Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman met for their third debate tonight and it was not Jerry Brown’s finest moment (from the LA Times ): One of the sharpest moments in the debate has come after moderator Tom Brokaw broached the recent recording of someone on Jerry Brown’s campaign calling Meg Whitman a “whore” during an endorsement phone call . Brown began by dismissing the recording, calling it a “five-week-old private conversation” before eventually offering a half-hearted apology to Whitman for the “garbled transmission.” She didn’t accept it. “It’s not just me but the people of California who deserve better than slurs,” Whitman said. The remark, she said, was “not befitting of the office you are running for.” Brown began to defend the recording again, saying he was “not even sure it’s legal,” suggesting the campaign had not consented to being recorded. Brown’s former communications director, in his attorney general’s office, resigned after secretly recording interviews with reporters. Has anyone ever seen Jerry Brown smile? The guy looks sour and mad all the time. It’s like Meg is debating Mr. Burns from The Simpsons .
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Remember that dual-mode OLED / Binem display from yesterday? Well, then you might want to hang onto those memories, as the company behind it has apparently now gone bankrupt. While there’s no official word from the company itself, French website Actualitte is reporting that the company, Nemoptic , was more than three million euros in debt and has been unable to find a buyer to bail it out. Of course, there’s always a chance that another company could now swoop in and pick up Nemoptic’s IP now that it’s in receivership, though there’s obviously no guarantees. French display company Nemoptic reportedly goes bankrupt originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The story of the miners in Chile really is an interesting one, and it’s about to come to a conclusion : A missile-like escape capsule was lowered into a nearly half-mile tunnel in the Chilean desert Tuesday night to carry 33 miners to fresh air and freedom after 69 days — the longest anyone has ever been trapped underground and survived. Steam rushed from the hole into the frigid night air — a sign of the humid, sauna-like conditions the men have endured in the gold and copper mine. Chilean President Sebastian Pinera patted the side of the custom-built capsule proudly as the last act of the mine collapse ordeal approached. “We made a promise to never surrender, and we kept it,” Pinera said as he waited to greet the miners, whose endurance and unity captivated the world as Chile meticulously prepared their rescue. Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said he hoped the first of the miners would still emerge before midnight, a slow process because of the need for methodical testing with a rescue worker inside once all the cables are attached and tested. A mine rescue expert will be lowered in the capsule and raised again to test it, and then that rescuer and a navy special forces paramedic will be lowered to the men to prepare them for the trip. Only then can the first miner be pulled to safety. It is expected to take as many as 36 hours for the last miner to be rescued. Those guys are really going to be happy to see the real world again… except for the guy whose wife met his girlfriend during a vigil at the site. They might have a hard time getting him out of that hole.
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LONDON (AFP) – Chilling footage of the devastation wrought by the 2005 London bombings was shown in public for the first time Tuesday at the inquests into the deaths of 52 passengers. The courtroom saw slow-moving, silent video from inside the Underground trains, revealing the bloody, scorched wreckage left by three simultaneous suicide bombings in footage filmed just hours afterwards. The hearing was also told in distressing detail about each victim's final moments, pieced together from eyewitness and forensic evidence, reviving the horror of July 7, 2005. The 8:49 am rush-hour explosions on three trains, and on a bus about one hour later, were the largest terror…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Condoleezza Rice admits the Bush administration made mistakes after the Sept. 11 attacks but readers seeking her view on the decisions leading to the war in Iraq will find no such grist in her new memoir. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a lecture “The Future of Asia” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong March 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files) “We made our mistakes undoubtedly,” the former U.S. Secretary of State told Reuters in an interview to promote her memoir “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” published on…
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Condoleezza Rice admits the Bush administration made mistakes after the Sept. 11 attacks but readers seeking her view on the decisions leading to the war in Iraq will find no such grist in her new memoir. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a lecture “The Future of Asia” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong March 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files) “We made our mistakes undoubtedly,” the former U.S. Secretary of State told Reuters in an interview to promote her memoir “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” published on…
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Rugged Notebooks has just launched a new series of ruggedized laptops called the Eagle Series. As one would expect, these laptops are meant to sustain drops, spill and shocks, meeting the FBI ‘s guidelines user-authentication guidelines for computers accessing National Crime Information Center (NCIC) data, though you pay for that in the weight of the beast: the Eagle weighs in at a hefty five and a half pounds. Specwise, the 14.1-incher boasts a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Dup CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, and HDMI out standard. Options include dual RAID 0/1 hard drives, 3G, GPS, touchscreen, a webcam, and Windows XP or Windows 7 operating systems. The Eagle Series is available now and prices start at $1,695. Full press release is after the break. Continue reading Rugged Notebooks hatches Eagle series for ‘demanding’ work environments Rugged Notebooks hatches Eagle series for ‘demanding’ work environments originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Police indicated Tuesday they believe someone killed a 10-year-old North Carolina girl whose bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids, saying they were shifting from a missing person search to a homicide investigation. (Oct. 12)
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