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24: Redemption - Setting the stage for 24 Season 7

Filmed on location in Cape Town, South Africa and Los Angeles, 24: REDEMPTION stars Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland along with new series cast members Cherry Jones, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows and Academy Award winner Jon Voight.

The two-hour event finds Jack Bauer and his mentor CARL BENTON (Robert Carlyle) battling an international crisis, while here at home the nation prepares for a new president on inauguration day. Taking place just a few months before the new day dawns, U.S. State Department officer FRANK TRAMELL (Gil Bellows) and JONAS HODGES (Jon Voight) are pulling the strings that will set the stage and raise the stakes for Season Seven, which will debut in January 2009.

Fans of 24 are sure to be excited about this project, right?

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Peek at Sarah Palin's personal emails

(courtesy: gawker.com)Did the internet just cause Sarah Palin to destroy evidence? The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for conducting state business using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) instead of her official account (which is, of course, subject to laws requiring the retention of government records). Emails from that Yahoo account are already being sought in connection with the Troopergate investigation. Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet trouble-makers based loosely around the message board 4Chan, gained access to another Palin email account: gov.palin@yahoo.com. It looks legit! The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. But we have them. You want to read Sarah Palin's email?

Ok, sad thing first: a good Samaritan reset the password and tried to alert Sarah. But he also posted the new password, causing multiple people to try to log in at once, freezing the account for 24 hours. And now, the account has been deleted! Which is, as we said, maybe destruction of evidence? So for now this is, we think, all we'll get to see from this email account (if anyone finds evidence of saved emails, let us know.)

The full timeline of events, with corroborating evidence of the legitimacy of these screengrabs, is here. Here's why it all looks convincing:

• The emails to Ivy Frye, a Palin aide who's mentioned in the earlier email stories specifically wondering how best to hide her correspondence with the governor.


• The attached contact list (below) features an email address for husband Todd Palin that is legit. As well as an apparently genuine phone number for Bristol Palin and an address for Beth Leschper, Palin's deputy communications director.


• The email from Amy McCorkell, a known associate of Palin's from Wasilla who might have the governor's personal email address.


• Emails to and from Lt Governor Sean Parnell about a local radio talk host.


• Calls to the phone number listed for Bristol Palin apparently go to her voicemail.


• The public profile for the gov.palin address dates its last update to April of this year—well before she became McCain's running mate. So if it's a hoax, it's a hoax that began long before anyone outside of Alaska cared about Palin.


• We haven't seen these family photos before. Have we?


• The previously accessible public profiles for gov.sarah@yahoo and gov.palin@yahoo were both deleted at the same time.

Here are the screenshots of the emails saved before the account went dark, along with the contact list. It's newsworthy and we will not be taking it down!

CONTACT LIST

Beth Leschper (Beth Leschper SOA) [Edit]

beth.leschper@alaska.gov

Blanche Kallstrom (Blanche) [Edit]

mbkrdk@starband.net

Bristol Palin (Bristol) [Edit]

bristol_palin@hotmail.com

Chuck Heath (Chuck) [Edit]

chckheath@yahoo.com

fek9wnr@yahoo.com (Todd) [Edit]

fek9wnr@yahoo.com

ftb907@yahoo.com (Frank) [Edit]

ftb907@yahoo.com

Heather Bruce (Heather) [Edit]

khbruce@gci.net

ivy.frye@alaska.gov (Ivy SOA) [Edit]

ivy.frye@alaska.gov

ivyfrye@yahoo.com (Ivy Personal) [Edit]

ivyfrye@yahoo.com

Judy Patrick (Judy Patrick) [Edit]

jpphoto@mtaonline.net

kris.perry@alaska.gov (Kris Perry SOA) [Edit]

kris.perry@alaska.gov

krisandclark@yahoo.com (Kris Personal) [Edit]

krisandclark@yahoo.com

paymckhea@yahoo.com (Molly) [Edit]

paymckhea@yahoo.com

Roseanne Hughes (Roseanne Hughes SOA) [Edit]

roseanne.hughes@alaska.gov

Sally Heath (Mom) [Edit]

salheath@mtaonline.net

Sean Parnell (Sean Personal) [Edit]

sparnell@alaska.com

Sharon Leighow (Sharon SOA) [Edit]

sharon.leighow@alaska.gov

Sleighow@aol.com (Sharon Leighow Personal) [Edit]

Sleighow@aol.com

Track Palin (Track) [Edit]

track_44@hotmail.com

A faster YouTube and Google Video

Viddler is a video sharing service that goes deeper than other mainstream video sites like Google Video and its sister Youtube by offering users the ability to add tags and comments to particular points in a video.

Comments on Youtube videos sometimes refer to a specific time point in the video. Viddler takes this a step further by letting users tag specific moments, which people can comment on and discuss to their hearts’ content.

Users can also link to and embed videos, either in entirety, or from a point they select, making Viddler quite a bit more flexible than Youtube. And although Google Video recently included the ability to link to particular points in a video, Viddler makes it easier to do, and combines this feature with a number of others.

Users can also upload multiple videos simultaneously, and uploading will not pause your operating interface.

Viddler’s max video size is a whopping 500 megabytes — five times more than Youtube.

Corporate Twitter for Large Enterprises

Yammer is Twitter with a business model. Created by an existing company, Geni, to scratch its own itch, Yammer takes the familiar Twitter messaging system and applies it to internal corporate communications. There is such a huge demand for this type of service that 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations signed up for the service the first day it launched on Monday. Anyone with a corporate email can sign up and follow other people in their company. But if a company wants to claim its users, and gain administrative control over them, they will have to pay. It’s a brilliant business model.

CERN caused Solar Halo in India and Girl Suicide?

A halo around the sun seen from Siliguri last week triggered curiosity as well as rumours as it coincided with the start of the Big Bang experiment in Geneva.

When the aura around the Sun became visible around 11.30am, the people of the town started making calls to their near and dear ones, trying to gauge what exactly the phenomenon was.

Burst of light in the sky, sudden darkness and now this. Could this be connected? It happened exactly at the time of starting of the LHC. The CERN has created quite a flutter in India with a girl committing suicide over 'end of the world' fears.

Full article here :
http://telegraphindia.com/1080911/jsp/siliguri/story_9815679.jsp

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Punishing the illegal money makers in disaster sites

Here are some reports of price gouging from fox news:
990 of Sunmart's 1,704 fuel pumps cheated consumers (58 percent)
47 Sunmart stations cheated customers on more than half of their pumps
15 of those 47 stations had every single pump cheating drivers.
TDA shut down all of the non-compliant pumps.

People are encouraged to report any suspected gouging especially noted in past disasters hotels, gas stations and convenience stores that have been caught taking advantage of other people’s unfortunate situation during a disaster. Goods that frequently have their prices artificially raised include gas, drinking water, batteries and food.

The Texas AAA recommends that if you think you have been gouged to keep your receipts and file a report with the Texas Attorney General here. The Texas Attorney General has already warned that gougers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Reports can be filed by telephone at 1-800-252-8011.

How to increase your eCPM rates

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