At the end of a day of often emotional testimony, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend the approval of a new drug for the treatment of systemic lupus.
Continue reading …MRC-TV: Bozell Addresses PBS Editing Out Tina Fey’s Anti-Palin Jokes at Mark Twain Prize Ceremony
November 17, 2010 No Comment
Upon receiving the Kennedy Center's Mark Train Prize for American Humor on November 9, comedian Tina Fey trashed Sarah Palin in her acceptance speech. By the time PBS broadcast the taped ceremony, the taxpayer-subsidized network had edited out some of Fey's harsher jokes that maligned the former Alaska governor. NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell appeared in studio on today's “Fox & Friends” to address the controversy, lauding PBS for doing the right thing by making those edits. [Video follows after page break] read more
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Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein orders municipality to carry out court order to evacuate, seal Jewish building in east Jerusalem suburb of Silwan, in keeping with rule of law principle
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Another assassination in Gaza? Palestinian killed after his vehicle explodes in Strip Wednesday afternoon; sources in Gaza say IDF aircraft fired at least one missile at car. At least three people wounded in strike
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Fast-moving thunderstorms blew through New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and knocked out electricity to around 60000 people. Winds were strong enough to flip over small planes parked at an airport in Pennsylvania. (Nov. 17)
Continue reading …With advice like this Obama can pretty much count on being a one-term president: Former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff John Podesta, now the head of the Center for American Progress, called on President Obama to push forward with his agenda using federal agencies and executive branch power Tuesday, even though Democrats were dealt a blow in the recent midterm elections. Podesta said the American people want the president to move forward with his agenda. Uh..no. The American people voted to stop the Obama agenda when they threw historic numbers of Democrats out of the House and Senate. Because of Obama’s ideological leftward bent he probably will ignore the voters and listen to Podesta instead, but that will pretty much ensure another voter uprising in 2012.
Continue reading …PeeWee debuts Pivot 2.0 spillproof, drop resistant netvertible for the little ones
November 17, 2010 No Comment
Kids these days use gadgets almost as much as their less disaster-inclined adult friends, and PeeWee ‘s been making laptops with that in mind for a while now. Well, the company’s just launched its newest laptop for kids, the Pivot 2.0. This rugged little netvertible boasts an Intel N450 CPU, a touch screen that rotates 180 degrees and a webcam, and it’s packed with 15 educational games onboard. As far as ruggedeization goes, the laptop boasts a water-resistant keyboard, a plastic shell that should withstand minor drops, and rubber grips for easier carrying. The Pivot 2.0 is available now and it’ll run you $599. The full press release is below. Continue reading PeeWee debuts Pivot 2.0 spillproof, drop resistant netvertible for the little ones PeeWee debuts Pivot 2.0 spillproof, drop resistant netvertible for the little ones originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Windows Phone 7′s microSD mess: the full story (and how Nokia can help you out of it)
November 17, 2010 No Comment
There are many reasons to be excited about Windows Phone 7 , but a bleak spot has been Microsoft’s message — or lack thereof — on user-expandable storage, and the situation finally came to a head last week when AT&T told Samsung Focus owners to hold off on buying microSD cards altogether until Microsoft had a chance to certify some for use with the platform. How did it get to this point? Why wasn’t it communicated to users that this was such a problem before the phones ever went on sale? And if it really is such a problem, why did Samsung dare to make the microSD slot user-accessible in the Focus the first place? All good questions — and in talking with a number of sources the past few days, we’ve pieced together some of the answers. Read on. Continue reading Windows Phone 7′s microSD mess: the full story (and how Nokia can help you out of it) Windows Phone 7′s microSD mess: the full story (and how Nokia can help you out of it) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I don’t normally serve bread or biscuits with dinner, but our vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner was going to have sauces and gravy and no mashed potatoes to catch all that good stuff, so biscuits seemed like a great idea. I could have made plain butter biscuits , or sweet potato biscuits , but there were a lot of b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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