Big Brother winner segment rates second

The Big Brother Celebration was the most watched TV program on Wednesday with 1.474 million viewers. Source: AAP

A MARATHON episode of Big Brother threw up an odd result for the Nine Network with the winner's announcement finishing second in the ratings.

Oddly, more people watched the Celebration segment of Big Brother than Tim Dormer being named the 2013 series winner, according to OzTAM's overnight ratings.

TV Networks break down the finale of shows into segments for ratings purposes and usually the winner's announcement is the summit on the night.

However, the Big Brother Celebration was the number one show on Wednesday with 1.474 million viewers while the climatic end to the three-month series was second with 1.398 million.

Nine telecast Big Brother live in all states and it ran for three hours, about 30 minutes overtime, ending about 10.30pm (AEDT).

It was hard to determine which part of the telecast was the celebration because once Tim emerged from the house, he answered a couple of questions before the telecast ended.

A Nine spokeswoman told AAP the winner announcement was when second place-getter Jade left the house.

The Celebration came soon after and included Tim being on his own for several minutes to contemplate the win before he arrived on stage just minutes before the telecast ended.

Dormer made headlines late last year when he streaked during Rihanna's promotional tour flight and after surviving 101 days in the Big Brother house people are talking about him again.

The Big Brother Grand Final was fourth on Wednesday with 1.131 million viewers and behind Nine News (1.149 million).

By running overtime, Big Brother inflated the ratings of Nine's US drama Hostages which finished 10th with 720,000 viewers.

The big surprise of the night was the poor performance of Chris Lilley's latest comedy Ja'mie: Private School Girl which launched on ABC1 on October 24 with 924,000.

Episode three on Wednesday attracted 592,000 to be 17th overall and fewer viewers than Nine's late afternoon quiz show Hot Seat (598,000) which was 16th.

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Two for the Road: Second Coffin Found With Richard III

So much for the royal treatment.

Archaeologists digging up the same parking lot in Leicester, England, that last year yielded the remains of King Richard III have discovered a second, far more elaborate grave.

This one appears to have been buried more than a century before Richard, who lost his crown—and his life—at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. (See "King Richard III Bones Found, Scientists Say.")

Who the occupant of this grave might be is a mystery. But whoever he was, he mattered. While a crude hole in the ground was deemed good enough for the mortal remains of King Richard III, the person whose grave was uncovered this week was buried in splendor. His body was sealed in a leaden coffin, which was decorated with a cross, placed inside a limestone sarcophagus, and interred in a prominent part of the medieval abbey that once stood on the site.

"[He] had to have been someone of fairly high status to have merited a burial like this," said Richard Buckley, director of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services, which has overseen the excavation.

The style of burial—a carefully soldered coffin enclosed within a sarcophagus—was fairly rare in medieval England, and would have been costly at the time. Buckley says a coffin made of lead sheeting might have been used to transport a prominent person with Leicester connections who had died hundreds of miles away.

History Under the Pavement

The parking lot where the dig is unfolding covers the site of what was once Grey Friars Abbey, a medieval monastery founded by the Franciscans in the 13th century and torn down by Henry VIII in 1538. The Franciscan monks at Grey Friars, in their distinctive gray habits, had the moral courage to take in the body of the fallen Plantagenet king and give it a Christian burial when others were content to leave it where it lay.

Henry VII, who defeated Richard to take the English crown, is said to have had a monument built at the abbey for his former foe. But that monument was demolished along with the monastery itself. And over the centuries the area—including the gravesite and the precise location of the monastery—was forgotten.

A combination of local legends and painstaking research led archaeologists to the council parking lot opposite Leicester Cathedral. Last summer an excavation there revealed not only King Richard's remains but also the ruins of the monastery.

"With this summer's excavation we had hoped to learn more about the layout and design of Grey Friars," said Buckley. The discovery of the mysterious sarcophagus and sealed lead coffin was an unexpected bonus.

Looking for Clues

A trawl through the old abbey's burial records suggests three potential candidates for the mystery grave's occupant: Peter Swynsfield, one of the friary's founders, who died in 1272; William of Nottingham, another head of Grey Friars, who died in 1330; or William de Mouton, a medieval knight and sometime mayor of Leicester, who died in the late 1350s.

"But these are just names of significant people whom we know from the records were buried at the abbey," said Buckley, who rates the new discovery as exciting as finding the remains of Richard III. "The grave could just as easily contain someone for whom the burial records have been lost. At the moment we just can't say."

But there are hopes of finding out much more.

A similar lead coffin, found in 1981 in the Cumbrian town of St. Bees, contained the astonishingly well-preserved remains of a knight subsequently identified as Antony de Lucy, who died in 1368. As with that coffin, the sealing on the lead coffin in Leicester is largely intact, save for a hole near the foot where centuries of slowly dripping water eroded the lead sheeting.

"We can see feet bones inside," said Buckley. "If there are more organic remains or clothing preserved inside, we could get some very interesting clues. If, say, we find the remains of a gray monastic cloak inside, we could be pretty sure it was one of the friars."

Scientists and forensic archaeologists will probe the coffin this winter, when they insert an endoscope through the hole to examine the remains-and perhaps add a new name, and another story, to the rapidly unfolding tale of Leicester and its long-lost abbey.

"The excavation is really changing the way we are seeing Leicester now," says the Very Reverend David Monteith, the dean of Leicester Cathedral, who is organizing next year's memorial service and re-interment of King Richard III.

"You tend to think of Leicester [as] either an ancient Roman town or a city in the Industrial Revolution. This is reminding us all of the rich fabric of medieval history that lies just below the surface."

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Google's Motorola issues second appeal of dismissed ITC case against Apple

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Google's Motorola issues second appeal of dismissed ITC case against AppleBy Mikey Campbell

Motorola has given notice to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that it will be contesting the International Trade Commission's dismissal of a case against Apple, the second time the now Google-owned company has filed an appeal tied to that investigation.


The appeals notice, uncovered by FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller after recently being made public, is in regard to an ITC decision to throw out a case against Apple after finding six Motorola patents-in-suit invalid.

In its dismissal, which was filed a month ago, the trade body found Motorola's last standing patent, a property for an infrared proximity sensor, invalid. The company was asserting U.S. Patent No. 6,246,862 for a "sensor controlled user interface for portable communication device," which covers a system that ignores errant screen touches during a phone call.

As noted by Mueller, Google's latest appeal is the second such action for the ITC investigation. The first came in November 2012, which questioned a decision that cleared Apple of infringing on three patents. The contention from Google resulted in a review of the findings, and that appeal has yet to be resolved.

Mueller pointed out that Apple may want to combine the two appeals, thus saving court resources, but the tactic is likely to fail due to the long span between Google's filings.

Motorola's Second Appeal of ITC Dismissal by Mikey Campbell

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Clearly, holding a phone against the side of your face was a new and unique idea that had never been thought of prior to this patent...

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Though I'm not really sure why Apple would want to combine Motogoogle's appeals.

frood2013/05/24 08:23pm

Hooray!?? Seeing?more or less trivial patents invalidated never gets old.? The new digital age is less about inventions and more about obstruction.?? Only 939488583738292 more patents related to 'touching' 'shaping' 'looking at' and 'methods for performing "an operation" on a list' to go and maybe our court system can start working on legitimate stuff

ericthehalfbee2013/05/24 08:29pm

Waiting for GG to claim Google never initiates anything.

starbird732013/05/24 08:46pm

Court to Google/Motorola: You lose.

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Google/Motorola: But, no, we don't.

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Court to Google/Motorola: Yes, you do.

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Google/Motorola: But, but, no, we don't.

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Court to Google/Motorola: Yes, yes you do.

jungmark2013/05/25 12:51am

Do no evil, google.

applesauce0072013/05/25 07:04am

Three strikes and they're out...

suddenly newton2013/05/25 11:09am

LOL More reporting of court paperwork as 'news.'

ankleskater2013/05/25 11:17am

Quote:Originally Posted by starbird73?

Court to Google/Motorola: You lose.

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Google/Motorola: But, no, we don't.

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Court to Google/Motorola: Yes, you do.

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Google/Motorola: But, but, no, we don't.

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Court to Google/Motorola: Yes, yes you do.

How is that different from what virtually every company does? Appealing is a legal option and most companies, including those you worship, employ that option liberally, frequently and almost automatically. It's absurd, ridiculous, ignorant, hypocritical and unintelligent to mock any company for appealing.

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Quote:Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee?

Waiting for GG to claim Google never initiates anything.

This is a fair comment (about Google, not about GG - that part I couldn't care less about). Motorola is part of Google now, and Google did once declare a non-aggression policy on patents. Whether one agrees with Apple's legal actions, their objective is quite clear. This is not true of Google.

ankleskater2013/05/25 11:19am

Quote:Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton?

LOL More reporting of court paperwork as 'news.'

?LOL. More people reading and mocking it. Yet the joke is clearly, squarely on the mocking reader.

jessi2013/05/25 11:25am

I'm glad to see that Patent Troll Google has lost again, but let's not assume that this is a trivial patent simply because the people describing it do so in simple terms.

Multi-touch is a very sophisticated technology, never seen before (despite the claims from idiots who don't know how it works and who always bring up systems working on a different method, such as pushing two wires tougher as if they were "prior art".) ... and deserves to be protected.

Most of these "trivial" patents are not actually trivial. And getting them tried in court IS the way the patent system was designed.

The idea that there's a problem here is asinine-- the only problem is that innovators like Apple can't get timely resolution to these violations, while companies like google skate by.

But it's embarrassing that people would claim that patents stifle innovation-- patents ARE innovation, and the people being "stifled" weren't being innovative, they were being copycats.

If these patents really are trivial they don't stand up in court.

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Small businesses cut borrowing for second straight month

By Ann Saphir
Tue Apr 2, 2013 5:02am EDT
n">(Reuters) - Small U.S. businesses cut back on borrowing in February for a second straight month, hinting at slower growth ahead even as other economic data shows the recovery picked up in the early part of the year.
The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to small U.S. companies, fell to 101.3 from a downwardly revised 111.7 in January, PayNet said on Tuesday.
PayNet's lending index typically correlates to overall economic growth one or two quarters in the future.
The U.S. Federal Reserve last September moved to push down long-term borrowing costs with a third round of asset purchases, pledging to keep buying until the labor market improves substantially.
That stimulus, coupled with rock-bottom short-term interest rates since December 2008, has done little to get smaller U.S. firms to expand, the index shows.
"They don't have a conviction that they should go all in," PayNet founder Bill Phelan said in an interview. Without that conviction, small businesses are not expanding quickly, and are not as apt to hire.
The data provides a counterpart to generally positive signals from the broader economy, including a rise in consumer spending and sentiment, and at least some signs of strength at factories.
But small business borrowing grew just 2 percent from a year earlier, the index showed, the slowest year-on-year increase since September. PayNet had initially reported the January figure at 113.1.
Perhaps more telling are early signs that financial stress is building.
Trucking companies, whose behavior historically has led that of other small businesses, are having more trouble paying back their loans.
Delinquencies of 31 to 180 days among transportation service and warehouses companies rose to 1.85 percent in February, up from an all-time low of 1.55 percent last August, Phelan said.
Delinquencies in other sectors are down. Overall, accounts overdue by one to six months slid to 1.58 percent from 1.62 percent of all loans made.
PayNet collects real-time loan information, such as originations and delinquencies, from more than 250 leading U.S. lenders.
(Reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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