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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Microsoft Announces Windows 8 RTM, on Track for October Launch

Microsoft has released the final Windows 8 code to its manufacturer partners, indicating that it's on track for the public Oct. 26 launch. Here's a timeline of what to expect from Microsoft this fall.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Jennie Finch and Casey Daigle: Expecting Baby #3!

Two-time softball Olympian Jennie Finch and her husband, Casey Daigle, are expecting their third child together, the former announced on Monday.

Finch, 31, who is sitting out the London Olympics after winning gold in Athens and silver in Beijing, is already mom to sons Ace, 6, and Diesel, 1.

"Casey and I are expecting our third little one in January!!" she confirmed.

"Diesel - yes, a unique name but it suits him perfectly! - is doing wonderfully and growing fast. He’s a big guy, cruising around as he just started walking."

"He’s after his big brother, Ace - who’s 6 now! - and making us smile every day."

In addition to softball, Finch is an active supporter of the Wounded Warrior Foundation and the author of Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself.

Daigle currently pitches for AAA Fresno.

Congratultaions to the whole family!

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/jennie-finch-and-casey-daigle-expecting-baby-3/

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There are swimsuits fashioned for use exclusively by women | World ...

Watching the various water sports competitions, particularly swimming, have made us familiar with some of the swimsuits being worn by competitors. Of course, swimsuits are not confined for use only in such competitions; they are also donned by those who swim simply for recreation. Swimsuits come in different styles. There are swimsuits fashioned for use exclusively by women as there are those made exclusively for men.

Still other swimming outfit styles are unisex. Some of the most popular swimming outfit styles for men include boardshorts, drag suits, jammers, racing briefs, square cut suits, and trunks. Below are brief descriptions of each. Boardshorts: These Polo Ralph Lauren swimming outfits, which are loose-fitting, knee-length style of shorts, are named as such because they were originally worn by those who Ralph Lauren participate in surfing, a water sport that uses a board. The name continues to be justified as the outfits are preferred by competitors in the different aquatic boardsports events, such as bodyboarding, skimboarding, and wakeboarding. But their popularity has spread to enthusiasts of other water sports, primarily because of their practical style. Drag suits: These fall under the ?competitive swimwear? category. They are worn by swimmers over their inner swimsuit during training, the purpose for which is to give extra resistance from the water. In competition, however, swimmers understandably do not use drag suits as these make swimming more difficult. Jammers: Swimming competitors use these outfits because of the speed advantages they get from them. They are made of elastic materials (examples, nylon and spandex) and are designed for minimal water resistance. Their usual length extends from the mid-waist to just above the knee. Racing briefs: These male swimsuits come in the same style as underwear briefs. They are form fitting with a solid back and a V-shape front, which usually has a white lining on the inside. Some racing briefs are made of Lycra, while others are of polyester material.

An elasticized waistband and a thin strip at the upper thighs secure the outfit in place. Racing briefs are most often used in swimming and diving competitions. Square cut suits: Also called square leg suits, these outfits are often used in recreational swimming, diving, and water polo. Their design of a quadrate seam opening for the leg provides Polo Ralph Lauren Espa?a a ?square? coverage for the upper thighs, hence the name. Made from spandex-nylon combination, these swimsuits are somewhat similar in appearance to racing briefs, except that they provide more coverage for the upper leg. Trunks: These are perhaps the most popular swimsuit style for men in North America. They are very similar to boxer shorts, extending from the waist to mid-upper leg. Most trunks are made of nylon and come in various designs. A mesh lining ensures quick drying. Two other less popular swimming outfit styles for men are the fundoshi and the mankini. The fundoshi is a traditional Japanese undergarment for men that is sometimes used as a swimwear. In fact, some high school boys in Japan compete in open water swimming wearing fundoshi. The mankini (a portmanteau of the words ?man? and ?bikini?), on the other hand, is a close-fitting, one-piece buttock-revealing swimsuit for men popularized in the movie ?Borat?.

Source: http://worldvoiceproject.com/arts-entertainment/there-are-swimsuits-fashioned-for-use-exclusively-by-women/

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

German support for Merkel's crisis handling erodes: poll

BERLIN (Reuters) - Only one third of Germans still believe Angela Merkel is making the right decisions over the euro zone debt crisis, according to a survey published on Sunday, pointing to a steep erosion in domestic support for the chancellor over the last weeks.

The survey by YouGov, due to be printed in Monday's edition of Bild newspaper, found 33 percent in favor of her stance but 48 percent against, a setback for the chancellor who is to seek a third term in a 2013 federal election, which she has vowed to make a vote on Europe.

Asked in the survey whether they feared for their savings, 44 percent of Germans said that they did.

In mid-July, a poll by ZDF-Politbarometer showed 63 percent of Germans backed Merkel's handling of the crisis, although a majority thought she should explain her policies better.

Another poll at the start of July by Infratest-ARD put support for Merkel's crisis policies at 58 percent, although 85 percent of those polled also expected the crisis to get worse.

Merkel's tough stance on the crisis and demands for austerity in exchange for aid have seen her demonized across Europe, but earnt her popularity at home.

The euro zone entered a threatening new phase in the last weeks, however, as concern rose Greece would be unable to meet its bailout conditions and Spanish and Italian assets came under renewed market attack, stirring fears about the rising cost of Europe's debt crisis for German tax payers.

Last week Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook for Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to negative from stable as Germany might have to increase its support for troubled states.

(Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Sophie Hares)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/german-support-merkels-crisis-handling-erodes-poll-162431560.html

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Philippine gunmakers take aim in election year

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines?? In the Philippines, they vote with their trigger fingers. Elections mean big business for illegal gunsmiths, who are looking forward to 2013 mid-term polls.

With election-related violence commonplace, the Philippines imposes a ban on the carrying of guns for six months, from campaigning to the proclamation of winners.

With legal access denied, Filipinos simply turn to the many illegal gunsmiths who ply their trade in back alleys and on the edge of rice fields despite government crackdowns.

In Danao City, in the northeast of central Cebu island, they are already anticipating a windfall.

"There's actually huge demand for guns, especially now and because of the elections next year," said a 33-year-old gunsmith, who asked to be named only as Remo, as he hammered away at bits of scrap metal in a makeshift factory in Danao.

Loud music drowned out the noise of Remo's workshop on the edge of a dry creek, hidden from view by thick bamboo groves, as he and two assistants hammered, filed and drilled away.

"We are actually having some difficulty in keeping up with the orders because it usually takes at least two weeks to make one .45 caliber pistol, even if I work 16 hours a day," he said.

Legal industry
As the pro- and anti-gun lobbies in the United States agonize over how to respond to yet another massacre of innocents, in the Philippines many want even more liberal gun laws to boost production of a small but growing legal industry.

Guns have long been part of everyday life in the Philippines, especially since the end of World War Two.

After the war, farmers took up arms during agrarian unrest in the late 1940s and early 1950s and then a Maoist insurgency that has become one of the world's longest-running conflicts.

Today, all private security guards in the Philippines carry either handguns or shotguns, or both. Guns are a common sight in shopping malls, government and private offices, banks, restaurants and even schools.

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"When we were children, we were already surrounded by guns. It was the world of our fathers," said Elmer Genzon, a third-generation gunsmith who once made "paltik", or illegal weapons, out of scrap metal and bits of angle iron.

"We grew up making guns."

According to www.gunpolicy.org, a site hosted by the University of Sydney's School of Public Health in Australia, there are about 3.9 million guns -- legal and illegal -- held by civilians in the Philippines, or about 4.7 per 100 people.

That puts the Philippines 105th place on a list of 179 countries, tiny in comparison to the 88.8 per 100 in the United States and behind even Australia with 15 per 100.

While it is impossible to count the number of illegal guns in the Philippines, the national police estimate there are about 350,000, again paltry in comparative terms to Central and South American weapons hotspots like Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia.

Yet the Philippines suffers worryingly high gun-crime rates.

According to the latest available figures from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, there were 8.9 homicides per 100,000 people in 2003, by far the worst in Asia and outstripping Europe.

While not at the levels of Central and South America, the number was still almost triple that of the United States, which had 3.3 homicides per 100,000 people the same year.

Illegal guns are not just carried by criminal gangs, Maoist rebels and Muslim separatists. They also belong to civilians and politicians who keep private armies.

Investigations into the Ampatuan family, a political clan linked to the 2009 massacre of 57 people, including dozens of journalists, found more than 1,000 high-powered weapons, including mortars and .50 caliber machineguns.

Health plan
In the 2004 elections, authorities decided to crack down on illegal gunsmiths in Cebu. There had been more desultory attempts to act against an industry dating back to the early 1900s.

Police closed the Genzon family's home factory on the edge of a rice field during the 2004 crackdown.

Like other gunsmiths from his hometown, he was soon working at the government-registered Shooters' Arms Manufacturing factory about 25 km (15 miles) down the road in Mandaue City.

"We no longer have to worry about police raids and we also have a steady source of income, plus some health and other social benefits," Genzon, 33, told Reuters while he wrapped a handcrafted model of a 1911 Colt .45 destined for a dealer in Rochester, New York.

A small army of 400 workers assembles revolvers and pistols at the Mandaue factory, which exports guns to the United States, Australia, Italy and Thailand.

Factory owner Romulo de Leon III, a second-generation gun dealer, quickly recognized the unusual skills developed by the illegal, backyard gunsmiths when he decided to switch from selling imported weapons to making his own.

His partly automated factory now produces about 20,000 guns a year, with up to 85 percent of them sold abroad, making him the second largest gun manufacturer in the Philippines.

With cheap labor and Filipino ingenuity, de Leon wants to expand into new markets in Eastern Europe and South America.

With more foreign markets in their gunsights, legal manufacturers hope President Benigno Aquino, a gun enthusiast who shoots competitively, will help liberalize gun laws.

"What we want is a more balanced gun legislation, not too restrictive, but we also understand that guns must be regulated," said Demetrio Tuason, head of the largest and oldest manufacturer in the Philippines, Armscor, at a Manila gun show.

Existing laws allow Filipinos to own one "long" firearm -- a rifle or shotgun -- and one handgun. Guns are meant to be licensed and owners must have permits to carry them in public.

Tuason wants gun licenses more like driving licenses, allowing people to "own as many guns as they can afford".

Not surprisingly, gun sellers also want to expand the industry, worth about 2.5 billion pesos ($59.37 million). Export receipts grew fourfold to $23.4 million between 2000-11.

But, just like in the United States, there seems little appetite to change existing laws. "That's not a priority right now," Aquino told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.

There are 34 gun-related bills before both houses of parliament, some seeking looser laws and others more control.

Supporters of two prominent bills seeking to outlaw civilians carrying guns in public and stiffer penalties for possession of illegal weapons have all but given up hope.

Much like the United States, guns are so deeply ingrained in Philippines culture that they don't expect the July 20 shooting in a Colorado cinema, in which 12 people were killed and 58 wounded, will have much of an impact.

"For the last 22 years we've been telling our lawmakers ... to pass a strict gun control law but nothing has happened," said Nandy Pacheco of the Gunless Society group.

"Our gun laws are encouraging a culture of guns, a culture of violence. When do we act? Are we waiting for a similar attack to happen here in our movie houses?"

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