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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Eyes on Fujitsu's Waterproof, Quad-Core Superphone Prototype [Smartphones]
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Ease the transition to Windows 8 with PCmover Windows 8 Beta Assistant
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PCmover Windows 8 Beta Assistant migrates your files, settings and user profiles to the new OS, though there are a few things you need to know. ...
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Monday, January 9, 2012
UK royals, Joey the horse share Spielberg red carpet (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? Britain's Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge shared the red carpet late on Sunday with Hollywood royalty and a horse called Joey who appeared in Steven Spielberg's latest movie "War Horse."
The film, based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo which was turned into a hit West End and Broadway stage show featuring puppet horses, has opened in U.S. theatres already and reaches British cinemas on Friday.
Spielberg said he had been inspired to take on the World War One drama both by the book and the play.
"What attracted me to it beyond my admiration for the puppeteering was simply the amazing story that Michael Morpurgo first told in his 1982 children's book," he told Reuters.
Jeremy Irvine, the British newcomer who stars in War Horse, said he was overwhelmed to have found success so suddenly.
"I wasn't getting any work so suddenly just to have a job, let alone have lines, let alone be in a film with Steven Spielberg, is kind of more than I can really take in and I still haven't really taken it in," said the 21-year-old.
"I'm still trying to take in how on earth I could have fooled them to let me be in this movie."
The highlights of the red carpet premiere in London's Leicester Square were Joey the horse and the Duchess of Cambridge, formerly Kate Middleton, who celebrates her 30th birthday on Monday.
Kate and William, A-list celebrities whose every appearance is followed by the world's media, added a touch of glamour to the event held in aid of the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, of which the duchess is a patron.
She wore a floor-length black lace dress designed by Alice Temperley, while William was in a double-breasted dinner jacket and black tie.
Before meeting the couple, Spielberg was asked whether he had rehearsed his royal etiquette.
"I don't know," he replied. "Something about tonight has to be spontaneous which means if I make a faux pas it will be an honest one."
About 600 British military personnel and their families also attended the premiere.
Reviews for the film about a boy and his horse separated by war have been generally positive, with critics praising its emotive power and predicting plenty of tears among audiences.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Pioneer rocket scientist Lowell Randall dies in NM (AP)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? A New Mexico funeral home has confirmed that Lowell Randall, a pioneer rocket scientist who helped launched the U.S. space program, has died at age 96.
His biographer says the Roswell-born scientist died Tuesday of natural causes at a Las Cruces nursing home.
Randall was part of a team led by rocket pioneer Robert Goddard who developed liquid Jet Assist Take Off rocket engines, a key element for spaceflights to the moon. He later became Goddard's chief test engineer at the Naval Research Station at Annapolis, Md.
Randall returned to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to test Redstone rocket engines, which were used to send the first American astronauts into space. Randall then led a team at Martin Marietta Corporation in Colorado to test intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Kyojin no Hoshi Baseball Manga Remade for India With Cricket
The Japanese publisher Kodansha is collaborating on this project, which will begin airing as a 26- or 52-episode weekly television series in India this fall under the tentative name Rising Star. Japan's TMS Entertainment anime studio will be in charge of the scripts, storyboards, and other parts of the early production process. (TMS Entertainment, under its original name Tokyo Movie Shinsha, already adapted the manga into a 1968-1971 baseball anime series in Japan.) Local Indian studios will also work on the latter parts of production and cover about half of the animation's production costs.
The new adaptation's story will follow a sports scenario similar to the original manga, despite moving the setting to modern India. A young left-handed cricket player wants to be like his father, also a former cricket player. Because his family is poor, the boy faces many challenges as he strives to become a star player. Kajiwara's original manga story follows the baseball pitcher Hy?ma Hoshi as he dreams of becoming a star player in Japan's professional baseball league.
Kodansha serialized the original Kyojin no Hoshi manga series in Weekly Sh?nen Magazine from 1966 to 1971. The story inspired three television anime series in the 1960s and 1970s. Yoshiyuki Murakami began serializing Shinyaku [Kyojin no Hoshi] Hanagata as an alternate retelling of the original manga in Weekly Sh?nen Magazine in 2006.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Ind. House Democrats stall session over labor bill
Bob Hedrick, Max Hutka and Steve Adams, from left, wait outside of the Statehouse, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. The Legislature prepares to convene and Republicans vow to push to make Indiana the first state in a decade to enact labor legislation that would ban labor contracts requiring all workers to pay union fees, minority Democrats consider their options for blocking the bill. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Bob Hedrick, Max Hutka and Steve Adams, from left, wait outside of the Statehouse, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. The Legislature prepares to convene and Republicans vow to push to make Indiana the first state in a decade to enact labor legislation that would ban labor contracts requiring all workers to pay union fees, minority Democrats consider their options for blocking the bill. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Penny Shepherd; of Merrillville, Ind, wears a rats outfit as she protest outside of the Statehouse Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Protestors rally outside of the House Chamber at the Statehouse Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. Indiana's House Democratic leader said Wednesday that party lawmakers will stall work in the chamber until certain demands are met over a Republican right-to-work bill that was blocked last year by their five-week boycott. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Speaker of the House Brian Bosma speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Democrats were poised to sit out another day of the Indiana House session on Thursday as they try to stop their state from becoming the first in more than a decade to enact right-to-work legislation.
Nearly three dozen Democrats holed up inside a small Statehouse conference room for more than three hours Wednesday, the first day of the 2012 session. They debated behind closed doors, between bites of pizza, about how they would block the divisive labor bill that they halted last year with a five-week boycott.
The measure would bar businesses and private unions from mandating that workers pay union fees for representation. Lawmakers from the House blocked the bill last year by leaving the state for weeks, denying Republicans the two-thirds attendance needed to conduct business.
This time, Democrats said they planned to stall work indefinitely.
"What's the urgency?" House Democratic Leader Patrick Bauer said Wednesday. "They are ignoring the public input."
Bauer, who led last year's walkout, said Republicans were "railroading" the revived measure through the chamber and more public hearings should be held.
Most Indiana House Democrats were no-shows on the floor Wednesday when House Speaker Brian Bosma tried three times to gavel the House into order. He plans to try again Thursday, and said a Democratic boycott won't lead Republicans to back off on the bill.
"We will do our very best to encourage them to do what is right, which is to show up at work and do what they were elected to do," Bosma said. "Democracy is about participating, not going on strike."
He said a joint hearing of the House and Senate labor committees on the bill will take place as scheduled Friday, although the House committee might not be able to take a vote on the proposal.
Bosma and other Republicans contend that the measure got a thorough vetting during a series of hearings last summer.
If Indiana passes the measure, it would be the first state to enact such a law since Oklahoma in 2001, and the 23rd overall. Supporters say it would help attract new business to the state. Opponents call it an attempt to weaken organized labor.
Getting the law passed would be a major victory for national conservatives and business groups, after more than a dozen states considered such legislation last year but none adopted it. It would be another blow to unions, which have fought initiatives to curb labor rights that followed nationwide Republican legislative wins in 2010.
Bauer said his members would not leave Indianapolis this year but would "filibuster" until Bosma agrees to more public hearings. He did not specify how many, but said he wants to meet with Bosma to discuss what it will take for Democrats to return to their seats. Bosma said earlier in the day Wednesday that he had requested meetings with Bauer three times and had not heard back.
When asked how long the Democrats will stay out, Bauer said, "that time schedule is not in our hands."
Rep. Craig Fry, D-Mishawaka, had called a walkout "the only way" to block the bill.
After Democrats walked out last year, the Republican-led Legislature adopted new fines of $1,000 a day on each lawmaker who boycotts their chamber for more than three days in a row. Concern about the 2012 elections and public response to another walkout may have made some lawmakers wary of another.
Some Democrats broke ranks throughout the day and joined Republicans in the House. Up to six Democrats could return to their seats and there would still not be enough lawmakers to conduct business.
As the vast majority of Democrats holed up inside the conference room just steps from the House chamber, union protesters packed the halls outside the room and cheered Democrats on. Others lined sidewalks outside. The protest crowds were smaller than the largest ones seen during last year's session.
Bosma has said Democrats were bowing to pressure from union leaders, and complained that Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott spoke to Democrats at their closed-door meeting Wednesday.
However, Bosma and other Republicans pushing the measure have maintained similarly cozy relationships with the state's business lobbyists, keying them in on their plans well ahead of time.
The Indiana AFL-CIO has been airing TV and radio ads targeting Republicans who may be vulnerable in the 2012 elections if they vote in favor of the measure. Bosma and Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels have been airing their own ads throughout the state in support of it, and the National Right to Work Committee has sent staffers to the state to build grass-roots support for the measure.
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