| Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment.
David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss roommate apparently arrived at the apartment at 1218 S. Main St. about 2 a.m. and found the victim on the floor in the kitchen area of the apartment, according to a press release. The roommate called police. The death is being investigated as suspicious, said Moscow Police Department Assistant Chief David Duke. The apparent cause of death is a single gunshot wound to the head. No gun was found in the apartment, Duke said. .
Hansen: Criminal past isn't deal-killer at I-80 Re-entry Job Fair
At least 25 companies set up tables on the ground floor for 400 job-seekers. There were local big dogs like Pioneer Hi-Bred, Vermeer and Bankers Trust. There were little guys like Advance Asphalt and Seibert Trucking. There were chains like Arby's, Manpower and O'Reilly Auto Parts. There were social service agencies serving as sponsors with Iowa Workforce Development, Federal Probation and Parole, and the Iowa Department of Corrections. There were tables for filling out applications. There was a sign above one table that said "Public Records Checked While You Wait."
There was an interview room and a clothes closet for anyone who needed more starch. Some of the job hunters wore jackets and ties. Some wore jeans and tattoos.
A group from the Mitchellville women's prison wore blue prison-issue work scrubs, passed out resumes and made contacts for later.
Paula Deen pulled herself up to become a celebrity cook
Everything Paula Deen touches turns to butter.That is to say she has spread her homey, gracious style across America with her cookbooks, her classes, and most notably, her programs on the Food Network, "Paula’s Home Cooking" and "Paula’s Party."Now she’s on tour to bring her folksy food wisdom to the masses. She’ll be at the Chicago Theatre later this month to offer family-friendly cooking demonstrations to fans and foodies.Deen had to struggle for success. The Albany, Ga., native lost both her parents as a young adult and had to finish raising her teenage brother. Her marriage to her high school sweetheart soured, and she began having paralyzing panic attacks at age 40.She woke up one day and decided to turn her life around. With only $200, she started a business, The Bag Lady in Savannah, selling meals to businesspeople stuck in their offices at lunchtime.
Andy Oram Reports
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It's an unlikely matter for the United States and other nations to lock horns over: the administration of names and numbers used to reach Internet sites. Andy Oram Reports
'SOCIAL WEB' HAS FAR TO GO, BUT MUCH PROMISE Andy Oram CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Two ideas, diametrically opposed in philosophy and approach, have seized the attention of Internet companies and technologists over the first few years of this century. Given that the century will be so long and we have barely started yet, it's hard to say which will turn out to be most important. One stresses classification, the other community. These two ideas are attracting both money and attention, but neither has yet borne fruit. Happy New Year, Everyone! Andy Oram Reports
A YEAR SPILLING OVER WITH COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Andy Oram CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec.
Castro steps down as leader
I saw three consecutive stories on Fidel and Cuba on our left-leaning, biased mothercorp. Not one mentioned that Cuba is a one party dictatorship, that Castro was a dictator held in power by his brother's control of the army, that in the early days of the "revolution" they shot, imprisoned or exiled their opponents. Now they only imprison them - including a 75 year old grandfather calling for democracy. Cuba today has as little political rights and freedoms as Battista's right wing Cuba did. Fidel is no Robin Hood, they are wealthy kleptocrats with huge bank accounts in Spain and Switzerland. No one can dare criticize the Cuban state without fear of prison, loss of housing or ration cards. Canadians who vacation there blithely, not realizing that their resort lines the pockets of and props up a dictatorial regime are complicit in the Cuban people being delayed freedom.
The amazing, imploding ISP business
Andrew's Mailbag This week I described how amazingly vulnerable much of the British ISP business is. Vulnerable to botnets, hackers or fraudsters? No, nothing so exotic. A few people watching a bit of BBC on the streaming iPlayer may be enough to bring much of the business here to its knees. (I drew on a post on STL Partners Telco 2.0 blog, who used data published by Plus.net on the first month's iPlayer - do check them both out). Some of you might be experiencing a bit of deja vu, here. ISPs rang the alarm some time ago about the impact of iPlayer. We explored the costs of delivering high-definition video over the internet last year here. But this crisis is being precipitated by the low bandwidth, streaming version of iPlayer. Streamed TV over the internet costs your ISP a penny per viewer per minute.
Cooking calendar: Food events
GLUTEN-FREE ROUNDUP: Samples of gluten-free products, registration for cooking classes, information about support groups and more. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat., Free. Lakewinds Coop-Chanhassen, 435 Pond Promenade, Chanhassen. 952-473-0292. CHOCOLATE TOUR: Bed-and-breakfast inns and historic sites in St. Croix Valley in Wisconsin and Minnesota. 1-5 p.m. Sun. and March 9, 16 and 30. $21-$25. Each inn will provide a chocolate tasting and one inn on each date will have a wine tasting. Proceeds benefit Second Harvest Food Shelf. 651-998-0185. MOROCCAN NIGHT: A three-course meal, entertainment and music highlight a monthlong celebration of francophone culture. 7:30 p.m. Sat. $24. Call for reservations. Mairin's Table, 23 NE. 4th St., Mpls. 612-332-0436. AMERICAN REGIONAL: CAJUN OR CREOLE: Learn the differences and similarities of these styles of cooking.
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