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Amazon Tops Apple
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A mere five months after Apple snatched J.D. Power's tablet satisfaction award away from Samsung, it has lost it to up-and-coming Amazon.
Apple's iPad finished in second place in the latest satisfaction survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates, with a score of 824 out of a possible 1,000. For the first time, Amazon took first place, scoring 827.
Samsung came in at 821 for third, while Asus and Acer filled out the first five, but those stragglers' scores were under the category average.
J.D. Power's satisfaction score included five separate measurements for performance, ease of operation, features, styling and design, and cost, with each accounting for different percentages of the final number. Performance, for example, counted as 28% of the total; cost for 11%.
Apple received high scores in performance and styling and design, while Amazon performed best in ease of operation and cost, said Kirk Parsons, senior director of telecommunications services at J.D. Power.
"Within the tablet segment, there's a balance of cost and value, and for this period, Amazon was at the equilibrium," said Parsons. "For the money, [Amazon tablets] do what buyers need them to do. And the Mayday feature really helped them in ease of operation."
Mayday is a feature on Amazon's higher-end tablets that lets customers video chat with support representatives using the device.
Parsons called out Amazon's Fire HDX, which launched in October 2013 in a 7-in. size and a month later in an 8.9-in. format, for driving the brand's scores. Amazon now sells the 7-in. Fire HDX for $179; the 8.9-in. model starts at $379. "The new Fire HDX did really, really well" in the survey, Parsons noted.
J.D. Power polled nearly 2,700 U.S. tablet owners who had had their current devices for less than a year. The survey period ran from March to August.
The last time J.D. Power published tablet customer satisfaction scores, Amazon placed fourth. Its jump to first was a small surprise, said Parsons. "I figured [Amazon's] scores would improve, but I didn't think they'd take the top spot," he admitted.
Price is increasingly important to satisfaction, said Parson, as costs fall and capabilities climb across the board, making it more difficult for premium-priced tablets like Apple's iPad, to retain their polled positions. On average, tablet customers now spend $345 on their tablets, $48 less than in April 2013, a decline of 12%.
Will Intel's Core M Go Commercial?
Intel is getting down from four processor lines to three and it looks like Broadwell won't come with an M-processor line and 57W, 47W, 37W parts. This is not something we expect to happen at this point. The H-processor line will take over the 47W TDP high performance market for mobile computers and some AIOs.
The H-processor 47W line, U-Processor Line with 15W and 28W TDP parts will end up with 5th Gen Intel Core branding. We expect a range of Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 parts that will be revealed probably at some point after Intel Developer Forum, or after mid-September 2014.
The Y-processor line will end up with the new Intel Core M processor brand and it will aim for high performance detachable and convertible systems that will show up in the latter part of Q4 2014.
Broadwell with 4.5W TDP and Core M branding will end up only in these fancy detachable notebooks and might be one of the most powerful and fastest tablet/detachable platforms around. It will also 'speak' Windows 8.1 at launch and we should see some Google Chrome OS products in early 2015.
Intel also plans to keep the Pentium and Celeron brands around and they will be used for Bay Trail-M processors. These parts have been shipping for more than three quarters in entry level detachables such as the Asus T100TA.
Did Intel Miss The Tablet Boat?
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has admitted the obvious – Intel missed the boat on tablets.
Speaking at the Code Conference, Krzanich said the company was slow to react to the emergence of tablets and smartphones.
"There was a belief that tablets would be a consumption device only (and) that people would come back to the laptop and the PC. There were heavy debates within Intel and it took a while for us to accept and acknowledge that data. Companies make mistakes," Krzanich told Walt Mossberg in an interview.
In other words at least part of Intel's failure to tap the emerging mobile market a few years ago was internal wrangling.
The course shifted under the Krzanich regime. Last Intel President Renee James and Krzanich made it clear that the company is now treating its Atom line-up just like its big cores. For years the company treated Atoms as a sideshow, making sure that they would not eat into Core sales.
ARM had different ideas and so did AMD, they went after the tablet and essential notebook markets. As a result ARM currently dominates the mobile space, while AMD managed to carve a nice niche in the entry-level x86 segment, with Brazos and Kabini parts.
Intel is fighting back, but it is paying a heavy price. The company is on track to quadruple its tablet SoC shipments to 40 million units this year, but it has to pay through the nose to get there. As for the smartphone market, Intel is all but absent.
Krzanich insists he is not giving up on the phone and tablet space. He wants Intel to take a 15 to 20 percent market share in these segments, which sounds very ambitious. Thanks to generous subsidies it has a good chance in the tablet space. This week Intel announced a deal with Rockchip, which should also boost its presence in the booming tablet market in China.
However, so far the company has not rolled out a compelling smartphone SoC and it's lagging behind the competition in LTE integration.
Samsung Makes Changes In Mobile
May 22, 2014 by admin
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, has replaced the head of its mobile design team amid criticism of the latest Galaxy S smartphone.
Chang Dong-hoon offered to resign last week and will be replaced by Lee Min-hyouk, vice president for mobile design, a Samsung spokeswoman said on Thursday.
"The realignment will enable Chang to focus more on his role as head of the Design Strategy Team, the company's corporate design center which is responsible for long-term design strategy across all of Samsung's businesses, including Mobile Communications," Samsung said in a statement.
Lee, 42, became Samsung's youngest senior executive in 2010 for his role in designing the Galaxy series, a roaring success which unseated Apple Inc's iPhone as king of the global smartphone market.
Samsung now sells two times more smartphones than Apple, largely thanks to the success of Galaxy range.
But the South Korean firm has also been battling patent litigation the world over, with Apple claiming Samsung copied the look and feel of the U.S. firm's mobile products.
The Galaxy S5, which debuted globally last month, has received a lukewarm response from consumers due to its lack of eye-popping hardware innovations, while its plastic case design has been panned by some critics for looking cheap and made out of a conveyor belt. The Wall Street Journal said the gold-colored back cover on the S5 looked like a band-aid.
Chang, a former professor who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will continue to lead Samsung's design center which overseas its overall design strategy.
Lee, who acquired the moniker of "Midas" for his golden touch with the Galaxy series, started out designing cars for Samsung's failed auto joint venture with Renault in the 1990s.
Microsoft Updates Office Online
April 28, 2014 by admin
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Microsoft is updating its Web-based Office Online suite, closing the features gap with the main Office 365 and Office 2013 suites installed on users' devices.
"We know you want features that allow you to move as seamlessly as possible between Office Online and the desktop," wrote Kaberi Chowdhury, an Office Online technical product manager, in a blog post Monday.
Improvements to Excel Online include the ability to insert new comments, edit and delete existing comments, and properly open and edit spreadsheets that contain Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.
Meanwhile, Word Online has a new "pane" where users can see all comments in a document, and reply to them or mark them as completed. It also has a refined lists feature that is better able to recognize whether users are continuing a list or starting one. In addition, footnotes and end notes can now be added more conveniently inline.
PowerPoint Online has a revamped text editor that offers a layout view that more closely resembles the look of finished slides, according to Microsoft. It also has improved performance and video functionality, including the ability to play back embedded YouTube videos.
For users of OneNote Online, Microsoft is now adding the ability to print out the notes they've created with the application.
Microsoft is also making Word Online, PowerPoint Online and OneNote Online available via Google's Chrome Web Store so that Chrome browser users can add them to their Chrome App launcher. Excel Online will be added later.
The improvements in Office Online will be rolled out to users this week, starting Monday.
Office Online, which used to be called Office Web Apps, competes directly against Google Docs and other browser-based office productivity suites. It's meant to offer users a free, lightweight, Web-based version of these four applications if they don't have the desktop editions on the device they're using at that moment.
Will Chrome's API Work?
March 25, 2014 by admin
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Google has targeted web browser settings hijacking in its latest update to Chrome for Windows.
On the Chromium blog, Google engineering director Erik Kay announced an extension settings API designed to ensure that users have notice and control over any settings changes made to their web browsers.
As a result, the only way extensions will be able to make changes to browser settings such as the default search engine and start page will be through this API.
Bargain hungry consumers are often unaware that freeware programs often bundle add-on programs for which developers receive payment but can create irritating, rather than malicious, changes to user settings.
Although there is usually consent sought at installation, quite often it is ignored or not understood, and the people who miss the warnings are generally the same ones who find it hard to change the settings back.
Kay said that the API is available in the Chromium developer channel, with a rollout to the stable channel set for May.
The Chromium stable channel has been updated to version 33.0.1750.149. The main change is an update to the embedded Flash Player for Windows, which is now version 18.104.22.168.
There are seven new security fixes, most of which were user submitted via the open source Fast Memory Detector Address Sanitizer.
Although the user community and Chrome team continue to proactively protect the Chromium project, third party extensions can still cause problems, with several already having been removed from the Chrome Store this year.
Will Google Use Intel Inside?
March 21, 2014 by admin
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It seems that Intel has elbowed its way under the bonnet of the high profile Nexus 8 tablet. Word on the street is that the Moorefield chip which is said to make a top speed of around 2.33 GHz, when the wind is behind it, has kicked Qualcomm's tried and tested Snapdragon chip out of the Nexus range.
The move would give the Nexus 8, some good GPU power thanks to the PowerVR G6430 graphic engine. Google may unveil the actual tablet during the Google I/O event as well as the next big upgrade to the Android software dubbed lollipop. Still it is starting to look like Intel may really become a force to be reckoned with in mobile after all.
However, we should point out that Nexus 8 CPU rumors are nothing new. There was talk of Intel, Qualcomm and even Nvidia over the past couple of months – but we are still not entirely certain what's under the bonnet.
Are Transparent Semiconductors Next?
Scientist have emerged from their smoke filled labs with transparent thin-film organic semiconductors that could become the foundation for cheap, high-performance displays. Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices.
According to the latest issue of Nature Communications, engineers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Stanford University show how they created thin-film organic transistors that could operate more than five times faster than previous examples of this experimental technology.
Research teams led by Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, and Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at UNL used their new process to make organic thin-film transistors with electronic characteristics comparable to those found in expensive, curved-screen television displays based on a form of silicon technology.
At the moment the high tech method is to drop a special solution, containing carbon-rich molecules and a complementary plastic, onto a spinning platter made of glass. The spinning action deposits a thin coating of the materials over the platter. The boffins worked out that if they spun the platter faster and coated a tiny portion of the spinning surface, equivalent to the size of a postage stamp they could put a denser concentration of the organic molecules into a more regular alignment. The result was a great improvement in carrier mobility, which measures how quickly electrical charges travel through the transistor.
Did Intel Have an IPad In Y2K?
Intel apparently built an IPAD ten years before Steve Jobs though of the tablet and the name. It was in the days when sticking an I in front of anything meant it was Intel rather than Apple and the Intel Pad, or IPAD for short, could browse the Internet, play music and videos, and even act as a digital picture frame.
Intel scrapped the IPAD before consumers could get their hands on it as its move into Tablets was seen as one of the outfit's biggest blunders. According to CNET in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Intel wanted to diversify its operations beyond the PC. The IPAD came from one of several small teams within its research arm tasked with exploring new business opportunities. The IPAD, which included a touch screen and stylus, would not run entirely on its own but connected to a computer to browse the Internet through an Intel wireless technology.
Intel thought that "mobility" meant moving around your home or business and the IPAD was to be a portable device you could take around your house. The reason that they never thought of connecting it to the phone network was because Intel wanted to tie it all back to its core PC chip business. After several years of development on the Intel Web Tablet, then-CEO Craig Barrett unveiled the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2001. The company planned to sell the tablet to consumers later that year.
Sadly though it miffed Intel's PC partners, which didn't want a product that could potentially compete with them and Intel caved in and cancelled the project.
Intel's Cherry Trail Forthcoming
The next generation desktop and mobile Atom is Cherry Trail in 14nm and the first parts are expected in late 2014. Intel has been working hard to accelerate the introduction of Atom parts based on the new architecture and in 2014 it will finally ship Broadwell notebook chips and Cherry Trail Atoms in the same year, both using the new 14nm node.
The Cherry View is a notebook SoC version of a chip based on new Airmont core, while Cherry Trail is the part meant for tablets. The phone version is based on Moorefield architecture and they are all expected to show up in late 2014, most likely very late Q3 2014.
The TDP should go down compared to Bay Trail platform as the new 14nm needs less voltage to hit the same speed and should produce less heat at the same time. With the 14nm shrink Intel's new Atoms will be able to get more fanless design wins.
The significance of 14nm products for mobile phones and tablets will be in the fact that ARM alliance lead by Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek and a few other players will be struggling to get 20nm designs out of the door in 2014, and Intel can already get to a 14nm.
However, Intel still has to integrate LTE inside its mobile phone SoCs, which has traditionally been proven to be a tough task. At this time only Qualcomm has on-die LTE and its LTE enabled SoCs are under the bonnet of almost every significant ARM based high-end phone out there.
Only time will tell how successful Intel's mobile push will be. Even with these 14nm parts, once they show up roughly a year from now, it might be really tough for Intel to get some high-volume design wins in the phone space, despite the transition to 14nm.


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Creighton battled back from deficits of 2-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 7-5, scoring three times in the bottom of the 10th inning for an 8-7 win over Seton Hall at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Sunday afternoon.
Trailing 7-5 in the 10th, Brad McKewon singled and Ryan Fitzgerald and Jake Peter both walked to load the bases. After Mike Gerber struck out swinging, Reagan Fowler singled home two runs to tie the game. Fowler and Peter did a double steal with Peter able to score on an error when catcher Dillon Hamlin's throw to third sailed into left field.
Creighton improved to 25-14-1 and 10-2 in the Big East, clinching a berth in the Big East Tournament. The Pirates fell to 33-11 and 7-5 in conference play.
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Broken Sword 2 : Italiano
1,000 - 5,000 downloads
- Graphics, sounds, animations
- Smart plot
- Comfortable interface
- It doesn't add anything to the original
- No lite or trial version.
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"More Broken Sword - Italian"
Reviewed by Peter Warrior / Jan 15, 2013
Sequel to Broken Sword. Period
We must applaud what Revolution Software is doing, fetching those lovely Broken Sword late nineties games and porting them to mobile devices with so much care and attention. It's absolutely fantastic to have the chance to play them again or show them to new generations of gamers. Plain truth is that we didn't even dare to wonder that they could have been played on a phone, and we hope graphic adventure season starts again and more titles can be rescued from time. We're sure you can quickly name two or three games worthy to be remastered -such a cinematographic term- and brought back through our devices.
However, when Broken Sword port added new elements to the game and made it even better, this sequel contents itself keeping the game as it was then. Yes, music, graphics, voices and so are great, but we haven't been amazed as we were when we played Broken Sword. Yes, you can save your progress in the cloud, but what we really were looking for are more scenes and, who knows, a new plot twist or whatever.
Anyway, Broken Sword 2 has what a sequel should have and it's a great adventure game perfect to be enjoyed once you end the original Broken Sword. However, it's also a lost chance to not only bring it back, but to make it greater and inaugurate a new golden era of adventures.
Broken Sword comes fully voiced in Italian with option for subtitles in Italian, English French, German or Spanish. There're also dubbed versions to Spanish and English, where latter is cheaper.
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Provides movie player recovery for Honeycomb users
*** Version 1.0.13 ***
Fixed Dropbox issue.
Fixed movie issues.
*** Version 1.0.11 ***
Fixed issue with out of sync movie subtitles.
Added pause functionality to the movie player.
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Watch the boats go by from our large deck or while relaxing in the hot tub. Walk down to the dock to swim or fish. Bring your boat, water skis, and/or jetski and play on the lake or take a leisure cruise through this beautiful mountain scaped lake, but be sure to pack some sandwiches because a picnic on this beautiful lake or at historical Fontana Dam has fun written all over it!
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text: Georgia Equality and HRC plan protests at local Target and Best Buy stores The GA Voice Editors August 31, 2010 Politics Target and Best Buy have been champions for workplace equality for many years. However, they each recently gave large political donations to a group in Minnesota that used the contributions to advance an anti-equality candidate. This was extremely hurtful to all fair-minded Americans. While Target has issued an apology, they have refused to "make it right" by giving an equal donation to pro-equality organizations. Best Buy has failed to respond at all to our community. We need to keep the pressure on Target and Best Buy to let them know that they need to take appropriate steps to win back the loyalty of fair-minded consumers. Participants are urged to bring signs that call on the retail giants to "make it right." For more information, please visit the event's Facebook page. Edgewood Retail DistrictMoreland Avenue at Caroline StreetAtlanta, GA 30307 SHARE ON Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website four × 8 = Comment Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.


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Well, zues, Sen. Ted Cruz has released a legal memo that makes the argument that Obama's persistent pattern of lawlessness, willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat is unconstitutional and an abuse of federal authority, Cruz's memorandum, "The Legal Limit: The Obama administration's Attempts to Expand Federal Power," includes legal citations and argues several points including that the Obama's implementation of its signature healthcare legislation demonstrates an "abusive view of federal power."
Sen. Cruz's list of 76 "lawless" Obama actions and abuses of power could be considered the model for the Articles of Impeachment coming soon for that CLUSTERF@CK OF A MISERABLE INCOMPETENT TYRANT...
THE LEGAL LIMIT: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S ATTEMPTS TO EXPAND FEDERAL POWER Report No. 4: The Obama Administration's Abuse of Power By U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Ranking Member Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights
Table of Contents Governing by Executive Fiat 3 National Security 4 Obamacare 5 Economy 6 Executive Nominees and Personnel 7 Free Speech and Privacy 8 Other Lawless Acts 9 Other Abuses of Power 10
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Hottbirdz wrote: Too funny!What a joke. So you are saying the GOP will impeach BOTH the last 2 Dem presidents for no reason?. That will go over swimmingly with the public.. who.. you know.. ELECTED him. Twice. Convincingly.Bring it on.
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12thRaven wrote: One of the articles of impeachment that was going to be brought against Nixon (Article 2) was going to be for abusing the IRS to go after his enemies. Abuse of authority, most notably that of the IRS, is normal course for the crew in power now.It's a given that Repubs hold the House - and probably pick up a few seats.The Senate? Picking up 6 seats is tough - even with conditions as awful as the Dems have produced. It looks like though there will be Tea Party pick ups, which is always a plus - Sasse (NE) and McDaniel (MS) for the Senate, Brat (VA) in the House and perhaps more. These are the folks who will lead us forward, rather than the disasterous return to the 1930's that the so-called "progressives" have given us. There still won't be enough of them in Washington, but their numbers and influence continue to grow. The demise of the Tea Party as proclaimed by politicians on both sides of the aisle and the MSM is almost as humorous as HB's pronouncement of the demise of Miami. The Dems have been simply so bad, so corrupt, so rotten to the core, for so long now in the Senate that the environment is ripe for a GOP landslide - but as recent history has demonstrated the GOP is its own worst enemy.
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zeusman52 wrote: True, but they also have to overcome the media, the dole, the perception of Republicans as only wanting to benefit the "rich guys." Santa Claus sells, responsibility does not.They have a lot to overcome, I think the perception of them as self destructive has some basis in truth but is also overstated to a large degree.
True, but they also have to overcome the media, the dole, the perception of Republicans as only wanting to benefit the "rich guys." Santa Claus sells, responsibility does not.They have a lot to overcome, I think the perception of them as self destructive has some basis in truth but is also overstated to a large degree.
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12thRaven wrote: Hottbirdz is really off his game. I'm a bit surprised. It could be that he's been rah-rahing with his crew over at Bluffington and The Kook for a while, and simply forgot that educated adults post here.Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon are undoubtedly asking from their graves (and perhaps even Clinton from his multi-million dollar mansions), "And I got impeached for what I did? WTF, yo?"I especially feel badly posthumously for Andrew Johnson. As much as I disagree with his approach to handling Reconstruction, that he came one vote from being convicted in the Senate and removed from office is laughable given the shenanigans of FDR, Clinton, Nixon, and especially the current criminal in chief.
For 0-bama, it's all about "getting even" with the supposed white imperialists and capitalists. He's an angry pathological little man. In fact the first thing he did on his first day in office was to send the bust of Winston Churchill back to the British, as an insulting gesture!!! Why! His father's hate for British colonialist rule... There is a constant flow of disinformation and issue avoidance from CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC news, the MSMedia... They are wedded to Barack Hussein Obama, and try their best every propaganda/news show to put him in the very best light available, and if no positive views exists, they simply ignore the issue. That which truly astounds me is that the endless flow of lies from Obama, does not offend his media nob-gobbling fans-boys, probably because Leftist are soulless LIARS who prove every time they open their mouths that they have no shame! Our form of government is near totally dependent on an honest media to bring all the issues to WE THE PEOPLE, who are Constitutionally bound to govern the government. It is impossible to do so with an obviously, totally patent, political bias from the soulless lying leftist media HACKS (read 0bama's Communist propaganda arm of his tyrannical government). The largest personnel segment of each of these offending news agencies, of necessity, are hourly filtering the pro-Obama from the con-Obama stories so their finished product is all the news that is FIT TO BE TOLD by Saul - i love Lucifer - Alinski and Bill -the domestic terrorist bomber - Ayers. I often wonder at just what point does the weight of media political lies become TREASON!!! SIKE! It's been a long time since the MSMedia has been on the side of their own country!!!
And to be blunt as usual, there is no bigger traitor than the self-hating White liberal or black racist democrat MSMedia HACK! They have caused more damage to this once great nation than any foreign terrorist or military could ever do!
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"...In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit? That's just the question Harvard University professor Charles Ogletree Jr, as moderator of PBS' Ethics in America series, posed to ABC anchor Peter Jennings and 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace. Both agreed getting ambush footage for the evening news would come before warning the U.S. troops.
For the March 7 installment on battlefield ethics Ogletree set up a theoretical war between the North Kosanese and the U.S.-supported South Kosanese. At first Jennings responded: "If I was with a North Kosanese unit that came upon Americans, I think I personally would do what I could to warn the Americans."
Wallace countered that other reporters, including himself, "would regard it simply as another story that they are there to cover." Jennings' position bewildered Wallace: "I'm a little bit of a loss to understand why, because you are an American, you would not have covered that story."
"Don't you have a higher duty as an American citizen to do all you can to save the lives of soldiers rather than this journalistic ethic of reporting fact?" Ogletree asked. Without hesitating Wallace responded: "No, you don't have higher duty... you're a reporter." This convinces Jennings, who concedes, "I think he's right too, I chickened out."
Ogletree turns to Brent Scrowcroft, now the National Security Adviser, who argues "you're Americans first, and you're journalists second." Wallace is mystified by the concept, wondering "what in the world is wrong with photographing this attack by North Kosanese on American soldiers?" Retired General William Westmoreland then points out that "it would be repugnant to the American listening public to see on film an ambush of an American platoon by our national enemy."
A few minutes later Ogletree notes the "venomous reaction" from George Connell, a Marine Corps Colonel. "I feel utter contempt. Two days later they're both walking off my hilltop, they're two hundred yards away and they get ambushed. And they're lying there wounded. And they're going to expect I'm going to send Marines up there to get them. They're just journalists, they're not Americans."
Wallace and Jennings agree, "it's a fair reaction." The discussion concludes as Connell says: "But I'll do it. And that's what makes me so contemptuous of them. And Marines will die, going to get a couple of journalists."..."
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"...The South Dakota Republican Party state convention passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Saturday.
The resolution says Obama has "violated his oath of office in numerous ways." It specifically cites the release of five Taliban combatants in a trade for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Obama's statement that people could keep insurance companies, and recent EPA regulations on power plants...."
"...Larry Klipp of Butte County, a retired Marine, said matters go beyond mere political disagreements with Obama.
"If anyone in this room cannot see the horrendous, traitorous scandals run by the Obama administration, I will pray for you," Klipp said..."
Of course this attempt to rein in Obama is long over do, confining or slowing down some of our Dear Leader's power grab for the sake of our freedoms and rights should be a goal for the opposition party until the nightmare of O'traitor's term has ended.
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Baltimore Greg wrote: Hottbirdz wrote: Too funny!What a joke. So you are saying the GOP will impeach BOTH the last 2 Dem presidents for no reason?. That will go over swimmingly with the public.. who.. you know.. ELECTED him. Twice. Convincingly.Bring it on.Clinton committed perjury, what is known as a felony or high crime. That is a reason. If the man had a shred of decency he would have resigned once it was made known he was "not" having sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.
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Trackmaster wrote: Baltimore Greg wrote: Hottbirdz wrote: Too funny!What a joke. So you are saying the GOP will impeach BOTH the last 2 Dem presidents for no reason?. That will go over swimmingly with the public.. who.. you know.. ELECTED him. Twice. Convincingly.Bring it on.Clinton committed perjury, what is known as a felony or high crime. That is a reason. If the man had a shred of decency he would have resigned once it was made known he was "not" having sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.And I know that the Democrats laugh this off, but even what he did was pretty bad. I thought that Democrats usually didn't take too kindly to old white guys sexually harassing young innocent women?
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Preston Hollow Elementary is losing the battle to woo the middle- and upper-class families who live nearby. It's not unique in this regard. Sanger Elementary, you'll recall, was spurned by the coveted high-level-city-bureaucrat demographic, and other grade schools in Dallas' well-heeled 'hoods draw ... More >>
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about dive bars, that sub-sect of watering hole fiercely guarded by established regulars. The type of place where the bartender and waitress know 90% of their customer's names and take the time to invest in conversation past the precursory friendly pre-drink banter ... More >>
At exactly noon on Monday, 16-year-old Bria Bradshaw and her mother Charmaine walked into Tommy Pak's Kwik Stop in South Dallas, then stopped short. There was a horde of men and women in the convenience store, black and Korean, and most were in suits. There were video cameras set up toward the back, ... More >>
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Danny HurleyGlenn Morshower in a photo the great Danny Hurley grabbed at the Sci-Fi Expo in Richardson back in April. "I didn't realize I had so many freckles," says the actor of the picture.My dad came by the office yesterday -- not to see me, of course, but to meet his favorite actor, Glenn Mor ... More >>
If this picture were at all legible, you'd see Donnie Nelson sitting at the table where wanna-be Humble Billys took their best shots yesterday.So, yeah, I was only kidding, far as you know, when I mentioned that, oh, maybe I'd try out for The Voice of The American Airlines Center. As you're no do ... More >>
When last we discussed the Best Movies Ever Made in Dallas, this one somehow missed the list: 1978's Seniors, a college sex romp filmed on the SMU campus starring Dennis Quaid and a topless Priscilla Barnes. It was on DVD for a while, but seems to be out of print at the moment -- damn it. Blessed ... More >>
Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>
The UK Guardian has an oh-those-crazy-Yanks piece about locals spending $20 on those "Welcome Home, George and Laura" signs. Better still is the accompanying artwork by the great Nan Coulter -- a homemade banner from "the Maloufs," among the eight photos included in the sidebar slideshow (or, as I l ... More >>
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The missus and I just concluded a morning tour of the Northwest Dallas polling places, and so far, no drama -- or voters, for that matter. At 9:32, we were Nos. 53 and 54 at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School on Webb Chapel Road and Walnut Hill Lane (our third polling place in three elections, come ... More >>
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St. Michael Junior High held their 47th annual awards night on Thursday evening in the school gym, including academic, sports and extracurricular awards.
For the academic awards, each grade had awards for general proficiency, to the top student with the most points for academic achievement and extracurricular activities; the Religion Award, for the student who truly demonstrates Catholic values at school and in the community; and the Honour of Achievement awards, which is the newest version of the Honour Roll of previous years.
For Grade 7, Lorynn Labbie won the general proficiency award, Mia Vilcu was presented the Religion Award, and the following earned the Honour of Achievement: Emma Bitz, Jaxon Chartrand, Meagan Dutchak, Mackenna Glennie, Abby Johnson, Lorynn Labbie, Cordel Larson, Chaylene Lascelle, Mikaila Mahnke, Savannah Pohl, Liana Ness, Alyssa Romanovitch, Alexis Vandermey and Klea Zummack.
For Grade 8, Chantal Vogel was presented the general proficiency award, and Brogan Regier received the Religion Award. The Honour of Achievement awards went to Bailey Brenholen, Callyn Burns, Julie Ducharme, Jade Hayes, Rylan Hoffman, Denae Neufeld, Matthew O'Neill, Brogan Regier, Mary Sidloski and Chantal Vogel.
For Grade 9, the general proficiency award went to Kylee Adacsi, while Kailee Bell was presented the Religion Award.
The Honour of Achievement awards went to Kylee Adacsi, David Anderson, Spencer Anderson, Alexis Ashworth, Hannah Bitz, Shayda Cook, Nivay Haupstein, Laryssa Hoffman, Brittany Kot, Autumn Lang, Dalton Neiszner, Rhett Nikolejsin, Cody Schlosser, Sonya Smirnova, Madison Solie, Maryalle Tan, Linzee Wall and Levi Woodard.
The Award of Excellence, presented to students who were on the Honour Roll for all three junior grades, went to Kylee Adacsi, Hannah Bitz, Cody Schlosser, Maryalle Tan and Levi Woodard.
The Don Larocque Citizenship Award was presented to Dalton Neiszner. This award, named for a 28-year teacher at St. Michael, recognizes a student who is aware of the needs of others, doesn't hesitate to help students or teachers, is a team person, is not selfish but giving, is respectful to students and adults, and has a pleasant personality.
The Jerry Jordens Work Ethic Award went to Hannah Bitz, who was also the out-going chair of the SRC, and was presented the gavel by incoming SRC co-chairs Jade Hayes and Chantal Vogel.
The Jordens award is named for former principal Jerry Jordens, and recognizes a student with a great work ethic who strives to succeed and shows consistency of effort.
The coaches award recognized the top athletes in each of the sports at St. Michael School.
In volleyball, the award for the boys A team went to Levi Woodard and Rylie Mainil, and for the girls A team, Columbia Garbutt. The award for the boys B team went to Chase Fillmore, and for the girls B team, Mary Sidloski.
In basketball, the boys A team award went to Cody Vilcu, and the girls A team award went to Kylee Adacsi; the girls B team award went to Kourtney Mitchell.
In badminton, the boys award went to Cody Moser, and the girls award to Brittany Kot.
The curling award was presented to Matthew O'Neill, and Laryssa Hoffman was presented with both the cross-country award and the track and field award.
The Athlete of the Year for boys was Levi Woodard, and for girls was Kylee Adacsi.
Scholarships for sports was then presented; from the Catholic Women's League, Madison Solie and Chantal Vogel were the recipients; from the Knights of Columbus, the recipients were Alexis Ashworth and Kylee Adacsi; and from the school-community council, Emma Bitz was the recipient. The scholarship for dance, from the school-community council, went to David Anderson.
The music awards were as follows: most promising brass, Abby Johnson; most promising woodwind, Lorynn Labbie; and most promising percussion, Ben Anderson.
The best brass player award went to David Anderson; best woodwind player was Hannah Bitz, and the choral award went to Jayla Kaip.
The drama awards for best actor was a tie between David Anderson and Dalton Neiszner.
Tiger badges were presented to students who have earned 150 points for extracurricular activities or more over the last four years.
The recipients included Kylee Adacsi, David Anderson, Kailee Bell, Hannah Bitz, Columbia Garbutt, Nivay Haupstein, Laryssa Hoffman, Jayla Kaip, Autumn Lang, Rylie Mainil, Kourtney Mitchell, Matthea Mlynarski, Dalton Neiszner, Cody Schlosser, Cody Vilcu and Levi Woodard.


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Valhalla Games
WTF is Devil's Third?
Dead or Alive creator Tomonuobu Itagaki has a new game on the way, and after many years of silence we finally know what it is.4
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Why Devil's Third became a Wii U exclusive
Devil's Third is the debut project from Tomonobu Itagaki's studio Valhalla Games. It started life under THQ before the publisher collapsed, and today it's coming exclusively to Wii U in partnership with Nintendo. Itagaki has now explained the move in a new interview.8
Devil's Third to release on "wide range" of devices digitally
Valhalla Games CEO Satoshi Kanematsu has said the firm plans to release Devil's Third digitally on both PC and consoles. According to a message posted on the studio's website, in addition to console and PC, the firm plans to bring the franchise to "a wide range of digital devices. "We are also looking beyond the […]7
Interview - Valhalla's Tomonobu Itagaki and THQ's Danny Bilson
E3 isn't exactly "normal," but only one interview properly blew me away. I'd arrived at THQ's booth for a meeting about "unannounced game" I made with UK PR weeks before, to be confronted with a screen showing the Devil's Third logo, Valhalla legend Tomonobu Itagaki and THQ Core boss Danny Bilson, who was finishing off […]10


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This is a feasibility study involving a small number of blind subject to evaluate the effectiveness of using a software and associated hardware components to assist the blind in identifying and locating objects of interests and to assist in way finding tasks. After the system has been successfully tested by the blindfolded engineers, it will be evaluated in a small number of blind subjects.
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the blind subject is asked to locate a randomly placed object with the assistance of the webcam/laptop computer.
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a webcam-laptop based system to assist the blind in locating objects and in way finding.
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The subject without the assist device can only locate the object by groping and random searching with hands.
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This is primarily an engineering project to develop computer vision algorithms for an integrated system comprising of a laptop computer, webcam, gps, digital compass, microphone, and stereo earphones. The system will be voice controlled. The algorithm will be trained to identify and located objects and navigationally landmarks in real-time, previously selected by sighted developers. The subjects will be used to determine a list of objects to be identified and a list of useful information most important for way finding. After the system has passed objective engineering milestones such as the ability to correctly identify objects and landmarks with >99% accuracy and >90% sensitivity in <1 sec, subjects will be tested to determine whether the novel system will improve the ability of the blind to locate misplaced objects. Another test will be to determine whether the novel computer vision will decrease the time to safely navigate to the front door of a building.
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|18 Years to 80 Years
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- age 18 and over
- legally blind
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- decreased hearing
- unable to understand or follow instructions
- inability to walk and stand for 10 minutes
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00920231
|United States, Georgia
|Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur
|Decatur, Georgia, United States, 30033
|United States, Maryland
|Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|Principal Investigator:
|Cha-Min Tang, PhD MD
|VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore
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|Department of Veterans Affairs
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|November 24, 2014
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Wickr is often compared to Snapchat, but has made security and privacy its key feature.
Wickr, which just landed $9m in funding, claims to uses military grade encryption, perfect forward secrecy and, for self-destructing messages, forensic shredding.
Unlike many social apps, Wickr claims in its privacy policy that it doesn't collect any user location data; and besides lawful government requests, the only data it shares with a third party is the user's phone number with the company which sends confirmation SMS for Wickr's ID Connect, the feature that allows users to be found by their friends.
One of the challenges around privacy for social apps is that 'find friends' features can often undermine it. It's usually done by sucking up a device's contact list to the company's servers where it can be cross-referenced against other users on the service. How it's sent and stored can impact user privacy.
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Until recently, Text Secure was purely for encrypted SMS and MMS, but OWC recently introduced new features that bring it up to par with IM apps that communicate over data networks. Users can create private chat groups with the same end to end encryption previously offered with TextSecure SMS chats.
OWS compares it to an encrypted version of Apple's iMessage. TextSecure is a normal SMS/MMS app when communicating with non-TextSecure users, but sends messages encrypted over a data network when both are TextSecure users.
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The Call Of Wisdom Lyrics - Overcome
Wait there is something I must show you.
Step into my brain, my thought give out, let me control you.
Your life is putty in my hands. Weak minds, so easy to command.
Apathy has made you my slave.
No more sleeping, awaken to your grave.
Deceiver, my believers. You sold your soul for apathy.
Agnostic lie, for which you die, repeatedly
nail Christ to the tree.
And now you weep, just trying to get some sleep.
A reoccurring nightmare that will never leave.
If this is all I have, then I can't have peace.
You fool, your heart says there is not God.
You fight to save the mess of your life but,
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Lack of caring on your part has been your hardest fall.
Only through seeking can we learn.
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Three Days Grace Time Of Dying Lyrics
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On the ground I lay
Motionless in pain
I can see my life flashing before my eyes
Did I fall asleep
Is this all a dream
Wake me up, I'm living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die)
I will survive
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I feel alive, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
On this bed I lay
Losing everything
I can see my life passing me by
Was it all too much
Or just not enough
Wake me up, I'm living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die)
I will survive
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I feel alive, when you're beside me
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:ForeverLovingThisSong: | Reviewer: Gamzee faygo luvin Makara | 5/14/12
this song is absolutley spectacular!! this song speaks my mind, lteritily. i know it may seem a little dumb, well more or likely. BUT WHO CARES?!? This song wins my heart and so does 3 Days Grace!!!!!!!!!!! <3333 ;A; ;w;
This is the best song ever. Even If it is from their first album | Reviewer: Brandon Philbin | 5/13/11
And those who say,I'm a hypocrite and don't listen to any other song by them, I can spit in their face and laugh. I effing love three days grace. Three days grace is, in fact, the FIRST/SECOND rock band ever. The only band to ever come as close to them to beat them in the chain of who is best is Green Day. They are awesome to. Whoever wants to say "Oh, but I thought Seether was coming close to three days grace." That's your opinion. I won't use derogatory remarks against them, but I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK.
</3 | Reviewer: Izzie | 4/8/11
This song is amazing! There's just something about Three Days Grace in that their lyrics are so powerful, they tend to "grab the bull by the horns" when it comes to topical issues such as, depression, suicide, cutting etc, whereas other (also epic) bands tend to shy away from these things. For months I've been searching for a band who's music I can relate to exactly, and now I've found one! I'm not gonna lie, I'm still facing problems right now, I'm still depressed, still contemplating suicide. But I listen to this music and it reminds me of all the reasons to live. This is an amazingly beautiful song! <3
. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/1/11
This is actually how I feel about my friend. The pain and the suffering just goes with the cost of loving her, I guess. I have thought about suicide, but I decided it wasn't worth it, because she would be absolutely crushed, and I don't want to off herself in the process too. That was before I heard this song. Even though I knew I wouldn't kill myself, I still felt really depressed about the whole thing, and it makes me cry a lot. But whenever I hear this song, it reminds me why I chose to stay, and it gives me hope. Maybe I can really stay with her and be happy despite the pain.
Wow...... | Reviewer: Lila | 11/15/10
All my life I've loved Peter Pan it seemed like he was always with me.I know he's not real but he's my best friend (and only friend).But a few days ago my mom told me to stop pretending Peter Pan is real and that I should be more girly (I love bloody stuff that most girls would hate).I almost cut my wrists that night but this song came on.It saved me from dying..... (I still talk to Peter in my dreams and when i'm alone I pretend he's there next to me)
omg | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/16/10
everytime i hear this song i start to cry b cuz it makes me think of like if sumone is really sick that they will stay with u forever and its a really sad song and his voice is amazing wen he sings this!!
Beyond Birthday's song!? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/9/10
I heard this on a BB AMV [Not really an AMV- just a bunch of Beyond The Limit art]. >_> Death Note fans- I do agree it fits Mello and Matt's deaths (as I am a HUGE Mello fan ^^] but I think it fits Biyondi-Chan [forgive me, Beyond Birthday fans] better. It just fits him very well ^^
Omihgawd | Reviewer: Bob *female* | 1/26/10
I heard this song on a warriors tribute and i love 3 days grace so i already new it i love this song me and mah franns no all the words and sing along every time we here it :) we are like the biggest dorks ever though!!! :))
This song... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/10/10
I love this song because it does have a nice little catch to it. In history was have to make a video on whatever conflict we chose to do out project on and mine conflict is child soldiers and I think this song works great for it =) amazing song
This song... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/10/10
I love this song because it does have a nice little catch to it. In history was have to make a video on whatever conflict we chose to do out project on and mine conflict is child soldiers and I think this song works great for it =) amazing song
hmm | Reviewer: bobo e bobo | 1/3/10
Disturbing that only 13 year olds who want to kill themselves listen to this song; I actually found it while surfing pokemon videos, and came across one with this song and became interested. It's got a nice rock beat, and the lyrics are sortof a diehard type tune. Really catchy!
P.S. I don't want to kill myself, yet I like this song. Maybe there is hope for the human race.
wow | Reviewer: pyrokinetic1300 | 12/22/09
this song makes me sad and it reminds me of all the people i've lost, and it also reminds me why i can't runaway or kill myself. i know i sound like a whiny little ingrate. but i gues everyone my age (13) feels that way right? this song is just so realistic. it's awsome
To the Anonymous Death Note Reviewer | Reviewer: firstname.lastname@example.com | 12/22/09
My friend made me an AMV of Mello with this song for my birthday (today).
I agree that this song fits the last episode, but I like to think of it to Matt and Mello's deaths.
MxM fan... +____+"
This song is awesome.
I even have it as my profile song on Myspace. : D
lol | Reviewer: crisomchoas | 11/13/09
i want to kill myself 2night but when i hear that song i think about my girlfriend and i just cant do it.song saved my life 2night ..have it on pc mp3 and phone listening to it ryt now=)love this ong
dam | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/10/09
this was my best friends song and he died recently, he was hit by a car and stayed alive in the hospitle for 18 months then died everyone else had forgotten him except for me... i may be a boy but i cry everytime i hear this song


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Johan Reinhard of Sea World Research Institute in San Diego and a team of scuba divers made a series of dives there between 14 and 17 November 1982. Henri Garc¡a of the Chilean Expedici¢n America team spent 1 hr 8 min exploring the lake between depths of 5 m (16 ft) and 7 m (23 ft) on 16 January 1995.
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Nokia 6800
A unique device for its time, the Nokia 6800, released in 2003, brought the QWERTY physical keyboard to a whole new level by bridging the gap between the dial keypad phones at the turn of the millennium and the BlackBerry-like devices we have today.
The phone was relatively thin for the time and about the same size as a standard phone during the early 2000's, but the phone hinged in the middle and flipped out to a 90-degree fully-fledged keyboard. The screen would also rotate 90-degrees to accommodate for the prolific texter or emailer. Besides that, it was a fairly unremarkable phone in terms of features.
Nokia 5510
A unique design for the Finnish phone giant, the Nokia 5510 was a dedicated music and multimedia device, despite its monochrome screen, that featured the firm's first hardware QWERTY-keyboard. Multimedia -- at least back then -- was texting and communicating with friends. As email had not really appeared on a phone by this point in late-2001 when the device was released, the keyboard was a novelty.
MP3 playback was included, allowing owners to listen to their music as they typed away to their friends. Users would call others by holding the device flat to their face as the handset's ear-speaker was embedded in the bottom-right of the device when held in landscape mode. Still, it was a chunky piece of kit that resembles the size of a standard television remote control.
Nokia 8910i
One of Nokia's first 'business' phones, the Nokia 8910i was housed in a titanium shell. Back then, a strong device meant it was designed for business use -- and it was marked as one of the most expensive devices at the time. Released in 2003, it was tiny, thick in depth, but surprisingly light. The case underneath the screen slid out to reveal a thin-button keypad and protected the device from scratches and bumps.
But one of the major problems with an all-metal device, particularly for those in northern and eastern Europe, was that making a call would almost-always result in high-pitched squeals and yelps because the titanium shell would retain almost no heat. As a result, it was like holding something frozen to your head each time you wanted to call someone.
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Portuguese bond yields eased back from Monday's record highs after European leaders finally signed off on the details of a EUR500 billion permanent bailout fund for the euro zone, but concerns remained that Greece's protracted debt restructuring talks could set a precedent for Portugal.
Yields on Portuguese bonds remained at rarefied levels, nearly a third higher than in mid-January, suggesting some investors were preparing for a default scenario, despite assurances from Portugese officials that investors will get their money back.
Although Monday's summit resolved some contentious issues, market participants are still waiting on the details of a deal to trim EUR100 billion from Greece's EUR350 billion public debt, which could be seen as a template for countries like Portugal.
Analysts at Rabobank said Portuguese borrowing and debt insurance costs have reached levels reminiscent of those in Greece last summer that presaged that country's first debt write-down deal.
"Portugal, then, certainly looks to be 'in the zone' as regards a possible restructuring," they said.
The yield on Portugal's 10-year government bond fell by almost a percentage point to 15.6%, compared with Monday's rise of nearly two percentage points, according to data from Tradeweb. Two-year and five-year yields registered smaller declines, remaining close to euro-era highs.
Bond yields also eased for other peripheral euro-zone economies, with Italian 10-year borrowing costs dipping below the 6% mark, having climbed sharply Monday.
Investors still worry that Portugal could need another bailout, or that its bonds could require a Greek-style debt-restructuring. Portugal needs to repay EUR9 billion in debt, falling due in September 2013, a potential problem if it can't regain access to the public debt market.
Monday, Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said Portuguese bondholders will never face a haircut on their investment, as is happening in Greece, adding the country is doing everything in its power to fulfill all the requirements under its EUR78-billion bailout program.
Coelho said: "Portugal's debt is perfectly sustainable."
In a note to clients, Societe Generale pointed out that while governments "can well affirm that [private-sector involvement] stops with Greece," investors are likely to remain extremely nervous of Portuguese debt with all the talk of collective-action clauses and retroactive threats.
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10011 Lima Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46818
Great GF pizza, but pricey. expect to pay about $20 for a large GF which serves 2 easily.
10011 Lima Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46818
The GF pizza is tasty, but even with all of the procedures they had in place to keep the food safe, I still had a mild reaction. It really just isn't realistic to expect a safe GF product from a pizza place simply due to the nature of their business.
10011 Lima Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46818
Best gluten free pizza I've ever had! The garlic cheese bread is wonderful as well! Absolutely amazing and great prices too!
5417 Meijer Dr, Fort Wayne, IN 46835
Great pizza and even better garlic cheese bread!!! They even have cinnamon-bread. :)
5417 Meijer Dr, Fort Wayne, IN 46835
Ive had the chicken club pizza on gluten free crust twice now.... simply amazing... I'm not sure how they do it. This is my new favorite restaurant in town.