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The Movie Writer, priced at $399, will be available in mid-September, the company said New HP Product to Convert VHS to DVD Aug 11, 8:15 AM EST It's a familiar sight in many households: shelves of home videotapes gathering dust Now Hewlett-Packard Co It connects to a computer through a USB cable and can record videos from a VHS, Hi8, Digital 8 or Mini DVD player onto a DVD About 35 percent of American households have a camcorder, two-thirds of which still use non-digital models that produce tapes which can be difficult to search and edit, Jones said The gadget combines features to complete a task that often requires separate purchases of software, a video capture card and a DVD burner With a growing number of consumers going digital, "HP is packaging a product here that meets some pent up demand in the marketplace," said Ryan Jones, senior analyst with market researcher Yankee Group wants to make it easier for consumers to transfer their memories from analog VHS tapes to the increasingly popular, longer-lasting digital format of DVDs The new DVD Movie Writer dc3000 will be among 100 consumer products the computing giant plans to announce Monday for the holiday shopping season His wife, a high-living executive of an Internet startup, hates how he rolls his R's and mocks her industry in his commentaries "When Raban notices ways in which people in public life become lazy and neglectful, he goads them in the most articulate way of Thoreau, Emerson, Melville and all the rest 11, 2001, but he made no revisions to deal with a calamity he had seen coming " In his latest novel, the British chronicler of American culture turns a hard eye on his adopted land, depicting an American Dream gone wrong "After a rough passage, I'd find Edmund Leach, Evelyn Waugh, George Vancouver, Kwakiutl Arts, Anthony Trollope, The 12-Volt Bible, Homer, and Oceanography and Seamanship in an unlikely tangle on the saloon floor In 1990, Raban fell in love with a woman who is no longer with him and settled on Queen Anne Hill in a house overlooking the water He took a small boat down the Mississippi in "Old Glory," and penetrated the great northern Rockies and the plains beyond in "Bad Land "I liked these chance couplings and collisions, and hoped that on the long trip north the entire library would be shaken, pitched, and rolled into a happy, interdisciplinary ragout Paul Theroux saw Raban often while he was an American writer living in England He has lived in the Alabama swamps and cruised the boulevards of Hollywood Raban's message is delivered subtly, with an ending that leaves readers open to conclusions of their own " Back in April, Raban began a prophetic piece in London's The Guardian newspaper: "Whatever its immediate apparent outcome, the war on Iraq represents a catastrophic breakdown of the British and American imagination He returns often to the region and to Asia beyond The other, Tom Janeway, is a Hungarian-born Briton who teaches literature and comments on National Public Radio The other two books, still works in progress, examine a future of road-hogging Hummer limousines and a ruling class ensconced behind razor wire In explaining it, though, the worldly wise author leaves no doubts " The leading characters of "Waxwings" are both resident aliens who inhabit Seattle in the heady fin-de-millennium days before the economy tanked and al-Qaida devastated the nation "People are still living in happy dreams of self-enrichment and culpable ignorance, and we have no idea of what is coming Raban Writes of American Dream Gone Wrong Jan 29, 1:26 PM EST Jonathan Raban, who at times hones his own sword-swipe wit by citing others' wisdom, loves a line from Ambrose Bierce: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography C "Clearly something is in store for us," Raban says over lunchtime vongole, before drawing at a cigarette on the terrace of Ponti's Seafood Grill, where Seattle begrudgingly tolerates tobacco fumes This harsh view seems misplaced in a gentle, slender man of 61, who wears a baseball cap ("It's the only known cure for baldness") and who glances around politely before firing up a Marlboro "The United States is now the most singularly hated country in the world, for all of its good intentions," Raban says "Arabia," written in the 1970s, probed Middle Eastern societies and the Muslim-based mentality that shapes them Waxwings are rare birds that appear only fleetingly at the end of the story " Ever subtle, Raban packs his thesis into a single word to depict a society that overestimates its ability to soar on its own, rising above troubling world currents that affect everyone else Watching TV news, Janeway reflects: "But nothing made America feel more American than the arrival on the doorstep of a bona fide Arab terrorist carting a bomb in the trunk of his rental brown Chrysler sedan "The guy One arrives half-dead from China in a ship container In "Hunting Mister Heartbreak," he examined the United States, walking the floors of Macy's department store as directors leveraged it into a financial house of cards But no one who knows him is surprised by his unvarnished observations " Raban based his judgments on a good look around Their daughter, Julia, now 12, divides her time between both parents "People were living in a large bubble about to burst," he says But heat he had not considered brought him painfully back to Earth He survives by strength of will and, with a vague notion of English, reinvents himself as an amoral hustler he calls Chick, because he mishears the slur, Chink Chick parlays his first meager earnings into what might be a fortune by exploiting Mexican workers â€â€? illegals like himself â€â€? and then buying an asbestos-cursed ship from a shady operator The novel is rich with Raban's gift for description "We've utterly failed to comprehend the character of the people whose lands we have invaded, and for that we're likely to find ourselves paying a price beside which the body-count on both sides in the Iraqi conflict will seem trifling "The more I wrote, the more things kept going wrong was a trophy alien, someone so satisfyingly other that everyone could feel a patriotic glow in the American-as-apple-pi e Port Angeles officer who'd noticed his shaking hands, thick French accent, un-American size, and nailed him as the enemy But they fly metaphorically throughout the book Janeway, through odd coincidence and circumstantial evidence, is presumed to be a kidnapper Icarus approached the sun on wings of wax A doting father, a quiet-spoken Englishman in a sport jacket, he is no ranting rabble rouser Friends for the past 35 years, they stay in close touch and comment on each other's manuscripts And, he adds, the Bush administration believes that if you scratch any foreigner hard enough, you'll find an American struggling to get out "Waxwings," the first of a planned trilogy, is a rich and often warm snapshot of the human condition Now, he fears, there is worse to come " But the book is unsettling for Raban's judgments about what he calls the insularity of America He blames a "radical fundamentalist view of human nature" in Washington, D " In "Passage to Juneau," one paragraph perfectly sums up the author's insatiable thirst for books and his eclectic tastes: "The books slammed and swayed on the shelves, bulged against the restraining belts of shockcord, and sometimes liberated themselves and took flight through the boat like so many heavyweight pigeons " In "Waxwings," a child disappears " Raban finished the manuscript just before Sept At one stage, police arrest a small, sweaty and agitated man "of Middle Eastern appearance" who has the makings of a bomb in his trunk "As an unrepentant alien, he is a brilliant noticer of American traits and contradictions," Theroux said in a telephone interview Christian evangelists, he says, believe that if you scratch any sinner, there's a saved soul struggling to get out When Chick finds outsized columns to repair Janeway's facade, he writes: "Cut down to fit the porch, they'd be as comically obese as five sumo wrestlers squatting in line Despite the generosity and human spirit that attracted him to the United States a decade ago, Raban thinks that a blindness to the outside world and a greed-based economy are squandering hard-won goodwill |
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