Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Nokia's Ugly Lumia Truth In $1 Billion Loss
Nokia recorded a loss of $1 billion on combined smartphone sales of 10.2 million--only 600,000 of which were shipped in the U.S.
Dana White not a fan of the Brian Ebersole Hairrow
Brian Ebersole is on an 11-fight win streak, and took his bout with James Head just a month after beating T.J. Waldburger. Helping out the UFC by taking a fight on short notice will usually land a fighter on UFC president Dana White's good side. However, White is not a fan of Ebersole's manscaping, which usually has his chest hair shaved into a "hairrow" pointing up.
MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani tweeted the bad news during the UFC 149 press conference.
Ouch. For some reason, White is not a fan of fighters expressing themselves in the cage. Jason Miller and Tom Lawlor's entrances also drew his ire. It's a shame, because with more than 400 fighters on the roster, little touches of personality make a fighter stand out. Ebersole hasn't lost with the hairrow, so why would he stop now? Rock that hairrow, Brian.
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?August: Osage County? pic gets shiny new name: George Clooney
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It's a new Android Trojan -- or at least 'aggressive advertising'
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Some patients are 60 times less likely to get a cancer scan in postcode lottery
Up to a fifth of GPs are failing to send enough patients for life-saving scans to diagnose cancer, researchers warn. Some doctors are also being actively discouraged from referring patients by cost-cutting NHS managers.
Monday, July 30, 2012
A Long Day?s Journey Into Fight ? Part 1
The day begins early.� The weigh-ins for Anthony Pipola's fight are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. sharp, and to get to there ? Philadelphia ? from here ? New York City ? in time means at least two hours of navigating rush hour traffic and toll roads.� So we meet at Anthony's coach's place in Queens at 7:00 a.m. and set out, Anthony in the driver's seat and Steve Koepfer, Tyga Maclin and myself along for the ride.� It's Friday.� Ten or so hours after the weigh-ins are the fights ? Matrix Fights, actually, a regional MMA organization maybe one rung below the events you'd see on FOX, Showtime or pay-per-view.� And while the main event features a Bellator veteran and the co-main has a female Strikeforce veteran, somewhere tucked away on the undercard is Anthony's bout.� Anthony is an amateur fighter.� This will be only his second fight.
Nearly every weekend, regardless of whether there's a UFC or Strikeforce or Bellator on television, there's a regional show happening somewhere in the United States.� For Philadelphia there's Matrix Fights, but take a drive down the Atlantic City Expressway and you could catch a Ring of Combat or Cage Fury Fighting Championship, and if you were in California or Florida, it could be a King of the Cage or Art of Fighting.� The common denominator for them all is that each has local fighters, either amateur or pro, on their way up or on their way down, aspiring or expiring.�
Koepfer, a.k.a. "Sambo Steve", runs the school that Anthony trains out of, where Anthony has trained for about a year and a half.� There are others at the school, everyone from weekend warriors to pro fighters, and the weekly team gathering and the sparring it entails has been known to attract a cross-section of former Bellator champs, accomplished amateurs and rising stars.� Tyga, who wrestled at Hunter College, is the school's wrestling coach.� Many amateur fighters have family and friends who come out to see them compete, but the distance between Anthony's neighborhood in Queens and the City of Brotherly Love has made that impossible, so Sambo Steve and Tyga are all he's got.� I'm just here to observe, to see things from the perspective of a fighter.
Snapshot of Anthony: he's not tall, but his broadness offsets his height, giving him the presence of someone strong and physical.� He's a construction worker of sorts, his fulltime job involving working with ConEd to dig up cracked gas mains and repair them, and when he talks of his family ? he's got a wife and three kids ? he beams.� His facial hair leans more towards "why bother shaving with a fight coming up?" than fashion statement.� He didn't sleep much the night before, the accumulating anxiousness making slumber impossible, and that edge of exhaustion and nerves and weight cutting (Anthony is supposed to be 175 pounds; he was 172 when he last checked) is something that lurks close to the surface. �Every once in while he unwraps a Jolly Rancher candy and pops it into his mouth.
"How you feeling?" I ask him after introducing myself from the backseat.
"Good," he says from behind the wheel of his SUV.
"Why'd you take a fight in Philly?" I ask.
"Because they offered it," he says.
For his first fight, which took place in May, Anthony and Sambo Steve drove seven hours to a suburb of Buffalo for a show called TNT Fights.� Under current law, professional MMA competition is illegal in New York State, but the athletic commission has eased up on amateur mixed martial arts, and TNT Fights was New York's first sanctioned amateur MMA event in over a decade.� Unfortunately, other than competing in local underground shows, if Anthony wants to fight it's easier for him to travel to New Jersey and Pennsylvania ? neither of which require as much driving.�
"Wouldn't you rather be fighting in New York?" I ask.
"[Expletive] yeah," he says.� "I'd rather fight in New York.� I'd rather fight on Queens Boulevard.� I work overnight.� [Expletive] this driving to Philly crap."
But we drive.� And drive.� Tyga, whose day job is at one of the Apple Stores in Manhattan, takes a conference call in the backseat.� Sambo Steve plays old television theme songs on his phone, leaving us to guess which shows they're from.� Anthony talks of Japanese MMA ? apparently passion of his.� The mood never once strays from being light.� No one knows anything about the man Anthony is supposed to fight other than that he's from New Jersey and his name is Michael Roberts, and yet the lack of information doesn't seem to bother them.� Then it's 9:30, and we're stuck in traffic on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.� We're late.
Thankfully, when we get to the venue a half hour later, the weigh-ins are still underway.� Unlike other commissions, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission allows for pro/am cards ? fight cards that feature a mix of professional MMA bouts and amateur ones.� The pros slated for tonight's Matrix Fights weighed in the night before.� The amateurs get to do their thing the day of, without fanfare, the commission official telling them to complete some paperwork and step on the scale and that's it.
The venue is a union hall not too far from the heart of the city.� The floor is carpeted, and rows of folding chairs surround the cage that's set up in the middle of a room that could fit somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 spectators.� While Anthony weighs in and fills out forms, Sambo Steve and Tyga mingle with other coaches.� A few feet away, one of the female fighters on the card is handed a store-bought pregnancy test to take (standard operating procedure for fighters of the fairer sex).� Some mill about nervously.� Others stare off into space and nod their heads to the music blaring in their headphones.
One hundred seventy-two pounds is Anthony's official weight.� �Andria the matchmaker tells us to come back at 6:00 p.m.� The doors are scheduled to open to the public at 7:00 p.m., and first fight is scheduled for 8:00.� It's only 10:30 a.m. now.
The first order business is to get Anthony some food, so we find him a place that serves breakfast, and eggs, pancakes, oatmeal and freshly-squeezed orange juice are scarfed down.�
The chatter is constant, the talk hovering around Anthony's opponent (no one is completely sure who he was at the weigh-ins ? was he that tall, muscle-bound dude?� Was he the dark-skinned kid with the boxing coach?� Was he even there?).�� It's a funny thing being a fighter's coach on the day of their fight, something akin to having a wife in the beginning stages of child birth.� All the preparation ? whether they're Lamaze breathing techniques or transitions into submissions ? culminates into that one acute moment where the only thing that matters is the thing you're there for, and regardless of whether if it's happening in a delivery room or cage, the focus and singularity of purpose and words of encouragement in the ear are virtually interchangeable.� "You're ready for this," says Sambo Steve, and "Just concentrate on what we worked on," says Tyga, and it's not impossible to imagine those words said to Anthony being said to a woman in the throes of labor.
After our meal we leave Anthony at his car, the idea being that he will nap and rest up.� But that's folly, rest never comes.� Anthony's going to be stepping into the cage in a few hours and stand before someone who wants nothing more than to punch his face in ? how can he sleep?
For lack of nothing better to do, Sambo Steve, Tyga and I are at the movies, and it's there that Anthony finds us killing time.� We watch some art house flick, some tear-jerker that is the farthest thing from violent and motivating and the kind of film that someone with a fight in a few hours would ever want to watch.� Afterwards, we drive over to the venue and sit in the car in the parking lot.
The light mood from hours before has transformed into a tense silence.� Battle is impending.
(End of Part 1.� Tune in tomorrow for Part 2, because, you know, fighting and stuff.)
Vita4One on Spa pole as rain hits
Frank Kechele earned pole position for the Spa 24 Hours at the wheel of the lead Vita4One BMW Z4 as the superpole session was cancelled. The German, who shares the BMW with Mathias Lauda and Greg Franchi, emerged fastest in the two qualifying sessions on Thursday evening, which will now set the grid for the fourth round of the Blancpain Endurance Series after Friday's pole session was called off because of heavy rain. Kechele's fastest lap of 2m19.473s was just eight hundredths quicker than Max Martin's fastest lap in the Marc VDS BMW.
ARM chases Intel on 3D transistors with TSMC deal
ARM is catching up with Intel on 3D transistors, announcing a new partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to manufacture 64-bit chips that are faster and more power-efficient than current chips in which transistors are organized horizontally.
The agreement calls for TSMC to implement the 3D transistors in chips based on ARM's ARMv8 64-bit architecture in the 20-nanometer manufacturing process and beyond. ARM licenses processor designs to fabless companies such as Qualcomm and Nvidia, which get the chips made by contract manufacturers like TSMC.
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How just two apples a day could cut the risk of heart disease
The popular fruit was found to reduce cholesterol levels in postmenopausal women, according to scientists from Florida State University.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
19th Century gas plant tar calls for clean up in San Francisco
With its scenic views, it is hard to imagine San Francisco's upscale Marina District as a cow herding spot or a lagoon for washing clothes. Yet in the 1800's that is what it was.
Shopping L.A.: Sole Society offers shoes for Art of Elysium
Sole Society is having a sample sale to benefit the Art of Elysium children's charity. Plus other news about sales and store openings in L.A.
Fashion News: Stars turn out for HollyRod fundraiser
A galaxy of stars attended DesignCare 2012 on Saturday, the 14th annual fundraiser for the HollyRod Foundation, established by Rodney and Holly Robinson Peete to provide assistance to people with Parkinson's Disease and autism. Fashion designer Victoria Beckham confirmed she and the other Spice Girls are reuniting to perform at the closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in London. And more fashion news.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
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Crawford Wins NiCBS Championship
Chicagoland Speedway was the site of racing for Week 12, the final week of the season. Jared Crawford (Michigan) came into Week 12 with a nice points lead but it wasn?t a lock. As always, anything can happen when it comes to motorsports, especially win racing online. For the final week of the season, 783 sim racers attempted one race while 282 drivers attempted at least one qualifying lap. ?My teammates and I worked on the setup for literally 8 hours” – Jon Adams The last Strength of Field race of the season took place two hours later than normal on Friday night race due to an iRacing service failure. Despite the setback, the race featured a full field of 30 drivers and had an SoF of 4959. Jason Karlavige [...]
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Reporter Susan Hendricks tells us that eating certain types of foods before bed can disrupt sleep. 
Friday, July 27, 2012
Spikenzie Labs Solder: Time II Review
The Solder : Time II? watch kit from Spikenzie Labs is a build-it-yourself watch kit that features a 7 X 20 dot matrix red LED display with a programmable Arduino microcontroller. �To me, quite simply, it’s a fun afternoon DIY kit with red lights. �What could be better? According to Spikenzie Labs, The Solder : [...]
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Pear Bluetooth Receiver for Docking Speakers
Have you invested in expensive docking speakers for your iPhone or iPod, and now the talk of Apple changing their connectors has you concerned that your investment is down the drain?� If so, you might want to check into the Pear Bluetooth receiver that’s soliciting funding now on Kickstarter.� You’ll simply plug the Pear onto [...]
Mis Sold PPI Claims ? What to do?
This article tells about some valuable tips about missold PPI Claims (Payment Protection Insurance) to users who need help in getting their money back.
Peers spend nearly �175,000 of taxpayers' money on art and statues for the House of Lords
Official figures show that tens of thousands of taxpayers' money has been spent on sculptures, paintings and silverware in the last year, including this one of suffragette Viscountess Rhondda for �7,500.
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Europe's largest bank Santander sees profits cut in half because of toxic property loans
Santander suffered the dramatic drop in net profits after it set aside 1.3 billion Euro to protect itself against toxic real estate loans in Spain.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Istanbul show sheds light on Goya's dark etchings
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Goya's bullfighters, prostitutes and demons are on exhibit in Istanbul in what curators called one of the most extensive shows of the Spanish master's work. 
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Cheap pet insurance can deprive poorly animals of vital vet care
Owners who don’t check the small print often find their dog or cat will not qualify for any insurance if they suffer the same illness again the following year. Nicki Hyland (pictured) pays for more expensive lifetime cover.
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Life After the City: Prop Trader Turns Gin Maker
July 18 - The gin craze hit London in the 18th century - now the city is home to several producers, like Ian Hart. After the financial crisis he gave up life in the city to distill his own brand of the spirit. 
Android Hacker: Jelly Bean Tougher To Crack
Android 4.1, code-named Jelly Bean, is first OS from Google to correctly randomize memory, making it tougher for attackers to get a foothold.
Hilary Duff Responds to Weight Criticism: ?Say It To My Face!?
Less than four months after giving birth, Hilary Duff is forced to defend her post-baby body.
?I don?t care what people say,? Hilary tells In Touch about those who teased her after photos surfaced of the actress relaxing in a bikini with her son, Luca. ?Say it to my face!?
Hilary, who?s married to former hockey player Mike Comrie, says she?s been exercising a few days a week, pairing spin classes with private training. ?This is how it goes for most women ? the weight doesn?t fall off overnight,? she tells In Touch. ?I?m not back to where I want to be, but I?m not stressing it.?
Well, there?s one other person ? her husband, who reassures Hilary that she?s picture-perfect. ?Mike doesn?t care,? she says. ?Even during my pregnancy, he thought I was beautiful.?
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
D-Link Announces its Cloud Camera 5000 with Pan/Tilt
The Cloud Camera 5000 (DCS-5222L) from D-Link looks like it could be my new favorite surveillance camera because it offers all the features that my current favorite (Dropcam Echo) has and then some. It’s wireless, has motion detection, night vision, two-way audio, smartphone apps, motorized pan/tilt, digital zoom, 720p HD recording,�microSD card slot for recording [...]
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It doesn't matter if you are starting a business in your local area or if you are starting one online, it's important for you to remain competitive. This is especially true if you are operating an online business, as it is a simple thing for people to do a price comparison and to review what you have to offer.
Melvin Guillard and Khabib Nurmagomedov take decisions in to round out UFC 148 prelims
The non-PPV portion of UFC 148 finished with two more decisions, meaning there were no stoppages on the preliminary card of Saturay night's bouts in Las Vegas.
Melvin Guillard looked close to finishing Fabricio Camoes in the first round of their bout, but the horn sounded before their fight was stopped. Guillard held on to win the decision 30-27 on all three cards. Khabib Nurmagomedov took a tight decision from Gleison Tibau, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27.
Exclusive Look Inside J.R. Martinez's Baby Belle's Sweet Nursery
Like many new dads, J.R. Martinez can?t help but gush over his 2-month-old daughter, Lauryn Anabelle, or ?Belle? for short. ?She is so aware of her surroundings!? he tells the new issue of In Touch, on newsstands now.
Luckily for Belle, her surroundings include a stylish ? and serene ? room with distressed floors, unique light fixtures and dark wood accents. ?There?s a soft rug in the middle of the floor that?s so comfortable,? J.R tells In Touch. ?We plan on spending lots of tummy time there in the future!?
The Dancing With the Stars winner and his girlfriend of four years, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, 30, worked with design experts Little Crown Interiors to create the luxurious nest, which J.R. admits is now his favorite spot in the house. ?Diana fell in love with a lamb theme,? adds J.R. ?Then her mother pointed out LAMB is an acronym for Lauryn Anabelle Martinez Belle.?
And J.R. proudly admits to In Touch that he is reveling in each new milestone his little girl hits. ?The biggest thing,? he says, ?is when Belle started smiling.?
Pickett HPD wins again in ALMS
Pickett Racing claimed a fourth straight victory in the American Le Mans Series as Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr commanded the Mosport Park round in their HPD. Bar a penalty for having too many personnel over the wall at a pitstop, it was plain sailing for the Pickett team, with Luhr and Graf winning by 10 seconds over Chris Dyson and Guy Smith's Dyson Lola-Mazda
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
New York City Turns Pay Phones Into Wi-Fi Hotspots
New York also looks for citizen input on long-term future of public payphones.
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Pittsburgh Police Chief Testifies In Jordan Miles Civil Trial
Attorneys for Jordan Miles continue to make the case that their client was brutally beaten by officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte and David Sisak and is suffering long-term effects from the incident.
Virtual Building Block System Comes With Cameras but No Sensors
Look Ma, all hands! A Japanese research group's virtual building block system takes a novel approach to an expanding technology.
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