‘A South Korean navy ship fired warning shots at a North Korean vessel early Tuesday off the countries’ disputed west coast; the North’s ship was damaged and returned the salvo. 
No casualties were immediately reported. South Korean officials tell Yonhap the North crossed into their territorial waters; the North does not recognize the same demarcation.’ -Yonhap News
A warning to all mothers who use baby strollers: those tools might amputate your children’s fingertips:
‘A million models of the popular Maclaren brand of baby strollers were recalled today after the Consumer Product Safety Commission received reports that children’s fingertips were amputated by a hinge as strollers unfolded. Maclaren is offering free covers for the hinges on nine models sold at Target, Babies R Us and elsewhere from 1999 to this month.’
Maclaren Web Site: http://www.maclaren.us/recall/
Maclaren Recall Hotline: (877) 688-2326
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772 -ABC News
So News Corp. continues it’s useless, unnecessary attack on Google. Or is it?:
‘News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch wants to put a permanent end to “parasite” Google’s “kleptomania” when it comes to content on his newspapers’ websites. Murdoch says the Wall Street Journal and others will likely be removed from Google’s search registry “when we start charging”—that is, when planned paywalls go up, a process that has been delayed.
‘“The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it—steal our stories, we say they steal our stories—they just take them,” Murdoch says in a recent interview reported in the Guardian. “That’s Google, that’s Microsoft, that’s Ask.com, a whole lot of people.” Murdoch hopes paywalls and delisting will correct what he admits was a mistake on his company’s part. “They shouldn’t have had it free all the time, and I think we’ve been asleep.”’
-Guardian.uk
Successes in Europe would boggle a 1989 mind: Applebaum
1989 is an unforgettable political year. Remember Russia’s Glasnost and the China Massacre? In my native Philippines, there was a black December because of an attempted coup. So it was success for Europe and disaster for Asia:
‘As “the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations” of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall unfold, Anne Applebaum has a bone to pick. The festivities are “focusing on what didn’t happen rather than what did,” she writes, treating “the past two decades as a foregone conclusion.” But those 20 years have been perhaps the “best in Central Europe for 300 years,” and no one thought that would happen.
‘In 1989, “no one had the slightest idea” of what was to come, Applebaum writes for Slate. “Angela Merkel has said that she thought it was ridiculous even to speculate on the possibility of a united Germany,” and “those who did make predictions saw a dark future” of hypernationalism, rabid anti-Communism, even a “Fourth Reich.” There have been problems, of course—but the takeaway is “what an extraordinary, almost unbelievable, success it has all been.”‘ -Slate
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