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Haiti’s “Wizard-of-Oz” president – nowhere to be T-Mobile Waives

seen International Call
Charges To and From
By Catherine Bremer (Front battling round the clock digging
Row Washington) for survivors. But in the absence Haiti [Haiti]
Submitted at 1/16/2010 7:35:05 PM
of a working government, the By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo)
disaster relief teams who are
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:30:00 PM
There’s something weirdly supposed to be delivering food,
symbolic in the sight of latrines and medical supplies are There's been tons of great tech-
thousands of homeless Haitians still mostly dithering about related charitable news this
massed in a sprawling tent city sorting out logistics. week, and here's a little more: As
bang in front of the collapsed From the shambles outside the of last Thursday, T-Mobile USA
icing-sugar white presidential presidential palace, you wonder has waived all international calls
palace. if anybody is in charge at all. to and from Haiti. The program
They’re here because it’s the “The country is not working will last until January 31. Every
biggest open space in the capital, right now. It’s not even eating,” little bit helps, and if you haven't
but it somehow looks like an remarked Louis Widlyne, one of donated yet, it's as easy as
appeal for President Rene Preval the countless people sleeping on texting HAITI to 90999. [
to come out and speak to his a sheet that marks out his living Ubergizmo]
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 Read of the Day:
catastrophe caused by Tuesday’s received no orders since
earthquake. Tuesday’s disaster, but decided
NYT Digs into
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 Abdulmutallab's Past
earthquake the Haitian flag that excrement is getting worse. thousands of Haitians who lost was time to go back on the beat. (Little Green Footballs)
once fluttered above the National Far from coming to address their homes and families have “Preval should have come and
Submitted at 1/17/2010 7:49:15 AM
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 New York Times’s Adam
the park opposite, men and the airport, mumbling that he proper medical treatment. In It’s just the kind of president he
Nossiter investigates Umar
women strip to their underpants can’t do much when half the many cases, they are seriously is.”
Farouk Abdulmutallab’s descent
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 into extremism: Lonely Trek to
scrub their clothes. The hang destroyed and he doesn’t even Foreign rescue workers are the Haiti earthquake. Radicalism for Terror Suspect.
their laundry on the park rails.
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No room in the cemetery for Haiti dead

By Ed Pilkington (World news sits there, with its cargo, under Officials from the city council in family shop collapsed, he was at that have been opened up outside
and comment from the the crosses of the tombs, making charge of the cemetery tell us the back of the building and the city.
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) some twisted comment about that the bodies dumped along the managed to crouch under a car The average income in Haiti is
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:20:29 PM God's will be done. One of the path were all brought by families that protected him. He was under $400 a year. Kelya could
bodies has its hand outstretched who couldn't afford to pay. pulled from the rubble for hours not pay.
Last home of country's most and when a car passes by, Outside the cemetery, a man is after the quake, bearing scratches "We can't stand the idea of not
famous families turns from place bringing into the cemetery yet sitting on a car looking busy. He on his head and arms but having a concrete place where
of respect and mourning into another corpse, it hits the arm is keeping a registry of the new otherwise unharmed we will be able to pray for my
installation of horror and makes it swing like a arrivals. He already has 210 "This country was bad long brother," Kelya told us.
Even in death, there is no creaking door. names on his list, some identified before this," he says. "But now In the end, with the help of
dignity for the abandoned people Every five minutes a new body by just their first name. the earthquake has exposed the Rafael's donation and countless
of Haiti. The Grand Cimetière, is brought in, most in simple An elderly man walks out of the true face of Haiti." others like it from family,
the last home of the country's coffins, fashioned out of rough -cemetery, looking weary and There is nothing unusual about neighbours and friends, she
most famous families, has in five bits of salvaged wood; one has clutching a handkerchief to his the story of the Alcindors. managed to raise $600. Then she
days turned from a place of been made out of old cupboard face. He has just put his sister Everybody in this city has been persuaded the funeral home to
respect and mourning into an doors. Suddenly, six men rush and niece into the family tomb. touched by death. Many accept half now, the rest later.
installation of horror. by, carrying on their shoulders a Marie Eve Alcindor, 63, and thousands are now struggling Marcos will not end up cast
It begins just a few feet into the fancy lacquered coffin, heading Sarah, 32, died when the roof of with a -double challenge: to keep away in a mass grave after all.
cemetery. Pass the elegant for one of the tombs of a wealthy the family clothes shop fell on themselves alive in a city without Instead he will be given a funeral
arched entrance and walk along family. them. Marie Eve had arrived in water and food, and to give their in a small Catholic church near
the central path that snakes Poor Haitian families don't Port-au-Prince one week before loved ones who have died Kelya's home.
through the tombs lined on either enjoy such luxury of mourning. the earthquake to visit her merely the basic, lowliest We drive past another Catholic
side like miniature suburban A tomb on the right side of the family. She had come from New goodbye. church, L'Eglise Sacré Coeur de
houses. First you are assailed by walkway has been opened to York, where she worked as a Details emerge unexpectedly. Jésus, a few miles away. It was
the smell, an acrid odour of death allow the body of a 14-year-old paediatrician. "My sister was a Our driver, who is from the shattered in the earthquake. Its
that wrenches the stomach and girl, swaddled in white cloth and doctor and she cared for Dominican Republic, Rafael, massive stained glass window at
sticks to you like glue. laid out in a pick-up truck, to be children," says Jean-Pierre asked us to make a detour. He the back has fallen in one great
The smell is bad, but the sights added beside the remains of her Alcindor. "So for her to come wanted to deliver $60 to his good slab, and now lies propped up
are worse. Far worse. Bodies are parents. Above the opening, the here, die here, and now we friend Kelya, who had been his against the cracked wall at a 45-
piled up along the path, dumped word " réparation" has been cannot even care for her body secretary a few years ago when degree angle.
one upon the other. A couple of scrawled. We ask the cemetery with dignity – do you know how he lived in Port-au-Prince. The front of the church has fared
chickens are pecking at them like workers standing nearby what that feels?" He had heard that she was even worse. It has almost
corn. One of them, a woman that signifies. "It means the Marie Eve's own children had having trouble with the entirely been reduced to rubble.
with braided hair perhaps in her family has no money," one wanted to take her body back to arrangements for her brother The only thing left standing is a
30s, has her hands in a rigor worker tells us in -broken America for burial. But there Marcos, who died at work when wooden effigy of Jesus on the
mortis embrace, as though she French. "They cannot pay." A were no trucks to carry her, no his office collapsed. His body cross. Beneath it is an inscription
had been trying to cling on to life truck with the young girl on flights, no companies that would was being kept at a local funeral in the stone bearing the date of
and never let it go. board later drove off, her body take her. After five days, the home, with only a ceiling fan to the church, 1928. It reads: "That
A few feet further in, we come unburied. body by now decomposing, they keep it from rotting. The funeral in your love and caring, oh Lord,
across a hand-wagon. It is old How much money are we called off the effort and ventured home demanded $1,200 to give Haiti will live and prosper."
and rustic, like something out of talking about, we ask, what are instead into the Grand Cimetière. Marcos a proper burial. With the • Haiti
an Antonioni movie. Inside you charged to lay a teenaged Standing beside Jean-Pierre price came a threat: pay up the
about six bodies are stacked in girl to rest? A hundred dollars, Alcindor was his nephew Orel. money today, or Marcos will be ROOM page 5
jumbled postures. The wagon the workers say. He survived because when the sent to one of the mass graves
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US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid

effort in Haiti
By Rory Carroll, Daniel Nasaw that aid was reaching some of the dehydration – were arriving. paralysed by the destruction of -colonial power expects a
(World news and comment hundreds of thousands of people But with aftershocks jolting the the presidential palace and prominent role, -protested when
from the Guardian | in desperate need of water, food ruins, bloated bodies in the street ministries, signed a an emergency field hospital was
guardian.co.uk) and medicine six days after a and severe shortages of water memorandum of understanding turned back. The foreign
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:56:34 PM magnitude 7 earthquake levelled and food many survivors had had formally transferring control of minister, Bernard Kouchner, said
the capital, killing more than enough: an exodus trekked on Toussaint L'Ouverture airport to the airport was not for the
Priority landing for Americans 100,000, according to Haitian foot out of the city to rural areas. the US. Hillary Clinton, the US international community but "an
f o r c e s f l i g h t s c a r r y i n g authorities. The security situation worsened, secretary of state, flew in on annexe of Washington",
emergency supplies to divert to The UN was feeding 40,000 and with some looters fighting with Saturday and met Préval near the according to France's
Dominican Republic hoped to increase that to 1 rocks and clubs for rice, clothing airport. "We will be here today, ambassador to Haiti, Didier Le
The US military's takeover of million within a fortnight, said and other goods scavenged from tomorrow and for the time Bret.
emergency operations in Haiti the secretary general, Ban Ki- debris. In places the embryonic ahead," she said. Brazil, which saw its leadership
has triggered a diplomatic row moon, as he boarded a flight for aid machine did not even try to The UN mission, which had a of the UN peacekeeping mission
with countries and aid agencies Port-au-Prince today. organise distribution. Aid 9,000-strong peacekeeping force as a calling card of its
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 workers tossed out food packets in Haiti before the quake, burgeoning influence, was also
redirected. heavy heart. The damage, to crowds and US helicopters seemed too stunned by its own indignant when three flights
Brazil and France lodged an destruction, loss of life is just took off as soon as they losses to take control. Its dead were not allowed to land. The
official -protest with Washington overwhelming." The challenge offloaded supplies, prompting include its Tunisian head, Hedi foreign ministry reportedly asked
after US military aircraft were was to co-ordinate relief efforts, scrambles in which the fittest and Annabi, his Brazilian deputy, Clinton to grant Brazil priority
given priority at Port-au-Prince's he said. "We should not waste a strongest prevailed. Luiz Carlos da Costa, and the over chartered flights. Nelson
congested airport, forcing many single item, a -single dollar, just "They are not identifying the acting police commissioner, Jobim, the defence minister, said
non-US flights to divert to the to wait in a warehouse." people who need the water. The Doug Coates, a Canadian. Brazil would not relinquish
Dominican Republic. The plight of 80 elderly people sick and the old have no chance," Flights seeking permission to command duties and suggested
Brasilia warned it would not at a partially collapsed municipal Estime Pierre Deny, -hoping to land continuously circle the it, not Washington, would
-relinquish command of United hospice just a mile from the fill a plastic container with water airport, which is small, damaged continue to lead UN forces.
Nations forces in Haiti and Paris airport, now a huge aid hub, amid a scrum of people, told and with a single runway, Analysts said it was vital
complained the airport had showed the desperate need. The Reuters. rankling several governments command issues be resolved.
become a US "annexe", exposing body of a dead 70-year-old man Frustration over aid bottlenecks and aid agencies. "There are 200 The Red Cross and Médecins
a brewing power struggle amid rotted on a mattress, nearly among donors became tinged by flights going in and out every Sans Frontières complained
the global relief effort. The Red indistinguishable from the national rivalry as it became day, which is an incredible about flights with medical staff
C r o s s a n d M é d e c i n s S a n s exhausted, hungry and thirsty clear the US was taking amount for a country like Haiti," and equipment which were re-
Frontières also complained about people around him. "Others ownership of the crisis. A Jarry Emmanuel, air logistics directed to the neighbouring
diverted flights. won't live until tonight," an vanguard of more than 1,000 US officer for the UN's World Food Dominican Republic. "We are all
The row prompted Haiti's administrator, Jean Emmanuel, troops was on the ground and Programme, told the New York going crazy," said Nan Buzard,
president, René Préval, to call for told the Associated Press. 12,000 were expected in the Times. "But most of those flights of the American Red Cross.
calm. "This is an extremely The Haitian government has region by Monday, including are for the United States military. The Obama administration has
difficult situation," he told AP. established 14 food distribution marines aboard the aircraft Their priorities are to secure the enlisted former presidents
"We must keep our cool to co- points and aid groups have carrier USS Carl Vinson which country. Ours are to feed. We George Bush and Bill Clinton to
o r d i n a t e a n d n o t t h r o w opened five emergency health anchored offshore as a "floating have got to get those priorities in spearhead relief efforts.
accusations at each other." centres. Water-purification units airport". sync."
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The squabbling came amid signs – a priority to avert disease and The Haitian government, France, which as the former
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LSE tutor says he is victim of McCarthyite witch-hunt over

Hizb ut-Tahrir membership
By Owen Bowcott (World the failed airline bombing carried "He looked out of place. Perhaps not been radicalised in London. productive. I have not said
news and comment from the out by Umar Farouk they just wanted to show me they "What [my accusers] forgot to anything which is illegal, or
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Abdulmutallab on Christmas were [monitoring] me? But once say was that I spent 10 minutes anything that incites violence."
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:32:11 PM Day. He had studied at they saw I was at LSE and stressing that any action that An invitation to Pankhurst to
University College, London. speaking openly about my targets innocents is prohibited participate in a debate entitled
A postgraduate teacher accused Pankhurst was detained with beliefs I imagine they assumed it and that there's no justification "Shariah law – compatible in the
of Islamist "infiltration" of the two other Britons in Cairo in was a waste of further for it in Islam. [Abdulmutallab] modern world?" at Queen Mary,
London School of Economics 2002, and the three were adopted resources." was radicalised by a sense of University of London, was
has dismissed the allegations as a as prisoners of conscience by In 2002, the Guardian injustice … by what he saw on withdrawn before Christmas
"McCarthyite witch-hunt". Amnesty International. interviewed Pankhurst through the news about Afghanistan and because of his HT membership.
Reza Pankhurst, who spent four Pankhurst was tortured with the grille of an Egyptian security Iraq." Pankhurst has received
years in Egyptian prisons for electric shocks. On his return to compound while standing beside Pankhurst also refuted claims supportive emails from LSE
membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain he was questioned by one of the other detained Britons, that he helped "groom" another students, and the school is
(HT), had anticipated criticism British security services. -Maajid Nawaz. After returning ex-student, Omar Sharif, who standing by him: "No concerns
when he began studying for a The latest accusations, he says, from Egypt, Nawaz renounced blew himself up in Tel Aviv in about his conduct have been
PhD and delivering lectures to raise questions about the role of Hizb ut-Tahrir and helped found 2003. "This guy must have been raised and we are not aware that
students. HT, which advocates Muslims in British society and the Quilliam Foundation. It on the course at the same time as he is a member of any proscribed
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 describes itself as "the world's me at King's -College in 1996. I organisation or has broken any
caliphate in the Arab world, is in universities. first counter-extremism was president of the Islamic laws or LSE regulations," it said
outlawed in Egypt but legal in "I knew this would happen one thinktank". Society," Pankhurst said. "Does in a statement. "All students and
Britain. The Conservatives have day," Pankhurst said. "When I In a comment to the Times last that mean I was responsible for staff are entitled to freedom of
threatened to ban it, the National came back from Egypt I thought week, the foundation said: what he did seven years later? expression within the law."
Union of Students adopts a "no I wouldn't be able to get a job but "(HT's) infiltration of It's neocon nonsense. It's crime • London School of Economics
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 internationally renowned by association." and Political Science
speakers, and the Home Office and engage in positive debate. universities such as the LSE Pankhurst is taking legal advice • Islam
has said it keeps the status of the "So I applied to the LSE and told makes a mockery of universities' over "this false allegation", he
organisation under review. them exactly what had happened claims to be tackling extremism says. Owen Bowcott
In an interview with the to me. They accepted me on a on campus." Pankhurst, who is Such slurs, he said, are a "form guardian.co.uk© Guardian
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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 Friday prayers, insists he is would they prefer us to be on
expression within the law". same man on the school run, in opposed to terrorist violence. He benefits? The innuendo,
Fears about radicalisation of the leisure centre and outside my recently spoke about blacklisting and McCarthyite
students have re-emerged since house. Abdulmutallab, saying he had witch-hunts are very counter-
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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
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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
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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
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-au-
Prince would descend into
anarchy have not materialised.
Lawlessness has been localised
and confined largely to the night.
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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.
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Refugee camps set up in unscathed Johnson & Johnson

areas
By Robert Booth (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:35:29 PM
rural areas and towns.
The camps being set up in
Gonaïves and other towns are
understood to be being managed
by local authorities rather than
Charged in Drug-Marketing
"We are particularly worried
about this because we know that
Kickback Scheme
By Trey Thoelcke
it is women and children who are (BloggingStocks)
most at risk, even if they are
going to stay with relatives or Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:10:00 AM

Refugee camps have been set up foreign aid agencies, in further friends," a spokeswoman for the
in the Haitian town of Gonaïves evidence of Haitians taking the Filed under: Law, Competitive
charity said.
and other unaffected areas to initiative for the well-being of strategy, Johnson and Johnson
The UN refugee agency, the
accommodate growing numbers their own people. "There are (JNJ), Teva Pharm Indus ADR
UNHCR, did not have any direct
of refugees from Tuesday's many people leaving Port-au- (TEVA)
representatives in Haiti before
devastating earthquake, aid Prince, but many who would like The U.S. Justice Department has
the earthquake. "Before this,
agencies said today. charged giant pharmaceutical also paid quarterly rebates based
to get out are having to stay there were just three refugees in
Schools have been closed in the because either they don't have company Johnson & Johnson ( on Omnicare's success in
Haiti," said a spokeswoman
coastal settlement which was cars, their cars are damaged or JNJ) with paying tens of millions switching patients from
based in Switzerland. "No one
unscathed by the disaster and there is not enough petrol," said of dollars in kickbacks to competitors' drugs in what both
would flee to Haiti, so we had no
municipal authorities of other Sarah Wilson, who is assessing Omnicare Inc. ( OCR) to boost companies called an
office there because we would
unaffected towns today sent the crisis in Haiti for Christian sales of its drugs to nursing- "intervention program."
have outnumbered the refugees.
buses to the devastated capital, Aid. "Some simply lost their car home patients, as reported by the Continue reading Johnson &
This is a tough challenge for the
Port-au-Prince, to evacuate keys in the earthquake. There is a Wall Street Journal(subscription Johnson Charged in Drug-
country and we know there has
survivors who have spent several shortage of fuel, but there seems required). Prosecutors allege that Marketing Kickback Scheme
been significant displacement."
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 Omnicare's annual purchases of Johnson & Johnson Charged in
• Haiti
increasingly insanitary and i s h o w m a n y p e o p l e a r e Johnson & Johnson medicines Drug-Marketing Kickback
• Refugees
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• Natural disasters and extreme
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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
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The Week in Preview: Q4 Auto Stock #3: Thor

Earnings Expectations for Industries (THO)
the Financial Sector
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 better-
than-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. (
The New York Times
By Louis Navellier
(BloggingStocks)
May Soon Begin
Charging for Online
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:00:00 AM
Content [News]
Filed under: Stocks to Buy By Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Not your typical vehicle maker,
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:30:00 PM
Thor Industries( THO)
specializes in small and mid- According to New York
sized buses. Its key customers Magazine, the New York Times
are local governments, but also may soon announce they'll begin
AXP), Bank of New York include rental car companies and charging for web site access,
Mellon Corp. ( BK), Hudson hotels that have their own private putting one of the most popular
City Bancorp Inc. ( HCBK), transportation needs. and venerable online news
SLM Corp. ( SLM) and US As the recession has taken hold, destinations behind a paywall.
Bancorp ( USB). many municipalities and
Auto Stock #3: Thor Industries NY Mag speculates that they'll
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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 turtleneck-
wearing trade union leader. As
for Bill Gates, he was one of the
Great Train Robbers of the Twitter didn't fare much better
1960s, according to 10% of (not that I really give a hoot
survey respondents. There's about Twitter). What's going on
video too, if your inner geek can in the U.K.? [ CNET]
handle it (although I swear some
of these blokes don't have British
accents...):
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 Russian-
borne 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 two-
platform WinMo world. Then
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?
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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!

FiOS Mobile app comes to Android According to New York

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
magazine, the paid content
drive and no external disk model could also arrive hand-in-
support, 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
recordings anyway. buzz for now, of course, but the
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]
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Meizu's M8 UI promo
video is surprisingly
professional, catchy
By Ross Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 9:54:00 AM

New York Times to begin

Cowon W2 spec'd, Oh, Meizu, how do we love
thee? Let us count the ways. The
KIRF-rooted company has

charging for access... something priced, and dated for released a promo touting the UI
for its M8 phone. If any of it
seems familiar, just remember
something, Apple Tablet
By Paul Miller (Engadget)
Korean consumers that imitation is the sincerest
form of flattery. Honestly, we're
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
Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:10:00 PM 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
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
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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 e-
reader arena at CES, but has
dropped some knowledge on the
Times Online's InGear: it's
building a 6-inch color OLED e-
reader, 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." ASUS DR-570 e-reader to sport
It's supposed to be released by 6-inch OLED color screen, 122
the end of the year, and while hours of battery life originally
from anybody else we'd assume appeared on Engadget on Sun,
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Dell Froot Concept Design Does
[Thanks, Ian S.]
Away with Keyboard, Monitor
Favre throws 4 TDs as
Vikings trample Cowboys
[Concepts]
By Jack Loftus (Gizmodo) Designed by Pauline Carlos as be using our brains by then.
By Associated Press part of a sustainability contest
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:00:00 AM More seriously, Pico projectors
(ESPN.com) sponsored by Dell, the Froot also are *almost* there, but not quite,
photos and share your memories! With the environment and uses a colorful case that's otherwise I'd be asking why this
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 is still just a concept. [ Behance
Did you attend this game? If so, Five Filters featured article: Dell Froot concept saves the biodegradable starch-based Network via technabob via
start chronicling your sports Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: planet courtesy two projectors: polymer. As it's a futuristic OhGizmo]
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
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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
Gadgets/ TV/ 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 6-
inch OLED reader plays flash,
includes wifi/3G and lasts up to
122 hours per charge.
Note that, like with all given, although it doesn't sound
electronics being marketed to cheap (even if it is coming from
consumers today, that battery life Asus). [ Times Online via
claim comes with a caveat: Engadget]
"Under ideal conditions."
The due date is an ambiguous
"end of the year" and no price is
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
about some once—but come on. Comics characters The Justice
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
Born Rich via DVICE] familiar costume make the have more costumes in 2010
rounds in the Smallville Filed under: OpEd, Smallville,
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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 often-
mentioned 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 to-
do 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, browser-
based 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. Note-
Taking
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 full-
featured office suite counterparts
are Google Notebook and Zoho
Notebook. Both feature a typical
web-based WYSIWYG note-
taking environment as well as
sharing and collaboration options
for your notes and documents
that need to be socialized. If you
already routinely use either
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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 web-
based offering in that category is
Google Reader. And if you
prefer a cleaner, more magazine-
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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
Tech/ 15
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
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16 Tech/ Sports/
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 e-
literature 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
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
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
clear last week. Jack Clark
should be baseball
commissioner.
The former St. Louis slugger
weighed in after Mark McGwire
E-reader News Edition
fave e-reader in an unfussy way. And, thanks to its waterproof-
Cost:$24.99 7. Kradle Kindle ness and ability to float, you can
Stand finally take your Kindle into the
The beige version of this looks tub for a nice long soak and a
like something IBM would have good read –- bliss.
bundled with the 5150, but you Cost: TBD when the product
can’t argue with the launches this Spring 10.
functionality. With this stand for Mashable Kindle Edition Blog
the Kindle, you can catch up on Oh come on, we couldn’t offer
Kindle and stand out from the Mashable over breakfast hands- the best Kindle bits and bobs
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pockets by negotiation. 5. Cole strain on your wrists for other, special “Kindle Edition” blog, so
Haan Leather Kindle Cover less cerebral activities. instead of fussing around with
Give your Kindle the gravitas of Cost:$19.99 8. Kindle Car the device’s experimental beta
a classic leather-bound tome Charger browser, you can get Mashable
with this saddle tan-toned, hand- Here’s another one that falls into content wirelessly auto-updated
stained, pebble-grain leather the practical category. As the onto your Kindle so you can read
case, which we think says “I may Kindle ships with both a US up on all the news and features
be all up in your face with my power adapter and a micro-USB even when you’re not connected.
cutting-edge electronic book cable for charging up via your Cost:$0.99 per month (but worth
device, but I still appreciate the PC, your vehicle is the only every cent!) More e-book
classic things in life, like cow- place you might run into power resources from Mashable:
hide.” Or something like that. issues. This useful device - 10 Must-Read eBooks for
Cost:$99.99 6. Built Neoprene promises a rapid charge, won’t Social Media Lovers
Kindle Sleeve overcharge, and comes with a - Barnes and Noble Nook Meta-
If you’re really not the Cole lifetime guarantee, so certainly Review: “Not Fully Baked”
Haan or Borsa Bella type, then a ticks all the sensible boxes. - Digital Textbooks: 3 Reasons
more modern approach to Kindle Cost:$19.95 9. M-Edge Students Aren’t Ready
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Built’s neoprene sleeves for 6- Said to be, and we quote, “‘oh eBook, ebooks, ereader,
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 ereaders, Kindle, List, Lists,
Available in a bright stripe, or in offers your Kindle “ultimate online shopping, shopping
red and black, they will add protection” (which we’re sure is
some urban-chic padding to your also a Steven Segal movie).
steroid freak. Clark was so
eloquent we'll just turn today's
program over to him.
finally admitted to being a
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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
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?
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
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,
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, file-
sharing 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
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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
Tech Tips/ 17
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
18 Tech/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition

How to present like Steve Jobs

By Chris Rawson (The skills; in fact, he has literally just trying to read the slides.
Unofficial Apple Weblog written the book on the Apple I've deliberately emulated Steve
(TUAW)) CEO's style, The Presentation Jobs's presentation style for
Submitted at 1/17/2010 2:30:00 PM Secrets of Steve Jobs, which we several of my own presentations
reviewed last October. Rather since reading the Presentation
Filed under: Tips and tricks, than shell out for the whole Zen article, and by doing so
Odds and ends, Steve Jobs A book, though, you can get a nice every speech I've given has been
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 successful in three key ways:
repeated on day one of just about Steve Jobs's presentation style alleviating any public speaking
every communications course from Gallo himself in the anxiety I may have felt, keeping
I've taken, is that people are YouTube video below: the audience engaged and
more afraid of speaking or The points Gallo makes are enthusiastic about the topic, and
presenting in public than they are simple to follow, and pretty most importantly, getting the
of dying. I've never been able to much identical to both what point of the presentation across
find an official source for this TUAW gleaned from reviewing without being a massive bore.
statistic, but it's indisputable that his book and what I learned in Given that Jobs has an industry-
most people recoil in terror at the the communications courses I wide reputation as a phenomenal
thought of giving a presentation, took in college. Interestingly showman, it certainly can't hurt
whether it's to an audience of enough, the presentation skills to swipe some of his presentation
five or five thousand. Gallo enumerates are also very tactics for your own speeches -
Steve Jobs obviously does not similar to basic skills needed in although be aware that the black
share this phobia. His stage essay writing: present a clear turtleneck and jeans look doesn't
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 work for everyone.
Zen comparing the different the presenter. By contrast,
presentations has been carefully t o t a l k a b o u t , p r o v i d e [Via lifehacker]
styles of Apple and Microsoft Microsoft's presentations are an
crafted to convey to audiences readers/audiences with clear TUAW How to present like
presentations. Presentation Zen all-too-familiar iteration of the
his enthusiasm for whatever it is transitions, make statistics Steve Jobs originally appeared
makes the observation that Steve "PowerPoint Hell" we've all
he's discussing that day. Whether relevant to your topic and to your on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Jobs uses his Keynote slides as a suffered through at one time or
you call it the " reality distortion audience, and so on. Underlying (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010
primarily visual medium, with another, whether in a college
field" or just good public all of these ideas is one unifying 14:30:00 EST. Please see our
very few words (often only a course or a business meeting:
speaking ability, Jobs's skills as a principle: keep it simple. terms for use of feeds.
single phrase) per slide and a reams of text on the slide,
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 Read| Permalink| Email this|
minimum of graphics. Jobs uses confusing graphics, busy slides,
unmatched in the realm of CEO to analyze Steve Jobs's onstage Comments
Keynote slides to emphasize his and masses of bullet points that
presenters. skills. Back when I was taking a key points without drawing too draw your attention away from
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
much audience attention away the presenter and have you
communications experts who's Professional Writing, I came
from where it belongs: on Jobs, spending half the presentation
scrutinized Jobs's presenting across a post from Presentation

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
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.
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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
'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
Tech/ Entertainment/ 19
Report: Conan O'Brien's
'Tonight Show'
Departure Almost a
did mine just because I didn't
read the Apple support forums Done Deal
carefully enough. Except for first (ETonline - Breaking News)
and second generation iPod
shuffle models, the autofill Submitted at 1/16/2010 2:28:00 PM
option for all iPods and iPhones
Conan O'Brien and NBC are
is activated by expanding the
reportedly close to hammering
device (by clicking on that little
out a deal in which O'Brien
triangle to the right of it) to
would leave the network --
reveal its media folder hierarchy.
possibly opening the door for Jay
Then, you'll want to click on
Leno to return to "The Tonight
"music," and now you'll see the
Show."
autofill option in the bottom left
On Friday, NBC execs and reps
hand corner. The whole time, I
for O'Brien were close to
thought it'd be located on the
determining the details of his
"music" tab within the device,
departure, a source familiar with
on the "music" within the device important as autofill." much like how it's on the
the negotiations tells the
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 Associated Press. The deal might
"autofill." in a different place for the third generation iPod shuffle.
involve NBC offering the
This morning, my sister brought generation shuffle, and have now Autofill is now available for all funnyman a settlement of more
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.
than $30 million and allowing
generation iPod shuffle. And to and iPhones. The more you know...Dun, dah,
him to launch a new show
my surprise, it, unlike its To enable autofill on your iPod duh, ding.
elsewhere as soon as this fall, the
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 AP's souce says.
autofill" feature. Or so I thought. tab for your device (in the your fill with iTunes' autofill
The news agency says two-and-
After spending a half hour or so "device" section of iTunes). originally appeared on The half years remain on O'Brien's
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
“Tonight Show” contract, and
playlist with random songs, I "manually manage music [and (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 different reports place his annual
said to myself, "Self, there's videos]." 13:30:00 EST. Please see our
salary anywhere from $10
gotta be an explanation for this. Now here's where I got lost and terms for use of feeds. million to $25 million.
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
theaters. Director James in at No. 1 for it's fifth straight $1.5 billion worldwide.
Cameron's 3D sci-fi action film weekend in a row, 'Avatar' Click the pics to see what other
has shot past 'Star Wars' to take grossed another $41.3 million at films topped the weekend box
the No. 3 spot on the all-time the box office, putting the total at office.
domestic box office list. Coming $491.8 million in the states and
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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
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
wonders or did nothing at all.
More than likely, they're just Manning and friends could have
that good.
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)
We'll never know if Peyton
gone undefeated in the regular
• 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
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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.
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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. typically select features from a
While on the surface it’s an database of stock reference
amusing misstep by intelligence photographs to create the new
agencies, Gaspar Llamazares, image…it appears that in this
the former leader of Spain’s instance the forensic artist was
United Left coalition, calls the unable to find suitable features
move “shameless”. His safety is among the reference photographs
at risk, he told the BBC, and he and obtained those features, in
no longer feels able to travel to part, from a photograph he found
America now his likeness is on a on the internet.
wanted poster: “Bin Laden’s
safety is not threatened by this
The forensic artist was not
aware of the identity of the
but mine certainly is”, individual depicted in the
Llamazares said. photograph. The similarities
\ between the photos were
Left, Bin Laden in 1998; unintentional and inadvertent.
middle, the FBI image; right, We don’t think it matters that
Gaspar Llamazares the man in question was a
The FBI is quoted admitting to notable politician: using photos
the error, saying that the artist from an image search to create a
found the photo on the web and most wanted poster is surely
didn’t know it was of a Spanish putting the subject at risk, is it
politician: not?
When producing age-progressed Tags: FBI, Photoshop, trending
photographs, forensic artists
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AT&T lowering cost of unlimited New York Times

voice and data for iPhone users Website May Charge:
By Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Will You Pay? [POLL]
By Pete Cashmore
Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:30:00 PM (Mashable!)
Filed under: Odds and ends, Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:46:10 PM

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
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.
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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
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Mauritius to Apple: Thanks for the 1 Dead, 1 Wounded in

iPhones, can we haz iTunes Store? Restaurant Shooting
(FOXNews.com) the newspaper says that a dozen
By Steven Sande (The movement and we have already police vehicles and three
Unofficial Apple Weblog been featured in many leading Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:17:51 AM

(TUAW)) ambulances converged on the

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
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|
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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

New York Times Website To Charge for Access [REPORT]

By Pete Cashmore articles for free before you’re model. nytimes.com, advocated for a
(Mashable!) prompted to pay up. However, NYMag writes of the move: free site.
Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:20:27 AM
the system won’t be The decision to go paid is Will you pay to access the New
implemented for a few months – monumental for the Times, and York Times online? Let us know
The New York Times website is likely in the spring. culminates a yearlong debate that in the comments.
set to charge readers for access. The move is a gamble for the grew contentious, people close to Tags: new york, new york times,
A decision is expected in days Times, which previously tried the talks say. In favor of a paid newspaper
and an announcement “within charging for content from model were Keller and managing
weeks”, according to a report. c o l u m n i s t s through editor Jill Abramson. Nisenholtz
The Times will likely deploy a TimesSelect— readership fell costs, however, the Times is and former deputy managing
metered system, meaning you and the project was abandoned. taking another shot at the paid editor Jon Landman, who was
can read a certain number of With ad revenues not meeting until recently in charge of
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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))
Submitted at 1/16/2010 4:00:00 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
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
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
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global warming, there’s all this
hell because of climate change
… predictable shot at me, because I
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.
By Pete Cashmore
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:40:48 PM
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
Tim Blair, meanwhile, updates
his post to take another
linked to a story about Scott
Ritter’s arrest in a sex sting with
a comment about Ritter 180-
degree 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
Tech/ Politics/ Popular News/
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
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.
23
Headphones may
not damage your
hearing after all
(Holy Kaw!)
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 in-
ear entertainment products may
not be as damaging as we
thought.
Save your ears and the rest of
your body.
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24 Tech Tips/
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
E-reader News Edition
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
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 thumb-
drive-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
Tech Tips/ Popular News/ 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
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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
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
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-than-
average shipping times and lack-
luster support. That said if you're
already a Costco customer and
you're looking for convenient
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
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.
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
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Fund chairman flags up US
equities
(Financial Times - US fixed income investments such
homepage) as corporate bonds – and with
emerging market stocks having
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:35:36 AM
gained so quickly in the past
US investors who are continuing year, Brian Rogers, chairman
to shun US equity markets in and chief investment officer at T
favour of bond investments or Rowe Price, said investors
emerging market stocks may be should “fight that tendency to
in for disappointment, according follow the herd”.
to the chief investment officer at Five Filters featured article:
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– which could dent the value of Term Extraction.
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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
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terrible revenge for our having
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prison, well, dammit, we'd want
backing Google
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every tool they needed to stop homepage)
him in the nick of time. Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:58:08 AM
And maybe, just maybe, that
technology could trickle down Yahoo’s Chinese partner issued
to, say, the prosumer market. a scathing criticism of the US
"Computer... draw cartoon!" technology company at the
More Noise to Signal. Discuss weekend, calling it “reckless” for
publicly supporting Google’s
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protest over a wave of Chinese
cyberattacks.
Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo
holds a 40 per cent stake, said it
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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
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have a customer relationship corporate media! Talk about
with the service that hosts it. If dilution.
you don't like the service you're If you want to break out, your
getting it should be easy to move content is going to live in a little
your Internet presence to another boat and will float in a harbor
location. You should be able to filled with battleships, aircraft
pay for this hosting in advance carriers, nuclear powered
so your work survives you. submarines and pirate ships.
And if you think you can easily They either won't care if you stay
have your independence, trust afloat, or worse, they will try to
me, you can't. Your Internet sink you. I'm not kidding.
presence is owned by corporate Keeping a website afloat these
media as much as the newscaster days, unlike the early days of the
on NBC Nightly News, or a Internet, is not for the faint of
reporter on All Things heart or the technologically
Considered, or the Public Editor naive.
of the NY Times. We are all If the Internet is going to
slaves to corporate media. achieve its potential, and these
Except these days the bosses are days the prospects for that look
the people who own the social dim, we're going to have to
contributing) it quickly gets networks, their names are create a service that doesn't exist.
r e v e r t e d . T h a t ' s b e e n m y Zuckerberg, Jobs, Williams, I described it in a piece I wrote
experience. Very quickly you Stone, Brin, Page and Schmidt. last week:
give up, understanding that the If you want to know how much Jan 13: Static hosting should be
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 cheap and easy.
belongs to people who play by Amendment rights, the answer is We could have a good
rules you don't understand. not very much. They're business discussion about this, but I don't
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 know where. The industry
centralized corporate media of you, they care about making conferences won't discuss your
the past, doesn't it? money and being more independence because they get
August 2006: "In all that competitive. If you're thinking their funding from companies
c o n t e n t , w h i c h t o d a y ' s the Internet is about free that get the value from your
companies view as frankfurter expression and you're depending dependence.
meat, undifferentiated slurry, a on one of their companies to host Lanier is right, we probably
medium for unwanted hitch- your content, you're buying into have gone too far out on a limb
hikers, is the idea for the next a lie. It's not their fault, it's yours, to get back on track. Or perhaps
iPod, or the formula for peace in for not going to the trouble to some of us can figure this out,
the Middle East, the campaign find out. but our writing will be the only
platform for the President we'll The most ridiculous thing is that stuff that survives. It's time to
elect in 2012, perhaps even a corporate news organizations are have this discussion, maybe past
solution for global warming." t r u s t i n g t h e n e w m e d i a time.
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
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Louis C.K. wonders why Conan Could Rich Sommer be Kraft to

wanted The Tonight Show to
begin with - TCA Report
By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:37:00 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 stand-
up 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
Ugly Betty's new man?
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:01:00 PM
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, off-
again 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
with his name on it? saw Matt making a decision that
Continue reading Louis C.K. definitely puts the romance on
wonders why Conan wanted The hold.
Tonight Show to begin with - What's next for Betty?
TCA Report Apparently one of the Mad Men.
Filed under: Other Comedy In March, Mad Men actor Rich
Shows, Late Night, TCA Press
Tour, Reality-Free
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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?
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sweeten value
of Cadbury bid
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:05:50 AM
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.
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(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
next few days if fuel supplies
were not replenished.
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Source: Braylon Edwards facing
NFL penalty next season
By Adam Schefter
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:06:16 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
Review: Saturday Night isn't over yet.
Edwards' case will be reviewed
under the NFL's personal
Live - Sigourney conduct policy and is expected to
result in discipline, though not
Weaver/The Ting Tings during this postseason, a league
source said.
AFC East blog
By Annie Wu (TV Squad) lady).
The writing was pretty
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:15:00 AM
consistent and suited Weaver
(S35E12) First of all, Sigourney well, and it was fun to see her do
Gaines Adams, Chicago Bears
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.
Defensive End, Dies at 26
By Michael David Smith
about as we slowly weep into our Let's be honest here. (Fanhouse Main)
young but round, Cheetos- Continue reading Review:
Submitted at 1/17/2010 3:21:00 AM
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 Filed under: Chicago Bears
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e x p l o r e d a w i d e r a n g e o f Night Live, Episode Reviews, Gaines Adams died Sunday
w a c k i n e s s , a l l w i t h o u t Reality-Free morning in South Carolina,
humiliating herself (it was a Permalink| Email this| | county coroner James T.
dangerous moment during that C o m m e n t s Coursey said. Adams was 26.
"Fifty and Freaky" sketch but we Adams was taken to the
all knew Weaver's still a classy emergency room at Self
Regional Hospital in
Greenwood, where was
pronounced dead, the Greenville
News first reported. A
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
preliminary autopsy Sunday
revealed Adams had an enlarged
heart and likely died of cardiac
arrest, ESPN reported.
TV/ Sports/ 33
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.
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Insider. Information from The
Associated Press was used in this
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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."
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Boston Celtics' Ray Allen suggests limiting fans' role in voting

for All-Star Game
By ESPN.com news services evenly between the media and on Jan. 7. yearly achievements," McIntyre to be left out. Unlike baseball,
(ESPN.com) the players. He said players He hasn't been able to said. which mandates every team be
Submitted at 1/17/2010 10:40:56 AM
know who is playing the best, strengthen his case since then, Allen also mentioned getting the represented in its All-Star Game,
and believes with his idea, since he'd already been granted a coaches, who pick the reserves, the NBA has only 12 spots per
Celtics guard Ray Allen thinks "you'd look at five guys starting leave from the Rockets while involved in selecting the starters. conference to fill.
it's time to limit fans' influence in the All-Star team regardless of they try to find a trade. Even that may not guarantee the "You figure if there's 24 players
All-Star voting with Allen hype or highlight." He's played sparingly in only six most deserving 10 players, since that get named to the All-Star
Iverson and Tracy McGrady, The NBA likes things the way games this season since coming coaches could have their own team, there's always 30 that
despite having little to no impact they are. back from knee surgery, and opinions about who belongs in deserve it, and you figure that's
this season, both headed into the "We look at it as a great way to Allen thinks commissioner the All-Star game. six that should be on the All-Star
final hours of voting in position e n g a g e t h e f a n s , " N B A David Stern should consider a During Shaquille O'Neal's team," Allen said.
to start. spokesman Brian McIntyre said. rule mandating a player appear in unproductive, injury-plagued Toronto forward Chris Bosh had
Unwanted by their teams, "We think it's a good system." a minimum number of games to final season in Miami in 2008, little chance of starting the game
Iverson and McGrady are still The NBA went to fan voting for be eligible. former Knicks coach Isiah in his hometown of Dallas,
adored by their fans, who still the starters in the mid-70s and "Tracy, if he played, I'm sure Thomas said he planned to vote sitting well behind LeBron
consider them stars even though this season made it even more he'd play well enough to be an him as a reserve anyway, James and Kevin Garnett despite
their stats say otherwise. available to its fans by allowing All-Star player because he's done recalling when he played that a terrific first half. Yet he doesn't
The Memphis Grizzlies quickly them to vote by text messaging. that his career," Allen said. "But respected older players such as want to change the voting
parted ways with Iverson. The “ again, that's taking away from Julius Erving still made All-Star format.
Houston Rockets are trying to That's taking away from another another player in the Western teams late in their careers. "It's all about the fans," he said.
trade McGrady. player in the Western Conference that's having a great That's why Charlotte coach "It's all about who they want to
Maybe the players can swap Conference that's having a great year, that's been playing, that Larry Brown supports Iverson's see because they generate the
stories of their rocky roads while year, that's been playing, that deserves to be in there." election. dollars, they're going to watch
covering each other at the All- deserves to be in there.”-- Celtics Iverson had a better shot of "I've seen Willie Mays and those the game, so they're going to
Star Game. guard Ray Allen holding on to his No. 2 spot in older guys start based on what vote for their favorite players and
"I like the fact that the fans get Paper balloting has already the East, leading Vince Carter by they've done in their career in that's probably how it should
the opportunity to vote and pick closed, but votes can be cast until more than 185,000 votes. He's baseball and we've had that be."
who they'd like to see in the All- 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday night listed with West players on the happen in basketball for years, Information from The
Star Game, but I don't think it on nba.com or by texting a paper ballot after starting the guys that have made a Associated Press was used in this
should be 100 percent," Allen player's last name to 6-9-6-2-2 season in Memphis, but his votes contribution," Brown said. report.
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Allen said fans should have 50 spot in the Western Conference past. a guy's body of work."
percent of the vote, with the was only 2,375 votes when the "A lot of times voting reflects That's fine for some, but it
other 50 percent being divided most recent update was released career achievement as well as means worthy players are going
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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
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• Bears' Gaines Adams Dies At
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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," Kelley-
Clark 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
Sports/ 35
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."
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Associated Press was used in this
story.
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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-by-
minute 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 first year as the teamâs starter, AFC East team is coming to Sanchez will have to throw the So far, this has been one of the
was listing the Chargers â- who led San Diego on a 10-game town. ball. Which could mean big most dreadful NFL playoff
won 11 straight games to finish winning streak to end the regular Then again, thereâs a reason the trouble for the Jets. weekends in memory -- three
the regular season at 13-3 -â as season, securing the top seed in spread is eight points. The Jets As they have all season, the Jets suspenseless routs by home-team
eight-point favorites over the the AFC playoffs. But against were only 9-7 in the regular will have to rely on their defense. favorites. The bettors in Vegas
Jets, the largest spread for any of the Patriots in the divisional season -â and they didnât exactly But against Rivers and San are clearly spooked: The line has
this weekendâs divisional round round, they melted down in the have to fight their way into the Diegoâs balanced and deep spiked to 9 (for the
matchups. But San Diego fans fourth quarter, squandering a late playoffs, with the Colts and offensive attack, the challenge Chargers)Â in the last few hours.
are probably still feeling 21-13 lead and losing by a field Bengals politely rolling over for will be severe. Itâs hard to Which is probably the perfect
apprehensive, and for good goal. Marty Schottenheimer was them. And while rookie imagine the Jets offense scoring setup for a Jets win. Also: an
reason. shown the door shortly quarterback Mark Sanchez was more than 17 points in this outdoor football game! How
The last time the Chargers thereafter. efficient last week, he really game, so the margin of error for novel.
stormed into the playoffs with The setup is similar today. The didnât have to do much. Against the defense will be small.
the momentum they now have, Chargers are the hottest team in the explosive Chargers, though, 4:41 pm | Pregame | by Steve
they immediately suffered an the league. Theyâre rested. New York will probably have to Kornacki
agonizing defeat. That was in Theyâre playing at home. And an score some points. Which means We're just about to get started.
2006, when Phillip Rivers, in his
E-reader News Edition Sports/ 37

St. Louis Cardinals fans cheer Mark Heavy-Hearted Garcon

McGwire in first public appearance Keeps Focus
By Associated Press running shoes, the 46-year-old He was supposed to be at a By Chris Harry (Fanhouse
(ESPN.com) McGwire walked on stage to podium minutes later, but when Main)
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:17:16 PM
"Welcome to the Jungle" by his news conference was moved Submitted at 1/16/2010 6:40:00 PM
Guns N' Roses, the hard-rock into a narrow hallway it left
ST. LOUIS -- Mark McGwire song played before his at-bats reporters jostling for space and Filed under: Colts, NFL
received a standing ovation from with the Cardinals. shouting questions. Playoffs INDIANAPOLIS --
Cardinals fans Sunday in his first The team's new hitting coach The session lasted just more Pierre Garcon had every reason
public appearance in St. Louis was cheered by fans who secured than six minutes before questions to be distracted.
since admitting he used steroids. seats as much as 3½ hours were cut off and McGwire was But maybe a distraction was
His scheduled news conference, earlier. escorted out by security through exactly what he needed.
however, was shifted to an In a brief appearance, he warned a back door. Since news Tuesday of the
overcrowded hallway at the last kids not to try steroids and said Copyright 2010 by The devastating earthquake that
minute, and McGwire evaded he was happy about his chance to Associated Press rocked Haiti, the Indianapolis
questions about the criticism he's put on a major league uniform Five Filters featured article: Colts wide receiver has been
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Dressed in jeans, a sweater and on to Cardinals hitters. 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 rebuilding project.
rebuilt the woeful Denver But something strange has
Nuggets as general manager and happened on the way to the Nets'
looked primed to become one of next summer having some $25
the NBA's top executives. But million of salary-cap room. They
Vandeweghe ticked off Denver started losing so badly that coach
owner Stan Kroenke by flirting Lawrence Frank had to go, and
with the Cleveland Cavaliers' the team is the process of being
general manager opening in sold to Russian billionaire
2005, and was ousted in 2006. Mikhail Prokhorov.
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
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
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more relatives than he can count. flag to the postgame podium. "I
Garcon, though, found some
release Saturday night with an
wasn't as hyped as I would
usually be, but once you start
inspired performance in the playing, start hitting, you kind of
Colts' 20-3 win over the just go out and battle."
Baltimore Ravens in the AFC
Divisional round playoff game at
Lucas Oil Stadium.
"It was a little tough," said
Garcon, who carried a Haitian
Stars prepare for Golden Globes
(BBC News | Americas | Sunday's gala that it is donating O'Keeffe.
World Edition) $100,000 (£61,387) to Wyclef Kate Winslet, recognised in
Jean's Yele Haiti relief fund for 2009 for her performance in The
Submitted at 1/16/2010 9:23:32 PM
their Erwin Center with a 72-67 victims of the Haiti earthquake. Reader, will present an award
win over a very scrappy A&M A host of stars are expected at Segregated this year, as will Sir Paul
squad. the Golden Globes on Sunday, British hopes in the film McCartney - nominated
"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 alongside U2's Bono in the best
your back, everybody likes to awards ceremony on the road to Mulligan, Emily Blunt and Dame film song category.
take a good shot," James said. the Oscars in March. Helen Mirren, all up for best Director Martin Scorsese will be
" 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 honoured with a special award
punched us right in the mouth present the event, to be held at drama. for his outstanding contribution
and we didn't retaliate until like the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Colin Firth, nominated for best to the entertainment field.
the second half." Angeles. actor in a drama for his role as a Gervais, who won a Globe in
Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, gay academic in film A Single 2004 for his work in The Office,
Jodie Foster and Cher are among Man, will also fly the flag for the told the BBC this week he was
the US celebrities lined up to UK. looking forward to being the
present awards. Unlike the Oscars, the Globes event's first host in 15 years.
U p i n t h e A i r h a s s i x divides its film prizes between "I'm going to say what I think is
nominations in the film dramas and comedies or funny and I'm going to give the
categories, including a best actor m u s i c a l s . A-listers a hard time," the 48-
citation for George Clooney. The TV awards are similarly year-old said.
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Weekly Webcomic
Wrapup is going in for
the kill
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) the kiiiiilllll I'm doin' it for a
thriiilllll
Rumor: Former GRIN/Square Enix Submitted at 1/16/2010 11:00:00 PM

A lot of people seem to be

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Final MAG beta

statistics released, over
one million served
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Zipper also broke down the
Submitted at 1/16/2010 8:00:00 PM populations of the three factions:

Heavy Rain official site launches, The last beta phase for Zipper
Interactive's pseudo-MMOFPS
Raven and Valor each netted
about 38 percent of the game's
player base, while SVER only
announces 'Four Days Challenge' MAG has ended, and the
developer has compiled some
picked up 24 percent. However,
despite its smaller size, SVER
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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

DC Direct also European Heavy Rain crashed at the Utah Test and
Training Range, about 35 miles

manufacturing Dragon special edition looks southwest of Wendover, Nev.,

during a night training mission.
Assigned to the 388th Fighter

Age action figures wet, classy Wing's 421st Fighter Squadron at

Hill, Houghton's jet went down
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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
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Haiti quake aid effort still slow
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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-au-
Prince, 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 Ki-
moon, 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 (£346m) 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
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"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
Leogane, west of Port-au-Prince, in a Port-au-Prince market, major hurdle. HAITI page 49
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Analysis: Missteps, mood turn Mass. Senate race (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) winning a four-way race with 47 waited a week before airing her about "together we can" collided campaign gimmick."
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:29:53 PM percent of the vote. She cut back first campaign ad, and when she with a sagging economy, a sales An early poll by the National
on her appearances and did, the spot focused on her tax increase and none of his Republican Senatorial
BOSTON – A Republican's disappeared from public view prosecutorial career and work promised property tax Committee showed Brown
surprising nimbleness, his e n t i r e l y C h r i s t m a s w e e k , against child sex predators. reductions. trailing by just 13 points. The
opponent's missteps and shifting confident she needed only Coakley did have one A Suffolk University poll last committee kept the results
political winds in this "bluest of community and political activists advertising first: She was the week that showed Brown private to avoid awakening
blue" Democratic states have and their networks in what was first candidate to air a negative statistically tied with Coakley slumbering Democrats.
turned a sure thing into an even projected to be a low-turnout spot, released a half-hour after also showed Patrick with a 56 Last week when polls for the
bet. special election. her final debate with Brown on percent disapproval rating. first time showed Brown on the
Instead of Democrats easily When she emerged, it wasn't to Jan. 11. Obama's was only slightly better cusp of victory, a key
retaining the Senate seat held for shake hands or rally supporters, Brown now has the chance to at 43 percent. Democratic player,
4 7 y e a r s b y E d w a r d M . but to sit on the stage at become a pivotal Republican "It's a very anxiety-ridden Massachusetts Secretary of State
Kennedy, the GOP may win the inaugurations for newly elected Party player, the 41st Senate vote climate in the country," said John William F. Galvin, said
vote necessary to block President Democratic mayors. There was against the health care bill, the Sasso, a Democratic political confirming the election results
Barack Obama's agenda. no stump, only press releases. focus of Kennedy's life work. strategist who advised former could take 10 days, maybe 15,
It's a political reality few could And she balked at debates. When You'd never know it from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. "And enough time for Democrats in
have dreamed possible only a the final one a week ago ended, Brown's ads, Web site or the party that's in, the Washington to push a health care
few months after hundreds of Brown had clearly won it. campaigning. Democratic Party, bears the compromise through the Senate.
thousands of Massachusetts "I think that everyone just He rarely mentions his party brunt of that." That irked Massachusetts voters
residents lined streets in Cape assumed that it was going to be affiliation, instead saying he is Brown is practiced in running even more.
Cod and Boston in a solemn Martha or a Democrat, so why "independent-minded." It's a nod against the tide, both personally "It's not playing by the rules; it's
farewell to the Senate's "liberal pay attention?" Thom Carter, a to the voting reality in and professionally. changing the rules of the game,"
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 Massachusetts. While the state The 50-year-old is both a said Scott McGrath of Winthrop,
would succeed Ted Kennedy, but M e l r o s e a n d a C o a k l e y has a solid Democratic tradition, triathlete and a Republican by who held a sign at a Brown rally
which Democrat it would be. supporter, said Saturday at one 51 percent of its voters are choice, and it's hard to know on Friday. "It's worse than dirty
In a span of weeks, state Sen. of her rallies. "And I think unenrolled in either major party. which is more difficult in a state politics; it's bad sportsmanship."
Scott Brown has capitalized on everyone was guilty that were Only 37 percent are registered where the GOP holds just 15 ___
voter dissatisfaction to erase a supporters." Democrats, while just 12 percent percent of the legislative seats. EDITOR'S NOTE — Glen
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, are Republicans. Brown is one of five Johnson has covered local, state
Democrat Martha Coakley, the Brown launched the campaign's So-called Kennedy liberal Republicans in the state Senate. and national politics since 1985.
state attorney general. He's done ad war on Dec. 30 with an eye- Democrats remain in the cities, Last fall, he ran against a ___
it by knocking on doors in catching spot. It began with but moderates now populate the perennial candidate in the GOP Associated Press writers Beth
conservative South Boston to get black-and-white footage of suburbs. They favor a balanced primary, but he and his campaign Fouhy and Steve LeBlanc
out the vote and by holding Kennedy's brother, President approach to government, and team knew their true challenge contributed to this report.
kitchen-table conversations with John F. Kennedy, arguing for an they helped elect Republican — and opportunity — lay in the Five Filters featured article:
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his workmanlike approach. audacious for appropriating such leader, Gov. Deval Patrick, is challenged Coakley to do the
Coakley ran a textbook primary a hallowed image, but Coakley sagging after an Obama-like same.
campaign but then stopped after didn't respond in kind. She 2006 campaign full of airy talk Coakley dismissed it as "a
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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.
" saying that if I wanted something
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
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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
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."
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Filipino WWII veterans still waiting for payments (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) "My husband said: 'If the others widows, children and other next The U.S. military assured Norma Sotio keeps a copy of
Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:25:16 PM are receiving, maybe I'm going of kin who aren't eligible. Some Filipinos they would be able to her husband's application in their
to receive too,'" said Norma people filed more than one apply for U.S. citizenship and small apartment in an elderly
W A I P A H U , H a w a i i – Sotio, his widow, as tears welled application. qualify for full U.S. veterans' housing complex in suburban
Gaudencio Sotio injured his left in her eyes. "It's one year Some 16,000 claims are still benefits if they served. But one Honolulu. It says Gaudencio
leg fighting to expel the Japanese already. If my husband received being reviewed. year after Japan's surrender, the Sotio served in the
military from the Philippines that money maybe he enjoy." The waiting has frustrated Rescission Act of 1946 declared Commonwealth Army of the
during World War II. Though Part of the problem is that veterans who have already spent that Filipinos were not in active Philippines — a unit made up of
Filipino, he was fighting under 40,000 people applied for the most of their lives pushing the service for the U.S. military U.S.-trained soldiers that was
the command of the United benefit when the VA had been government to fulfill its during the war. part of the U.S. Armed Forces of
States, which had colonized his expecting only half that number. promises. This stripped Filipinos of their the Far East — during the war.
homeland in the early 1900s. To cope, the VA added seven "The long delay is justice denied. status as U.S. veterans and After the war he joined the New
Last February, the U.S. said it additional claims processors to That's the saying. It's really true denied them the benefits they Philippine Scouts— a unit of
would pay a lump sum — $9,000 its Manila field office. — it's an injustice somehow," were promised. Philippine citizens that served
or $15,000 — to veterans like The National Personnel Records said Art Caleda, president of the The veterans pushed for years to with the U.S. Armed Forces and
Sotio in lieu of pensions it had Center in St. Louis, which has Hawaii chapter of World War II win back these benefits. Success later worked as a radio
promised Filipino soldiers during over a century of documents for Filipino-American Veterans. came slowly and in bits. In 1990, newscaster.
the war but reneged on paying. military servicemen and women, About 400 applicants are in Congress passed a bill allowing Gaudencio Sotio was a quiet
Since then, more than 11,000 has also increased its staff to deal Hawaii, which has a large thousands to immigrate and man and never spoke much of
surviving veterans now in their with the claims, and is now Filipino-American population. become U.S. citizens. A decade the war, she said. But he kept a
80s and 90s received this much handling 800 lump sum payment Most — or 65 percent — have later, the U.S. recognized the slim box full of medals,
delayed monetary recognition of queries a week, or twice as many been paid while 15 percent were right of the veterans to be buried including a Purple Heart.
their service and sacrifice. But as when the program started. denied. About 20 percent of the in national cemeteries. Because her husband applied
thousands of others are still The VA expects these changes Hawaii claims are still pending, Congress considered legislation before he died, Norma Sotio
waiting to receive their money as will allow it to plow through the like Sotio's. authorizing pensions to Filipino would receive his benefit if the
the federal government wades existing application pile in about "There are veterans who were veterans several times over the VA determines he had a valid
t h r o u g h a b a c k l o g o f 10 weeks. able to file their application years. It finally settled on the claim.
applications. "We are committed to delivering claims but then they died. What lump sum solution when it She says she'd share any money
This bureaucracy moved too these benefits in a compassionate is the use of that?" said Caleda. included $198 million for the she receives with his children.
slowly for Sotio, who died Jan. and timely manner," said Willie "They're not only frustrated, they program in last year's economic Five Filters featured article:
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went into effect. His death came department has so far had to defend the Philippines from the ask lawmakers for additional
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 1941 Japanese invasion. They funds if it appears it will exhaust
Veterans Affairs was able to rule from people who hadn't served. formed the resistance during the the allocated amount. Veterans
on his claim. Some were from veteran subsequent Japanese occupation. have until Feb. 16 to file.
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Official: Man says he opened JFK door by mistake (AP)
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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.
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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
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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.
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Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) desperately need a home. pony up $14,000 to shoot a be a market somewhere way out state's partner in the project, has
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:03:36 AM Even the urgency of the trophy elk. in the future," he added. ever offered to take the animals.
situation is open to question. For $4,000, they can harvest a Turner's plan is expected to be That's due in large part to a
BILLINGS, Mont. – With 88 Despite warnings from Montana bull bison out of a herd of more acted on by the end of the month broader dispute over whether
bison from Yellowstone National about possible slaughter, federal than 1,000 of the animals that by the Montana Department of wild bison belong anywhere in
Park facing possible slaughter, officials said earlier this month Turner has been building up for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. the state outside of Yellowstone.
billionaire Ted Turner has swept that the bison could be kept two decades. Guernsey State Park in Many ranchers see free-roaming
in and offered to hold the longer if needed at a quarantine His representatives insist the Wyoming has also put in a bison as a disease risk and
animals for five years on his compound north of the park. Yellowstone animals are more proposal to the agency for 14 unwanted competition for the
sprawling Montana ranch while a They have already been there for valuable for their genetics and bison. grass that feeds their cattle herds.
new home for them is found. But several years to make sure they would be off limits. Montana officials were largely Meanwhile, conservationists are
T u r n e r , e v e r t h e s h r e w d are disease free. Yellowstone's bison, also known caught off guard by the sinking millions of dollars into
businessman, won't do it for Dennis Tilton, a rancher from as buffalo, represent one the last billionaire's initial bid, which restoration efforts for the animal.
nothing. The media mogul says nearby Livingston who worked vestiges of the massive herds that came at the invitation of the That includes an attempt by the
he will care for the bison only if for a year feeding the animals once roamed across North state's Democratic governor, American Prairie Foundation to
he can keep up to 90 percent of under government contract, said America— tens of millions of Brian Schweitzer. buy up vast swaths of land in
their offspring. giving the animals to Turner animals that were all but wiped State and federal eastern Montana ranches and
And in the Rocky Mountain amounted to "robbing from the out in the late 19th century. pronouncements going back to at create a 3 million acre reserve
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 Turner's representatives say his least 2005 had called for the for bison and other wildlife.
cherished both for its aesthetic should put them onto public land plan for the 88 park bison would quarantined animals to be "We don't have a real clear
value and as meat on the table — to establish new herds. advance a long-standing relocated onto public or tribal direction of what we want to do
the plan is stoking a sharp debate Since Turner first came to advocacy for wildlife restoration. lands. Before Turner came along, with bison," said Montana fish
over the role of deep-pocketed Montana in 1989, his ambitious It also gains him the animals' those pronouncements included and wildlife director David
private entities in conservation. conservation efforts in the state unique and valuable genetics. an explicit prohibition against Risley. "Are they going to be
Hunters, environmentalists and have been alternately lauded and "We don't understand the commercialization of the behind a fence forever, or is
property law experts have all reviled. He's shielded more than antipathy," said Turner animals. there a place in Montana where
weighed in and most say 1 5 0 , 0 0 0 a c r e s f r o m Enterprises general manager When plans last spring to move they can be free-roaming?"
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48 Popular News/
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(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 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.
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Gravel beaches
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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 11-
million-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
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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
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
HAITI
continued from page 42
a $1.2 million, three-year grant had come to Haiti from America
from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill for his mother's funeral, only for
Trustee Council. The council his wife to be killed in the
was formed after the earthquake. He said that so far
environmental disaster to oversee people in the area had received
restoration of the sound. no help of any kind.
Boufadel doesn't know how "We don't have any aid, nothing
long it might take for the at all," he said. "No food, no
remaining oil to finally disappearwater, no medical, no doctors."
but predicted it will take a long Estimates of how many people
time. died following the 7.0 magnitude
"It will be a slow process earthquake on Tuesday have
because the oil is relatively varied.
sheltered from water motion," he The Pan American Health
said. Organization put the death toll at
___ 50,000-100,000, while Haitian
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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.
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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".
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16 Americans
- 10 ways to embrace change Confirmed Dead in Haiti
Quake, State Dept. Says
(Holy Kaw!) familiar routines suddenly
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:51:00 AM dissolve, it can seem as if all (FOXNews.com)
your supports are gone. For a Submitted at 1/17/2010 12:37:34 AM
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. Sixteen Americans are
aspect of your life, chances are It’s crucial, while absorbing the confirmed dead in the wake of
you’ll be blindsided at least once shock of the new, to make Tuesday's devastating earthquake
by a major, unavoidable, life- yourself feel well taken care of. in Haiti, the U.S. State
altering change sure to rock your Prepare nutritious meals for the Department said Sunday.
world to its core. You can week ahead. If you can spare the The victims include 15 private
choose to let the event cash, have someone come in and American citizens and one U.S.
completely throw you off course, clean the house. Yes, you need to government employee, the
or you can learn to embrace take some time for yourself, but department said.
change. Here are ten ways to do don’t let the pizza boxes pile up. The U.S. Embassy in Haiti,
just that. there’s a lot of value to sitting months. When she opens her More tips and tricks for living meanwhile, has reported that at
1. Don’t do anything. Sit there. quietly instead. In the realm of mouth, her French will have the life you want. least 70 Americans remain
If you’re facing a massive language learning, there’s a stage flowered. Making sense of a Photo credit: Fotolia unaccounted for.
rescaling of your life, your first called the silent period: Adults major change is a lot like that. Permalink| Leave a comment » An embassy spokesman told
impulse will be to go into a may try to avoid going through You need to allow yourself a NewsCORE on Sunday that up
whirring spin of activity, which it, but if you take a kid and plop fallow period before you can to 400 people have been sleeping
is exactly what I did right after I her down in Paris for a spell, blossom. inside the U.S. Embassy in Port-
was fired. I later discovered she’ll naturally clam up for a few 2. Mother yourself a little. When au-Prince each night.
The spokesman added that 2,000
Chile awaits poll run-off result US citizens have been evacuated.
Approximately half of the
(BBC News | Americas | outcome of the second round law-and-order programme and poverty and use Chile's all- houses used by U.S. Embassy
World Edition) will be very close. has vowed to use his business important copper exports to staff in Port-au-Prince have been
Submitted at 1/17/2010 4:02:30 AM
Chile's last conservative leader know-how to reactivate the offset the effects of the global destroyed.
was military ruler Gen Augusto economy. economic crisis. U.S. officials said Sunday that
Polls have closed in Chile's Pinochet, who stepped down in This is the second time Mr M r F r e i h a s p r o m i s e d a the international urban search
presidential run-off, which could 1990. Pinera has run for the presidency continuation and deepening of and rescue teams have rescued
see the first conservative Mr Frei, 67, is seeking his at the head of a centre-right many of her policies. 62 individuals so far — mostly
government for more than two second term as president after an coalition. Print Sponsor Haitians. As of Sunday morning,
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- 7 tips for transforming leadership Chicago Bears

(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?
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
Defensive End Gaines
Adams Dies
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 1/16/2010 11:11:06 PM
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
work out. by the news of Gaines' passing,"
More on leadership. the team said in a statement
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Permalink| Leave a comment » his family during this difficult
time."
Adams was selected fourth
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.
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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
criticism for failing to also
apologise for the abuses
committed by the rebels during
the war.
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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 Post-
Dispatch)
(Yahoo! News Search Results work involves the alteration of
for e-readers) books. He tears pages apart,
Submitted at 1/17/2010 1:25:59 AM
turning books into new forms. In

- How to declutter your mind In this era of digital

manipulation, as we toss
many installations, he has
carefully stacked books into
shapes, and wraps it all up with a
(Holy Kaw!) 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 clever title. Often, he arranges
Submitted at 1/17/2010 11:24:00 AM 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
books on e-readers, artist and books and then photographs
declutter your brain. who is spontaneous which helps
professor Buzz Spector embraces them with a large-format
There is such a thing as 5. Limit common distractions. me to make a decision on the
the written word printed on Polaroid camera.
information overload, and in the Most of us are exposed to a snap of a finger. Even if your
paper. "What it's all about is making
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 stuff, and after that, the work is
stress can be overwhelming. If stop us from doing what we the near future at least you’ve
dean of the College and Graduate out there for anybody," he says.
the unlimited sources of data NEED to do. Close your email acted and cleared your mind.
School of Art at Washington "Everything I love doing as an
don’t get you down, the expected inbox, log out of Skype, switch Plus you just made another
University's Sam Fox School of artist has to do as a form of
immediacy of communication off your mobile phone and just valuable experience for life.
Design and Visual Arts, will erasure. I tear pages out of books
might. If you want to break free concentrate on the task you to Tackle your day-to-day with
show selected works from his or, when I stack a bunch of
from the cycle of mental stress, tackle right now. You will be lifehacks.
career starting Friday in the books, all the books in the
you must first filter what you surprised how much more you Photo credit: Fotolia
exhibit "Shelf Life" at the Bruno middle are buried. When I
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. photograph books with the
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 award- ARTIST'S page 52
you achieve this goal, here are undecided decisions are lurking
winning writers, much of his
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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
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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.
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With the Nook e-book reader, Barnes & Noble

challenges Amazon's Kindle (Washington Post)
(Yahoo! News Search Results ship date" no earlier than Feb. shares the issues of other e-ink software Barnes & Noble
for e-readers) 12. screens. Although this grayscale introduced in July. Most new
Submitted at 1/16/2010 9:00:00 PM
Is the Nook worth that wait? display needs little power and is titles sell for $9.99; older titles
After a week of testing a readable in sunlight, its contrast can come at a slight discount
At last week's Consumer borrowed one, I'd say not quite. and sharpness is little better than (William Gibson's 2003 science-
Electronics Show, for example, The Nook includes an important a trade paperback's. And turning fiction novel"Pattern
Sony showed off its new Sony feature that Amazon misses, but the page involves waiting a Recognition" cost $6.39, only 80
Reader Daily Edition while name it doesn't match the Kindle's second while it flashes a photo- cents less than B&N's Web price
-brand vendors such as Samsung elegance and ease of use. negative image of the prior page. for a paperback) or may not be
and newcomers such as Plastic The Nook's problems start with The Nook's AT&T wireless available at all.
Logic introduced a variety of e- that dual-screen setup. First, service never dropped, which is a With your account registered on
reader devices. And another having only one screen accept good thing in light of its inept the Nook, buying a book requires
veteran book retailer -- Barnes & touch input invites confusion WiFi interface. Instead of only a few seconds' wait to
Noble -- now sells a tablet called (though going to the next or showing available signals, the download it. You can also read
the Nook. previous page requires only Nook makes you type a the book on any other gadget
Like the Kindle, the $259 Nook tapping large buttons on the network's " SSID" (that is, with Barnes & Noble's reader
( http:// bn.com/ nook) combines Nook's sides). Second, because name), select its encryption software -- Mac and Windows
a n " e - i n k " s c r e e n a n d f r e e the touch screen turns off method (quick, do you use WPA computers and BlackBerry,
wireless access to download automatically, doing anything on or WPA2?) and enter a password iPhone and iPod touch devices,
books on the go -- then adds a the main screen often requires on an on-screen keyboard. with support for Android and
second, touch-sensitive color waking up the other display with In Barnes & Noble's own shops, Windows Mobile phones coming
display and a WiFi receiver to a tap of its home button. the Nook connects automatically late this winter.
cover for gaps in its AT&T- The color display, with the WiFi to the in-store WiFi. But at the Five Filters featured article:
provided service. receiver, seems to limit the Clarendon store two weeks ago, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
Like Amazon's reader at its Nook's battery life. A solid day the Nook did not display the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
debut, the Nook has limited of browsing and reading left only promised in-store coupons. Term Extraction.
availability; yesterday, Barnes & a quarter of a charge. The Nook logs on to the same e-
Noble's site listed an "expected The Nook's primary display book store as the e-reader