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For the first time ever, YouTube will offer a live video stream of the U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates this year. To do this, YouTube has partnered with ABC News and the debates will stream on ABC News' YouTube channel and YouTube's Election Hub. The four debates, which will start on October 3 at 9pm ET, will be available for YouTube viewers around the world. YouTube's election page will also feature commentary and analysis from seven other partners: Al Jazeera English, BuzzFeed, Larry King, New York Times, Phil DeFranco, Univision and the Wall Street Journal.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/i1y7sGa3xcw/
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? After countless speeches, meetings and behind-the-scenes discussions, the war in Syria remained the unsolved problem that loomed over this year's gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
As the week-long meeting of the U.N. General Assembly ended Monday, there were no breakthroughs on a civil war that has vexed diplomats, paralyzed the Security Council and raised new questions about the relevance of the United Nations.
Anyone willing to look closely, however, might spot a few signs of movement. The new international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said he saw an "opening" for a solution and was working on a new approach after visiting Syria. The Emir of Qatar and other leaders in the region called for some kind of Arab-led intervention. But details were hard to come by.
Talk about Syria, however, was heard everywhere.
Over seven days of speeches, Syria was discussed by one country after another, from Albania: Syrians "are suffering a primitive bloodshed by a regime that has irreversibly lost its legitimacy to lead;" to Zambia: "Humanity has again been embarrassed by this unnecessary carnage."
Dozens of nations excoriated the regime of President Bashar Assad for its role in a conflict that has killed at least 30,000 Syrians, according to activists.
Even the world's top diplomat joined in. After Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Syria's foreign minister Monday, the U.N. chief's press office issued a blunt statement.
"The Secretary-General raised in the strongest terms the continued killings, massive destruction, human rights abuses, and aerial and artillery attacks committed by the government," it said. "He stressed that it was the Syrian people who were being killed every day, and appealed to the government of Syria to show compassion to its own people."
Ban again went after Syria in a meeting later Monday on the threat of chemical weapons, alluding to the widely held belief that the Assad regime has stockpiles of them. Ban warned that the "use of such weapons would be an outrageous crime with dire consequences."
Assad had a few defenders, like Iran, Cuba and, most notably, Russia. Moscow, Syria's biggest protector, has joined with China to block three attempts by the U.S. and European Union nations to pass Security Council resolutions aimed at pressuring the Assad regime into negotiating a peace deal. The last threatened sanctions.
As the General Assembly wound down Monday, Syria got its chance to defend itself.
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem described a vast global conspiracy bent on bringing down his government.
The media was provoking extremists, al-Moallem said, and inventing a refugee crisis ? 300,000 Syrians have fled, according to the U.N.
The Americans, Europeans and fellow Arabs were all to blame for meddling in Syrian affairs by calling on Assad to step down. Neighbors like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey were arming and financing "terrorists" who were trying to overthrow Assad, he said.
"This terrorism which is externally supported is accompanied by unprecedented media provocation based on igniting religious extremism sponsored by well-known states in the region," the minister said.
After mentioning "terrorist" or "terrorism" 24 times in his speech, al-Moallem then said the government was ready to negotiate with the opposition and "work together to stop the shedding of Syrian blood."
"Propaganda" was the swift response from the chief opposition group, the Syrian National Council, which released a statement saying the latest offer of peace talks came from a "brutal and delusional Syrian regime" that "continues to pay lip service to diplomacy."
Members of the opposition acknowledged that neighboring Arab countries are supporting the rebels but said the Assad regime has only itself to blame after its bloody response to protests that began peacefully 18 months ago.
"It is the regime's mindless, brutal and criminal military crackdown that pushed the Syrian people to ask for help from the international community, from NATO and from the devil himself if necessary to protect them," Haitham Manna, a Paris-based Syrian dissident and senior member of the National Coordination Body opposition group, told The Associated Press.
The entire week at the U.N., which included a high-level meeting of foreign ministers on Syria, amounted to little more than "handwringing," said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow and Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Time would have been better spent planning for a transition if and when Assad finally falls, he said.
"It's those who are taking the shots against the Assad regime that will be calling them after Assad is gone," he said. "How will the U.N. deal with that?"
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-ever-present-un-general-assembly-045917352.html
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You might say Dave Zatz just had a happy accident. While he was hunting for the as yet unofficial Logitech Harmony Touch in Best Buy, he discovered the Slingbox 350 and 500 -- two more living room gadgets that have yet to receive an official introduction. The placeshifting hubs both look to be major improvements over the aging Slingbox Pro HD and Solo, making 1080p streaming available as long as the connection is up to snuff. Those who spring for the 500 should also get long overdue support for WiFi without having to use a wireless bridge, although they may miss the Pro HD's ATSC tuner. Outside of the networking, Sling Media is making expansion its upsell angle: the 500 supports USB media sharing and HDMI, while the 350 has to make do with whatever can pipe through its component and composite jacks. Zatz was unfortunately foiled in an attempt to buy one of the new Slingboxes and couldn't get final pricing, but Best Buy's suggestion to try again around mid-October hints that we won't have long to wait for a much-needed upgrade to our remote TV viewing.
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Not only did Apple CEO Tim Cook recently apologize for the Apple Maps app and recommended competitors' mapping solutions as alternatives, but now Apple has changed some language related to Maps?on its website as well.
No longer does the Cupertino-based company declare its new Maps app to be "the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever."
We have a screenshot to compare the Apple site's current?language to the old language thanks to?9to5 Mac reader Zaheen Hafzer, who?tweeted?it in response to the blog's post on Cook's apology letter to Apple customers.?"Tim [C]ook should consider changing this line," he wrote.
And lo and behold. A change was made.
This is the original text on Apple's website:
Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature. All of which may just make this app the most?beautiful, powerful?mapping?service ever.
This is the new text:
Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature.? All in a beautiful vector-based interface that scales and zooms with ease.
Notice the big difference?
We have reached out to the folks at Apple to see if they have anything to say about this changed language on their website. We will update if we hear anything of interest.
Want more tech news?or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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Bio:
Tom Heston MD earned his medical degree at St. Louis University and completed post-graduate training at Duke, Oregon Health and Sciences University, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has served as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the International American University in St. Lucia. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and a Fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Heston is an active educator, serving on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and in addition has taught medicine in the Caribbean since 2000. In 2010, he setup a PET/CT center in the United Arab Emirates for Johns Hopkins International, where he was the medical director for the first ever PET/CT facility at the country's primary cancer diagnosis and treatment hospital (Tawam Hospital in Al Ain). During his time working with the University of Health Sciences Antigua, he gave the Commencement Address for the first ever graduating class, world-wide, undergoing an Internet based basic sciences program. He continues to actively teach medical students, and in 2007 started teaching biostatistics, epidemiology, and bioethics at the International American University Medical College on St. Lucia, where he currently serves (as of 2011) as a full Professor (visiting).
As a Family Physician, he has practiced the full range of family medicine including obstetrics in rural north Idaho at Mountain Health Care. His research, education, and academic contributions to the specialty resulted in him receiving the Fellowship recognition from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Starting in 2005, he setup the nuclear medicine program at the Family Care Network, becoming the first practicing physician in the Bellingham, Washington community to be specialty trained and Board Certified in Nuclear Medicine.
With training at some of the top medical institutions in the world, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Duke University, and the University of Washington, he continues to promote optimal health through preventive medicine and the early diagnosis of treatable disease.
Tom Heston, MD - Dedicated to Your Good Health !
Source: http://heston.com/2012/6227
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