Review: iMovie '08

With the release of iMovie ’08, Apple has redefined its consumer video program’s mission and methodology. With the popularity of broadband Internet access, and particularly the YouTube video sharing Web site, iMovie is now focused on helping people quickly and easily capture, view, organize, and edit movies all in one place, and then readily share them online in a variety of formats. It does this better, faster, and more easily than any other consumer-level application I’m aware of on any platform. Think of iMovie ’08 as iPhoto for video.

However, in repositioning iMovie ’08 so firmly as a consumer product, many of the program’s more advanced features have been lost, making it an inappropriate choice for prosumers and professionals, and upsetting many users of the prior version.

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Man Jumps from Police Stationhouse Window

NEW YORK -- Police were searching Friday for a man who jumped out a third-floor stationhouse window to escape questioning about a deadly shooting.

The 27-year-old man had been handcuffed and the window closed, but he managed somehow to slip out the window onto an adjacent building Thursday afternoon and ran off, police said.

Police dashed out of the 103rd Precinct station in Queens and charged up a fire escape to the roof to look for the man, said witness Stephanie Ortiz, 21. She said she asked an officer what had happened and was told, "You don't want to know. Something really bad.''

Despite a vigorous search, the man was still at large early Friday, police said.

Officers were questioning him about the death of Darnell Angevine, 25, of Amityville, who was fatally shot in the chest during a July 28 dispute on a Queens street.

Cabbies Turning Up Strike Talk Over Technology

Taxi drivers who oppose having global positioning systems in their cabs have set a strike date. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which has more than 8,400 members, will call for drivers to strike on September 5th and 6th if city leaders don't drop plans for a GPS system that the group fears could be used to track drivers' movements.

All 13,000 city cabs will be required by the Taxi and Limousine Commission to install touch-screen and global positioning systems. The commission initially called for the technology while approving a 26 percent fare increase in 2004. Starting on October 1, as taxis come up for inspection, they will be required to have the technology.

The touch-screen monitors will let passengers pay by credit card, check on news stories, map their taxi's current location and look up restaurant and entertainment information.

The Taxi Workers Alliance opposes the GPS system -- saying it is an invasion of drivers' privacy.

Swimmer Circling Manhattan to Help Sick Kids

Dominican world-record swimmer Marcos Diaz, who fought childhood asthma by exercising in the Caribbean waters, faced a new challenge on Saturday: a nonstop, 20-hour swim around Manhattan.

His aim is to raise money for poor Dominican children with cancer, and to start a program for youngsters with asthma.

`I started to swim when I was 6, to improve my lungs and my breathing,'' said Diaz, 32, who plunged into the water Saturday evening, at the point where the Hudson River joins the East River.

New York Yankees Slugger A-Rod Gets Key to City for 500th Homer

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was presented on Thursday with a key to the city in honor of his 500th home run.

A-Rod, who just turned 32, hit the milestone homer against the Kansas City Royals on Aug. 4, becoming the 22nd and youngest player to reach the mark.

He received a key to the city from Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Yankee Stadium before a game against the Detroit Tigers while his teammates and manager, Joe Torre, looked on.

"It will be something I hold dear to me for the rest of my life,'' Rodriguez said.

The Yankees paid tribute to A-Rod on Monday before their game against the Baltimore Orioles, presenting him with home plate, a silver tray with an inscription from team owner George Steinbrenner, two portraits and a sculpture.

Keys to the city are presented to distinguished people for outstanding civic contributions. Last week, the mayor presented a key to New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine in honor of his 300th career win.

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CBS and Imus Settle Differences Over His Firing

The voice of Don Imus could resurface somewhere on the radio dial as soon as this fall, after he and CBS announced yesterday that they had settled the remaining differences surrounding his firing in April over remarks deemed insensitive to women and blacks.


Neither Martin Garbus, the lawyer representing the radio host, nor CBS, which owns WFAN, the AM station that had been the flagship for his morning talk show, would comment on the terms of their agreement, citing a confidentiality clause. Had he not been dismissed, Mr. Imus would have been paid nearly $40 million over the nearly four years that remained on his contract. While some Imus associates suggested yesterday that his final payment was at least $20 million, Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio, characterized that figure as too high.

In fact, it was impossible for an outsider to know for sure yesterday how much CBS had agreed to pay him. It was also unclear yesterday where on the radio Mr. Imus might be heard next. Two people who had been apprised directly of his plans, but who would only speak on condition of anonymity, said he had yet to line up a deal elsewhere. But his agreement with CBS does not, apparently, set any restrictions on how long he must wait before restarting his morning show elsewhere. (It does, however, preclude his making disparaging remarks about Leslie Moonves, the president and chief executive of CBS, and vice versa.)

Poor Rizzuto "The Scootor" ALL OF NY will miss ya'

Yankees legend Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto, a baseball Hall of Famer who became a beloved broadcaster best known for his catch phrase "Holy cow!" died late Monday at the age of 89.
Though a former MVP and a member of seven World Series-winning teams, Rizzuto was remembered most yesterday for his quirky broadcasting style and a heart that seemed too big for his diminutive 5-foot-6 frame.
"Phil was a gem, one of the great people I ever knew," said former teammate Yogi Berra, who played bingo with Rizzuto every week during the shortstop's final months.
"He was a dear friend and a great teammate, and he was a heck of a player, too," Berra said. "When I first came up to the Yankees he was like a big - actually, small - brother to me."

Feds Backing Bloomberg's Traffic Fee Plan

Mayor Bloomberg's plan to charge drivers $8 to drive below 86th Street in Manhattan has taken a big step forward. Washington has agreed to give New York City hundreds of millions of dollars for the congestion pricing plan.

If implemented, the congestion pricing scheme proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be the first of its kind in the nation. London and Singapore have similar toll programs.

For weeks, New York officials haggled over whether to approve the mayor's idea in time to qualify for a share of $1.2 billion in federal aid. State leaders eventually struck a compromise keeping the plan alive, but it was unclear if the squabbles and delays soured federal transportation authorities on New York's novel attempt to reduce gridlock.

Bloomberg's plan would charge cars $8 and trucks $21 to enter Manhattan south of 86th Street on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has been considering which five out of nine cities will receive a major infusion of cash for local traffic reduction plans, and Secretary Mary Peters was scheduled to make an announcement Tuesday morning.

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