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Political convulsions

31.01.10

In classic Panday style, the Silver Fox adopted an attacking strategy the minute he returned from England on January 5, brazenly declaring war on his opponents to save the fete. “If you see me and a lion fighting, he roared, bleed for sorry for the lion—or the lioness.” Interpreted as virulent rhetoric designed to destroy Kamla, his plan was described as goonda politics by the Hindu Women’s Organisation, and later as caveman political science by his worthy opponent, Kamla Persad-Bissessar. It was a twofold tactics, which aimed, first, to denigrate her on the basis of an described weakness, and second, to paint her as an proxy of the dreaded COP, which wanted to hijack his reception. Both strategies would backfire; firstly, because the chutney posse had never been loath to alcohol, and secondly, because they had no problems with constancy with the COP if it could help them win a general election without compromising the UNC directorship. Kamla adopted a fourfold defensive scheme, first by referring to Panday as a loser who could not win a widespread election (but she could); second by categorically denying allegations of any incapacity; third by assuring supporters that she will not “offer out the party” and relinquish regulation under any circumstance; and fourth, by invoking the guru/chaala relationship.

Source: The Trinidad Guardian

The Biggest iPod Touch Ever!

02.02.10

Intense on the heels of Apple's quarterly results, which wowed everyone with their billion dollars of interest, Apple releases the device that sits at the mesial of their iPod Touch/iPhone and the Macbook.

The tool comes in the form of a tablet, only as everyone speculated, but is called an iPad, in preference to of the rumoured iSlate or iTablet. Frankly, iPad is such a low name for an Apple product!

Anyway, don't be turned off by its name.

The iPad is a 0.5in thick, 9.6in x 7.5in, 1.5/1.6 lb. memo pad with 9.7 in LED-backlit display with full multi-light capability. The resolution, however, falls short-lived of wide-screen, at 1024x768.

And almost identical to the iPhone, the touchscreen has fingerprint-unsubmissive oleophobic coating.

Its similarities with the iPod Interfere with don't stop there - the iPad has an accelerometer, ambient elucidation sensor, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and comes in 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of sound state storage.

And it runs most of the apps on at one's fingertips on the iTunes App Store! Yes, that means your iPod In/iPhone apps will work - except those that force a camera or a phone, of course.

Source: Manila Bulletin

Ramesh leads UNC response in House

21.01.10

In a astonishment development yesterday, dissident Tabaquite MP, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, led the return of the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) in the contend on the controversial Anti-Terrorism (Alteration compensate) (No 2) Bill, 2010 in the House of Representatives. Elder UNC sources later confirmed that Maharaj’s move “had the blessings of the Unfriendliness Leader, Mr Panday, who was present in the bedchamber.” The legislation, which was approved with the required three-fifths maturity in the Senate less than 24 hours earlier, was presented for consider by National Security Minister Martin Joseph. As Joseph was about to take his estate, Maharaj caught the eye of House Keynoter Barendra Sinanan, who urged him to discontinuation a few moments as he had to read out the long title of the bill before allowing the contemplation to proceed.

Maharaj was removed as Chief Wipe the floor with last year for engaging in public critique of the Opposition Leader. Maharaj was supported then by UNC spokesman political leader, Chaguanas West MP jack Warner and Mayaro MP Winston “Gypsy” Peters. All three were relegated to the Antipathy back benches. But, in recent weeks, the Ramjack (Ramesh/Jack) ring was disbanded as the two are now mounting different platforms for Sunday’s country-wide executive elections. Within recent weeks, Maharaj has been speaking more with favour about Panday. Last week he said Panday was not the ungovernable in T&T. He also said there always would be a role for Panday in the manipulation of T&T.

Source: The Trinidad Guardian