“Wounded CBS reporter flown to Germany - Charleston Gazette” plus 4 more |
- Wounded CBS reporter flown to Germany - Charleston Gazette
- 2 injured in wreck - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
- Montgomerie withdraws from European Masters - ESPN.com
- Planetary guide looks past 100m milestone - Financial Times
- Bridge work to close section of Route 115 in the Town of Poughkeepsie - Poughkeepsie Journal
| Wounded CBS reporter flown to Germany - Charleston Gazette Posted: 30 Aug 2009 07:48 AM PDT
FRANKFURT (AP) - A CBS Radio News correspondent wounded in eastern Afghanistan was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday for additional medical treatment, the military and her employer said. Cami McCormick was wounded Friday when the Army vehicle she was in struck a roadside bomb in Logar province. CBS said she was in stable condition after receiving treatment at a U.S. Army field hospital and the main health facility at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. CBS said McCormick was flown to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, which receives wounded from Afghanistan and Iraq. Landstuhl spokeswoman Marie Shaw confirmed that McCormick had arrived at the hospital but gave no details on her condition, citing patient privacy. McCormick is an award-winning New York-based correspondent who has worked for CBS since 1998. The Afghan Taliban's increasing use of roadside bombs has raised the risk to Western troops and to journalists traveling with them. Two Associated Press journalists were wounded this month near Spin Boldak in southern Afghanistan. Journalists have sometimes been brought to Landstuhl for treatment in the past. Among them was CBS News journalist Kimberly Dozier, who was injured in 2006 when a Baghdad car bomb exploded, killing two of her colleagues and a U.S. Army captain.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 2 injured in wreck - Jefferson City News Tribune Online Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:07 AM PDT |
| Montgomerie withdraws from European Masters - ESPN.com Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:21 AM PDT GLENEAGLES, Scotland -- European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie withdrew from this week's European Masters in Crans-sur-Sierre, where qualifying begins for next year's European team. He cited fatigue in making the announcement Sunday after a closing-round 71 left him tied for 31st place at the Johnnie Walker Championship in Scotland. He says traveling to the United States for the PGA Championship and to the Netherlands for last week's Dutch Open resulted in him needing "a week to recharge my batteries." Montgomerie says he'll watch on television as the race for Ryder points kicks off. He wished "everyone attempting to earn a place in my team for Celtic Manor next year the very best of luck."
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| Planetary guide looks past 100m milestone - Financial Times Posted: 30 Aug 2009 08:46 AM PDT At some point in September, Lonely Planet will sell its 100-millionth travel guide book, marking a milestone in a round-the-world journey that began 36 years ago with Tony and Maureen Wheeler's honeymoon trip from the UK to Australia. Last year, however, travel book sales fell 18 per cent in the US, UK and Australia as economic turmoil left would-be backpackers more anxious to find work than to find themselves in Bali, Bolivia or Burkina Faso. Under new ownership after the BBC's commercial arm controversially bought a majority stake in 2007, a business that started with a typewriter on a kitchen table is trying to redefine itself for the digital age. "Our vision is to shift from the 100m books we've printed to 100m shared stories," says Matt Goldberg, a former Dow Jones digital executive who became Lonely Planet's chief executive in March. "We've expanded our aperture [to become] a platform for travel media and services around the world," he says. But to claim even a small piece of this $86bn market will require three changes. The first is to expand Lonely Planet's audience from young adventurers, who account for about a fifth of all travellers, to the 60 per cent who have "grown up, had kids but not changed their mindset". Next, Mr Goldberg says, the company is refreshing its core book and magazine businesses. He will not give details but says a priority is to integrate them more closely with timely digital content. Finally, the group is pursuing growth areas including television in the US, where its penetration is low, and digital revenues, which Mr Goldberg expects to expand from 20 per cent of the total to 35 per cent by 2014. It is 13 years since Lonely Planet launched Thorntree, an online community for swapping travel tips. A BBC Worldwide digital team recently relaunched Lonelyplanet.com to include external blogs and applications from other developers, driving a 20 per cent year-on-year increase in visitors. Its next focus is on mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone, for which it has sold more than 500,000 downloads of city guides and phrasebooks that speak translation outloud, at $9.99 apiece. For all that, Mr Goldberg says: "I'm a believer in the book. It's mobile, it's lightweight and the battery never runs out. "We're not yet at the point where you can land in any city in the world and your mobile device will connect seamlessly and inexpensively to any network." Print publishers are often compared with makers of horse-drawn buggies in Henry Ford's day. But, as Mr Goldberg says: "The horse and buggy providers who figured out they were in the transportation business did a lot better than those who thought they were in the horse and buggy business. What is important is a shift in self-perception."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bridge work to close section of Route 115 in the Town of Poughkeepsie - Poughkeepsie Journal Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:43 AM PDT A portion of Route 115 in the Town of Poughkeepsie will be closed Monday to allow for bridge repair work, according to the state Department of Transportation. The section of Route 115 where the work site is located will be closed until Sept. 18. The work is being done to repair a bridge that carries the Dutchess Rail Trail over Route 115. Detour signs will reroute traffic around the site. Motorists are advised to use caution when traveling through the work area and pay particular attention to all traffic control devices, including work zone signs and flaggers. Motorists are reminded that fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone. In accordance with the Work Zone Safety Act of 2005, convictions of two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in the suspension of the drivers license.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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