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Troops Building Bridges in Brazil Slide Zone

Brazil’s army on Monday sent 700 soldiers to help throw a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off from food, water or help in recovering bodies since mudslides killed at least 655 people. (Jan. 17)

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UBS is pulling back from “personality enhancing” makeup and “easily washable” underwear in its much-maligned and hilariously over-specific dress code , the Wall Street Journal reports. The bank strips the previous 44-page style guide down to a few key elements, but now mandates that employees’ wardrobes match the bank’s corporate colors….

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New Video: Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg “That Good”

Wiz & Snoop aka Cheech & Chong release the visual for their recent collabo “That Good”, that’ll appear on the upcoming High School soundtrack that drops in June. Also as a bonus some new Khalifa titled “Exit Row”, no word if this new cut will appear on Wiz’s upcoming album. New Music: Wiz Khalifa – “Exit Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : MissInfo.tv Discovery Date : 18/01/2011 01:28 Number of articles : 8

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Right on the heels of reports that the US and Israel were in cahoots in testing Stuxnet, Iran’s chief negotiator is blaming the US for derailing what he calls a peaceful nuclear program, NBC reports. Saed Jalilli said Iranian investigators had found what he deemed sufficient proof that the US…

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Chris Wallace begs Chris Christie to run for President in 2012

Click here to view this media Gov. Chris Christie is the GOP’s new Great Hope to overtake the White House and on FOX News, Chris Wallace was practically begging him to run for President in 2012. From Lexis Nexis: WALLACE: You have repeatedly rejected calls to run for president in 2012. In fact, you said, short of suicide, you don’t know what you could do to convince people that you’re not running. But I want to put up — because I’m still not convinced, I want to put up a poll, a new poll of all the potential GOP candidates. And the only one who currently beats President Obama is a fellow named Chris Christie, 43 percent to 40 percent. Don’t you think you’re up to being president? CHRISTIE: Listen, the president, rather, can rest easy, because the only guy who is beating him in that poll isn’t running. I have a state to run. I love New Jersey. WALLACE: But why not? You obviously feel strongly about this. You think you have got a better way to do it and that everybody else is messing it up. Why not go for it? CHRISTIE: Listen, two reasons. One, I have a commitment to my state. I have been governor for a year. New Jersey’s problems are not fixed. We have a lot of hard work to do. (CROSSTALK) WALLACE: You don’t think you could help more in the White House than in the state house? CHRISTIE: No, I don’t think I can help New Jersey more in the White House than I can help it in the state house. And secondly, you have got to believe in your heart that you’re personally ready to be president, and I’m not there. WALLACE: Why not? I mean, seriously. You say you answer the questions. In what way are you not ready to be president? CHRISTIE: Listen, I think every year you have as a governor in an executive position in a big state like New Jersey would make you better prepared to be president. And after one year as governor, I am not arrogant enough to believe that after one year as governor of New Jersey and seven years as the United States attorney that I’m ready to be president of the United States, so I’m not going to run. WALLACE: Yes, but you know, and I heard you say it might make more sense somewhere down the line, 2016, 2020, whatever. But one of the things that Obama learned and showed us all in 2007, when it’s your moment, you have got to move. CHRISTIE: Listen, that is a decision that he made. And he’s obviously was successful in winning the presidency. My view is I want to, if I ever would have run for the presidency, if I was ever to do it, I want to make sure in my heart I feel ready. And I don’t think you run just because political opportunity is there. That’s how we wind up with politicians who aren’t ready for their jobs. WALLACE: Governor Christie, we want to thank you so much for coming in. And please come back, sir. It’s a pleasure to talk to you. CHRISTIE: I will. Thanks, Chris. Their love affair with Christie is rooted basically in only two facts I can see at this time. A) He’s a good communicator on TV. He’s fairly articulate and appears like a guy you’d want to have a beer and a hot dog with. B) He loves bullying state and union workers around during town halls while canceling a major tunnel project that would have meant many jobs for NJ . The Teachers Union is in line this time for his authoritarian act. He loved to tell this teacher that if she didn’t like his merit pay idea it she could stop teaching. And the Tea Party loves him because of this. Already the merit pay scheme has been discredited. Education experts say Gov. Christie’s teacher merit pay can do more harm than good for students And here’s a study that proves the point of the useless merit pay scam he’s trying to pull on teachers. Paying teachers bonuses to improve student test scores may not work after all, according to a new study researchers say is the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay. Vanderbilt University researchers studied a program in Nashville that offered bonuses of $5,000 to $15,000 to middle school math teachers if their students scored higher than expected on a statewide exam, according to a report released today. After three years, the program proved to be a bust, the study said. Except for some temporary gains, students did not progress any faster in classrooms where teachers were offered bonuses. Christie and NJ are in crisis and he hasn’t fixed a thing there yet except making job cuts and refusing tunnel projects. He’s also didn’t distinguish himself with his latest showing of arrogance when he stayed on a Florida vacation instead of helping NJ when the snow came. Rudy Giuliani blasted him for it. On Morning Joe today, Rudy Giuliani looked back at Chris Christie’s much-discussed absence from New Jersey during the snow storm. “Chris should’ve come back. I mean, if he asked me my advice, I would’ve said ‘They elected you governor, they’ve got an emergency, they expect you to be there.’ You know, you’ve got to be there if you’re a governor, a mayor, or even a president, if it’s important enough.” The Zogby poll which shows Christie beating Obama 43-40 has FOX and their friends in a dizzy. Funny how they didn’t mention the PPP poll which shows that Obama whipping Christie in NJ, 55-38. Expect to see more FOX News love heaped upon Christie. If they could get away with it, he’d probably be on their payroll already.

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Pentax K-7 and K-x firmware upgrades pack SDXC compatibility

Last November Pentax’s mid-range front runner, the K-5 DSLR , got an upgrade , now the K-7 and K-x are following suit. New firmware updates for both cameras tout SDXC card compatibility, increasing memory, but failing to follow through on speed — Pentax notes transfer rates won’t hit UHS. Despite the company’s Japanese website listing the K-7 as a discontinued product, the camera also gets increased video editing functions in playback mode, as well as improved image sharpening settings. Now, follow the source links below, and let Pentax upgrade you. Pentax K-7 and K-x firmware upgrades pack SDXC compatibility originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Take a pair of fed-up oldsters, add a classic battle anthem and some improvised lyrics, and you have either the next Tea Party classic or YouTube’s latest trainwreck: “The Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin.” Set to, you guessed it, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the ditty gives warning that…

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Helen Thomas: I Could Call Obama Anything Without Reprimand; But If I Criticize Israel, I’m Finished

Former dean of the White House press corps Helen Thomas delivered some candid remarks Monday on CNN's “Situation Room.” Thomas, who last year retired from Hearst for telling Israelis to “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to their former lands, railed against what she viewed as America unequivocally protecting Israel. On Friday the Society of Professional Journalists announced that, in light of that controversy, it would “retire” the lifetime achievement award that bears her name. “I could call President Obama anything in the book, and no one would say anything. You touch one thing about Israel and you're finished,” Thomas groused. CNN's “Situation Room” ran a segment on the 90 year-old journalist Monday afternoon, reporting that Thomas, who currently works for the Falls Church News-Press, is pushing to regain her status as a White House correspondent.

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Nook Color gets overclocked, further blurs the line between tablet and e-reader

First, they ported Ubuntu to the Nook Color , and now the intrepid hackers at the XDA Developers Forum have overclocked its stock 800MHz processor to run at speeds up to 1GHz. The mod allows users to have their cake and eat it too, as the custom kernel ups the speed of the CPU while running it at a lower voltage, which means longer battery life — though we don’t know exactly how much longer. Apparently, the developer who wrote the code found that the system became unstable at the 1GHz level, but there were no such problems at 950MHz and below. Hit the source link to download the kernel and see for yourself what a supercharged Nook Color can do. Nook Color gets overclocked, further blurs the line between tablet and e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling

By now there are already dozens of books — a few of them, groundbreaking works of reportage — about Al Qaeda and 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Bush and Obama administrations’ management of national security. Scott Wallace Peter L. Bergen THE LONGEST WAR The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda By Peter L. Bergen Illustrated. 473 pages. Free Press. $28. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times American and Afghan soldiers after a bomb was detonated in Kandahar Province in December. What makes “The Longest War,” a new book by Peter L. Bergen, CNN’s national security analyst, particularly useful is that it provides a succinct and compelling…

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