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Best Screencasting or Screen Recording Tool? Sometimes recording a video of your desktop is the best way to show someone how to troubleshoot a problem, find features in an application, or just show off your skills in a particular game or tool. Thankfully, there are plenty of applications for all operating systems that get the job done. This week we'd like to know which one you turn to when you need to record a screencast.

Whether you just want to send someone a video of something you've done or you record tutorials to upload to YouTube, you probably have a favorite utility for recording your screen and the sounds on your computer or through your microphone. It's been a long time since we looked at this, so we're curious if your favorites have changed. When it's time to press record, which app do you have open?

Hive Five nominations take place in the comments, where you post your favorite tool for the job. We get hundreds of comments, so to make your nomination clear, please include it at the top of your comment like so: VOTE: BEST NOTE TAKING APPLICATION OR SERVICE. Please don't include your vote in a reply to another commenter. Instead, make your vote and reply separate comments. If you don't follow this format, we may not count your vote. To prevent tampering with the results, votes from first-time commenters may not be counted. After you've made your nomination, let us know what makes it stand out from the competition.

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Canada's Scotia buys stake in Bank of Guangzhou

(AP) ? Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia said Friday it's buying a stake in the Bank of Guangzhou for Canadian dollars 719 million ($727 million), its second stake in a Chinese bank.

Scotiabank said it was chosen as the successful bidder for the 20 percent stake, the maximum share that foreign banks are allowed to own under Chinese regulations.

The Chinese bank is the country's 29th largest and has 84 branches and offices. It's based in bustling Guangzhou, capital of affluent Guangdong province, which neighbors Hong Kong. The bank is not publicly traded and is mostly government owned.

The purchase still needs regulatory approval and is expected to be completed in December.

The Toronto-based bank, Canada's third largest, is one of a number of foreign banks that have sought footholds in China's expanding banking and financial-services sector.

"Asia is a region of strategic importance for Scotiabank and enhancing our investment in China supports our long-term growth strategy," President Rick Waugh said in a news release.

Scotiabank also owns 14.8 percent of Xi'an City Commercial bank and is waiting for approval to raise its stake to 18.1 percent. It has been in China since 1982 and also operates in nine other countries in the Asia-Pacific area.

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NFL 2011: The Packers and Saints stage a ridiculously fan-pleasing season opener.

God Overrules Mike McCarthy, and the Packers Win

Posted Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, at 11:01 AM ET

This week's preseason NFL roundtable is the first part of a season-long partnership between Slate and Deadspin. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries.

Year of the Quarterback, indeed. After the hold-everything-back preseason, Thursday night's 42-34 Packers victory over the Saints was almost over the top in its fan-pleasingness. A combined 731 passing yards by the last two Super Bowl MVPs! Six touchdowns through the air! A pin-balling, record-tying kickoff return! A 72-yard punt return for a touchdown! A last-minute comeback snuffed out when a Heisman Trophy winner got slammed backwardat the 1-yard line with no time left! I'm just surprised there weren't any bicycle kicks, free-throw-line windmill dunks, or unassisted triple plays. And where was the seal balancing a football on its nose?

Now, let's do some small-sample-size conclusion-jumping. I'm now convinced that Deadspin's "gambling expert"?"Saints and the under is my 10-star parlay of the decade/millennium"?is perhaps not as much of a gambling expert as he believes. (Look out for the shocking headline on A1 of today's New York Times: "Man Loses Sports Wager.") It also seems that this summer's lockout has caused a dramatic downturn in equipment managing. Players on both teams slipped and fell on almost every play. Did they forget that players typically wear spikes? Did the slippery, dew-covered grass just have a legendary, Lombardi-esque performance?

On this night, the forecasts of a yearlong scoring drought felt a bit silly. As Tommy said the other day, an accumulation of innocuous-seeming rule tweaks have made the NFL a throwers' league. The league's passing imperative has birthed uncannily accurate quarterbacks like Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees who, on their best days, turn defenders into bumbling bit players. A back-shoulder pass is impossible to defend if the quarterback zips the ball where he wants it. In that case, all a cornerback can do is provide a contrasting uniform for the highlight package.

Rodgers and Brees aren't every-quarterbacks, of course?watch Andy Dalton and Luke McCown for three hours, and you might conclude that completing a pass is against NFL rules. But even with Peyton Manning possibly maybe out for the season, there are enough great passers around to ensure that touchdowns will not become a sometimes thing. The lockout cut down on practice time. It didn't rewrite the rulebook or tear Tom Brady's rotator cuff.

The offseason's one big rule change?the five-yard, touchback-increasing kickoff shift?generated the game's dullest and most-thrilling moments. In 14 kickoffs, we had eight kneel-downs, one failed onside try, one sky kick designed to prevent a return, two ordinary-ish returns, and two long runbacks out of the end zone?one for a 108-yard touchdown by Packers rookie Randall Cobb (with an assist from fullback John Kuhn, who caught Cobb in midair to prevent his knee from hitting the ground) and another for 57 yards by the Saints' Darren Sproles.

In his postgame column, ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert wondered if Cobb's long return would change the league-wide kickoff calculus. While pushing the kickoff to the 35 forces returners to catch the ball deeper, restricting on-rushing special teamers to a five-yard running start might increase the likelihood of a long touchdown sprint. If you have a top-flight return man, then, the potential reward of eschewing a touchback (an instant six points) could outweigh the risks (an injury; a fumble; or, most likely, starting at the 15 rather than the 20).

The Packers, for one, have told their returners to kneel if the ball lands in the back half of the end zone. According to Seifert, "[Packers coach Mike] McCarthy was admittedly furious that Cobb broke the 5-yard rule." Cobb's explanation: "I just trusted in God. He told me to bring it out." (Thanks to God, the Packers covered the point spread.)

Reading about McCarthy's rage at his team's unscheduled, impulsive touchdown, I thought of our friend Nate Jackson. In Slate last year, the former Denver Broncos tight end wrote that the "trend in the NFL is to robot-ify the athlete, making the game plan as specific as possible so that the coaches feel that it is flawless execution that wins games, not the talent of the players." After his amazing touchdown scamper, Cobb ashamedly insta-kneeled on the next kickoff. Smart play, rook! Only in the NFL could a player who scored two touchdowns say after the game that both of his scoring plays were "mess-ups."

The other guy who messed up last night, we're told, is Saints coach Sean Payton. Unfortunately for Saints fans, Payton's alleged mistakes were of the traditional, touchdown-denying variety. With the Saints down 35-27 near the end of the third quarter, Payton called a play-action pass on 4th and inches from the Green Bay 7-yard line. Brees, under immediate pressure, ran backward and had to throw the ball away. Payton soon had a chance to redeem himself?with the clock at zeroes, the ball on the 1-yard line, and the Saints again down by eight, he needed to make the perfect play call. Brees handed it to Mark Ingram, who ran into a wall of fat Packers. Game over.

In his postgame press conference, Payton abetted the second-guessers by saying he regretted that failed play-action pass: "It's one that, you know, you look back and I'll kick myself a little bit." After the game, Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk wrote that Payton lost his nerve after that third-quarter failure, "decid[ing] to go with the plainest, most conventional call in his playbook with no time left. It didn't make any sense"

That criticism is as inevitable as it is silly. The Saints fell behind so quickly on Thursday night that they needed a succession of improbable plays even to give themselves the opportunity to fail at the end. No single coaching move decides a game, and no outcome is certain before the play is called. If Ingram had plunged in for that touchdown, Sean Payton would've been called out for boneheadedness if New Orleans missed the game-tying two-point conversion. If a play doesn't work, it's because it was dumb. Yes, we are now officially back to football.

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Wheels Up! The Cast of Criminal Minds Celebrates Their Reunion Via Music Video (omg!)

The mood's pretty light on the set of Criminal Minds, now that the two cast members the show had to say goodbye to last season are back on set. A.J. Cook and Paget Brewster are once again full-time members of the BAU as season seven kicks off on Wed., Sept. 22.

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And to celebrate, the show put together this music video. Erica Meredith, the assistant to Criminal Minds executive producer Erica Messer, wrote the song and lyrics, along with the show's writers' assistant, Haben Merker, and intern, Evan Adams. The trio played the tune for star Thomas Gibson and the rest of the cast; Thomas then suggested that they make a video.

Here it is, "Wheels Up," starring Gibson, Brewster, Cook, Matthew Gray Gubler, Shemar Moore, Kirsten Vangsness and Joe Mantegna.

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New Yorker, Pakistani converge on 9/11's front lines

New Yorker Danny Sjursen's Afghanistan war ought to be personal. It's anything but.

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The U.S. Army cavalry captain, from a family three generations deep in the New York City Fire Department, needs two hands to count the friends who died rescuing people from the wreckage of al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001.

But too much time and two wars have passed between the day Sjursen, now 28, saw the towers fall while he was a cadet at the West Point U.S. Military Academy.

Story: Muslim travelers say they're still saddled with 9/11 baggage

"When I see this place, I don't see the towers," he said, sitting inside the wooden walls of the B troop, 4-4 Cavalry Regiment's operations center in Pashmul South. Near the birthplace of the Taliban in Kandahar province, it is still one of Afghanistan's most violent areas for U.S. soldiers.

For him, there is little connection anymore between the war he is fighting and the retribution against the Taliban for harboring al Qaeda that was the original casus belli.

"My family sees it more than I do. They see it dead-on, direct. I'm a professional soldier. It's not about writing the firehouse number on the bullet. I'm not one for gimmicks."

A few hundred kilometers away, his enemy rests by a roadside, just across the Pakistani border. Fida Mohammed's seminal moment in jihad came when he was only 10 years old, from a man he was too young to know much about.

Osama bin Laden's deadly handiwork created excitement in his village in Pakistan. Mohammed, now 20 and a Taliban fighter, recalls people crowding around a man with a newspaper telling of the attacks in New York and Washington.

"Most of them were cursing America," Mohammed told Reuters in his village of Norak, 20 km (12 miles) from the Afghan border. "Very few people said it was not good because innocent people were killed."

Video: 9/11 firefighter: Pride in his heart, dust in his lungs (on this page)

Earlier that day at his madrasa, or religious school, the lesson was simple: the 9/11 attacks were America's punishment "for its crimes," and the beginning of its destruction.

'Jihad, and only jihad'
Over his parents' objections, Mohammed soon began collecting clothes and food from people to help the Taliban.

"My aim is jihad and only jihad, and to defeat the infidels and drive them out of Afghanistan," said the strongly built, bearded Pakistani, who commutes to the war from his village.

Seven years passed before he was old enough to join up as a mujahideen. Even then, he had to sneak away, feigning plans to visit relatives, and his parents caught and tried to stop him.

"I told them in plain terms that jihad has become obligatory on all Muslims and I cannot give it up at any cost. Now I often go to Afghanistan for the jihad," he said.

Sjursen's call to war, too, came from school. He was sparring in boxing class, as a first-year cadet, when someone burst in shouting that the World Trade Center was on fire.

Only the second in his family to get a university degree, he excelled in his high school studies and followed "the old romantic reasons for wanting to be a soldier" to West Point. Suddenly those reasons become more personal.

His father worked across the street, but evacuated quickly. His Uncle Steve went missing for 24 hours, surfaced briefly and then went back into the ruins for five days, Sjursen said.

"He was digging the rubble for Marty," Sjursen said, referring to firefighter Marty Egan, his uncle's best friend who was discovered dead days later.

'Most emotional event'
Cadet Sjursen knew eight firefighters from one station who had died, and even today he can recite the casualty numbers: 343 of New York's 11,000 firefighters, or about 3 percent.

"It was the single most emotional event. You know how it is in a blue-collar neighborhood. I was almost hoping the war would still be going on when I graduated in 2005," he said.

Mohammed took to jihad in Afghanistan in 2008, migrating across the border for attacks and sometimes into Helmand province to pick poppies for pocket money, with the bulk of the profits from the opium sales going to finance the Taliban.

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Barely a year after he joined jihad, he took two bullets in the arm during a firefight with Afghan troops that killed three of his comrades. That was barely a taste of the war.

"Talk of war is very sweet, but the situation on the battlefield is very bitter," Mohammed said, sipping from a glass of water as he recalled how an American helicopter rained death on his comrades a year ago.

He and about 60 other fighters were heading to attack a military post in southern Uruzgan province, when the chopper spotted them and unleashed its cannon. Mohammed and 20 others, lagging behind, dashed for life-saving cover in the bushes.

"There were many childhood friends among the 40 killed and that saddened me. I cried a lot that in just a few seconds so many Taliban mujahideen had been martyred. We collected their body parts with our hands and buried them there," he said.

Sjursen met death in the cauldron of Baghdad in 2006, where he took command of his first platoon during the U.S. surge to stabilize Iraq as it boiled in a bloody sectarian civil war.

"It was a bad time," Sjursen recalled, sitting in front of a bank of three computers inside his command center. "This place has nothing on that. The madness is lacking here."

Three of his men were killed and eight were wounded within the first 90 days of deployment. The wish for vengeance for 9/11 was swallowed by a greater violence.

"I never thought about 9/11 at all because I was too busy dealing with the day-to-day of fighting the civil war," Sjursen said. "It drove that gap between 9/11."

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The troop he commands, one of three in the area, spends its days fending off attacks from the Taliban, who merge into the scrubby farmlands just outside the concrete walls of his camp.

"It's farmboys picking up guns. How do you hate that? What do you do when you turn 15 or 18 here? You fight. Imagine if our country was at war since 1979?" Sjursen said, referring to Afghanistan's almost-constant state of conflict since mujahideen started attacking the occupying Soviet forces.

Marijuana, opium and grape crops and a deeply conservative attitude prevail outside, where Sjursen's troops work to stand up Afghan police and soldiers, a school and local government.

B Troop's base is smack in the middle of the original recruiting grounds of Taliban founder Mullah Omar, and miles further south than Soviet troops ever got.

Like many other Taliban leaders, Mohammed's commander comes from Kandahar. The war is turning in their favor, after a time when foreign troops inflicted heavy casualties, Mohammed said.

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With the end of 2014 the deadline for all foreign combat troops to pull out of Afghanistan, Sjursen can see an end to his wars. He will enrol for a master's degree later this year.

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SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. ? Extreme snowboarder Travis Rice isn?t interested in making mere ?ski porn? films ? the downhill documentaries known for showing trick after breathtaking trick over a soundtrack of thrashing guitars.

For Rice and director Curt Morgan, one-upping traditional snow sports movies with their latest film, ?The Art of Flight,? meant using the latest cutting-edge equipment, including a high-definition camera that shoots 1,050 frames a second.

It also meant taking bigger risks ? such as going to mountains no one?s ever touched and doing tricks no one?s ever tried. At least three snowboarders were hospitalized while filming ?The Art of Flight.?

And it meant telling good stories ? like when snowboarders had to dive into icy waters high in the Andes of South America to reach their helicopter before it ran out of fuel to fly them out. `?Really scary, we almost died? ? that sort of thing,? Morgan said.

?The Art of Flight? premieres Wednesday at New York?s Beacon Theatre, then screens in selected cities, including Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Montreal and Boston, before concluding the tour Nov. 3 at San Francisco?s Palace of Fine Arts.

The film stars Rice, 28, who is among the sport?s top riders. Morgan, 29, once rode professionally with Rice but gave it up after breaking his back three times.

Morgan eventually founded Jackson, Wyo.-based Brain Farm Digital Cinema, which made ?The Art of Flight? and also produced Rice?s ?That?s It, That?s All.? That 2008 film broadened the snowboarding film experience by melding big-air tricks with nature and wildlife photography from the far-off places Rice and friends traveled.

?What?s really cool about Brain Farm is their films hit more of the mainstream,? said Waide Hoyt of Standard Films, an industry pioneer. ?They bring people who may not watch snowboard movies or purchase them to check them out.?

?That?s the whole challenge here,? Morgan said. ?You have a core audience that?s really small. We?re trying to find a way for our stories to transcend to the mainstream. We?re trying to push the boundaries and still hold on to the core.?

Morgan won?t discuss it, but the production budget for ?The Art of Flight,? heavily supported by Red Bull and other sponsors, is said to be around $ 2 million ? huge for snowboarding flicks typically shown at festivals or limited screenings.

A big chunk of that budget went for helicopters, sometimes two at a time, with one dropping riders off on narrow ridges and another shooting the action with a high-definition Cineflex camera system.

?People are trying to do something gnarlier to outdo the next person. In turn, you create more challenges and sketchy situations. We?ve set ourselves up for some painful days,? Morgan said.

The new movie includes some of the backstory of those situations, like braving high winds and the prospect of no rescue in the forbidding Darwin Range of southernmost Chile, where a helicopter pilot once told Morgan the devil lives.

?If you get stuck out there, you?re pretty much done for,? Morgan said.

Part of what made it tricky was the helicopter only carried about 120 minutes? worth of fuel, and it took about 80 minutes round-trip to get to where Morgan wanted to shoot the riders taking on a narrow chute. The movie trailer shows snowboarders tossing their boards across an icy gap and plunging into chilly water so they could get back to their helicopter before it ran out of fuel.

Besides Chile, the movie features backcountry footage from Alaska, British Columbia and Wyoming. The team also spent part of last May shooting at Colorado?s Snowmass ski area after it closed for the season.

All told, Morgan?s crew shot more than 2,600 hours of footage for the movie and eight, one-hour episodes of a planned television show on how Morgan and Rice make their movies. Brain Farm is negotiating with networks.

Any snowboard movie faces the risk of avalanches and bad weather. And it can take weeks to get the right mix of fresh snow, sunlight and calm winds that won?t ground helicopters or toss riders who are launching 50 to 60 feet into the air.

?Any day you get a shot is a good day,? Rice said. ?You chip away at an Techno ? Every Hour of TV You Watch May Shorten Your Lifespan By 22 Minutes [STUDY] (Mashable)? href=?http://www.siqui.com/techno-every-hour-of-tv-you-watch-may-shorten-your-lifespan-by-22-minutes-study-mashable.html?>hour-long project five seconds at a time.?

Then there are the injuries.

In January, Scotty Lago, the 2010 Winter Olympics halfpipe bronze medalist, broke his jaw after slamming it against his knee on a landing in the Wyoming backcountry. And Mark Landvik required knee surgery after a bad landing off a backside 360. At Snowmass in May, Canadian Sebastien Toutant broke his ankle while warming up.

But it wasn?t all pain and suffering at the Snowmass shoot. Canadian up-and-comer Mark McMorris successfully landed a rare triple cork, essentially a twisted triple flip. The next day, Landvik, still out of action while recovering from the knee surgery, marched around in a fake mullet and cutoff jeans to lighten the mood. Others launched into slow-motion snow fights and impromptu rapping with a Shake Weight.

Meanwhile, Morgan?s crew manned five Techno ? Remote Aircraft Is Both Helicopter and Airplane [VIDEO] (Mashable)? href=?http://www.siqui.com/techno-remote-aircraft-is-both-helicopter-and-airplane-video-mashable.html?>video cameras, including a Phantom, which shoots so many frames per second that it can turn four seconds of real-time action into four minutes of slow-motion on a movie screen.

At one point, Lago and others joined Rice riding on custom-built terrain features created by Aspen Skiing Co. staff based on crude sketches by Morgan?s team. The custom features included a tight cluster of shapely, 20-foot-high mounds the riders nicknamed ?Gumdrop Land? or ?Volcano Land? ? at least those were the G-rated nicknames.

Where did the idea for that come from?

?Beer,? Morgan said, adding that Rice originally wanted to jump over ice sculptures, a snow Brontosaurus, and a full-on snow girl.

?It?s very much a fantasy snowboarding movie,? Rice said.

But it?s not ski porn.

?There?s story,? Morgan said. ?Porn is just action set to music.?

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'Texting Kills' Message Goes On The Road

Laguna Niguel, CA Patch:

It is one of the easiest things to do while driving, but one of the most dangerous--texting.

But Wayne Irving II is trying to make the roads safer. He is CEO of Laguna Niguel-based Textkills.com and Iconosys, which developed SMS Replier and DriveReply, the smartphone app that combats distracted driving.

The textkills.com campaign started in 2009 when Irving saw how addicted his then 15-year-old daughter, Brynna, was to texting, he said.

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