest of the four King
children, who died last
year.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('10', 'Racial tensions brewing in Crown Heights', '1',
'2012-10-23', 'Seventeen years after race riots left the streets of one New
York City neighborhood bloodied, tensions are rising again there between
Orthodox Jews and blacks.First<br>',
'<div>\r\n								\r\n									<div>\r\n										\r\n         
                                      \r\n                                 
          \r\n										<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Racial tensions brewing in Crown
Heights\">\r\n										\r\n									</div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Seventeen years after
race riots left the streets of one New \r\nYork City neighborhood bloodied,
tensions are rising again there between\r\n Orthodox Jews and
blacks.<br><br>First, a black man was badly beaten. \r\nWeeks
later, a Jewish teenager said he was attacked by two young blacks \r\nwhile
riding his bicycle, and angry Jewish residents took to the streets\r\n with
signs saying \"Jewish blood is not cheap!\" and \"Every Jew
a .22.\"<br><br>And\r\n along the way, the district
attorney accused an Orthodox Jewish street \r\npatrol of vigilantism and
compared the group to street gangs like the \r\nBloods and
Crips.<br><br>The strife has revived painful memories of the
\r\n1991 riots in the Brooklyn neighborhood called Crown Heights, which is
\r\nhome to about 15,000 Orthodox Jews and more than 130,000
blacks.<br><br>As summer approaches, leaders from both sides
are braced for trouble.<br><br>\"One\r\n small incident
could escalate into something beyond our grasp,\" warned \r\nRichard
Green, head of the Crown Heights Youth Collective, a group he \r\nsaid
inspires the races \"to interact instead of
react.\"<br><br>The group\r\n was started after the 1991
riots that exploded after a black child was \r\naccidentally struck by a
station wagon in the motorcade of a Jewish \r\nspiritual leader. The
7-year-old boy, who was pinned under the vehicle, \r\nlater died of his
injuries. In the ensuing unrest, which lasted three \r\ndays, a rabbinical
student was mortally stabbed by a black mob.<br><br>To\r\n
quell fears of new unrest, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly visited
\r\nCrown Heights earlier this month and stepped up police patrols.
Officers\r\n also are perched atop a tower, keeping 24-hour watch over the
world \r\nheadquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch
movement.<br><br>\"It\'s a very delicate situation in
Crown Heights, a bubble of tension,\" said Geoffrey Davis, a longtime
black resident.<br><br>District\r\n Attorney Charles Hynes has
convened a grand jury to probe the April 14 \r\nassault on Andrew Charles,
a 20-year-old son of a police detective. He \r\ntold police that a man on a
bicycle sprayed him with mace while another \r\nman stepped out of an SUV,
struck him with a wooden object and drove
\r\noff.<br><br>Police have released a photograph of a
25-year-old member of\r\n the local street patrol group, the Shmira, who is
wanted for \r\nquestioning in what Hynes calls \"an unprovoked
attack.\"<br><br>Police \r\nsuspect the attack followed
reports that black youths had pelted \r\nneighborhood homes with rocks. In
May, residents say stones were hurled \r\nat a school bus carrying Jewish
children.<br><br>Charles\' mother is \r\naccusing police of
having \"a double standard,\" noting that they\'ve made \r\nno
arrest in her son\'s case while two black teenagers were quickly
\r\ncharged with beating and robbing a Jewish 16-year-old riding his
bicycle\r\n several weeks ago.<br><br>\"My son\'s suspect
is still at large almost a month after he was brutally assaulted!\"
said Charles\' mother, Wendy Craigg.<br><br>The prosecutor\'s
office said it could not discuss the details of a case under
investigation.<br><br>Members of the Shmira, which means
\"to watch\" in Hebrew, are quick to show that they protect both
blacks and Jews.<br><br>In\r\n early May, a Jewish man standing
in front of the Lubavitcher \r\nheadquarters was surrounded by four black
men who confronted him, \r\ncutting his hand. The Shmira chased down the
four and called police, \r\naccording to Yossi Stern, Shmira\'s
director.<br><br>In another recent \r\nincident, Stern said, a
young black woman leaving the subway was \r\nconfronted by a knife-wielding
man who forced her into an apartment \r\nbuilding, where he tried to remove
her clothing. Her screams were heard \r\nby a resident of the building -- a
Shmira member who pursued the \r\nassailant and called
911.<br><br>But NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said \r\nthat the
Shmira \"does not cooperate with police like other community \r\nwatch
groups who are our eyes and ears.\" He said the group has not
\r\nsupplied police officials with the names of its members, as do other
\r\nsuch groups in the city.<br><br>Still, the current tensions
don\'t even begin to approach 1991 levels.<br><br>Reported
crimes in the precinct that includes Crown Heights have dropped steadily
since then -- 77 percent in the past 15 years.<br><br>And\r\n
Green says community residents now have an outlet: Various groups like
\r\nhis formed after the riots to encourage common activities, from sports
\r\nto the arts, while bridging differences to avert future
clashes.<br><br>\"Race\r\n relations are absolutely better
than in the \'90s, when we were like two\r\n ships passing in the night,
picking up each other\'s radar,\" said Green,\r\n 60, a Crown Heights
resident and history professor at the City \r\nUniversity of New
York.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('11', 'New London Mayor scraps Venezuela oil deal', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'The British capital\'s new mayor, Boris Johnson is ending a
controversial\r\n deal that has provided cheap Venezuelan fuel for
London\'s transport \r\nnetwork.The agreement, signed last <br>',
'<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.boris.johnson.gi_185574133.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.boris.johnson.gi_185574133.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"New London Mayor scraps Venezuela oil
deal\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>The British capital\'s new
mayor, Boris Johnson is ending a \r\ncontroversial deal that has provided
cheap Venezuelan fuel for London\'s \r\ntransport
network.<br><br>The agreement, signed last year by the
\r\nConservative Johnson\'s predecessor and Labour Party rival, Ken
\r\nLivingstone, provided discounted gas for London\'s iconic red buses in
\r\nexchange for advice on urban planning in Caracas, the Venezuelan
\r\ncapital.<br><br>Money saved on gas was put into a program
providing \r\nhalf-rate bus fares for low-income Londoners. Livingstone
said the \r\nanti-poverty initiative was the idea of Venezuela\'s left-wing
leader, \r\nHugo Chavez, whom Livingstone said he has long
admired.<br><br>Conservative\r\n critics said the deal allowed
one of the world\'s richest cities to \r\nexploit a lesser developed
country and handed a propaganda coup to a man\r\n they called \"a
third-rate South American dictator.\"<br><br>Johnson
echoed those criticisms in a statement announcing he would not renew the
agreement when it expires in August.<br><br>\"I\r\n think
many Londoners felt uncomfortable about the bus operation of one \r\nof the
world\'s financial powerhouses being funded by the people of a \r\ncountry
where many people live in extreme poverty,\" he
said.<br>advertisement<br><br>The statement said poor
Londoners could continue to take advantage of the reduced fares until the
program ran its course.<br><br>A spokesman for the mayor said
there were no plans to offer low-income residents advantageous bus fares
beyond that point.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null,
null, null, null), ('12', ' Boeing 747 splits in two on take off', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'A large cargo plane crashed at the end of a runway and split
in two \r\nwhile trying to take off Sunday at Brussels airport,
authorities<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art_772316968.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art_772316968.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Boeing 747 splits in two on take
off\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n       
                        \r\n								<span>A large cargo plane crashed
at the end of a runway and split \r\nin two while trying to take off Sunday
at Brussels airport, authorities \r\nsaid.<br><br>Four of the
five crew members on board the Boeing 747 were \r\nslightly injured and
were hospitalized, said Jan Van der Cruysse, \r\nspokesman at Brussels
Airport.<br><br>\"The plane is very seriously
\r\ndamaged,\" he said. The aircraft cracked in two after it crashed
at the \r\nend of runway 220, which lies very close to a rail line and
houses.<br><br>Rail\r\n services to and from the airport were
suspended as a safety precaution,\r\n however the crash did not affect
other flights at the airport, Van der \r\nCruysse
said.<br><br>Francis Vermeiren, mayor of the nearby town of
\r\nZaventem, said the plane did not catch on fire when it crashed after
\r\nattempting to take off. Vermeiren was coordinating rescue efforts at
the\r\n airport.<br><br>\"The plane is not on fire but it
has split into two,\" he told VRT
radio.<br><br>Firefighters\r\n coated the wings of the plane
with special fire retardant foam as a \r\nprecaution because the plane was
still full of jet fuel, the mayor said.<br><br>He said the
plane was on a scheduled flight to Bahrain. It was not known what cargo the
plane was carrying.<br><br>Vermeiren\r\n said the pilot told
rescue authorities he heard a large noise while \r\ntrying to take off just
after midday. It was not yet clear what caused \r\nthe
crash.<br><br>The plane is owned by Kalitta Air, a cargo
carrier \r\nbased at Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan, and makes
regular \r\nflights from Brussels, officials said. A person who answered
the \r\ntelephone at Kalitta Air said Sunday morning that no one was
immediately\r\n available to
comment.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('13', 'North Sea oil platform evacuated over leak', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'More than 150 people were evacuated from an oil platform in
the North \r\nSea on Saturday because of an oil and gas leak that
rescuers<br>', 'More than 150 people were evacuated from an oil
platform in the North \r\nSea on Saturday because of an oil and gas leak
that rescuers feared \r\ncould result in an
explosion.<br><br>\"Oil is leaking from one of the
\r\nshafts of the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea,\" operator
\r\nStatoilHydro ASA said. \"The situation is serious and
confused.\"<br><br>Two people were exposed to gas during
the incident, but none was seriously injured, said company spokesman Ola
Morten Aanestad.<br><br>Oil\r\n was being discharged into the
sea from the platform for safety reasons \r\nand repair vessels were
heading to the area to contain the spill, the \r\ncompany
said.<br><br>Aanestad said there was a small risk that gas
\r\nreleased during the oil leak would ignite, so 156 of the 217 people on
\r\nthe platform were evacuated to nearby platforms Saturday morning.
\r\nSixty-one emergency workers remained on Statfjord A, he
said.<br><br>StatoilHydro\r\n said the oil leak occurred during
maintenance work on a pipe in one of \r\nthe platform\'s three shafts and
that oil was leaking from one or several\r\n storage cells. The storage
cells hold 1.3 million barrels of oil, the \r\ncompany
said.<br><br>Production was stopped immediately after the leak
\r\nwas detected, Aanestad said, adding it was not clear how long the
\r\nplatform would remain shut down. \"We\'re primarily focusing on
staff and \r\nenvironment right now,\" he said.<br><br>The
platform began production in\r\n 1979 and is one of three being operated by
StatoilHydro in the \r\nStatfjord field, located about 125 miles (200
kilometers) west of the \r\ncoastal city of Bergen.<br><br>The
company said Statfjord is one of the \r\noldest producing fields on the
Norwegian continental shelf and the \r\nlargest oil discovery in the North
Sea.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('14', 'Violence breaks out over
Italy trash crisis', '2', '2012-10-23', 'Tensions remained high Saturday
after a night of clashes between police \r\nand protesters furious at
Italian government plans to dump mountains of \r\nuncollected trash
from<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.naples.ap_184238061.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.naples.ap_184238061.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Violence breaks out over Italy trash
crisis\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Tensions remained high
Saturday after a night of clashes \r\nbetween police and protesters furious
at Italian government plans to \r\ndump mountains of uncollected trash from
Naples in their towns.<br><br>Police\r\n in riot gear watched
but did not intervene Saturday when a protester \r\nthrew what appeared to
be a firebomb near the town of Chiaiano, a suburb\r\n of Naples.
Demonstrators also hurled cans and other garbage at
police.<br><br>The\r\n site near Chiaiano is one of 10 selected
by Premier Silvio Berlusconi\'s\r\n new government to receive some of the
tons of stinking garbage piled up\r\n in Naples and surrounding
areas.<br><br>Police and protesters clashed \r\novernight after
authorities tried to move an empty bus that \r\ndemonstrators used to block
a road leading to the planned dump site.<br><br>Several
injuries were reported on both sides. Police arrested three people, the
Italian news agency ANSA reported.<br><br>Earlier\r\n this
week, Berlusconi led a Cabinet meeting in Naples to show that his
\r\ngovernment was serious about tackling Naples\' garbage problem. He
\r\npledged to deploy the military to protect the dump
sites.<br><br>Naples\' latest garbage crisis began in December
when trash collectors said they had run out of dump
sites.<br><br>The\r\n recurring problem is blamed on decades of
poor local government, \r\nresidents\' resistance to new dump sites or
incinerators and what \r\nauthorities say is organized crime\'s
infiltration of the trash business.<br><br>With\r\n summer
approaching, the stench of garbage piled up on sidewalks and \r\npiazzas
has become overpowering, and Italy\'s tourist industry is worried\r\n it
will hurt business.<br><br>But local leaders vowed to thwart
the national government\'s plans to move the rubbish to dumps in their
areas.<br><br>\"I\r\n won\'t give up easily,\" ANSA
quoted Marano mayor Salvatore Perrotta as \r\nsaying. Marano is situated
next to the planned Chiaiano dump. Perrotta \r\nsaid he would wage a legal
battle to try to prevent it
opening.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('15', 'Two fined for German fatal train crash', '2', '2012-10-23',
'Two train track managers were convicted Friday of involuntary
\r\nmanslaughter and fined in connection with a 2006 high-speed train crash
\r\nthat killed 23 people.The court<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.train.file.gi_935574333.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.train.file.gi_935574333.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Two fined for German fatal train
crash\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>Two train track managers
were convicted Friday of involuntary\r\n manslaughter and fined in
connection with a 2006 high-speed train crash\r\n that killed 23
people.<br><br>The court ruled that the two managers \r\nfailed
to take the necessary precautions to protect the test track and \r\ntrains
in the northwestern town of Emsland against human
error.<br><br>A\r\n high-speed magnetic levitation, or maglev,
train struck a maintenance \r\nvehicle on an elevated stretch of the track
on September 22, 2006. The \r\nimpact sliced open the train, which was
traveling at 111 mph. Another 10\r\n people were
injured.<br><br>The managers were charged with indirectly
\r\ncausing the deaths by not having required that the maintenance vehicle
\r\nbe blocked from the track while a train was on
it.<br><br>The Osnabrueck\r\n state court ruled that Guenter
Steinmetz, 67, and Joerg Metzner, 50, \r\nwere guilty of involuntary
manslaughter and causing bodily harm through \r\nnegligence. But Judge
Dieter Temming said the two were not
criminals.<br><br>\"The accident was for them a
professional catastrophe,\" Temming said.<br><br>The court
imposed fines of $37,800 and $31,500 respectively -- a punishment in line
with what prosecutors had sought.<br><br>The\r\n defense had
sought the acquittal of the two men, who denied the \r\naccusations.
Attorneys for both said they would appeal the
verdict.<br><br>Prosecutors\r\n have said they consider a third
man -- the traffic controller at the \r\ntime -- the chief suspect.
However, proceedings against him were dropped\r\n because he has received
psychological treatment since the accident, and\r\n is considered mentally
unfit to stand trial.<br><br>High-speed maglev \r\ntrains ride
on a cushion of magnetism instead of rails, which eliminates\r\n friction
and helps make possible speeds of up to 270 mph.<br><br>The
German train was made by Transrapid International, a joint company of
Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp AG.<br><br>Only\r\n one
commercially operated Transrapid stretch has been built so far -- \r\nin
Shanghai, linking the Chinese city\'s financial district with its
\r\nairport. Efforts to put it into commercial service in Germany have been
\r\nthwarted by cost
concerns.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('16', 'Sri Lanka: Bomb blast kills seven, injures 62', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'A bomb exploded on a crowded commuter train in a southern
suburb of Sri \r\nLanka\'s capital Monday, killing seven people and
wounding at least 62<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=arta_409360324.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=arta_409360324.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Sri Lanka Bomb blast kills seven injures
62\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n        
                       \r\n								<span>A bomb exploded on a crowded
commuter train in a southern \r\nsuburb of Sri Lanka\'s capital Monday,
killing seven people and wounding \r\nat least 62 others, police
said.<br><br>The parcel bomb had been placed \r\nin the luggage
rack on the train, which was bound for the southern town \r\nof Panadura,
27 kilometers (17 miles) from Colombo, police said. \r\nInvestigators
blamed the country\'s Tamil Tiger separatist movement for \r\nthe attack,
which occurred about 5:30pm in the southern suburb of
\r\nDehiwala.<br><br>Many of those on the train were office
workers headed home at the end of the workday, police
said.<br><br>The\r\n bombing came amid a nationwide alert
triggered by the discovery of at \r\nleast three packages, in three
different towns, that contained bombs. \r\nAnd it follows allegations by
the Tamil Tigers, who are fighting for an \r\nindependent Tamil homeland in
northern Sri Lanka, that government forces\r\n had killed 16 civilians in
an attack on rebel-held territory in the \r\nWanni region
Friday.<br><br>The rebels also said the government killed an
infant and a 17-year-old girl when warplanes bombed the area the same
day.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('17', ' Hundreds in Seoul protest U.S. beef', '2', '2012-10-23',
'Riot police beat and arrested several protesters early Monday during an
\r\nillegal rally by hundreds of opponents of a beef import agreement with
\r\nthe United<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.protests.gi_560549899.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.protests.gi_560549899.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Hundreds in Seoul protest US
beef\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>Riot police beat and
arrested several protesters early Monday\r\n during an illegal rally by
hundreds of opponents of a beef import \r\nagreement with the United States
that has raised fears of mad cow \r\ndisease in South
Korea.<br><br>Several protesters were taken to nearby
\r\nhospitals for treatment. A policeman \"shoved me and slammed his
shield \r\ninto my right side, and the pain is killing me,\" Cho
Ik-bi, a \r\n36-year-old businessman, told The Associated Press as he was
taken to an\r\n ambulance.<br><br>Police detained 31 people for
questioning, a police \r\nofficer at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency
said. He spoke on \r\ncondition of anonymity because he was not authorized
to speak to \r\nreporters and declined to comment on the police
violence.<br><br>Thousands\r\n of South Koreans have held
candlelight vigils and other protests \r\nagainst the April 18 deal to
resume U.S. beef imports. They say the \r\ngovernment of President Lee
Myung-bak made too many concessions in the \r\naccord and that it does not
include strict enough quarantine \r\nrestrictions to protect against mad
cow disease.<br><br>The protest movement is among the biggest
domestic challenges faced by Lee in his first months in
office.<br><br>On Sunday, police detained 37 other protesters
at a separate rally urging the government to scrap the import
deal.<br><br>Lee\r\n last week sought to reassure the country
on the safety of U.S. beef but\r\n failed to ease public anger, fanned in
part by media reports \r\nquestioning the safety of the
meat.<br><br>Lee has been criticized for \r\nmaking too many
concessions on the beef issue to get the U.S. Congress \r\nto approve a
free trade agreement. South Korea and the U.S. agreed to \r\nthe landmark
accord last year to slash tariffs and other trade barriers,\r\n but the
deal must be endorsed by legislatures in both capitals before \r\nit takes
effect.<br><br>Prime Minister Han Seung-soo called on South
Korea\'s legislature Monday to ratify the deal before its term ends this
week.<br><br>Some\r\n 700 protesters marched through the
capital until the early hours of the\r\n morning. Some of them called for
Lee\'s impeachment, saying he was \r\nsacrificing public safety for
political gain.<br><br>The April 18 \r\nagreement scrapped
nearly all the quarantine restrictions imposed by the\r\n previous
government to guard against mad cow disease.<br><br>The South
\r\nKorean government was preparing to make an announcement on revised
\r\nquarantine restrictions and the safety of American beef imports as
early\r\n as Tuesday, clearing the way to put it back on Korean store
shelves.<br><br>A\r\n government delegation was to return home
later Monday after conducting \r\non-site inspections of beef industry
facilities in the U.S., said Kim \r\nHyun-soo, an Agriculture Ministry
spokesman. He did not give further \r\ndetails.<br><br>South
Korea suspended U.S. beef imports after the first \r\nAmerican case of mad
cow disease appeared in December 2003 in a \r\nCanadian-born cow in
Washington state.<br><br>Restricted imports of U.S.\r\n beef
reached South Korean supermarkets last year, but further shipments\r\n were
canceled in October after banned parts, such as bones, were
found.<br><br>Scientists\r\n believe mad cow disease, or bovine
spongiform encephalopathy, spreads \r\nwhen farmers feed cattle with
recycled meat and bones from infected \r\nanimals. In humans,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady, \r\nis linked to eating
meat products contaminated with the cattle disease.
<br></span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('18', 'Gangster faces death for shooting city mayor', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'A court in Japan convicted an alleged gangster and sentenced
him to \r\ndeath Monday for the fatal shooting of a popular mayor in a
crime<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.ito.ap_934699425.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.ito.ap_934699425.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Gangster faces death for shooting city
mayor\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>A court in Japan
convicted an alleged gangster and sentenced \r\nhim to death Monday for the
fatal shooting of a popular mayor in a crime\r\n that stunned a nation that
takes pride in its rigid gun-control laws.<br><br>The\r\n
defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death Monday in
\r\nNagasaki District Court, court spokesman Hiroyuki Mano
said.<br><br>Prosecutors had sought the death penalty, while
the defense had argued that was too harsh.<br><br>Mayor\r\n
Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at close range outside a
\r\ntrain station in April last year while campaigning for re-election for
\r\nhis fourth term.<br><br>The crime was lambasted as an act
of violence \r\nthat aimed to stifle democracy, and it also raised fears
about guns on \r\nthe streets as well as about organized crime in a nation
that has long \r\nboasted a relatively crime-free
record.<br><br>Tetsuya Shiroo, 60, who \r\npolice say is a
senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan\'s largest \r\norganized crime
syndicate, was arrested on the scene. He told police he \r\nwas angry at
the city for refusing to compensate him after his car was \r\ndamaged at a
public works construction site.<br><br>The assassination
\r\nwas the second attack in 20 years against a mayor of the southwestern
\r\ncity, whose politicians historically have been outspoken
pacifists.<br><br>In\r\n 1990, Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was shot
and seriously wounded after \r\nsaying that Japan\'s emperor bore some
responsibility for World War II, \r\nenraging rightist-leaning
nationalists. A right-wing terrorist was \r\narrested in that
attack.<br><br>One of Ito\'s daughters, Yuko Yokoo, welcomed
the punishment as what the family had
wanted.<br><br>\"But\r\n even then, we the family are left
with nothing,\" she said on nationally\r\n televised news. \"We
can only hope that this sends a message that such a\r\n crime will never be
repeated.\"<br><br>Known as yakuza, gangsters are
\r\noften involved in construction businesses, corporate extortion,
\r\ngambling, the sex trade and drug
trafficking.<br><br>According to the \r\nlatest police report,
gang members in Japan number about 84,200. They \r\nare behind two-thirds
of Japan\'s reported shootings, which are still \r\nrare compared to in the
United States and other nations at only 65 a
\r\nyear.<br><br>\"We feel even stronger our determination
to make Nagasaki a\r\n city free of gangsters,\" its current Mayor
Tomohisa Taue said on NHK \r\nTV.<br><br>Ito was born in
Nagasaki on August 23, 1945, just two weeks \r\nafter the U.S. atomic
bombing of the city towards the end of World War \r\nII. The other city to
suffer atomic bombing was nearby
Hiroshima.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('19', 'South Korea, Arab states to form group', '2',
'2012-10-23', '<span>\r\n            	South Korea and states in the
Middle East and Africa are \r\nmeeting to prepare for the launch of a new
organization aimed at seeking\r\n closer </span><br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.seoul.ap_807847640.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.seoul.ap_807847640.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"South Korea Arab states to form
group\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>South Korea and states in
the Middle East and Africa are \r\nmeeting to prepare for the launch of a
new organization aimed at seeking\r\n closer ties.<br><br>South
Korea and governments, corporations and \r\norganizations from 22
governments or authorities met Monday at a \r\nconference in Seoul aimed at
establishing the Korea-Arab Society.<br><br>Attending\r\n the
opening ceremony of the conference was President Omar el-Bashir of
\r\nSudan. Among other members of the group are Saudi Arabia, Iraq,
Algeria,\r\n Somalia, Syria and Mauritania.<br><br>South Korea
says that the move to\r\n form the group resulted from an agreement to
\"expand and intensify\" \r\nexisting areas of
cooperation.<br><br>Resource-poor South Korea is heavily
dependent on oil imports and has been intensifying what it calls energy
diplomacy.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('20', ' Fire hits Myanmar embassy in Bangkok', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'A fire destroyed a floor at Myanmar\'s embassy in the Thai
capital on \r\nMonday.Four fire engines rushed to the embassy as plumes of
smoke rose <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.embassy.fire.irpt_216150042.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.embassy.fire.irpt_216150042.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Fire hits Myanmar embassy in
Bangkok\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n   
                            \r\n								<span>A fire destroyed a
floor at Myanmar\'s embassy in the Thai capital on
Monday.<br><br>Four\r\n fire engines rushed to the embassy as
plumes of smoke rose from inside \r\nthe walled compound, located in a busy
business district of Bangkok. The\r\n blaze was put out in about one hour.
No injuries were reported.<br><br>A\r\n fire brigade official,
Anupon Saengdara, said the cause was not known. \r\nBut a man at the
embassy identifying himself only as a consular official\r\n said faulty
wiring sparked the fire.<br><br>Pol. Lt. Thanapat Sirawong
\r\nsaid the blaze engulfed the second floor of the embassy\'s main,
\r\ncolonial-style building, totally damaging the floor and sections of the
\r\nroof.<br><br>The area outside the compound is the site of
frequent but \r\npeaceful demonstrations by Myanmar activists against the
military regime\r\n in their neighboring homeland.<br><br>The
visa section of the embassy \r\nis located in the building that caught
fire. In the last three weeks, \r\naid workers and others often crowded
into the section trying to obtain \r\nhard-to-get visas to isolationist
Myanmar to help victims of a \r\ndevastating
cyclone.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('21', 'At funeral, opposition leader criticizes Zimbabwe\'s
president', '2', '2012-10-23', 'Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai had harsh words for \r\nPresident Robert Mugabe on Sunday, as he
stood near the casket of a man \r\nhe says<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.zimbabwe.funeral_497821286.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.zimbabwe.funeral_497821286.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"At funeral opposition leader criticizes Zimbabwes
president\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n 
                              \r\n								<span>Zimbabwean opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai had harsh \r\nwords for President Robert Mugabe on
Sunday, as he stood near the casket\r\n of a man he says was killed by
Mugabe\'s supporters.<br><br>\"This is a \r\nclear
testimony of the callousness of this regime,\" Tsvangirai said to
a\r\n funeral procession of hundreds gathered outside the capital city of
\r\nHarare.<br><br>\"They can kill us. They can maim us.
But we are going on \r\nthe 27th of June, our hearts dripping with blood,
to vote him out of \r\noffice.\"<br><br>Tsvangirai was
referring to the date of the runoff \r\nelection with Mugabe. On Sunday,
Tsvangirai was at the funeral of \r\nTonderai Ndira, a senior member of
Tsvangirai\'s Movement for Democratic \r\nChange party who was kidnapped
and shot to death, according to MDC party\r\n
members.<br><br>MDC members have accused Mugabe supporters of
the attack, along with other election-related
violence.<br><br>A\r\n Mugabe Cabinet member has denied that
the government had any role in \r\nthe killing, and said the report was an
effort by the MDC to gain \r\ninternational
sympathy.<br><br>The fallout from the controversial March
\r\n29 election has caused international concern. The Zimbabwe Electoral
\r\nCommission, after a long delay, ruled that neither candidate won the
\r\nrequired majority of votes, and scheduled a runoff election for June
27.<br><br>Tsvangirai,\r\n who claims he won the first
election, wants international observers to \r\nmonitor the second round of
voting, but Mugabe\'s government has turned \r\ndown the
demand.<br><br>Since the March balloting, there have been
\r\nnumerous reports from the MDC and church groups about kidnappings,
\r\ntorture and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party
\r\nmembers. They say the violence targets opponents of Mugabe and his
\r\nZanu-PF party.<br><br>Mugabe has ruled the southern African
country since it became independent 28 years
ago.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null);
INSERT INTO `articles` VALUES ('22', 'Ex-VP of Congo arrested on war
crime charges', '2', '2012-10-23', 'An ex-rebel leader who served as a vice
president of Congo was arrested \r\nnear Brussels, Belgium on Saturday on
charges of war crimes and crimes<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.bemba.afp_636668882.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.bemba.afp_636668882.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Ex-VP of Congo arrested on war crime
charges\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n   
                            \r\n								<span>An ex-rebel leader who
served as a vice president of Congo \r\nwas arrested near Brussels, Belgium
on Saturday on charges of war crimes\r\n and crimes against humanity,
according to International Criminal Court.<br><br>The
independent high court -- based in The Hague, Netherlands -- issued an
arrest warrant on Friday for Jean-Pierre Bemba.<br><br>The\r\n
court alleges that between October 2002 and March 2003, Bemba\'s rebel
\r\ngroup carried out a widespread attack against civilians using torture,
\r\nrape, pillaging and \"outrages upon personal dignity,\"
according to an \r\nICC statement.<br><br>Bemba, head of the
rebellious Movement for the \r\nLiberation of Congo, was one of four vice
presidents in the transitional\r\n government of the Democratic Republic of
Congo from 2003 to 2006.<br><br>He\r\n was involved in a
power-sharing government created in 2002, which \r\nallowed members from
four rebel groups to fill each of the four vice \r\npresidential
seats.<br>advertisement<br><br>The agreement was supposed
\r\nto resolve a conflict that sucked in the armies of six nations, split
\r\nthe vast country into rebel- and government-held regions and killed an
\r\nestimated 2.5 million people, mainly through disease and
hunger.<br><br>War\r\n broke out in Congo in August 1998 when
Rwanda and Uganda backed \r\nCongolese rebels seeking to oust Congo
President Laurent Kabila, \r\naccusing him of supporting groups, including
the Hutu militia, which \r\nthreatened their security. Kabila was
assassinated three years
later.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('23', ' Tsvangirai returns home despite plot fears', '2',
'2012-10-23', 'Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to
Zimbabwe \r\nSaturday for the first time since leaving the country shortly
after the \r\ncontroversial March 29 election.Tsvangirai <br>',
'<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.tsvangirai.gi_890932285.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.tsvangirai.gi_890932285.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Tsvangirai returns home despite plot
fears\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>Zimbabwean opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to \r\nZimbabwe Saturday for the first
time since leaving the country shortly \r\nafter the controversial March 29
election.<br><br>Tsvangirai -- who \r\ncontends he won the
presidential race against longtime Zimbabwe leader \r\nRobert Mugabe --
returned despite what his party said was a plot by the \r\ncountry\'s
military to assassinate him and other party
leaders.<br><br>The\r\n Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, after a
long delay, ruled that neither \r\ncandidate won a necessary majority of
the vote and set a date of June 27\r\n for Tsvangirai to again face Mugabe
in a runoff vote.<br><br>Tsvangirai\r\n and his Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) have called for \r\ninternational observers to be
allowed to monitor the runoff election, \r\nbut Mugabe\'s government has
refused the demand.<br><br>Tsvangirai is expected to tour
hospitals in Harare to visit victims of post-election
violence.<br><br>An\r\n MDC spokesman said two party members
were found dead Wednesday night \r\nafter being abducted from their homes
in the Zimbabwean capital of \r\nHarare.<br><br>Tsvangirai\'s
spokesman George Sibotshiwe said Saturday \r\nthat the opposition leader
and the entire MDC leadership are \"at risk \r\nfrom this brutal
regime.\" When contacted by CNN, a Cabinet member denied\r\n that the
government had any possible role in the alleged plot, and said\r\n the
report was an effort by the MDC to gain international
sympathy.<br><br>Chen\r\n Chimutengwende, Zimbabwe\'s minister
of public and interactive affairs, \r\naccused Tsvangirai of \"trying
to paint a false picture of what Zimbabwe \r\nand Zimbabwe authorities are
like.\"<br><br>\"There is no plot against him\r\n and
there has never been any plot against him and he knows that,\"
\r\nChimutengwende said. He called the reports from Tsvangirai\'s party
\"an \r\neffort to get sympathy from the international
community.\"<br><br>There \r\nhave been numerous reports
from the MDC and church groups since the \r\nMarch balloting about
kidnappings, torture, and other violence, \r\nincluding the deaths of
opposition party members. They say the violence \r\ntargets opponents of
Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party.<br><br>Mugabe has ruled the
southern African country since it became independent 28 years ago.
<br></span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('24', 'Schwarzenegger urges new fees to boost firefighting',
'2', '2012-10-23', 'California firefighters need more equipment and staff
to handle \r\nwildfires that are increasingly a year-round problem, Gov.
Arnold \r\nSchwarzenegger said Friday.He visited the scene of <br>',
'<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.wildfires.ap_481805126.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.wildfires.ap_481805126.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Schwarzenegger urges new fees to boost
firefighting\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n
                               \r\n								<span>California
firefighters need more equipment and staff to \r\nhandle wildfires that are
increasingly a year-round problem, Gov. Arnold\r\n Schwarzenegger said
Friday.<br><br>He visited the scene of the \r\n3,100-acre
Summit fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern \r\nCalifornia, where
about 1,100 firefighters are working to contain the \r\nblaze. He praised
them as \"the best-trained, the most courageous, the \r\nmost
well-equipped and most selfless firefighters in the world,\" but
\r\nsaid the state needs to be better prepared for such
emergencies.<br><br>Schwarzenegger is pushing for an increase
in homeowners\' insurance fees he said would raise $100 million for fire
protection.<br><br>\"I\r\n think we need those extra
engines. We need more manpower. We need more \r\naircraft. We need to
update our aircraft that are outdated,\" he said. \r\n\"So
there\'s a lot of work that needs to be done, but we are continuing \r\nto
increase all those things, so our firefighters are very well \r\nprotected
and that we are protected.\"<br><br>The fast-burning
Summit \r\nfire grew to 3,100 acres Friday, leaving 12 burned structures in
its \r\nwake and prompting rescues and evacuations in two counties,
according to\r\n the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
But \r\nfirefighters were being helped by calmer conditions -- 30-mph winds
that\r\n had fanned the blaze faded away.<br><br>Still, the
fire was only 20 \r\npercent contained Friday afternoon, the agency
reported. It has \r\nthreatened about 500 homes and 20 businesses, said
Chris Morgan of the \r\nforestry and fire protection department, and more
than 1,700 people have\r\n been evacuated.<br><br>Five planes
and 10 helicopters have been used to\r\n drop water on the fire since it
began early Thursday, including a \r\n\"supertanker\" -- a jumbo
jet modified to battle fires from the air. The \r\nfire\'s cause is still
under investigation.<br><br>Schwarzenegger said the state is
grappling with fires that no longer seem limited to the typical spring
period.<br><br>\"Now we have seen fires all year
round,\" he said.</span>\r\n							</div><br>',
null, null, null, null), ('25', 'Wall Street borrows less from the Fed',
'3', '2012-10-23', 'Investment firms are reducing the amount of money they
borrow through \r\nthe Federal Reserve\'s emergency lending
program.WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wall \r\nStreet investment companies are
reducing<br>', 'Investment firms are reducing the amount of money
they borrow through the Federal Reserve\'s emergency lending
program.<br><br>WASHINGTON\r\n (AP) -- Wall Street investment
companies are reducing their borrowing \r\nfrom the Federal Reserve\'s
emergency lending program.<br><br>The Federal\r\n Reserve said
in a report Thursday that those companies averaged $14.2 \r\nbillion in
daily borrowing over the past week. That compares with $16.6 \r\nbillion in
the previous week.<br><br>The program, which began March 17,
\r\nis one of several steps the Fed has taken to help industry and the
\r\neconomy overcome the fallout from housing, credit and financial
\r\ntroubles.<br><br>After a run on Bear Stearns (BSC, Fortune
500) pushed \r\nthe nation\'s fifth-largest investment bank to the brink of
bankruptcy in\r\n March, fears grew that others Wall Street firms might be
in jeopardy.<br><br>Broad\r\n use of power: Scrambling to avert
a market meltdown, Fed Chairman Ben \r\nBernanke and his colleagues invoked
the broadest use of the central \r\nbank\'s lending power since the 1930s
when they agreed in March to let \r\ninvestment houses obtain emergency
financing from the Fed. That was a \r\nprivilege previously granted only to
commercial banks.<br><br>The \r\nprogram, similar to one the
Fed long has had for commercial banks, will \r\ncontinue for at least six
months. It gives investment companies a place \r\nto go for overnight
loans. Commercial banks and investment companies now\r\n pay 2.25% in
interest for the loans.<br><br>Banks also reduced their
\r\nborrowing, according to the report. They averaged $13.5 billion in
daily\r\n borrowing for the week ending May 21, compared with $14.4 billion
for \r\nthe previous week. The identities of commercial banks and
investment \r\nhouses are not released.<br><br>Bernanke
recently said turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the
situation is still \"far from
normal.\"<br><br>Fed\r\n auctions: As part of efforts to
relieve credit strains, the Fed \r\nauctioned $46.1 billion in Treasury
securities to investment companies \r\nThursday. <br><br>The
ninth and latest auction drew bids for less than \r\nthe $75 billion
available. That could be a sign of some improvement in \r\ncredit
conditions.<br><br>In exchange for the 28-day loans of Treasury
\r\nsecurities, bidding companies can put up as collateral more risky
\r\ninvestments. These include certain mortgage-backed securities and bonds
\r\nsecured by federally guaranteed student loans.<br><br>The
auction \r\nprogram, which began March 27, is intended to make investment
companies \r\nmore inclined to lend to each other. A second goal is
providing relief \r\nto the distressed market for mortgage-linked
securities and for student \r\nloans.<br>', null, null, null, null),
('26', 'Is $130 oil a bubble?', '3', '2012-10-23', 'Some say no. They say
unlike the tech and real estate bubbles, there\'s \r\nno overabundance of
supply. Others say these high prices are not \r\nsustainable.NEW
<br>', 'Some say no. They say unlike the tech and real estate
bubbles, there\'s \r\nno overabundance of supply. Others say these high
prices are not \r\nsustainable.<br><br>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)
-- Oil prices have doubled \r\nin the past 12 months, surging nearly $8 a
barrel in the past four days \r\nalone.<br><br>Big investment
funds are putting money into oil futures as\r\n if Saudi Arabia\'s spigots
will run dry tomorrow. At the same time, the \r\nsupply of oil and the
demand for it hasn\'t changed much in the last
\r\nyear.<br><br>So it raises the question: Is $130 oil nothing
more than one big bubble?<br><br>The answer depends on who you
ask.<br><br>\"A\r\n bubble is where supply overwhelms
demand,\" said Stephen Leeb, an \r\ninvestment manager who has
authored two books on oil scarcity.<br><br>Leeb\r\n pointed to
previous bubbles - like the tech bubble in the late 1990s \r\nwhere
companies with zero earnings issued massive amounts of stock, and \r\nthe
real estate market a decade later where home builders went on a \r\nfrenzy,
overshooting the number of homes the market could
absorb.<br><br>\"But unless I\'m missing something here, I
don\'t see any massive increase in the supply of oil,\" he
said.<br><br>Like\r\n many in the not-a-bubble camp, Leeb
pointed to surging demand from \r\nplaces like China - some estimates see
auto ownership there surging \r\n30-fold in the next few decades - coupled
with dwindling supplies as the\r\n main reasons behind pricey
oil.<br><br>Thursday, the International \r\nEnergy Agency gave
advance warning that its previous forecast for supply\r\n and demand
remaining in pleasant equilibrium over the next two decades \r\nwas flawed.
Its new projections, due in November, will say supplies may \r\nfall 10
percent short of demand, according to a report in the Wall \r\nStreet
Journal.<br><br>Leeb said Russia was already seeing a drop in
\r\nproduction, and there\'s little evidence Saudi Arabia could increase
\r\nproduction even if it wanted to.<br><br>\"If the two
biggest oil producers in the world can no longer increase production,
that\'s a catastrophe, not a bubble,\" he
said.<br><br>Others say there\'s no way $130 oil is
justified.<br><br>\"This\r\n thing has to turn around,
it\'s insanity,\" said Peter Beutel, an oil \r\nanalyst at the
consultancy Cameron Hanover. \"Ultimately we\'ll see a huge\r\n
collapse in prices.\"<br><br>Beutel doesn\'t know when
that collapse would come, but he predicts it will be within weeks or
months, not years.<br><br>But\r\n he doesn\'t know just what
might bring it about - perhaps the Federal \r\nReserve increasing interest
rates or a big drop in consumption as people\r\n worldwide can no longer
afford to fuel their cars or heat their
homes.<br><br>\"If\r\n these prices stick, you may see
whole neighborhoods where people \r\nabandon their homes,\" he said
predicting that in the Northeast U.S. it \r\nwill cost $5000 to heat a home
unless prices fall.<br><br>Many analysts said supply and demand
justifies expensive oil - maybe $90 or $100 a barrel - but $130 is just too
much.<br><br>\"To\r\n see something run this far and this
fast, you see it leveraged by \r\nfinancial players,\" said Neal
Dingmann, senior energy analyst at Dahlman\r\n Rose &amp; Co., a New
York-based energy investment boutique. \"The \r\ndirection is corect,
the speed isn\'t.\"<br><br>Dingman said demand is
\r\nslowing in the U.S., and the Chinese numbers are inflated because they
\r\nassume the government will continue to subsidize fuel, which he feels
\r\nthey won\'t do.<br><br>Over the next five or ten years, he
said it would \r\nbe possible to see a return to $70 or $80 oil by
gradually increasing \r\nsupply - both in OPEC countries and non-OPEC
countries like Brazil, as \r\nwell as aggressive measures to limit demand
like increasing fuel \r\nefficiency standards.<br><br>Robert
Kaufmann, director of Boston \r\nUniversity\'s Center for Energy and
Environmental Studies, also says oil \r\nis overpriced by about
$30.<br><br>He says current markets are adequately supplied,
and traders are pricing in future predictions of surging
demand.<br><br>\"To me, that\'s a bubble,\" he
said.<br><br>But\r\n Kaufmann still thinks oil should be priced
at around $100. He says \r\nsupplies just aren\'t growing, and the only way
to bring prices down to \r\nthe $100 range is to reduce
consumption.<br><br>\"Even when that bubble pops, you\'re
not looking at $60, $70 oil,\" he said.<br>', null, null, null,
null), ('27', 'French company to open U.S. nuclear fuel plant', '3',
'2012-10-23', 'Subsidiary of French nuclear manufacturer Areva signs $2.7
billion deal \r\nto operate plant in South Carolina.PARIS (AP) -- French
nuclear \r\nmanufacturer Areva says a subsidiary<br>', 'Subsidiary of
French nuclear manufacturer Areva signs $2.7 billion deal to operate plant
in South Carolina.<br><br>PARIS\r\n (AP) -- French nuclear
manufacturer Areva says a subsidiary has signed a\r\n $2.7 billion
(euro1.72 billion) deal with the U.S. Department of Energy\r\n to build and
operate a nuclear fuel production facility in South
\r\nCarolina.<br><br>Shaw Areva MOX Services has signed the
deal to build a plant at the Savannah River site near Aiken, South
Carolina.<br><br>The\r\n plant will mix leftover weapons-grade
plutonium with uranium oxide to \r\nmake fuel pellets called MOX, or
mixed-oxide, for commercial nuclear \r\nreactors.<br><br>Areva
already makes MOX fuel at a facility in France. It announced the deal
Friday.<br><br>Through the agreement, the Department of Energy
is exercising the construction options included in a contract signed in
1999.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('28', 'Dollar down against
euro, yen', '3', '2012-10-23', 'The greenback reverses direction, sinking
against foreign currencies as \r\noil continues its run.NEW YORK (AP) --
The dollar sank against most \r\nmajor currencies on Friday<br>',
'The greenback reverses direction, sinking against foreign currencies as
oil continues its run.<br><br>NEW\r\n YORK (AP) -- The dollar
sank against most major currencies on Friday, \r\nafter oil prices
rebounded from a brief decline and a private realty \r\ngroup reported that
existing-home sales dropped for the eighth time in \r\nnine
months.<br><br>The 15-nation euro rose to $1.5775 in late New
York trading from $1.5699 late Thursday.<br><br>Oil prices rose
again Friday, after tumbling around $4 overnight from a record above $135 a
barrel set Thursday.<br><br>The\r\n euro-dollar trade has
tracked the rise and fall of oil prices. Surging \r\noil has weighed on the
global economy, compounding inflation worries and\r\n fears that consumers
will spend less as fuel takes up a larger part of \r\ntheir income. But the
euro zone\'s economy is seen as more resilient to \r\nsky-high oil than the
U.S. economy.<br><br>The British pound edged \r\nhigher, to
$1.9794 from $1.9782, after the U.K. reported its gross \r\ndomestic
product rose 0.4% in the first quarter of this year compared \r\nwith the
last quarter of 2007.<br><br>The dollar slumped to 104.17
\r\nJapanese yen from 105.26 yen, as U.S. stocks fell amid surging oil
fears\r\n and steadily dropping home sales.<br><br>The
dollar-yen trade tends to \r\ncorrelate with the stock market, as slumping
equities drive currency \r\ninvestors from risky \"carry
trades.\"<br><br>Carry trades involve \r\nborrowing
currencies from countries with low interest rates, such as \r\nJapan, and
investing them in higher-yielding assets. When the market \r\nslides,
traders tend to sell off those trades and pay back the yen
loan.<br><br>Sales\r\n of existing U.S. homes fell by 1% in
April to 4.89 million units, \r\nmatching a record low set in January. It
is the eighth drop in nine \r\nmonths. The National Association of
Realtors, which tracks the data, \r\nstarting collecting it in 1999. The
median price for an existing home \r\ndropped 8% to $202,300, compared with
the same time last year, and \r\nfurther price declines are
expected.<br><br>In other New York trading, \r\nthe dollar fell
to 1.0241 Swiss francs from 1.0339 francs, but edged \r\nhigher to 98.86
Canadian cents from 98.56 Canadian cents.<br>', null, null, null,
null), ('29', 'US Airways delays Philadelphia-Beijing route', '3',
'2012-10-23', 'The airline says high fuel costs would increase costs by
80%. Company \r\nhopes to launch the route in 2010, a year later than
planned.WASHINGTON \r\n(AP)<br>', 'The airline says high fuel costs
would increase costs by 80%. Company \r\nhopes to launch the route in 2010,
a year later than planned.<br><br>WASHINGTON\r\n (AP) -- US
Airways said Thursday that high fuel prices are forcing the \r\nairline to
seek a one-year delay in starting a route between \r\nPhiladelphia and
Beijing.<br><br>In letters to members of Congress and
\r\nemployees, the Tempe, Ariz.-based airline said the cost for fuel to run
\r\nthe route would be more than $90 million a year - $40 million more than
\r\nthe original estimate of about $50
million.<br><br>\"We\'re optimistic \r\nthat economic
conditions will be on the upswing in 2010, giving us a \r\nbetter chance of
success with our first route to China,\" Scott Kirby, \r\nthe company
president, said in a letter to workers.<br><br>When the
\r\nairline was given approval last year by the U.S. Transportation
\r\nDepartment to create the route, it was announced with fanfare. The
\r\nairline said it would start the service next year using Airbus A340
jets\r\n that would originate in Charlotte, N.C.<br><br>Air
service between the \r\nUnited States and China is restricted by agreements
between the \r\ngovernments, so U.S. airlines must apply for new routes.
Kirby said it \r\nwould ask the agency for the
delay.<br><br>Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said \r\nin a statement
that the China route is a priority for the Philadelphia \r\nregion, and
that the delay was another example of how high gas prices \r\nare hurting
the economy.<br><br>\"I hope this delay is only temporary
\r\nbecause this route has the potential to be an economic boon to
\r\nPhiladelphia and good business for US Airways,\" Casey
said.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('30', 'Dollar rebounds as oil
prices ease', '3', '2012-10-23', 'Greenback rises against euro and yen but
falls against the pound.NEW \r\nYORK (AP) -- The dollar recouped some of
the week\'s losses against the \r\neuro<br>', 'Greenback rises
against euro and yen but falls against the
pound.<br><br>NEW\r\n YORK (AP) -- The dollar recouped some of
the week\'s losses against the \r\neuro and yen as stocks advanced and oil
prices retreated. However, the \r\ngreenback slid against the
pound.<br><br>The 15-nation euro dropped to $1.5699 from
$1.5780 late Wednesday.<br><br>Oil prices eased from their
overnight record above $135 to settle at $130.81 in New
York.<br><br>The\r\n euro-dollar trade has recently tracked the
rise and fall of oil prices.\r\n Surging oil has weighed on the global
economy, compounding inflation \r\nworries and fears that consumers will
spend less as fuel takes up a \r\nlarger part of their income. But
Europe\'s economy is seen as more \r\nresilient to sky-high oil than the
United States.<br><br>The dollar also rose to 105.26 Japanese
yen from 104.17 yen and 1.0339 Swiss francs from 1.0272
francs.<br><br>When\r\n stock markets rise, the dollar tends to
rise against these two \"carry \r\ntrade\" currencies as
investors are more willing to engage in risky
\r\ntrading.<br><br>Carry trades involve borrowing a currency
from a country\r\n with low interest rates, such as Japan, and using those
funds to buy \r\nhigher-yielding assets. The possibility of sharp drops in
exchange rates\r\n make this strategy risky.<br><br>The British
pound, meanwhile, rose to $1.9782 from $1.9689 late
Wednesday.<br><br>The\r\n Federal Reserve on Wednesday, in the
release of minutes from its April \r\nmeeting, forecast a softening economy
and rising unemployment and \r\ninflation in 2008, dampening expectations
of a long-term dollar rally.<br><br>In other New York trading,
the dollar edged up to 98.56 Canadian cents from 98.48 Canadian
cents.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('31', 'Kerkorian ups Ford bid
financing to $600M', '3', '2012-10-23', 'The billionaire investor gets an
additional $100M in an attempt increase\r\n his ownership to 5.5% of the
automaker.WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire \r\ninvestor Kirk Kerkorian
has<br>', 'The billionaire investor gets an additional $100M in an
attempt increase his ownership to 5.5% of the
automaker.<br><br>WASHINGTON\r\n (AP) -- Billionaire investor
Kirk Kerkorian has added $100 million in \r\nfinancing as part of his bid
to increase his stake in Ford Motor Co.<br><br>Kerkorian\'s\r\n
Tracinda Corp. said in a regulatory filing Friday it may borrow as much\r\n
as $600 million from Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500). That\'s an
\r\nincrease from $500 million.<br><br>Kerkorian has said he
wants to buy up\r\n to 20 million shares of Ford (F, Fortune 500)\'s common
stock in an \r\nattempt to increase his ownership of the automaker to
5.5%.<br><br>Ford\'s board has taken a neutral stance on
Kerkorian\'s offer.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('32', '\'Indiana
Jones\' \" makes $311 million', '3', '2012-10-23', 'Memorial Day
weekend sales for adventure sequel were about evenly split \r\nbetween
domestic and overseas theaters.LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The most \r\nrecent
Indiana Jones film<br>', 'Memorial Day weekend sales for adventure
sequel were about evenly split between domestic and overseas
theaters.<br><br>LOS\r\n ANGELES (AP) -- The most recent
Indiana Jones film more than recouped \r\nits big budget with an estimated
$311 million in global box office sales\r\n through the long weekend,
according to studio estimates Monday.<br><br>Families\r\n went
in droves to catch \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
\r\nSkull,\" a PG-13 adventure starring Harrison Ford as the
whip-cracking \r\narchaeologist who took 19 years to return to the big
screen.<br><br>Viacom\r\n Inc. (VIA)-owned Paramount Pictures
estimated the action sequel made \r\n$151.1 million in the U.S. and Canada
from Thursday to the holiday \r\nMonday and $160 million overseas, though
not including Monday.<br><br>It\r\n marked the second biggest
Memorial Day weekend opening ever, behind \r\nonly \"Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World\'s End,\" which made $153 million\r\n domestically
from Thursday to Monday last year.<br><br>Nearly a third \r\nof
the domestic audience was made up of parents with their children, \r\nsaid
Rob Moore, president of Paramount Worldwide
Distribution.<br><br>\"Adults\r\n really drove this
opening. This is one of their favorite franchises and\r\n they couldn\'t
wait to take their kids with them,\" Moore
said.<br><br>The\r\n film cost a reported $185 million to make,
even with the principal \r\ntalent - Ford, director Steven Spielberg and
writer George Lucas - \r\ndeferring their usual fees for a greater share of
the profits.<br><br>The first three Indy movies raked in $1.2
billion worldwide.<br><br>Marketing\r\n costs were undisclosed,
although the latest \"Indiana Jones\" received a \r\nmajor push
from Paramount. DVDs of the first three movies were \r\nrereleased, they
aired on TV days before the opening and huge billboards\r\n sprung
up.<br><br>The final trailer for the movie rolled before the
\r\nopening of Marvel Studios\' \"Iron Man,\" which was also
distributed by \r\nParamount, three weeks
earlier.<br><br>\"It\'s been a pretty good month,\"
Moore said. \"We started the month with \'Iron Man\' and finished with
\'Indiana Jones.\"\'<br><br>Other movies\' receipts over
the long weekend paled by comparison.<br><br>The\r\n Walt
Disney Co.\'s (DIS, Fortune 500) \"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
\r\nCaspian\" slashed its way to $28.6 million, for a total $96.7
million \r\nover two weeks. \"Iron Man\" locked up third with
$25.7 million in its \r\nthird week for a total of $257.8
million.<br><br>The Wachowski brothers \r\nflick \"Speed
Racer,\" distributed by Warner Bros., crawled closer to the \r\nfinish
line with $5.2 million for fifth, bringing its domestic total to \r\n$37.4
million. It brought in $30 million overseas, and had yet to be \r\nreleased
in major markets France, Russia, Japan and Australia. Warner is\r\n a unit
of CNNMoney.com parent Time Warner Inc. (TWX, Fortune
500)<br><br>The studio said it was not ready to wave the
checkered flag on the film, which cost $120 million to
make.<br><br>\"If\r\n I had my druthers I\'d have it in
theaters for weeks and months to \r\ncome,\" said Jeff Goldstein,
Warner Bros.\' executive vice president of
\r\ndistribution.<br><br>For the year so far, domestic movie
revenues are down more than 4 percent at $3.4 billion, with attendance off
nearly 7 percent.<br><br>Estimated\r\n ticket sales for Friday
through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, \r\naccording to Media By
Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released
\r\nTuesday.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. \"Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,\" $126 million (plus $25.1
million on Thursday).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. \"The
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,\" $28.6
million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. \"Iron Man,\" $25.7
million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. \"What Happens in
Vegas,\" $11.2 million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 5. \"Speed
Racer,\" $5.2 million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 6. \"Made of
Honor,\" $4.2 million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 7. \"Baby
Mama,\" $4.2 million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.
\"Forgetting Sarah Marshall,\" $2.2
million.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 9. \"Harold &amp; Kumar
Escape from Guantanamo Bay,\" $1.2 million.<br>&nbsp; 10.
\"The Visitor,\" $917,000. <br>', null, null, null, null),
('33', 'Stocks set for weak open', '3', '2012-10-23', 'Futures point to
lower start ahead of readings on consumer confidence, \r\nnew home
sales.LONDON (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks looked set for a \r\nweak open
Tuesday<br>', 'Futures point to lower start ahead of readings on
consumer confidence, new home sales.<br><br>LONDON\r\n
(CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks looked set for a weak open Tuesday as
\r\ntraders headed back to work after the holiday
weekend.<br><br>At 4:26 a.m. ET, Nasdaq and S&amp;P futures
were narrowly higher and pointing to a flat to lower start for Wall
Street.<br><br>Stocks\r\n sank Friday amid surging oil prices
and another weak reading on the \r\nhousing market. U.S. markets were
closed Monday for Memorial Day.<br><br>Crude\r\n prices
remained near the $133 a barrel level Tuesday, supported by \r\nsupply
concerns and worries about the health of the U.S.
economy.<br><br>On the economic front, readings on consumer
confidence and new home sales are both on tap.<br><br>In global
trade, Asian stocks ended mostly higher. European shares fell in early
trading. U.K. markets were closed Monday.<br>', null, null, null,
null), ('34', 'Vodafone CEO Sarin stepping down', '3', '2012-10-23',
'Mobile phone operator says Sarin will be replaced with his deputy,
\r\nVittorio Colao.LONDON (AP) -- Mobile phone company Vodafone PLC on
\r\nTuesday announced a return<br>', 'Mobile phone operator says
Sarin will be replaced with his deputy, Vittorio
Colao.<br><br>LONDON\r\n (AP) -- Mobile phone company Vodafone
PLC on Tuesday announced a return\r\n to full-year net profit from a loss
the previous year, and said chief \r\nexecutive Arun Sarin would step down
at the end of July.<br><br>Sarin has held the top job for five
years and will be replaced by his deputy, Vittorio
Colao.<br><br>The\r\n departure of Indian-born Sarin, 53, came
as a surprise to many. He \r\nfaced disquiet two years ago, when nearly 10%
of Vodafone shareholders \r\nvoted against his re-election as chief
executive.<br><br>But the company\r\n has since outperformed
analysts\' forecasts and enjoyed revenue growth \r\nin fast-growing markets
such as India and Turkey.<br><br>Under his tenure, Vodafone\'s
(VOD) customer base from 120 million to 260 million around the
world.<br><br>Sarin said he \"felt the timing was right to
handover as the company is in a good position
strategically.\"<br><br>\"I\'ve achieved what I set
out to achieve when I took the position,\" Sarin said in a conference
call.<br><br>Vodafone shares rose 2.1% on the London Stock
Exchange.<br><br>Vodafone said net profit for the year to March
31 was $13.25 billion from a net loss of $9.69 billion a year
earlier.<br><br>Impairment\r\n charges on Vodafone\'s Italian
and German operations contributed to the \r\nloss last year. The move to
net profit was driven by cost reduction and \r\noutsourcing programs in
Western Europe.<br><br>Revenues increased 14% to $70.2 billion
from $61.48 billion the year before.<br>', null, null, null, null),
('35', 'Buffett sees U.S. in recession', '3', '2012-10-23', 'Berkshire
Hathaway CEO tells German magazine he believes country is now \r\nin
recession.BERLIN (AP) -- Warren Buffett, whose business and \r\ninvestment
acumen has made him<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=warren_buffett_new.03_607012521.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
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alt=\"Buffett sees US in
recession\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n 
                              \r\n								<span>Berkshire Hathaway
CEO tells German magazine he believes country is now in
recession.<br><br>BERLIN\r\n (AP) -- Warren Buffett, whose
business and investment acumen has made \r\nhim one of the world\'s
wealthiest men, was quoted in an interview \r\npublished Sunday as saying
the U.S. economy is already in a recession.<br><br>Asked\r\n by
Germany\'s Der Spiegel weekly whether he thinks the U.S. could still
\r\navoid a recession, he said that as far as the average person is
\r\nconcerned, it is already here.<br><br>\"I believe that
we are already in a\r\n recession,\" Buffet was quoted as saying.
\"Perhaps not in the sense as \r\ndefined by economists. ... But
people are already feeling the effects of\r\n a
recession.\"<br><br>\"It will be deeper and longer
than what many think,\" he added.<br><br>The\r\n
77-year-old chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
\r\n(BRKB) gave the interview while he was in Europe for what he called a
\r\n\"deferred shopping tour,\" looking for possible
acquisitions.<br><br>Omaha-based\r\n Berkshire has about $35
billion in cash and is looking to invest. \r\nBerkshire\'s subsidiaries
include insurance, clothing, furniture, natural\r\n gas, corporate jet and
candy companies. Berkshire also has major \r\ninvestments in such companies
as Coca-Cola Co. and Anheuser-Busch
Cos.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('36', 'Holiday travelers paying more for gas', '3', '2012-10-23',
'Gas prices rise again and force some holiday drivers to stay off the
\r\nroads. Travel expected to lessen for first time since 2002.NEW YORK
\r\n(CNNMoney.com) <br>',
'<div>\r\n								\r\n									<div>\r\n										\r\n         
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          \r\n										<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Holiday travelers paying more for
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                         \r\n								<span>Gas prices rise again and
force some holiday drivers to stay off the roads. Travel expected to lessen
for first time since 2002.<br><br>NEW\r\n YORK (CNNMoney.com)
-- Drivers marking the start of summer holiday \r\ntravel season this
weekend are really paying for it at the pump.<br><br>The price
of gasoline rose for the 20th straight day to less than a dime shy of $4,
motorist organization AAA reported Monday.<br><br>According\r\n
to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to
a\r\n record high of $3.936, up six-tenths of a cent from the previous high
\r\nof $3.930.<br><br>What a difference a year makes: Last
Memorial Day weekend, drivers paid an average of $3.23 a
gallon.<br><br>Indeed, as gas prices have surged, some drivers
have pulled back.<br><br>The\r\n U.S. Federal Highway
Administration said Monday it estimates that \r\nAmericans drove 4.3% fewer
miles on public roads in March. The change - \r\nthe first year-over-year
March decline since 1979 - continues an overall\r\n drop in driving that
began last November, the agency said.<br><br>According\r\n to
AAA, for the first time since 2002, Americans said they were \r\nplanning
to drive less over the Memorial Day weekend than they did the \r\nyear
before.<br><br>The number of Americans traveling 50 or more
miles \r\nfrom home this holiday weekend was expected to slip by 0.9% to
37.87 \r\nmillion, the motorist group forecast
recently.<br><br>\"Most people are going to travel closer
to home this year, and they\'re going to take fewer trips,\" said AAA
spokesman Mike
Pina.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>iReport.com: Share
your stories from the pump<br><br>Among\r\n the estimated 12%
of Americans who will be traveling this weekend, AAA \r\nsaid 31.7 million
people, or 83%, are expected to drive. That\'s slightly\r\n fewer than the
32 million Memorial Day drivers a year ago.<br><br>The \r\nAAA
survey was conducted during the last week of April, when gas was at
\r\n$3.50 a gallon. Now, drivers in 11 states and the District of Columbia
\r\nare paying an average above $4 per gallon.<br><br>A
Deloitte &amp; \r\nTouche survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted
May 12-14 found \r\nthat, as a result of the rise in gas prices, 23% of
Americans had \r\naltered their Memorial Day weekend travel
plans.<br><br>Deloitte &amp; \r\nTouche found that 12% of
would-be travelers had cancelled their vacation\r\n plans altogether, and
11% planned on traveling closer to home.<br><br>The\r\n average
traveler is expected to drive 91 miles to and from home this \r\nweekend,
according to the Deloitte &amp; Touche survey. The average car \r\ngets
20.2 miles per gallon, according to the U.S. Environmental \r\nProtection
Agency, so that 91-mile trip will cost drivers $34.92. Last \r\nyear, that
same trip would have cost $29.10.<br><br>Air travel will
give\r\n vacationers no respite from high fuel costs: For the 11% of
travelers \r\nwho planned on flying, the price of a ticket was expected to
be 8% \r\nhigher than it was last year. Most U.S. air carriers have
announced fuel\r\n surcharges this spring.<br><br>Much of the
run-up in gasoline can be attributed to record crude oil prices, which have
more than doubled over the past
year.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('37', 'Burger King doubles tomato pickers pay', '3', '2012-10-23',
'Fast-food chain agrees to deal paying 1.5 cents more per pound of
\r\ntomatoes it buys from Florida growers with the money going to farm
\r\nworkers.MIAMI <br>', 'Fast-food chain agrees to deal paying 1.5
cents more per pound of \r\ntomatoes it buys from Florida growers with the
money going to farm \r\nworkers.<br><br>MIAMI (AP) -- A farm
worker advocacy group and Burger \r\nKing are said to have agreed on a deal
to help improve wages and \r\nconditions for Florida tomato
pickers.<br><br>An aide to U.S. Senator \r\nBernie Sanders who
held a hearing on the case announced the deal Friday.\r\n The aide, Michael
Briggs, said the two sides planned to announce the \r\ndeal later
today.<br><br>Briggs says the Miami-based fast-food chain
\r\nwill pay 1.5 cents more per pound of tomatoes it buys from Florida
\r\ngrowers, with the money passed to the workers.<br><br>He
says the farm \r\nworker\'s group known as the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers says that \r\nwould roughly double what workers earn while
picking.<br><br>McDonald\'s \r\n(MCD, Fortune 500) and Taco
Bell owner Yum Brands (YUM, Fortune 500) \r\nhave similar deals. But they
have faced resistance from growers.<br>', null, null, null, null),
('38', 'Stockport 3-2 Rochdale', '4', '2012-10-23', 'Stockport County
manager Jim Gannon paid tribute to his young team after\r\n they defeated
Rochdale 3-2 in the League Two play-off final.\r\n\"I hope that we
<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690668_gannon_203_143106283.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690668_gannon_203_143106283.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Stockport 3-2
Rochdale\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								Stockport County manager Jim
Gannon paid tribute to \r\nhis young team after they defeated Rochdale 3-2
in the League Two \r\nplay-off final.\r\n\"I hope that we become a
role model for all clubs at this level,\" said Gannon.\r\n\"Over
the past two years we have brought through a group of young \r\nplayers who
in the right circumstances, play really good, effective
\r\nfootball.\r\n\"It would be nice to keep them together but I think
some of them are destined for great things.\"\r\nRory McArdle had put
Rochdale ahead in Sunday\'s final at Wembley \r\nbefore Nathan Stanton
diverted a cross into his own net to ensure \r\nStockport went into the
break on level terms.\r\nBut Anthony Pilkington headed the Hatters ahead
shortly after the \r\nrestart and Liam Dickinson extended their lead before
a superb volley \r\nfrom Adam Rundle ensured a tight finish.\r\nIt was the
Hatters first victory at Wembley in their fifth attempt - \r\nand boss
Gannon had played in all of the previous four defeats.\r\nHowever, despite
the defeats, Gannon was part of a Stockport team \r\nthat won promotion
from the Football League\'s bottom division to the \r\nsecond tier of
English football.\r\n\"We had the experience of the play-offs in the
\'90s and defeat was \r\nhard to take but it was all part of growing as a
club,\" added Gannon.\r\n\"I enjoyed my performances here as a
player but to see the club go \r\nfrom the lower reaches of the fourth
division to the top of the \r\nChampionship was a great
experience.\r\n\"Why couldn\'t that happen again? It would be tougher
now but this club is on the up.\r\n\"We play young players and that is
what our level of football should be about.\r\n\"It should be a
breeding ground for good footballers and good \r\nfootball, not full of
journeymen playing out time on their careers.\"\r\nRochdale manager
Keith Hill admitted that Stockport were the better team on the
day.\r\n\"I think that Stockport deserved it,\" said
Hill.\r\n\"It could have gone either way and we gave it what we could
but the lion\'s share of possession went to Stockport.\r\n\"We went
for it at 3-1 down but overall Stockport deserved to go up.\r\n\"The
lads deserve great credit for the season they have had and will be stronger
for the experience.\r\n<span>\"We have to learn from this and
come back and get promotion next season.\"
<br></span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('39', 'Iraq attempts to reverse Fifa ban', '4', '2012-10-23',
'The Iraqi government has moved to reverse Fifa\'s decision on Monday to
\r\nsuspend the country from international football for one year.The ban
\r\ncame after Iraq<br>', 'The Iraqi government has moved to reverse
Fifa\'s decision on Monday to \r\nsuspend the country from international
football for one year.<br><br>The\r\n ban came after Iraq
disbanded its Olympic Committee and national sport \r\nfederations on 20
May, in breach of Fifa and Olympic regulations.<br><br>But
government officials now claim the football association is not affected and
hopes the ban will be lifted.<br><br>Iraq are due to play
Australia in 2010 World Cup qualifiers on 1 and 8
June.<br><br>Fifa said that the suspension may be lifted if it
receives by 29 May written confirmation that the decree has been
anulled.<br><br>\"We\r\n received a letter from the
secretary-general of the cabinet which \r\nclarifies that the decision does
not include the sports federations, \r\nincluding the soccer
federation,\" said the head of the Iraqi Football \r\nAssociation
Hussein Saeed.<br><br>\"We sent a copy of the letter to
Fifa. We don\'t know whether they will change their mind or
not.\"<br><br>Sports\r\n Minister Jasem Mohammed Jaafar
said the government had sent \r\nclarification to the football federation
because the old decision was \r\nvague and
misinterpreted.<br><br>\"We have done what we could. If
Fifa \r\ndoesn\'t reverse its decision and Iraq doesn\'t play in the World
Cup, we \r\nwon\'t be responsible,\" he said.<br><br>Fifa
president Sepp Blatter said \r\nearlier that he hoped the ban would lead
the Iraqi government to change \r\ntheir mind in time for Iraq to continue
their qualification campaign.<br><br>Blatter\r\n told The
Australian newspaper: \"Iraq are the Asian champions and \r\nbrought
so much hope and joy to their country when they won the final in\r\n
Malaysia last year.<br><br>\"I am confident there is
enough pressure on the government to help them change their
mind.\"<br><br>Iraq are set to play Australia in Brisbane
on 1 June and in Dubai on 7 June.<br><br>The\r\n Socceroos are
top of Group One of the Asia qualifying section with four\r\n points from
two games. Iraq are bottom with one point from two games.<br>', null,
null, null, null), ('40', 'Yeung still keen on Blues buy-out', '4',
'2012-10-23', '<span>\r\n            	Carson Yeung is still
interested in taking full control of \r\nBirmingham City, according to his
spokesman Sammy Yu.Yeung is the club\'s\r\n largest individual shareholder
after</span><br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44689243_bc2_149354706.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44689243_bc2_149354706.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Yeung still keen on Blues
buy-out\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n   
                            \r\n								<span>Carson Yeung is still
interested in taking full control of Birmingham City, according to his
spokesman Sammy Yu.<br><br>Yeung is the club\'s largest
individual shareholder after buying an initial 29.9% stake last
summer.<br><br>The\r\n Hong Kong businessman was later heavily
criticised for not completely \r\nbuying out chairman David Gold and
co-owner David Sullivan.<br><br>But Yu said: \"Hopefully
one day we can take the club over. All we have done is support the
club.\"<br><br>Gold\r\n claimed the uncertainty over
Yeung\'s long-term plans cost Birmingham \r\nthe services of manager Steve
Bruce, who left St Andrews to take over at\r\n Wigan in
November.<br><br>Bruce kept the Latics in the Premier League,
\r\nwhile Birmingham were relegated to the Championship under his successor
\r\nAlex McLeish.<br><br>\"We thought that if we got
involved in the club at \r\nleast for some time, then we could take over
and guarantee that nothing \r\nwill go wrong,\" added Yu, who is chief
operating officer of Yeung\'s \r\ninvestment company Grandtop International
Holdings.<br><br>\"But then \r\nwhen an article appeared
in a Birmingham match programme saying that Mr \r\nSullivan would not deal
with Mr Yeung, it made us feel disappointed \r\nbecause it was not even
close to the so-called deadline to buy the club
\r\noutright.<br><br>\"We have been very polite but they
have been quite \r\nunreasonable. We didn\'t ask for anything nor have we
done anything to \r\nhurt the club.\"<br><br>Yeung had
been set a deadline of 21 December 2007\r\n to complete his buy-out, but
the Blues released a statement to the \r\nStock Exchange on 20 December to
announce that discussions had been
\r\nterminated.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('41', 'Lewes bidders to continue fight', '4', '2012-10-23',
'A consortium looking to take over Lewes say they are still keen to get
\r\ninvolved despite having a bid rejected.The consortium say a cash
offer<br>', 'A consortium looking to take over Lewes say they are
still keen to get involved despite having a bid
rejected.<br><br>The\r\n consortium say a cash offer to the
current board has been made and they\r\n would fund ground improvements
required to stay in the Blue Square \r\nPremier.<br><br>One of
the bidders, Lee Cobb, told BBC Southern Counties\r\n Radio: \"We were
told new backers were coming in - they haven\'t
\r\nmaterialised.<br><br>\"We have a number of large
backers who are prepared to say we have the
money.\"<br><br>Cobb,\r\n assistant chair of the Lewes
Supporters Club, is warning there is \r\nincreasing fan discontent after
the departure of manager Steve King and \r\nthe squad that won the Blue
Square South title.<br><br>He said: \"If I \r\nwas a
potential sponsor I would not want to sponsor the club - the \r\ncalibre of
players they are getting in at the moment are not up to Blue \r\nSquare
Premier standard.<br><br>\"Quite prominent members of the
supporters club are talking about boycotts of the games. We will organise a
protest if needs be.<br><br>\"What they (the current
board) are proposing is not in the best interests of the club - what we are
proposing is.\" <br><br>', null, null, null, null), ('42',
'Finn Harps v Derry City (Tues)', '4', '2012-10-23', 'Derry City boss
Stephen Kenny expects a \"frenetic affair\" in Tuesday\'s
\r\nEircom Premier League derby against Finn Harps at Ballybofey (2000
\r\nBST).The Candystripes impressed in<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44681313_stephen_kenny_08_203_778511002.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44681313_stephen_kenny_08_203_778511002.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Finn Harps v Derry City
Tues\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>Derry City boss Stephen
Kenny expects a \"frenetic affair\" in \r\nTuesday\'s Eircom
Premier League derby against Finn Harps at Ballybofey \r\n(2000
BST).<br><br>The Candystripes impressed in Friday\'s 4-1
thumping \r\nof UCD but Harps claimed a fine 3-1 win at Cobh Ramblers and
are \r\nunbeaten in their last three
matches.<br><br>\"Both teams will be coming off something
of a high on Friday,\" Kenny told BBC
Sport.<br><br>\"The UCD game was quite open. I think this
will be a different type of game.\"<br><br>The\r\n Derry
squad is likely to be unchanged from the win over UCD with Sammy
\r\nMorrow, Paddy McCourt and Sean Hargan all set to resume training in
\r\nabout a week.<br><br>\"The League break is coming up
and after the break we should have nearly everyone
back.<br><br>\"But\r\n our players have been excellent so
far this season. To get into third \r\nplace in the table, considering we
have been missing quite a few players\r\n has been a good
effort.\"<br><br>After being goal shy for a number of
weeks, Kenny was delighted by his team\'s finishing against
UCD.<br><br>\"The\r\n quality of the goals that the team
scored on Friday was excellent. \r\nNiall McGinn\'s strike and Owen
Morrison and Kevin McHugh and Mark Farren\r\n getting another
goal.<br><br>\"Mark is joint-top scorer in the league now
with five goals which says a lot about the tightness of the
league.\"<br><br>Derry go into Tuesday\'s round of games
six points behind leaders St Pat\'s, who play second placed Bohemians at
Inchicore.<br><br>Bohemians are currently two points behind
Pat\'s and four ahead of Derry.
<br></span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('43', 'Queen of the South 2-3 Rangers', '4', '2012-10-23',
'<span>\r\n            	Kris Boyd emerged from the shadows to become
Rangers\' hero \r\nas they ended gutsy Queen of the South\'s hopes of
winning their first \r\nScottish Cup</span><br>', 'Kris Boyd
emerged from the shadows to become Rangers\' hero as they ended\r\n gutsy
Queen of the South\'s hopes of winning their first Scottish Cup
\r\nfinal.<br><br>Boyd fired home a superb free-kick and
DaMarcus Beasley slotted in a second as Rangers eased ahead by
half-time.<br><br>However,\r\n the biggest shock in cup final
history looked on the cards when Stevie \r\nTosh forced the ball home and
Jim Thomson headed in an equaliser.<br><br>But Boyd, so often
left on the bench this season, rose to head the
winner.<br><br>And\r\n Rangers, playing their 68th game of an
arduous season, limped home to \r\nensure their 32nd Scottish Cup final
triumph - their first in five \r\nyears.<br><br>Rangers manager
Walter Smith had made four changes in an \r\nattempt to freshen up a side
that were playing their fourth game in \r\neight
days.<br><br>Boyd, Beasley, Sasa Papac and Lee McCulloch came
in for Christian Dailly, Steven Davis, Daniel Cousin and Charlie
Adam.<br><br>Queens were reduced to 10 men within minutes when
midfielder Ryan McCann had to go off for a couple of stitches in a head
wound.<br><br>But\r\n he quickly returned as the Dumfries
outfit, playing their first \r\ncompetitive match in four weeks after
finishing fourth in the First \r\nDivision, matched their more illustrious
rivals for endevour and \r\npossession in the early
stages.<br><br>Carlos Cuellar, who has been \r\nScotland\'s
outstanding player this season, exemplified the tired legs \r\namong the
Rangers players with a couple of loose passes.<br><br>But the
\r\nGlasgow side - who won the CIS Cup earlier in the season - steadied
\r\nthemselves and ought to have taken the lead with the first clear sight
\r\nof goal after 24 minutes.<br><br>Boyd broke clear and
clipped a neat \r\nball into the path of Beasley, who curled his shot into
the wrong side \r\nof the netting behind the post from the edge of the
penalty box.<br><br>The\r\n same two combined again moments
later, with the unmarked Boyd \r\nsquandering a great opportunity by
sending a diving header a few feet \r\nover from 10
yards.<br><br>However, he made no mistake and after 33 minutes,
after Beasley won a foul following a Tosh
challenge.<br><br>Barry Ferguson teed it up for Boyd to bullet
his drive into the top corner from 22 yards and Rangers\' steps visibly
quickened.<br><br>But,\r\n despite their growing stranglehold
on possession, Tosh broke through \r\nonly for the diving Neil Alexander to
save at the veteran midfielder\'s \r\nfeet.<br><br>There were
shouts for a penalty when Steven Whittaker blocked the path of Sean
O\'Connor.<br><br>But\r\n it was a collision between Queens
players McCann and Jim Thomson inside\r\n the other box that enabled
Rangers to stretch their lead.<br><br>It \r\nallowed Cuellar\'s
header to the back post to fall for Beasley, whose \r\nside-footed effort
from 12 yards slipped under goalkeeper Jamie
\r\nMacDonald.<br><br>It looked like there would be no way back
for Queens, \r\nbut two goals within eight minutes after the break turned a
thrilling \r\ngame on its head.<br><br>O\'Connor slipped clear
of Cuellar in the box \r\nand the striker\'s drive into the six-yard box
was punched home off the \r\npelvis of Tosh.<br><br>A Boyd
header was well held by MacDonald before \r\nQueens broke up the other end,
where Thomson rose to head home a Bob \r\nHarris free-kick from 10
yards.<br><br>Rangers were looking nervous again and Cuellar\'s
last-ditch tackle denied O\'Connor at the front
post.<br><br>But Boyd came to the rescue, heading home in a
crowded penalty box from a Beasley corner after 72
minutes.<br><br>That\r\n appeared to knock the wind out of
Queens\' sails and Rangers went on to a\r\n victory that will go some way
to making up for the disappointment of \r\nmissing out on the Scottish
Premier League title less than 48 hours \r\nearlier and defeat in the Uefa
Cup final.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('44', 'Keita signs for
Barcelona', '4', '2012-10-23', 'Barcelona have confirmed that they have
signed Mali midfielder Seydou \r\nKeita on a four-year deal from their
Spanish rivals Sevilla.\"Seydou \r\nKeita signed a contract committing
<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690200_seydoukeita203_442993516.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690200_seydoukeita203_442993516.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Keita signs for
Barcelona\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n 
                              \r\n								<span>Barcelona have
confirmed that they have signed Mali \r\nmidfielder Seydou Keita on a
four-year deal from their Spanish rivals
\r\nSevilla.<br><br>\"Seydou Keita signed a contract
committing him to \r\nBarcelona for the next four seasons, or until June
20, 2012,\" Barcelona \r\nsaid in a statement.<br><br>The
club has not revealed the transfer fee, but Spanish news reports said it
was around US$22 million.<br><br>\"I am very happy because
Barcelona is a great club,\" he told the Barcelona
website.<br><br>\"My decision is a big one because I had
proposals from a lot of clubs, but I have liked Barcelona for a long
time.<br><br>\"It\r\n has all been very easy as I wanted
to play for Barcelona, so the most \r\ndifficult was the agreement between
Sevilla and Barcelona.<br><br>\"When this was resolved,
everything was done.\"<br><br>Keita enjoyed an impressive
first season in Spain after arriving from Lens nearly a year
ago.<br><br>Acting as a midfield lynchpin, he also scored
several spectacular long-range goals.<br><br>The midfielder
previously played for Marseille and Lorient, with which he won the French
Cup.<br><br>He was voted the best player in the Under-20 World
Cup in Nigeria in 1999.<br><br>\"I don\'t like talking
because I think in soccer you don\'t need to talk off the field,\" he
added.<br><br>\"All I want to say is that I hope to
contribute a lot to Barcelona just as I have done to
Sevilla.\"<br><br>The 28-year-old is expected to replace
Portugal\'s Deco, who has announced he wants to leave the Nou
Camp.<br><br>Keita\r\n would be Barcelona\'s first new signing
since it announced this month \r\nthe replacement of coach Frank Rijkaard
by reserve team coach Pep \r\nGuardiola in a reaction to its second
straight season without a trophy.<br><br>Barcelona\r\n finished
third in the league - its worst placing for five years - and \r\nwere
knocked out in the Champions League semi-finals by eventual winner
\r\nManchester United.
<br></span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('45', 'Frankfurt 3-2 Umea (agg 4-3)', '4', '2012-10-23',
'Frankfurt\'s Conny Pohlers scored twice as they became the first team to
\r\nwin the Women\'s Uefa Cup three times.Pohlers beat Johanna Frisk and
\r\nslotted home<br>', '<img
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44686837_women203_601152782.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Frankfurt 3-2 Umea agg
4-3\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n       
                        \r\n								<span>Frankfurt\'s Conny Pohlers
scored twice as they became the first team to win the Women\'s Uefa Cup
three times.<br><br>Pohlers beat Johanna Frisk and slotted home
before firing a second past keeper Ulla-Karin RÃ¶nnlund at her near
post.<br><br>Lisa\r\n Dahlqvist netted a penalty for Umea after
Marta was fouled, but Petra \r\nWimbersky\'s 20-yard free-kick restored
Frankfurt\'s two-goal advantage.<br><br>Frida Ã–stberg\'s
low shot reduced the deficit and Umea\'s Ramona Bachmann hit the bar as
Frankfurt held on.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null,
null, null, null), ('46', 'Season not a failure - McAllister', '4',
'2012-10-23', 'Leeds United boss Gary McAllister insists that their season
has not been\r\n a \'failure\', despite Sunday\'s play-off final defeat to
Doncaster \r\nRovers.Leeds battled through their<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44691236_macca_at_final_203_594078515.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44691236_macca_at_final_203_594078515.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Season not a failure -
McAllister\">\r\n										\r\n									\r\n								\r\n           
                    \r\n								<br>Leeds United boss Gary McAllister
insists that their season \r\nhas not been a \'failure\', despite Sunday\'s
play-off final defeat to \r\nDoncaster Rovers.<br><br>Leeds
battled through their pre-season 15-point\r\n deduction - and a change of
manager - to reach the play-offs, winning \r\n27 games in the
process.<br><br>\"The facts say we didn\'t win
promotion,\" said McAllister.<br><br>\"But with 27
wins, just eight defeats and second highest scorers, it can\'t be described
as a failure.\"<br><br>The\r\n West Yorkshire club would
have been automatically promoted in second \r\nplace if they had not been
docked the 15 points for breaking the \r\nFootball League\'s rules on
insolvency.<br><br>But McAllister points out that is now
history, telling BBC Radio Leeds: \"We go away and
regroup.<br><br>\"We come back fighting and start next
season on the same number of points as everyone
else.\"<br><br>Leeds\' hoodoo in finals hit them once more
at Wembley, as they failed to score for the third consecutive time in a
final.<br><br>They\r\n lost 3-0 to Watford in the Championship
play-off final at Cardiff in \r\n2006, having also gone down 3-0 to Aston
Villa in the 1996 League Cup \r\nfinal at the old
Wembley.<br><br>Excepting the 1992 Charity Shield \r\nvictory
over Liverpool, Leeds\' last winner at Wembley was 36 years ago -\r\n from
Allan Clarke in the 1972 FA Cup final win over Arsenal.<br>', null,
null, null, null), ('47', ' McGhee explains Hearts decision', '4',
'2012-10-23', 'Motherwell manager Mark McGhee says a move to Hearts would
have been \r\n\"premature\" after rejecting a move to Tynecastle
to remain at Fir \r\nPark.McGhee was<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690218_boylemcghee_snsb203_798175756.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44690218_boylemcghee_snsb203_798175756.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"McGhee explains Hearts
decision\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Motherwell manager
Mark McGhee says a move to Hearts would \r\nhave been
\"premature\" after rejecting a move to Tynecastle to remain at
\r\nFir Park.<br><br>McGhee was due to fly out to Vilnus on
Monday for signing talks with Hearts majority shareholder Vladimir
Romanov.<br><br>But he changed his mind, adding: \"It
smacked of what I did earlier in my managerial career. When a bigger job
came up, I went.<br><br>\"Hearts was a bigger job, but I
would never say it was a better job.\"<br><br>McGhee
revealed he had a change of heart at the airport and realised he wanted to
remain at Fir Park.<br><br>\"I was at the door of the
plane and would have been the last passenger on board, but I turned round
and said \'I can\'t do this\'.<br><br>\"We\'re in Europe
and I always wanted that on my C.V. It\'s certainly not about money
either.<br><br>\"If it had been a financial decision I\'d
be on my way to Vilnus right now.\"<br><br>McGhee\r\n said
the prospect of becoming Hearts manager was a fantastic \r\nopportunity,
but he added: \"I have to stick it out at Motherwell a \r\nlittle bit
longer.\"<br><br>Motherwell said they were delighted
McGhee would remain at the club to spearhead their Uefa Cup campaign next
season. <br><br>\"The club are delighted that it has
successfully concluded negotiations with Mark,\" said a statement on
the club website.<br><br>\"He remains as manager and we
are looking forward to next season.\"<br><br>After\r\n 15
years in management in England, the former Aberdeen and Celtic \r\nstriker
arrived at Motherwell at the start of the season.<br><br>In his
\r\nfirst campaign, McGhee received plaudits for his team\'s performances
as \r\nhe steered the club to third spot in the Scottish Premier
League.<br><br>Despite months of speculation over his future he
had previously said he was focusing on next season\'s Uefa Cup
campaign.<br><br>However, he did admit he would have a lot to
think about if officially approached by another
club.<br><br>McGhee was also interviewed for the vacant
Scotland manager\'s position in January.<br><br>However, he
stipulated he wanted to remain at Fir Park until the summer, following the
death of skipper Phil
O\'Donnell.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('48', 'Injured Hunt out of Republic game', '4', '2012-10-23',
'Stephen Hunt is out of the Republic of Ireland\'s game against Colombia
\r\nafter he aggravated an old hamstring injury in Saturday\'s 1-1 draw
\r\nagainst Serbia.Hunt <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Injured Hunt out of Republic
game\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>Stephen Hunt is out of the
Republic of Ireland\'s game against\r\n Colombia after he aggravated an old
hamstring injury in Saturday\'s 1-1 \r\ndraw against
Serbia.<br><br>Hunt sat out both training sessions on
\r\nMonday and was later released from the Republic squad after getting an
\r\nexamination from the Irish team doctor.<br><br>The Reading
player has been told that he requires two weeks
rest.<br><br>Richard Dunne is also a minor fitness doubt for
Thursday\'s Craven Cottage clash because of a foot
injury.<br><br>Manager Giovanni Trapattoni said that Dunne
\"has a 90 per cent chance of
playing\".<br><br>Trapattoni\r\n has also told his
Republic player to ignore criticism from pundits, \r\namid suggestions that
the presence of former TV analyst Liam Brady in \r\nthe Italian\'s backroom
team has annoyed some players.<br><br>Former \r\nRepublic
manager Brian Kerr made the claim in a newspaper column over \r\nthe
weekend while there have also been allegations that a number of \r\nIrish
players broke a curfew during the recent training camp in
\r\nPortugal.<br><br>Brady previously worked as a studio pundit
for Irish \r\nnational broadcaster RTE and didn\'t pull his punches in his
assessment \r\nof a number of Republic players during his time in that
role.<br><br>\"Liam was a pundit and it is normal to be a
critic,\" said Trapattoni.<br><br>\"He was a famous
player, he was captain of Ireland.<br><br>\"In Italy there
are 20, 30 ex-players who make their work in
television.<br><br>\"Should we all stop playing because
they are criticising us?<br><br>\"If these are the worries
we have instead of thinking about going to qualify for the World Cup, it is
better we stay at home.\"<br><br>Trapattoni\r\n was in
relaxed mood when asked about the alleged curfew violation \r\nimmediately
after Saturday\'s game, insisting he had given the players \r\npermission
to have a night out after a sponsors\'
dinner.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null);
INSERT INTO `articles` VALUES ('49', '\'Iron Man\' makes
super-strong debut', '5', '2012-10-23', 'The Marvel Comics adaptation,
starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in \r\nthe metal suit, hauled in
$100.7 million over opening weekend and $104.2\r\n million since debuting
Thursday night, the second-best premiere ever \r\nfor a non-sequel,
according to studio estimates Sunday.<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in Iron
Man\">\r\n										<br>Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in
Iron Man\r\n									<br>\r\n								\r\n                            
   \r\n                                    The \r\nMarvel Comics
adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in the \r\nmetal suit,
hauled in $100.7 million over opening weekend and $104.2 \r\nmillion since
debuting Thursday night, the second-best premiere ever for\r\n a
non-sequel, according to studio estimates Sunday.\r\n                      
         \r\n								\"Iron Man\" was pure gold at the box
office.\r\nThe Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the
guy \r\nin the metal suit, hauled in $100.7 million over opening weekend
and \r\n$104.2 million since debuting Thursday night, the second-best
premiere \r\never for a non-sequel, according to studio estimates
Sunday.\r\nThe film also scored overseas with $96.7 million in 57 countries
\r\nwhere it began opening Wednesday, putting its worldwide total at $201
\r\nmillion.\r\nDistributed by Paramount, \"Iron Man\" was the
first release by Marvel \r\nStudios, which has begun financing its own
productions after such \r\nstudio-backed hits as the
\"Spider-Man,\" \"X-Men\" and \"Fantastic
Four\" \r\nflicks.\r\n\"We could not have hoped for a better way
for Marvel Studios to blast\r\n off,\" said David Maisel, chairman of
the unit, a division of Marvel \r\nEntertainment, which stands to pull in a
greater share of box-office \r\nreceipts and merchandising money by
financing movies itself.\r\n<div><b>Super-strong
debut</b></div>\r\nDebuting in second-place with $15.5 million
was Sony\'s romantic \r\ncomedy \"Made of Honor,\" starring
\"Grey\'s Anatomy\" heartthrob Patrick \r\nDempsey as a man who
tries to woo his best pal after she asks him to be \r\n\"maid of
honor\" at her wedding.\r\nWith rave reviews from many critics,
\"Iron Man\" features Downey as \r\nbillionaire arms designer
Tony Stark, a boozy womanizer who builds a \r\nhigh-tech suit and becomes a
superhero, mending his ways after he\'s \r\ntaken captive and sees
firsthand the devastation his weapons cause.\r\nDirected by Jon Favreau,
the film also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence
Howard.\r\nDespite the huge \"Iron Man\" opening, Hollywood\'s
overall business was\r\n down compared to the same weekend last year, when
\"Spider-Man 3\" had a \r\nrecord debut of $151.1 million. The
top-12 movies took in $154.1 \r\nmillion, off 15 percent from a year
ago.\r\n\"Nonetheless, \'Iron Man\' did better than
\r\nexpected,\" said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office
tracker \r\nMedia By Numbers. \"This is certainly the shot in the arm
the marketplace\r\n has needed.\"\r\nAfter a sleepy few months, movie
attendance this year is running 6 \r\npercent behind that of 2007, so the
arrival of \"Iron Man\" may jump-start\r\n the box office as the
busy summer season begins. iReport.com: What did \r\nyou think of
\"Iron Man?\"\r\n\"If that first May movie is a big hit, it
tends to lead to a big \r\nsummer,\" said Rob Moore, Paramount vice
chairman. \"There hadn\'t been a \r\nbig event movie yet this year. So
you have the first event movie of \r\nsummer, and people go, \'And I hear
it\'s really good. All right, I\'m
\r\nin.\'\"\r\n<span><br>\"Iron Man\" was the
10th-biggest opening of all-time and the \r\nfourth-biggest for a superhero
movie. Among non-sequels, it came in \r\nbehind only the first
\"Spider-Man,\" which premiered with $114.8
million.</span>\r\n\"If we have to, we\'re happy to come in
second to another Marvel \r\nproperty,\" Maisel said. \"It
emphasizes how lucky we are to have such a \r\npowerful brand that\'s not
loved by just comic-book fans but also general\r\n movie
fans.\"\r\nThe next Marvel production arrives in June with \"The
Incredible Hulk,\" distributed by Universal and starring Edward
Norton.\r\nIn limited release, David Mamet\'s martial-arts drama
\"Redbelt\" opened\r\n solidly with $68,646 in six theaters.
Released by Sony Pictures \r\nClassics, \"Redbelt\" stars
Chiwetel Ejiofor as an honorable instructor \r\ncaught up in corruption in
the world of mixed martial-arts competitions.\r\nParamount Vantage\'s
\"Son of Rambow,\" a comic tale of two British boys\r\n making
their own \"Rambo\" movie, also opened well with $52,549 in five
\r\ntheaters.\r\n							<br>', null, null, null, null), ('50', 'Here
they come, here come summer movies', '5', '2012-10-23', 'Studio executives
hope they\'ve trained their audience well as the season\r\n of summer
blockbusters arrives.From May through mid-August, Hollywood \r\nwill bank
on the idea that <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Here they come here come summer
movies\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Studio executives hope
they\'ve trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters
arrives.<br><br>From\r\n May through mid-August, Hollywood will
bank on the idea that there is \r\nat least one movie every week -- and
sometimes two -- that you simply \r\nmust see.<br><br>Summer
features such box-office staples as Will Smith, \r\nAdam Sandler, Ben
Stiller and Jack Black, and brings back beloved \r\ncharacters such as
Indiana Jones, Batman, Speed Racer, Carrie and her \r\n\"Sex and the
City\" gal pals, the \"Narnia\" kids, the Incredible Hulk
and \r\ntwo very different agent couples: paranormal troupers Mulder and
Scully \r\nand comic spies Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.<br><br>A
look at the lineup:<br><br>MAY\r\n 2: Heavy hitters like
\"Spider-Man\" and \"Superman\" are established
\r\nbig-screen figures, but the comic-book world has a deep
bench.<br><br>Robert\r\n Downey Jr. takes the lead in
\"Iron Man,\" playing a wealthy inventor who\r\n lacks
superpowers but does have a nifty high-tech suit of armor that \r\nreally
leaves an impression when he gives villains a knuckle
sandwich.<br><br><br>Gwyneth\r\n Paltrow, Terrence Howard
and Jeff Bridges co-star in the tale based on \r\nthe Marvel Comics hero, a
man with a subversive sense of humor who \r\nstarts off as \"not the
most likable fellow,\" said director Jon
Favreau.<br><br>With\r\n \"Iron Man\" less familiar
to audiences than Supe or Spidey, it took an \r\nactor of Downey\'s status
to ease some worries Favreau had.<br><br>\"My \r\nbiggest
concern was that it would slide into some B-hero wheeled out by \r\nMarvel,
that this movie would be a poor man\'s \'Spider-Man,\' \" Favreau
\r\nsaid. \"Hiring Robert, the challenge shifted from whether it was
going to\r\n be good or bad to how far we were going to push things and
bend the \r\ngenre.\"<br><br>MAY 9: Andy and Larry
Wachowski turned virtual reality on\r\n its head with \"The
Matrix.\" Now they follow their R-rated franchise \r\nwith the
family-friendly adventure \"Speed Racer,\" an adaptation of the
\r\nanimated show starring Emile Hirsch as the kid roaring along the
\r\nroadways, Christina Ricci as his helicopter-flying girlfriend and
\r\nMatthew Fox as mystery man Racer X. The film will also be released in
\r\nIMAX.<br><br>A fan of \"Speed Racer\" growing up,
Hirsch said he wanted in\r\n as soon as he heard the Wachowski brothers
were writing and directing.<br><br>\"Seeing\r\n \'The
Matrix\' for the first time when I was 13 to this day is one of my \r\nmost
memorable experiences ever in a movie theater,\" Hirsch said. \"I
\r\nalready loved the show, and for guys of that kind of caliber to get
\r\ninvolved with it could only be something
special.\"<br><br>MAY 16: Things\r\n sure can change in
1,300 years, as Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy \r\nPevensie learn when they
go over the rainbow again in \"The Chronicles of\r\n Narnia: Prince
Caspian,\" the second installment in the fantasy \r\nfranchise based
on C.S. Lewis\' books.<br><br>Only a short time has \r\npassed
for the siblings in England, but centuries have gone by in \r\nNarnia,
which now is under the bootheel of the tyrannical Telmarines and\r\n mean
King Miraz. The Pevensies encounter a new ally -- Caspian (Ben \r\nBarnes),
the rightful heir to Narnia\'s throne -- and are reacquainted \r\nwith old
buddy Aslan the lion, again voiced by Liam Neeson.<br><br>The
\r\nthree years since the first movie, \"The Lion, the Witch and the
\r\nWardrobe,\" have resulted in huge digital advancements in how
director \r\nAndrew Adamson could depict computer-generated creatures such
as Aslan.<br><br>\"It\'s\r\n little things like when Lucy
first sees him this time, she runs up and \r\ngives him a hug. ... It\'s a
great image to see a little girl hug a \r\nlion,\" Adamson said.
\"And there\'s a great shot in this film where Aslan \r\nactually
tackles someone off a horse and rolls around on the ground with\r\n them.
The level of interactivity makes it so much more
real.\"<br><br>MAY 22: Cue the Indy fanfare. Henry Jones
Jr. is cracking his whip again.<br><br>\"Indiana\r\n Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" reunites the dream team of
\r\nHarrison Ford as the archaeologist-adventurer, director Steven
Spielberg\r\n and creator-producer George Lucas.<br><br>It\'s
been 19 years since the \r\nlast movie, and the fourth film hurtles the
aging Indy from his \r\nNazi-fighting days of the 1930s to the Cold War era
of the \'50s, with \r\nCate Blanchett as a Soviet operative and Karen Allen
returning as Marion\r\n Ravenwood, his love interest from 1981\'s
\"Raiders of the Ark.\"<br><br>Unlike\r\n film
franchises that crank up the action and effects with each sequel,
\r\nSpielberg, Lucas and Ford are offering an old-school
Indy.<br><br>\"We \r\ndid everything exactly the way we
did it before, so if you expect F-14s \r\nflying into freeways, it ain\'t
gonna happen,\" Lucas said. \"If you expect\r\n this to suddenly
have bells and whistles and have 10 times more \r\nwhatever than the first
ones, it\'s not. It\'s just like a continuation. \r\nIt\'s like sitting
down on a cozy old sofa that you\'ve had for 20 years \r\nand having the
same experience.\"<br><br>What sort of toll did the
action\r\n take on 65-year-old Ford, who sustained knee and back injuries
on some \r\nof the earlier \"Indiana Jones\"
movies?<br><br>\"I broke a fingernail,\" Ford said.
\"I walked away with a hangnail.\"<br><br>As\r\n for
the big question fans have posed -- is co-star Shia LaBeouf the \r\nlove
child of Indy and Marion? -- neither Ford nor Lucas will
say.<br><br>\"I\r\n can\'t say that. I\'m not allowed.
Steven would kill me. You\'ll have to \r\nget that out of Steven,\"
Lucas said. \"If you get it out of him, then it \r\nmust be
true.\" <br><br>JUNE 13: When we last saw Marvel Comics\'
big \r\nangry green guy, he was hopping around in the desert in Ang Lee\'s
\r\n\"Hulk,\" a critical and commercial disappointment.
<br><br>The Marvel \r\ngang went back to the drawing board for
\"The Incredible Hulk,\" starring \r\nEdward Norton in a new take
that the filmmakers say will channel both \r\nthe comic books and the 1970s
and \'80s TV show starring Bill Bixby.<br><br>The\r\n movie
wastes no time explaining how Norton\'s Bruce Banner was \r\ntransformed
into a man who mutates into the Hulk when angered, said \r\nproducer Kevin
Feige, Marvel Studios\' head of production. The story \r\nhints at what
happened to him then jumps into the action, he
said.<br><br>\"This\r\n is not an origin story,\"
Feige said. \"We are assuming everyone buying a\r\n ticket will know
Bruce Banner is a scientist on the run who grows into a\r\n green hulk 9
feet tall. That\'s all people need to know. So the \r\nadventure is off and
running right from the beginning.\"<br><br>JULY 18:
\r\nBatman is back with \"The Dark Knight,\" reuniting star
Christian Bale \r\nwith director Christopher Nolan and pitting the
soul-searching \r\ncrimefighter against his greatest enemy, the Joker,
played by the late \r\nHeath Ledger in his next-to-last role. The film will
also be released in\r\n IMAX, and Nolan filmed some scenes in the
large-form technology.<br><br>With\r\n great buzz on Ledger\'s
frantic performance and his demonic makeup, the \r\nJoker is the corrupted
flip-side of Batman, who lives by a strict code \r\ndespite raging inner
turmoil.<br><br>\"It\'s a fine line, something which
\r\nwe kind of toy with in the story, of this fine line, essentially both
\r\nbeing freaks to most people, both being idealists,\" Bale said.
\"The \r\nJoker trying to show the hypocrisy of society and trying to
show Batman \r\nthat his way just ultimately can\'t work. These rules that
he places on \r\nhimself are just a
joke.\"</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('51', 'The Screening Room\'s top 10 movie heroes', '5',
'2012-10-23', 'Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the gun-packing
maverick who\r\n shoots first and asks questions later to the unlikely
hero, blinking \r\nwith<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"The Screening Rooms top 10 movie
heroes\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Heroes come in all
shapes and sizes -- from the gun-packing \r\nmaverick who shoots first and
asks questions later to the unlikely hero,\r\n blinking with surprise at
his newly found ass-kicking skills.<br><br>But\r\n what\'s
common among all celluloid champions is that they are prepared \r\nto fight
for what they believe in -- even if it means risking their
\r\nlives.<br><br>We\'ve compiled a list of 10 of the best.
Don\'t agree? \r\nThink we\'ve missed one? Share your views by using the
Sound Off box \r\nbelow and we\'ll publish the best.<br><br>10.
Neo (Keanu Reeves) \"The Matrix\"<br>(Andy &amp; Larry
Wachowski, 1999)<br><br>In\r\n \"real life\" Neo is a
reclusive computer hacker but when he lifts the \r\nvirtual reality cloak
and enters the matrix he finds he is innately \r\ngifted. He can dodge
bullets and has unimaginable strength but his true \r\nheroism stems from
having the courage to fight the seemingly invincible \r\nMr Smith to try to
free humanity from enslavement.<br><br>9. James Bond (Sean
Connery) \"Dr No.\"<br>(Terence Young,
1962)<br><br>From\r\n the moment Connery\'s gentleman spy
utters the words, \"The name\'s Bond, \r\nJames Bond,\" it\'s
certain that for every pussy-stroking nemesis he \r\nencounters he will
have just the right exploding pen, aquatic sports \r\ncar, or suave quip to
prevail. Then he\'ll smooth down his tux and snog a\r\n babe safe in the
knowledge he\'s saved the world once again.<br><br>8. Clarice
Starling (Jodie Foster) \"The Silence of the
Lambs\"<br>(Jonathan Demme,
1991)<br><br>Starling,\r\n an ambitious FBI trainee, is in way
over her head. She gets intimate \r\nwith Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant
psychiatrist turned cannibal in the \r\nhopes he will give her clues in the
hunt for mass murderer, Buffalo \r\nBill. When she inadvertently stumbles
on Bill\'s underground lair, he \r\nblows the fuse and, terrifyingly,
stalks her in night vision goggles. \r\nSome people might sit in a corner
and whimper but not Starling -- with \r\nguts and determination she kills
him and rescues his final victim.<br><br>7. Spartacus (Kirk
Douglas) \"Spartacus\"<br>(Stanley Kubrick,
1960)<br><br>Spartacus\r\n has never been free. He is born a
slave and trained to be a gladiator \r\nbut he revolts and leads a slave
uprising in Italy. His rebellion is \r\nextraordinary successful -- the
army numbers thousands and marches on \r\nRome. It is defeated in the end
and Spartacus is crucified. But he dies \r\nunafraid because he knows it
means his son will grow up a free man. In \r\nthe fight for his family\'s
freedom he is a one man force for change.<br><br>6. Inspector
\"Dirty\" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), \'\'Dirty
Harry\'\'<br>(Don Siegel, 1971)<br><br>Rules\r\n don\'t
mean much to this alienated San Francisco cop when he\'s out \r\nhunting
dangerous criminals. His methods are edgy but his attitude just \r\nseems
to highlight the failings of the legal system and the weakness of \r\nhis
superiors. The only thing he trusts is his .44 Magnum revolver and \r\nwhen
cocks it at an unlucky robber and asks: \"Do ya feel lucky. Well,
do\r\n ya punk?\" it\'s clear why this laconic anti-hero has had such
a strong \r\ninfluence on pop culture.<br><br>5. Jason Bourne
(Matt Damon) \"The Bourne Ultimatum\"<br>(Paul Greengrass,
2007)<br><br>Bourne\r\n is a highly trained killer suffering
amnesia who the CIA just can\'t get\r\n rid of. Not only does he fight off
their best assassins better than \r\nBruce Lee could, he has an impressive
knack for improvising weapons from\r\n whatever he can lay his hands on --
a hardback book, a brass \r\ncandlestick, even a biro. A David and Goliath
for the 21st century.<br><br>4. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)
\"Raiders of the Lost Ark\"<br>(Stephen Spielberg,
1981)<br><br>Mostly\r\n he\'s a quiet-living archaeology
professor but once in a while fate \r\nconspires to make Indy pick up his
dented fedora and bullwhip and rescue\r\n a priceless relic from enemy
hands. Not a nail-biting moment goes by \r\nwithout him getting into one
scrape or another but aided by sardonic \r\none-liners and a great left
hook he always triumphs in the end. Indy is \r\nno superhero -- just the
hero we\'d all like to be.<br><br>3. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney
Weaver) \"Aliens\"<br>(James Cameron,
1986)<br><br>\"Get\r\n away from her, you bitch!\"
spits Ripley distracting the huge alien and \r\nallowing Newt, the child
she has saved from the infested planet to \r\nescape. She\'s female but a
she\'s a muscular warrior, soaked in sweat \r\nfrom from the gun-battle
she\'s been waging on the terrible creatures. \r\nShe\'s like a furious
lioness protecting her young -- and even the alien \r\nis no match for
that.<br><br>2. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) \"To Kill a
Mockingbird\"<br>(Robert Mulligan,
1962)<br><br>No\r\n fighting necessary for this quiet Southern
lawyer who defends a black \r\nman accused of raping a white woman, despite
calls from the community \r\nnot to. He is willing to do whatever it takes
to uphold his values \r\nincluding standing up to a lynch mob who have come
to kill his client. \r\nThe widower somehow also finds the time to be a
solid, wise father \r\nfigure to his two children, Jem and
Scout.<br><br>1. Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson)
\"Schindler\'s List\"<br>(Stephen Spielberg,
1993)<br><br>Schindler\r\n is a hard-drinking, womanizing,
fully paid-up member of the Nazi party \r\nwho wants nothing more than to
make suitcases full of Reich marks out of\r\n the war. Yet his innate
humanity shines through and -- despite \r\nimmediate risk to his own life
-- he turns his factory into a haven for \r\nover 1,000 Jews who otherwise
would probably have gone to their deaths \r\nat
Auschwitz.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('52', 'French film wins Cannes\' top prize', '5',
'2012-10-23', 'The French film \"The Class,\" a frank tale about
classroom life using \r\nreal students and teachers at a junior high
school, won top honors \r\nSunday<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"French film wins Cannes top
prize\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>The French film
\"The Class,\" a frank tale about classroom \r\nlife using real
students and teachers at a junior high school, won top \r\nhonors Sunday at
the Cannes Film Festival.<br><br>Directed by Laurent
\r\nCantet, \"The Class\" (\"Entre les Murs\") was the
first French film to win \r\nthe main prize, the Palme d\'Or, at Cannes
since \"Under Satan\'s Sun\" in \r\n1987. The docudrama was shot
in a raw, improvisational style to \r\nchronicle the drama that unfolds
over one school year.<br><br>The win was a unanimous decision
among the nine-member Cannes jury, said Sean Penn, who headed the
panel.<br><br>\"The\r\n movie that we wanted to make had
to resemble French society, had to be \r\nmultifaceted, a bit teeming,
complex, and had to sometimes portray \r\nfrictions that the film didn\'t
try to erase,\" Cantet said.<br><br>Italian\r\n films won
the second-place grand prize and third-place jury prize. \r\nMatteo
Garrone\'s \"Gomorrah,\" a study of the criminal underworld in
\r\nNaples, took the grand prize, while Paolo Sorrentino\'s \"Il
Divo,\" a \r\nlively portrait of former Premier Giulio Andreotti, won
the jury award.<br><br>Benicio\r\n Del Toro won Cannes\'
best-actor prize for \"Che,\" Steven Soderbergh\'s
\r\nfour-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara.
\r\nPresented as two films, \"Che\" follows Guevara and Fidel
Castro\'s \r\ntriumphant guerrilla campaign to overthrow Cuba\'s government
in the late\r\n 1950s and Guevara\'s downfall and execution after trying to
foment a \r\nsimilar rebellion in Bolivia in the
1960s.<br><br>Del Toro, who co-starred in Penn\'s \"21
Grams,\" also won in a unanimous jury vote, Penn
said.<br>\"I\'d\r\n like to dedicate this to the man himself,
Che Guevara,\" said Del Toro. \r\nHe also thanked Soderbergh,
\"who got up every day, forced me to this. \r\n... He was there
pushing it, and he pushed all of us.\"<br><br>Soderbergh
directed Del Toro to the supporting-actor Oscar for 2000\'s
\"Traffic.\"<br><br>Sandra\r\n Corveloni was chosen
as best actress for \"Linha de Passe,\" in which she\r\n plays
the mother of four brothers struggling to make better lives for
\r\nthemselves in a Brazilian slum. It was her first role in a feature
film.<br><br>Turkish\r\n filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was named
best director for \"Three \r\nMonkeys,\" which centers on a
father who takes the rap for his employer\'s\r\n crime in exchange for
financial support for his wife and son, only to \r\nhave the scheme
backfire amid bitter repercussions.<br><br>Belgian \r\nsiblings
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme \r\nd\'Or,
received the screenplay prize for \"Lorna\'s Silence,\" about an
\r\nimmigrant woman who enters a sham marriage to gain Belgian
citizenship.<br><br>The\r\n prize for a film by a first-time
director went to British filmmaker \r\nSteve McQueen\'s
\"Hunger,\" set at a Northern Ireland prison where IRA
\r\nvolunteer Bobby Sands and other inmates seeking Irish independence
\r\nstaged a hunger strike in 1981.<br><br>The Cannes jury
awarded special \r\nprizes to Clint Eastwood, who directed the competition
film \r\n\"Changeling,\" and Catherine Deneuve, who appeared in
two films at Cannes\r\n this year.<br><br>Eastwood was shut out
for key prizes with \"Changeling,\" his warmly received
missing-child drama starring Angelina
Jolie.<br><br>Eastwood,\r\n who delivered two best-picture and
director Academy Award recipients \r\nwith \"Unforgiven\" and
\"Million Dollar Baby,\" has never won top honors at\r\n Cannes
after five times in competition there since 1985.<br><br>Jury
\r\npresident Penn won the best-actor Oscar for Eastwood\'s \"Mystic
River,\" \r\nwhich was shut out for prizes at Cannes five years
ago.<br><br>\"There \r\nwas a field of such powerful,
emotional, moving movies, performances. \r\nThere was so many times that we
thought, it just can\'t get better,\" Penn\r\n
said.<br><br>Critics judged the Cannes lineup more harshly,
however. \r\nWhile Cannes presented few outright bombs this time, critics
found the \r\nfilms a bit tepid.<br><br>Last year\'s
competition included such films as\r\n Joel and Ethan Coen\'s \"No
Country for Old Men,\" which went on to win \r\nthe best-picture
Academy Award, and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent \r\nParonnaud\'s animated
coming-of-age tale \"Persepolis,\" which was \r\nnominated for
the animation Oscar.<br><br>A film from Kazakhstan, Sergey\r\n
Dvortsevoy\'s \"Tulpan,\" won a secondary competition called
\"Un Certain \r\nRegard.\" \"Tulpan\" is the story of
an aspiring shepherd on the isolated \r\nKazakh steppes who must wed before
he can enter his chosen trade but is \r\nrefused by the only prospective
bride because she thinks his ears are \r\ntoo
big.<br><br>Bosnian director Aida Begic\'s \"Snow,\"
a drama about \r\nvillagers struggling with the decision to leave their
war-ravaged town, \r\nwon top honors in another Cannes competition overseen
by critics.<br><br>After\r\n the awards ceremony, the festival
closed with the premiere of Barry \r\nLevinson\'s \"What Just
Happened?\", starring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis \r\nand Penn in the
tale of a fading Hollywood producer trying to rejuvenate\r\n his career
amid personal and professional crises.<br><br>\"What Just
Happened?\" came full circle: A year ago, Levinson and his
collaborators were at Cannes filming scenes for the
movie.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('53', 'Fur flies at \'Kung Fu Panda\' premiere', '5', '2012-10-23',
'Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red
carpet\r\n at the world\'s most-prestigious film festival. Not when you\'re
the star\r\n of a <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.panda_666282418.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Fur flies at Kung Fu Panda
premiere\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>Fur might be a
politically incorrect fashion statement on the\r\n red carpet at the
world\'s most-prestigious film festival. Not when \r\nyou\'re the star of a
movie called \"Kung Fu Panda,\"
though.<br><br>DreamWorks\r\n Animation, whose past Cannes
entries include the first two \"Shrek\" \r\nflicks and
\"Over the Hedge,\" put its adorable martial-arts hero
\r\nalongside the festival\'s highbrow cinema entries Thursday with the
\r\npremiere of the action comedy whose voice cast includes Jack Black,
\r\nAngelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman.<br><br>\"Being an
official selection \r\nof the Cannes Film Festival is the Good Housekeeping
seal of approval,\" \r\nsaid Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks\'
animation mastermind. \"And it\'s \r\nparticularly unique when it\'s a
broad commercial movie as opposed to an \r\nart film. There\'s tremendous,
tremendous value to that.\"<br><br>DreamWorks\r\n uses
Cannes as a launch-point for its movies, through screenings and \r\nclever
stunts to catch the fancy of hordes of reporters, photographers \r\nand
camera crews.<br><br>Black, who joined \"Shark Tale\"
co-stars Jolie \r\nand Will Smith for a ride in the Mediterranean aboard an
inflatable \r\nshark at the 2004 festival, this time paraded on a pier
among 40 people \r\nin giant panda suits the day before the movie\'s Cannes
premiere.<br><br>While\r\n Black hammed it up with some kung fu
poses, he wisecracked that the \r\nincessant camera flashes could go a long
way to solving the energy \r\ncrunch.<br><br>\"If you
harnessed all that electricity, it would probably\r\n be enough to take a
small unmanned ship to the moon and back,\" Black \r\nsaid.
\"It\'s got to be 1.21 gigawatts of light flashes. It\'s just going
\r\nto be sick. Do we really need that many pictures? Where are all those
\r\nphotos going?\"<br><br>Black provides the voice of Po,
a panda in ancient\r\n China who idolizes his country\'s martial-arts
heroes but is too slow \r\nand clumsy to emulate their moves, stuck instead
toiling in his family\'s\r\n noodle shop. A twist of fate lands Po under
the tutelage of a revered \r\nkung fu master (Hoffman), who must train the
klutzy panda to battle an \r\nevil snow leopard (Ian McShane) intent on
marauding and vengeance.<br><br>Po\'s\r\n allies include a
tiger (Jolie), a viper (Lucy Liu) and a monkey (Jackie\r\n Chan), whose
graceful martial-arts skills put the lumbering panda to
\r\nshame.<br><br>\"There\'s a concept which everybody
responds to, the idea \r\nof this sort of soft, cuddly thing having to do
this extremely active, \r\nathletic thing,\" said John Stevenson, who
co-directed \"Kung Fu Panda\" \r\nwith Mark
Osborne.<br><br>\"We saw the potential of this being the
\r\narchetypal hero\'s journey that has been done millions of times, but we
\r\ncould actually do the most extreme hero\'s journey,\" Osborne
said. \"Take \r\nthe most unlikely guy and bring him all the way to
being a hero.\"<br><br>As\r\n cartoon heroes go,
Katzenberg thinks Po can go toe-to-toe with the \r\nanimation world\'s
box-office heavyweight, the irritable ogre
Shrek.<br><br>\"I\r\n do think that Po the panda is going
to give Shrek a run for his money, \r\nbecause I think that Po in a very
different way is without question the \r\nmost lovable character we\'ve
ever created,\" Katzenberg said. \"Shrek\'s an\r\n anti-hero
hero. Po is an unlikely hero. He is more in tune with what we\r\n are
ourselves. He actually has to find the hero within, and I think we \r\nall
have a hero within us.<br><br>\"So it\'s just very
relatable to find \r\nthis kind of average guy who\'s working in his dad\'s
noodle restaurant \r\nsuddenly have an ambitious fantasy to be something
great, only to learn \r\nthat being the best version of yourself is
greatness.\"<br><br>\"Kung Fu Panda\" debuts in
U.S. theaters June 6.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null,
null, null, null), ('54', '\'Sex and the City\' tries to age gracefully',
'5', '2012-10-23', 'Early on in the new \"Sex and the City\" film
-- and don\'t worry, we\'re not spoiling the plot here -- Carrie and
longtime love<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.city.ap_245516754.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Sex and the City tries to age
gracefully\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n
                               \r\n								<span>Early on in the new
\"Sex and the City\" film -- and don\'t \r\nworry, we\'re not
spoiling the plot here -- Carrie and longtime love Mr. \r\nBig are in bed
together.<br><br>A passionate interlude? Nah, they\'re just
reading. Except they both need glasses, and there\'s only one
pair.<br><br>Sharing reading glasses in bed? These two, who
fogged up the small screen with their sexual chemistry during the TV
series?<br><br>Yes, and that small moment is a sweet
acknowledgment that they\'ve both aged.<br><br>As, of course,
have we.<br><br>The\r\n series may be alive and well on TBS
reruns. But it\'s been a full decade\r\n since \"Sex and the
City\" premiered on HBO, bringing us sex columnist \r\nCarrie, her
three gal pals, and their lustful urban quest for love, good\r\n sex and
even better clothes.<br><br>That means these 30-somethings who
\r\nspent six seasons drinking and trysting with abandon are now
\r\n40-somethings, with a couple characters even flirting with 50. And
\r\ncynics are asking: Can they pull this off? How does \"Sex and the
City\" \r\nget around the age issue?<br><br>In interviews
with The Associated Press\r\n over the weekend, the cast answered that
question unanimously: It \r\ndoesn\'t. Age is not avoided here. It is
embraced and even savored, like,\r\n well, a nice, cool
Cosmopolitan.<br><br>\"When we started cobbling
\r\ntogether the movie, we knew there was only one road we could
take,\" said\r\n Sarah Jessica Parker, who stars as Carrie and
co-produced the film.<br><br>\"You\r\n cannot pretend
we\'re 32, still running around New York drinking with \r\nliberty and
looking for interesting sexual partnerships. It would have \r\nbeen vulgar.
None of us wanted to do that.\"<br><br>And so the film
\r\nbegins not where the series left off four years ago, but in the
present.\r\n Carrie, now in her early 40s, is now a contributing editor to
Vogue and\r\n a best-selling author.<br><br>She\'s also got
more money, and she\'s got \r\nBig, who, you may recall, flew to Paris in
the series finale to rescue \r\nher from a bad relationship. Now they\'re
in a happy place, and if you\'ve\r\n seen the trailer, you know there are
wedding plans afoot and a pretty \r\namazing dress. InStyle: See Sex and
the City fashions<br><br>But you can\r\n tell things are going
to be difficult, even sad. It\'s a far cry from \r\nthe story producers
originally planned to tell four years ago, when the \r\nproject stalled, at
least partly because of reported demands by Kim \r\nCattrall, who plays
Samantha, for more money and creative
control.<br><br>\"The\r\n movie we were going to make was
totally different,\" said Parker, 43. \r\n\"It was a romp, kind
of like those Bob Hope and Bing Crosby road movies.\r\n But four years have
passed, and there\'s just a lot more time invested \r\nin all these
relationships.\"<br><br>That includes the ties between the
\r\nwomen, said Cynthia Nixon, aka Miranda, the high-strung, hardworking
\r\nlawyer who is at a breaking point when the movie
begins.<br><br>\"We were\r\n all aware, partly because of
the big screen but also because we\'re \r\nolder, that there has to be a
maturity there with the way we confront \r\nproblems,\" Nixon said.
\"So when Miranda and Carrie fight, they take a \r\nlittle distance
and try and work it out.\"<br><br>Maturity can be seen
in\r\n the clothes as well. \"Were we still wearing these crazy
outfits from 10\r\n years ago, that would look wildly inappropriate,\"
Nixon mused. But \r\nrelax, fashionistas: Fabulous clothes still have their
place.<br><br>\"We\r\n do have fantastic clothes and
shoes, that hasn\'t changed,\" noted \r\nKristin Davis, who plays
Charlotte, the Park Avenue socialite who\'s \r\nfound domestic contentment
with her good-natured husband, Harry, and \r\ntheir adopted Chinese
daughter. \"But we couldn\'t pretend that time \r\ndidn\'t pass. Our
point is to tell it like it is.\"<br><br>The best
\r\nexample of that is Cattrall\'s Samantha Jones, whose frank expressions
of\r\n her lusty desires always made her character seem larger than life.
But \r\nSamantha also suffered the worst hardship of all the women: breast
\r\ncancer, in the show\'s last season.<br><br>Cattrall is 51,
and in the \r\nseries Samantha rarely spoke of her own age. In the film,
her age is \r\nmentioned and even celebrated, in a poignant
way.<br><br>\"For a \r\nHollywood movie that\'s
extraordinary,\" said Cattrall. \"But I think it\'s \r\nthe way
the show has always been. Whether it\'s aging or sex or dating or\r\n
disease or 9/11, it\'s been met head on.\"<br><br>And
Cattrall knows her \r\nperformance is influenced by her own aging process.
\"A lot of things \r\nhave happened in the last four years, and they
haven\'t all been great,\" \r\nshe said, referring to her divorce and
her father\'s diagnosis of \r\ndementia. \"And it shades what you do.
It shades who you are.\"<br><br>With\r\n nobody left to
represent the younger set, Michael Patrick King, who \r\ndirected and wrote
the film (and co-produced it with Parker), brought in\r\n Jennifer Hudson,
the 26-year-old Oscar winner from \"Dreamgirls,\" to \r\nplay
Carrie\'s tech-savvy assistant. Parker said the purpose of the new \r\nrole
is \"to reflect what that time of life is all about, how you feel
\r\nabout love, and how simple it is then.\"<br><br>To
Hudson, that makes \r\nsense. \"Now there\'s another kind of character
the audience can relate \r\nto,\" she said, also noting that she\'s
the first major black character to\r\n figure in the
story.<br><br>Aging is not just a female process, of
\r\ncourse, and Mr. Big, played by Chris Noth, has a little added gravitas
\r\nnow, perhaps a few gray hairs, and a more mature approach to romance
(To\r\n a point. This is Big, after all.) Noth, 53, seems thrilled that the
\r\nfilm is presenting a set of mature
characters.<br><br>\"Where did the \r\nnotion come from
that the lives of adults are less interesting than the \r\nlives of those
under 30?\" he asked. \"I actually think the movie has MORE\r\n
relevance. I think the girls look better. And I\'m just happy that we
\r\nhave some adult entertainment here.<br><br>\"We\'ve
strayed so far in our culture, it\'s like, you know, can kiddie time be
over?\"</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('55', 'Gwyneth Paltrow is back -- and on her terms', '5',
'2012-10-23', 'When Gwyneth Paltrow made the rounds to promote \"Iron
Man,\" the buzz \r\nwasn\'t about the Oscar winner\'s return to the
screen after an extended \r\nhiatus.<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.iron.paltrow.ap_672363727.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Gwyneth Paltrow is back -- and on her
terms\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>When Gwyneth Paltrow made
the rounds to promote \"Iron Man,\" \r\nthe buzz wasn\'t about
the Oscar winner\'s return to the screen after an \r\nextended hiatus. It
wasn\'t about the curious casting of a serious \r\nactress as a
superhero\'s secretary.<br><br>It was about her
shoes.<br><br>Paltrow\'s\r\n sky-high stilettos,
shoulder-length curls and up-to-there skirts were \r\nseen as a sign:
She\'s shedding her stay-at-home mom sweat pants and is \r\nready to
reclaim her throne in the celebrity pantheon.<br><br>\"In
\r\nEngland, there were pages in the newspaper on my various
footwear,\" she \r\nsays. \"I think there\'s some excitement that
I\'m back in high heels and, \r\nyou know, being
glamorous.\"<br><br>She says this while decked out in
\r\nanother pair of killer pumps, with no sense of surprise that a change
of\r\n clothing could set off a minor tempest of speculation about her
life.<br><br>Paltrow\r\n has what might be called a conflicted
relationship with Hollywood. Even\r\n when she\'s not working, she\'s
tailed by paparazzi and scrutinized for \r\nher fashion, her mothering and
her marriage to a famous rock star, \r\nColdplay frontman Chris
Martin.<br><br>That union is one she works hard \r\nto keep
private. She calls the latest gossip about the state of her \r\nmarriage,
fueled by her daring outfits and the couple\'s refusal to \r\nappear on red
carpets together, \"hilarious.\"<br><br>The
fascination with\r\n her private life has been frustrating, but also meant
she lost little \r\nluster in the few years that she\'s focused on her
daughter Apple, 4, and\r\n son Moses, 2.<br><br>\"There
were some days where I thought, after I had\r\n my son and I couldn\'t lose
the weight and I was in sweat pants and I \r\nwas depressed and I was
thinking, you know, will I ever be able to go \r\nback? Will they take me
back?\" she said.<br><br>Those feelings were exacerbated
by the postpartum depression she says she experienced after the birth of
her son.<br><br>She\r\n left Hollywood a few years earlier
following the death of her father, \r\ndirector Bruce Paltrow, with the
feeling that she had already finished \r\nwhat she set out to accomplish.
She\'d done star turns in critically \r\nacclaimed movies. She\'d won an
Academy Award for \"Shakespeare in Love.\" \r\nShe\'d been the
\"it\" girl on the arms of Brad Pitt and Ben
Affleck.<br><br>It was time for her to focus on her
family.<br><br>\"You\r\n know, they change so quickly and
the idea of somebody else being there \r\nwhen they do their first this or
say their first that is just like, it \r\nmakes me die,\" she
says.<br><br>Her kids know her only as Mommy. \"They\'ve
never seen me on-screen or anything. They have no
idea.\"<br><br>But Hollywood years can be like dog years
-- three of them offscreen can seem like a decade, enough to torpedo a
star\'s career.<br><br>\"I\r\n think especially in my own
business it confounded people that I was \r\nwilling to walk away from that
and to lose my place on the A-list and \r\nsay, it\'s not important to me
right now in my life,\" she says.<br><br>\"Iron\r\n
Man\" marks her big comeback after small parts in \"Running With
\r\nScissors\" and her brother\'s film, \"The Good Night.\"
In the first of the \r\nsummer blockbusters, she joins an all-star cast of
Robert Downey Jr., \r\nTerrence Howard, Jeff Bridges and director Jon
Favreau. With a $100 \r\nmillion-plus opening weekend, it\'s become the
first blockbuster of the \r\nsummer.<br><br>\"As soon as
we heard she was interested, we put her in \r\nthe movie,\" Favreau
says. \"Gwyneth is refined, classy, smart and mature.\r\n She seemed a
good pairing for Robert (Downey Jr.). It was a very quick
\r\ndecision.\"<br><br>For Paltrow, the supporting role of
Pepper Potts, the \r\ndutiful assistant and possible love interest, was a
good transition, \r\nallowing her to work two or three days a week while
the rest of the cast\r\n went off to blow things up in the
desert.<br><br>She spent time with \r\nher children at the
family house in California that her mother, actress \r\nBlythe Danner,
subsequently sold. \"It was just sort of reliving my own \r\nchildhood
again but with them, and it was just kind of a magical
time.\"<br><br>Working with Downey was also
invigorating.<br><br>\"He\r\n would come into the trailer
in the morning when we were going to read \r\nthe scene and he would
literally ball up the script and throw it against\r\n the wall and say,
\'This sucks, let\'s start over,\' \" she says. \"So it \r\nwas
like, \'OK! Well! What are we going to do
today?\'\"<br><br>Downey \r\ninsists there were no hurt
feelings about the give-and-take: \"I don\'t \r\nthink \'genius\' and
\'superhero script\' belong in the same sentence,\" he
\r\nsays.<br><br>Both stars have indicated they are open to
sequels -- and Marvel has already announced that \"Iron Man 2\"
is slated for 2010.<br><br>So\r\n Paltrow is back, but on her
terms. After shooting the upcoming \"Two \r\nLovers\" with
Joaquin Phoenix, she\'s taking the rest of the spring and \r\nsummer
off.<br><br>\"I don\'t think I could go back to ever doing
three, \r\nfour, five movies a year. There\'s just no way. There\'s no
way,\" she \r\nsays. \"Maybe when they\'re in college. But by
that point no one will want\r\n me in a movie anymore,
probably.\"</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null,
null, null, null), ('56', 'Report: McKellen to play Gandalf in \'Hobbit\'',
'5', '2012-10-23', 'Ian McKellen will again take up the robes of Gandalf
the Wizard in the \r\ncinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien\'s fantasy
classic \"The Hobbit,\" a\r\n British<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=art.mckellen_348511265.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Report McKellen to play Gandalf in
Hobbit\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Ian McKellen will again
take up the robes of Gandalf the \r\nWizard in the cinematic adaptation of
J.R.R. Tolkien\'s fantasy classic \r\n\"The Hobbit,\" a British
film magazine reported Wednesday.<br><br>But McKellen\'s
publicist warned that final arrangements were yet to be
made.<br><br>\"Of course he wants to do it, but nothing\'s
been agreed or signed,\" Clair Dobbs
said.<br><br>Empire\r\n magazine\'s Web site quoted McKellen as
saying that director Guillermo \r\ndel Toro told him he would again be
playing the white-haired wizard.<br><br>\"He\r\n confirmed
that I would be reprising the role,\" the magazine quoted \r\nMcKellen
as saying. \"Obviously, it\'s not a part that you turn down, I
\r\nloved playing Gandalf.\"<br><br>McKellen\'s sonorous
interpretation of \r\nGandalf in the \"Lord of the Rings\"
trilogy delighted fans and critics, \r\nearning him an Academy Award
nomination for best supporting actor.<br><br>The 68-year-old
British actor previously told The Associated Press that he would hate to
see anyone else play the role.<br><br>The\r\n \"Lord of
the Rings\" movies, based on the Tolkien book series of the \r\nsame
name, were extremely lucrative, grossing some $2.8 billion at \r\ntheaters
worldwide.<br><br>\"The Hobbit\" is being produced by
Peter \r\nJackson, the director of the \"Rings\" movies, and is
likely to be filmed \r\nin his home country of New Zealand next
year.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('57', 'Legendary director, actor Sidney Pollack dies of cancer',
'5', '2012-10-23', 'Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who
achieved critical \r\nacclaim with the period drama \"Out of
Africa\" and the romantic comedy \r\n\"Tootsie,\" died of
cancer Monday, <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Legendary director actor Sidney Pollack dies of
cancer\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Academy Award-winning
director Sydney Pollack, who achieved \r\ncritical acclaim with the period
drama \"Out of Africa\" and the romantic \r\ncomedy
\"Tootsie,\" died of cancer Monday, his agent told
CNN.<br><br>Pollack,\r\n 73, died at his home in Los Angeles.
He was surrounded by his wife of \r\nnearly 50 years, Claire Griswold,
their two daughters, Rebecca and \r\nRachel, and his brother, Bernie, agent
Leslee Dart said. Their only son \r\nSteven died in a plane crash in
1993.<br><br>Pollack, who often appeared\r\n on the screen
himself, worked with and gained the respect of \r\nHollywood\'s best actors
in a long career that reached prominence in the \r\n1970s and 1980s,
according to the Associated Press.<br><br>\"Sydney made
\r\nthe world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a
\r\nlittle better. A tip of the hat to a class act,\" actor George
Clooney \r\nsaid in a statement issued by his publicist, the Associated
Press \r\nreported.<br><br>Last fall, Pollack played Marty Bach
opposite Clooney \r\nin \"Michael Clayton,\" a drama that
examines the life of a fixer for \r\nlawyers. The film, which Pollack
co-produced, received seven Oscar \r\nnominations, including best picture
and a best actor nod for Clooney, \r\naccording to the Associated
Press.<br><br>Pollack was no stranger to the\r\n Academy
Awards. In 1986, \"Out of Africa,\" a romantic epic of a woman\'s
\r\npassion set against the landscape of colonial Kenya, captured seven
\r\nOscars, including best director, The Associated Press
reported.<br><br>In\r\n addition to directing \"Out of
Africa,\" \"Tootsie,\" \"The Way We Were,\"
\r\nand a host of other Oscar-nominated films, he appeared in Stanley
\r\nKubrick\'s \"Eyes Wide Shut,\" Woody Allen\'s \"Husbands
and Wives,\" and his \r\nown \"The Electric
Horseman.\"<br><br>He also produced nearly 50 films,
\r\nincluding 1981\'s \"Absence of Malice,\" which starred Paul
Newman and \r\nSally Field, and 1999\'s \"The Talented Mr.
Ripley,\" which starred Matt \r\nDamon.<br><br>Though he
had been working until recently -- his show \r\n\"Recount\"
premiered Sunday night on HBO -- he had been in a lot of pain \r\nand did
not watch it, Dart said.<br><br>Doctors never were able to
determine the primary source of the cancer, she
said.<br><br>Services will be private, she
said.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('58', 'Indiana Jones works but doesn\'t shine', '5', '2012-10-23',
'CNN) -- It\'s been a long, long time since the last \"last\"
time: When Dr. Henry \"Indiana\" Jones Jr. rode off into the
sunset in<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Indiana Jones works but doesnt
shine\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>(CNN) -- It\'s been a
long, long time since the last \"last\" \r\ntime: When Dr. Henry
\"Indiana\" Jones Jr. rode off into the sunset in May\r\n 1989,
courtesy of \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,\" the Berlin
Wall\r\n was still standing, George H.W. Bush was only four months into his
\r\npresidency, and Harrison Ford was just a young whippersnapper of
46.<br><br>Quite\r\n why Ford, Steven Spielberg and George
Lucas -- three of the wealthiest \r\nmen in Hollywood -- should feel the
need to resurrect Indiana Jones at \r\nthis late stage of the game is
anybody\'s guess. The three men have a \r\ncombined age of 191, but like
many boomers, they\'re not ready for the \r\nrest home just yet, even if
living in the past seems a strange way to \r\nshow
it.<br><br>The first Indiana Jones film, \"Raiders of the
Lost Ark,\"\r\n was already a nostalgia trip when it was released in
1981, a guileless \r\ncelebration of the old-fashioned Saturday morning
adventure serials that\r\n were a staple for any kid growing up in the
\'30s, \'40s and \'50s. That \r\nmakes the new film, \"Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal \r\nSkull,\" a throwback to a
throwback.<br><br>But time is catching up with the
series.<br><br>The\r\n new film is set in 1957, enabling Ford
to act his age (or something \r\nlike it). But this is the outer edge of a
time when America could still \r\nbelieve in the simple black-and-white
morality Indiana represents. If \r\nthe Nazis and the Reds couldn\'t finish
him off, the \'60s surely would.<br><br>Still,\r\n in some
ways, the extra years suit Ford. Indiana has always been a \r\nsurly old
sourpuss, a pragmatic, world-weary hero in the classic WWII \r\nmold.
Indy\'s fondness for griping is part of what makes him human. And \r\nwhen
it comes to trading punches, cracking heads or disinterring the \r\ndead,
Ford can still get it done. If he can\'t, his stunt double
can.<br><br>The\r\n movie opens in Nevada, where Dr. Jones is
caught up in a daring raid on\r\n Area 51 led by Soviet agent Irina Spalko,
played by a Cate Blanchett in\r\n a severe black bob, long black rubber
gloves and a rapier. (It\'s a \r\nget-up so outrÃ©, even Joe Stalin would
smile.) In a twist worthy of \"The\r\n Twilight Zone,\" Indy
finds himself in an ersatz small town populated by\r\n cardboard figures
watching \"Howdy Doody\" -- a test site for an imminent\r\n
A-bomb explosion.<br><br>This bravura, breakneck opening
immediately \r\nrekindles the old magic: the mixture of bravado and wit
with action \r\nsequences that keep piling on layer upon layer of peril.
Unfortunately, \r\nthis is also the high point of the movie, or close to
it.<br><br>Indiana\'s\r\n brush with the Reds makes him a
person of interest to the FBI just \r\nafter the height of the McCarthy
period, a quick, passing nod toward a \r\npost-9/11 sensibility that the
movie runs away from almost as \r\ndesperately as Indy scrambles from an
army of man-eating ants. At this \r\npoint, screenwriter David Koepp in
effect starts the story all over \r\nagain, this time with Brylcreemed
biker Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) \r\nmaking a clumsy pitch about rescuing
his mom from kidnappers in South \r\nAmerica.<br><br>That, and
something about a legendary crystal skull, get\r\n Indiana Jones\' juices
churning, and suddenly the old professor and the \r\nyoung tough are off on
an adventure.<br><br>This outlandish hokum \r\ndoesn\'t bear
close scrutiny, so it\'s probably just as well Dr. Jones is \r\nnot one for
introspection. He does his thinking on his feet, and so does\r\n Spielberg,
who sometimes seems to be directing this with one eye on the\r\n exit
signs.<br><br>It is good to see Karen Allen back as Marion
\r\nRavenwood, easily the pick of Indiana\'s women. She lends the
enterprise \r\nsome heart that is sorely lacking elsewhere. It\'s just a
pity Koepp \r\ncan\'t find more for her to do. (Ray Winstone, as an Indy
colleague, is \r\nalso poorly used.)<br><br>A long jungle chase
is another bona fide \r\nhighlight, but Spielberg and Lucas misjudge the
film\'s extravagant CGI \r\nclimax; I won\'t spoil it here, but it feels
alien to Indy\'s world. Let\'s\r\n just say we have seen this before, from
Spielberg himself, and done \r\nbetter,
too.<br><br>\"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull\"\r\n has enough going for it to secure the bronze medal in the
series and \r\neven compete for the silver, but \"The Last
Crusade\" was a more graceful \r\nfarewell. Indeed, the prospect of a
revived series -- either with Ford \r\nor LaBeouf in the driver\'s seat --
isn\'t especially enticing. \"The \r\nAdventures of Mutt
Williams,\" anyone?</span>\r\n							</div><br>',
null, null, null, null), ('59', 'The Incredible Hulk Movie', '5',
'2012-10-23', '\"The Incredible Hulk\" kicks off an all-new,
explosive and action-packed \r\nepic of one of the most popular super
heroes of all time.In this new \r\nbeginning<br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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alt=\"The Incredible Hulk
Movie\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>\"The Incredible
Hulk\" kicks off an all-new, explosive and \r\naction-packed epic of
one of the most popular super heroes of all time.<br><br>In\r\n
this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately
\r\nhunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and
\r\nunleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The
Hulk.<br><br>Living\r\n in the shadowsâ€”cut off from a
life he knew and the woman he loves, \r\nBetty Ross (Liv
Tyler)â€”Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit \r\nof his
nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt) and the military\r\n
machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his
power.<br><br>As\r\n all three grapple with the secrets that
led to the Hulk\'s creation, \r\nthey are confronted with a monstrous new
adversary known as the \r\nAbomination (Tim Roth), whose destructive
strength exceeds even the \r\nHulk\'s own.<br><br>And on June
13, 2008, one scientist must make an \r\nagonizing final choice: accept a
peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find \r\nheroism in the creature he holds
insideâ€”The Incredible
Hulk.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('60', 'Horton Hears A Who!', '5', '2012-10-23', 'Horton the
Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from \r\nhis
neighbors who refuse to believe it exists.If you want the short \r\nversion
of my<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=Horton_Hears_a_Who__1396_724205185.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Horton Hears A
Who\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n       
                        \r\n								<span>Horton the Elephant
struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse
to believe it exists.<br><br>If\r\n you want the short version
of my review of Horton Hears a Who!, the \r\nlatest Dr. Seuss book to be
adapted for the big screen, it is as \r\nfollows: I loved this movie, my
kids loved this movie, Mr. Wonderful \r\nloved this movie, and everyone
else in the packed theater screening \r\nseemed to love this movie! If you
are interested in hearing why we loved\r\n Horton, the story of an elephant
determined to find a safe haven for a \r\ncommunity of tiny people (a.k.a,
Whos) that live on a speck of dust and \r\nthat no one else believes
exists, read on...<br><br>When I was young my \r\nolder brother
enjoyed tormenting me in a number of ways. His favorite \r\nmethod involved
coming into my room after I was asleep, late at night, \r\nturning on my
overhead light and asking me, \"Hey, Sue, what if we are \r\nall tiny
specks living on a tiny world contained in a giantâ€™s \r\nfingernail?
What happens when the giant cuts his nails?\" When he was \r\nsure I
was awake and his question had registered, he would leave. \r\nWithout
turning the lights off. Watching Horton Hears a Who! forcibly \r\nreminded
me of those late nights and allowed me to stop feeling quite so\r\n foolish
for having pondered his questions.<br><br>The animation and
\r\ncolor in this picture are wonderful. The colors are bright and the
\r\ncharacters look like Dr. Seuss drawings, not like someone elseâ€™s
\r\ninterpretation of Dr. Seuss characters. That visual integrity,
\r\nparticularly when presenting a style so deeply ingrained in our
\r\ncollective, cultural experience, is the key to hooking viewers from the
\r\nvery first moments, and this film successfully meets that challenge.
The\r\n only real departures from Seuss-vision, if you will, accompany
Hortonâ€™s\r\n flights of imagination, the most memorable of which
resembles Japanese \r\nanime, complete with lips moving out of synch with
the dialogue, which \r\nmy kids found quite
amusing.<br><br>Additionally, Horton (Jim Carrey, \r\nwhose
talents are put to good use here) is one of the most delightful
\r\ncharacters, animated or otherwise, I can think of in recent movie
\r\nhistory. His motto, \"an elephant is faithful 100%\"
dovetails nicely with\r\n his firm and oft-repeated conviction that
\"a personâ€™s a person, no \r\nmatter how smallâ€ and it is
this combination that both makes Horton a \r\ndependable friend and drives
the film. It is, perhaps, a minor miracle \r\nthat despite Hortonâ€™s
determination and devotion to his ideals, even in \r\nthe face of personal
danger, intense social pressure and the threat of \r\nexpulsion from his
jungle home, he never becomes preachy or \r\ninsufferable. Heâ€™s just
doing what he does, and a big part of what he \r\ndoes involves using his
imagination and retaining his sense of humor.<br><br>After\r\n
a brow beating by the self-appointed jungle mayor, a \"sour
kangaroo\" \r\n(excellently voiced by Carol Burnett) hell-bent on
thwarting Horton and \r\nputting the kibosh on imagination in general,
Horton moseys away \r\nwondering about her admonition to follow her
instructions \"ASAP.\" His \r\nresolution of that
expressionâ€™s meaning is likely, I think, to become \r\npart of our
family vernacular; he decides it means \"act swiftly awesome
\r\npachyderm.\" It is funny and accurate, because Horton is indeed
\r\n\"awesome.\"<br><br>Last, but not least,
(remember, \"a personâ€™s a person, \r\nno matter how
smallâ€) we loved Whoville and its Mayor, Ned (Steve \r\nCarell,
another perfect bit of casting). Ned and his wife Sally have 96
\r\ndaughters and one son named Jojo (perhaps the most interesting Who of
\r\nall), \"who all share a bathroom.\" Talk about sympathetic
characters! Ned\r\n loves his brood and makes sure they all get at least
one minute of his \r\ntime each day. He loves his job; it has been in the
family for \r\ngenerations. He loves Whoville, and on the surface it seems
a pretty \r\nidyllic place, but he canâ€™t shake the feeling, or
ignore the mounting \r\nevidence, that something is horribly wrong. Did I
already mention heâ€™s a\r\n sympathetic character? Like Horton, Ned
is faced with a constituency \r\nthat doesnâ€™t want to hear, and
certainly doesnâ€™t believe, that, perhaps,\r\n all is not as it
seems.<br><br>Because Horton Hears a Who! is a Dr. \r\nSeuss
story, it has a moral and the good guys, Horton and Ned, prevail. \r\nBut
this is also a movie version of Dr. Seuss, so getting there takes a
\r\nwhile. Because it is a really good movie adaptation of a Dr. Seuss
book,\r\n the experience is, like Horton,
awesome.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('61', 'Run Fatboy Run', '5', '2012-10-23', 'Never in a million
years would have I imagined that what I saw tonight \r\nwould have sprung
from the minds of those that brought it <br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=run_fat_boy_run_285187114.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Run Fatboy
Run\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n       
                        \r\n								<span>Never in a million years
would have I imagined that what I \r\nsaw tonight would have sprung from
the minds of those that brought it to\r\n me.<br><br>When one
thinks of the off-kilter, sometimes very bizarre \r\ncomedy of Michael Ian
Black (a writer and performer on the television \r\nshows The State and
Viva Variety) and the geek-centric, genius-level \r\nparody of Simon Pegg
(Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), odds are youâ€™re \r\nnot thinking
that the two would work together to create a heartwarming, \r\nadorable
romantic comedy about a man trying to prove himself to his \r\nex-fiancee
and his son by running and completing a marathon. But thatâ€™s
\r\nexactly what Run Fatboy Run is. Neither weird nor coming within fifty
\r\nmiles of making a direct reference to another film, this seems to play
\r\noutside the safety zones of both Pegg and Black. And yet together,
under\r\n the direction of TVâ€™s Ross (David Schwimmer â€“-
donâ€™t pretend you didnâ€™t\r\n know which Ross I was talking
about), the result is a delightfully \r\nendearing piece of modern,
mainstream, even somewhat predictable, \r\ncomedy.<br><br>And I
loved every minute.<br><br>It was no secret that \r\nSchwimmer
was going to attempt to become the Jonathan Frakes of the \r\nFriends
troupe, having directed a dozen different episodes of the \r\nlong-running
series. But unlike Frakes (who went from starring on and \r\ndirecting
episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation to directing \r\ngawd-awful
childrenâ€™s fare like Clockstoppers and Thunderbirds), \r\nSchwimmer
comes out swinging with one hell of a directorial debut. Sure,\r\n it
isnâ€™t particularly cutting-edge or career redefining. Instead it
\r\nplays to his strengths and to the audience most apt to seek out his
\r\nwork. Friends, after all, was a weekly episodic romantic comedy that
\r\nonly began to run out of steam once every permutation possible between
\r\nthe cast members had been played out. So Schwimmer took everything he
\r\nlearned on that long-running show and funneled that into a real
\r\ncrowd-pleaser of a comedy.<br><br>Rather than focusing upon
the standard\r\n boy-meets-girl/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl back formula,
Run Fatboy \r\nRun is entirely about the getting girl back portion of the
film. As the \r\nfilm opens, Dennis (Simon Pegg) is leaving his pregnant
fiancee at the \r\naltar. Cut to five years later and his life is in
shambles. The love of \r\nhis life has found someone else and his son might
find himself with a \r\nnew and more together father. So he envisions the
only thing he can to \r\nwin his family back â€“ run in the same
marathon as his ex-fianceeâ€™s new \r\nsuitor.<br><br>But
as the film wears on, it becomes less about winning \r\nback the girl and
more about winning her and their sonâ€™s respect. Even \r\nas it seems
that he may never win her back, the film focuses upon the
\r\ntransformation taking place within Dennis as he realizes what
heâ€™s \r\nreally fighting for.<br><br>Sound like
youâ€™ve heard it all before? Sure \r\nyou have. In fact, watch this
long enough and you can even guess the \r\nending in a called shot that
probably won\'t impress anyone you know. But\r\n romantic comedies
arenâ€™t about where you end up. Theyâ€™re entirely about\r\n how
you get there. And it is the how you get there that makes this
\r\nsomething special. Here we have two comic talents (Black and Pegg)
\r\ntrying their hand at mainstream comedy (including gross-out jokes,
\r\nswearing granny/youngster jokes, and a whole bevy of Jerky New
Boyfriend\r\n jokes) and in doing so shows you how theyâ€™re done.
They donâ€™t try for \r\nthe joke-a-minute formula. Instead they focus
on solid, laugh out loud \r\njokes that just plain work. And even if you
donâ€™t laugh, they refuse to \r\nlet you roll your eyes. It is razor
sharp wit that doesnâ€™t require a \r\nrazor sharp mind to enjoy
it.<br><br>Thatâ€™s not to say that this movie \r\naims
low. Sure, itâ€™s more accessible than either of the writers is
\r\naccustomed to and more along the lines of what Schwimmer is good at,
but\r\n it hits everything that it aims for. It is careful, well-crafted
comedy\r\n that will appeal to a broad audience. But it doesnâ€™t
reinvent the \r\nwheel. If youâ€™re the type of person looking for
something new, you wonâ€™t\r\n find it here. But it had the crowd
cheering as much as they were \r\nlaughing, and that\'s never a bad thing.
About as solid as a film like \r\nthis can be, it comes pretty well
recommended.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null);
INSERT INTO `articles` VALUES ('62', 'Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian', '5', '2012-10-23', 'A few things have changed since the
first Chronicles of Narnia film \r\narrived on the scene. In the sequel,
Prince Caspian, the principal \r\nactors are <br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
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alt=\"Chronicles of Narnia Prince
Caspian\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n   
                            \r\n								<span>A few things have
changed since the first Chronicles of \r\nNarnia film arrived on the scene.
In the sequel, Prince Caspian, the \r\nprincipal actors are a little older
and more proficient.<br><br>The \r\ndirector, Andrew Adamson,
seems more confident; the action scenes are \r\nsmoother and more polished.
The Christian allegories are not as awkward \r\nand
heavy-handed.<br><br>It\'s a better movie all around, though
still \r\nnot a great one. Like its predecessor, it is plot-heavy, with
very \r\nlittle attention paid to characterization. You\'ll recall that
there are \r\nfour siblings at the center -- and three of them come off as
total \r\nciphers here. It wasn\'t until I re-read my review of the first
film that\r\n I remembered that Edmund (Skandar Keynes) used to be
rebellious. If he \r\nstill is, there\'s little sign of it. If he isn\'t
anymore, then what is \r\nhe instead?<br><br>The Pevensie child
who does not get the short shrift \r\nis the oldest, Peter (William
Moseley), who returns to Narnia with his \r\nsiblings when they are
summoned by a distress call. It\'s been a year for\r\n them, but several
centuries in Narnia-time, and a usurping family has \r\nstolen the throne
and forced all the Narnian magical creatures into \r\nhiding in the forest.
The ruling family\'s teenage Prince Caspian (Ben \r\nBarnes) is now hiding,
too, because his uncle, the evil King Miraz \r\n(Sergio Castellitto),
having finally produced a male heir for himself, \r\nhas no reason to let
Caspian keep living. Miraz is leading the army into\r\n the forest to find
and kill Caspian (and any Narnians that get in the \r\nway); Caspian and
the Pevensie kids must rally the troops, fight back, \r\nand at last
reclaim the throne.<br><br>Peter, now more serious and
\r\ngrown-up than the last time we saw him, readily adopts his previous
\r\nposition as rightful king of Narnia and deeply considers the options
\r\nthat lie before him. Caspian, meanwhile, is more hotheaded and
emotional\r\n -- which is understandable, considering his uncle wants to
kill him -- \r\nand this leads to recklessness. It also leads, inevitably,
to Peter\'s \r\nsister Susan (Anna Popplewell) developing a crush on
Caspian, in a \r\nsubplot so underdeveloped that it is an insult to
subplots.<br><br>Meanwhile,\r\n young Lucy (Georgie Henley)
insists that Aslan, the mighty Jesus-lion, \r\nwill yet return and save the
day. Her siblings do not share her faith. \r\nLucy even claims to have
glimpsed Aslan here and there. When Peter asks \r\nwhy he didn\'t see him,
Lucy says, \"Maybe you weren\'t looking.\" This is \r\nfraught
with spiritual import. In fact, everything with Lucy is fraught \r\nthat
way.<br><br>Among the new characters the young people encounter
are\r\n dwarfs named Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and Nikabrik (Warwick
Davis), \r\nplus a mouse (voiced by Eddie Izzard) whose small stature has
given him a\r\n persecution complex. No one takes a talking mouse
seriously, even if he\r\n does have a sword.<br><br>Light
touches like that abound in the film, \r\nbut there is ample darkness, too.
Its PG rating represents an astounding\r\n lapse in judgment on the part of
the MPAA, as the film is rife with \r\nstabbing, slicing, and death.
Someone\'s head gets chopped off. Lots of \r\ngood creatures are slain
while others look on, powerless to help. Very \r\nlittle blood is actually
shown, but still, the slaughter is endless. (I \r\ndon\'t hold the faulty
rating against the film itself, of course. I point\r\n it out merely as a
reminder for parents with young children.)<br><br>The\r\n
battle scenes are well orchestrated and often thrilling. There is also
a\r\n chilling sequence where someone contemplates a turn to dark magic,
and \r\ntwo horrific creatures, one wolflike and one resembling a ghastly
\r\nbird-headed woman, appear. Moments like that give the film some weight,
\r\nparticularly insofar as they give the characters something complicated
\r\nto think about.<br><br>Predictably, the film\'s running
time -- almost 2 \r\n1/2 hours -- feels too long, especially given the
story\'s basic \r\nsimplicity. And ultimately, the only way the film makes
sense is if it\'s\r\n read as a Christian allegory. Taken strictly at face
value, it\'s \r\nnonsensical: If Aslan is all-powerful, why doesn\'t he
arrive sooner and \r\ndefeat the bad guys single-handedly? What makes
anyone think he\'s going \r\nto come back at all? Why does he come back
when he does? What, exactly, \r\nis Aslan\'s connection to everyone? Is he
their king? Their god? Their \r\nbuddy? These questions are easily answered
if you replace \"Aslan\" with \r\n\"Jesus\" and fill in
the biblical blanks, but that limits the movie\'s \r\npotential reach.
Someone with no knowledge of Christian theology would \r\nbe baffled by the
movie\'s strange narrative and leo ex machina
ending.<br><br>Of\r\n course, the only people with no complex
knowledge of Christian theology\r\n who are likely to see the film are
young children, and they won\'t care \r\nabout the story\'s structural
flaws. It\'s the grown-ups who might feel \r\nslightly underwhelmed by it
all, though they\'ll likely be moderately \r\nentertained by the action and
adventure.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null,
null, null), ('63', 'Speed Racer', '5', '2012-10-23', 'Speed Racer looks
really good. I\'ll give them that. The story wasn\'t \r\nreally for me but
there was nothing particularly wrong with it \r\neither.It\'s
just<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=speed_racer_poster24_495259532.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=speed_racer_poster24_495259532.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Speed
Racer\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>Speed Racer looks really
good. I\'ll give them that. The story\r\n wasn\'t really for me but there
was nothing particularly wrong with it \r\neither.<br><br>It\'s
just a straightforward kid\'s movie with the best darned effects this side
of Space Mountain.<br><br>Now\r\n for the caveats portion of
our review. I\'ve seen a few episodes of \r\nSpeed Racer on Cartoon
Network, but I remember about 45 seconds total of\r\n the show. The monkey
stands out. So this puppy might have been laced \r\nwith in-jokes and
homages all over the place that the \"true\" fans will \r\nlove
in a big way. If so, I\'m happy for them; but that was not my
\r\nexperience. The other caveat is that, by and large, PG films are not
for\r\n me. Just the way I\'m wired, I suppose.<br><br>The
Speed Racer is played\r\n capably by Emile Hirsch. The film starts with him
as a wee lad hanging \r\nout with his big brother Rex Racer, a professional
racer on the WRL \r\ncircuit. The film flashes forward and then back again
quite a bit during\r\n the initial stages (the film is over two hours, by
the way). \r\nEssentially, Speed Racer, along with Pops (John Goodman),
Trixie \r\n(Christina Ricci), Mom (Susan Sarandon), the kid brother, and
monkey, \r\ngets embroiled in a face-off against the corporate powers that
be. Three\r\n major races break up the movie and provide a bit of adult
relief from \r\nthe threadbare plot.<br><br>Logically,
everything makes sense here. The \r\nvillains are clear and their
motivations apparent -- the family and \r\nSpeed are gallant and determined
in their efforts to make theirs the \r\nbest racing team on the circuit.
Matthew Fox takes a spin as Racer X, \r\nthe man with shadowy intentions
and phenomenal driving moves. The whole \r\nfilm feels a bit noir in terms
of tone, but the blaring effects don\'t \r\nallow for much introspection
overall. This would be a difficult film to \r\nhate but not a difficult
film to be a bit bored by. Again, and it bears \r\nrepeating as this one
carries the Wachowski brothers\' (The Matrix, V for\r\n Vendetta)
signature; this is a film for those not looking for anything \r\ntoo
intellectually challenging.<br><br>I would highly recommend
Speed \r\nRacer for families seeking a visual treat. I\'m less than
optimistic that\r\n this will appeal to adults who weren\'t big fans of the
original. It \r\ndoesn\'t strike me as a date movie either: though Ricci
and Hirsch have \r\nnice chemistry, the PG factor dulls it down a bit.
However, I will say \r\nif your choices are between this and What Happens
in Vegas... you \r\nshouldn\'t think twice because that film is putrid by
comparison. Aw, who\r\n am I kidding? You should just see Iron Man again.
That one has good \r\neffects and a few
laughs.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('64', 'Build your own iPod stereo system', '6', '2012-10-23', 'It
just takes smart shopping to assemble a do-it-yourself speaker
\r\nsystemiPod owners have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to
\r\nchoosing a speaker system<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=i600b_187894870.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=i600b_187894870.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Build your own iPod stereo
system\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>It just takes smart
shopping to assemble a do-it-yourself speaker
system<br><br>iPod\r\n owners have an embarrassment of riches
when it comes to choosing a \r\nspeaker system for their music player. I
should knowâ€”over the past few \r\nyears, Iâ€™ve reviewed many
of these accessories, which typically combine \r\nan iPod dock, an
amplifier, speakers, and a remote control. And while \r\nmany iPod speaker
systems make considerable compromises between sound \r\nquality, size, and
convenience, some are quite impressive. When Iâ€™ve \r\nreviewed the
best of these productsâ€”take Klipschâ€™s $400 iFi or
Jamoâ€™s \r\n$400 i300 as examplesâ€”I\'ve often noted that users
would be hard-pressed \r\nto put together a system on their own that sounds
better for the same \r\namount of money.<br><br>But that got me
thinking: how difficult would \r\ndoing so be? With some smart shopping,
could you create a systemâ€”an \r\namplifier, an iPod dock with
remote, and speakersâ€”that competes on both \r\nprice and performance
with the best systems specifically made for the
\r\niPod?<br><br>I decided to find out. I searched for
components to make my\r\n own iPod speaker system, with the ultimate goal
being a noticeable \r\nupgrade in sound quality over good iPod speaker
systems in the same \r\nprice range (which means connecting an iPod dock to
a $300 â€œbookshelf \r\nstereoâ€ with mediocre sound quality
wouldnâ€™t cut it).<br><br>Why go \r\nthrough the trouble?
After all, if there are already good systems out \r\nthere for $300 to
$400, why not just plunk down your money and start \r\nlistening instead of
going to the trouble of rounding up the parts \r\nyourself? For starters, a
system with separate speakers has the \r\npotential to sound better than an
all-in-one box. Second, by buying the \r\ncomponents separately,
youâ€™re future-proofing your system: you can later\r\n upgrade to a
better amplifier, or a nice receiver, and even use the \r\nsystem for
listening to CDs or radio. Apple could also make changes to \r\nfuture iPod
models that render current iPod speaker systems obsolete; \r\nwith a custom
stereo, you can just buy a new dock instead of having to \r\nreplace the
whole thing. Finally, as an audio guy who also reviews iPod \r\nspeakers, I
simply wanted to see what was possible.<br><br>The ground
rules<br><br>To truly replace a dedicated iPod speaker system,
my build-it-yourself stereo had to meet several
requirements:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n * iPod
dock: A cradle that connects to an iPodâ€™s dock-connector port is\r\n
necessary for high-quality sound and the ability to control playback
\r\nusing a wireless remote. (See the next
item.)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Remote control: A\r\n
wireless remote for controlling basic iPod playback
\r\n(play/pause/back/forward) is a must. The capability to control volume
\r\nlevel is a bonus.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Good sound
quality: If my DIY system wasnâ€™t \r\ngoing to sound as good as, or
better than, whatâ€™s already out there, \r\nthere was no point in
pursuing this exercise. Thankfully, there are many\r\n inexpensive speakers
on the market that sound great. And, as I noted \r\nabove, separate
left/right speakers have some clear advantages over \r\none-box systems:
separate speakers can provide much better stereo \r\nseparation and imaging
than speakers confined to a one-piece box; you \r\noften get better-quality
components; and you can place components where \r\nyou want them or where
they sound the bestâ€”you donâ€™t need a single, \r\nlarge
â€œfootprintâ€ on your desk or
dresser.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Itâ€™s also worth \r\nnoting that a quality pair of standalone
speakers will likely be with \r\nyou long after an iPod speaker system has
found its way onto CraigsList \r\nor the electronics-recycling
pile.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Relatively-compact size and
\r\ndecent appearance: With separate speakers, a DIY stereo is going to
take\r\n up more room than a desktop system, but I wanted to keep it small
\r\nenough to fit on a desk, dresser, or
counter.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In
terms of \r\nappearance, while there are some inexpensive amplifiers that
perform \r\nsurprisingly well, including ones you can solder together
yourself, many\r\n are bulky and ugly. I didnâ€™t expect to be able to
put something \r\ntogether that looked like B&amp;Wâ€™s $600
Zeppelin, but I hoped to create\r\n a system that wouldnâ€™t look like
something I built using parts from \r\nRadio
Shack.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Reasonable price: Although
there are iPod speaker \r\nsystems out there that cost $4,000 (or more),
many of our favoritesâ€”ones\r\n that offer excellent sound quality
and a good feature setâ€”are in the \r\n$300 to $400 range. So
â€œaround $400â€ was my rough target
price.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('65', 'Future Apple Devices May Be Solar-Powered', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'Employees at Apple have filed a patent for integrating solar
cells into \r\nportable devices by placing them underneath the layers of a
\r\ntouch-sensitive display, according<br>', 'Employees at Apple have
filed a patent for integrating solar \r\ncells into portable devices by
placing them underneath the layers of a \r\ntouch-sensitive display,
according to the filing.<br><div><span><br>Solar
power could help make devices truly portable, freeing from the need for
wires to connect them to a power supply.<br><br>When\r\n
generating electricity from solar panels, the larger the panel the
\r\nbetter -- but as the patent \"Solar cells on portable
devices\" warns, \r\nafter allowing space for buttons, screens and a
way to hold the device, \r\nonly a small area is left on most devices for
solar cells.<br><br>One of\r\n the ways around that suggested
in the patent is to stack a \r\ntouch-sensitive layer, a display and solar
panel on top of one another. \r\nThat could make Apple\'s iPhone and iPod
Touch good candidates for such a\r\n power supply, as the display occupies
almost the entire face of those \r\ndevices.<br><br>The use of
solar powered charging in portable devices is\r\n starting to get more
attention, for more immediate consumer use as
\r\nwell.<br><br>When Vodafone announced its plan in April to
reduce its \r\nemissions of the greenhouse gase CO2 by 50 percent by 2020,
it also \r\nannounced plans for solar-powered phone chargers and universal
phone \r\nchargers for Vodafone-branded handsets.<br><br>At the
recent ITU Telecom\r\n Africa 2008 conference, Ugandan Minister for
Communications and \r\nInformation and Communication Technologies
Ham-Mukasa Mulira talked \r\nabout trials of solar-powered charging
conducted there, which had showed\r\n
promise.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('66', 'Samsung\'s Pebble-inspired S2 MP3 Player', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'Samsung S2 \'Pebble\' MP3 Player is an ultra-compact player
that is \r\nfully-functional not only as a portable music device, but also
comes in a\r\n variety<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=samsung_s2_s3_1_thumb_450x406_560769497.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=samsung_s2_s3_1_thumb_450x406_560769497.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Samsungs Pebble-inspired S2 MP3
Player\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>Samsung S2 \'Pebble\'
MP3 Player is an ultra-compact player \r\nthat is fully-functional not only
as a portable music device, but also \r\ncomes in a variety of colors to
match your dressing style.<br><br>All \r\ncontrols are placed
along the back face including play/pause, volume, \r\nplayback options
(standard, random, repeat), and DNSe 2.0 audio \r\nenhancements for a
straightforward interface that is easy to navigate \r\neven without seeing
the buttons. A hidden LED along the bottom edge \r\nflashes numerous colors
and patterns based on the selected playback mode\r\n and EQ
setting.<br><br>Here is a look at some quick
facts:</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('67', 'LEGO MP3 Player', '6', '2012-10-23', 'This is a trend that
needs no introduction. The art of turning \r\neverything Lego is something
that needs appreciation rather than a \r\nclichÃ© appreciation.The
studs<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=lego_mp3_player_228291895.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=lego_mp3_player_228291895.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"LEGO MP3
Player\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>This is a trend that
needs no introduction. The art of \r\nturning everything Lego is something
that needs appreciation rather than\r\n a clichÃ©
appreciation.<br><br>The studs on the oversized Lego brick
act\r\n as controls for the player and you can also find a USB port and a
\r\nheadphone jack. It supports both MP3 and WMA file formats. The colors
\r\nare pretty realistic enough to represent overgrown Lego bricks. Imagine
\r\nfitting the giant blocks together and having a giant music system (just
\r\nhypothesis).<br><br>There still is a child in all of
us.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('68', 'Microsoft sees Windows Mobile unit sales up 50 pct', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) expects global unit sales of its
Windows Mobile \r\nsoftware for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per
year in fiscal \r\nyears<br>', 'Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) expects
global unit sales of its Windows Mobile \r\nsoftware for cellphones to grow
at least 50 percent per year in fiscal \r\nyears 2008 and 2009 as demand
for smartphones rises rapidly.<br><br>\"Fifty\r\n percent
growth is the minimum,\" Eddie Wu, the software company\'s
\r\nmanaging director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters on the
\r\nsidelines of a news conference on Tuesday.<br><br>He said
Microsoft \r\nexpects to sell 20 million units in its 2007/2008 fiscal year
ending in \r\nJune, and expects to grow at least 50 percent annually over
the next two\r\n years. It sold over 11 million units of its Windows Mobile
software in \r\nits 2006/2007 fiscal year ended
June.<br><br>\"We\'re actually still seeing very good
growth (for our mobile software) in markets like Europe and the United
States,\" said Wu.<br><br>Wu added that growth of Windows
Mobile is seen fastest in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Brazil, Russia and
India.<br><br>Microsoft\'s\r\n mobile communications division
provides operating systems for \r\nsmartphones and other mobile devices
based on the Windows Mobile \r\nplatform. Its clients include South
Korea\'s Samsung Electronics \r\n(005930.KS), Motorola (MOT.N), High Tech
Computer (HTC) (2498.TW) and \r\nAsustek Computer
(2357.TW).<br><br>Microsoft competes against \r\nSymbian-based
operating systems which are used by vendors such as Nokia \r\n(NOK1V.HE)
and LG Electronics (066570.KS).<br><br>It also faces stiff
\r\ncompetition from other players such as Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Blackberry
\r\nmaker Research in Motion (RIMM.O) (RIM.TO), and Palm Inc
(PALM.O).<br><br>\"Even\r\n if Microsoft is growing at a
rate of 50-60 percent, it doesn\'t mean \r\nthey can gain that much share
since Microsoft and Apple\'s mobile \r\noperating system is still much
smaller compared to the Symbian system,\" \r\nsaid Citigroup analyst
Kevin Chang.<br><br>\"But they (Microsoft) are one\r\n of
the few players which are offering touchscreen platforms so that is
\r\nhelping them grow,\" said Chang, adding that vendors such as Sony
\r\nEricsson may soon also launch touchscreen smartphones with Windows
\r\nMobile.<br><br>Global smartphone unit shipments grew 52.5
percent from a\r\n year ago to hit around 12 million units in 2007, based
on data by \r\nGartner, and the market is set to continue to increase in
high \r\ndouble-digits in 2008 and in 2009, analysts
said.<br><br>Microsoft also \r\nsaid earlier this year that it
would offer full Web browsing \r\ncapabilities for mobile phones in the
third quarter this year, following\r\n in the footsteps of Apple\'s iPhone,
which has won praise for the way it\r\n displays Web sites as they would
appear on a computer.<br>', null, null, null, null), ('69', 'EU adds
document formats to its Microsoft concerns', '6', '2012-10-23', 'BRUSSELS,
Belgium - European Union regulators said Thursday they will \r\nconsider
Microsoft Corp.\'s promise to make its Office productivity \r\nprograms
work more seamlessly with competing <br>', '<img
title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=microsoft_yahoo_192735924.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=microsoft_yahoo_192735924.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"EU adds document formats to its Microsoft
concerns\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>BRUSSELS, Belgium -
European Union regulators said Thursday \r\nthey will consider Microsoft
Corp.\'s promise to make its Office \r\nproductivity programs work more
seamlessly with competing software.<br><br>Microsoft\r\n said
Wednesday it would update Office 2007 to allow users to save text,\r\n
spreadsheets and other documents in the Portable Document Format â€”
as \r\nPDF files â€” and other non-Microsoft file formats, in addition
to its own\r\n Office Open XML format, known as
OOXML.<br><br>The changes, due next \r\nyear, would add the
formats â€” including a competing standard called \r\nOpenDocument
Format created by open source developers and used by IBM \r\nCorp., Sun
Microsystems Inc. and others â€” as defaults consumers could
\r\nchoose from for saving all their
documents.<br><br>Microsoft\'s \r\nannouncement was the latest
in a series of moves meant to show it has \r\nchanged its ways and is no
longer the same company whose anticompetitive\r\n behavior provoked more
than $2.63 billion in fines in the E.U.<br><br>Critics\r\n have
stayed skeptical of Microsoft\'s vows to make its software work \r\nbetter
with rival programs, and European regulators opened two new \r\nMicrosoft
antitrust investigations in January, one related to the OOXML
\r\nformat.<br><br>\"In its ongoing antitrust
investigation concerning \r\ninteroperability with Microsoft Office, the
commission will investigate \r\nwhether the announced support of ODF in
Office leads to better \r\ninteroperability,\" the European Union\'s
executive arm said Thursday.<br><br>Critics\r\n who support ODF
say Microsoft is trying to supplant ODF and with OOXML \r\nand lock users
into buying Office programs forever, stemming the threat \r\nof open source
software eating into its market share.<br><br>Despite a
\r\nchorus of complaints, OOXML was approved last month as an international
\r\nstandard, paving the way for it to be used by the IT departments of
\r\ngovernments and large corporations.<br><br>Microsoft said
Wednesday it continues to work with the open source community on an
OOXML-ODF translator.<br><br>The\r\n Redmond, Wash.-based
software maker said the changes will be made with \r\nOffice 2007 Service
Pack 2, expected in the first half of
2009.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('70', 'McAfee likes small, not big, deals', '6', '2012-10-23', 'NEW
YORK (Reuters) - McAfee Inc, the No. 2 security software maker, \r\nlikes
small and medium-sized acquisitions of up to about $350 million \r\nand
sees<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=summit_mcafee_868365864.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=summit_mcafee_868365864.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"McAfee likes small not big
deals\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n     
                          \r\n								<span>NEW YORK (Reuters) -
McAfee Inc, the No. 2 security software \r\nmaker, likes small and
medium-sized acquisitions of up to about $350 \r\nmillion and sees no need
for a transformative deal to challenge larger \r\nrival Symantec
Corp.<br><br>McAfee Chief Executive Dave DeWalt said on
\r\nWednesday he aims to accelerate revenue growth in 2009 and 2010 beyond
\r\nthe company\'s target of mid-teens percentage growth for
2008.<br><br>Growth\r\n should come through a combination of
new products, partnerships with \r\ntechnology companies, and acquisitions
like the \r\n$50-million-to-$350-million deals McAfee has made in the past,
DeWalt \r\nsaid at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit
in New \r\nYork.<br><br>\"We don\'t necessarily need to
acquire large to do this. \r\nThis is a strategy for us where acquiring
technologies and building and \r\npartnering is clearly a path that we can
create to grow the company to \r\nmuch more sizable than it is
today,\" he said.<br><br>\"We tend to do two \r\nto
three acquisitions a year. We\'ve been consistent with that,\" said
\r\nDeWalt, a sports enthusiast who competes in triathlons. \"We
continue to \r\nlike to do what we call small and medium-sized
acquisitions.\"<br><br>The\r\n CEO, who has been with
McAfee for about 14 months, said that security \r\nsoftware has so far
proven to be recession-proof because customers need \r\nto protect against
viruses and data theft in rough times as much as when\r\n the economy is
strong.<br><br>But he cautioned that his company could see a
fallout down the road from the economic slump in the United
States.<br><br>\"Am I nervous? Do I read the headlines
too? Yes,\" he said.<br><br>Still, DeWalt noted that the
company has posted three accelerating growth quarters in a
row.<br><br>\"We\r\n certainly see \'09 and 2010 as very
strong growth years for the company \r\nwith a lot of the partnerships we
set up, a lot of the model changes we \r\nhad,\" DeWalt said.
\"Certainly, it\'s hard to forecast how the economy and\r\n things
will be; but certainly we put a lot of growth drivers in the \r\nbusiness
to really accelerate growth even more.\"<br><br>McAfee
plans to introduce a variety of new products over the coming quarters to
build new revenue streams.<br><br>One\r\n area with great
potential is protecting data centers that use \r\nvirtualization technology
to boost the efficiency of their servers and \r\nstorage equipment, he
said.<br><br>Products in these areas are in the \r\nworks,
including ones that will scan traffic before it is stored and \r\nscan data
used by applications from giant German software company SAP
\r\nAG.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('71', 'Nokia eyes wider usage of Linux in cellphones', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'PARIS (Reuters) - The world\'s top handset maker Nokia Oyj
expects the \r\nrole of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio
to increase \r\nas<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=nokia_linux_223616632.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=nokia_linux_223616632.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Nokia eyes wider usage of Linux in
cellphones\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n
                               \r\n								<span>PARIS (Reuters) -
The world\'s top handset maker Nokia Oyj \r\nexpects the role of the Linux
operating system in its product portfolio \r\nto increase as the role of
its Internet-focused devices grows, company \r\nofficials
said.<br><br>Linux has so far had little success on
\r\ncellphones, but its role is increasing as more new Linux-based models
\r\nreach the market, while Google Inc gave it a vote of confidence by
using\r\n it to build its Android platform on.<br><br>Nokia
itself has used Linux\r\n for years in its Internet tablets, large
phone-like devices used to \r\naccess Internet on the go, but lacking
calling functionality. \"We will \r\nexpand that range, and we believe
that the role of Linux will grow,\" \r\nsaid Nokia spokesman Kari
Tuutti.<br><br>Linux is the most popular type \r\nof open
source operating system which is available to the public to be \r\nused,
revised and shared -- meaning it has a large developer community \r\nwhich
could result in more attractive programs and lower costs for the \r\nlikes
of Nokia.<br><br>Nokia has used the tablets to target
technology-savvy consumers or support emerging technologies like
WiMAX.<br><br>\"It\'s\r\n going to be terribly
important,\" Nokia\'s Chief Financial Officer Rick \r\nSimonson told
an investor conference when asked about the role of \r\nLinux-based
tablets.<br><br>He said the company has been developing the
next generation of Linux-based products, which are starting to come to the
market.<br><br>The\r\n market for software platforms on
cellphones is led by Nokia\'s S60, \r\nbuilt on the Symbian operating
system, well ahead of Microsoft\'s Windows\r\n
Mobile.<br><br>However, many mobile industry heavyweights,
including \r\nVodafone, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung Electronics, Huawei
and LG \r\nElectronics, have joined Linux
alliances.<br><br>Linux suppliers earn \r\nmoney selling
improvements and technical services and Linux competes \r\ndirectly with
offerings from Microsoft, which charges for its Windows \r\nsoftware and
opposes freely sharing its
code.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('72', 'Electronic Arts extends Take-Two offer deadline', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O) said
on Monday it \r\nextended by one month its $2 billion hostile offer to
acquire rival \r\nvideo game<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=taketwo_electronicarts_750532433.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=taketwo_electronicarts_750532433.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Electronic Arts extends Take-Two offer
deadline\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n  
                             \r\n								<span>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters)
- Electronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O) said on\r\n Monday it extended by one month
its $2 billion hostile offer to acquire\r\n rival video game maker Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O).<br><br>EA,\r\n whose
unsolicited bid for the publisher of last month\'s blockbuster
\r\n\"Grand Theft Auto IV\" video game expired at 11:59 p.m. on
Friday, said \r\nthe offer would expire on June 16, extended from the
previous deadline \r\nof May 16.<br><br>EA said about 6.2
million shares, or about 8 percent, \r\nof Take-Two had been tendered in
the offer. Take-Two has rejected the \r\nbid, saying it undervalues the
company.<br><br>The U.S. Federal Trade \r\nCommission
previously asked for more information about the proposed \r\nbuyout.
Extending the tender deadline will allow the FTC\'s review of the\r\n
proposed deal to continue, EA\'s senior vice president of EA corporate
\r\ndevelopment, Owen Mahoney, said in a
statement.<br><br>Additional details were not immediately
available.<br><br>Take-Two shares closed Friday at $27.10 on
Nasdaq, some 5.2 percent above the $25.74 per share offered by Electronic
Arts.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('73', 'Sybase iPhone software ready \"soon\"', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sybase Inc (SY.N) plans to soon start
selling \r\nsoftware that lets businesses securely distribute e-mail to the
iPhone, \r\nwhich could help<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=sybase_iphone_578533716.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=sybase_iphone_578533716.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Sybase iPhone software ready
soon\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Sybase Inc (SY.N) plans to soon start \r\nselling software that lets
businesses securely distribute e-mail to the \r\niPhone, which could help
the popular device gain use among business
\r\nclients.<br><br>The program for Apple Inc\'s (AAPL.O)
iPhone will be \r\nreleased before the end of this year, John Chen said on
Monday at the \r\nReuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in
New York. When \r\nasked to be more specific, he said, \"It will be
soon.\"<br><br>The new \r\nprogram lets workers use the
iPhone to access their e-mail with the same\r\n security safeguards that
are currently available in products for use on\r\n Treo smartphones from
Palm Inc (PALM.O) and Research in Motion\'s \r\n(RIM.TO) BlackBerry, Chen
said.<br><br>He said that Sybase is also \r\nworking on similar
software for Android, a new smartphone platform that \r\nGoogle Inc
(GOOG.O) is developing with dozens of other
companies.<br><br>The\r\n new Sybase software programs will
allow businesses to deliver e-mail to\r\n several different types of
phones, depending on which device a user \r\ncarries, Chen
said.<br><br>\"It will be secure enterprise grade,\"
Chen said. \"It will let the IT guys manage
it.\"<br><br>The\r\n business software maker already sells
software that companies can use \r\nto send e-mail using the BlackBerry,
Treo and smartphones running on the\r\n Symbian operating system as well as
one for mobile devices from \r\nMicrosoft Corp
(MSFT.O).</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('74', 'Developers: Facebook redesign risky but needed', '6',
'2012-10-23', 'New tab design will help organize average Facebook member\'s
profile \r\ninterface to minimize clutter, but there will likely be speed
bumps \r\nalong the wayFacebook\'s major <br>', 'New tab design will
help organize average Facebook member\'s profile \r\ninterface to minimize
clutter, but there will likely be speed bumps \r\nalong the
way<br><br>Facebook\'s major overhaul of its core member
\r\nprofile pages is a risky but necessary move for the world\'s
\r\nsecond-largest online social network, according to several developers
of\r\n popular applications for the site.<br><br>The move is
risky because \r\nFacebook will alter the user interface significantly,
which can clash \r\nagainst people\'s natural resistance to change and
prompt them to \r\ncomplain.<br><br>In addition, for some
developers, particularly those \r\nnew to the platform, the new profile
design may limit the visibility of \r\ntheir applications, affecting their
ability to build a user base.<br><br>\"The\r\n redesign
seems an overall step forward, but it will definitely have \r\nspeed bumps
from an actual implementation standpoint,\" said Tim
\r\nO\'Shaughnessy, co-founder and CEO of Hungry
Machine.<br><br>However, \r\nwith the explosive growth in
members and in applications on Facebook, \r\nthe average member profile
interface has become very cluttered, a \r\nsituation that harms end-users
and developers alike.<br><br>\"Facebook is\r\n a social
[networking] operating system, and the profile is your entry \r\npoint and
your desktop. The utility of that [desktop] interface becomes \r\nless and
less useful to the end-user as it gets more and more \r\ncluttered,\"
said Shervin Pishevar, co-founder and CEO of Social Gaming \r\nNetwork
(SGN). Thus, taking a bold step to clean up the member profile
\r\ninterface is a logical and natural enhancement for Facebook to make, he
\r\nsaid.<br><br>Facebook has been talking about its redesign
for a while, \r\nbut this week provided concrete details about its plans,
which are aimed\r\n at retaining the layout\'s orderly and clean look, a
differentiator from\r\n competitors like MySpace.<br><br>At the
heart of the redesign is the \r\nredistribution of profile content into
different tabs so that users can \r\nbetter organize components such as the
activity feed, photos, personal \r\ninformation, and applications. In
addition, the activity feed tab will \r\nfeature a new authoring control
panel for creating and posting content \r\ncalled the Publisher Box.
Moreover, the profile will have at the top a \r\nnew horizontal navigation
line with drop-down menus for its core
\r\nfeatures.<br><br>\"The three main goals we have for
this are: to make the\r\n profiles simple and clean; to give users control;
and to let them \r\nemphasize the most recent and relevant content. This is
what we\'ve come \r\nup with as the best way to accomplish those
goals,\" said Facebook\'s Mark\r\n Slee, the product manager of the
new design.<br><br>Of course, any user\r\n interface change of
this magnitude entails dangers, especially when it \r\nwill affect about 70
million end-users and thousands of application \r\ndevelopers. Facebook has
experienced backlash from changes in the past, \r\nsuch as the initial
versions of its activity feed feature and Beacon \r\nadvertising program,
both of which were criticized for being too \r\nintrusive on people\'s
privacy.<br><br>\"It\'s a pretty significant \r\nredesign,
so users will definitely have an adjustment period,\"
\r\nO\'Shaughnessy said. \"People are generally opposed to change, so
there\'ll\r\n be a pretty reasonable amount of consternation from users
just because \r\nit\'s different.\"<br><br>This is why
O\'Shaughnessy has been surprised \r\nthat Facebook is opting to roll out
all the changes at once, as opposed \r\nto doing it more gradually, since
the latter approach might lessen the \r\nimpact on end-users. \"It\'s
always a risk to roll out a really big change\r\n all at once,\" he
said.<br><br>Yet, Slee is confident that the change \r\nwon\'t
be traumatic for end-users, since Facebook has been actively
\r\ncommunicating the changes and plans via a Facebook group. Facebook also
\r\nplans to have a time during which end-users will be able to toggle back
\r\nand forth between the old and new layout, before the change is
finalized\r\n at some point in June, Slee said.<br><br>From the
application developer\r\n perspective, the redesign will also have
significant effects, \r\nO\'Shaughnessy said. \"The applications
aren\'t present nearly as much as \r\nthey were before,\" he said,
alluding to the fact that the new design \r\ngroups applications into a
separate tab.<br><br>Although users will be \r\nable to create
tabs for individual applications and the new top-level \r\nnavigation
includes a drop-down list of applications, \"there\'s \r\ndefinitely
the capability for apps to be less discoverable,\" \r\nO\'Shaughnessy
said. \"For newer developers especially, that\'ll be really
\r\nhard.\"<br><br>Not that O\'Shaughnessy worries about
being affected by \r\nthis. Hungry Machine began launching its applications
in mid-2007, \r\nshortly after Facebook opened its platform to external
developers, and \r\nthey have gained very good traction and popularity, and
are generating a\r\n healthy revenue stream.<br><br>However,
Facebook argues that the new \r\ndesign will be good for developers, not
only because applications can \r\nget their own tabs, but because users
will be able to add application \r\ncontrols to the Publisher Box.
\"All applications will be able to tie \r\nright into that. We think
that\'s a huge opportunity for developers,\" \r\nSlee
said.<br><br>Meanwhile, having an entire tab devoted to
\r\napplications will let developers \"build a rich and deep
experience that \r\ncan take advantage of more space than has ever been
provided in the \r\nprofile,\" Slee said, adding that Facebook is
opening a \"sandbox\" for \r\ndevelopers to get acquainted with
the profile changes.<br><br>Boris \r\nSilver, co-founder and
CEO of Sport Interactiva, a developer of \r\nsport-themed games, also
believes that end-users are likely to recoil at\r\n first and that
visibility for applications in general will be \r\ndiminished, but believes
the changes will ultimately be for the better, \r\nparticularly for
companies like his whose applications are firmly \r\nestablished on
Facebook. \"It\'ll give room to high-quality and useful
\r\napplications that people value most to rise up,\" Silver
said.<br><br>Pishevar\r\n holds a similar view, saying that the
changes will benefit applications\r\n that are genuinely engaging and of
high quality, and not those that try\r\n to succeed via in-your-face,
aggressive self-promotion tactics, \r\nsomething Facebook has been trying
to discourage among developers.<br><br>\"The\r\n apps
shouldn\'t be reliant on real estate on a profile page to thrive. \r\nThere
was tremendous benefits early on in the platform from having that \r\nreal
estate, but it also made it probably too easy to get users without
\r\nactually investing real resources into making quality, highly engaging
\r\napplications,\" Pishevar said.<br><br>Despite the
possible bumps in the \r\nroad, the developers interviewed agreed that, as
far as the actual \r\nredesign is concerned, Facebook is hitting the right
notes. \"I\'m pretty \r\nhigh on the design itself. It\'s smoother,
more efficient, more clear,\" \r\nO\'Shaughnessy said.<br>',
null, null, null, null), ('75', 'YouTube suit called threat to online
communication', '6', '2012-10-23', 'NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright
infringement lawsuit challenging \r\nYouTube\'s ability to keep copyrighted
material off its popular \r\nvideo-sharing site threatens how hundreds
of<br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=youtube_scripps_356494922.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=youtube_scripps_356494922.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"YouTube suit called threat to online
communication\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n
                               \r\n								<span>NEW YORK - A $1
billion copyright infringement lawsuit \r\nchallenging YouTube\'s ability
to keep copyrighted material off its \r\npopular video-sharing site
threatens how hundreds of millions of people \r\nexchange all kinds of
information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google \r\nInc.
said.<br><br>Google\'s lawyers made the claim in papers filed
in \r\nU.S. District Court in Manhattan as the company responded to Viacom
\r\nInc.\'s latest lawsuit alleging that the Internet has led to \"an
\r\nexplosion of copyright infringement\" by YouTube and
others.<br><br>The \r\nback-and-forth between the companies has
intensified since Viacom \r\nbrought its lawsuit last year, saying it was
owed damages for the \r\nunauthorized viewing of its programming from MTV,
Comedy Central and \r\nother networks, including such hits as \"The
Daily Show with Jon \r\nStewart.\"<br><br>In papers
submitted to a judge late Friday, Google said\r\n YouTube \"goes far
beyond its legal obligations in assisting content \r\nowners to protect
their works.\"<br><br>It said that by seeking to make
\r\ncarriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications,
\r\nViacom \"threatens the way hundreds of millions of people
legitimately \r\nexchange information, news, entertainment and political
and artistic \r\nexpression.\"<br><br>Google said YouTube
was faithful to the requirements\r\n of the 1998 Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, saying the federal law \r\nwas intended to protect companies
like YouTube as long as they responded\r\n properly to content owners\'
claims of infringement.<br><br>On that score, Viacom says
Google has set a terrible example.<br><br>In\r\n a rewritten
lawsuit filed last month, Viacom said YouTube consistently \r\nallows
unauthorized copies of popular television programming and movies \r\nto be
posted on its Web site and viewed tens of thousands of
times.<br><br>Viacom\r\n said it had identified more than
150,000 unauthorized clips of \r\ncopyrighted programming â€”
including \"SpongeBob SquarePants,\" \"South \r\nPark\"
and \"MTV Unplugged\" episodes and the documentary \"An
Inconvenient \r\nTruth\" â€” that had been viewed \"an
astounding 1.5 billion times.\"<br><br>The\r\n company
said its count of unauthorized clips represents only a fraction\r\n of the
content on YouTube that violates its copyrights.<br><br>It said
Google and YouTube had done \"little or nothing\" to stop
infringement.<br><br>\"To\r\n the contrary, the
availability on the YouTube site of a vast library of\r\n the copyrighted
works of plaintiffs and others is the cornerstone of \r\ndefendants\'
business plan,\" Viacom
said.</span>\r\n							</div><br>', null, null, null,
null), ('76', 'ABC soups up online video player', '6', '2012-10-23', 'LOS
ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC.com is souping up its \r\nfull-episode
broadband player with new features for the fall.Among the \r\nbells and
whistles set for <br>', '<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=abc_809145243.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=abc_809145243.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"ABC soups up online video
player\">\r\n										\r\n									<div>\r\n								\r\n    
                           \r\n								<span>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood
Reporter) - ABC.com is souping up its full-episode broadband player with
new features for the fall.<br><br>Among\r\n the bells and
whistles set for the broadcaster\'s online destination are\r\n full-screen
viewing, closed captioning and the ability to send video \r\nlinks that can
be embedded on blogs and social networks.<br><br>\"Having
\r\ncome out of the gate with the first player in the space, we\'re
\r\ncontinually looking at how we expand and provide a better experience
\r\nfrom our users,\" said Alexis Rapo, vp digital media at ABC
\r\nEntertainment.<br><br>ABC.com was the first full-episode
player online \r\nwhen it launched in 2006, and as of April, it is the
dominant one: Its \r\n8.9 million unique users was tops for the month among
broadcasters, \r\naccording to Nielsen Online. ABC.com also leads in
minutes spent per \r\nuser.<br><br>The user interface has been
redesigned with new navigation \r\nand search features that allow users to
comb series offerings \r\ngraphically, alphabetically, by genre or
popularity. Also added: content\r\n recommendation technology that suggests
programs based on a viewer\'s \r\nchoices.<br><br>Although
ABC.com previously contained the video to a \r\nbrowser window, the
improved player will allow the image to take up the \r\nentire monitor. The
viewer also will have the option of choosing from a \r\nvariety of screen
sizes, as well as picking standard or high
definition.<br><br>Users\r\n also can send links that can be
posted elsewhere online, where they can\r\n launch cued to a particular
scene mid-episode. Video on ABC.com also \r\nwill be more easy to sift
through, with thumbnail images that offer a \r\nglimpse of the story line
progression in each episode.<br><br>The new \r\nplayer will be
tested in a closed beta over the summer before launching \r\nahead of
ABC\'s premiere week in the fall. ABC.com uses technology from \r\nMove
Networks for its player.</span>\r\n							</div><br>',
null, null, null, null), ('77', 'Verizon Wireless joins LiMo Foundation',
'6', '2012-10-23', 'NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday
it joined a \r\nconsortium working on a Linux-based mobile operating system
expected to \r\nrival a mobile<br>',
'<div><div>\r\n										\r\n                                  
             \r\n                                           
\r\n										<img title=\"Image:
http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=verizon_linux_388322182.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
src=\"http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=verizon_linux_388322182.jpg&amp;size=article_medium\"
alt=\"Verizon Wireless joins LiMo
Foundation\">\r\n										\r\n									</div>\r\n	</div>\r\n\r\n							<div>\r\n								\r\n									<div>\r\n										\r\n
                                               \r\n                        
                  
\r\n										\r\n										\r\n									</div>\r\n								\r\n      
                         \r\n								<span>NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday it \r\njoined a consortium working on a
Linux-based mobile operating system \r\nexpected to rival a mobile system
being developed by a group headed by \r\nGoogle Inc
(GOOG.O).<br><br>The announcement that the No. 2 U.S. mobile
\r\nservice joined the LiMo Foundation follows signals last month that
\r\nAT&amp;T Inc (T.N) would support Android, the Linux operating
system \r\nbeing developed by Google and about 30
partners.<br><br>Verizon \r\nWireless, a venture of Verizon
Communications Inc (VZ.N) and Vodafone \r\nGroup Plc (VOD.L), said it would
take a seat on the foundation\'s board \r\nand expects to sell its first
phones based on the LiMo operating system \r\nin
2009.<br><br>\"We\'ll start with a few simpler devices and
work our way\r\n up,\" Verizon Wireless Network Vice President Kyle
Malady said on a \r\nconference call with
reporters.<br><br>Malady said that while Verizon \r\nwould
continue to support other operating systems such as that used in
\r\nResearch In Motion Ltd\'s (RIM.TO) BlackBerry, the LiMo system would be
\r\nthe company\'s operating system of choice.<br><br>Malady
said the \r\ncompany, which is putting financial and personnel resources
into the \r\nsystem, expects to eventually have an array of LiMo devices
ranging from\r\n the high end to the low end. He did not say how much
Verizon was \r\nspending on developing the LiMo
system.<br><br>He said the company is \r\nputting its weight
behind LiMo rather than Android because of LiMo\'s \r\ninclusive governing
structure as well as its diverse set of members. But\r\n he would not rule
out selling phones based on Android.<br><br>\"If
\r\ndevices come along that are interesting to us and our customers we\'d
\r\nabsolutely look at that,\" said Malady, who also noted that
third-parties\r\n could sell Android devices to Verizon Wireless customers
if they can \r\nwork on its network.<br><br>The LiMo Foundation
said it has about 40 \r\nmembers including Verizon Wireless handset
suppliers Samsung Electronics\r\n Co Ltd (005930.KS) and LG Electronics Inc
(066570.KS). It said that \r\nKorea\'s SK Telecom Co Ltd (017670.KS) has
also joined the
consortium.</span>\r\n							</div><br><br>', null,
null, null, null);
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