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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">WASHINGTON — Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.<br />
Obama, speaking at a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said the idea was simple: "To put in place common-sense initiatives and solutions that empower families and communities to make healthy decisions for their kids."<br />
The initiative will involve the federal government working with local officials and leaders in the business and non-profit sectors, she said, to provide more nutritious food in schools, allow more opportunities for kidsto be physically active and give more communities access to affordable, healthful food. <br />
Obama has said she hopes one of her legacies will be her work in reducing childhood obesity, an effort she already has begun by planting the White House garden and joining in physical activities with children.<br />
She told the mayors that as much as she has read and talked about the problem, "the statistics never fail to take my breath away."<br />
About 32% of children and adolescents are obese or overweight, government statistics show. Almost 20% of children ages 6 to 11 and 18% of those ages 12 to 19 are obese. Such children are at a greater risk for weight-related health problems such as high cholesterol and diabetes, and they have an increased chance of becoming obese adults.<br />
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</div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-30793609532920846442010-01-20T23:31:00.000-08:002010-01-20T23:31:50.926-08:00The Scoop on Scott Brown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YBShPIequvPKyKhOdrOtIAy87MKX1N7YgLIKwyDGVWs8WeuHtd55g_yUsiP3FvqdlWr0bGcJuHwEEA9lCDtJRan0znIN5KmHyrjKYRrfuO7qVXFVkm_C8SPoC-cFwOWin6f_Nh7qU7o/s1600-h/thumb.5b5586493ad24485b5700a0220763962.massachusetts_senate_bx132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0YBShPIequvPKyKhOdrOtIAy87MKX1N7YgLIKwyDGVWs8WeuHtd55g_yUsiP3FvqdlWr0bGcJuHwEEA9lCDtJRan0znIN5KmHyrjKYRrfuO7qVXFVkm_C8SPoC-cFwOWin6f_Nh7qU7o/s320/thumb.5b5586493ad24485b5700a0220763962.massachusetts_senate_bx132.jpg" /></a><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday, Scott Brown pulled off a tremendous political upset. The Massachusetts Republican beat out Democrat Martha Coakley for the Senate seat left vacant by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy. On this, the day after Brown's improbable victory, the Web searches are pouring in on everything from Sen. Brown's victory speech to his daughter's Hollywood aspirations to his humorous defense of pickup trucks.<br />
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The victory speech<br />
He may be a United States senator, but he's still Dad. During his victory speech, with his wife and daughters standing behind him, Brown thanked his family for their support. And then things got a little awkward. As his shocked daughters looked on, Sen. Brown said that both of his daughters were "available."<br />
Quoting Dad: "Just in case anyone who's watching throughout the country, yes, they're both available." He then backed off his comments as the crowd hooted and hollered. "No, no. No. Only kidding, only kidding. Only kidding, only kidding," <br />
</div><a name='more'></a>he said. "Arianna... Arianna's definitely not available." He then added, "But Ayla is." <br />
Brown, the professional<br />
If either of his daughters want to get back at their dad, they have some good ammo. Prior to becoming the newest United States Senator, Scott Brown was a state senator, a lawyer, a member of the National Guard, and... a nude model? Yes, that's right. In 1982, Sen. Brown won Cosmopolitan's "Sexiest Man" competition and posed in the buff (key areas were covered). The contest helped him pay for law school. And while the photo spread may be a bit embarrassing, it obviously hasn't hurt his career.<br />
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Brown, the family man<br />
Senator Brown's jokey demeanor may have something to do with his family. After all, anybody with two college-age daughters has to have a good sense of humor. One of his daughters, Ayla, was a contestant on the fifth season of "American Idol." Though she failed to win the competition, her father's victory has put her back in the Search spotlight. Online lookups for "ayla brown" and "ayla brown american idol" both surged over 300%. His other daughter, Arianna, is a pre-med student at Syracuse University.<br />
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His wife, Gail<br />
As numerous news outlets have pointed out, prior to his election, Scott Brown was probably the third most famous member of his immediate family. His eldest daughter was on "American Idol." His wife, Gail Huff, is a longtime news reporter for WCVB, an ABC station in Boston. Folks eager to see Ms. Huff do her thing on camera pushed searches on "gail huff news videos" and "gail huff clips" into primetime. According to her bio on the station's official site, Ms. Huff "has been recognized with numerous awards for her work with area charities."<br />
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What's wrong with pickups?<br />
While campaigning for Ms. Coakley, President Obama took a jab at Sen. Brown's pickup truck. "I'd think long and hard before getting in that truck with Martha's opponent. It might not take you where you want to go." Well, Senator Brown had the last laugh. During his victory speech, the senator said he was going to ask President Obama if he'd like to see the truck around Washington, D.C. The senator also channeled his inner country-music star. He said he didn't mind when the president criticized him, "But let me tell you, when he started to criticize my truck, that's where I draw the line." For the record, Brown's truck is a GM. Ironically, as a taxpayer, President Obama is part-owner of the beleaguered automaker.<br />
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What's next for Martha?<br />
Ms. Coakley's loss has put a huge dent in the Democratic plan for health care reform. In the wake of her stunning defeat, many party insiders are pointing fingers as to why Coakley lost. Not surprisingly, many of those fingers are aimed directly at Coakley for running a mediocre campaign. Others are blaming the Democratic party. And still others are blaming good ol' fashioned hubris in everybody involved. After all, how could a Republican win in one of the bluest states in the country? Overconfidence is getting pinpointed as a likely culprit.<br />
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</div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-78095107262954728802010-01-19T06:32:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.837-08:00Say Cheese Extra Photos at the Golden Globes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKpjGClW0dmBia14L4DtW06CdicWceeXf5adSMOcsaiR8Lg-ZweKkdk_udN2CjIaDrIdzpStsA9iLaimAUdjN0Ob41F2efJqlCE0ImZQM9PPesdUgdLss64sB7Z2nSKUUMFphut40NdM/s1600-h/0118-extra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKpjGClW0dmBia14L4DtW06CdicWceeXf5adSMOcsaiR8Lg-ZweKkdk_udN2CjIaDrIdzpStsA9iLaimAUdjN0Ob41F2efJqlCE0ImZQM9PPesdUgdLss64sB7Z2nSKUUMFphut40NdM/s640/0118-extra.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">"Extra" caught up with all of Hollywood's hottest stars at the Golden Globes.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all. <br /></div><div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-43461708086571337182010-01-19T06:22:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.814-08:00Google Postpones Mobile Phone Launch in China<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BEIJING (AP) — Google on Tuesday postponed the planned launch of its mobile phone in China amid a dispute with the government over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking that the search giant says may force it to leave the country.<br />"It is postponed," Google Inc. spokeswoman Marsha Wang said. She said a launch ceremony planned for Wednesday was canceled but declined to give a reason for the decision or to say when the launch might be rescheduled.<br />Also Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the search giant must obey China's laws and traditions, suggesting the government was giving no ground in talks over Internet censorship and Google's threat to pull out of the country.<br /><a name='more'></a><br />It was the government's first direct comment on Google since the U.S. company said Jan. 12 it would no longer censor search results in China and might shut down its China-based site Google.cn. The announcement prompted an outpouring of support from Chinese Web surfers, who left flowers at Google offices and pleaded with the company to stay.<br />Google's phone is an effort by the company to join in competition for a share of China's mobile phone market, which is the world's most populous.<br />Google's announcement shocked the international business community and cheered many free-speech advocates.<br />The Chinese government blocks access to websites abroad run by human rights groups and dissidents and material deemed subversive or pornographic.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /><br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-5096659079910593632010-01-19T06:13:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.748-08:00FBI illegally Collected Phone Records<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"></span><br /><h1 id="yn-story-title" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">WASHINGTON – The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday.<br />Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.<br />The bureau said in 2007 that it had improperly obtained some phone records, and the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release a report this month detailing the extent of the problem.<a name='more'></a><br />FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni told the Post that agents technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was enacted in 1986, by citing nonexistent emergencies to collect records. "We should have stopped those requests from being made that way," she said.<br />Documents obtained by the Post show that FBI managers as high as the assistant director level approved the emergency requests. Caproni said FBI Director Robert Mueller did not know about the requests until late 2006 or early 2007, after the inspector general's investigation had begun.<br />Caproni told the Post that the bureau will await the inspector general's report before deciding whether disciplinary action is warranted.All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /></span></h1>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-34196025977568715782010-01-19T06:02:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.890-08:00Golden Globe Fashion Awards Sandra Bullock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9iOGM8wudsh0kp2CunZlMWhgcfGvwUWkjZ0lbHucBFzstk-07NJKAUxuttXyCRLeiR8tjb54YffJVeIgQ6xD17NrWsp87iSYfA27ucpReFwDqj0-iSFWKgfNEHihhh80R0NfaNgaxc4A/s1600-h/sandra-bullock.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9iOGM8wudsh0kp2CunZlMWhgcfGvwUWkjZ0lbHucBFzstk-07NJKAUxuttXyCRLeiR8tjb54YffJVeIgQ6xD17NrWsp87iSYfA27ucpReFwDqj0-iSFWKgfNEHihhh80R0NfaNgaxc4A/s320/sandra-bullock.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The best-actress winner for <i>The Blind Side</i> wore a sheer, purple Bottega Veneta gown. "The shape of her dress suited her body so well, and the color was perfect for her skin tone," Yalof Schwartz says. The actress also considered her look a victory: "The minute I put this on, it felt like me." <br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With husband Jesse James holding her umbrella high, Sandra Bullock looks lovely on the rainy red carpet at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.<br /><br />The 45-year-old actress wore a violet Bottega Venetta gown and Casadei’s signature 3504 triple platform pump. Her hair was created by Frederic Fekkai stylist Adir Abergel.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Sandra is nominated for both of her leading roles in The Blind Side and The Proposal at tonight’s ceremony. She most recently tied with Meryl Streep at the 2010 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards for Best Actress and sealed it with a kiss!<br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /><br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-83429481966412131692010-01-18T07:41:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.988-08:00Chavez says U.S. Occupying Haiti in Name of Aid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfeFbU9lEOHcJn5-EhKUvwICXhyphenhyphen76BRqtF1omsp8OwuZM0ToYgHyOndc4JqegbAGFO1ugpJoGMysO1dQS2wJbdUWRbFqyb46PNqo6JxkjzrTBfLi9GwPqnKFa0vlLqKJ1u5Vjy_8l5WU/s1600-h/asdf.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfeFbU9lEOHcJn5-EhKUvwICXhyphenhyphen76BRqtF1omsp8OwuZM0ToYgHyOndc4JqegbAGFO1ugpJoGMysO1dQS2wJbdUWRbFqyb46PNqo6JxkjzrTBfLi9GwPqnKFa0vlLqKJ1u5Vjy_8l5WU/s320/asdf.jpeg" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.</span></span><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover."<br />"On top of that, you don't see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? ... Are they looking for the injured? You don't see them. I haven't seen them. Where are they?"<br />Chavez promised to send as much gasoline as Haiti needs for electricity generation and transport.<a name='more'></a><br />A perennial foe of U.S. "imperialism," Chavez said he did not wish to diminish the humanitarian effort made by the United States and was only questioning the need for so many troops.<br />The United States is sending more than 5,000 Marines and soldiers to Haiti, and a hospital ship is due to arrive later this week.<br />The country's president said U.S. troops would help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets.<br />Venezuela has sent several planes to Haiti with doctors, aid and some soldiers. A Russia-Venezuela mission was set to leave Venezuela on Monday carrying aid on Russian planes.<br /><br />Chavez said Venezuela's planes were the first to land in Haiti after Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which wrecked the capital Port-Au-Prince and killed as many as 200,000 people.</span></span><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph"> All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /></span></span><br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-86811003547419525272010-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:52.912-08:00Security Concerns Cause Doctors To Leave Hospital Quake Victims<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLreC6hI7M21h8_moBhsspGk_9c0HILA_0hgTkw3OsLHms7gnsvQKub3TB3pQBEd1DoSthuS0i2Z_1qACL6eEnLeTkJWPRUbngIb5ob2FJjWPl0XqEqd21RQTaWaUzmXaCRXvRR81jy0/s1600-h/story.haiti.tent.hospital.c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLreC6hI7M21h8_moBhsspGk_9c0HILA_0hgTkw3OsLHms7gnsvQKub3TB3pQBEd1DoSthuS0i2Z_1qACL6eEnLeTkJWPRUbngIb5ob2FJjWPl0XqEqd21RQTaWaUzmXaCRXvRR81jy0/s320/story.haiti.tent.hospital.c.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security.<br /><br />The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night.<br /><br />CNN initially reported, based on conversations with some of the doctors, that the United Nations ordered the Belgian First Aid and Support Team to evacuate. However, Belgian Chief Coordinator Geert Gijs, a doctor who was at the hospital with 60 Belgian medical personnel, said it was his decision to pull the team out for the night. Gijs said he requested U.N. security personnel to staff the hospital overnight, but was told that peacekeepers would only be able to evacuate the team.<br /></div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He said it was a "tough decision" but that he accepted the U.N. offer to evacuate after a Canadian medical team, also at the hospital with Canadian security officers, left the site Friday afternoon. The Belgian team returned Saturday morning.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gijs said the United Nations has agreed to provide security for Saturday night. The team has requested the Belgian government to send its own troops for the field hospital, which Gijs expects to arrive late Sunday.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Responding to the CNN report that Gupta was the only doctor left at the Port-au-Prince field hospital, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Saturday that the world body's mission in Haiti did not order any medical team to leave. If the team left, it was at the request of their own organization, he said.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edmond Mulet, the U.N. assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, told reporters later that local security officers deemed the makeshift hospital unsafe.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"It seems that we've heard some reports in the international media that the United Nations asked or forced some medical teams to not work any more in some clinic -- that is not true, that is completely untrue," Mulet said Saturday.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">CNN video from the scene Friday night shows the Belgian team packing up its supplies and leaving with an escort of blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers in marked trucks.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gupta -- assisted by other CNN staffers, security personnel and at least one Haitian nurse who refused to leave -- assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little they could do without supplies.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">More people, some in critical condition, were trickling in late Friday"I've never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous," Gupta said.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With a dearth of medical facilities in Haiti's capital, ambulances had nowhere else to take patients, some of whom had suffered severe trauma -- amputations and head injuries -- under the rubble. Others had suffered a great deal of blood loss, but there were no blood supplies left at the clinic.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gupta feared that some would not survive the night.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He and the others stayed with the injured all night, after the medical team had left and after the generators gave out and the tents turned pitch black.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gupta monitored patients' vital signs, administered painkillers and continued intravenous drips. He stabilized three new patients in critical condition.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At 3:45 a.m., he posted a message on Twitter: "pulling all nighter at haiti field hosp. lots of work, but all patients stable. turned my crew into a crack med team tonight."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Are you in Haiti and safe? Share your photos<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He said the Belgian doctors did not want to leave their patients behind but were ordered out by the United Nations, which sent buses to transport them.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"There is concern about riots not far from here -- and this is part of the problem," Gupta said.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There have been scattered reports of violence throughout the capital.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"What is striking to me as a physician is that patients who just had surgery, patients who are critically ill, are essentially being left here, nobody to care for them," Gupta said.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sandra Pierre, a Haitian who has been helping at the makeshift hospital, said the medical staff took most of the supplies with them.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"All the doctors, all the nurses are gone," she said. "They are expected to be back tomorrow. They had no plan on leaving tonight. It was an order that came suddenly."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">She told Gupta, "It's just you."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A 7.0 magnitude earthquake flattened Haiti's capital city Tuesday afternoon, affecting as many as 3 million people as it fanned out across the island nation. Tens of thousands of people are feared dead.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, lacked adequate medical resources even before the disaster and has been struggling this week to tend to huge numbers of injured. The clinic, set up under several tents, was a godsend to the few who were lucky to have been brought there.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said the evacuation of the clinic's medical staff was unforgivable.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Search and rescue must trump security," Honoré said. "I've never seen anything like this before in my life. They need to man up and get back in there."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Honoré drew parallels between the tragedy in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Port-au-Prince. But even in the chaos of Katrina, he said, he had never seen medical staff walk away.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I find this astonishing these doctors left," he said. "People are scared of the poor."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. 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"We have to very cautious because this recovery remains very fragile."<br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While hundreds of billions in stimulus spending by governments around the world avoided another Great Depression, he said, the most important risk facing the global economy is deciding how and when to reverse those polices and deal with resulting debt burdens.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Now we have to fix the consequences of the policy that has been put in place to fight against the crisis," he said. "Finding the right time to implement exit policies is really a difficult one."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"If you exit too late, you waste resources," he said. "If you exit too early, you have a risk of going back into recession."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The best indicators for timing fresh growth strategies are monitoring private demand and employment, he said. The IMF recommends that governments devise policies that will support the labor market given still-high joblessness, which could lead to social unrest in some countries.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A key lesson from the global financial crisis is that authorities need to beef up supervision -- more so than regulations -- of financial institutions, he said.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"You may have the best regulations in the world, but if it's not supervised correctly, it's no use."<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Strauss-Kahan also said he was worried that the unified political will to tackle the crisis demonstrated at the Group of 20 summits last year will vanish as the world economy recovers.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rush of money into major emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Russia reflects investors' recognition that these economies are growing rapidly.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But Strauss-Kahn said this could lead to "many problems," including asset bubbles and a sudden drop in foreign investment, much like Eastern European countries experienced during the global financial crisis.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. 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In the press room afterward Aniston's otherwise boring black dress revealed a high thigh slit <a name='more'></a>when she walked. All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-27042878866983461952010-01-18T07:23:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.038-08:00Sexy Jessica Chobot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ZbRyf9gjlLS35tMDzLv8avh0bnIi7wgPydU5VqCzC4K03Tg54w_icOalvpBkuEleAjPKcWrBIST9g6ehXftGKopAKvuDCldXB8XXHHGN-KS9-sSBEZ6TjS7tFAXRRMuPhSASLocP9wk/s1600-h/Jessica_Chobot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ZbRyf9gjlLS35tMDzLv8avh0bnIi7wgPydU5VqCzC4K03Tg54w_icOalvpBkuEleAjPKcWrBIST9g6ehXftGKopAKvuDCldXB8XXHHGN-KS9-sSBEZ6TjS7tFAXRRMuPhSASLocP9wk/s320/Jessica_Chobot.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jessica Chobot became an overnight internet sensation when a tongue-in-cheek modeling photo of her appeared online licking the Sony PSP in 2005. The photo has been widely parodied since, even appearing on Sony-branded advertising.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Supplementing her love of videogames is an obsession with Japanese culture, specifically anime and manga. In 2006 Chobot was hired full-time by IGN.com to take over hosting responsibilities for the network's IGN Weekly show which is no longer running. Her segments included stand-up introductions as well as "woman-on-the-street" pieces. She now hosts a daily show entitled , "IGN Daily Fix", the first episode aired March 23, 2009. While Chobot is the main host of the show Fran Mirabella and more commonly Daemon Hatfield have been known to host as well. The show does a weekly Friday giveaway asking questions about random fun video facts, the winner receiving a video game. In addition, she contributes columns, features and reviews and her IGN blog is one of the most visited on the site. Chobot is also a former contributor to FHM UK, Mania.com and has made multiple appearances on G4's "Filter" and "Attack of the Show." She has also hosted a videogame preview segment for Fuel TV’s, “The Daily Habit,” and co-hosts on Lifeskool TV’s, “Gamer’s Dojo.” She also contributes as a weekly guest on Maxim Radio, where she answers caller questions for an hour each Monday.<br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Chobot has appeared on commercials for ADV’s Anime Network On Demand cable station, lent her likeness to Symbiote Studios Toy Company for two limited-edition anime-style sculptures. In addition, she has modeled for the J!NX female gamers clothing line. In 2006-2007, she co-wrote a sci-fi script with writer/director/creator of Tron, Steven Lisberger, for Soul Code. Current collaborations include an anime-style collectible figurine in development with Symbiote Studios, a representative of JiNX.com women's apparel line. Chobot is also writing the "Ask Jess, Dammit!" blog for Maxim[4].She was named the 88th most desirable woman of 2008 by AskMen magazine and 14th hottest woman of business 2009 by Business Pundit<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-19041295311530273432010-01-18T07:14:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.061-08:00Michelle Obama intensely jealous of Oprah Winfrey<h2 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">America’s First Lady Michelle Obama is jealous of her husband’s close friendship with Oprah Winfrey. </span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVzkqlipI6BShIgWvSVZs36p7FQalU32n11UmK7bhEdzh4HT-vvVFhD0UwGMAoTT-w-YjciyPgcoup5q08H7JmLcMV4SqqF18mTKImx0C5kzzMr0-VpPhVDTa4-e3DbpollzarCqGtT4/s1600-h/d1ffa07912550077149522.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVzkqlipI6BShIgWvSVZs36p7FQalU32n11UmK7bhEdzh4HT-vvVFhD0UwGMAoTT-w-YjciyPgcoup5q08H7JmLcMV4SqqF18mTKImx0C5kzzMr0-VpPhVDTa4-e3DbpollzarCqGtT4/s320/d1ffa07912550077149522.jpeg" /></a><br /></div><h2 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">America’s First Lady Michelle Obama is jealous of her husband’s close friendship with Oprah Winfrey.Michelle and Barack Obama's marriage is under pressure due to the First Lady's ‘jealousy' of her husband's friendship with Oprah Winfrey, the National Enquirer reports. "Their marriage has been like a war zone lately," a source claims. "In public, they put on a united, smiling front but behind closed doors, the gloves come off. If they're not screaming at each other, they're glaring or stomping off in different directions. Michelle is intensely jealous of the time Barack spends with Oprah.<br />"Since the election, Michelle has privately given Oprah the cold shoulder. She once said: ‘There's only room for one First Lady in the White House - and that's me!' Believe me, she means it."<br />All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /><br /></span></h2>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-88906441745922496992010-01-18T07:11:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.113-08:00Cameron's 'Avatar' Wins Best Drama Honor at Globes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizcPEnSP7PTMqDa8PXW5BqH1XWeOrmMcoYmevrVFS02G_LyWF0wcl6RI5Mu_iLoiTqCt1v3dsd-Pt-BBEuqK4Orr1ZXk_tDfPtZl4wODPp2VQk-h01YORXKT0TtlYFiH5f1Bmj5bTsLxA/s1600-h/123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizcPEnSP7PTMqDa8PXW5BqH1XWeOrmMcoYmevrVFS02G_LyWF0wcl6RI5Mu_iLoiTqCt1v3dsd-Pt-BBEuqK4Orr1ZXk_tDfPtZl4wODPp2VQk-h01YORXKT0TtlYFiH5f1Bmj5bTsLxA/s320/123.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" won best drama at the Golden Globes and picked up the directing honor for James Cameron on Sunday, raising the "Titanic" filmmaker's prospects for another Academy Awards triumph.<br /><br />It was a repeat of Cameron's Globes night 12 years ago, when "Titanic" won best drama and the directing prize on its way to dominating the Oscars.<br /><br />This time, though, instead of being "king of the world," as Cameron declared at the Oscars, he has become king of an alien landscape, elevating space fantasy to enormous critical acclaim.<br /><br />"'Avatar' asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each other, and us to the Earth. And if you have to go four and a half light years to another, made-up planet to appreciate this miracle of the world that we have right here, well, you know what, that's the wonder of cinema right there, that's the magic," Cameron said.<br /><br />Winning the dramatic-acting honors were Sandra Bullock for the football tale "The Blind Side" and Jeff Bridges for the country-music story "Crazy Heart." The crowd gave a standing ovation to Bridges, a beloved veteran generally overlooked for key Hollywood honors.<br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><br />The acting prizes for musical and comedy went to Meryl Streep for the Julia Child story "Julie & Julia" and Robert Downey Jr. for the crime romp "Sherlock Holmes." The supporting-performance Globes were won by Mo'Nique as an abusive welfare mother in "Precious" and Christoph Waltz as a gleefully bloodthirsty Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds."<br /><br />The Vegas bachelor bash "The Hangover" won for best musical or comedy, bringing uncharacteristic awards attention for broad comedy, a genre that often gets overlooked at Hollywood honors.<br /><br />"I just want to thank my mom, who supported my decision to become a director when she realized I wasn't as smart as my two sisters," said "Hangover" director Todd Phillips.<br /><br />As he accepted the directing Globe, Cameron had kind words for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, nominated as best director for "The Hurt Locker."<br /><br />"Frankly, I thought Kathryn was going to get this. She richly deserves it," said Cameron, whose "Titanic" earned the directing and best-drama Globes 12 years ago on its way to Academy Awards triumph.<br /><br />The blockbuster "Up" came away with the award for animated film.<br /><br />While Streep is a perennial at awards shows, the prize marked a dramatic turning point for Mo'Nique, who was mainly known for lowbrow comedy but startled audiences with her ferocious performance in "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' By Sapphire."<br /><br />"First let me say, thank you, God, for this amazing ride that you're allowing me to go on," the tearful Mo'Nique told the crowd.<br /><br />She went on with gushing praise for "Precious" director Lee Daniels and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, a best dramatic actress nominee at the Globes with her first film role, playing Mo'Nique's abused, illiterate daughter.<br /><br />"Lee Daniels, the world gets a chance to see how brilliant you are. You are a brilliant, fearless, amazing director who would not waver, and thank you for trusting me," Mo'Nique said. "To Gabby, sister, I am in awe of you. Thank you for letting me play with you."<br /><br />Streep's competition for best actress in a musical or comedy included herself. She also was nominated for the romance "It's Complicated."<br /><br />"I just want to say that in my long career, I've played so many extraordinary woman that I'm getting mistaken for one," Streep said. "I'm very clear that I'm the vessel for other people's stories and other people's lives."<br /><br />Waltz, a veteran Austrian actor who is a relative newcomer in Hollywood, won the supporting-actor Globe as a gleefully bloodthirsty Nazi in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."<br /><br />"A year and a half ago I was exposed to the gravitational forces of Quentin Tarantino," Waltz said. "He took my modest little world, my globe, and with the power of his talent and his words and his vision, he flung it into its orbit, a dizzying experience."<br /><br />Though one of Hollywood's biggest parties, the Globes bore somber reminders of tragedy in the real world, many stars wearing ribbons in support of earthquake victims in Haiti.<br /><br />Films from Pixar Animation, the Disney outfit that made "Up," have won all four prizes for animated movies since the Globes introduced the category in 2006. Past Pixar winners are "WALL-E," "Ratatouille" and "Cars."<br /><br />"Up" features the voice of Ed Asner in a tale of a lonely, bitter widower who renews his zest for adventure by flying his house off under helium balloons to South America, where he encounters his childhood hero and a hilarious gang of talking canines.<br /><br />"When it came to finding the heart of the film, we didn't have to look very hard," said "Up" director Pete Docter, whose film also won for musical score. "Our inspiration was all around us. Our grandparents, our parents, our wives, our kids. Our talking dogs."<br /><br />Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won the screenplay honor for "Up in the Air," which Reitman also directed. The foreign-language honor went to "The White Ribbon," a stark drama of guilt and suspicion set in a German town on the eve of World War I.<br /><br />"Mad Men" won for best TV drama, while Michael C. Hall won for best actor in a TV drama for "Dexter," in which he plays a serial killer with a code of ethics, killing only other murderers. Hall's publicists revealed this past week that Hall is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and that the cancer is in remission.<br /><br />"It's really a hell of a thing to go to work in a place where everybody gives a damn. That's really the case with `Dexter,'" Hall said. "It's a dream job. I'm so grateful."<br /><br />"Dexter" also won the supporting-actor TV honor for John Lithgow. Other TV winners included Juliana Margulies as best actress in a drama for "The Good Wife" and Toni Collette as best comedy actress for "The United States of Tara."<br /><br />The rain-drenched red carpet was a rare sight for an awards show in sunny southern California, stars in their finery getting damp under umbrellas as storms swept the region.<br /><br />The Globes got a makeover, featuring Ricky Gervais as master of ceremonies, the first time in 15 years the show had a host.<br /><br />One of his most biting quips came as he sipped a beer on stage.<br /><br />"I like a drink as much as the next man, unless the next man is Mel Gibson," Gervais wisecracked as he introduced Globe presenter Mel Gibson, who made an anti-Semitic rant a few years back during a drunken-driving arrest.<br /><br />Gervais opened by mocking Steve Carell, star of the U.S. version of "The Office," based on Gervais' British comedy series. While a stone-faced Carell watched, Gervais yammered on about how fans love Carell and wonder where he gets his ideas from.<br /><br />Carell then mouthed and pantomimed, "I will break you," to Gervais, an executive producer on the U.S. version of the show.<br /><br />Gervais joked about the international causes near and dear to Hollywood stars.<br /><br />"You can be a little Asian child with no possessions and see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you think, `mommy,'" he said.<br /><br />With stars sharing dinner and drinks, the Globes traditionally are a loose and relaxed affair compared to the courtly Oscars. Celebrities sometimes are caught more in reality-show mode — Jack Nicholson once mooned the crowd for a laugh, and Christine Lahti had to rush from the restroom to collect her Globe for the TV drama "Chicago Hope."<br /><br />Sunday's winners could get a last-minute boost for the Oscars, whose nominations balloting closes Saturday. Last year's big Globe winner, "Slumdog Millionaire," went on to dominate the Oscars.<br /><br />The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 90 reporters covering show business for overseas outlets. The show airs live on NBC. <br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-83462773522398888432010-01-18T07:05:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.143-08:00Rubble in Haiti Australian Media Crews Pull Baby<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAPMB-k8JQBtBQhs7DKUzuTiGhaNqSzYJ5XxXgxDa7xKifzSxeY3mW5VyG6-em3_1lWmkmpOZnv0w4BHSpAIZiGXGbhqmQuY4nNI0_18vTEUPPI1MNo5ytY47yfVSfeSnFqRr1Xyvx5F8/s1600-h/capt.photo_1263795423450-1-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAPMB-k8JQBtBQhs7DKUzuTiGhaNqSzYJ5XxXgxDa7xKifzSxeY3mW5VyG6-em3_1lWmkmpOZnv0w4BHSpAIZiGXGbhqmQuY4nNI0_18vTEUPPI1MNo5ytY47yfVSfeSnFqRr1Xyvx5F8/s320/capt.photo_1263795423450-1-0.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">SYDNEY (AFP) – Rival Australian news crews said Monday that saving a life came before doing their jobs when they rescued an 18-month-old baby from underneath the rubble in earthquake-devastated Haiti.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The little girl was lying alongside the bodies of her dead parents who were killed in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Port-au-Prince on January 12 when the camera crews heard her moans and began to dig her out on Friday. Related article: Haitians pray in ruins Richard Moran, a cameraman with the commercial Nine Network, put down his camera and lifted pieces of concrete out of the way while Nine's interpreter and fixer Deiby Celestino climbed into the tangled mess to retrieve the child.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"And then, out of the ruins came this little girl, and I will never forget it. She did not cry. She looked astonished, almost as if she was seeing the world for the first time," Nine reporter Robert Penfold told The Australian.<br /><br />The images of the child's rescue were captured by Nine's major rival Seven, and footage beamed around the world showed Seven's correspondent Mike Amor holding the dusty little girl and giving her water.<br /><br />"That moment, it was beyond news," Amor said. "I haven't seen anything so remarkable since the birth of my own child. The emotion for all of us has been incredible."<br /><br />Amor said the news crews and the locals who had helped locate the girl were concentrated on rescuing the child rather than news priorities.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"The focus of everybody on that hill was the little girl, and as any of us will tell you, it was Deiby who went into that hole, and dug, and dug, until he got that little girl out. He's the hero," he told The Australian.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Footage of the rescue is available on Seven's website, tagged: "Mike Amor's amazing rescue".<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Channel Nine's news director Mark Calvert said while disasters can sometimes bring out the very worst in journalists, they can also produce the best.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I'm proud of the Nine News team, who put the welfare of the little girl before their own safety, and placed their personal convictions before professional pressures," he said in a statement to AFP.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Yes, they put down their camera to help. But they also filed their story. And most importantly, they helped save a life."<br />All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all. <br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-23122903836737299722010-01-17T04:16:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.166-08:00Jon Hamm Still Sexy, Even With The Beard<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmOUZSZaUPz741rLWMCJfS_QSLC3JeryaLw5ZheGqHsbHULERaJWwb1xNrxmxZ1Itt42kJtndIQ3SZmfeQvCCkU7sp_jVt-C0S-H-TqkLfO6T6_MNppFzSM5Tdc21xv-SjMXnUsmD6lmd/s1600-h/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7d4e127970b-320pi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmOUZSZaUPz741rLWMCJfS_QSLC3JeryaLw5ZheGqHsbHULERaJWwb1xNrxmxZ1Itt42kJtndIQ3SZmfeQvCCkU7sp_jVt-C0S-H-TqkLfO6T6_MNppFzSM5Tdc21xv-SjMXnUsmD6lmd/s1600/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7d4e127970b-320pi.jpg" /></a><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not even growth that's a few weeks away from matching Brad Pitt's scraggly beard could stop Jon Hamm from being dashing as ever. The "Mad Men" hunk showed at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's premiere screening of Kirk Douglas' autobiographical film "Before I Forget" on Wednesday night in Los Angeles with actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt on his arm.<br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hamm and Westfeldt chatted with the acting legend at a pre-screening reception hosted by Netflix, where the Golden Globe nominee mingled with the likes of Kellan Lutz and director-producer Adam Shankman. While Shankman was enthused over Douglas' retrospective flick, he imparted to me his all-time favorite performance from the master thesp:<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> "He's Spartacus, I'm a gay man. You do the math," Shankman said. How do you take your Hamm? Fuzzy or clean shaven? Tell me in comments!<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.<br /></div>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-4047996689147011262010-01-16T08:36:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:58.616-08:00Obama Confident Bank Tax Plan Will Pass Congress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCI2_-zCzfqJn-PTl88rMCaNeQFjlOBi53lGS6J8Zlmw3wOLxZosvUdZ2u7eoK_xek3AmaL3zj_iZW3gt6-21f0FhQUFzmlZmU_ZiND-ByVhYbzrSybLqg5CRmnzBi-fRR8NZsjU45eRC2/s1600-h/capt.6e4f4c63f70549779d07b2c2c11b489e.obama_bank_fees_whcd114.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="15" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCI2_-zCzfqJn-PTl88rMCaNeQFjlOBi53lGS6J8Zlmw3wOLxZosvUdZ2u7eoK_xek3AmaL3zj_iZW3gt6-21f0FhQUFzmlZmU_ZiND-ByVhYbzrSybLqg5CRmnzBi-fRR8NZsjU45eRC2/s1600/capt.6e4f4c63f70549779d07b2c2c11b489e.obama_bank_fees_whcd114.jpg" /></a><br /></div>WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that lawmakers would approve his proposed tax on banks to recover bailout money, despite opposition from Republicans and the financial industry.<br />"Like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect," he said, using his weekly radio and Internet addresses to promote the plan he announced this past week.<br />"The very same firms reaping billions of dollars in profits, and reportedly handing out more money in bonuses and compensation than ever before in history, are now pleading poverty. It's a sight to see."<br />If banks can afford to pay out all those bonuses, he said, then they can repay taxpayers, too.<br />We're not going to let Wall Street take the money and run. We're going to pass this fee into law," he said.<br /><a name='more'></a><br />Congress must approve the tax and that's not assured, given the immediate opposition from Republicans. Democrats also could lose their 60-vote majority in the Senate, with Democrat Martha Coakley in an unexpectedly close race against Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts to fill the seat held for decades by the late Democrat Edward M. Kennedy.<br />Brown opposes Obama's bank tax. Obama planned to campaign in the state on Sunday.<br />The White House's decision to use the address to speak about the proposed tax instead of the U.S. response to the suffering and devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti suggested one line of attack Obama would use against Brown on Sunday.<br />The proposed 0.15 percent tax would last at least 10 years and generate about $90 billion over the decade, according to administration estimates. It would apply to about 50 of the biggest banks, those with more than $50 billion in assets, and include many institutions that accepted no money from the $700 financial industry bailout.<br />Obama said that although the banks were facing a "crisis of their own creation," the "distasteful but necessary" taxpayer-funded bailout prevented an "even greater calamity for the country."<br />Most of the banks have returned the money they borrowed, and Obama said that was "good news."<br />"But as far as I'm concerned, it's not good enough," he said. "We want the taxpayers' money back, and we're going to collect every dime."<br />Six of the biggest U.S. banks are on track to pay $150 billion in total executive compensation for 2009, slightly less than the record $164 billion in 2007 before the financial crisis struck, according to the New York state comptroller's office.<br />Obama challenged those who say banks can't afford the tax without passing the costs on to shareholders and customers.<br />"That's hard to believe when there are reports that Wall Street is going to hand out more money in bonuses and compensation just this year than the cost of this fee over the next 10 years," he said. "If the big financial firms can afford massive bonuses, they can afford to pay back the American people."<br />All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-50718448808275258002010-01-16T08:21:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:55:58.592-08:00Australian Open Tennis – Henin and Oudin On The Move<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KvZ95GwQWBS3uKWgwxI3lsh5nRI7d7GKaiY-Z-Hio1V7GOguezJJ7qSgkNiQjGymqKONDmv3QQf_XWFBB7V1sljHK3ZCHqJwhO_SGjlz7gPkJuAfqmDObjcHQdNGfK71ENx6AO2OfCVW/s1600-h/meladine-oudin.jpg" linkindex="15" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427368000226309746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KvZ95GwQWBS3uKWgwxI3lsh5nRI7d7GKaiY-Z-Hio1V7GOguezJJ7qSgkNiQjGymqKONDmv3QQf_XWFBB7V1sljHK3ZCHqJwhO_SGjlz7gPkJuAfqmDObjcHQdNGfK71ENx6AO2OfCVW/s320/meladine-oudin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />At 18 years of age, Melanie Oudin’s physique is similar to Belgium’s 27-year old Justine Henin. They are both 5’6”. Melanie outweighs Justine by a muscular 4 pounds.<br /><br />Henin has navigated the tour quite successfully, thank you. Even after her nearly two-year layoff, Henin has banked more than $19 million in tour earnings. After a limited year on the tour, Melanie Oudin banked a cool $450,000. She’s pretty happy about that.<br /><br />All along Oudin has viewed Henin as her role model. Joined by their need to overcome their vertical challenges, the Georgia native sees to be mirroring Justine’s career path. Eventually, she will develop a serve that will be more offensive than defensive. With experience, she will learn the other competitor’s nuances.<br />En route to her seven Grand Slam titles, Henin has had to travel the same path. She learned to serve. She learned to spot weaknesses and turn disadvantage to advantage.<br /><a name='more'></a><br />She is a first-rate fighter, a superior competitor with as strong a will to succeed as exists on the tour today. Justine Henin and Melanie Oudin embody the role of underdog, overachiever.<br />They do not whine, complain or suffer the fans to obnoxious prima donna outbursts. No, they lift their heads and go back to what they do best; chasing down shots from bigger, stronger athletes and using the momentum ad energy of those shots to keep those bigger, heavier competitors on the courts for ungodly lengths of time.<br />In the stifling Australian summer, that works. Even in the American fall, that works. Perhaps in Paris it is a problem, but this year, on these fast, hot surfaces, these two may go down, but their opponents will know they were in a dogfight and know they have to overcome all that passion on the other side of the net.<br />The two mighty mites have stern tests ahead. Unseeded and comparatively unheralded, it is not inconceivable that these two could meet in the finals. Unlikely, yes. Impossible, no.<br />Henin, who reached the finals in Brisbane before dropping a tight three setter to Clijsters last weekend, is in the toughest bracket in all of Melbourne.<br />Her path to the finals includes likely pairings with 5th seed Elena Dementieva (2nd round), Alisa Kleybanova (3rd round), Flavia Pennetta (4th round), Clijsters in the quarters and Sharapova in the semis. If Justine makes the finals, just maybe the former number one could be seeded in Paris, where she has won an astounding four times.<br />For Oudin to play Henin, she will have to manage underdog victories against Aggie Radwanska (2nd round), Francesca Schiavone (3rd round), Venus Williams (4th round), Caroline Wozniacki (quarters) and Serena Williams in the semis. By any standard, that is a tall order for a short teenager.<br />But, remember, the 17-year old knocked off Jankovic at Wimbledon, Dementieva, Sharapova and Kuznetsova in New York last year. It is safe to say that 2nd seeded behemoth Dinara Safina has never had a Grand Slam like that!<br />Go get ‘em mighty mites! Be perky, pesky and keep ‘em running side to side in that brilliant Australian sun. Keep your composure, honor the game and don’t be afraid to enjoy the moment. The world is your oyster.<br />All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest information and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-51691354045835867422009-11-24T11:20:00.000-08:002009-11-24T11:22:11.792-08:00Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone Coming at “Dancing with the Stars”<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2tQrhUVef-_9ZRTVysSRDpp2UAd8dK_fM7lSbW7P1uAyLX4tmUF8pks9MMqKVQ0Pxvk_lKLjgee_0j3xV6PYbnCpnDTaPnIkA0Uwgf0zOKhdF7UrVLU_uvVbb100A-IMVGX-LlRkdg7Ca/s1600/grandstream-GXV3140-phone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2tQrhUVef-_9ZRTVysSRDpp2UAd8dK_fM7lSbW7P1uAyLX4tmUF8pks9MMqKVQ0Pxvk_lKLjgee_0j3xV6PYbnCpnDTaPnIkA0Uwgf0zOKhdF7UrVLU_uvVbb100A-IMVGX-LlRkdg7Ca/s400/grandstream-GXV3140-phone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407752288271033234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, November 24, fans of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” will be able to witness the season 9 finale of the show. During the show they will</span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="fullpost"> notice Grandstream Networks’ GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone, a communication device that’s going to be showcased tomorrow.<br /><br />Now I don’t have any problems with gadgets being advertised in popular TV shows. We see that every day and it’s something we have gotten used to over the years. What I have a problem is the gadget itself. So bear with me for a couple of minutes and I will be more than happy to explain.<br /><br />The GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone is not a mobile phone but a phone made for your home. Furthermore the phone is not just a simple phone but a smartphone for home. That’s right, in a world where landlines are losing more and more marketshare a home smartphone wouldn’t exactly be something I’d want to buy.<br /><br />In all fairness to the device and its maker, I will say that the GXV3140 comes with some interesting features which you could very well take advantage of once you chose to get it. It has a 4.3-inch LCD screen, an integrated web browser, one-touch access to RSS feeds, Internet radio support, social networking support for Facebook and Twitter, and support for Internet streaming from various sites.<br /><br />Although remarkable for such a phone, the features offered aren’t special in any way. I’d definitely use a laptop or desktop instead of the GXV3140 in order to browse the Internet, stream video and audio files or check Facebook and Twitter updates. And I’d definitely use my cell phone whenever I need to make calls and send messages to friends and family.<br /><br />Let’s face it folks, home phones and landlines are slowly dying and we’re going to use smarter phones instead. Sure a phone like this could be used by various companies which still rely on regular phones to communicate. But a phone filled with such features will affect overall production as employees will use it extensively to check out Facebook and Twitter instead of doing what their supposed to.<br /><br />What about you? Do you still use regular phones?grandstream GXV3140 phone<br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-2538871685858303832009-11-24T11:17:00.001-08:002010-01-19T10:55:53.612-08:00LG X120 Netbook Gets Official in the USA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeUhe2UcVSDEuBXN7SnDiUUWG2MXoDkKwJFFbm-kFn9sgctTycoeYhSppYB7RkRSu4MYfA_FHImsDnEJYr15gzpvqfXQBt26G4weHIa-AK8WmAebIkhliXw3fAqAJuJy217WPG5_3aN3dA/s1600/LG-X120-Netbook.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407751758203623730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeUhe2UcVSDEuBXN7SnDiUUWG2MXoDkKwJFFbm-kFn9sgctTycoeYhSppYB7RkRSu4MYfA_FHImsDnEJYr15gzpvqfXQBt26G4weHIa-AK8WmAebIkhliXw3fAqAJuJy217WPG5_3aN3dA/s400/LG-X120-Netbook.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 399px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">LG has decided to launch the X120 in the USA today. Thus LG has announced its first netbook for U.S. consumers, so let’s take a brief look at it.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />The LG X120 is finally ready to be purchased by American customers and the netbook has some special features to offer. The machine was announced in Korea earlier this summer and it’s about time it became available in more markets.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The LG X120 is a 10.1-inch netbook that weighs only 2.8lbs but it’s ready to meet your computing needs while you’re on the go. The netbook comes with a LED backlit 10.1-inch LCD, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, HD stereo speakers, Wi-Fi connectivity, 3G HSDPA support and Windows XP running in the background. The X120 also has a great battery capable of delivering 7-hours of life. You’ll certainly appreciate that battery next time you’re stuck waiting in an airport or on a longer than expected trip.<br /><br />Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy and marketing for LG Mobile Phones, had this to say about the X120 netbook:<br /><br />We created the LG X120 to allow consumers to stay connected on their own terms. The Smart On(TM) button puts consumers seconds away from the fun stuff such as showing off your vacation photos or picking your fantasy football line-up.<br /><br />The LG X120 will be available for purchase in Radio Shack stores nationwide or online. You can also get it from AT&T stores bundled with a new 2-year AT&T DataConnect service agreement of at least $60 per month. In that case the X120 will only cost $179.99 and, for that subsidized price, AT&T will let you use up to 5GB of data traffic per month and access its 20,000 Wi-Fi Hot Spots for free.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-90886544834096977002009-11-23T10:32:00.000-08:002009-11-23T10:34:35.952-08:00HTC HD2 Windows Mobile 7 Upgrade Pending?<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzhRM2cIj84khitYMNTbA8Bwky-MRsFcrOuU-yb1-fTXOXoaxN3iIj9c187MlGBs36k4R3DLqOGDz0IJyDh5MCSC0aVW3gcnCVf4643Pn9ZD4vF8hbYnrwwMjkd-FgUOPYf8D9ySMVyc2/s1600/HTC-Leo-HTC-HD2-Image-with-HTC-Logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzhRM2cIj84khitYMNTbA8Bwky-MRsFcrOuU-yb1-fTXOXoaxN3iIj9c187MlGBs36k4R3DLqOGDz0IJyDh5MCSC0aVW3gcnCVf4643Pn9ZD4vF8hbYnrwwMjkd-FgUOPYf8D9ySMVyc2/s400/HTC-Leo-HTC-HD2-Image-with-HTC-Logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407368808982417282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to as yet unconfirmed rumours the owners of the HTC HD2 (formerly known as the HTC Leo) can look forward to a free upgrade</span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="fullpost"> to the Windows Mobile 7 OS when WinMo 7 becomes available next year.<br /><br />Expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress to be held in February 2010, whilst the WinMo 7 upgrade is yet to be confirmed it seems wholly viable as the HTC HD2 has the distinction of being the first phone to meet all the hardware requirements laid done by Microsoft for its new iteration Windows Mobile – specifically meeting with MS’s Chassis 1 specifications.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvv2UbX2k9XBq1mnd05UtgfwF71JVwVwNvbZnKXzBBaRDX_iw_5GbZkq2C_xhHImAu98dvWqoJnPLeQK5mZ9hFyoEceBbjeiz3Gkeidjxay3AGf1s6Rcxyo2aJizksHiLLwftVc5Zj9Ky/s1600/HTC-HD2-mail-view-400.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvv2UbX2k9XBq1mnd05UtgfwF71JVwVwNvbZnKXzBBaRDX_iw_5GbZkq2C_xhHImAu98dvWqoJnPLeQK5mZ9hFyoEceBbjeiz3Gkeidjxay3AGf1s6Rcxyo2aJizksHiLLwftVc5Zj9Ky/s400/HTC-HD2-mail-view-400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407368806185329938" border="0" /></a><br />Whilst information concerning the purported free WinMo 7 HTC HD2 is pretty space as at the time of writing, MsMobiles additionally reports that as such upgrade will be an “official upgrade from HTC, not a hacked ROM from PPCGeeks or Xda-dev” though the site does no qualify this by offering any indication as to the source of this information. Still, being that the HTC HD2 is an enormously popular phone, added to the fact that from a hardware standpoint its ‘WinMo 7 ready’ and taking the (again unconfirmed) rumours concerning the HTC HS2 being due to hit T-Mobile in the US sometime in Q1 2010 into account there’s little doubt that such an upgrade would very much work in favour of HTC’s 4.3” already highly desirable capacitive touchscreen smartphone.<br /><br /><br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-55419061425699795882009-11-23T10:30:00.000-08:002009-11-23T10:31:43.036-08:00Google Maps Navigation (Sort Of) Released For European Androids<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDk9p_pQ5o6-xvU2CmYWGVZ6mxD5krEMnIiHHOJ_LgNujmz7GvfVbdyGDdCEV5WFP6jEXFvGiVxkRO0U4Ff45JL-wPNIETMrWXFGFoTSm27rZHeRkCZ-n8ucmXG77J2ypKiLcon9hJ-xdu/s1600/android-nav.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDk9p_pQ5o6-xvU2CmYWGVZ6mxD5krEMnIiHHOJ_LgNujmz7GvfVbdyGDdCEV5WFP6jEXFvGiVxkRO0U4Ff45JL-wPNIETMrWXFGFoTSm27rZHeRkCZ-n8ucmXG77J2ypKiLcon9hJ-xdu/s320/android-nav.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407368336784435778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">When the Google Maps Navigation software was announced for Android phones just a few weeks ago, those of you who carry Android phones outside the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="fullpost">United States probably quickly realized one thing – that Google Maps Navigation doesn’t work for you. Until now, that is.<br /><br />The European forum XDA Developers featured a post where a cunning user posted a series of codes that need to be input into your Android device that will enable Google Maps Navigation, the turn-by-turn TomTom killer software on phones outside the United States.<br /><br />Google never released any reasons why the Google Maps Navigation software was only limited to the United States, keeping Canada and Europe in the cold, but non-Americans across the blogosphere have confirmed that the workaround works.<br /><br />XDA’s forum went down in all the buzz surrounding this release, but Gadget Venue posted a clip of the code needed to enable this functionality. It appears to work by some ROM modifications, followed by a hacked version of the app being installed.<br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-19944843952132344382009-11-23T10:28:00.000-08:002009-11-23T10:29:52.944-08:00Dell Mini 3i Android Phone Gets Official<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLzx00TYjL191JGTz9D39sgCGyXyIz4iCjxpH0girtyr2tIkmt-wG_di_8-Kbn33oY5DhizvIzFMoyyMsPM7phBavH5l46B8nn4wc3FU7X-CjTkmE41K7biOxvgLuYkKF6wCxgAbY4s1A/s1600/Dell-Mini-3i-China-Mobile.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLzx00TYjL191JGTz9D39sgCGyXyIz4iCjxpH0girtyr2tIkmt-wG_di_8-Kbn33oY5DhizvIzFMoyyMsPM7phBavH5l46B8nn4wc3FU7X-CjTkmE41K7biOxvgLuYkKF6wCxgAbY4s1A/s320/Dell-Mini-3i-China-Mobile.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407367780602518466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dell has realized this year that it can’t miss out on the smartphone business especially with a hot OS like Android available out there.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="fullpost"> And the company has been busy developing an Android handset for the Chinese market. The Dell Mini 3i isn’t a secret anymore and earlier today it became official. According to the press release, the Dell Mini 3i will be available “later this month” and China Mobile is the carrier that will launch it.<br /><br />China Mobile is a powerful carrier in China and, with 500 million subscribers, it’s the largest mobile operator in the world. No wonder that Dell wants a piece of that action. So what does the Mini 3i have to offer? Here’s the official specs list of the device:<br /><br /> * China Mobile OPhone OS (custom Android version)<br /> * Quadband GSM/EDGE<br /> * 3G support<br /> * 3.5-inch touchscreen<br /> * GPS<br /> * 3-megapixel camera with zoom, auto-focus, flash and video capture<br /> * Bluetooth<br /> * microSD support for up to 32GB of storage<br /> * miniUSB port<br /> * Dimensions: 58.35 x 122 x 11.7<br /> * Weight: 105g<br /><br />Michael Yang, vice president and general manager for Greater China Consumer of Dell had this to say about the phone:<br /><br />People today want to carry their lives with them – they want to discover, capture and share new content as they roam around the world. We believe Dell’s year-long development collaboration with China Mobile will amplify those experiences better than anyone else in the industry.<br /><br />He might be right about the way people see smartphones today and that seems to be an indication that Dell will not make phones only for China. In fact we already know that the company is going to launch a Dell Mini 3i version in the USA and other markets. But that version hasn’t been officially announced yet and we might not even see it in stores this year.<br /><br />The Dell Mini 3i doesn’t have a price yet, so all those China Mobile subscribers will have to wait until their carrier announces them later this month.<br /><br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-34862690990679892462009-11-23T10:26:00.000-08:002009-11-23T10:27:42.947-08:00Two New Drobos For Your Storage Pleasure<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rOF2Hu6gUMgvTInZgAVvKqw7_dTWcE00uW6zRNn-WaaBcHyBxBj7unohRN9xbM29w_t9cmrid1MZP1lOJIWnlr8GLEY_LKymFJ7GzDIRYtPlxtCRy7m57BhDemfNElgzffHH0c0V6SJ3/s1600/drobo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rOF2Hu6gUMgvTInZgAVvKqw7_dTWcE00uW6zRNn-WaaBcHyBxBj7unohRN9xbM29w_t9cmrid1MZP1lOJIWnlr8GLEY_LKymFJ7GzDIRYtPlxtCRy7m57BhDemfNElgzffHH0c0V6SJ3/s320/drobo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407367188920166370" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">For those out of the know, Drobos are data storage devices, that feature multiple hard drive bays and allow you to hot swap drives on </span><span style="font-family: georgia;" class="fullpost">the fly and features extensive automated data redundancy backup features. They’ve been extremely popular, despite mild critism about the transfer speeds and the lack of an Ethernet port (stopping you from using one as a self-contained NAS unit). Today, Drobo manufacture Data Robotics unveiled two new Drobo models, both serving different niches.<br /><br />The first new Drobo is the high-end business DroboElite. The DroboElite has 8 hard drive bays, and with only 2 Ethernet connections, which pretty much orients it for the enterprise marketplace. The DroboElite can support unto 16 different hosts using data off of it with 255 different volumes onboard.<br /><br />It’s a pretty impressive piece of computer hardware, but with the lack of a USB or Firewire port, and the hefty price tag of $3,500, that makes it clear that this one is for the Enterprise marketplaces.<br /><br />The Drobo S is the new consumer-based model. Data Robotics addressed one of the key complaints with the original Drobo by improving the speed of the unit in the back end (with Engadget reporting 20 to 25% performance improvement). Where the original Drobo had 4 HDD bays, the new Drobo S adds a fifth, which allows for more data redundancy options when backing up your files on the Drobo. Like the first Drobo, the Drobo S features a USB and Firewire connection.<br /><br />The smaller Drobo S will retail for $800. Drobos aren’t cheap, but they are fairly impressive for what they do. If you only need 4 hard drive bays, the original Drobo may be enough for you at only $400. Data Robitics also has various deals if you order a Drobo bundled with hard drives from them.<br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-87993306900376805742009-11-23T10:20:00.000-08:002009-11-23T10:25:57.474-08:00Verizon Samsung Omnia II Release Date & Pricing Confirmed<a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvoXzaRZSlORQjzLj7I2jXndaL7mjeKHYH4ebgJnTNvUHDY1j_ixYUL-O-RMXba2Jjs_39KA-83Pu-vcfZG1O9U84q9EBszbUOrCyygDFnOEDqdcOkRQ_ABDYKRugIyEcnQDUOi1HSoab/s1600/Verizon-Samsung-Omnia-II.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvoXzaRZSlORQjzLj7I2jXndaL7mjeKHYH4ebgJnTNvUHDY1j_ixYUL-O-RMXba2Jjs_39KA-83Pu-vcfZG1O9U84q9EBszbUOrCyygDFnOEDqdcOkRQ_ABDYKRugIyEcnQDUOi1HSoab/s320/Verizon-Samsung-Omnia-II.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407366506624292466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Samsung Omnia II has just become official. Just like we told you a few days ago, the phone has been properly announced by Verizon Wireless.</span><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:georgia;"> The Omnia II will be available in stores starting with December 2 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year contract.<br /><br />Samsung Omnia II is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and it will be interesting to see how it will perform especially now when Android phones seem to dominate the end of the year. If you ask me, we need to see more Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets even if Microsoft’s latest mobile OS isn’t as hot as we would like it to be. The Omnia II is probably one of the best Windows Mobile 6.5 phones available right now, and the only phone that can contend that spot at the moment is the HTC HD2.<br /><br />So let’s officially see what the Omnia II will offer:<br /><br /> * 3.7-inch ultra-brilliant touchscreen; widescreen AMOLED display<br /> * Virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology<br /> * Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional<br /> * Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI<br /> * 3G Support<br /> * Verizon Wireless services: V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, VZW Tones, VZ NavigatorSM<br /> * 5.0-megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video recording<br /> * 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi<br /> * 8GB internal memory<br /> * Up to 16GB microSD memory card<br /> * Bluetooth<br /><br />There’s no doubt about it, the Omnia II is a great smartphone. Sure it might not be able to fight against the iPhone yet but it can definitely successfully compete against some of the best phones launched so far.<br /><br />If you’re looking to buy a smartphone right now then you’re facing a very difficult choice. The iPhone 3GS is still selling very well but there are other hot phones to choose from: the Motorola Droid, the Samsung Omnia II, the HTC HD2, the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. What would you rather buy this Christmas?<br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889142574724172437.post-14100004367086922402009-11-22T07:25:00.000-08:002009-11-22T07:30:12.419-08:00Kenwood MG-F500 Digital Audio Player Unveiled<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5MnBsXOJXPWd8ugvvavgBdYMUL_9ORnNLpR7hrANWdLWF2qZj6cbYvXWdpdBnI4Va7O3fATyk2ph8D-WW-9woBRLIaAUYmdm3m9kBhKnW-nOF5qhP1xqhqp62agflJoCuVYV3FboT-i4/s1600/Kenwood-MG-F500-DAP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5MnBsXOJXPWd8ugvvavgBdYMUL_9ORnNLpR7hrANWdLWF2qZj6cbYvXWdpdBnI4Va7O3fATyk2ph8D-WW-9woBRLIaAUYmdm3m9kBhKnW-nOF5qhP1xqhqp62agflJoCuVYV3FboT-i4/s400/Kenwood-MG-F500-DAP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406949762857849282" border="0" /></a><br />Kenwood have officially unveiled their latest DAP in the form of the Kenwood MG-F500 which is very much an entry level digital audio <span class="fullpost">player which will impress few with its somewhat limited audio file format support and its lack of video playback capabilities (then again, this is a DAP as opposed to a PMP so video should hardly be expected).<br /><br />The Kenwood MG-F500 comes with a 2” color TFT display and, whilst the internal storage capacities on offer are pretty paltry – the MG-F500 will be offered up in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB models only – its saving grace, in this respect at least, is that it also comes with an onboard microSD/SDHC slot allowing you to add additional capacity on and over the limited capacity on offer.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyoOZVK3VwuETwQSETI5doeXpkVOI0mdM7hzQYpWJ5CXD42Y3ozvRXTiJXC8TdJCzlgT0xj8-nJo5iLSx9J1yKbZcSaU8S9tGCjjMXMW-j12S6bmtbibBpJqJmI0xGAAbLV7WPJUTT3_Bk/s1600/Kenwood-MG-F500-Digital-Audio-Player.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyoOZVK3VwuETwQSETI5doeXpkVOI0mdM7hzQYpWJ5CXD42Y3ozvRXTiJXC8TdJCzlgT0xj8-nJo5iLSx9J1yKbZcSaU8S9tGCjjMXMW-j12S6bmtbibBpJqJmI0xGAAbLV7WPJUTT3_Bk/s400/Kenwood-MG-F500-Digital-Audio-Player.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406949762140953074" border="0" /></a><br />In terms of audio file support, however, the Kenwood MG-F500 fails to impress as you’re looking at the device supporting MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV audio file formats only – no OGG, no AAC no FLAC or APE. That’s said, where the Kenwood MG-F500 does manage to impress is in terms of its endurance as it’ll purportedly run for a fairly impressive 50 hours on a single charge.<br /><br />Kenwood have not offered any indication concerning the MG-F500’s pricing for any of the three variants to be offered at this juncture but, with the above in mind, its reasonable to assume that we’re looking at it coming in at especially budget-friendly price points (possibly sub $100?).<br /></span>Sohna Mundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120191523643105235noreply@blogger.com0