John S Lens, Ina’s 1969 Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic Continue reading →

An insurgent political campaign in West New York, N.J., suddenly realized in February that its Web site had been disabled. The campaign was being run by opponents of the mayor, Dr. Felix Roque, and the Web site, www.recallroque.com had been intended to rally support to recall him and collect information about what his critics described as his rampant mismanagement. On Thursday, federal prosecutors said they had uncovered the culprit behind the hacking: the mayor himself. Mayor Roque, 55, who was elected last year, and his 22-year-old son, Joseph, were charged with gaining unauthorized access to computers. The criminal complaint against the Roques reads like Watergate scripted for the Internet age and the scrappy politics of Hudson County. It depicts a public official and his son ... Continue reading →

The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself amid great adversity during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is about to enact large staff cuts and may cut back its daily print publishing schedule, according to two employees with knowledge of the plans.Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.A request for comment late Wednesday night from the newspaper’s editor, Jim Amoss, was not returned.The plans have been kept under wraps, but the newspaper will likely publish two or three times a week rather than ... Continue reading →

The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself amid great adversity during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is about to enact large staff cuts and may cut back its print publishing schedule to several days a week, according to two employees with knowledge of the plans.Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.A request for comment from the newspaper’s editor, Jim Amoss, late Wednesday night was not returned.The plans have been kept under wraps, but the newspaper will likely cease to exist as a ... Continue reading →

After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. “Where are you coming out on the offshore Arctic?” he asked. William K. Reilly, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency and a commission co-chairman, was startled, as was Carol M. Browner, the president’s top adviser at the time on energy and climate change. Although a proposal by Shell to drill in the Arctic had been a source of dissension, it was not a major focus of the panel’s work. “It’s not deep water, right?” the president said, noting that Shell’s proposal involved low-pressure wells in 150 feet of water, nothing like BP’s 5,000-foot high-pressure well that blew out in the gulf. “What ... Continue reading →

Gary Connery, a 42-year-old stunt diver from Britain, became the first person to complete a successful wing-suit landing without using a parachute. It was a scene fit for a Batman movie, Connery dropping from high above Henley-on-Thames, England, a dark speck in a clear blue sky. He launched from the helicopter at 3:32 p.m. and reached speeds of 75 miles an hour on his 40-second fall. “It was bliss,” Connery said of the flight in a telephone interview. “It’s a special, humbling day.” Cushioning his landing at Mill End Farm were over 18,500 cardboard boxes that formed a 350-foot runway, arranged by about 100 volunteers, friends and family. After crashing into the boxes, an unharmed Connery emerged in good spirits, according to those in attendance. ... Continue reading →

The United States put itself in position to once again win a bid to host an Olympic Games after Olympic leaders this week ended their longstanding, contentious debate about how to divvy some of the Games’ revenue, two people close to the discussions said Wednesday. International and United States Olympic officials finally renegotiated an agreement on how to share television and marketing money, said two Olympic officials who asked to remain anonymous because the agreement had not been completed. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but the new revenue-sharing deal will not start until 2020 and will last until 2040, the officials said. Part of the deal will include the United States’ promise to raise millions of dollars to contribute to the staging ... Continue reading →

The Navy is back in town for Memorial Day weekend. (Taken with Instagram at 8713 Churchill Road, North Bergen, NJ) Continue reading →