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Monday, December 10, 2012

Twitter Strikes and enlists his own Instagram


After that a surprise Instagram limit the display of photos from the microblogTwitter decided to fight back . According to the website AllThingsD, the social network is about to release his own photographic filters service, with effects similar to Instagram. According to a source quoted by the site, the new function would come before the end of the year and would be integrated into the Twitter app. An indicator, highlighted by page TheNextWeb, is that one of the founders of the network of microblogging and two employees shared photos with effects, which were loaded from"Twitter for iPhone", ie, without using third party applications.


Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, up a photo of a plane frame and black and white, whileSara Mauskopf, product manager of the company, shared an image of a plate with special lighting.


The information is not yet confirmed, but everything seems to indicate that Twitter will not miss the opportunity to use their own implementation of photo effects, especially considering the popularity of Instagram won on that platform and that this, bought by Facebook , became a sort of competitor.

The United beat City in the discount


Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-2 on Sunday in the most interesting match of the 16th round of the Premier League thanks to a goal in added time the Dutchman Robin Van Persie. The United went ahead on the scoreboard with two goals from Wayne Rooney (16 and 29) and the City equalized with goals from Yaya Toure (60) and Pablo Zabaleta (86), before Van Persie scored the final 3-2 on 90 +1. With this victory, the United consolidated its leadership of the Premier League, six points clear of the City and 10 on Chelsea, who on Saturday defeated Sunderland 3-1.

Hugo Chavez appoints successor and returns to Cuba for surgery again


Hugo Chavez is sincere to his country in a message to the nation late in the night: "Unfortunately the presence emerged in the same area of new malignant cells ... It is absolutely imperative "a new surgery, even" doctors recommended to be done yesterday." The president will return urgently to Cuba in the coming hours, after asking permission from the Assembly, to be well operated by the fourth time the cancer was diagnosed last year and half . But first, the revolutionary leader, with gesture sorry, asked his people that if they become disabled, support your vice Nicolás Maduro in new elections. "If I submit some reason unfit to continue as head of the presidency, Maduro should end " , stated the Bolivarian leader. "My firm opinion, absolute, total, irrevocable is that in that scenario, you elect Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela." Thus, Chavez terminated the battle of succession, in the strongest terms. The new Chavez relapse occurs in the worst possible time, a week of momentous elections for governor and when only one month before the presidential inauguration , in what would be his fourth term at the head of the country. The event is scheduled on January 10. Failure to arrive on time Chávez, President of the Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, would be forced to call new elections. "Unity, unity, unity!" Cried the head of state after glossing the virtues of his number two. "With the help of God we will be victorious and forth, clinging to the faith to give you good news in the coming days," he said Chavez, who did not want to hide the seriousness of the new "battle" to facing. "We must ensure the march victorious in the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan road to socialism and its broad freedoms, "he said. The president insisted on several occasions that when starting the election campaign he was recovered, but it was at the end, after the efforts, when they showed "swelling and pain, so they reduced my public appearances."Chavez returned to Cuba last Friday, after spending nine days performing the last tests have confirmed that a new tumor life threatening.

EGYPT | dialogue fails The opposition rejects the strategy and calls for new protests Mursi


The opposition stands before Mursi and his challenge of maintaining the constitutional referendum on Dec. 15. new marches are directed towards the presidential palace to protest the new constitutional declaration announced on Saturday night, which overrides the president's judicial shield but preserves 'the consequences' of the decree, as the Constitution adopted by most Islamist and dismissal of the Attorney General. "We have broken the barrier of fear.'re Going to tear down today, rather than tomorrow, the Constitution that undermines our rights and freedoms ... Our strength is in our control, "said on Twitter the Nobel Peace Prize Mohamed ElBaradei coordinating the opposition National Salvation Front. "Our struggle for a new constitution is not about who is in power but on the nature of the state and the rights and universal values ​​looking forward, not backward," added the veteran diplomat. The liberal and leftist parties that make up the Front announced its official position following a meeting to discuss the annulment of the Constitutional Declaration of November 22 and the enactment of a new decree which does not meet the demands by the opposition bloc released: annulment the plebiscite of the Constitution and formation of a new Constituent Assembly truly representative. Meanwhile, five demonstrations start from different districts of Cairo with direction Ittihadiya presidential palace in Heliopolis district, where the army has erected a concrete wall to keep the crowd back to access the perimeter surrounding the complex. On Wednesday, clashes between supporters and opponents of President left seven dead and more than 600 wounded more so have deepened the pit that separates Islamists and secular. Behind the call is contesting the April 6 Youth Movement, a key organization in the riots that forced out Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. And that, in a statement, denounced the result reached by the last night dubbed "national dialogue meeting" which consists of 40 figures, mostly Islamists, and that the opposition did not attend. Speaking to Reuters, President of the Free Egyptians Party-Front member, has called a "shocking" the agreement and the determination to keep the date of the plebiscite on a text "that represents all Egyptians."

Change everything so that nothing changes

The opposition believes that the move of Islamists is simply a review of the maximum change everything so that nothing changes and the result only serves to deepen the institutional crisis facing the country and that is derailing the constitutional transition began after the revolution of the past year. Last night, a statement earlier annulled Nov. 22 but with the important caveat that "all its consequences are still valid." So when Mursi closing chapter has lead to fruition one of the main reasons that raised his decretazo: Ensuring a constituent assembly dominated by Islamists and secular and Christian boycotted and save her from the clutches of the Constitutional Court, which must decide on its legality. With the shield in place, the committee accelerated the final draft of the Constitution, the trial and approved for submission to referendum of December 15. Now, with the plebiscite to six days ahead, the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist allies (sticklers) take for secure victory in urns that have agitated during these weeks as a solution to social polarization and opposition protests. In the unlikely event of the imposition of "no", the new decree stipulates the formation of a new constituent assembly elected by direct vote within three months and would have another six months to produce a new text. The new presidential statement maintains the decisions to replace the attorney general and reopen investigations and prosecutions of those involved in the killing of protesters during the 25 January revolution and the violent events recorded along the transition until after June 30.Although the text removes the judicial shield Mursi, stresses that all statements are final constitutional justice.

If William and Kate have twins, who will be the king?


Since the news of the pregnancy the Duchess of Cambridge,  would be in the 12th week of gestation,  remained for several days entered in the King Edward VII Hospital suffering due to hyperemesis gravidarum, nausea and vomiting. According to the doctor Peter Bowen-Simpkins, director of the London Women's Clinic, pregnant women suffering from this ailment " can lose up to 10% of their body weight and be very dehydrated." He also indicated that hyperemesis gravidarum usually occurs more often in multiple pregnancies of  twins or twins. Confirmed the rumor, opens another real question: who will be the heir to the throne? Britain's The Daily Telegraph made ​​quick to dispel the doubts: "I n case of twins, the heir would be born first ."