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Saturday, February 4, 2012
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Friday, February 3, 2012
BBB Advice for Avoiding Automobile Repair Scams - BBB News ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]When your vehicle needs repairs, you don't need a crash course in auto mechanics, but you should know how to find a reliable shop and mechanic. Better Business Bureau recommends following a few key pointers to ensure ...
Source: http://www.bbb.org/us/article/bbb-advice-for-avoiding-automobile-repair-scams-32379
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Video: Keith's Clue: 'What's missing?'
Dateline NBC
'Dateline NBC,' the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime, premiered in 1992. Since then, it has been pioneering a new approach to primetime news programming. The multi-night franchise, supplemented by frequent specials, allows NBC to consistently and comprehensively present the highest-quality reporting, investigative features, breaking news coverage and newsmaker profiles.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/vp/46229249#46229249
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Religious slights are the buzz as India marks Republic Day
Followers of India's three main religions - Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism - have balked loudly at cultural slights this week. There's a reason for it, and it's not all politics.
No one likes to have their religion slighted. This is especially true in India, where there are thousands of gods, and tensions are close to the surface when it comes to ill-considered comments about religion.
Skip to next paragraphLast week, author Salman Rushdie canceled his much anticipated visit to India?s biggest literary festival because of reported threats of assassination. Many Muslims regard his 1988 novel, "Satanic Verses," to be blasphemous, and some Muslim clerics threatened massive protests if Mr. Rushdie showed up at the festival in Jaipur. A handful of authors attempted to read the book ? which is banned in India ? on Rushdie?s behalf in a form of protest, but organizers stopped them.
Just the day before, American late night talk show host Jay Leno managed to offend India?s Sikh community with a satirical sketch, involving the Sikh faith?s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple. In a video showing the homes of the GOP presidential candidates, Leno showed a photo of the Golden Temple, calling it ?Mitt Romney?s summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee.??
But that wasn?t all.
On Jan. 25, a Chicago-based sports commentator offended Hindus in his post-game description of a hockey match between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Nashville Predators. Sportscasters are famous for stretching metaphors to the breaking point, but the Chicago commentator was quoted by Indian websites as saying the Predators were ?swallowing up space like some weird Hindu god."
The objection is to the word ?weird,? which a Nevada-based Hindu community leader Rajan Zed ? president of the Universal Society of Hindus ? said was hurtful to the feelings of the world?s 1 billion Hindu people.
Offending all three of the main faiths of the world?s second largest country is quite a feat. In hockey games this is called a hat trick.
What outsiders generally don't quite grasp about India is that sacredness is woven into almost every act of every day. Unlike post-religious societies, where Westerners may attend church once a week (or once a year), many Indians are constantly aware of their religious duties at work, at play, at meal times. I can't tell you how many times I've sat in the back of a taxi cab, in fear, as a Delhi taxi driver takes his hands off the wheel and puts them together in a sign of respect as he passes a holy shrine.
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The Mom Humor of Michelle Obama; What's New in Tiny Robot ...
We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Jay Leno brings out Michelle Obama's comedically exaggerated chef's voice, Siri struggles with Scottish accents, and we witness a non-terrifying 'tornado of sheep.'
For all the grief Jay Leno receives, he has a remarkable gift for putting his guests at ease and allowing them, if they so choose, to be funny. Last night on The Tonight Show, for instance, he did three segments with Michelle Obama. It's fascinating to watch the early boilerplate about life in the White House and the importance of eating healthy food give way to a planned desk gag in which the First Lady makes Leno eat some vegetables. It's not a revolutionary bit, but the First Lady is comfortable enough to briefly adopt the accent of a fancy European chef. The voice doesn't last long, and it's unclear exactly what accent she's trying to do, which is exactly why it's fun and revealing. It's a Mom joke in the best possible way. Getting that out of a First Lady -- even a personable one -- is no easy task. ? [NBC]
Siri can do many wonderful things, but she just doesn't have an ear for Scottish accent. Naturally, this has resulted in a hilariously profane standoff between the iPhone robot and an enraged Scotsman who just wants to use the phone to create a reminder. On the bright side, she picked up on the profanity enough to issue a gentle scolding. [Thegavin2000 via Boing Boing]
Danny Elfman's Simpsons theme has been jangling nerves for more than 20 years now, but we have a renewed appreciation for it after seeing the one-man a cappella version. Those noises are not the kind a man's vocal range is meant to hit. [NmcKaig via Gizmodo]
The thought of being in a car surrounded by a swirling cyclone of sheep, is, frankly, terrifying. It would also be a terrifying thing to see in a movie or even a handsome Discovery Channel special. But on the Internet, filmed with a shaky handheld camera, it becomes charming and dare we say it -- cute. What a glorious digital age this is. [xozLPx]
Another glory of the digital age: Flying nano quadrators, which resemble a fleet of airborne crabs and are just as scary. Remember them the next time you're running point on a top-secret intelligence or defense operation. Because they'll remember you. [TheDmel]
Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at rgustini at theatlantic dot com. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Facebook IPO Crashes SEC Website
It appears that the excitement over the Facebook IPO has crashed the SEC's website. The link to the Facebook SEC filing, previously?available here, is no longer loading. Instead, we're seeing a "this webpage is not available message" when attempting to load the site using Google's Chrome web browser, and similar errors in other browsers. This has gone on for several minutes now, as everyone is clicking through to read the filing. That's too bad for anyone coming late to the news - you'll have to wait for those who already had it loaded up on their screens to tell you what it said.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JHo9dm5Rekc/
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African Union fails to elect new chief (Reuters)
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) ? The African Union failed to elect a new head on Monday, highlighting the weakness of a group criticized for slow decision-making during political turmoil on the continent last year.
Former South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was up against incumbent commission chairman Jean Ping of Gabon, who failed to win an outright majority in four rounds of voting.
The commission is the AU secretariat's top organ and the chair its public face.
Smaller countries said Zuma's candidacy broke an unwritten rule that the continent's dominant states do not contest the leadership. "South Africa's decision to do so turns everything upside down," a West African delegate said.
"You could say they may have not voted for Ping but the smaller countries are skeptical of the big countries," he said.
Analysts said Ping's attempts to juggle the diverse views of its 54 members had hampered decision-making on Libya after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
"The weakness that Jean Ping had was not being forthcoming in putting his own opinion... the commission is a bureaucracy and it doesn't have its own position but that of member states," Mahari Taddele Maru, an African Union analyst at International Security Studies said.
The AU recognized the National Transitional Council as Libya's de facto government long after most European nations, the U.S. and Nigeria. A Libyan delegate, describing the AU as "indecisive up to the last moment," said the commission should be given more authority.
A member of the AU's communications team said after hours of deliberation in the new Chinese-built AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital that Ping had won 32 votes in the last round, four short of the number needed for a majority.
The African Union has not yet made an official announcement.
SOUTH AFRICAN ROLE
South Africa, which has complained the United Nations needs to pay more attention to the pan-African body, especially when it comes to African crises, had pushed Zuma's candidacy hard, saying the AU needed the strong leadership she could give it.
"The incumbent could not win a two-thirds majority after four rounds so this is very very clear, that leaders of this continent want change and they want it now," said South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
She said the rules dictated that the deputy chairman, Kenya's Erastus Mwencha, would become interim chair until the next round of elections that would probably take place in six months at the next summit in Malawi.
South African President Jacob Zuma's failure to secure a majority for Dlamini-Zuma, his ex-wife, after Ping's much criticized tenure dealt a blow to South Africa, which regards itself as an emerging power championing African causes, but is seen by some other states as a step behind global affairs.
Envoys at climate talks in Durban last year criticized the largest economy in Africa for failing to get delegates to agree on a deal before two weeks of talks ended.
Pretoria also blocked a visit by the Dalai Lama to attend the 80th birthday of South African hero Desmond Tutu.
"President Zuma has been criticized for a weak foreign policy on Africa so he had to show his direction. This will be a crisis for him, that his first attempt to come up with a way to repair his policy has been defeated," Maru said.
(Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Duncan Miriri and Philippa Fletcher)
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