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Full Title: New report suggests that the footballs used by the Patriots in 'Deflategate' were not nearly as bad as initially reported A new light has been cast on the use of illegal footballs by the New England Patriots during the AFC Championship game and if true, suddenly Deflategate does not sounds nearly as egregious. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, 11 of the 12 balls used by the Patriots were under the allowed limit of 12.5 Pounds per Square Inch (PSI) of pressure. However, most of the balls were not nearly as deflated as many originally believed....

The newspaper introduced a new subscription-only Web site in March that charged for access to "premium" stories and columns. But its content is reportedly free now. A little more than four months after the San Francisco Chronicle began charging online readers for some content, the newspaper's paywall experiment has reportedly come to an end. The newspaper announced in March that it would place certain "premium" stories and columns behind a paywall, charging readers a $12 monthly subscription fee for access to all the digital content on SFChronicle.com, which is separate from the newspaper's free SFGate.com. News of the paywall's impending...

<p>And on the 116th day, the General Assembly rested. But before that, it made a whopper of a mistake.</p> <p>The error could give employees throughout the state the option of taking Sundays off, whether their employers want them to or not.</p> <p>Here's how it happened.</p>

Adobe pares Mac support David Becker Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 7, 2003, 10:22 AM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1046-1023167.html Adobe Systems announced new versions of its video-editing software Monday, including a Windows-only application that marks another high-profile defection from Apple Computer's Macintosh operating system. Adobe, a specialist in publishing and imaging applications, announced a new version of Premiere, its main application for editing digital video. The new Premiere Pro will work only on PCs running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, ending years of support for the Mac OS. Meanwhile, Adobe is updating After Effects, its software for adding visual effects to video....

<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock bands The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are refusing to make their music available as individual downloads on Apple Computer Inc's iTunes online music store, a representative for the bands, said Wednesday.</p> <p>That move comes in response to Apple's decision to allow users to buy single tracks and is intended to protect the future of the long-playing album, the format that has dominated the music industry for decades, an agent for the bands said.</p>

Poster girl sues makers of videos By James L. Rosica DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER A Florida State University student is saying she unwittingly and unfairly became a girl gone wild. The woman is suing the makers of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, saying they videotaped her without her permission while she was topless on New Orleans' Bourbon Street at last year's Mardi Gras celebration. The student, identified as B.G. to protect her privacy, did not know she was in the videos until friends told her they saw her in a television advertisement, her suit said. Other friends told her they ...

TONY BLAIR was accused of being "infatuated with rich men" yesterday, as opposition to the use of private firms to help run public services gathered momentum. The TGWU, the country's second biggest union, decided at its annual conference to try to enlist the trade union movement to fight what it sees as disguised privatisation. Their anger is directed at the "best value" rules used to award council contracts, which often allow private firms to outbid a council's work force. Best value can mean that council workers with secure jobs and pay suddenly find themselves unemployed, or working for worse pay ...

First, catch your cow Research into the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers shows that our diet of cereals and grain-fed meat is not what we have evolved to eat, writes John Macgregor. A group of scientists, from dozens of disciplines, has lately started to put together a model of the diet "designed" by evolution for the human body. When the dust settles on their investigations, most of today's arguments about human nutrition might have been laid to rest. The new field of "evolutionary diet" is (literally) unearthing the dietary patterns of our paleolithic ancestors. The paleolithic was humanity's final formative ...

Potter boy's contract spells trouble for film Vanessa Thorpe, arts correspondent Sunday February 18, 2001 The Observer The production of Britain's most talked about film - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - is in jeopardy this weekend due to a legal confusion surrounding its young star, Daniel Radcliffe. The career of the 11-year-old, who plays Potter, is in danger of being cut short due to regulations which govern the amount of time children are allowed to work. The bureaucratic obstacle would mark a dismal end to a magical story for Daniel, who was picked from thousands for the starring ...

PHILADELPHIA DA IGNORES VIDEO EVIDENCE Many Suspect Campaign Contributions Influence Prosecutions What is it that organizations and PACs get when they contribute money to political campaigns? In Philadelphia, contributions might buy immunity from prosecution, as well as prosecution of your enemies. At least this seems to be the case when it comes to local Teamsters boss John Morris. On October 2, 1998,protestors and Teamsters mingled outside a fundraiser for President Clinton. After being interviewed by several media outlets, including NPR, Clinton protestor Don Adams was approached by Morris and other Teamsters supporting the President’s visit. Mr. Morris placed his own ...

Previous discussions between Marathon, Uriel1975, and others have explored the conflict between Theists and Materialists over the role of God in the Constitution and our rights. More specifically, the argument has seemed to center around the possibility or impossibility of a free society based around morals not based in or derived from a religious system of values. The objective of my response today is to refocus the debate and show how the determining factor is not only just the presence of God, but also a more complex combination of attitudes on individualism and the basis of moral value. The first ...