Clinton Campaign Calls on Sen. Obama to Release Records and Correspondence Relating to Tony Rezko Earlier today, in an exchange with Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Howard Wolfson called on the Obama campaign to release all records and correspondence relating to Tony Rezko. Tony Rezko goes on trial tomorrow for corruption charges in Chicago. How many fund-raisers did Mr. Rezko throw for Senator Obama? What did Senator Obama do for Mr. Rezko? Did he write letters for him? What projects of his did he support? How many business meetings did he attend where Mr. Rezko had business associates there? One more important one - what are the full details of this very unusual real estate transaction that Mr. Rezko and Mr. Obama entered into? What I would suggest to my friend David - and he is my friend - they should put out all of the information regarding that real estate transaction, all of the e-mails, all of the correspondence, all of the letters, every single piece of information so that the public can really look at this and say, "What's going on here?"

Winds Gather as Winter Storm Bears Down

Another Pacific weather system Saturday will bring rain to the valley, strong winds, and snow to the Sierra, where a winter storm warning has been issued.

A high wind advisory was posted for the Sacramento Valley, delta and foothills areas from 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon through 1 p.m. Sunday with sustained winds 20-35 mph and gusts up to 70 mph Saturday night through early Sunday.

A high wind warning was in effect for parts of the northern Sacramento Valley from Marysville to Redding, where wind speeds could reach 60 mph.

"We will see outages this weekend," said Pacific Gas and Electric spokeswoman Jennifer Ramp. "We are prepared, we've got all available crews ready and as soon as the wind hits (Saturday) afternoon they'll be dispatched."

Up to 2 inches of rain was expected to fall over the valley and delta areas this weekend with as much as 4 inches forecasted in the foothills, News10's Patty Souza said.

Installing Cinelerra on Ubuntu Studio

Cinelerra, one of the only serious video editing and compositing tools available for Linux, can cause frustration for users trying to install it on Ubuntu Studio. Fortunately, after several attempts, I found a way to install it easily.
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Google readies Summer of Code 2008
Google is preparing its fourth Summer of Code programme in which students spend the summer working on development projects with various open source groups.
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Paylocity saves money developing on Linux
Paylocity provides payroll and human resources outsourcing services for companies that don't want the burden of performing those functions in house. Launched in 1997, is is the brainchild of founder Steve Sarowitz, who was previously a salesperson for other payroll companies.

On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents

To kick it off, I wanted to discuss the very rationale for intellectual property rights in the US. While many people assume that there's always been strong support for things like copyright and patents in the US, that's not the case at all. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who were the main players involved, were actually quite skeptical of the concept. Both talked at length about the subject, but a brief quote from each should give you a sense of their feelings. Thomas Jefferson's eloquent statement read thusly: "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

Veteran actress Olympia Dukakis brings green thumb to Victory Gardens ...

As an actress in films, television and onstage, Olympia Dukakis' timing could not be more impeccable. Yet in real life, you have to wonder. What could possibly have possessed this Academy Award winner to sign on for a directing gig in Chicago in the deep-freeze months of winter?

WSU's Tony Bennett could have tough choice ahead

He said flatly he wouldn't talk about it.

Indiana would offer Tony Bennett a bunch more money than the Cougars can; they're paying him $800,000 annually. Bloomington, at 70,000 population, would present a college town but not one as remote as Pullman. No more would he have to contend with the nettlesome travel issues in and out of WSU.

World`s Largest Digital Display To Showcase Videos from MultiVu

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (ANTARA/PR Newswire)- MultiVu, PR Newswire's multimedia and broadcast public relations company, is now offering its customers a unique opportunity to reach millions of consumers each day with video messages displayed on the 23-story high Reuters digital billboard located in New York's Times Square, the largest of its kind in the world, the company announced today. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click here: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/31780/ The placement of MultiVu's customers' video on the Reuters Sign marks a natural extension of an extremely successful partnership entered into in March 2007 between PR Newswire and Times Square2, a division of Reuters and manager of the Reuters Sign. The initial agreement, which was the first of its kind, placed PR Newswire's customers' photos on the 7,400-square-foot billboard, which is seen by an estimated 1.5 million people who pass through Times Square daily.