TSA Stops Stupid Teen Wearing a Purse With a Replica Gun On It [Video]

A 17-year-old pregnant teen lost her flight when TSA agents insisted she had to check her bag, which has a replica gun attached to it. For once, I'm going to defend the TSA: this girl is a naff assclown. More »


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Apple's request to block Samsung Galaxy tablet, phone sales in the US is denied

As the legal drama between Apple and Samsung drags on around the world, US District Court Judge has rejected Apple's request to block the sales of Galaxy devices. Reuters reports the ruling came out late Friday, with the judge deciding "It is not clear that an injunction on Samsung's accused devices would prevent Apple from being irreparably harmed,". This isn't the first rejection for the folks from Cupertino either, after a request to speed up the trial was also denied back in July. The case itself will of course go on, but this means you'll still be able to get your hands on those Galaxy Tabs, Galaxy S IIs, and the like in the meantime.

Update: While Apple has yet to comment on the ruling, Samsung has issued an official statement which you can check out after the break.

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2011 gift guide: pets! | Design*Sponge


I?m cuckoo for animals (and pet products)! Having rescued my first puppy this year, I have had a blast finding out and learning about new dog products. From beds and collars to toys and home decor, I have come across some incredible animal swag. I wanted to share a few of my fave finds with you and your furry (and not-so-furry) friends! ??Stephanie

1. The City Coat, $130;?2. Animal Blueprint Company Blueprint, $110?$185;?3. Cardboard Cat Statue 4. Rokabone Leather Dog Collar,?$54; 5. Crate & Barrel?Fish Hotel, $30;?6. Modern Pet Portrait?iPhone Case, $70; 7. Silly Buddy Bow Tie Dog Collar, $40;?8. Christopher Brown?Staffordshire Dog Pillow Cover, $44;?9. The Nest Collection Dog Bed, prices vary

10. Wildebeest XX?Bandana Collar, $23?$28; 11. DrenCulture?Bulldog Mistletoe Card, $15 for 6;?12. Masakazu Hori Happy Tail Dog Lamps

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Republican Presidential Candidates on Pakistan and Nuclear Terrorism (ContributorNetwork)

As America moves deeper into the 21st century, Pakistan is becoming a serious concern to its neighboring nation states and the U.S. It is undemocratic -- the Pakistani government recently banned Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia, among other violations of civil rights and liberties. It is experiencing problematic economic growth, currently containing a population half of the United States' within an area only one-twelfth the size of the U.S. And it possesses more than 100 nuclear weapons and provides safe haven to multiple terrorist groups.

According to a journal published at West Point Military Academy, terrorists have attempted to gain access to nuclear sites in Pakistan on numerous occasions.

In short, conditions in Pakistan are a recipe for national and international disaster.

And for this reason, the candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination were asked how they believe the Pakistani situation should be handled.

Here is what they said:

* Jon Huntsman: "Pakistan is a concern. That's the country that ought to keep everybody up at night. ? You've got the youngest demographic of the 160 million people in Pakistan. You've got a Midrasha movement. You've got over 100 nuclear weapons. You've got trouble on the border. You've got a nation-state that is a candidate for failure. And I say it's a haven for bad behavior. It's a haven for training the people who seek to do us harm. And an expanded drone program is something that would serve our national interest."

* Michele Bachmann: "Pakistan has been the epicenter of dealing with terrorism ??? there are al-Qaida training grounds there. There's also the Haqqani network that can be trained there as well. And they also are one of the most violent, unstable nations that there is. We have to recognize that 15 of the sites, nuclear sites are available or are potentially penetrable by jihadists. Six attempts have already been made on nuclear sites. This is more than an existential threat. We have to take this very seriously."

* Mitt Romney: "Pakistan is the sixth largest country in the world. We can't just say goodbye to all of what's going on in that part of the world. Instead, we want to draw them toward modernity. And for that to happen, we don't want to literally pull up stakes and run out of town after the extraordinary investment that we've made. And that means we should have a gradual transition of handing off to the Afghan security forces the responsibility for their own country. We need to bring Pakistan into the 21st century -- or the 20th century, for that matter -- so that they can engage throughout the world with trade and with modernity. Right now, American approval level in Pakistan is 12 percent. We're not doing a very good job with this huge investment we make of $4.5 billion a year. We can do a lot better directing that to encourage people to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities the West and freedom represent for their people."

* Newt Gingrich: "We were told, a perfectly natural Washington assumption, that our killing bin Laden in Pakistan drove U.S.-Pakistan relations to a new low. To which my answer is, well, it should have because we should be furious. You tell the Pakistanis, help us or get out of the way, but don't complain if we kill people you're not willing to go after on your territory where you have been protecting them."

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T-Mobile Springboard 4G

At the crest of a wave of highly anticipated 7-inch tablets, you may have missed Huawei?s T-Mobile Springboard 4G. It lacks the hype of the Amazon Kindle Fire?($199, 4 stars) or the Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet?($249, 4 stars), but the Springboard is worth considering if you're looking for a tablet with 3G connectivity?something those other tablets are missing. Unlike the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet?s heavily modified Android 2.3 software, the Springboard runs Android Honeycomb 3.2, joining the Acer Iconia Tab A100 ($329.99, 4 stars) in a growing lineup of smaller-screen Honeycomb tablets. The Springboard outclasses the Iconia Tab A100, with its slick aluminum chassis, beautiful IPS display, and above-average battery life. But with a new version of Android coming and competition stepping up, it's just harder to get a four-star rating than it was when we reviewed the A100 this summer.

Pricing and Design
The Springboard comes in a 16GB model that T-Mobile offers for $179.99 with a two-year contract, or $429.99 sans contract. The contract price requires you to pay at least $50 per month for your first 20 months, which gets you 2GB of data with no overages, but reduced speeds if you go beyond 2GB. For many users, a simple Wi-Fi connection will be enough, and any additional data can be bought on a pay-as-you-go basis. T-Mobile offers no-contract prepaid plans in MonthPass and WeekPass options, ranging from $10 for 7 days with 100MB, to $50 for 30 days with 3GB. The $429.99 off-contract price is higher than the Springboard's main competitors, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus ($399), the Acer Iconia Tab A100, the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, and Kindle Fire. However none of those offer a cellular data option, and all but the Galaxy Tab have less onboard storage.

Fitting comfortably in a single hand, the Springboard feels solidly built and substantial. Its aluminum body is reminiscent of the iPad 2 ($499, 4.5 stars), using a smooth nearly-unibody construction with two plastic pieces attached to the back. At 7.5 by 5.1 by 0.4 inches and 14.1 ounces, the tablet is heavier than the 13.9-ounce Iconia Tab A100 and on par with the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet.? When held in portrait mode, the top edge of the tablet houses two small speakers and a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack.? The speakers are fair and produced decent audio output in my tests, but like with most tablets, to get the best results, you'll need headphones or an external speaker.

The Power button and volume rocker sit towards the top of the right edge. A power jack, micro HDMI port, and micro USB port for connecting to computers can be found on the bottom edge. The Springboard comes with 16GB of onboard storage, expandable up to 48GB with up to a 32GB microSD card. The microSD slot and SIM card slot can both be found under the bottom plastic panel on the back. ?

?Though T-Mobile touts it as a 4G tablet, we class the Springboard's HSPA+ 14.4 connection as 3G. But that's OK. It's still fast. (More on speed and performance in a minute.) The tablet also supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and I was able to connect to protected networks easily. The Springboard also supports Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, which made it easy to connect to wireless headphones or speakers. The Springboard can double as a mobile hotspot and I had no trouble browsing the Web, streaming Netflix, and downloading files on multiple devices.

The 7-inch 1280-by-800-pixel IPS touch-screen display is a pleasure to look at. Colors are vivid, with deep blacks and very sharp text. The viewing angles were considerably wider than on the Iconia Tab A100. I found the screen to be brighter than the Kindle Fire with both at max brightness. The Kindle Fire?s 1024-by-600 display is good, but the Springboard?s higher pixel density made reading on the screen easier. The screen is responsive and I rarely had to press more than once to register touches. One minor problem I found was that the bottom bezel, in portrait mode, is touch sensitive, causing a good amount of accidental clicks, inadvertently exiting apps or going back in the browser.

OS and Performance
The Springboard runs stock Android Honeycomb 3.2, with a few preloaded, removable apps and widgets from T-Mobile. This includes apps such as T-Mobile TV, Lets Golf 2, and Blockbuster, none of which were very useful. Other than that, if you've seen Honeycomb, there's nothing new here to note. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus has a smoother interface and apps run more fluidly on Samsung?s 7-inch tablet.

As far as third-party apps go, the Android-tablet-specific app selection still pales in comparison with Apple?s iPad app collection, and those tablet-specific apps are tougher to find in the Android Market. Given the smaller screen size, phone apps scale well on the Springboard, but until Google overhauls its app store to cater to tablet users, Android is at a distinct disadvantage. Tablet-specific apps such as StumbleUpon look great and took advantage of the screen real estate. Phone-specific apps like Facebook worked well enough, but there was a lot of room for improvement.

Under the hood, Huawei went with a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260 S3 Snapdragon processor.? Overall the Springboard felt very snappy and responsive, though I did notice some occasional choppy scrolling during my testing.? Apps loaded quickly and I was able to seamlessly switch between multiple running apps with ease. In our benchmarks the Springboard bested the Iconia Tab A100 on all but the Browsermark test. The HSPA+ 14.4 wasn?t what we consider 4G, but it turned in respectable speeds averaging 6.6Mbps down and 1.3Mbps up in Ookla?s Speedtest.net app. ?

The Springboard has a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. The front-facing camera is on the top right corner when you hold the tablet in portrait mode, and its placement makes for odd video-chatting angles. Both still photo and video quality were disappointing. Even in good lighting conditions, there was noticeable noise in images. Test shots were grainy, with color speckles obscuring fine details when zoomed in. Outdoor shots were also problematic, with overexposed bright backgrounds and underexposed shadows. The rear-facing camera shot 720p video, but at jerky frame rates ranging from 15-25 frames per second. Video recorded with the front-facing camera had an out-of-sync audio track, rendering it video almost completely useless. Using Google?s Talk app to video chat produced choppy and out-of-sync video, ruling it out as a viable means for communication.

T-Mobile rates the Springboard's 4100mAh battery at up to 7 hours of continuous use and 12 hours on standby.? In our battery test, a continuous looping video with Wi-Fi on and screen brightness at 100 percent, the Springboard lasted 5 hours, 16 minutes. That's better than the Iconia Tab A100?s 3 hours, 53 minutes and more than the Kindle Fire?s 4 hours, 55 minutes, but shorter than most 10-inch tablets with bigger batteries, such as the iPad 2, which lasted 7 hours, 30 minutes.

Conclusions
The T-Mobile Springboard 4G offers a great 7-inch tablet experience in a high-quality design, as long as you're willing to write off the camera. The aluminum construction and excellent display outclass the Acer Iconia Tab A100. But at $430 without a contract, the Springboard is pricier than most other 7-inchers, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus at $400. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 is lighter, but it also has a lower-resolution 1,024-by-600-pixel display. Whether that's enough to justify the higher price tag will depend on consumers, but with the price of the Springboard approaching iPad levels, T-Mobile may have a hard time moving its newest tablet.

We gave the Acer Iconia Tab A100 four stars this summer, but competition has stepped up since then, especially in the form of the low-cost Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. Those two tablets are considerably less-expensive options, with solid features, tighter ecosystems, and more-user-friendly interfaces. If media consumption and light Web browsing are all you are looking for, our Editors' Choice for small tablets, the Amazon Kindle Fire is a better choice. The Springboard isn't a bad tablet especially if you need one with 3G, but at its $430 off-contract price, it falls in a gray area between the high-end iPad 2 and the budget-friendly Kindle Fire. It is well made and feature-rich, but ultimately it doesn't provide enough to draw consumers away from either end of the spectrum.?

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Solar eclipse makes Black Friday a bit darker

Jay Pasachoff / Williams College

The moon's disk takes a bite out of the sun during Friday's partial solar eclipse, as seen from Invercargill in New Zealand. The last of 2011's four solar eclipses was visible only from an area in southern latitudes taking in New Zealand, Tasmania, South Africa and Antarctica.

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Today?was?"Black Friday" for some folks in southern climes, and not?because it's the?big shopping day after Thanksgiving: A partial solar eclipse made the sky just a little bit darker in areas of?New Zealand, Tasmania,?South Africa and Antarctica.

Some observers spotted only a slight grazing of the sun, while others ? such as Williams College astronomer Jay Pasachoff and his eclipse-chasing colleagues ? could see the moon take an appreciable bite out of the sun's disk in the skies over Invercargill in southern New Zealand. "After an in-and-out, off-and-on-rain day, we are very pleased," Pasachoff said in a report from Sky & Telescope's Kelly Beatty.


Pasachoff passed along another perspective on the eclipse, taken from the seventh-floor offices of the New Zealand Department of Conservation in Invercargill. The hand in the picture belongs to Steve Butler, who works for the?government agency.

Jay Pasachoff / Williams College

The partially eclipsed sun can be seen through a filter held in front of a seventh-floor window in Invercargill. Appropriate safety protection, such as specially designed solar filters, should always be used when gazing at the sun, even during a partial eclipse.

"I gave him one of my solar filters to hold so I could take that photo (Nikon D200)," Pasachoff told me?in an email. "He is the regional project manager and was able to grant us?access to that site where we were shielded from the wind ...?aside from the fierce wind that came through the opened window."

Antarctica's researchers had what were potentially the best seats in the house, with up to 90 percent of the sun's diameter blacked out. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound as if the weather was all that cooperative down at the bottom of the world.

Today's event was the last of four partial solar eclipses during 2011, but there's one more eclipse to close out the year. A total lunar eclipse will be visible from half the world on Dec. 10-11, with best viewing available from Australia, Asia and the Pacific. North Americans will see the beginning stages of the eclipse, while Europeans and Africans will catch the ending.

Next year?brings a new crop of solar spectacles, including an annular "ring" eclipse visible from Asia, the Pacific and the western U.S. on May 20, and a total solar eclipse visible from Australia and the South Pacific?on Nov. 13.?

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The Rum Diary (2011) DVD ENG DVDRip HQ 1 Link NO RAR


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Stars: Amber Heard, Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckharts

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American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots who live there.

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Closer to a cure for eczema

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Scientists have found that a strain of yeast implicated in inflammatory skin conditions, including eczema, can be killed by certain peptides and could potentially provide a new treatment for these debilitating skin conditions. This research is published today in the Society for Applied Microbiology's journal, Letters in Applied Microbiology.

20% of children in the UK suffer from atopic eczema and whilst this usually clears up in adolescence, 7% of adults will continue to suffer throughout their lifetime. Furthermore, this type of eczema, characterized by dry, itchy, flaking skin, is increasing in prevalence. Whilst the cause of eczema remains unknown, one known trigger factor is the yeast Malassezia sympodialis.

This strain of yeast is one of the most common skin yeasts in both healthy individuals and those suffering from eczema. The skin barrier is more fragile and often broken in those suffering from such skin conditions, and this allows the yeast to cause infection which then further exacerbates the condition. Scientists at Karolinska Institute in Sweden looked for a way to kill Malassezia sympodialis without harming healthy human cells.

The researchers looked at the effect on the yeast of 21 peptides which had either; cell-penetrating or antimicrobial properties. Cell-penetrating peptides are often investigated as drug delivery vectors and are able to cross the cell membrane, although the exact mechanism for this is unknown. Antimicrobial peptides, on the other hand, are natural antibiotics and kill many different types of microbe including some bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Tina Holm and her colleagues at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, added these different peptides types to separate yeast colonies and assessed the toxicity of each peptide type to the yeast. They found that six of the 21 peptides they tested successfully killed the yeast without damaging the membrane of keratinocytes, human skin cells.

Tina commented "Many questions remain to be solved before these peptides can be used in humans. However, the appealing combination of being toxic to the yeast at low concentrations whilst sparing human cells makes them very promising as antifungal agents. We hope that these peptides in the future can be used to ease the symptoms of patients suffering from atopic eczema and significantly increase their quality of life."

The next step will be to further examine the mechanism(s) used by the peptides to kill yeast cells, in order to develop a potential treatment for eczema and other skin conditions.

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