By E.J. Dionne, Jr. President Obama’s call for “a more civil and honest public discourse” will get its first test much sooner than we expected. Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
Continue reading …Fake news by Andy Borowitz By Andy Borowitz “Gasoline and matches don’t start fires,” said Fox host Glenn Beck. “People start fires.” Mr. Beck went on to say that there was no link between “oxygen, hydrogen and water.” Related Entries January 14, 2011 ‘Left, Right & Center’: After Arizona January 13, 2011 Healer in Chief
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Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti nearly 25 years after a popular uprising against his brutal dictatorship forced him into exile. (Jan. 16)
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Cigarette advertising significantly increases the odds that youngsters who see the ads will start smoking, but exposure to ads for other products does not, a new study shows.
Continue reading …Produce Pulleyed From Rooftop To Your Table At New York’s Bell Book and Candle
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Photo: Chef John Mooney With His Hydroponic Tower Garden Tomatoes From the unassuming entrance to the below street level seating area, it is hard to appreciate the main draw of Bell, Book and Candle, Chef John Mooney’s new restaurant in the West Village. This is because the peaceful 94 seat dining room doesn’t highlight that on the roof, just six stories above you, the majority of restaurant’s produce is grown in multiple
Continue reading …Only Partial Improvement: AP Finally Notes Fuller’s ‘Democracy Now’ Appearance, Waters Down What He Said
January 17, 2011 No CommentYesterday (covered here at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), in his report on the arrest of Eric Fuller at an ABC “This Week” taping in Tucson, Arizona, the Associated Press's Bob Christie either failed to perform a basic web search that would have revealed Fuller's Friday “Democracy Now!” rant, or failed to report what he found. This evening's AP report from Christie and Amanda Lee Myers at least recognizes Fuller's appearance on the far-left program. But that acknowledgment appears at Paragraph 14 of a report that is primarily about Gabrielle Giffords's recovery (headlined “Rep. Gabrielle Giffords condition improves”), instead of in a different AP dispatch this evening (“With shock subsiding, pain sets in for AZ victims”) where addressing Fuller's outburst would have made more sense (what would have made the most sense is a separate report on Fuller alone). The submission by Christie and Myers also fails to go into much of the substance of Fuller's “Democracy Now!” appearance. Readers get the impression that Fuller was fulminating against conservatives in general, when in fact he called out several by name — including, bizarrely, new House Majority Leader John Boehner. Here are the relevant paragraphs from Christie's and Myers's mishmash : Meanwhile, a week after the Tucson supermarket massacre, more details emerged about one of shooting victims who police said became distraught and was arrested during a televised town hall meeting.
Continue reading …Evolve III Maestro slate triple-boots Android, MeeGo and Windows 7 (video)
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We inevitably miss things at tradeshows, and here’s one we regret — we didn’t catch this obscure Australian tablet in the flesh at CES 2011. Apparently, this Evolve III Maestro was casually chilling at Intel’s booth with Android, Windows 7 and a 1.83GHz Atom N475 CPU inside, but representatives were willing to reveal grander plans if you spent a little time with the device. You see, come Q2 2011, the slate will graduate to a dual-core Oak Trail CPU, and add MeeGo to the stack for a grand total of three operating systems. TabletPCBuzz says Windows 7 and Android are getting eight and sixteen hours of battery life on the Oak Trail chip respectively, and the tablet weighs less than two pounds. It’s hard to say what other features the Oak Trail version will have, but even the existing tablet isn’t a pushover, with a 10.1-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 32GB of solid state storage, 3G and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a pair of full-size USB ports on one edge. Sources suggest the original will find a $500 price point, with the Oak Trail commanding an additional $100. After the break, you’ll find a disappointingly static video, but follow the links below for a walkthrough of the MeeGo UI and all the specs you could want. [Thanks, Garf] Continue reading Evolve III Maestro slate triple-boots Android, MeeGo and Windows 7 (video) Evolve III Maestro slate triple-boots Android, MeeGo and Windows 7 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP For the last few days, a dog named Leao has refused to leave the grounds of makeshift cemetery for victims of the worst natural disaster ever to hit Brazil. There, beneath the moist, red mud, lies his owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana — one of the estimated 630 souls claimed by the devastating wave of mudslides and floods that struck near Rio de Janeiro late last week. Leao in among perhaps thousands of animals displaced, orphaned, or killed in the disaster — silent victims in need of rescue like so many others. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …More good news for Gabrielle Giffords: Doctors upgraded her from critical to serious condition today, the Arizona Republic reports. A spokesperson says such a change typically happens when a patient stops using a ventilator and can breathe on her own, as Giffords did yesterday . Patients are listed in critical condition…
Continue reading …Italy’s Mediaset sends 3D content over terrestrial connection, isn’t actually broadcasting 3D TV
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While Mediaset appears to be ( one of ) the first to convey 3D content over a terrestrial connection, it isn’t actually serving up any 3D television — it is “datacasting” or ever-so-slowly downloading 3D movies to a set-top box, which you may later consume directly from the hard drive that received them. The innovation here is in the utilization of spare airwaves to basically trickle a movie into your Motive Bestv STB — we know, it’s an irrelevancy to most of you cable- and internet-connected media mavens, but it’s one way to deliver 3D content to less developed nations. Motive is already in talks with companies in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Turkey about doing the same, but Italy gets the honor of being first with a choice of 50 3D titles on Mediaset’s 3VOD service. Let’s see what the Azzurri think of it, eh? Italy’s Mediaset sends 3D content over terrestrial connection, isn’t actually broadcasting 3D TV originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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