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“It gets worse.  The judge in the case, in addition to enjoying torturing Microsoft with an injunction, ordered Microsoft to pay i4i over $290 million in damages.  At this point I paused and pondered why a Canadian company was suing Microsoft in East Texas.  Maybe it’s warmer there.  I certainly know the beer isn’t better.  I could keep going, but I’m running out of sarcasm (has someone patented that yet?)” – Brad Feld-  A Patent Ban on Microsoft Word and a Haiku Brad has a huge issue with our current patent system and he’s right.

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The IFP has announced its line up for the 31st annual Independent Film Week, taking place in NYC Sept. 19-24. In a release the organization has also announced the expansion of its strategic relationship with the Sundance Institute; and new partnerships with B-Side, the four-year-old tech company which runs websites that handle ticketing and mine audience response data for 250-plus fests in North America, and The Good Pitch, a forum produced by Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation which brings together inspiring social-purpose film projects and a group of expert participants from charities, foundations, brands, government and media to form powerful alliances around groundbreaking films.

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IFP ANNOUNCES 31st ANNUAL INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK LINE UP

Ohlendorf leads Pirates over Rockies, 7-3 DENVER ? Ross Ohlendorf pitched solidly into the seventh inning, Andrew McCutchen stole three bases and scored three runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 7-3 on Tuesday night to end an eight-game losing streak. Troy Tulowitzki, who had five hits, seven RBIs and hit for the cycle Monday

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Ohlendorf had solid outing, Pirates beat Colorado 7-3 to end an eight-game skid

Fed likely to leave rates at lows to aid recovery WASHINGTON ? Signs are growing that an economic recovery may finally be taking shape, but with dangers still lurking about, Federal Reserve policymakers are all but certain to leave a key interest rate at record lows to make sure any nascent turnaround gains traction. Fed Chairman Ben

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Fed widely expected to leave key interest rate at record lows to nurture economic recovery

Officials see rise in militia groups across US WASHINGTON ? Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends. The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise,

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Report: Officials see rise in militia groups across the country, similar to the ?90s movement

Disabled Dallas woman rescued from truck DALLAS ? Police say a developmentally disabled Dallas woman who was rescued from the back of a locked box truck had been beaten and left for more than an hour in 100-degree heat. Police say 21-year-old Latisha Morris was dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion when police and fire-rescue workers found

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Developmentally disabled Dallas woman rescued after being padlocked in truck on 100-degree day

Neeson walks 1st red carpet since wife died NEW YORK ? Actor Liam Neeson has walked the red carpet for the first time since the death of his wife, actress Natasha Richardson. Publicists at the New York City screening of Neeson’s new film, “Five Minutes of Heaven,” told members of the press Tuesday all personal questions were

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Liam Neeson makes 1st red-carpet appearance since death of his wife, Natasha Richardson

Devastation marks scene of California prison riot CHINO, Calif. ? Blood-soaked mattresses, singed bedding and abandoned medical supplies littered the campus of a Southern California prison Tuesday, a testament to the mayhem and violence of a weekend riot that shut down part of the institution and injured about 175 inmates, some critically.

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Devastation, blood-soaked debris mark scene of California prison riot; 11 still hospitalized

Matsui, Posada power Yankees past Blue Jays, 7-5 NEW YORK ? Hideki Matsui and Jorge Posada hit back-to-back homers leading off the eighth inning and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 on Tuesday night for their eighth win in nine games. Matsui hit a 3-2 pitch from Jesse Carlson (1-5) deep to right

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Hideki Matsui, Jorge Posada hit back-to-back homers to power Yankees past Blue Jays 7-5

Report: Pitino tells cops he paid for abortion LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex and paid for an abortion for the woman accused of trying to extort him for $10 million, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site that Pitino told police he

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Newspaper: Louisville coach Rick Pitino had sex, paid for abortion for woman in extortion case

Evangelical group faces ’serious’ shortfall DENVER ? A “serious budget shortfall” at Focus on the Family has prompted the conservative Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea, and contributed to a decision to cede control of its contentious “Love Won Out” conferences about homosexuality to another religious organization, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family suffers ?serious budget shortfall?

Focus on the Family has ’serious’ budget shortfall DENVER ? Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family says it is facing a “serious budget shortfall.” Jim Daly, president and CEO of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based evangelical ministry, explains in a letter to approximately 800,000 donors that projected income for the year is $6 million short of expectations. The

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Leader of Christian group Focus on the Family says it is facing ?serious? budget shortfall

US official gropes to explain Clinton’s outburst WASHINGTON ? The State Department struggled Tuesday to explain Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s face-off with a Congolese student and suggested that the questioner’s nervousness sparked the outburst with the mention of her husband’s name. Clinton snapped at the university student in Kinshasa on Monday when he asked what

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State Department tries to explain why Clinton snapped at student in Congo

Vick to hoops campers: ‘Use me as an example’ HAMPTON, Va. ? Michael Vick told basketball campers at Hampton University on Tuesday to use his own story as an example as they work to follow their dreams. The free agent NFL quarterback, who last month finished a 23-month federal prison sentence for dogfighting, told a crowd of

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Michael Vick tells campers after reaching goals he let others ?take all that away from me?

Wreckage of plane found in Papua New Guinea SYDNEY ? The wreckage of a chartered plane that crashed while carrying 13 people to a tourist region of Papua New Guinea was sighted Wednesday by a rescue helicopter, an official said. Papua New Guinea Civil Aviation Authority head Joseph Kintau said the plane was located in “very, very

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Wreckage of missing charter plane found in ?very difficult? terrain in Papua New Guinea

Evangelical leader, 9 others charged in Brazil SAO PAULO ? The founder of one of Brazil’s biggest evangelical churches siphoned off billions of dollars in donations from his mostly poor followers to buy jewelry, TV stations and other businesses for himself, authorities charged Tuesday. A Brazilian judge accepted charges from prosecutors alleging that Bishop Edir Macedo and

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Brazilian evangelical leader, 9 others accused of using donations for personal use

Gonzales says he would ‘do some things over’ LUBBOCK, Texas ? Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could “do some things over” from his years with the Bush administration, citing a memo he wrote that human rights groups contended led to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

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AP Interview: Former AG Gonzales says he?d ?do some things over,? including ?quaint? memo

Rove involvement in US attorney firing detailed WASHINGTON ? Former White House political adviser Karl Rove played a central role in the ouster of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, one of nine prosecutors fired in a scandal in 2006 over political interference with the Justice Department, according to transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday.

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Testimony, e-mails point to Rove involvement in firing of New Mexico US attorney

What’s a person to do with their daily emails filled with promises of cheap Viagra, body part enlargements and drugs that come from dodgy sources? Well if these designers and artists below are anything to go by, we should be making beautiful art and designs with them. The first time I came across some good-looking spam was on the Flickr set of designer and illustrator Linzie Hunter who had the ingenious idea of taking some of the many spammy emails she received and illustrating them with her unique typography

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Designer Spam

Netflix to run second film-suggestion tech contest SAN FRANCISCO ? You might call it “Son of the Netflix Prize.” The DVD rental company has not yet announced a winner for its first $1 million challenge to improve its system of recommending movies that subscribers may enjoy, but it is already indicating there will be a sequel. In a

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Netflix to hold sequel to $1M contest for improving its movie recommendation system