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Vallejo blocks city workers from viewing local blogs

(08-26) 19:07 PDT Vallejo -- Vallejo's city manager has barred city employees from reading two local blogs that focus on the city's descent into bankruptcy.

Circuit City Stores (CC) NewsBite - Circuit City Tumbles after BBI Drops Bid

Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC) opened at 2.22. So far today, the stock has hit a low of 2.10 and a high of 2.27. CC is now trading at 2.18, down 0.37 (-16.67%). The stock hit its 52 week high of 15.33 in July and set its 52 week low of 2.10 today. CC has been moving downwards for the past year. Circuit City Stores shares have been taking a hit after Blockbuster Inc. (BBI) withdrew its bid for the company, citing "market conditions." In April, Blockbuster had offered to buy Circuit City for at least $6 a share, or more than $1 billion. Technical indicators for the stock are bearish and steady while S&P gives CC a neutral 3 STARS (out of 5) hold rating. We will just watch this one for now. There are no trades that we like for CC. [RHF - Seven Summits Strategic Investments NewsBite]

Chip museum opens in Bruges: The Belgian city of Bruges has opened a museum to educate people on the origins of Belgian potato chip....

The Belgian city of Bruges has opened a museum to educate people on the origins of Belgian potato chip.

`The city has gone crazy`

Most of us may be twittering excitedly about the Olympics but Kevinkclee, a Beijing blogger, is exasperated.

Has Google Lost Its Mojo?

"Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time," writes Computerworld's Preston Gralla. "Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo."

San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords

snydeq writes "The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has made public close to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's VPN. The passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court document arguing against a reduction in $5 million bail in the case against Terry Childs. Though they placed the passwords in the public record, city prosecutors do seem to think that they are sensitive. InfoWorld's Paul Venezia, who has been following the case closely, provides further analysis of the technical details in the city's case. 'By themselves, [the passwords] would not be enough to allow anyone to access the network via VPN,' Venezia writes, 'but the fact that the city entered them into evidence is quite shocking.

VP Candidate Is Pro-RIAA, Anti-Privacy - Biden's tech history doesn't align with Obama's beliefs

Barack Obama has named Joe Biden as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. CNET offers an interesting article reviewing Biden’s tech history and showing that his legislative past is filled with pro-RIAA, anti-privacy moves that are in direct contrast to the sentiments that Obama has expressed. Biden has backed bills that expand copyright law and urged the Justice Department to use taxpayers’ money to monitor and prosecute illegal filesharing. He is a friend not only to RIAA and MPAA but also to the FBI who he has supported with anti-encryption laws that are in keeping with the FBI’s desire to engage in wiretapping. In regards to net neutrality, Biden does not agree with Obama’s support “of handing pre-emptive regulatory authority to the Federal Communications Commission” because he believes that public disapproval of any violations t

An artist's palate

To celebrate the arrival of Veuve Clicquot Rose NV in New Zealand, the French Champagne house has commissioned artist Gidon Bing to create a series of temporal public outdoor sculptures. Bing is an Auckland-based painter and sculptor. He has both academic and formal training as a sculptor and has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East and America. His work has been acquired by collectors around the world.

Blog City at Early Salon Party; Massages with the Huffingtons

The social whirl has started early in Denver with gaggles of A-list bloggers and media types meeting all over the city.

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring The Rockettes DVD Available for the First Time

FAIRFAX, Va. (Business Wire) -- One of the greatest and most beloved American holiday traditions, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring The Rockettes, will be available on DVD for the first time on November 4th. Two titans of entertainment, Time Life and Madison Square Garden Entertainment, are partnering to bring this national treasure and American icon to fans everywhere. The DVD will afford viewers the opportunity to enjoy the cherished holiday show from their own homes as the world-famous Radio City Rockettes perform on the Great Stage of Radio City Music Hall. The Christmas Spectacular is America's #1 Holiday show and has played to more than 65 million people in its 76 year history. In 2008, more than 1.2 million fans will attend the New York City production and an additional 1 million patrons are expected to see the debut of

Indian woman, 55, has quadruplets in Italy

The feet of a set of quadruplets. A 55-year-old Indian woman has given birth to quadruplets in the northern Italian city of Mantua, a local newspaper there reported Thursday.

Blockbuster Looks At Circuit City's Books; Ditches Acquisition Offer

We were one of a very small number of people who actually saw some logic behind Blockbuster bidding for Circuit City -- though, it seemed unlikely that Blockbuster viewed the purchase in the same way we did. Most people assumed (probably correctly) that Blockbuster didn't really have much of a plan at all, other than to merge the two struggling companies and have an even bigger mess on their hands. Blockbuster has now withdrawn the offer to buy Circuit City, gamely claiming that it has to do with "market conditions" and a better understanding of just how awful Circuit City's books appear to be. That's press release talk. What's more likely is that Blockbuster realized that everyone was right: it would screw up the merger and make a bad situation worse.

Rearmed Units Sold: 'The Bar Has Been Raised'">

Capcom On 130,000 Rearmed Units Sold: 'The Bar Has Been Raised' [08.25.08] Capcom says its downloadable Bionic Commando: Rearmed has surpassed the company's own expectations, selling over 130,000 units, and producer Ben Judd says it's an important lesson in what consumers want from developers.

The Source By Circuit City Honours 'Best in Class' Vendors

BARRIE, ON, Aug. 20 /CNW/ - The Source By Circuit City today announced that it is introducing a Merchandising Excellence Award, an annual recognition program to honour vendors that have shown an outstanding commitment to the company and its customers by focusing on product profitability, business relationship growth and a year-over-year positive impact on The Source By Circuit City's overall revenue.

A Look Back at Circuit City Stock Performance

In March of last year (and again in the summer) Circuit City announced various new initiatives to cut expenses, improve sales, and jump start the process of turning the company around that began in '06. Let's take a quick look at how the stock has performed since the company announced cost cutting measures that included firing 3,400 of their most successful salespeople so they could hire less experienced people (or any of the fired ones who were desperate enough to come back) at lower wages on March 28, 2007:

Andrei Arshavin, the Euro 2008 Russian sensation, has made it clear that he is not bound for England and the Premier League. He has been in the spotlight since he helped guide his Zenit St Petersburg side to UEFA Cup glory against Glasgow Rangers in

He has attracted interest from Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Newcastle Utd but, according to reports, he has decided to snub English football, preferring a move to the sunnier climes of Spain.

Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers

Albanach writes "Scotland's Sunday Herald newspaper has an exclusive report that the Best Western hotel chain has lost the personal details of each and every guest who has stayed at any of its 1300 hotels in the past 12 months. This amounts to details on 8 million customers and includes information such as name, address, credit card details and employment details. The data even includes future booking details, causing speculation that homes could be targeted for burglary when it's anticipated they will be unoccupied. A Best Western spokesperson is quoted as saying 'Best Western took immediate action to disable the compromised log-in account in question. We are currently in the process of working with our credit card partners to ensure that all relevant procedural standards are met, and that the interests of our guests are protected.

Museum awarded £150,000 A Manchester art gallery has been awarded a £150,000 Government grant. The Whitworth Art Gallery has received the grant from a £4m fund that will benefit 31 museums and galleries around England.

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Churchyards hit by fungus on their Busy Lizzies

It is the first time that this herbaceous perennial plant of east African origin has been affected by the fungus in Sweden. The cemetery administration in Kalmar has now decided to remove the flower from both its north and south cemeteries, despite that fact that the fungus has only been found in the north cemetery.

"Phoney" iPhone Lines in Poland

On Friday, Apple's iPhone went on sale in 21 other countries, including India and Poland as iPhone 3G Rollout Phase II began. While demand for the iPhone 3G has been loud and clear in many countries so far (unlike 3G service on the device), the iPhone isn't quite such a hot commodity in the newly launched set countries. For one, Telekomunikacja Polska (TP), which France Telecom (whose wireless division is Orange) has a controlling stake in, has admitted it used actors to form fake lines, trying to make people believe that demand for the iPhone was higher than it actually was (see above).

Phoenix Digs Deep for 90th Day on Mars

The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug. On Tuesday, August 26, the scoop on the lander's robotic arm will pick up a sample of soil from the bottom of a trench called "Stone Soup" which is about 18 centimeters, or 7 inches deep. Tuesday will be the 90th Martian day or sol that the lander has been on the Red Planet, which was the original amount of time set for Phoenix's primary mission. NASA has extended the mission through September, but the clock is ticking for the plucky little lander and the oncoming winter at Mars' north polar region.

Madden NFL 2009 Xbox 360 Review

20 years of existence is a long time for any videogame series, let alone one that sees a new release each and every one of those 20 years. I of course refer to the Madden NFL series from EASports, which has seen various ups and downs in its lengthy existence, ranging from troubling times in heated battle with competing NFL games, to what we have today in the 'exclusive rights' era of sports gaming. This NFL exclusivity that EA acquired for their flagship sporting title has brought upon mixed results for the NFL gaming enthusiasts. On one hand, EA are given access to material otherwise not available with their now very close relationship to the NFL, but on the other hand, the overriding theme has been lackluster efforts since Madden became the only NFL game out there and made its way first to the Xbox 360 and then the PS3, arguably caused

"Kyoto Art Festival 2008" Completed

Kyoto City has produced a comprehensive pamphlet for "Kyoto Art Festival 2008," an annual cultural project in which various events including a music festival and performances of traditional arts take place. Kyoto City Office, ward offices and Kyoto City Tourist Information Office are handing out the pamphlet from August 11.

VeriSign names founder Bidzos as executive chairman, CEO

VeriSign has named Jim Bidzos to the position of executive chairman on an interim basis. Additionally, VeriSign's board of directors has elected Bidzos as president and chief executive officer, on an interim basis, replacing William A Roper, who resigned from the company and the board of directors effective 30 June. As the company's founder and initial CEO, Bidzos has served as either chairman or vice chairman of the board of directors of VeriSign since April 1995. Bidzos has also served in both senior executive and board level capacities with RSA from 1986 to 2002.

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