Demonstrators continue to rally against the government after President Hosni Mubarak refused to resign
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Thousands of protesters have laid siege to the building housing Egypt’s state television station in the capital, Cairo. The march to the station on Friday came as hundreds of thousands again turned out across the country to demand that Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, resign. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the scene of the siege in Cairo.
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Jennifer Hudson reveals that she will pay tribute to Aretha Franklin at the Grammy Awards on Sunday for what’s being billed as a Valentine and Get Well card to the soul icon. (Feb. 11)
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Alaa Abdel Fatah, a prominent activist, speaks to Al Jazeera from outside the state television building in Cairo where thousands of protesters gathered on Friday afternoon.
Continue reading …Okii USB Follow Focus knob makes remote-focusing your Canon DSLR easy (video)
February 11, 2011 No Comment
Touching your camera to re-focus its lens while filming your next budget masterpiece isn’t necessarily a good idea, and lugging a laptop around to handle the task remotely isn’t exactly practical for today’s modern gorilla filmmaker. The $400 USB Follow Focus looks to be a much more simple solution. It’s quite simply a knob in an aluminum enclosure that connects over mini-USB. Plug it in and welcome to your next Oscar — or Emmy, anyway. There are a suite of buttons that can be used to define focal presets and it has compatibility with most Canon HD DSLR shooters. The results? Check the two videos after the break and see for yourself. Gallery: Okii USB Follow Focus Continue reading Okii USB Follow Focus knob makes remote-focusing your Canon DSLR easy (video) Okii USB Follow Focus knob makes remote-focusing your Canon DSLR easy (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …It might be a bit of an understatement to say that Daniel Domscheit-Berg is not happy with former boss Julian Assange. Among the more, er, interesting revelations, from the ex-WikiLeaker’s tell-all, according to AFP : Assange abused Domscheit-Berg’s cat. “Julian was constantly battling for dominance, even with my tomcat Herr Schmitt,…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States trade deficit widened in December to its highest level in four months, the government said on Friday, and the annual trade gap expanded nearly 33 percent in 2010 as imports from China hit record levels. The December trade deficit grew nearly 6 percent from the previous month, to $40.6 billion, just slightly higher than a consensus estimate of Wall Street analysts as the average price for imported oil rose to its highest level since October 2008. Overall imports of goods and services were also their highest since October 2008, in a sign that consumers and businesses are spending more as the economy picks up steam. Exports of goods and services…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States trade deficit widened in December to its highest level in four months, the government said on Friday, and the annual trade gap expanded nearly 33 percent in 2010 as imports from China hit record levels. The December trade deficit grew nearly 6 percent from the previous month, to $40.6 billion, just slightly higher than a consensus estimate of Wall Street analysts as the average price for imported oil rose to its highest level since October 2008. Overall imports of goods and services were also their highest since October 2008, in a sign that consumers and businesses are spending more as the economy picks up steam. Exports of goods and services…
Continue reading …Hosni Mubarak’s non-resignation obviously caught the Obama administration by surprise—Obama after all, had hours earlier spoken glowingly of watching “ history unfold ” in Egypt, and CIA chief Leon Panetta had said there was a “ strong likelihood ” Mubarak would step down. But Egyptian officials say they gave the administration what it…
Continue reading …Gainor Column: Journalism Is Dying and Newsies Decide Nowhere but Left to Go
February 11, 2011 No CommentArianna Huffington's crazy left-wing, pro-Democrat website gets bought out by AOL for $315 million. Professional Angry Man Keith Olbermann follows up by joining Al Gore's deservedly unknown Current TV effort. Before that, decrepit Newsweek was absorbed by one of the lesser liberal lights of the blogosphere – Tina Brown's Daily Beast. To journalists desperate for a direction – any direction – turning left seems an easy way to go. Forget MSNBC's brief propaganda attempt to “lean forward.” That is going nowhere. Old-style, supposedly neutral journalism is collapsing. Out of the rubble, we are seeing more and more journalists declare themselves to be what we've always known they were – liberal, left-wing, progressive or even ” socialist ,” as MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell admitted late last year. Faster than a congressman can take off his shirt, journalists have proven every complaint about media bias conservatives have leveled for decades. Yes, journalists are liberal. Yes, they blatantly spin stories to benefit both liberals and Democrats. Yes, hosts like Chris Matthews play ” Hardball ” with conservatives and play a thrill-ing game of slo-pitch softball with their Democrat buddies.
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