Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad)

In a plentiful sea of flight and hotel search engines, Hipmunk stands out for having a few special features that make it easy to find a flight that will be comfortable for you, and accommodations that also fit your needs?even if you can't find them in a standard hotel. Hipmunk's iPad app, called Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (free), delivers the same great experience on the iPad. Visually, it works very well, showing color-coded flight options by carrier, making it easy to see layover locations and duration. The app even provides slider bars for narrowing down what time you want to travel. Its hotel search has a few additional neat visual features and, best of all, it includes listing from Airbnb and HomeAway in its results.

This search aggregator doesn't quite tick all the boxes, though, and it's important to note that it's a search app, not a booking app. Hipmunk will send you off to an airline's website or even?Orbitz when you're ready to put down your credit card details. It's similar in that respect to Google Flights, and equally as handy for search.

Special Features: Flights
When I saw the initial landing page of Hipmunk's iPad app, I worried that it would not effectively use the screen's real estate, as you'll see a cramped box in the upper left corner for filling in your search criteria. But it's just this first screen that doesn't use the iPad's full space, and in fact, the layout and visual nature of Hipmunk on all its following pages is excellent.

All the basic search options are included, such as type-ahead search for airport codes, number of passengers, and whether you prefer to fly coach, business, or first class. Hipmunk searches both internationally and domestically. You won't find any selections for fine tuning which airports you prefer, like being able to say "all New York City airports except EWR," for example, as you can in Kayak's iPad app. Flexible dates are also out both here and on Hipmunk's full web site, so stick to Editors' Choice Orbitz (website version) for that feature.

The results appear quickly and are color coded by airline. In the slideshow, you can see just how easy it is to find a flight that fits all your needs. Hipmunk lets you sort the results by price, flight duration, and its signature default category "agony"?in other words, the least painful flight considering all the variables.

Sliders at the top of the page let you quickly narrow down your search based on departure or arrival time.? Flights that have Wi-Fi on board include a Wi-Fi icon right on the results matrix. It's all extremely intuitive to use and takes advantage of the iPad's touch capabilities very well.

My favorite feature, however, is one that's so simple I can't believe other flight search apps don't use it: tabs! Hipmunk's iPad app lets you have multiple search results open at any given time. Tabs also make it easy to switch between the results you've found for comparative shopping.

Special Features: Hotels
Hotel search results also use neat visual displays to make it easy to sort through the options. A map view shows cool features and different facets of the neighborhood where you might stay, like whether it is pedestrian-friendly (hilly San Francisco is a dream to navigate with this feature enabled) and whether there's nightlife nearby by showing heat maps of hot spots, if you'll forgive the pun.

As mentioned, the hotel results include listings from Airbnb and HomeAway, two online services that let individuals rent out their houses and apartments. When you need a room in a very specific location or at a flexible price, these two services can really open up your options, and it's a god-send that Hipmunk includes them.

TripAdvisor and Airbnb ratings are included in the hotel results as well, giving you yet other metrics on which to judge the decency of a particular place to sleep.

Booking
As with Bing Travel and Google Flights, Hipmunk sends you to a merchant site once you're ready to make a reservation. The benefit is that you get the best possible price; the compromise is that there's no pricing guarantee from Hipmunk (there may be at the point of sale, though, depending on where you go to book). Hipmunk will send you to an airline website directly, or Orbitz, or Airbnb?wherever has the best price.

Price, Priorities, and the iPad
Especially when on the road with an iPad, Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search can help you find the right air travel itinerary or accommodation quickly and efficiently. It doesn't have quite the same granularity for filtering as Kayak or Orbitz, but it's simple to use and can get the job done quickly and efficiently if you're not too picky about airports and know precisely which days you need to travel.

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AP Interview: Clinton raps her Benghazi critics

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She says they don't live in an "evidenced-based world" and that their refusal to accept the administration's statements is regrettable.

In her last interview before she steps down Friday, Clinton told The Associated Press that the attack in Benghazi was the low point of her time as America's top diplomat. But, she suggested that the furor over the assault would not affect any decisions about her political future.

Congressional Republicans accused the Obama administration of intentionally misleading the public about whether the attack was a protest gone awry or a planned terror attack.

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Salaries as elusive as justice at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trial

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian staff at a Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal have gone two months without pay and are threatening a walkout amid a deepening funding crisis at a court already bogged down by resignations and the ill health of its elderly defendants.

Some 270 Cambodians have not been paid since November and are working at the U.N.-backed court without contracts, caught up in a standoff between donors and a government criticized for its lack of support for hearings into one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.

Between 1.7 and 2.2 million people, almost a quarter of Cambodia's population, died between 1975 and 1979 under the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime.

Pol Pot, the architect of the "Year Zero" revolution, died in 1998, but his sidekicks are now on trial for murder and crimes against humanity, among a litany of charges.

"They gave us some information about our salaries but it didn't really explain anything," said one staff member, declining to be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media, referring to the court.

"We are angry and discouraged," he told Reuters, adding that he and many of his colleagues planned to walk out if they were not paid within the next two weeks.

The funding dispute puts the spotlight on the commitment of the government, which has been accused of interfering behind the scenes to put the brakes on the court and limit the scope of investigations that could implicate powerful political figures.

Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla who defected to the regime's eventual conquerors, Vietnam, has said he would "not allow" any new indictments and would be happy if the United Nations packed up and left.

Following months of appeals, the international side of the court has managed to secure enough funding to keep its side going, but the problems do not stop at finances.

Two international investigating judges quit in the space of six months in 2011 and 2012 over what they said was political interference, and many Cambodians fear the three remaining defendants in the court's second case - "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and ex-president Khieu Samphan - may not live to hear a verdict.

The three former Khmer Rouge leaders have all denied responsibility for the mass deaths during their rule.

"NOT DYING SOON"

All three are in their 80s and have been in hospital suffering from fatigue and dizziness in the past month. Nuon Chea was discharged on Thursday, even though his family was convinced he was "approaching death", according to his co-counsel, Victor Koppe.

Court spokesman Lars Olsen dismissed fears of Nuon Chea's imminent death: "He's not dying soon."

A fourth defendant, Ieng Thirith, Pol Pot's sister-in-law, was declared unfit for trial last year because she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Since the court was set up in 2005 with the aim of trying "those most responsible" for the bloodshed, it has delivered only one verdict, life imprisonment for Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the chief of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, a converted Phnom Penh school where as many as 14,000 people may have been executed.

Under an agreement with the United Nations establishing the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia, as the hybrid U.N.-Cambodian tribunal is known, the government has an obligation to fund the Cambodian side.

It has paid $1.8 million a year in general costs for utilities, security, healthcare and transport, as well as the courthouse, which it owns.

The government has used outside contributions to pay the estimated $9.3 million a year wage bill and sources close to the issue say big foreign donors like Japan are overstretched and want Cambodia to come up with more cash.

Staff, however, do not see that happening.

"The government won't pay these salaries. They just want this court to shut down," a staff member said. "By creating this situation, they just want to embarrass the U.N."

Government spokesman Ek Tha said Cambodia was appealing to outside donors for help.

"Its all about interpretation," Ek Tha said. "The U.N. receives money from donors to pay their staff, Cambodia is the same."

Critics have questioned Cambodia's commitment to attracting those funds and insiders with knowledge of the issue say some donors are steering clear because they fear they would anger the government if their money was used in cases beyond the one being heard.

Heather Ryan, a court monitor for advocacy group Open Society Justice Initiative, said the salary wrangle could be very damaging if it went on any longer.

"The government of Cambodia and the donors should somehow agree on how to get Cambodian staff paid because they are critical to the everyday working of the court," Ryan said.

(Editing by Martin Petty and Robert Birsel)

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Cyclone did not cause 2012 record low for Arctic sea ice

Jan. 31, 2013 ? It came out of Siberia, swirling winds over an area that covered almost the entire Arctic basin in the normally calm late summer. It came to be known as "The Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012," and for some observers it suggested that the historic sea ice minimum may have been caused by a freak summer storm, rather than warming temperatures.

But new results from the University of Washington show that the August cyclone was not responsible for last year's record low for Arctic sea ice. The study was published online this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

"The effect is huge in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, but after about two weeks the effect gets smaller," said lead author Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. "By September, most of the ice that melted would have melted with or without the cyclone."

Recent research showed that the Arctic cyclone was the most powerful ever seen during the month of August, and the 13^th most powerful of all Arctic storms in more than three decades of satellite records.

"The storm was enormous," said co-author Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory. "The impact on the ice was immediately obvious, but the question was whether the ice that went away during the storm would have melted anyway because it was thin to begin with."

The UW team performed the climate scientist's equivalent of a forensic exam: They ran a computer simulation of last summer's weather and compared it against a second scenario that was identical except that there was no cyclone.

Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference. By comparison, the actual minimum ice extent was 18 percent less than the previous record set in 2007.

The study also revealed a surprising mechanism for the cyclone-related melting. Earlier discussions about the cyclone's effect had focused on winds breaking up the ice or driving ice floes into areas of warmer water. The results suggest that neither process led to much increase in melting.

Relatively recent research shows that in the summertime, thin ice and areas of open water allow sunlight to filter down to the water below. As a result, while a layer of ice-cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.

Blowing on polar water is like blowing on a layered cocktail. When the cyclone swept over the drifting ice floes, underside ridges churned up the water to bring sun-warmed seawater to the ice's bottom edge. The model suggests that during the cyclone there was a quadrupling of melting from below, and that this was the biggest cause for doubling ice loss during the three-day storm.

"We only looked at one big storm. If we want to understand how storms will affect the ice cover in the future we need understand the effect of storms in different conditions," said co-author Ron Lindsay.

More sunlight reaches the water in a year with unusually thin summer ice, such as 2012, so this process is a potential multiplier effect for sea-ice melting.

The results are of interest beyond understanding climate change. As sea ice thins and melts, economic and political concerns require better sea-ice forecasts to protect ships and instruments that might travel in those waters.

"One thing we are working on, and that needs to be included in future computer simulations, is how bigger waves created by wind blowing over more extensive open water help break up the sea ice into floes, and how these smaller floes respond to warm water," said co-author Mike Steele.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Naval Research and NASA.

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F-22 pilot flies?letter to boy's late father 'close to heaven'

By Abby Hancock, KTUU.com

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ??A Joint Base Richardson-Elmendorf pilot in Anchorage, Alaska, carried out a very special mission on Thursday, after hearing about a unique request from a 9-year-old boy who had lost his father.?

Army Staff Sgt. Justin Gallegos was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. His son MacAidan, who goes by "Mac,"was 5 years old at the time. Every year on Jan. 24, his father's birthday, MacAidan and his mother celebrate by doing something special like baking cupcakes or throwing a party. But this year, MacAidan, now 9 years old, decided to celebrate differently. He recently wrote a letter to his father that included 10 very important questions.

"Dear Dad," it read. "I have some questions. What is it like in a tank? What is like to be a scout? How old are you now? How old were you when you died? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite hobby? What is your favorite activity? What is it like in heaven? Have you seen what I have accomplished? From, your son."

But Mac wasn't finished. He said that he wanted to try and get the letter as close to heaven as he could. His mother, Amanda Marr, put a post on her Facebook page describing Mac's request, and it caught the attention of Helping American Veterans Experience Alaska, or HAVE Alaska, an organization that decided to help make Mac's wish happen.?

On Thursday, MacAiden met reserve F-22 pilot Lt. Col. Brian Baldwin. He said he handed over his note, hand-written on red construction?paper. Red was his father's favorite color.

"I said, 'I hope he gets as high as he possibly can,'" Mac said

The flight happened on Jan. 24 ??his father's birthday.?

"I wanted to write a letter because I wanted to know more about my dad and to show that I didn't forget him and to show that I also love him," Mac said.

Mac plans to write a letter to his father every year and says he is still coming up with delivery ideas for next January.

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