Two packages sent to state government buildings 20 miles apart released smoke and the smell of sulfur when they were opened Thursday, officials said. A mailroom employee was hurt, but not seriously. (Jan. 6)
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Abidjan: A top advisor to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo says the British and Canadian ambassadors have been asked to leave the country in retaliation for expulsion of the Ivorian ambassadors in London and Ottawa. Pascal Affi N’Guessan, a confidante of Gbagbo and the President of his political party , said yesterday the two ambassadors will be made to leave just as were their Ivorian counterparts. Gbagbo has refused to cede power following the presidential election in November, which observers say he lost to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has sent letters to more than 20 countries asking them not to recognize any longer the diplomats accredited under Gbagbo’s regime. PTI 1…
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Sadly Ford isn’t confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of… certain Ford vehicles. The app is called MyFord Mobile and it offers similar features to the apps we’ve already seen for the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt , notably car’s charging status from afar and deliver some climate settings to ensure that the car is properly hot or cold before you leave on your cold or hot commute. The car will also let you find the car by GPS and, once you do, unlock the doors with your phone. When the car and the app launches there will be versions for Android , BlackBerry , and iOS , though interestingly there will be a an HTML-5 browser interface that’ll even work on featurephones . Yes, featurephones. Interestingly, the app can automatically charge… whatever mystery vehicle you connect it to at the optimal time of the night to ensure you get the lowest cost for your juice, automatically pulling down rates from your utility so that you don’t have to worry about it. That is what we like to call smart. And thrifty. Again the app will be available with a certain car that has a plug whenever that certain car is available, and if you want to know when that is going to happen you’re going to have to wait. Update : Yes, that’s a WP7 phone up there, a Samsung Focus to be exact. No, the app is not announced for Windows Phone 7. Conclusion? Cloudy. We’ll have a little more clarification for you later today and you’re just going to have to wait. Plenty of time to sharpen up those conspiracy theories. Continue reading Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner explains a new rule put into place for overtime games in the NFL playoffs. If a team wins the coin toss and receives the kickoff, it does not automatically win the game with a field goal on the opening drive. (Jan. 6)
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BERLIN ‘ Germany closed more than 4,700 farms and related businesses for safety checks late Thursday after tests on suspicious feed confirmed the presence of a cancer-causing dioxin. “4,709 farms and businesses are currently closed,” including 4,468 in the state of Lower Saxony, northwest Germany, the agriculture ministry said in a statement late Thursday. The farms will be closed until they are found to be clear of contamination by the dioxin, which can cause cancer, and will not be allowed to make any…
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Photo: John Hawkins / The Southland Times Beach-going tourists on New Zealand’s southern coast have more than the traffic to contend with this vacation season — what with a marauding horde of amorous sea lions invading camp sights and surf spots in search of a good time. So eager for a bit of fun, teenage sea lions have begun harassing people to the point that the Department of Conservation has decided to step in and offer a new distraction for the amorous young males — in the form of sexy decoy sea lions. Sure, they may not be… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wrecking crews in Detroit are well on their way to knocking down 3000 vacant homes promised by Mayor Dave Bing. About 1850 empty houses have been leveled since April and about 1200 more should be coming down over the next three months. (Jan. 6)
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Huawei was right on cue here at CES today, announcing the US version of its IDEOS X5 mid-range Android smartphone. This device uses the same formula as the original IDEOS (also known as the Comet for T-Mobile ) and aims to provide a decent product at a competitive price. Although we already knew the specs , this was our chance to play with the IDEOS X5 and gather more information. The phone looks elegant and feels solidly built, with a 3.8-inch WVGA capacitive display behind glass in front and 1500mAh battery behind soft-touch plastics in back, all wrapped in an 11.4mm-thin body. Take a look at the gallery below, and hit the break for additional details and our hands-on video. Gallery: Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on Continue reading Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on (video) Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Sure the world of digital printing might not catch many people’s eye, but there’s something otherworldly about just how fast this thing spits out pages. Memjet ‘s office reference printer is fast. How fast? 60 pages a minute, fast. Print quality looks fine at 1600 dots per inch and reportedly half the cost of ownership of other color printers. The trick behind the speed are the 70,000 nozzles firing more than 700 million drops of ink per second that print the page in one pass rather than the several passes of traditional inkjets — or enough for a page a second. We’re pretty sure if we had one of these at our disposal we’d be throwing as much material as we could at it just to watch the magic on the output side. Gallery: Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer Continue reading Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Williams to Boehner: ‘Where Are You Getting the Notion’ Americans Want ObamaCare Repealed?; Blames Him for Birther Outburst
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In an “exclusive” interview with new House Speaker John Boehner for Thursday’s NBC Nightly News , Brian Williams told Boehner the promised vote to repeal ObamaCare has “been called a stunt,” pressed him to justify repealing it given many would not call it “the best health care delivery system in the world because they, by the millions, weren't getting it” and demanded to know “where are you getting the notion…the American people want it repealed” given polling was “very evenly split on that?” Then he held Boehner responsible for a “birther” woman in the gallery who shouted out “except Obama” as a Congressman on the floor was reading aloud the part of the Constitution requiring the President to be a “natural born citizen”: I'm curious as to how much responsibility you feel — specifically, because of something that happened this morning. During the reading of the Constitution, Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey was reading a portion of the document interrupted by someone who heckled from within the chamber. It was to express doubt over the President's American citizenship. read more
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