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Monday, May 7, 2012
Think You Deserve To Be Called a CEO?
Congratulations. You?re the CEO of a startup. You?re doing the hardest job in business. You?ve raised money from venture capitalists and turned down better-paying jobs elsewhere. You?ve mastered complicated things such as capitalization tables and common things, such as payroll. You?ve fought with competitors, coworkers, friends and even yourself without losing your way or your wits. You?ve inspired others to work beside you each day to make your dream a reality. I salute you. Now, everybody else calling himself or herself a CEO?listen up, this is for you: stop it. Just stop calling yourself a CEO.railgun jk rowling new book between two ferns ihop statins chardon sean young
Ahmadinejad rivals rout president in Iran runoff
Iranian electoral workers count the ballots of the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian electoral workers count the ballots of the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranians fill in their ballots for the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian electoral workers count ballots in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian women check the list of candidates and fill in their ballots for the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian electoral workers count ballots in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been reduced to a small fraction in Iran's legislature, hugely outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to challenge the authority of top clerics, according to final results from a runoff parliamentary election announced Saturday.
Iran has touted the turnout for Friday's vote as a show of support for the country's religious leadership in their confrontation with the West over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
The result is also a new humiliation for Ahmadinejad, whose political decline started last year with his bold but failed challenge of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the choice of intelligence chief.
While usually in agreement with the conservatives on foreign policy and many other issues, he had tried to change the rules of the political game in the Islamic Republic, where the president and legislature are subordinate to religious figures like Khamenei.
Ahmadinejad's opponents had already won an outright majority in the 290-member legislature in the first round of voting in March. Of 65 seats for grabs in Friday's runoff election, Ahmadinejad's opponents won 41 while the president's supporters got only 13 seats. Independents won 11, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency Saturday.
The president's supporters had their best showing in the capital Tehran. Ahmadinejad's conservatives critics won 16 seats while his supporters nine.
Iran's major reformist parties, who oppose both Ahmadinejad and the conservatives, mostly did not field candidates.
The new parliament will begin its sessions in late May. It has no direct control over key foreign and security policy matters like Iran's nuclear program, but it can influence those issues and economic policies as well as the run-up to the election of Ahmadinejad's successor.
The results suggest Ahmadinejad will face a more belligerent parliament in the remaining time of his second four-year term in office that ends August 2013. His allies are likely to be ousted from key posts, and his plan to cut economic subsidies challenged.
Iran's media has claimed that the turnout Saturday matched that of the initial round of voting on March 2, when 64 percent of voters reportedly cast ballots.
"Mass turnout in runoff parliamentary elections," declared a front-page headline in the government-run Iran Daily.
Iranian leaders have showcased the high voter turnout as a sign of trust in the clerical-led system and rejection of Western pressure over the nuclear issue. The West suspects Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and is demanding that Iran stop uranium enrichment. Iran has refused, saying its program is aimed at power generation and cancer treatment.
"The vote is support for the ruling system as it faces the U.S. and its allies over the nuclear program ... The vote also means that tensions will increase between Ahmadinejad and his opponents in the incoming parliament," political analyst Ali Reza Khamesian said.
Khamesian said Ahmadinejad was gradually fading from Iran's political scene, but could still stir up conflict with parliament.
"Ahmadinejad is the losing party. So, he will try to create tensions in the hope of getting concessions," he said.
The outgoing parliament and Ahmadinejad are at loggerheads over how quickly to slash food and energy subsidies. The president favors dramatic cuts to boost Iran's ailing economy by reducing the massive drain on the state budget from the subsidies.
The government implemented a first phase of slashing subsidies in December 2010. Gasoline prices quadrupled and bread prices tripled after the cuts came into effect. Prices have also increased in recent months, partly as a result of sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, and also due to news that the government is considering ending subsidies altogether.
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, one of Ahmadinejad's opponents, said the parliament won't allow him to quickly end the remaining subsidies because it would cause wild inflation and public dissatisfaction.
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
FOR KIDS: Fluffysaurus
Newfound fossils belong to giant feathered dinosaurs
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Fossilized dinosaur feathers recently unearthed in China reveal one of the most fearsome fluffy beasts to have ever stalked prey on this planet. The feathers were found on three skeletons that belong to a new species of dinosaur, say paleontologists studying the fossils. One of these giant, meat-eating animals probably weighed as much as a car and stretched 9 meters (nearly 30 feet) from tip to tail.
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HTC statement on AT&T One X bootloader - 'restrictions' prevent unlocking
Just about all of HTC's international phones and tablets released over the past year have been added to its bootloader unlock list -- the list of developer-friendly devices that can have their bootloader security disabled in order to allow enthusiasts to tinker around with custom ROMs and the like. And even a few U.S. network-branded devices have made the cut, including the T-Mobile Sensation 4G and Sprint EVO 3D. But one device that won't be joining them is the new AT&T HTC One X. An official statement from HTC, obtained by MoDaCo, indicates that "restrictions" -- likely imposed by the carrier -- mean that unlike its international cousin, the AT&T LTE version will remain locked up for the foreseeable future.
HTC is committed to listening to users and delivering customer satisfaction. Since announcing our commitment to unlockable bootloaders, HTC has worked to enable our customers to unlock the bootloader on more than 45 devices over the past six months. In some cases, however, restrictions prevent certain devices from participating in our bootloader unlocking program. Rest assured, HTC is committed to assisting developers in unlocking bootloaders for HTC devices and we'll continue to unlock additional devices in the future.
We suspect there'll be many a sad panda in the Android development community today, though this news shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. The only AT&T device currently on the HTC bootloader unlock list is the ill-fated Jetstream tablet. In the meantime, developers wanting a high-powered HTC phone to get stuck into on AT&T are left with the (more expensive) option of importing the international Tegra 3 version, which though not listed, is officially unlockable.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Samsung's SGH-i667 "Mandel" Windows Phone surfaces, still shrouded in mystery
Sure, today's gadget news is saturated with Samsung's new Galaxy S III, but lest we forget that it's been a hot minute since its released a Windows Phone device. The last we saw were the Focus S and Flash, and that was right around when the Nokia Lumia 800 and Galaxy Nexus were still fresh in our minds. Well, this can only be classified as a potential leak, but two purported photos of another Samsung WP7.5 device, codenamed "Mandel," was recently posted at the WPXAP forums. While there's not much in the way of hard details, according to WPCentral, this is the white SGH-i667 that passed through the FCC during March with AT&T bands, but then apparently nixed before it could hit stores. Along with the photo, a screenshot from the Zune software shows it having only 8GB of capacity, which likely means it wasn't slated to be a premium offering. That's about all the info that's surfaced for now on the Mandel, but feel free to hit up the links below for more details and analysis. Here's hoping that Samsung will announce more love for Windows Phone soon.
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US Gov Wants To Spread The Wealth With Open Competition For $200M In Early Stage Investment
The Obama Administration's plan to spread the country's wealth around has made its way to struggling technology entrepreneurs. This past Tuesday, the Small Business Administration (SBA) began accepting applications for the $200 Million "Early Stage Innovation Fund." The new fund will allow venture funds to augment privately raised capitol with a grant up to a 1-to-1 match, to be used for early stage investments (around the $1-to-$4 million range).modesto detroit tigers st louis weather guinea bissau google stock google stock gawker
Rdio grows its European presence, hits France and the UK starting at ?4.99 per month
The hottest tech news of the day in Europe will undoubtedly be the next Galaxy phone, launching tonight in London. Music fans on that side of the pond woke up to another surprise, however, with the launch of Rdio's online streaming service in France and the UK. Pricing starts at £4.99 (about $8) per month for unlimited web streaming, jumping to £9.99 (roughly $16) when you add mobile support. Ready to rock? Hit up the source link below for a six-day free mobile trial, without any need to hand over those precious credit card deets.
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Megan Fox Ends Entertainment Tonight Interview Over Pregnancy Question
Steve Jones was fired from The X Factor because viewers did not like the host very much.
Based on his annoying persona below, we can understand why.
Now a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, the Brit explains in this video that he was asked ahead of time to not ask any personal questions of Megan Fox during an interview meant to be based on her new Sharper Image campaign. So what did that genius, snarky journalist go ahead and do?
Skirt around the pregnancy issue by making up some nonsense about men wanting babies as a "gadget." Watch Fox do her best to handle the disrespect and blatant breaking of the rules below, prior to her publicist ending the interview early:
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