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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Nikki Haley Fails To Deliver Home County For Mitt Romney
Mauldin Patch:
Not only could Haley not deliver South Carolina for the candidate she backed, she also couldn't deliver her county or even her home precinct. The latter two went to Newt Gingrich.
"Nikki Haley couldn't even deliver her home county for Mitt Romney," said Tyler Jones, a Democratic strategist.
"She told Romney her endorsement would deliver South Carolina, but in reality it looks like she delivered four more years for Barack Obama. Nikki Haley is the best thing that ever happened to the South Carolina Democratic Party."
Read the whole story: Mauldin Patch
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Monday, January 23, 2012
What Gadgets Can an iPad Replace? (ContributorNetwork)
Apple's iPad is starting to replace desktop and laptop computers, for a lot of people. Its success tracks closely with declining PC sales at vendors like HP and Dell, and if you count it as a computer it makes Apple the world's top PC vendor, according to Todd Wasserman of Mashable.
How can the iPad replace laptops and desktop PCs? As Matthew Guay of Techinch put it, the iPad is like the microwave oven of computers. It can't do everything a full PC or Mac can, but it can do most things, and it does them with a lot less time and hassle. Besides that, iPad games and apps cost much less than their PC counterparts. The iPad version of iWork, for instance, costs half as much as the Mac version.
Here's a look at some other things people are using their iPads instead of now:
Game consoles
Nintendo considers itself to have won against Sony, but considers Apple the "enemy of the future," as Chris Rawson of TUAW explains. And while Nintendo made record sales on Black Friday, part of the reason was that it'd already dropped the price of its portable 3DS game console by $80 beforehand.
There are still a ton of games you can only play on Nintendo consoles, like the official games for the Mario, Zelda, and Metroid franchises. (Don't forget about Pokemon, either. The latest installments in the series, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White, sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S. within just 24 hours of launch day.)
The iPad has literally thousands of games available, though, including iOS exclusives from top-tier publishers like Square-Enix. So while it can't replace a DS for a Pokemon addict, there are probably a lot of game consoles collecting dust because of it.
E-readers
The Kindle Fire and Nook Color (and Tablet) are all selling extremely well, at least compared to generic-brand "Android tablets". And David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, has noted that a black-and-white e-reader "rekindled" his interest in reading books.
The iPad doesn't exactly compete with the Kindle Fire or the Nook, because they're at different price points. But the iPad does everything they do, and has thousands more apps.
Textbooks
They aren't gadgets, but with the prices on some of them they might as well be; a new college textbook can cost as much as a Kindle Fire or Nook. And now Apple's new iBooks Author program may drop the price of electronic textbooks to $14.99, if you buy them on an iPad.
Not all textbooks are available on an iPad yet, but with publishers like McGraw-Hill signing on already that may change soon.
Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.
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Violence keeps Syria on edge, Arab mission may extend (Reuters)
AMMAN (Reuters) ? At least six people were killed in Syria on Friday and the bodies of six others were turned over to their families, activists said, two days before the Arab League decides whether to keep monitors there despite their failure to halt bloodshed.
But a source at League headquarters in Cairo said member states were leaning towards extending the mission, which expired on Thursday, because of an assessment that the monitors' presence has reduced violence in some areas.
Syrian security men were out in force in several restive towns and cities to counter protests against Bashar al-Assad that often erupt after weekly Muslim prayers, activists said, while supporters of the Syrian president rallied in Damascus.
Hundreds of people have been killed since the monitors arrived in late December in Syria, where an armed insurgency has grown in recent months, challenging Assad's grip on several parts of the country.
Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo on Sunday to decide whether to prolong the monitors' one-month mandate.
Critics say the 165 monitors have provided diplomatic cover for Assad to carry on a military crackdown on unrest that the United Nations says has already killed more than 5,000 people.
But the Arab diplomatic source said although League member states remained deeply at odds over how to bring about a lasting solution to Syria's crisis, they now had little option but to renew the observer mission unchanged.
Factors militating for an extension, he said, included the lack of international will for a Libya-style military intervention and a perception that the monitors were helping to curb at least some violence and encouraging peaceful protest.
"The closer Sunday's meetings of the Arab committee and the Arab foreign ministers get, the more the conviction grows that the Arab monitoring mission in Syria should be extended," the source told Reuters.
"Yes, there is not complete satisfaction with Syria's cooperation with the monitoring mission. But in the absence of any international plan to deal with Syria, the best option is for the monitors to stay."
The Syrian authorities accuse foreign-backed militants of killing 2,000 members of the security forces since the unrest began in March, inspired by Arab uprisings elsewhere that have toppled three autocrats.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said "ferocious repression" of Assad's opponents by the authorities was dragging Syria towards chaos and would only benefit extremists.
He urged the Arab League to intensify its monitoring efforts and called on the U.N. Security Council, so far paralyzed by divisions over Syria, to act.
Security forces thwarted prayers for the fifth Friday in a row at the Omari mosque in the southern town of Deraa, where the anti-Assad revolt began 10 months ago, activists said.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five civilians had been killed in gunfire around the country and a security officer had been assassinated in Deraa, possibly because he had changed sides. In the northwestern province of Idlib, security forces returned the bodies of six people who had disappeared two days earlier, it said.
It was not possible to verify the latest accounts of unrest in Syria, where tight media restrictions are enforced.
PRO-ASSAD CHANTS
At a small pro-Assad demonstration near the Omayyed mosque in Damascus, dozens of young men chanted: "We are your men, Bashar" and "Shabiha forever, for your eyes, Bashar," a reference to a militia that operates alongside security forces.
Houssam Younis, an army conscript at the rally, said Assad should use "full force" to crush armed insurgents.
"The army is facing hell from them in Homs and Hama. We do not want reforms. We want to finish those terrorists first. The people should be united against them," he told Reuters.
Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi, head of the monitoring mission, was expected to fly to Cairo, headquarters of the Arab League, on Saturday to report on what his 165-strong team has witnessed since it deployed in Syria.
Burhan Ghalioun, head of the opposition Syrian National Council, was also due in the Egyptian capital, where he planned to meet the League's secretary-general, Nabil Elaraby.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the League should publish Dabi's report in full and should urge the U.N. Security Council to impose targeted sanctions, including an arms embargo, to stop the killing in Syria.
Russia and China, which wield vetoes in the Security Council, oppose any U.N. sanctions on Syria.
Sanctions imposed by Western countries, and disruption caused by the uprising, are battering the Syrian economy. Syria plans to introduce a managed float of its exchange rate, effectively devaluing the currency, its central bank governor Adib Mayaleh told the Financial Times on Friday.
The value of the Syrian pound has fallen by a third on the black market during the unrest, according to exchange dealers.
A Western embargo on Syrian oil exports has cost the country $2 billion since September, the state news agency SANA quoted Oil Minister Sufian Alao as saying.
Alao said Syria was still trying to replace European Union crude oil contracts with new customers, but was having trouble securing shipping insurance and trade credit.
The EU, which bought most of Syria's approximately 130,000 barrels per day of oil exports, imposed sanctions on Syrian oil on September 2, following a similar decision by the United States.
Syrian oil exports are tiny when compared to those of the main Middle East exporters and the sector does not dominate the economy as it does elsewhere in the region, but it does provide revenue the government relies on.
EU governments are expected on Monday to expand a Syria sanctions list against individuals, companies and institutions.
Alao said attacks on oil and gas pipelines and other energy installations had killed 21 workers, disrupted supplies and caused damage estimated at 2 billion pounds ($34 million).
The Arab League suspended Syria and announced sanctions for its failure to comply with a November peace plan which required that it halt the bloodshed, withdraw military forces from the streets, free detainees, provide access to Arab monitors and the media, and open a political dialogue with opposition groups.
(Additional reporting by Mariam Karouny in Damascus, Lin Noueihed in Cairo and John Irish in Paris; Writing by Alistair Lyon)
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Microsoft says it will fix Xbox color and streaming resolution issues - but not when (Digital Trends)
Xbox recently upgraded its dashboard, adopting Windows metro style UI. It was a necessary change, as Microsoft needs to align its products with its operating system. However there were early complaints that post-upgrade, users were seeing inaccurate colors and poor HD streaming quality.?
And according to EuroGamer, Xbox was ignoring these complaints from beta testers. So why would Microsoft issue an unfinished product? Consider the fact that there is building pressure for console systems to fill many voids: not only are these devices used for gaming, but they?ve becoming the digital hub of the living room, used for streaming content and watching DVDs (and in the case of the PS3, Blu-ray movies). Xbox and PlayStation don?t only have each other and Nintendo to compete with?they have smart TVs with built-in app and Internet access as well.?
The brand has also been under pressure to release its metro UI update and offer more connectivity for Windows Phone 7 users?it needs to be able to leverage everything it can for its mobile platform, which has struggled to add more apps.?
So it seems that Microsoft prematurely pushed the update, and now there is no word on when it will be fixed?just that it will be. ?We?re aware of the colorspace issue w/some Xbox video apps & are working on a fix,? said Xbox Live programming director Larry Hyrb via Twitter. ?No ETA yet but we hope to have an update soon.?
The fact that some Xbox 360 users are dealing with poor color reproduction and the inability to play 1080p content at native resolution on the dashboard player definitely puts Xbox at a disadvantage. These malfunctions have slid (somewhat) under the radar for awhile, but it?s soured by how long the company is taking to address it all and give a real timeline on when an update will be issued.?
This article was originally posted on Digital Trends
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Confrontation grows between Italy captain and ship group (Reuters)
GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) ? The captain of the cruise liner that capsized off Italy's coast has told prosecutors the vessel's operators, Costa Cruises, instructed him to perform a maneuver that brought it too close to shore, according to leaked transcripts of his questioning.
Captain Francesco Schettino has been blamed for the January 13 accident, in which at least 12 people died. He is under house arrest, accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all passengers were evacuated.
Prosecutors say Schettino steered the vessel, which carried more than 4,200 passengers and crew, within 150 meters of the Tuscan island of Giglio to perform a maneuver known as a "salute" - a greeting to the islanders.
The vessel struck a rock and tipped over. It is now precariously lying on its side on an undersea ledge, half-submerged and threatening to slide into deeper waters.
Costa Cruises have said they were not aware of the dangerous practice of bringing the ship so close to the shore and have suspended the captain, saying he was responsible for the disaster.
But in a sign of the growing confrontation between Schettino and the ship owners, the captain told investigating magistrates Costa had instructed him to do the salute, according to transcripts of his hearing published by Italian media.
"It was planned, we should have done it a week earlier but it was not possible because of bad weather," Schettino said.
"They insisted. They said: 'We do tourist navigation, we have to be seen, get publicity and greet the island'."
He also said that the black box on board had been broken for two weeks, and that he had asked for it to be repaired, in vain.
In the hearing, Schettino insisted he had informed Costa's headquarters of the accident straight away, and his line of conduct had been approved by the company's marine operations director throughout a series of phone conversations.
He acknowledged, however, not raising the alarm with the coast guard promptly and delaying the evacuation order.
"You can't evacuate people on lifeboats and then, if the ship doesn't sink, say it was a joke. I don't want to create panic and have people die for nothing," he said.
Costa, a unit of Carnival Corp, says Schettino lied to the company and his own crew about the scale of the emergency.
Documents from his hearing with a judge say he had shown "incredible carelessness" and a "total inability to manage the successive phases of the emergency."
Taped conversations have revealed the ship's bridge told coast guards who were alerted by passengers that the vessel had only suffered a black-out even after those on board donned life vests.
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UNREGISTERED PASSENGERS?
Adding to the growing debate about the ship's safety standards, Franco Gabrielli - head of Italy's Civil Protection authority which is coordinating the rescue operations - said a number of unregistered passengers might have been on board.
Relatives of a missing Hungarian woman told authorities she was on the Costa Concordia with a member of the crew, but her name was not on the list of passengers, he said.
"In theory, there could be an unknown number of people who were on the ship and have not been reported missing because they were not registered," Gabrielli said.
Of the 12 bodies recovered, only 8 had been identified - four French nationals, an Italian, a Hungarian, a German and a Spaniard. At least 20 people are still unaccounted for.
EARLY SIGNS OF POLLUTION
Minor pollution from detergents and disinfectants aboard the shipwreck had been detected in the waters around the vessel but there was no sign that the heavy fuel in its tanks is leaking, Gabrielli said.
He said tests were being carried out daily on the waters around the ship and a nearby desalinization plant that provides drinking water for the island's residents.
"The tests for toxic substances are negative so far," Gabrielli said. "The only significant elements detected, which luckily are not worrying yet, relate to ... detergents and disinfectants used on the ship, for the swimming pool or to clean the bathrooms for example."
Environment experts have warned contamination of the pristine waters around Giglio, which is the middle of a national marine park, is already under way and it is imperative to start recovering the fuel oil as soon as possible.
(Writing by Silvia Aloisi; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Etta James Dies At 73
Sad news to report this morning, Etta James dies at the age of 73 after a long battle with leukemia. The legendary blues singer, whose version of “At Last” is a classic, died at Riverside Community Hospital in California, with her family by her side. The musical world has lost a great one. James’ manager, Lupe De Leon, confirmed the sad news of her passing to CNN this morning: “This is a tremendous loss for the family, her friends and fans around the world. She was a true original who could sing it all ? her music defied category. I worked with Etta for over 30 years. She was my friend and I will miss her always.” During a musical career that spanned 50 years, Ms. James was a multiple Grammy winner and was inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. In addition to the iconic “At Last”, she would later release hits such as “Id Rather Go Blind” (see the video below, gives me goosebumps each time I watch it) and “Tell Mama”, just to name a few. She served as an inspiration to many singers, including Celine Dion, Bonnie Raitt, Adele, Christina Aguilera [...]
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