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Witnesses tell police the nude man punched out the glass door of the bus, climbed on board and took control of the wheel.

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Las Vegas police have arrested a man, who allegedly carjacked a bus driver while naked.

Witnesses tell police the nude man punched out the glass door of the bus, climbed on board and took control of the wheel.

The driver of the bus suffered a cut to his face, but managed to jump off the bus. There were no passengers aboard the handicapped CAT bus at the time of the incident.

Police arrested Charles Sell minutes later. They say he appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

Sell was booked for Grand Larceny Auto and Robbery.

The victim, 57, was treated for non-life threatening injuries to his leg and neck at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

(UPI) – A woman said it was her puppy’s fault she swerved her car and struck a Seattle law enforcement officer, sending him to the hospital.

Hilary Dutton said she was driving her new Dodge sedan Tuesday when her
4-month-old pit bull, Cockie, stepped on the wheel and made it jerk, causing her to run into a police officer.

Officials said the officer was flagging at a construction zone when the incident took place, the Seattle Post Intelligencer reported Tuesday.

The victim, 57, was treated for non-life threatening injuries to his leg and neck at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, a hospital spokeswoman said.

“I felt really bad. I’ve never hit anybody before,” Dutton told the newspaper.

The Post-Intelligencer did not say whether charges may be filed.

Director Francis Lawrence has confirmed he is working on a follow-up to the hit 2007 film.

Will Smith is to revive his role in futuristic action movie I Am Legend for a prequel.

Director Francis Lawrence has confirmed he is working on a follow-up to the hit 2007 film and Smith’s character Dr. Robert Neville will return to complete the beginning of the story.

Lawrence says, “Absolutely (there will be a prequel), we’re actually trying to crack that. We’re trying to figure out some ideas for it, but yes, it would be a prequel.”

And the moviemaker insists that filming the follow-up will be much easier than working on the original, because the crew will not have to
shut off large areas of New York City again – a move that sparked chaos among commuters and city workers.

He adds, “The first time you go out there and shut down 6th Avenue, it’s like, ‘How are we going to do this day after day after day?’ But by the end, it’s just like you know how to do it.

“You got the PAs (personal assistants) who know how to shut it down, how to let the traffic through in between set-ups and you just sort of get the routine down, so that’s not the issue.”

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Chaos breaks out on the set of “Judge Judy” as a magnitude 5.4 earthquake hits the Los Angeles area.
Plus, see video of the “Big Brother” House and Judge Penny’s “Family Court” getting rocked!

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Quake interrupts TV taping

An earthquake near Los Angeles interrupts a taping of “Family Court” with Judge Penny.”  Check out the video below.

Big Brother’s House Rocked by Earthquake
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The Big Brother house was rattled with the rest of California on Tuesday morning as the earthquake hit.  Check out the video below.

Cosmosgal Gets Rocked by Earthquake
Heather, the Cosmosgal, shoots her daily horoscope video and reacts to the LA 5.4 earthquake!   Check out the video below.

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Because of the Wii and its popular games, Nintendo stays on top in Q1.

TOKYO (AP) – Nintendo Co.’s profit for the fiscal first quarter surged 34 percent as sales of its hit Wii console shot up, underlining the success of the video game unit in attracting novice players.

The Japanese manufacturer of Super Mario and Pokemon video games reported Wednesday a profit of 107.27 billion yen ($996 million) from April through June, up from 80.25 billion yen in the same period last year.

The big factor behind the stellar performance was the Wii and its game software, including the “Wii Fit,” which has drawn the health-conscious to doing simple exercises like yoga and aerobics with a video game.

Nintendo sold 5.2 million Wii machines worldwide during the quarter – 1.7 million than for the same period last year. It also sold 3.4 million “Wii Fit” games and 6.4 million “Mario Kart Wii” games.

Quarterly sales surged 24 percent to 423.38 billion yen ($3.9 billion), according to Kyoto-based Nintendo.

Nintendo has now sold a cumulative 29.6 million Wii machines worldwide since its arrival in late 2006.

The Wii, with its trademark wand-like remote controller, has scored success against the PlayStation 3 from Japanese rival Sony Corp., which went on sale about the same time, as well as against the Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp.

At the latest count, worldwide PS3 sales lagged at fewer than half of the Wii at 14.4 million. More than 19 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold so far worldwide, according to Microsoft.

On Tuesday, Sony said its April-June profit plunged to 34.98 billion yen ($326.9 million) – about half that recorded a year ago – as a strong yen, the absence of “Spider-Man 3″ revenue and faltering cell phone operations battered earnings.

Nintendo shrugged off an estimated 26.3 billion yen ($246 million) erosion in its quarterly sales from a strengthening yen, which gained about 15 percent against the dollar from last year. Solid Wii sales were enough to offset the losses from an unfavorable exchange rate, Nintendo said.

Nintendo is planning to sell 25 million Wii consoles and 28 million of its handheld DS machines for the fiscal year through March 2009. More broadly, it says it wants to make its products a “must-have” for every individual, not just every home.

Unlike old-style games that require players to push a complex combination of buttons, Wii comes with an easy-to-use remote to swing around like a tennis racket or fishing pole. The machine has proven appealing to relative newcomers to gaming, including the elderly and women.

Less robust were sales of the Nintendo DS handheld machines, especially in Japan, the company said.

DS sales for the quarter dipped by 40,000 to 6.94 million machines. Worldwide DS sales now total 77.54 million, according to Nintendo.

Nintendo kept its profit forecast for the fiscal year through March 2009 at 325 billion yen ($3 billion), up 26 percent from the record profit racked up the previous financial year. Its sales outlook was steady at 1.8 trillion yen ($16.8 billion) sales, up 7.6 percent from the previous year.

Nintendo shares gained 3.6 percent to 57,600 yen ($538) in Tokyo before the earnings were announced.

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Google Knol, Mountain View’s answer to Wikipedia, launched last week and, while it can’t yet match the volume of articles on Wikipedia, its focus on accountability and ownership makes it a better choice for students and teachers.

Consider the article on asthma by John Fahy. According to the knol (a knol, according to Google, by the way, is a unit of knowledge), John Fahy is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Google notes that this has been verified and a quick search for Fahy turns up his biographical site at UCSF. Try getting that information at Wikipedia about one of the authors.

I’ve always been a fan of Wikipedia. The amount of information available on the site is extraordinary, free, and usually a fairly accurate starting point for research or quick answers to questions. However, it has no accountability other than a community that can edit and comment on an article. Knol, on the other hand, removes contributors anonymity and gives students the ability to verify sources of information.

Will it be able to grow as quickly as Wikipedia? Probably not; plenty of people with subject matter knowledge simply aren’t willing to put their names and faces on the web. Is it an inherently more reliable tool that can improve students’ research capabilities? I think it is. It will be interesting to see how this competition shakes out over the next school year.

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Image of new search engine: Cuil

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”) is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.

“CNET reports that Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’), a startup founded by the husband-and-wife team of Xift creator Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, is launching a new search engine today that claims to index three times as many Web pages as Google.”

The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request.

“Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,” Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

Danny Sullivan, a Web search analyst and editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, said Cuil can try to exploit complaints consumers may have with Google — namely, that it tries to do too much, that its results favor already popular sites, and that it leans heavily on certain authoritative sites such as Wikipedia.

“The time may be right for a challenger,” Sullivan says, but adds quickly: “Competing with Google is still a very daunting task, as Microsoft will tell you.”

Microsoft Corp, the No. 3 U.S. player in Web search has been seeking in vain, so far, to join forces with No. 2 Yahoo Inc to battle Google.

Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM’s Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google Inc’s massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages. Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia’s Brambles Ltd.

The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Previously, Monier led the redesign of ecommerce leader eBay Inc’s search engine and was the founding chief technology officer of two 1990s Web milestones, AltaVista and BabelFish, the first language translation site.

“They do have the talent that is used to building large, industrial-strength search engines,” Sullivan says of Cuil.

Cuil clusters the results of each Web search performed on the service into groups of related Web pages. It sorts these by categories and offers various organizing features to help identify topics and allow the user to quickly refine searches.

User privacy is another appeal of its approach, Cuil says. Because the service focuses on the content of the pages rather than click history, the company has no need to store users’ personal information or their search histories, it says.

“We are all about pattern analysis,” Patterson says. “We go over the corpus (Web pages) 12 times before we even index it.”

DOES SIZE MATTER, ONCE AGAIN?

Cuil has indexed a whopping 120 billion Web pages, three times more than what they say Google now indexes, Patterson said, adding the company has spent just $5 million,

Google itself preemptively responded to Cuil’s arrival with a blog post on Friday boasting of the growing scale of its own Web search operations.

Sullivan said he puts no stock in either company’s boasts about the size of their indexes, since it has only an indirect effect on the ultimate success Web surfers have in searching. And Cuil’s privacy virtues are exaggerated, he adds.

Founded in late 2006, the Menlo Park, California-based Cuil has raised $33 million in two separate rounds: The first, for $8 million from Greylock and Tugboat Ventures, and the second for $25 million by Madrone Capital Partners.

Initially, Cuil is optimized for American English. Later this year, the company plans to enable Cuil users to perform searches in major European languages, Patterson said. Eventually, Cuil plans to make money by running ads alongside search results, she said, but provided no further details.

Cuil is one of a number of start-ups that are looking to introduce new technology that can change the competitive dynamics of the Web search market that Google dominates.

Earlier in July, Microsoft bought Powerset, a San Francisco-based search start-up that enables consumers to use semantic techniques — conversational phrasing instead of keywords — to search the Web.

(Editing by Lincoln Feast)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Hong Kong children have been sentenced to more than three years for the armed hold-up of a jewellery shop, a newspaper said on Thursday, with the court saying the stiff sentence was in the public interest.

Disguised with masks and caps, the two boys and one girl, all aged 14, threatened staff at the shop with knives in September last year, grabbing gold necklaces, bracelets and pendants valued at more than HK$1 million ($128,200).

Sentencing the three, now aged 15, the judge said the offence was too serious to warrant a training centre term despite the age of the three, the South China Morning Post said.

One boy, an apprentice to the mastermind goldsmith who had earlier been jailed for seven years, was sentenced to three years and seven months, while the other two, who are cousins, were jailed for three years and five months.

Earlier this week, a court heard that a nine-year-old Hong Kong girl traveled alone into mainland China to collect heroin and bring it back in her rucksack for a drug trafficker who paid her HK$1,200.

(Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by David Fox)

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