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Today's Topics:
1. Howard Stern's 9-11 Shows on InDemand (Greg Williams)
2. Boston Globe podcasts (Monty Solomon)
3. Liftoff! Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on ISS Construction
Mission (Greg Williams)
4. New Orleans Radio Host Accused of Murder (Greg Williams)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:45:42 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Howard Stern's 9-11 Shows on InDemand
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Howard Stern's 9-11 Shows on InDemand
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6369783.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news
By P.J Bednarski -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/7/2006 8:05:00 PM
InDemand is offering video from Howard Stern's radio shows on Sept. 11,
2001 and the day after on its Howard TV pay-video on-demand channel.
It's already on the channel, which is available by subscription on
Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Adelphia, Patriot, Charter and
Rogers cable systems.
The tapes, made for Stern's old E! television show, but never aired, are
an eerie snapshot of what happened on Stern's show just prior to news of
the attack--Stern was talking about Pamela Anderson's breasts--and then
shows the somber aftermath.
Tom Chiusano, the general manager of WXRK-FM, the New York station where
Stern worked, walked into the studio to tell the Stern crew about the
crash.Not knowing much and supposing it was a small private plane, Stern
and others first made light. But after realizing the enormity of the
situation, Stern said, "This is another Pearl Harbor" and shortly
thereafter, guessed that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks. The cut-down
videos from both days--both about 90 minutes--include time coding so
viewers know what Stern and his regulars were saying when. It also
includes phone calls from shocked New Yorkers reacting to the news.
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Greg Williams
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 02:02:30 -0400
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Subject: [Medianews] Boston Globe podcasts
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http://www.boston.com/news/podcasts/
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:28:43 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Liftoff! Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on ISS
Construction Mission
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Liftoff! Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on ISS Construction Mission
By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 09 September 2006
11:24 am ET
http://space.com/missionlaunches/060909_sts115_launchday.html
This story was updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? Despite a beginning beleaguered by lightning,
storms and a last minute glitches, NASA?s shuttle Atlantis rocketed
spaceward Saturday with six astronauts and the future of the
International Space Station (ISS) aboard.
Atlantis launched at 11:14:55 a.m. EDT (1514:55 GMT) from Pad 39B here
at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on the last day of its launch
window, which was stretched to the tilt.
?Well, Brent, it looks like you?re long wait is over,? NASA launch
director Michael Leinbach told Atlantis commander Brent Jett just before
liftoff. ?We wish you all the best luck in the world, Godspeed and we?ll
see you in about two weeks.?
?Thanks Mike, we appreciate those words and the effort to make this
launch window,? Jett said, adding that his crew has waited for four
years and through two test missions for their chance to resume ISS
construction. ?We?re ready to get to work.?
Shuttle pilot Chris Ferguson and mission specialists Joseph Tanner,
Daniel Burbank, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steven MacLean ? of the
Canadian Space Agency ? rode Atlantis into orbit with Jett.
Atlantis? astronaut crew are hauling a 17.5-ton load of trusses and
wing-like solar arrays to the ISS to mark NASA?s first ISS construction
flight since the 2003 Columbia accident.
"We're confident that over the next few weeks, and few years for that
matter, NASA is going to prove to our nation, our partners and our
friends around the worth that it was worth the wait and the sacrifice,"
Jett said of resuming ISS construction.
Aboard the ISS, Expedition 13 commander Pavel Vinogradov and flight
engineers Jeffrey Williams and Thomas Reiter are awaiting the shuttle?s
arrival. The successful space shot marked the 116th shuttle launch for
NASA and Atlantis? 27th trip into Earth orbit.
Conquering delays
Today?s liftoff comes after a series of delays for Atlantis, the last of
which culminated in the failure Friday of one of four liquid hydrogen
fuel gauge sensors in the orbiter?s external tank. That sensor worked
perfectly during today?s liftoff, NASA officials said.
Other delays were prompted by a lightning strike to the shuttle?s launch
pad, weather threats from a tropical depression and a power glitch in a
pump motor that helps cool one of the spacecraft?s three vital fuel
cells. The fuel cell issue led shuttle officials to scrub a Sept. 6
launch attempt, but was not in violation of any flight rules.
A busy mission lies ahead for STS-115 astronauts, beginning with orbital
photography of Atlantis? external tank ? shed after reaching orbit ? as
it fell back toward Earth. A heat shield inspection is set for tomorrow,
followed by a Monday docking at the ISS and back-to-back spacewalks.
?This is probably one of the busiest first five days we?ve done in a
very long time,? John McCullogh, the lead ISS flight director for
Atlantis? mission, told SPACE.com.
Orbital construction zone
The $371.8 million cargo aboard Atlantis is the first of many elements ?
among them additional power segments, Russian modules and international
laboratories ? slated to launch toward the ISS. The first ISS module,
Russia?s Zarya, launched in 1998, with the last major addition arriving
during NASA?s STS-113 mission aboard Endeavour in late 2002.
?Clearly we are into the heart of the assembly of the International
Space Station,? said Wayne Hale, NASA?s space shuttle program manager,
of the STS-115 mission, adding that its refreshing to once more engage
in orbital construction. ?We're flying the shuttle for a purpose, to
carry a payload, to create this marvelous research outpost [so] that we
have a toehold in space. It is really the purpose for what we are here for.?
Once complete, the space station will sport four wing-like solar arrays,
weigh a whopping one million pounds and rival a five-bedroom home in
living space, NASA officials have said. Measured end to end, the orbital
laboratory will run about 354 feet, making it the longest human-built
structure ever to fly in space.
?Future expansion of the station hinges on the ability to power that
expansion,? NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, who will help deliver a
critical connecting node for new ISS modules next year during Atlantis?
STS-120 mission, told SPACE.com. ?So this is really a critical piece in
the flow.?
Completion of the $100 billion space station stalled as NASA made
shuttle safety enhancements and launched two test flights to recover
from the loss of Columbia and its seven-astronaut crew. NASA is now
aiming to complete the station with 15 partner nations ? which include
Canada ? by September 2010, when the three remaining shuttles are to be
retired.
?We?re pleased to be where we are right now, ?said Beno?t Marcotte,
station program director for the Canadian Space Agency which provided
the ISS robotic arm, before today?s launch. ?We?re pleased to see the
sequence starting again.?
More than 140 spacewalks ? three of them planned for STS-115 ? will have
been staged to complete the ISS, NASA officials said, adding that
one-fourth of the agency?s shuttle flights will have been dedicated to
building the orbital laboratory.
?Clearly these are the most complicated spacewalk and assembly tasks
that have ever been done before,? Hale said.
From NASA?s perspective, completing the ISS is vital to the U.S. goals
of returning astronauts to the Moon and pushing human explorers further
into space.
?What we?re doing in building the space station is really preparing
ourselves for Mars, and of course the Moon,? NASA astronaut Michael
Fincke, who served a six-month term aboard the ISS during 2004?s
Expedition 9 ISS mission, told SPACE.com. ?I don?t think personally you
can skip any of the steps along the way.?
Fincke added that there is another benefit from the ISS construction
effort aside from the exploration of space. With 16 countries working to
complete the massive space station, the project has proved an object
lesson in international cooperation.
?I always say that it?s great when human beings on this planet work
constructively and not destructively,? Fincke said.
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Greg Williams
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:11:14 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] New Orleans Radio Host Accused of Murder
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New Orleans Radio Host Accused of Murder
By MARY FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOSTS_WIFE_SLAIN?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-09-08-17-36-55
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- To friends and listeners, radio talk show host Vince
Marinello was "Vinnie" - a racetrack regular straight out of "Guys and
Dolls," a New Orleans native with an almost Brooklynesque accent, a guy
who liked to imply he had mob ties.
Now, Marinello stands accused of donning a disguise and shooting his
estranged wife to death gangland-style in a suburban parking lot.
And the listeners who enjoyed his fan talk or found comfort in his
post-Katrina broadcasts are wondering what went wrong.
Marinello, 69, surrendered to authorities and was jailed Thursday on
murder charges.
Mary Elizabeth Marinello, a 45-year-old respiratory therapist, died
Sept. 1, a day after she was shot twice in the face as she stood in a
parking lot. The attack was first described as a botched robbery, but
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee said Wednesday that it was being
treated as a "hit" based on surveillance tapes.
"I think that before Katrina they had some problems," said Bertha
Norman, the victim's mother. "But after Katrina, all that stress brought
on a lot of things. I think Katrina made everything worse."
So much worse that in July, Mary Elizabeth filed for a divorce. That was
when she learned that her husband of less than two years was still
married when they wed.
"The lawyer called and told her, `You don't need a divorce; you need an
annulment,'" Norman said. Marinello "had told her so many lies - that's
why she was divorcing him. But this was the one he didn't want known."
Marinello was put on a suicide watch after turning himself in Thursday.
The charges carry a mandatory life sentence.
Detectives said that on Aug. 31, Marinello put on a fake mustache and
beard, rode a bicycle to a parking lot he knew his wife used regularly,
lay in ambush and shot her before pedaling away.
Marinello's lawyer, Donald Foret, said he was trying to help his client
post $250,000 and get out of jail. Other than that, he had no comment.
Authorities initially thought the shooting was a robbery gone bad, until
they were able to take a closer look at surveillance tape.
Late Wednesday, authorities searched Marinello's Katrina-damaged house,
the FEMA trailer he lived in, and the home of a friend. In the trailer,
the sheriff said, they found a handwritten checklist of the alleged
plans for the attack. "It was almost as good as a confession," Lee said.
Initially, Marinello had said he was in Jackson, Miss., at the time of
the shooting, but Lee said his alibi unraveled and "things started to
fall into place."
Marinello grew up in the close-knit Italian community in the French
Quarter. He was a New Orleans sportscaster for a quarter of a century
and also did a handicapping show from the Fair Grounds Race Track that
was televised to betting establishments nationwide.
After Hurricane Katrina hit, he switched his WWL talk show's focus from
sports to hurricane relief.
"He was everybody's idea of a New Orleans guy," said Michael Diliberto,
who worked with Marinello at the Fair Grounds for 15 years. "He'd do
anything for anybody."
Marinello knew everyone, Diliberto said, including the sheriff, who
acknowledged that the arrest pained him.
Marinello was not above dropping hints that he was mob-connected.
"I know from his life in the news media that he knew a lot of people
that were known as bad guys," Diliberto said. "Working at the racetrack,
in Chicago, around boxing, he came in contact with all kinds."
Despite that, Diliberto said he has a hard time thinking of Marinello as
a bad guy himself.
"I can think he might think he would know somebody that would do it,"
Diliberto said. "But I can't believe he would do it himself. He is such
a kind man. I just can't picture him pulling the trigger."
Bob Mitchell, who co-hosted the show with Marinello, said during
Thursday night's broadcast that he is still trying to make sense of what
has happened.
"If my friend is innocent, then I hope God will lead investigators to
the guilty person or person. If he's not, and he did the crime, then he
should pay the price whatever it is," Mitchell said. "This is a tragedy
for all of us."
--
Greg Williams
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