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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Despite Obama's Hangout Hope, U.S. Semiconductor Jobs Are Still Going Away [Video]
Nokia clarifies battery update on Lumia 800, promises audio / camera fixes soon
Nokia already came clean about the Lumia 800 battery bug, but evidently that just wasn't enough to appease the masses. A community manager in the outfit's own forums has just responded to pages upon pages of comments regarding the most recent update, partly to (re)set the record straight regarding the battery, and partly to address more fixes that are just around the bend. The latest update (1600.2483.8106.11500) was meant to "enhance standby time as well as to bring an improvement to the issue reported by some customers in December," and according to Nokia, said update does indeed address those problems. However, folks that still have concerns regarding audio and camera settings aren't being ignored; those quirks will be worked out in "a series of future updates." Eager to learn more? The full reply is embedded just after the break.Continue reading Nokia clarifies battery update on Lumia 800, promises audio / camera fixes soon
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Chris Weidman takes UFC on Fox 2 decision
CHICAGO -- On 11 days notice, Chris Weidman took a less-than-stellar split decision over Demian Maia. The judges saw it 29-28, 29-28, 29-28 for Weidman at the United Center on Saturday night.
Though both men are accomplished grapplers, the first round started with nothing but stand-up. Neither fighter truly got an edge in striking, though it was Maia who got the first takedown. The two got back to their feet quickly, and Maia followed up with aggressive strikes.
Weidman got the takedown to start the second round, but again, they did not stay there for long. Maia's face started to show damage from the repeated hits Weidman delivered, but Weidman's movement around the cage slowed as the round went on. As Weidman slowed, Maia delivered more kicks and punches. Weidman tried for a takedown with a minute left, but Maia easily avoided it. In the final 20 seconds, Weidman was able to get the takedown, and turned over for a choke, but the round ended before he could secure it.
Weidman returned to the clinch in the third round, moving towards Maia and landing knees and punches. They continued their evenly matched striking fest, though both fighters were clearly exhausted.
The crowd in Chicago wasn't enthused about the action, but that's what happens when two grappling aficionados decided to engage in a fist fight.
UPDATE: After the bout, UFC president Dana White tweeted that the scores were read wrong. Weidman actually won by a unanimous decision.
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Gingrich makes play for evangelicals, tea partiers
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks to media during a news conference outside the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks to media during a news conference outside the Exciting Idlewild Baptist Church, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lutz, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife Callista, campaign at The Villages, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lady Lake, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, meets with supporters during a campaign event at the The Villages, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Lady Lake, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
LUTZ, Fla. (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been reaching out to evangelicals and tea party advocates as the Florida primary approaches, touting an endorsement from campaign dropout Herman Cain as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's recent accusation that the establishment was trying to "crucify" him.
Standing outside the First Jacksonville Baptist church as dusk fell, Kurt Kelly, chairman of Florida Faith Leaders for Newt Gingrich, said the candidate held a midweek conference call with an estimated 1,000 evangelical pastors around the state.
He said the goal of the call was to solidify support as much as possible behind Gingrich, at the expense of rival contender Rick Santorum, who is running a poor third in the pre-primary polls in the state.
In the course of the conversation, Kelly said, Gingrich "shared his faith, shared his vision and shared his past."
Kelly did not expand on his reference to Gingrich's past, although the former speaker has been married three times.
He said one of the other pastors on the call questioned Gingrich further, and the candidate "showed a contrite heart and showed true confession and true repentance."
Gingrich was anything but repentant in his remarks about Romney during the day.
During a pair of Sunday morning television interviews, he said his chief rival had adopted a "basic policy of carpet-bombing his opponent."
One of the ads being run by Romney suggests that Gingrich is exaggerating his ties to Ronald Reagan. Gingrich chafed at that, noting that the former president's son Michael was joining him on the campaign trail Monday "to prove to everybody that I am the heir to the Reagan movement, not some liberal from Massachusetts."
Cain, a tea party favorite, will also appear with Gingrich on Monday.
At a large rally Sunday at The Villages, a sprawling retirement community in central Florida, Gingrich accused Democratic President Barack Obama of coddling foreign leaders like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"I believe we need to be stronger than our potential enemies," Gingrich told the crowd. "The president lives in a fantasy world where there are no enemies, there are just misguided people with whom he has not yet had coffee."
He said Chavez "deliberately, cynically and insultingly gave him an anti-American book and Obama didn't have a clue that he'd been insulted."
He said the Obama administration should be focused on Ahmadinejad's "pledge to wipe out Israel and drive America out of the Middle East."
"But if I were a left-wing Harvard law graduate surrounded by really clever left-wing academics I would know that this was really a sign that (Ahmadinejad) probably had a bad childhood," Gingrich said.
He described Obama's approach to Ahmadinejad as, "If only we could unblock him we could be closer to him and we could be friends together."
Gingrich, who served in the House for two decades, also made a populist pitch as a Washington outsider. He said the GOP's "old establishment" is trying to block his path to nomination.
"It's time that someone stood up for hard-working, taxpaying Americans and said, 'Enough,'" Gingrich said. "And if that makes the old order uncomfortable, my answer is, 'Good.'"
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Greece, creditors on verge of clinching debt deal (Reuters)
ATHENS (Reuters) ? Greece and its private creditors said on Saturday they were piecing together the final elements of a debt swap and expected to have a deal ready next week, essential for sealing a new bailout and avoiding an uncontrolled default.
After muddling through round after round of inconclusive talks, the negotiations are in their final phase - though it appeared unlikely that a preliminary deal would be secured in time for a European Union summit on Monday.
Greek bondholders said the two sides were finalising a deal along the lines of a proposal made by Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers.
The bondholders' comments suggested creditors had accepted Juncker's demand for a coupon, or interest rate, of below 4 percent on new, longer-dated bonds that Athens will swap for existing debt.
The coupon had been the main stumbling block in the talks, with euro zone ministers rejecting private creditors' demand for a coupon of at least 4 percent - above the 3.5 percent level Greece and its European partners had been holding out for.
"Next week we will be in a position to complete the debt swap," Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said, citing significant progress at Saturday's talks. "We are really one step away from the final deal."
He confirmed that the two sides were working along the "exact framework" provided by euro zone finance ministers.
Charles Dallara, chief of the Institute of International Finance that negotiates on behalf of banks and insurers, is due to leave Athens on Sunday but will remain in contact with Greek authorities, the IIF said.
Still, for Athens, progress on the debt swap is at risk of being overshadowed by increasingly problematic talks with its foreign lenders, whose inspectors are in town demanding unpopular reforms that no politician wants to be linked to.
DENSE, DIFFICULT AND CRUCIAL
Crushed by 350 billion euros of debt and running out of cash quickly, Greece is scrambling to appease the "troika" of its official lenders - the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - and stitch up a deal with private creditors simultaneously.
Unimpressed with Athens dragging its feet on reforms, the troika has said they could hold up aid if more is not done to make the Greek economy more efficient.
"It's all very dense, difficult and crucial," a Greek finance ministry official said.
European paymaster Germany is pushing for Athens to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions as part of discussions over a second rescue package, a European source told Reuters.
With many Greeks blaming Germans for the austerity medicine their country has been forced to swallow, officials in Athens dismissed the idea as out of the question. "The government stresses that this responsibility belongs exclusively to the Greek government," said government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis.
"The government has made a series of steps to improve the effectiveness of the public administration and a closer monitoring of the efforts to achieve fiscal targets.."
The European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-country bloc, said it wanted the Greek government to maintain autonomy.
"The Commission is committed to further reinforcing its monitoring capacity and is currently developing its capacity on the ground," a spokesman said. "But executive tasks must remain the full responsibility of the Greek Government, which is accountable before its citizens and its institutions. That responsibility lies on their shoulders and it must remain so."
A government source in Berlin said Germany's proposal was aimed not just at Greece but also at other struggling euro zone members which receive aid and are unable to make good on their obligations. "All options can obviously be introduced only with the agreement of, for example, the Greeks themselves," he added.
NEW BONDS FOR OLD
The debt swap, in which private creditors take a 50 percent cut in the nominal value of their Greek holdings in exchange for cash and new bonds, is also a prerequisite for the country to secure a 130-billion-euro rescue plan drawn up last year.
The two sides have broadly agreed that new bonds under the swap would have a 30-year maturity, but the talks ran into trouble over the coupon and whether the ECB and other public creditors must take losses on their holdings.
A deal, aimed at chopping 100 billion euros off Greece's debt load, must be sealed in about three weeks at the latest as Greece has to repay 14.5 billion euros of debt on March 20.
Otherwise Greece could sink into an uncontrolled default that might spread turmoil across the euro zone and tip the global economy back into recession.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Saturday that euro zone members were making progress to overcome their crisis but must do more to strengthen their financial firewall to stop the crisis spreading, adding the IMF was ready to help.
"There is progress as we see it," Lagarde told a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"But it is critical that the euro zone members actually develop a clear, simple, firewall that can operate both to limit the contagion and to provide this sort of act of trust in the euro zone so that the financing needs of that zone can actually be met."
Concern has also grown in recent days that the debt swap may not do enough to get the country's debt reduction plan back on track, and that Greece's European partners will be forced to stump up funds to cover the shortfall.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that Greece's international lenders thought Athens would need 145 billion euros of public money from the euro zone for its second bailout, rather than the planned 130 billion euros.
The magazine said the extra money was needed because of the deteriorating economic situation in Greece, echoing a Reuters report on Thursday.
Greece is in its fifth year of recession, and hopes of an end to the crisis in the near term have virtually gone, because of the combination of squabbling politicians, rising social anger and its inability to push through badly needed reforms.
(Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke in Berlin and John O'Donnell in Brussels, Writing by Deepa Babington; Editing by Tim Pearce and Janet Lawrence)
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime during 100 day mourning period
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Newt Gingrich vs.the Establishment: South Carolina Sets Up Intra-GOP Conflict (Time.com)
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Video: Busy mom Michelle Williams missed Oscar nod
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Contribute to shared photo albums with Prezo for iPhone
Prezo is an iPhone photography app that lets you and your friends contribute to shared photo albums. This is perfect for groups of people that are at the same party, event or vacation.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Obama's State of the Union Just Another Speech (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | Barack Obama's State of the Union speech was a flashback to 2008 when he roamed the country preaching "hope and change." It was a campaign speech. It was an answer to every ad he's seen on TV so far this campaign season. It was full of subtle jabs and bites at his adversaries surrounded by support and hope for our troops. After all, who's going to say a negative word about our armed forces?
President Obama stated in the opening moments of his speech that "for the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban's momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home." The idea Obama wanted to convey was one of teamwork and togetherness because his very next line was, "Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example."
Yes. Imagine what we could do, but also imagine the rigorous training regiments of our military. The men and women in the U.S. military are told what to wear, when to eat, when to wake, when to sleep, and how to perform their jobs down to the absolute minutest of details. Everything is black and white. Most Americans would revolt. The statement reminded me of the Apple workers in China. A last minute revamp of iPhone screens prompted an Apple factory in China to immediately go back to work. The screens arrived at the factory around midnight. "A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company's dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day," writes Thomas Friedman in The New York Times.
For an American to do the same thing, we would have to be under attack. There would have to be a greater cause associated with the work, but then maybe there is a greater cause associated with the work. The U.S.A is no longer No. 1. The middle class is dying. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Goods made in the U.S.A are not on our store shelves so consumers can't automatically support their country by going to the store. Consumers have to vigilantly look for products made in the U.S.A. That's un-American.
Unfortunately, all Obama gave us was a speech. He outlined no plan, and a lot of his statements were questionable at best. It was more wishes and dreams for a better U.S.A. surrounded by a call to support our troops and a decree to lower taxes for businesses that bring jobs back. While I liked the words, I know Obama cannot deliver on those promises.
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Nations try to oust Syria from UNESCO rights panel (AP)
PARIS ? Several countries are trying to push Syria off a UNESCO committee that deals with human rights, a panel it quietly joined despite its deadly crackdown on Arab Spring protesters.
U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based NGO, and others said Wednesday that a growing group of countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Qatar, want to unseat Syria from the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations.
The committee deals with multiple issues but has a strong human rights component.
The NGO said the countries want the issue on the agenda of an Executive Board meeting, from Feb. 27 to March 10, of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
With more than 5,000 Syrians killed in protests, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has condemned Syria for human rights abuses.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Kazakhstan's Glorious Brand New Metro Is the Only Clean Subway You'll See [Subway]
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Pro-euro candidate wins first round of Finnish vote (Reuters)
HELSINKI (Reuters) ? Pro-euro candidate Sauli Niinisto won the first round of Finland's presidential election on Sunday, signaling voters want to keep cooperating with the European Union despite their frustration over bailouts for debt-ridden member states.
The former finance minister got 37 percent of the vote. He faces a February 5 run-off with another pro-euro candidate, Pekka Haavisto of the Greens Party, who got about 19 percent.
Anti-euro candidates Paavo Vayrynen and Timo Soini dropped out of the race after the final tally.
While the president has little executive power beyond military and diplomatic affairs, it is a high-profile post and the strength of the pro-euro vote will ease pressure on the government to take a hard line against Brussels.
A euro skeptic leader may have forced Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen to demand stricter conditions on European bailout plans in the months ahead.
"This has significance. This has an impact on political discussions, as Europe is going through difficult talks on crisis management," said University of Helsinki professor Tuomo Martikainen. He and other analysts said Niinisto will likely win the second-round.
EUROSCEPTICISM RETREATS
The presidential election comes 9 months after Soini's Finns Party made strong gains in a parliamentary election after a campaign that focused on criticizing European bailout plans.
High taxes, combined with a lackluster economic growth outlook, fuelled criticism that Finland was helping some countries get an easy ride out of debt, while voters faced austerity at home.
Yet Sunday's result showed most voters would rather be represented by a more internationalist leader.
Soini came in fourth place with 9 percent support. Analysts said his popularity may have been hit by racist comments by some party members as well as his own provocative style. Prospects of a Europe-wide recession are also making voters wary of choosing a president who does not support the government, they said.
Finland's government and the euro zone are expected to agree on Monday to new rules for a 500-billion-euro ($646-billion) bailout fund. Finland had been the sole objector to a proposed new majority voting system and a deal would remove an obstacle to the scheme's launch in July.
Niinisto, who has also worked for the European Investment Bank, reaffirmed his support for Finland's pro-Europe stance, saying: "The EU is an essential direction for us. We are European."
Both he and Katainen are members of the National Coalition party which represents conservative economic policy and liberal social values, although as president he is expected to renounce party affiliation.
Eija Saario, a voter in Helsinki, said she voted for Niinisto as: "I think he would best represent me out in the world."
Some voters said they were concerned last year's rise of the Finns Party, previously called the True Finns, had stirred feelings of xenophobia in a country where less than 5 percent of the population are immigrants.
"The political discussion has grown more conservative and xenophobic after the True Finns victory last year," said 29-year-old advertising manager Erik. He voted for Haavisto, the first openly gay presidential candidate.
Haavisto, voting with his partner in central Helsinki, said: "In one way I am a pioneer, but I think the Finns are very tolerant people and they accept people for who they are."
President Tarja Halonen was elected as the country's first woman president in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She steps down having served 12 years, the maximum term in office.
(Additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen and Jussi Rosendahl; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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