Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
শুক্রবার, ২ আগস্ট, ২০১৩
বৃহস্পতিবার, ১ আগস্ট, ২০১৩
শনিবার, ২৭ জুলাই, ২০১৩
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom versus Nokia Lumia 1020
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Source: news.cnet.com --- Thursday, July 25, 2013
These photography big shots are almost more camera than smartphone. We match up their specs and strengths. Originally posted at ...
aubrey o day johan santana viktor bout ncaa hockey role models ferdinand porsche gregg williams
মঙ্গলবার, ২৩ জুলাই, ২০১৩
Baby buzz proves celeb power of Britain's royals
A British police officer, backdropped by members of the media, stands outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labour. Royal officials said that Kate traveled by car to St. Mary's Hospital in central London. Kate _ also known as the Duchess of Cambridge _ is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry.The baby will be third in line for the British throne _ behind Prince Charles and William _ and is anticipated eventually to become king or queen.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A British police officer, backdropped by members of the media, stands outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labour. Royal officials said that Kate traveled by car to St. Mary's Hospital in central London. Kate _ also known as the Duchess of Cambridge _ is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry.The baby will be third in line for the British throne _ behind Prince Charles and William _ and is anticipated eventually to become king or queen.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Members of the broadcast media give live reports across from St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labour.Royal officials said that Kate traveled by car to St. Mary's Hospital in central London. Kate _ also known as the Duchess of Cambridge _ is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry.The baby will be third in line for the British throne _ behind Prince Charles and William _ and is anticipated eventually to become king or queen. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Members of broadcast media give live reports across St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labour. Royal officials said that Kate traveled by car to St. Mary's Hospital in central London. Kate _ also known as the Duchess of Cambridge _ is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry.The baby will be third in line for the British throne _ behind Prince Charles and William _ and is anticipated eventually to become king or queen. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
British police officers discuss outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London, Monday, July 22, 2013. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince William's wife, Kate, has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labour. Royal officials said that Kate travelled by car to St. Mary's Hospital in central London. Kate _ also known as the Duchess of Cambridge _ is expected to give birth in the private Lindo Wing of the hospital, where Princess Diana gave birth to William and his younger brother, Prince Harry.The baby will be third in line for the British throne _ behind Prince Charles and William _ and is anticipated eventually to become king or queen. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Royal supporter Terry Hutt sits on a bench near the Lindo Wing at St Mary's Hospital in London, Monday, July 15, 2013. Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge plans to give birth to her first child who will be third-in-line to the throne at the hospital in mid-July. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
LONDON (AP) ? In London, the royal birth is a tale of two cities ? a moment of history unfolding amid the frenzy of daily urban life.
Outside the London hospital where Prince William's wife, Kate, was in labor Monday, Londoners slowed their daily rush on a scorching summer day to take a quick picture and wonder at the vast media throng, then moved on.
Two miles away at Buckingham Palace, the news seemed more momentous, an extra jolt of history to the royal pomp and pageantry that attracts tourists in their thousands each day. They may no longer wield political power, but Britain's royals are unsurpassed as celebrities and cultural icons.
"They're sort of the celebrities of the world," said Anne Frey, a beautician from Madison, Wisconsin, watching the daily Changing of the Guard ceremony with her husband.
Excitement for the imminent royal baby was strong among the crowds lining the black iron gates to watch soldiers in high bearskin hats, sweating stoically under their scarlet tunics, march behind a brass band into the palace grounds.
"We can tell our kids one day that we were here when it happened," said Jill Muencz, a tourist from Cleveland, Ohio.
"It's fantasy," she added. "We don't get to experience all that" as Americans.
The royal labor dominated British news bulletins Monday, as media from around the world provided nonstop comment, color and speculation from outside the private Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital, around the corner from London's Paddington Station.
Prime Minister David Cameron said "the whole country is excited" ? and while that may be politician's hyperbole, there was a sense that the birth of a future monarch was a feel-good event to add to a long spell of hot, sunny weather and British sports successes at Wimbledon, the Tour de France cycling race and in the Ashes cricket competition.
Few Britons were willing to go as far in their royalism as Terry Hutt, a 78-year-old carpenter from Cambridge in eastern England, who has camped outside the hospital for 12 days, sleeping outside the hospital on a bench covered with a Union Jack blanket.
Hutt, who is proud to have met every royal from the late Queen Mother on, said he was doing his bit for Britain by camping outside the hospital in his red, white and blue Union Jack suit, holding flags and congratulatory banners.
"To me, the royal family play a very, very important role," he said. "Visitors from all over the world haven't got a king and queen. It's a plus for us."
As London commuters rushed past the hospital to work, Pascal Faure, a maintenance contractor originally from South Africa, stopped to snap a picture on his phone for friends at home and in Australia.
"It's part of their heritage, I guess, their culture," said Faure, who claimed his own tenuous royal connection: "Apparently my third cousin once removed is Chelsy" Davy, Prince Harry's former girlfriend.
He also had more insight than most into the 5,000-pound ($8,000) -a-night private wing where the Duchess of Cambridge is giving birth. He fixed the air-conditioning there last week ? a good thing, too, as Monday was scheduled to be the hottest day of the year in London.
"If the air-con stops working, I'll probably be the one to go in," he said.
The outpouring of affection for the royal infant is a sign of how thoroughly Britain's royal family has rebuilt its image in the eyes of its subjects since the low point that followed the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in 1997. Diana had been popular, glamorous and ? in the eyes of many ? badly treated by the royal "Firm."
Sixteen years on, support for the monarchy is riding high after William and Kate's 2011 wedding and last year's Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.
For non-Britons, the emergence of an attractive young generation that includes William, Kate and soldier-socialite Prince Harry has given the clan a mix of glamour and celebrity that is hard to resist.
"We like to pretend we have a king and queen," said 17-year-old Maddie Cruse, from Helena, Montana, as she stood outside Buckingham Palace. "Since we don't have a king and queen, we borrow yours."
Like many visitors, Cruse was well versed about recent changes to royal rules that mean a daughter will not lose her place in the royal succession if William and Kate later have a son. Boy or girl, the baby will be third in line to the throne behind Prince Charles and Prince William and is likely to be monarch one day ? a fact that is lending an extra sense of history to the birth.
"I hope it's a girl, because it's the first royal that could assume the throne as a girl," Cruse said. "And she'll be a princess, and we'll get to see all the cute little clothes."
___
Associated Press Writer Raphael Satter contributed to this report.
Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
Associated Pressরবিবার, ২১ জুলাই, ২০১৩
Open Golf: Jimenez leads from big gun quartet
Spaniard leads going into the weekend
Miguel Angel Jimenez
MIGUEL Angel Jimenez will take a one-shot lead into the weekend of the 142nd Open Championship.The 49-year-old added a 71 to his opening 68 to sit one shot ahead of a very tasty quartet of Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson. The Spaniard has only dropped four shots in 36 holes.Should he hold his position come Sunday night he will become the oldest Major champion ? Julios Boros currently holds that distinction now, his PGA win in 1968 coming at the age of 48.Jimenez only returned to action in April after breaking his leg in a skiing accident in December, not long after becoming the oldest winner on the European Tour with his victory in Hong Kong."Of course I feel pressure, anything that is important to you makes you feel pressure, but as long as I can handle it there is no problem. I have been playing golf for 25 years and sometimes you think maybe it's too many, but it's OK."'Of course I feel pressure but as long as I can handle it there is no problem' - Jimenez
It had looked like Angel Cabrera would lead, having got to four under but he then fell foul of Muirfield?s bruising closing stretch, dropping three shots from the 14th.First-round leader Zach Johnson was also on minus four but a double at the 15th, and two bogeys, saw him drop back to one under after a 75.Stenson would become the first Scandinavian to lift a Major trophy and his two rounds of 70 mean he is the only player to break par in both rounds. The Swede was third at both Birkdale in 2008 and St Andrews in 2010."I think I've got the experience to do well in these championships. Tough conditions is something that I enjoy and suits my game, as well."I might still look for a bit more confidence and a bit more trust in my long game. I feel like I've been a bit wishy-washy these two days. But at times I've hit some nice ones and committed to some good shots as well.??
By Mark Townsend
on 19 July 2013
Source: http://nationalclubgolfer.com/features/articles/open-golf-jimenez-leads-from-big-gun-quartet.html
শনিবার, ২০ জুলাই, ২০১৩
U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
Source: www.nytimes.com --- Thursday, July 18, 2013
The Department of Defense has identified 2,233 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. ? ? ? ? ...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/us/us-military-deaths-in-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
বুধবার, ১৭ জুলাই, ২০১৩
Japan's former premier sues PM Abe for defamation
TOKYO: Japan's premier at the time of the Fukushima crisis said Tuesday he was suing the current prime minister for defamation over online comments about the way the emergency was handled.
With less than a week to go before upper house elections, the now-opposition figure Naoto Kan said on his official website he would be taking legal action against Shinzo Abe.
Kan's office has said in the days immediately after a massive tsunami swamped Fukushima in March 2011, that his government pressed plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) to use seawater to cool overheating reactors and prevent a catastrophe.
TEPCO subsequently said Kan had wavered on allowing seawater to be used.
Kan's statement, posted Tuesday, said Abe has repeated this claim.
"Mr. Shinzo Abe in his email magazine ran a story entitled 'Mr. Kan's instructions on using seawater (to cool reactors) are made-up,' and despite my request for a correction and apology... the story remains," Kan said on his official website.
Abe "is responsible for carrying out a fair election campaign... I strongly demand he immediately admit his misconduct, delete the stories and apologise for this", Kan said.
Management of the crisis at Fukushima -- the world's worst atomic disaster in a generation -- has been picked over in the more than two years since the tsunami rolled ashore.
Last year, an independent panel on the Fukushima disaster said Kan played a key role in preventing the crisis from worsening further.
The panel said that as the situation on Japan's tsunami-wrecked coast deteriorated, TEPCO had wanted to abandon the plant and evacuate its workers, but that Kan had ordered them to keep their men on site.
Experts concluded that if the premier had not stuck to his guns, Fukushima would have spiralled further out of control, with catastrophic consequences. The utility did not co-operate with the study.
Kan's brief tenure as prime minister ended in September 2011. He has since become an anti-nuclear campaigner.
Japan goes to the polls on Sunday in an election for half the seats in the upper chamber.
Abe's Liberal Democratic Party is expected to win comfortably after a campaign where nuclear power as an issue has been largely absent, has been displaced by talk of a rejuvenated economy.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/japan-s-former-premier/746198.html
এতে সদস্যতা:
পোস্টগুলি (Atom)