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Monday, January 31, 2011

PImail (Local Stories) for 1/31/2011

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Local News

Man charged in Ballard park attack
A Seattle man accused in what police are describing as an unprovoked attack at Golden Gardens Park has been charged with assault.

State GOP: Daniels is dandy
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels isn't well known nationally, but he easily won a 2012 presidential straw poll among 300 of Washington's Republican activists gathered for the party's annual Roanoke Conference.

West Seattle teachers parody 'Teach Me How To Dougie'
A group of teachers at Denny International Middle School are trying to update the tired old "study hard" message by putting it to a new beat -- specifically the beat of Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How To Dougie."

New WWU slogan: 'Active Minds Changing Lives'
A new marketing strategy for Western Washington University has come up with a new tagline.

Terns not welcome at Port of Bellingham
Port of Bellingham staffers don't want the terns to return this spring.

Police seek clues to homemade Kelso bomb
Kelso police hope tips from the public help them catch whoever set off a homemade bomb that caused a small fire near railroad tracks and a natural gas line.

Suicide fence being installed on Olympia bridge
Work starts in March on a $518,000 project to install a suicide fence on the Capitol Boulevard Bridge over I-5 in Olympia.

Longview teen apparently died of heart problem
The were no signs of trauma or a crime in the death of Longview teenager.

Seattle hotelier Alex Calderwood not trying to be hip (NY Times)
The man behind Seattle's Ace Hotel and Rudy's Barbershops was profiled in a lengthy New York Times article late last week, in which he expounded on his philosophy about building a successful chain of hotels.

Dive team rescues driver from Spokane creek
The Spokane County sheriff's office says deputies arrested a well-known Spokane television news anchor after she drove her vehicle into Latah Creek and had to be rescued by divers from the swollen waters.

- Election barely over, Dems target Reichert
- No threat from small quakes at Mount St. Helens
- Seattle says goodbye to the Neptune movie theater (Seattle Times)
- UW, WSU could offer doctorate degrees at branches
- Kent man killed in crash on I-90 near Ellensburg
- Bullets miss 2 teens in Grandview shooting
- Olympia Watch: State worker pay and education cuts
- Gregoire orders independent review of prison guard slaying
- Want to toss that tree? Get a permit first, Seattle tree group proposes
- Man shot to death in Bellevue
- Bagshaw: Killing tunnel would bring city 'to its knees'
- City: Seattle Center Ferris wheel meets land-use rules
- Monroe prison remains in lockdown after guard murdered
- Prizes for thriftiness? State eyes savings lotteries
- Pedestrian struck and killed by train in Seattle

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PImail (Boeing/Aerospace) for 1/31/2011

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Boeing/Aerospace

Competition won't force Boeing to cut price of 737 (Dow Jones)
Boeing will not need to cut the price of its 737 to compete against increasingly efficient rivals, a company executive told Dow Jones Monday.

Sure, robot may save lives. But does it have Angry Birds?
Boeing and partner iRobot have delivered the first 30 small, unmanned robots under a contract with the U.S. Air Force, the companies announced Monday.

WTO finds Boeing received billions in illegal subsidies
Boeing received billions of dollars in illegal subsidies, a World Trade Organization panel determined in a ruling released to the parties Monday. But the two sides offered vastly different versions of what the still-confidential ruling says.

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PImail (Music) for 1/31/2011

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Music

Music Review: Heart - Private Audition
Private Audition, and the release that followed it, Passion Works, are probably the two weakest albums within the Heart catalogue. The group had entered a transition stage in terms of both personnel and musical direction. One long time member had left and two more would leave following this release ...

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PImail (Business Stories) for 1/31/2011

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Business/Tech

Office Web Apps to get new challenger: IBM Symphony
IBM today announced it's taking Lotus Symphony, a productivity suite based on open-source OpenOffice, to the cloud to compete with Microsoft's Office Web Apps.

NPD: 'Windows Phone 7 off to a slow start'
Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's new mobile operating system, got off to "a slow start" during the fourth quarter, research firm NPD Group said today, debuting with a 2 percent share of new phones sold in the U.S.

Helicopter from Paul Allen's yacht ditches off S. America
A helicopter from Seattle billionaire Paul Allen's yacht made an emergency landing today in a bay off the Argentine city of Ushuaia, at the tip of Tierra del Fuego, Reuters reports. The news service reported the Microsoft co-founder was not aboard the helicopter, but said the co-pilot was injured and taken to a hospital. Reuters reported the yacht, the 414-foot Octopus, was planning a trip to Antarctica.

Firm: Android passes Nokia as Microsoft's mobile share drops
Google's Android has become the world's most popular mobile operating system, surpassing Nokia's Symbian in the fourth quarter of 2010 as Microsoft's market share plummeted, according to analysis firm Canalys.

Gates annual letter: Helping world's poor is good investment
The Associated Press reports: "Bill Gates says he feels a responsibility to speak up for the world's poorest because they're likely to be hit hard as economic woes force governments to reduce contributions to foreign aid. In his third annual letter, issued Monday, the co-chairman of the world's largest charitable foundation expressed concern about budget cuts to the programs that transfer dollars from rich nations to poor ones, providing medical assistance, food aid, vaccines and other help." Read ...

Here's where the big tax breaks are (MarketWatch)
Quick, what's the biggest tax deduction among middle-class households?

WTO finds Boeing got billions in illegal subsidies, but how many billions?
Boeing received billions of dollars in illegal subsidies, a World Trade Organization panel determined in a ruling released to the parties Monday. But the two sides offered vastly different versions of what the still-confidential ruling says.

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PImail (Jim Moore) for 1/31/2011

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Jim Moore

Cougs delirious -- and nearly delusional -- after big win
Jim Moore: PULLMAN -- WSU students poured out of the stands and onto the court, and if I hadn't been so damn old and so high up at Beasley Coliseum, I might have joined them in celebrating an 87-80 win over the Huskies.

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