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As one of the subject matters himself says in the documentary "The Queen of Versailles," this is a reverse rags-to-riches story: a riches-to-rags, if you will.
"Versailles" originally started off as a documentary following a wealthy Florida couple, David and Jackie Siegel, who were building the biggest home in America at 90,000 square feet, inspired in part by the Versailles palace in France.
But as filmmaker Lauren Greenfield chronicled their opulent lifestyle, the recession hit. Not only did were Siegels forced to halt the building of their dream home, but their current lifestyle slowly disintegrated as the real estate bubble not only burst David's business, but the family's entire way of being.
While this is a terrible misfortune for the Siegels, it turned out to be quite an unexpected cinematic twist for Greenfield's documentary, as she was there to chronicle the entire unraveling. Needless to say, it turned her project into quite a different film than what she and the Siegels' initially set out to do. It's one of those you-have-to-see-it-to-believe it stories that not even a fiction writer could script, so jaw dropping is their consumption and so tragic is their fall.
Siegel is a self-made billionaire who founded time-share company Westgate Resorts and Jackie is former model who, at 46 years old, is 31 years younger than her husband. They fly around the world on a private jet, live in a 26,000 square foot "starter" mansion and have a house staff of 19. Jackie has an extensive shoe collection, including a pair of $17,000 Gucci boots made from crocodile skin. They love their dogs so much that one is turned in to a rug when he dies while another is stuffed and put on display in a clear box in the hallway.
Given all this information prior to the film, one wants to hate this family instantly and watch their downfall like one watching a wealthy politician or corporate titan's fall from grace. But the Siegels are surprisingly unpretentious. The couple has seven children, all of whom are surprisingly normal and well adjusted given their extreme wealth. Their eighth child is a niece of Jackie's whom they took in from desperate circumstances and are now raising. They are good people. Their staff adores them. Though the Siegels lifestyle is almost comical in its extravagance, they've worked hard for it and managed to stay humble in the process.
In that way, the couple represents all of us struggling in this recessionary time. Just like children's story books and kids television creates grand, over-the-top worlds to teach little ones a lesson or to make a point, the Siegels' grandiose lifestyle being taken away from them illustrates how we have all suffered to varying degrees in this economic meltdown.
What makes it an entertaining film is the how the Siegels handle it. Jackie brings a surprising humor to it, while her husband isolates himself more and more. Through a series of interviews in an "Upstairs/Downstairs" fashion, we get a glimpse of how their downfall also affects their staff, and employees at the time-share company. They let their laid-off driver borrow one of their fancy cars on the weekend so he can work as a chauffeur at weddings. one of their children's nannies converts their daughters' large outdoor dollhouse in to her own room so she can have a place to live.
The 19 staffers dwindle down to four. Jackie starts cooking dinners and she takes the kids on their first commercial flight. Christmas gifts come from Wal-Mart and the house is littered with dog poop because those who used to pick up after the un-toilet trained dogs no longer work there.
Though the Siegels' new reality may still be considered extravagant for most people, the fact is, many of us have made adjustments and struggled to save what we have left from disappearing totally down the drain. Watching the Siegels' slowly drip away is a sobering reminder that we all have our own American Dream to lose.
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The statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno should remain standing but with the head twisted backward so that Paterno is looking the other way like he did concerning Jerry Sandusky?s atrocities, according to Mike Imrem.
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Associated Press
Joe Paterno is the symptom; college football is the disease.
Another example that college football is bloating even further is the playoff system that university presidents recently approved.
We?ll connect the dots of these two stories a few paragraphs down.
First a little housecleaning concerning the deepening hole that the late Paterno is buried in over former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky?s rape of young boys.
No. 1 issue: The statue.
No, Penn State shouldn?t remove the monument to its former head coach from outside the football stadium.
The likeness should remain but with the head twisted backward so Paterno is looking the other way like he did over Sandusky?s atrocities.
No. 2 issue: The death penalty.
No, the NCAA shouldn?t inflict Penn State?s football program with capital punishment.
If every esteemed university?s football program were suspended for a lack of integrity or institutional control, the entire sport would disappear.
Wait, maybe that isn?t such a bad idea.
Anyway, the oncoming four-team playoff will make the sport even larger, more important and more hypocritical.
This is like the restaurant review stating that the food is terrible and the portions are too small.
So many of us complain that college football is corrupt and that the portions are too small ... so let?s initiate a postseason that probably will lead to more corruption.
University administrators are complicit in this unfortunate dynamic. Fans of college football are. Members of the media are. We all feed the beast until the beast is full of itself.
Most of us can?t identify a coach we would trust with our worst enemy?s wallet, yet we continue to treat winning coaches like royalty. Yeah, sure, let?s expand the playoffs so these guys can play for bigger trophies and become even larger than larger than life.
There isn?t enough money polluting the sport so let?s generate more and encourage more lying, more cheating and more cover-ups.
There isn?t enough exploitation of supposed student-athletes so let?s send them out for more games and more practices.
There aren?t enough coaches like Paterno that are more dominant than anyone else on campus so let?s create more of them.
How many more championships before Alabama?s Nick Saban becomes as powerful as Paterno was? Or before Urban Meyer becomes the Big Ten?s new Paterno? Or before some conference, maybe one down south, becomes the organized crime of intercollegiate football?
Look, I?m not opposed to a playoff system. I?m opposed to one without corresponding measures to draw football back into the campus community.
Ideally, players wouldn?t be eligible as freshmen, which was the case until four decades ago, but that isn?t plausible.
Here?s something that is: Require football and basketball coaches to teach a couple of actual college classes. The objective would be to reduce them from iconic levels to academic levels.
Maybe they would stop thinking they can rule to the point of overruling their bosses in non-football matters, or at least stop being tempted to try.
Steps have to be taken to make it more difficult, if not impossible, for a head coach to exercise power over school administrators if an assistant coach rapes young boys on university property.
Short of these changes, OK then, assess the death penalty ... not just to Penn State but to the entire sport.
Cure the disease that is college football so the symptom that Joe Paterno has come to represent will disappear.
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Saturday Highlights: Reports still coming in on Apple's EPEAT certification reversal; Apple is selling surprisingly well in Iran despite sanctions; Philip Elmer-DeWitt wonders how Apple's new notebooks achieved high recyclability ratings despite their less-than friendly ease of access; AppleInsider has a first look at Apple's revamped SoHo store; Apple files for trademarks on 'OS X Mountain Lion' and 'Mountain Lion'; Macword looks at what the in-app purchase hack means for developers; The Ethics Guy makes the case that the best way for Apple to grow is through increased wages for store employees; Ken Ray at MacObserver discusses Samsung and the seemingly undying desire for a c. 7" iPad.
Friday Highlights: Confusion surrounds Apple's Mac unit sales for quarter 3 with some believing the Mac to beat Windows market for 25th straight quarter, others think sales have slumped; the saying "you can't eat just one potato chip" is the comparison The Motley Fool's BA McKenna suggests with Apple's iPad cannibalization of other product lines; which Macs will be left out of the running for Mountain Lion?; a temporary fix has been issue by Adobe for InDesign crashes on new MacBook models; JavaFX, and Java hopes alive to eventually land on iOS; Macworld reviews Adobe Prelude CS6; AppleInsider looks at dictation, speech in the GM of Mountain Lion; BYTE shows how to keep malware off your Macs; Kirk McElhearn lays out the case that users and developers are harmed by lower prices on Mac software; an iGR study says "consumers are willing to pay 52 percent more for an Apple iPad than for an Android tablet"; Android dominating iOS in the US; perhaps defusing rising tensions between China, Japan, Apple removes "inflammatory iOS game" from the App store; the BBC has an iOS, Android app you can get Olympics news on, separate apps for rest of world coming; Apple products selling well in Iran despite sanctions as Iranians use Canadian addresses and iTunes gift cards to bypass; free iPads a sales tactic among rich & famous when tying to sell homes; remember when Forrest Gump bought stock in a "fruit company" (Apple), ever wonder what his shares would be worth today?; alleged drawings of iPad mini hit the web; iPhone 5 images also hit blogosphere, show longer screen; Russian hacker finds way to circumvent in-app purchases, making them free; Rovio's Amazing Alex is out, reviews from Mashable, Wired, Tapscape; Joy of Tech's "Seven Wonders of the iPad 7".
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"Apple shows green side: Computer giant returns to environmental registry"?Associated Press?6:29 AM
"Apple rejoins green tech ratings system after exit 'mistake'"?Reuters?6:35 AM
"Apple rejoins EPEAT green list, admits its mistake"?Crave @ CNET?7:16 AM
"Outcry Forces Apple Back to Green Program"?Newser?7:14 AM
"Apple Admits Defeat - Returns to EPEAT Environmental Registry"?ReadWriteWeb?6:41 PM
"Reality May Bite Apple Supplier in Taiwan"?Barron's [Paid Registration Required]?7:19 AM
"Despite sanctions, Apple gear booms in Iran"?Reuters?7:52 AM
"How did the new MacBook Pros get Gold-level green ratings?"?Fortune?8:05 AM
"Is Apple Creating a New Aristocracy?"?Cult of Mac?10:42 AM
"First look at Apple's revamped SoHo retail store"?AppleInsider?1:58 PM
"Apple admits mistake, says it's back in EPEAT: Bob Mansfield hints the return to EPEAT was in answer to customer complaints"?IDG News Service?7/13
"Apple u-turn as Mac maker rejoins EPEAT green registry"?BBC?7/13
"Apple admits error over green registry"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?7/13
"Apple gives in to green pressure, calls EPEAT breakup 'a mistake'"?VentureBeat?7/13
"EPEAT CEO: Apple's Exit Spurred a Customer Backlash"?CNBC?7/13
"Apple: No wait, we're green again"?CNN?7/13
"Apple rejoins green tech program after spat"?AFP?7/13
"Labels Matter: Apple Changes Its Mind About Green Distinction"?The Atlantic Wire?7/13
"U.S. Mac sales slump in Q2, says IDC: Overshadowed by double-digit contraction of Windows PCs, Apple's market share actually climbs to 11.4%"?Computerworld?7/13
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"Betting on America: How Much Do Apple and Google Invest at Home?"?The Atlantic?6:45 AM
"Two Thirds of New Mobile Buyers Now Opting For Smartphones" ["Android continues to lead the smartphone market in the U.S., with a majority of smartphone owners (51.8%) using an Android OS handset. Over a third (34.3%) of smartphone owners use an Apple iPhone"]?Nielsen?7/13
"Apple doubles its nearest Android competitor in market share"?The Loop?7/13
"Nielsen: Android Mopped the Floor with iPhone Last Quarter"?LAPTOP Magazine?7/13
"BBC Olympic App on Android and iPhone"?BBC?7/13
"BBC Launches Localized iOS, Android Olympics Apps (Video Not Included Internationally)"?TechCrunch?7/13
"News Corp To Axe 'The Daily'? ? [Rumor]?RazorianFly?7/13
"'Upgrade armageddon' as iPhone 4 users' contracts end: The Apple iPhone 4 launched almost exactly two years ago, leaving many users with just weeks before they are free to upgrade."?Telegraph?7/13
"Despite sanctions, Apple gear booms in Iran"?Reuters?7/13
"Apple Popular in Iran Despite Sanctions"?PC Magazine?7/13
"Canadian Addresses and iTunes Gift Cards Help Apple Products Flourish in Iran"?iPhoneinCanada?7/13
"Siri's New Cousin Works as a Bank Teller: Spanish bank BBVA taps the team that invented the iPhone assistant to build technology that can converse with bank customers."?Technology Review?7/13
"Qantas gets iPads. So did United. So what? iPad mania is all the rage in the airline industry. But does it make a jot of difference to the customer experience? Not as far as I can tell."?ZDNet?7/13
"San Francisco sours on Apple computers"?AFP?7/13
"Greenpeace says Apple has 'significantly improved' its clean energy policy"?The Verge?7/13
"A digital window into the Olympic Games"?OakBayNews?7/13
"Tekserve competitor opens two doors away" ["Tekserve, the Apple dealer and repair shop on West 23rd Street that has made itself a mecca for Manhattan's Mac-obsessed, has competition ? and the new guy isn't concerned about personal space. An upstart chain called Dr. Brendan's Mac Repair this week has opened a 500-square-foot shop at 115 W. 23rd St. ? just two doors away from Tekserve's 25,000-square-foot flagship at No. 119."]?New York Post?7/13
"Free iPads! and Other Sales Tactics of the Rich & Famous"?Wired?7/13
"Artist Kyle McDonald on how an Apple Store art project led to a Secret Service investigation"?The Verge?7/13
"Steve Jobs widow buys $4m Sun Valley house, could attend conference with Tim Cook"?Macworld UK?7/13
"Report: Steve Jobs' widow has bought a house in Sun Valley"?Fortune?7/13
"What Forrest Gump's Investment In Apple Could Be Worth Today: A niche online costume retailer has explored what value Forrest Gump's Apple investment in the late 1970s could be worth today."?PRWeb?7/13
Non-Apple News
"Canadian Supreme Court affirms consumer 'fair use' rights: New ruling removes textbook copy fees, video game music tax"?iPodNN?7/13
"Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains"?Reuters?7/13
"Google Invents a Chameleonic Notebook"?Patent Bolt?7/13
"Symantec software update makes customers' PCs inoperable"?Reuters?7/13
"Verizon launches game subscription service for $6 a month"?GigaOM?7/13
"RIM boss accuses China of IP theft risk: We're steering clear of PRC, says Heins"?The Register?7/13
"Republic Wireless, DeviceScape Pair Up for Free Wi-Fi"?PC Magazine?7/13
"Sprint Starts Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout"?PC Magazine?7/13
"Zuckerberg: The shift to mobile is Facebook's biggest challenge"?Bloomberg [Free Registration Required]?7/13
"Facebook adds 'Seen by' feature to Group pages"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?7/13
"A Show-and-Tell With Google's Hardware"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?7/13
"Google CEO Larry Page's health is 'much better'"?Bloomberg [Free Registration Required]?7/13
"Amazon Mum As Kindle Phone Rumors Swirl: Microsoft developers defect to cross-town rival, prompting speculation that Amazon is building its own smartphone."?InformationWeek?7/13
"Mobile TV app could upend the cable-broadcast business"?Reuters [Free Registration Required]?7/13
"EMC Sends Bill Teuber To Chairman's Office, Bill Scannell To Head Global Sales"?CRN?7/13
"Nvidia Shuts Down Developer Zone After Hack"?PC Magazine?7/13
"Lexmark Cuts Q2 Financial View; Shares Take A Drubbing"?Forbes?7/13
"Nokia restructures China operations, shuts down offices"?CNET News?7/13
"Cubby looks to build user base with storage bonus"?iTWire?7/13
Publications/Podcasts
"Gene Steinberg meets AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger, TechnoBuffalo's Jon Rettinger, and author Joe Kissell this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?11:29 AM
"eXtensions Podcast #2012 5 -The Bangkok-based eXtensions podcast based on the week's Cassandra columns and whatever else I throw in."?eXtensions?10:06 AM
"Weekly Podcast Episode 12 ? Four Cheers For The App Store's Latest News, Apps, And Games"?Apple'n'Apps?7/13
"Mountain Lion goes GM, more iPad Mini, Caffeine addiction, SyFy Movies (Podcast)"?Insanely Great Mac?7/13
"The Opinion Cast: Is there a 7-Inch Tablet Market?"?Tech.pinions?7/13
"Jim Sherhart Introduces the Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini"?MacVoicesTV?7/13
"TUAW and MacTech interview: Appigo"?TUAW?7/13
"Could I really ditch my laptop for an iPad? As tablets get more powerful, some people are asking if they really need to use their laptops for blogging or other work-related tasks. CNET's Marguerite Reardon offers some advice on whether you can really replace your laptop with an iPad."?CNET News?7/13
"iPhone 5 Production Underway for an Expected Fall Launch"?MacRumors?7:09 PM
"Rumor: Next-gen iPhone now in production, possible design change in tow"?AppleInsider?9:06 PM
"iPhone 5 in Production, Could Arrive in September"?Tapscape?9:29 PM
"Apple hints the release date of the new mini iPad 3 to be earlier than planned"?Examiner?6:42 PM
"Retina MacBook Pro Gets EPEAT Gold, But Not for Long"?Tapscape?6:07 PM
"Apple's Shipping Estimates for Retina MacBook Pro Improves"?Social Barrel?6:52 AM
"Refurbished items return to Apple online store after 3-day drought"?AppleInsider?6:36 AM
"Report: iPhone 5 Will Be Announced August 7"?Wired?7/13
"Apple 'investigating' in-app purchase freebie exploit: Apple says it's looking into an exploit that lets users purchase digital goods inside of iOS applications without paying for them."?CNET News?7/13
"Review - Western Digital My Net N900 router Review"?MacNN?7/13
"Adonit Jot Pro stylus review: Most styluses lack the crucial quality of precision. The Jot Pro aims to defeat the problem with a transparent plastic disc. We find out if it lives up to the claims."?Macworld UK?7/13
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Cheddar for iOS: to-do lists and markdown wherever you go/Cheddar's instant sync impressed us, but there's still room for improvement."?Ars Technica?6:27 PM
"Stock Market HD Brings The iPhone Stocks App To The iPad"?Redmond Pie?11:28 AM
"You're on the iPad, Charlie Brown!"?Techland?6:39 AM
"Hands on with Brewster: Can it evolve the address book?"?Digital Trends?7/13
"'Amazing Alex': Fun, But No Angry Birds' [Review]?Mashable?7/13
"Amazing Alex: Hands-On with Rovio's Newest Game That Isn't Angry Birds"?Wired?7/13
"Amazing Alex Review: Rovio's Second Addictive Act"?Tapscape?7/13
"Asphalt 7: Heat for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch review"?AppleTell?7/13
"Uplink for iOS game review: The tense, frightening life of the anonymous hacker"?Macworld UK?7/13
"Fingle for iPad review/The iPad screen becomes a finger Twister board: awkwardness ensues"?Macworld UK?7/13
"Got Cow? for iOS review: Familiar-looking but charming gravity puzzle game"?Macworld UK?7/13
"'Chasing Yello' Review - Another Fish in the Sea"?Touch Arcade?7/13
"'Outwitters' Review - Outstanding Asynchronous Strategy from the Makers of 'Tilt to Live'"?Touch Arcade?7/13
"'Jar on a Bar' Review ? A Cutesy Physics Based Puzzler"?Touch Arcade?7/13
"'Bop It! Smash' Review - Free, But Not So Smashing"?Touch Arcade?7/13
"Thirsty Fish Review: Slash through an endless net to free the fish while avoiding the coins in this simple, addictive casual game."?148Apps?7/13
"Layout Review: Collages are easy with this all-in-one iPad app that keeps things simple and fun."?148Apps?7/13
"Zoo Defenders Review: The best tower defense game with llamas in it."?148Apps?7/13
"Super Ox Wars Review: Super Ox Wars is the latest game from gaming industry veteran Jeff Minter, a psychedelic bullet hell shoot 'em up inspired by a festival in a small Brazilian village in the Amazon."?148Apps?7/13
How-To/Tutorial
"The Complete Beginner's Guide to Switching from Windows to OS X"?Mactuts+?11:28 AM
Tips
"Quick Tip: iPhone LED Flash Alerts"?iSource?7:13 PM
"Tips for preventing the iOS in-app purchase hack, plus 4 other Apple stories to read today"?GigaOM?7/13
"Songs downloaded on iPad keep transferring back to iTunes"?iLounge?7/13
"Tip: Buy an iPad for less/Question: I'd like to buy a tablet computer, but those prices are awfully high. Is there any place where I can find a cheap iPad that isn't a scam?"?USA Today?7/13
"Apple's Green Flub Adds to Its Checkered Record"?PCWorld?9:34 PM
"The other hidden cost of running Windows on a Mac: battery life/Summary: Thinking of buying a MacBook so you can run Windows on it? You might want to think again. A year's worth of data suggests that you'll pay a steep price in battery life."?ZDNet?9:12 PM
"Apple's No. 1 Opportunity for Growth: Pay Store Employees More"?The Ethics Guy?6:27 PM
"MacOS KenDensed: MacOS KenDensed: Samsung Isn't Cool & Everyone Wants a Little iPad"?The Mac Observer?6:06 PM
"MacBook Air vs. Ultrabook: Why 2012 Is Like 2005"?Tapscape?11:14 AM
"How Apple is changing the retail experience"?iDownload Blog?9:45 AM
"Editorial: An iPhone, iCloud And A Naked Person Can Be Dangerous"?Apple Bitch?9:06 AM
"Apple flip-flops, gets back together with EPEAT"?Digital Trends?6:31 AM
"Apple's Annoying Way of Delivering the Future We Really Wanted"?The Atlantic?6:45 AM
"Apple Inc and Steve Jobs: A Journey of Apple I-III, iPod, iPhone and iPad and others"?The News Tribe?6:29 AM
"Apple Relents, Rejoins EPEAT"?BYTE?7/13
"Apple loves the environment, re-joins EPEAT"?Neowin?7/13
"Apple products return on EPEAT"?Stemmings?7/13
"Dear Apple, could we please have a Kids category in the App Store?.com"?iMore?7/13
"iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 13: Chinese orders and engineering samples, NFC reborn, The Date"?Network World?7/13
"Estimates vs. actual sales: Contrary to Gartner, IDC claims U.S. Mac sales slump in Q312"?MacDailyNews?7/13
"Apple Could Lose the Federal Government's Business"?Care2?7/13
"The Macalope Daily: Not so ultra"?Macworld [Insider Content]?7/13
"My Crystal Ball: No IPad Cannibalization Of Mac Sales"?MacNews?7/13
"Apple Should Make an Ad Campaign with This Old, Broken Photo Booth?Here's Why"?Gizmodo?7/13
"Are Apple's clean energy promises just hot air?"?TG Daily?7/13
"Apple iPad Mini: The ultimate rumor roundup/A smaller version of the iPad is coming, you say? What is this? 2009? No, really: we've heard this before."?CNET News?7/13
"Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is Rubbish for enterprise"?The Register?7/13
"Tablets, copycats and Weird Al Yankovic: 'They are not as cool.' With these five words, Judge Colin Birss became Samsung's friend and tormentor in one. He had just found in the company's favour in its defence against Apple but ruined the moment for Samsung by hinting that the Galaxy Tab was, well, a bit crap compared to an iPad."?Register Hardware?7/13
"Where Do You Live? In The Post PC Era, Or In The PC+ Era?"?PixoBebo?7/13
Non-Apple
"Distorting reality is dangerous, unless you are Steve Jobs"?Ottawa Citizen?9:45 AM
"Elgan: I'm a digital nomad (and so are you)/New technology enables almost everyone reading this to live and work with more freedom and flexibility. Are you missing the boat?"?Computerworld?8:03 AM
"How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly"?Blurity?7/13
"This guy wants to build a new, better Twitter"?SplatF?7/13
"Particle Debris: TV Stations: Get a Clue About Adobe Flash"?The Mac Observer?7/13
"Science fiction: Why it's a must read for IT pros"?ZDNet?7/13
"This week in tech: 5 must-know things"?USA Today?7/13
"The 3D Hype Bubble Is Now Completely Busted"?Techland?7/13
"Review: Google's Nexus Q/The device, for streaming music and video, looks cool, and it's easy to use, but it's also way too expensive."?Technology Review?7/13
"Free photo editing apps reviewed"?The Age?7/13
"Europe's role in wafer transition at risk, says analyst"?EE Times?7/13
"TV in Bose's $5,000 system resembles $750 Samsung LCD"?MSNBC?7/13
"The death of the Lapdock: The post-PC future that won't be"?InfoWorld?7/13
"3 more evils that threaten cloud computing"?InfoWorld?7/13
"10 Ways Kindle Fire 2 Must Top Google Nexus" [Slideshow]?InformationWeek?7/13
"10 file-sharing options: Dropbox, Google Drive and more/Sharing files with one or more colleagues can still be a hassle. We look at 10 online services that aim to make it easier."?Computerworld?7/13
"Call DirecTV and get free stuff?"?CNN?7/13
"When Protecting Mobile Devices, We Need More Zombies"?InformationWeek?7/13
"How to Check If Your Yahoo Account Data Has Been Leaked"?Techland?7/13
"Cyber security breach: Why were Yahoo!'s passwords left unencrypted?"?CSO?7/13
"Will Google take to the streets with its own retail stores?"?CNET News?7/13
"Top 10 factors that will determine RIM's smartphone survival"?V3?7/13
In this photo taken Thursday, July 5, 2012, Shauna Barbera uses a bottled water dispenser at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
In this photo taken Thursday, July 5, 2012, Shauna Barbera uses a bottled water dispenser at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
In this photo taken Thursday, July 5, 2012, Shauna Barbera uses a bottled water dispenser at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? San Francisco, the city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags, has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles.
City officials are considering an ordinance that would require owners of new and renovated buildings with water fountains to install special bottle-filling taps. The law's designed to encourage thirsty people to refill containers instead of reaching for another bottle of Evian or Aquafina.
"This is the appropriate next step to make it easier for San Franciscans to get out of the bad habit of using environmentally wasteful plastic water bottles and into the good habit of using reusable water containers," said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who introduced the legislation in June.
Bottle-filling taps like the ones that would be required if Chiu's measure passes already are found at San Francisco International Airport and at some city parks and schools. Installed behind a drinking fountain's regular faucet, they dispense chilled water in a quick-streaming vertical jet that is high enough to accommodate most water containers.
Advocates say having bottle-specific spigots encourages the reuse of water bottles by eliminating long waits to fill them and removing concerns about germs. Some people squirm at the thought of drinking from a fountain exposed to so many mouths, although city officials say water fountains are no less hygienic than bottle taps.
Skeptics question whether the ordinance is necessary, since the proposed taps pour the same highly-regarded public water that comes out of every other faucet and drinking fountain. Businesses often complain that San Francisco lawmakers are too quick to impose bans or restrictions that affect their bottom lines.
"If you are in an office, your kitchen has a sink, the sink has a faucet and that faucet puts out Hetch Hetchy (reservoir) water," San Francisco Building Owners and Managers Association representative Ken Cleaveland said. "It's just one more new law that San Francisco is implementing on top of hundreds of other laws to make, rather force, compliance in sustainable practices."
Despite initial skepticism, the association is waiting for more details before taking a stance on the law
Adding a bottled-water spigot to existing water fountains would cost at least around $750, according to manufacturers.
For officials at Pennsylvania State University, the cost has been worthwhile. The university is now installing taps on all its campuses after experimenting with them for three years, said Lydia Vandenbergh, an official overseeing the university's effort to reduce use of plastic water bottles. Students were more receptive to filling bottles from special taps than drinking fountains, thought to be dirty.
"In the era of hyper hygiene, for a lot of people, that's a barrier," Vandenbergh said. University officials have estimated the busiest tap replaces the equivalent of 35,000 plastic bottles a month.
Chiu's ordinance calls plastic water bottles "bad for the environment," unnecessarily taking up landfill space and causing greenhouse gas emissions when cheap tap water is available. San Francisco city departments have been barred from buying plastic water bottles since 2007.
Chiu said he considered other aggressive measures to curb the bottle, including a fee and an outright ban. The proposed ordinance is less severe and is meant to raise awareness about drinking tap water as an alternative, he said.
Environmental groups are supportive of efforts to wean San Franciscans from plastic water bottles.
"San Francisco has among the best drinking water in country. It's ridiculous that people would go out and spend their now very limited dollars to buy bottled water," said Mae Wu, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Chris Hogan, an International Bottled Water Association spokesman, said his industry contributes a small fraction of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. He welcomed efforts to encourage drinking tap water, but said they don't require demonizing bottled water.
"When you make the argument to discourage people from drinking bottled water, you are removing the healthiest option when it comes to choosing a bottled beverage," Hogan said.
Chiu introduced the ordinance at a board of supervisors meeting on June 26. It is expected to go before the supervisors' Land Use and Economic Development Committee in September and if it passes, on to the full board of supervisors.
Two powerful, adult chimpanzees escaped a Las Vegas backyard and rampaged through a neighborhood, leaping over backyard walls and pounding on cars before police killed one of the chimps and tranquilized the other.
The Las Vegas neighborhood came to a standstill on Thursday morning when two chimps, each standing more than 5 feet tall and weighing more than 150 pounds, broke free from their backyard cage and began to run wild.
The female chimp, Calamity Jane, was subdued with two tranquilizers. The male chimp, Buddy, was shot by a police officer after he charged the cop. No other people were hurt during the ordeal.
Miguel Guiterrez, caretaker of the two chimps, was there when Buddy was killed and says he would have taken the bullet. "I started screaming at Buddy, 'Get back, get back! They're gonna shoot you.' I wanted to go right with him." He added, "He was like a human ... one of my best friends."
"It's crazy. I don't know why they would shoot," David Plunkett, a friend of the chimpanzees' owners said to ABC News station KTNV. "They didn't have to shoot the chimp. It wasn't harming anybody. It came out into the street, so they shot it."
A spokesperson for the Las Vegas Metro Police Department told KTNV that the officer who shot Buddy said he believed the chimpanzee needed to be stopped before he crossed Ann Road into a neighborhood filled with a crowd gathered to see what was going on.
The chimps escaped shortly before 10 a.m. and were on the loose for about 30 minutes. Another one of the chimps' caretakers blamed a loose hinge on the door of the cage. The caretakers believe the two chimps repeatedly kicked the concrete wall until the door came loose.
"This was just a little loose," said caretaker Timmi DeRosa. "There was a hinge there. This was locked, she said. Once they were out, the chimps ran loose as terrified residents ran for cover.
"There were monkeys tearing leaves off my tree," said homeowner Hannah Stevens. "One of them turned at me and saw me, and I was like, 'Get out of here.' And it hoped over the wall. It just swung over the wall."
Police said the chimps look agitated as they made their way through the neighborhood.
"We have reports of a woman saying the animal is on top of a car, that he was pounding on a police car. And there is varying accounts that the animals were very agitated," said Metro Officer Marcus Martin.
DeRosa and Lee Watkinson said they bought the chimps from Watkinson's winnings from a professional poker championship. Before that, Calamity Jane and Buddy had spent a lifetime in captivity.
It's not illegal in Las Vegas to have exotic animals in a home as long as homeowners have the correct permits. A spokesperson for Clark County told The Associated Press that the owners had all the proper permits for keeping exotic animals on the property and outside Las Vegas city limits, but that there would be an investigation into this mishap.
This isn't the first time the chimps have shown a violent side. "He [Buddy] gets mad if he thinks I'm not paying more attention. Then he'll grab my hair," said DeRosa. She also said that Buddy had taken his head and thrown him against the concrete.
Chimps have been known to attack people before. Last week, two adult chimpanzees attacked a U.S. student last month after he entered their enclosure at a primate sanctuary in South Africa. Three years ago, a woman was permanently blinded when her nose, lips, eyelids and hands were mauled by a chimp in Connecticut.
Today, Calamity Jane is back in her cage, missing her partner, while the caretakers are missing a member of their family.
"I am tragically sad about Buddy. He was my baby," said DeRosa. "I loved him so much. I love him more than anything, but I know he's in a better place."
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