AT&T Finally Ready To Give iPhone Owners Free Wi-Fi At Starbucks

One extra perk for spending $70+ a month on AT&T (T) iPhone service: You'll now be able to get free wi-fi service at Starbucks (SBUX) stores. The instructions are a bit cumbersome -- you need to log in with your phone number and get a free text message with a secure link to get access -- but if it works, that's good enough for us.

AT&T also offers Apple (AAPL) iPhone owners free wifi access at some airports, hotels, restaurants, bookstores, etc. The telco also offers free wifi access to most of its residential broadband Internet subscribers.

SEC Busts Steve Jobs Heart Attack Fraudster

As expected, the Feds have nailed the "citizen journalist" who posted the fake Steve Jobs heart attack report on CNN's iReport last month. He's 18, and it doesn't appear to have been a stock scam.

Bloomberg:

A fake Internet report that Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was posted by a teenager, and investigators haven't found evidence he tried to profit from driving down the stock, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the 18-year-old's motives after the article on CNN's iReport.com sent Apple shares down as much as 5.4 percent Oct. 3, according to the people, who declined to be identified because the probe isn't public. While the investigation is continuing, the agency hasn't unearthed any trading records that show he benefited from the drop, one of them said.

Unless the SEC finds evidence of stock manipulation, the case is probably out of its jurisdiction. Another prosecutor could always argue it broke some other law, though.

Obama Girl As Sarah Palin on Fox News

clipped from news.cnet.com Android and iPhone philosophies worlds apart The objective of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system may be similar--providing a rich mobile Internet experience--but the philosophy behind the two are just about as far apart as you can get in the technology realm.

BAD TEACHERS AIDE

clipped from www.nydailynews.com Brooklyn teacher's aide charged with groping and tickling Junior High School 126 cheerleaders A teacher's aide was busted Tuesday for allegedly groping and tickling cheerleaders during games of tag inside a Brooklyn school, authorities said. Johnathan Williams, 29, was arrested for allegedly groping, fondling and harassing at least nine girls and a boy at Junior High School 126, the special schools investigator said.

Spanking For Votes

What will they think of next

Apple to launch new Macbook

Apple to launch new MacBook laptops
Telegraph.co.uk - 6 hours ago
It is also expected to drop the white and black casing used on its entry-level MacBook computers in favour of the aluminium chassis found on the MacBook Pro range of high-end laptops.

Manic Monday: Dow roars back from worst week ever

A Record Gain on Wall Street
The
Dow staged its biggest single point-gain ever after a massive
eight-session losing streak. Wall Street stormed back from last week's
losses, sending the Dow Jones industrials soaring a nearly
inconceivable 936 points after major governments' plans to support the
global banking system reassured distraught investors.

Apple to unveil new laptop computers

Apple to unveil new laptop computers
AFP - 9 hours ago
While discussing earnings with investors earlier this year, Apple executives tempered profit expectations by saying it is investing in new designs but didn't give specifics.

Biden's XS BOTOX spending

Sex addict, Duchovny

New York Daily News

Sex addict David Duchovny out of rehab
New York Daily News - 3 hours ago
By
ELOISE PARKER David Duchovny is out of rehab and back in the arms of
his wife, Tea Leoni. The couple appeared to have put their troubles
behind them as they posed arm in arm for a photograph at the New York
Czech Festival on the Upper East Side on ...

Dow dips more than 500 on worries about financials

Stocks Take Another Beating
The
stock market continued to sink Tuesday even after the Federal Reserve
announced plans to buy massive amounts of corporate debt to encourage
lending. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508
points to 9,447, leaving it 1,400 points lower since last Tuesday's
close.

Movie Premier " What Just Happened" at the MoMa, New York City

Show # 17, Tony takes you to New York City to the MOMA for the Premier of Robert DeNiro's lastest movie with Shots of John Turturro, Cybill Shepherd, Steve Buscemi, and Pink Floyd's, John Waters

Walt Mossberg first impression of the G1....

Google’s G1: First Impressions

Google’s new G1 phone announced today
is the first real competitor to the iPhone. Like Apple’s product,
it’s a serious handheld computer with a powerful new operating
system (called Android) and a clever touch-based user interface. Like
the iPhone, it’s likely to be a major new platform for
third-party software. But it’s also very different, and may
appeal to different buyers.

The phone, expected to be the first of many to use the Android
operating system, was largely designed by Google, and was built by HTC
of Taiwan. It will be sold in the U.S. starting next month by T-Mobile,
for $179 with a two-year contract.

Here are some first impressions of the G1, based on some experience
with a prototype. This isn’t a full review; that will come later,
when I’ve had a chance to use a more finished device.

Bloomberg Announces Bid for 3rd Term

It's Official!
Mayor
Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that he will ask City Council to
change New York's term-limits law so he can run for another four years
in office to deal with the "unprecedented challenges'' brought on by
the financial meltdown.

[OFFICIAL] What Just Happened? movie trailer - HD Quality

Giants Running Back Arrested on Alcohol Charge

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) 
-- New York Giants backup running back Danny Ware has been arrested and
charged with an alcohol offense while walking in the road.

The 23-year-old former Georgia player was booked at the Clarke
County Jail early Sunday and released four hours later on $500 bond.

Police say Ware and a woman were standing in the street talking and
traffic had to steer around them. The police report said Ware
acknowledged he was drinking and his breath test showed he had a
blood-alcohol content of 0.152. He was charged with pedestrian under
the influence and pedestrian walking in the road.

Ware is in his second season with the Giants. The Giants had a bye last weekend.

Bailout bill slapped aside; record stock plunge

Stocks Take Historic Fall
In
a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the
world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for
the nation's financial system, leaving both parties and the Bush
administration scrambling to pick up the pieces. The Dow Jones
industrials plunged nearly 800 points, the most ever for a single day.

Driver racks up almost $33,000 in toll booth fees

It's a record no other New York driver can
match: Almost $33,000 in unpaid tolls.

That's what Catherine Cappelluti owes the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey for a half dozen years of driving through toll
booths, according to a judgment against her in a Bergen County
court.

The New Jersey resident used PA crossings 1,087 times for free
between 1998 and 2004, collecting 361 citations, according to court
documents.

They show the 38-year-old owes $32,879 for not paying to use the
Port Authority's E-ZPass lanes.

She says she's innocent, and blames her ex-boyfriend.

Mussina becomes oldest to earn 1st 20-win season

Mike Mussina wrapped up a postgame television interview on the field then returned to the New York Yankees clubhouse.

In
a season with little to celebrate, his teammates gave him a rousing
welcome - one he had waited his entire 18-year career to receive.
Mussina had just become the oldest pitcher to win 20 games in a season
for the first time as the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2 Sunday in
the opener of a rain-delayed day-night doubleheader.

"This
is one of those things that I think will take a while to sink in," said
Mussina, who has won at least 18 games five other times.

The
playoff-bound Red Sox won the second game 4-3 on Jonathan Van Every's
bases-loaded single with two outs in the 10th off Jose Veras (5-3).
Devern Hansack (1-0) pitched the 10th for the win as Boston prevented
the Yankees (89-73) from reaching 90 wins for the seventh straight
season. New York finished five games back of the wild-card Red Sox and
missed the postseason for the first time since 1993.

Less
than three months before his 40th birthday, Mussina (20-9) gave up
three hits in six shutout innings in his final start of the season. He
returned to the field to bring out the lineup card for the second game.

Last
year he had the highest ERA of his career (5.15). This season, it was
3.37 after he allowed one earned run in 16 innings over his last three
starts.

Study Finds N.J. Suicide Rates Higher in Rural Areas

New Jersey's rural areas have the highest suicide rates in the state, according to a state health department study.

The report analyzed state suicide rates from 2004 to 2006. It found
the 10 counties below Interstate 195, along with the areas in New
Jersey's rural northwest corner, have higher incidents of suicides.
Cape May County, at the far southern tip of the state, topped the list.

The higher suicide rate in sparsely populated areas mirrors
nationwide patterns, but was still a surprise to the director of the
state office which analyzes injury data.

"What we call a rural area in New Jersey is not really all that
rural, compared to places like Montana," Katherine Hempstead, the
director of the Office of Injury Surveillance and Prevention, told The
Sunday Star Ledger of Newark.

Hempstead suggested one possible reason for higher suicide rates in rural areas: more access to guns.

Seven counties with the highest suicide rates from 2003 to 2005 also had firearm ownership rates above the state average.

The state study found 45 percent of suicides in rural Sussex County
were by gunshot, compared to fewer than 16 percent of suicides in urban
Essex County.

"One aspect of rural life is greater likelihood of owning a gun, and
with owning a gun comes greater risk of suicide," Hempstead said.

Other reasons offered by experts include rural attitudes that cause
some to shun counseling, and the difficulties rural people encounter
trying to seek seeking mental health services in a private manner.

Mets Collapse... Again

Shea It Ain't So... Again...
Mets
collapse, the sequel.  Doomed by a dreadful bullpen that failed
them again Sunday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutive
September slide with a 4-2 loss to Florida that knocked them out of
playoff contention in the final game at Shea Stadium.

Google's Android Has Phone Debut via T-Mobile By

Google, T-Mobile Unveil New Phone

Quarterback Wax: Eli Manning Honored at NYC Museum

- He stared down the mighty New England Patriots to win the Super
Bowl. Now Eli Manning will be staring down the throngs of tourists at
the Madame Tussauds wax museum.

Madame Tussauds is unveiling a likeness of the Super Bowl MVP on
Tuesday, making him the first New York Giants player to be featured at
the wax museum.

Manning is depicted holding a football in one hand and a Giants helmet in the other.

Madame Tussauds is among the most popular tourist destinations in
Times Square, with figures of famous people ranging from President Bush
to Brad Pitt.

FBI investigating companies at heart of meltdown

Financial Giants Investigated
The
FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose
collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush
administration. Two law enforcement officials said the FBI is looking
at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and insurer American
International Group Inc.

It's Android time

In New York City Tuesday, T-Mobile will unveil one of the most anticipated handsets of the year.

The T-Mobile G1, aka the HTC Dream, aka the Google phone, will be the first cell phone with the Google Android OS to go on sale. Exact features are still a bit sketchy, and we still can't confirm with complete certainty what it will look like, but we know that the G1 will go on sale in October.

As T-Mobile shows the phone off to the world CNET News's Maggie Reardon
will be on hand to bring you all the details. Then, after we have a bit
of time to process it all, we'll bring you slide shows, videos, and an
in-depth analysis on what the handset offers and what it means for the
cell phone world. Check out our full coverage of the T-Mobile G1 and Google Android.

Yankee Stadium's Last Homer Leads to Skirmish

NEW YORK (AP)  --
Taking an "aw shucks'' attitude, the Colorado man who caught the last
home run ball at Yankee Stadium said he wasn't sure he'd be willing to
sell it.

More anxiety on Wall St.: Stocks dive, oil soars

More Anxiety on Wall Street
Elation
in the financial markets over the $700 billion bank bailout plan
evaporated Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety,
pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest one-day gain.

08/15/08 - World Series of Poker: Cisco Keeps an Eye on the Richest Game in Vegas

Cisco Physical Security is the exclusive provider of video surveillance for the World Series of Poker. Cisco helps utilize their existing equipment as they migrate into the IP world.

The New Yankee Stadium

The New Yankee Stadium, originally uploaded by tonylimo.

taken from 161st and River Ave

Yankees Mural Gets 2 New Additions

Ray Negron was a trouble-making high school kid when he
spray-painted graffiti on a wall at Yankee Stadium in 1973 and
instantaneously became part of team lore.

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner caught him in the act, and Negron
was locked up, but not before Steinbrenner extended his generosity and
made Negron bat boy for that night's game. He went on to become
Steinbrenner's special assistant and works for the Boss to this day.

Possible financial crisis fix sends stocks soaring

Signs of Relief on Wall Street
Wall
Street finally found reason to rally Thursday, soaring on a report that
the Bush administration was considering setting up a government agency
to soak up bad loans and mortgages. But it was far from clear that the
government had settled on any solution to the worst crisis on Wall
Street in decades.

Tonylimo 's " Ask The Chauffeur": Yankee Stadium deal criticized by lawmakers

Tonylimo 's " Ask The Chauffeur": Yankee Stadium deal criticized by lawmakers
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6ix1WykjebXFlRHFTZBkFCTHAXQD939DB682

Yankee Stadium deal criticized by lawmakers

The New Yankee Stadium, originally uploaded by tonylimo.

Taken on Sept.17, 2008
A congressional panel has taken tough swings at the New York Yankees and New York City government over a new stadium for the Yankees. But neither the team nor the city budged from their positions on the $1.3 billion structure.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Thursday he found "waste and abuse of public dollars" in the financing of the new stadium under construction in the South Bronx.
Kucinich is an Ohio Democrat who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He charged that city officials misrepresented to the IRS the value of the property, helping them to get special tax deals from the federal government and in effect dumping the cost of construction onto taxpayers. No one from the either the city or the Yankees spoke at the hearing.

U.S. Stocks Plunge after AIG Bailout

Stocks Take Another Beating
Wall
Street stumbled again Wednesday, with anxieties about the financial
system still running high after the government bailed out insurer
American International Group Inc. The Dow Jones industrial average
dropped about 280 points.

Lincoln Center to honor Tom Hanks in annual gala

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Film Society of Lincoln
Center will honor Tom Hanks in its annual gala tribute, citing the
actor's talent of making "a good man compelling."

The
two-time Academy Award winner will be feted April 27 at Alice Tully
Hall, which is being renovated but scheduled to reopen Feb. 22. It will
be the society's 36th annual gala, following last year's celebration of
Meryl Streep.

"There are so few actors who
have been able to make the struggle and drama of being a good man
compelling," Kent Jones, the society's associate director of
programming, said Monday. "With his talent, his presence, his
versatility, his sense of humor, he has set a very high standard for
his fellow actors."

The 52-year-old Hanks won best-actor Oscars for 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump."

Meltdown in US finance system pummels stock market

Meltdown on Wall Street
The
upheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through the
stock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in seven
years as investors digested the failure of one of its most venerable
banks and wondered which domino would

Ex-N.Y. Mayor Koch: Palin 'Scares the Hell Out of Me'

She 'Scares the Hell Out of Me'
Saying
that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "scares the
hell out of me,'' former New York Mayor Ed Koch endorsed fellow
Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.

iPod nano 4G hands-on

Yep, it's pretty much what you expected. Still, this thing is like a
sliver in your hands. Check the gallery below and see for yourself!

Federer Overwhelms Murray to Win Fifth U.S. Open

Roger Federer after defeating Andy Murray to capture the U.S. Open title. (Shaun Best/Reuters)

Roger Federer showed Andy Murray and the world that he’s far
from done. On Monday night, in front of a capacity crowd in Arthur Ashe
Stadium, Federer dominated the 21-year-old Scot, dictating play from
start to finish to win his fifth straight United States Open.

Federer won in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5, 6-2, breaking Murray’s service games an incredible seven times.

The Swiss former No. 1 was the aggressor throughout, placing his
backhands in just the right spots and then opening up with his powerful
and more reliable forehand.

iPod nano 4G leaked in actual, factual, really-real spy photo

Look, you know the drill here. This may be the painstaking result of
some CAD-school-dropout's nights home alone, or the latest in cheapo
knock-offs from the Far East. You may be looking at a Photoshop
spackled together from newspaper clippings, puppy dog tears, and Steve
Jobs' fever-dreams. Or, this could be a really crappy, actual photo of the iPod nano 4G in its packaging. It sure looks enough like what we've been seeing lately to be any / all of the above. Regardless, we'll know the truth real, real soon.

The story behind Google Chrome

Maybe A-Rod's problem is this: He simply chose the wrong sport

Rationally, we assume that it is much more agonizing to play an
individual sport, where you can expect no help from any teammates,
where you must depend completely upon yourself. But I believe that
there are certain team players with the personality that turns that
logic upside down, who suffer more pressure precisely because they are
not alone, who are intimidated more by having to produce for their
teammates.

Resting

Resting, originally uploaded by double DOT (azzu).

Hurricane Gustav slams La.; 1M without power

Gustav Rips Through Louisiana
Hurricane
Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry
with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New
Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of
catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.

Palin says daughter, 17, is 5 months pregnant

Sep-01-2008 9:53:02 PM [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

AP
- John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, said Monday her 17-year-old
unmarried daughter was five months pregnant, the latest in a string of
disclosures that left the McCain campaign defending the thoroughness of
its background check of the little-known Alaska governor.

Wedding Carriage Horses Take Wild Ride in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (AP) -- This is one wedding the guests won't soon forget.

A pair of horses pulling a buggy got spooked, broke free and took
off down a Brooklyn street on Sunday, as the bride and groom were
walking toward the carriage.

Witnesses said something startled the animals, and the driver got
thrown from the buggy. The horses were stopped further down the street.

Help-wanted ad for nanny: `My kids are a pain'

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was an unusually honest ad
for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain."
But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.

"If
you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive,
don't even bother replying," Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on
Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on
Craigslist.

"I can be a tad difficult to work for. I'm loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure."

This
being the age of instant communications, the ad took on a life of its
own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and e-mail inboxes and
inspiring an article in Thursday's New York Times.

Soodak,
a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired
Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take
care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.

"I
made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year," Wynn told
the Times. "I met the oldest child, but not the others, which my mother
said was crazy - to accept the job without meeting all the kids. So
we'll see." She noted that one of the pluses is that the children are
all in school for several hours each day.

Cops Search for Brooklyn Man Accused of Stealing Parking Meters

Police are looking for a Brooklyn man suspected of stealing 87 parking meters in Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Bensonhurst.

Maurice Mizrahi, 34, of Gravesend has been arrested 7 times in
the last year for stealing the coin-operated meters, police said.

No one has ever actually seen him stealing the meters, which are
quite heavy and extremely difficult to remove, according to police. And
yet several of them were actually extracted from the sidewalk
-- poles and all -- which in some cases went two feet deep
into the ground.

A woman, who police believe to be Mizrahi's mother, called 911 on
Wednesday after discovering 19 of them in her house at 2032 East 1st
street in Brooklyn's Gravesend section.

She then called again Thursday to tell police she had found many
more meters in a crawlspace in her home, and police removed the
additional 68 meters from the home Friday morning.

McCain picks Alaska gov as running mate.

McCain Surprises With VP Pick
John
McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maverick conservative with
less than two years in office, as his vice presidential running mate
Friday in a startling choice announced before the start of the
Republican National Convention.

Tony Russo-8/15/08-Final MMD show

Sneak Peek: Inside the New Yankee Stadium

Advertise on NYTimes.com Home Sales Increased 3.1% in July

Home Sales Increased 3.1% in July

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM 24 minutes ago

The respite for the housing slump came as falling
prices appeared to lure more buyers into the market, but the number of
homes for sale increased significantly.

Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo

Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo

By BRIAN STELTER

The extent to which the Internet served as a
supplement to television was unprecedented, and there were two clear
winners: NBC’s Web site and Yahoo’s Olympics section.

Kennedy, Michelle Obama rally Dems at convention

'Barack Will Be Extraordinary'
Michelle
Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National
Convention Monday night, stressing her husband's values and belief in
the American dream, and the fact that she believes he'll be an
extraordinary president.

EARTHQUAKE DANGERS FOR NYC

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - An analysis of recent earthquake activity
around New York City has found that many small faults that were
believed to be inactive could contribute to a major, disastrous
earthquake.

The study also finds that a line of seismic activity stretching
from Stamford, Conn., to Peekskill comes within two miles of the Indian
Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan. Another fault line near the
plant was already known, so the findings suggest Indian Point is at an
intersection of faults.

The study's authors, who work at Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Observatory in Palisades, acknowledge that the biggest
earthquakes - in the 6 or 7 magnitude range - are rare in the New York
City region. They say a quake of magnitude 7 probably comes about every
3,400 years.

But they note that no one knows when the last one hit, and because
of the population density and the concentration of buildings and
financial assets, many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars are at
risk.

Co-author Leonardo Seeber said in an interview that although the
metropolitan area does not have a single great fault like the San
Andreas fault in California, "Not having a major fault is not a reason
not to worry about earthquakes."

"Instead of having a single major fault or a few major faults, we
tend to have a lot of very minor and sort of subtle faults," he said.
"It's a family of faults, and that can contribute to the severity of an
earthquake."

John Ebel, director of seismology at Boston College's Weston
Observatory, said he agreed with the study's finding that small faults
can contribute to large earthquakes. "A quake can jump from one fault
to another," he said.

The study, published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society
of America, analyzed 383 known earthquakes over the past 330 years in
or near New York City. The biggest were three that reached magnitude 5
in 1737, 1783 and 1884.

Data on earthquakes since the early 1970s, when Lamont deployed
dozens of new detectors, enabled the authors to see patterns from
smaller quakes, including the magnitude 4.1 quake that was centered on
Ardsley, in Westchester County, in 1985.

Patsy's Celebrates Anniversary with 1933 Prices

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hurry to Patsy's Restaurant in East Harlem as it celebrates its 75th anniversary with 1933 prices.

The offer is good all day Tuesday.

A 12-ounce New York cut steak and grilled salmon are going for 90
cents, a slice of pizza for 60 cents, and most beverages are 10 cents.



The dining room was packed, of course and people were lined up around the block to take advantage of the huge discounts.

Two-Headed Turtle Stolen from Brooklyn

Two-Headed Turtle Snatched from Pet Store
A reward is being offered for the safe return of a two-headed turtle that was stolen from a Brooklyn pet store on Sunday.

Methadone Rises as a Painkiller With Big Risks

Methadone Rises as a Painkiller With Risks

By ERIK ECKHOLM and OLGA PIERCE

Methadone, once used mainly in addiction treatment
centers, is now more widely prescribed, and it is the fastest growing
cause of narcotic deaths.

In Beijing, Phelps Does What He Came to Do

Doug Mills/The New York Times

The United States' team, from left, Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps, Aaron
Peirsol and Brendan Hansen celebrate winning the gold medal after the
men's 4x100-meter medley relay final.

The 4x100-meter medley relay team broke the world record to help Michael Phelps make history.

• Sports of The Times: Phelps Does What He Came to Do
• TV Sports: Restraint by NBC as Phelps Wins 8th Gold
• Interactive Graphic: A History of World Records

'Golden Boy' Michael Phelps Ties Spitz Record

Michael Phelps Swims to Seventh Heaven
The
Golden Boy, right, tied Mark Spitz's 1972 record with his seventh gold
medal Saturday after coming from behind for a fingertip victory.
He goes for number 8 and the record tonight in the 4x100 medley

MT CHARLESTON

Tony takes you to MT CHARLESTON, NV ..30 MINUTES FROM LAS VEGAS

Too Much Security?

Too Much Security?
The
New York City Police Department's security plan for the rebuilt World
Trade Center site has many downtown businesses asking, "How much
security is too much?" 'Operation Sentinel' is the department's plan to
have the 16-acre site sealed off and secured by 2010 with measures
including check points on street corners for screening pedestrians and
underground bomb screening centers for delivery trucks.

Disney Store on Manhattan's 5th Avenue Is Closing

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. plans to close its World of Disney store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue when the lease expires in 2010 and replace it with a smaller store elsewhere in the borough. Spokesman Gary Foster says the company behind such lovable characters as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Winnie the Pooh and the ``Toy Story'' and ``High School Musical'' movies is scouting locations for the new store. World of Disney stores like the one on Fifth Avenue near St. Patrick's Cathedral are operated by Disney's parks and resorts division and are bigger than the chain stores operated by the consumer products division. The new store will be part of the chain. The Disney stores sell products including toys, clothes and games. Disney used to operate a store in Times Square.

Report: NYC Has Failed to Reduce Homelessness

Mayor's Homeless Plan Flops
Mayor
Michael Bloomberg is failing at his goal to reduce the homeless
population by two-thirds before he leaves office next year, according
to a report released Thursday which said the number of homeless
families in city shelters has actually increased.

Hundreds remember Yankees broadcaster Bobby Murcer in stirring tribute

OKLAHOMA CITY — His rocking chair sat empty and motionless
with his old New York Yankees jersey draped over it, but the spirit of
beloved broadcaster Bobby Murcer lived on Wednesday with his family,
friends and colleagues.

Hundreds filled an Oklahoma City-area
church for a stirring and often humorous tribute to Murcer, a five-time
all-star outfielder who died from brain cancer on July 12.

He was
remembered in words by his son, an astronaut and a 13-year-old cancer
survivor, and in video messages from Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Rich
(Goose) Gossage and comedians Billy Crystal and Ray Romano.

Gotti Arrested in Murder Conspiracy

In recent years, John A. Gotti, once the acting boss of the Gambino crime family,
has become something of an elusive bull’s-eye for federal
prosecutors. In just over a year, Mr. Gotti was prosecuted three times
on charges relating to organized crime, but each time the case ended in
a mistrial. Prosecutors decided in October 2006 to drop the case.

JetBlue Readies New Post-9/11 Terminal at JFK

As a symbol of the last century of flight sits in its shadow, a new
JetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport is undergoing
a series of tests ahead of its scheduled opening on Oct. 1.

JetBlue Airways Corp. is in the final stretch of a four-year, $743
million construction project to create a modern terminal and a new home
base for the Forest Hills, N.Y.-based carrier. The space is also the
first terminal designed and built since 9/11, and aims to address a
number of security and planning concerns.

It's Now 'I Love Upstate New York'

New York State is reviving the ``I Love New York'' campaign to help boost tourism to upstate New York.

Tourism officials will announce 15 finalists in the state's first
``I Love New York'' film contest on Thursday. Filmmakers produced
60-second films on why they love the state.

Comedian and actress Tina Fey and Academy Award-winning actor Philip
Seymour Hoffman are part of a panel that will pick a winner. The grand
prize is a weekend getaway package in New York state.

The winner will be announced at Independent Film Week in New York
City in September. The winner's film will appear in a commercial during
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast.

The ``I Love New York'' campaign originally helped increase tourism to New York City in the late 1970s.

Yankee Greats, and Not-So-Greats, Celebrate the End of Many Eras

The Yankees invited 72 former players, from Jim Abbott to Dave
Winfield, to the final Old-Timers’ Day at the Stadium. The team
plans to move across the street next season.

The First Sign of Immortality: A-Rod Has a “Yankeeography”

Alex Rodriguez is finally a true Yankee. How do you measure that? By
huge statistics? By postseason success? No. By one measure:
A-Rod’s finally gotten his own “Yankeeography,” which
makes its debut on the YES Network after Wednesday night’s game
against the Rangers.

Last year, when asked why A-Rod lacked the video imprimatur of true
Yankeehood, YES’s response was that a “Yankeeography”
candidate needed three years of pinstriped service. Never mind that
Rodriguez was then in his fourth season as a Yankee; a YES executive
said that, in essence, Rodriguez had blown his chance of a tribute last
year because of his un-A-Rodish 2006.

Apple's Remote app is even better than we thought

A couple weeks ago, I reviewed Apple’s Remote app,
which lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote for your Apple
TV or for iTunes on a Mac or Windows PC—you get a touchscreen
interface for controlling playback that looks nearly identical to the
iPhone’s iPod mode. By letting you quickly and easily browse
through long lists of media—and even search for particular
items—Remote provides a near-perfect solution for my biggest beef
with the Apple TV: excruciatingly-slow list scrolling.

Study: Retail Chains Populate NYC

A new study says the number of national retail chain stores in New York City is growing.

The Center for an Urban Future counted nearly 7,000 national chain stores in the five boroughs.

The non-partisan think tank says that's more than the city had five to 10 years ago.

It says some parts of the city, particularly Manhattan, are ``oversaturated'' by chains.

Dunkin' Donuts topped the study's list with 341 stores. Subway
sandwich shops ranked second with 335 restaurants, followed by
McDonald's, Starbucks, and Duane Reade.

Manhattan has the most chains: 2,352. Manhattan's most popular? Starbucks, with 186 stores.

Critics have complained big retailers are forcing mom-and-pop stores out and stripping neighborhoods of their unique character.