E-reader News Edition
16/01/10 - 17/01/10
http://www.LibertyNewsprint.com
Haiti’s “Wizard-of-Oz” president – nowhere to be seen By Catherine Bremer (Front Row Washington)
battling round the clock digging for survivors. But in the absence of a working government, the Submitted at 1/16/2010 7:35:05 PM disaster relief teams who are There’s something weirdly supposed to be delivering food, symbolic in the sight of latrines and medical supplies are thousands of homeless Haitians still mostly dithering about massed in a sprawling tent city sorting out logistics. bang in front of the collapsed From the shambles outside the icing-sugar white presidential presidential palace, you wonder palace. if anybody is in charge at all. They’re here because it’s the “The country is not working biggest open space in the capital, right now. It’s not even eating,” but it somehow looks like an remarked Louis Widlyne, one of appeal for President Rene Preval the countless people sleeping on to come out and speak to his a sheet that marks out his living people and reassure them that he quarters in the park. stands behind them, that together A police officer called Joe was the country will get through the more sympathetic. He had catastrophe caused by Tuesday’s received no orders since earthquake. Tuesday’s disaster, but decided Garbage is scattered everywhere have a cell phone signal. Four days after Tuesday’s and the smell of urine and Meanwhile, the hundreds of on his own on Saturday that it earthquake the Haitian flag that excrement is getting worse. thousands of Haitians who lost was time to go back on the beat. once fluttered above the National Far from coming to address their homes and families have “Preval should have come and Palace still lies in a wilted heap them, Preval is holed up in the been left to fend for themselves, spoken to his people, but he over the toppled white ruin. In judicial police headquarters near with no food handouts and no hasn’t,” he said. “He is like that. the park opposite, men and the airport, mumbling that he proper medical treatment. In It’s just the kind of president he women strip to their underpants can’t do much when half the many cases, they are seriously is.” to bathe in a large fountain and g o v e r n m e n t ’ s o f f i c e s a r e injured. Click here for more coverage of scrub their clothes. The hang destroyed and he doesn’t even the Haiti earthquake. Foreign rescue workers are their laundry on the park rails.
T-Mobile Waives International Call Charges To and From Haiti [Haiti] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:30:00 PM
There's been tons of great techrelated charitable news this week, and here's a little more: As of last Thursday, T-Mobile USA has waived all international calls to and from Haiti. The program will last until January 31. Every little bit helps, and if you haven't donated yet, it's as easy as texting HAITI to 90999. [ Ubergizmo]
Read of the Day: NYT Digs into Abdulmutallab's Past (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/17/2010 7:49:15 AM
The New York Times’s Adam Nossiter investigates Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s descent into extremism: Lonely Trek to Radicalism for Terror Suspect.
2
World/
E-reader News Edition
No room in the cemetery for Haiti dead By Ed Pilkington (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
sits there, with its cargo, under the crosses of the tombs, making some twisted comment about God's will be done. One of the Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:20:29 PM bodies has its hand outstretched Last home of country's most and when a car passes by, famous families turns from place bringing into the cemetery yet of respect and mourning into another corpse, it hits the arm installation of horror and makes it swing like a Even in death, there is no creaking door. dignity for the abandoned people Every five minutes a new body of Haiti. The Grand Cimetière, is brought in, most in simple the last home of the country's coffins, fashioned out of rough most famous families, has in five bits of salvaged wood; one has days turned from a place of been made out of old cupboard respect and mourning into an doors. Suddenly, six men rush installation of horror. by, carrying on their shoulders a It begins just a few feet into the fancy lacquered coffin, heading cemetery. Pass the elegant for one of the tombs of a wealthy arched entrance and walk along family. the central path that snakes Poor Haitian families don't through the tombs lined on either enjoy such luxury of mourning. side like miniature suburban A tomb on the right side of the houses. First you are assailed by walkway has been opened to the smell, an acrid odour of death allow the body of a 14-year-old that wrenches the stomach and girl, swaddled in white cloth and sticks to you like glue. laid out in a pick-up truck, to be The smell is bad, but the sights added beside the remains of her are worse. Far worse. Bodies are parents. Above the opening, the piled up along the path, dumped word " réparation" has been one upon the other. A couple of scrawled. We ask the cemetery chickens are pecking at them like workers standing nearby what corn. One of them, a woman that signifies. "It means the with braided hair perhaps in her family has no money," one 30s, has her hands in a rigor worker tells us in -broken mortis embrace, as though she French. "They cannot pay." A had been trying to cling on to life truck with the young girl on and never let it go. board later drove off, her body A few feet further in, we come unburied. across a hand-wagon. It is old How much money are we and rustic, like something out of talking about, we ask, what are an Antonioni movie. Inside you charged to lay a teenaged about six bodies are stacked in girl to rest? A hundred dollars, jumbled postures. The wagon the workers say.
Officials from the city council in charge of the cemetery tell us that the bodies dumped along the path were all brought by families who couldn't afford to pay. Outside the cemetery, a man is sitting on a car looking busy. He is keeping a registry of the new arrivals. He already has 210 names on his list, some identified by just their first name. An elderly man walks out of the -cemetery, looking weary and clutching a handkerchief to his face. He has just put his sister and niece into the family tomb. Marie Eve Alcindor, 63, and Sarah, 32, died when the roof of the family clothes shop fell on them. Marie Eve had arrived in Port-au-Prince one week before the earthquake to visit her family. She had come from New York, where she worked as a paediatrician. "My sister was a doctor and she cared for children," says Jean-Pierre Alcindor. "So for her to come here, die here, and now we cannot even care for her body with dignity – do you know how that feels?" Marie Eve's own children had wanted to take her body back to America for burial. But there were no trucks to carry her, no flights, no companies that would take her. After five days, the body by now decomposing, they called off the effort and ventured instead into the Grand Cimetière. Standing beside Jean-Pierre Alcindor was his nephew Orel. He survived because when the
family shop collapsed, he was at the back of the building and managed to crouch under a car that protected him. He was pulled from the rubble for hours after the quake, bearing scratches on his head and arms but otherwise unharmed "This country was bad long before this," he says. "But now the earthquake has exposed the true face of Haiti." There is nothing unusual about the story of the Alcindors. Everybody in this city has been touched by death. Many thousands are now struggling with a -double challenge: to keep themselves alive in a city without water and food, and to give their loved ones who have died merely the basic, lowliest goodbye. Details emerge unexpectedly. Our driver, who is from the Dominican Republic, Rafael, asked us to make a detour. He wanted to deliver $60 to his good friend Kelya, who had been his secretary a few years ago when he lived in Port-au-Prince. He had heard that she was having trouble with the arrangements for her brother Marcos, who died at work when his office collapsed. His body was being kept at a local funeral home, with only a ceiling fan to keep it from rotting. The funeral home demanded $1,200 to give Marcos a proper burial. With the price came a threat: pay up the money today, or Marcos will be sent to one of the mass graves
that have been opened up outside the city. The average income in Haiti is under $400 a year. Kelya could not pay. "We can't stand the idea of not having a concrete place where we will be able to pray for my brother," Kelya told us. In the end, with the help of Rafael's donation and countless others like it from family, neighbours and friends, she managed to raise $600. Then she persuaded the funeral home to accept half now, the rest later. Marcos will not end up cast away in a mass grave after all. Instead he will be given a funeral in a small Catholic church near Kelya's home. We drive past another Catholic church, L'Eglise Sacré Coeur de Jésus, a few miles away. It was shattered in the earthquake. Its massive stained glass window at the back has fallen in one great slab, and now lies propped up against the cracked wall at a 45degree angle. The front of the church has fared even worse. It has almost entirely been reduced to rubble. The only thing left standing is a wooden effigy of Jesus on the cross. Beneath it is an inscription in the stone bearing the date of the church, 1928. It reads: "That in your love and caring, oh Lord, Haiti will live and prosper." • Haiti ROOM page 5
World/
E-reader News Edition
3
US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti By Rory Carroll, Daniel Nasaw (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
that aid was reaching some of the hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of water, food and medicine six days after a magnitude 7 earthquake levelled Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:56:34 PM the capital, killing more than Priority landing for Americans 100,000, according to Haitian f o r c e s f l i g h t s c a r r y i n g authorities. emergency supplies to divert to The UN was feeding 40,000 and Dominican Republic hoped to increase that to 1 The US military's takeover of million within a fortnight, said emergency operations in Haiti the secretary general, Ban Kihas triggered a diplomatic row moon, as he boarded a flight for with countries and aid agencies Port-au-Prince today. f u r i o u s a t h a v i n g f l i g h t s "I'm going there with a very redirected. heavy heart. The damage, Brazil and France lodged an destruction, loss of life is just official -protest with Washington overwhelming." The challenge after US military aircraft were was to co-ordinate relief efforts, given priority at Port-au-Prince's he said. "We should not waste a congested airport, forcing many single item, a -single dollar, just non-US flights to divert to the to wait in a warehouse." Dominican Republic. The plight of 80 elderly people Brasilia warned it would not at a partially collapsed municipal -relinquish command of United hospice just a mile from the Nations forces in Haiti and Paris airport, now a huge aid hub, complained the airport had showed the desperate need. The become a US "annexe", exposing body of a dead 70-year-old man a brewing power struggle amid rotted on a mattress, nearly the global relief effort. The Red indistinguishable from the C r o s s a n d M é d e c i n s S a n s exhausted, hungry and thirsty Frontières also complained about people around him. "Others diverted flights. won't live until tonight," an The row prompted Haiti's administrator, Jean Emmanuel, president, René Préval, to call for told the Associated Press. calm. "This is an extremely The Haitian government has difficult situation," he told AP. established 14 food distribution "We must keep our cool to co- points and aid groups have o r d i n a t e a n d n o t t h r o w opened five emergency health accusations at each other." centres. Water-purification units The squabbling came amid signs – a priority to avert disease and
dehydration – were arriving. But with aftershocks jolting the ruins, bloated bodies in the street and severe shortages of water and food many survivors had had enough: an exodus trekked on foot out of the city to rural areas. The security situation worsened, with some looters fighting with rocks and clubs for rice, clothing and other goods scavenged from debris. In places the embryonic aid machine did not even try to organise distribution. Aid workers tossed out food packets to crowds and US helicopters took off as soon as they offloaded supplies, prompting scrambles in which the fittest and strongest prevailed. "They are not identifying the people who need the water. The sick and the old have no chance," Estime Pierre Deny, -hoping to fill a plastic container with water amid a scrum of people, told Reuters. Frustration over aid bottlenecks among donors became tinged by national rivalry as it became clear the US was taking ownership of the crisis. A vanguard of more than 1,000 US troops was on the ground and 12,000 were expected in the region by Monday, including marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson which anchored offshore as a "floating airport". The Haitian government,
paralysed by the destruction of the presidential palace and ministries, signed a memorandum of understanding formally transferring control of Toussaint L'Ouverture airport to the US. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, flew in on Saturday and met Préval near the airport. "We will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead," she said. The UN mission, which had a 9,000-strong peacekeeping force in Haiti before the quake, seemed too stunned by its own losses to take control. Its dead include its Tunisian head, Hedi Annabi, his Brazilian deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, and the acting police commissioner, Doug Coates, a Canadian. Flights seeking permission to land continuously circle the airport, which is small, damaged and with a single runway, rankling several governments and aid agencies. "There are 200 flights going in and out every day, which is an incredible amount for a country like Haiti," Jarry Emmanuel, air logistics officer for the UN's World Food Programme, told the New York Times. "But most of those flights are for the United States military. Their priorities are to secure the country. Ours are to feed. We have got to get those priorities in sync." France, which as the former
-colonial power expects a prominent role, -protested when an emergency field hospital was turned back. The foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said the airport was not for the international community but "an annexe of Washington", according to France's ambassador to Haiti, Didier Le Bret. Brazil, which saw its leadership of the UN peacekeeping mission as a calling card of its burgeoning influence, was also indignant when three flights were not allowed to land. The foreign ministry reportedly asked Clinton to grant Brazil priority over chartered flights. Nelson Jobim, the defence minister, said Brazil would not relinquish command duties and suggested it, not Washington, would continue to lead UN forces. Analysts said it was vital command issues be resolved. The Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières complained about flights with medical staff and equipment which were redirected to the neighbouring Dominican Republic. "We are all going crazy," said Nan Buzard, of the American Red Cross. The Obama administration has enlisted former presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton to spearhead relief efforts. ACCUSED page 5
4
World/
E-reader News Edition
LSE tutor says he is victim of McCarthyite witch-hunt over Hizb ut-Tahrir membership By Owen Bowcott (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
the failed airline bombing carried out by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day. He had studied at Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:32:11 PM University College, London. A postgraduate teacher accused Pankhurst was detained with of Islamist "infiltration" of the two other Britons in Cairo in London School of Economics 2002, and the three were adopted has dismissed the allegations as a as prisoners of conscience by "McCarthyite witch-hunt". Amnesty International. Reza Pankhurst, who spent four Pankhurst was tortured with years in Egyptian prisons for electric shocks. On his return to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain he was questioned by (HT), had anticipated criticism British security services. when he began studying for a The latest accusations, he says, PhD and delivering lectures to raise questions about the role of students. HT, which advocates Muslims in British society and t h e c r e a t i o n o f a M u s l i m the limits of academic freedom caliphate in the Arab world, is in universities. outlawed in Egypt but legal in "I knew this would happen one Britain. The Conservatives have day," Pankhurst said. "When I threatened to ban it, the National came back from Egypt I thought Union of Students adopts a "no I wouldn't be able to get a job but p l a t f o r m " p o l i c y o v e r i t s I wanted to make a contribution speakers, and the Home Office and engage in positive debate. has said it keeps the status of the "So I applied to the LSE and told organisation under review. them exactly what had happened In an interview with the to me. They accepted me on a Guardian, Pankhurst, 34, said master's course in the history of individuals were being "hounded international relations. I was because of their views", and that interviewed by the security dissent from Muslims was being services when I returned and silenced. The LSE has defended later followed around. For the h i s r i g h t t o " f r e e d o m o f first couple of months I saw the expression within the law". same man on the school run, in Fears about radicalisation of the leisure centre and outside my students have re-emerged since house.
"He looked out of place. Perhaps they just wanted to show me they were [monitoring] me? But once they saw I was at LSE and speaking openly about my beliefs I imagine they assumed it was a waste of further resources." In 2002, the Guardian interviewed Pankhurst through the grille of an Egyptian security compound while standing beside one of the other detained Britons, -Maajid Nawaz. After returning from Egypt, Nawaz renounced Hizb ut-Tahrir and helped found the Quilliam Foundation. It describes itself as "the world's first counter-extremism thinktank". In a comment to the Times last week, the foundation said: "(HT's) infiltration of internationally renowned universities such as the LSE makes a mockery of universities' claims to be tackling extremism on campus." Pankhurst, who is married with a young family, said he and Nawaz are no longer "in touch". Pankhurst, who remains a member of HT and preaches at Friday prayers, insists he is opposed to terrorist violence. He recently spoke about Abdulmutallab, saying he had
not been radicalised in London. "What [my accusers] forgot to say was that I spent 10 minutes stressing that any action that targets innocents is prohibited and that there's no justification for it in Islam. [Abdulmutallab] was radicalised by a sense of injustice … by what he saw on the news about Afghanistan and Iraq." Pankhurst also refuted claims that he helped "groom" another ex-student, Omar Sharif, who blew himself up in Tel Aviv in 2003. "This guy must have been on the course at the same time as me at King's -College in 1996. I was president of the Islamic Society," Pankhurst said. "Does that mean I was responsible for what he did seven years later? It's neocon nonsense. It's crime by association." Pankhurst is taking legal advice over "this false allegation", he says. Such slurs, he said, are a "form of Mc-Carthyism directed against Muslims who speak out" against UK foreign policy. "Do they want Muslims to be engaged in professional fields or would they prefer us to be on benefits? The innuendo, blacklisting and McCarthyite witch-hunts are very counter-
productive. I have not said anything which is illegal, or anything that incites violence." An invitation to Pankhurst to participate in a debate entitled "Shariah law – compatible in the modern world?" at Queen Mary, University of London, was withdrawn before Christmas because of his HT membership. Pankhurst has received supportive emails from LSE students, and the school is standing by him: "No concerns about his conduct have been raised and we are not aware that he is a member of any proscribed organisation or has broken any laws or LSE regulations," it said in a statement. "All students and staff are entitled to freedom of expression within the law." • London School of Economics and Political Science • Islam Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
World/
E-reader News Edition
ACCUSED
Cruise ships still find a Haitian berth By Robert Booth (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:53:47 PM
Sixty miles from Haiti's devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jet ski rides, parasailing and rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks. The 4,370-berth Independence of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean International, disembarked at the heavily guarded resort of Labadee on the north coast on Friday; a second cruise ship, the 3,100-passenger Navigator of the Seas is due to dock. The Florida cruise company leases a picturesque wooded peninsula and its five pristine beaches from the government for passengers to "cut loose" with watersports, barbecues, and shopping for trinkets at a craft market before returning on board before dusk. Safety is guaranteed by armed guards at the gate. The decision to go ahead with the visit has divided passengers. The ships carry some food aid, and the cruise line has pledged to
donate all proceeds from the visit to help stricken Haitians. But many passengers will stay aboard when they dock; one said he was "sickened". "I just can't see myself sunning on the beach, playing in the water, eating a barbecue, and enjoying a cocktail while [in Port -au-Prince] there are tens of thousands of dead people being piled up on the streets, with the survivors stunned and looking for food and water," one passenger wrote on the Cruise Critic internet forum. "It was hard enough to sit and eat a picnic lunch at Labadee before the quake, knowing how many Haitians were starving," said another. "I can't imagine having to choke down a burger there now.'' Some booked on ships scheduled to stop at Labadee are afraid that desperate people might breach the resort's 12ft high fences to get food and drink, but others seemed determined to enjoy their holiday."I'll be there on Tuesday and I plan on enjoying my zip line excursion as well as the time on the beach," said one. The company said the question
ROOM continued from page 2
• Natural disasters and extreme weather Ed Pilkington guardian.co.uk© Guardian
News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
of whether to "deliver a vacation experience so close to the epicentre of an earthquake" had been subject to considerable internal debate before it decided to include Haiti in its itineraries for the coming weeks. "In the end, Labadee is critical to Haiti's recovery; hundreds of people rely on Labadee for their livelihood," said John Weis, vice -president. "In our conversations with the UN special envoy of the government of Haiti, Leslie Voltaire, he notes that Haiti will benefit from the revenues that are generated from each call … "We also have tremendous opportunities to use our ships as transport vessels for relief supplies and personnel to Haiti. Simply put, we cannot abandon Haiti now that they need us most." "Friday's call in Labadee went well," said Royal Caribbean. "Everything was open, as usual. The guests were very happy to hear that 100% of the proceeds from the call at Labadee would be donated to the relief effort." Forty pallets of rice, beans, powdered milk, water, and canned foods were delivered on Friday, and a further 80 are due
5
continued from page 3
and 16 on two subsequent ships. When supplies arrive in Labadee, they are distributed by Food for the Poor, a longtime partner of Royal Caribbean in Haiti. Royal Caribbean has also pledged $1m to the relief effort and will spend part of that helping 200 Haitian crew members. The company recently spent $55m updating Labadee. It employs 230 Haitians and the firm estimates 300 more benefit from the market. The development has been regarded as a beacon of private investment in Haiti; Bill Clinton visited in October. Some Haitians have decried the leasing of the peninsula as effective privatisation of part of the republic's coastline. • Haiti • Natural disasters and extreme weather • Cruises Robert Booth guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
• Haiti • Natural disasters and extreme weather • United States • France • Brazil • International aid and development Rory Carroll Daniel Nasaw guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
Retribution swift and brutal for Haiti's looters By Ed Pilkington (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:09:24 PM
Sixteen hours after he was thrown onto a Port-au-Prince rubbish dump and set alight, the body of the lynched thief was still smouldering – a macabre glimpse of the sporadic violence that is flaring up in this desperate city. With water, food and shelter in RETRIBUTION page 6
6
Business/
E-reader News Edition
RETRIBUTION continued from page 5
short supply for hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors, localised flashpoints of looting and vigilante action to punish the perpetrators have arisen across the city. Haitian police were also reported to have shot dead at least one looter. Incongruously, the thief's last resting place lay between two institutions of peace and culture. On one side of the street in which he lay was a church, on the other an art gallery, the Musart Beau Decor. The body had been burned to a cinder but you could see the remnants of a tyre that had been lain on or around him as part of the living funeral pyre of rubbish that had been created for him by the lynch mob. The thief — whose identity will probably never be known other than the description offered by locals of "le voleur" — made the fatal error of trying to steal fruit juice from a nearby street vendor in Petionville, a neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince where there is a
relatively active police presence. By some accounts, the man pulled out a gun and shot the vendor in the head as he was making the robbery. Police were close at hand — their headquarters are just a few blocks away — and the thief was apprehended. What happened next is unclear. But the end result is certain: he was frogmarched by about 12 men, beaten, thrown on the street, covered with a pyre of rubbish, and burned. Antoine Miguel, a resident who was among a group assembled around the smouldering corpse, said that it was suspected the thief was one of 3,000 inmates who broke out of the National Penitentiary in the city after the earthquake unexpectedly granted them freedom. The quake released a few prisoners, who in turn overpowered the guards and opened all the cells, pouring on to the streets several of the most dangerous gang leaders who had previously terrorised parts of the city.
Reuters reporters gained access to the inside of the prison where they found that on their way out the inmates had burned most of the prison records, making the job of tracking them down and bringing them back to jail all the more difficult. The prison breakout has spread fear, particularly in Cite Soleil, a poor neighbourhood with a notorious history of gang violence that had begun to become more peaceful under the interventions of Haitian president Rene Prevail. Now Cite Soleil is braced for a return of the gangs. "They got out of prison and now they're going around trying to rob people," said Cite Soleil resident Elgin St Louis, 34, told Reuters. "Last night they spent the whole night shooting," she added. "We dread their return," said another. So far, warnings that Port-auPrince would descend into anarchy have not materialised. Lawlessness has been localised and confined largely to the night.
But the few incidents have been brutal. In the Delmar neighbourhood, two suspected looters were tied together and beaten before being dragged through the streets. As for the thief of Petionville, he will not be much mourned. "This isn't good, this isn't good," said Miguel, "But if the people don't do something about these criminals running amok, who will?" By Tom Taulli • Haiti • Natural disasters and extreme (BloggingStocks) weather Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:40:00
First-Time Homebuyer's Credit Gets a Makeover
Filed under: Housing The first-time homebuyer's credit-- of up to $8,000 -- has certainly been popular. And, it's given a much-needed boost to the lagging real estate market. But according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General last year, the program has seen plenty of dubious activity. In fact, there are now more than 107,000 civil cases in progress (even a four-year old claimed a credit!). Continue reading First-Time Homebuyer's Credit Gets a Makeover Continue reading Auto Stock First-Time Homebuyer's Credit #2: Kandi Technologies (KNDI) Gets a Makeover originally A u t o S t o c k # 2 : K a n d i appeared on BloggingStocks on Technologies (KNDI) originally Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:40:00 EST. appeared on BloggingStocks on Please see our terms for use of Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST. feeds. Permalink| Email this| Please see our terms for use of Comments feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Ed Pilkington guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
Auto Stock #2: Kandi Technologies (KNDI) By Louis Navellier (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: China, Stocks to Buy With the number one auto market in the world, Chinese auto stocks could deliver truly amazing profits in 2010 as the economic recovery gains
momentum. China's Kandi Technologies( KNDI) is a small company that designs and manufactures all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and scooters. The company does the majority of its business in Asian urban centers, where motorcycles and scooters are staples, since they and provide greater mobility and a r e m o r e a f f o r d a b l e t o fuel efficiency than cars. consumers with lower income
AM
World/ Business/
E-reader News Edition
Refugee camps set up in unscathed areas By Robert Booth (World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
rural areas and towns. The camps being set up in Gonaïves and other towns are understood to be being managed Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:35:29 PM by local authorities rather than Refugee camps have been set up foreign aid agencies, in further in the Haitian town of Gonaïves evidence of Haitians taking the and other unaffected areas to initiative for the well-being of accommodate growing numbers their own people. "There are of refugees from Tuesday's many people leaving Port-audevastating earthquake, aid Prince, but many who would like agencies said today. to get out are having to stay Schools have been closed in the because either they don't have coastal settlement which was cars, their cars are damaged or unscathed by the disaster and there is not enough petrol," said municipal authorities of other Sarah Wilson, who is assessing unaffected towns today sent the crisis in Haiti for Christian buses to the devastated capital, Aid. "Some simply lost their car Port-au-Prince, to evacuate keys in the earthquake. There is a survivors who have spent several shortage of fuel, but there seems n i g h t s s l e e p i n g r o u g h i n to be enough for buses and that increasingly insanitary and i s h o w m a n y p e o p l e a r e d a n g e r o u s c o n d i t i o n s , a travelling. The poorest are those spokesman for Action Aid said. moving the least and those with Aid workers reported that resources are managing to get people were leaving the capital, out of town." with long queues on the road to Informal camps for internally the border with the Dominican displaced people have been set Republic which was said to be up on open areas in the capital open intermittently today. Many and within buildings that were queued at the border to be not destroyed. Action Aid is allowed out of Haiti. Christian particularly concerned about Aid estimated that about 10,000 conditions for women and people have fled the disaster children amid unconfirmed zone with many heading out on reports of some attacks taking buses to family and friends in place.
"We are particularly worried about this because we know that it is women and children who are most at risk, even if they are going to stay with relatives or friends," a spokeswoman for the charity said. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, did not have any direct representatives in Haiti before the earthquake. "Before this, there were just three refugees in Haiti," said a spokeswoman based in Switzerland. "No one would flee to Haiti, so we had no office there because we would have outnumbered the refugees. This is a tough challenge for the country and we know there has been significant displacement." • Haiti • Refugees • Natural disasters and extreme weather • International aid and development Robert Booth guardian.co.uk© Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions| More Feeds
7
Johnson & Johnson Charged in Drug-Marketing Kickback Scheme By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:10:00 AM
Filed under: Law, Competitive strategy, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Teva Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA) The U.S. Justice Department has charged giant pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ) with paying tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to Omnicare Inc. ( OCR) to boost sales of its drugs to nursinghome patients, as reported by the Wall Street Journal(subscription required). Prosecutors allege that Omnicare's annual purchases of Johnson & Johnson medicines nearly tripled under this scheme to more than $280 million. According to prosecutors, the alleged kickbacks occurred between 1999 and 2004 and included payments for physician prescriber data that was never furnished. Johnson & Johnson
also paid quarterly rebates based on Omnicare's success in switching patients from competitors' drugs in what both companies called an "intervention program." Continue reading Johnson & Johnson Charged in DrugMarketing Kickback Scheme Johnson & Johnson Charged in Drug-Marketing Kickback Scheme originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
8
Business/
E-reader News Edition
iPhones Might Get Automatic Location-Aware Ads By Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Submitted at 1/16/2010 3:09:45 PM
Some attention has been lavished on a recent Apple patent that involves using custom icons on the iPhone's homescreen-darn useful for contacts management. But inside the patent is something far more intriguing: adverts that know where you are. Most commenters on the new patent are concentrating on the way it will relate to contact management on the iPhone-essentially it'll revolutionize the way it's currently done by letting you drop contacts onto the iPhone's home screens, complete with a photo icon. It's one of those obvious tricks that adds massive utility and Android OS already has something a little like it. Apple's patent actually suggests that the icons would be pretty powerful--with corner alert flags that'll let you know if
the contact has SMSed you, phoned you, or perhaps emailed you. But wait for it: The big secret in the patent is for a far more dynamic adaptation to how the iPhone's home screen works, using a similar sort of contact app/icon mechanism. Apple's idea is to allow new app icons to pop up on screen under the control of a nearby system or device. Essentially the iPhone would broadcast a Wi-fi or Bluetooth signal that it was capable of receiving an incoming app, and the download and installation would happen automatically. According to the patent details the icon needn't even be a permanent thing--it could be temporary, and it could be location-sensitive. In other words, Apple's possibly planning to build location-aware advertising powers right into the iPhone's OS. You'd pop into a coffee shop, your iPhone and the
store's PC would handshake, and bingo: Up pops a new icon on the screen, with the store's contact details or perhaps advertising the day's special offer. The system would also be able to do the same sort of dynamic app installation based
on GPS--imagine you're strolling through London's Trafalgar Square, and you get a pop-up icon (downloaded via 3G) inviting you into the nearby National Portrait Museum, perhaps with a tempting discount voucher for the museum's tea
shop. These apps could even remain installed once you leave the area--acting as a gentle advertising prompt. Both these ideas are simple, yet powerful. You know what? Both are actually relatively easy for Apple to code in to the iPhone's OS, particularly now Apple's bought up mobile Web ad specialist Quattro Wireless. I wonder if that's one of the reasons why Apple seems to have slowed down in releasing developer-test versions of the next OS update. And there's another thing to ponder on: This system could just as easily work on the Apple Tablet--where a pop-up, full-screen, full-color location aware advert would certainly grab more user attention. [Via PatentlyApple]
Stay Away from Microsoft's Browser, Warns German Government By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks)
other than Internet Explorer until Microsoft Corp. ( MSFT) provides a patch to fix a critical Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:10:00 PM security flaw that allowed a Filed under: Internet, Google cyber attack against Google Inc. (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), ( GOOG). China In a statement posted on its T h e G e r m a n g o v e r n m e n t website, Germany's Federal warned that attacks by hackers recommends using browsers Office for Information Security "cannot be fully prevented," even
if users run Microsoft's browser in safe mode. Continue reading Stay Away from Microsoft's Browser, Warns German Government Stay Away from Microsoft's Browser, Warns German Government originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 17
Jan 2010 15:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
Business/ Gadgets/ Tech Tips/
E-reader News Edition
The Week in Preview: Q4 Auto Stock #3: Thor Earnings Expectations for Industries (THO) the Financial Sector By Louis Navellier (BloggingStocks)
By Trey Thoelcke (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Citigroup Inc. (C), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of New York (BK), BB and T (BBT), Comerica Inc (CMA), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Wells Fargo (WFC), SLM Corp (SLM), U.S. Bancorp (USB) Last week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM) led off the coming parade of earnings from the big banks when it reported betterthan-expected fourth-quarter and full-year earnings, though its revenue fell short of estimates. Plenty more earnings from the financial sector are due out this week. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters anticipate fourth-quarter earnings growth from American Express Co. (
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy Not your typical vehicle maker, Thor Industries( THO) specializes in small and midsized buses. Its key customers are local governments, but also AXP), Bank of New York include rental car companies and Mellon Corp. ( BK), Hudson hotels that have their own private City Bancorp Inc. ( HCBK), transportation needs. SLM Corp. ( SLM) and US As the recession has taken hold, many municipalities and Bancorp ( USB). Continue reading The Week in businesses are seeing less P r e v i e w : Q 4 E a r n i n g s revenue and are opting to delay Expectations for the Financial the purchase of bigger buses in favor for Thor's smaller and Sector The Week in Preview: Q4 more affordable coaches. Earnings Expectations for the Continue reading Auto Stock Financial Sector originally #3: Thor Industries (THO) appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
9
The New York Times May Soon Begin Charging for Online Content [News] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
According to New York Magazine, the New York Times may soon announce they'll begin charging for web site access, putting one of the most popular and venerable online news destinations behind a paywall. Auto Stock #3: Thor Industries NY Mag speculates that they'll (THO) originally appeared on be metering access so that BloggingStocks on Sun, 17 Jan readers can sample a set number 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see of articles for free each day, after our terms for use of feeds. which they'll be prompted to Permalink| Email this| subscribe. [ New York Magazine] Comments
In the U.K., Steve Jobs Is a Footballer [Steve Jobs] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:00:00 PM
As a soccer player living in a country slightly apathetic to the sport, I appreciate any mention of it that I can get. Even so, the
geek in me wept a little at hearing this news out of the U.K.: Steve Jobs: Soccer player?! A full 20% thought so, while 10% thought he was a turtleneckwearing trade union leader. As
for Bill Gates, he was one of the
Great Train Robbers of the 1960s, according to 10% of survey respondents. There's video too, if your inner geek can handle it (although I swear some of these blokes don't have British accents...):
Twitter didn't fare much better (not that I really give a hoot about Twitter). What's going on in the U.K.? [ CNET]
10
Gadgets/
E-reader News Edition
Early Windows Mobile 7 build gets handled, incompatible with previous WinMo apps? By Ross Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:18:00 AM
In case you weren't aware, Mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin is somewhat of a living legend around these parts. The Russianborne phone guru manages to get his hands on an ample number of then-unreleased devices and juicy scoops -- but he's also been known to get things dead wrong from time, so keep that in mind. This time he might've just outdone himself with some apparent hands-on time with Windows Mobile 7. Here's what he's saying via Twitter: the OS has been built on scratch, and none of the old WinMo 6.x apps worked. There's "a lot of horizontal movements, a lot of
additional info by clicks... for WM users it will be a great step ahead. For market it's a copycat of Android 3.1/3.2 [sic] or iPhone." No direct comparison to Zune HD, except to say that it's a simpler UI than what he was
seeing here, and also no clue on the kernel underneath. Still, the lack of legacy compatibility is either a huge bummer to the fan base, or if not that then Microsoft is preparing for a twoplatform WinMo world. Then
FiOS Mobile app comes to Android By Ben Drawbaugh (Engadget) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:05:00 PM
Every decent DVR today supports remote scheduling via the web -- well except Windows 7 Media Center-- and Verizon's FiOS TV DVR is no different. But of course web apps don't compare to real apps like this new one for Android users. The new FiOS Mobile app features a guide for remote scheduling as well as VOD browsing so you can mark what you want to
watch later, as well as parental controls and a free space indicator -- something TiVo doesn't even offer on the DVR itself. Of course there's no way to actually watch content from
your DVR, and we're not surprised. Now before you get too jealous of Android users with Verizon's FiOS TV DVR, we'd like to remind you that the FiOS DVR has a measly 160GB hard
again, this is a purported early build (and while we're at it, an unconfirmed hands-on), so who knows what's bound to change before the final release. There's a lot of other details if you're willing to check his feed, or just head over to WMPoweruser for the abridged / "good parts" version. Boy, February just can't come soon enough. Early Windows Mobile 7 build gets handled, incompatible with previous WinMo apps? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink WMPoweruser| Twitter (@eldarmurtazin)| Email this| Comments
Paid New York Times Content Plan Could Coincide with Apple Tablet Announcement [Newspapers] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:50:00 AM
The New York Times experimented with paid content before, without much success, but that's not stopping them from giving it a go again. This time, however, the paid-to-free content changeover might coincide with a certain unconfirmed mystery tablet. The NYT announcement is expected to arrive in the "coming weeks," which puts it smack dab in the middle of Apple's mystery product press conference, slated for January 27. Convenient! According to New York magazine, the paid content drive and no external disk model could also arrive hand-insupport, and as you can see from hand with an Apple partnership the screen shot, FiOS users don't or distribution deal. have any free space left for new It's all just industry rumor and buzz for now, of course, but the recordings anyway. FiOS Mobile app comes to part about a media partnership Android originally appeared on rings true considering all the Engadget on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 Apple meetings and news we 12:05:00 EST. Please see our heard on that front in 2009. [ t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . New York Magazine via CNET] Permalink| Zatz not Funny| Email this| Comments
Gadgets/
E-reader News Edition
11
Meizu's M8 UI promo video is surprisingly professional, catchy By Ross Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:54:00 AM
Cowon W2 spec'd, priced, and dated for Korean consumers
Oh, Meizu, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. The KIRF-rooted company has released a promo touting the UI for its M8 phone. If any of it seems familiar, just remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Honestly, we're By Paul Miller (Engadget) has shopped around a theoretical By Ross Miller (Engadget) or 80GB HDD, Bluetooth 2.0, a b i t s u r p r i s e d j u s t h o w device to content providers, Submitted at 1/17/2010 6:48:00 AM 802.11b/g WiFi, two USB one professional the video feels, and Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:10:00 PM including almost assuredly the miniUSB ports, and a battery the tune's pretty memorable to Is it a stretch of logic, or purely New York Times, so it makes That lovable little Windows 7- promising 10 hours idle / 7 hours boot. Get it caught in your head logical? You be the one to judge. "sense." Still, we aren't putting powered Cowon W2 MID has video playback. Yeah, we're not all day, footage is after the break. New York Magazine is reporting solid money down on a single gotten two steps closer to reality sure about that netbook-caliber Continue reading Meizu's M8 from what seems to be pretty thing until Steve Jobs pulls this this week with a price tag and processor either, but surely that UI promo video is surprisingly solid word that the New York device out of a largish pocket of release date. In order, 599,000 to MID form factor makes up for professional, catchy Times will starting charging his and shows it to our face. 739,000KRW (equivalent to something... right? Meizu's M8 UI promo video is online readers for its content. New York Times to begin $ 5 3 3 a n d $ 6 5 8 i n U S , Cowon W2 spec'd, priced, and surprisingly professional, catchy That's all well and interesting for charging for access... something respectively) and Monday, dated for Korean consumers originally appeared on Engadget a media hound, but there's s o m e t h i n g , A p p l e T a b l e t January 25th. Unfortunately, originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:54:00 a d d i t i o n a l w o r d t h a t t h e originally appeared on Engadget those only apply to Korea only, on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for announcement of this in "a on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:10:00 but if you are thinking of EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| matter of weeks" might coincide EST. Please see our terms for importing, how about we take a u s e o f f e e d s . P e r m a l i n k | YouTube| Email this| Comments with the rumored January 27th use of feeds. Permalink CNET| look at the full specs list: 4.8-inc Akihabara News, Pocketables| Apple launch. You know, the New York Magazine| Email this| WSVGA screen, 1.3GHz Intel Email this| Comments tablet thing. We already know Comments Atom Z520, 1GB RAM, 60GB (or are pretty sure) that Apple
New York Times to begin charging for access... something something, Apple Tablet
12
Gadgets/ Sports/
E-reader News Edition
ASUS DR-570 e-reader to sport 6-inch OLED color screen, 122 hours of battery life By Paul Miller (Engadget) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:54:00 PM
Well, isn't this a doozy. ASUS was a bit of a no-show in the ereader arena at CES, but has dropped some knowledge on the Times Online's InGear: it's building a 6-inch color OLED ereader, which flies in the face of previous rumors about an ASUS e-reader entry. The device, currently dubbed the DR-570 and pictured to the left, will play back Flash video, includes WiFi and 3G, and supposedly can last for 122 hours on one charge under "real world conditions." It's supposed to be released by the end of the year, and while from anybody else we'd assume this would cost an arm and a leg, the ASUS brand gives us some hope that we might actually be able to afford one when it hits. [Thanks, Ian S.]
ASUS DR-570 e-reader to sport 6-inch OLED color screen, 122 hours of battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| InGear| Email this| Comments
Favre throws 4 TDs as Vikings trample Cowboys
Dell Froot Concept Design Does Away with Keyboard, Monitor [Concepts] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
Designed by Pauline Carlos as part of a sustainability contest sponsored by Dell, the Froot also photos and share your memories! With the environment and uses a colorful case that's Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:02:39 PM I was there  sustainability firmly in mind the c o n s t r u c t e d o u t o f a Did you attend this game? If so, Five Filters featured article: Dell Froot concept saves the biodegradable starch-based start chronicling your sports Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: planet courtesy two projectors: polymer. As it's a futuristic memories today with ESPN's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, One for the virtual keyboard, and concept, the lack of a mouse is Sports Passport. Enter the Term Extraction. another for the monitor. understabdable—we'll no doubt games you attend, upload your
By Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:00:00 AM
be using our brains by then. More seriously, Pico projectors are *almost* there, but not quite, otherwise I'd be asking why this is still just a concept. [ Behance Network via technabob via OhGizmo]
Gadgets/ TV/
E-reader News Edition
13
Long-lasting Asus DR-570 Wants In On the Ebook Reader Biz Too [Ebooks] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
This news just missed mention in our ultimate ebook reader guide, too bad so sad, but nevertheless there's an eReader coming soon from Asus. The 6inch OLED reader plays flash, includes wifi/3G and lasts up to 122 hours per charge. Note that, like with all electronics being marketed to consumers today, that battery life claim comes with a caveat: "Under ideal conditions." The due date is an ambiguous "end of the year" and no price is
Boxetti Thrill Transforming Home Theater Can Morph Its Way Into the Scrap Heap [Furniture] By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:00:00 PM
The Boxetti transforms from home theater system into a white display case akin to something I'd see holding up housewares at a Crate & Barrel in less time than it takes you to say "fugly as sin."
I mean this is just, like, my opinion, man, but those colors? The bland white freezer box it transforms into when not in use? Those big, abstract art dopey ear speakers in the rear? Come on now. I'm all for transforming furniture—hell I even wrote a short film noir detective story
given, although it doesn't sound cheap (even if it is coming from Asus). [ Times Online via Engadget]
Smallville will have more costumes in 2010 By Brad Trechak (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:00:00 PM
On February 5th, those tuning in to Smallville will see the DC Comics characters The Justice about some once—but come on. There aren't even any lasers. Oh, Society in full costume (see and it's $8,000. For that price I picture). What they forgot to expect a Megan Fox lapdance, mention is that later on in the standard. Try again. [ Boxetti via season we will see another familiar costume make the Born Rich via DVICE] rounds in the Smallville universe. Spoilers after the jump... Continue reading Smallville will
have more costumes in 2010 Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments
14
Tech/
E-reader News Edition
18 Online Productivity Tools for Your Business By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:09:25 AM
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent access to your to-do lists, notes and documents on the go. Choosing primarily online tools for your productivity workflow is a great way to address the issue of source agnostic accessibility. It’s also a convenient method to ensure you have a backup of your important day-to-day items and files in case a particular computer or device fails. One other not insignificant factor in selecting cloud-based tools to keep you and your business on track is cost: the online equivalents of once desktop-bound applications are often much cheaper in both raw cost and maintenance cost, as tool upgrades usually happen behind the scenes and don’t require an in-house IT staff to keep up and running. With the tools on this list, you
should be able to check in on your current workflow stack regardless of which machine you happen to be in front of, what operating system it uses, and what browser it’s running. Plus, if you have a smartphone as your trusty mobile companion, chances are you’ll be able to access your tools from there as well. Check out our previous guide to mobile productivity tools as a logical companion to this piece, and consider your phone platform and setup and how well it may integrate with particular tools as you build out your productivity arsenal. To-do Lists One of the favorite and oftenmentioned entrants in the to-do list category among productivity geeks is Remember the Milk. Featuring a robust reminder system via your choices of SMS, IM, or email, offline task management, integration with Google Calendar, and tight integration with several mobile platforms, Remember the Milk also has a clean and easy to use interface that Gettings Things Done aficionados swoon over. It also integrates with a number of other web services and third parties including Netvibes and iGoogle, Google maps, Twitter, Jott, the Mac and Linux desktop, and more. Far from being the only game in town, however, Remember the Milk has a number of online todo list peers worth checking out. Toodledo is a popular newcomer
with a full-featured slate of ways to enter, organize, and sort your tasks. Featuring a tiered freemium service model, Toodledo also has great mobile integration and offers a handy comparison chart on how it stacks up against other popular web-based to-do apps. If your to-do tastes run on the simpler and less cluttered side of the spectrum, there are several options worth looking into. TeuxDeux bills itself as a “simple, designy, free, browserbased to-do app” and embraces a minimalist interface accordingly. Task.fm is another interesting option in the minimalist category, with a source agnostic and natural language approach to getting items in and back out to you at just the right time with various reminder options. Ta-da List is a product from 37signals, makers of other popular web project management tools like Basecamp, Backpack, and Campfire — so if your small business already uses any 37signals tools you might find Ta-da List an excellent companion. Last but not least, the former Gmail Labs project Gmail Tasks is a simple to-do
list that integrates right into Gmail, making it a nice and lightweight option for businesses that already use Gmail and/or Google Apps for email. NoteTaking It’s difficult to write about cloud -based note-taking without mentioning Evernote. You can get notes into Evernote in any number of ways, from email to browser bookmarklet to desktop or mobile app, as well as via the web-based interface and even via Twitter. You can also leave voice notes, plus have Evernote use optical character recognition to scan photos of business cards and other documents, converting printed material into searchable text. On the organizational side, you can create multiple notebooks, tag individual entries, and set up saved searches for frequently accessed collections. Evernote’s freemium business model offers a generous amount of monthly usage in the free version and a reasonable $5 per month/$45 per year premium version with a higher usage limit and other pro features. Two other good choices for cloud-based notebooks that integrate well with their fullfeatured office suite counterparts are Google Notebook and Zoho Notebook. Both feature a typical web-based WYSIWYG notetaking environment as well as sharing and collaboration options for your notes and documents that need to be socialized. If you already routinely use either
Google Docs or Zoho Office in your business to manage documents, it might make sense to adopt their notebook counterparts for your outboard brain workflow needs. A couple of online note-taking options based on wiki technology include Springnote and Luminotes. They feature easy methods of linking pages and concepts together, and if you’re already familiar with the wiki concept and looking for a lightweight notebook that uses similar concepts you may want to check out these two. Springnote also promotes collaboration via notebook sharing as well. Information and News Gathering When it comes to staying on top of developments in your industry and trends that might affect your business, it can seem daunting to make sure what’s most important crosses your desk and your eyeballs. Several related categories of online tools can help sift through the noise and help you pull out the signal, plus safely store information and concepts you may need to retrieve later. In an earlier article we covered how to choose a news reader for keeping tabs on your industry, and by far the most popular webbased offering in that category is Google Reader. And if you prefer a cleaner, more magazineONLINE page 17
Tech/
E-reader News Edition
15
The BearExtender n3 gives you more Wi-Fi range at a low cost By David Winograd (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/16/2010 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Airport, Reviews It's not often that I've come across a product that works perfectly, does exactly what it says it will, costs a lot less than its closest competitor and provides a real and salient difference in my computing experience. The US$44.97 BearExtender n3 does just that. Roland Saekow, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, realized that the 'Airbears' campus network wasn't complete enough to allow students to connect from all parts of the large campus, so he developed an external Wi-Fi receiver that can boost the range of a standard Airport-equipped laptop by up to 200%. He partnered with Jason Opdyke of Rokland Technologies and brought his extender to market this past December. I was interested in taking a look, since my home network (comprised of a Time Capsule and several Airport Express units) still leaves a section of my house where I can't get a decent Wi-Fi signal, no matter what I try. I've been told that the only way to solve this is to run RJ-45 cable all around the outside of my house, and get a second router. Doing this would be ugly, inconvenient and expensive, so
when I heard about the BearExtender n3, I had to find out if this would do the trick and vanquish my Wi-Fi-challenged rooms problem. Within ten minutes of opening the box I found that it did solve my issues, and in further testing I became even more impressed. The box contains the BearExtender n3 along with two USB cables, one short and one long, and the software. The installer comes cleverly stored
on a USB flash drive, so you MacBook Air users aren't left out if you lack a DVD reader. You can place the BearExtender n3 on the side of your computer or attach it with a convenient clip to a laptop screen. It does have some heft to it, but clipping it to the back, as shown in the picture, doesn't obscure any of the screen. After plugging it into a USB port, installing the Railink driver software, rebooting and
configuring a few settings, I tried it all around my house. In my highly insulated basement that needed four Airport Express units to get a signal from one side to the other, I was able to unplug two of them and connect just fine. Re-enabling the Airport card wouldn't even show me a network. The BEn3 overrides the Airport card in your computer and increases your signal strength from the reported 20 dBw (which translates to 100
millwatts) in an Airport card to 700 millwatts. It also features a 2dBi gain antenna, which, though large, bypasses interference created by the Airport card living in an aluminum case. The result is the best extender I have ever tried at the the best price ever. I'm sure there are others, but I found the closest competitor is the Quickertech Quicky which is rated at 500 millwatts and costs $US225. The BEn3 ups the ante by 200 millwatts and costs only $US44.97. The BEn3 is about five times cheaper while providing better range. Both units use the Railink chipset and require basically the same software. The downside, and I really don't consider this much of a downside, is that the BearExtender runs only on the 2.4GHz band; this doesn't give you the option of a 5Ghz 802.11n network. This probably won't be an issue for you if you're in a relatively interference -free area as far as Wi-Fi channels go (2.4GHz requires more space between channels for uncluttered networking); if you have lots of neighbors crowding the spectrum, though, the lack of a 5 GHz option might cause some issues. If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, it won't work on a pure BEAREXTENDER page 20
16
Tech/ Sports/
E-reader News Edition
10 Excellent Accessories for Your Amazon Kindle By Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/17/2010 8:57:17 AM
The Kindle — Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ “iPod of reading” — has seen a similar (if scaled down) explosion of accessories, peripherals, add-ons and adornments as the Apple MP3 player. Finding great products to compliment your e-book reader can be a bit of an up-hill struggle, however. To help you out, we’ve compiled a list of ten great accessories that will complete your Kindle with both style and substance. 1. Gelaskins For around the $20 mark, add some funky art to your eliterature with these wicked sticky-back plastic skins that offer 3M tech for easy application and clean removal. The only trouble you’ll have, in fact, is deciding which of the designs to go for. Cost:$19.95 for Kindle 2 and Kindle DX 2. Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Clip-On Light The Kindle’s E-Ink display is fantastic for reading in daylight, offering the same contrast ratio as paper. But just like paper, when the lights go down, you’re
going to struggle to see the text, even if you’ve been eating your carrots. That’s where this clip-on light comes in handy, offering some targeted LED illumination. Plus, it’s got be better than strapping a flashlight to your forehead. Cost:$19.99 3. ZAGG invisibleSHIELD Screen Protector Yes, this one’s a bit boring, but what could be worse having to grit your teeth and stare through a big, ugly scratch on your Kindle’s display every time you have a read? ZAGG’s pre-cut invisibleSHIELD for the Kindle has its origins in the military, where it was used to protect high -speed helicopter blades from dust, dirt and debris, which you’ve got to admit, does add a bit of cool factor. Cost:$24.99 4. Customized Borsa Bella Bag If you think your precious Kindle is deserving of its own bag, then Borsa Bella offers some gorgeous, home-made options at a great value. And for 10% extra, they will customize a bag just for you, be it via personal choice of fabric (which you can send in), or an extra pocket here or there. Protect your
fave e-reader in an unfussy way. Cost:$24.99 7. Kradle Kindle Stand The beige version of this looks like something IBM would have bundled with the 5150, but you can’t argue with the functionality. With this stand for the Kindle, you can catch up on Kindle and stand out from the Mashable over breakfast handscrowd. It’s a win-win. free. It can be set to a 15-degree Cost: From $38. F o r angle –- optimal for holding the customization, add 10%. Extra device and reading, saving any pockets by negotiation. 5. Cole strain on your wrists for other, Haan Leather Kindle Cover less cerebral activities. Give your Kindle the gravitas of Cost:$19.99 8. Kindle Car a classic leather-bound tome Charger with this saddle tan-toned, hand- Here’s another one that falls into stained, pebble-grain leather the practical category. As the case, which we think says “I may Kindle ships with both a US be all up in your face with my power adapter and a micro-USB cutting-edge electronic book cable for charging up via your device, but I still appreciate the PC, your vehicle is the only classic things in life, like cow- place you might run into power hide.” Or something like that. issues. This useful device Cost:$99.99 6. Built Neoprene promises a rapid charge, won’t Kindle Sleeve overcharge, and comes with a If you’re really not the Cole lifetime guarantee, so certainly Haan or Borsa Bella type, then a ticks all the sensible boxes. more modern approach to Kindle Cost:$19.95 9. M-Edge coverings may suit you, and Waterproof Guardian Case Built’s neoprene sleeves for 6- Said to be, and we quote, “‘oh i n c h K i n d l e s f i t t h a t b i l l . crap’ proof,” the Guardian case Available in a bright stripe, or in offers your Kindle “ultimate red and black, they will add protection” (which we’re sure is some urban-chic padding to your also a Steven Segal movie).
Week in Review: Return of the Mac By David Whitley (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/17/2010 8:17:00 AM
One thing became perfectly
clear last week. Jack Clark should be baseball commissioner. The former St. Louis slugger weighed in after Mark McGwire
steroid freak. Clark was so eloquent we'll just turn today's program over to him. finally admitted to being a
And, thanks to its waterproofness and ability to float, you can finally take your Kindle into the tub for a nice long soak and a good read –- bliss. Cost: TBD when the product launches this Spring 10. Mashable Kindle Edition Blog Oh come on, we couldn’t offer the best Kindle bits and bobs without some shameless selfpromotion, now could we? Mashable is available as a special “Kindle Edition” blog, so instead of fussing around with the device’s experimental beta browser, you can get Mashable content wirelessly auto-updated onto your Kindle so you can read up on all the news and features even when you’re not connected. Cost:$0.99 per month (but worth every cent!) More e-book resources from Mashable: - 10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers - Barnes and Noble Nook MetaReview: “Not Fully Baked” - Digital Textbooks: 3 Reasons Students Aren’t Ready Tags: amazon, e-book, e-books, eBook, ebooks, ereader, ereaders, Kindle, List, Lists, online shopping, shopping
Tech Tips/
E-reader News Edition
17
ONLINE continued from page 14
like view of your Reader feeds over Google’s native interface, Firefox users should definitely give Feedly a try. But simply employing an RSS reader doesn’t always solve the problem of having too much incoming information to stay on top of, which doesn’t always come in at the most convenient time for you to absorb it. A couple of tools can help with the latter problem of specifically storing an article and helping you remember to read it later, perhaps when other duties and tasks have quieted down and you find yourself with some spare moments to catch up on the things you knew you should make time to read at some point. Both Instapaper and Read It Later allow you to create a stack of items set aside for later reading, with a simple and uncluttered interface allowing you to check off or archive items after you’ve gotten around to reading them. Both integrate with various other tools in your online arsenal, with browser bookmarklet entry and iPhone integration. Instapaper also integrates with Feedly so you can send items directly to it from
your feed reading experience, while Read It Later offers a Firefox extension that brings your “to read” stack closely into your browser. Instapaper also allows you to easily generate a printable version of your on deck items, or even download them in Kindle or ePub formats for reading on the go. For longer-term storage of important articles, social bookmarking tools come in handy for preventing your bookmarks from being “trapped” in a single browser on a single machine. One of the original pioneering web services, delicious.com, is still flourishing (and now owned by Yahoo). Using a browser bookmarklet you can send articles and web pages you want to refer back to later to your delicious account, plus a short personal note and topic tags. The net effect of collecting many users’ individual bookmarks also creates a valuable discovery engine that can turn you on to even more relevant material in your business’s industry or niche. Two other options worth checking out include Diigo, a relative newcomer that offers
integration with your delicious collection and allows you to highlight and annotate portions of pages, and Clipmarks, which focuses on saving and sharing just the parts of web pages you find most useful. Going Further The above are just a few of the productivity categories in which online tools can help your current workflow stack stay accessible from almost anywhere. Other web-based tools can help with mobile office needs from calendaring to document collaboration, filesharing to collaborative presentations, from start pages to contact management and more. Other tools, like Jott Assistant, are out there to help you tie those tools together and access them via other applications you use regularly. It’s helpful to keep a flexible and open attitude towards your workflow and the tools you use, and occasionally take stock of what’s working, what’s not working as well as it should, and areas where your productivity seems to suffer. If you’re willing to spend even a modest amount of time being periodically adventurous with new tools, you
could open workflow channels you weren’t even aware were blocked, and even infuse your day-to-day and your business with new ideas and new energy. More business resources from Mashable: - HOW TO: Choose a News Reader for Keeping Tabs on Your Industry - HOW TO: Use a Start Page to Stay Organized - The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration - 5 Tips for Creating a Successful Social Media Contest - HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI - HOW TO: Use Social Media to Connect with Other Entrepreneurs - HOW TO: Implement a Social Media Business Strategy Image courtesy of iStockphoto, inkastudio Tags: business, evernote, gmail tasks, google notebook, google reader, List, Lists, online productivity, productivity, Productivity Lists, small business, task.fm, Zoho
Textbook Price Comparison Helps You Find the Cheapest Textbooks [Saving Money] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:00:00 PM
The high price of textbooks is always a bitter pill to swallow at the start of a new semester. Web site Textbook Price Comparison searches vendors across the web to find the best prices on new and used textbooks. There's really not much to say about the site beyond that. You can search for books by ISBN, title, author, or keywords, and it returns search results into categories sorted by lowest overall prices, used book prices, new book prices, and rental prices. In short, it makes it very easy to find the most inexpensive option for your book buying. Textbook Price Comparison
Make Some Tasty Homemade Marmalade [Weekend Project] By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:00:00 PM
Got a hankering for some tasty marmalade to take advantage of the bounty of in-season oranges?
DIY weblog Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories details how to go from orange to marmalade in delicious detail. Basically making your own slicing, and boiling the oranges marmalade involves peeling,
with copious amounts of sugar l o o k s [ E v i l M a d S c i e n t i s t until the tasty concoction starts L a b o r a t o r i e s ] to jell. Then it's just a matter of canning the fruits of you labor and, even better, enjoying it. Marmalade is way easier than it
18
Tech/ Economy/
E-reader News Edition
How to present like Steve Jobs By Chris Rawson (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))
skills; in fact, he has literally written the book on the Apple CEO's style, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, which we Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:30:00 PM reviewed last October. Rather Filed under: Tips and tricks, than shell out for the whole Odds and ends, Steve Jobs A book, though, you can get a nice c o m m o n l y c i t e d s t a t i s t i c , synopsis of the key aspects of repeated on day one of just about Steve Jobs's presentation style every communications course from Gallo himself in the I've taken, is that people are YouTube video below: more afraid of speaking or The points Gallo makes are presenting in public than they are simple to follow, and pretty of dying. I've never been able to much identical to both what find an official source for this TUAW gleaned from reviewing statistic, but it's indisputable that his book and what I learned in most people recoil in terror at the the communications courses I thought of giving a presentation, took in college. Interestingly whether it's to an audience of enough, the presentation skills five or five thousand. Gallo enumerates are also very Steve Jobs obviously does not similar to basic skills needed in share this phobia. His stage essay writing: present a clear p e r s o n a d u r i n g k e y n o t e topic, outline what you're going presentations has been carefully t o t a l k a b o u t , p r o v i d e crafted to convey to audiences readers/audiences with clear his enthusiasm for whatever it is transitions, make statistics he's discussing that day. Whether relevant to your topic and to your you call it the " reality distortion audience, and so on. Underlying field" or just good public all of these ideas is one unifying speaking ability, Jobs's skills as a principle: keep it simple. s p e a k e r a r e s e e m i n g l y Gallo is far from the first person unmatched in the realm of CEO to analyze Steve Jobs's onstage presenters. skills. Back when I was taking a Carmine Gallo is one of many c o u r s e i n B u s i n e s s a n d communications experts who's Professional Writing, I came scrutinized Jobs's presenting across a post from Presentation
Zen comparing the different styles of Apple and Microsoft presentations. Presentation Zen makes the observation that Steve Jobs uses his Keynote slides as a primarily visual medium, with very few words (often only a single phrase) per slide and a minimum of graphics. Jobs uses Keynote slides to emphasize his key points without drawing too much audience attention away from where it belongs: on Jobs,
the presenter. By contrast, Microsoft's presentations are an all-too-familiar iteration of the "PowerPoint Hell" we've all suffered through at one time or another, whether in a college course or a business meeting: reams of text on the slide, confusing graphics, busy slides, and masses of bullet points that draw your attention away from the presenter and have you spending half the presentation
stronghold. Democrats are worried that a defeat or a narrow victory for candidate Martha Coakley on Tuesday in a special election to
fill the seat held by Ted Kennedy for more than four decades would imperil Democratic efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system.
just trying to read the slides. I've deliberately emulated Steve Jobs's presentation style for several of my own presentations since reading the Presentation Zen article, and by doing so every speech I've given has been successful in three key ways: alleviating any public speaking anxiety I may have felt, keeping the audience engaged and enthusiastic about the topic, and most importantly, getting the point of the presentation across without being a massive bore. Given that Jobs has an industrywide reputation as a phenomenal showman, it certainly can't hurt to swipe some of his presentation tactics for your own speeches although be aware that the black turtleneck and jeans look doesn't work for everyone. [Via lifehacker] TUAW How to present like Steve Jobs originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Obama enters Kennedy fight (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:26:31 AM
President Barack Obama on
Sunday put his political prowess on the line, hitting the campaign trail in Massachusetts amid fears the Democratic candidate there was at risk of losing the liberal
Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Tech/ Entertainment/
E-reader News Edition
TUAW Tip: Getting your fill with iTunes' autofill By Sang Tang (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:30:00 PM
Filed under: How-tos, iTunes I'm the iTunes music pharmacist for my family's iPod and iPhone music libraries. In short, what this means is that, whether it's due to "getting sick of hearing the same thing over and over when I'm running" or wanting a new song or album on their iPod, they come to me when they want their music refilled. Which is fine and dandy. I'm more than happy to do this, and have my trusty ol' 17 inch iMac loaded with everyones' music on it (except mine, which is loaded on my MacBook Pro). From the 3rd generation iPod classic to the iPhone 3G S, and from The Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, there exists an eclectic iPod and music mix in my family. How I would sync music for each person varied on a case-by-case basis, and usually took shape in syncing specific folders, playlists, smart playlists, and genres. For the iPod shuffle, however, I would typically click
did mine just because I didn't read the Apple support forums carefully enough. Except for first and second generation iPod shuffle models, the autofill option for all iPods and iPhones is activated by expanding the device (by clicking on that little triangle to the right of it) to reveal its media folder hierarchy. Then, you'll want to click on "music," and now you'll see the autofill option in the bottom left hand corner. The whole time, I thought it'd be located on the "music" tab within the device, much like how it's on the on the "music" within the device important as autofill." a n d c h o o s e p l a y l i s t - b a s e d And they didn't. They just put it "contents" tab on the second "autofill." in a different place for the third generation iPod shuffle. This morning, my sister brought generation shuffle, and have now Autofill is now available for all o v e r h e r s h i n y n e w t h i r d extended the feature for all iPods iPods and requires iTunes 8.1. The more you know...Dun, dah, generation iPod shuffle. And to and iPhones. duh, ding. my surprise, it, unlike its To enable autofill on your iPod p r e d e c e s s o r s l a c k e d t h e " or iPhone, click on "summary" TUAW TUAW Tip: Getting autofill" feature. Or so I thought. tab for your device (in the your fill with iTunes' autofill After spending a half hour or so "device" section of iTunes). originally appeared on The creating a size-limited smart Then place a checkmark on U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g playlist with random songs, I "manually manage music [and (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our said to myself, "Self, there's videos]." gotta be an explanation for this. Now here's where I got lost and terms for use of feeds. Surely, the folks at Apple confused, and I don't want you to Read| Permalink| Email this| wouldn't leave out something as pull out your hair like I almost Comments
'Avatar' Beats 'Star Wars' Nearing $500 Million at Domestic Box Office (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:47:00 AM
No movie box office record is safe so long as 'Avatar' is in the
theaters. Director James Cameron's 3D sci-fi action film has shot past 'Star Wars' to take the No. 3 spot on the all-time domestic box office list. Coming
in at No. 1 for it's fifth straight $1.5 billion worldwide. weekend in a row, 'Avatar' Click the pics to see what other grossed another $41.3 million at films topped the weekend box the box office, putting the total at office. $491.8 million in the states and
19
Report: Conan O'Brien's 'Tonight Show' Departure Almost a Done Deal (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 1/16/2010 2:28:00 PM
Conan O'Brien and NBC are reportedly close to hammering out a deal in which O'Brien would leave the network -possibly opening the door for Jay Leno to return to "The Tonight Show." On Friday, NBC execs and reps for O'Brien were close to determining the details of his departure, a source familiar with the negotiations tells the Associated Press. The deal might involve NBC offering the funnyman a settlement of more than $30 million and allowing him to launch a new show elsewhere as soon as this fall, the AP's souce says. The news agency says two-andhalf years remain on O'Brien's “Tonight Show� contract, and different reports place his annual salary anywhere from $10 million to $25 million.
20
Tech/ Sports/
E-reader News Edition
BEAREXTENDER continued from page 15
5GHz 802.11n network since they both contain 802.11g radios. Additionally, Jason Opdyke told me in their testing they discovered that using a 5GHz network would have cut the range in half. The 2.4GHz band allows for backward compatibility with b and g devices as well as n, so regardless of what you have, you're covered. Even if your network is limping along just fine, the BEn3 will give you a better signal. In my testing I found that a device showing 57% signal strength using the Airport card became 100% using the BEn3. The further away devices are the lower the numbers get, but with some rare exceptions the BEn3 showed much higher signal strength than using the internal Airport card. The BEn3 also showed me more Airport Expresses, connecting to one or two more than were found by the
Airport card. Here's another benefit I found. I really don't understand why it happens (maybe some of you can enlighten me in the comments) but the Internet speed test found at Speedtest.net showed the BEn3 consistently coming up with quicker download and upload speeds; often by as much as a third. Another nice feature is that it can be used to extend your network with other nearby Wi-Fi users. There are some other minor downsides though. The thing is pretty big and I can see it being a hassle connecting and disconnecting it each time you move your laptop. No big deal if you're using a Mac Pro, Mac Mini or iMac. The software uses 32-bit drivers so it won't work under Snow Leopard with the following computers: • Xserve (Early 2008) • Xserve (Early 2009) • Mac Pro (Early 2008)
• Mac Pro (Early 2009) It is compatible with Mac OSX 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 32 bit 10.6 Snow Leopard. 64-bit drivers are in the works. I can see the BearExtender n3 solving a lot of Wi-Fi woes cheaply and well. The best recommendation I can give it is that, rather than send back the review unit, I bought it. TUAW The BearExtender n3 gives you more Wi-Fi range at a low cost originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Healthy and Rested Colts Rout Ravens By Chris Harry (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/16/2010 5:30:00 PM
Filed under: Colts, Jets, NFL Playoffs, NFL Analysis INDIANAPOLIS -- Resting their players, controversial as it was, either did the Indianapolis Colts We'll never know if Peyton wonders or did nothing at all. More than likely, they're just Manning and friends could have gone undefeated in the regular that good.
season -- Indianapolis management and the coaching staff took care of that -- but what we do know is they're one win from the Super Bowl after trampling the Baltimore Ravens 20-3 in the AFC Divisional round Saturday night at raucous Lucas Oil Stadium. "Being healthy was what was important," Manning said.
The FBI Sucks at Photoshop [PIC] By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/16/2010 10:38:42 PM
The FBI this week released a “digitally-altered” image showing what Osama Bin Laden possibly looks like now he’s older. While the FBI claims to have used “cutting edge” technology to create the image, a Spanish politician has noticed that the poster is a modified version of his campaign photo — he now finds his face in America’s most wanted list. While on the surface it’s an amusing misstep by intelligence agencies, Gaspar Llamazares, the former leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, calls the move “shameless”. His safety is at risk, he told the BBC, and he no longer feels able to travel to America now his likeness is on a wanted poster: “Bin Laden’s safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is”, Llamazares said. \ Left, Bin Laden in 1998; middle, the FBI image; right, Gaspar Llamazares The FBI is quoted admitting to the error, saying that the artist found the photo on the web and didn’t know it was of a Spanish politician: When producing age-progressed photographs, forensic artists
typically select features from a database of stock reference photographs to create the new image…it appears that in this instance the forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the internet. The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph. The similarities between the photos were unintentional and inadvertent. We don’t think it matters that the man in question was a notable politician: using photos from an image search to create a most wanted poster is surely putting the subject at risk, is it not? Tags: FBI, Photoshop, trending
Tech/
E-reader News Edition
AT&T lowering cost of unlimited voice and data for iPhone users By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))
New York Times Website May Charge: Will You Pay? [POLL] By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:30:00 PM
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone The battle of snarkiness between AT&T and Verizon is resulting in benefits for subscribers. Yesterday, AT&T announced a new unlimited voice and data plan for smartphone owners, including those who use the iPhone, that offers unlimited voice and data service for $99.99 per month. The change was the result of Verizon lowering the cost of its unlimited plans earlier in the day, and consumers are the beneficiaries of the battle of the cell phone titans. Prior to the announcement, iPhone users paid $100 monthly for unlimited voice, then tacked on another $30 a month for unlimited data. Starting on Monday, January 18th, 2010, a combined unlimited voice and data plan is available for $99.99. That's a savings of $30 per month. For a Family Talk plan
21
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:46:10 PM
with two iPhones, the deal is even better -- $179.99 per month. Unfortunately, AT&T still charges for text messaging separately, so if you want to add on an unlimited texting plan it'll be another $20 per month. Beginning on Monday, existing AT&T customers can change to the new plans without penalty or a contract extension by using the online account tools at
www.att.com/wireless. TUAW AT&T lowering cost of unlimited voice and data for iPhone users originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
The New York Times is likely to announce a metered payment model for its website within weeks, according to a widely cited report from New York Magazine. If the report is correct, readers would be able to view a few pages before being prompted to subscribe. The motivation is clear: online ad revenues aren’t enough to replace plummeting revenues from the printed page. Opinion is divided on the matter: online readers are accustomed to free content, and the New York Times competes with all sorts of outlets (including blogs like this one). Erecting paywalls may drive readers toward these free outlets and sacrifice reach in exchange for maintaining revenue. Putting some content out of reach also threatens the newspaper’s “link revenue” – Google’s PageRank is a currency of sorts that drives attention and traffic, but bloggers cannot link to articles they can’t
read. Critics could also also cite the fact that Times’ first attempt at building a paywall – TimesSelect– was a failure. Yet if readers are ever to be sold on the payment model, which the WSJ claims is working in that instance, little time remains to change user behavior. Proponents might also argue that maintaining revenues is critical to keeping quality high. What do you think? Would you become a subscriber if the NY Times website began to charge? Will You Pay for The New York Times online?( online surveys) Tags: new york times, pay, Times
22
Tech/ Popular News/
Mauritius to Apple: Thanks for the iPhones, can we haz iTunes Store? By Steven Sande (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: iTS, Apple, iPhone Recently, the people of the island republic of Mauritius have been able to purchase the iPhone 3G and 3GS through mobile phone provider Orange, but there's one major problem -- there's no access to an iTunes Store. This brings back memories of the original iPhone, when there was no iTunes Store to tempt iPhone owners with its wares. Can you imagine? No apps, no songs, and no videos for purchase directly from your phone? It boggles the mind. Here at TUAW, we're doing our
movement and we have already been featured in many leading French-language Apple blogs." Well, Marc, now you have a leading English-language Apple blog taking up the cause as well. If you'd like to help iPhone users in Mauritius get their own iTunes Store, consider visiting the Facebook page and joining their group. TUAW Mauritius to Apple: part for the "Free the iTunes Thanks for the iPhones, can we Store" movement in Mauritius. haz iTunes Store? originally Reader Marc, who works for appeared on The Unofficial Mauritian Apple reseller Paoma, Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, notes "Thousands of iPhones, no 17 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST. Apps! We are hoping to get Please see our terms for use of Apple to take notice and include feeds. us. A Facebook page has been Read| Permalink| Email this| s e t u p t o d o c u m e n t t h e Comments
E-reader News Edition
1 Dead, 1 Wounded in Restaurant Shooting (FOXNews.com)
the newspaper says that a dozen police vehicles and three ambulances converged on the BUFFALO, N.Y. Authorities restaurant around noon. say one man is dead and another It said one man was rushed to wounded following a shooting at Buffalo General Hospital with a a Buffalo restaurant. gunshot wound where he was The Buffalo News reports that pronounced dead. The other p o l i c e a r r e s t e d a s u s p e c t victim was hospitalized with non following Saturday's violence, -life threatening injuries. and that the two victims as well Five Filters featured article: as the suspect worked at the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Delaware Avenue eatery. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, There were no immediate details Term Extraction. on what led to the shooting, but Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:17:51 AM
New York Times Website To Charge for Access [REPORT] By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)
articles for free before you’re prompted to pay up. However, the system won’t be Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:20:27 AM implemented for a few months – The New York Times website is likely in the spring. set to charge readers for access. The move is a gamble for the A decision is expected in days Times, which previously tried and an announcement “within charging for content from weeks”, according to a report. c o l u m n i s t s through The Times will likely deploy a TimesSelect— readership fell costs, however, the Times is metered system, meaning you and the project was abandoned. taking another shot at the paid can read a certain number of With ad revenues not meeting
model. NYMag writes of the move: The decision to go paid is monumental for the Times, and culminates a yearlong debate that grew contentious, people close to the talks say. In favor of a paid model were Keller and managing editor Jill Abramson. Nisenholtz and former deputy managing editor Jon Landman, who was until recently in charge of
nytimes.com, advocated for a free site. Will you pay to access the New York Times online? Let us know in the comments. Tags: new york, new york times, newspaper
Tech/ Politics/ Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
23
Donate to the Red Cross Conan O’Brien Selling Haiti relief effort via Tonight Show Gear on iTunes eBay By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))
By Pete Cashmore (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/16/2010 4:00:00 PM
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:40:48 PM
Filed under: iTS, iTunes The people of Haiti are enduring the devastating catastrophe brought about by this week's earthquake. Relief is finally beginning to arrive but there is an overwhelming amount of work to do. You can support the American Red Cross by making a donation through the iTunes Store. it's quite easy: Just navigate to the donation page [ iTunes link] and select the amount you'd like to send. Donation options range from $5US to $200. The Store confirms that 100% of your donation will go to The
Want a Collector’s Edition Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien Carry-On Bag? Head on over to eBay, where Conan O’Brien’s team has listed the item for the very affordable starting price of $399.99. On second thoughts… perhaps not — someone has just put in a fake bid of $999,999, essentially preventing further bids. The item was posted by the show’s team last week, and has five days left to run. Based on developments this weekend, it’s likely you’ll see more “Tonight Show with Conan” castoffs
American Red Cross. Your iTunes Store account will be charged as necessary. Please do what you can to support the emergency relief efforts. TUAW Donate to the Red Cross Haiti relief effort via iTunes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Headphones may not damage your hearing after all (Holy Kaw!) being auctioned off soon — Conan is reportedly getting the boot from NBC, in a deal that may be announced as early as today. Conan also attempted to sell The Tonight Show on Craigslist this week, adding that he was ““willing to trade for Coldplay tickets.” Tags: conan, ebay
Re: Tim Blair's Latest Glover Goofiness (Little Green Footballs) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:31:28 AM
Tim Blair is still outrageously outraged that Danny Glover said global warming caused the Haitian earthquake. (He didn’t.) Blair links to a Bill O’Reilly segment that blatantly misquotes what Glover did say:[Video] Here’s the misquote: There’s all this hell because of
global warming, there’s all this hell because of climate change … What Glover actually did say: You know, they’re all in peril because of global warming, they’re all in peril because of climate change and all this. But “all this hell” makes Glover look worse than “all in peril,” so of course Fox News runs with the false transcription.
Tim Blair, meanwhile, updates his post to take another predictable shot at me, because I linked to a story about Scott Ritter’s arrest in a sex sting with a comment about Ritter 180degree turnaround on Iraq: Be amazed as Johnson mentions someone else’s 180-degree turn. I changed my opinion on global warming, as I’ve written before, because I took the time and
effort to educate myself on the subject and learned that it wasn’t a hoax after all. The scientists weren’t lying. There’s no grand conspiracy to trick the world. I changed my mind because of facts and evidence. But one thing you’ll obviously never have to worry about: Tim Blair changing his mind on anything.
Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:58:15 AM
As much as you may get chided for listening to your earbuds too loud, a new longterm study shows that the prevalence of hearing impairment has actually decreased over the past several decades. For every five years later a person was born in the 20th century, their chances of having hearing impairment drops by six to thirteen percent, for women and men, respectively. Part of the counterintuitive conclusions are said to be a result of less noise at work and better health; it appears noisy inear entertainment products may not be as damaging as we thought. Save your ears and the rest of your body. Permalink| Leave a comment »
24
Tech Tips/
E-reader News Edition
Five Best Photo-Printing Sites [Hive Five] By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:00:00 AM
Digital cameras are fantastic for letting us experiment, take tons of photos, and search for the perfect shot. Digital picture frames and at-home prints are often poor substitutes for real photos. Get a great print at one of these five photo-printing sites. Photo by Shermeee. Once upon a time people took photos and dutifully carted their film down to the photo shop to get developed, waiting to see how the photos turned out. Now people immediately check whether or not the shot was good on the display of their digital camera, and more often than not stuff the photos onto their hard drives or upload them to their Flickr accounts, but never get around to actually printing them and preserving them in a physical form. If you've been meaning to get around to printing more photos and saving them from their fate of digital obscurity, the following five Lifehacker reader-selected sites can help you. For the sake of consistency among the pricing notes, each site's price will be listed as the current price (as of 1/17/2010) for one 4x6 and one 8x10, two of the most common U.S. photographic print sizes and good indicators of the over all pricing scheme at the site. Pricing is only one element of
photo printing, however, and we would strongly suggest reading our notes here and checking out the individual sites before selecting one over the other based on a few cent price difference. It's also worth noting that reviewing photo-printing services is very similar to reviewing, say, netbook computers. The end products are so similar to each other that the real test of whether or not you like one photo service over another photo service is to upload a couple photos and see if the little things—like the bulk uploader, the built-in editing tools, and the ordering interface—are features you are
bottom prices compared to other online outfits—although for small prints they are certainly reasonable—but it does shine with the most polished organizing and sharing system of the sites featured here today. It's obvious a lot of time and thought was put into making it really easy to share photos and prints with friends and family. Although Shutterfly doesn't offer a variety of pickup locations like Snapfish, you can order prints through Shutterfly for pickup at Target stores that have in-house photo processing. Shutterfly also has tiered-albeit less confusing—shipping rates which start at $1.79 for basic shipping and rise accordingly. You can view them here. Mpix($0.29/$1.99) comfortable with—just like your prints for delivery through MPix offers a wide variety of something as small as the the mail or for in-store pickup at print sizes (25+) and a diverse keyboard spacing can make or stores like Walgreen's, Walmart, portfolio of additional services break a netbook purchase. or Meijer. Snapfish has an like mounting on standouts and Snapfish($0.09/$2.99) upload tool called PictureMover canvas printing. They also, Snapfish is the most generous of that will auto-detect when your unlike some of the cheaper the photo printing sites in the camera or camera card is inserted outfits, offer silver-based black Hive Five. They offer 50 free i n t o y o u r c o m p u t e r a n d and white printing to help digital 4 x 6 p h o t o s t o f i r s t t i m e optionally upload the photos to a photographers really show off customers—and have done so for new album. Snapfish has—rather their black and white prints in a years—so it's a great place to confusing— tiered pricing for more authentic way. MPix, start when trying out different every product they offer. Rather unlike many other online photo photo sites. They also have some than even attempt to decode their services, also deals in film, but of the lowest pricing on basic shipping tables, you should the price per exposure for prints, like glossy 4x6s, you'll always stop by RetailMeNot and development, scanning, and find anywhere. Snapfish also grab a "free shipping" coupon uploading to your MPix albums offers a happy medium between c o d e — S n a p f i s h i s a l m o s t is $0.19 per exposure—we storing and ordering prints online perpetually running free shipping cringe to think what an 8GB SD and sometimes wanting or deals. needing them immediately. Shutterfly($0.15/$3.99) FIVE page 26 Snapfish allows you to order Shutterfly doesn't offer rock
Tech Tips/ Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup] (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/16/2010 5:00:00 PM
• ChromiumOS Zero Boots Faster, Offers Automatic Updates Chromium OS, the open source build of Google's upcoming web-focused netbook system, was made into a thumbdrive-friendly build early on by a helpful hacker named Hexxeh. His latest build, ChromiumOS Zero, adds Chrome extension support, speed boosts, and other goodies. • Strata40 Gives Firefox the 4.0 L o o k A h e a d o f Schedule(Windows/Linux with Firefox) Late last month, a Mozilla contributor showed us how Firefox 4.0 might look. The Strata40 theme and add-on gives your browser that same look, without having to wait or install pre-pre-alpha Firefox builds. • Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 Officially Available for Download(Windows/Mac/Linux) Mozilla just pushed out the first release candidate for the upcoming Firefox 3.6. Early adopters, start your downloads. • Install PHProxy in Your Web Space to Access Blocked Sites Got some web space you rent for
25
- 100+ smart ways to use LinkedIn (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:06:34 PM
Heard a lot about the online professional social networking a personal site? Good, then you then foobar2000 deserves a look. to your collection. site, LinkedIn, but still don’t can likely get around any • TimeGT is a Method-Agnostic • TotalFinder Adds Tabs, quite get it? Maybe you’ve tried restrictions your employer, Time Management App for the Hotkeys, and Other Tweaks to it but don’t really know how to school, or other eye-shielding Masses(Windows/Mac/Linux) OS X's Finder(Mac OS X) Many make it work for you? You’re authority have wrongly put in W h e n i t c o m e s t o t i m e users have been unhappy with certainly not alone. Here is an your way with a quick PHProxy management methods, some love OS X's Finder for a while, amazing collection of resources installation. David Allen's Getting Things wishing for tabs, fixes for hidden for the LinkedIn newcomer. • RGB MusicLab Turns Photos Done approach while others file annoyances, and other Here, you’ll find over 100 smart into Music(Windows/Mac) If swear by Stephen Covey's First conveniences. TotalFinder is a ways to use LinkedIn to its full you've ever wondered what a T h i n g s F i r s t p h i l o s o p h y . plug-in containing all this and potential. p h o t o w o u l d s o u n d l i k e Whichever you prefer, TimeGT more, creating a Finder worthy Get the most out of LinkedIn. c o n v e r t e d t o m u s i c , f r e e aims to keep you on track and on of a power user. Permalink| Leave a comment » application RGB MusicLab aims target. • WaveSecure is an All-In-One to help you find out—sans the • Make the Most of Chrome L o s t P h o n e LSD. w i t h T h e s e 1 3 E x c e l l e n t Solution(Android/Windows • Foobar2000 1.0 Released with Extensions(Windows/Mac/Linux Mobile/Symbian) If your phone Nicer Layout, Support for with Chrome) Shortly after goes missing or gets lifted, W i n d o w s M e d i a , a n d Google Chrome's Extensions WaveSecure, currently free for More(Windows) Freeware audio gallery opened, we rounded up Android phones, can lock it from player foobar2000 has a big new 18 worthy downloads. Now that further use, restore your contacts 1.0 release under its belt, Chrome's official add-on market and call/SMS history, and even sporting a bunch of new features has matured a bit, we've dug up roughly locate and track its and improvements. If you're more productive, annoyance- wayward use. looking for a lightweight media fixing, feature-adding extensions player that's highly customizable, that you should consider adding
26
Tech Tips/ Economy/ Tech News/
E-reader News Edition
FIVE continued from page 24
card would cost to process at the film-rate. Shipping starts at $3.00 per order, additional rates are available here. AdoramaPix($0.19/$1.28) AdoramaPix is the photo processing division of the enormous Adorama photography store—offering photo development services for photographers was a natural extension of their retail business. They offer the largest selection of photo paper of any contender in the Hive Five. You can select from seven different papers including those from the Kodak Endura line, Kodak Metallic, and True B&W for better black and white photos. Adorama offers 25 free 4x6 prints with every new account. Shipping is $2.95 for 50
prints of 5x7 size and under, $4.99 for any size prints of any quantity. Additional shipping rates detailed here. C o s t c o Photocenter($0.13/$1.49) Many people use Costco for printing because of the convenience of uploading their prints and then picking them up later that day at Costco while doing their shopping. The strong point of Costco's printing services is definitely a combination of reasonable pricing and in-store pickup. The mail-order side of things isn't a strong point with longer-thanaverage shipping times and lackluster support. That said if you're already a Costco customer and you're looking for convenient
pickup without a heavy emphasis on print or paper variety, it's an easy sell. Shipping is free for 4x6 prints, variable pricing for larger prints. Now that you've had a chance to look over the contenders in today's Hive Five it's time to cast your vote. Which Photo Printing Service Is Best?( polls) Have an experience with one of the above vendors—or bummed your favorite didn't make the list? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Fund chairman flags up US equities (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:35:36 AM
US investors who are continuing to shun US equity markets in favour of bond investments or emerging market stocks may be in for disappointment, according to the chief investment officer at T Rowe Price. With interest rate rises looming – which could dent the value of
fixed income investments such as corporate bonds – and with emerging market stocks having gained so quickly in the past year, Brian Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer at T Rowe Price, said investors should “fight that tendency to follow the herd”. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Add Some Rumble-Action to Your Mouse [DIY] By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/17/2010 8:00:00 AM
If you like the vibration feedback found in gaming console controllers and want to add a little rumble-action to your mouse, all-things-DIY magazine Make offers a tutorial that may be right up your alley. The rumble mouse is an electronics project from Make Magazine Vol. 06, put together by Greg Lipscomb. In the video below, Kip Kay demonstrates the process of taking an old
cellphone, pager, or other small vibration motor and wiring into a basic $20 mouse. It's a pretty neat project, although it does have one shortcoming—there's no way for
the computer to send unique feedback like a game console does to a controller. You'll get vibration for your own gaming actions, but when things happen to you in the game (like getting
shot at instead of doing the shooting), you won't get impact rumbles or the like. Still, in light of coding you'd need to do to get Check Out the it working with different games, this is a fun little hack. Check Companies That Make out the link below to see the ReadWriteWeb Possible digital edition of Make and find By Admin (ReadWriteWeb) additional instructions and Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:00:00 AM schematics. Have a fun peripherals-hack of Our mission at ReadWriteWeb your own to share? Let's hear is to explore the latest Web about it in the comments. technology products and trends. Rumble Mouse[via Make] We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we CHECK page 27
E-reader News Edition
27
CHECK continued from page 26
write a post about them - about who they are, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit or tweet them a "Thank you" (see link below each sponsor) to show your appreciation for their sponsorship of this site. Or you can follow all of our sponsors at once using our Twitter list. Interested in being a ReadWriteWeb sponsor? ReadWriteWeb is one of the most popular blogs in the world and is read by a sophisticated audience of thought leaders and decision-makers. We have several innovative new features in our sponsor packages that we'd love to tell you about. Email our COO for all the details. Ready to learn more about the smart companies that support this site you love to read? Read on... Sponsor Skip to info about: Crowd Science: Demographic data | Medill School of Journalism: Digital journalism programs | Mashery: API management services | Rackspace: Cloud computing experts | Sproutbox: Start-up investors | Aplus.net: Web hosting | Camtasia Studio: Screen recording | Codero: Managed hosting | Search Engine Strategies New York: Conference in New York | MyDomain.com: Domain registrar | Web 3.0 Conference in Santa Clara | Media Temple and SixApart: Our hosts and
blogging software Crowd Science Crowd Science gives online publishers reports on the demographics and attitudes of their audience. We at ReadWriteWeb have signed up to this new service, because demographic data is something we've struggled to get in the past. It's important for any online business to know their audience, so Crowd Science is a welcome addition to the stats armory that most of us in the Internet biz use. Sign up to get demographic data from Crowd Science. Thank Crowd Science on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Medill School of Journalism The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University offers programs that combine the enduring skills and values of journalism with new techniques and knowledge that are essential to thrive in a digital world. You might have a passion for creating finely crafted prose, or for telling stories using visual tools. Maybe you are invigorated by the possibilities of interactive publishing, or by videography for the small screen. Maybe you are an experienced professional looking to renew and retool your multimedia skills. You can find your niche in Medill's graduate journalism program. Thank the Medill School of Journalism on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Mashery
Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. At the "Business of APIs" conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. He went on to say that Mashery has helped customers such as WhitePages.com, Thumbplay, Compete.com, and Calais. Check out the white paper " Five steps to scaling your business development using Web services" to discover how you can use APIs for your business. You can find out more about APIs and their business use at www.mashery.com. Thank Mashery on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Rackspace Rackspace is one of the world's largest hosting providers, but it's also competing in the cloud computing arena. Rackspace Cloud Hosting offers a suite of services which combines a scalable web and application hosting platform (Cloud Sites) with a cloud storage solution (Cloud Files) and on demand server instances (Cloud Servers). The addition of SliceHost a popular cloud computing and hosting provider and JungleDisk, a favorite online backup service that supports Cloud files, makes the Rackspace Cloud a powerful cloud hosting solution. Explore Rackspace's hosting and cloud computing solutions.
Thank Rackspace on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Sproutbox SproutBox is an elite team of product developers, creatives, and business experts that invest their talent full-time in start-ups. SproutBox's new approach to venture capital has helped launch several successful companies including: CheddarGetter, a subscription billing and analytics tool; ScheduleThing, an online scheduling and reservations app; and Squad, a web-based collaborative code editor. To apply for start-up funding or find out more information visit sproutbox.com. Thank Sproutbox on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Aplus.net Aplus.net offers a variety of services relating to Web hosting, including shared hosting, Web design, marketing and online advertising services, search engine optimization, e-commerce solutions, and domain registration. You can register for Aplus.net here. Thank Aplus.net on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Camtasia Studio Camtasia Studio: Powerful screen recording. Record your screen simply. Add professional polish. Produce stunning videos at any size. Delight viewers on the web, CD, or portable devices. Train. Teach. Sell. Thank TechSmith on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.
Codero Codero is a former division of Aplus.net. Codero became a separate entity focusing on dedicated and managed hosting solutions after the acquisition of Aplus.net's shared hosting, web design, and domain registration services by Hostopia. "Codero" stands for collaboration, engagement, focus, reliability, and flexibility. It means a more secure computing experience for email, shopping, and data transfer. Codero is a dedicated and managed hosting company focused on the real needs of today's small and mid-sized businesses. The company believes in supporting robust websites, storefronts and online communities that will grow and adapt. Search Engine Strategies New York Taking control of your business's online destiny at Search Engine Strategies New York: From Social Media to Mobile, Video and Local Search, Search Engine Strategies New York will guide you through the complexities of search marketing and take you beyond the everyday fundamentals. Discover how this seemingly innocuous art touches and affects every aspect of your business' online existence, and how mastering it will transform both your brand and your profit margins. Register now through Jan 15 CHECK page 29
28
Tech News/ Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup By Chris Cameron (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:30:00 AM
In this week's ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup - our digest of the best posts from the past week - we discuss why HTML 5 is going to kill Flash, where the best school for majors in entrepreneurship are, and how for the most innovative entrepreneurs, it all starts with "why." Also this week we revealed some secrets to social media, and added to our continuing series chronicling startup communities with profiles of both Boston and Portland. Sponsor Death to Flash: 3 Great HTML 5 Demos This morning ReadWriteWeb accompanied The Great Wall Club(a group of Chinese mobile executives) to Google for a look at some of the company's development tools. While Developer Relations Manager Patrick Chanezon was unable to comment on yesterday's news of Google's threat to cease operations in China, he did show off some impressive demos utilizing HTML 5. Top 6 Colleges with Entrepreneurial Programs
For young budding entrepreneurs approaching graduation this spring, or for those looking to go back for a post-graduate degree, finding the right program for your needs is very important. In their seventh annual joint effort last fall, Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review teamed up to rank the top 25 undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs in the United States. Only six programs managed to make the top 10 in both lists, securing their spots at the top of the best overall entrepreneurship programs. Social Media Secrets and Resources Revealed Presentation company Slideshare recently released its list of"5 Social Media Secrets for 2010". While these secrets certainly sound like great suggestions, we thought we'd connect them to some concrete tactics and resources that you can use to improve your social media strategy. Entrepreneurs: It's Not What You Do It's Why You Do It Motivational speaker and author of the book Start With Why Simon Sinek believes he has found a way to map out the way inspiring leaders and innovators think. Young entrepreneurs who may think they aren't up to snuff
town grow into a bustling tech hub and enjoyed every minute of it. ReadWriteWeb caught up with the big boys of innovation with Turoczy and a few other should be encouraged by Sinek's Portland influencers to get a feel theories which seek to break for the scene. Never Mind the down inspiration into an easily Valley: Here's Boston With tourists flocking to the replicated formula. He calls his concept " The Boston to walk the cobblestone Golden Circle," a series of three streets of the Freedom Trail and concentric circles that represent v i s i t v a r i o u s h i s t o r i c a l the different ways we think about landmarks, Boston is often a product or goal. The outermost thought of for its ties to the c i r c l e , l a b e l e d " W h a t , " American Revolution. But represents, for instance, a Boston is also the birthplace of a company's product. The next revolution of a different sort. In 1946, Georges Doriot, a circle, "How," would be the technology behind this product, p r o f e s s o r a t t h e H a r v a r d a n d t h e i n n e r m o s t c i r c l e Business School, founded the represents "Why" the company A m e r i c a n R e s e a r c h a n d makes the product. Never Mind D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n (ARDC) in Boston - one of the the Valley: Here's Portland When asked what shapes very first venture capital firms. Portland's startup culture, Silicon In 1957, the ARDC invested Florist blogger Rick Turoczy $70,000 in Digital Equipment named 3 defining aspects of the Corporation, a company founded industry - hardware roots, open by two former Massachusetts source projects and iPhone I n s t i t u t e o f T e c h n o l o g y development. Turoczy has been engineers working on transistorin Oregon for the past 15-years based computing. The ARDC and started Silicon Florist as a was later able to turn around and way to cover the region's early sell their investment for $450 stage startup scene alongside million, quite possibly the best other Portland tech sites like return on an investment ever at Mike Rogoway's Silicon Forest that point. Discuss blog and Strange Love Live. Since then he's watched his
- Top 10 strangest Lego creations (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:52:00 AM
What do you get when you mix an affinity for small-scale building and a whole lot of free time? The top ten strangest Lego creations. Now, depending on your view—this list also doubles as the top ten coolest Lego creations. Hans Solo frozen in carbonite Lego air conditioner Lego Volvo XC90 All the latest on Lego. Permalink| Leave a comment 
Tech Blog/ TV/ Tech News/
E-reader News Edition
CHECK continued from page 27
and save $600. Enter RWW15 to save an additional 15%. Thank Search Engine Strategies New York on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. MyDomain.com MyDomain is a leading ICANN -accredited provider of domain name registration and online business solutions. For over 10 years, MyDomain has offered low-cost domain names and free domain services including complete DNS management. Today, sub-$10 domains without the constant upsells you'll find at some competitors are the norm at MyDomain. MyDomain's complete range of solutions include Web hosting and VPS hosting, email, SSL Certificates and more. Web 3.0 Conference The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, provides a strategically significant opportunity to make media and business run better. Also known
as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity. Thank Web 3.0 Conference on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. Our Gracious Hosts and Blogging Software ReadWriteWeb is hosted by Media Temple and is published using SixApart's Movable Type. If you've ever wondered what ReadWriteWeb looks like behind the scenes, or if you've never seen the Movable Type publishing interface - that's it on the left. We recently upgraded to
MT 4.23, which is the latest version. We got onto this release as soon as it was available - in fact our contacts at Six Apart emailed the actual code to us before it was up on their website. That's customer service for you! Thank Media Temple and SixApart on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible. The companies above pay our rents or mortgages and we appreciate it. We hope you'll stop by their sites and see what they've got to offer. Have you got a smart company that could use some more visits by the sophisticated readers of a blog like ReadWriteWeb's? Drop us a line and let's talk. Thanks to all our sponsors and our readers for your support! Discuss
29
Where can I get some nofrills hosting? (Scripting News)
I submit my changes. 5. Completely static hosting. No PHP no SQL, nothing fancy. "No So the next question in the hunt frills." for simple and easy static hosting 6. I don't care if you make a is -- Where can I get some? profit. Charge $10/month for the Here's what I want. service. 1. FTP access configured 7. Don't hype me. All the through a web interface. I don't services I see advertised on the want to do shell scripting. All web are long on hype and setup and management is done in closing the deal, but I usually the browser. can't tell what they're offering. 2. One static IP address. Ridiculous. 3. I register domains elsewhere, 8. Don't tell me you offer say GoDaddy, and I point hosts unlimited space and bandwidth. I at the IP address. don't believe you. Tell me up 4. I don't want to edit Apache front what the limits are. config files. Instead, through the If you comment, please don't tell web interface I associate hosts us about a service you love but with folders in my FTP space. doesn't do one of the things on Behind the scenes the service this list. I don't see anything here probably regenerates the config that's negotiable. files and reboots the server when Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:17:03 PM
Right now on Cinematical By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:14:00 AM
The folks at our sister site Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between: • Cinematical has a new featured
called, "Keeping Score," in which they talk about movie music. For their first installment, they tackle the best movie music of '09. • Here's a career suggestion for Conan O'Brien after he leaves The Tonight Show: get back at Jay Leno by starring in a remake of his movie, Collision Course. • It's not exactly a film-version of The Wire, but fans should take note regardless: A
Agree, or disagree? • Cinematical checks in with the Slumdog kids to see how they're doing a few years after their big breaks starring in the Oscarwinning film, Slumdog Millionaire.
documentary is coming out called, T he Avon Barksdale Story, which is based on the true story upon which the Wire character of the same name is based. Filed under: Late Night, Site • Cinematical posits that Scarlett Announcements, Celebrities, Cartoon: Freeze! Johansson's best role was not in Reality-Free Enhance! Lost in Translation, but in the P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | | Zoom! It's getting to bepage a joke: CARTOON: 30 the Woody Allen film, Match Point. C o m m e n t s magic things cops can do with By Rob Cottingham computers. "Wait - there's a reflection in the teakettle!
30
TV/ Economy/
E-reader News Edition
CARTOON:
Yahoo labelled ‘reckless’ for backing Google
continued from page 29
Magnify! Enhance! Now pull a DNA sample from the image! I don't care, just do it - boost the power if you have to! Crossmatch it with every person named Brent in the continental United States! Damn, this new version of GIMP rocks!" Annnnd... DING! Three seconds later, up pops the photo of the perpetrator, out go the cops to haul him in and America sleeps a little more soundly tonight. Sponsor We've grown to accept this, partly because without these little storytelling cheats our streets would be crawling with
fictitious master criminals executing horrific, if imaginary, atrocities. And partly because we have a tacit understanding with directors that they're going to keep us entertained, and there's nothing pulse-pounding about "Well-elp, might as well take the rest of the week off while this thing renders." But maybe what really sells us on the idea of magic high tech down at the precinct is that, deep down, we kind of wish it were true (never mind the bladderemptying implications for civil liberties and privacy). If we were being stalked by a sociopathic ex
-con determined to exact a terrible revenge for our having sentenced him to 30 years in prison, well, dammit, we'd want those nice CSI people to have every tool they needed to stop him in the nick of time. And maybe, just maybe, that technology could trickle down to, say, the prosumer market. "Computer... draw cartoon!" More Noise to Signal. Discuss
(Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:58:08 AM
What's On Tonight: 60 Minutes, Golden Globes, 24, Iron Chef America By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
• FOX has the series premiere of Human Target at 8, followed by the two-hour season premiere of 24. • A t 7 , A B C h a s a n e w • PBS has a new Nature at 8, A m e r i c a ' s F u n n i e s t H o m e then a new Masterpiece Classic. Videos. • Food Network has a new • NBC has the Golden Globes C h a l l e n g e a t 8 , t h e n n e w R e d C a r p e t S p e c i a l a t 7 , episodes of Iron Chef America followed by The Golden Globe and Worst Cooks in America. Awards. • Also at 8: BBC America has • ESPN has coverage of The the movie Vertigo. Australian Open at 7. • A t 9 , A B C h a s a n e w • HBO has a new Big Love at 9. • At 8, CBS has a new 60 Desperate Housewives, followed • History Channel has a new Ax Men at 9, then a new Madhouse. Minutes, then a new Cold Case. by a new Brothers & Sisters. Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:22:00 PM
• At 10, A&E has a new The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty at 10. • Comedy Central has Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening at 10. Check your local TV listings for more. Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality -Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments
Yahoo’s Chinese partner issued a scathing criticism of the US technology company at the weekend, calling it “reckless” for publicly supporting Google’s threat to quit the country in protest over a wave of Chinese cyberattacks. Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo holds a 40 per cent stake, said it had “communicated to Yahoo that Yahoo’s statement that it is ‘aligned’ with the position Google took last week was reckless given the lack of facts in evidence. Alibaba doesn’t share this view”. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Tech Blog/
E-reader News Edition
31
Corporate media is the problem (Scripting News) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:15:15 AM
I heard Jaron Lanier interviewed on the NPR show OnPoint this week. He was promoting his new book You Are Not A Gadget, which I haven't read, but I recognized the main theme as something I was getting ready to write about myself. So first, let me say it this way -- I agree with Lanier's concerns. And I think we should do something about it. The Internet is the most powerful communication medium ever, but we've chosen to give up some of that power to get it for free. It's still the most powerful medium, even with the power reduced, but (this is very important) eventually we'll use it up, and be stuck without the ability to communicate at all, if we don't change. And further, we won't know how we got there, because the record won't survive. I recognize the marketing in Lanier's message is designed to appeal to mainstream media, much the way Andrew Keen's is, but before the MSM people congratulate themselves too much, they're helping lead us down the blind alley, by constantly promoting the new kind of corporate media that's no better than the corporate media that employ them. When they tell us to find them on Twitter or Facebook, they're selling themselves and us out. Before going any further, let me
explain what I mean by "do something about it." 1. You should pay for your own hosting. 2. You should write your own biography, not delegate it to invisible masses on Wikipedia. 3. You should write other people's biographies, from your point of view. Or at least tell true stories about them, which can be assembled by others into alternate views. 4. Sign your name to all your writing. Use your real name, the one on your driver's license, tax returns, passport, draft card. 5. If you care about a subject, write a definitive piece on it that reflects your point of view,. Don't settle for a compromise, group-think sanitized version in the form of a Wikipedia page. 6. You should own your own domain, or set of domains, and pay the registration fees yourself. We need diversity of opinion, not a mass of slurry that's formed into corporate frankfurter meat. As good as Wikipedia is, and it's usually pretty good, it's taking us to the wrong place -- a place where dissenting views are given no voice. A place where facts are created and sustained that aren't factual. I've seen it happen myself, with events I know about personally. The Wikipedia record is incorrect, and can't be corrected. If you try making the correction (if you're allowed to by the ethical guidelines, that seem to prohibit people with first -hand knowledge from
have a customer relationship with the service that hosts it. If you don't like the service you're getting it should be easy to move your Internet presence to another location. You should be able to pay for this hosting in advance so your work survives you. And if you think you can easily have your independence, trust me, you can't. Your Internet presence is owned by corporate media as much as the newscaster on NBC Nightly News, or a reporter on All Things Considered, or the Public Editor of the NY Times. We are all slaves to corporate media. Except these days the bosses are the people who own the social contributing) it quickly gets networks, their names are r e v e r t e d . T h a t ' s b e e n m y Zuckerberg, Jobs, Williams, experience. Very quickly you Stone, Brin, Page and Schmidt. give up, understanding that the If you want to know how much power to control the record t h e y r e s p e c t y o u r F i r s t belongs to people who play by Amendment rights, the answer is rules you don't understand. not very much. They're business S o u n d s a n a w f u l l i k e t h e people, they don't care about centralized corporate media of you, they care about making money and being more the past, doesn't it? August 2006: "In all that competitive. If you're thinking c o n t e n t , w h i c h t o d a y ' s the Internet is about free companies view as frankfurter expression and you're depending meat, undifferentiated slurry, a on one of their companies to host medium for unwanted hitch- your content, you're buying into hikers, is the idea for the next a lie. It's not their fault, it's yours, iPod, or the formula for peace in for not going to the trouble to the Middle East, the campaign find out. platform for the President we'll The most ridiculous thing is that elect in 2012, perhaps even a corporate news organizations are solution for global warming." t r u s t i n g t h e n e w m e d i a In order for your point of view companies to host their content. to have lasting value you should So the reporters there are subject to the whims of two layers of
corporate media! Talk about dilution. If you want to break out, your content is going to live in a little boat and will float in a harbor filled with battleships, aircraft carriers, nuclear powered submarines and pirate ships. They either won't care if you stay afloat, or worse, they will try to sink you. I'm not kidding. Keeping a website afloat these days, unlike the early days of the Internet, is not for the faint of heart or the technologically naive. If the Internet is going to achieve its potential, and these days the prospects for that look dim, we're going to have to create a service that doesn't exist. I described it in a piece I wrote last week: Jan 13: Static hosting should be cheap and easy. We could have a good discussion about this, but I don't know where. The industry conferences won't discuss your independence because they get their funding from companies that get the value from your dependence. Lanier is right, we probably have gone too far out on a limb to get back on track. Or perhaps some of us can figure this out, but our writing will be the only stuff that survives. It's time to have this discussion, maybe past time.
32
TV/ Economy/
E-reader News Edition
Louis C.K. wonders why Conan wanted The Tonight Show to begin with - TCA Report
Could Rich Sommer be Ugly Betty's new man?
By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
By Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:37:00 PM
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:01:00 PM
This morning, FX was in the house here at the Langham Huntington, with panels for Damages, Justified-- a show based on an Elmore Leonard character, starting Tim Olyphant -- and Louie. The last show stars Louis C.K. as himself, as it intersperses scripted vignettes about a newly-single dad standup comic in New York with bits of new stand-up material. I got a chance to speak to Louis after his panel, and we had a great talk, highlighted by the list of words he could and couldn't say on FX; it'll probably be the dirtiest thing we've ever published, but it'll be worth it. During his panel, however, one of the last questions was about the whole Conan/Leno debate. You'd think Louis would have sided with Conan, who gave him his first shot as a comedy writer. He did, but he had an interesting take on the matter: Why would
Oh, dear Betty, where is the love? I'm speaking of ABC's Ugly Betty, naturally. Despite the braces, the red glasses and the questionable fashion sense, the vivacious Betty Suarez remains a popular date. I can think of only one time this past season when she was dancing with herself, and that was by choice. Well, after Betty's on-again, offagain thing with Matt turned into Conan want the old moldy a very much an "on" thing -- and Tonight Show instead of a show a clingy one at that -- last week saw Matt making a decision that with his name on it? Continue reading Louis C.K. definitely puts the romance on wonders why Conan wanted The hold. What's next for Betty? Tonight Show to begin with Apparently one of the Mad Men. TCA Report Filed under: Other Comedy In March, Mad Men actor Rich Shows, Late Night, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free Permalink| Email this| | Comments
(Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:05:50 AM
Sommer will appear on Ugly Betty in a guest role. He'll be playing a Seth Rogen type -that's code for schlubby, nice guy -- who asks Betty out. Continue reading Could Rich Sommer be Ugly Betty's new man? Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Casting, RealityFree, Mad Men Permalink| Email this| | Comments
Clash over Haiti aid flights (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:37:19 AM
Fuel shortages, poor communications and a logjam at
the Port au Prince airport on Sunday continued to hinder a massive international aid effort to Haiti five days after a devastating earthquake in which more than 100,000 are now
feared to have died. The United Nations humanitarian agency, Ocha, warned at the weekend that humanitarian operations might be forced to shut down in the
Kraft to sweeten value of Cadbury bid
next few days if fuel supplies were not replenished. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Kraft is planning to raise the value of its £10.5bn hostile bid for Cadbury as early as Monday to more than 800p a share by adding more cash after investors rejected its initial offer. The US food group is considering taking advantage of Monday’s US public holiday, Martin Luther King Day – on which US stock markets are closed – to put forward a revised offer after its stock closed on Friday at $29.58, near 52-week highs. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
TV/ Sports/
E-reader News Edition
33
Source: Braylon Edwards facing NFL penalty next season By Adam Schefter (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:06:16 AM
Review: Saturday Night Live - Sigourney Weaver/The Ting Tings By Annie Wu (TV Squad)
lady). The writing was pretty consistent and suited Weaver (S35E12) First of all, Sigourney well, and it was fun to see her do Weaver looks incredible. Believe so many goofy things. It's not it or not, she turns 61 this year, often Saturday Night Live brings so that's something to think in someone that of her status. about as we slowly weep into our Let's be honest here. young but round, CheetosContinue reading Review: s t a i n e d f i n g e r s . S e c o n d l y , Saturday Night Live - Sigourney Weaver managed to play a Weaver/The Ting Tings v a r i e t y o f c h a r a c t e r s t h a t Filed under: OpEd, Saturday e x p l o r e d a w i d e r a n g e o f Night Live, Episode Reviews, w a c k i n e s s , a l l w i t h o u t Reality-Free humiliating herself (it was a Permalink| Email this| | dangerous moment during that C o m m e n t s "Fifty and Freaky" sketch but we all knew Weaver's still a classy Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:15:00 AM
New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards pleaded no contest to misdemeanor aggravated disorderly conduct this week, was fined $1,000, and given a suspended 180-day jail sentence. But his punishment isn't over yet. Edwards' case will be reviewed under the NFL's personal conduct policy and is expected to result in discipline, though not during this postseason, a league source said. AFC East blog
ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes about all things AFC East in his division blog. • Blog network: NFL Nation Edwards initially pleaded not guilty in November to misdemeanor assault after he was accused of punching a friend of NBA star LeBron James on Oct. 5 outside a downtown nightclub. The former Browns receiver was traded to the Jets two days later. Even if the Jets win Sunday and advance to the AFC Championship Game, the league will not punish Edwards this season. But Edwards is facing some type of punishment for the
2010 season, and a suspension will be considered. The NFL soon will review Edwards' case and make its decision based on the facts of this case and the receiver's behavioral history. Fortunately for Edwards, he does not have any prior incidents on his records. Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL Insider. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Gaines Adams, Chicago Bears Defensive End, Dies at 26 By Michael David Smith (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:21:00 AM
Filed under: Chicago Bears Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams died Sunday morning in South Carolina, county coroner James T. Coursey said. Adams was 26. Adams was taken to the emergency room at Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood, where was pronounced dead, the Greenville News first reported. A
preliminary autopsy Sunday revealed Adams had an enlarged heart and likely died of cardiac arrest, ESPN reported.
According to NFL Network, Coursey explained that "health issues" on Sunday morning prompted Adams' girlfriend to call an ambulance. Adams arrived at the hospital just after 8 a.m. ET and was pronounced dead less than a half hour later. Coursey said Adams had no history of health problems. "We are stunned and saddened by the news of Gaines' passing," the Bears franchise said in a statement. "Our prayers are with his family during this difficult time."
34
Sports/
E-reader News Edition
Boston Celtics' Ray Allen suggests limiting fans' role in voting for All-Star Game By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com)
evenly between the media and the players. He said players know who is playing the best, Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:40:56 AM and believes with his idea, Celtics guard Ray Allen thinks "you'd look at five guys starting it's time to limit fans' influence in the All-Star team regardless of All-Star voting with Allen hype or highlight." Iverson and Tracy McGrady, The NBA likes things the way despite having little to no impact they are. this season, both headed into the "We look at it as a great way to final hours of voting in position e n g a g e t h e f a n s , " N B A to start. spokesman Brian McIntyre said. Unwanted by their teams, "We think it's a good system." Iverson and McGrady are still The NBA went to fan voting for adored by their fans, who still the starters in the mid-70s and consider them stars even though this season made it even more their stats say otherwise. available to its fans by allowing The Memphis Grizzlies quickly them to vote by text messaging. parted ways with Iverson. The “ Houston Rockets are trying to That's taking away from another trade McGrady. player in the Western Maybe the players can swap Conference that's having a great stories of their rocky roads while year, that's been playing, that covering each other at the All- deserves to be in there.�-- Celtics Star Game. guard Ray Allen "I like the fact that the fans get Paper balloting has already the opportunity to vote and pick closed, but votes can be cast until who they'd like to see in the All- 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday night Star Game, but I don't think it on nba.com or by texting a should be 100 percent," Allen player's last name to 6-9-6-2-2 said this week. (MYNBA). Starters will be The nine-time All-Star said the announced Thursday night. fan voting has made the game McGrady has a good chance of "watered down" and called for a being passed, as his lead over change in the process. Steve Nash for the second guard Allen said fans should have 50 spot in the Western Conference percent of the vote, with the was only 2,375 votes when the other 50 percent being divided most recent update was released
on Jan. 7. He hasn't been able to strengthen his case since then, since he'd already been granted a leave from the Rockets while they try to find a trade. He's played sparingly in only six games this season since coming back from knee surgery, and Allen thinks commissioner David Stern should consider a rule mandating a player appear in a minimum number of games to be eligible. "Tracy, if he played, I'm sure he'd play well enough to be an All-Star player because he's done that his career," Allen said. "But again, that's taking away from another player in the Western Conference that's having a great year, that's been playing, that deserves to be in there." Iverson had a better shot of holding on to his No. 2 spot in the East, leading Vince Carter by more than 185,000 votes. He's listed with West players on the paper ballot after starting the season in Memphis, but his votes count in the East since he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. He hasn't played at an All-Star level this season, but fans may be looking at what he's done in the past. "A lot of times voting reflects career achievement as well as
yearly achievements," McIntyre said. Allen also mentioned getting the coaches, who pick the reserves, involved in selecting the starters. Even that may not guarantee the most deserving 10 players, since coaches could have their own opinions about who belongs in the All-Star game. During Shaquille O'Neal's unproductive, injury-plagued final season in Miami in 2008, former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas said he planned to vote him as a reserve anyway, recalling when he played that respected older players such as Julius Erving still made All-Star teams late in their careers. That's why Charlotte coach Larry Brown supports Iverson's election. "I've seen Willie Mays and those older guys start based on what they've done in their career in baseball and we've had that happen in basketball for years, guys that have made a contribution," Brown said. "That's why the fans are involved and I think it's kind of neat that they are involved. They support the league, they vote for their favorite players. I always look at a guy's body of work." That's fine for some, but it means worthy players are going
to be left out. Unlike baseball, which mandates every team be represented in its All-Star Game, the NBA has only 12 spots per conference to fill. "You figure if there's 24 players that get named to the All-Star team, there's always 30 that deserve it, and you figure that's six that should be on the All-Star team," Allen said. Toronto forward Chris Bosh had little chance of starting the game in his hometown of Dallas, sitting well behind LeBron James and Kevin Garnett despite a terrific first half. Yet he doesn't want to change the voting format. "It's all about the fans," he said. "It's all about who they want to see because they generate the dollars, they're going to watch the game, so they're going to vote for their favorite players and that's probably how it should be." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Sports/
E-reader News Edition
35
Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams dies at age 26 By ESPN.com news services (ESPN.com) Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:02:37 PM
What Caused Gaines Adams' Death? What Caused Gaines Adams' Death? VIDEO PLAYLIST • What Caused Gaines Adams' Death? What Caused Gaines Adams' Death? • Bears' Gaines Adams Dies At Age 26 Bears' Gaines Adams Dies At Age 26 Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams died Sunday morning of cardiac arrest, the Greenwood, S.C., county coroner said. He was 26. Greenwood County coroner James T. Coursey told ESPN that Adams, a Greenwood native, was taken to the emergency room at Self Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9 a.m Adams, who had just completed his third season in the NFL, went into cardiac arrest at his family's home early Sunday morning, said Marcia Kelley-Clark, chief deputy coroner for Greenwood County. Adams
The autopsy showed Adams had an enlarged heart, a condition Kelley-Clark said can often lead to a heart attack. But Adams' relatives didn't know about it. "Nobody was aware of any kind of medical condition," KelleyClark said. Toxicology tests are being run by the State Law Enforcement Division, though drug use was not suspected as a factor in Adams' death. However, those results probably will not be available for at least two months, Kelley-Clark said. "I remember him at the 2007 Draft as a fine young man," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said of Adams on Sunday. "Our condolences to Gaines' family, his teammates on the Bears and Buccaneers, and their organizations on their loss." In 47 games over three seasons with the Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Adams had 67 tackles, including 13.5 sacks. "We are stunned and saddened by the news of Gaines' passing," the Bears said in a statement. "Our prayers are with his family during this difficult time." Adams was selected fourth overall in the 2007 NFL draft by
Tampa Bay, but was unable to live up to expectations that he would revive the Buccaneers' once-feared pass rush. He fell short of the benchmark set by Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris, who said at the start of training camp that Adams would be considered a "bust" if he didn't reach double digits in sacks. He was traded to Chicago in October for a second-round pick in the 2010 draft. Adams said during training camp that he welcomed the challenge posed by Morris, who also called out the third-year pro after Adams began the season with lackluster performances in the first three games. "In football you need that. Players tend to get in their own element and do things that they want to do. They need to be called out sometimes. He's the coach. Whatever he says, goes," Adams said in early August. On Sunday, Morris called Adams "a true team player and a positive influence to everyone he met. My prayers go out to his family." The Bucs' ownership and front office and Adams' former Tampa teammates were saddened by his
death. "Gaines was a quiet, humble kid and is far too young to be gone," cornerback Ronde Barber said. "He had so much potential that had yet to be achieved and I am very sad that the full extent of his life won't be realized." "I still don't want to believe that it is true," added defensive tackle Chris Hovan. "I am deeply saddened that we have lost someone who I considered a friend for life. When he came to Tampa, I took Gaines under my wing; I considered him my little brother and that's how I will always remember him. This is all so unreal and it hasn't really hit me yet." "Today is a tragic day," said ESPN analyst Jon Gruden, who drafted Adams as the Buccaneers coach. "Gaines was an impressive kid with such a tremendous future in front of him. He was a great teammate and well-liked by our coaches and all those who had the opportunity to be around him in Tampa." Adams played brief stints on defense after his trade to the Bears, making five tackles. Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher
told the Chicago Tribune that Adams' death was "crazy." "I didn't know him that well because he came in during the middle of the season," Urlacher said. "But I did know him. I still saw him every day when I went into work. It's just weird. "I had a teammate die when I was in college. You just don't know how to handle it. It's just sad, man. It's a bad deal." Adams was well-known among Clemson fans for breaking up Wake Forest's field goal try and returning it for a touchdown in 2006 to defeat the Demon Deacons. Tommy Bowden, who was Adams' head coach at Clemson, said he couldn't believe the young player was gone. "I just couldn't believe it was Gaines," Bowden said. "I will always remember the smile he had on his face and I will always remember his patience." Information from The Associated Press was used in this story. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
36
Sports/
E-reader News Edition
NFL Playoffs Diary: Jets at Chargers (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:00:40 AM
Getty Images Philip Rivers (17) and the Chargers have won 11 straight games. The Journal provides minute-byminute analysis of today’s AFC divisional-round playoff game as the San Diego Chargers host the New York Jets at Qualcomm Stadium. Guest blogger Steve Kornacki offers commentary on the game and the CBS telecast. Feel free to email Steve with questions or comments during the game. 2:04 pm | Pregame | by Steve Kornacki By late Sunday morning, Vegas was listing the Chargers â- who won 11 straight games to finish the regular season at 13-3 -â as eight-point favorites over the Jets, the largest spread for any of this weekendâs divisional round matchups. But San Diego fans are probably still feeling apprehensive, and for good reason. The last time the Chargers stormed into the playoffs with the momentum they now have, they immediately suffered an agonizing defeat. That was in 2006, when Phillip Rivers, in his
first year as the teamâs starter, led San Diego on a 10-game winning streak to end the regular season, securing the top seed in the AFC playoffs. But against the Patriots in the divisional round, they melted down in the fourth quarter, squandering a late 21-13 lead and losing by a field goal. Marty Schottenheimer was shown the door shortly thereafter. The setup is similar today. The Chargers are the hottest team in the league. Theyâre rested. Theyâre playing at home. And an
AFC East team is coming to town. Then again, thereâs a reason the spread is eight points. The Jets were only 9-7 in the regular season -â and they didnât exactly have to fight their way into the playoffs, with the Colts and Bengals politely rolling over for them. And while rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez was efficient last week, he really didnât have to do much. Against the explosive Chargers, though, New York will probably have to score some points. Which means
Sanchez will have to throw the ball. Which could mean big trouble for the Jets. As they have all season, the Jets will have to rely on their defense. But against Rivers and San Diegoâs balanced and deep offensive attack, the challenge will be severe. Itâs hard to imagine the Jets offense scoring more than 17 points in this game, so the margin of error for the defense will be small. 4:41 pm | Pregame | by Steve Kornacki We're just about to get started.
So far, this has been one of the most dreadful NFL playoff weekends in memory -- three suspenseless routs by home-team favorites. The bettors in Vegas are clearly spooked: The line has spiked to 9 (for the Chargers) in the last few hours. Which is probably the perfect setup for a Jets win. Also: an outdoor football game! How novel.
Sports/
E-reader News Edition
St. Louis Cardinals fans cheer Mark McGwire in first public appearance
Heavy-Hearted Garcon Keeps Focus
By Associated Press (ESPN.com)
By Chris Harry (Fanhouse Main)
running shoes, the 46-year-old McGwire walked on stage to "Welcome to the Jungle" by Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:17:16 PM Guns N' Roses, the hard-rock ST. LOUIS -- Mark McGwire song played before his at-bats received a standing ovation from with the Cardinals. Cardinals fans Sunday in his first The team's new hitting coach public appearance in St. Louis was cheered by fans who secured since admitting he used steroids. seats as much as 3½ hours His scheduled news conference, earlier. however, was shifted to an In a brief appearance, he warned overcrowded hallway at the last kids not to try steroids and said minute, and McGwire evaded he was happy about his chance to questions about the criticism he's put on a major league uniform received from ex-players. The again. f o r m e r h o m e r u n k i n g McGwire, hired as batting coach emphasized repeatedly he was in October, added he had a "huge ready to move on. Rolodex of knowledge" to pass Dressed in jeans, a sweater and on to Cardinals hitters.
He was supposed to be at a podium minutes later, but when his news conference was moved into a narrow hallway it left reporters jostling for space and shouting questions. The session lasted just more than six minutes before questions were cut off and McGwire was escorted out by security through a back door. Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Submitted at 1/16/2010 6:40:00 PM
Filed under: Colts, NFL Playoffs INDIANAPOLIS -Pierre Garcon had every reason to be distracted. But maybe a distraction was exactly what he needed. Since news Tuesday of the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, the Indianapolis Colts wide receiver has been trying to get as much information as possible about family members living in the ravaged island nation. His parents and three siblings were
Kiki Vandeweghe: The Accidental Coach By Chris Tomasson (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:10:00 AM
Filed under: 76ers, Nets Call him the accidental coach. The guy who currently sits in New Jersey's lead seat recently was greeted as "Coach Vandeweghe.'' "It does sound funny,'' Kiki Vandeweghe said. Yes, it does.
Not long ago, Vandeweghe rebuilt the woeful Denver Nuggets as general manager and looked primed to become one of the NBA's top executives. But Vandeweghe ticked off Denver owner Stan Kroenke by flirting with the Cleveland Cavaliers' general manager opening in 2005, and was ousted in 2006. Vandweghe resurfaced with the manager. Vandeweghe, along N e t s t w o y e a r s a g o a n d with New Jersey president Rod eventually was named general Thorn, then began another NBA
37
rebuilding project. But something strange has happened on the way to the Nets' next summer having some $25 million of salary-cap room. They started losing so badly that coach Lawrence Frank had to go, and the team is the process of being sold to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
born in Haiti, and it is home to HEAVY-HEARTED page 38
38
Sports/ Popular News/
No. 1 Texas Survives Aggies' Best Punch By Terrance Harris (Fanhouse Main) Submitted at 1/16/2010 5:30:00 PM
Filed under: Texas A&M, Texas, Big 12 AUSTIN, Texas -Texas senior forward Damion James knew facing rival Texas A&M would be tough because it always to seems play out that way. But never in his wildest imagination did he think it would be as difficult as it turned to be Saturday night. The unranked Aggies never trailed in 40 minutes of regulation on the road and the No.1 Longhorns needed overtime and a sequence of incredible plays to avoid an upset in their first week at the top. When it was all over, the Longhorns were relieved to exit
E-reader News Edition
HEAVY-HEARTED continued from page 37
more relatives than he can count. Garcon, though, found some release Saturday night with an inspired performance in the Colts' 20-3 win over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional round playoff game at Lucas Oil Stadium. "It was a little tough," said Garcon, who carried a Haitian
flag to the postgame podium. "I wasn't as hyped as I would usually be, but once you start playing, start hitting, you kind of just go out and battle."
Stars prepare for Golden Globes (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)
Sunday's gala that it is donating $100,000 (ÂŁ61,387) to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti relief fund for Submitted at 1/16/2010 9:23:32 PM their Erwin Center with a 72-67 victims of the Haiti earthquake. win over a very scrappy A&M A host of stars are expected at Segregated squad. the Golden Globes on Sunday, British hopes in the film "When you have a big target on the first major Hollywood c a t e g o r i e s r e s t o n C a r e y your back, everybody likes to awards ceremony on the road to Mulligan, Emily Blunt and Dame take a good shot," James said. the Oscars in March. Helen Mirren, all up for best " T h e y c a m e o u t a n d t h e y Britain's Ricky Gervais will performance by an actress in a punched us right in the mouth present the event, to be held at drama. and we didn't retaliate until like the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Colin Firth, nominated for best the second half." Angeles. actor in a drama for his role as a Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, gay academic in film A Single Jodie Foster and Cher are among Man, will also fly the flag for the the US celebrities lined up to UK. present awards. Unlike the Oscars, the Globes U p i n t h e A i r h a s s i x divides its film prizes between nominations in the film dramas and comedies or categories, including a best actor m u s i c a l s . citation for George Clooney. The TV awards are similarly The Globes, which recognise segregated, with additional both movies and TV shows, are accolades for mini-series or films bestowed by the Hollywood made for the small screen. Foreign Press Association, a British talent is well represented body of around 90 international here, with Kenneth Branagh journalists based in southern recognised for BBC crime series California. Wallander and Jeremy Irons The HFPA will announce at cited for the cable movie Georgia
O'Keeffe. Kate Winslet, recognised in 2009 for her performance in The Reader, will present an award this year, as will Sir Paul McCartney - nominated alongside U2's Bono in the best film song category. Director Martin Scorsese will be honoured with a special award for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment field. Gervais, who won a Globe in 2004 for his work in The Office, told the BBC this week he was looking forward to being the event's first host in 15 years. "I'm going to say what I think is funny and I'm going to give the A-listers a hard time," the 48year-old said. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Game/
E-reader News Edition
39
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is going in for the kill By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Rumor: Former GRIN/Square Enix title 'Fortress' tech demo leaked By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
is responsible for developing Fortress-- if anyone is developing Fortress-- it's It's been awhile since we've impossible for us to test the heard anything about GRIN's credibility of this video. The "unreleased masterpiece"-- a original poster, YouTube user collaboration with Square Enix DiipuSurotu, doesn't mention (and assumed Final Fantasy off- where the video came from, only s h o o t ) t i t l e d F o r t r e s s . A n stating that it's a tech demo for anonymous report released last an "official, but currently September claimed the title was unannounced sequel to Final currently in the hands of another, Fantasy XII." We've contacted unnamed developer. Yesterday, Square Enix to see what they s o m e t e c h d e m o f o o t a g e think of the footage. purportedly displaying the fruits It doesn't really look like your of said studio's labor landed on traditional Squeenix fare, but the YouTube. We've posted said character models certainly video after the jump. resemble those featured in the Without any inclination of who leaked concept art that surfaced Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:30:00 PM
Submitted at 1/16/2010 11:00:00 PM
A lot of people seem to be infatuated with either Bayonetta the game or, sadly, Bayonetta the fictional character. Our minds, last year. Oh, also? There's however, can't seem to rid totally a Chocobo at the 1:15 themselves of that song that they mark. That's Final Fantasy-y play in all of the game's trailers, enough for us. much to the chagrin of our [Thanks to everyone who sent neighbors, online competitors, this in!] fellow coffee shop patrons and ... C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g R u m o r : well, anyone who falls under the Former GRIN/Square Enix title d o m i n i o n o f o u r v o i c e s . 'Fortress' tech demo leaked Consider yourselves lucky that Rumor: Former GRIN/Square there's an entire internet between Enix title 'Fortress' tech demo us. leaked originally appeared on Below you'll find our seven Joystiq on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 f a v o r i t e g a m i n g - c e n t r i c 13:30:00 EST. Please see our webcomics from this past week. terms for use of feeds. Vote for your favorite in the poll Read| Permalink| Email this| after the jump, and drop a link in Comments the comments to any great strips we might have I'm goin' in for
the kiiiiilllll I'm doin' it for a thriiilllll The Enduring Bleep(Digital Unrest) A Trend We Wholly Endure(Penny Arcade) Welcome to Pandora(Dipswitch) Sorry to Burst Your Bubble(2P Start) Probably Animism(Virtual Shackles) The Same But Different(Extra Life) The Perfect Gift(VG Cats) Continue reading Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is going in for the kill Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is going in for the kill originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
40
Game/
E-reader News Edition
Final MAG beta statistics released, over one million served By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Heavy Rain official site launches, announces 'Four Days Challenge' By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
murder mystery. The advergame's description claims it consists of "interacting Heavy Rain's marketing may be with characters, identifying clues missing that "mainstream [and] making decisions," appeal" factor it needs to push allowing those involved to sales with the Wii Play crowd, complete said tasks between but the folks in charge of the Tuesday and Friday of the three game's website sure do know weeks that the game is scheduled how to whet the whistle of those to run. You can head over to the of us chomping at the bit for sign-up site right now and get anything new. Starting on yourself all set up for what is January 26 and running "in real sure to be three weeks jamtime across three weeks," the packed with pure, unbridled H e a v y R a i n " F o u r D a y s excitement. Or a viral marketing Challenge" intends on tasking campaign. But hey, at very least, participants with solving a you'll get yourself a voucher for Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:30:00 PM
a free Heavy Rain t-shirt in Home. That's something, right? Right? Hey guys, where are you going? Gallery: Heavy Rain[Via VG247] Heavy Rain official site launches, announces 'Four Days Challenge' originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Submitted at 1/16/2010 8:00:00 PM
The last beta phase for Zipper Interactive's pseudo-MMOFPS MAG has ended, and the developer has compiled some facts and figures you may find fascinating. According to a recent post on the studio's blog, over one million people downloaded the MAG beta client worldwide. Of that group, around 619,000 people gained at least one point of experience, 52,846 became eligible for Squad Leader status, 10,249 became Platoon Leaders, 3,181 hit the rank of Officer in Charge, and only 143 players reached the level 60 experience cap.
Zipper also broke down the populations of the three factions: Raven and Valor each netted about 38 percent of the game's player base, while SVER only picked up 24 percent. However, despite its smaller size, SVER ended up winning out overall for the Sabotage gametype. Well, now we know which private military contractor is the plucky underdog. Final MAG beta statistics released, over one million served originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Game/ Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
41
Wedding Ring Returned to Hill Air Force Base Widow (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/16/2010 11:58:14 PM
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah A tragedy that claimed the life of a 28-year-old Hill Air Force Base F-16 pilot ultimately ended with a miracle. On June 22, 2009, Capt. George "Ice" Houghton, originally from Candler, N.C., died when his jet crashed at the Utah Test and Training Range, about 35 miles southwest of Wendover, Nev., during a night training mission. Assigned to the 388th Fighter Wing's 421st Fighter Squadron at Hill, Houghton's jet went down By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) More importantly, the front of in a remote area of the UTTR By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) g e t a f i g u r e m a d e o f o u r Submitted at 1/16/2010 9:30:00 PM the game doesn't look terrible. commonly referred to as Baker's customizable protagonist. We're Europe's current ratio of not- Strong Point. Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:30:00 AM pretty sure DC Direct wouldn't If you're still a little incensed terrible Heavy Rain covers to Debris spread for miles from the A c c o r d i n g t o P r e v i e w s ' know to make him look like about the totally boobular North terrible Heavy Rain covers is an crash site. Air Force officials February order form, Mass Ernest Borgnine, but with a American box art for Heavy impressive 2:0. They are batting c o m b e d t h r o u g h t h e s i t e , Effect isn't the only BioWare horrifically long chin. Nor would Rain, you might want to skip 1000, as far as not-terrible Heavy investigating the accident and gathering Houghton's personal property getting the action figure they know to call the figurine by right past this post. See, Sony Rain covers are concerned. treatment from toy manufacturer his Christian name, Borgnine Europe recently revealed the EU- European Heavy Rain special items. DC Direct. Located on the form Mountainjaw. only special edition bundle for e d i t i o n l o o k s w e t , c l a s s y Devastated by the loss of her are four listings for statuette'd [Via Big Download] Q u a n t i c D r e a m ' s originally appeared on Joystiq on husband, Houghton's widow Dragon Age: Origins characters, DC Direct also manufacturing mystery/thriller, and it looks Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:30:00 EST. Josie wanted only one thing from including Morrigan, Loghain, Dragon Age action figures pretty wonderful. It's got stylish Please see our terms for use of the crash site: the pilot's titanium wedding band. Duncan and, everyone's favorite originally appeared on Joystiq on fold-out packaging covered in feeds. troublemaker, Genlock. No price Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. realistic, imprinted raindrops, Read| Permalink| Email this| Since pilots aren't allowed to wear rings during flights, is listed for these figures, but a Please see our terms for use of and comes with a DLC voucher, Comments Houghton, like many other release date of September 29 is feeds. a page covered in helpful notes pilots, kept his in the pocket of mentioned. Read| Permalink| Email this| and some do-it-yourself origami. his flight suit. Though we know it's not Comments "A couple of days after it technically feasible, we're still a happened, I was asked if there little disappointed that we can't
DC Direct also manufacturing Dragon Age action figures
European Heavy Rain special edition looks wet, classy
WEDDING page 44
42
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
Haiti quake aid effort still slow (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:49:33 AM
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. An Israeli team freed a man from rubble after an eight hour effort The delivery of aid to victims of Haiti's earthquake is still being slowed by bottlenecks, aid workers say. UN and Oxfam staff are finally bringing food and water to some parts of the capital Port-auPrince, but the airport remains clogged with loaded planes. Many survivors of Tuesday's quake have become desperate as they wait for aid, and many are trying to leave the city. UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, who has arrived in Haiti, said it was the worst humanitarian crisis for decades. Mr Ban visited the ruins of the UN mission, where several staff including Special Representative Hedi Annabi were killed, and meet President Rene Preval. On Sunday afternoon, a Danish UN worker was pulled alive from the rubble of the building. Four other people were rescued during the day. The UN has launched an appeal for $562m (ÂŁ346m) intended to help three million people for six months, while some two million people are thought to need emergency relief. In this highly Christian country, there are still songs of praise
"The Haitian airport now is overwhelmed," said UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Edmond Mulet. The port is badly damaged, and many roads still blocked by corpses and debris. David Wimhurst, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, said aid was being delivered as quickly as possible. "Aid is going out but it's simply impossible in 24 hours to bring in enough aid to instantly feed all these people, many of whom are in places that are inaccessible," he said. The Haitian and Dominican Republic governments are planning an alternative 130km (80 miles) humanitarian road being sung, but also prayers for d e s c r i b e d t h e s c e n e a s killing at least one of them. corridor to deliver relief supplies the dead and dying. "apocalyptic", with thousands Airport 'overwhelmed' from the southern Dominican Relief has started trickling left homeless and almost every Correspondents say although the town of Barahona, the UN through, with NGOs, the UN and building destroyed. amount of supplies getting reports. the US military getting food and There are also security concerns through is still small, there is a The UN has warned about fuel water to those who need it. amid reports of looting. sense of movement at last. shortages, which it says could B u t d e m a n d h a s s o f a r The US Southern Command's Lt The UN World Food affect humanitarian operations. outstripped supply, as the -Gen Ken Keen said that while Programme has been handing out "Fuel is the key issue," Elisabeth distribution points become streets were largely calm there aid packages containing food, Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN quickly overwhelmed by the had been an increase in violence. while UK charity Oxfam has Office for the Co-ordination of numbers of people clamouring "We are going to have to address been distributing water. Humanitarian Affairs, told the for supplies. the situation of security," he said, US troops said they had set up BBC. "We need fuel to bring in Bottlenecks still exist between quoted by the Associated Press. their first foothold outside the supplies and carry the wounded." getting the aid, which is arriving "We've had incidents of violence airport to deliver aid carried in 'No help' in large amounts, to the people that impede our ability to support by helicopters. The UN says up to 80-90% of who desperately need it. the government of Haiti and But many victims are still not buildings in Leogane, about Meanwhile first reports from the answer the challenges that this receiving any aid, as the airport 19km west of Port-au-Prince, epicentre of the earthquake country faces." remains a bottleneck. UN have been destroyed. suggest the damage is even more AFP news agency quoted one of Humanitarian Coordinator Kim One survivor in the town said he dramatic than in the capital. its photographers as saying Bolduc says getting supplies out The BBC's Mark Doyle in police had opened fire on looters to them from the planes is still a HAITI page 49 Leogane, west of Port-au-Prince, in a Port-au-Prince market, major hurdle.
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
43
Analysis: Missteps, mood turn Mass. Senate race (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
winning a four-way race with 47 percent of the vote. She cut back on her appearances and BOSTON – A Republican's disappeared from public view surprising nimbleness, his e n t i r e l y C h r i s t m a s w e e k , opponent's missteps and shifting confident she needed only political winds in this "bluest of community and political activists blue" Democratic states have and their networks in what was turned a sure thing into an even projected to be a low-turnout bet. special election. Instead of Democrats easily When she emerged, it wasn't to retaining the Senate seat held for shake hands or rally supporters, 4 7 y e a r s b y E d w a r d M . but to sit on the stage at Kennedy, the GOP may win the inaugurations for newly elected vote necessary to block President Democratic mayors. There was Barack Obama's agenda. no stump, only press releases. It's a political reality few could And she balked at debates. When have dreamed possible only a the final one a week ago ended, few months after hundreds of Brown had clearly won it. thousands of Massachusetts "I think that everyone just residents lined streets in Cape assumed that it was going to be Cod and Boston in a solemn Martha or a Democrat, so why farewell to the Senate's "liberal pay attention?" Thom Carter, a lion." The question wasn't who h i g h s c h o o l t e a c h e r f r o m would succeed Ted Kennedy, but M e l r o s e a n d a C o a k l e y which Democrat it would be. supporter, said Saturday at one In a span of weeks, state Sen. of her rallies. "And I think Scott Brown has capitalized on everyone was guilty that were voter dissatisfaction to erase a supporters." d o u b l e - d i g i t l e a d h e l d b y While Coakley was cloistered, Democrat Martha Coakley, the Brown launched the campaign's state attorney general. He's done ad war on Dec. 30 with an eyeit by knocking on doors in catching spot. It began with conservative South Boston to get black-and-white footage of out the vote and by holding Kennedy's brother, President kitchen-table conversations with John F. Kennedy, arguing for an voters of all stripes across the across-the-board tax cut, before state. His pickup truck, with transitioning to color video of nearly 200,000 miles on the Brown completing the speech. odometer, became a symbol of Democrats labeled him his workmanlike approach. audacious for appropriating such Coakley ran a textbook primary a hallowed image, but Coakley campaign but then stopped after didn't respond in kind. She Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:29:53 PM
waited a week before airing her first campaign ad, and when she did, the spot focused on her prosecutorial career and work against child sex predators. Coakley did have one advertising first: She was the first candidate to air a negative spot, released a half-hour after her final debate with Brown on Jan. 11. Brown now has the chance to become a pivotal Republican Party player, the 41st Senate vote against the health care bill, the focus of Kennedy's life work. You'd never know it from Brown's ads, Web site or campaigning. He rarely mentions his party affiliation, instead saying he is "independent-minded." It's a nod to the voting reality in Massachusetts. While the state has a solid Democratic tradition, 51 percent of its voters are unenrolled in either major party. Only 37 percent are registered Democrats, while just 12 percent are Republicans. So-called Kennedy liberal Democrats remain in the cities, but moderates now populate the suburbs. They favor a balanced approach to government, and they helped elect Republican governors for a 16-year run before Democrats regained the office in 2006. Massachusetts' Democratic leader, Gov. Deval Patrick, is sagging after an Obama-like 2006 campaign full of airy talk
about "together we can" collided with a sagging economy, a sales tax increase and none of his promised property tax reductions. A Suffolk University poll last week that showed Brown statistically tied with Coakley also showed Patrick with a 56 percent disapproval rating. Obama's was only slightly better at 43 percent. "It's a very anxiety-ridden climate in the country," said John Sasso, a Democratic political strategist who advised former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. "And the party that's in, the Democratic Party, bears the brunt of that." Brown is practiced in running against the tide, both personally and professionally. The 50-year-old is both a triathlete and a Republican by choice, and it's hard to know which is more difficult in a state where the GOP holds just 15 percent of the legislative seats. Brown is one of five Republicans in the state Senate. Last fall, he ran against a perennial candidate in the GOP primary, but he and his campaign team knew their true challenge — and opportunity — lay in the five-week general election campaign. His first event was symbolically charged: He signed a no-new-taxes pledge and challenged Coakley to do the same. Coakley dismissed it as "a
campaign gimmick." An early poll by the National Republican Senatorial Committee showed Brown trailing by just 13 points. The committee kept the results private to avoid awakening slumbering Democrats. Last week when polls for the first time showed Brown on the cusp of victory, a key Democratic player, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin, said confirming the election results could take 10 days, maybe 15, enough time for Democrats in Washington to push a health care compromise through the Senate. That irked Massachusetts voters even more. "It's not playing by the rules; it's changing the rules of the game," said Scott McGrath of Winthrop, who held a sign at a Brown rally on Friday. "It's worse than dirty politics; it's bad sportsmanship." ___ EDITOR'S NOTE — Glen Johnson has covered local, state and national politics since 1985. ___ Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy and Steve LeBlanc contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
44
E-reader News Edition
WEDDING continued from page 41
was anything specific I might want recovered and I immediately asked for the ring," Josie said. "In a very tactful and sensitive way, they basically told me, We'll do what we can, but don't get your hopes up. So I figured it was kind of a lost cause." Maj. Robert Ungerman, a friend of Houghton's from the 388th Fighter Wing, served as the liaison officer for the Houghton family and was moved by what he said was Josie's one and only request. "We got some of his stuff from his car, from his desk, his locker and every time we returned something to her, she asked about the ring," Ungerman said. "Throughout the whole process, that's the only thing she asked for and to not be able to provide it was horrible." Ungerman, according to Houghton, "decided that no wasn't an acceptable answer to my question" and began organizing a team of volunteers to find the ring. Paul Nelson, chief of plans for the 75th Air Base Wing, suggested to Ungerman that the search team use the Ogden-based Trails West Artifact Society to join the search team with metal
detectors. "It was truly amazing to see it all come together," Ungerman said of the organization's effort. "There are so many links in the chain that went into this." On Oct. 17, some four months after Houghton's plane went down, a team of two Hill Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel, two members of Detachment One of the 388th Range Squadron, six volunteers who were stationed at the base, and the eight members from Trails West all headed to the crash site on a journey to find the ring. Lt. Col. Sean Keene, Detachment One commander at the 388th Range Squadron, said the search site encompassed an area approximately the size of eight football fields, with the group focusing on a central location within the search perimeter. As the search team reached the site, the initial enthusiasm quickly turned to pessimism. "We went down there with the best outcome in mind, but it kind of got discouraging after a while," said Master Sgt. David Czerwinski, a metal detector specialist and ground safety manager at the 388th Fighter Wing. "By about 3:30 p.m., I
thought, Oh boy, this doesn't look good. We just weren't getting anywhere and there was really no sign that things would change." Czerwinski said he soon realized the metal detectors weren't of much use because the group was "searching for metal in a metal field." In the setting sun of the late afternoon, the team began a desperate attempt to locate the ring using just their eyes. "It's a bombing range, so there are a million pieces of metal out there," Czerwinski said. "We were trying to isolate just titanium because that's what the ring is made of, but it wasn't working. It didn't look promising at all." But just after 4 p.m., as the team was about to pack up and quit the search, a metallic cylinder shining in the sun caught Keene's attention. "I thought I was seeing a mirage or something," he said. "You wanted to find this thing so bad that you almost started seeing things." Keene picked up the ring and yelled, "I think I found it! I think I found the ring!" The sudden announcement sent a jolt of energy into the weary search party members. "Everybody started running up to
him (Keene)," said Czerwinski. "I thought he was kidding at first. I was like, Man, that's not something you joke around about. " But it was no joke. The ring Keene found was Houghton's, identifiable by an inscription on the inside of the band. "Truthfully, when we got out there and started looking, I didn't think there was any way," Keene said. "It was a one-in-a-million chance. A needle in a haystack." Keene said the search wouldn't have been possible without Marcus Teeters, a civilian with the 388th Range Squadron who helped in the initial crash recovery and was intimately familiar with the crash site. After the crash, Josie moved from her home in Layton to Florida to pursue a degree in nursing, but she was scheduled to return to Hill for a squadron Halloween party two weeks after the search team found the ring. "We thought of a bunch of different ways to tell her, but ultimately we thought it would be best to give it to her in person," Ungerman said. When Josie came back to Utah, Ungerman and his wife invited her to stay at their home. When she arrived, she found an
envelope and a small box on the guest bed. "In the box there was a chain and then in the envelope there was a letter from the Ungermans saying that if I wanted something to wear with the chain, I should look under the pillow," Josie said. "I looked under the pillow and there was the ring. I looked at it and then sat down on the floor and bawled." Josie says she wears the ring on the chain around her neck every day, keeping it close to her heart. She says she'll be forever touched by the people who participated in the search. "I like to say that I've seen the best of humanity throughout this whole ordeal," she said. "There have been some amazing people who have gone to great lengths to let me know he's not forgotten and that I'm not forgotten. And that's something I will always remember." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
45
Filipino WWII veterans still waiting for payments (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
"My husband said: 'If the others are receiving, maybe I'm going to receive too,'" said Norma W A I P A H U , H a w a i i – Sotio, his widow, as tears welled Gaudencio Sotio injured his left in her eyes. "It's one year leg fighting to expel the Japanese already. If my husband received military from the Philippines that money maybe he enjoy." during World War II. Though Part of the problem is that Filipino, he was fighting under 40,000 people applied for the the command of the United benefit when the VA had been States, which had colonized his expecting only half that number. homeland in the early 1900s. To cope, the VA added seven Last February, the U.S. said it additional claims processors to would pay a lump sum — $9,000 its Manila field office. or $15,000 — to veterans like The National Personnel Records Sotio in lieu of pensions it had Center in St. Louis, which has promised Filipino soldiers during over a century of documents for the war but reneged on paying. military servicemen and women, Since then, more than 11,000 has also increased its staff to deal surviving veterans now in their with the claims, and is now 80s and 90s received this much handling 800 lump sum payment delayed monetary recognition of queries a week, or twice as many their service and sacrifice. But as when the program started. thousands of others are still The VA expects these changes waiting to receive their money as will allow it to plow through the the federal government wades existing application pile in about t h r o u g h a b a c k l o g o f 10 weeks. applications. "We are committed to delivering This bureaucracy moved too these benefits in a compassionate slowly for Sotio, who died Jan. and timely manner," said Willie 10. The 84-year-old applied for Clark, the Western area director his benefit on Feb. 20 — almost for the field operations office. 11 months ago — just days after Ineligible applications may be the law authorizing the funds slowing claims processing. The went into effect. His death came department has so far had to b e f o r e t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f deny nearly 8,000 claims, mostly Veterans Affairs was able to rule from people who hadn't served. on his claim. Some were from veteran Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:25:16 PM
widows, children and other next of kin who aren't eligible. Some people filed more than one application. Some 16,000 claims are still being reviewed. The waiting has frustrated veterans who have already spent most of their lives pushing the government to fulfill its promises. "The long delay is justice denied. That's the saying. It's really true — it's an injustice somehow," said Art Caleda, president of the Hawaii chapter of World War II Filipino-American Veterans. About 400 applicants are in Hawaii, which has a large Filipino-American population. Most — or 65 percent — have been paid while 15 percent were denied. About 20 percent of the Hawaii claims are still pending, like Sotio's. "There are veterans who were able to file their application claims but then they died. What is the use of that?" said Caleda. "They're not only frustrated, they are dying you know. They're dying." More than 250,000 Filipinos served alongside U.S. soldiers to defend the Philippines from the 1941 Japanese invasion. They formed the resistance during the subsequent Japanese occupation.
The U.S. military assured Filipinos they would be able to apply for U.S. citizenship and qualify for full U.S. veterans' benefits if they served. But one year after Japan's surrender, the Rescission Act of 1946 declared that Filipinos were not in active service for the U.S. military during the war. This stripped Filipinos of their status as U.S. veterans and denied them the benefits they were promised. The veterans pushed for years to win back these benefits. Success came slowly and in bits. In 1990, Congress passed a bill allowing thousands to immigrate and become U.S. citizens. A decade later, the U.S. recognized the right of the veterans to be buried in national cemeteries. Congress considered legislation authorizing pensions to Filipino veterans several times over the years. It finally settled on the lump sum solution when it included $198 million for the program in last year's economic stimulus bill. The VA has distributed $136 million, or over two-thirds of the money, to date. It's prepared to ask lawmakers for additional funds if it appears it will exhaust the allocated amount. Veterans have until Feb. 16 to file.
Norma Sotio keeps a copy of her husband's application in their small apartment in an elderly housing complex in suburban Honolulu. It says Gaudencio Sotio served in the Commonwealth Army of the Philippines — a unit made up of U.S.-trained soldiers that was part of the U.S. Armed Forces of the Far East — during the war. After the war he joined the New Philippine Scouts— a unit of Philippine citizens that served with the U.S. Armed Forces and later worked as a radio newscaster. Gaudencio Sotio was a quiet man and never spoke much of the war, she said. But he kept a slim box full of medals, including a Purple Heart. Because her husband applied before he died, Norma Sotio would receive his benefit if the VA determines he had a valid claim. She says she'd share any money she receives with his children. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
46
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
Official: Man says he opened JFK door by mistake (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:53:05 PM
NEW YORK – The man returning from Haiti who walked through a restricted door and set off an alarm at John F. Kennedy Airport has told police he went through the door by mistake. An official familiar with the case against Jules Paul Bouloute said Sunday that the 57-year-old told police he went to the wrong door by mistake while trying to exit the airport. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and wait for hours while police swept through the building. Bouloute was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass. He was scheduled to be arraigned Sunday evening. ___ Associated Press Writer Amy Westfeldt contributed to this report. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. NEW YORK(AP) — A busy
terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated after a man opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, authorities said, making it the second known security breach at a New York-area airport this month. The breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and wait for hours as police swept through the building. The passengers at JFK were then shepherded through additional screening. The man, Jules Paul Bouloute, is of Haitian descent but lives in Brooklyn, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. He was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass. Bouloute was in Haiti during Tuesday's earthquake but took a flight on Saturday from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Orlando, Fla., where he caught a connecting flight to New York City, Coleman said. It wasn't immediately clear where Bouloute was when the earthquake struck, and it's unclear how or when he got from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, Coleman said.
Bouloute's phone number was unlisted. He was expected to be arraigned Sunday in Queens, Coleman said. Port Authority police were questioning him Saturday night. Authorities earlier said the security breach was caused by a passenger who was exiting Kennedy's Terminal 8 and opened a door that was supposed to be used only by airport workers. Coleman said security cameras recorded the incident just before 3:30 p.m. A similar incident happened two weeks ago at a New York-area airport: A security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 3 forced passengers to be re-screened. Authorities were initially unsure Saturday whether the person had been coming or going from the JFK terminal, and they evacuated the secure areas of the building while they investigated. The Transportation Security Administration said its agents and Port Authority police were involved in the investigation. People waiting to get on their flights said they were awe-struck that someone could just walk through a restricted door at the airport.
"They have such big signs, I don't know how you can miss that," said Teijo Niemela of Lambertville, N.J., as he waited in a security line for a delayed flight to Helsinki. "That makes me angry about the whole system. We pay a lot of money because of someone's mistakes." Judy Erickson, a hairdresser who was waiting to get on a flight to Los Angeles, also said she was baffled by how easy it was for the passenger to go into a restricted area. "All those doors that you're not supposed to go through should have a guard or security," she said. Terminal 8 handles both domestic and international flights for American Airlines. A spokesman for the airline, Charley Wilson, said some flights were being delayed, and some planes were waiting on the tarmac for permission to proceed to their gates. He said the airline had estimated flights would be delayed two to three hours. Security officials began to let passengers back in around 6 p.m. but weren't sure how long it would take for everyone to pass through security checkpoints. Inside the terminal, hundreds of people waited in a long line outside the security gate. Dozens
of people sat on the floor with their bags. "The rest of us are made to suffer," said Meganne Harvey, 22, who was trying to fly home to San Diego after a trip to Paris. The incident is the third evacuation in five months at airports that serve New York City. A Rutgers University graduate student from China, Haisong Jiang, 28, was charged last week with trespassing in the security breach at the Newark airport. Flights were grounded for hours and passengers were re-screened while air safety officials searched for a man who had walked through the exit of a security checkpoint. Jiang's arraignment is set for Jan. 28 in Newark. In August, a terminal at LaGuardia was evacuated after police tackled a disturbed man who was carrying a device that looked like a bomb but turned out to be harmless. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
47
Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
desperately need a home. Even the urgency of the situation is open to question. BILLINGS, Mont. – With 88 Despite warnings from Montana bison from Yellowstone National about possible slaughter, federal Park facing possible slaughter, officials said earlier this month billionaire Ted Turner has swept that the bison could be kept in and offered to hold the longer if needed at a quarantine animals for five years on his compound north of the park. sprawling Montana ranch while a They have already been there for new home for them is found. But several years to make sure they T u r n e r , e v e r t h e s h r e w d are disease free. businessman, won't do it for Dennis Tilton, a rancher from nothing. The media mogul says nearby Livingston who worked he will care for the bison only if for a year feeding the animals he can keep up to 90 percent of under government contract, said their offspring. giving the animals to Turner And in the Rocky Mountain amounted to "robbing from the W e s t — w h e r e w i l d l i f e i s public domain." He said the state cherished both for its aesthetic should put them onto public land value and as meat on the table — to establish new herds. the plan is stoking a sharp debate Since Turner first came to over the role of deep-pocketed Montana in 1989, his ambitious private entities in conservation. conservation efforts in the state Hunters, environmentalists and have been alternately lauded and property law experts have all reviled. He's shielded more than weighed in and most say 1 5 0 , 0 0 0 a c r e s f r o m Turner's plan sets a dangerous development, but in the process precedent for t h e put several prized hunting commercialization of public grounds off limits to the public. wildlife. Others describe Turner Those who want to continue as a responsible steward of the hunting on his Flying D Ranch, land with the resources needed to in the Spanish Peaks foothills t a k e c a r e o f a n i m a l s t h a t south of Bozeman, today must Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:03:36 AM
pony up $14,000 to shoot a trophy elk. For $4,000, they can harvest a bull bison out of a herd of more than 1,000 of the animals that Turner has been building up for two decades. His representatives insist the Yellowstone animals are more valuable for their genetics and would be off limits. Yellowstone's bison, also known as buffalo, represent one the last vestiges of the massive herds that once roamed across North America— tens of millions of animals that were all but wiped out in the late 19th century. Turner's representatives say his plan for the 88 park bison would advance a long-standing advocacy for wildlife restoration. It also gains him the animals' unique and valuable genetics. "We don't understand the antipathy," said Turner Enterprises general manager Russell Miller. He said Turner is interested in the animals as a way to further his private bison conservation efforts, not for their market value. "That doesn't mean there won't
be a market somewhere way out in the future," he added. Turner's plan is expected to be acted on by the end of the month by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Guernsey State Park in Wyoming has also put in a proposal to the agency for 14 bison. Montana officials were largely caught off guard by the billionaire's initial bid, which came at the invitation of the state's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer. State and federal pronouncements going back to at least 2005 had called for the quarantined animals to be relocated onto public or tribal lands. Before Turner came along, those pronouncements included an explicit prohibition against commercialization of the animals. When plans last spring to move them onto a Wyoming Indian reservation fell through — and the specter of slaughter was raised — the ban on commercialization was lifted. Neither Montana nor the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the
state's partner in the project, has ever offered to take the animals. That's due in large part to a broader dispute over whether wild bison belong anywhere in the state outside of Yellowstone. Many ranchers see free-roaming bison as a disease risk and unwanted competition for the grass that feeds their cattle herds. Meanwhile, conservationists are sinking millions of dollars into restoration efforts for the animal. That includes an attempt by the American Prairie Foundation to buy up vast swaths of land in eastern Montana ranches and create a 3 million acre reserve for bison and other wildlife. "We don't have a real clear direction of what we want to do with bison," said Montana fish and wildlife director David Risley. "Are they going to be behind a fence forever, or is there a place in Montana where they can be free-roaming?" Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
48
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
Suspect in JFK Airport Security Breach Arrested (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/17/2010 5:11:01 AM
NEW YORK A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated after a man opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, authorities said, making it the second known security breach at a New Yorkarea airport this month. The breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and wait for hours as police swept through the building. The passengers at JFK were then shepherded through additional screening. The man, Jules Paul Bouloute, is of Haitian descent but lives in Brooklyn, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. He was arrested on a charge of criminal trespass. Bouloute was in Haiti during Tuesday's earthquake but took a flight on Saturday from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Orlando, Fla., where he caught a connecting flight to New York City, Coleman said. It wasn't immediately clear where Bouloute was when the earthquake struck, and it's unclear how or when he got from
Haiti to the Dominican Republic, Coleman said. Bouloute's phone number was unlisted. He was expected to be arraigned Sunday in Queens, Coleman said. Port Authority police were questioning him Saturday night. Authorities earlier said the security breach was caused by a passenger who was exiting Kennedy's Terminal 8 and opened a door that was supposed to be used only by airport workers. Coleman said security cameras recorded the incident just before 3:30 p.m. A similar incident happened two weeks ago at a New York-area airport: A security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 3 forced passengers to be re-screened. Authorities were initially unsure Saturday whether the person had been coming or going from the JFK terminal, and they evacuated the secure areas of the building while they investigated. The Transportation Security Administration said its agents and Port Authority police were involved in the investigation. People waiting to get on their flights said they were awe-struck that someone could just walk through a restricted door at the
airport. "They have such big signs, I don't know how you can miss that," said Teijo Niemela of Lambertville, N.J., as he waited in a security line for a delayed flight to Helsinki. "That makes me angry about the whole system. We pay a lot of money because of someone's mistakes." Judy Erickson, a hairdresser who was waiting to get on a flight to Los Angeles, also said she was baffled by how easy it was for the passenger to go into a restricted area. "All those doors that you're not supposed to go through should have a guard or security," she said. Terminal 8 handles both domestic and international flights for American Airlines. A spokesman for the airline, Charley Wilson, said some flights were being delayed, and some planes were waiting on the tarmac for permission to proceed to their gates. He said the airline had estimated flights would be delayed two to three hours. Security officials began to let passengers back in around 6 p.m. but weren't sure how long it would take for everyone to pass through security checkpoints. Inside the terminal, hundreds of people waited in a long line outside the security gate. Dozens
of people sat on the floor with their bags. "The rest of us are made to suffer," said Meganne Harvey, 22, who was trying to fly home to San Diego after a trip to Paris. The incident is the third evacuation in five months at airports that serve New York City. A Rutgers University graduate student from China, Haisong Jiang, 28, was charged last week with trespassing in the security breach at the Newark airport. Flights were grounded for hours and passengers were re-screened while air safety officials searched for a man who had walked through the exit of a security checkpoint. Jiang's arraignment is set for Jan. 28 in Newark. In August, a terminal at LaGuardia was evacuated after police tackled a disturbed man who was carrying a device that looked like a bomb but turned out to be harmless. Click for coverage at MyFoxNY.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Gravel beaches trapping oil from 1989 Exxon spill (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:24:42 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound. An estimated 20,000 gallons of crude remain in Prince William Sound, even though oil remaining after the nearly 11million-gallon spill had been expected to biodegrade and wash away within a few years. The problem: The gravelly beaches of Prince William Sound are trapping the oil between two layers of rock, with larger rocks on top and finer gravel underneath, according to Michel C. Boufadel, chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University. His study appeared Sunday in Nature Geoscience's online publication and will be published in the journal later. Boufadel found that water, which could have broken up and dissipated the oil, moved through the lower level of gravel up to 1,000 times slower than the top level. Once the oil entered the lower level, conditions were right to keep it there, he said. Tidal GRAVEL page 49
E-reader News Edition
49
GRAVEL
HAITI
continued from page 48
forces worked to compact the finer-grained gravel even more, creating a nearly oxygen-free environment with low nutrient levels that slowed the ability of the oil to biodegrade. "The oil could be maybe one foot below the beach surface and in contact with sea water with a lot of oxygen, but the oxygen doesn't get to it," Boufadel said. He found that the upper layer of beach is so permeable that the water table falls within it as fast as the tide. However, the permeability of the lower level is so low that the water table does not drop much within it, he said. Boufadel said the study points out the susceptibility of beaches worldwide to long-term oil contamination, especially at higher latitudes where beaches tend to be gravel or a mixture of sand and gravel. "As global warming is melting the ice cover and exposing the Arctic to oil exploitation and shipping through sea routes such as the Northwest Passage, the
continued from page 42
risk of oil spills on gravel beaches in high-latitude regions will be increased," the study says. Boufadel and his team dug about 70 pits between 3-feet and 5-feet deep on six beaches during summers from 2007 to 2009. His report focuses on data collected on Eleanor Island, about 15 miles away from Bligh Reef where the Exxon Valdez grounded on March 24, 1989. Peter Hagen, program manager for Exxon studies for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Boufadel's study is a continuation of previous work that began in 2001 when 9,000 pits were dug around the sound, confirming the presence of oil. While the remaining oil likely remains somewhat locked up in the beaches, the spill's lingering effects are ongoing, Hagen said. Sea otters, sea ducks and some sea birds are producing an enzyme showing exposure to oil. Boufadel's study was funded by
a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. The council was formed after the environmental disaster to oversee restoration of the sound. Boufadel doesn't know how long it might take for the remaining oil to finally disappear but predicted it will take a long time. "It will be a slow process because the oil is relatively sheltered from water motion," he said. ___ On the Net:
had come to Haiti from America for his mother's funeral, only for his wife to be killed in the earthquake. He said that so far people in the area had received no help of any kind. "We don't have any aid, nothing at all," he said. "No food, no water, no medical, no doctors." Estimates of how many people died following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday have varied. The Pan American Health Organization put the death toll at 50,000-100,000, while Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said 100,000 "would http://www.nature.com/ngeo/ind seem a minimum". ex.html A UN official has said aid Five Filters featured article: workers are dealing with a Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: disaster "like no other" in UN PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, memory because the country had Term Extraction. been "decapitated". Three ministers and several senators are reported to have been killed. The US has launched what President Barack Obama called "one of the largest relief efforts in its history" following the quake. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the first senior Western official to arrive in Haiti, on Saturday.
She told Haitians that the US would be "here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead", asserting that "Haiti can come back even better and stronger in the future". Have you or your family been affected by the earthquake? Are you taking part in the relief effort? If you have any information you wish to share with the BBC you can do so using the form below: You can also send your pictures o r v i d e o s t o yourpics@bbc.co.uk, text them to +44 7725 100 100 or if you have a large file you can upload here. Read the terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. The BBC may edit your comments and not all emails will be published. Your comments may be published on any BBC media worldwide. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
50
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
(Holy Kaw!)
16 Americans Confirmed Dead in Haiti Quake, State Dept. Says
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:51:00 AM
(FOXNews.com)
- 10 ways to embrace change familiar routines suddenly dissolve, it can seem as if all your supports are gone. For a No matter how much effort you while after I lost my job, I had exert trying to control every the sense that I was in free fall. aspect of your life, chances are It’s crucial, while absorbing the you’ll be blindsided at least once shock of the new, to make by a major, unavoidable, lifeyourself feel well taken care of. altering change sure to rock your Prepare nutritious meals for the world to its core. You can week ahead. If you can spare the choose to let the event cash, have someone come in and completely throw you off course, clean the house. Yes, you need to or you can learn to embrace take some time for yourself, but change. Here are ten ways to do don’t let the pizza boxes pile up. there’s a lot of value to sitting months. When she opens her More tips and tricks for living just that. 1. Don’t do anything. Sit there. quietly instead. In the realm of mouth, her French will have the life you want. If you’re facing a massive language learning, there’s a stage flowered. Making sense of a Photo credit: Fotolia rescaling of your life, your first called the silent period: Adults major change is a lot like that. Permalink| Leave a comment » impulse will be to go into a may try to avoid going through You need to allow yourself a whirring spin of activity, which it, but if you take a kid and plop fallow period before you can is exactly what I did right after I her down in Paris for a spell, blossom. was fired. I later discovered she’ll naturally clam up for a few 2. Mother yourself a little. When
Chile awaits poll run-off result (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:02:30 AM
Polls have closed in Chile's presidential run-off, which could see the first conservative government for more than two decades. Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won 44% of the vote in last month's first round, well ahead of Eduardo Frei of the governing Social Democrats. But opinion polls suggest the
outcome of the second round will be very close. Chile's last conservative leader was military ruler Gen Augusto Pinochet, who stepped down in 1990. Mr Frei, 67, is seeking his second term as president after an absence of 10 years. Mr Pinera, 60, owns a television channel, a stake in Chile's most successful football club and has millions of dollars in investments. He has campaigned on a tough
law-and-order programme and has vowed to use his business know-how to reactivate the economy. This is the second time Mr Pinera has run for the presidency at the head of a centre-right coalition. In 2006, he lost to the outgoing Socialist president Michelle Bachelet. Under the constitution she cannot stand for re-election. She will leave office in March with a high approval ratings as a result of policies to tackle
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:37:34 AM
Sixteen Americans are confirmed dead in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. State Department said Sunday. The victims include 15 private American citizens and one U.S. government employee, the department said. The U.S. Embassy in Haiti, meanwhile, has reported that at least 70 Americans remain unaccounted for. An embassy spokesman told NewsCORE on Sunday that up to 400 people have been sleeping inside the U.S. Embassy in Portau-Prince each night. The spokesman added that 2,000 US citizens have been evacuated. Approximately half of the poverty and use Chile's all- houses used by U.S. Embassy important copper exports to staff in Port-au-Prince have been offset the effects of the global destroyed. U.S. officials said Sunday that economic crisis. M r F r e i h a s p r o m i s e d a the international urban search continuation and deepening of and rescue teams have rescued 62 individuals so far — mostly many of her policies. Haitians. As of Sunday morning, Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: the teams had performed 29 live Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: rescues, including rescuing PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, people trapped inside a collapsed food market. Term Extraction. SLIDESHOW: Devastation in Haiti| HOW TO HELP| FULL COVERAGE LIVESHOTS: Click here to get AMERICANS page 52
Popular News/
E-reader News Edition
- 7 tips for transforming leadership (Holy Kaw!) Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:38:00 AM
You don’t need a fancy title, specific background, or vast recognition to be a leader. In fact, you don’t even need to be the one in charge. To be a leader, you simply have to stand up, assert authority, and enable the team to achieve a target. Here are seven brilliant tips for transforming leadership. 1. Group triage. A very important step for a leader is to comprehensively understand all the various tasks needing to be accomplished to reach the goal. They must ask the questions: Who is best at what? Who would be most effective where? Hopefully you will already know, but most of the time you will need to find out. This will be the case in temporary-team situations. So, clearly ask what they would be best at within the available tasks to accomplish?
Chicago Bears Defensive End Gaines Adams Dies (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/16/2010 11:11:06 PM
You’ll get honest answers, but sometimes the answer is not what they are best at, but what parts of the work they would rather do. If they are the only one to volunteer for a certain task, let them have it. If two or more chime in, then prompt them to discuss among themselves who would be better suited. If they amicably work it out between
Chicago Bears defensive lineman Gaines Adams died Sunday from cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart, the Greenwood County coroner's office told Fox News. The autopsy on Adams, 26, was performed in Anderson, S.C. The themselves; great, but often they toxicology test will be performed will be still at loggerheads unless b y S o u t h C a r o l i n a ' s l a w you listen carefully and make a enforcement division and results quick decision at the outset. are expected to be returned in the Things can always be changed next two to three months. around if intial allocations don’t "We are stunned and saddened by the news of Gaines' passing," work out. the team said in a statement More on leadership. Sunday. "Our prayers are with Photo credit: Fotolia his family during this difficult Permalink| Leave a comment » time." Adams was selected fourth
El Salvador head's abuse apology (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 1/16/2010 7:44:25 PM
The president of El Salvador has apologised for human rights abuses committed by the state during country's 12-year civil war. President Mauricio Funes made the first formal apology by one of the country's presidents since
the end of the conflict in 1992. He said the right-wing authorities who governed the country at the time had committed grave human rights abuses. He also said they had violated the country's constitutional order. "In the name of the state of El Salvador, I ask for pardon," said the president, speaking at a ceremony on the 18th
anniversary of the end of the conflict. Those words - the first of their kind since the end of the war by a Salvadoran president - will be welcomed by the families of the more than 75,000 people who died in the conflict. However, Mr Funes, who represents the party of the former Marxist FMLN rebel movement, will no doubt come under
51
criticism for failing to also apologise for the abuses committed by the rebels during the war. Print Sponsor Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
overall in the 2007 NFL draft by Tampa Bay, but was traded to the Chicago Bears in October 2009. He had not been able to live up to expectations that he would revive the Buccaneers' once-feared pass rush, having just 17 tackles and one sack in 15 games this season. The 6-foot-5, 258-pound defensive end was well-known among Clemson fans for breaking up Wake Forest's field goal try and returning it for a touchdown in 2006 to defeat the Demon Deacons. LIVESHOTS: Chicago Bears' Gaines Adams Dies Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
52
Popular News/ E-reader News/
E-reader News Edition
AMERICANS
ARTIST'S
continued from page 50
continued from page 52
the up-to-date coverage from Fox reporters at FoxNews.com's LIVE blog. NewsCORE's Sean Plambeck contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
Polaroid, often I'll turn the spines away." Gallery owner Bruno David says: "The book is like a guardian of the past. As a painter, (Spector is) trying to utilize that. Because the pages are gone from the book, it doesn't mean the book is gone. He's taking something out and putting it in a different context." ARTIST'S page 53
Artist's books speak volumes (St. Louis PostDispatch) (Yahoo! News Search Results for e-readers)
- How to declutter your mind
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:25:59 AM
In this era of digital manipulation, as we toss e i g h t e a s y w a y s t o f i l t e r in the back of your mind right thoughts on the Internet and read i n c o m i n g i n f o r m a t i o n a n d now? I’ve always been a person Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:24:00 AM books on e-readers, artist and declutter your brain. who is spontaneous which helps professor Buzz Spector embraces There is such a thing as 5. Limit common distractions. me to make a decision on the the written word printed on information overload, and in the Most of us are exposed to a snap of a finger. Even if your paper. age of 2.0, the cycle of mental number of daily distractions that decision turns out to be wrong in Spector, who in July became stress can be overwhelming. If stop us from doing what we the near future at least you’ve dean of the College and Graduate the unlimited sources of data NEED to do. Close your email acted and cleared your mind. School of Art at Washington don’t get you down, the expected inbox, log out of Skype, switch Plus you just made another University's Sam Fox School of immediacy of communication off your mobile phone and just valuable experience for life. Design and Visual Arts, will might. If you want to break free concentrate on the task you to Tackle your day-to-day with show selected works from his from the cycle of mental stress, tackle right now. You will be lifehacks. career starting Friday in the you must first filter what you surprised how much more you Photo credit: Fotolia exhibit "Shelf Life" at the Bruno allow in. Living stress-free g e t d o n e — w i t h o u t t h e Permalink| Leave a comment » David Gallery. begins with the intent to address stress—by limiting distractions. Coming from a family of any harmful imbalances. To help 4. Decide now. How many passionate readers and awardyou achieve this goal, here are undecided decisions are lurking winning writers, much of his
(Holy Kaw!)
work involves the alteration of books. He tears pages apart, turning books into new forms. In many installations, he has carefully stacked books into shapes, and wraps it all up with a clever title. Often, he arranges books and then photographs them with a large-format Polaroid camera. "What it's all about is making stuff, and after that, the work is out there for anybody," he says. "Everything I love doing as an artist has to do as a form of erasure. I tear pages out of books or, when I stack a bunch of books, all the books in the middle are buried. When I photograph books with the ARTIST'S page 52
E-reader News Edition
53
ARTIST'S continued from page 52
Spector's work has been shown internationally and at venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A native of Chicago, Spector earned his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and his MFA at the University of Chicago. While a graduate student, he co-founded WhiteWalls, a magazine written by artists. He has written extensively for numerous journals, and has published books of essays and collections of photographs. Spector was chairman of the art department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At Washington University, he is also the Jane Reuter Hizeman and Herbert F. Hizeman Jr. Professor of Art. "He's an intellectual giant in the art world," David says. "To find out he was coming to St. Louis, it was really a coup. The book is
like a guardian of the past. As a painter, he's trying to utilize that." People are constantly giving him books, and he once went to a book fair and hauled off all of the unsold works, which required a rental truck and some help from friends. "For the stuff I work with, having lots of (books) is really important," Spector says. He owns about 10,000 books. "At one time, I knew exactly (how many)," he says. That was on Dec. 31, 1994, when he counted his 3,951 volumes for "Unpacking My Library," an installation at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and the San Diego State University Art Gallery for inSITE94. Part of that project was to count the books he owned and then to count all of the pages of text or images inside them. But it's never just been about books. Spector has worked with food, photos, old postcards and handmade paper. Some of his best-known works involve the cold. In 1991 at the
Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, he created "Cold Fashioned Room," a room filled with Victorian furnishings and chilled to 28 degrees. The only visual indicator of the cold was a frozen vase of roses. It was widely written about in the press, and Spector says people still mention it to him. Another part of Spector's repertoire is using books to make portraits. He once made a portrait of artist Dieter Roth. When he pulled the box of books about Roth from his car and took a look, he realized he already had what he needed. "I didn't even take them out of the box," he said. "I just turned the box on its side, took the top layer off and realized ‌ I had quite by accident come up with a tantalizing visual array." His warm manner and depth of experience make him a welcome addition to the community at Washington University, says Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox school. "There's a sense of his maturity as an artist," Colangelo says. "When he presents to the
students, he really tends to cover a lot of ground. He's very philosophical and he loves to talk about the nuances of making art and education. I do sense from the students already the connection. They talk about him by first name." Spector has had an association with St. Louis for many years. He and his wife, Njara Stout, have had family here. "I have had a long time to admire (Washington University) from a distance," Spector says. He didn't know much about the art department, but he had for some years known Colangelo, who recruited him. "When I got here, I realized I had been away for too long," Spector says. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.
54
E-reader News/
E-reader News Edition
With the Nook e-book reader, Barnes & Noble challenges Amazon's Kindle (Washington Post) (Yahoo! News Search Results for e-readers)
ship date" no earlier than Feb. 12. Is the Nook worth that wait? Submitted at 1/16/2010 9:00:00 PM After a week of testing a At last week's Consumer borrowed one, I'd say not quite. Electronics Show, for example, The Nook includes an important Sony showed off its new Sony feature that Amazon misses, but Reader Daily Edition while name it doesn't match the Kindle's -brand vendors such as Samsung elegance and ease of use. and newcomers such as Plastic The Nook's problems start with Logic introduced a variety of e- that dual-screen setup. First, reader devices. And another having only one screen accept veteran book retailer -- Barnes & touch input invites confusion Noble -- now sells a tablet called (though going to the next or the Nook. previous page requires only Like the Kindle, the $259 Nook tapping large buttons on the ( http:// bn.com/ nook) combines Nook's sides). Second, because a n " e - i n k " s c r e e n a n d f r e e the touch screen turns off wireless access to download automatically, doing anything on books on the go -- then adds a the main screen often requires second, touch-sensitive color waking up the other display with display and a WiFi receiver to a tap of its home button. cover for gaps in its AT&T- The color display, with the WiFi provided service. receiver, seems to limit the Like Amazon's reader at its Nook's battery life. A solid day debut, the Nook has limited of browsing and reading left only availability; yesterday, Barnes & a quarter of a charge. Noble's site listed an "expected The Nook's primary display
shares the issues of other e-ink screens. Although this grayscale display needs little power and is readable in sunlight, its contrast and sharpness is little better than a trade paperback's. And turning the page involves waiting a second while it flashes a photonegative image of the prior page. The Nook's AT&T wireless service never dropped, which is a good thing in light of its inept WiFi interface. Instead of showing available signals, the Nook makes you type a network's " SSID" (that is, name), select its encryption method (quick, do you use WPA or WPA2?) and enter a password on an on-screen keyboard. In Barnes & Noble's own shops, the Nook connects automatically to the in-store WiFi. But at the Clarendon store two weeks ago, the Nook did not display the promised in-store coupons. The Nook logs on to the same ebook store as the e-reader
software Barnes & Noble introduced in July. Most new titles sell for $9.99; older titles can come at a slight discount (William Gibson's 2003 sciencefiction novel"Pattern Recognition" cost $6.39, only 80 cents less than B&N's Web price for a paperback) or may not be available at all. With your account registered on the Nook, buying a book requires only a few seconds' wait to download it. You can also read the book on any other gadget with Barnes & Noble's reader software -- Mac and Windows computers and BlackBerry, iPhone and iPod touch devices, with support for Android and Windows Mobile phones coming late this winter. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.