A threat to attack a crucial part of Ray ban sunglasses the Internet on Saturday by members of the mercurial, leaderless hacker collective called Anonymous appears to have had no discernible impact so far.
By Saturday in the Eastern United States, there were no major signs of an attack, said several people monitoring the Domain Name System. Some Anonymous hackers had threatened six weeks ago to attack that system, which converts domain names like google.com into numeric addresses that computers use. It led to a quiet global multimillion-dollar effort to strengthen the Domain Name System in recent weeks.
“This is kind of anticlimactic,” said Bill Woodcock, whose nonprofit Packet Clearing House has been part of that campaign. “That Oakley sunglasses was kind of the goal.”
One person monitoring traffic over one of the 13 root servers that are part of the Domain Name System said there was only a five-minute spike in traffic at midnight Friday Greenwich Mean Time after which network traffic seemed to have subsided; the person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of his job to maintain Internet infrastructure.
The effects of a sustained attack on the Domain Name System can be felt only after several days, when parts of the system would be impaired by very heavy flow of network data.
On Twitter, which is what the hackers affiliated with Anonymous use as a soapbox to spread their message, there was little chatter Saturday about the prospective attack. Instead, Anonymous called on burberry handbags its student supporters to put on masks and register their protest against restrictions on freedom of speech.
“Anonymous challenges you to gather your friends and to show your support by wearing a mask, educating your friends about their rights and showing your teachers that school is a place of learning and expression,” it announced on one of its blogs.
Android tablets have failed. Plain and simple. By just about any measure you can come up with, Google (NAS: GOOG) has been unsuccessful so far in burberry watches translating its Android successes in the smartphone market to the tablet market.
The clear tablet king is Apple's (NAS: AAPL) iPad, which is selling like none other. While market researcher IDC thinks Android will eventually dethrone the iPad, I don't see how that can happen at this rate. The hardest part for Google to swallow is that it's not entirely its fault.
What else do you need?
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a well-polished mobile operating system that is leagues ahead of its predecessor, 3.0 Honeycomb. Even Big G considered that version an "emergency landing" just to "get burberry ties tablet support out there."
The company proliferates Android through a slew of hardware partners. Some of these inevitably produce pure junk, but other OEMs are crafting some very respectable devices with some powerful specs.
I found myself in a big-box retailer the other day playing with one of the best Android tablets out there: the Asus Transformer Prime. The tablet carries NVIDIA's (NAS: NVDA) quad-core Tegra 3 and an 8-megapixel OmniVision Technologies (NAS: OVTI) second-generation backside-illuminated image sensor -- one much better Burberry keychain than the newest iPad's.
Less than meets the eye
The Transformer Prime is a solid offering that can give the iPad a run for its money in the spec department. It was the first time I'd handled one, and I was legitimately impressed.
An interesting tidbit that's come out of Hasbro's trademark infringement suit against Asus is that court filings show Asus had just 2,000 preorders for the device a month ago, with 80,000 more set for retail distribution around the world. Meanwhile, Apple just sold 3 million iPads in a weekend earlier this month.Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale.
So one of the best high-end Android tablets that money can buy is garnering sales on par with what amounts to a rounding error in iPad sales.
It has a competitive OS and nosebleed hardware, so why doesn't anyone want it?
Is there an app for that?
Platforms live or die by the content available on them. A TV is pretty useless if there's nothing to watch, and a high-end tablet similarly does you little good if there aren't quality apps to interact with. The louis vuitton mens shoes sale problem with Android tablets is that developers haven't been optimizing their apps for the larger screens, so there's a lack of compelling content.
Apple CEO Tim Cook even discussed this during the new iPad unveiling. Most current Android tablet apps are simply smartphone apps that have been crudely scaled up to larger screen sizes but aren't designed specifically to take advantage of the extra real estate. He used the Yelp app as an example and compared it running on a Samsung Android tablet to the iPad.
2012年3月31日星期六
2012年3月30日星期五
After Louisville lost four of its last six regular-season games
Almost exactly. And maybe not Ray ban sunglasses even almost.
This group of Final Four coaches has a lot of hardware. Bill Self won the 2008 national title with Kansas, Thad Matta reached the ’07 Final Four with Ohio State, and although the NCAA doesn’t acknowledge all of them, John Calipari’s Final Four visits now total four and with three schools. That trio is high on every list of accomplishments for active coaches.
Yet in this constellation of coaching stardom, Pitino is the sun. He’s the one who entered the weekend as a finalist for the Naismith Hall of Fame. He’s even the one who has succeeded in the NBA.
And even though his Louisville team is the relative underdog in the quartet, the outsider in this year’s blueblood quartet — a fourth seed in a field of 1s and 2s — and the one without an All-American on the Oakley sunglasses roster, absolutely nobody is writing Kentucky into the Monday final in ink. The reason? Pitino.
“With the five days to prepare," Calipari said, “I would imagine they’ve come up with a few things to try to — I don’t want to use the word ‘trick,’ but to confuse a team that starts three freshmen and two sophomores. I have no doubt that he has."
That might be part of the two coaches’ mutual tongue-in-cheek, half-in-jest, hidden-agenda admiration society, carried on all week as talk of their frosty relationship picked up steam. For his part, Pitino admits that contrary to popular belief, talent is good to have.
Pitino has been in Calipari’s shoes, burberry handbags of course, during his Kentucky tenure in mid-'90s, expected to win because of what he had.
Yet he won at Kentucky the same way he won with Providence, the Knicks and the first Louisville team he got to the Final Four in 2005. No matter who he has on the floor, they defend, they shoot 3s, and they are convinced, by any means necessary, that they’re as good as anybody they’re playing.
And while Pitino didn’t let on what he had in mind for the Kiddy 'Cats on Saturday, it would have made him smile to know he was on Calipari’s mind.
Louisville does have upperclassmen who have been through this grind plenty of times, in regular season, in conference tournament and in NCAA Tournament play. They had to live through two consecutive first-round losses (including Morehead State last year), they lived through a late fade that wrecked their Big East Tournament seeding, they’ve dealt with injuries and defections and changes on the fly.
Pitino has coached them up burberry watches each time.
Such experience will make a difference. The strategy will, too. He has picked the correct defensive scheme and the correct offensive tempo at the right time in each of Louisville’s last two wins, over Michigan State and Florida. That pressure definitely is capable of stopping the ball from reaching Anthony Davis and Terrence Jones inside, can rattle freshman point Marquis Teague, can take the ball out of the hands of all their most potent scorers.
At the other end, if the Cardinals burberry ties are pushing it upcourt, kicking it to the wings for 3s, or simply keeping Kentucky’s own defense from getting set and comfortable and generating its own baskets, while negating Davis’ shot-blocking inside ... it’s not hard to imagine the No. 1 team in the country suddenly out of its rhythm and off its game.
As Pitino himself said, that hasn’t changed. Neither has his ability to push the right button on his players at the right time.
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After Louisville lost four of its last six regular-season games, senior guard Chris Smith said, “He told us, ‘Your legacy lies in your own hands right now. You want to be remembered as a team that gets knocked out in the first round of the tournament, and to lose on senior night?’ "
Added fellow senior Jared Swopshire, “I feel like the turning point for us was, coach met with us, (and) he basically said, ‘New season.’ That kind of stuck with us going into Big East play."Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale.
Then, there was how Pitino described his own words of wisdom to his players: “I was the reason we lost. I held you guys back. We didn’t press, we didn’t run ... I didn’t feel we could do it at the time. We’re gonna do it in the Big East Tournament."
They haven’t lost since.
Put all those things together, and Louisville’s appearance next to these three season-long contenders isn’t so surprising, Men louis vuitton shoes 2012 new luxury cheap outlet black and the idea that the Cardinals are underdogs makes less sense.
With all the accolades and stats and awards and rings the other coaches have, who wouldn’t take Pitino — and whatever team he’s coaching — over all of them?
This group of Final Four coaches has a lot of hardware. Bill Self won the 2008 national title with Kansas, Thad Matta reached the ’07 Final Four with Ohio State, and although the NCAA doesn’t acknowledge all of them, John Calipari’s Final Four visits now total four and with three schools. That trio is high on every list of accomplishments for active coaches.
Yet in this constellation of coaching stardom, Pitino is the sun. He’s the one who entered the weekend as a finalist for the Naismith Hall of Fame. He’s even the one who has succeeded in the NBA.
And even though his Louisville team is the relative underdog in the quartet, the outsider in this year’s blueblood quartet — a fourth seed in a field of 1s and 2s — and the one without an All-American on the Oakley sunglasses roster, absolutely nobody is writing Kentucky into the Monday final in ink. The reason? Pitino.
“With the five days to prepare," Calipari said, “I would imagine they’ve come up with a few things to try to — I don’t want to use the word ‘trick,’ but to confuse a team that starts three freshmen and two sophomores. I have no doubt that he has."
That might be part of the two coaches’ mutual tongue-in-cheek, half-in-jest, hidden-agenda admiration society, carried on all week as talk of their frosty relationship picked up steam. For his part, Pitino admits that contrary to popular belief, talent is good to have.
Pitino has been in Calipari’s shoes, burberry handbags of course, during his Kentucky tenure in mid-'90s, expected to win because of what he had.
Yet he won at Kentucky the same way he won with Providence, the Knicks and the first Louisville team he got to the Final Four in 2005. No matter who he has on the floor, they defend, they shoot 3s, and they are convinced, by any means necessary, that they’re as good as anybody they’re playing.
And while Pitino didn’t let on what he had in mind for the Kiddy 'Cats on Saturday, it would have made him smile to know he was on Calipari’s mind.
Louisville does have upperclassmen who have been through this grind plenty of times, in regular season, in conference tournament and in NCAA Tournament play. They had to live through two consecutive first-round losses (including Morehead State last year), they lived through a late fade that wrecked their Big East Tournament seeding, they’ve dealt with injuries and defections and changes on the fly.
Pitino has coached them up burberry watches each time.
Such experience will make a difference. The strategy will, too. He has picked the correct defensive scheme and the correct offensive tempo at the right time in each of Louisville’s last two wins, over Michigan State and Florida. That pressure definitely is capable of stopping the ball from reaching Anthony Davis and Terrence Jones inside, can rattle freshman point Marquis Teague, can take the ball out of the hands of all their most potent scorers.
At the other end, if the Cardinals burberry ties are pushing it upcourt, kicking it to the wings for 3s, or simply keeping Kentucky’s own defense from getting set and comfortable and generating its own baskets, while negating Davis’ shot-blocking inside ... it’s not hard to imagine the No. 1 team in the country suddenly out of its rhythm and off its game.
As Pitino himself said, that hasn’t changed. Neither has his ability to push the right button on his players at the right time.
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Thomas Robinson's patience cheap kids sweater to pay dividends at next level
Would Kentucky have a chance against a pro team?
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After Louisville lost four of its last six regular-season games, senior guard Chris Smith said, “He told us, ‘Your legacy lies in your own hands right now. You want to be remembered as a team that gets knocked out in the first round of the tournament, and to lose on senior night?’ "
Added fellow senior Jared Swopshire, “I feel like the turning point for us was, coach met with us, (and) he basically said, ‘New season.’ That kind of stuck with us going into Big East play."Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale.
Then, there was how Pitino described his own words of wisdom to his players: “I was the reason we lost. I held you guys back. We didn’t press, we didn’t run ... I didn’t feel we could do it at the time. We’re gonna do it in the Big East Tournament."
They haven’t lost since.
Put all those things together, and Louisville’s appearance next to these three season-long contenders isn’t so surprising, Men louis vuitton shoes 2012 new luxury cheap outlet black and the idea that the Cardinals are underdogs makes less sense.
With all the accolades and stats and awards and rings the other coaches have, who wouldn’t take Pitino — and whatever team he’s coaching — over all of them?
2012年3月29日星期四
I don't feel like I'm swimming with weights and dragging
Yani Tseng isn't the first-round leader burberry ties at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and that is news on the LPGA Tour.
Tseng, the No. 1-ranked female golfer in the world and winner of six of her last 12 tournaments, shot a four-under-par 68 Thursday at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, and so Tseng is in third place, two shots behind leader Amy Yang of South Korea and a shot behind Australian Lindsey Wright.
Until Thursday, Tseng had held at least a share of a tournament lead in her last eight rounds.
Yang, a 22-year-old burberry outlet from South Korea who hasn't won on the LPGA Tour, shot a 66 that included eight birdies and two bogeys.
Wright, 32, is a former Pepperdine golfer who spoke emotionally about her ongoing battle with clinical depression. As recently as the 2010 British Open, Wright said she was weeping on the green and finding herself feeling alone and isolated.
Wright was smiling Thursday and able to celebrate her ownership of shots of all kinds. But Wright, who described the feeling of traveling the world and competing as a professional athlete as lonely and said she often felt "smothered" by the pressure of competing, said she is sticking to her plan of playing only in spurts this year, win or no win this week.
Wright took off the final four months of last year's season and found she enjoyed the freedom even if her father made the point that burberry shoes for men she still needed to find a way to support herself.
For the last 14 months, Wright said, she has been taking medication for her depression and has made her mental health as much a priority as her physical well-being.
Making birdies on five of her final nine holes as she did Thursday might have always left Wright smiling, but now, she said, "I could have shot 80 today and I'd still feel really great. I don't feel like I'm swimming with weights and dragging around 10 pounds of excess baggage. I sleep better and I'm happier."
Tseng, who has Ray ban sunglasses won two tournaments in a row, including the Kia Classic last Sunday at La Costa, might be the only golfer on the tour who could describe her opening round that included six birdies as disappointing.
"I didn't hit many good shots," Tseng said. "I'm kind of upset because I didn't have good distance. I didn't have many birdie chances. But you can still see my name on the first page of the leaderboard, so I'm happy that it's Oakley sunglasses only the first day of the tournament. The next three days, I'm really looking forward to making as many birdies as I can."
The leading Americans are Paula Creamer and former USC golfer Nicole Castrale, who are in a seven-way tie burberry socks for women for fourth, three shots behind Yang.
Creamer, who owns one major championship, the 2010 U.S. Open, played with Tseng on Thursday and said she was happy to be head to head with the world No. 1.Ed hardy sunglasses wholesale, discount ed hardy sunglasses 2012.
"Obviously, you're playing the golf course, but she's going to be right there on Sunday," Creamer said, "and she's the best louis vuitton jewelry player in the world, and it's good to play with people that are going to push you."
Tseng, the No. 1-ranked female golfer in the world and winner of six of her last 12 tournaments, shot a four-under-par 68 Thursday at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, and so Tseng is in third place, two shots behind leader Amy Yang of South Korea and a shot behind Australian Lindsey Wright.
Until Thursday, Tseng had held at least a share of a tournament lead in her last eight rounds.
Yang, a 22-year-old burberry outlet from South Korea who hasn't won on the LPGA Tour, shot a 66 that included eight birdies and two bogeys.
Wright, 32, is a former Pepperdine golfer who spoke emotionally about her ongoing battle with clinical depression. As recently as the 2010 British Open, Wright said she was weeping on the green and finding herself feeling alone and isolated.
Wright was smiling Thursday and able to celebrate her ownership of shots of all kinds. But Wright, who described the feeling of traveling the world and competing as a professional athlete as lonely and said she often felt "smothered" by the pressure of competing, said she is sticking to her plan of playing only in spurts this year, win or no win this week.
Wright took off the final four months of last year's season and found she enjoyed the freedom even if her father made the point that burberry shoes for men she still needed to find a way to support herself.
For the last 14 months, Wright said, she has been taking medication for her depression and has made her mental health as much a priority as her physical well-being.
Making birdies on five of her final nine holes as she did Thursday might have always left Wright smiling, but now, she said, "I could have shot 80 today and I'd still feel really great. I don't feel like I'm swimming with weights and dragging around 10 pounds of excess baggage. I sleep better and I'm happier."
Tseng, who has Ray ban sunglasses won two tournaments in a row, including the Kia Classic last Sunday at La Costa, might be the only golfer on the tour who could describe her opening round that included six birdies as disappointing.
"I didn't hit many good shots," Tseng said. "I'm kind of upset because I didn't have good distance. I didn't have many birdie chances. But you can still see my name on the first page of the leaderboard, so I'm happy that it's Oakley sunglasses only the first day of the tournament. The next three days, I'm really looking forward to making as many birdies as I can."
The leading Americans are Paula Creamer and former USC golfer Nicole Castrale, who are in a seven-way tie burberry socks for women for fourth, three shots behind Yang.
Creamer, who owns one major championship, the 2010 U.S. Open, played with Tseng on Thursday and said she was happy to be head to head with the world No. 1.Ed hardy sunglasses wholesale, discount ed hardy sunglasses 2012.
"Obviously, you're playing the golf course, but she's going to be right there on Sunday," Creamer said, "and she's the best louis vuitton jewelry player in the world, and it's good to play with people that are going to push you."
2012年3月28日星期三
Three companies also made their stock-market debuts Wednesday
U.S. stocks fell Wednesday Ray ban sunglasses for the fifth day in seven as commodities tumbled and investors focused on disappointing U.S. and European economic data and weakness in overseas markets.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 71.52 points, or 0.54%, to 13126.21, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 6.98 points, or 0.49%, to 1405.54, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 15.39 points, or 0.49%, to 3104.96.
Materials and energy stocks were hit the hardest on a weak day for commodity prices. Alcoa, Caterpillar and United Technologies--three companies exposed to swings in the global economic cycle--led the Dow components lower. Alcoa fell 23 cents, or 2.3%, to $9.83, Caterpillar gave up 3.80, or 3.5%, to 104.26 and United Technologies sank 1.59, or 1.9%, to 81.52. These firms were also hurt by a report showing U.S. durable-goods orders rose 2.2% in February, rebounding from a weak January but coming in below expectations for a 3% rise.
"The fact is, we now are having higher expectations for what our economic numbers should be, if we're to believe we're in a recovery," said Oakley sunglasses Michael Shea, managing partner at Direct Access Partners. "We're at a point where we can have raised expectations--which is positive for market sentiment. But if we don't meet those expectations, then we're going to have days like this."
Oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron also fell after a weekly report on crude-oil inventories showed U.S. stockpiles rising by 7.1 million barrels, much larger than expectations for an increase of 2.2 million barrels. Separately, a French official said the country is considering whether to release oil from its strategic reserves. Exxon fell 76 cents, or 0.9%, to 85.86 and Chevron declined 1.15, or 1.1%, to 105.89.
Telecommunications companies declined after RBC Capital Markets cut its rating on Verizon Communications to "sector perform" from "outperform" and cut its earnings estimates for AT&T. Both stocks were among the Dow's biggest decliners--Verizon dropped 40 cents, or 1%, to 38.26 and AT&T gave up 28 cents, or 0.9%, to 31.36.
Health-care stocks were also in focus as the Supreme Court wrapped up a third day of oral arguments on President Obama's health-care overhaul. Among Dow components, Merck lost 49 cents, or 1.3%, to 38.31 and Pfizer declined nine cents, or 0.4%, to 22.41.
Some of the losses were offset by financial stocks, as American Express advanced 84 cents, or 1.4%, to 59.06 and Bank of America rose 15 cents, or 1.6%, to 9.75.
The declines were also limited burberry handbags somewhat by remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said in a television interview Tuesday evening that he remains concerned about high unemployment. To some investors, that has underscored the central bank's commitment to keeping interest rates low while leaving the door open to a further round of monetary easing.
Ronald Muhlenkamp, who manages the Muhlenkamp Fund in Wexford, Pa., argued that, while companies have been relatively strong and robust, headline risk continued to drive stock volatility.
"There is just so much 'outside stuff,' whether it's Europe, or the Supreme Court, or Congress, that it's not just about the economics of companies," Muhlenkamp said. "I have to yet to meet anyone who has any conviction on where the economy or the politics are headed, and, because there is no conviction, things will stay volatile."
In overseas markets, European stocks fell as investors expressed some concern over economic growth and the outlook for Spain, after Citigroup's chief economist said the country could need a bailout of some form by the end of the year. U.K. economic growth contracted by a greater-than-expected 0.3% in the fourth quarter, and the European Central Bank said private-sector loan growth for the 17-nation euro zone slowed to 0.7% in February.
The Stoxx Europe 600 finished down 1.1%, and London's FTSE 100 lost 1%.
Asian exchanges were mostly lower, highlighted by burberry watches the 2.7% drop in China's Shanghai Composite. It hit an eight-week low in the wake of data out Tuesday indicating profits at the nation's largest industrial groups declined. Elsewhere, Japan's Nikkei Stock Average lost 0.7%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1%.
Crude-oil futures fell 1.8% to settle at $105.41 a barrel, while gold futures declined 1.6% to $1,657.90 an ounce. Copper lost 2.4% and silver fell 2.4%. The dollar edged higher against the euro and fell against the yen.
In corporate news, shares of Pentair surged 6.06, or 15%, to 46.32 after the maker of water-treatment and storage systems agreed to merge with Tyco International's pipes-and-valves unit, valuing the business at roughly $4.5 billion. Tyco rose 2.28, or 4.3%, to 55.81.
Family Dollar Stores edged higher by 12 cents, or 0.2%, to 58.36 after the dollar-store chain reported fiscal burberry ties second-quarter earnings that topped estimates and revenue that matched expectations. The retailer said average inventory per store rose 11%.
PVH slipped 1.17, or 1.3%, to 88.64 after the apparel maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that exceeded expectations but provided a first-quarter outlook that was below current projections, citing significantly higher product costs.
Christopher & Banks tumbled 37 cents, or 16%, to 1.99 after the retailer of women's apparel posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss that was wider Burberry keychain than expected and revenue that was less than anticipated.
Robbins & Myers surged 4.98, or 11%, to 50.81 after the maker of equipment for energy, chemical and industrial producers reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat estimates and raised its full-year earnings outlook. Hugo boss eyeglasses for men, cheap hugo boss glasses for women 2012 sale.
Sealy moved higher by 12 cents, or 6.4%, to 2.00 after the bedding maker reported a fiscal first-quarter profit, better than expectations for a break-even quarter, on the back of strong international sales and improved gross margins.
Three companies also made their stock-market debuts Wednesday. Annie's, a natural-food company, jumped 16.92, or 89%, to 35.92. Hospital communication-system specialist Vocera Communications surged 5.03, or 31%, louis vuitton mens shoes sale to 21.03, while Regional Management, a subprime lender, rose 1.45, or 9.7%, to 16.45.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 71.52 points, or 0.54%, to 13126.21, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 6.98 points, or 0.49%, to 1405.54, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 15.39 points, or 0.49%, to 3104.96.
Materials and energy stocks were hit the hardest on a weak day for commodity prices. Alcoa, Caterpillar and United Technologies--three companies exposed to swings in the global economic cycle--led the Dow components lower. Alcoa fell 23 cents, or 2.3%, to $9.83, Caterpillar gave up 3.80, or 3.5%, to 104.26 and United Technologies sank 1.59, or 1.9%, to 81.52. These firms were also hurt by a report showing U.S. durable-goods orders rose 2.2% in February, rebounding from a weak January but coming in below expectations for a 3% rise.
"The fact is, we now are having higher expectations for what our economic numbers should be, if we're to believe we're in a recovery," said Oakley sunglasses Michael Shea, managing partner at Direct Access Partners. "We're at a point where we can have raised expectations--which is positive for market sentiment. But if we don't meet those expectations, then we're going to have days like this."
Oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron also fell after a weekly report on crude-oil inventories showed U.S. stockpiles rising by 7.1 million barrels, much larger than expectations for an increase of 2.2 million barrels. Separately, a French official said the country is considering whether to release oil from its strategic reserves. Exxon fell 76 cents, or 0.9%, to 85.86 and Chevron declined 1.15, or 1.1%, to 105.89.
Telecommunications companies declined after RBC Capital Markets cut its rating on Verizon Communications to "sector perform" from "outperform" and cut its earnings estimates for AT&T. Both stocks were among the Dow's biggest decliners--Verizon dropped 40 cents, or 1%, to 38.26 and AT&T gave up 28 cents, or 0.9%, to 31.36.
Health-care stocks were also in focus as the Supreme Court wrapped up a third day of oral arguments on President Obama's health-care overhaul. Among Dow components, Merck lost 49 cents, or 1.3%, to 38.31 and Pfizer declined nine cents, or 0.4%, to 22.41.
Some of the losses were offset by financial stocks, as American Express advanced 84 cents, or 1.4%, to 59.06 and Bank of America rose 15 cents, or 1.6%, to 9.75.
The declines were also limited burberry handbags somewhat by remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said in a television interview Tuesday evening that he remains concerned about high unemployment. To some investors, that has underscored the central bank's commitment to keeping interest rates low while leaving the door open to a further round of monetary easing.
Ronald Muhlenkamp, who manages the Muhlenkamp Fund in Wexford, Pa., argued that, while companies have been relatively strong and robust, headline risk continued to drive stock volatility.
"There is just so much 'outside stuff,' whether it's Europe, or the Supreme Court, or Congress, that it's not just about the economics of companies," Muhlenkamp said. "I have to yet to meet anyone who has any conviction on where the economy or the politics are headed, and, because there is no conviction, things will stay volatile."
In overseas markets, European stocks fell as investors expressed some concern over economic growth and the outlook for Spain, after Citigroup's chief economist said the country could need a bailout of some form by the end of the year. U.K. economic growth contracted by a greater-than-expected 0.3% in the fourth quarter, and the European Central Bank said private-sector loan growth for the 17-nation euro zone slowed to 0.7% in February.
The Stoxx Europe 600 finished down 1.1%, and London's FTSE 100 lost 1%.
Asian exchanges were mostly lower, highlighted by burberry watches the 2.7% drop in China's Shanghai Composite. It hit an eight-week low in the wake of data out Tuesday indicating profits at the nation's largest industrial groups declined. Elsewhere, Japan's Nikkei Stock Average lost 0.7%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 1%.
Crude-oil futures fell 1.8% to settle at $105.41 a barrel, while gold futures declined 1.6% to $1,657.90 an ounce. Copper lost 2.4% and silver fell 2.4%. The dollar edged higher against the euro and fell against the yen.
In corporate news, shares of Pentair surged 6.06, or 15%, to 46.32 after the maker of water-treatment and storage systems agreed to merge with Tyco International's pipes-and-valves unit, valuing the business at roughly $4.5 billion. Tyco rose 2.28, or 4.3%, to 55.81.
Family Dollar Stores edged higher by 12 cents, or 0.2%, to 58.36 after the dollar-store chain reported fiscal burberry ties second-quarter earnings that topped estimates and revenue that matched expectations. The retailer said average inventory per store rose 11%.
PVH slipped 1.17, or 1.3%, to 88.64 after the apparel maker reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that exceeded expectations but provided a first-quarter outlook that was below current projections, citing significantly higher product costs.
Christopher & Banks tumbled 37 cents, or 16%, to 1.99 after the retailer of women's apparel posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss that was wider Burberry keychain than expected and revenue that was less than anticipated.
Robbins & Myers surged 4.98, or 11%, to 50.81 after the maker of equipment for energy, chemical and industrial producers reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat estimates and raised its full-year earnings outlook. Hugo boss eyeglasses for men, cheap hugo boss glasses for women 2012 sale.
Sealy moved higher by 12 cents, or 6.4%, to 2.00 after the bedding maker reported a fiscal first-quarter profit, better than expectations for a break-even quarter, on the back of strong international sales and improved gross margins.
Three companies also made their stock-market debuts Wednesday. Annie's, a natural-food company, jumped 16.92, or 89%, to 35.92. Hospital communication-system specialist Vocera Communications surged 5.03, or 31%, louis vuitton mens shoes sale to 21.03, while Regional Management, a subprime lender, rose 1.45, or 9.7%, to 16.45.
2012年3月27日星期二
There was talk on stage of "secret sauce"
If you want to take the measure Ray ban sunglasses of the influence of the incubator Y Combinator, all you had to do was stop by its Demo Day on Tuesday.
The event is a series of 21/2-minute presentations from the latest class of 66 start-ups to finish Y Combinator's program. But to even get in, you had to brave the 30-minute traffic jam outside the Computer History Museum. After several years of holding the event at its cramped offices, Y Combinator had to move to a larger space to accommodate growing demand from potential investors.
You'd also be hard pressed to find a higher caliber of venture capitalists gathered in one place to poke and prod a parade of entrepreneurial hopefuls.
"#YC #DemoDay feels like Fashion Week," tweeted Christine Herron, an investor at Intel Capital. "Buyers making picks and tweeting trends on the catwalk."
The Y Combinator phenomenon points to a much Oakley sunglasses larger idea that has gripped Silicon Valley. This is the age of the incubator. Where Y Combinator was a pioneer a few years ago, the valley is now home to countless incubators, accelerators and boot-camps, all hoping to provide money, mentorship and networking to entrepeneurs who need all three to refine their idea into something investment worthy.
In recent weeks I've received several emails from large media corporations and overseas countries announcing plans to open some kind of center in Silicon Valley. These add to the more established incubators
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Even among this crowded field, Y Combinator stands alone. Consider some of the 500 people in attendance.
There was Ron Conway, burberry handbags of course, who along with Andreessen Horowitz and Russian mogul Yuri Milner, gives each company accepted to Y Combinator a total of $150,000. Then there was Timothy Draper, Jeff Clavier, and blogger turned VC Michael Arrington. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang could be seen smiling and shaking hands. And PayPal co-founder Max Levchin was working the crowd.
In short, it's an insider's insiders crowd. And they had come to sit through five rounds of presentations from entrepreneurs who had spent six months honing their pitches and developing companies with names that seemed like achingly familiar remixes of start-ups names you've heard. Medigram. Flutter. Givespark.
There was talk on stage of "secret sauce" and "paradigm shifts." It's about the only room in the world where an entrepreneur can say in all earnestness things like "We are the Github for everything" and "We want to be the Trulia for burberry watches Commercial Real Estate" and people actually understood them.
"We're gearing up to be the Zynga of mobile," promised Alex Lin, co-founder of LVL6.
Some critics have worried that a glut of incubators are pumping out too many start-ups with ideas that are too small. But if there is was any ambivalence on the part of potential investors, it seemed to be more than balanced out by the fact that they felt they couldn't afford to miss this day.
Jessica Livingston, a Y Combinator co-founder, said it has held the past 13 Demo Days at its offices, but had to move the event to a larger venue to accommodate demands from investors for invitations.
But still, I wondered, why has the incubator concept so completely gripped Silicon Valley?
Graham said the burberry ties proliferation of incubators is really a response to the exploding interest in starting companies. Starting tech companies seems to get cheaper by the day. And the concept of innovation seems to have a strong grip on the national psyche.
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Deepak Kamra, a venture capitalist at Canaan Partners, said Demo Day was valuable for helping him keep abreast of the latest ideas and trends. He also makes a short list of companies to keep his eye on down the road to see if they get any traction and might make good investments.
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The event is a series of 21/2-minute presentations from the latest class of 66 start-ups to finish Y Combinator's program. But to even get in, you had to brave the 30-minute traffic jam outside the Computer History Museum. After several years of holding the event at its cramped offices, Y Combinator had to move to a larger space to accommodate growing demand from potential investors.
You'd also be hard pressed to find a higher caliber of venture capitalists gathered in one place to poke and prod a parade of entrepreneurial hopefuls.
"#YC #DemoDay feels like Fashion Week," tweeted Christine Herron, an investor at Intel Capital. "Buyers making picks and tweeting trends on the catwalk."
The Y Combinator phenomenon points to a much Oakley sunglasses larger idea that has gripped Silicon Valley. This is the age of the incubator. Where Y Combinator was a pioneer a few years ago, the valley is now home to countless incubators, accelerators and boot-camps, all hoping to provide money, mentorship and networking to entrepeneurs who need all three to refine their idea into something investment worthy.
In recent weeks I've received several emails from large media corporations and overseas countries announcing plans to open some kind of center in Silicon Valley. These add to the more established incubators
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such as 500 Startups Accelerator, The Founder Institute, Plug and Play, and Dog Patch Labs.
Even among this crowded field, Y Combinator stands alone. Consider some of the 500 people in attendance.
There was Ron Conway, burberry handbags of course, who along with Andreessen Horowitz and Russian mogul Yuri Milner, gives each company accepted to Y Combinator a total of $150,000. Then there was Timothy Draper, Jeff Clavier, and blogger turned VC Michael Arrington. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang could be seen smiling and shaking hands. And PayPal co-founder Max Levchin was working the crowd.
In short, it's an insider's insiders crowd. And they had come to sit through five rounds of presentations from entrepreneurs who had spent six months honing their pitches and developing companies with names that seemed like achingly familiar remixes of start-ups names you've heard. Medigram. Flutter. Givespark.
There was talk on stage of "secret sauce" and "paradigm shifts." It's about the only room in the world where an entrepreneur can say in all earnestness things like "We are the Github for everything" and "We want to be the Trulia for burberry watches Commercial Real Estate" and people actually understood them.
"We're gearing up to be the Zynga of mobile," promised Alex Lin, co-founder of LVL6.
Some critics have worried that a glut of incubators are pumping out too many start-ups with ideas that are too small. But if there is was any ambivalence on the part of potential investors, it seemed to be more than balanced out by the fact that they felt they couldn't afford to miss this day.
Jessica Livingston, a Y Combinator co-founder, said it has held the past 13 Demo Days at its offices, but had to move the event to a larger venue to accommodate demands from investors for invitations.
But still, I wondered, why has the incubator concept so completely gripped Silicon Valley?
Graham said the burberry ties proliferation of incubators is really a response to the exploding interest in starting companies. Starting tech companies seems to get cheaper by the day. And the concept of innovation seems to have a strong grip on the national psyche.
"When something gets cheaper to do, the number of people doing it increases hyperlinearly," Graham said.
Incubators, he said, provide a first step cheap burberry shirts for women in winnowing down the best ideas and then passing them along to investors.
Deepak Kamra, a venture capitalist at Canaan Partners, said Demo Day was valuable for helping him keep abreast of the latest ideas and trends. He also makes a short list of companies to keep his eye on down the road to see if they get any traction and might make good investments.
But, he also acknowledged, keeping all the companies straight is a growing burden.Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale.
"Someone should do a start-up to help me keep track of all these start-ups," Kamra said. "It might not have a huge audience, but I could really use it."
2012年3月26日星期一
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The network acquired the TV rights to "The Hunger Games" earlier this month. ABC Family will begin airing the franchise in 2014.
The announcement comes on the heels of the movie's huge opening box office weekend, the third highest-grossing opening weekend of all time.
"It's an understatement to say that we are thrilled to add the first two films of 'The Hunger Games' franchise to our channel lineup," ABC Family president Michael Riley said. "This tremendous opening weekend reinforces what we have already learned -- a powerful heroine, themes of romance and iconic characters will keenly resonate with our Millennial audience. This franchise will continue to enhance our network for years to come."
"The Hunger Games," based on Suzanne Collins' bestselling trilogy of books, follows ABC Family's acquisition of the "Harry Potter" films, another series of movies adapted from a young adult-friendly series of bestselling books.
The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh young-adult fiction white-hot in Hollywood, as studios try to turn what used to be a phenomenon into burberry handbags outlet what might be a formula.
Frenzied auctions are underway for books that haven't even been published. Studios are paying as much as $1 million for the rights to adapt titles that are relatively modest sellers, particularly those featuring science-fiction, fantasy and dystopian themes.
"Every single studio wants to capitalize on a young-adult franchise," said Josie Freedman, co-head of the book-to-films department at talent agency International Creative Management. "It's what's selling on the publishing side and on the film side."
In a business plagued by unpredictability but desperate to find the shortest route to a new brand-name franchise, young-adult novels have become the golden ticket. They often come with a built-in fan base that can help create the early buzz that transforms a movie opening into an event. The best of the books feature universally relatable themes of alienation, love and heroism, and cinematic story lines that translate easily to the big screen.
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Suzanne Collins' trilogy of books about teenagers forced to fight to the death in an oppressive future society has become a new standard. That's because unlike "Twilight," which was a hit principally with girls and young women, "The Hunger Games" has attracted men too.
As a result, in Hollywood's latest young-adult literary purchases, romance is out. Epic battles between good and evil, in which the fate of the world rests on a young hero or heroine, are in.
"The main shift from 'Twilight' is the desperation for the young male audience," said Alicia Gordon, a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. "That's why we are seeing darker, more action-driven stories."
The dozens of young-adult books that have been scooped up by studios recently carry titles such as "Chaos Walking," "Scorpio Races," "Beautiful Creatures," "The Night Circus," "Tiger's Curse" and "Divergent." The settings range from alien planets to fantasy worlds to dystopian futures, but all feature a young man or woman — or both — in death-defying competitions and fights to save themselves or their worlds.
Most are still in development, meaning audiences won't see the results until 2013 at the earliest.
Once producers and executives latch onto a book as the potential next "Hunger Games" — especially if its the first entry in a planned series, with the possibility of movie sequels — the competition can become intense. In December, six studios took part in a multi-day auction for "Daughter of Smoke & Bone," a fantasy book about a rebellious 17-year-old girl caught in an epic struggle between good and evil.
Universal Pictures ended up paying $1 million for exclusive rights over the next several years to try to adapt it into a movie, a figure Ray ban sunglasses that industry professionals say is stunning for a title that has sold a very modest 22,692 copies.
"When you see a book that fits the criteria of what has proven to be effective but has its own identity, you want to go after it hard," said Peter Cramer, Universal's co-president of production.
Studios have more material to choose from than ever before, as young-adult novels are just as hot in the struggling New York literary world as they are in Hollywood.
"It's been the hottest growth area in publishing," said Kassie Evashevski, co-head of the book department at the United Talent Agency, whose clients include "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer.
Development executives who screen books with an eye to turning them into movies are being bombarded with 10 to 20 titles a week, the result of the studios' insatiable appetite for hits and publishers' relentless flow of books.
"We're seeing a million of them, but burberry kids sale most feel like imitations or 'johnny-come-latelies,'" Cramer said.
A motivating factor is the famous story of how Paramount Pictures had the rights to the "Twilight" series but let them go when executives there didn't see the making of a successful movie. Summit Entertainment, which is now part of Lionsgate, picked them up and has since released four pictures that have grossed a combined $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, with a fifth scheduled for November.
Paying what once would have seemed like an outrageous sum for a book before it's a bestseller also prevents studios from dishing out even more in the future.
Lionsgate, for example, bought the film rights to "The Hunger Games" in 2008, when only the first book in the series was on shelves and had sold a respectable but far from phenomenal 150,000 copies. The studio paid Collins about $200,000 for the rights, according to a person familiar with the deal but not authorized to disclose details. That figure ultimately grew to between $1 million and $2 million, including bonuses for the book topping the bestseller charts and production fees — a hefty sum but less than 2% of the movie's opening-weekend ticket sales. The studio also has the rights to make three more films based on two follow-up books on far better terms than if it were to cut a deal now that the books have sold 23.5 million copies.
But nothing guarantees success in Hollywood, be it a hot genre or bestselling source material. In the wake of "Harry Potter," a slew of magic-themed books featuring young heroes fizzled when they became the films "The Golden Compass," "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "Eragon."
For now, insiders remain amazed at shirts for men 2012 the desperate push for the next "Hunger Games" and can only wonder when the industry will be ready for a detour.
"Five years ago I would have never thought young-adult novels with such dark themes would be selling," Freedman said. "But there is going to be a bubble. Everything in Hollywood is cyclical."
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The network acquired the TV rights to "The Hunger Games" earlier this month. ABC Family will begin airing the franchise in 2014.
The announcement comes on the heels of the movie's huge opening box office weekend, the third highest-grossing opening weekend of all time.
"It's an understatement to say that we are thrilled to add the first two films of 'The Hunger Games' franchise to our channel lineup," ABC Family president Michael Riley said. "This tremendous opening weekend reinforces what we have already learned -- a powerful heroine, themes of romance and iconic characters will keenly resonate with our Millennial audience. This franchise will continue to enhance our network for years to come."
"The Hunger Games," based on Suzanne Collins' bestselling trilogy of books, follows ABC Family's acquisition of the "Harry Potter" films, another series of movies adapted from a young adult-friendly series of bestselling books.
The back-to-back blockbuster successes of "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and now "The Hunger Games" have turned the hunt for fresh young-adult fiction white-hot in Hollywood, as studios try to turn what used to be a phenomenon into burberry handbags outlet what might be a formula.
Frenzied auctions are underway for books that haven't even been published. Studios are paying as much as $1 million for the rights to adapt titles that are relatively modest sellers, particularly those featuring science-fiction, fantasy and dystopian themes.
"Every single studio wants to capitalize on a young-adult franchise," said Josie Freedman, co-head of the book-to-films department at talent agency International Creative Management. "It's what's selling on the publishing side and on the film side."
In a business plagued by unpredictability but desperate to find the shortest route to a new brand-name franchise, young-adult novels have become the golden ticket. They often come with a built-in fan base that can help create the early buzz that transforms a movie opening into an event. The best of the books feature universally relatable themes of alienation, love and heroism, and cinematic story lines that translate easily to the big screen.
"Young-adult literature is a genre that takes place at a specific time in your life when everything seems to be high stakes," said Erik Feig, president of production at Lionsgate, the studio behind "The Hunger Games" burberry sneakers women and "Twilight." "If you set stories in different worlds with unique protagonists and an element of wish fulfillment, I don't think people will ever be tired of it."
Suzanne Collins' trilogy of books about teenagers forced to fight to the death in an oppressive future society has become a new standard. That's because unlike "Twilight," which was a hit principally with girls and young women, "The Hunger Games" has attracted men too.
As a result, in Hollywood's latest young-adult literary purchases, romance is out. Epic battles between good and evil, in which the fate of the world rests on a young hero or heroine, are in.
"The main shift from 'Twilight' is the desperation for the young male audience," said Alicia Gordon, a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. "That's why we are seeing darker, more action-driven stories."
The dozens of young-adult books that have been scooped up by studios recently carry titles such as "Chaos Walking," "Scorpio Races," "Beautiful Creatures," "The Night Circus," "Tiger's Curse" and "Divergent." The settings range from alien planets to fantasy worlds to dystopian futures, but all feature a young man or woman — or both — in death-defying competitions and fights to save themselves or their worlds.
Most are still in development, meaning audiences won't see the results until 2013 at the earliest.
Once producers and executives latch onto a book as the potential next "Hunger Games" — especially if its the first entry in a planned series, with the possibility of movie sequels — the competition can become intense. In December, six studios took part in a multi-day auction for "Daughter of Smoke & Bone," a fantasy book about a rebellious 17-year-old girl caught in an epic struggle between good and evil.
Universal Pictures ended up paying $1 million for exclusive rights over the next several years to try to adapt it into a movie, a figure Ray ban sunglasses that industry professionals say is stunning for a title that has sold a very modest 22,692 copies.
"When you see a book that fits the criteria of what has proven to be effective but has its own identity, you want to go after it hard," said Peter Cramer, Universal's co-president of production.
Studios have more material to choose from than ever before, as young-adult novels are just as hot in the struggling New York literary world as they are in Hollywood.
"It's been the hottest growth area in publishing," said Kassie Evashevski, co-head of the book department at the United Talent Agency, whose clients include "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer.
Development executives who screen books with an eye to turning them into movies are being bombarded with 10 to 20 titles a week, the result of the studios' insatiable appetite for hits and publishers' relentless flow of books.
"We're seeing a million of them, but burberry kids sale most feel like imitations or 'johnny-come-latelies,'" Cramer said.
A motivating factor is the famous story of how Paramount Pictures had the rights to the "Twilight" series but let them go when executives there didn't see the making of a successful movie. Summit Entertainment, which is now part of Lionsgate, picked them up and has since released four pictures that have grossed a combined $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, with a fifth scheduled for November.
Paying what once would have seemed like an outrageous sum for a book before it's a bestseller also prevents studios from dishing out even more in the future.
Lionsgate, for example, bought the film rights to "The Hunger Games" in 2008, when only the first book in the series was on shelves and had sold a respectable but far from phenomenal 150,000 copies. The studio paid Collins about $200,000 for the rights, according to a person familiar with the deal but not authorized to disclose details. That figure ultimately grew to between $1 million and $2 million, including bonuses for the book topping the bestseller charts and production fees — a hefty sum but less than 2% of the movie's opening-weekend ticket sales. The studio also has the rights to make three more films based on two follow-up books on far better terms than if it were to cut a deal now that the books have sold 23.5 million copies.
But nothing guarantees success in Hollywood, be it a hot genre or bestselling source material. In the wake of "Harry Potter," a slew of magic-themed books featuring young heroes fizzled when they became the films "The Golden Compass," "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "Eragon."
For now, insiders remain amazed at shirts for men 2012 the desperate push for the next "Hunger Games" and can only wonder when the industry will be ready for a detour.
"Five years ago I would have never thought young-adult novels with such dark themes would be selling," Freedman said. "But there is going to be a bubble. Everything in Hollywood is cyclical."
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2012年3月25日星期日
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Republicans running for Congress in the burberry ties competitive 6th District piled on Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett during a debate Sunday, arguing that the GOP incumbent lacks the sense of urgency needed to win in what is likely to be among the most competitive House races in the country.
Most of the GOP candidates running in the April 3 primary to unseat Bartlett and take on the Democratic nominee in November used the debate to offer criticism of their fellow Republican's 10-term career in the House of Representatives, even though their positions on most of the issues did not diverge from his significantly.
Democratic and Republican candidates engaged in their most high-profile exchange of ideas to date Sunday in a pair of debates sponsored by the state AARP chapter and MarylandReporter.com. Both forums at the Montgomery College campus burberry handbags outlet in Germantown were sparsely attended but were to appear on Montgomery County's public access television.
"What is he going to accomplish over the next two years that he has not been able to in 20?" asked Brandon Rippeon, a Darnestown businessman and GOP candidate in the 6th District. "Congressman Bartlett has had half of my lifetime to address and fix and correct the issues that we've talked about here today."
Bartlett, who has raised more campaign cash than the other seven Republicans combined, responded that he was proud of his record in Washington. Though he did not address the criticism from other candidates directly, he noted that lawmakers were often forced to vote on bills that had a broad mix of policies — some they support and others they do not.
"The bills that come before Congress are generally huge bills," Bartlett said. "Every time I vote 'no' on a bill, I'm unhappy that there are frequently some good things in there I would have liked to have voted 'yes' on."
Two other candidates in the GOP race, Del. Kathy Afzali of Middletown and state Sen. David R. Brinkley of New Market, raised questions about Bartlett's tenure but also engaged in a tit-for-tat over their records in Annapolis. They have both been forced to spend significant time there as the campaign has burberry sneakers women unfolded during the state's legislative session.
Lawyer and perennial candidate Robin Ficker attacked Brinkley and Afzali for living outside the district.
"If you're not careful," he warned, "you're going to end up with one of these Democrats."
Democrats had a less feisty exchange, agreeing on a range of questions from how to deal with Afghanistan and Iran to how to shore up Social Security and Medicare.
Jefferson physician Milad Pooran, who has tried to Ray ban sunglasses position himself to the left of the other Democrats in the race, criticized Potomac businessman John Delaney for supporting a bipartisan plan drafted in 2010 to reduce budget deficits. Delaney, who has said that he supported the broad outlines of the plan, responded by saying that candidates who promise no spending cuts aren't being realistic about rising deficits.
"I think the level of unemployment in this country is tragic, and I think the trends are even more concerning," Delaney said. "We've seen this coming, and we know exactly what we need to do to turn them around, and we're not doing it."
Early voting in Maryland began Saturday and runs through Thursday. State Sen. Rob Garagiola used the opportunity to cast his ballot Sunday. Candidates typically vote on Election Day, but Garagiola's campaign has been eager to draw attention to the fact that Delaney cannot vote for himself because he lives burberry hat women large about a block outside the district.
"I'm very frustrated by what's going on in this Congress," Garagiola said during the debate. "This Congress has been very unresponsive as far as focusing on growing our economy."
The 6th District is likely to be the most burberry bags on sale competitive race in Maryland this year — in both the primary and the general election in November — because of the way the district was redrawn as part of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process last year.
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Most of the GOP candidates running in the April 3 primary to unseat Bartlett and take on the Democratic nominee in November used the debate to offer criticism of their fellow Republican's 10-term career in the House of Representatives, even though their positions on most of the issues did not diverge from his significantly.
Democratic and Republican candidates engaged in their most high-profile exchange of ideas to date Sunday in a pair of debates sponsored by the state AARP chapter and MarylandReporter.com. Both forums at the Montgomery College campus burberry handbags outlet in Germantown were sparsely attended but were to appear on Montgomery County's public access television.
"What is he going to accomplish over the next two years that he has not been able to in 20?" asked Brandon Rippeon, a Darnestown businessman and GOP candidate in the 6th District. "Congressman Bartlett has had half of my lifetime to address and fix and correct the issues that we've talked about here today."
Bartlett, who has raised more campaign cash than the other seven Republicans combined, responded that he was proud of his record in Washington. Though he did not address the criticism from other candidates directly, he noted that lawmakers were often forced to vote on bills that had a broad mix of policies — some they support and others they do not.
"The bills that come before Congress are generally huge bills," Bartlett said. "Every time I vote 'no' on a bill, I'm unhappy that there are frequently some good things in there I would have liked to have voted 'yes' on."
Two other candidates in the GOP race, Del. Kathy Afzali of Middletown and state Sen. David R. Brinkley of New Market, raised questions about Bartlett's tenure but also engaged in a tit-for-tat over their records in Annapolis. They have both been forced to spend significant time there as the campaign has burberry sneakers women unfolded during the state's legislative session.
Lawyer and perennial candidate Robin Ficker attacked Brinkley and Afzali for living outside the district.
"If you're not careful," he warned, "you're going to end up with one of these Democrats."
Democrats had a less feisty exchange, agreeing on a range of questions from how to deal with Afghanistan and Iran to how to shore up Social Security and Medicare.
Jefferson physician Milad Pooran, who has tried to Ray ban sunglasses position himself to the left of the other Democrats in the race, criticized Potomac businessman John Delaney for supporting a bipartisan plan drafted in 2010 to reduce budget deficits. Delaney, who has said that he supported the broad outlines of the plan, responded by saying that candidates who promise no spending cuts aren't being realistic about rising deficits.
"I think the level of unemployment in this country is tragic, and I think the trends are even more concerning," Delaney said. "We've seen this coming, and we know exactly what we need to do to turn them around, and we're not doing it."
Early voting in Maryland began Saturday and runs through Thursday. State Sen. Rob Garagiola used the opportunity to cast his ballot Sunday. Candidates typically vote on Election Day, but Garagiola's campaign has been eager to draw attention to the fact that Delaney cannot vote for himself because he lives burberry hat women large about a block outside the district.
"I'm very frustrated by what's going on in this Congress," Garagiola said during the debate. "This Congress has been very unresponsive as far as focusing on growing our economy."
The 6th District is likely to be the most burberry bags on sale competitive race in Maryland this year — in both the primary and the general election in November — because of the way the district was redrawn as part of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process last year.
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2012年3月22日星期四
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After asking an Apple representative burberry handbags to appear in Washington to discuss its mobile device privacy policies, U.S. lawmakers have now turned their attention to third-party application developers on the company's iOS platform as well.
Reps. Henry Waxman and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) today posted letters they sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as 33 high-profile, third-party companies with apps on Apple's iOS platform. Some of those companies include Twitter, Foursquare, Path, Pinterest, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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As a result of privacy issues on mobile devices cropping up, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other platform companies have agreed to require app developers to have privacy policies for their software going forward. That move was pushed by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Nonetheless, this volley of letters is the latest effort by Congress to extract information from Apple about its privacy policies, and the first in this matter to do the same from a wide group of third-party developers. Last month, Waxman and Butterfield sent a letter just to Cook, asking Apple to clarify its privacy policies with regards to the data that apps can collect.
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Reps. Henry Waxman and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) today posted letters they sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as 33 high-profile, third-party companies with apps on Apple's iOS platform. Some of those companies include Twitter, Foursquare, Path, Pinterest, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The letters cite last month's incident wherein third-party social app Path was found to be collecting user address book information without asking. That incident led to Apple announcing that such burberry shirts for women cheap activities were in violation of its developer guidelines, and that apps would not be allowed in the company's App Store if they exhibited that behavior.
In today's letters, the congressman say they want to "better understand the information collection and use policies and practices of apps," though particularly ones that have a "social element."
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As a result of privacy issues on mobile devices cropping up, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other platform companies have agreed to require app developers to have privacy policies for their software going forward. That move was pushed by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Nonetheless, this volley of letters is the latest effort by Congress to extract information from Apple about its privacy policies, and the first in this matter to do the same from a wide group of third-party developers. Last month, Waxman and Butterfield sent a letter just to Cook, asking Apple to clarify its privacy policies with regards to the data that apps can collect.
After receiving a response, the congressman last week sent a follow-up letter to Cook, saying the reply it received did not answer burberry ties all its questions, as well as adding new questions about additional data privacy concerns. That request also asked for Apple to send a company representative to appear in person before the Energy and Commerce Committee, versus sending in another written response.
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Less than 24 hours after purchasing the Verizon Wireless version of the iPad + 4G — and choosing a $30, 2GB monthly burberry ties data plan from Verizon — I was shocked by the notification on my iPad's screen: "There is no data remaining on your current plan."
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I was all too aware that you can consume gobs of data while streaming a movie say on Verizon or AT&T's speedy 4G LTE data networks. Heck, you can use up your entire monthly allowance watching an hour of high-definition video.
You can also stream video on a 3G connection, and that same movie carries the same amount of data no matter how it is being delivered. The difference is that 4G provides a far superior viewing experience, without the hiccups and starts and stops that might make you give up on movie watching or certain other activities burberry handbags outlet under 3G. And 4G LTE loads data faster than on the pokier networks. (Verizon claims that 4G downloads 10 times faster than 3G.) So by its very nature, 4G encourages you to do more — and ultimately spend more.
In my case, I wasn't watching video. What nailed me, I think, is that I was wirelessly downloading a number of the apps that I had already purchased for my older iPad onto the latest model. Those apps were made available through Apple's iCloud.
To help avoid just this situation, the new iPad has a 50MB per app download limit on 4G. Anything over that, and you're directed to Wi-Fi. (The over-the-air download limit on 3G-capable iPads was 20MB.) But that's a per-app limit, and all those smaller-sized apps I was moving to the new iPad collectively added up.
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That's fine in theory. But the whole purpose of choosing a 4G iPad, which starts at $629 compared with the entry price of $499 for Wi-Fi-only models, is that you want it for precisely those instances when Wi-Fi is out of reach.
If there's a positive, it's that iPad data plans on AT&T and Verizon are prepaid. You can select only what you think you'll need. Because there's no contract, as is the norm with cellphones, you can easily add on or cancel data plans right from the iPad as often as you need to. Tap Settings and Cellular Data on the iPad to do just that.
The iPad almost always defaults to a Wi-Fi connection when available. But to make sure you won't get hit by cellular charges, turn off Cellular Data within Ray ban sunglasses Settings when you don't need it. You also have the option to shut down LTE.
Apple's iPhoto is pretty popular. The company's latest iOS app, released alongside the new iPad earlier this month, hit one million users a little over a week after turning up on the App Store, according to The Loop.
And that's unique users, not just downloads, the blog hastened to add.
"It's quite possible that one user downloaded the app multiple times, but Apple isn't counting those, only the unique users," reported The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, who said Apple had supplied the user figures for Oakley sunglasses the new photo manipulation and sharing app with the blog on Wednesday.
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Putting the pace at which users are going for the new iPhoto in perspective, an estimated 12 million copies of Rovio's hugely popular Angry Birds for iOS have been purchased from the App Store since the game's debut in December 2009.
So what's so great about iPhoto? PCMag's lead software and Web applications analyst Michael Muchmore put the app through its paces recently, describing it as "a stunner." Muchmore was particularly pleased with the simple use of multi-touch gestures for photo correction and brushes for applying effects onto specific areas burberry sunglasses of a photo, as well as the addition of easy photo-sharing capabilities in iPhoto, which can feed images directly into Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, as well as through email and via Apple's own iCloud.
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I was all too aware that you can consume gobs of data while streaming a movie say on Verizon or AT&T's speedy 4G LTE data networks. Heck, you can use up your entire monthly allowance watching an hour of high-definition video.
You can also stream video on a 3G connection, and that same movie carries the same amount of data no matter how it is being delivered. The difference is that 4G provides a far superior viewing experience, without the hiccups and starts and stops that might make you give up on movie watching or certain other activities burberry handbags outlet under 3G. And 4G LTE loads data faster than on the pokier networks. (Verizon claims that 4G downloads 10 times faster than 3G.) So by its very nature, 4G encourages you to do more — and ultimately spend more.
In my case, I wasn't watching video. What nailed me, I think, is that I was wirelessly downloading a number of the apps that I had already purchased for my older iPad onto the latest model. Those apps were made available through Apple's iCloud.
To help avoid just this situation, the new iPad has a 50MB per app download limit on 4G. Anything over that, and you're directed to Wi-Fi. (The over-the-air download limit on 3G-capable iPads was 20MB.) But that's a per-app limit, and all those smaller-sized apps I was moving to the new iPad collectively added up.
AT&T declined to comment for this story. In an e-mail, Verizon advised to "Use Wi-Fi to help extend the life burberry sneakers women of your data plan. With so many people having Wi-Fi in their homes and the increasing availability of Wi-Fi in public areas, customers should plan their data use in context of taking advantage of the Wi-Fi capability on 4G LTE tablets."
That's fine in theory. But the whole purpose of choosing a 4G iPad, which starts at $629 compared with the entry price of $499 for Wi-Fi-only models, is that you want it for precisely those instances when Wi-Fi is out of reach.
If there's a positive, it's that iPad data plans on AT&T and Verizon are prepaid. You can select only what you think you'll need. Because there's no contract, as is the norm with cellphones, you can easily add on or cancel data plans right from the iPad as often as you need to. Tap Settings and Cellular Data on the iPad to do just that.
The iPad almost always defaults to a Wi-Fi connection when available. But to make sure you won't get hit by cellular charges, turn off Cellular Data within Ray ban sunglasses Settings when you don't need it. You also have the option to shut down LTE.
Apple's iPhoto is pretty popular. The company's latest iOS app, released alongside the new iPad earlier this month, hit one million users a little over a week after turning up on the App Store, according to The Loop.
And that's unique users, not just downloads, the blog hastened to add.
"It's quite possible that one user downloaded the app multiple times, but Apple isn't counting those, only the unique users," reported The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, who said Apple had supplied the user figures for Oakley sunglasses the new photo manipulation and sharing app with the blog on Wednesday.
The app, part of Apple's iLife mobile software suite, costs $4.99 to download from Apple's App Store. Since it's a brand new app, that means Apple is actually ringing up close to five bucks for every iPhoto download from the App Store. New $4.99 versions of iMovie and GarageBand were also released at the same time, but they're being offered as free upgrades to prior owners.
Putting the pace at which users are going for the new iPhoto in perspective, an estimated 12 million copies of Rovio's hugely popular Angry Birds for iOS have been purchased from the App Store since the game's debut in December 2009.
So what's so great about iPhoto? PCMag's lead software and Web applications analyst Michael Muchmore put the app through its paces recently, describing it as "a stunner." Muchmore was particularly pleased with the simple use of multi-touch gestures for photo correction and brushes for applying effects onto specific areas burberry sunglasses of a photo, as well as the addition of easy photo-sharing capabilities in iPhoto, which can feed images directly into Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, as well as through email and via Apple's own iCloud.
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Iraqi officials declared a holiday next week
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"We do not have atomic weapons and we will not build one. But against an attack by enemies - to defend ourselves either against the US or the Zionist regime - we will attack them on the same level that they attack us," he said.
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A series of explosions and shootings struck Iraq on Tuesday, leaving scores dead and injured a week before a major Arab summit in Baghdad aimed at showcasing the nation's stability after theU.S. military withdrawal.
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At least two car bombs exploded near the heavily fortified Green Zone, where next week's Arab League summit is scheduled to take place.
The targets of the attacks included Shiite Muslim pilgrims, Iraqi police, an army patrol, government officials and guards outside a Christian church in Baghdad.
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This week is the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion. Whether the occasion figured into the attackers' plans was unclear.
Conventional wisdom in Baghdad seemed to indicate that the attacks were timed to precede the Arab League summit. Plans for a similar meeting last year were put off, in part because of security concerns.
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Half an hour later, twin bombs struck a bus terminal in Karbala, an important destination for Shiite pilgrims from across the world, killing 12, among them pilgrims from Iran, and injuring more than 40, authorities said.
Other attacks included bombings of government targets in the western cities of Fallouja and Ramadi, a police station in Kirkuk, and a police patrol in Latifiya, south of Baghdad.
Parliament Speaker Usama Nujaifi denounced the attacks as "heinous criminal incidents" meant to "foil the Arab summit in Baghdad, and to keep Iraq under violence and destruction."
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"We do not have atomic weapons and we will not build one. But against an attack by enemies - to defend ourselves either against the US or the Zionist regime - we will attack them on the same level that they attack us," he said.
Despite the hard-edged tone for most of the speech, there were hints of overtures toward America before a possible resumption of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. He urged the US to have a "respectful attitude" toward Iran - suggesting it could bring dividends.
Earlier this month, Khamenei gave a rare burberry shirts for women cheap nod of approval to US after Obama said he favored diplomacy to resolve the nuclear dispute.
Obama has urged for more time to allow sanctions to cut deeper into Iran's economy . Israeli officials have said there is no decision yet on whether to launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but analysts in both countries have become increasingly nervous about the risks of touching off a region-wide war.
A series of explosions and shootings struck Iraq on Tuesday, leaving scores dead and injured a week before a major Arab summit in Baghdad aimed at showcasing the nation's stability after theU.S. military withdrawal.
Starting shortly after dawn, at least 20 bombs exploded at 13 sites, from Baghdad to the northern city of Kirkuk to the southern cities of Hillah and Karbala. The nationwide death toll was at least 46, with more than 200 injured, the Associated Press reported.
At least two car bombs exploded near the heavily fortified Green Zone, where next week's Arab League summit is scheduled to take place.
The targets of the attacks included Shiite Muslim pilgrims, Iraqi police, an army patrol, government officials and guards outside a Christian church in Baghdad.
The audacious strikes exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's massive security apparatus and highlighted the seemingly intractable political and sectarian violence that continues to consume the nation after the U.S. withdrawal in December.Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale.
The violence across a vast geographical area also pointed to the organizing capability of Iraqi militants, who for years have honed their skills in coordinated attacks meant to undermine authority and terrorize the population.
On Tuesday, authorities pointed their fingers at the usual culprits: Sunni Arab militants, possibly linked to Al Qaeda, who are waging a war against the Shiite-led government that assumed power after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein, a secular Sunni.
To what extent Sunni religious factions are working in tandem with secular nationalist elements opposed to the Shiite-led government remains unclear. Sunni insurgents attacked theU.S. militaryfor years, proving a lethal and skillful foe with expertise in car bombs and roadside explosives.
The Sunni minority dominated the Shiite majority until Hussein's fall. Many Sunnis have rejected Shiite leadership that they view as subservient to neighboring Iran, a mostly Shiite nation.
This week is the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion. Whether the occasion figured into the attackers' plans was unclear.
Conventional wisdom in Baghdad seemed to indicate that the attacks were timed to precede the Arab League summit. Plans for a similar meeting last year were put off, in part because of security concerns.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has ballyhooed the summit as a showcase for a stable and democratic Iraq. Security has been heightened, with checkpoints slowing traffic to a crawl throughout Baghdad. Police were on high alert. But the precautions didn't foil the attackers.
The first burberry ties incident appears to have occurred about 6:30 a.m., when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire outside a church in Baghdad, killing two guards and injuring three.
A little while later, a car bomb struck near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 24, authorities said.
The deadliest single incident may have involved a car bomb that went off at 7:30 a.m. outside a cafe near the center of Hillah, a predominantly Shiite town, authorities said. The explosion, close to the central prison and a pediatric burberry hats for women hospital, left at least 13 dead and 43 injured, police said.
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Half an hour later, twin bombs struck a bus terminal in Karbala, an important destination for Shiite pilgrims from across the world, killing 12, among them pilgrims from Iran, and injuring more than 40, authorities said.
Other attacks included bombings of government targets in the western cities of Fallouja and Ramadi, a police station in Kirkuk, and a police patrol in Latifiya, south of Baghdad.
Parliament Speaker Usama Nujaifi denounced the attacks as "heinous criminal incidents" meant to "foil the Arab summit in Baghdad, and to keep Iraq under violence and destruction."
Violence in Iraq is actually way down since the bloody days of 2006-07, when Sunni and Shiite groups fought each other and attacked U.S. troops. But there have been several large attacks since the U.S. pullout, including dozens of explosions Feb. 23 that killed at least 55 people and wounded more than www.egalass.com 200, the Associated Press reported.
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CNIL asked Google when it would combine data
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Google is “confident that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all European data protection laws and principles,” the company said in an e-mailed statement acknowledging it had received letter dated March 16 and would respond “in due course.”
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Google said last week it “didn’t anticipate this would happen” with the cookies and said it has been removing the files since the issue was uncovered.
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After decades as a dominant force in talk radio, Rush Limbaugh could be in for his biggest fight yet. But the threat isn't from burberry ties activist groups who dislike his conservative politics. It is from one of his own: former Republican governor of Arkansas and onetime presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee.
Starting April 9, Mr. Huckabee, a Fox News Channel commentator, will go head-to-head with Mr. Limbaugh in a syndicated radio program airing in the noon to 3 p.m. Eastern time, weekday slot.
"The Huckabee Show" will initially air on 140 stations, well short of Mr. Limbaugh's roughly 600. But the recent drama over Mr. Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a "slut" for her comments about contraception insurance coverage has given Mr. Huckabee an opening. Numerous advertisers bolted from "The Rush Limbaugh Show," and at least two stations dropped the program.
With the slogan "more conversation, less confrontation," the syndicator behind "Huckabee," Cumulus Media Networks, has been pitching the new show to advertisers as a less combative alternative to Mr. Limbaugh. Cumulus is a unit of Cumulus Media Inc., CMLS +0.89% which owns 570 radio stations.
"I'm not a person who would call anyone by names that would cause my late mother to come out of her grave and slap me to the burberry handbags floor," said Mr. Huckabee in an interview.
Through a representative, Mr. Limbaugh declined to comment.
"It is serendipitous or providential, however you want to look at it," said Cumulus Media co-Chief Operating Officer John W. Dickey of Mr. Limbaugh's troubles.
Cumulus itself carries the Limbaugh program on 40 of its stations, including WABC in New York, the nation's largest radio market. Radio veteran Joel Hollander, a former chief executive of CBS Radio, said "one of the big litmus tests" will be whether Cumulus pulls the Limbaugh show from WABC when its contract expires and picks up the Huckabee program.
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Finding another New York home for Mr. Limbaugh might be complicated because other stations would have to change their programming formats to fit in his show. If Premiere Networks, the syndicator of Mr. Limbaugh's show, couldn't find another New York station, "that would be a huge chink in the armor" for Mr. Limbaugh's ability to sell national advertising, Mr. Hollander said.
In an interview, Cumulus's Mr. Dickey said he would "honor" existing contracts with the Limbaugh show, including at WABC. But he didn't rule burberry belts out a switch to Mr. Huckabee in the future. "We are in favor of eating our own cooking," he said.
At launch, 50 Cumulus stations will air "Huckabee."
"Mike Huckabee will pose the most formidable challenge to Limbaugh that I can remember from a conservative hosting in the same time slot and being backed by a major company," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, a talk-radio trade journal.
Premiere Networks, part of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said in a statement that it had no "official drops [in stations] due to Huckabee" and dismissed any imminent challenge to its embattled host.
"Mike Huckabee is the latest in a long line of those who have attempted to compete with Rush," Premiere Networks said. Premiere also noted that reports of advertisers leaving are "grossly exaggerated."
Indeed, some advertisers are likely to stick with Mr. Limbaugh. And as the controversy diminishes, some of the departed may even return, according to media buyers. For marketers, the show is an easy way to reach a large group of highly educated affluent males, Mr. Limbaugh's core audience,burberry scarves according to media buyers.
Over the years, other conservative talk-show hosts have failed to dethrone Mr. Limbaugh, including another Fox News commentator, Bill O'Reilly, who hosted a noon to 2 p.m. syndicated show from 2002 to 2009. When he stepped down, Mr. O'Reilly cited a desire to reduce his workload. Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson from Tennessee followed in that time slot in 2009, but ended his show about a year ago.
(Fox News is owned by News Corp NWSA -0.89% ., which also owns The Wall Street Journal.)
The advertising environment in radio has dimmed, adding to pressure on Mr. Limbaugh.
Radio-industry ad revenues plummeted 25% between 2006 and 2011, estimates MagnaGlobal, both because of the economic downturn and longer term moves away from radio.
"The medium is struggling" with ad revenues shifting to "digital channels and TV," said Vincent Letang, director of global forecasting at burberry kids skirts cheap MagnaGlobal, a media buying and research arm of Interpublic Group of Cos IPG -0.25% .
The Limbaugh storm has been "a stomach punch for radio" at a time when advertisers are "already fleeing to other targeted media" such as the Internet, said Gordon Borrell, chief executive of Borrell Associates Inc., a local-media research firm.
Since the problems arose a long list of companies have distanced themselves from the Limbaugh show including AOL Inc., AOL +0.11% ProFlowers.com, Citrix Systems Inc. CTXS -1.25% and Allstate Corp. ALL +0.28% Ad buyers say that there can be hundreds of advertisers associated with Mr. Limbaugh's program since ads can be purchased either nationally or locally on hundreds of stations around the country.
Mr. Huckabee "is a conservative but he is not controversial, so he could pick up some of the advertisers," said Coreen Gelber, director of local investment at PhD, a media buying firm owned by Omnicom Group Inc. OMC +0.36%
Still, ad buyers say that for big ad dollars to move, "Huckabee" needs to acquire more stations.
So far, only two stations have publicly said they are abandoning "Limbaugh." In some cases, however, contracts with Premiere require stations to continue paying for the show even if they don't air it. In other cases, stations can quit the show with 90 days notice.
Cumulus Media's Mr. Dickey said "some" Limbaugh stations had already decided to switch to the former governor's show, but wouldn't disclose how many or which ones. One broadcaster who didn't want to burberry bags outlet be identified said it had dropped "Limbaugh" and signed "Huckabee."
A former Baptist minister who started in radio when he was 14, Mr. Huckabee said that his new show would be "heavy on politics," but not "altogether predictable."
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Starting April 9, Mr. Huckabee, a Fox News Channel commentator, will go head-to-head with Mr. Limbaugh in a syndicated radio program airing in the noon to 3 p.m. Eastern time, weekday slot.
"The Huckabee Show" will initially air on 140 stations, well short of Mr. Limbaugh's roughly 600. But the recent drama over Mr. Limbaugh calling a Georgetown law student a "slut" for her comments about contraception insurance coverage has given Mr. Huckabee an opening. Numerous advertisers bolted from "The Rush Limbaugh Show," and at least two stations dropped the program.
With the slogan "more conversation, less confrontation," the syndicator behind "Huckabee," Cumulus Media Networks, has been pitching the new show to advertisers as a less combative alternative to Mr. Limbaugh. Cumulus is a unit of Cumulus Media Inc., CMLS +0.89% which owns 570 radio stations.
"I'm not a person who would call anyone by names that would cause my late mother to come out of her grave and slap me to the burberry handbags floor," said Mr. Huckabee in an interview.
Through a representative, Mr. Limbaugh declined to comment.
"It is serendipitous or providential, however you want to look at it," said Cumulus Media co-Chief Operating Officer John W. Dickey of Mr. Limbaugh's troubles.
Cumulus itself carries the Limbaugh program on 40 of its stations, including WABC in New York, the nation's largest radio market. Radio veteran Joel Hollander, a former chief executive of CBS Radio, said "one of the big litmus tests" will be whether Cumulus pulls the Limbaugh show from WABC when its contract expires and picks up the Huckabee program.
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Finding another New York home for Mr. Limbaugh might be complicated because other stations would have to change their programming formats to fit in his show. If Premiere Networks, the syndicator of Mr. Limbaugh's show, couldn't find another New York station, "that would be a huge chink in the armor" for Mr. Limbaugh's ability to sell national advertising, Mr. Hollander said.
In an interview, Cumulus's Mr. Dickey said he would "honor" existing contracts with the Limbaugh show, including at WABC. But he didn't rule burberry belts out a switch to Mr. Huckabee in the future. "We are in favor of eating our own cooking," he said.
At launch, 50 Cumulus stations will air "Huckabee."
"Mike Huckabee will pose the most formidable challenge to Limbaugh that I can remember from a conservative hosting in the same time slot and being backed by a major company," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, a talk-radio trade journal.
Premiere Networks, part of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said in a statement that it had no "official drops [in stations] due to Huckabee" and dismissed any imminent challenge to its embattled host.
"Mike Huckabee is the latest in a long line of those who have attempted to compete with Rush," Premiere Networks said. Premiere also noted that reports of advertisers leaving are "grossly exaggerated."
Indeed, some advertisers are likely to stick with Mr. Limbaugh. And as the controversy diminishes, some of the departed may even return, according to media buyers. For marketers, the show is an easy way to reach a large group of highly educated affluent males, Mr. Limbaugh's core audience,burberry scarves according to media buyers.
Over the years, other conservative talk-show hosts have failed to dethrone Mr. Limbaugh, including another Fox News commentator, Bill O'Reilly, who hosted a noon to 2 p.m. syndicated show from 2002 to 2009. When he stepped down, Mr. O'Reilly cited a desire to reduce his workload. Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson from Tennessee followed in that time slot in 2009, but ended his show about a year ago.
(Fox News is owned by News Corp NWSA -0.89% ., which also owns The Wall Street Journal.)
The advertising environment in radio has dimmed, adding to pressure on Mr. Limbaugh.
Radio-industry ad revenues plummeted 25% between 2006 and 2011, estimates MagnaGlobal, both because of the economic downturn and longer term moves away from radio.
"The medium is struggling" with ad revenues shifting to "digital channels and TV," said Vincent Letang, director of global forecasting at burberry kids skirts cheap MagnaGlobal, a media buying and research arm of Interpublic Group of Cos IPG -0.25% .
The Limbaugh storm has been "a stomach punch for radio" at a time when advertisers are "already fleeing to other targeted media" such as the Internet, said Gordon Borrell, chief executive of Borrell Associates Inc., a local-media research firm.
Since the problems arose a long list of companies have distanced themselves from the Limbaugh show including AOL Inc., AOL +0.11% ProFlowers.com, Citrix Systems Inc. CTXS -1.25% and Allstate Corp. ALL +0.28% Ad buyers say that there can be hundreds of advertisers associated with Mr. Limbaugh's program since ads can be purchased either nationally or locally on hundreds of stations around the country.
Mr. Huckabee "is a conservative but he is not controversial, so he could pick up some of the advertisers," said Coreen Gelber, director of local investment at PhD, a media buying firm owned by Omnicom Group Inc. OMC +0.36%
Still, ad buyers say that for big ad dollars to move, "Huckabee" needs to acquire more stations.
So far, only two stations have publicly said they are abandoning "Limbaugh." In some cases, however, contracts with Premiere require stations to continue paying for the show even if they don't air it. In other cases, stations can quit the show with 90 days notice.
Cumulus Media's Mr. Dickey said "some" Limbaugh stations had already decided to switch to the former governor's show, but wouldn't disclose how many or which ones. One broadcaster who didn't want to burberry bags outlet be identified said it had dropped "Limbaugh" and signed "Huckabee."
A former Baptist minister who started in radio when he was 14, Mr. Huckabee said that his new show would be "heavy on politics," but not "altogether predictable."
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2012年3月15日星期四
Representatives for Sprint Nextel and Lightsquared
iPad apps as we've known them are about to get super-sized, and are now on a collision course with whatever space you thought you had on your iPad--old or new. Early evidence pointing in that direction comes from burberry ties Apple's own applications, which were all updated last week to coincide with its new tablet, and became considerably larger as a result.
As my colleague Jason Parker detailed earlier this week, Pages--the word processor app in Apple's iOS iWork suite--jumped from 95MB to 269MB, while Numbers--Apple's spreadsheet app--increased from 109MB to 283MB. Yesterday, an extended hands-on with the new tablet from Vietnam-based blog Tinhte came with additional numbers, mainly that iMovie has ballooned from 70MB to 404MB.
Here's the thing though: while it's easy to apply a multiplier onto the size of these apps and guesstimate it for any app that's out there right now, developers CNET spoke to said it's not that clear cut. Like a snowflake, each piece of software is different, and it all comes down to the content that gets packed in. Things like videos, music, high-quality image and texture assets that are included in applications could be getting upgraded, but not all those things are equal in terms of the impact they have in size.
Apple's new iMovie app includes a feature that lets you make movie trailers, and includes some sample data that takes up more space.
Apple's new iMovie app includes a feature that lets you make movie trailers, and includes some sample data that takes up more space.
In the case of the updated iMovie app, it's a big mix of all these components. While things like buttons, knobs, burberry handbags outlet and interface elements have gotten the "Retina" treatment, a big chunk of that size increase can be attributed to media Apple has added within the app. That includes the new trailers feature, which lets people make Hollywood-style movie trailers using footage they've shot.
As part of the new feature (which was picked apart for size by a Reddit commenter), Apple included 17 audio tracks, most about 2 MB in size and running about a minute. That's basically half a music album's worth of data that wasn't there before. Apple also included preview movies a few seconds long--but even these short videos can take between 300KB to 600KB each. There are 20 of them per trailer type, and there are nine types of trailers. All told it's a little more than 100MB of content, which is bigger than the entire app was in its last incarnation.
With Pages, Apple didn't tack on any new whiz-bang feature that's brought on audio or video files. The simple truth of the matter is that it's just a big app, with more than 1,000 image assets that needed Retina-ready counterparts, all of which come in at a bigger size and are an addition to the old ones. Examples like this are where some of the fear about bulging file sizes is warranted, since users on older devices aren't getting the advantage of these higher-resolution components, but will have to download them nonetheless.
Something else to consider is that many potentially bloat-inducing culprits, including standard app buttons and background textures, are pre-installed on the device, so apps often don't need their own. However, some developers burberry beige handbag create their own icons and buttons, which can add to an app's overall size. That includes the popular, and already updated Tweetbot app for Twitter, which has its own set of icons and visual features it brings along for the ride.
How big can apps get?
One consideration is that Apple has a firm limit on how big apps can be, which is 2GB per Apple's iTunes Connect--the system developers submit their software through. For something like the entry-level, 16GB iPad that works out to about seven applications given the space you're left with right out of the box.
Do any apps even come close to this per app barrier already? Yes, but they're games. EA's FIFA '11 and '12 editions both are more than a 1GB; the larger '11 version is 1.26GB. There's also Epic's Infinity Blade 2, which is 791 MB, and two of Gameloft's Modern Combat titles break the gigabyte barrier.
How big will these particular games get once they've been given a polish for Apple's new device? That remains unclear. Once again it depends largely on how much of that bulk are game assets the need double-sized versions, and if developers come up with any workarounds to make their apps take up less space.
One place to look in the burberry scarves meantime are the applications that have already been updated for the new tablet. Here's a chart of the ones that are not new apps, and how they were affected in the jump:
The one thing you'll notice is that none of these titles went down in size. That shouldn't be too surprising. You'll also notice that apps that are specifically for reading content like Amazon's Kindle reader and the New York Times, as well as writing apps like Evernote and the Day One journal software barely changed. The biggest impact was on graphically rich titles, which were the biggest in size. But even there it comes down to its make-up as seen with the Star Walk app, which went from 122MB to 153MB.
Sizing up
Looking at the iPad apps currently on top of the App Store, they would not come close to becoming 500MB, or even 1GB monsters--even if you were to quintuple their size.
Out of the top 25 iPad apps, 20 are not made by burberry kids skirts cheap Apple and run the gamut from 1MB, all the way up to 565MB. However most are about 20 to 50MB range, which is big enough to be downloaded over 3G and 4G connections under Apple's restrictions. That includes Angry Birds and its sibling Angry Birds: Seasons which come in at 14 MB and 15.5MB respectively.
The bad news keeps coming for Lightsquared.
Sprint Nextel plans to terminate its 15-year contract with the foundering wireless broadband effort on Friday and return $65 million in prepayments, according to The Wall Street Journal. The cancellation would leave Lightsquared without a major partner for its effort to build a national wireless broadband network using satellite spectrum.
Representatives for Sprint Nextel and Lightsquared did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The move is just the latest in a succession of setbacks for the company. The Reston, Va., company suffered a possibly fatal blow in February when the FCC announced it would "suspend indefinitely" the startup's conditional waiver to operate after it was determined that LightSquared's interference with other devices, including GPS devices, was unavoidable.
While LightSquared vowed to fight on to win approval for the waiver from the FCC, the company's CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, announced his resignation just two weeks later. That news followed the revelation that the company planned to slash its workforce by 45 percent to conserve cash.
However, the company's burberry bags outlet financial foundation has been in question lately too after it missed a scheduled payment to its satellite partner Inmarsat for spectrum it plans to use to build its network. Inmarsat said in February it hadn't received a $56.3 million payment from LightSquared.
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As my colleague Jason Parker detailed earlier this week, Pages--the word processor app in Apple's iOS iWork suite--jumped from 95MB to 269MB, while Numbers--Apple's spreadsheet app--increased from 109MB to 283MB. Yesterday, an extended hands-on with the new tablet from Vietnam-based blog Tinhte came with additional numbers, mainly that iMovie has ballooned from 70MB to 404MB.
Here's the thing though: while it's easy to apply a multiplier onto the size of these apps and guesstimate it for any app that's out there right now, developers CNET spoke to said it's not that clear cut. Like a snowflake, each piece of software is different, and it all comes down to the content that gets packed in. Things like videos, music, high-quality image and texture assets that are included in applications could be getting upgraded, but not all those things are equal in terms of the impact they have in size.
Apple's new iMovie app includes a feature that lets you make movie trailers, and includes some sample data that takes up more space.
Apple's new iMovie app includes a feature that lets you make movie trailers, and includes some sample data that takes up more space.
In the case of the updated iMovie app, it's a big mix of all these components. While things like buttons, knobs, burberry handbags outlet and interface elements have gotten the "Retina" treatment, a big chunk of that size increase can be attributed to media Apple has added within the app. That includes the new trailers feature, which lets people make Hollywood-style movie trailers using footage they've shot.
As part of the new feature (which was picked apart for size by a Reddit commenter), Apple included 17 audio tracks, most about 2 MB in size and running about a minute. That's basically half a music album's worth of data that wasn't there before. Apple also included preview movies a few seconds long--but even these short videos can take between 300KB to 600KB each. There are 20 of them per trailer type, and there are nine types of trailers. All told it's a little more than 100MB of content, which is bigger than the entire app was in its last incarnation.
With Pages, Apple didn't tack on any new whiz-bang feature that's brought on audio or video files. The simple truth of the matter is that it's just a big app, with more than 1,000 image assets that needed Retina-ready counterparts, all of which come in at a bigger size and are an addition to the old ones. Examples like this are where some of the fear about bulging file sizes is warranted, since users on older devices aren't getting the advantage of these higher-resolution components, but will have to download them nonetheless.
Something else to consider is that many potentially bloat-inducing culprits, including standard app buttons and background textures, are pre-installed on the device, so apps often don't need their own. However, some developers burberry beige handbag create their own icons and buttons, which can add to an app's overall size. That includes the popular, and already updated Tweetbot app for Twitter, which has its own set of icons and visual features it brings along for the ride.
How big can apps get?
One consideration is that Apple has a firm limit on how big apps can be, which is 2GB per Apple's iTunes Connect--the system developers submit their software through. For something like the entry-level, 16GB iPad that works out to about seven applications given the space you're left with right out of the box.
Do any apps even come close to this per app barrier already? Yes, but they're games. EA's FIFA '11 and '12 editions both are more than a 1GB; the larger '11 version is 1.26GB. There's also Epic's Infinity Blade 2, which is 791 MB, and two of Gameloft's Modern Combat titles break the gigabyte barrier.
How big will these particular games get once they've been given a polish for Apple's new device? That remains unclear. Once again it depends largely on how much of that bulk are game assets the need double-sized versions, and if developers come up with any workarounds to make their apps take up less space.
One place to look in the burberry scarves meantime are the applications that have already been updated for the new tablet. Here's a chart of the ones that are not new apps, and how they were affected in the jump:
The one thing you'll notice is that none of these titles went down in size. That shouldn't be too surprising. You'll also notice that apps that are specifically for reading content like Amazon's Kindle reader and the New York Times, as well as writing apps like Evernote and the Day One journal software barely changed. The biggest impact was on graphically rich titles, which were the biggest in size. But even there it comes down to its make-up as seen with the Star Walk app, which went from 122MB to 153MB.
Sizing up
Looking at the iPad apps currently on top of the App Store, they would not come close to becoming 500MB, or even 1GB monsters--even if you were to quintuple their size.
Out of the top 25 iPad apps, 20 are not made by burberry kids skirts cheap Apple and run the gamut from 1MB, all the way up to 565MB. However most are about 20 to 50MB range, which is big enough to be downloaded over 3G and 4G connections under Apple's restrictions. That includes Angry Birds and its sibling Angry Birds: Seasons which come in at 14 MB and 15.5MB respectively.
The bad news keeps coming for Lightsquared.
Sprint Nextel plans to terminate its 15-year contract with the foundering wireless broadband effort on Friday and return $65 million in prepayments, according to The Wall Street Journal. The cancellation would leave Lightsquared without a major partner for its effort to build a national wireless broadband network using satellite spectrum.
Representatives for Sprint Nextel and Lightsquared did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The move is just the latest in a succession of setbacks for the company. The Reston, Va., company suffered a possibly fatal blow in February when the FCC announced it would "suspend indefinitely" the startup's conditional waiver to operate after it was determined that LightSquared's interference with other devices, including GPS devices, was unavoidable.
While LightSquared vowed to fight on to win approval for the waiver from the FCC, the company's CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, announced his resignation just two weeks later. That news followed the revelation that the company planned to slash its workforce by 45 percent to conserve cash.
However, the company's burberry bags outlet financial foundation has been in question lately too after it missed a scheduled payment to its satellite partner Inmarsat for spectrum it plans to use to build its network. Inmarsat said in February it hadn't received a $56.3 million payment from LightSquared.
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2012年3月14日星期三
As a state with a history of voter discrimination
Texas on Wednesday asked a federal panel weighing its photo ID requirement for voters to allow its attorneys to challenge the burberry ties constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, taking a direct shot at the statue that has blocked the state from enforcing tightened voter requirements.
In a filing to a three-judge panel in Washington, Texas asked to submit a petition charging that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act "exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress and conflicts with Article IV of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment."
As a state with a history of voter discrimination, Texas is required under that section of the Voting Rights Act to get advance approval of voting changes from either the Justice Department or the U.S. District Court in Washington.
The provision dates from 1965, but was upheld in 2006 after Congress found that discrimination still exists in the areas where it was historically a problem.
On Monday, the Justice Department declared that Texas' photo ID rule could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of registered Hispanics burberry handbags outlet statewide — its latest move against Republican-led voting changes in many states that have drawn protests from minorities, poor people and students.
The Justice Department's objection sent the case to the federal panel that is now deciding whether Texas, as well as South Carolina, will be allowed to enforce new voter photo ID requirements. It also has resulted in the Texas law being blocked until the court rules.
Under Section 5 of the Voter Rights Act, Texas also had to win pre-clearance for the new congressional and state legislative districts drawn by its Republican-dominated state Legislature. Those proposed redistricting maps have themselves touched off a legal battle that is now in the hands of the same three-judge federal panel in Washington that is mulling the voter ID law. Meanwhile, the Texas primary has been delayed and now likely won't take place until May 29.
With its filing, Texas burberry beige handbag is seeking permission to make a larger argument on the merits of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act itself. If the provision were overturned, Texas could make changes to its voting rules without federal approval.
Such an argument is important because the federal panel's decision can be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could potentially rule to overturn the provision entirely.
Alabama's Shelby County is already challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, but that case was argued in January in the federal appeals court system and a decision has yet to be reached in the matter.
One of the more surprising accusations of media bias in quite a while was Rick Santorum‘s contention this week that Fox News is somehow in burberry scarves the tank for Mitt Romney. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Laura Ingraham defended the network, saying that while most people at Fox probably believe Romney will be the nominee, the coverage has been mostly fair to Santorum.
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Bill O’Reilly opened the segment by noting Santorum’s frequent appearances on Fox News over the last few months. In fact, Chris Wallace made a point to note last October that Romney had not appeared on any Sunday talk shows in over a year and a half. Romney’s been popping up more frequently during the primary season, but Santorum has been consistently willing to come on Fox News. But Santorum still contends that the network has been “shilling” for Romney.
Ingraham responded to the criticism by noting that going after the media for unfair coverage has never necessarily been a winning strategy because “you tend to look a little bit whiny.” She admittedly has suspicions that like the majority of Republicans, many people at Fox News believe Romney will burberry kids skirts cheap eventually by the Republican nominee, but on the whole, she argued that Fox has been very fair to Santorum.
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In a filing to a three-judge panel in Washington, Texas asked to submit a petition charging that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act "exceeds the enumerated powers of Congress and conflicts with Article IV of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment."
As a state with a history of voter discrimination, Texas is required under that section of the Voting Rights Act to get advance approval of voting changes from either the Justice Department or the U.S. District Court in Washington.
The provision dates from 1965, but was upheld in 2006 after Congress found that discrimination still exists in the areas where it was historically a problem.
On Monday, the Justice Department declared that Texas' photo ID rule could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of registered Hispanics burberry handbags outlet statewide — its latest move against Republican-led voting changes in many states that have drawn protests from minorities, poor people and students.
The Justice Department's objection sent the case to the federal panel that is now deciding whether Texas, as well as South Carolina, will be allowed to enforce new voter photo ID requirements. It also has resulted in the Texas law being blocked until the court rules.
Under Section 5 of the Voter Rights Act, Texas also had to win pre-clearance for the new congressional and state legislative districts drawn by its Republican-dominated state Legislature. Those proposed redistricting maps have themselves touched off a legal battle that is now in the hands of the same three-judge federal panel in Washington that is mulling the voter ID law. Meanwhile, the Texas primary has been delayed and now likely won't take place until May 29.
With its filing, Texas burberry beige handbag is seeking permission to make a larger argument on the merits of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act itself. If the provision were overturned, Texas could make changes to its voting rules without federal approval.
Such an argument is important because the federal panel's decision can be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could potentially rule to overturn the provision entirely.
Alabama's Shelby County is already challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, but that case was argued in January in the federal appeals court system and a decision has yet to be reached in the matter.
One of the more surprising accusations of media bias in quite a while was Rick Santorum‘s contention this week that Fox News is somehow in burberry scarves the tank for Mitt Romney. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Laura Ingraham defended the network, saying that while most people at Fox probably believe Romney will be the nominee, the coverage has been mostly fair to Santorum.
RELATED: Santorum Accuses Fox News Of Shilling For Romney, Is Called Out By Brian Kilmeade
Bill O’Reilly opened the segment by noting Santorum’s frequent appearances on Fox News over the last few months. In fact, Chris Wallace made a point to note last October that Romney had not appeared on any Sunday talk shows in over a year and a half. Romney’s been popping up more frequently during the primary season, but Santorum has been consistently willing to come on Fox News. But Santorum still contends that the network has been “shilling” for Romney.
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2012年3月13日星期二
No word on whether Jackson got his phone back
Bear Grylls has eaten his last piece burberry ties of raw meat for the Discovery Channel.
Discovery Channel has terminated its relationship with Grylls, the British television personality and star of the network's "Man vs. Wild." Grylls, who joined the show when it launched launched in 2006, was fired by Discovery after he refused to participate in two unannounced projects he was contracted for, say sources. The sixth season of "Man Vs. Wild" wrapped in August.
This is not the first time Discovery has had a disagreement with its talent. In 2010, the network sued Deadliest Catch captains Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand for allegedly failing to complete work on the spinoff "Hillstranded." The $3 million lawsuit prompted the Hillstrands and captain Sig Hansen to quit, though a month later the dispute was settled, the suit was dropped and all three returned to work on the show.
Grylls, 37, has parlayed his fame as an extreme outdoorsman into an international media career. He's written nearly a dozen books, many of them survival guides. His memoir "Mud, Sweat and Tears" -- due to be published in the U.S. in May -- already is a best-seller in England and Australia. He's landed numerous endorsement deals including with Dockers and Degree deodorant. There's a "Man vs. Wild" video game, he has an iPhone app, and his clothing line is sold at REI and Walmart.
In other words, this guy isn't going to have to dig up live worms for dinner anytime soon.
exploits on "Man Vs. Wild" (which averaged 1.1 million viewers on Discovery last season) have earned him numerous celebrity admirers. Jake Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have tagged along on some of Grylls' adventures. But the show was beset with early controversies when it was revealed that some of Grylls' escapades were enhanced or staged and that Grylls spent nights in local motels while he was purportedly left alone to fend for himself on a deserted island.
In 2007, the show was briefly taken off the air in the U.K. and Discovery began airing it with a disclaimer allowing that Grylls was not in fact left alone to survive in the wild. In subsequent episodes Grylls directly addresses the crew, and in the interest of transparency, each season featured a making-of episode.
Grylls' rugged public persona has also bellied his personal wealth. A former member of the British Army's Special Air Service, burberry handbags outlet Grylls lives with his family on a private island in Wales (where there is no electricity). He also has a home in Malibu and a house barge on the Thames. In a recent New York Times profile, Grylls says he only hired a publicist last year and maintains that he's "still always the scruffiest person at any meeting."
Discovery had multiple additional projects in development with Grylls; though the exact nature of his contract dispute and subsequent firing was not known. Grylls has not commented on the matter.
'HUNGER GAMES' FANS LOVE THE MOVIE: It's official: "Hunger Games" is the real deal.
Hundreds of fans who won tickets to Monday's world premiere cheered for hours before any stars arrived, screamed when they did and kept the applause going right through the film.
"I thought it was amazing," said Ruzena Zatko, 28, a fan of "The Hunger Games" books who drove from Las Vegas and spent two nights' camped out in front of the Nokia Theatre to win passes to the premiere. "He stayed true to the book."
Based on the best-seller by Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games" stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth as teens fighting for survival in a government-controlled world that hosts annual televised games in which young participants are forced to kill their opponents. It opens in theaters March 23.
This movie just might make someone a couple dollars.
Fans Ariel Pemberton and Amanda Shultz loved the book so much they doubted the film could match it, but they came away impressed with its look and feel.
Pemberton said it was "way more emotional" than the book, while Shultz enjoyed seeing Collins' post-apocalyptic world come to life: "We all had different ideas what it looked like, so to see it was so cool."
Box-office prognosticators say anticipation for "The Hunger Games" matches and may even surpass that for the "Twilight" movies. (The last "Twilight" film is due in the fall.) They predict "The Hunger Games" could bring in more than $100 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend.
Some have compared the two series. Each is aimed at young adults and features a female heroine with two potential suitors. But fans say the similarities end there.
"This doesn't focus on the love triangle," said 22-year-old Stephanie Zatko, a "Twilight" fan whose sister-in-law convinced her to check out "The Hunger Games." "She's actually doing something. Bella just sits there."
"Katniss is a stronger female," said Alyssa Walker, 20, who read all three books in the series. "The guys are a thing, too, but she does her own thing."
Still, some in the crowd held homemade burberry beige handbag posters declaring themselves members of Team Peeta or Team Gale -- Katniss' two prospects.
"Hottest thing since sliced bread: Peeta," read one sign. "Gale ensnared my heart," read another.
About 400 fans lined the black carpet where the film's stars arrived and sat alongside them at the premiere. Hundreds more lined up behind barricades across the street, toting cameras and signs.
"The passion of these fans is unlike anything I have ever been involved with," said Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in the film. "For me the biggest star here is Suzanne Collins, who wrote the books and is the creator of this entire universe, all this pandemonium."
Director Gary Ross thanked the author from the stage before introducing the film's stars, saying, "None of us would be here without the wonderful, brilliant mind and imagination of Suzanne Collins."
Wasn't she on "Dynasty?"
Meanwhile, as the premiere wrapped, Zatko prepared for the long drive back to Las Vegas. "We're totally sleep deprived," she said. "But it was all worth it."
eastwoods get reality SHOW: Clint Eastwood's family is coming to TV in a new reality show, the E! network announced Tuesday. "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" will premiere May 20 as a 10-episode series.
The show spotlights Dina Eastwood, who has been married to the Oscar-winning actor-director since 1996. Also on hand are the Eastwoods' 15-year-old daughter, Morgan, as well as 18-year-old Francesca, Clint Eastwood's daughter with actress Frances Fisher.
Ruiz grew up in Fremont and graduated from Mission San Jose High School.
Rounding out the cast is the all-male, six-member vocal group Overtone, managed by Dina Eastwood. You have a problem with that, take it up with Dina's husband.
Didn't think so.
"Mrs. Eastwood & Company" is being filmed in the family's hometown of Carmel, as well as in Los Angeles. Clint Eastwood is expected to make guest appearances ... when he wants to, and not a second before.
HOUSEWIFE GATE: Jurors in Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination case heard a set worker Tuesday describe an email he believed called for the destruction of files related to the firing of the actress from the hit show "Desperate Housewives."
Construction coordinator Michael Reinhart took the witness stand over the objections of an attorney for series creator Marc Cherry and ABC, who suggested Reinhart might have been confused and misread the message.
Reinhart said he immediately deleted the message and believed it had been mistakenly sent to him after Sheridan sued in 2010.
He recalled that it contained the words "delete" "hard drive" and "Nicollette Sheridan," but he could remember few other details. He said it made him uncomfortable and he tried to forget it but couldn't.
He said he called Sheridan's attorney Mark Baute on Sunday because he wanted both sides to have all the information.
"It started gnawing at me," Reinhart said. "I began to lose sleep over it."
Baute has accused Cherry and ABC officials burberry scarves of engaging in a conspiracy to make it appear the decision to fire Sheridan had been made months before an on-set dispute between the actress and Cherry in September 2008.
Sheridan claims Cherry struck her hard on her left temple during the argument, but the veteran TV writer maintains he tapped her to give her artistic direction.
The trial is in its final days and closing arguments had been expected Tuesday. A request by ABC attorney Adam Levin to delay the case for a forensic examination of Reinhart's hard drive was denied. Still, the set worker's testimony could prolong the trial.
Levin also said Baute apparently promised to find Reinhart work if he was fired for testifying in the case. Reinhart said he felt he was performing "professional suicide" by coming forward.
Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White said Sheridan's attorneys did not invite the problems that Reinhart's disclosure caused, and she felt the jury should determine how much weight to give his testimony.
Reinhart's phone call Sunday created the latest twist in Sheridan's trial, which has featured nine days of testimony so far.
He told jurors that immediately after talking to Baute, he left his home so he couldn't be served with a subpoena then took his work computer out of his office. He brought the machine in his truck and White ordered him to turn it over to ABC attorneys for an examination.
Reinhart has worked on the series for all of its eight seasons,
Jurors have heard conflicting testimony throughout the case. A writer and co-executive producer said the decision to kill off Sheridan's role wasn't made until late 2008 -- after a human resources investigation cleared Cherry of wrongdoing for the on-set dispute.
Numerous other witnesses, however, have said Cherry received permission to kill the Edie Britt character in May 2008, and it was a key mystery story line discussed throughout preparations for the show's fifth season.
JENNY GARTH GETTING DIVORCED: Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli say they are divorcing after 11 years.
That explains why she's been calling me.
In a statement Tuesday, the couple said they have decided to end their marriage but share "the same deep love and devotion to our children."
Garth and Facinelli said they remain "burberry kids skirts cheap dedicated to raising our beautiful daughters together," and asked for privacy and respect. The Southern California couple are parents to 14-year-old Luca, 9-year-old Lola and 5-year-old Fiona.
Isn't it sort of strange when people issue press releases to ask for privacy?
The 39-year-old Garth came to fame in the 1990s TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" and appeared in the 2008-10 sequel. The 38-year-old Facinelli is a co-star in the "Twilight" movie franchise. The couple married in January 2001. Garth competed in "Dancing With the Stars" in 2007, with Facinelli applauding her from the audience.
COURTNEY HATES KERMIT: Courtney Love believes Kermit the Frog and his gang of Muppet friends "raped" the memory of her late husband Kurt Cobain -- by bastardizing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in their 2011 movie without her permission.
Love says she has the absolute power to approve or nix the use of Kurt's music for commercial purposes, and she never gave the OK for the two companies to use the song for the 2011 Muppets movie.
TMZ reported Love sold half of her rights to Cobain's music to a company called Primary Wave Music. She also allegedly gave Primary Wave the exclusive right to distribute Nirvana's entire catalog.
Primary wave supposedly approved the use of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" after getting permission from the two surviving Nirvana members -- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (Grohl was in the film).
BRAND HEAVES CELL PHONE: Russell Brand allegedly took a cell phone from a photographer and threw it through a window in New Orleans, according to TMZ.
Of course he was bright enough to do it in front of other photographers with real cameras, who took pictures of the whole thing.
Sources told TMZ a photog named Timothy Jackson filed a police report, citing "criminal damages" over an incident that went down Monday night.
Maybe Russell Brand hates Verizon.
Jackson told cops he was with a group of other photographers when he began to shoot Brand with his iPhone from his car. Jackson burberry bags outlet said Brand flipped out, wrestled the phone out of his hand, and heaved it at a nearby building, shattering a glass window.
No word on whether Jackson got his phone back. A police source said they're investigating the incident and would like to speak with Brand.
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Discovery Channel has terminated its relationship with Grylls, the British television personality and star of the network's "Man vs. Wild." Grylls, who joined the show when it launched launched in 2006, was fired by Discovery after he refused to participate in two unannounced projects he was contracted for, say sources. The sixth season of "Man Vs. Wild" wrapped in August.
This is not the first time Discovery has had a disagreement with its talent. In 2010, the network sued Deadliest Catch captains Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand for allegedly failing to complete work on the spinoff "Hillstranded." The $3 million lawsuit prompted the Hillstrands and captain Sig Hansen to quit, though a month later the dispute was settled, the suit was dropped and all three returned to work on the show.
Grylls, 37, has parlayed his fame as an extreme outdoorsman into an international media career. He's written nearly a dozen books, many of them survival guides. His memoir "Mud, Sweat and Tears" -- due to be published in the U.S. in May -- already is a best-seller in England and Australia. He's landed numerous endorsement deals including with Dockers and Degree deodorant. There's a "Man vs. Wild" video game, he has an iPhone app, and his clothing line is sold at REI and Walmart.
In other words, this guy isn't going to have to dig up live worms for dinner anytime soon.
exploits on "Man Vs. Wild" (which averaged 1.1 million viewers on Discovery last season) have earned him numerous celebrity admirers. Jake Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have tagged along on some of Grylls' adventures. But the show was beset with early controversies when it was revealed that some of Grylls' escapades were enhanced or staged and that Grylls spent nights in local motels while he was purportedly left alone to fend for himself on a deserted island.
In 2007, the show was briefly taken off the air in the U.K. and Discovery began airing it with a disclaimer allowing that Grylls was not in fact left alone to survive in the wild. In subsequent episodes Grylls directly addresses the crew, and in the interest of transparency, each season featured a making-of episode.
Grylls' rugged public persona has also bellied his personal wealth. A former member of the British Army's Special Air Service, burberry handbags outlet Grylls lives with his family on a private island in Wales (where there is no electricity). He also has a home in Malibu and a house barge on the Thames. In a recent New York Times profile, Grylls says he only hired a publicist last year and maintains that he's "still always the scruffiest person at any meeting."
Discovery had multiple additional projects in development with Grylls; though the exact nature of his contract dispute and subsequent firing was not known. Grylls has not commented on the matter.
'HUNGER GAMES' FANS LOVE THE MOVIE: It's official: "Hunger Games" is the real deal.
Hundreds of fans who won tickets to Monday's world premiere cheered for hours before any stars arrived, screamed when they did and kept the applause going right through the film.
"I thought it was amazing," said Ruzena Zatko, 28, a fan of "The Hunger Games" books who drove from Las Vegas and spent two nights' camped out in front of the Nokia Theatre to win passes to the premiere. "He stayed true to the book."
Based on the best-seller by Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games" stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth as teens fighting for survival in a government-controlled world that hosts annual televised games in which young participants are forced to kill their opponents. It opens in theaters March 23.
This movie just might make someone a couple dollars.
Fans Ariel Pemberton and Amanda Shultz loved the book so much they doubted the film could match it, but they came away impressed with its look and feel.
Pemberton said it was "way more emotional" than the book, while Shultz enjoyed seeing Collins' post-apocalyptic world come to life: "We all had different ideas what it looked like, so to see it was so cool."
Box-office prognosticators say anticipation for "The Hunger Games" matches and may even surpass that for the "Twilight" movies. (The last "Twilight" film is due in the fall.) They predict "The Hunger Games" could bring in more than $100 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend.
Some have compared the two series. Each is aimed at young adults and features a female heroine with two potential suitors. But fans say the similarities end there.
"This doesn't focus on the love triangle," said 22-year-old Stephanie Zatko, a "Twilight" fan whose sister-in-law convinced her to check out "The Hunger Games." "She's actually doing something. Bella just sits there."
"Katniss is a stronger female," said Alyssa Walker, 20, who read all three books in the series. "The guys are a thing, too, but she does her own thing."
Still, some in the crowd held homemade burberry beige handbag posters declaring themselves members of Team Peeta or Team Gale -- Katniss' two prospects.
"Hottest thing since sliced bread: Peeta," read one sign. "Gale ensnared my heart," read another.
About 400 fans lined the black carpet where the film's stars arrived and sat alongside them at the premiere. Hundreds more lined up behind barricades across the street, toting cameras and signs.
"The passion of these fans is unlike anything I have ever been involved with," said Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in the film. "For me the biggest star here is Suzanne Collins, who wrote the books and is the creator of this entire universe, all this pandemonium."
Director Gary Ross thanked the author from the stage before introducing the film's stars, saying, "None of us would be here without the wonderful, brilliant mind and imagination of Suzanne Collins."
Wasn't she on "Dynasty?"
Meanwhile, as the premiere wrapped, Zatko prepared for the long drive back to Las Vegas. "We're totally sleep deprived," she said. "But it was all worth it."
eastwoods get reality SHOW: Clint Eastwood's family is coming to TV in a new reality show, the E! network announced Tuesday. "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" will premiere May 20 as a 10-episode series.
The show spotlights Dina Eastwood, who has been married to the Oscar-winning actor-director since 1996. Also on hand are the Eastwoods' 15-year-old daughter, Morgan, as well as 18-year-old Francesca, Clint Eastwood's daughter with actress Frances Fisher.
Ruiz grew up in Fremont and graduated from Mission San Jose High School.
Rounding out the cast is the all-male, six-member vocal group Overtone, managed by Dina Eastwood. You have a problem with that, take it up with Dina's husband.
Didn't think so.
"Mrs. Eastwood & Company" is being filmed in the family's hometown of Carmel, as well as in Los Angeles. Clint Eastwood is expected to make guest appearances ... when he wants to, and not a second before.
HOUSEWIFE GATE: Jurors in Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination case heard a set worker Tuesday describe an email he believed called for the destruction of files related to the firing of the actress from the hit show "Desperate Housewives."
Construction coordinator Michael Reinhart took the witness stand over the objections of an attorney for series creator Marc Cherry and ABC, who suggested Reinhart might have been confused and misread the message.
Reinhart said he immediately deleted the message and believed it had been mistakenly sent to him after Sheridan sued in 2010.
He recalled that it contained the words "delete" "hard drive" and "Nicollette Sheridan," but he could remember few other details. He said it made him uncomfortable and he tried to forget it but couldn't.
He said he called Sheridan's attorney Mark Baute on Sunday because he wanted both sides to have all the information.
"It started gnawing at me," Reinhart said. "I began to lose sleep over it."
Baute has accused Cherry and ABC officials burberry scarves of engaging in a conspiracy to make it appear the decision to fire Sheridan had been made months before an on-set dispute between the actress and Cherry in September 2008.
Sheridan claims Cherry struck her hard on her left temple during the argument, but the veteran TV writer maintains he tapped her to give her artistic direction.
The trial is in its final days and closing arguments had been expected Tuesday. A request by ABC attorney Adam Levin to delay the case for a forensic examination of Reinhart's hard drive was denied. Still, the set worker's testimony could prolong the trial.
Levin also said Baute apparently promised to find Reinhart work if he was fired for testifying in the case. Reinhart said he felt he was performing "professional suicide" by coming forward.
Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White said Sheridan's attorneys did not invite the problems that Reinhart's disclosure caused, and she felt the jury should determine how much weight to give his testimony.
Reinhart's phone call Sunday created the latest twist in Sheridan's trial, which has featured nine days of testimony so far.
He told jurors that immediately after talking to Baute, he left his home so he couldn't be served with a subpoena then took his work computer out of his office. He brought the machine in his truck and White ordered him to turn it over to ABC attorneys for an examination.
Reinhart has worked on the series for all of its eight seasons,
Jurors have heard conflicting testimony throughout the case. A writer and co-executive producer said the decision to kill off Sheridan's role wasn't made until late 2008 -- after a human resources investigation cleared Cherry of wrongdoing for the on-set dispute.
Numerous other witnesses, however, have said Cherry received permission to kill the Edie Britt character in May 2008, and it was a key mystery story line discussed throughout preparations for the show's fifth season.
JENNY GARTH GETTING DIVORCED: Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli say they are divorcing after 11 years.
That explains why she's been calling me.
In a statement Tuesday, the couple said they have decided to end their marriage but share "the same deep love and devotion to our children."
Garth and Facinelli said they remain "burberry kids skirts cheap dedicated to raising our beautiful daughters together," and asked for privacy and respect. The Southern California couple are parents to 14-year-old Luca, 9-year-old Lola and 5-year-old Fiona.
Isn't it sort of strange when people issue press releases to ask for privacy?
The 39-year-old Garth came to fame in the 1990s TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" and appeared in the 2008-10 sequel. The 38-year-old Facinelli is a co-star in the "Twilight" movie franchise. The couple married in January 2001. Garth competed in "Dancing With the Stars" in 2007, with Facinelli applauding her from the audience.
COURTNEY HATES KERMIT: Courtney Love believes Kermit the Frog and his gang of Muppet friends "raped" the memory of her late husband Kurt Cobain -- by bastardizing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in their 2011 movie without her permission.
Love says she has the absolute power to approve or nix the use of Kurt's music for commercial purposes, and she never gave the OK for the two companies to use the song for the 2011 Muppets movie.
TMZ reported Love sold half of her rights to Cobain's music to a company called Primary Wave Music. She also allegedly gave Primary Wave the exclusive right to distribute Nirvana's entire catalog.
Primary wave supposedly approved the use of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" after getting permission from the two surviving Nirvana members -- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (Grohl was in the film).
BRAND HEAVES CELL PHONE: Russell Brand allegedly took a cell phone from a photographer and threw it through a window in New Orleans, according to TMZ.
Of course he was bright enough to do it in front of other photographers with real cameras, who took pictures of the whole thing.
Sources told TMZ a photog named Timothy Jackson filed a police report, citing "criminal damages" over an incident that went down Monday night.
Maybe Russell Brand hates Verizon.
Jackson told cops he was with a group of other photographers when he began to shoot Brand with his iPhone from his car. Jackson burberry bags outlet said Brand flipped out, wrestled the phone out of his hand, and heaved it at a nearby building, shattering a glass window.
No word on whether Jackson got his phone back. A police source said they're investigating the incident and would like to speak with Brand.
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