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Physically, the iPad resembles a large iPod touch, with a 9.7-inch multi-touch screen that, curiously, offers a 4:3 standard aspect ratio rather than the expected widescreen display. (It runs at 1024 x 768 resolution.) The device is also oddly ugly, for an Apple product, with a very wide bezel around all four sides of the display.
Apple is offering a whopping six different versions of the device, at prices that range from $499 for a stripper model with a lowly 16 GB of storage and no 3G wireless connection (all iPads do offer 802.11n connectivity however) to a more Apple-esque $829 model with 64 GB of storage and 3G. Of course, 3G connectivity is not included in the price (as is the case with Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader), though Apple is offering some affordable pay-as-you-go plans, including 250 MB of data for $15 per month and unlimited data for $30 per month. These plans can be started up and stopped at any time, and do not require a contract. Sadly, they are available through AT&T only.

See the full article from “Windows & Net Magazine”

Almost universally, newspapers have struggled with online subscriptions, with the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, a News Corp (NWS) property, the only two that have really delivered results better than awful. Whether the New York Times can operate at that level is in doubt, particularly given the stunning realization about Long Island daily newspaper Newsday.
Late last October, Newsday put its content behind a pay wall, making it the first non-business newspaper to do this, according to the New York Observer (which isn’t exactly true — several newspapers have played with this, though mostly in part). Three months later, its results are telling: 35 people. are willing to pay up to $5 a week to read Newsday on the Web.
Imagine going to a strip club at 3:00 in the afternoon. That’s how many people pay for Newsday on the Web.

See the full article from “BloggingStocks (blog)”

FLUSHING (WPIX) – New York City Police have identified Qian Wu, 46, as the woman found stabbed to death Tuesday night in a Flushing, Queens apartment building hallway.
According to published reports police have the alleged killer in custody, though no official word on an arrest has come from the NYPD.
At about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday police responded to the second floor hallway of the 40th Road building, one floor above a chinese restaurant and foot massage parlor, official said.
Wu was found to be the victim of multiple stab wounds to the torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, said police.
It is believed there was a dispute with the suspect inside the building where she lived which led to the fatal stabbing.

See the full article from “New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV”

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly promoted a Hispanic and an Asian to the highest rankings in Police Department history Tuesday. [Daily News]
A Queens mother burned her 3-year-old son in scalding water because the toddler soiled himself, the authorities said Tuesday. The woman, Regina Owens, 30, of Rockaway Park, held her son in a tub of hot water while he screamed in agony, said the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown. [New York Post]
Nearly 1,200 guns — handguns, semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns — were swapped for $200 each on Saturday as part of the latest gun buyback program run by the Police Department and the Bronx district attorney’s office. [Daily News]
A 46-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Tuesday night after a dispute in a Queens building, the police said. She was in an establishment that neighbors described as a foot-massage parlor, above a Chinese restaurant. [NYT]

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Woman Fatally Stabbed in Queens
Published: January 27, 2010
A 46-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Tuesday night after a dispute inside a Queens building, the police said.
The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was stabbed just before 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of 135-32 40th Road, on a block with electronics shops, hair salons and restaurants. She was inside an establishment that neighbors described as a foot-massage parlor, above a Chinese restaurant.
It was unclear if the woman worked in the establishment or lived in the building, which has apartments on the second and third floors. The police said she was stabbed several times after a dispute. No one had been arrested as of Tuesday night.
The stabbing occurred at a time when the street just steps away from Main Street, in the heart of downtown Flushing was teeming with people. The spot is a drop-off area for casino buses returning from Connecticut. Many people standing outside were waiting to pick up relatives.

See the full article from “New York Times”

But the troubled history of the complex, repeated delays for razing the site, and promises of a park to replace it, have left many city residents skeptical.
“I can’t tell you the number of timelines we’ve been given over the last three years,” said Charone Montayne who helps run the nearby High Park Gardens apartment complex and is running for City Council.
“I’ll believe it when I see the fencing,” she said, referring to the first phase of the project.
The housing project was built in the early 1930’s by Prudential Insurance as segregated minority housing. In 1983 New Community Corporation took over management of the complex, but neighborhood residents said the true managers were the gang lords that occupied and defended the complex as an open market for drugs and prostitution.

See the full article from “NJ.com”

More typically, Beane twits our expectations with quick little zingers. Topical one-liners like this (Tiger Woods? governor’s wives?) are an ancient tradition, too — a Broadway tradition. The puncturing often comes from Liz Mikel’s sardonic madame, the show’s comic centerpiece (her name, Hetairai, means concubine or courtesan). The role suits Mikel and her singing and comic talents so well, it’s practically a glittery, custom-made, form-fitting, Spandex catsuit, the show’s unforgettable sight gag. At different times, both the young women and the young men of Athens U. seek Hetairai’s hard-won advice about  sexual warfare. (When the cheerleaders show up at the Eros Motor Lodge, Hetairai exclaims, “Damn. Two-for-one lesbian night, again.” )
Just when one is feeling awkward about this example of  the black-woman-as-prostitute and the black-woman-as-font-of-Oprah-ish-wisdom, Mikel deadpans, “Oh, I just love solving me some white people’s problems.” This same basic comic technique gets applied to the well-spoken black player, the arrogant jock who, it turns out, can quote Walt Whitman and Emily Dickens — and so on.

See the full article from “KERA”

The Hotel Carter must have cleaned up its act. Although the Midtown cesspool came in at No. 1 on TripAdvisor’s list of the “dirtiest hotels in America” last year—the third time it had received the award in the past four years—it’s nowhere to be found on the travel site’s 2010 list. Congrats, though, to the New York Inn on 8th Avenue for landing the No. 6 spot. In the newly cleaned-up Times Square, it isn’t easy finding a place that features drugged-up prostitutes, floors crawling with mice, and urine-soaked sheets. But it’s good to see someone is keeping history alive. [TripAdvisor, previously]

See the full article from “Cityfile”

Italian researchers are requesting permission to dig up Leonardo Da Vinci’s grave to prove their theory that his most famous painting is actually a self-portrait. Anthropologist Giorgio Gruppione wants to examine Da Vinci’s skull to see if it has structural similarities to the mysterious woman in the portrait. This process of facial reconstruction is usually reserved for murder victims, but could give evidence to support or refute the theory and add a new possibility for the origins of that enigmatic smile.
There’s been a great deal of discussion among historians as to Da Vinci’s sexuality. In 1476 he was brought before a judge in Florence on charges of sodomy with a male prostitute. Da Vinci claimed the young man was merely his model. They were acquitted for lack of evidence.

See the full article from “Gadling (blog)”

But Cutrone is also a deeply spiritual person who believes in the power of the Goddess, and a mother hen not only to Whitney Port, but to dozens of other aspiring fashion types. Typically dressed in black (usually Martin Margiela or Yohji Yamamoto) with jet black hair and no makeup, season after season she is consistently more interesting than anything on the runway.
That’s a truth that bit her in the butt two years ago when she invited to the Yigal Azrouel fashion show Ashley Dupre — the former call girl whose association with Eliot Spitzer forced him to resign as New York governor in 2008. Cutrone was summarily fired by the designer after a torrent of tabloid attention. Her famous quote to explain the mess? “We’re all hookers in some way.”

See the full article from “MiamiHerald.com”