Virgin America names plane in honor of Steve Jobs

By Rosa Golijan

Courtesy of Virgin America

Your inner geek will smile the next time you board a Virgin America flight. After all, there's a chance that you'll be stepping onto a plane that is named in honor of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Virgin America's Abby Lunardini explained to me that one of the airline's jets ? an Airbus A320 ? has "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"?stenciled on its nose as the result of an internal plane naming competition which was run in the fall of 2011. At that time, the aircraft name was submitted?"as a tribute" to Jobs by one of Virgin America's employees. The plane entered service late last year.

The phrase is a frequently quoted line from the commencement address delivered by Jobs at Standford University on June 12, 2005.?During his speech, he explained that he saw those words on the issue of "The Whole Earth Catalog," a counterculture publication ? and that they resonated throughout his life:

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

As?Lunardini pointed out to me, Virgin America is the only airline based in Silicon Valley, the home of Apple. All the more fitting.

Oh, and in case you're under the impression that "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" is a strange name for a plane, then boy-oh-boy have I got news for you.

According to the folks at Planespotters.net, a site dedicated to keeping track of all sorts of airline related details, Virgin America?has planes with names such as "the 1-year-old virgin," "let there be flight," "Virgin & Tonic," Air Colbert," "my other ride is a spaceship," Arnold," "#nerdbird," "Superfly," and so on.

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" will fit right in.

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Obama honors Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins

President Barack Obama honors the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Team owner Jeremy Jacobs is at left.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

President Barack Obama honors the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Team owner Jeremy Jacobs is at left.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

President Barak Obama honors the 2010-2011Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barak Obama holds up a Boston Bruins hockey jersey during a ceremony where he honored the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

President Barak Obama honors the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

President Barack Obama honors the 2010-2011Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins hockey team, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama saluted the NHL's Boston Bruins for their 2011 Stanley Cup championship on Monday, but the celebration hit a sour note when one key member of the team skipped the White House visit in protest.

"I believe the federal government has grown out of control, threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people," Goalie Tim Thomas said in a statement. The decision to stay away, Thomas said, "was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country."

Thomas, winner of the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender in the regular season and the playoff MVP last year, skipped the event with his teammates.

Bruins president Cam Neely said the team was disappointed with the move by Thomas, and that his views do not reflect those of the Bruins organization.

"We are disappointed that Thomas chose not to join us," Neely said, adding that the team would have no further comment on the matter.

The Bruins won their first Stanley Cup title in 39 years last June after a bruising seven-game final series against the Vancouver Canucks.

It was the latest in a string of Boston sports championships, including the Celtics in 2008, the Red Sox in 2007 and the New England Patriots in 2005. The Patriots play in next month's Super Bowl.

"The Bruins, the Sox, the Celtics, now the Patriots. Enough already, Boston," Obama said during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. "What's going on, huh?"

Obama also jokingly invoked some New England slang in welcoming the Bruins, along with the Stanley Cup, to the White House.

"I know you are all wicked happy to be here," he said.

The president said there was no better image of the Bruins' dominance than when Zdeno Chara, the team's 6-foot-9 defenseman, hoisted the Stanley Cup above his head in Vancouver in celebration last spring.

"Which is, I'm sure, the highest that the Stanley Cup had ever been," he said.

Obama drew laughter from the crowd when he cited the scrappy play of Bruins forward Brad Marchand, who emerged as a star with five goals in the last five games of the finals against Vancouver.

"'The 'Little Ball of Hate' shrugged off the rookie jitters," said Obama, adding "What's up with that nickname, man?"

Obama praised the teamwork of the six-time champions.

"Together, these players proved that teamwork is everything," he said. "It can overcome injuries, it can overcome long odds."

Obama praised the team for its work off the ice as well, noting the Boston Bruins Foundation has donated more than $7 million to charities in New England.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was on hand sporting, appropriately enough, two black eyes and a broken nose, which an aide said he got while playing in a recent pickup hockey game.

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Drought returns to Sahel, bringing hunger

DAKAR, Senegal?? For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region known as the Sahel could slip into crisis.

More than 1 million children in the eight affected countries are expected to face life-threatening malnutrition this year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund. The region has not yet recovered from the last drought two years ago, and many families lost their herds which means that they will not have assets to purchase food.

Aid workers also worry that donors are suffering from "famine fatigue," as the looming West African crisis comes just six months after Somalia's capital was declared a famine zone.

"I think there is a real risk that people may think this is the kind of thing that just happens every few years," Stephen Cockburn, the West Africa regional campaign manager for Oxfam, said of the droughts in the Sahel.

Earlier this week, aid agencies revealed that thousands of people died needlessly in the Horn of Africa because donors waited until people started dying to respond. The warning signs were there as early as August 2010 but aid wasn't ramped up until July 2011.

Signs of the looming famine in the Sahel were first detected late last year, according to the report released Wednesday by Oxfam and Save the Children. The lessons of Somalia and the Horn of Africa, where as many as 100,000 people died, are front and center in how aid agencies are responding to the potential famine in West Africa.

"Everyone recognizes in looking back that there was a delay in responding (in the Horn of Africa). Tens of thousands of people died because of that delay ... We know from this recent and painful experience what the risks are," said Cockburn.

He said that there could be more hope for the Sahel, since the indications of a crisis have been detected early on.

"The alarms (for the Sahel) were already sounding in November and December. Every country in the region, and every president in the region, has recognized this and asked for outside help," he said.

The U.N. children's agency was among the agencies reacting early. The organization issued an appeal in December and began ordering therapeutic foods for infants and toddlers. By then, Niger had already issued its own alert saying that more than half the country's villages were vulnerable to food insecurity.

Droughts in the Sahel ? a region spanning eight countries, including northern Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, northern Nigeria, Cameroon and southern Chad ? have become increasingly frequent with emergencies declared in 2005, 2008 and 2010. The consequences are especially dire for children, said UNICEF spokesman Martin Dawes.

"In this crisis adults will suffer, but children will die. Why? Because nutrition deterioration is a vicious cycle ? in growing, the body requires more to replace and make up what it lacks and when the right kinds of food are not available the situation gets worse," said Dawes. "They go from moderately malnourished to acute, and lifesaving intervention is needed."

As the child gets weaker, he or she becomes more vulnerable to routine problems, like diarrhea. The child is less able to fend off diseases, and the effects are more pronounced, Dawes said.

Even during a non-drought year, as many as 300,000 children die of malnutrition in the Sahel, says Cockburn. It's a region that is perpetually on the edge, and any extra shock sends it over the precipice.

"The increasing frequency of droughts in the Sahel means that communities have had little time to recover from the last food crisis," according to Malek Triki, the Dakar-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program. "Their savings are exhausted and livestock herds have not been rebuilt."

The United Nations is already purchasing food and deploying specialized teams to the region. Grain prices across the region are rising and WFP has observed a rush on maize by wholesalers, who are buying up local stocks. Markets are emptying and staples including millet and sorghum are now in short supply.

Traders from the Sahel are traveling increasingly greater distances to buy maize, with some spotted as far as northern Ivory Coast, according to the WFP.

Cockburn said that the hard-learned lessons of Somalia are already bearing fruit. He is cautiously optimistic by the response from the European Union, which announced this week that it is doubling its humanitarian aid for the Sahel.

Kristalina Georgieva, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid visited Niger on Wednesday in order to see the problem up close.

"Within months people will begin to starve unless we act," she said, according to a statement posted on the European Union's website. "The alarm bells are ringing."

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'Mad Men' boss: Don 'may be back with Betty'

By Kimberly Potts, TheWrap.com

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Could it be? Will Betty and Jon reunite next season on "Mad Men"?

Don and Betty Draper?... together again?

That's the hint "Mad Men" series creator Matt Weiner is dropping about the show's upcoming fifth season, which premieres on AMC on March 25.

"It's called 'A Little Kiss,' " Weiner tells TV Guide of the two-hour season premiere. "I like the title to have some kind of synergy with the show so it will pique your interest."

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And when asked if Jon Hamm's Don Draper is one half of the titular kiss, perhaps with secretary-turned-fianc?e Megan (Jessica Par?), Weiner answered with a cryptic comment that could mean a surprise reunion for exes Don and Betty (January Jones).

"Who says Megan's even going to be part of Don's life?" Weiner told the magazine. "He may be back with Betty. One of my favorite scenes from (the season four finale) was when Betty offered herself to him again. And let's face it -- those two look really good together."?

AMC did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment.

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Ex-wife said she could destroy Newt Gingrich campaign. Will she? (+video)

Newt Gingrich has surged to No. 2 before the South Carolina primary. But on Thursday night, ABC airs an interview with his second ex-wife, Marianne, who has previously said, 'I don?t think he should be' president.

Until now, Newt Gingrich?s troubled marital past has been airbrushed in the 2012 presidential race. If mentioned at all, it?s referred to as ?baggage.?

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That changes with ABC?s decision to air an exclusive interview with the former speaker?s second ex-wife on Thursday night, just two days before the South Carolina primary.

In a clip of the interview, released in advance of the broadcast, Marianne Gingrich tells ?Nightline? that her then-husband ?asked me to have an open marriage ... and accept the fact that he has someone else in his life.?

?I refused,? she said, in her first television interview since the couple?s divorce in 2000.

The interview hits just as the Gingrich campaign is gaining on the front-runner, former Gov. Mitt Romney. With a lift from a strong performance in Monday?s GOP presidential debate, Mr. Gingrich has surged to No. 2, within 10 points of Mr. Romney. Adding to the momentum is Texas Gov. Rick Perry?s decision, announced Thursday, to pull out of the GOP presidential race and back Gingrich.

But as in Iowa, the surge could stall or be reversed by a spike of negatives. In Iowa, Gingrich?s momentum was derailed by $3.5 million in negative campaign ads by a ?super political-action committee? backing Romney.

The issue now is whether an interview with an ex-wife can have the same impact.

?People are looking for some non-Romney person, and Gingrich is emerging because of how well he did in the debate,? says David Woodard, a political science professor at Clemson University in South Carolina and author of ?The America That Reagan Built.? ?But he's got two hours with the ex-wife on national TV tonight, and there's nothing like a woman scorned to take the wind out of your sails.?

So far, the Gingrich campaign has avoided responding in kind. ?Intruding into family things that are more than a decade old is simply wrong,? said Gingrich, in an interview on NBC?s ?Today? show on Thursday morning.

In a letter to ABC executives, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, Gingrich?s daughters from his first marriage, criticized the network for opting to run such an interview at this time.

?ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election. But Newt is going to talk to the people of South Carolina about the future,? they wrote. ?We are confident this is the conversation the people of South Carolina are interested in having.?

?Things are crazy right now, but couldn?t be going better,? said Gingrich campaign manager Michael Krull, in a fundraising appeal released Thursday afternoon. ?Bottom line is, we?re surging and in position to win South Carolina.?

It all turns on how South Carolina GOP primary voters digest two events Thursday night: another debate, where Gingrich is expected again to do well, and the televised interview with his former wife, where he is not. Sixty percent of likely GOP primary voters in South Carolina describe themselves as socially conservative.

Marital infidelities, past or present, aren?t lethal in politics. But how candidates deal with them can be. Responding to rumors of infidelity, former Sen. Gary Hart challenged the press to ?follow me,? then dropped out of the 1988 presidential race less than a week later, after The Miami Herald substantiated the rumors. Sex-related scandals also clouded presidential bids of Sen. John Edwards (D) of North Carolina in 2008 and, most recently, GOP hopeful Herman Cain, who suspended his campaign on Dec. 3.

By contrast, Gingrich?s infidelities have been public record for decades. But the interview puts a new face on it ? and new details ? just as the candidate is vying for social conservative voters, who place importance on issues such as same-sex marriage and family values.

?There?s an element of hypocrisy with Mr. Gingrich that?s hard for people to take,? says Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Weathering sex-related scandals are ?much harder when you have been claiming the mantle of family values,? she adds.

In a 1995 Vanity Fair interview, then-wife Marianne Gingrich quipped that if she didn?t support Gingrich?s decision to run for president, ?I just go on the air the next day and I undermine everything.... I don?t want him to be president, and I don?t think he should be.?

In a sense, Thursday night?s interview is an unexpected test of that boast. ?The Marianne Gingrich interview tonight may have an impact? on Newt Gingrich's candidacy, says Matt Towery, a former Gingrich campaign chairman and co-author of ?Mean Business: The Insider's Guide to Winning Any Political Election.?

?I knew Marianne, I knew their marriage, and I can tell you definitively it was broken from the start,? he adds. ?Both of them, without getting into specifics, have things they need to be really sorry about.?

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Hack breaks Hulu Plus free from supported device chains, embraces Androids of every shape and color

It's not TV, it's Hulu Plus and it's coming to the Android device of your choosing -- somewhat, unofficially. While the main ad-supported, streaming video site may have failed to seek refuge in the arms of a new owner last year, its subscription mobile offshoot is now finding a home in all Googlefied phones and tablets via a modified .apk created by XDA Developers member Vgeezy. But before you get all hot and bothered, keep in mind this jailbroken app still requires a subscription to work, although you won't need root to install it. So, any users looking for a quick and illicit content fix will have to look elsewhere. For everyone else, there's the source link below.

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