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DivX just announced a new Internet TV platform which aggregates and streams many popular online video feeds. DivX TV will be built into Blu-ray players of participating brands, first starting with LG. The application organizes media from a variety of popular websites into channels and genres. Think of it like Pandora for internet television. This encourages content discovery and engages users. There is no charge for the service. Content providers are willing to license out their media because it they will be streaming with the advertisements that are normally packaged with the content. DivX TV is loaded with HD and SD content with feeds from DivX, The White House, Barely Political, Associated Press, Revision 3, Break, CBS News, CnetTV and more. No YouTube as of yet. DivX TV makes a pretty good attempt at becoming an actual media center by offering movies, photos, and music streaming from the device. Photos can also be pulled from Picasa. No word on the video formats that will be supported, but I think it is safe to assume DivX will be supported. The user interface was very clean and easy to use.

DivX TV seems to be a watered down version of Boxee, but it has something Boxee does not have—good ties with hardware developers. Computers are still too tricky for the average computer to hook up to their television and easily use. DivX TV will be great for consumers looking to easily bring internet video content to their televisions. As of now there is no word on whether or not DivX TV will be released to use on our PCs or Macs. Pricing is up to the OEMs, but you can imagine they’ll be similarly priced to any other [non-budget] Blu-ray player. We will see the players packaged with DivX TV at some point this year.

Eco Factor: Sustainable residential development with rooftop gardens.

China-based architecture firm MAD Architects has unveiled the designs of their housing development that is located in the coastal city of Beihai. The development combines two typologies that are common for most residential developments in China, which include high-rise towers and long, low rise blocks.

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DITHERING ministers who failed to act for months on advice about ­preparing for extreme weather contributed to this winter’s road chaos, it was claimed yesterday

And when the bad weather finally hit last month, Government guidance to councils on how much salt they should have in stock – six days’ worth – was woefully inadequate given that the UK is experiencing one of the worst winters in 100 years.

A report for the Government completed in July and published in early August made 19 recommendations on what preparations should be made to ensure Britain’s roads kept moving in the event of a severe winter.

The UK Roads Liaison Group, drawn from national and local government, had been asked to report on the lessons of last winter’s long cold snap which culminated in February in serious problems and saw many salt supplies almost exhausted.

Source: express.co.uk

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Despite the fact that we thought they had become extinct in, oh, 2009, Pleo is, apparently, back for 2010 with a second-gen model, and an outsized version of the current,, extinct model. [Engadget]

OK, we are only talking about at most a $1,500 difference in the prices of the two model year vehicles, but it’s still a start. According to American manufacturer Chrysler, the new Avengers will also get two new additions, the Express and Heat models, both "loaded" with standard features.

The Avenger will start at $19,970 (including $740 destination), a price to be paid for the new entry level model, the Express. The car is powered by a 2.4l World Engine, mated to an au… (read more)

Popular anger against deceit and fraud in company stocks and finances may have temporarily exhausted the possibilities for legal targets, according to Stanford researchers.

A report released by the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse this week announced that shareholders filed fewer securities class action lawsuits in 2009 than in previous years. Last year, 169 federal security class action lawsuits were filed, down 24 percent from the 223 suits filed in 2008.

Federal class action security lawsuits tracked by the Clearinghouse usually involve a group of plaintiffs who claim that a company has fraudulently caused for the inflation of stock prices.

The sharpest decline was in lawsuits against the financial services industry, according to the annual report published by the Law School and Cornerstone Research. The report also found a decrease of 47 percent in lawsuits relating to the credit crisis—from 100 in 2008 to 53 in 2009. Of these 53, only 17 litigations were filed in the second half of the year.

“Every major financial services company has already been sued,” explained Joseph Grundfest, director of the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse. “That pool is fished out.”

Grundfest added that only one class action can be filed for each alleged wrongdoing, and so most of the litigation arising from the financial crisis has already been filed.

The total maximum dollar loss, a measurement of shareholder losses experienced during the class period, fell by 24 percent to $634 billion. The total maximum dollar loss for litigation related to the credit crisis, however, fell by 38 percent to $459 billion.

The report also sheds light on the movement of the financial crisis. The report indicated that the initial phase of the crisis, when many publicly traded firms saw their stock prices decline dramatically, had ended, Grundfest said.

According to John Gould, senior vice president of Cornerstone Research, the decline in litigations coincided with a decrease in market volatility.

“[The decline] really solidified the understanding that the number of filings really move in step with the volatility in the market,” Gould said.

To conduct the research, Stanford Law School collects raw data, such as filings of new litigations, while Cornerstone Research conducts statistical analysis.

One unusual finding this year was a longer delay between the date that the stock dropped and when the case was filed, according to Gould. The report found a median delay of 100 days; historically, the difference is approximately a month.

However, Gould added that most of the delayed filings are attributed to one plaintiff, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins.

The historical average since the Clearinghouse began in 1996 is 197 litigations filed per year, 14 percent higher than this year’s finding. Gould estimates that the number of filings will increase again toward that average, although not in 2010.

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a projector with some sex appeal behind it. Casio’s XJ-A Series is quite the looker by design. It’s pretty slim, too, measuring 43 mm in height. Your green friends can enjoy knowing it’s Merucury-free, and you can take solace in up to 3,000 lumens. Of the seven models in the lineup, two have WXGA and five XGA, and depending on your choice you’ll get USB or WiFi connectivity and a price tag between ¥148,000 and ¥318,000, or $1,5182 and $3,399 if converted to stateside currency. See? Not everything exciting has to come from CES this week.

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You see those SDXC cards on the far right? Yeah, that’s 1TB and 2TB, dear friends, and word has it that Panasonic will let out the 1TB card by the end of this year. When you’ve calmed down, we’ve also got photos of the newly announced Lumix camera galleria to get the party going, notably the new FP and FH series in their various colors. Enjoy the gallery!

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It’s 2010 — time for a new year and a new decade for the Stanford Cardinal. It is safe to say that Stanford has dominated the collegiate athletics landscape for the past 10 years, winning every Director’s Cup (15 in a row total) and 21 NCAA Championships over that period. There is no sign of stopping for the Card heading into the second decade of the 2000s and it starts with 2010. Here are 10 things to watch for on the Farm this year.

Men’s Volleyball

The men’s volleyball team is ranked No. 3 in the preseason, its highest preseason ranking since 2002. Coming off a season in which it won 21 games — its most since 1997 — the Cardinal could be national title contenders. The reason for the optimism lies in the experienced lineup, which returns five starters from last year, including kill-leader Evan Romero, All-American setter Kawika Shoji and the 2009 national Newcomer of the Year, libero Erik Shoji.
Men’s Tennis
After a Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA tournament last year, the men’s tennis team is back this year looking for more. The Cardinal’s top recruiting class joins five returning starters. Alex Clayton, Bradley Klahn, Ryan Thacher and Richard Wire will lead the team, which is ready to return to the Stanford men’s tennis teams of the past. Klahn and Thacher had a decorated fall season in doubles while Clayton was an NCAA singles semifinalist in 2009. This team will be fun to watch in 2010.
Women’s Basketball
A stellar 2009 was only a springboard into 2010, where the women’s basketball team is ranked No. 2, its only loss coming to No. 1 Connecticut. The team looks unstoppable in Pac-10 play this year. Jayne Appel, Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla Pedersen will lead this team deep into the NCAA tournament. You can be sure this team wants a rematch against Connecticut on a neutral court. Don’t be surprised if it happens in the NCAA Finals.
Julia Smit and Elaine Breeden
Two world-class swimmers will be swimming their final seasons on the Farm after what will be historic swimming careers. Smit just broke two world records a month ago and both she and Breeden have Olympic hardware from Beijing in 2008. They will be the ones to watch in the pool this year for Stanford and across the nation. The two are both 19-time All-Americans, Smit with three individual NCAA titles and Breeden two. Needless to say, expect big things out of them in 2010, both at Stanford and beyond.
2010-11 Men’s Basketball
While this season is not over and anything can happen in this year’s Pac-10 (example: Wednesday’s win over USC), fans should be excited for the new crop of talent coming in for Dawkins’s third year. Dawkins’s best recruiting class — currently ranked 13th in the nation by Scout.com — enters Stanford next season to join this year’s relatively young team. After a two-year lull in Stanford basketball, next year could begin a rise back up to where the program has been in the past.
2010 Football
The biggest thing to look forward to from the football team next season is the way it responds after an 8-5 season in 2009. In all likelihood, Stanford will lose Toby Gerhart and backs Stepfan Taylor and Tyler Gaffney will have big shoes to fill. But the defense should be better and Andrew Luck should excel after a year of experience. A schedule with some key home games will be huge and the Cardinal will have the confidence of this year’s winning season in them. A big question mark is how the new coaches will adjust. Stanford will have a few new assistant coaches on the sidelines next season; hopefully the players will take to them nicely.
Chris Derrick

Stanford’s All-American distance runner will hit the track this spring and the cross-country course next fall to continue his already decorated career. The sophomore is already a five-time All-American and was the 2009 Pac-10 Runner of the Year in cross country. A third-place finish at the NCAA Championships in cross country this past fall followed a freshman track campaign where he finished third in the 5,000 meters in the outdoor NCAA finals. He will be looking to add to his success with a first-place trophy in track this season, as well as cross country next fall as he gets older and stronger and his competitors graduate. The guy is just really good.

Teagan Gerhart
The younger sister of Toby Gerhart takes to the Stanford softball field along with her sister, Kelsey. Teagan, a pitcher, will challenge for the starting spot as a freshman. She had a 30-2 record with a .35 ERA in high school. Perhaps the Gerhart magic will carry over from the football field to the softball field this spring.

The Director’s Cup
It’s the beginning of the winter season and we are already winning. It might be over already. Sweet 16.

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Goop Goddess Gwyneth Paltrow has plenty of pals urging her to stay in her supposedly strained marriage to Coldplay rocker Chris Martin — but Madonna isn’t one of them!

The Material Girl has reportedly suggested her Oscar-winning bestie send Martin packing following months of rumored strife between the couple. Madge — who separated from ex-hubby Guy Ritchie last year — is certain that with proper guidance, Gwyn can follow in her footsteps and obtain “the perfect divorce, with no squabbling and sharing the children equally.”

A snitch blabs in the Jan. 18 issue of GLOBE’s Loosch Lips Column: “Whenever Gwyneth complains about problems with Chris, Madonna’s solution is she should leave him….Madonna has never liked Chris because he refuses to kiss her butt. The few times they’ve hung out together, their egos clashed big time.”

Stanford’s swimming and diving team hopes its individual successes lead to team success as it gets into the meat of its schedule. Senior swimmer Julia Smit set two world records in England earlier this school year. The team has done well too, winning its first three meets of the season. (AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily)

The team’s main headline of the season did not come in a Stanford meet, however. Senior Julia Smit set two new world records at the Duel in the Pool in Manchester, England over winter break. While competing for Team USA, Smit posted world-record times of 2:04.60 in the 200-meter individual medley and 4:21.04 in the 400-meter individual medley. She is also the defending NCAA champion in both events.

In Stanford’s first meet on Oct. 2 against San Jose State, Smit dominated the competition and headlined a 183-103 win for the Cardinal. She took three events — the 100-yard breaststroke, the 100-yard freestyle and the 1,000-yard freestyle — to propel Stanford to victory. Junior co-captain Kate Dwelley and senior co-captain Elaine Breeden also contributed significantly.

On Nov. 7, the Card made an even more emphatic statement at a tri-meet in Gainesville, Fla. Stanford soundly defeated two of the nation’s strongest programs, Michigan and Florida, by scores of 307-122 and 231-198 respectively. Smit and sophomore Betsy Webb led the Cardinal victories. Smit won four individual races and led two Cardinal relay teams to victory, while Webb added victories in three freestyle races.

Looking forward, the Cardinal’s ultimate goal for this season is to improve on last year’s finish in the NCAA Finals, where the team narrowly beat out Texas to bring the fourth-place trophy back to The Farm.

“We were able to maximize our potential,” said head coach Lea Maurer. “I thought we had a strong team effort and we were happy with fourth.”

Breeden was also optimistic about this year’s prospects.

“We have a really good shot at improving our standings from last year. With hard work, I think we can do really well,” she said.

Maurer also emphasized that the team’s main strength is not in the individual swimmers, but in their ability to work together dynamically.

“We have many different leaders and draw strengths from a variety of different groups,” she said.

“We’ve really come together as a team, and we continue to strive toward our goals,” Dwelley added. “In every race, we race for the team and each other.”

Maurer also emphasized that the team needs to work on its depth. Last season, 10 Stanford swimmers and two divers were able to qualify for the NCAA Finals, well short of the 18 athletes a school is permitted to send to the meet. “We need to send more people to the NCAAs and score at the NCAAs,” she added.

While the team is returning many top performers from last year, it also has a very strong recruiting class of new freshmen. The new swimmers have made numerous contributions this year, especially on relay squads.

“They’ve integrated really well into the team,” Dwelley said. “They provide us with a lot of extra competition, and bring great personality and a great dynamic to the team.”

Despite the team’s hot start, Maurer is focused on keeping the team fit and disciplined.

“What we’ve done at this point is relentless confidence and relentless fitness. We want to be really fit and mentally tough,” she said.

Another challenge put to the Cardinal is the new restrictions on high-tech swimming gear. Many critics claimed that the suits gave an unfair advantage to schools, like Stanford, that had deals with the right manufacturer.

“I’d like to [achieve my] best times, but that’s going to be tough,” Breeden said. “I hope to set new personal records despite the restrictions.”

The team’s next meet is at the Avery Aquatics Center on Saturday against Pacific at 1 p.m.

“[The swimmers are] tired, we just came back from holiday training,” Maurer said. “This will be a mental toughness and details test, to see if we can make good choices when we’re tired and not letting mistakes appear.”

According to Dwelley, the team is pretty broken down physically, but will still look to win this weekend.

“I’m not expecting super fast times. We’re going to work on race strategies and teamwork,” she said.

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As another day goes by, it’s another comment from Nico Rosberg that suggests an interesting duel between him and future teammate Michael Schumacher in the 2010 Formula One Championship. The fear of being relegated to No 2 status within the Mercedes organization made young Rosberg launch some slight attacks at the 7-time world champion.

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Stanford fans grumbled (read: yelled) about Mark Ingram beating out Toby Gerhart for the Heisman Trophy. But Thursday’s Freshman All-American team announcement should prompt even greater fury — the Football Writers Association of America chose Tom Savage of Rutgers over Andrew Luck for the lone quarterback spot.

Now let me be clear: in the grand scheme of things, this doesn’t really matter. There are a number of Freshman All-American teams. Luck made the first team for the Sporting News, College Football News and Rivals. But the FWAA is a fairly prestigious organization — it gives out the Nagurski and Outland trophies — and holds an appropriate level of clout, which is what makes their (awful) selection so weird.

It’s not just about Luck — although it helps to have a Stanford bent. Savage was no better than the fourth-best freshman quarterback in the country and was not even tops in his own conference.

(It’s worth mentioning that I happen to like Tom Savage quite a bit. Rutgers is as close to a local team as New York gets and while I’m not a fan, they’re fun to watch. He has a wicked arm and is fairly mature for a true freshman. With due respect to Mike Teel, he’s the best Rutgers QB I’ve seen. But he still doesn’t deserve this honor. I’ve digressed.)

Who was the best? It shakes out fairly well. Luck was the clear No. 1, with Oklahoma’s Landry Jones and South Florida’s B.J. Daniels below him. Savage enters the conversation here, along with Michigan’s Tate Forcier and USC’s Matt Barkley, although he tops both.

Before getting to Savage, Jones, Luck and Daniels, let’s key in on one statistic: yards per attempt (YPA). It’s an efficiency rating that is perhaps the most important for quarterbacks. The name is self-explanatory — in order to maintain a high number, you have to a) complete a good percentage of passes for b) a nice amount of yards. One of the main qualms with Colt McCoy’s Heisman campaign, for example, was that while he hit on 70 percent of his passes, they did not go for a tremendous amount of yards — his 41st ranking in YPA indicates a tendency to dump the ball off more than other quarterbacks.

As for our freshmen, Luck was sixth in the nation with 8.9 YPA; Daniels was eighth at 8.7. Sandwiched between them was Jimmy Clausen. Savage was 35th, just ahead of Aaron Opelt of Toledo. Jones, in the weakest part of his candidacy, was 63rd.

But let’s not look at just one statistic. Savage threw for fewer yards with a worse completion percentage than both Luck and Jones. Luck threw for one less touchdown than Savage, but he also tossed just four interceptions, whereas Savage threw seven. Meanwhile, Jones had 26 scores through the air. Luck added 354 yards rushing; Savage and Jones both had worse than negative 100 yards on the ground. Daniels ran for 772 yards and compiled 23 total scores. Savage had the lowest passer rating of the four; Luck had the highest.

Put it this way: of the major statistics, Savage topped Luck in exactly one: touchdowns. He had 14, Luck had 13. When rushing scores are factored in, they had the same amount. Otherwise, Luck tops him across the board. Nearly the same holds true for Luck and Daniels, except that Daniels has more total touchdowns.

Speaking of USF’s dual threat, outside of yards per attempt, where Daniels is far and away better than Savage, the two have fairly similar passing statistics. But Daniels rushed for nearly 900 yards and eight touchdowns more than Savage — he was multidimensional, while Savage was most certainly not.

As for Jones, he tops Savage in yards, touchdowns, completion percentage and passer rating. Savage betters him in interceptions and YPA. But Jones, unlike Savage, was not supposed to play this year and, due to injuries, had to adapt on the fly for a team that had national championship aspirations. Jones gets the nod.

The only possible explanation is that Savage had a pretty good bowl performance while Luck sat out, so a “what have you done for me lately” factor set in. But that doesn’t fly for the other candidates: Jones was excellent against Stanford and Daniels had a very nice game in the International Bowl.

While this may fall under the “pick your battles” category, I’ve long contended that for people who ostensibly watch a lot of games, sportswriters can make mind-numbingly bad decisions when it comes to awards seasons (see: American League MVP, 2006). Even the reporting on awards can be bad: the local New Jersey paper said that Savage was a surprise because Barkley was in the race; meanwhile, Barkley would have a tough time placing among the top five freshmen quarterbacks. These rampant displays of sheer ignorance only enhance my beliefs and subsequent disillusionment.

Wyndam Makowsky has nothing better to do than explore freshman statistics now that the Giants missed the playoffs. Give him something better to do at makowsky “at” stanford.edu.

The evening of April 17, 2009 was one heck of a night. The fans at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis, Minn. were sitting on the edge of their seats, wondering if top-seeded Stanford would finally edge bitter rival University of Oklahoma for the 2009 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championship title.

It was a night similar to that of April 18, 2008, when Oklahoma pushed past Stanford by less than half a point to capture the 2008 Championship. That championship, hosted by Stanford in front of its home crowd at Maples Pavilion, was supposed to belong to Stanford. That championship, like the 2009 championship, came down to the very last man on his very last routine of the night.

That championship did something to Stanford. After what can only be described as a devastating, mind-numbing, tear-out-your-heart loss, the men of the Stanford men’s gymnastics team did the only thing they could do. They went back to the gym. They went back to the floor that haunted them and the horse that taunted them. They went back to their tangled rings and their slippery bars and promised themselves that a new day would come.

And when that day came — when the very last man on his very last routine of the night on April 17, 2009 stuck his dismount — it was Stanford that came out on top.

“It was unbelievably energizing,” said redshirt junior Nick Noone. “I sat down after my last routine and saw all of my teammates channeling every ounce of positive energy they had into the guys still to go. Suddenly, what’s usually seen as an individual sport had turned into a team sport.”

And on April 16, 2010, Stanford is poised to do it again. With five new recruits and a dozen former national champions on the team, Stanford has the talent, the experience, the freshness and the depth to capture yet another national title.

On one hand, there is Ben Rudolph, the wide-eyed freshman recruit from Chicago. The son of a former men’s collegiate gymnastics star, Rudolph spent his junior and senior years of high school anticipating his turn with Stanford men’s gymnastics. After flying from his windy hometown to sunny Palo Alto for the 2008 NCAA Championship and purchasing a ticket to Minneapolis for the 2009 Championship, Rudolph’s dream finally came true. But so far, his time at Stanford hasn’t been easy. He confesses that it has been a tough adjustment: the training is harder, the competitors are stronger and the expectations are out of this world. None of that, though, deters Rudolph from his ultimate goal. “I’m just so ready to compete,” he said.

On the other hand, there is Abhinav Ramani, current junior and co-captain. Once a boy who was so self-reportedly miserable at baseball that his mother all but forced him into gymnastics at a friend’s suggestion, Ramani is a gymnastics natural who has unfortunately spent more time in rehabilitation than in competition at Stanford. After breaking his wrist early in his collegiate career, Ramani has been frustratingly sidelined by three similar injuries that have kept him in therapy and forced him to relearn the tricks that give his routines their competitive edge.

That’s not to say Ramani hasn’t enjoyed his time with Stanford men’s gymnastics. While not part of the line-up at last years NCAA Championship, Ramani still found himself on the floor helping chalk up equipment and keeping the team’s energy high. That motivating presence was exactly what led his fellow gymnasts to name him one of their captains. In his new role, Ramani is excited to see how the new team faces the season’s upcoming challenges.

“With five new guys, we bring a less experienced team to the table,” Ramani said. “But that doesn’t make us any weaker.” With no broken wrist to mend this time around, Ramani is ready to lead his team to a consecutive championship title.