Zoo Atlanta’s 13-year-old giant panda is expecting and will likely give birth early next month. An ultrasound exam confirmed that Lun Lun is pregnant with her third cub, which would be the only giant panda born at a US zoo this year. (Oct. 22)
Continue reading …Pitch perfect : Republicans aren’t interested in compromising with President Obama on major issues if they retake the House or Senate, a senior GOP lawmaker said. “Look, the time to go along and get along is over,” said Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference. “House Republicans know that. We’ve taken firm and principled stands against their big government plans throughout this Congress, and we’ve got, if the American people will send them, we’ve got a cavalry of men and women headed to Washington, D.C. that are going to stand with us.” Pence said his party wouldn’t compromise on issues like spending or healthcare reform, two of the weightiest items on Congress’s agenda next year, when the Republicans could control one or both chambers. “Look, there will be no compromise on stopping runaway spending, deficits and debt. There will be no compromise on repealing Obamacare. There will be no compromise on stopping Democrats from growing government and raising taxes,” Pence told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Thursday evening. “And if I haven’t been clear enough yet, let me say again: No compromise.” His words are meant to soothe conservatives who worry the party might be too accommodating of Obama and the Democrats in Congress. This fits well with my earlier post from this morning . GOP voters are not in the mood for bipartisanship.
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“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier and model Angela Lindvall bring the eco-friendly, pureDKNY – SHFT pop-up gallery to New York October 22 and 23. (Oct. 22)
Continue reading …The Biggest Outside Spending In This Election is Not the Chamber of Commerce
October 22, 2010 No CommentIt’s the unions : The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union has emerged as the largest outside spender of the 2010 campaign season, doling out $87.5 million to help elect Democratic candidates, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We’re the big dog,” Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME’s political operations, told the WSJ. “But we don’t like to brag.” Later in the same article, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, declared: “We’re spending big. And we’re damn happy it’s big. And our members are damn happy it’s big—it’s their money.” The latest revelations blow a hole in several arguments the White House and their liberal allies have been making over the past year. So all that blather about how the Chamber of Commerce is a threat to democracy is just blather. If Obama doesn’t go after the unions the way he went after the Chamber and the Supreme Court, he’s a hypocrite. And though the unions are spending big, they’re going to lose big.
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There seems to be a constant perp walk of Israeli soldiers since its war in Gaza two years ago. This week the hand of justice has turned to investigate several senior Israeli officers who allegedly authorized an air strike that killed at least 21 Palestinians in Gaza in 2009. The Israeli army is being criticized for demolishing a family’s three-story property in order to take over the abode as a military position. This follows of course several other accounts of Israeli soldiers and officers acting inappropriately, such as the case of two soldiers who used a Palestinian boy to test out booby-traps. —JCL The Guardian: Senior Israeli army officers are under investigation by military police over the authorisation of an air strike that killed at least 21 members of one family during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9. The officers are reported to include the commander of the Givati Brigade, Colonel Ilan Malka. No decision has been made on whether they will be charged. The air strike took place on 5 January 2009, nine days after the war began. The extended Samouni family were ordered to gather in one house after a three-storey property belonging to them was taken over as a military position. Read more Related Entries October 14, 2010 Ahmadinejad Holds Rally at Lebanon-Israel Border October 13, 2010 Computer Nerd Barbie
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Photo: Nissan It’s Really Real Now Nissan has officially started production on the Nissan LEAF in Japan’s Oppama plant. The LEAF is slated to go on sale in December in Japan and the United States, and from early 2011, in select markets in Europe. The Oppama plant has an annual production capacity of 50,000 units. Nissan LEAF will start production at Smyrna (USA) in late 2012 and at Sunderland in early 2013 (UK), so at first the LEAFs will come from Japan…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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After 23358 submissions and countless double-clicks, the results are in for YouTube’s ‘biennial of creative video.’ The winning works are going on display at an art museum in New York, showcasing creative possibilities of the online world. (Oct. 22)
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Who knew a support thread on corporate WiFi login issues would lead to anything we’d care about? Cut to Google code’s Android forums, where an anonymous Google engineer confirms that this problem will be patched in the “next major release” of Android, specifically version 2.3. So… does this mean Android 2.3 is the oft-discussed (and close on the horizon) Gingerbread ? Not necessarily — while possible, there isn’t any indication to that effect, and logic doesn’t arbitrarily equate the two. After all, recall that Eclair was both 2.0 and 2.1, so there would be some historical precedence to this 0.1 leap being nothing more than sprinkles on frozen yogurt . Android 2.3 ‘next major release,’ says anonymous Google engineer originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Supermodel turned film director Christy Turlington talks about screening her documentary feature ‘No Woman No Cry’ about maternal morality at the London film festival. (22 Oct. )
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Image: The Mesh, by Lisa Gansky One of my favorite ideas to crop up at Poptech — a conference that’s full of them — is Lisa Gansky’s concept of the Mesh : Or, how business is moving away from models of ownership and towards that of access. The rise of product service systems (things like Netflix, Etsy, your public library, etc) has been a phenomenon we’ve covered for years at Treehugger: it promotes efficiency and lowers consumption through plain ol’ sharing. Gansky’s illuminating talk touched on all of… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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