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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
US calls on S. Africans to prevent Sudan crisis (AP)
PRETORIA, South Africa ? The U.S. is calling on South Africa to help prevent a humanitarian disaster in Sudan.
Speaking Wednesday in South Africa, Princeton Lyman, the special U.S. envoy on Sudan, said civilians caught up in fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile and South Kordofan states are running out of food and medicine. Lyman says South Africa should pressure Sudan to allow in international humanitarian agencies.
Lyman says he fears "the prospect of hundreds of thousands of people dying with no access to food or medicine."
Fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels who want to topple the Khartoum government started last year in the states. Groups in both states, which border the new country of South Sudan, sided with the south during a lengthy civil war but remain part of the north.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Toddler's cuss word on 'Modern Family' draws ire (omg!)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An anti-profanity crusader is asking the ABC television network to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode about a cursing toddler.
A college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007 said Tuesday that he's called on club members to contact ABC and ask that the episode be dropped.
McKay Hatch says that he wants the network to at least realize people are uncomfortable with the idea of a toddler using profanity. He says ABC should set a better example.
In the episode titled "Little Bo Bleep," the tot playing Lily says the word "fudge" during taping as a substitute for an obscenity. It's to be bleeped when the show airs on Wednesday night.
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Romney: I'll release tax records in April (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says he's "happy" to release his tax records and suggested he would do so in April if he becomes the Republican nominee for president.
Under tough questioning during a presidential debate Monday, Romney said he has looked at the campaigns of past GOP nominees who released their tax information around tax day, which is April 15. Romney earned millions of dollars at a venture capital firm. He said there's nothing in the records to indicate anything amiss.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry suggested Romney should follow other candidates and release the returns before the nomination contest is decided.
The comments came during the first of two debates ahead of the South Carolina primary Saturday. Romney, who won the Iowa and New Hampshire contests, is the front-runner.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nigeria troops appear; president offers concession
Fuel tankers are parked near an oil terminal in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Nigeria's government and labor unions failed to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to U.S. oil supplies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Fuel tankers are parked near an oil terminal in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Nigeria's government and labor unions failed to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to U.S. oil supplies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A cabbage cleaner stands in front of fuel trucks in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Nigeria's government and labor unions failed to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over the high costs of gasoline, and potentially sparking a national oil production shutdown. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads Monday in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations that he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy.
Soldiers in Lagos fired apparent live rounds over the heads of several hundred protesters who were walking to a park where demonstrations were held last week ? and where armored personnel carriers and troops awaited on Monday.
The deployment of troops is a sensitive issue in a nation with a young democracy and a history of military coups. President Goodluck Jonathan said in his speech that was televised early Monday that agitators have hijacked the demonstrations, which were initially focused on his removal of a fuel subsidy but more recently focused on government corruption and inefficiency.
At a park in Lagos' Ojota neighborhood where more than 20,000 people had demonstrated Friday, two military armored personnel carriers were parked near an empty stage. About 50 soldiers and 50 other security personnel surrounded the area carrying Kalashnikov rifles, waving away those who tried to enter to resume demonstrations. A crowd of several hundred people gathered a few hundreds yards (meters) away.
"They are here because they don't want us to protest," said Remi Odutayo, 25, referring to the soldiers in the park. "They are using the power given to them to do something illegal" by stopping demonstrators from gathering.
A few miles (kilometers) away, about 300 protesters marched on a highway toward Ojota. One waved a white puppy above his head like a protest placard. When they approached a military checkpoint, soldiers slung their Kalasnikov rifles to their sides and let the demonstrators pass unhindered. But then around 20 soldiers arrived in two pickup trucks, bayonets affixed to their assault rifles. They told the protesters to go back. Soldiers fired into the air and tear-gassed the crowd to disperse it.
In Nigeria's second-largest city of Kano, soldiers and police barricaded entrances to protest venues, including a park near a university and a square in the city center.
Jonathan announced the government would subsidize gasoline prices to immediately reduce the price to about $2.27 a gallon. The concession might not be enough to stem outrage over the government's stripping of fuel subsidies on Jan. 1 that kept gas prices low in this oil-rich but impoverished nation. Even with the measure announced Monday, gasoline would still be more than 50 cents a gallon higher than it was just 16 days ago. Most people live on less than $2 a day in Africa's most populous nation. Tens of thousands have marched in cities across the nation.
In Lagos, a city of 15 million, army soldiers set up a checkpoint Monday morning on the main highway that feeds traffic from the mainland into its islands. An AP reporter saw more than 10 soldiers carrying assault rifles and wearing camouflage uniforms. On Ikoyi Island, where some of Nigeria's wealthy live, air force personnel erected roadblocks of metal barricades and debris at a roundabout where more 1,000 protesters had regularly gathered last week. The airmen asked drivers who they were and where they were headed before letting them pass.
At the Lagos headquarters of the Nigeria Labor Congress, some 50 protesters gathered Monday despite requests from union leaders to stay home. Lawyer Bamidele Aturu led the crowd in chants and cheers, comparing the president to military rulers of the past who used soldiers to suppress dissent.
"It's very clear the revolution has begun!" Aturu shouted. However, those gathered looked warily at passing pickup trucks filled with soldiers.
Wearing a traditional black kaftan, Jonathan was alone on camera as he read from a printed speech on state TV.
"It has become clear to government and all well-meaning Nigerians that other interests beyond the implementation of the deregulation policy have hijacked the protest," Jonathan said. "This has prevented an objective assessment and consideration of all the contending issues for which dialogue was initiated by government. These same interests seek to promote discord, anarchy and insecurity to the detriment of public peace."
Jonathan's speech comes after his attempt to negotiate with labor unions failed late Sunday night to avert the strike entering a sixth day. Nigeria Labor Congress President Abdulwaheed Omar said early Monday morning he had ordered workers to stay at home over Jonathan's fears about security.
The strike began Jan. 9, paralyzing the nation of more than 160 million people. The root cause remains gasoline prices: Jonathan's government abandoned subsidies that kept gasoline prices low on Jan. 1, causing prices to spike from $1.70 per gallon (45 cents per liter) to at least $3.50 per gallon (94 cents per liter). The costs of food and transportation also largely doubled.
Anger over losing one of the few benefits average Nigerians see from living in an oil-rich country led to demonstrations across the nation and violence that has killed at least 10 people. Red Cross volunteers have treated more than 600 people injured in protests since the strike began, officials said.
Jonathan and other government officials have argued that removing the subsidies, which are estimated to cost $8 billion a year, would allow the government to spend money on badly needed public projects across a country that has cratered roads, little electricity and a lack of clean drinking water for its inhabitants. However, many remain suspicious of government as military rulers and politicians have plundered government budgets since this African nation won independence from Britain in 1960.
The strike also could cut into oil production in Nigeria, which produces about 2.4 million barrels of crude a day and remains a top energy supplier to the U.S. A major oil workers association threatened Thursday to stop all oil production in Nigeria at midnight Saturday over the continued impasse in negotiations. However, the Nigeria Labor Congress said the association had held off on the threatened production halt.
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Associated Press writer Bashir Adigun in Abuja, Nigeria, and Ibrahim Garba in Kano contributed to this report.
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Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.
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Stop it Mr. President -- Quit Giving Our Money Away (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | When will the insanity stop? One day after President Barack Obama asked Congress for yet another increase in the debt limit so the federal government can continue to borrow money to stay solvent; he then offers to give Bangladesh another free billion dollars.
Reuters reported another $1 billion in aid was offered to the impoverished Asian country over five years to help alleviate hunger and malnutrition, as well as assist in family planning. There is little doubt Bangladesh needs help, but the U.S. has already provided nearly $6 billion in developmental assistance.
This is absolute craziness. The federal government is well over $15 trillion in debt -- all of which have been borrowed on the backs of current and future taxpayers and yet our government continues to pass it out to other countries without hardly a mere consideration for how Americans might feel about that. The people of Bangladesh need help -- they have always needed more help than any one nation can provide.
While the U.S. is a land of plenty, that "plenty" comes at a cost. The cost is too high anymore. We cannot continue to pass out aid to every cause or need. The need is too big. The wallet has run dry.
It is unconceivable that any American president would consider passing out aid with the financial conditions the U.S. is currently in. Not two months ago Congress missed a statutory deadline to strip money from the budget over a 10-year period. They couldn't do it.
Just one day ago, The Washington Post reported Obama asked for a $1.2 trillion increase in borrowing authority for the Treasury. The madness must stop and maybe it's time for ordinary Americans to cry "Enough already!" in the face of every elected official.
There are people suffering all around the world. The need is so great that no one nation -- no matter how mighty its economy may be -- can possibly meet the need. There are needs here too. Our inner cities are falling apart. Food stamp recipients are at an all time high. There has to be a time when the answer is "no."
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Programming prodigy passes away at 16
Dan DeLong
This portrait of Arfa at the age of 10 accompanied my story about her in the Seattle P-I in 2005.
Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world?s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has passed away at the age of 16, according to reports out of her native Pakistan this weekend.
She had been in the hospital for nearly a month after reportedly suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. Two weeks ago her outlook appeared to improve. In recent weeks, Microsoft had stepped in to help provide expert medical care.
As explained in this earlier post, I met Arfa and wrote a story about her in 2005 as a newspaper reporter covering her visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, when she was 10 years old. After seeing the reports this weekend, I went back and found some of the audio clips from my interview with her, including her talking about meeting Bill Gates, learning to program and what she planned to do when she grew up.
I've pieced together the highlights in this audio file, to provide a better sense for what she was like. One of the most remarkable parts, apart from her recounting the conversation with Gates, is hearing her talk with such authority about developing Windows applications.
As you'll hear at the end, Arfa at 10 years old had also settled on her philosophy of life, and committed it to memory. She told me about it after our interview, when she was having her picture taken outside, so I turned my recorder back on and asked her to repeat it for me on tape.
"If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind," she said. "If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind."
Todd Bishop is co-founder of GeekWire, a technology news site based in Seattle.
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Santorum says US should have 'kept mouth shut' on Iran scientist's death, proposes harder line (Star Tribune)
Monday, January 16, 2012
The DC Taxi Commissioner?s Attacks On Uber Have Gotten Even More Ridiculous
Private car service Uber entered Washington, DC a month ago and has loaded up lots of local support. But now it has hit a regulatory traffic jam. Taxi Commissioner Ron Linton personally led a sting yesterday to bust one of its drivers for trying to transport him within the district, following up on his declaration earlier this week that Uber is "illegal." Whether or not Uber is actually breaking any rules is still unclear. He hasn't told the company anything directly, and he hasn't responded to its requests for more information. He's just talking to the media about the issue. That includes inviting The Washington Post and local blog DCist to personally witness his sting outside the Mayflower Hotel. The sting involved Linton personally using Uber's mobile application to order a sedan (from his DC office, apparently). It arrived as scheduled, and took him to the Mayflower Hotel. Then, Linton's Taxi Commissioner officers surrounded the car, handed the driver a variety of fines, and impounded the driver's vehicle. "We did it," Linton told a local ABC station later that day, "to send a message to drivers who are signing up with Uber that we are going to enforce our laws."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jxyJF40550o/
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Democrats Prefer Celebrities, Republicans Statesmen for Political Endorsements (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | The way in which the two parties view endorsements cannot be better illustrated than by two stories, one by the Tennessean about whom President Barack Obama would like to give him the nod and one by the Washington Post about which ones influence Republicans.
The Tennessean reports Obama has a wish list of people who he would like to endorse him. The list is heavily weighted toward Hollywood players such as Tom Hanks, Tina Fey and Harvey Weinstein. There are a few actual politicians such as Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. One music group, "Lady Antebellum," was included on the list but has responded it does not comment on political issues.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post has published a poll of Republican voters asking the question of whose endorsement would most sway them to pick a candidate to vote for. On the top of the list is former President George W. Bush. Following close behind is Sarah Palin.
The dichotomy could not be starker. On the one hand, President Obama thinks the endorsement of an actor or musician is important. Mind, Tom Hanks is a great actor and producer, but does one really care about whom he likes for president? Politico once reported that Hanks was going to vote for Obama because of the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and because he saved a "billion" jobs at General Motors and Chrysler. He also once said, according to CBS News, that World War II in the Pacific was of "racism and terror."Just like the War on Terror.
On the other hand, Republicans tend to value the opinion of people who have actually been in public office in picking someone to vote for. George W. Bush was president and Sarah Palin a governor and candidate for vice president. Tom Hanks has not even played a president in the movies.
This suggests that while Democrats like Obama tend toward the superficial in politics, Republicans take the notion of who should be president seriously. If one regards a candidacy for president as a job application, the nod from someone who has actually held the job counts for far more than someone who has achieved popularity in the entertainment industry due to being able to speak his lines and make his marks.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Samsung?s Smart Window doesn?t run iOS but it?s still pretty awesome!
Samsung’s Smart Window doesn’t run iOS but it’s still pretty awesome!?Soon, we shall be living in the world of Minority Report, and this “Smart Window” technology Samsung has at
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France to pursue reforms after downgrade
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, arrives with Prime Minister Francois Fillon to address his New Year speech to the Justice representatives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. The euro fell to a 17-month low against the dollar on news reports that France's credit rating might be downgraded by Standard & Poor's. If France were downgraded it could hurt efforts to resolve Europe's debt crisis. (AP Photo/Charles Platiau, Pool)
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, arrives with Prime Minister Francois Fillon to address his New Year speech to the Justice representatives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. The euro fell to a 17-month low against the dollar on news reports that France's credit rating might be downgraded by Standard & Poor's. If France were downgraded it could hurt efforts to resolve Europe's debt crisis. (AP Photo/Charles Platiau, Pool)
German chancellor Angela Merkel, attends a press conference in Kiel, northern Germany, Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 after a meeting with Christian Democratic (CDU) party leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Standard & Poor's downgrades of nine eurozone countries underline the fact that Europe has a "long road" in front of it to win back investors' confidence. Merkel pushed Saturday for European countries to implement "as soon as possible" a planned pact to strengthen budget discipline and said eurozone countries also must move quickly to implement their permanent rescue fund - the so-called European Stability Mechanism. (AP Photo/dapd: Philipp Guelland)
German chancellor Angela Merkel, speaks at a press conference in Kiel, northern Germany, Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 after a meeting with Christian Democratic (CDU) party leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Standard & Poor's downgrades of nine eurozone countries underline the fact that Europe has a "long road" in front of it to win back investors' confidence. Merkel pushed Saturday for European countries to implement "as soon as possible" a planned pact to strengthen budget discipline and said eurozone countries also must move quickly to implement their permanent rescue fund - the so-called European Stability Mechanism. (AP Photo/dapd: Philipp Guelland)
German chancellor Angela Merkel, speaks at a press conference in Kiel, northern Germany, Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 after a meeting with Christian Democratic (CDU) party leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Standard & Poor's downgrades of nine eurozone countries underline the fact that Europe has a "long road" in front of it to win back investors' confidence. Merkel pushed Saturday for European countries to implement "as soon as possible" a planned pact to strengthen budget discipline and said eurozone countries also must move quickly to implement their permanent rescue fund - the so-called European Stability Mechanism. (AP Photo/dapd: Philipp Guelland)
PARIS (AP) ? France's prime minister said Saturday his country will push ahead with cost-cutting measures after its top-tier debt rating was downgraded, a blow with repercussions across financially beleaguered Europe.
Other European countries from Austria to Cyprus assailed ratings agency Standard & Poor's after a raft of downgrades Friday night that renewed questions about the power such agencies wield. The move may make it more expensive for struggling countries to borrow money, reduce debts and avoid a new recession.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said downgrades of nine eurozone countries underline the fact that Europe has a "long road" ahead to win back investors' confidence. Her own country, the engine of Europe's economy, was not downgraded.
Merkel and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the downgrades should push European countries to quickly implement a planned pact to strengthen budget discipline. Germany and France have piloted rescue efforts for other eurozone countries as the continent has been swept up in crisis after crisis over the past two years.
Fillon struck a somber, measured tone when responding Saturday to the downgrade, which was particularly wounding to France's self-image and could hurt bailout efforts. France is central to those efforts, and the downgrade, by pushing up its own borrowing costs, could make it harder for France to help others.
Fillon said the downgrade confirmed his conservative government's plans for more reforms to bring down debts, despite worries that more austerity measures could suffocate growth.
He said the government wouldn't adjust the budget yet, saying it had been devised with an assumption of higher borrowing costs. S&P had warned 15 European nations in December that they were at risk for a downgrade.
The downgrade, three months before France holds presidential elections, was "an alert that should not be dramatized any more than it should be underestimated," he said.
Standard & Poor's stripped France of its coveted AAA status, knocking it down one notch to AA+. It dropped Italy even lower. Germany retained its top-notch rating, but Portugal's debt was consigned to junk.
Cyprus' finance minister called Standard & Poor's two-notch downgrade of his eurozone country to junk status "arbitrary and unfounded."
Kikis Kazamias said on Saturday that the agency ignored the island's deficit-cutting measures as well as the discovery of significant offshore natural gas deposits. He said the action illustrates once more how credit ratings agencies exacerbate Europe's debt crisis.
Austria's chancellor criticized S&P's decision to strip his country of the top AAA rating, and noted that his coalition government is working on an austerity package.
Werner Faymann wrote on his Facebook page that "Austria's economic data remain very good." He added that the decision showed "that Austria must become more independent from the financial markets."
The downgrade brought a downbeat end to a mildly encouraging week for Europe's heavily indebted nations and served as a reminder that the 17-country eurozone faces another tough year.
France's downgrade to AA+ lowers it to the level of U.S. long-term debt, which S&P downgraded last summer.
Stocks fell Friday as downgrade rumors reached the trading floors of Europe and the United States. But the declines were nothing like the wrenching swings of last summer and fall.
Speaking to fellow conservatives in the northern German city of Kiel, Merkel stressed the importance of a new treaty enshrining tougher fiscal rules. Most European Union leaders agreed in early December to draw up the pact.
"We are now called upon ... to implement quickly the fiscal pact and implement it decisively ? without trying to water it down everywhere," Merkel said.
The chancellor sought to allay concerns that the downgrade of France, the 17-nation eurozone's No. 2 economy after Germany, would complicate the work of the bloc's temporary rescue fund, the ?440 billion ($560 billion) European Financial Stability Facility. However, she did underline the urgency of putting its permanent successor, the European Stability Mechanism, in place quickly.
France's presidential elections could complicate Europe's internal discussions. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been at the heart of the debate, is highly unpopular and far from certain of winning a second term.
The man who tops polls ahead of the April and May elections, Socialist Francois Hollande, said the downgrade was a punishment for conservative Sarkozy's policies. He said Saturday that austerity measures were stifling growth and France's competitiveness.
Elie Cohen, economist with France's National Center for Scientific Research, said the Standard & Poor's decision casts doubt on Sarkozy's choices and European leaders' ability to handle the crisis.
"From the moment France was downgraded, it boomerangs on (Sarkozy's) own economic record, and it becomes one factor in the electoral battle," Cohen told AP Television News. Cohen said France's economic standing had been weakening for a long time, and the downgrade was overdue.
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Geir Moulson in Berlin, Cecile Brisson and Jeffrey Schaeffer in Paris and Menelaos Hadjicostis in Nicosia, Cyprus, contributed to this report.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
New laptops: Is this the year of the 'ultrabook'?
Looking for new laptops? This year's Consumer Electronics Show is filled with ultrabooks -- new laptops that are thin and light -- and a few models are getting positive press already.
Most of the coverage coming out of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show has centered on thin, Web-savvy TVs -- especially super-crisp OLED displays from LG and Samsung. But if the small screen is more your speed, don't worry: we've also gotten glimpses of lots of exciting new laptops and tablets on the floor this year.
Skip to next paragraphLast year's CES was all about tablets, as manufacturers tended to employ the "throw things at the wall and see what sticks" method in offering alternatives to Apple's iPad. Things are a little more muted this year, and that's probably a net positive: while there are fewer tablet models on display, companies like Acer, Lenovo, and Samsung have put more effort into polishing what's available. There's less danger of drowning in a sea of "me-too" Android tablets this year.
Noteworthy tablets from CES 2012 include the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE, a new model in Samsung's venerable Galaxy Tab line with a 7.7-inch screen, running on Verizon's 4G network. Acer also introduced the Iconia Tab A200, a 10.1-inch tablet with widescreen dimensions. If you're interested in portable web surfing and video chatting but need a little more horsepower than what's in lower-end Amazon and Barnes and Noble tablets, the Galaxy Tab line is probably worth checking out. If you're in the market for a screen that's sized for movies and TV shows, the Iconia Tab might be more your speed.
We've also got to shine a spotlight on what's undoubtedly the most innovative tablet design of CES: the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga. Technically, it's a laptop -- but in keeping with the machine's name, the screen actually flips all the way around to lie flat against the chassis, disabling the keyboard and transforming into a touchscreen tablet. The screen is 13.3 inches, and the whole rig weighs only 3.1 pounds, putting the laptop firmly in the ultrabook category.
Ultrabooks -- thin, light, high-powered Windows laptops modeled to a large degree on Apple's MacBook Air -- were everywhere at CES this year, and several machines are getting pretty positive early buzz. In addition to the IdeaPad Yoga, the HP Envy 14 Spectre is turning heads for having high-end Beats Audio built in, as well as a Gorilla Glass-covered lid and palmrest. Cnet editors named it the best computer of the show, saying, "At a CES devoid of many eye-popping laptops, the Spectre could be the most stylish of the bunch."
Samsung also showed off a redesigned 13-inch version of its Series 9 laptop, which sports a high-res 1600x900 display and a black aluminum design. And in the sub-$1,000 range, the Dell XPS 13 offers a solid aluminum construction and backlit keyboard. (All the ultrabooks we've mentioned here are powered by second-gen Intel Core chips, and most have pretty similar internals, although the pricier Samsung and HP models step things up a bit.)
Even if 55-inch displays aren't your thing, there's still plenty to draw your eye at CES this year. Readers, what's your take? Are you smitten with a tablet or ultrabook that we missed in this roundup? Let us know in the comments. In the meantime, for more tech news, follow us on?Twitter @venturenaut. And don?t forget to sign up for the weekly?BizTech newsletter.
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Large Study Links Depression and Low Levels of Vitamin D (ContributorNetwork)
A study published by a joint venture of the University of Texas Southwest's Medical Center and the Cooper Institute in Dallas has linked low levels of vitamin D to depression, according to the Mother Nature Network. The study appears in the latest edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
What are the specifics of this study?
Researchers compared the vitamin D test results of about 12,600 adults over four years, beginning in late 2006. According to ProHealth, participants were divided into two groups, based on whether they had a past history of suffering from depression. The participants' current levels of vitamin D were then tested, as well as their current depressive symptoms, or lack thereof.
What did the study find?
Scientists found people that currently had low levels of vitamin D, particularly if they had a past history of depression, were significantly more likely to display depressive symptoms than people with normal or high levels of vitamin D. EmaxHealth reported these findings corroborate and provide a more solid basis for earlier, smaller studies that had seemed to indicate a link between the two but had ultimately been deemed inconclusive. This current study is among the largest ever to test the relationship between depression and vitamin D deficiency.
Based on the findings, what did the researchers conclude?
That testing people who are displaying symptoms of depression for low levels of vitamin D would be wise. The team stopped short, however, of actually recommending supplements, asserting that more research into the link between the two needed to be conducted.
Although they established a link between the two, scientists are unsure which comes first, the vitamin D deficiency or the depression. It is possible that depression can lower a person's levels of vitamin D, but it is considered just as likely that a vitamin D deficiency causes depression. According to UPI, researchers believe the link may have to do with the way that vitamin D and depression affect neurotransmitters and inflammatory markers, among other systems in the body.
What's next?
Researchers might have established a link between vitamin D deficiency, but they haven't proven how the two actually interact with each other. Because of that fact, it also remains unknown as to whether or not providing supplements to raise the vitamin D levels of a person suffering from depression would actually be effective.
Vanessa Evans is a musician and freelance writer based in Michigan, with a lifelong interest in health and nutrition issues.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Square's perimeter gets larger, now sold at UPS and OfficeMax locations
What's a company to do once it grabs a million merchants? Grab a million more, naturally. Following an online rollout and a wider spread to Apple Stores, Jack Dorsey's own Square is expanding to OfficeMax and UPS locations. A couple of months back, the outfit announced that it was handling some $11 million in payments per day (a wild increase from $4 million per day in July), and with the new agreements, Square payment devices are being sold at 10,000 retail locations. The hardware itself will sell for $9.99 in stores, but each buyer can redeem a $10 credit to their bank account. Beyond this? It's reportedly hoping to "upgrade the experience of running a business, end-to-end, on the iPad," with the outfit adding "in-depth merchant analytics to its iPad experience, allowing merchants to access information about which inventory is selling well, and what they can do to help make more money." Oh, and in case you couldn't guess, Square's also looking to staff up even more to tackle all of 2012's goals -- three cheers for job creation, yeah?Square's perimeter gets larger, now sold at UPS and OfficeMax locations originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Former Duke head coach Roof named defensive coordinator
ALTOONA - Penn State's new defensive coordinator, Ted Roof, is a longtime friend of head coach Bill O'Brien's who likes to play multiple, aggressive defenses and who helped Auburn win a national title in 2010.
Roof, 48, succeeds Tom Bradley, who had served as PSU's defensive coordinator from 2000 until becoming interim head coach in November. Bradley's coaching future remains unclear at this point.
Roof was the head coach at Duke from 2003-07 -- compiling a 6-45 record -- and his offensive coordinator in 2005 and '06 was O'Brien. The two also worked together at Georgia Tech from 1998-2001.
Sources confirmed to the Mirror on Monday that Roof will be joining O'Brien's staff, and Roof confirmed that in a text message to ESPN. Three other assistant coach hires also were reported by multiple media outlets.
Penn State has not yet confirmed the hires, and O'Brien said he wants to wait until all the staff members are in place before announcing them.
So far, O'Brien has relied heavily on his ties to Georgia Tech and Duke to fill his staff. The new hires Monday include:
n Offensive line coach Mac McWhorter, 61, who held that job at Texas from 2002-10. He was the line coach at Georgia Tech from 2000-01 when O'Brien was there, and in 2001 O'Brien was the offensive coordinator.
n Receivers coach Stan Hixon, 54, who just finished his second season coaching with the Buffalo Bills after six years with the Washington Redskins. He also worked at Georgia Tech (1995-99) while O'Brien was there. Hixon replaces Mike McQueary, who had been placed on administrative leave by PSU in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
n Tight ends coach John Strollo, 57, comes to Penn State after being the offensive line coach for one season at Ball State. He was an assistant at Duke from 2005-07, and O'Brien was there the first two years.
O'Brien now has seven of his nine assistant coaches in place. It was previously reported that Larry Johnson will remain the Nittany Lions' defensive line coach and Ron Vanderlinden the linebackers coach. Charles London, who had been with the Tennessee Titans, is the new running backs coach.
Roof comes to Penn State with an intriguing recent background. He was Auburn's defensive coordinator from 2009 through the end of this past regular season, then left that lucrative job in December to become defensive coordinator at Central Florida.
George O'Leary is the head coach at Central Florida, and his ties to Roof and O'Brien go back to Georgia Tech. O'Leary was the head coach there from 1994-2001 and Roof was his defensive coordinator for three years.
Roof and O'Leary are longtime friends, but that doesn't necessarily explain why Roof would leave Auburn for a similar position at Central Florida.
Sources familiar with the Auburn program told the Mirror that Roof and head coach Gene Chizik didn't exactly see eye to eye with regards to defensive philosophy.
Roof likes to use a 4-3 base scheme but runs multiple looks out of that. He also likes to be very aggressive and blitz a lot, sources said, does not like to play zone and is very inventive.
Chizik wanted a more conservative approach on defense, sources said, and that led to him and Roof having disagreements about the schemes. It also led to Roof having to become more conservative and play more zone than he had throughout his career, sources said.
Roof, a linebacker at Georgia Tech from 1982-85, began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Alabama in 1987. He also has coached at West Georgia, UMass, Western Carolina and Minnesota.
He was fired as Duke's head coach following the 2007 season and was Minnesota's defensive coordinator in 2008 before going to Auburn in 2009.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
India to roll out red carpet for Mali president
New Delhi: India kicks off its Africa diplomacy this year by rolling out the red carpet for President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, the landlocked mineral-rich West African country, during his three-day state visit that begins here Tuesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks with Toure Wednesday to ramp up bilateral ties across the spectrum, including the intensification of economic ties and developmental cooperation between the two countries.
The two sides will also discuss a cluster of global issues, including the international financial crisis, counter-terrorism, the UN reforms and climate change.
Some agreements in the areas of developmental cooperation and capacity building are expected to be signed after the talks, said informed sources.
Mali is Africa's second largest producer of long staple cotton after Egypt and the third largest producer of gold in the continent.
Toure, popularly known as 'soldier of democracy', will also address top industry leaders at an interactive lunch where he is expected to pitch for greater Indian investment in his country.
The two sides will explore collaboration in areas of agriculture and agro-processing industries that have huge potential.
India's relations with Mali have been steadily growing in the past decade. During 2009-10, goods worth $42.24 million were exported to Mali from India. Indian exports to Mali includes electricity transmission, cotton fabrics, cycle parts, machinery and machine parts, transport equipment, drugs and pharmaceuticals, and processed food items. India's imports from Mali are limited to raw cotton and few agro products like shea nuts.
India has provided several lines of credit (soft loans) to a swathe of infrastructure projects to Mali. These include $15mn for rural electrification, $12 million for agro-machinery and tractor assembly plant, 11 million in three tranches for electricity transmission and distribution projects from Cote D'Ivoire to Mali, $20.62 million for acquiring railway coaches and locomotives from India and $15 million for development of agro-industries.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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Today is Monday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2012. There are 357 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 9, 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported autobiography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.
On this date:
In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.
In 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, S.C., retreated because of artillery fire.
In 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
In 1931, Bobbi Trout and Edna May Cooper broke an endurance record for female aviators as they returned to Mines Field in Los Angeles after flying a Curtiss Robin monoplane continuously for 122 hours and 50 minutes.
In 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines.
In 1951, United Nations headquarters in New York was officially opened.
In 1960, on his 47th birthday, Vice President Richard Nixon became a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
In 1987, the White House released a Jan. 1986 memorandum prepared for President Ronald Reagan by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North showing a link between U.S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon.
In 1995, in New York, the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defendants accused of conspiring to wage holy war against the United States began. (All the defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy, except for two who reached plea agreements with the government.)
In 1997, a Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people on board.
Ten years ago: A U.S. military tanker plane crashed in western Pakistan, killing all seven Marines on board. Two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers before being shot dead in a gun battle. The Bush administration and the auto industry agreed to promote development of pollution-free cars and trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Five years ago: U.S. forces continued to stage airstrikes against suspected al-Qaida fighters in Somalia in the first offensive there since 18 American soldiers were killed in 1993. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, which went on sale the following June. Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Carlo Ponti, the Italian movie producer who discovered -- and married -- actress Sophia Loren, died in Geneva at age 94.
One year ago: Federal prosecutors brought charges against Jared Loughner, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killing six people at a political event in Tucson the day before. British movie director Peter Yates, who sent actor Steve McQueen screeching through the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in "Bullitt," died in London at age 81.
Today's Birthdays: Author Judith Krantz is 84. Football Hall-of-Famer Bart Starr is 78. Sportscaster Dick Enberg is 77. Actress K. Callan is 76. Folk singer Joan Baez is 71. Rockabilly singer Roy Head is 71. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 68. Singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 62. Singer Crystal Gayle is 61. Actor J.K. Simmons is 57. Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu is 53. Rock musician Eric Erlandson is 49. Actress Joely Richardson is 47. Rock musician Carl Bell (Fuel) is 45. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 45. Rock singer-musician Dave Matthews is 45. Actress-director Joey Lauren Adams is 44. Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) is 34. Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is 30. Pop-rock musician Drew Brown (OneRepublic) is 28. Rock-soul singer Paolo Nutini is 25. Actor Tyree Brown (TV: "Parenthood") is eight.
Thought for Today: "Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." -- Swedish proverb.
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SV Angel, Founder Collective And Others Put $850K In Customer Retention SaaS Custora
Y Combinator-backed Custora, which offers a SaaS that tells online retailers and web apps which of their customers are most valuable and suggests actions to keep them; has raised $850,000 in funding from SV Angel, Founder Collective, Highline Venture Partners, Paul Buchheict, Sam Altman, Valhalla Partners, the Start Fund, and other angel investors. Custora, which launched in February, helps retailers keep customers and tailor actions based on individual-level insights. the software can analyze order logs and distinguish between customers that simply haven't ordered anything for a while, and customers who have left the site. The application also manages and optimizes email campaigns to keep customers engaged.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/64PZw4vT2nM/
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Huntsman: 'Sane Republican' ready for his moment (AP)
KEENE, N.H. ? There's a question that Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman loves to pop out from time to time as he campaigns across New Hampshire: "What language do you want me to answer in?"
Tossing out a sentence or two in Mandarin gives Barack Obama's former U.S. ambassador to China an opportunity to showcase his foreign policy credentials and position himself as a cultural bridge-builder. Not to come off as too highbrow, though, Huntsman also adopts a fake New Hampshire accent at times and joshes about eating lobster rolls for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Both ploys hint at the challenge facing Huntsman, whose defining moment in the Republican presidential race could be here, and now, in the towns and villages of New Hampshire.
After sitting out the Iowa caucuses and investing all his hopes in this state, Huntsman has struggled to find a voice that resonates with voters. The former Utah governor is proud to announce that he's no longer "the margin-of-error candidate" ? in New Hampshire, at least. But he'll need to do far better than that for his campaign to continue after Tuesday's primary.
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"Who's that guy?" a factory worker asked as Huntsman visited a plant in Keene recently.
The answer ? Huntsman's biography ? is complex.
He's an Obama administration appointee running in a GOP primary where candidates have been working to out-conservative one another.
He's a Mormon navigating a process typically dominated by evangelicals.
He's a Harley-riding, high-school dropout who frequents taco stands, and the son of a billionaire businessman.
Here's what Huntsman, 51, would have you know, first and foremost: "I can get elected."
To expand on that, he offers himself as the "sane Republican," one offering "good, center-right, pragmatic, problem-solving leadership."
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"We've got to have someone who isn't being teed up by the establishment," Huntsman says in dismissing his GOP rivals.
Huntsman has never been traditional or establishment.
Growing up in Utah, he ditched the end of high school to play with local jazz and rock bands.
Those years ended when he briefly enrolled at the University of Utah through a program that granted him admission without a high school diploma. He then went on a Mormon mission to Taiwan, where he learned to speak Mandarin.
He later attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in political science, then entered public service and eventually worked for President Ronald Reagan and both Bush presidents.
In 1993, after leaving his post as ambassador to Singapore, Huntsman became president of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation and eventually CEO of Huntsman Family Holdings, the umbrella company for the multibillion-dollar corporation founded by his father.
Huntsman first ran for Utah governor in 2004, winning with 57 percent of the vote.
As governor, proposals to significantly boost education spending and a repeal of the tax on food garnered him support from moderate members of both parties. He also supported school tuition vouchers, pushed through a mostly flat income tax and backed a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2004.
In the 2008 campaign, the most effective argument that Democrats could muster was that Huntsman was unlikely to serve his full second term. They were right.
Senators lavished so much praise on him during his confirmation hearing to be Obama's ambassador to China that Huntsman said he hoped to fare as well at his funeral. Taking up his post in Beijing amid sometimes unsteady U.S.-China relations, Huntsman prodded the Chinese on human rights and worked to expand U.S. engagement with the growing economic powerhouse.
Huntsman was expected to be a force in the 2012 presidential race long before he officially joined the crowded field in June.
The 51-year-old California native offered a unique set of qualifications as a former GOP governor with experience working under presidents of both parties.
Perhaps it's the connection to Obama, but Huntsman has struggled to win over the more conservative voters who typically dominate Republican primaries.
Despite his more moderate positions on global warming, the war in Afghanistan and gay rights, Huntsman offers himself as a "consistent conservative."
"Don't mistake a moderate temperament for a moderate record," he admonishes.
That points to another Huntsman challenge ? his low-key demeanor.
Huntsman freely admits that he's not a verbal bomb-thrower in a political era where brash rhetoric is often rewarded, particularly by a Republican electorate looking for a nominee who will aggressively take it to Obama. Huntsman tries to turn his style into a positive, saying that he's outlining goals that are achievable, while his opponents are "campaigning on a bunch of nutty ideas to whoop up folks in a crowd."
In recent days, Huntsman has gotten more pointed in drawing a contrast to the other Mormon ex-governor in the race, front-runner Mitt Romney, whose conservative convictions also have come under question.
"People want to know your core," Huntsman says. "I haven't been on three sides of all the issues."
Friends and colleagues describe a man who puts a priority on family and authenticity.
"He'd rather lose than be inauthentic," says wife Mary Kaye, a near-constant companion in New Hampshire.
The couple has seven children, including one daughter adopted from China and another from India.
Their three oldest daughters, whose tweets as (at)Jon2012girls have a big following, generated a huge amount of buzz with a video spoof of an ad by former rival Herman Cain. They donned oversized glasses and fake mustaches to look like Cain's campaign manager.
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Huntsman, who so far has loaned his campaign $2.2 million of his own money, says he's getting a second look now from voters who dismissed him at first because he'd crossed the partisan divide to work for Obama.
He's looking at the jumbled results from Iowa, and hoping they suggest that voters still are open to somebody else.
"There's a whole lot of blue sky for the rest of us," he said.
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