Click here to view this media Utah has a state tree (the blue spruce), a state insect (the honey bee), and last week the Browning M1911 handgun came one step closer to becoming the official state firearm. On a one-time-only holiday honoring Utah gun-maker John Moses Browning, a bill that would designate the handgun as a state symbol was endorsed by a state House committee on the way to becoming Utah law. “It’s an implement of freedom that has defended America for 100 years,” bill sponsor Rep. Carl Wimmer (R-Herriman) said. “This firearm is Utah.” Some see the bill an insensitive considering a recent mass shooting in the neighboring state of Arizona that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in the hospital. “Semiautomatic pistols are the weapons of choice for those who are committing massacres,” Steven Gunn, a board member of the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, told the committee. “Is this the time to adopt as a symbol of the state the same kind of weapon used to kill all these people?” Only two state representatives, Jennifer Seelig (D-Salt Lake City) and Marie Poulson (D-Cottonwood Heights), opposed the bill, which was approved 9-2. “I think a lot of people think this is a big waste of time,” Seelig told MSNBC Monday. “Particularly since we are facing some economic challenges in this state.” “If we want to honor an historical figure that’s great. Let’s do this another way than going through some official designation of a state symbol. A state symbol is supposed to be something that unifies the population in the state, and guns certainly are a divisive type of unit, and it’s polarizing,” she added. “We do not need that.” “The state bird, the beehive, they’re fun and engaging,” Rep. Carol Spackman Moss (D-Salt Lake City) told The Standard-Examiner . “Students will be coloring and drawing pictures and answering quizzes about guns and that seems inappropriate to me.” If Utah does adopt the handgun as a state symbol, the state will join the likes of the nation of Mozambique, which features an AK-47 on their official flag.
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It’s the Chi-town connection as The L.E.P. Bogus Boys and The Cool Kids shoot a viral for their collabo “Countin’ My Money” off last year’s Don’t Feed The Killaz Vol. 3. Even the producers behind the track, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League had to come out and show support in the video. Directed By Coodie of Creative Control Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : MissInfo.tv Discovery Date : 01/02/2011 16:56 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Samsung’s Lee Young-hee was misunderstood, Galaxy Tab sales are ‘smooth’ not ‘small’
February 1, 2011 No Comment
The word “whoops” is probably a good place to start with this one. Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran a story quoting Samsung’s Lee Young-hee as stating that initial sales of the Galaxy Tablet were ” quite small .” Turns out that wasn’t exactly the right adjective. As you can hear in the audio clip below, she actually said sales of the thing are “quite smooth,” just like the chins on most of our interns. This mix-up is being blamed on a transcript provided by Samsung, but rather than point fingers we’ll just smile ruefully, shake our heads, and go back to writing posts about robots and things . And the Galaxy Tab? Well, sales may be moving right along, but it looks like returns are progressing quite smoothly as well. Continue reading Samsung’s Lee Young-hee was misunderstood, Galaxy Tab sales are ‘smooth’ not ‘small’ Samsung’s Lee Young-hee was misunderstood, Galaxy Tab sales are ‘smooth’ not ‘small’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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‘Big Love”s Bill Paxton talks the show’s fifth and final season and teases its ending. (Feb. 1)
Continue reading …Until now, Mohamed ElBaradei and Barack Obama have always had something of a bromance. When Obama won the Nobel Prize, ElBaradei praised his commitment to “restore moral decency.” When ElBaradei toured Latin America in 2009, he told each leader to “help President Obama succeed.” When Obama gave a speech on…
Continue reading …Oh, Gwyneth … just when you finally have people begrudgingly starting to like you again , you remind us all why you’re the actress everyone loves to hate . “I miss America, but I love living in the UK,” she gushes in Harper’s Bazaar UK . “In England, people are cool. They’re really…
Continue reading …Audi CEO Ruper Stadler taking time with EVs, refuses to feel "euphoria for electric vehicles"
February 1, 2011 No Comment
How do electric cars make you feel? We won’t give you explicit details of just what sort of sensations standing next to the Audi e-tron Spyder at CES inspired in us, but let’s just say they were very good ones . However, the CEO who stepped out of that very car, Rupert Stadler, is refusing to be swept in by all the EV excitement. The company is working on a battery-powered R8 supercar that will come toward the end of next year and plenty of other electric and hybrid models are in development, but Stadler is taking the slow road to adoption, saying: We are still in the early phase with the electric vehicle, in terms of commercialization and whether the cars will be sold or leased, or will just be a collector’s car… We should not overplay euphoria for electric vehicles. Overplaying euphoria is something that consumer electronics companies have evolved to an art form, whipping up a frenzy among fans, inspiring pre-release camp-outs on a regular basis. We haven’t seen anyone camping at a car dealership since… ever. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned there. Audi CEO Ruper Stadler taking time with EVs, refuses to feel “euphoria for electric vehicles” originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image credit: Carangifoil Not too long ago I looked at examples of 6 incredible low-carbon airships , speculating on whether we would ever see long-distance travel in lighter-than-air vehicles again. But while the rebirth of the modern Zeppelin proves that these vehicles are indeed feasible, most current applications are for much less ambitious, unmanned projects. The Windcrafter “Carangifoil” airship is no exception. For… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In Israel, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight says he hopes that one day his daughter Angelina Jolie will stand side by side with him on a visit to the Jewish state. (Feb. 1)
Continue reading …On Christmas Day 2009, Robert Park crossed into North Korea, shouting “South Korea and America love you.” After spending 43 days in detention, he was released . That was one year ago, but his ordeal is far from over, reports the Washington Post . The Christian missionary says he lost his mental…
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