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• Vice President Joe Biden will also be sworn in Sunday in a small, early morning ceremony at the Naval Observatory, his official residence.
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Conversion from 35 mm film to digital prompting closure of many military base theaters
• ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) -- Stacey Darling loves watching family movies at the Ellsworth Air Force Base theater in South Dakota because it's so much more affordable than taking her three children to the multiplex in nearby Rapid City.
• Darling, whose husband is an airman, has been catching second-run films on base for about 2 1/2 years, and was there Saturday for the theater's last showing -- a screening of the animated movie "Hotel Transylvania." The movie theater is among 60 around the globe run by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service that is screening its last picture show amid the industry's conversion to digital projection.
• "We always come out for the cartoons," said Darling, of Grand Forks, N.D. "We like the family movies."
• Darling said she wishes she could go to the theater even more now that her husband, Senior Master Sgt. David Darling, has deployed to southwest Asia.
• It's just not cost effective for the exchange service to invest the $120,000 per theater needed to convert from 35 millimeter film to the new format at the theaters that are being closed, said spokesman Judd Anstey. Sixty theaters will make the upgrade.
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Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launches new "Mega" website on anniversary of arrest
• SYDNEY (AP) -- Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has launched a new file-sharing website in a defiant move against the U.S. prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy.
• The colorful entrepreneur unveiled the "Mega" site ahead of a lavish gala and press conference planned at his New Zealand mansion on Sunday night. It comes on the one-year anniversary of his arrest on racketeering charges related to his now-shuttered Megaupload file-sharing site. Megaupload was one of the most popular sites on the web until U.S. prosecutors shut it down, accusing Dotcom and several company officials of facilitating millions of illegal downloads.
• Prosecutors are trying to extradite Dotcom from New Zealand to the U.S.
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