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Rock stars, sports stars and other celebrities not accustomed to live television can often bomb — painfully — on Saturday Night Live. Remember Wayne Gretsky? No? vouis vuitton mens shoes How about Steve Forbes or Paris Hilton? All panned by fans and critics alike. So it came as a bit of a surprise to see Mick Jagger steal the show hosting last night’s season finale. And one of his best bits was a political song about Mitt Romney. Yes, about Romney. Jagger introduced the song “Tea Party” by saying “My roots are in blues music. I love the blues because in any era the blues talked about what’s on people’s minds. So here’s a blues that I wrote about the presidential election.” The song then began with a classic blues riff and repeat: “If you want to sleep in the West Wing, yeah you got to strategize a bit. If you want to sleep in the West Wing, you wanna keep that private boat yeah you got to strategize a bit. Yeah you’re gonna have to raise about 100 million dollars, or you’re gonna end up so deep down in the s**t.” (Only one note Mick: They don’t actually sleep in the West Wing.) Both funny and unexpected, Jagger’s lyrics also included one of the best lines in a memorable night: “Yeah, Mr. Romney’s a hard working man. And he always says his prayers. Yeah but there’s one little thing about him. Don’t even let him cut your hair.” The Rolling Stones front man was also notably at ease during his opening monologue, and hysterical in stints as a flamboyant, closeted gay actor in “Secret Word,” louis vuitton ladies tee shrits and as a shy insurance salesman in a sketch where cast members Fred Armisen and Bobby Moynihan sang karaoke versions of Stones’ hits, complete with imitations of the Jagger swagger. Just watch the whole show. Mick stole it. The chief executives of Apple and Samsung are expected to meet tomorrow in a San Francisco federal court to try to work out their patent dispute, according to a Reuters report. Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, as well as their general counsels, were ordered in April to attend the magistrate judge settlement conference by Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. After the referral was ordered, the companies said in a joint court filing that "as directed by the court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate" in the discussions. Koh has expressed a desire for the companies to try to settle some of their differences out of court. Earlier this month, Koh ordered the companies to pare down the number of claims each plans to make in their intellectual-property lawsuits against each other. The case is scheduled to go to trial on July 30, but Koh suggested that if the companies don't present a more workable set of claims, the trial start date could be delayed until next year. Their legal confrontation began in April 2011 when Apple filed a lawsuit in California accusing Samsung of copying "the look and feel" of its iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone. "Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smartphone products white louis vuitton bag and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface, and innovative style in these infringing products," Apple complained. Samsung quickly responded with a countersuit against Apple, taking the fight overseas to South Korea, Japan, and Germany.

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The Los Angeles Kings have maintained their discipline and cool during a dominant playoff run that has them two wins away from the team's first Stanley Cup finals appearance since 1993 with Wayne Gretzky. They've frustrated the Phoenix Coyotes with a womens lv shoes cheap mix of balanced scoring, shot-limiting defense and solid goaltending in building a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. If the Coyotes are ticked off, and they sure played like it in losing Game 2, they face even more of an uphill climb in trying to stop the Kings on the road. The Coyotes will have to do it without one of their top forwards. Martin Hanzal was suspended one game by the NHL on Wednesday for a huge hit on Kings captain Dustin Brown in Game 2. Hanzal was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for boarding at 11:01 of the third period Tuesday night. He will miss Game 3 on Thursday night at Staples Center. The punishment wasn't severe enough, according to Kings center Jarret Stoll. "Hopefully, he gets two games," Stoll said before the league's ruling came down. "Hopefully, he knew that Brownie was in a vulnerable position. If you're going to finish your check, maybe you grab him and you ride him in and then you close him that way on the boards. You don't shove him in the boards, especially when he's 5, 6 feet from the boards." Speaking before Hanzal's punishment was announced, Coyotes captain Shane Doan said, "He's very, very valuable and obviously a huge part of our team. Hopefully, they'll understand it's a situation where he really didn't have a choice." The game's other noteworthy hit was by Doan on Kings forward Trevor Lewis in the second period, when Lewis spun and faced the boards an instant before Doan hit him. Doan got a major boarding penalty and a game misconduct; Lewis' nose was bloodied after he was driven into the boards. "The Doan thing was kind of tough," Stoll said. "It's a hockey play." Coyotes coach Dave Tippett agreed. "I know there's lots of focus put on hits from behind, but to me that's a hockey play where a player puts himself in a vulnerable position," he said. "If you've ever played the game, if you're in that position, in a split second if that guy turns, you can't stop." Doan's hit came before Coyotes goalie Mike Smith slashed Brown's leg, with Doan's penalty leading to a 5-on-3 advantage that the Kings parlayed into another goal. "It doesn't make any sense to retaliate," Stoll said. "We were in a good situation to not retaliate. They want to get something going and set the tone maybe for the next game and maybe that was part of their mindset, but we just got to stay within the game, stay within ourselves." The Kings bring a franchise-record seven-game playoff winning streak into Game 3, having outscored Phoenix 8-2 so far in the series. Adding to the Coyotes' frustration was the fact that they were outshot 40-24 in Game 2, including 15-8 in the first period. "They got a couple of lucky bounces to get going and once you get going, it piles on itself and confidence is an amazing thing," Doan said after practice in Arizona. "So far, things have gone right for them in the playoffs and that's a credit to the way they've played, the way they've been coached. Once it starts to roll, it seems easier. We've got to find a way to get ours rolling." Smith spoke to his teammates after Game 2 about not playing their best hockey, and he included himself in the criticism. "It's one thing to lose when you're playing your best, but when you're losing games when you're not playing up to your capability, that's why it's frustrating," he said. "We start with one win right now and that's all can worry about. We can't win four games in one game. We're not looking too far ahead and this series is far from over." The Coyotes were called for 13 penalties totaling louis vuitton new bags 2012 prices 56 minutes on Tuesday. Jeff Carter scored two of his three goals while the Kings had a 5-on-3 advantage. "Frustration can't get the better of us," Tippett said. "Sometimes people expect us to come out and dominate the game, but that's not going to happen. We're a team that hangs around the game and we find a way to win. The frustration of not being able to do that in the first two games certainly was evident. We need to get back to playing the way we can, playing our style and find a way to win."

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Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, official results showed, beating two better-funded candidacies louis vuitton shoes women for the opportunity to face off against a former U.S. Senator for the open seat in November. Fischer's upset toppled state Attorney General John Bruning, seen as the establishment candidate, and state Treasurer Don Stenberg, seen as the tea party favorite. The senate race in Nebraska was the most closely watched contest on Tuesday, when GOP voters there and in Oregon cast ballots in the presidential race. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was projected to win the presidential tally in Nebraska, standing at 71% with all precincts reporting, according to the Secretary of State website. In Oregon, he was ahead with 72% of the vote out of 100% of precincts tallied. Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania had approximately 14% of the Nebraska vote, several weeks after he suspending his White House bid. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had approximately 12% in the Oregon contest, held days after he announced that he would no longer actively campaign for the GOP nod. In the Nebraska senate race, Brunning and Stenberg, along with their allies, spent millions against each other, while Fischer picked up late endorsements from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one-time GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain. She now goes head-to-head against former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, who represented the state from 1988-2000, then chose not to seek reelection. The retirement of Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat, lv suits for men left an open seat and political trends there have led to independent handicappers favoring a Republican win come November. Fischer sailed relatively under the radar as Bruning and Stenberg waged war against each other and Kerry, who was presumed as the Democratic nominee, faced Republican challenges to his residency in Nebraska. After stepping down from the Senate in 2001, Kerrey lived and worked in New York. The majority of tea party-aligned individuals and groups split between Fischer's two rivals. Bruning received the support of Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party Express. "The federal government spends too much, taxes too much, regulates too much, and listens too little," he posted on his website. Stenberg -- hardly a political outsider -- was waging his fourth campaign for the U.S. Senate, and he won the party's nomination once. That was the year 2000, and he eventually lost the general election to Nelson. He was backed this cycle by the PAC behind the tea party, FreedomWorks, as well as Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and the Club for Growth. Long before GOP voters chose their nominee on Tuesday, two prominent and independent political handicappers rated the race as leaning towards the eventual Republican nominee. Reliable polling in the state has been scarce, but watchers of the race perceived Fischer as closing a gap between her and Bruning in the final days. The Cook Political Report lists the race as "likely" a Republican pickup -- which falls between "solid" and "lean" -- while the Rothenberg Political Report calls it "Republican favored," one step below a safe seat but three steps above a toss-up. A win in Nebraska would help Republicans wrestle a simple majority in the U.S. Senate from Democrats, a feat the GOP is four seats away from achieving. Democrats, meanwhile, are defending or facing a retirement in 23 of the 33 Senate seats up for election this year. And of the 10 open seats, seven are held by Democrats and three by Republicans. While the GOP candidates exchanged elbows through a series of television advertisements, they found time to beat up on Kerrey and were joined by national operations, such as the American Crossroads committee founded by Karl Rove. Within days of Kerrey's decision to enter the race -- he initially said he would not run, then two weeks later, announced he would -- Bruning was on the air with an ad questioning the former senator's residency and the influence of the former Cornhusker senator's time in New York. Kerrey is a "New York liberal," Bruning's ad went, while American Crossroads said, "A decade in Greenwich Village changed Bob Kerrey." The group also seized on his reluctance to enter cheap burberry bags the race, claiming in a radio ad that Kerry "cut his own secret deal with Democratic leaders in Washington, a deal so secret Kerrey won't talk about what promises were made." The state Republican Party even filed an official challenge of his residency with the Secretary of State's office. Kerrey's campaign manager, Paul Johnson, told CNN in March that the residency attacks were "insulting to Nebraskans" and that Bob is "a fiscal conservative" concerned with national debt and budget deficit. Other attacks have sought to tie Kerrey to outgoing Nelson -- who provided the 60th vote for Democrats to pass the health care overhaul. He agreed to support the bill after negotiating a compromise, which came to be known as the "Cornhusker Kickback." It would have modified federal abortion funding regulations and saved the state approximately $100 million on Medicare costs over a decade. As Republicans at home and nationwide protested, he had the provision removed, and said he did not wish his state to have an advantage over other states. Like others in the upper chamber who are retiring willingly or unwillingly this year, Nelson is known for casting votes with both sides of the aisle. This open seat has taken a backseat in prominence to other states' races, such as last week's primary defeat of Republican incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana. But Nebraska has a front seat to an issue splitting the two parties this year. The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, generally favored by Republicans and opposed by Democrats, was to stretch from Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, bisecting Nebraska. But environmentalists worried about polluting the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies most of the state with drinking water. Nelson, the outgoing senator, easily won a second term in 2006, but as it became clear that Republicans considered his seat in play this cycle, Nelson made a December announcement that he would not seek a third term. "Simply put: It is time to move on," Nelson said burberry handbags cheap at the time. Nebraska is expected to be anything but tranquil as the race between Fischer and Kerrey heats up this summer. Don Walton, a political writer with the Lincoln Journal Star, had a simple warning in his pre-election Sunday column: "buckle up."

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Katherine Jenkins has offered an update on her condition after injuring herself on "Dancing with the Stars" stage. "Thank you for all your concerned tweets... I'm with the Doctor, he says it was a reflectorical spasm in my lower back," so she wrote on her Twitter after louis vuitton sunglasses 2012 getting a medical attention. In the second round of the Monday, May 14 semifinals, Katherine tweaked in her back at the end of her salsa with pro dancer partner Mark Ballas. Looking disappointed at herself, she covered her face with her hands as she had a meltdown, but insisted she's okay and told the judges to go on with their comments. Asked by co-host Brooke Burke what had just happened, she said at the lounge upstairs, "I just felt my back go as I went back. I'm so sorry if I've let you down, Mark." The judges excused her for the tumble and gave her 27 points for the routine. Mark later also commented on Katherine's injury. "I don't know [what happened]," he told E! Online. "I watched it back and it looks like it was a mixture of her foot slip and her back kind of tweaked when she tried to fix it and I was in the air when this happened." "So it's like being in a butterfly vertical over your partner and you see terror in her face. Time stood still for a second and I had to find a way to get underneath her and stand her back up. It's scary when those things happen. She doesn't need to apologize." Mark further pointed out the fact that Katherine was able louis vuitton hair pins to get up after stumbling on the floor was a good sign. "The good thing is that there is no bone damage, thank God, and hopefully there's no muscle or ligament damage," he said. "I just know from suffering past injuries that when you're done, you're done. You're not getting up, but she was up moving around so hopefully she'll be fine." AMD has launched their second generation Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for mainstream and ultrathin notebooks, traditional and all-in-one desktops, HTPCs and embedded designs. Codenamed “Trinity”, the new APUs are described as a ground-up improvement over first generation components with double the performance per watt of Llano parts. As before AMD is not targeting the performance market and Trinity is not meant to compete direclty with Ivy Bridge for the most part. On the mobile market, Trinity should present an interesting alternative for ultrabook-style laptops where a balance of features, low power consumption, and cheap burberry bags integrated graphics are the norm. Trinity features an AMD Piledriver CPU core that uses 3rd gen Turbo Core technology that shifts power between the CPU and GPU as needed. The technology can effectively ramp up the CPU core clock to 3.2GHz. Other key features include a dual channel DDR3 memory controller, an AMD HD Media Accelerator, a unified northbridge and up to four Piledriver CPU cores with 2MB L2 cache. Radeon HD 7000 graphics are said to provide up to 56 percent better performance that the previous generation. Notebooks featuring Trinity APUs will boast battery life up to 12 hours through CPU and GPU power enhancements. “Our 2nd Generation AMD A-Series APU is a major step forward in every performance and power dimension, allowing users to enjoy a stunning experience without having to give up the things that matter to them most. This experience doesn‘t stop at mainstream notebooks. It carries over into affordable ultrathin form factors featuring the latest in AMD Radeon graphics,” said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD’s client business unit. AMD has released three different APU models for mainstream notebooks: A10-4600M, A8-4500M and A6-4400M, all featuring a 35W TDP with varying CPU core counts and clock burberry silk ties speeds. Ultrathins will see the quad-core A10-4655M clocked at 2.0GHz and carrying a 25W TDP while the dual-core A6-4455M will include a 17W TDP at 2.1GHz. AMD notes that desktop systems and component channel parts will be available later this year.

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JPMorgan Chase faced intense criticism Friday for claiming that a surprise $2-billion loss by one of its trading groups was the result of a sloppy but louis vuitton sunglasses well-intentioned strategy to manage financial risk. More than three years after the financial industry almost collapsed, the colossal misfire was cited as proof that big banks still do not understand the threats posed by their own speculation. "It just shows they can't manage risk -- and if JPMorgan can't, no one can," said Simon Johnson, the former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund. JPMorgan is the largest bank in the U.S. and was the only major bank to remain profitable during the 2008 financial crisis. That lent credibility to its tough-talking CEO, Jamie Dimon, as he opposed stricter regulation in the aftermath. But Dimon's contention that the $2-billion loss came from a hedging strategy that backfired, not an opportunistic bet with the bank's own money, faced doubt on Friday, discount louis vuitton handbags sale if not outright ridicule. "This is not a hedge," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chair of a subcommittee that investigated the crisis. He said the trades were instead a "major bet" on the direction of the economy, as published reports suggested. On Friday, Dimon told NBC News, for an interview airing Sunday on "Meet the Press," that he did not know whether JPMorgan had broken any laws or regulatory rules. He said the bank was "totally open" to regulators. The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, told reporters that the agency was focused on the JPMorgan loss but declined to comment further. JPMorgan's disclosure Thursday recharged a debate about how to ensure that banks are strong and competitive without allowing them to become so big and complex that they threaten the financial system when they falter. The JPMorgan loss did not cause anything close to the panic that followed the September 2008 failure of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. But it shook the confidence of the financial industry. Within minutes after trading began on Wall Street, JPMorgan stock had lost almost 10%, wiping out about $15 billion in market value. It closed down 9.3%. Fitch Ratings also downgraded the bank's credit rating by one notch. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup closed down more than 4%, burberry handbags and Goldman Sachs closed down almost 4%. The broader stock market was down only slightly for the day. Dimon gave few details about the trades Thursday beyond saying they involved "synthetic credit positions," a type of the complex financial instruments known as derivatives. Enhanced oversight of derivatives was a pillar of the 2010 financial overhaul law, known as Dodd-Frank, but the implementation has been delayed repeatedly and will not take effect until the end of this year at the earliest. JPMorgan's trades show that the derivatives market remains too opaque for regulators to oversee effectively, said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of the law's namesakes. "When a supposedly responsible, well-run organization could make such an enormous mistake with derivatives, that really blows up the argument, 'Oh, leave us alone, we don't need you to regulate us,' " he said. Tim Ryan, president of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group, said it was impossible to legislate or regulate risk out of the financial system. "My hope is that this is viewed as bona fide hedging, but it went wrong," he said in an interview. "A mistake was made. Money is going to be lost. It's not customer money. It's not government money. It's JPMorgan's money, the shareholders of JPMorgan." No one seemed to suggest Friday that designer burberry cheap bags for women brown sale JPMorgan had broken a law. But the mistake added a wrinkle to the still-unsettled discussion about how the financial industry should be regulated in the aftermath of 2008.

Astronomical records were key to the Mayan calendar

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's cheap louis vuitton sunglasses intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago. The walls reveal the oldest known astronomical tables from the Maya. Scientists already knew they must have been keeping such records at that time, but until now the oldest known examples dated from about 600 years later. Astronomical records were key to the Mayan calendar, which has gotten some attention recently because of doomsday warnings that it predicts the end of the world this December. Experts say it makes no such prediction. The new finding provides a bit of backup: The calculations include a time span longer than 6,000 years that could extend well beyond 2012. "Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?" observed Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., an expert on Mayan astronomy. "You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on." Aveni, along with William Saturno of Boston University and others, report the discovery in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The room, a bit bigger than 6-feet square, is part of louis vuitton jewelry a large complex of Mayan ruins in the rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. The walls also contain portraits of a seated king and some other figures, but it's clear those have no connection to the astronomical writings, the scientists said. One wall contains a calendar based on phases of the moon, covering about 13 years. The researchers said they think it might have been used to keep track of which deity was overseeing the moon at particular times. Aveni said it would allow scribes to predict the appearance of a full moon years in advance, for example. Such record-keeping was key to Mayan astrology and rituals, and maybe would be used to advise the king on when to go to war or how good this year's crops would be, he said. "`What you have here is astronomy driven by religion," he said. On an adjacent wall are numbers indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6,700 years. It's not clear what they represent, but maybe the scribes were doing calculations that combined observations from important astronomical events like the movements of Mars, Venus and the moon, the researchers said. Why bother to do that? Maybe the scribes were "geeks ... who just got carried away with doing these kinds of computations and calculations, and probably did them far beyond the needs of ordinary society," Aveni suggested. Experts unconnected with the discovery said it was a significant advance. "It's really a wonderful surprise," said Simon Martin, cheap burberry bagsco-curator of an exhibit about the Mayan calendar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. While the results of the scribes' work were known from carvings on monuments, "we've never really been able to identify a working space, or how they actually went about things," Martin said. The new work gives insight into that, he said, and the fact the room had a stone roof rather than thatching supports previous indications that the scribes enjoyed a high social standing. "It's a very important discovery. We're only getting burberry watches a glimpse of it" in the published paper, said John B. Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy in College Park, Md. "This is an intriguing start for this discovery."

The study raises an important issue

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Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography documented the big rise when they trawled the waters off California. They were able to compare their plastic "catch" with previous data for the region. The group reports its findings in the journal Biology Letters. "We did not expect to find this," says Scripps researcher Miriam Goldstein. "When you go out into the North Pacific, what louis vuitton shoes you find can be highly variable. So, to find such a clear pattern and such a large increase was very surprising," she told BBC News. All the plastic discarded into the ocean that does not sink will eventually break down. Sunlight and the action of the waves will degrade and shred the material over time into pieces the size of a fingernail, or smaller. An obvious concern is that this micro-material could be ingested by marine organisms, but the Scripps team has noted another, perhaps unexpected, consequence. The fragments make it easier for the marine insect (Halobates sericeus) to lay its eggs out over the ocean. These "sea skaters" or "water striders" - relatives of pond water skaters - need a platform for the task. Normally, this might be seabird feathers, tar lumps or even pieces of pumice rock. But it is clear from the trawl results that H. sericeus has been greatly aided by the numerous plastic surfaces now available to it in the Pacific. The team found a strong association between the presence of Halobates and the micro-plastic in a way that was just not evident in the data from 40 years ago. Ms Goldstein explained: "We thought there might be fewer Halobates if there's more plastic - that there might be some sort of toxic effect. But, actually, we found the opposite. In the areas that had the most plastic, we found the most Halobates. "So, they're obviously congregating around this plastic, laying their eggs on it, and hatching out from it. For Halobates, all this plastic has worked out well for them." Ms Goldstein and colleagues gathered their information on the abundance of micro-plastic during the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (Seaplex) off California in 2009. They then compared their data with those from other scientific cruises, including louis vuitton menswear archived records stretching back to the early 1970s. Plastic waste in the North Pacific is an ongoing concern. The natural circulation of water - the North Pacific Gyre - tends to retain the debris in reasonably discrete, long-lived collections, which have popularly become known as "garbage patches". In the north-eastern Pacific, one of these concentrations is seen in waters between Hawaii and California. This Scripps study follows another report by colleagues at the institution that showed 9% of the fish collected during the same Seaplex voyage had plastic waste in their stomachs. That investigation, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, estimated the fish at intermediate ocean depths in the North Pacific Ocean could be ingesting plastic at a rate of roughly 12,000 to 24,000 tonnes per year. Rope Crabs, barnacles, sea anemones and hydroids make a home on a piece of discarded rope Toxicity is the issue most often raised in relation to this type of pollution, but Ms Goldstein and colleagues say broader ecosystem effects also need to be studied. The abundance of ocean debris will influence the success, or otherwise, of "rafting communities" - those species that are specifically adapted to life on or around objects floating in the water. Larger creatures would include barnacles and crabs, and even fish that like to live under some kind of cover, but large-scale change would likely touch even the smallest organisms. "The study raises an important issue, which is the addition of hard surfaces to the open ocean," says Ms Goldstein. "In the North Pacific, for example, there's no floating seaweed like there is in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. And we know that the animals, the plants and the microbes that live on hard surfaces are different to the ones that live floating around in the water. "So, what plastic has done is add hundreds of Luxury louis vuitton men shoes 2012 best online discount white millions of hard surfaces to the Pacific Ocean. That's quite a profound change." Ms Goldstein's co-authors were Marci Rosenberg, a student at the University of California Los Angeles, and Scripps research biologist emeritus Lanna Cheng.

Outside climate experts say the study makes some sense

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I haven't had time to tear through all of the features yet

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That said, after several letdowns, I learned my lesson. I'm no longer quick to believe a company just because a they claim their phones can yield better pictures. Shortly after Mobile World Congress, Managing Editor of HTC's official blog, Larry Meadows, uploaded some sample shots that had been taken with an HTC One device on his trip to Camelback Mountain. To say the least, they were nothing to get excited over. The pictures louis vuitton sneakers were blurry, bland and devoid of color and sharpness. So, I wrote about it. After talking with Mr. Meadows I was convinced there might be more to the story. But after some (very brief) hands-on time with the One X, I still wasn't impressed. This morning, however, I made my way to the local AT&T store and picked up an HTC One X for my personal line. I spent a lot of time setting it up and getting intimate with the new version of Sense. I also took set aside some time to extensively play with the camera. I didn't get to play with every feature – there's a lot to dig through. But I hit most of the high spots and just took a bunch of different shots in various conditions. I'm impressed. No … seriously, I'm impressed. Above is one of the first shots I took with the One X. (Click the image for a larger view.) I kneeled down, tapped the flower on the viewfinder and hit the shutter button. I wasn't men lv shoes fast shipping even aware it had taken the shot yet, but this is what it produced. I also took a similar shot with my Sony NEX-C3, just for comparison and the only major difference was the depth of field and resolution of the image (8-megapixel versus 16). Colors are true, lines are sharp and it's just a very well-balanced image. The top of the flower is a little overexposed. But overall, for a phone, it's great. For times when the lighting isn't ideal, the BSI (backside illumination) sensor makes for pretty great low-light shots, too, at the expense of quite a bit of noise. Images appear rather sharp in low-light, especially for a phone, but the level of noise is high. I took roughly the same shot with the One X and the iPhone 4S. Sharpness and quality were the same while the iPhone 4S designer burberry outlet offered truer blacks with some white balance issues. The picture from the One X represented more natural colors, but the blacks were faded. As far as software features go, ImageSense comes packed with a plethora of different modes: Auto, HDR, Panorama, Portrait, Group portrait, Landscape, Whiteboad, Close up and Low light. There are also several different filters to choose from, like Distortion, Vignette, Depth of field, Dots, Mono, Country, Posterize, etc. Above is an HDR (high dynamic range) shot of my totally insane dog who rarely sits still. By far, my favorite features are continuous shooting (burst mode) and simultaneous video and image capture. Burst mode is likely something I will use all the time, as I do that with my NEX-C3 quite often. And simultaneous video and image capture is seriously neat (especially since you Burberry handbags outlet, cheap burberry bags on sale, 60% off can capture stills after you shoot the video, too), but I imagine the novelty factor of that feature will wear off as I continue to use the phone. Like I said, I haven't had time to tear through all of the features yet, or put the camera through a true test. (That's what Aaron's review is for.) Often, the idiosyncrasies of a phone's camera will begin to drive me nuts over weeks and months of use. I've only had it for a total of eight hours. But, so far, I'm really enjoying it, and it seems better than any other Android camera I've used to date. Is it a match for the iPhone? Honestly, it's a toss-up. And I never imagined I would say that. (After the letdown of the Lumia 900's camera, I didn't get my hopes up for this one either.) Some aspects of the iPhone's camera are better than the One X's, and vice versa ImageSense packs nearly endless features while the stock iPhone camera has very few. The iPhone, however, consistently takes more balanced images, versus the faster shutter speed but more frequent misses by the One X. Regardless, ImageSense speaks yellow handbags 2012 volumes for the effort HTC put into the image sensors on their One devices. And we can only hope others will follow suit. Tell me, One X and One S owners. Are you impressed with your phone's camera? Does it meet or exceed your expectations? Or, like I once believed ImageSense would be, is it a letdown?

This country works best when we work together as a family

The presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate devoted much of his speech at the party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner Friday night to laying out a contrast louis vuitton sneakers price 2012 with the ascending Richard Mourdock, the two-term state treasurer on the cusp of ending Lugar’s political career. Donnelly never mentioned Lugar during his address to the 1,200 Democrats gathered inside a ballroom at the J.W. Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. But he directed plenty of fire at Mourdock. He laced into the insurgent Republican Senate candidate for opposing the federal bailout package that rescued the flailing Chrysler auto company — previewing a key argument he’ll launch if Mourdock upsets Lugar in Tuesday’s primary. In May 2009, Mourdock became the country’s only government official to challenge the assistance package in court. It was a risky political decision that earned Mourdock national notoriety and instant credibility with the burgeoning tea party movement. Yet it’s clear Democrats see it as a damaging louis vuitton sneakers vulnerability. “It was forced by Richard Mourdock, who wouldn’t stand up for Hoosier workers,” Donnelly said, referring to Mourdock’s lawsuit that was ultimately unsuccessful. Donnelly also took aim at Mourdock for blaming bipartisanship for “taking us to the brink of bankruptcy.” “Richard Mourdock has said he is opposed to bipartisanship. I am the fifth of five kids. As the fifth of five kids, if you are not bipartisan, you do not eat at night,” Donnelly said to laughs. “This country works best when we work together as a family. When we go to Washington, not just as Democrats, or Republicans but as Americans who are committed to making louis vuitton jewelry our country a stronger and better place. And that’s what we’re going to talk about throughout this Senate campaign. Who will fight for you? Who will fight for your job? Who will fight for your future? These are the basics. Have a good job. Take care of your family. Send your kids to a good school. Retire with dignity. We stand for those things. Richard Mourdock does not,” Donnelly argued. Even likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Gregg — who is running an uphill fight against GOP Rep. Mike Pence — got in on the Mourdock bashing, referencing an early comment made by former Democratic Rep. Baron Hill. “This year the choice is clear. Baron was talking about how Joe Donnelly was no Richard Mourdock. Well, let me tell you something, Mike Pence is Richard Mourdock,” the colorful Gregg said to deafening cheers. Even before the release of Friday’s Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground poll showing Lugar down by 10 points, many observers saw Lugar heading towards defeat. But the bipartisan poll only hardened the sentiment. Indiana’s reddening hue means Donnelly black lv suits would remain an underdog against Mourdock this fall. But a Lugar loss would undoubtedly energize national Democrats and Donnelly’s campaign, which was essentially built around the scenario of facing Mourdock.

James even said that having a child during the playoffs might be a positive

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Tracy raved about the bullpen before the game

The Rockies do nothing without drama. After blowing a 5-3 lead in the top of the ninth, the Rockies beat the Dodgers 8-5 Wednesday afternoon at Coors Field with a louis vuitton sunglasses sale three-run, pinch-hit home run by Jason Giambi in the bottom of the inning. The home run salvaged the day for the Rockies, who nearly squandered a game featuring the best start of rookie left-hander Drew Pomeranz's young career and two home runs by red-hot Carlos Gonzalez. Key moment. The little guys set the table in the bottom of the ninth, with Eric Young Jr. and Marco Scutaro drawing walks and Jonathan Herrera advancing them with a perfect sacrifice bunt down the first-base line. That set the stage for Giambi's walkoff homer off lefty Scott Elbert. It was Giambi's eighth career pinch-hit homer, his fifth as a Rockie. "It's a dream situation with Cargo standing on deck," Giambi said. "This is what keeps you coming back to the park." On the mound. The Rockies got a rare one-two punch from a starter: quantity and quality. Pomeranz masterfully mixed his fastball and curve over 6 2-3 innings. He allowed just one run on four hits and struck out five. Although he walked four, only one walk hurt him, that coming in the second when A.J. Ellis came around to score. "I told myself before the game that I wanted to have an outing where I got deeper into the game," Pomeranz said. "It was a day where I honestly didn't feel like I had my louis vuitton hoodie best stuff, but that's pitching. But I did have a lot of movement on my fastball and I ended up throwing pretty well." Pomeranz threw a career-high 113 pitches, sticking around long enough to lessen the load on Colorado's overworked bullpen. "He was terrific today," manager Jim Tracy said. "He had his curveball and he had it for strikes. His fastball was moving and it was the Drew Pomeranz we saw in spring training." Tracy raved about the bullpen before the game, but it crumbled late in the game. Rex Brothers failed to hold a 2-1 lead in the eighth, giving up a two-run double to Jerry Hairston. In the ninth, closer Rafael Betancourt blew his first save of the season, giving up a two-out, two-run double to Dee Gordon, which tied the game, 5-5. At the plate. When Gonzalez gets hot, he burns everything in his path — including Cy Young Award winners. CarGo's second home run of the day, both off Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw, was a two-run shot in the Rockies' three-run eighth inning. On the current homestand, Gonzalez is 11-for-23 (.478) with five homers, 14 RBIs and nine runs scored. "When my hands feel good, I feel like I can hit any pitch," Gonzalez said. "Today, I hit a home run on a fastball and another one on a slider. It doesn't matter what pitch they throw me, when I'm trusting my hands and I swing at balls in the strike zone, I can hit like this." Catcher Wilin Rosario still struggles against big-league breaking pitches, but he cranks on fastballs. He led off the Rockies fifth with a solo homer to dead center on a 2-1 fastball from Kershaw, giving Colorado a 2-1 lead. Dexter Fowler (1-for-4) steered an RBI single through the box in the eighth, scoring Scutaro. What it means. The Dodgers came into town as the 2012 white louis vuitton handbags National League's hottest team with a 16-6 record, but the Rockies took two of three from them. After a day off Thursday, the Rockies host the Braves for three games with a chance to turn what's been a mediocre homestand (3-3) into a solid one.

If Anthony's Knicks are ever going to win a title

There's no way to defend how Amare Stoudemire lacerated his left hand, by punching a fire extinguisher in frustration after the New York Knicks' playoff loss to the louis vuitton shoes Miami Heat. But the morning-after outrage that has taken hold since -- this idea that Stoudemire should be thrown on some scrap heap because he's never going to amount to anything as long as he has to play with the Knicks' latest flavor du jour, Carmelo Anthony -- is all wrong. Stoudemire isn't going anywhere because of his contract. He can also make a big contribution to the Knicks when he's healthier. And Anthony should be trying to make it work, too, not just Mike Woodson or whomever the Knicks' next permanent coach is. Because what's always the complaint about the Knicks, as presently constructed? Melo needs help. And who's best equipped among the current Knicks to give Anthony reliable offensive help? It's still Stoudemire, that's who. So if you really care about the Knicks' immediate future at all, show some better emotional control than Stoudemire did. Then fall back in love with him as quickly as you fell out of love Monday night. Remember, the Knicks were always going to lose this playoff series to Miami, even before Stoudemire hurt himself and they fell behind in the series 0-2. Who's kidding whom? Now, what Anthony and everyone else associated with the Knicks should really do is forget what or where Stoudemire is or isn't, and start taking notes on how LeBron James and Dwyane Wade navigated all that early talk that they, too, would never fit together, for many of the same reasons Anthony and Stoudemire supposedly can't. James and Wade heard they were supposedly too similar as players; they both needed the ball the too much of time; they like to operate on the same places on the court. How's that working out now? Have Wade and James not pretty much figured it out? Stoudemire and Anthony aren't as talented as those two Heat stars are. But Stoudemire can still be a serviceable player. And Anthony has to be invested in making Stoudemire's presence work if winning NBA titles, not just scoring titles, is really the goal. There really is a lot to recommend standing by Stoudemire, even if he isn't the same All-NBA player he was at age 25 in Phoenix. And it's not just the fact that his $100 million contract and unreliable back and knees make him impossible to trade. He's still the second-best offensive player the louis vuitton lady vest Knicks have, not Tyson Chandler or J.R. Smith or Steve Novak or Jeremy Lin (another teammate, by the way, who supposedly got in Anthony's way before Anthony helped show Mike D'Antoni the door). Nobody really wants to hear this right now after what Stoudemire just did to himself, but Stoudemire really is a good teammate, too, with a demonstrated a willingness to put winning and the Knicks franchise first. And that's important. Anthony and Stoudemire didn't work well together the way they were used under D'Antoni. But why can't Woodson or the next guy find a way, especially if both stars are willing? Why can't it be as simple as keeping Stoudemire and Anthony in the starting lineup for the first seven or eight minutes of a game, then alternating their playing time thereafter to keep one of them the team's primary scorer when the other is off the floor? Why is that so hard to figure out, or implement? It's not. Or at least it's not when everyone "buys in" -- two words all the Knicks have used more than any others to explain why they suddenly took off the minute Woodson took over. Stoudemire was dumb to punch a glass case containing a fire extinguisher on Monday night, it's true. But remember, Anthony didn't exactly cover himself in glory when he admitted everything in his game spiked up because he began "playing harder" -- his words -- once D'Antoni was run off. The surest, fastest way for the Knicks to be a real contender in the near future, given their salary-cap constraints, is for Stoudemire to get back to some approximation of the player he used to be when healthy. And for Anthony to push himself to be more, too. If Anthony's Knicks are ever going to win a title, what's going to be most determinative isn't whether Stoudemire, at this stage of his career, can score 20 points per game -- it's how much Anthony, who has the far better upside, can close the gap between himself and LeBron or Kobe Bryant. Because right now Anthony isn't in either Kobe or LeBron's league when it comes to making players around him better, picking his spots and translating all the talent he has into wins. Not just points. Because you know what that proves: next to nothing. At least not until Anthony also wins the Knicks a few playoff series. Of the two of them, Stoudemire actually has the better career playoff record than Anthony, though nobody would argue Stoudemire is the better player. So how did that happen? By now you should know the answer -- it's the moral of this story. It's a little three-word slogan that Knicks' management should hang up Bestseller louis vuitton shoes for men discount on sale 2012 blue in block letters on Madison Square Garden marquee rather than sell this fiction that if everyone just gets the hell out of Anthony's way, milk and honey will flow through the streets of Manhattan and the titles will come because Anthony scores a lot.

The comptroller said Amazon representatives contacted her office a few weeks ago

Amazon.com will start collecting sales taxes on all online purchases made in Texas beginning July 1 under an agreement that settles a dispute with the state. Comptroller Susan Combs said the terms address Louis Vuitton shoes, cheap louis vuitton sunglasses sale, 60% off a long-standing complaint by businesses that the online leviathan gets an unfair advantage by not having to assess the tax. She said Texas loses perhaps $600 million a year in potential revenue to Internet sales from all sources. The deal announced Friday, Combs said, will "level the playing field" with the Web's biggest retailer. Seattle-based Amazon agreed not only to start collecting sales taxes but also to create at least 2,500 new jobs in Texas over the next four years and make at least $200 million in capital investments in the state. It was seventh voluntary tax-collection agreement Amazon has reached with a state. The others go into effect between this year and 2016. In addition, Combs said her office has been working with the Texas congressional delegation about a possible national solution. She predicted federal legislation to address the sales-tax issue for online retailers is forthcoming. "I think there is a momentum growing for this," she said. Amazon said it hopes to work with Combs "to advance federal legislation." "We strongly support the creation of a simplified and equitable federal framework, because Congressional action will protect states' rights, level the playing field for all sellers, and give states like Texas the ability to obtain all the sales tax revenue that is already due," Amazon louis vuitton scarves Vice President of Global Public Policy Paul Misener said in a joint statement. More than a year ago, Combs demanded Amazon pay $269 million in back sales taxes because a subsidiary operated a warehouse near Dallas. Companies with a physical presence in the state are legally required to collect and remit the taxes. Amazon responded by closing the warehouse. In a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it still does not believe it is liable for uncollected Texas sales taxes between 2005 and 2009. Regardless, this agreement settles the dispute. The agreement was welcomed by the Alliance For Main Street Fairness. "For too long, Amazon has exploited a loophole that has hurt brick-and-mortar employers in the Lone Star State," the business group said in a statement, "but with this agreement, a level playing field has finally been established." Combs said other retailers, such as Barnes & Noble and Cabela's, that have both a Web and physical presence in Texas already collect sales taxes. She said she is not aware of any other companies currently being targeted for uncollected taxes. Desirable state The comptroller said Amazon representatives contacted her office a few weeks ago and asked for a meeting, which took place about 10 days ago. Final details were completed Thursday night, she said, adding that Amazon's willingness to seek a deal shows the company finds Texas a good place to do business. An Amazon representative did not say where the new jobs would be added. But Combs said the Port of Houston should put this area among those under consideration for, say, a distribution center. Combs also said consumers who will start paying more for Amazon products come July 1 should keep in mind that this change was designed to help their "friends and neighbors" who own businesses and "show up at the football games on Friday night." Besides, Combs noted, customers already are Louis vuitton for women shoes 2012 new arrival on sale black technically required to report and pay the sales tax on Internet purchases - a widely disregarded and difficult-to-enforce law.

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Former "Prison Break" star Lane Garrison was charged on Thursday with misdemeanor battery against his ex-girlfriend, which could violate his parole over a conviction louis vuitton shoes for vehicular manslaughter. Since his arrest on Sunday, Garrison, 31, has been held in jail without bail. His probation for the 2007 manslaughter conviction was set to expire in one week, his attorney said. Security cameras at his ex-girlfriend's Beverly Hills apartment show a dispute on Saturday between Garrison and Ashley Mattingly in the lobby of the building. Garrison struck Mattingly as the two were leaving an elevator, said Los Angeles deputy district attorney Elizabeth Marks. Witnesses approached the pair, and he fled the building, prosecutors said. Video of the dispute was posted on celebrity website louis vuitton set TMZ.com. Garrison's Los Angeles attorney, Harland Braun, said the two were "in the process of breaking up" and were arguing over messages on their cell phones and over the devices. "It's pretty clear he's trying to grab his phone, or she's got both phones basically," Braun said. "It's unfortunate that it happened just before he was going to terminate his parole." In 2006, Garrison was driving a Land Rover carrying a 17-year-old Beverly Hills high school student and two teen girls when the vehicle struck a tree, resulting in one death. Garrison in 2007 pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence causing injury, and a misdemeanor count of providing alcohol to a minor. A hearing will be held within two weeks to determine if Garrison violated his parole in the fight with Mattingly, said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Luis Patino. If Garrison is found to have violated his Louis vuitton shoes discount for women sale outlet parole, Garrison could face up to 90 days in jail, Patino said. Garrison played the character Tweener in the Fox series "Prison Break," and he also appeared in 2007 film "Shooter."

I also believe that there is a very good market for the MacBook Air

We still don't know when Apple is releasing a new iPhone, or if it'll be 4G LTE-capable, but we can rest assured of one thing: Sprint will still be offering an louis vuitton outlet unlimited data plan for the device. Sprint and the Apple iPhone are “a marriage made in heaven,” according to Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, and the honeymoon period looks like it’s about to get extended: Hesse has said that the company’s unlimited data plan for the iPhone will continue to be available for the next generation of the device, even if it comes with 4G LTE. Sprint is currently the only US carrier to offer an unlimited data plan for the iPhone, with both AT&T and Verizon only offering capped and tiered data plans since 2010 and 2011 respectively. Talking to CNet, Hesse said that he wasn’t “anticipating the unlimited plan would change” with the (as-yet-unannounced) release of the next gen iPhone, calling the unlimited data plan the company’s “distinctive differentiator” in the conflict between carriers. “We’re clearly attracting customers from our competitors,” he added, an idea reflected in the fact that, since October 2011 when Apple products first launched with the carrier, four in every ten new iPhones activated were users new to Sprint. Officially, Sprint’s 4G LTE sites aren’t live yet. Although the Sprint 4G Rollout blog reports that the carrier is broadcasting LTE in approximately 200 sites across the US currently, the signals are in “testing” mode and blocked to customer use. But LTE phones (which can get speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G) have been available to buy from the company since earlier this month. According to Sprint, LTE will initially be available in six markets by mid-2012, but a more concrete date hasn’t been released. The subject may be moot, considering that Apple hasn’t announced the release of a new iPhone yet. It’s similarly unknown whether the potential new iPhone would have 4G LTE capabilities, although that seems likely considering the most recent iPads are LTE-compatible. Hesse made a point of telling CNet that, despite his comments, he has no insider knowledge of a new iPhone nor its features. Still he pointed out that, should the phone offer 4G LTE, all carriers would have the ability. “Our expectation is that we will all get the same device at the same time,” he said. Of course, only one carrier will let users play without louis vuitton bagup worrying about hitting their data limits too quickly. As usual, Apple reported record breaking earnings yesterday. Nothing new there. However, CEO Tim Cook did make the news with a few interesting comments he made during the first-quarter earnings call. For starters, he said that he hates litigation, hinting that Apple is more willing to settle its patent infringement cases in a Post-Steve Jobs era. But his comments on devices and operating systems that attempt to merge tablets and PCs may become quite controversial. He basically said that Apple has no plans to merge the Mac with the iPad. Below is a full transcript of Cook’s statement, transcribed by PC Mag. “Anything can be forced to converge,” Cook said. “But the problem is that the products are about tradeoffs, you begin to make tradeoffs to the point that what you have left at the end of the day doesn’t please anyone. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but you know those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. So our view is that the tablet market is huge; we’ve said that since day one, we didn’t wait until we had a lot of results. We were using them here, and it was already clear to us that there was so much you could do, and the reasons that people would use those would be so broad, and that’s precisely what we’ve seen. The iPad has taken off in not only consumer in a meaningful way, but in consumer, in education, enterprise, and its sort of everywhere you look now. And the applications are so easy to make very meaningful for someone, and there’s such an abundance of those, that as the ecosystem gets better and better, and as we continue to double down on making great product, I think that the limit here is nowhere in sight.” “Now – through last quarter, I should say, which is just two years after we shipped the initial iPad – we shipped 67 million. And to put that in some context, it took us 24 years to sell that many Macs. And five years for that many iPods. And over three years for that many iPhones. And we were extremely happy with the trajectory on all of those products. So I think iPad – it’s a profound product, the breadth of it is incredible, and the appeal of it is universal. So I could not be happier with being in the Classic lv sunglasses outlet 2012 new sale online discount market, and the level of which we’re innovating with the ecosystem and the marker here is incredible.” “Now in terms of the market itself, IDC and Gartner and Forrester had some numbers out there, and Gartner is saying there’s 3.25 out there by 2015, Forrester is three seventy-five, basically they’re in the mid-three hundreds, about where the PC market is today. And 2015 is only three years from now. So I think that even the you know more formal predicters outside of us are beginning to see these lines cross. So I strongly believe that they will.” “Now having said that, I also believe that there is a very good market for the MacBook Air,” Cook concluded. “And we continue to innovate in that product. But I do think that it appeals to someone who has a little bit different requirements. And you wouldn’t want to put these things together because you wind up compromising both and not pleasing the user. Some people will prefer to own both, and that’s great there. But I think to make the compromises of convergence, we’re not going to that party. Others might. Others might from a defensive point of view, particularly. We’re going to play in both.” This is an interesting rant, obviously aimed at both Windows 8 (which is built both for tablets and PCs) and Android keyboard tablets like the Asus Transformer Prime. It’s also very Jobs-like in that it’s already kind of a lie. Steve Jobs famously contradicted himself quite often, even saying that Apple would never build a netbook or tablet, not long before it actually did both of those things with the MacBook Air and iPad. Cook is saying that the Mac and iPad will never merge, but every update to OS X (which runs on Macs) lately has been aimed squarely at making it look and act more like iOS, which runs the iPad and iPhone. It seems only a matter of time before both products meet each other in the middle. The iPad keeps getting more functional as a PC and Macs keep getting easier to use, like an iPad. Perhaps what Cook is really saying is that Apple isn’t going to release an iPad with a keyboard attached to it. Why? Well it’s probably less about refrigerators and burberry ties toasters than it is simple economics. You don’t want to eat into your own market. Right now, Macs are selling very well as are iPads. Why destroy one of them?

No interview with Rolling Stone is complete without cultural touchstones

Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views louis vuitton outlet he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Obama says in a new interview. However, Mr. Obama acknowledges that he too is struggling against public skepticism because of the slow economic recovery. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Mr. Obama covered a range of topics, from his relations with the Pentagon to his reflections on race to his two acclaimed though abbreviated moments of public singing. "I can sing," he said matter-of-factly. "I wasn't worried about being able to hit those notes." The interview, conducted earlier this month by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, will appear in the issue of the magazine that hits newsstands Friday. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the interview ahead of publication. For Mr. Obama, the magazine interview and its cover portrait will complete a week of outreach to young voters, including a two-day tour of three college campuses in key election swing states and an appearance on NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." Analyzing the election campaign ahead of him, Mr. Obama avoided characterizing Romney as a flip-flopper, a common criticism Romney faced during the Republican primary contests, and instead tagged him as a candidate who willfully embraces the Republican Party's most conservative views. "I don't think that their nominee is going to be able to suddenly say, 'Everything I've said for the last six months, I didn't mean,'" Mr. Obama said. "I'm assuming that he meant it. When you're running for president, people are paying attention to what you're saying." Mr. Obama's answer underscores an approach his advisers have been emphasizing lately, casting the race as one of sharp contrasts between two distinct candidates, parties and ideologies. He said his own political burden is describing to Americans the progress that has occurred during his administration and how, if sustained, it could lead to economic louis vuitton shoes security. "There's understandable skepticism," he said, "because things are still tough out there." Discussing his relationship with the military, Mr. Obama said, in the clearest terms yet, that he had to rein in the Pentagon as he sought to close down the war in Iraq on schedule and re-focus the military effort in Afghanistan. He said that with the help of then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he made it clear to the military brass that "I very much believe in civilian control of our military, and that military decisions are in service of strategies and broader conceptions of diplomacy that are made here in this White House." "They know I care about them and I respect them, and I think they respect me and listen to what I say," he said. "They understand that I'm the commander in chief." He said the operation to kill Osama bin Laden illustrated the "constructive relationship" he has developed with the Pentagon. On Iraq, he said he had fulfilled his promise to end the war responsibly. "It wasn't as fast as some people would have liked," he said. "It was probably faster than some folks in the Pentagon would have liked." Reflecting on whether there had been a change in racial politics since he became president, Mr. Obama said he has never accepted the idea that his election represented a "post-racial period." Still, he said, he often hears people remark about the importance to black children of having an African-American president and African-American first lady. "That's hugely important," he added, "but you shouldn't also underestimate the fact that there are a whole bunch of little white girls and white boys all across the country who just take it for granted that there's an African-American president. That's the president they're growing up with, and that's changing attitudes." No interview with Rolling Stone is complete without cultural touchstones. Mr. Obama recalled watching singer Mick Jagger rehearse for his appearance during a February White House tribute to the blues and was impressed by the respect the Rolling Stones frontman displayed toward lesser-known and younger musicians. He said Jagger recalled the generosity he had experienced upon meeting blues greats like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King, and displayed "the sense of him wanting to do louis vuitton sunglasses that same thing, that it all comes full circle." As he often does, Mr. Obama said he is not a fan of television news, though he admitted to liking Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, whom he called "brilliant." "It's amazing to me the degree to which he's able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense," the president said.

Windows 8 will be a big test for Microsoft

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