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Apple’s growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk
As Apple grows it increasingly loses that feel-good underdog image. It starts looking like every other large company. Apple even starts to look like a bully–even to large media players that merely want to try different pricing schemes on iTunes.


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The Coffeebreak Shuffle

Topics discussed on this morning’s Coffeebreak:
Rick opened the show with discussion of the window sticker that has been grabbing attention of UK fans–“G: The Coach.” If you haven’t heard about this latest craze in UK fandom, you can find the story that was published in the Lexington Herald-Leader at .
Rick plans to get in contact with Ashley Keith, the sticker’s creator, to see about distributing them at the station.
Rick reminded the listeners of the game that will be taking place on the hilltop tonight; and to tune in at 7:00p.m. for the pre-game show, followed by live coverage as the Harrison County Throrobreds battle Lexington Catholic.
Rick extended thanks to Steve Moss, yesterday’s guest.
The first caller for this morning’s open mic forum was Charlene, from Southside Elementary School, who notified everyone of the tailgating party that will begin at 5:30 in front of the school. Concessions will be sold to benefit the fund for the Southside fifth grade-class’ year-end field trip. With the purchase of a $5 ribeye-steak sandwich combo or a $3 hotdog combo one aids the fifth graders in visiting Shakertown, and finalizing the trip with seats to see the Lexington Legends.
The second caller of the day asked what problems the station was experiencing, for they had noticed that the signal had grown week. Rick and Terry explained that a component had burned out on the new transmitter, and was sent off for repair/replacement. Hopefully withing the next few weeks the part will return, be installed, and allow the station to broadcast with a clearer signal.
Rick and Terry mentioned the streaming audio available on WCYN.com.
Rick asked a question as to whether anyone saved any money this year on gasoline, due to the drought. Terry exclaimed that he felt as if he had saved a bit, furthering his statement by explaining that he hadn’t mowed his lawn in nearly two months.
Terry reminded Rick and the listeners that Chris Winkle will be back in the station on Monday. With Chris’ return, morning listeners will once again be able to awake to “Wink in the Mornings” with news, announcement, and much more.
After the first break, Charlie Garnett of the local 5/3 Bank called for a live on air advertisement. 5/3 announced a competition among the local branches in opening the highest number of student/minor checking accounts–with this challenge, Mr. Garnett is asking for Harrisonians to come to his aid. The student/minor checking accounts are “free” accounts, that offer five free non-5/3 ATM transactions. In addition, anyone amongst the first ten student/minor a checking accounts opened today with a minimum of $50 has the opportunity to earn $53 should they keep their account in good standing for the first six months.(Certain rules and conditions may apply. Visit your local 5/3 bank or the website for details). The branch will be open until 6p.m. tonight.
The third caller this morning was the lady who had asked about the Pleasant Street Bridge on Monday’s show. Rick notified her that he had contacted Mr. Fryman at the State Highway Department, and discovered that the state is responsible for the maintenance of the bridge. The caller also asked as to what the excitement at the new recreational park is. Rick explained that there are soccer games going on at the park.
Another woman called in, to suggest that Rick interview the chairperson for her graduating class of UK. Her fifty year reunion is this year. The woman also mentioned that the Lexington Herald-Leader ran a story on tonight’s game.
In the following call, a woman called about the Texaco sign on the side of the garage at the residence on the corner of Church Street and Oddville Avenue. The woman is concerned that the sign may be a hazard of some sort for motorists that pass by. She explained that she had drove by the residence last night, and at first thought that the bright red glow emanating from the side of the garage was a fire.
A few moments later, another woman called to simply state that she loved the Texaco sign.
Rick openly asked to Terry and the listening audience as to whether he was remembering correctly that Northfield Oil had been a Texaco distributor–no affirmation to this query was made.
A gentleman residing on Church Street called in to express his liking of the Texaco sign. He stated that he didn’t see it as a nuisance, nor had he heard of any neighbors complaining. The listener mentioned that he recalls their being two Texaco stations in Cynthiana; one being the location where Custom Cuts now operates, and the other having been located on the corner of Pike and Church streets.
Theresa Philpott called in to state that she loved yesterday’s show, and to offer her opinion that Amber will not stray from local television, for she is more of a hometown girl. Theresa also expressed her joy in seeing people at the new recreational park–she stated that it is a “Welcome sight.”
The final caller announced that Connersville had received 3.1 inches of rain overnight. He, too, stated that he liked the Texaco sign and seeing the use of the new park.
In recap of the show, Rick mentioned the story in the Herald concerning tonights football game. Rick also reminded the audience of the tailgate party at Southside, the promotion at 5/3 Bank, tonight’s pre-game show and live coverage, and invited anyone who wishes to come down to the station to see the “G” sticker.
Today’s Coffeebreak sponsors were:
The Harrison County Board of Education, BluegrassTradingPost.com, Cockrell’s Auto Center, Whalen & Company, Eastside Pharmacy, Jetubs, Bourbon Community HospitalFirst United Methodist Church of Cynthiana, and 5/3 Bank.


Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional


Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional
BlueBlade writes “According to this CBS story, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause.”

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President Clinton Tonight


President Clinton Tonight

Fresh off his Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York yesterday, former President Bill Clinton will sit down with Keith tonight to talk about everthing from global health, poverty, education and climate change…to politics in this country, the state of the war in Iraq, and his wife’s bid to replace President Bush. 


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Coffeebreak 9/27/2007

On this morning’s Coffeebreak:


Rick’s guest was Steve Moss, Sports Director* for WKYT. Moss has been working with WKYT for 19 years.
Topics for discussion involved Q&A on how WKYT goes about planning for coverage of high school events, and University of Kentucky events.
Several references to newscaster Amber Philpott, Cynthiana native–HCHS Class of 1999, were made.
Sponsor’s of this morning’s Coffeebreak were:
BluegrassTradingPost.com, Bourbon Community Hospital, Jetubs, Cockrell’s Auto Center, Whalen & Company, Eastside Pharmacy, the Harrison County Board of Education, Chase Jewelers, and Joe Cochran – local State Farm Insurance representative.


*I believe that I had heard Rick announce that Steve is the sports director, however it can be noted that the sports blog credits Steve as the Executive Sports Producer and Senior Sports Videographer. I do not know what credits are correct. – Jeremiah


Outlook Connector

I’m upset… it seems that Microsoft recently caught a glitch that was allowing Outlook Connector to download mail from Office Live Basics accounts. Wah! Now I can’t get the mail from my sites.
That sucks.
Microsoft is, however, still allowing the access through the use of Windows Live Mail… thing is, I hate Live Mail–it’s just a funky re-write of Outlook Express…
Oh, well…

Video Professor upset by criticism, sues 100 anonymous critics

Video Professor, a company that markets computer training videos through infomercials, is going after at least 100 anonymous online critics in federal court. The good professor believes that you can’t “be anonymous and bash people” on the Internet.

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Coffeebreak 9/26/2007

A run down of this morning’s Coffeebreak (for anyone who actually cares and reads about it) will have to come at a later date… While I was listening and taking notes, I was doing so in the car, while on my way to Lexington to sell plasma (and just returned).
I do not have the time at this moment to write anything on this morning’s show, for I’ve got a bunch of housework to do, and a few more errands to run before I go to class tonight.
Sorry…

Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted


Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted
An anonymous reader writes “This morning a hacker posted the personal contact information and credit card data of 1,200 ebay users on the eBay.com Trust & Saftey forums. eBay pulled the Trust & Safety forums off line, but not before one user made a video of the hacked forums and posted it on youtube.com. eBay response is on the eBay chatter page, and seems to try and down play this “fraudster”‘s activity.”

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