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There’s some Oscar-worthy drama brewing in California, where ARRI executive Michael Bravin has pleaded guilty to hacking into a high-level e-mail account at rival camera maker Band Pro Film and Digital. In a plea agreement filed yesterday with a US District Court, Bravin admitted to intentionally accessing a corporate e-mail account belonging to Amnon Band — Band Pro’s President and CEO. More details after the break, including a potential connection to RED’s Jim Jannard. Continue reading Former ARRI exec pleads guilty to hacking into rival CEO’s e-mail account, faces jail time Former ARRI exec pleads guilty to hacking into rival CEO’s e-mail account, faces jail time originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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• Email your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk • Click here for all the latest scores from around Europe • All the stats and tables you need are here 23 min “First day at university? I distinctly remember beer was 28p for a pint of Adnams. And that’s about all,” says Steve McCabe, aged 149. Twenty-eight pence?! 22 min Pennant is receiving treatment. He appeared to twist his knee, under no pressure from any defenders. The camera cuts to the Manchester United, where Jonny Evans is smiling like a man who’s avoided a firing squad. It’s the reverse of the old here’s-what-you-could-have-won ending on Bullseye. 21 min It’s been an interesting game, as it usually is when Stoke play at home to the big boys, but in terms of actual football it’s been a stinker – an “incoherent swirl of energy”, to use the splendid phrase with which Hugh McIlvanney damned English football in the 1970s. Stoke have played the more coherent football, in fact. 20 min “So, you managed to corner a girl, and then instead of trying to put the moves on you talked about naff Britpop bands?” says Nick Honeywell. “Clearly you’re a man who doesn’t believe in being brave.” To be fair, Nick, it was 1995. Wearing Fred Perry polos and talking about Britpop were on page 1 of all good university guides. 19 min Berbatov heads Anderson’s corner wide from 10 yards. It was a tricky chance, as he had to jump backwards to meet the ball. 17 min United haven’t really got going at all as an attacking force. The Hernandez chance came from nothing, and they haven’t really put three or four passes together. You could argue that they are without five first-choice players – Rooney, Hernandez, Vidic, Smalling and Cleverley – so this is a serious opportunity for Stoke. 16 min “Ohhh,” adds Tony, whose emails are adding so much to tonight’s MBM. 15 min “You’re not blogging anymore,” says Tony. “You’re not blo-o-ogging aneeeemore….” What does that even mean? 14 min Delap’s long throw is headed behind for a corner, again with De Gea staying on his line. From the resulting corner, Crouch is penalised for clambering all over Phil Jones. He headed wide from a couple of yards anyway, but these are very good signs for Stoke. 13 min Anyone reading? What do you remember about your first day at university? Some body must have a funny/cute/life-affirming/criminality-based story. It is pretty much the best day of most of our lives. 12 min “I’m neither casual xenophobe nor ABU (okay, maybe a little) but I haven’t found De Gea to be overly convincing for United so far,” says Niall Mullen. “That said I am rubbing my thighs with glee. Although that has nothing to do with the football.” Of all the deviant gestures – or at least the ones you can show before the watershed – there is nothing as terrifying as watching a man drag his palms up and down his thighs with a gleeful look on his face. Thank goodness Killer BOB didn’t do it in Twin Peaks. Can you imagine the horror? 11 min A glorious solo run down the left wing from the remarkable Phil Jones ends with a chipped cross that is headed behind for a corner. Jones appealed for handball and a penalty, vehemently so, but it looked okay on first viewing. Before the corner is taken, Michael Owen replaces Hernandez. 10 min A long throw from Delap causes more problems, with De Gea staying on his line this time. Eventually Pennant’s shot is blocked. Stoke are causing lots of problems here. 9 min “Can we have Susie from Essex’s side of the story?” says Gary Naylor. “Preferably from Mac Millings.” Oh I only spoke to her about Menswe@r and other hip Britpop bands. I wasn’t that competent a human being. 8 min Hernandez is limping down the tunnel. They’ve just shown the penalty incident again. Woodgate got a slight stud on the ball, but that’s irrelevant because he shoved Hernandez from behind. I think it’s a clear penalty, although Craig Burley on ESPN says it was 50/50. How many caps has he won? 6 min Hernandez is still off the field. 5 min Sir Alex Ferguson is prowling the touchline furiously, even more so now after a shocking tackle from Glenn Whelan on Patrice Evra near the halfway line. A clear yellow card. 4 min “It’s my first day at university today and my accumulator is all set to come in… If United win,” says George Solomon. “I’m sure you and your readers would agree this is a good enough excuse to all get behind United, so my first night out is paid for.” It’s your first day at uni and you’re on the MBM. Come on, man! It’s your first day at uni, the greatest day of your life! I’ll never forget mine: inane small talk, Susie from Essex with the green Puma retro trainers, inane small talk, more inane small talk. The best day ever. 3 min That should have been a penalty for United. Hernandez broke beyond a flat-footed defence onto a deflected pass, moved into the area and was shoved clumsily from behind by Woodgate That knocked Hernandez off balance, and he collided with the keeper as he fell. He’s in a bit of pain, and is currently receiving treatment. That should have been a penalty, and probably a red card for Woodgate. 2 min Pennant wins a corner inside the first minute. Etherington plays it short, and Stoke make a bit of a balls of it. No idea what they were doing there, as they should surely have put it under the crossbar. Anyway, it leads to the first throw in, down the right. Delap fires it in, De Gea charges from his line but doesn’t hold it, and eventually Valencia clears. 1 min Manchester United kick off from right to left. They are booed for doing so. Revised teams Stoke (4-4-2) Begovic; Wilkinson, Shawcross, Woodgate, Wilson; Pennant, Whelan, Delap, Etherington; Walters, Crouch. Substitutes: Sorensen, Huth, Whitehead, Upson, Shotton, Jerome, Palacios. Manchester United (4-4-2) De Gea; Valencia, Ferdinand, Jones, Evra; Nani, Fletcher, Anderson, Young; Hernandez, Berbatov. Substitutes: Lindegaard, Owen, Giggs, Park, Welbeck, Fabio, Macheda. Referee Peter Walton. Jonny Evans has injured himself in the warm-up , so Antonio Valencia will come into the side at right-back, with Phil Jones moving into the middle. Prediction on which you are advised not to stake your mortgage, or even four pence Stoke 3-2 United. Team news There’s no Wayne Rooney, as keen followers of Coleen Rooney’s Twitter page will have deduced last night. Rooney has a hamstring strain; his absence means the return of Berbarotica™. Stoke (4-4-2) Begovic; Wilkinson, Shawcross, Woodgate, Wilson; Pennant, Whelan, Delap, Etherington; Walters, Crouch. Substitutes: Sorensen, Huth, Whitehead, Upson, Shotton, Jerome, Palacios. Manchester United (4-4-2) De Gea; Jones, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra; Nani, Fletcher, Anderson, Young; Hernandez, Berbatov. Substitutes: Lindegaard, Owen, Giggs, Park, Welbeck, Fabio, Valencia. Referee Peter Walton. Preamble Evening. The slogan for this game is simple: it’s Delap v De Gea. Ever since David de Gea signed for Manchester United, casual xenophobes and ABUs have been frantically rubbing their thighs in anticipation of his trial by long throw. It’s a bit of a cliché, of course, and there is so much more to what should be a fascinating clash. Equally, it would be daft to ignore the fact that De Gea is likely to have a character-building 90 minutes ahead. So will a young, injury-ravaged United, on a ground where Stoke have lost only once in 2011. Premier League 2011-12 Stoke City Manchester United Premier League Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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Highlights of this day in history: Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s author Dr. Seuss dies. (Sept. 24)
Continue reading …Everyone has been buzzing over the last couple of weeks about President Obama’s turn to a more populist progressive positioning. I have done about half a dozen media interviews about it in the last few weeks, with reporters wanting to get the reactions of known lefties like me to the new turn of events. The main questions tend to be whether it is “genuine,” will it help Obama (both with progressives and in general with voters), will it be the long-term trend, and why is it happening? I will talk about each of these in order. Is it genuine? I simply do not care. In case folks had not realized it, our President is a politician. And personally, I stopped caring about most politicians’ inner motivations and beliefs and psychology quite a while ago. I think too many progressives have spent far too much time and energy debating with each other whether Obama is a good guy or not, whether he is doing his best or is a sellout, etc., etc., ad nauseam . What matters is what he does, and how he reacts to the political dynamics swirling around him. Whatever his personal opinions and values are, he will react to the situation in the way he thinks will most benefit him politically, and the country in general. Obama is moving the progressive direction because he understands it to be in his, and the country’s, self-interest- and I welcome him to the dance. Will it help? Absolutely. There is a reason Democratic politicians tend to become more populist closer to elections. It’s because — contrary to Third Way arguments — economic populism does work. And the harder the times, the better off Democrats do with it. What all the establishment conventional wisdom groupies in D.C. keep forgetting is that on most economic issues, Democrats don’t have to choose between their base and swing voters (who are mostly working class folks). Swing voters and base voters are in agreement about not cutting Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits; they oppose raising the retirement age; they support more taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and want to close tax loopholes for big business; they think the big banks should have higher taxes and tougher regulations; they support spending more for public education, student loans, Head Start, and rebuilding our infrastructure; they want to invest in green jobs and rebuilding our manufacturing sector. In all these areas and more, progressives and swing voters are strongly in agreement. Here’s the other important thing about firing up the progressive base, though: Democrats who argue that the base has nowhere else to go don’t understand one of the most fundamental laws of politics, which is that you can’t win over swing voters without a fired up base to carry your message. Who do the ignore-the-base geniuses think is going to defend the President in office water cooler and lunch conversations, or in neighborhood barbecues? Who will knock on doors and make phone calls? Who will write the letters to the editor, and send the Facebook messages to their friends? You can’t win elections without swing voters, but you can’t win without the passion of activists and political junkies either. And this newly feisty Obama message is going to fire up the troops again. Whether all this will be enough given the dreadful economy is tough to say, but the Obama strategy he is using today is the best shot he has. Will it be a long-term trend, and why Obama is moving in our direction can mostly be answered with the same answer: it is up to the progressive movement. While there are multiple reasons Obama is trending progressives’ way rhetorically, including the calendar I alluded to above, one thing is clear to me, which is that progressives have created a center of gravity which is pulling Obama our way. Progressive organizers, bloggers, and activists have sent thousands of people to town halls demanding no cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; Bloggers, MoveOn.org, and Rebuild the Dream have built huge online momentum and media attention toward taxing millionaires; labor with all their allies have created a groundswell for Obama and members of Congress to do something about jobs; the New Bottom Line campaign and their allies in progressive politics have stirred anger at the big banks and focused media attention on underwater homeowners. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have drawn a bright line on all these issues on Capitol Hill, creating a consistent drumbeat on behalf of progressive issues, and an inside-outside strategy that is impossible to ignore. In this kind of environment, with this kind of progressive gravitational pull being built, Obama has responded. He is sounding more like a progressive populist than he has since, oh, I’d say October of 2008. And if we in the progressive movement keep creating the political environment on these kinds of populist issues, Obama- being a politician- will naturally keep drawn our way. We need to keep creating the space to get Obama to move our way, in part by helping push for the Buffett tax and more jobs legislation, but in part by continuing to push for things that we know will be good both in terms of policy and in terms of the President’s politics by focusing on the things the administration can do without going through Congress: regulatory pressure on the big banks to do more on mortgage writedowns; Justice department action going after Wall Street fraud; EPA action going after the worst polluters, and Labor Department action to go after the worst OSHA violators; executive orders that promote good wages and benefits in federal government contracting and procurement. Progressives have created a new vitality in our organizing and messaging, and it is drawing Obama our way. Listen to him talk the other day: “Now, the Republicans, when I talked about this earlier in the week, they said, well, this is class warfare. You know what, if asking a billionaire to pay their fair share of taxes, to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what, I’m a warrior for the middle class. (Applause.) I’m happy to fight for the middle class. I’m happy to fight for working people. (Applause.) Because the only warfare I’ve seen is the battle against the middle class over the last 10, 15 years.” That sounds like something a wild man like me would have said. Obama’s moving our direction, and it is the best thing he can do for himself politically. If we keep organizing and agitating and creating a politically appealing space on the left, if we keep adding to the gravitational pull of the American Dream Movement, Obama will keep coming our way. We have to seize this moment.
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Earlier this summer, a young woman in Montana faced off with a bear … and won … while riding a horse. Erin Bolster, of Swan Mountain Outfitters, was leading a group of eight on horseback through Flathead National Forest when they received an unexpected visit from a grizzly bear, reports The Spokesman-Review. Bolster and her clients were in the midst of an hour-long trail ride when a large bear ran out of the woods chasing a deer. Predictably, most of the horses turned and bolted, except for the horse of an eight-year-old boy who was riding for the first time. With the bear chasing the boy and his horse, Bolster did the only thing she could think of — charge the bear. The quick-thinking 25-year-old told The Spokesman-Review, “I had no hesitation, honestly. Nothing in my body was going to let that little boy get hurt by that bear. That wasn’t an option.” After standing off with the bear several times, it finally backed down. Bolster and her horse “had to go at the bear a third time before we finally hazed him away,” she explained. Bolster said the event gave her a strong appreciation for the horse she was riding, Tonk. She said, “Some of the horses I’ve ridden would have absolutely refused to do what Tonk did; others would have thrown me off in the process. Some horses can never overcome their flight-animal instinct to run away,” according to the Missoulian. Bolster, a Virginia native, told The Roanoke Times she’s accepting the fact that she’s a heroine. “I definitely felt like I saved the boy,” she said. “If no one had been there except him and that bear and the horse, it would not have gone well.” Others who have had encounters with bears haven’t been as lucky. A 65-year-old hunter was recently mauled by a grizzly in Alaska, but survived the attack. A man hiking with his wife in Montana was fatally mauled in Yellowstone in July. Sadly, officials “concluded the couple’s screaming and running possibly triggered the mauling.” A hunter on the Idaho-Montana border was recently killed by a 400-pound male grizzly bear after he and his hunting partner shot it. The number of human-bear encounters in recent months has sparked debate over bear hunting and humans intruding on bear habitats. —
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Rush Limbaugh accused President Obama of plagiarizing him during his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday. Obama’s speech drew attention mostly for his insistence that the Palestinian delegation drop its attempt to be recognized by the UN as a fully independent state. Limbaugh, though, focused on what he seemed to think was Obama’s overuse of some of his favorite aphorisms. Apparently, Limbaugh wrote a 1988 column that contained his “35 Undeniable Truths of Life.” (The full list is a very vintage document.) One of them, he said, was uttered “verbatim” by Obama at the U.N.: “peace does not mean the absence of war.” (Technically, Obama said that “peace is more than just the absence of war.”) “I feel like I have been plagiarized,” Limbaugh said. “…No, no! Of course he didn’t credit me.” He also accused Obama of cribbing from his 14th “undeniable truth,” “to free peoples, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.” Limbaugh said it was “almost like somebody in the regime read this and liked portions of it and lifted it for his speech.” Listen (via RightVid): UPDATE: A lot of readers pointed out that Limbaugh was far from the first (or last) to ponder the relationship between peace and war. Accordingly, we set out to find some people besides the radio host who have said things very similar to him. More
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