The James Logan Courier

By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — More people said they got their news from the Web than a physical newspaper last year — the first time in history this has happened, according to an annual report on the news media.

The Internet now trails only television among American adults as a destination for news, and the trend line shows the gap closing, the study released Monday by the Pew Research Center said.
The report predicted that 2010 might also be the year when online ad revenue surpassed print newspaper ad revenue for the first time. The final tally is expected this spring. One of the challenges facing newspapers is that the largest share of online ad revenue is going to non-news sources, particularly to aggregators, the Washington think tank said.

Overall, nearly every sector of the U.S. news industry saw revenue growth in 2010, except for newspapers.

The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)

TOKYO — High levels of radiation were detected at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Tuesday morning after a fire broke out near a pool in the No. 4 reactor where spent nuclear fuel is temporarily kept, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

TEPCO said radiation measuring 400 millisieverts (400,000 microsieverts) per hour was detected at 10:22 a.m. following the fire, which broke out at 9:38 a.m.

"There is no doubt (these radiation levels) may pose health risks to humans," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

This is what happens when a developer with big-budget talent and an independent spirit flourishes on a platform that allows it to flex both characteristics at once: You get a game in which you play as a Russian nesting doll.

(In case the term isn't ringing a bell, Russian nesting dolls are those little wooden dolls that fit inside each other. You open one, and a smaller one is inside. Open that one, and an even smaller one is inside.)

"Stacking" brings those dolls to life, starring you as a tiny stacking doll named Charlie and tasking you with rescuing your family from an evil baron who has kidnapped and sentenced them to involuntary servitude.

From wikipedia:
Mariano Álvarez (March 15, 1818 – August 25, 1924) was a Filipino revolutionary and politician.

Álvarez was born in Noveleta, Cavite. He received formal schooling at the San José College in Manila, and obtained a teacher's diploma. He returned to Cavite and worked as a schoolteacher in Naic and Maragondon. He was married to Nicolasa Virata in 1863. Their son Santiago was born in 1872.

Read more about Mariano Alvarez in The katipunan and the revolution: memoirs of a general by Santiago V. Alvarez, free from googlebooks.com.