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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
KEF introduces M Series headphones bred from HiFi speaker know-how
Mostly known for its extravagant speaker systems, KEF is finally taking a whack at ear gear. Today, the company announced two new types of HiFi headphones, known as the M Series, which include a pair of on-ear cups (M500) and a set of in-ear buds (M200). Priced at $300, the M500 sports a full aluminum frame and sweat resistant padding, along with a 10mm driver for lows and a 5.5mm driver for mids and highs in each earcup. If enclosed head gear isn't your thing, the $200 M200 offers an aluminum housing and a pair of silicone ear tips with an adjustable arm for improved comfort. Like their pricer sibling, these earphones also feature a dual-driver system. While we've yet to spend time with the M500 or M200, their press pictures and specs aren't too shabby. Call it a hunch, but we doubt they'll need any celebrity endorsements. For more info on KEF's new headphone line, hit the presser after the break.
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James Buchanan: Why is he considered America?s worst president?
April 23 marks the birthday of James Buchanan, the man regarded by many historians as one of the worst?if not the worst?presidents of all time. So what did Buchanan do to earn the disrespect of so many people?
James Buchanan. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Today, most people know Buchanan for three things: He was single for his entire presidency; he?s the only president from Pennsylvania; and he was the president before Abraham Lincoln.
It?s that final point that has been the lasting part of the Buchanan presidency, with his apparent indifference to the onset of the Civil War, that has riled up so many academics.
Of course, Lincoln was a hard act to precede or follow: Lincoln?s successor Andrew Johnson is usually cast as Buchanan?s biggest rival for the title of worst president (along with the scandal-plagued Warren Harding from the early 1920s).
Buchanan came to the presidency under somewhat traditional but trying circumstances.
He was a five-time member of the House of Representatives, the secretary of state under President James Polk, and the U.S. minister to Great Britain.
At the Democratic convention in Cincinnati in 1856, Buchanan took the lead from the incumbent president, Franklin Pierce, on the first ballot and then battled Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois for the presidential nomination.
Buchanan won on the 17th ballot and defeated John C. Fremont, of the newly formed Republican Party, in the 1856 presidential election.
It was all downhill from there for President Buchanan.
Buchanan became severely ill and almost died from an illness that was spread throughout his hotel in Washington, where he traveled for meetings as president-elect.
In his inaugural address, Buchanan called the territorial issue of slavery ?happily, a matter of but little practical importance.? He had been tipped off about the Supreme Court?s decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, which came shortly after the inauguration. Buchanan supported the theory that states and territories have a right to determine if they would allow slavery. (There were also reports Buchanan may have influenced the court?s ruling.) The Dred Scott decision angered and solidified Buchanan?s Republican opponents, and it drove a wedge into the Democratic Party. The country also went into an economic recession as the Civil War approached.
By 1860, it was apparent that Buchanan wasn?t going to be a candidate for re-election. At the Democratic convention, he managed to derail Douglas? campaign to be the sole nominee who would take on Abraham Lincoln. (Douglas defeated Lincoln in the 1858 senate election in Illinois.)
The Democrats were left with two presidential nominees (Douglas and John Breckinridge), which almost ensured Lincoln?s election.
Within three months after the election, seven states had left the Union as Buchanan remained as a lame-duck president until Lincoln could take office in March 1861.
In his State of the Union message to Congress, Buchanan said he believed the South?s secession wasn?t legal, but the federal government didn?t have the power to stop it.
?All for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way. As sovereign States, they, and they alone, are responsible before God and the world for the slavery existing among them. For this the people of the North are not more responsible and have no more fight to interfere than with similar institutions in Russia or in Brazil,? Buchanan said.
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Buchanan also explained why he wasn?t actively involved in the secession battle as president.
?It is beyond the power of any president, no matter what may be his own political proclivities, to restore peace and harmony among the states. Wisely limited and restrained as is his power under our Constitution and laws, he alone can accomplish but little for good or for evil on such a momentous question.?
Buchanan did little else during the crisis. Part of his Cabinet resigned. And although he wouldn?t give up Fort Sumter, his inaction gave the new Confederacy time to organize.
He rode to Lincoln?s inauguration with the new president, and reportedly told Lincoln, ?If you are as happy entering the presidency as I am leaving it, then you are a very happy man.?
Buchanan had other issues during his presidency, including an obsession with Cuba and a controversy involving a war with Mormon settlers in the Utah territory.
The New York Times? Nate Silver said earlier this year that based on composite rankings from four recent surveys, Buchanan was the lowest-ranked president among those polled.
In fact, Buchanan has been ranked among the three worst presidents in every poll and survey conducted since 1948 and in the past decade, and replaced Harding as the usual last-place finisher in these studies.
Buchanan retired to his estate in central Pennsylvania and lived to see the end of the Civil War. Just before his death in 1868, he said, ?History will vindicate my memory from every unjust aspersion.?
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Immigration bill could fix some Boston security issues: official
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Obama administration official said on Tuesday that an immigration bill starting to move through Congress would fix some border control weaknesses that may have contributed to last week's Boston Marathon bombings.
The immigration to the United States of two ethnic Chechen brothers who are suspects in the bombings has become a point of controversy in the early debate over the legislation, with some conservatives saying that Congress should now go slower.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano repeatedly was asked at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the Boston violence that killed three and injured more than 250, as the panel was wrapping up its hearings on a comprehensive immigration bill.
Napolitano told the panel that the legislation will "strengthen security at our borders."
But in three hearings held by the committee since the Boston bombings, some Republicans have raised new concerns about the legislation.
"If these two individuals used our immigration system to assist their attacks, it's important to our ongoing discussion," said Senator Charles Grassley, the senior Republican on the panel.
One of the two suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed last week after a gunfight with police, traveled from the U.S. to Russia in 2012, returning six months later. He and his brother both came to the United States legally a decade ago.
Officials have said that a misspelling of Tsarnaev's name on flight records when departing the United States last year may have contributed to some law enforcement agencies not being alerted to his movements.
CALMING NEW ANXIETIES
"The bill will help with this because it requires that passports be electronically readable as opposed to having manual input," Napolitano testified, adding the legislation "really does a good job of getting human error out of the process."
The bill's supporters also have tried to calm new anxieties over the legislation, arguing that by moving approximately 11 million illegal residents onto a path to citizenship - if they meet certain requirements - law enforcement will be able to learn more about those undocumented people.
"The bipartisan immigration reform proposal introduced last week would enable us to identify and perform criminal background and national security checks on immigrants who are here unlawfully," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a letter to Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Paul, who earlier this year expressed support for comprehensive immigration legislation, said on Monday that Congress "should not proceed" until more is known about failures in the immigration system related to the Boston bombing.
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to spend the month of May debating and voting on panel members' amendments to the immigration bill introduced last week by four Democratic and four Republican senators.
Reid hopes to have the legislation, a top priority of President Barack Obama, ready for a long debate by the full Senate in June.
During Tuesday's Senate hearing, Napolitano heard criticisms from both Democrats and Republicans about specific aspects of the immigration bill that will take center stage in coming weeks.
"I question whether spending billions more on a fence between the United States and Mexico is really the best use of taxpayer dollars as we're furloughing air traffic controllers," said Senator Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas questioned whether the bill's emphasis on tightening border security at major "hot spots" in Arizona and Texas would merely encourage drug cartels and other criminals to shift their activities to border crossings that are monitored less.
(Editing by Fred Barbash and Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/immigration-bill-could-fix-boston-security-issues-official-183531738.html
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Monday, April 22, 2013
PFT: LB McClain arrested? |? Done with Ravens?
APC Eric Wood has moved into a leadership role with the Bills.
Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald wonders if Dolphins G.M. Jeff Ireland will panic when it comes to making a trade for Chiefs T Branden Albert.
Adding some beef to the interior of the defensive line in the draft is a possibility for the Patriots.
What?s the fallout from the Revis trade for Jets coach Rex Ryan?
Ravens coach John Harbaugh took part in a Tough Mudder race.
Could Michigan State RB Le?Veon Bell wind up with the Bengals?
An argument that the Browns?will be unaffected?by the investigation into owner Jimmy Haslam?s family business.
The Steelers website compares Georgia LB Jarvis Jones with former Steeler Chad Brown.
An attempt to simulate the Texans? draft board.
Colts G.M. Ryan Grigson admits to taking a look at mock drafts in the weeks leading up to the real draft.
Jaguars G.M. David Caldwell will be trying to avoid making the draft mistakes his predecessors made.
Will Bernard Pollard or George Wilson start at safety for the Titans?
With four offensive linemen coming off surgeries, the Broncos could be in the market for some help at the position in the draft.
The Chiefs may be targeting skill position players at the end of the draft.
Raiders T Jared Veldheer has bulked up this offseason.
QB Phillip Rivers is learning the Chargers? new offense as quickly as he can.
Cowboys DE DeMarcus Ware has started lifting weights after shoulder surgery.
Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post thinks the Giants could take Notre Dame LB Manti Te?o.
Are the Eagles better off keeping or trading the fourth overall pick?
Redskins QB Kirk Cousins tried out broadcasting during the Michigan State spring game.
Former Navy LB Keegan Wetzel visited with the Bears.
The Lions wouldn?t mind a wide receiver to take some pressure off Calvin Johnson.
A pre-draft look at Vanderbilt QB Jordan Rodgers, younger brother of Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.
The Vikings have made a place for analytics in their personnel evaluations.
Character traits are an important part of the profile when the Falcons look at potential draftees.
The Panthers aren?t hurt by a lack of strong quarterback and running back prospects in the draft.
Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune thinks the Saints will wind up trading RB Chris Ivory to the Jets.
Even with Darrelle Revis in the fold, Stephen Holder of the Tampa Bay Times thinks the Buccaneers need help at cornerback.
The Cardinals own the seventh overall pick, a spot which has landed teams some star players in recent years.
The Rams probably aren?t looking for a kicker or punter in this year?s draft.
Bills big and small are adding up as the 49ers building their new stadium.
Is linebacker on the Seahawks? list of draft priorities?
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